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Okuys. Centralia, CrdJion water
The proposed water system
for the police villages of
• Crediton and Centralia and
Huron park took a great step
forward Wednesday as the
result of an Ontario Municipal
Board hearing.
Board chairman Hugh Kel-
• ly gave approval to the pro-
ject after a day long hearing
at the Stephen township hall
in Crediton.
Kelly said in most instances
a written decision 18 given
several months after the
hearing, "But this is an
unusual and neacy situation."
Kelly continued,
"Everyone testifying at the
hearing agreed to the need for
water including those that
had objections as to the cost
and I give approval to the
PANCAKE FLIPPERS - Lucan Lions Fred Grant and
Clarence Haskett were two of the many chefs needed
to feed the Targe crowd at the Canada Day breakfast
in Lucan. T -A photo
Here's an offer
for your refuse
Some Exeter residents will -
be asked to take a few extra
steps when they put their
garbage out for pickup id the
future. •
In an effort to prolong the
life of the garbage packer
and save time and money in
collecting garbage, the
public works committee
recommended this week
that, where practical, all
garbage be deposited on the
west and north sides of the
street only.
That means that people
living on the south and east
side of streets will be asked
to carry their refuse across
the street and place it beside
their neighbor's.
Council approved the
suggestion after it was
pointed out the time saved
would be used by the works
department to build
sidewalks in 1982.
The residents of
Marlborough Street have
already been involved in' a
voluntary program to test
the proposal.
It was initiated by Coun-
cillor Lossy Fuller who went
door-to-door and asked those
on one side to carry their
refuse to the other side so
there would be fewer stops
for the garbage truck.
She reported that the
response from homeowners
was favorable, with only a
couple of objections.
"i don't know whether
people are capable of
cooperating to that extent,"
commented Mayor Bruce
Shaw in reference to the
proposal.
"Give them more credit
than that," replied Coun-
cillor Gaylen Josephson.
While the initial program
will create extra work for
only half the residents of the
town, there is a possibility
the program will be
balanced out in the future
with an alternating scheme.
However, members felt
the program should be put on
a trial basis for the west and
north side pickup only at the
outset before making it more
confusing by alternating the
Short gets
police post
Kevin Short has been
named acting sergeant of the
Exeter police department.
The announcement was
made Monday night by
police committee chairman
Gaylen Josephson. The
appointment was effective
July 1.
Josephson said the position
is in name only and there will
be no additional
remuneration for Short. The
appointment is to be
reviewed at the three and
six-month interval.
sides.
Other items of business
from the public works
committee were as follows:
Larry Mason has com-
pleted the T.J. Mahoney
Road School course and
achieved a mark of 73 per-
cent. General -subjects dealt
with were pertaining to road
maintenance.
The ministry of tr-
ansportation and com-
munication has turned down
a request by the town for a
supplementary road subsidy
for 1982.
Extra crews required for
work pertaining to Heritage
Days will be hired through
Canada Manpower under a
provincial work incentive
program that will provide up
to $3,500 for the town.
The committee filed an
equipment inventory
•showing the life expectancy
of all current equipment and
the anticipated replacement
cost.
Get resignation
and replacement
Ron Cottrell submitted his
resignation from the Exeter
planning board this week.
it was accepted with
regret by council, Monday,
and his replacement was
named.
Appointed to fill the
vacancy is Art Clarke.
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total application."
The OMB official said the
design of the water system
was adequate and took advan-
tage of the maximum provin-
cial grants available.
He said he was satisfied
there was an immediate need
for water in all areas and
costs were within the
township's captial budget.
Kelly concluded, "township
council through bylaw has the
discretion to make provisions
for variances of frontage
rates for unusual lots or
agricultural lands."
Earlier in the hearing when
Joyce Preszcator of Crediton
asked if a property owner
would be forced to accept
water from the system, Kel-
ly replied, "That may not be
the case. The bylaw says that
one must hookup within nine
months from the time they
are told to do so."
Mrs. Preszcator said she
had no objection to the water
being made available to those
' who needed it, but, felt their
130 foot drilled well was
adequate.
Others agreeing to the
system in principle but objec-
ting to frontage charges
because of unusally wide
frontages were Nick
Jeromkin who has property
on County road 4, west of
Crediton; Harold Eberhardt,
Crediton and Ken Hodgins,
Mike Cronyn, Larry Cronyn,
Al Preece, Tom Somerville
and Evelyn Aduas, Centralia.
Willard Page of the
Ministry of the Environment
and Ed Harrison of the Huron
Health Unit reported on well
testings in Crediton and
Centralia.
They indicated there were
60 drilled and 40 dug wells in
Crediton and 12 drilled and 58
dug wells in Centralia.
Harrison said adverse quali-
ty conditions were found in
one drilled well and all of the
dug wells in Crediton with
similar reports in Centralia.
Shortages were evident in all
dug wells in both villages.
Harrison added, "Both
villages are saturated with
sewage disposal and dug
wells are unreliable at the
best of times.
Those appearing in favour
of the water system were
Wayne Greb on behalf of the
trustees of the police village
of Centralia and Bob Hodge of
Crediton who said his drilled
well is failing to provide
enough waterfor two.
apartments.
In addition, 30 other per -
Eviction ,notice
given by ODC
Despite assurances from
cabinet ministers that the
Ontario Development
Corporation would be lenient
towards employees of
Hughes Columbia Inc., at
least two employees who
rent homes in Huron Park
have been served with
eviction notices.
A member of the
grievance committee
established by the em-
ployees of the firm which
went into receivership in
June said this week that one
of the ODC tenants had been
served an eviction notice for
July 22 and the other for July
27.
Employees at the boat
firm are owed up to $3,000
each in back pay, severance
pay and holiday pay, and
MPP Jack Riddell had
received assurances from
governnient officials that
ODC would be lenient in the
matter of rents until the
situation was resolved.
GETTING ACQUAINTED — Robert Elder of Crediton
does some kicking in the water while Huron Park staff
member Elise Vandeworp watches during a moms and
tots session Monday morning. T -A photo
sons inattendance at the
hearing indicated they were
in favour of the system.
Immediately after the hear-
ing, Stephen council authoriz-
ed engineer Burns Ross to
proceed quickly with final
plans for the system.
Roes said he hoped to have
tenders ready to be called by
early October. The work must
be started t?y the end of 1962
to qualify for funds which
have already been apparoved
by the provincial
government.
The engineer said he was
surprised and pleased with
the quick decision by the
OMB. He added, "I was hop-
ing for this to happen, but,
was certainly not counting on
11. This is a great help in get-
ting things going much
quicker."
The water will be obtained
from the Lake Huron Water
Suy System originating
north of Grand Bend. A
hookup will be made at
Khiva and extended along
Huron Clarity road 4 through
Crediton, south along County
road 21 to Huron Park and en-
ding at Centralia.
The system will he hooked
up to the present water
system serving Huron Park
with w#ter corning from wells
near Kirkton. At the beginn-
Ing Centralia residents will be
receiving water from the
Huron Park system.
The tWOeystems are being
joined to provide backup ser-
vice incase of an emergency.
If and when Huron Park and
ODC use water from the new
system through Crediton they
will be charged the same rate
as any others involved.
Also appearing to give
evidence were Stephen reeve
Doug Russell and clerk
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Wilmer D. Wein.
Mike Latta of the Ontario
Ministry of the Environment
said frontage charges for the
system were in line with those
used in other municipalities.
Property owners in the two
police villages concerned
may prepay, the frontage and
connection charges in the
calendar year in which the
work is completed or have
them charged over a 20 year
period.
On an average lot with a
frontage of 20 metres, a pro-
perty owner would be re-
quired to make prepayments
of 1677.20 for frontage and
1275.42 for a total of 1952.62.
Spread over a 20 year term
the annual payments would
be 1138.80 for frontage and
$56.46 for connections, a total
of 1195.26. In each instance,
an annual fee of $60 will be
charged for use of the water.
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Serving South Huron, North Middlesex
One Hundred and Ninth Year
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PAINTS FOR STEAMER — Grand Cove Estates resident Gordon Lambert has donated
a painting to be raffled off by South Huron Hospital to raise funds for a vegetable
steamer. A former patient at the hospital, the Grand Bend mon told nurses he would
see what he could do in the way of getting the steamer if they could get him up.
The draw will be held at Exeter fair. With the painter and his wife are hospital ad-
ministrator Roger Sheeler and chairman Bob Dinney. T -A photo
& North Lambton Since 1873
EXETER, ONTARIO, July 7,1982
Price Per Copy 50 cents
Says economic woes will continue.
as long as people paid for time
Too many Canadians get
paid for their time-, and not
their production, and that is
what is hurting the economy,
Father Joe Nelligan com-
mented in his address at the
annual meeting of, the South
Huron Hospital, Wednesday.
The popular Mt. Carmel
priest said that the economic
woes of the nation could be
expected to continue for the
next 36 months.
• . He referred to the recent
budget handed down by
AHHan MacEachen as • a shell
gam, in which ' the , ifina nce
minister didn't do anything
but change the number of
walnut shells. "There's still
only one pea," he suggested,
but said the number of
walnut shells had been in-
creased from four to eight.
Nelligan said that orie out
of three Canadians now work
. for the government and they
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LONG -SERVICE AWARDS — South Huron Hospital instituted a service award pro-
gram and made the first presentations on Wednesday. Some of the longer -service
employees received their pins at the annual meeting in the evening, while the
balance received theirs during an afternoon program. Alex Meikle, centre back,
was the lone male honored at the evening program and he was also tops on the
list for longest service with 25 years. Receiving 20 -year pins in the back row with
him are, from the left: Marion Snider, Jane Harvey, Jean Hern and Jean Glasgow.
Recipients of 15 -year awards in the front row are: Norma Lindenfield, Audrey Pooley,
Doreen Lightfoot and Lyla Smith.
Hospital occupancy rate
soars to record levels
South Huron Hospital has
experienced tremendous
growth during the past year
with service departments
boasting 30 percent to 50 per-
cent increase in utilization
and occupancy level; soaring
to record heights.
"Staff are to be applauded
for the positive manner in
which they have responded to
this growth," commented ad-
ministrator 'toger Sheeler in
his report at the hospital's an-
nual meeting, Wednesday.
Close to 100 people attend-
ed the event,4naking it one of
the largest ever.
Sheeler reported that the in-
troduction of additional
shared services from Univer-
sity hospital has allowed an
-improvement in the quality of
care within the institution and
the offering of counselling
services that was not
available previously.
'The most recent success
story in the area of shared
•services is the satellite phar-
macy program --the profes-
sional component of a
Zurich man injured
in motorcycle crash
A Zurich man was rushed to
University Hospital in London
after he was injured in a
motorcycle accident late
Saturday afternoon. •
Gordon Lavery was riding
a machine owned by Jack
Forrester, RR 2 • Dashwood,
when he apparently lost con=
trol on concession 10-11 of Clay
Township north of Highway
84.
He and the damaged
machine were found in the
ditch when concern mounted
over his failure to return.
It was One of three' ac-
cidents investigated by the
Exeter OPP this week.
At 2:00 a.m., Saturday
vehicles driven by Somphone
Ounsamone,'429 Main St., Ex-
eter, and Jerald Broderick,
315 Andrew St., Exeter, collid-
ed on concession 2 of Stephen.
There were no injuries.
Two nine-year-old London
lads sustained minor injuries
in a two -car collision on
Highway 21 just north of
Grand Bend on Sunday at 1:30
p.m.
Drivers involved were
Fraser. Wheatley, London,
and Kevin Walper, RR 1
Grand Rend.
Damage was set at $1,200
and injured were Mark
Wheatley and Paul Cullen,
both of London, passengers in
the Wheatley vehicle. Neither
required hospital treatment. -
registered pharmacist. the in-
troduction of unit dose
packaging. the automatic
review for drug compatibili-
ty and drug interaction and
the greater utilization of in-
tramuscular and iV therapies
have enhanced the overall
medication program. and
have provided built-in
assurances for patient safety
•'and quality of care."
Sheeler 'explained that
University Hospital was not
out to empire build, but
recognized they can provide -
support to peripheral
hospitals and South Huron is
one of the first to benefit.
He noted that the hospital
had moved to unit dose
packaging before the coroner
checking into the multiple
deaths at Toronto's Sick
Children's Hospital had
recommended it in his report.
"We're fortunate to have it
in the hospital and it is a
safeguard for the patient and
security .for the medical.
staff." he reported. -
The past year also saw the
introduction of the chaplain-
cy program.
The hospital is ready to em-
bark on a central registry
program over the summer
months. Each patient will be
provided with a plastic card
that will allow admittance to
the hospital and eliminate the
need for repeatedly filling in
admission forms.
"The date of September 1 is
within reach for introducing
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are guaranteed a wage
without the necessity of
producing.
Canadians have chosen to
sell their time, whether we
work or not, and that's
what's killing us, he told the
audience, suggesting it was
time to change the system
and not continue to play the
shell game.
Noting that people had to
get back to the idea of being
productive and putting more
into, the system than we take
out, Nelligan remarked that
people who sell their time
without productivity are.
prostitutes.
"Canada pays everybody
whether they produce or not
and that's wrong."
On the eve of Canada's
115th birthday, Nelligan said
he had little to be _proud
about and' nothing to sing
about on Canada Day.
"This country offers
anything you want to give it,
not take from it," he con-
tinued, saying that in the
past 15 years this country
has taught its young people
to sit back and suck and
take.
The result is a generation
of illiterates and people who
can't do simple arithmetic
without a calculator to add
for them.
"The cruelest word ever.
taught is 'entitlement', " he
said, "and now we pay the
price."
It was suggested that
gasoline shouldn't cost what
it does in this country, but it
is high because we just sold
our time, not our service.
"The only things that
count are the skills and
excellence we put into the
lives of others," he con-
tended.
Nelligan opened his
remarks by saying he had
been at wakes that were
more exciting than the
hospital annual. He termed it
a boring and dull meeting
and said life was too short to
be passing time listening to
people report on figures.
A frequent patient in
hospital for some time,
Nelligan said he had his first
taste of human suffering
while working as an am-
bulance attendant in
Tillsonburg where he helped
pick up the consequences of
"over -powered cars and
under -powered brains."
He said hospitals were in
existence because all was
not in harmony in the world.
"People are botched up and
you're in existence because
of it," he said, pkedicting
that the hospital would
continue to be busy for the
next 36 months as the
demand for beds will in-
crease.
He suggested that
hospitals, similar to
preachers, doctors and
policemen, depend on
stupidity, malice and
ignorance for their
customers.
"We are what we make
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Gets stiff fine
on driving count
A Hensall man was fined
8303 after pleading guilty to
driving while under suspen-
sion when he appeared in Ex-
eter court, Tuesday.
Grant R. McClinchey was
charged on May 8 after being
involved in an accident when
his vehicle struck a 'parked
vehicle.
The fine was imposed by
Justice of the Peace Gord
Ferris.
McClinchey was given 60
days to pay.
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GREETERS -- A family of mice greeted playgoers at the official opening of the first
play of the, seoson at Huron County Playhouse. The play, was Agatha Christie's Mouse
Trap and the mice were from the left Jill Waters, a member of the playhouse board,
and her nieces, Katy,'Hdother and Sarah Waters..
Record 315 dogs
Usborn
At Tuesday's regular
meeting of l'sborne township
council tax collector Harry
Strang reported (hal most of
the 19821interim taxes had
been paid.
Strang said 8343.316.71 of
the total of 1373,764.59 had
been received by the June 15
deadline. This amounts - to .
91.85 percent of the total due
at this time.
Road supertendent John
Batten advised council that
the tar and chip program will
be starting this week.
e taxes roll in
-Building inspector Merman
Van Wieren reported issuing
three building permits for a
total value of 818,000 during
the -month of June. He also
issued three demolition per-
mits and made 21 inspections.
• Conferring with the inspec•
tor. council agreed it was too
late. in the year. time and
budget wise to participate in
the Ontario Employment in-
centive i'rograin
Dog control officer Mrs
,1udy. Finch has completed the
sale of dog lags and licences
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She reported the sale of :315
dog tags and licences and four
others were referred to tax
accounts:
Hubert Hunter is to be paid
S15 per hour for a total of 10
cuts of the Thames Road park
for the 1982 season.
An additional grant of 150 is
to be made to the OMAF
Friend of 4-1I fund at the end
of the year.
laws approving capital
borroa tag for the Coates-
lloonaard and Webb
munacipal. drains were •
passed