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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1982-09-01, Page 1Rogers win title second time 51111 gr••n•st For the tive year, Karina anted DaRogerRo have won the Exeter Lioness Green Thumb award, and the judges noted that this year's contest was "very difficult to judge because of the extreme- ly high quality of the entrants." Judges were Jean Ratcliffe and Robert Traut, both of RR 1 St. Marys, who are members of the Kirkton Hor- ticultural Society. "The winner certainly add- ed to the beauty of the neighborhood and scored well with both judges who were impressed by the thought and planning that had gone into the around the houuse and ng and yard" commented Traut. "All of the entries were delightful and colorful, adding beauty to areas 1n which they are situated." Runner-up in the contest was Mrs. James Hodgert, 494 Andrew St. Commenting further on the Roger yard located at 214 Pryde'Boulevard, Traut said that being. situated on a cor- ner lot, the winning entry could have been very difficult to landscape but the house took full advantage of the size and location to develop a very delightful atmosphere. Large trees give cooling shade and color to the home and large gardens add depth and accent to the view. "Foundation plantings, in- cluding evergreens, flowering tIpuinbS in town shrubs and trees softened harsh corners with soft, clan lines. Large red geraniums added brilliant colorto the scene. They matched file col- or of the shutters and helped tie the home and garden together. "The backyard and pool area were well decorated with planters of flowers and hanging plants. Birdbgttses and feeders also added lathe atmosphere of a natural and peaceful residence. The lawn was well -kept and free of weeds, adding to the neat and manicured look about the grounds." The contest was open for. nominations all summer and thece 4udging took place last Mrs. Roger says that J 3 although mhe yard takes a great deal of time, "it's a good excuse to get outside The Pryde Boulevard cou- ple sta rt their gardening ear- Iy,.using grow -lights in their basement to have plants ready for spring planr::rg. WE'LL IE LATE Due to the holiday, Monday, The Exeter Times Advocate will be "'Wished one day later imaginal next week. It will be Q Wednesday night for , y morning delivery:'' Adver � deadlines will be extended to Tuesday. The display ising deadline well be; and the deadline for ' ' advertisements will be 4t WINNING FRONT YARD — second ,consecutive year by The Exeter Lioness Green Thumb award for beautiful grounds was Karen and Dave Roger for their property at 214 Pryde Boulevard. Serving Muth Huron, North Middlesex voc & North Lambton Since 1873 EXETER, ONTARIO, September 1,1982 GREEN THUMB AWARD — Exeter Lioness club member lossy Fuller and president Beth Jamieson present the Green Thumb plaque to Dave and Karen Roger. Most crops escape harm from frost's early attack John Heard of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food office in Clinton said few reports of frost damage had been received at his office by Mon- day afternoon. Heard said same corn and beans had been affected in Wingham and Howick areas and he had heard of some frost damage to potatoes in Hay Swamp. He said crops close to Lake Huron sometimes escape frosts because they are close to the water. While the white bean crop has been reported as a week behind normal, Heard . said one field near Clinton was be- ing harvested Monday. Prospects for corn yields in Huron appear as good as a year ago when the county average was about 95. "This has been a strange year", Middlesex ag rep San- dy Forsyth noted. He voiced the opinion of many area farmers two-thirds of the way through the 1982 crop year. May was excessively dry, andJune abnormally wet. Ju- ly followed the rules, but the latter part of August has been cool, culminating in a devastating frost that destroyed millions of dollars worth of tobacco in Kent and Elgin counties last weekend. "I can't recall an earlier frost in my 18 years in the London office", Forsyth said. The Caradoc area sustain- ed the most frost damage to tobacco in Middlesex county. Forsyth expects some of the late -planted sweet corn will also be affected, but,farmers will be assessing the extent of the damage for the rest of the week. "The corn crop is looking much better than the price" he remarked sardonically. Forsyth expects just - average corn and spring grain yields. He assumes the winter kill of fall wheat represented a one-third loss countywide, with most loss in the western section of Middlesex. This year's strawberry Getstwo years on sexual attack An area man was sentenc- ed to two years less a day in the provincial reformatory in Guelph when he appeared in Goderich court, Monday, on a charge of having sexual inter- course with a female under the age of 14. Ray Desjardine, Exeter, formerly of the Dashwood area, was charged with rape and the lesser charge after an incident in Hay Township on April 7. He pleaded guilty to the lesser charge in court. Also at the Goderich court on Monday, a London man, Brenton Welch, 18, was sentenced to four months in jail after pleading guilty to stealing two trucks in the area late last week. Charges against a second London man were withdrawn. Welch was charged with stealing the cab of'a tractor trailer owned by Maple City Shows, a London amusement firm, for which he worked from a location at the Zurich Bean Festival about 4:30 a.m., Thursday. That truck was found aban- doned near Hensel] and Welch was also charged with stealing a second tractor - trailer, loaded with 28 tonnes of wheat, in Hensall. The lat- ter was found flipped over in a field in Tuckersmith Township. It was heavily damaged. The vehicle was owned by Boyes Transport Ltd. of Clinton. crop was better than average, as was the sweet corn until the Saturday night frost. Speaking for Exeter' Pro- duce, ' ro- duce,' Kevin Delbridge said frost damage to • the -cauliflowers ` and popper* seems minimal, but "it takes a day or two before you know". Delbridge said "right now everything is going pret- ty well", but the company won't know if their year was above, below or on the average mark until everything has been harvested and tallied. "Frost does not affect cote crops", Mrs. Bert Visscher said, referring to the cauliflowers, cabbages and broccoli grown on the Visscher farm. The Visschers know by the look of the plants that some beans and corn have been hit, She told the T -A Tuesday morning, "It's too early to tell how extensive the damage is, but, we think there is a fair amount of damage to white beans. Our land is low and we are usually the first hit, although my husband says it seems to be much worse far- ther east." Manager Charles Broadwell of the Ontario Bean Producers' Marketing Board said in London, he thinks the damage is minimal. Ontario is second only to Michigan in world white bean production and ap- parently Michigan didn't suf- fer damage, he said. However, a growing bean area in North Dakota was hit by "extensive" frost which should result in a firming up of price. Broadwell said cool grove- ing weather has delayed nor- mal harvest by at least a week and if another frost hits it could result in smaller or off-color beans which affects quality. Otis McGregor, manager of the Ontario Soya -bean Growers' Marketing Board in Please turn to page 2 CONFERENCE SUCCESSFUL — The weekend conference for rural women held at Centralia College on the weekend was successful attracting more than 100. Above, co-ordinator Valerie Bolton talks to Mount Carmel area ladies Agnes Regier, Helene Regier and Marion Sullivan. T -A photo v DECORATION AT CEMETERY — The annual decoration service at the Exeter Cemetery was held Sunday with a good attendance. Shown -above prior to the parade are Legion president Norm Ferguson, padre Rev. Jim Sut- ton, parade chairman Reg McDonald and Exeter Oddfellows Noble Grand Cliff Grasdahl. T -A photo Not as sharp as previously School enrolments continue decline The number of elementary school children ready to answer the 9 a.m. bell Tues- day, morning in Huron coun- ty will be slightly less than it was a year ago. Huron County Board of Education superintendent Peter Gryseels reported Mon- day that enrolment for public school students was down by 59 in the entire county and decreased by 15 in the seven schools on the southern por- tion of the county. At Exeter Public School, the enrolment Tuesday is, pro- jected at 406,downl2 from a year ago. The only change in staff will be Chris Balkwill replacing Darlene Templeman who will be working with county student services out of the board of- fice in Clinton. The number of students at Hensall Public School is ex- pected to be up from 119 last year to 123 and the only new member on staff will be Sheila Armstrong. Another increase is reported at Huron Centennial at Brucefield where the numbers will be rising from • 470 to 483 and no changes in staff personnel. At Usborne Central the number of students is dropp ing from 200 at this time in 1981 to the present 194. Teachers Louise Keskinen and Jane Silcock have been transferred to Clinton Public School and the only new staf- fer will be Darlene Brooks. The enrolment at Stephen Central School is expected to remain exactly the same at 262 without any changes in teaching staff. Enrolment will drop by seven at J.A.D. McCurdy at Huron Park to, 201 with the same teaching staff and Zurich Public School will also - find a reduction of students of seven to 146.. Elizabeth Querenesser joins the Zurich staff after one year leave of absence. In the secondary school sec- tion, enrolment at South Huron District High in Exeter is projected at 870 for Tues- day down from 942 at the same time a year ago.. A number of teachers are leaving South Huron. Doug Ellison and Willard Long have resigned after' a one year leave of absence, Marlene Thompson and Pat Quigley are starting leaves of absence: for one year and Barry Schroeder is leaving because of decline in enrolment. Joining the staff are Donna Deer dies in crash with car on highway All five of the collisions in- vestigated by the Exeter OPP this week involved a lone driver. although a deer and two parked vehicles were also victimized. The weekend crash list .started on Friday when a -vehicle driven by Karen Charlton. Mount Brydges. struck a hydro pole support and then rolled over as it entered the ditch on County Road 2 south of Dashwood. Damage in the accident was listed at $2,250. • There were three collisions ,Girl chosen for page A grade eight, student at Exeter Public School has been chosen to participate as a Parliamentary Page in the Ontario Legislature. Sheri Varley of 226 William Street was notified this week by the Speaker's Office and Huron -Middlesex MPP Jack Riddell that she will serve in the Ontario Legislature when it opens October 2 to Friday, November 12. She will be going to Toron- to for a uniform fitting session • on September 10. Sheri is the daughter of Elizabeth Varley and the granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. John E. Carter and Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Varley, all of Seaforth. on Saturday. the first resulting in the death of a deer. The animal bounded out of a ditch on Highway 4 north of Centralia and into the path of a vehicle driven. by I lenry Pennings. RR 1 Zurich Damage to the vehicli was estimated at $800. in another Saturday crash. a vehicle operated by Earl DenomInc. -Houghton. Michigan, went out of control on Highway 83 • west of.. Dashwood and rolled over in the ditch.• Damage was set at $500. Also on Saturday. a vehicle driven by Donald Dixon, Hen- sall. left concession 2-3 of Hay Township south of'llighway 84 and struck a hydro pole in the ditch. Damage in that one was listed al $1.950. The final 'collision of the week occurred in Zurich on Sunday when a vehicle driven by• ('hristoptier (root. RR 1 Zurich. struck a parked car owned by Ronald Mcisaac. Dashwood. and then con- tinued on and struck another - parked vehicle owned by Donald .Denommc. HR 2 Zurich. Total damage to the Iht'ee vehicles was estimated at $3,500. During the week the Exet er detachment officers made to liquor seizures and charged three people with impaired driving. Garvey in special education and Ralph Wareham after a leave of absence: Enrolment in area Huron - Perth separate schools is also about the same as a year ago. At Our Lady of Mount Please turn to page 2 � 9� w,�ji won for the 3 r� Price Per Copy SO cents DIL RECALLS 60 EMPLOYEES. There was some good economic news for the area this week for a change from the usual doom and gloom. Dashwood Industries Limited announced the recall of a further 60 people and now have about 200 hourly employees back on staff after a low of just under 50 in the latter part of June and early July. In a letter to DIL distributors and customers from president Mike Shurety, he indicated that the firm is "currently enjoying a healthy up -turn in business." This up -turn reflects the fact that our current Window Wars (a sales promotion) is helping you and other qualified customers to win good levels of business even 0 _,, these difficult times." Shurety explained that despite the prompt action in recalling workers, demand is so strong for the company's product, they are obliged to increase the standard delivery period from two weeks to three weeks. ,)_,"In 1982, we at Dashwood decided to get more ag- gressive in the market place. We wished to demonstrate to the market and to our customers we know how to fight in a down economy," he said, adding that the strategy is winning through steady gains in market shares. Vice-president Allan Rankin said the firm is runn- ing at about 75 percent of the staff of -two years ago. He described orders for windows as. being "very heavy" over the last couple of weeks and anticipates the de- mand will continue through September. Rankin said that 46 employees are still on lay-off and he didn't envisage any recalls for them at the present time. Drivers pay for drinking Two area drivers were fin- ed $300 or one month in jail each after pleading guilty,to driving with a blood alcohol content over 80 mgs. when they appeared in Exeter court, Tuesday. �� " T`ined�wit?i t ff ' ' Sc t; RR 2 Crediton, and Victor Robert Taylor, Grand Bend. The fines were imposed by Judge John Menzies, along with licence suspensions of three months. Scott was charged on July 31 after being observed going through a stop sign and a breathalizer test showed a reading of 170 mgs. He was given until September 27 to make payment for his fine. The Grand Bend man was charged on July 22 after being involved in a single vehicle collision. A breathalizer showed a reading of 140 mgs. He was given until October 22 to pay the fine: Richard E. Mattucci. Hay. Please turn to page 2 BREAKFAST AT THE BEAN. FESTIVAL - Irvin Steinman (in chef's attire)' and Mel Gingerichgriddleforaction while taking their turn cooking breakfast for the Zurich Minor Athletics Association concession. Hospital institutes plan Central re is try underway can go directly to the Depart- ment without having to register with the out -Patient Receptionist Hospital staff have spent a. great deal of time revising forms to .accept the plastic card and have introduced methods to retrieve informa- tion nformation quickly. in addition to the plastic card each patient will be assigned it unique number which he she will retain for their lifetime: all depart- ments will file reports under this number and it is hoped that one record will be com- piled in the near future offer- ing a complete reference of a patient's .activity within the hospital. . Although the system in the - South Huron Hospital an- nounced Thursday that it in- tends to initiate a Central Registry System September 1. 1982 in an attempt to speed the processing of patients us- ing their facilities. The program is designed to eliminate .the repetition in asking pertinent information pertaining to the patient's in- surance coverage, date of birth• address. etc. in the past this information was asked each lime the individual ar- rived al the hospital for treatment. The new system provides that a plastic card will he pro- duced with all the necessary information to process the pa- tient automatically and in many instances. the patient long run will speed the pro- cess. during the first few weeks however the public are going to experience delays since all the information has to be gathered and a card pro- duced for each member of the fancily. Area residents are en- couraged to register:with the hospital if they frequent the hospital on a regular basis so that cards can he prepared ih advance to their needing service Arrangements arc being made for Auxiliary personnel to be available Monday through Friday from- 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. to assist in the procurement of data and to answer any questions the general public may have in this regard. •