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PIG BARN DESTROYED — A member of the Exeter fire
fire at the Usborne township farm of Gerald Reymer.
department is
in action at a Monday hog barn
T -A photo.
Want counties to take
over road maintenance
Usborne Township decided at their
meeting. Tuesday, to seek the support
of Biddulph Township in having the
boundary road between the two taken
over 'by the joint counties of Huron
and Middlesex.
After learning at their last meeting
that the road was in need of some
maintenance work. Reeve Gerald
Prout was asked to discuss with Bid-
dulph officials the possiblility of hav-
ing the maintenance turned over to
the counties -
The road serves as a link between
Highways 4 and 23.
If Biddulph supports the Usborne
plan, the two townships will make a
joirA resolution to the two. counties.
Similar to most other area com-
munities. Usborne received a request
froth the Central O tario Disaster
Relief Committee �nd the Essex
County Flood Disaster Relief Com-
mittee for financial support for the
victims served by the two funds.
Council decided that since township
residents have made personal dona-
tions through appeals to churches and
service groups, they would not donate
township funds to the two relief
committees.
In other business. council:
Approved a motion to purchase 100
trees from the Ausable Bayfield Con-
servation Authority for roadside plan-
ting this fall.
Discussed the recent dismissal of
clerk Larry Stuck and decided to
await further input before proceeding
with any action.
GETS ROAD CERTIFICATE Usborne township deputy -reeve
Margaret Hern presents o certificate to road employee Dole Skinner
on completion of a course in Guelph. T -A photo.
Exeter police nab
two theft suspects
Two crashes. one theft and Iwo ar
rest'± were included in this week's
aclivilies of the Exeter police
department
The first of the crashes was on
Tuesday when a vehicle driven ht Ed-
ward Bullerwell. London, collided
with one driven by Lisa Becker.
Crediton. The mishap occurred al the
Valu -Mart parking lot as Bullerwell
was hacking from a parking spot and
the Crediton woman Was driving
through the lot. /
Damage was Set at $H0O
The other collision was on Sunda}
at Victdria and Main St and it voly-
ed a car driven by Sal-alrore Ler-
cara. London. and a motorcycle
operated by Terence Haugh. ifensall
The Lereara vehicle was stopped
wailing to turn left onto Vieloria SI
E. when the Haugh vehicle attempted
to go around it and struck the right
rear corner.
Ilaugh sustained minor injuries and
damage was listed at $1.800.
The theft occurred in the early mor-
ning hours of Wednesday when four
car speakers were taken from Dobbs
Motors on Main Sl. The speakers
were valued at Sim.
On Wednesday. a 26 -year-old Lon-
don man tried to use a stolen credtt
card at the Canadian Tire Store in Ex-
eter and was apprehended. Ile will
appear in court on August 27.
That is also the date 'for an ap-
pearance by a :32 -year-old London
woman whose car was checked by
police on Wednesday. it was found to
contain stolen property worth $1,000.
She has been charged with theft and
possession
Set August 20 as the date to meet
with the Usborne Drinking Driver's
Committee to hear the final report of
that committee.
Had a discussion with Fire Chief
Gary Middleton and Gerry Sunstrum
of the Ontario Fire Marshal's office
regarding the agreement that
Usborne has through the Exeter and
Area Fire Board. Sunstrum advised
that a complete review of the
municipality's needs should be under-
taken in the near future by means of
a fire protection survey and said he
would be in touch with council later
this year with further information in
that regard.
Heard -from road superintendent
John Batten that the ministry of
transportation and communications
will not be doing an audit of the 1984
road accounts this year; that the
Usborne township hall in Elimville is
now demolished; and that discussions
with landowners involved with .the
Wright drain repairs indicate that
most people are satisfied- with the
engineer's suggestions and estimates.
Building inspector Herman Van-
Wieren reported that six building per-
mits with a value of $49,000 were
issued in July. Three demolition per-
mits were also issued. Van Wieren up-
dated council on a Property Stan-
dards violation in Usborne and coun-
cil approved his request to use the
township solicitor to proceed with ac-
tions to have the property cleaned up.
Riddell to open
research farm
The new Centralia Research and
Demonstration Farm will provide
farmers with sound cropping recom-
mendations based on local research.
according to Jack Riddell, Minister of
Agriculture and Food.
Riddell will be joined by Elinor
Caplin, ('hairman of Management
Board of Cabinet. Chairman of
Cabinet and Minister of Government
Services. Ministry officials and local
dignitaries in officially opening the.
farm at 12:30 p.m.. Wednesday.
August 21.
Operated by Centralia College of
Agricultural Techflology. the farm is
located three kilometres north of the
C'ollege's Iluron Park campus.
The 60 hectare property of tile
drained Perth and Brookston clay
loam soils. is typical of the area's soil
type and topography. With the quan-
tity of research land available, both
variety performance trials and
pesticide tolerance tests may be more
easily controlled. Trials are con-
ducted on corn, soybeans. field beans.
canoWand rutabagas.
Early construction of a field house
and implement storage shed is plann-
ed. While most of the research and
demonstration work will he conducted
by the College's Agronomy Section.
other sections are developing pro-
grams for the new facilities.
xeter firemen
Monday was one of the busiest days
ever for members of the Exeter and
area fire department.
Their major call was to the Usborne
farm of Gerald Reymer, RR 1
Woodham, where a large hog barn.
caught fire around midnight on
Sunday.
Firemen were at the scene for
seven hours for the initial call and
were assisted by the tank truck from
the Stephen Township brigade at
.Huron Park.
Fire Chief Gary Middleton said
cause of the blaze has not yet been
determined and he said the loss could
range as high as $150.000.
A number of pigs were destroyed in
the inferno but about 200 were saved
and they were shipped from the farm
on Monday.
At 9:35 a.m., Monday, the depart-
ment received a call that the
smouldering fire in the barn ruins had
ingnited again and they returned to
the scene for another three-hour
duration.
While some • of the brigade A car driven by Melissa Wilhelm.
RR 6 St. Marys, went out of control
after hitting some pot holes about 100
Metres north of Highway 23 and the
vehicle left the roadway, hit a tree
and fence and then burst into flames.
The driver escaped with minor in-
juries. but the vehicle was totally
•destroyed with loss set at $10,000.
members were at the farm on conces-
sion 10-11, another call was received
of a fire at the town dump in Hay
Township and another vehicle and
crew were dispatched to quell it.
They were on their way back to Ex-
eter when they received word of a car
fire in Usborne Township and one of
the units still at the hog barn fire was
dispatched to the scene, which was
just south of the farm on the same
concesSiOn.
Boston vs Zurich
battle in bean test
The 20th annual Zurich Bean
Festival is going to receive national
media attention. The producers of
CTV's Live It Up will be coming to
Zurich on August 24 to film some of
the background, and record a taste -
test comparing the delectable Boston
baked bean with its delicious Zurich
competitor. The segement will be
aired later on the CTV network.
The Live It Up Crew will arrive in
the village at 11;00 a.m. to film the
beans cooking in the Bean Festival's
unique cookers (whose previous life
as refrigerators cooled things down
instead of heating them up). Also nn
the agenda are a trip to an area bean
field and a tour of one of the Hensalt
mills. -
Alan Edmunds, the p. ogram host,
will pull up to the open air Bean
Festival stage at 4:00 p.m. in a chauf-
fered limousine, and proceed to
emcee the battle of the beans. Ontario
agriculture minister Jack Riddell will
be one of the judges, and Festival
organizers are still awaiting confir-
mation from two other high-profile
people who have also been asked to
serve -as panelists.
More exciting details are promised
in next week's paper.
After getting all their (men and
equipment back to the loot fire sta-
tion, the brigade were called out once
again .to the Reymer farm around
2:15 p.m. to douse the smouldering
ruins.
They were at the scene For three
hours on that occasion. as they cooled
down the ruins so they could be clean-
ed up on Tuesday.
Firemen were probably noticeably
absent from activities around town on
Monday night. Most were in bed ear-
ly recouping from their hectic
marathon.
AG MINISTER WELCOMES BARBECUE GUESTS — Gertie Stade of Dashwood is welcomed to Wednes-
day's barbecue by Ontario's Agriculture Minister Jack Riddell. Also in the picture ore Huron -Middlesex
Liberal president Joe Hogan and Riddell's daughter Deb Thompson.
Send owner the bill
for dog's chicken raid.
A Stephen township resident will be
receivink a hill for damages incurred
when a dog killed a number of
chickens.
Al Tuesday's regular meeting.
council authorized the account to be
sent to Pamela Curtis. R1( 3
Dashwood in the amount of $62.50 for
damage to the birds owned by a
neighbour Milton Dietrich.
Letters are being sent to residents
along Concession 14 and those along
the NorthBoundry asking for any con-
centrated interest in obtaining water
from the township line.
A number of applications have been
received in the past and council hopes
to determine if there is any further
need.
Properly owners in the area of the
Grand Bend airport strip complained
to council regarding a number of
parachutists dropping into their fields
incurring damages to crops. They.
said the problem did not come from
the professional parachutists. but
from students who were not falling
according to plan.
Council has agreed to call a
meeting with officials of the
parachute club area farmers in an at-
tempt to solve the problem.
A zoning change application has
been received from William Jack Dye
for a portion of his property al
Registered flan 210 on part of Lot 11.
Concession 6 in the police village of
Crediton.
A meeting has been set for
September 17 at 7:30 p.m. to.deal with
the application. The request is for
residential use for one lot leaving the
balance as it is in the zoned
developmental category
A contract for sidewalk construc-
tion in Centralia'police village was let
to McCann Construction for $6.327.
Permission was given to road
superintendent Eric 1•'inkbeiner to
purchase 100 trees from the Ausable-
Bayfield Conservation Authority for
fall planting.
(hu. file drain loan application in
the amount of $5.400 was approved.
Council noted (hal very few applica-
tions for This time type of loan were
on hand and it is possible that much
of this year's allocation will remain
unused. if this happens. the amount
allowed for Stephen tile drain loan in
1986 could be drastically reduced.
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AT RIDDELL BARBECUE
At Wednesday's barbecue at the
Dashwood area farm of Ontario's Agriculture Minister Jack Riddell.
Huron wgrden Paul Steckle receives his dinner from Maggie -Burton
and Bernice MacDonald. T -A photo