HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1985-11-13, Page 3Not to remember past
Wear poppy to shape future
"Evil which causes war is
madness".
Those were the words of Rev, Ber-
nard DeJonge speaking to the annual
Remembrance Day banquet Monday
night of the R.E. Pooley Exeter
branch of the Royal Canadian Legion.
The Christian Reformed Church
minister asked the question, "is it
madness to go to war'.' Do poppies
point to madness? If war is madness
where is glory, then ours is the shame
to be victorious".
Rev. DeJonge said, "It wasn't
madness to go to war, but, it was
power that shaped and drove the
enemy to get caught up in madness."
He continued, "Wear your red poppy
not to remember' the past, but to
shape tomorrow in the cause of decen-
cy, hope and peace. The torch is ours
now. Let it shed light."
"War still goes on with madness in
our world today. Legion members
must seek a mission with their youth
work to eliminate this madness and
follow Psalm 33 which says, "Happy
is the'nation whose God is the Lord",
concluded the guest speaker.
Legion Padre Rev. Jim Sutton
presented the new articles of faith and
objectives of the Royal Canadian
Legion as part of Diamond Jubilee
41,41744
year.
In introducing the new objectives,
Rev. Sytton said, "Most of these are
Motherhood and apple pie issues,
things we should already be doing. It
should not be articles of faith, but
keeping faith of what the Legion has
been doing for the past 60 years."
Among the aims included in the
new document are to maintain peace
here and overseas, to perpetuate the
Legion and its facilities, continue
Remembrance Day so sacrifices shall
not be in vein, maintain a strong
Legion membership and to honour the
symbols of the poppy, torch, badge
and flag and uphold these and teach
HONOR FALLEN COMRADES — Members of the R.E. Pooley Legion again had to face wet conditions
in their annual Remembrance Day ceremonies. Wreaths were raid at the cenotaph prior to the service
of the Anglican Church. The parade then returned past the cenotaph on the way back to the Legion hall.
Two get speeding fine
another pays for booze
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Two London men were given fines
after being convicted on charges of
speeding by Justice of the Peace D.
Wedlake in Exeter court this week.
Stephen Earl Lyons, 55-17 Fiddler-
sgreen Road, London, was charged
with driving 129 kph in an 80 km zone
and failing to surrender his driver's
license.
On September 9, the Lyons vehicle
was noted heading westbound on
Country Road 4, Stephen Township by
Constable Weverink of the Exeter
OPP.
Lyons was fined $113.25 for
speeding and given an additional fine
of $53 for failing to surrender his
driver's license. He was given 15 days
in which to pay the fines.
Lyons was not present in court
when his case was heard.
.1n the second case, Ronald Allan
Gadbois, 15 Glennburny Crescent
London pleaded not guilty to a charge
of speeding on August 4.
Around 9:25 p.m., the Gadbois vehi-
cle was travelling along County Road
5, Stephen Township, at the same
-,,time that OPP Constable Christmas
was operating a moving radar.
Gadbois was driving a '78 Buick
and entered the radar at a speed of
Stephen okay zone,
another bid arrives
Stephen township council has ap-
proved one zoning change and set the
date of a public meeting to consider
another.
The approved application was
from Frank Karvas to change his pro-
perty at Lot 21, Concession 19 from
AGl to AG4 to allow construction of
a house.
A meeting will be held December 17
at 5:45 p.m. to consider a request
from Jim Morrissey at part of Lot 10,
Concession for a zoning change from
AG2 to AG4.
A delegation from the Grand Bend
airport asking the township to build
up a road leading to two parachute
sport clubs was told council was not
in favour and advised costs should be
borne by those benefitting.
Council voiced no objection to the
village of L;rand Bend site control
bylaw.
A recommendation will be made to
the 1986 council that approval be
given to construct a water supply line
along concession 6-7, south of
Crediton.
Drainage commissioner Ken
Pickering was instructed to repair a
catch basin on the ij cks municipal
drain at Lot 2, Concession 2.
A fire protection bylaw was
answered to name Dave McDonald
as chief of the Huron Parks fire
department and Norm Hyde as assis-
tant. Captains are Tom Tomes and
Norm Wilson.
Three works department
employees will be attending a trench
and sharing seminar in London
September 2 and 3.
Council received a copy of a letter
and petition to the village of Grand
Bend from residents along Gill road
asking for road paving.
Two tile drain loan applications -
amounting to $5,900 were accepted.
Support was given to resolutions
from Durham concerning teachers
and from the township of Puslinch
regarding an extra levy on aggregate
extractions,
118 kh. The radar locked in at 108 kph
and the accused was charged with
driving 105 kph in an 80 km zone.
The accused stated that he was
coming home from the lake when he
noticed a headlight was out on his
vehicle. When the officer stopped
him, he believed that it was for the
headlight violation.
Gadbois also stated he usually locks
the cruise control on his car at 90-100
kph.
When Gadbois saw the radar
reading of 120 kph, he knew that he
couldn't have been travelling that fast
and because that officer did drop the
charged speed to 105 kph, he believ-
ed that there must have been some
electrons, ^;,take.
Justice of the Peace Wedlake was
convinced that the radar reading was
accurate and he didn't dispute the of-
ficer's discretion in lowering the
speed. Wedlake also pointed out that
the accused was fortunate that he
wasn't also charged with failing to
surrender his driver's license and the
headlight violation.
Gadbois was convicted and fined
$40.50 for driving 105 kph. in an 80
zone.
Dennis J. Denomme, was fined $250
after pleading guilty to his fourth li-
quor offense.
Denomme, Hay Township, pleaded
guilty to a charge of having liquor
readily available while driving a
motor vehicle.
The Denomme vehicle was stopped
at the intersection of County Road 2-3
and Huron Street on September 12 at
10:30 p.m. A case of beer was found
on the rear floor of the vehicle and a
bottle was also found under the
driver's seat. Defense lawyer Peter
Raymond claimed that the vehicle
was out of gas and was incapable of
operation.
Denomme had three previous con-
victions for liquor offenses. Ile was
given 60 days in which to pay the fine.
IN CHARGE OF BAZAAR - Mari Tuckey, Laurie Shapton and Florence Finkbeiner were the conveners
in chorge of Saturday's Exeter UCW bazaar. T -A photo
Standard Trust opens
Continued from front page
ter of running to catch up with the
customers.
This is the firm's 22nd branch and
Exeter has been under consideration
for a long time. W'e're partial to this
part of the country." O'Malley ex-
plained, noting that two of the more
recent branch openings have been at
Goderich and Wingham.
With assets of $1.1 Killion. Standard
Trust is now in the top 10 of trust firms
among the more than 100 in Canada
The firm has grown slowly and
steadily since its inception in 1963 and
has a wide geographical spread of in-
vestments which can he found in
every province except Prince Ed-
ward`island.
Among the directors on Mand for
Wednesdays opening were Wes
Thompson of Blenheim. 1)r Russ
MacDonald of Woodstock and former
MPP Eric Winkler of Hanover.
Former director George ('lemmons
w,rs also present
O'Malley said that settling in Ex-
eter was based on studies showing the
area to have some of the richest
agricultural land in the world with
considerable stability and quality
farms and housing stock. The firm
sees Exeter as the commercial cen-
tre for a Targe trading area. .
Noting recent improvements in
some farm markets. he suggested
there were signs that "things are tur-
ning" and noted that "it's always
darkest just before the dawn."
"There's no doubt that a shake -out
was needed in many industries, in-
cluding agriculture," he continued.
noting that some prices were out of
line.
Markets always run in cycles,
O'Malley explained, but added that
we don't like to see it hit as hard as
it did in the last little while".
Ile doesn't see any significant
change in the area economy, hut does
see an end to the current downward
trend.
"The best way to prepare for the
future is not to get your neck out too
far," he concluded.
After a welcome from local
manager Don Thompson, Mayor
Bruce Shaw joined O'Malley in cut-
ting the ceremonial ribbon.
Shaw congratulated Standard Trust
officials for realizing the potential of -
the town and for the "fantastic im-
provements" to the corner of John
and Main where they are located.
Bob Swartman, former owner of
the building, presented the firm with
the firsyl31A plaque engraved with
the white squirrel logo.
The BiA president mused that the
building now had something he
always wanted when he was the pro-
prietor: lots of money.
After the official opening, the firm
hosted local business representatives
and area officials at a reception at the
Legion Hall.
respect for them.
In asking all members to sign the
document, Rev. Sutton said, "It is a
healthy document as the Legion looks
to younger men and women for
leadership. It is a restatement of aims
and objectives."
The first to sign the aims and objec-
tives document were the three First
World War veterans in attendance.
They are Joe White, Norm Norry and
Reg Knight.
Legion branch president Paul
McKnight was chairman of the even-
ing's program which attracted more
than 250 Legion members, families,
visitors and friends. Greetings were
offered by Exeter mayor Bruce Shaw
and Ontario Agriculture Minister
Jack Riddell.
Poppy chairman Greg Pfaff
reported on this year's poppy cam-
paign and also thanked the Legion for
their sponsorship over the past 11
years along with the Lucan Legion of
the Huron -Middlesex Cadet Corps.
Pfaff is the Commanding Officer.
Also included at the head table were
members of the local Legion exec-
utive and Esther Hillman, president
of the Ladies Auxiliary.
Penalties
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Dawson joined the Usborne PRIDE
committee because a close friend had
been killed by a drunk driver. He said
the township committee had fulfilled
the year-long mandate it received
from Usborne council to raise the con-
sciousness of people to the conse-
quences of drinking and •driving.
Large copies of the poster showing a
driver sitting on the curb beside the
bodies of those he has killed with his
car were put up in the Exeter and
Kirkton Community Centres and the
old town hall.
Lloyd Ferguson, another member
of the now defunct Usborne groups,
said when he was visiting schools to
talk about PRIDE's goals he found
that teachers and principals were
concerned about the government's
proposal to allow the sale of beer and
wine in corner stores. He supports the
move to stiffer penalties as a step in
the right direction, but added, "we do
have a problem, and the main thing
is to change the attitude of everyone
who carries a driver's licence.'
General Coach
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end of six months.
If the company's offer is not ac-
cepted by November 15, it reverts
back to an original proposal to start
workers out at $2 less than regular
employees, with $1 added to the hour-
ly rate after three months and
another $1 added after six months on
the job, Salvona said.
Salvona fears that under that at-
rangement students would be hired in
the summer at the cheaper rate,
vehicles would be stockpiled, and
'regular workers would be laid off in
the winter.
Salvona said the union was.
prepared to resume negotiations at
any time, but were waiting for the
company -to make the next move. He
said General Coach was asking for
"many concessions that are
detrimental to negotiations."
The last strike at the company, in
1974, lasted Tess than two weeks.
Times -Advocate, November 13 1985
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STUDENTS PARTICIPATE — Student Amy Webb reads a poem of
Monday's Remembrance Day service at Usborne Central School.
Shown with her is Exeter Legion Comrade Percy Noels.
SIGN LEGION DOCUMENT — First World War veterans Norm Norry
and Reg Knight sign the new Royal Canadian Legion ogjectives at
Monday night's Remembrance Day banquet. - T -A photo
Osborne
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objection could be resolved before the
hearing. -
She suggested she could get in touch
with Mr. Tuckey and ask him to at-
tend a council meeting before
December 6 to discuss the matter
further.
In other business, council:
Approved sending a bill for the cost
of photocopying and delivering
election notices jo the Exeter Times -
Advocate in view of the fact a notice
of the advance poll had been misplac-
ed by the newspaper. The notices
were printed and distributed to the
local public schools and posted in
local food stores.
Approved the attendance of road
superintendent John Batten at the Soil
and Crop Improvement Association
seminar on November 28 and 29.
Learned that work is now com-
pleted on concession 2-3 and that
drainage problems on this road as
well as concession 4-5 will be taken
care of in the spring.
Heard from building inspector Her-
man VanWieren that five huilding
permits were issued during the past
month for a value of $137,000. Twenty-
nine inspections were made.
council
Approved a $10 donation to the Ex-
eter Legion for Remembrance Day
expenses.
Did not endorse a resolution from
the Huron County Federation of
Agriculture declaring a moratorium
on all farm foreclosures in Huron
because council felt that the Federa-
tion could not impose such a
moratorium.
Discussed the use of the boardroom
by groups and organizations and
decided that the room could be used
by groups during regular office hours
but suggested that requests for
meetings which are to be held outside
of office hours should be referred to
Usborne Central School or the
Kirkton-Woodham community
centre.
Were advised that a letter has been
sent to L. Dawson requesting return
of his 1930 O.H.R.P. loan advance
since the house for which the loan was
requested was never occupied and is
now demolished.
Agreed to the township office being
closed between 12:30 and I :30 p.m. on
December 20 so the office staff can at-
tend a Christmas party being held by
the Ausable-Bayfield Conservation
Authority staff.
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