Times-Advocate, 1985-02-27, Page 1504
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Curlers mark anniversary'
Reminiscing was the order of the
day at the Exeter curling club Friday.
Some of the tales were tall as about
65 curlers. many of them charter
members were on hand to celebrate
the 25th anniversary of construction
of the present curling club building.
The celebration opened at noon with
a dinner which was followed by on -ice
action and slides of construction of the
building and some film of three years
of curling earlier at the old Exeter
arena.
Cart Cann presented a resume of
the history of the club and Art Cann,
Bill MacLean and Glenn Mickle chip-
ped in with highlights of the early
years.
The basis of the building was pur-
chased in the summer of 1960 from St.
Pierre Construction of London for
$6,5000 and many hours of volunteer
labour followed to finalize the building
for the first curling.
The idea of curling in Exeter was
first brought forth by the tate Reg
Armstrong and he was on hand to
throw the first rocks in the new
building in 1960 simultaneously with
Lee Learn, Bill MacLean and Art
Cann.
Art Cann created a lot of interest
with a curling club history quiz.
In the question period it was learn-
ed, $860 was gained on a draw for a
calf donated by Roy Lamport. The
winner was Len Veri and the animal
was bought back by Lamport for $68.
The only curler to own matched
rocks at the old arena was Carf Cann
and when club used rocks were sold
BEHIND THE SCENES — Glenda Wagner and the afternoon class from
Toddlers Inn nursery school look for the school's mail box during o
tour of the Exeter post office.
to Ilderton, the matched stones went
along.
The fellow who sometimes didn't
have confidence in his skip and car-
ried rocks with him was Elmer Bell.
The most proficient at missing the
broom and throwing wrong turns was
Father Kelly.
When it was asked why an expen-
diture of $9.25 for barbed wire al),
peared in the 1960 financial state-
ment, Ices Parker replied, "That
barbed wire was needed to keep Gib
Dow's cattle off the curling club pro-
perty". Harris West was the first
caretaker at $50 per annum.
Friday's curling feature was a
grudge match between the original
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CURLING REMINISCING — Shown checking over the records of the
Exeter curling club qt Friday's 25th anniversary are charter members
Corf Cann, Glenn Mickle and Clarence Down. T -A photo
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& North tambton Since 1873
Exeter basements inundated
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Few hit by
fI..d
thickness on the Ausable River at ty has improved its flood monitoring,
Port Franks is currently about the the system is -not complete yet. Provin-
same as last year when the ice jam tial funding expected in 1965 for fur-
problems•occurred. ther improvements has bee* cut.
If flooding problems appear immi- Scott says, "this meaps slower and
nent the Conservation Authority will less accurate warnings of flooding."
issue a Flood Advisory or a more In •the meantime Scott notes that.
serious Flood Warning to Member "the water level in the Parkhill Dam
Municipalities who will be affected by has been reduced to less than its nor -
the flooding. It then becomes the mal winter holding level..This gives
Municipality's responsibility to take us a little extra storage capacity, but
the necessary steps to prevent loss of there is enough drainage area
life and minimize property damage. ,downstream of the Dam that flooding
Although the Conservation Autheri- could still result."
The area has experienced some
minor flooding, and the flood poten-
tial certainly isn't finished yet.. That's
the word from Dan Kennaley of the
Ausable-Hayfield Conservation
Authority.
On the weekend there was more
rain than the Authority anticipated.
However, with all that rain, there was
no sun to encourage melting, and the
snow acted as a sponge for some of
the rain. Tom Prout of the A.B.C.A.
says there has been a back-up of
storm sewers, resulting in flooded
basements in Exeter and some rural
homes. Low-lying roads in
McGillivray and Stephen were flood-
ed, as was the county road at the tri -
county bridge.
As of Monday afternoon, there was
still a flood ad h isory in effect for the
Grand Bend and Port Franks areas,
because of the heavy rainfall and the
possibility of ice -jamming. There has
been some minor ice -jamming at
Grand Bend, and ice -jamming is star-
ting at Port Franks.
With the current conditions of
frozen ground and saturated snow,
more rainfall would be a real
The best possible situation now, ac-
cording to Alec Scott of the A.B.C.A.,
would be mild days where e
temperature dips back belOw
at night, with little rainfall. This
would cause gradual thawing of the
remaining snow.
Scott says that the Conservation
Authority has a better ability to
monitor the flood situation this year
as a result of improvements made to
its flood monitoring system. We've
added a computer communications
link with the Provincial Streamflow
ose door to settle
Parker drain debate
In a closed session last week, Ex-
eter council agreed to a proposal from
Doug Parker to pay a portion of the
cost of a storm drain to service his
property at 436 Albert St. where he
plans to erect a fourplex.
Parker has been discussing the
storm dram with council for several
months, but in the past council
members have held firm that Parker
should pay the entire cost of the drain.
That was also the recommendation of
the planning advisory committee.
At last Monday's session, Parker
attended with local lawyer Elmer D.
Bell and the latter urged council to be
careful to avoid a situation that could
be termed discriminatory by pPo-
viding storm sewers in some parts of
town at no cost to ratepayers, while
requiring other property owners to
pay the costs in other sections.
Not stopping
nets 128 fine
A Huron Park man was fined $128
after pleading guilty to a charge of
failing to stop for police when he ap-
peared in Exeter court. Tuesday.
William Richard Quesnel, 131 Ken-
sington Crescent, was charged ,on
January 19 after being pursued by a
police cruise.. The accused drove at
a high rate of speed in Iluron Park
and failed to stop at one stop sign and
finally ran into the ditch.
The accused (led the scene on foot,
but had been recognized by the of-
ficer. On January 22, Quesnel gave a
statement indicating he 'was the
driver of the vehicle involved and that
he had seen the police cruiser.
He had no previous record and was
given 15 days in which to pay the fine.
Damage same
in two crashes
Damage was estimated al $1,100 in
each of the two collisions investigated
in the area by the Exeter OPP this
week.'
The first occurred on Monday on
Canada Ave. in Huron Park. invol L-
ing vehicles driven by Pierre
Morneau and Cheryl Smith. both of
Iluron Park.
The other was on Sunday on
Highway 4. south of Kippen. Drivers
involved in that one were Marion
Harvey, Monkton, and .John
Branderhorst. RR 1 Hensall
in an account of an accident in last
week's issue. it was indicated that
Wilfred Berdan. Exeter. was a driver
of one of the vehicles involved Ac-
tually. he was being,passed by a vehi-
cle driven by Heather Love. RR 3
'Parkhill. which slid into the ditch The
Berdan vehicle was not directly in-
volved in the accident and we
apologize for any 'inconvenience the
article may have crew
"Without putting council to the bit-
ter test," Bell explained, Parker
would be willing to pay half the cost
of the drain.
The cost of the drain had previous-
ly been estimated at $5,500 by works
superintendent Glen Kells, but Bell
advised that Parker had received two
estimates from area contrators and
the lowest of those was $3,700.
He said Parker would therefore be
willing to pay $1,850 towards the cost.
"1 need only point out a fact which
you already know," Bell stated in a
letter to accompany his visit. "that as
a vacant lot the taxes recoverable by
the municipality are negligible while
the taxes on the proposed fourplex per
annum would probably be in the
neighborhood of $2,500 so the cost
would be quickly recovered."
Ile also noted in his letter that it
would appear that up to the present.
the policy of the town has not been to
assess costs of storm sewers to fron-
ting properties except in the case of
new subdivisions.
There was no reason given for
discussing the issue in closed session
after Monday's regular meeting was
adjourned.
At that time, it was agreed by coun-
cil that the town would pay half the
cost of the storm drain, but only for
the portion on the street.
Pryde Blvd.
is hardest hit
Several Exeter homeowners had
first-hand knowledge this week of the
problems associated with a heavy
build-up of snow being quickly melted
by a steady February rain.
Several experienced flooded
basements, with the Pryde Boulevard
area being the hardest hit.
Some sanitary sewer water backed
into a couple of homes there, although
the majority had only storm run-off
water.
Public works employee Gary Mid-
dleton said he received about a dozen
calls in the Pryde Blvd.area on Satur-
day night and Sunday morning.
Residents in other areas of town
also experienced problems that left
them with some clean-up chores after
the rain subsided on Sunday.
Forecasting Centre and installed a
new water level gauge at Port
Franks. The computer link -means we
have quicker access to information
concerning weather conditions which
could trigger serious flooding pro-
blems, while the water level gauge
will enable us to better monitor water
level changes in the Ausable Cut at
Port Franks."
Last year ice jams at Bayfield and
Port Franks caused flooding pro-
blems near the mouths of the two
rivers. Scott reports that the ice
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OPTIMISTS AND FIREMEN -- The Exeter Optimist Club hos donated $1,000 proceeds from a recent
dunce to the Exeter Fireman's Association for the purchase of equipment. From the left are Firemen's
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Association vice-president Jim Jarrett Optimist vice-president Art Hunking and treasurer Pete Hrudka
and Firemen's president Peter McFalls. T -A photo
Stephen job estimate,' 205,000
wi/1 pave concession 2-3
their l).N.LP. grant. The Ontario Bol h men are seeking zoning
Neighbourhood improvement Pro- changes.
gram proposal originally submitted A motion was made that Linda
covered all of Stephen Township. re- Oliver. a secretary in the Stephen of -
questing funds for road improvement Tice. be sent to a Clerk's Course about
and other improvement projects. The municipal drainage in Kitchener on
letter suggests that part of the pie is March 19 and 20.
better than none: if the Ministry wont it was moved (hat the 1985 fire
approve all of Stephen Township as a budget from the Grand Bend and
Neighbourhood Improvement Area.- Area Fire I)epartmen( be accepted.
the Ministry should choose a The total budget amounts to $38.655.
designated area r such as 1)ashwood. and Stephen's share is $12.885
Crediton or Huron Park and .just The registration fees for the Arena
work on it. Manager and the Assistant Arena
A public meeting will be scheduled Manager to attend training school in
to review amendments to Zoning Guelph will he paid. The total cost will
Bylaw 312. 1984. Applications from he $66(1 50.
Bill Parsons. regarding the north A motion was made to send 1984
quarter of lot 17. Concession t. and Stephen tax arrears to the County of
from Henry Brown. regarding part of Iluron for collection. The amount of
lot 10. Concession 6. will he heard. Please turn to page 2
Stephen Township council has ap-
proved the paving of concession 2 and
3. A motion was passed giving the
road superintendent permission to
tender for the paving at the meeting
of Stephen council on February 19.
The road will be paved from the
Crediton Road north to Highway 83.
it is already paved further south. The
estimated cost of the paving is
$205.000.
Council also made a motion to for-
ward a letter to the Ministry of
Municipal Affairs and Housing about
LEBEDEW AWARD WINNERS — At Tuesday's Lord Baden Powell Banquet at
Scout Tim McAllister, Cub David Morlock and Beaver Shawn McCurdy receive the
from Evelyn Lebedew.
the Exeter Legion Hall,
annual Lebedew awards
T -A photo.
L,berals are raring
to battle with Miller
More than 2511 Iluron-Middlesex
provincial Liberals attended a dinner
and dance in Parkhill Saturday night
and indicated they were raring to get
into action for the next election.
Speaking to the enthusiastic gather-
ing
athering were Ontario Liberal leader
David Peterson and MPP Jack Rid-
dell who has represented the Huron -
Middlesex riding for the past 12 years.
in his remarks Peterson compared
the present Conservative government
led by Premier Frank Milter and one
he hoped to head following the next
election.
He was concerned that Miller would
be cutting hack on social services
especially for small town hopsitals in
the same vein fhe-Liberal leader said
those wishing to enter hospitals for
surgery have been waiting as long as
six months.
Peterson called for more jots skill
training and greater assistance for
agriculture
Ile continued. "Our farmers need
help to stay in business with higher
prices for their products and lower in -
(crest on loans needed to operate."
Jack Riddell said he was concern-
ed with Prime Minister Brian
Mulroney's open door policy to the
1 nited Slates. He added. "Too much
foreign investment could return us to
branch plant problems and create a
downturn in the economy."
"A free trade route with the United
Slates could damage Ontario industry
and especially our agricultural
marketing hoards," added the local
MPP
Middlesex warden Bill Lane of Dor-
chester paid tribute. to Riddell for his
efforts in trying to restore the Mid-
dlesex county jail and attempting to
obtain more beds for Stralhroy
hospital.
Also in attendance was Don Smith.
the newly elected president of the On-
tario Liberal Party. Ifjs wife Joan will
be opposing MPP Gordon Walker in, -
the riding of London South in the next
election
Riding president .toe Mogan was
master of ceremonios for the dinner
which was followed by dancing to
Ma plc. Sugar.
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