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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1985-03-27, Page 31den The sight of the snow -plow on the week -end was thoroughly discourag- ing. Enough is enough in my opinion. The movie shown on Monday even- ing was "Mzima. Portrait of a Spring", which was an African pic- ture showing how the water seeps through 'the soil and erupts into a spring. The Junior Farmers of the area joined with the residents on Tuesday evening. providing a very enjoyable program, followed by a social time and refreshments. Mr. Cliff Alexander provided a live- ly video program on Wednesday evening which was very much enjoyed.. All of our activities have been very well attended during the morning ses- sions. and of course, the hobby shop is a busy spot during the afternoons. We thank Mrs. Gladys Martin for tak- ing over the crafts while Mrs. Mary Ellen Gingerich enjoyed the sunny south, and now we will be looking for- ward to some new ideas and projects brought back from the south. Mr. and Mrs. Marc Chalut, two of our volunteers have returned from their southern vacation and came back to the Home_on Friday to pro- vide the Residents with a bus ride along the lake as far as the Pinery while the ladies at the Home had their manicure. Friday evening the usual large crowd assembled in the dining room for the bingo. - Residents out during the week were Mr. -Aaron Gingerich, Loftus Denomme, Mrs. Violet Huntley. Peter Deichert, Ruby Hoggarth, Stephen Molnar and Ruth Taylor. We welcome Mrs. Pearl Gale back from the hospital, much improved. The Sunday evening chapel service was conducted by Rev. Brian Elder of Crediton United church. Two thefts, one collision One collision and two thefts were in- vestigated by the Exeter police department this week. On Wednesday, vehicles driven by Colin Riley, Rodney, and Audrey Boersma, RR 1 Exeter, collided on Main St. near Huron. Damage was estimated at $250 by Constable Dan Kierstead. He is also investigating the break, enter and theft at Darling's Abattoir, 103 Alexander Si. on Wednesday. The breakin was discovered by an employee and the total amount -of stolen items is still uncertain. On Friday, Bruce Tuckey, 67 John St. E:, Exeter, reported the theft of his 1979 Chrysler Cordoba from the parking lot of Exeter Produce. The vehicle has still not been recovered. Act/Chief Kevin Short is investigating. BEDTIME AT FASHION SHOW — Shown in nightwear at Thursday's fashion show sponsored by the Dashwood Business Association are Donna Restemayer, Ann Marie Hoffman, Bernice Boyle and Donna Hoffman. Clothes were supplied by Looking Good. T -A photo This area in 1986 To control ambulances from London Ambulance service for this area will soon be controlled from a central dispatch centre in London. Lucan and Zurich, along with Parkhill, Strathroy and London, will be joining the new service in June. Eleven other Southwestern Ontario cities, towns and villages will go on the system next March, including Dashwood and Si Marys. The actual ambulances will still be kept where they've always been. What will change is how calls will be handled - eventually, all calls will be answered in London. and decisions on where to send ambulances first will be made from there. Reaction to the new system in this area is mixed. No jobs are being lost here, although several have been lost elsewhere, including Woodstock. It takes a lot of responsibility from the shoulders of the area owners, but also limits their control over their businesses. Diane O'Connor. who along with her husband Michael runs the in- dependently operated O'Connor Am- bulance Service in Zurich, says the change won't have any effect on them. Their ambulances are already dispatched from London, and their TOURISTS ON PARADE -- Shown ready for a trip during Thursday's Dos hwood Businessmen's Association fashion show are Dean Smith and Luella Tiernan. Looking Good of Exeter supplied the clothes. Plan discussions on liquor licences A public meeting regarding special occasion permits and the Liquor Licence Act will he held on April 23 at the llensall Community Centre. The director of the special occasion permits department, W. D. Rollings, will be outlining the regulations regarding the liquor permits. The meeting will be held in the auditorium at 7:30 p m.. and representatives from service clubs and community groups are welcome to attend. Anyone wishing more information should contact the llensall clerk at 262-1812 This meeting was brought to the at - tention of the South Iluron recreation centre hoard at their last meeting through a letter from llensall village. 4ptieveraI other meetings. these not en to the general public. were also discussed by the board. South Huron Recreation ('entre representatives will be attending the Recreation gervices Ad Hoc Planning Committee on March 30 at the Hen- sall Community Centre. Mileage ex- penses will be reimbursed to those who attend. The Ontario Municipal Recreation Association, Lake Huron Zone. is holding their annual conference nn Saturday. April 20 at the F.E. Madill Secondary School in Wingham. The rec centre hoard members are invited to attend the meeting: their registra- tion fees of $15.00 each and mileage will be paid if they go. Employees Cam Stewardson and Don Campbell will ixattending the Ontario Arena Conference at the diversity of Guelph from April 29 to May 3. Stewardson will he attending the multi -facilities management seminar, at the cost of $328.50: Camp- bell will he attending the refrigeration seminar. at the cost of $335.50. phones are answered from London as well. The O'Connors will continue. with the same staff, since they never had "a dispatcher as such". In Dashwood, Jim Hoffman of Hoff- man's Ambulance has'some doubts about the change. "I don't think a London dispatcher will know the area as well." Iloffman cites cases where a panicked caller will tell the intersec- tion where an ambulance is needed and hang up, without saying what town the intersection is in. Iloffman also thinks an area dispatcher would have a better idea of the weather. The Ontario Ambulance- Owners' Association, a group of private am- bulance drivers, wanted to prevent the change because they thought the plan had more disadvantages than advantages, but were unable to. The organization has been aware of the plan for five years. Hoffman doubts the change will save any money, although that is part, of the reasoning behind it. He's also worried about the potential for his Readers write crew to be cut off from communica- tions during a hydro outage, because they will be..using electrically operated pagers under the new plan. Bill Haskett of Lucan has adopted a "basically wait and see attitude". "I can't say anything for sure til it's been in operation for six months". Haskett hasn't lost any people because of the move, but wonders about the salary rates being offered by the new centre, which are $2 an hour lower than what dispatchers cur- rently make. "I wonder if you'll get as good people," Haskett says. Haskett has received no compensa- tion for dispatching for the past 15 years, nor has he received compen- sation for. the loss of dispatching. Haskett wants people to be aware that whichever ambulance service they call, they're going to be talking to somebody in London. All ambulances will be sent by the Thames Valley Central Ambulance Dispatch once the:. changeover is complete. Has special meaning Dear Sir: As a war widow Easter has always had a very special meaning for me. Like many of your readers who have lost the ones who have meant the most to them the message of Easter - new life, hope and renewal has been a great comfort. May 1 share with those readers a way 1 found to make the message of Easter even more meaningful and at the same time provide a continuing memorial and tribute to a loved one. I do.it by underwriting the cost of sight restoring, cataract operations on destitute blind people in the developing world. It only costs $25 for the surgery, medicines. hospital care. cataract glasses. food while in hospital and follow up care. As you can understand when a blind person receives the gift of sight it is for them the gift of a new life. almost a resur- Rec insurance is clarified At the last meeting of the South Huron recreation centre board. there was a presentation by Mel Gaiser regarding the centre's insurance coverage. The hoard wanted clarification on the insurance policy. Among the items discussed was the fact 19 groups who use rec centre facilities aren't covered for liability insurance with the centre. Some of these groups. like minor hockey and figure skating. have their own coverage. Others. like the tennis club. don't have any insurance, as far as the board knows. As well as the groups mentioned. the 19 include several hockey teams, ringette, fasthall and softball. lawn bowling and shuffleboard groups. It was decided that the facilities committee would discuss the matter further, but that the 19 groups would probably he offered a package deal on insurance, to cover them in case of an injury. It was felt that the groups would almost all have to agree. more than a couple of groups dissenting would ruin the idea. If enough groups agreed, Gaiser would he able to offer "million dollar insurance" for a very low cost per group. The rec centre hasn't made any claims on its insurance. They have a $500 deductible, and every potential claim has been below that. Recently. Exeter council decided to raise that deductible to $1,000 to save on the premium. This will save $1.102 an- nually in premium cost. The errors and omissions liability has been increased to $5.000,000. for the additional cert of $97. This change was made when the insurance policy was reviewed by council. The total cost of the insurance policy in 1984-85 will be $7.561. rection - in fact the once blind call it "coming back from that other world". If any of your readers would like to give someone "new life" for only $25., I suggest that they send their cheque or money order to a Canadian chari- ty that organizes these sight restora- tions - Operation Eyesight Universal, P.O. Box 123, Station M, Calgary. Alberta, T2P 2H6. This is a registered charity and contributions are tax deductible. Receipts for income tax purposes are issued right away. I've been supporting Operation Eyesight for many years and have never ceased to wonder that they can do so.much for so little. Your readers will receive a patient identification card showing the name, age, sex and the town. village or tribal area of the patient. This card is signed by the of- ficiating surgeon. Knowing that you have given so- meone "new life" is such a grand way to celebrate Easter. Sincerely. Mrs. Margaret Fearn 29 McNaughton Ave. Ottawa, Ontario KIS OJl Times -Advocate, March 27, 1985 Page 19A Rec Centre maintenance The annual report for the South Huron Recreation Centre made it clear that the Centre is living on bor- rowed time, as far as major maintenance goes. "The fact remains, each year we are finding it harder to maintain our present facilities to the standard the public is used to. We are in our eighth year of operation and at a point where the building and equipment at the recreation centre could need major repair or replacement anytime." This was part of the report, prepared by Cam Stewardson and Lynne Far- quhar of the centre staff. They are worried that because, "we keep put- ting things off, repairs may cost more later". There was more breakdown last year than ever before. Other matters dealt with in the report include the grants and dona- tions received in 1984. These includ- ed two provincial grants of $6,000 (one was for 1983), an Ontario Arts Coun- cil grant of $237 to be used for children's theatre production, a Sum- mer Canada grant of $6,962 for the sports development program, a $400 donation from the Optimist Club for Leadership in Training. There was also a Career Access grant of $2,600 to hire a. part-time facilities person, a Wintario non -capital program grant of $486 for a lawn mower, and a $300 payment by the National Coaching Certification program for an instructor. Unfortunately, some of the grants received in 1984 will not be received this year. The Wintario program for non -capital grants is being discon- tinued, and some of the others may be. This will put more strain on the community because the centre will have to rely on community support more heavily and on its own funding sources. On the administration side of things. the board and staff continued in 1984 To discuss recreation Representatives from councils and recreation committees from seven area municipalities will meet in Hen- sall on Saturday to discuss recreation. Main emphasis of the seminar is ex- pected to be cost sharing of recreation facilities and programs and also reducing the cost of recreation facilities and programs. Three speakers will headline the morning session. Robert Collins, a consultant with the ministry of tourism and recreation in London will talk on "Attitudes Towards Paying for Recreation". He will be followed by another consultant, Tom Horlor, whose topic will be `'Reducing the Cost". The final address will be given by Dave Clarke, director of recreation in Simcoe, who will talk on "Raising Revenues". After the noon lunch. delegates will break into discussion groups to deal further with the topics outlined by the speakers. Representatives from Exeter. llen- sall, Zurich and the Townships of Stephen, Usborne, Ilay. Tuckersmith and Stanley ale expected to attend. to develop a policies and procedures manual. Job descriptions and rules of order for committee meetings were developed. Staff are also submitting reports annually on town and township users and a cost analysis to provide a picture of the deficit. Staff continue to attend workshops and seminars to upgrade their -knowledge and skills. Staff has tried to cut back in several areas and improve revenue genera- tion. They are also making their needs known to service groups to try to interest them in funding specific projects. Increase in Provincial grant Ontario Environment Minister Morley Kells announced this week that the Town of Exeter is eligible for an increase in the provincial grant for the expansion of its sewage treatment facilities. Based on the updated estimated cost of $1,189,000, the grant will be in- creased from $602,000 to $633,000. The project is scheduled for com- pletion in the fall of 1985. Clerk Liz Bell explained that the ex- tra grant announced by Kells t no relation to the local works superinten- dent ► will cover the cost of cleaning out the two existing lagoons at the treatment site. Queensway news The contest results from last week's St. Patrick's Day Coffee House have been gathered. The winner of the Shamrock counting contest is Jack Lowe. Congratulations Jack. Con- gratulations also to' Gertie Deeves, Asa Deeves and Grace Dinney for the brilliance of their green apparel. Lorne Johnston won a prize for his musical contribution to the festivities. He entertained us with a fiddle solo. These people received a green carna- tion for their special St. Patrick's efforts. Tuesday afternoon Reverend Blaak, from the Bethel Reformed Church in Exeter, led our worship service. Our Ceramic Club met again on Wednesday morning. Judy Parker and Lil Baker were there to lend a helping hand. Friday was such a beautiful day, we decided to celebrate. Several of us spent the morning walking. enjoying the invigorating fresh March air. Friday afternoon our baking club met. We made zucchini bread from the recipe of our master baker, Bill Eveland. We also made chocolate cookies. Mr. Eveland provided strawberries to eat with the zucchini loaf. They were both delicious. We put the cookies in the freezer to keep un til another day. On Saturday afternoon we celebrated the March birthdays. Two ladies from the Zurich Mennonite Church joined our party. They baked a beautiful cake for us. We'd like to thank Evelyn Steckle and Betty Steckle for helping us celebrate these birthdays. The residents with March birthdays were Isobel Sproat. Ella Middleton. Grace Dinney and Carl Lawatski. WALTZ OF THE FLOWERS carnival presented by the silt, Dona Cooper, Rebecca Kari Taylor, Lisa Campbell, Beverly Lefaive. Rehearsing their port in the successful Skating Club are (left) Leann Con- Bedour, Melissa Masse, Jennifer Allan, Julie Rooseboom, Anita Phillips and Hensall CASUAL WEAR Modelling casual wear at Thursday's- fashion show sponsored by the Dashwood Businessmen's Association are Victoria Pfaff, Vesta Miller, Joan Hoffman and Tracy Woods. at