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SIGN IN TO HURON TRACTOR — Martin Wynja signs in with receptionists Joanne Scott and Debbie
Funston at Monday's farm and industry show at Huron Tractor. T -A photo
Chamber outlines plans
/or GB 'Chickenfest'
Grand Bend council Monday night
approved a proposal presented by the
GB & Area Chamber of Commerce.
Director Gerry Sanders Jr.. and
president Bob Sharen approached
council with their new improved pro-
posal for Burgerfest '86. One of the
major changes appeared to be the
menu. Barbecued chicken, dinners or
burgers, will be served with chips in-
stead of the famous hamburgers.
A set price (subject to change) was
set at $9.50 for the evening, which in-
cluded the meal and transportation to
the main accommodation sites in the
village. The afternoon admission will
be $2.00 with no inclusions. It was pro-
posed that admission to the tent would
be controlled by the presale of tickets.
The capacity approved is 600 people
and when that amount of tickets is
sold that's it.
Sharen announced that this year the
lively event will take place on June 19,
20, 21 and 22. Friday and Saturday
hours are set from 12:00 noon until
5:30 p.m., opening again at 7:00 p.m.
until midnight. These new hours were
discussed with Sgt. Jeiry Hillman, of
the Pinery O.P.P. detachment, who is
working with the Chickenfest com-
mittee this year. It was hoped that
security would include two uniform-
ed off-duty policemen, five Burns
security and as many volunteers as
Three cars
in collision
Three vehicles were involved in the
only collision investigated this week
by the Exeter police department.
It occurred Wednesday on Main SL,
just north of Huron and involved
vehicles driven by Anthony Blok,
Bayfield; Victor Taylor, Exeter; and
John Penninga, Exeter. There were
no injuries and damage was set at
$650.
On Thursday, police were called to
a local home in response to a call that
a child in the home was not breathing.
The child was taken to South Huron
Hospital by Hoffman Ambulance and
is completely well.
An early Saturday morning distur-
bance resulted in two local males be-
ing arrested. They will appear in Ex-
eter court on charges of causing a
disturbance and obstructing a peace
officer.
A break and enter was reported on
February 1 at Laidlaw Transport.
Constable Jim Barnes is
investigating.
are needed.
Wine and beer will be available
with the hope that this will increase
the family attendance. A first rate
band will be hired to play a greater
variety of music. The volume would
be less promised the president.
Special events scheduled for this
year's Chickenfest would include Ms.
& Mr. Burgerfest contest, bed races,
waiter's race, canoe race, Lions bingo
and a flea market on Sunday with
some sky -diving demo's.
After the presentation concluded,
council was in favor overall. Reeve
Harold Green commented "It Looks
good to me!". But he questioned on -
Make bid
over beds
An application for 30 additonal beds
for the nursing home in Exeter which
is now under construction was made
this week.
A local delegation presented the re-
quest to the Compliance Review
Board of the Ontario Ministry of
Health in Toronto and mayor Bruce
Shaw reports receiving a good
response.
Making the trip in addition to
mayor Shaw were reeve Bill Mickle,
deputy -reeve Lossy Fuller, Local nur-
sing home committee chairman Iry
Armstrong. Also attending were Tom
Kanampuzha w ho will be the owner
of the nursing home here and Ervin
Johnston, the administrator.
The home presently under con-
struction will have 30 nursing home
beds and 40 rest home beds.
The 30 current beds are being mov-
ed to Exeter from a nursing home
now operated by Kanampuzha in
Seaforth and some of these will be fill-
ed by residents coming from
Seaforth, thus producing an acute
need for further accommodation.
There is already a lengthy waiting
list of persons wishing to gain accep-
tance to the new nursing home which
has prompted the request for addi-
tional beds.
Reeve Mickle commented Monday
afternoon, "The board appeared to be
very receptive to our application and
at the completion of the hearing
reviewed our presentation and gave
a very positive cap to it."
Nursing home construction on the
property on John Street east is ex-
pected to be completed by August 1
with official opening ceremonies
planned for the Labour Day weekend.
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Decision is reserved
for two court Eases
Judge Gary Hunter reserved deci-
sion on two drinking and driving cases
heard by him at Exeter court,
Wednesday.
The Wednesday hearing was held
after road conditions prompted
rescheduling of the regular Tuesday
court. Justice of the Peace Douglas
Wedlake was caUed to preside at
Tuesday's session when all charges
were adjourned to February 11.
The two drinking driving charges in
Wednesday's session were contested
by defense lawyer Dan Murphy,
Goderich. They were for driving with
a blood alcohol level over the legal
limit. The two charged were Alan W.
Caldwell, Auburn, and Timothy G.
Proctor, Wonderland Road, London.
Caldwell had been charged on June
14 after police received a complaint
regarding a pickup truck in the Kip-
pen area. A pickup driven by the ac-
cused was stopped in the area and the
driver was read a demand for a
breath sample. However, because the
officer did not have an ALERT
machine in his cruiser, the accused
was taken to the Exeter OPP office
following a minor shoving match with
the policeman.
A breathalizer test was given after
the accused registered a fail on the
ALERT machine and the reading was
200 mgs.
However, Murphy explained that
the ALERT test must be taken for-
ly the transportation proposed for this
busy weekend. Deputy -reeve Dennis
Snider had a different comment. "If
anything happens as a result of this
event to hurt Grand Bend's image, I
peronsally will see to it that it will
never be held here again. There'll be
hell to pay!" He expressed the opinion
that although he has never liked the
event in the past, he would go along
with it one more time.
Snider inquired if the Chamber
would be willing to support the
resort's beach cleaner fund? Sharen
replied that if their profit exceeded
the $15,000.00 mark, the executive felt
that at least $1000.00 would go towards
a beach cleaner.
Members on the chickenfest com-
mittee this year are Gerry Sanders
Jr., Jerry Kurtz, Joyce Morden and
John Musser. It was hoped that this
new format will rebuild
Burger/Chickenfest into a family
event that will be worthwhile for the
whole community of Grand Bend and
area.
Council approved a motion made by
Snider to donate $865.00 to the Huron
Country Playhouse. This grant was
based on a per capita figure of 1.33
(the same as Blyth), using a popula-
tion figure of 651 ini4Vand Bend.
A request from Public Utilities
Commissioners, Prosper Vanbruaene
and Roy Johnson for a $20.00 increase.' I
per hydrant was turned down. Coun-M•
cil felt that they were already paying
$75.00 per fire hydrant and that rais-
ing it to $95.00 would only create an
unnecessary cushion for the P.U.C.
It was moved by Councillor Bruce
Woodley and Snider that council allow
a four percent increase per year. The
resort will now be paying $81.00 for
each of the 50 hydrants in the village.
Johnson told council that most of the
hydrants are still new and that
maintenance was done on a yearly
basis. It gets costly when replace-
ment is necessary.
Council acknowledged a telephone
call from Mrs. Nola Love of 40 Sau-
ble Court to thank council for the sign
at the entrance to 81 Crescent. Peo-
ple now are able to find Sauble Court
much easier.
The next regular meeting of coun-
cil will be held on February 17 at 7:00
p.m. with planning, harbour and a
special meeting all to be held in the
next week.
They'd all
like to go
It seems everyone wants to "Come
on out" to Vancouver this spring.
Everyone, including the 16 trustees
on the Huron County board of educa-
tion who want to attend the World
Congress on Education and
Technology on May 22 to 25. The con-
gress is running at the same time as
Expo 86 - The World's Fair on
transportation and technology.
At the January meeting of the
school board, all trustees raised there
hands when asked who would be in-
terested in going to Vancouver to at-
tend the education conference.
However, the board has a policy
that only the director or his designate,
the school board chairman and one
other trustee attend out -of -province
conventions.
Adding another twist to the story,
trustee Graeme Craig of RR 4 Walton
recommended and it was approved
by the board, that the policy be
reviewed by the executive committee.
It remains to be seen how many and
who gets to see and hear well-known
people from around the world who are
interested in education. Some of the
guest speakers are David Suzuki from
the University of B.C., Hajime Karat-
su of Matsushia Electric Industrial
Co., and Gilbert Grosvenor of the Na-
tional Geographic Society.
FINAL PAYMENT
Minister of Agriculture and Food
Jack Riddell, MPP Huron -Middlesex,
today announced the $1,510 final pay-
ment on a $10,060 community plann-
ing grant for Huron County on behalf
of the Township of Tuckersmith.
The grant was used by the County
to prepare a zoning by-law for the
Township.
Community planning grants are
designed to encourage municipalities
to review and update their planning
programs, zoning by-laws and other
planning documents.
Unusual
surprises
While accidents usually result in
surprises for those involved, there
was a greater degree of surprise in
two of the four accidents investigated
by the Exeter OPP this week.
Tuesday night around 9:45 p.m.,
Crediton resident Walter Fydenchuk
escaped wit.luninor injuries after be-
ing struck b}vehicle while walking
along the Crediton Road.
A mirror ori a vehicle driven by Jef-
frey Pfaff, RR 3 Exeter, struck the
SHDHS teacher as the vehicle was
passing the pedestrian.
Later the same evening, a vehicle
driven by James Hart, Hensall, was
northbound on Highway 4 near Hen-
sall when a wheel came off the
vehicle.
The wheel rolled along the highway
and finally smashed into a door at a
house owned by Sam Taylor. Damage
to the door was listed at $30. There
was no damage to the Hart vehicle.
At 8:30 a.m., Wednesday, a vehicle
driven by Petra Beeler, RR 2 Ailsa
Craig, struck a snowdrift on conces-
sion 2-3 of Stephen Township, causing
the driver to lose control. The vehicle
left the road, hit a tree and rolled
over. Damage was listed at $4,090 and
there were no injuries.
The other crash of the week occur-
red on Friday at 1:40 p.m. on Oxford
St. in Hensall. Drivers involved were
Victor Knip and Shirley Lamport ,
both of Hensall. Damage was
estimated at $1,500.
During the past week, the detach-
ment officers investigated 30 occur-
rences including two break and
enters, one theft, two damage com-
plaints, one disturbance, three
domestic disputes, three liquor viola-
tions and two insurance act
violations.
As a result of the investigations,
there were 39 charges laid under the
Highway Traffic Act, three under the
thwith and not when it is practical and
referred to a case which he said was
applicable to that of his client.
Judge Hunter asked that he be
given a copy of the case so he can
review it before judgement on
Caldwell.
The charge against Proctor was
laid on June 15 in Huron Park after
the accused registered a fail on the
ALERT machine and a subsequent
breathalizer test gave a reading of 120
mgs.
In this case, Murphy contended the
ALERT machine was used as part of
a spot check and referred to other
judgements regarding similar situa-
tions that Jude Hunter said be would
review prior to handing down his
decision.
It was also noted that the Crown
was relying on the breathalizer cer-
tificate for evidence and the Goderich
lawyer said that was not proper when
the breathalizer technician was call-
ed as a witness.
DOWN HE GOES — Rob Kramer is ready to pick himself up after
a fall during a skating session for Stephen Central School students
at the Stephen township arena, Thursday afternoon. T -A photo
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