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Times-Advocate, 1986-02-05, Page 13'Er( Mid- Wint Fresh baked from - our oven to your Bread �� Wt>✓ table Extra Good! Peanut Buster , Spiced Cookies do2•.i.29 Gouda Dutch Apple 8" - Pie 2.49 Fresh Country Buns doz. 1.09 Try our delicious Hot Cross Buns, Chocolate Eclairs and Cherry Pies! r Specials Super Spec io%s Mozzarella Ib. 2.79 lb. 3.49 Valentine cup cakes cookies and candies LstyNu Bakery &Cheese House EXETER 2%0232 ZURICH 2ai12 New system praised by police Photo to be mandatory part of drivers' You may want.to take a la quick check in the mirror just e you move up to the counter of r local motor vehicle licence offic to apply for your next driver's lie ce. Beginning February 3, new licen- cing system similar to ones already in place in Alberta and Virginia will' require all Ontario drivers to have their photos taken as piirt of the ap- plication procedure. Your picture, in glorious living colour, will be laminated onto a card which will be a mandatory part of your licence. Three years later, at renewal time, you'll face the candid camera once more. High-quality Polariod cameras, backdrop screens and laminating machines have been installed locally in Wally Seldon's Exeter office, at Rollie's Sports and Cycle in Grand Bend, and in agent Nancy Ducharme's office on the eastern out- skirts of Zurich. Seldon, Ducharme, and Grand Bend agent Gene Grenier have received training in operating the cameras, and spent a week in London learning all the rules and regulations governing the issuing of drivers' licences as they had only dealt with vehicle licencing previously. The new licences will consist of two parts. Prior to expiration of the licence, a driver will receive a renewal application and a camera picture of the driver, driver's name , and date of birth, camera location number and the provincial coat of arms. This part of the licence will be two tpillion drivers' photos will be issued as soon as your picture is taken' taken in the first year the system is and the card is laminated, a pro- tn,operation. It will be phased in over cedure requiring no more than five the next three to four years. minutes. .The photo cards are for identifica- Part two, or the licence card, will tion, not for entry in a beauty contest, still be processed at the MTC head of Ducharme noted. However, if fice and mailed to the applicant. This part, like the ones now in use, will con- tain the driver's name, address, date of birth, sex and height, driver's licence number, and other pertinent data. All camera locations will provide each driver with a free plastic pouch designed to hold the two-part licence. Under the new system, drivers will pay $21 for a three-year renewal which formerly cost $15. Ministry officials predict more than the first picture is unsuitable because the subject's eyes are closed, or for some other valid reason, the agent will take a second one. Grenier add- ed that the agent is required to punch a big hole in the centre of the reject. The photo cards are tamper -proof, Seldon explained. A number is laminated into each card, and these numbers are impossible to duplicate. without access to the security plates. Because of these features, Sgt. Don McInnes of the Exeter OPP detach - READY TO SHOOT — MTC licencing agent Nancy Ducharme stands beside the Polaroid camera recently installed in her Zurich offico to take the pictures to be part of all drivers' licences issued beginning February 3. TERESA BROERS Miss K -W Optimist MARNIE BEARSS Miss Ulch' Transport MARIE STEPHEN Miss Silhouette Studio K -W winte The 17th annual Kirkton-Woodham Winter Carnival will be staged this coming weekend February 7, 8 and 9. Events begin Friday night at 8:15 at the Kirkton-Woodham Community Centre with the annual Queen contest with a dance to follow. Contestants are 17 year-old Teresa Broers, RR 6 St. Marys, sponsored by the Kirkton-Woodham Optimists; Marie Stephen, 17, RR 1 St. Marys, sponsored by Silhouette Studio; Karen Letprtion, 17, RR 2 Granton, representing Blanshard Municipal Telephone; Marnie Bearss, 17 of St. Marys, sponsored by Ulch Transport; Jill Burgin representing the Kirkton Market. She is 17 and resides at RR 1 St. Marys; Hardemann Feeds spon- sor 18 year-old Marlyne Denham of RR 1 Kirkton and 17 year-old Laurie Hawkins, RR 1 St. Marys will repre- sent Jim Siddall Trucking. Saturday afternoon is filled with' KAREN LEMMON Miss Blanshard Telephone r carnival novelty races, snowmobile races and other events ,with. a snow carnival dance in the evening. Sunday's activities begin with a combined church service at the Com- munity Centre at 9:45 a.m. This is followed by a pancake and sausage breakfast and the carnival concludes in the afternoon with snowmobile, car and cross country skiing poker rallies. The Kirkton-Woodham Winter Car- nival Club was formed in 1970 and had its beginning in the Old Aberdeen Hall, now the Scout Hall. The club was formed to provide financial assistance to the Kirkton- Woodham Boy Scouts and Girl Guides and other youth organizations and provide funds for capital expen- ditures for other community projects. These funds have come primarily , from a mens' club supper in the fall, kbs, carnival held on the lien cond wee end of Februa each year: i JILL BURGIN Miss Kirkton Market vies, MARLYNE DENHAM Miss Hardemann Feeds LAURIE HAWKINS Miss Jim Siddall Trucking Cattlemen elect Strang 1st v/p The new executive of the Huron Cattleman's Association was elected at the group's recent annual meeting. The new president, taking over from Ross Proctor of 1111 5, Brussels, is Ron Bennett of Gorrie. The first vice- president is Keith Strang of Exeter, the second vice-president is Jack Flanagan of Dublin, the OCA director is Glen Coultes of Brussels with Brian Miller of Exeter as the alternate. h) Stephanie I.rsesque L • Several local Liberals attended a breakfast in Wingham with the members of the three-man agriculture task force that met in that town on January 30. Some present were Bruce McDonald, the Literals candidate in the last federal election: Howard Aitken, president of the lluron-Bruce Liberal Association, }leather Redick of Rlt2Zurich, Paul Steckle of RR 2 Zurich, Jaok Horan of RR 4 Walton, Bill Elston of Morris Township and Craeme Cragi of RR 4 Walton as well as Donald McDonald of RR 3 Brussels. • Harold Turnbull, the assistant department head at Mitchell District High School has been selected as prin- cipal of the Perth County board of education's summer school. Fie will receive an honorarium of $2,600. • it will be April 15 before the On- tario hydro hearings reach this part of the country. Still going on in Guelph, Tony McQuail of toile Foodland-Hydro committee said the April date has been set for the hear- ings to move to Clinton. • Harry Pelissero, president of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture (OFA), will be in .Perth County on Monday. February 24 attending a series of kitchen meetings. His visit is a prelude to the Perth County federation's membership blitz which will take place from March 4 to 6. • Huron -Bruce MP Murray Cardiff was busy the first couple of weeks in January as vice-chairman of the federal government's regional and in- dustrial expansion committee. The main topic under discussion by the all -party committee was the sale of DeHaviland to Boeing. • Mitchell's Hugh Edighoffer, MPP for Perth and speaker of the provin- cial legislature was featured in a col- umn in the Toronto Star on January 30. It seems that Mr. Edighoffer is coming under some fire for limiting questions during question period. However, even opposition leader 'Larry Grossman says it is not party partisanship but perhaps time con- straints that has the speaker pushing questions through. Want bylaws to be followed licences ment welcomes the new system. He is certain the photo cards will help law enforcement in general, and law- abiding citizens specifically. The new system will drastically reduce the borrowing of someone else's licence when a driver is under suspension, he said, and should eliminate the use of stolen identification to fraudulently endorse cheques. "I'm sure the whole police com- munity is pleased". McInnes said. "Honest people don't have to worry. This system protects the honest per- son, as no one can steal your licence and use it." Sgt. Kevin Short of the Exeter police also gives the new licences his whole -hearted approval, calling them long overdue. Short said the most flagrant abuse of the present system has been the loaning of licences to be used as ID by under -age drinkers to get into bars. Short said another flaw in the pre- sent system that allowed suspended drivers to get another licence will also be eliminated. Those who renewed their licences before February may obtain a photo card by going to a licencing office and paying a S7 fee. With all the fringe benefits that will accompany the new drivers' licences, some non -drivers may sympathize with the lady who applied for a driver's licence and admitted she didn't drive, she only wanted the licence for identification. 48:Oh'O: MI : MO1 ". ' NW:..: Ames Sewing South Huron, North Middkse PagelA V 0 cafe • & North. Lambton Since 1873 February 5, 1986 Champion hiringadditional 118 expect 50 percent production increase maker of road graders, produced more than 1,000 road graders at its two plants last year and sold them to 87 countries around the world. The Goderich plant currently employs about 600 workers. In the face of increasing world com- petition plus the falling value of the dollar, the company had discovered that it could produce graders for the U.S., market more cheaply in Canada, Metcalfe said. Of even more concern, he said, was the fact that the over-all road grader market had dropperity_4q.percent over the last few years making con- solidation still more attractive. The company would maintain some limited manufacturing facilities in South Carolina, he said, but only for contracts which called for U.S. plant manufacturing content. The U.S. plant will keep a staff of about 50 workers. A major manufacturing shift within by 50 percent over the 'text few . Champion Road Machinery Ltd. of months," said Metcalfe. Goderich, will add 118 more skilled As part of its corporate announce - jobs to the payroll over the next few ment Monday. Champion said months, company spokesman Bill Employment Canada will put up $1.5 Metcalfe announced Monday. . million to help Champion train the workers it will need. "We had to go to a retraining pro- gram because we did not feel we could get the skilled workers we need- ed, " he said. Both thehiring and the in -plant training operation, Metcalfe said, would begin almost immediately. • • Metcalfe. said. that .Champigp's determination to be cofti.petitive in the highly competitive road grader market plus the falling value of the Canadian dollar had both played a part in the decision to consoldiate manufacturing operations at Goderich. Champion, owned by the Bruce Sul- ly family and Canada's biggest Miffed over the fact the bylaws per- taining to the Huron police com- munication system are not being followed, Exeter council agreed this week to advise the other municipalities involved that they will not accept any revision in the com- munications staff salaries until those bylaws are followed. Police committee chairman Dorothy Chapman explained that the bylaws stipulate that the sub commit- tee, which has representation of the five towns, is to deal with salaries. }lowever, Goderich officials ap- proved salary increases of five per - sent for the communications staff in 1985 and a further six percent in- crease for 1906. in addition, Mrs. Chapman said the bylaws direct that the clerks of the five county towns are to meet annual- ly to formulate a budget and this has not been done in recent years. That budget has been set by Goderich of- ficials only. The hiring, which will be handled by Employment Canada, follows a company decision to downplay its U.S. plant operations and to con- solidate as much as possible of its manufacture of heavy road graders ' at its Goderieh plant headquarters. i,,,,Company spokesman Bill Metcalfe sdid Champidtt had begun tli color solidation program by laying off about 120 workers from its U.S. road graderplantoperations in Columbia, S.C., in early December. "We are basically now going out and hiring the same number of workers at our Goderich plant where we expect manafacturing to increase New from National: It combiu"" ► the convenience of a daily interest account v - , t a high money market rate of: Daily Interest 9Paid Monthly • O Rate uihicu to change If you have $1O,(XX) or.morc, compare the rate printed above with that of. your current daily interest account and you'll sec that there is simply no comparison. That's because our rate is set weekly based on Government of Canada 9l -Day Treasury Bills. 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