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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1986-03-05, Page 11Four en. It will cost f' cents 'nice p capita to operat : the Upper 'i homes River Conserv ion Authority this year. At its annual eeting in Lambeth on February 27, authority approv- ed an adminis tion and conserva- tion budget off $ 4 minim. Of this, the 27 municipalit in the watershed have to pay ; ,200, an increase of 5.6 per cent over st year. This levy the municipalities represents r capita cost of *1.50 this year, co pared to *1.46 in 1985. The remlai ' r of the UTRCA's ad- ministrati r nd conservation ser- vices budge will be covered by pro- vincial gran . through the ministry of natural r=.ources, $77,500 from general la • reserves, *28,000 from last year's • lus and the rest in land rentals an bank interest. The lar: t expenditure in this por- tion of th = budget is administration costs. Th' totals $683,600, up five per cent fro last year. In adm nistration, the largest ex- penditure' wages and benefits which totals *4 ,000. The a thority plans on spending *234,400 n its six dams this year. The provinc picks up 55 per cent of the funding for these projects and the munici lities that benefit from the struct a pick up the rest of the tab. The rgest capital project to be undert ken by the authority is the contin ation of repairs to the London dykes. gain, the province will pick up 55 r cent of the *610,000 project estimate and the City of London will pick uj the rest of the tab. In P rth County, the major project is theipurchase of floodplain lands. The a thority has budgeted $30,000 for the 1a d acquisition and the town will pick p the *13,500 cost over the pro- vinci 1' funding. Th rest of the budget figures focus on t three conservation areas, Fan- sha near London, Wildwood near St. !Marys and Pittock near Woodstock. The Wildwood conservation area has a budget for 1986 of $417,250. Wages, at $152,050 make up the largest portion of the budget. Capital projects at Wildwood have been budgeted at $31,700. These in- clude updating the hydro outlets, im- proving the entrance to the park, planting shade trees and putting boardwalks around the park. Ladies hockey The Western Ontario Women's Hockey League will be holding their league playoff tournament this weekend, March 7, 8, 9 at the Huron Park and Exeter Arenas. • The eight • tgurnaxnent; will be played roun.' in style with the top four teams meeting in the 'A' and the bottom four battling it out for the 'B' championship. Games will take place on Friday night in Huron Park from 8 p.m. - midnight, Saturday at the South Huron rec centre from 1 p.m. -10 p.m. and the finals will be in Huron Park at 1 and 2 p.m. Sunday. The tournament is hosted, by the Huron Park Pacers women's team ----with __teams from Port Stanley, Alvinston -Sarnia and London par- ticipating. Daily admission is $1.00. This is a good opportunity for local fans to catch some women's hockey action! ! For information on game times call the rec centre at 235-2833. NEW EXECUTIVE — The executive of the Ausa • le Bayfield Conservation Authority was expon • = • • y two members following approval at the annual meeting in Exeter, Friday. Seated in the front, left, are vice-chairman Don Lithgow, Bosanquet; chairman Gordon Johnson, Blanshard; most recent past chair- man Ivan Hearn, Lucan. Standing are Bill Thirlwall, lobo; Ervin Sitlery, Exeter; Fred Lewis, London; Wilson Hodgins, Biddulph; Joe Gibson, Hullett; Cecil Desjardine, Stephen; Earl Rees, Ailsa Craig; John Deeves, Clinton. Broadwell predicts 1986 Could be good for beans. Charlie Broadwell, manager of the Ontario Bean Producers' Marketing Board, is optimistic 1986 "could be a great year". Broadwell predicts an increase of at least 15 percent in On- tario acreage, after attending annual bean producers' meetings and crop information days. He noted that last year beans were grown in 34 Ontario counties, a dramatic increase from the traditional six centred around London. He returned from a trip north of Toronto last Friday with the informa- tion pockets of farmland all over the province have the right climate and the necessary number of heat units to grow beans - and that is what will like- ly be grown this•year. "We could grow an awful lot and just come back to where we used to be. There's lots of room for expan- sion", Broadwell observed. Before 1977, the five-year average was 1.8 million bags, and 1.3 million were produced last year, Broadwell elaborated. He said the Board has handled up to two million bags, and is confident of selling whatever is produced. Broadwell said Ontario bean pro- ducers have never been successful in increasing price by cutting back acreage. Growers elsewhere just take up the slack. the Board has challenged research people for a straight-line increase in yield, Broadwell said. At one time On- tario cut -yielded Michigan by 20 per- cent. That has dropped to 10 percent, and Broadwell wants that missing 10 percent back. In order to provide the latest crop information for the 80 percent of pro- ducers who do not attend annual meetings, the Bean Board is coming out in April with the first issue of The Emerging Bean, a quarterly publica- tion compiled by the OBPMB. The magazine will be sent to all Ontario producers. Broadwell believes Ontario iseur- rently "better off than Michigan, and a lot better off than North Dakota". After attending the 93rd annual meeting of the Bean Shippers Association last week, he said he has never seen Michigan "so uptight, so anxious to make something happen". The Association, made up of dealers and brokers, is lobbying to convince Washington to block the use of beans as an alternate crop. If they do not succeed, there are off -setting factors to reduce the enormous quantities of coloured beans on hand. US govern- Kippen WI roll call In Canadian '-trees By MARGARET HOGGARTH The Canadian Industries meeting will be held on Wednesday, March 19 at 8 p.m. in Hensall United Church. Roll call is to be answered by naming a tree and telling how it is used in Canadian Industry. The speaker will be Carol Steckle. The quilt that was up at Frances Kinsman's home has now been com- pleted. Those ladies quilting the final stitches were Mildred McGregor, Gert Moir. Beatrice Riehardcnn, Grace Adkins, Edna Caldwell, Grace Pepper, Grace Drummond, Marlene Bell, Thea Wisch and Frances Kinsman. The U.C.W. will hold their regular MISSY GETS PROTECTION — Missy, owned by Carol Vincent of Huron Park gets a rabies shot from Dr. Gary Balsdon at the Exeter Animal Hospital, Saturday. T -A photo ment tunds have been allocated to enable Brazil to purchase 30 to 50 million dollars worth of American beans, and up to 100,000 tons will be sold to Mexico. Broadwell said Ontario had a much broader economic base than North Dakota, and "though we are hurting, they are hurting worse". He recalled that when he was in that state two years ago, the bank failure rate was 1.5 per week, and the picture is not much brighter now. Broadwell said he hopes for an April payment, but the amount has not yet been determined. Application has been made to Ottawa for an initial payment of $14.15 per cwt., but that figure has not been approved to date. meeting on Tuesday, March 11. Plans will be discussed for the Fall Supper and for a flea market so ladies please plan to attend this meeting. On the third Sunday of Lent, March 2, Rev. Lorne Keays presided in the pulpit of St. Andrew's, his sermon, "The meaning of the Cross" part two- -its purpose". Jesus chose to die for all, it was part of the eternal purpose of God. The ministry of music was provid- ed by the choir singing "Follow Me" with Barbara Cooper accompanying at the organ. World Day of Prayer service will be held on Friday, March 7 at 2 p.m. in the Brucefield Church. Everyone is welcome. There will be a Good Friday Ser- vice at 7:30 p.m. on March 28 in the Brucefield Church. The Sacrament of The Last Supper will be observed at this service. Personals Rodger and Wilhemina Hoornaert have returned from a four week trip to Holland, Belgium and England. There was no snow in the south of Holland or Belgium wherethey visited with aunts and uncles, but when they were in Watford and Lon- don, England visiting with cousins, Wilhemina said there was snow on the ground but the sun was shining. The Energetic Eight met at the home of Bob and Frances Kinsman on Thursday, February 27. Euchre was enjoyed with Phyllis Parsons winning the ladies high, Margaret Hoggarth the low. Bev Hamilton captured the men's high with Harold Parsons the low. Mattie McGregor has now return- ed home from Seaforth Hospital. She is wished a speedy recovery. HS cagers end season The South Huron District High School senior boys basketballers have ended a very succesful season. In the final two games this week the Panthers lost 64-52 to Tillsonburg in WOSSA playoffs and defeated Arthur Voaden of St. Thomas' 71-66 to win a London Regina Mundi tournament. Chris Pearen led the Panthers in the win over St. Thomas with 26 points. Scott Lovie was next with 18 and Rob Tait checked in with 15 ,points. ,;1 In the ,WOSSA loss, Rob Tait topped the local scoring parade with 21 • points. Chris Pearen was next with an even dozen points, Scott Lovie scored nine and Scott Miller and Mike Clark added six and four respectively. Coach Terry O'Rourke reports the season record for the team was 25 wins and 15 defeats. Lost to next year's team due to graduations will be Mike Clark, Scott Lovie and Rob Tait. Two mishaps for local OPP Only two collisions were in- vestigated by the Exeter OPP this week, with one injury being reported. That injury occurred on Friday at 6:00 p.m., when a pickup truck driven by Ronald McKay, RR 5 Sebripgville, collided with a car driven by Pamela Megens, Kippen, on concession 2-3 of Usborne. Maxine Sereda, RR 1 Centralia, a passenger in the Megens vehicle, suf- fered minor injuries and was treated at South Huron Hospital. Damage to the two vehicles was listed at *2,500. The other crash occurred the previous Sunday in Hensall when a vehicle driven by James Bozzato, Hensall, collided with a parked car owned by Nora Philips, Hensall. The accident occurred on Nelson St. in Hensall and damage was only *50. During the week the detachment of- ficers investigated 23 general occur- rences, including four thefts, one drug seizure, two impaired driver in- vestigations and six liquor seizures. There were 41 charges laid under the Highway Traffic Act, six under the Liquor License Act and four under the Criminal Code. TOP CREDfON SPEAKERS - The annual Crediton Social Club public speaking contest was held Wednes- day night. Above, president Fred Bowers presents trophies to winner Kerry Manders, Usborne Central and runnersup Janet O'Neill and Piet Blaaber, both of McGillivray Central. T -A photo Pogo 11 y•r money Up by 10 percent The Ausabis-BRyt S d Conservation Authority wants '10 percent more money from ..its member municipalities that year, wittl 10 per- cent a year for the following four years. The goal is to have 20 per cent of the authortty's•annual budget paid local- ly and,the rest paid by the provincial ministry of natural resources, said ABCA general -manager Tom Prout. • ABCA's 1986 budget was approved at the 40th annual meeting of the full authority on February 28. The authority expects to spend *1.4 million with $174,350 to be raised locally. Last year, $158,435 came from the muncipalities. This represents a 10 percent increase. Prout said. the annual 10 percent in- crease will enable the authority to de- pend less and less on provincial dollars. He does stress that 20 percent is the maximum amount the municipalities will have to pay. The general manager expressed concern for projects that may have to be cut because of less provincial dollars. He added that *100,000 had already been cut from the budget before it was brought to the full authority meeting. The 1986 levy works out to a per capita cost of $4.11, what the general - manager called the price of a meal at a fast food outlet. The province in its regular support grants, will give the authority *443,867 plus a supplementary grant of $223,288. User fees are expected to bring in $219,370 in revenue and the sale of goods, including property, is slated to bring in *77,800. The rest of the revenue comes through employment programs. Most of the budget is earmarked for water and related land managemerft. For 1986, $616,200 has been budgeted for this area. Breaking down that secton further, $111,000 will be spent in the area of capital projects. A total of $60,000 has been budgeted for erosion control at the Nairn Cemetery in East Williams Township. A smaller erosion control project budgeted at $40,000 will take place along the Bayfield River. The continuation of a flood warning - forecasting system will carry on this year with $11,000 in the budget to do so. The authority also expects to do $80,000 in surveys and studies. The largest study is flood plain mapping in Bosanquet, Stephen, and „McGillivray Townships. Administration is the next largest area of expenditure. ABCA has budgeted *313,856 which includes $211,350 for wages and benefits. The. eonsexvation, and recreation land management has a budget- of $100,650 for the coming year. Over half, $58,600, will be spent in improv - Centralia at Zion for prayer By Mrs. TOM KOOY The UCW ladies of Centralia will join with the World Day of Prayer ser- vice Friday evening at 8 p.m. Anyone wishing a ride is asked to be at the church by 7:30 p.m. The euchre in the community cen- tre had 13 tables playing with prizes going to: high score Helen Mac- Donald, Nelson Squires, lone hands Mildred Hirtzel, George Cunningham. Low score Mrs. Masse, Lawrence Hirtzel, lucky no's went to Dorothy Darling, Frank Hicks. In a draw with all the skunks who were out that night winners of skunks were Nola Lewis, . Mrs. Masse, Lawrence Hirtzel and Tom Kooy. Next euchre March 10 will be conven- ed by Mary Davis, Arnold and Rose Cunningham. Earl Dixon, Mr. and Mrs. Hirtzel, Bill and Joyce Chadwick, Clayton, Alice , Tom and Mary Kooy were Saturday evening guests of the fami- ly of Mrs. Georgina Webster at the Masonic hall Exeter. Georgina was 80 years young. Following a lovely smorgasbord dinner, progressive euchre was enjoyed. lrMr. and Mrs. Gordon Simmons, Woodstock spent the weekend with their daughter Mr. and Mrs. Rick Walker and family. Mrs. Von Overholt was pleasantly surprised on Sunday when her daughter Marlene Moere and Pauline Overholt entertained their mother in honour of her birthday with dinner at Robindale Restaurant, Exeter. UCW entertains Crediton choir By MRS. STAN PRESZCATOR A delicious turkey supper put on by the 11.C.W. was held for the choir at Zion United Church on February 26. Happy birthday was sung to Lorna Finkbeiner and Doris Swartz who celebrated their birthday on February 27 and Donelda Lewis who had a birthday on February 28. Mrs. Earl Neil, Mrs. Lloyd Lamport and Mrs. Ross Pickering prepared the meal. Thanks to the U.C.W. ladies. Gordon Morlock will be celebrating his 84th birthday March 10. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Wein celebrated their 57th wedding an- niversary February 27. Public speaking was held Wednes- day at Crediton Community Centre. The trophy went to Usborne School. Winners were Kerry Manders, Osborne; Janet O'Neil, McGillivray; and Tiet Blaauhaer III McGillivray. Everyone's speeches were good. Lunch of coffee, donuts and pop was prepared by Shirley Preszcator. Mr. and Mrs. Don Finkbeiner at- tended the 25th wedding anniversary lug the conservation areas. The authority ended•last year with a deficit of $236,588 because it decid- ' ed to go ahead with both phase one and two of the Port Franks river management program. This cost was offset. by $225,541 set aside in a reserve In 1964. The Ausabie-Bayfield Conservation Authority honored some of its retir- ing members during., the annual meeting. The longest serving member to retire was John Tinney of Hay Township. He Is also a past chair- man of the authority and served for 19 years. Others awarded at the AMCA an- nual meeting were Jacob Reder of Goderich Township after 14 years, John Duncan of West Williams Township with 15 years, Lloyd Huff- man of Bayfield with two years, Carl Vock of Logan Township with four years, Jacob Lagerwerf of McGillivray with two years, Brian Campbell of McKillip Township with two years, Clarence Rau of Stanley Township with five years, Mervyn Falconer of Tuckersmith Township with three years, Ross Ballantyne of Usborne Township with two years, Keith Westlake of Zurich with three years, Charlotte Postma of Adelaide Township with five years, Harold Green of Grand Bend with six years, Harry Klungel of Hensall with seven years, Jack Kinsman of Hibbert Township with six years, and Agens Moore of East Williams Township with one year service. GROWERS MEET Area turnip growers have been in- vited to a meeting on Friday to discuss information and activities undertaken to date by the task force set up by Agriculture Minister Jack Riddell to deal with turnip mosaic virus. The meeting is planned for the ad- ministration building at Centralia College of Agricultural Technology and gets underway at 10:00 a.m. Areas of interest to be discussed at the meeting include: -outline of the task force activities to date. -an update pn the biology of the virus; its hosts name and means of transmission. -possible control strategies and field monitoring for 1986. -research proposals from the University of Guelph and Centralia College. No injuries in town crashes No injuries were reported in' any of 'four accidents liivei3t1g4tled'I?yt4e Ex- eter pollee department this week. The first of the crashes was on February 24 when vehicles driven by Ken Marchand, Huron Park, and Robert McTaggart, Goderich, collid- ed on Main St. Both were northbound and McTaggart attempted to pass when the Marchand vehicle made a left turn onto John St. Damage was set at $1,700. On Wednesday, a vehicle driven by Mary Ann Dekoker, Exeter, was southbound on Market St. when it went out of control and slid into a hydro pole. Damage was $1,100. A two -vehicle collision was reported on Friday at the intersection of Highway 4 and 83, involving vehicles driven by Susan Glanville, Kirkton, and Larry Yensen, Walkerton. Damage was set at *800 after the Yensen vehicle reversed and collided with the Glanville vehicle. Doug Simpson, Exeter, reported damage to his 1985 Pontiac Firebird while it was parked at the South Huron rec centre. It sustained damage estimated at $300. ADAMS iir,n11? () K C(>rdiml • Hooting Systems of a11; types INSTALLED, MODERNIZED and MAINTAINED • G•noral Sheet • Metal Work • Air Conditioning • Humidifiers • Ventilation 235-2187 133 Huron St. E., Ex•t•r of Mr. and Mrs. Wm Hach RR 2 Den- field. Mrs. Hach is Mrs. Finkbeiner's sister. A birthday party was held at PJ's Roadhouse restaurant for Mrs. Lor- na Finkbeiner on Sunday March 2. Her family attended. Mr. and Mrs. Stan Preszcator were Sunday supper guests with Mr. and Mrs. David Isaac and Tasha, Exeter. The topic at Zion United Church was taken from Isaiah 52:13-53:6. John 19:23-42 titled "Christ's Provi- sion For His Mother." Choir practice will be Wednesday at 8 p.m. The Women's World Day of Prayer will be this Friday at Greenway United Church. U.C.W. will be Thursday March 6 at 8 p.m. in the Sunday School rooms. In hospital at University London are Mrs. Charlie Sims; at South Huron, Milton Sweitzer, Irving Stahl and Eldon Smith. Don't forget the fund raising dance, this coming Saturday, March 8 at Huron Park Rec centre. Music by Beechwood. • Models from 31+5 to 8 hp for *my size garden. • Pro season solo - Savo 10% plus FREE HIII•r/Furrow•r on $89 vlu•. Offer onds March 10. Orr•r to- day be sore of spring wry. V HURON Hwy. 04 North Exeter 282-1115 1