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Assistant Rob Funston will get 18.30 1985 were reeve Alan Walper further report after several changes
Per hour in 1986 nad $9.13 the follow- $4,383.36, deputy -reeve Ralph Weber were requested.
ing year. Each will receive a clothing $3,432.59 and councillor Ruth Miller Referred the 1986 Stephen
allowance of $300. $3,649.35: These were for 11 months. Township arena budget until the April
The only two servinga full 12
months were new reeve Tom Tomes
85,376.52 and deputy -reeve Ken
McCann $4,877.3.
New councillor Gary Baker $348,
Drew Robertson 1324 and William
Weber served one month in 1965.
The benefit package for full time
employees only includes 100 perceht
of OHIP and Mutual Life paid by the
township and 50 percent of
O.M.E.R.S.
In other business, council:
Voiced no objector to zoning bylaw
changes by McGillivray township and
the village of Grand Bend.
Accepted a minor variance applica-
tion from Philip Walker at part of
Lots 144 and 145 in Plan 125 at
Oakwood subdivision.
Returned the Martene municipal
drain plan back to the engineer for a
Stephen township council has
reached a salary agreement with all
employees which will be in effect for
the next two years.
in most cases the increase for 1966
will be four percent over wage* or
salaries for 1985. An additional four
percent will be added for the year
1987.
Clerk -treasurer Wilmer Dr Wein
will receive a salary of 830,500 for this
year and this will rise to $31,720 in
1987.
Office staff Sharon Romphf's
salary for .1986 will be $340.65 per
week with an increase to $366.78 the
following year and Linda Oliver will
get $330.25 per week this year follow-
ed by $355.96 in 1987.
Wages of part-time office personell
will be Eleanor Rader $6.50 per hour
and Louise Wein $5.25 an hour.
Road superintendnept Eric Fink-
beiner's salary will be $6,774 for this
year and $28,495. Included in these
figures is an annual merit pay of $660.
Road men Lloyd Bender, Don
Clarke and Peter Wuerth will receive
$9.75 per hour this year with an in-
crease to $10.39 in 1987. RonPicker-
ing's 1966 wages will be $9 per hour
and rise to $10 per hour the following
rood year. All road department
employees will receive an annual
clothing allowance of $300. Part-time
road employees will receive up to
$6.50 per hour.
Now that the township is operating
the water system in Stephen, Eric
Finkbeiner will receive $500 per year
as water manager and Peter Wuerth
$300 each year as assistant. Foreman
Don Clarke will get an extra $500 each
year.
Stephen Township arena manager
Frank Funston's salary this year will
be 825,276 followed by $26,625 in 1987.
• Drainage inspector Ken Pickering
will receive a 8350 monthly retainer
tee plus it0 per hour and 30 cents per
tilometre travelled.
Waste control operator Percy
Warden will receive $5.50 per hour.
Reeve Tom Tomea will receive $80
for a long meeting and $35 for short
under two hours in length.
y -reeve Ken :McCann gets 175
135, respectively for the two types
Of meetings and councillors Gary
r, Drew Robertson and William
ekbeerr will receive 870 and 835,
reepe ctively.
Poch member of council will
re eiVe $80 -per day for conventions
and special all day seminars. The
reeve receives an honourarium of
8200 for signing cheques.
Payments to council members for
LAMB ON A LEASfr4 — Jared Siebert, Zurich, (centre) took his two-
week -old pet lamb Lester for a walk. Admiring their friend's unique
pet are Jason and Angelo, Erb.
DUKE OF EDINBURGH AWARDS — Three former 1st Kirkton Rangers
received Duke of Edinburgh gold stage pins recently at Perth M.P.P.
Hugh Edighoffer's office in Stratford. From left: Sonya Fletcher, Karen
Atkinson and Laurie Hawkins. The 17 -year-old Kirkton area residents
will receive certificates later this year from Prince Philip or another
member of the royal family.
Clinton joins Exeter
'l'he Town nt Clinton has joined Ex-
eter in protesting the recent wage set-
tlements approved by county council
for the department heads in Iluron.
"These increases -certainly seem
exorbitant and must be protested."
the Clinton letter to other
municipalities slates. noting that the
settlements could spur other county
and municipality employees to seek
the same.
-It is feared that the cumulative ef-
fect of all these demands might he
more than the average taxpayer can
or is willing to accept." Clinton ex-
plained. "Rut then. of course. the
county does not have to face the irate
taxpayers: that job is left to the coun-
cil and staff of each of the member
municipalities."
Clinton suggested county council
could rescind the increases granted
for the second and third years and on-
ly guarantee those for 1986 al this
time.
When the matter came up for
discussion at Exeter council's session,
Monday, Councillor Ben Iloogenboom
asked how the Clinton reeve had
voted on the pay increases at county
council.
"That's a bad question," Deputy -
Reeve Lossy Fuller advised, while
Reeve 13111 Mickle noted the Clinton
reeve's affirmative vote had been
noted in press reports.
It was then discovered that coun-
cil's approval of a motion by Coun-
cillor Dorothy Chapman to express
displeasure over the pay increases
had never been directed to county
council.
The message had been left in the
hands of the executive committee to
compose and had never been follow-
ed through.
Plans were made to correct that
oversight.
Usborne joins Clinton
At their meeting. Tuesday. Usborne
Township council decided to add their
protest to the high salary increases
recently granted to Huron County
council to department heads.
Council asked that a letter be sent
to the county expressing concern over
the increases.
The action was in response to a let-
ter received from Clinton council that
denounced the salary increases ap-
proved by the county.
At Tuesday's session. tenders were
opened for a new dual wheel truck
and council accepted the low bid of
116,160.28 submitted by Huron Motor
Products. it was the lowest of four
bids received
The fuel tenders were also opened
and awarded to Dave Moore Fuels.
Usborne Minor Ball Association
representatives Keith Strang and
Darlene Passmore attended the ses-
sion and reviewed with council the
1985 financial report of their group
and submitted a request for a grant.
Council approved a grant of $750
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meeting.
Approved purchase of a breathing
apparatus maintainer valued at $450
for the Huron Park fire department.
Agreed to pay a fire prevention of-
ficer the same wages as a fire depart-
ment captain:
Approved a grant of $50 to the
Huron County Farm and Home Safe-
ty Association.
Renewed membership in the Grand
Bend and area Chamber Commerce
and named Gary Baker as Stephen's
representative.
Tentatively hired Milton Dietrich as
the new building official replacing Ar-
nold McCann who retired. •
Filed a letter from the Canadian
Federation of Independent Grocers
regarding sale of beer and wine in
grocery stores.
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th Year EXETER. ONTARIO. March 12. 1986 Price Per Copy 60 cents
Serving So
One Hundred and Fourt
County councillors upset over $42,890 deficit
Librarian under fire a.
and also agreed to provide typing and
photocopying services at the township
office at no cost to the U.M.B.A.
Requests for grants. were also
received for the Exeter Figure
Skating Club and the Ruron County
Farm and Home Safety Association.
Those requests will be considered at
budget setting time.
Council authorized a $1,000 merit -in-
crease to Mary Ellen Greb, effective
March 10. it will be amortized over
the balance of the 1986 payroll period.
In other boniness, council:
Learned that the 1986 levy from the
Ausahle Bayfield Conservation
Authority is increased 10 percent.
Authorized the attendance of acting
clerkdreasurer Sandra Strang at a
meeting in Goderich to consider join-
ing the county's health insurance
plan.
Discussed items of concern that
they wish to review with the school
board representative at an upcoming
meeting.
Decided to sell the office
duplicating machine.
The controversy surrounding the
Huron County Library rages on as a
1985 deficit of $42,890 is cut off the top
of its 1986 book budget.
County councillors, particularly
last year's chairman of the. library
board, Grant Stirling, questioned the
actions of chief librarian Bill Par-
tridge at the March 6 meeting of coun-
ty. The Goderich Township reeve ask-
ed how there could be a deficit last
year when the librarian had been told
in October not to order any more
books.
In his defense, Partridge said that
as of October 24, 1985 all book sup-
pliers were told the Huron County
library would accept no more books.
Also, in an effort to reduce costs in
general, the chief librarian also cut
back on the number of photocopies
made, no records were bought and no
'new,ectuiprnent was :purchased:
However, the librarian did accept
$42,000 worth of books sent froth
Library Services Centre in Kitcheiler.
The majority of the books purchased
by the library are from this Kitchener
firm.
It was noted that Partridge ac-
cepted the books, but was not invoic-
ed until January of this year. But ac-
cording to the library's accounting
firm of Vodden and Bender, custody
of the books is as good as owing on
them.
Library board chairman Tom Cun-
ningham, speaking for last year's
chairman, said the board didn't know
how many books were on back order
last October. He said the current
board also doesn't know how many
books are on order.
"That's what we're trying to clear
up," he said.
}Juliet Reeve Cunningham said
some kind of system is being worked
out whereby the board will know
every month how many books are on
order. Bayfield Reeve Dave Johnson
suggested that perhaps the chief
librarian shouldn't be ordering books.
"Maybe it should be someone else
who has better control over county
taxpayers' dollars," said Johnson.
Goderich Deputy Reeve John
Doherty was the only county coun-
cillor to speak in defense of the chief
librarian.
"The only wrong this man
(librarian) did, was to accept books,"
said the deputy reeve.
He said the Town of Goderich has
accepted purchases and been invoic-
ed for the followingyear and that has
been acceptable to the town's auditing
firm. -
"I guess it depends on who you get
to do the auditing," said Doherty.
Cunningham agreed one mistake
was to accept the books, but another
has been the over ordering of books.
Since 1983, the library board budget
has been overspent, specifically in the
area of book purchases. Also, for the
past years, county council has sent
back the board's original budgets to
make cuts.
Past chairman Stirling said the
board was not kept informed of book
purchases. -
"The question is we warned the
librarian in October to not take any
more books. He didn't inforrh the
board he was taking $42,000 worth of
books," said Stirling.
County council learned the 1985
library budget was actually $51,000
over spent. The other $9,000 came
from county dollars Last year the
library had a total budget of $796,519
and that, $598,217 was to have come
from the county. Actually the county
paid $607,497.
For 1986, the library has a budget
of $816,784. The county is to pay
8622,146 and the province is to pay
$182,638. The rest is to be picked up
in fines and othe miscellaneous fees.
The largest expenditure is salaries
which OP $382,804.
The next largest expense is books,
records, magazines and processing of
these. This jortion of the budget totals
$214,235. The purchase of books alone
is budgeted at $178,227 of which
4$42,000 (the carry over from 1985) has
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already been spent. . All budgets are subject to final ap-
The county's share of the budget proval from county council on March
represents a four per cent increase. 27.
SORORITY BUYS BAND INSTRUMENTS — The XI Gamma Nu Sorority has donated instruments vdfued
at $6,400 to the South Huron District High School band. Back, left, Sorority representatives Barb Passmore
and Ann Baynham, band director Jean Waring and musicians Trudi Bornath, Tina Bergmann, Kathy Hen-
drick, David Josephson, Liz Mol and Angie Cottrell. Front, Laura Draisey, Rob Russel, Chris Freeth and
Kathy Hodgins. Instruments purchased were tenor saxophone, alto saxophone, trombone, trumpet and
french horn. T -A photo.
Blizzard brings woes
to district's motorists
Seven of the week's 12 collisions in-
vestigated by the Exeter OPP occur-
red on Friday morning as whiteout
conditions prevailed throughout the
area.
Highways 4 and 83 were closed by
the policepat 8:50 a.m. and stayed
closed until 5:00 p.m.
The first pileup occurred on the
Kirkton Road at 6:45 a.m., when a
vehicle driven by Douglas Miners,
RR 3 Exeter, became stuck in a
snowdrift. Due to the poor visibilty,
a vehicle driven by Charles Ort-
manns, RR 3 Exeter, collided with the
rear of the Miners vehicle.
About 10 minutes later, a vehicle
driven by Daniel Gower, RR 1 Cen-
tralia, struck the rear end of the Ort-
manns vehicle.
Total damage to the three vehicles
was listed at $5,0000.
A similar chain -reaction occurred
on Highway 4 around 7:30 p.m. when
a vehicle driven by Mark Consitt,
Henson, struck a vehicle owned by
Ronald Hartman, Hensel!, which was
abandoned in a snow bank north of
Exeter.
Twenty minutes later, a vehicle
driven by Richard Broom, Exeter.
came along and struck the Consitt
vehicle.
Shortly after, a vehicle driven by
Douglas Ritchi' , Exeter, managed to
get stopped at the original accident
scene, but his vehicle was struck from
behind by one driven by Patrick
Downing, London.
Total damage to the five vehicles
was set at $8,800.
The only other collision on Friday
occurred Highway 4 north of the
Kirkton Road involving vehicles
driven by Wilfred Berden, Exeter,
and Murray Markle, London.
Damage in that one, which also occur-
red in a whiteout, was 82,200.
There were two collisions on Thurs- -
day, both in Iluron Park. The first oc-
curred on the Tuckeyi-Bbyerages
parking lot and involved vehicles
operated by Arne Merrifield, RR 2
Ilderton, and Brian Gaiser, Huron
Park. Damage was $2,750.
The other occurred on Columbia
Drive at St. Lawrence Ave. Drivers
involved were Peter Christie, Huron
Park, and Philip Ruggeri, London.
Damage to their vehicles was
estimated at 81,500.
On Wednesday, a vehicle driven by
Joan Albertson, Grand Bend, skidd-
ed on an icy patch of the Crediton
Road east of concession 2-3 in Stephen
and went across the road into a ditch
and struck a telephone pole. Damage
was listed at 82,800.
The other two crashes were on
Saturday, the first occurring on
Highway 23 south of Woodham when
a vehicle driven by Julius Vanden-
bossche, Wallaceburg, went out of
control on ice and rolled over. The
vehicle came to rest on its roof. sus-
taining damage of 85,000. Vanden-
bossche was taken to Victoria
Hospital in London by a passing
JUNIOR FARMERS CANVASS • The South Huron Junior Formers
canvassed Usborne township for theejleort and Stroke Foundation
and realized $641. Above, Junior FormTars Al Renning and Brian Steele
turn over the proceeds to district chairperson Marg Cook.T-A photo.
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motorist.
Only $25 damage was sustained in
the other crash. A vehicle driven by
James McLeod, Huron Park, struck
a stop sign on Columbia Drive at
Huron Road 21 in Huron Park.
Town cr iser
is casualty too
Poor visibility for drivers in Fri-
day's blizzard wasn't confined to
rural roads. Four vehicles were in-
volved in a chain -reaction crash in
Exeter. One of those vehicles was a
town police cruiser.
The collisions occurred on Huron
St. West, about 100 metres west of
Mary St. near the town limits.
Due to poor driving conditions, Jef-
fery Lindenfield, Exeter had stopped
on Huron St. W. and was struck in the
rear by a westbound vehicle driven by
Kevin Oke, Dashwood.
Constable Jim Barnes attended the
collision and while he was in-
vestigating, a westbound vehicle
driven by Maurice Heist, Centralia,
collided with the rear of the cruiser.
Total damage to the four vehicles
was set at 17,500.
Driving conditions on Thursday
also contributed to three other town
crashes.
The first occurred'at the intersec-
tion of Sanders and Edward, when a
northbound vehicle driven by Kelly
Johns, Exeter, sll through the in-
tersection into an eastbound vehicle
operated by Danny Hennessey also of
Exeter. Damage was set at 82,100.
The second collision was at the in-
tersection of Main St. and Highway
83. Donna Shepton, Exeter, was in the
process of making a left hand turn
when her vehicle was in collision with
a southbound vehicle operated by Neil
Wells, London. Damage was 81,500 in
that one.
In the other Thursday incident,
vehicles driven by Grant Hooper and
Pat Knight, both of Exeter, collided
in the parking area at the rear of 425
Main St. The two vehicles were being
driven through the lot and due to other
vehicles and the high'snow, slid into
each other. Damage was 81,800.
On Friday, James Musson, Grand
Bend, parked his 1979 Ford at the rear
of 349 Main St. and on returning,
found it had been struck by a vehicle
which left the scene. Damage was $75.