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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1986-04-02, Page 1-7rs 1 Assault Chur�s ov•r TY di chastised by Judge Gary Hunter. hearing that the latter was dropping After disosissingschargestassault his counter -charge against Exeter building inspector Brian Johnston, • The continuing saga of theTV dish made it to Exeter court, Tuesday, and ", two of the principals involved were against Plr0 Mommersteeg and di not wortluy of court time Ju* Hunter said tbe incident bet- tion of tbe dish in relation to a flag we the two was hardly worthy of pole, said be knew nothing about the taking up the court's time. situation and that Johnston should Mommersteeg, of 32 Gilley St. W., speak to Shirley Mommersteeg. was chargedon October 29 after a Johnston saki he advised Mom- visitationy Johnston, and the former mersteeg that the permit would be then laid a similar charge against revoked tmtil the matter was cleared Johnston. up and sand at that point that Mom- Mommersteeg pleaded not guilty to mestegg swore at him, followed him the charge and told the court he was to his car, and pushed him up against defending himself, having dismissed the vehicle. his lawyer because of the expense Johnston said that when he advis- involved. Johnston took the stand to present his side of the confrontation and when be concluded, Mommersteeg was asked if he had any questions for the building official The accused replied AUDIENCE INVOLVEMENT — An actor with the Toronto-based theatre troupe The Inner Stage involves his audience in the action during a presentation of Jack and the Beanstalk at Precious Blood for students from Mt. Carmel, Ecole Ste. Marie and the Exeter school. • 7#7 / %y/ that he had a hearing problem and didn't Iter the testimony. With that, Judge Hunter moved Mommersteeg closer to the witness stand and Johnston repeated his account of the incident. Johnston told the court he had issued a permit for erection of the dish to Shirley Mommersteeg at 11:00 a.m. on the date jn question and went name and concluded that the assaults to the Gidley St. residence at 4:35 for on the part of both men were ex - a routine inspection and said he saw tremely mild. a contravention of the building Two other men who appeared on permit, Tuesday's docket were fined $500 or Mommersteeg, who was in the 25 days each on drinking and driving garage, eventually came out and charges. when questioned about the installa- Mark A. Tatara, 116 St. Lawrence ed the accused he was going to call the police, Mommersteeg threatened him. - In his defence, Mommersteeg said Johnston used obscenities against him and had warned he would fine the Gidley St., man $1,000 if he put the satellite dish on the flag pole. Johnston denied both accusations. Mommersteeg also testified that he only touched Johnston and the latter had touched him back. Judge Hunter questioned why Johnston didn't talk to Mrs. Mom- mersteeg since the permit was in her Ave., Huron Park, was given that fine after Oeading guilty to refusing to provi& a breath sample on January 5 in Stephen Township. His vehicle was stopped in Huron Park at 1:28 a.m. and the in- vestigating officer observed that the `accused smelled of alcohol and his speech was slurred. Tatara said he refused to give a breath sample because he didn't trust the machine or its results. He was given 90 days in which to pay and was also given a three-month license suspension in addition to the man- datory suspension. Lloyd George Salter, 75 Waterloo St., London, pleaded guilty to im- paired driving on August 24 in Usborne and was fined $500 or 25 days. A breathalizer test gave a reading of 130 mgs. Salter was also fined $150 on a charge of careless driving laid on January 11 after his pickup truck went out of control on Highway 4 north of Exeter at 1:00 a.m. and roll- ed over in the ditch. He was given 60 days in which to pay the fine. In the ony other case on Tuesday's docket, Ronald Frederick Mills, Granton was fined $63 after pleading guilty to having liquor readily available in a car on January 5. • Ames Serving • South Huron, North Middlesex • One Hundred and Thirteenth Year & North Lambton Since 1873 < "r '/i o'i {///: /,:r r.a::,<,: : r.•::, fj` r `':s�''L, .u;;z>. :x„.. .. r ...:: /i':. f, ..r r.•v ' . :Gfv. %» �/':�. �k�.. •::::f .. ... WI MEMBER FOR 67 YEARS — The Hurondale Women's Institute celebrated its 67th birthday Tuesday and Ila Moir has been a member for that length of time. Above, she receives recognition from presi- dent Fern Dougall. T -A photo Blizzard increases bill for Exeter PUC The ill wind that carried a blizzard throughout southwestern Ontario in early March blew some good for the technician who had scheduled March 6 and 7 to give the valves on the Ex- eter P1.1C's water pumps their bi- annual check. The man's charge of $40 per hour from the time he leaves Toronto until he returns, plus 35t per km in mileage, plus meals and over- night accommodation, resulted in a hill of over $700 for less than five hours work on the vah•es,' all on Thursday afternoon. When the storm struck, he was unable to get to the pumping station on Friday, and head- ed back to Toronto. "We didn't get the second day's work out of him. Normally travel r time would have been divided into more work time,” Davis explained. Other members of the Exeter PUC commission supported Mayor Bruce Shaw's contention that the bill not be paid until the man is contacted and asked to reconsider the labour portion of the bill, taking into account the in- clement weather. Davis said he would also question the mileage. Commissioner Harry De Vries sug- gested future check-ups be scheduled for later in the season. Tenders from four local banks to handle the Exeter utility's banking for the next year were opened. Davis and secretary Marilyn Sillery will ex- amine the bids clause by clause in Please turn to page 3 EXETER, ONTARIO, April 2, 1986 Price Per Copy 60 Cents Debate over directors' tterms packs Tuckersmith phone event Consideration of a bylaw stating after old age rendered them less also forces the most productive to "there shall be no limit to the length capable of carrying out their duties. step down. He added that the ex - of term of office" for commissioners Arguing in favour of the bylaw, Bev perience of senior commissioners of the Tuckersmith Municipal Hill acknowledged that the concerns' would be an advantage during Telephone System brought a record ,expressed could be well-founded, but possibly difficult negotiations with the crowd of over 200 to the telephone "hopefully, we do learn by our CRTC. company's annual meeting held in the mistakes", and history would not be More discussion ensued over the Stanley Complex on March 25. Many allowed to repeat itself. He said that ambiguous wording of the bylaw, but although ... the >presoak._. bylaw, JohpptQn said the original motion. elilninates non-productive people, it Please turn to page 3 available, and few might get the op- portunity to serve on the board if the proposed bylaw was passed, he ask- ed subscribers to "turn the vote down". Bill Dowson recalled occasions before the present bylaw was enacted 10 years ago when commissioners had interpreted this to meshia come!,,would "sit forever" and people were missioner could stay on the board for reluctant to vote them off the board a lifetime. Bayfield Reeve Dave Johnston, meeting chairman, explained that under the current bylaw commis- sioners are limited to three three- year -terms, and must then step down. The proposed bylaw would mean commissioners would still have to be elected every three years, but limits on the number of terms would be removed. The change would have allowed retiring board members Vern Aldgrdice and Elmer Hayer to stand for re-election for a fourth term. In response to subscriber Ted Roberts' request for an explanation of why the change was proposed, Board chairman Alderdice said he could ac- cept a retirement age, but felt a com- missioner should be allowed to stand for re-election and serve as long as he had support. He said he would like to see through to completion a number of projects now underway, and pointed out important negotiations with the CRTC were due soon. Commissioner Emerson Coleman said he had authored the motion because junior commissioners valued the contributions of those who had been on the board for a longer time. Former commissioner Lloyd Ferguson urged the audience to stop and think of the implications if the bylaw were passed. He said the com- pany was strong, and the way to keep it that way was to have a constant flow of new ideas and new bodies through the system. Observing that many capable, interested people were DAFFODILS ON SALE FRIDAY — The four Exeter Sorority chapters are in charge of the annual daffodil sale for the Canadian Cancer Society,Friday. Shown with samples at the Flower Pedlar are presidents Linda Freiter, Joy Darling, Maida Gaiser and Donna Jones. T -A photo Kick off for cancer drive Daffodils on sale, Friday The annual Cancer Society canvass kicks off this Friday when members of the Beta Sigma Phi Sororities hit M yI ` NEW EASTER BONNETS Shown with their new Easter bonnets following Sundpy morning service 01 Crediton United Church are Barb Ratz, Becky and Pam Pickering and Tracey Ratz. T -A photo Scholarship fund set up GO MOHAWKS GO A scholarship fund has been established in memory of Stephen Paul Watson, 18, of RHI Dashwood, who died last week in University Hospital, three days after being in- jured in a car accident near Zurich. The grade 12 SHDIIS student was a passenger in a car that hit a horse on Huron Road 2 on March 21. Three other people in the car were not injured. in response to the request of the Watson family, donations have been received for a scholarship fund to be established at Sduth Huron District High School. Mrs. Watson told the T -A on Mon- day that donations were still being received at Hoffman's Funeral Home in Dashwood and that she and her husband planned to meet with SHDIiS principal Bruce Shaw later this week to set criteria for the scholarship fund. the street in Exeter for the sale of daffodils. They'll be followed through the en- tire month by a host of canvassers in the various communities of South Huron who will be attempting to raise the Exeter branch goal of $23,650. Campaign manager Norm Martin id he is hopeful the goal would be !his year. There was a short - '985 canvass of about $2,000. rget for the five units in Hue, . i 198,000, while the goal has been set at $16 millie,, The 13,00te daffodil blooms will ar- rive in Exeter on Thursday and be stored in the cooler at the Brewers' Retail before being distributed to the Sorority, members. The price for a hunch of 10 will be $3.00. Diane Jef- frey is chairing the Sorority effort this year. Martin had canvassers lined up in all communities except Crediton and Centralia last weekend, and hopes to fill those two vacancies this week to ensure that every home in South Huron is canvassed for the much needed funds for the work of the Cancer Society. Co-ordinators for the various cen- tres are as follows: Exeter, 1ielen Webber; tJshorne, Beatrice Dawson: Hay, Shirley McAllister, Hilda Vanderhock and Elva Forrest; Stephen, Norma Walper, Margaret McClure, and Ralph Weber: Zurich, Russ Grainger; Huron Park, Marj Green and Marlene Christie; Dashwood, Don Bender; Hensall, Steve Knight. Murray Greene and Mery Cudmore are in charge of the canvass of the Ex- eter business community, while ('art Cann remains chairman of the special events programs. Ervin Sillery is assisting chairman Martin in several areas. Please turn to page 3 CRUISER DAMAGED An Exeter OPP cruiser was taken out of operation this week after being involved in the only collision in- vestigated by the Exeter police department. The cruiser was being driven east on Thames Road on Thursday by Con- stable Dianne McCuaig when in was hit broadside by a vehicle being driven from a private lane by F'eter Dimmers, Ingersoll. Total damage to the two vehicles was listed at $1,500. 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