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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1987-01-14, Page 160Q PER COPY Permits now needed for stoves, fireplaces in Stephen Stephen township property owners installing new wood stoves, fireplaces and chimneys will be required to ob- tain a building permit. At Tuesday's regular meeting, council adopted the Ontario Building provisions for the aforementioned in- stallations in the future. Salary increases for part-time township employees have been ap- proved. Full time employees are cur- rently beginning the second of a two year agreement. Those working part time in the roads department, municipal office and arena will now receive $8.50 per hour. The retainer fee for the chief building official will go up to $200 per month plus $10 per hour. The landfill site attendant's salary will be $5,80 LACING UP THE BLADES — Kim Pinder laces up the skates for daughter Kristy at Thursday's Moms and Tots skating session at the South Huron Rec Centre. -:n,r A TRYING OUT SKIS Nancy Gibson, Jeff Hohner and Paula Hohner are ready to try out their skis on the Morrison Dam slopes, Sunday afternoon. T -A photo Boat is involved in highway crash A boat was involved in one of the four collisions investigated by the Ex- eter OPP this week. The list also in- cluded a hit and rurband there was one injury. The injury resulted from a car - pedestrian collision on Monday in Dashwood. The pedestrian was Robert Resche, 139 William St., Dashwood, and he suffered lacera- tions to hig head and back after being in collision -with a vehicle driven by Martin Becker, Zurich, around 8:30 p.m. • The incident occurred on Centre St. north of Highway 83. Reschke was treated at South Huron- Hospital and released the following day. There was $500 damage: caused to the vehicle. hlso on Monday, a parked car own- ed by George Shaw, HerDsall, was struck by an unknown v i1 icle on Highway 84 in Hensel'. Damage to the CHARGES INCREASE The:Exetc PP continued their spotchecks undhr the R.t.D.E. pro- gram this week, resulting in the most number of charges in recent weeks under the progt'am. • Seven.12-hour lit'ence suspensions were handed out and one person was charged with impaired driving. A total of 338 vehicles were checked: During the week, the local detach- ment officers laid 41 charges under the Highway Traffic Act, four under the Criminal Code and six under the Liquor Licence Act. parked vehicle was extensive and listed at $4,000. On Wednesday at 6:30 p.m., a car driven by John Jesney, RR 2 Crediton, left sideroad 20-21 in Stephen and struck a tree. There were no injuries and damage was estimated at $1,000. The final collision of the week oc- curred on Friday at 8:10 p.m., when a vehicle driven by Emmerson DeGraw, RRl Lucan, left Highway 4 north of the Crediton Road and collid ed with a boat on the property of Den- nis Romanson, RR 1 Centralia. The boat was pushed into a parked truck, also owned by Romanson. Total damage to the boat and two vehicles was listed at $1,050. TIMES CHANGED Times have changed considerably in the past 100 years as illustrated by an advertisement from an issue of one of the Exeter weeklies in 1886. In an ad for Ranton Brothers, which was located in the former Southcott Brothers and Gould and Jory store. The price of 25 cents _seemed to be popular for numerous articles. For that price one could purchase ladies heavy wool hose, men's heavy wool socks, boys plush caps, ladies four button kids, gents fancy ties, five bars of extra soap plus an excellent piece of music and three pounds of good new Valencia raisins. The afticle from the December 17, 1988 issue brought in by Clarence Down of town also said Ranton Brothers would accept nice fresh Nut- ter, eggs and dried apples in ex- change for merchandise. per hour and the office custodian will • get $5.55 per hour. The township dog catcher previous- ly receiving $35 a week for patrol duties will now get $200 per month. Council members attending meetings of two hours or less will. receive $40, The same fee applies for council reps attending committee and local board meetings' Townhsip representatives atten- ding conventions and seminars will be allowed $25 per day for meals not in- cluded in registrations. Spouses atten- ding these events will be compensated for accommodation, but, not registra- tion and transportation. Letters are being sent out to the various township recreation commit- tees asking for their 1987 budget and financial requiremepts. An agreement has been signed whereby ODC employees provide grass cutting and ditch cleanout along roadsides in the Huron Park residen- tial area and Canada Avenue in the in- dustrial park for an annual fee of $1,000. Based on information received from the Ontario Fire Marshal's of- fice, council is asking the three township fire chiefs to come up with - proposals for the 1987 Joint Emergen- cy Protection Program. Last year radio equipment was purchased. A severance application from Hugh • Ryan at part of Lot 21, South Boun- dary Concession was received. It calls for a change from AG1 to AG1 with special provisions for land area. A public meeting to deal with this ap- pliCtion has been' set for February 17. . Chief building official submitted his annual report to council. While the number of permits issued rose in 1986 to 98 from 71 the previous year, the value of construction was down con- siderably. A Targe amount oflvork was undertaken at Centralia College in 1985 bringing the permit values to $5,192,226. The 1986 figure was $1,987,449. A total of 21 residential permits were issued in 1986, of these 11 were at Grand Cove Estates, near Grand Bend. - ,,, V r A RINK IN CREDITON — Youngsters. in Crediton East have found an excellent skating rink established by Dan Connor. Shown with hockey sticks are David Robertson, Billy Connor, Tommy Connor, Gerry Beaver, Lisa Robertson and Robbie Connor., T -A photo Ames - Serving South Huron, North Middlesex One Hundred and Fifteenth Year vacate 8 North Lambton Since 1873 EXETER, ONTARIO, January 14, 1987 Price Per Copy 60 Cents Cardiff makes promise to Mayor NO SUPER BOXES HERE Exeter Mayor Bruce Shaw reported this week he has received assurance from MP Murray Cardiff that there will be no change made in local postal service and Exeter will not be among communities slated to get super mail boxes. In late December, postal officials announced that all urban centres, such as Exeter, would be served by super boxes, and that only businesses and core area residents would be able to pick up mail over the post office counter or from boxes at the post office. Mayors of several area towns were interviewed over the plans, and join- ed Shaw in condemning the move, almost unanimously suggesting their citizens would not welcome the move as it would remove their central meeting spot and gossip corner. Participation is considered Exeter council agreed at their last meeting to explore further the Crown Life participaction challenge and could end up twinned with ce8ldents of Portage LaPrairie, Manitoba. Ironically, Exeter already has some connection with that western town according to Mayor Bruce Shaw. The latter has been a resident of Portage LaPrairie. He was uncertain about the nature of the project, other than it provides challenges for residents of com- munities and their "twin" to issue challenges in exploits aimed at im- proving physical well-being. "Does it have to be in Canada?" Councillor Ben Hoogenboom asked, adding that he would prefer being twinned with a community in the sun- ny south. Members decided to at least ex- plore what was involved in the pro- gram and more information is ex- pected soon. House fumes are remedied A problem with unexplained base- ment fumes in one of the two new group homes built on George and An- drew Street in Exeter by the South Huron Association for the Mentally Handicapped has apparently been rectified. Executive director John Gray said residents in one of the homes had to be moved out for four days•sgortly after they moved into one of the homes in early November. Special vents -were placed in the basement as a precautionaj}'y measure. None of the residents had any ill effects. Gray said the source of the fumes was unknown, saying they may have stemmed from some previous use of the site or some chemicals or com- pounds that 'had been used by workmen during construction. Each of the two homes houses foiir residents who were moved from the former group home on John St. E. The residents of the James St. . group home have recently moved in- to an apartment in Hensall and the former Exeter residence of the Southcotts is flow up for sale. "People go to the central post office to pick up their mail and gossip", commented Shaw. "Everybody goes there every day. It's a social spot as well. We shoot the breeze and visit." Shaw said that at a recent meeting , between the five mayors in Huron and MP Cardiff and MPP Jack Riddell, Cardiff said that no changes would be e in Exeter. e assured me of that," Shaw said, adding that the more he thought of the post office announcement, the more asinine he considered it. "It's absolutely stupid," the Mayor said. Postal officials had said that the super boxes would reach Exeter and other towns within five years. - Tom Dalby, communications direc- tor of Canada Post's Huron regional .office in London admitted smaller towns would not like losing the social Will it get to -legislature? aspects of their post offices, but in- dicated that would not stop Canada Post. "There will be some reaction oppos- ing the installation of super mailboxes" he said at the time "That won't deter us." However, Cardiff's promise to Shaw indicates that some politicians m y deter Canada Post in the scheme. Library debate continues The status of Iluron County's library system and its librarian re- main somewhat in limbo and there are indications that the county may fail in its attempt to get the system changed from a public body to a com- mittee of council. The county had a private member's bill presented on its behalf by Mid- dlesex MPP Doug Reycraft to change to a committee system and that was approved in a close vote by a special committee of the Legislature in October. At the time, the four Liberal members of the committee approved Huron's request and four members NAME MEDIATOR The Education Relations Commis- sion has appointed David G. Fleet of 'Toronto to act as mediator in the negotiations between the elementary teachers and the trustees of the Huron County Board of Education. Fleet received his law degree from Osgoode Hall Law School at York University in 1977. Fleet has previously been ap- pointed to Sault Ste. Marie secondary, Sudbury R.C.S.S., and Wellington elementary This appointment is made under Section 13 of the School Boards and Teachers CollectiveNegotiations Act, Revised Statutes of Ontario, 1980. representing the Progressive Conser- vatives and NDP opposed it. The chairman, a Liberal, broke the tie by siding with his fellow Liberals, although usually chairmen vote to re- tain the status quo in tie situations. For some unexplained reason, the decision was turned back to the legislative committee in December. Reports in Hansard indicate members were at a loss in trying to find out why the matter was sent back to them or by whom it had been referred. However, the outcome of their se- cond look at the private member's bill was the same as the first with the Liberal chairman again bredliing the 4-4 tie. That bill is slate,' to he presented to the Legislature. 1,111 I • it does so by next month it conk, e. There is some sped .. .n that that could happen. Meanwhile, members of county council have been advised that chief librarian William Partridge has resigned that position following a feud with county members andsome staff complaints. However, his letter of resignation had not been received at the time of Thursday's session of county council. " - The status of private members on the current board is also somewhat in limbo. Minister of citizenship and culture, the Hon. Lily Munfo, has indicated council can not follow through on plans to replace some current members unless those members have tendered their resignations or the county seeks to remove them for just cause. Among those pondering their status is Hensall's Janis l3isback. A letter to the editor from her appears in tlu-- issue. She told the T -A on Monday that she has continued to receive information about county library meetings, but only that the scheduled meetings have been re-schgffuled for later dates. PROMOTE HISTORY Members of Exeter council last week passed along some commenda- tion for organizers of the New Year's levee hall, to kick off the town hall's 100th birthday, and also outlined some challenges. After members lauded the event. Councillor Dorothy Chapman ex- pressed the need to share such history with the students in the local schools so they will know more about their roots and the history of the homes and buildings in the community. "Part of our heritage is to pass it on," she explained. Reeve Bill Mickle suggested the Heritage Foundation, hosts for the levee, should consider establishing an archives for. the community. DONATION TO GRAND COVE ESTATES — The Grand Cove Estates Residents Association recently receiv- . ed a grant from the Ministry of Health and Welfare -to be used for recreation activities. Above, Huron MP Murray Cardiff presents the $2,685 cheque to treasurer Jean Cassidy and president Fred Struckett. 1