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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1987-01-21, Page 2Page 2 Times -Advocate. January 21, 1987 TRIVITT MINISTER INDUCTED - Rev. Walter B. (Duke) Vipperman was inducted as the new minister of Trivitt Memorial Anglican Church in Exeter, Sunday night. At the left, Rev. Vipperman is being welcom- ed to Exeter by church wardens Ruth McIntosh and Audrey Bentley. Next are the Venerable C.E. Ladds, Archdeacon of Perth and Rev. William J. Hockin of Lambeth. T -A photo Debate communications, hear charges take jump Concern was expressed by two members of Exeter council this week over a letter from Wingham council indicating that municipality may pull out of the Huron police communica- tion system, which presently serves all five county towns. • Councillor Ben Hoogenboom wondered where such a decision would leave Exeter, especially if any other town followed Wingham's lead. in studying the feasibility and costing of an alternative system. He was joined in his concern by Councillor Morley Hall, who noted the WILL FIpHT MOVE - In a cost-cutting move, the Ontario government is not replacing retiring - justices of the peace in small municipalities, Dorothy Chapman ad- vised Exeter council this week. She elicited that information from a recent police association meeting in Toronto, and the group on which she sits as a director, is fighting to have that changed. "Do you need support?" Councillor Gaylan Josephson asked and then joined Councillor Ben Hoogenboom iii presenting a motion that a resolution be drafted for council's consideration at the next meeting. Pollee Chief Larry Hardy advised council that the "costs would be phenomenal" if his department of- ficers had to travel to the county seat (Goderich) each time they required -the services of a justice of the peace. He went on to note that local JP, Douglas Wedlake, is very dedicated and often attends -at the police station to perform his duties. Mayor Bruce Shaw, acknowledging that governments had to reduce their budgets, lamented that "they pick the wrong things" on which to save. Hardy said that the local police re- quire the services of a justice of the peace almost daily. costs of those left in the system would increase considerably with fewer participants. Mayor Bruce Shaw said the Wingham situation stemmed primari- ly from a dispute in that town between council and the police commission. Ile said he didn't anticipate any change in the number of participants in the system. He went on to say that there may be some savings for the member municipalities by changing the centre of operation c not physically, but only through phone hookups) from Goderich to Clinton. Exeter could then get a Uensall number for free calls to Clinton and he said that would save "many thousands of dollars" in long distance calls. He also noted that some savings would be created if Exeter citizens currently used the police administra- tion number, rather than the emergency number, when they make calls that are not in the class of an emergency. The administration phone is answered locally, while the emergency line is hooked directly in- to the central dispatch in Goderich and constitutes along distance call. Councillor Ben Hoogenboom ques- tioned moving to a 911 emergency number, explaining that through TV. his five-year-old son thought that was the number to call. Chief Larry Hardy said it would be almost impossible to use a 911 number because not all police forces in the area are under one dispatch. The OPP have their own and the five towns have theirs. In tabling her police committee report, chairman Dorothy Chapman noted that 750 charges were laid in Exeter during the past year, an in- crease of between 45 to 50 percent over 1985. Calls for police assistance were also up approximately 50 percent. Goals for the department this year include a look at scheduling and workload, possible establishment of a progressive crime prevention pro- gram, arrangements for a police padre to whom officers could take any problems, as well as developing a pro- gram in conjunction with the proba- tion officer to deter young offenders from being repeaters. She also announced that Chief Har- dy has been named to act on a provin- cial committee investigating __the . establishment of trauma teams for zones in Ontario. The teams would respond to accidental shootings or any other situation that may result in policemen suffering from trauma. The report cited Constable Will Chisholm for commendation on his handling of a recent investigation and Mrs. Chapman also commended Chief Hardy for putting in approx- imately 700 hours of overtime. She said that helped the department come in well under budget. Hardy said the other personnel should also be commended for stan- ding behind him and noted that they in turn had donated hundreds of hours of overtime to the town for which the taxpayers were not billed. Deer is casualty in district crashes A deer was the lone casualty in the six collisions investigated this week by the Exeter OPP. The deer was killed on Thursday ens" www..WNW iiim BOWLING SESSION - Students from the J.A.D. McCurdy school en- joyed a game of bowling at the Huron Pork rec centre. Wednesday afternoon. Mork lindenfield is shown in action here. when it was struck by a vehicle driven by John Micallef, Don Mills, who was proceeding along Highway 83 near concession 8-9 of Hay Township. Damage to the vehicle was set at $1,500. It was one of three collisions on Thursday, the first occurring at the south access road to Huron Park. where vehicles operated by Debra Drake and Roderick Hippern, both of Iluron Park. collided. Total damage was $500. - Damage was only $100 in the other one which occurred in Dashwood when a vehicle driven by Donald Cowan, Exeter, backed into a stop sign on Fried St. That was also the amount of damage caused in the lone collision on Wednesday. A vehicle parked on St. Lawrence Ave., Huron Park, was struck by an unknown vehicle. The parked vehicle was owned by Jane Jolly, RR 1 Centralia. In a Tuesday crash, damage was set at $2,800 when vehicles driven by Melvin Whiting, Ifurbn Park, and Luitje Kapp, also of Huron Park, col- lided on Highway 4 north of the Crediton Road. The other collision was on Sunday when a vehicle driven by Douglas Freer, Kirkton, skidded on Highway 23 north of Usborne concession 16-17, went into the ditch end rolled over. Damage was estimated at $3,000 -and the driver escaped injury. During the week. the local detach- ment officers charged three people with impaired driving. There were 62 charged under the Highway Traffic Act, nine under the Liquor Licence Act and one under the Criminal ('ode. A total of 31 general occurrences were investigated. MEMORIES you'll cherish forever 137 Thames Rd. East, Exettr Phone: Bus. 235-1298 9:00 • 5:00 Res. 235-0949 after business hours Book Your Wedding NOW!!! Bart DeVries • PHOTOGRAPHY on location or studio Ree deflclt only 979.80 There was mention of someone hav- ing to "eat crow" when the year-end financial revenue was handed out to members of the South Huron rec cen- tre board when they arrived for Tues- day's meeting. The reference was to a confronta- tion the board had late last year when Exeter Mayor Bruce Shaw, Reeve Bill Mickle and Councillors Ben Hoogenboom and Gaylan Josephson showed up to air their concern over the board's financial position. The town delegates presented figures showing the anticipated deficit would be in the area of $27,000. Board members had been projec- ting a deficit, primarily because of capital expenditures required to make repairs to the facility that had not been included in the budget. However, rec board officials later told council that the deficit was ex- pected to be no higher than $3,000 and responded to questioning from the Mayor that they would have indeed been in a surplus position of between $6,000 and $7,000 had the repair pro- gram not been undertaken. The final budget presented at Thursday's meeting showed that even the board members had been overly pessimistic in their predictions. The actual deficit was $605.08 and that was reduced even lower to only $179.80 when the 1985 surplus of $425.28 was deducted. "Can we cheer or clap?" asked hoard member Kathy Whiteford as she reviewed the figures. "We were pretty excited," respond- ed rec director Lynne Farquhar, who had been put on the hot seat during the budget debate between the board and council. She went on to explain that the final figures were close to those which had ADOPT POLICY Despite Ken Oke's suggestion that -it doesn't really say anything", the South Huron rec centre board this week adopted a policy regarding advertising signs on the boards in the arena. The policy was seen necessary after the hoard had approved signs for Ken- tucky Fried Chicken as part of a $:3,000 donation that firm made for the purchase of magnetic nets. • The policy adopted, on recommen- dation from the general government committee, gives the facilities manager discretion in the size and type of material to be used for the signs and also directs that each organization/business wishing such a sign will be dealt with on an individual basis. The only requirements set forth are that the signs will be available to groups/businesses making a minimum donation of $2,500. Pay- ment of that could be spread over a five-year period, but in the first year, the donor must pay for the material and installation of the sign and a minimum of $500 from the total donation. been presented to council in umber after the board had recognized a financial squeeze and had given direc- tions to the staff to curtail all but the most important purchases and expenditures. Board chairman Jim Workman commended the staff for the "ex- cellent job" in corning so close in a very large budget. Total expenditures were $351,514.60. He added that the staff had done an exceptional job, despite being placed under "unnecessary stress" at times. He said council members should not tell the board to run their own show and then snip at their heels. Workman said the major downfall experienced over the past year was that when any problem surfaced, groups skirted around the board, with council members dealing directly with board staff instead of the board and some ice groups dealing with council rather than the board. "I hope this year some of that silly nonsense will stop", he said, "so we can do the job, if the councils want us to". The chairman concluded by noting members would have to maintain their efforts in fighting to keep the facility in reasonable shape. 'Pleasantly embarrassed' Mayor Bruce Shaw led a barrage of coin mendations from council members this week for the excellent financial report submitted from the South Huron rec centre board. Mention of the small ($179.80) deficit chalked up by the board was almost passed over by Councillor Dorothy Chapman when she presented the report from Thursday's board meeting. After her report was accepted, she noted the financial report, saying the board members deserved a pat on the back. Mayor Bruce Shaw said the fact was suitable material for the TV show, "That's Incredible" and went on to say that in hindsight, council's monitoring of the situation late last year was justified, "but the alarm wasn't". Reeve Bill Mickle said he was "pleasantly embarrassed" over the financial report, adding that he was wrong in his assessment of the situation. "You're speaking for all of u:,, Shaw commented. "1 led the pack," Mickle respond- ed in reference to concerns express- ed by council over the board's finan- cial position late last year when a delegation from council suggested the board's deficit appeared to be heading for the $27,000 range. During discussion of the rec report, Shaw noted that the town has a vehi- cle in place whereby citizens could help minor sports organizations. He made particular reference to a note in the report that the Minor Hardball Association is unable to pay a $150 to the rec board. Using Mickle as a hypothetical ex- ample, Shaw said a generous citizen could make a donation to the town to cover the ball group's $150 and that citizen in return would get an income tax deduction for the donation. "The mechanism is in place," Shaw noted, adding that "people who don't go to church can go to recreation". "We'd expect more than $150 from Bill," Councillor Ben Hoogenboom ex- claimed during the discussion. • HE LIKED THE RIDE — Joe Pursley pushes Joe Fahie around the Stephen township arena Wednesday afternoon as J.A.D. 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