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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1987-02-25, Page 1Luean area man gets s2,000 /n fines A Lucan area man was fined a total of $2,000 and had 18 months added to his current driving suspension when he appeared before Justice of the Peace Douglas Wedlake in Exeter court, Tuesday. Ronald H. Mitchell, RR 2 Lucan, pleaded guilty to one charge of driv- ing a motor vehicle without proof of insurance and three of driving while under suspension. He was fined *500 on each of.the counts and received an additional suspension of six months for each of the three charges of driv- ing while under suspension. The acused was stopped for speeding offences on November 11 and again on November 14 and on each occasion identified himself as Dean Dare, Simcoe St., Exeter. He .was subsequently charged with driv- ing while under suspension on both those dates and is scheduled to appear in criminal court on March 10 on a charge of using the identity of another person. The third charge of driving while under suspension and the one for not having insurance were both laid on January 24 after he was stopped on Highway 4 south of Exeter. The court learned the accused has previous convictions for driving while under suspension inGoderich on April 5, 1984 and January 9, 1986 and in Lon- don on June 20, 1985. He was given nine. months in which to pay the fines. Richard A. McCann, RR 3 Ailsa Craig, was fined $150 after pleading guilty to a charge of failing to remain at the scene of an accident in which he was involved on February 7 in Exeter. Witnesses advised that a pickup driven by the accused backed into an unoccupied parked vehicle on Main St. around 2:00 a.m. The accused drove away and was later stopped by police and an Alert test administered on the accused registered a "warn". Damage in the incident involving the parked vehicle was set at *1,000. He was given 15 days in which to pay the fine. The offence results in seven demerit points. Jesse Winston Kirk, 455 Andrew St., Exeter, was convicted on a charge of consuming liquor while an interdicted person and was fined *78.75. He was given three months to pay. He was charged after police receiv- ed a complaint from residents at 455 Andrew St. that the accused was har- rassing occupants. He was described as being beligerent and became abusive at the police station, where he had to be restrained and put into a cell. He later was taken to the detox centre in London. He had been fined $35.75 for -the same offence on August 5 of last year. A fine of $33.75 was paid by Philip - A. Bast, Waterloo, who entered a Buil- ty.plea to a. charge of speedingat a rate of 100 km. in an 80 km. zone on Highway 83 on December 27. James D. Young, RR 3 Goderich, pleaded not guilty to failing to stop for an amber light at the intersection of Main and Sanders St: in Exeter on January 4.- He was found guilty and fined $53.75. An Exeter policeman, who was stopped on Sanders St. facing east waiting for the light, said he saw the accused coming from the north and that the latter's vehicle was about 30 feet from the intersection when the light changed to orange. He told the court the accused slowed and then sped up to get through the lights. In his defence, Young said he had been following another vehicle which braked even though the light was green, and he attempted to stop, but weight in the back of his truck slid for- ward and he felt he couldn't stop safe- ly, so he went through. Young said he would have been through the lights with no problem had the vehicle ahead not slowed him down. A passenger further explained they had seen the police cruiser and wouldn't have run a light knowing a policeman was there. In another contested case, Beverley A. Robinson, 85 AndrewSt., Exeter, was convicted of disobeying an officer directing traffic on Main St. on December 31 shortly after 11:00 p.m. Sgt. Kevin Short and two OPP were conducting spot checks at the time and the former was .on the west side of the roadway talking to a person who had been stopped when he saw a yellow station wagon approaching from the south. Short, who had a fluorescent vest on, waved his flashlight and pointed for the approaching driver to pull over to the curb but the vehicle never slowed and continued past him. The officer ran to the cruiser and gave pursuit with the lights activated but the driver didn't stop until he pull- ed up beside her vehicle, honked his horn and told her to pull over. After talking with the accused, Short said he concluded that she had never seen him following her. In her defence, the accused explain- ed she was coming home from a church function and saw the officer coming from his cruiser and she slow- ed, thinking he was going to cross the road. She thought he meant for her to go through and then didn't see him following her becauseher insideinir_- ror was on night view and she was also taking her daughter to the lat- ter's first babysitting assignment and was advising her as to what to do. Mrs. Robinson told the court she has seen the officer's flashlight and thought she was obeying him. She was fined $53.75 and given 45 days in which to pay. • We Serving South Huron, North Middlesex One Hundred and Fifteenth Year & North Lambton Since 1873 EXETER, ONTARIO, February 25, 1987 Narrow base towers dictated GETTING ORDER IN EARLY — Ontario Minister of Agriculture and Food Jack Riddell took the opportunity of buying his crop insurance from Dashwood Crop Insurance Agent Donald Weigand at the 20th anniversary banquet of crop insurance agents early in February. The deadline for purchasing insurance for general crops and tobacco under the Canada -Ontario Crop Insurance Program is May 1, 1987. Last year, more than 18,000 Ontario farmers purchased crop in- surance. Photo by OMAF Will hire part-time help for BIA work As Karen Pfaff begins her second year as B.I.A. chairperson she will be working for $3,000 less than last year. This was the major decision unanamiously reached at the board's annual general meeting Wednesday evening at the olde town hall. Mrs. Pfaff said last year she devoted hundreds of hours on B.I.A. business and felt the same effort would be required again this year. She suggested a paid employee would be more effective and would ease the burden on volunteers in carrying out the wishes of the board of management....___ _ _ . . She envisioned the manager's salary of being between *3,000 and $5,000 per year depending on the job description which will be prepared soon. "It could possibly be a one -day - a -week job," she added. The seven board members, two associate members and two visitors who attended the meeting heard a breakdown on expenditures for the past year. The board received $25,464 as the town levy last year, collected an ad- ditional $2,550 in associate member fees and earned $419 in interest. - -- - Please turn to page 2 • Price Per Copy 60 cents WE GET HYDRO __Anew power corridor which will "The board decided the balance o run through -Huron -and Middlesex environmental effects outweight the counties to carry energy from the economics; Morrison. said. He said Bruce Nuclear Power Development anygroups.or individual affected by- to yto a new transmission station the board's decision have 30 days to . southwest of London has been approv- apFeal to the Ontario cabinet. ed by a joint board that conducted 132 If appealed, he. hopes cabinet will days of hearings last year. The route act quickly to allow Hydro to begin is the most costly of the three work and have the power -lines in ser- __presented- by -Ontario -Hydro and the vice byAugust,-1990. one least favored by the utility. The- last of eight reactors at the The board, in a decision released Bruce complex "went critical last Friday, rejected two other plans that weekend" and will be ready to would have allowed Ontario Hydro to operate at full power in about a also build a power route east from month, Morrison said. However, ex - Lake Huron to a transformer station isting transmission lines can only at Essa, near Barrie. carry 5,300 megawatts of the Buce It opposed the Bruce -to -Barrie line complex's 6,400 megawatt capacity because it would carve a swath across into the provincial grid system. the Niagara Escarpment and through Hydro, in its submissions to the ecologically sensitive wetlands and board, calculated it costs about. $180 parklands. million to produce electricity from However, it recognized the approv- coal-fired generating stations because ed route will create a right-of-way it is unable to get this locked -in through prime agricultural land in nuclear energy out of the Bruce. Huron and Middlesex. To help lessen The board decision and reasons the impact, the board ordered Ontario detailed in a separate 178 -page docu- Hydro to use more expensive narrow- ment climaxes one of the longest and based pedestal towers instead of con- costliest environmental hearings ever ventional four -legged ones on all held, extending over almost five fence lines and in -field locations years. where power lines are carried across The news, affecting dozens of specialty crop lands. municipalities and hundreds of prope- Vice-president of design and con- ty owners whose lands will be ex - (ruction of Ontario Hydro, Bill Mor- propriated for Hydro right-of-way rison, said the narrow -based towers, easements, drew cheers and boos. each costing about $78,000 more than - "We're absolutely ecstatic," said the older -style supports, will add 'Jack Gilbert, the Toronto lawyer who about $25 million to the $427 million has spent four years fighting Hydro cost of the System 1 route approved on behalf of a coalition of more than by the board. 7,000 residents who opposed the Bruce -to -Barrie line. It is the second major victory for Gilbert, who has a country home near Shelburne. A division court challenge launched -by -Gilberts -group -forced Hydro back to the drawing board in June, 1984, when a judge ruled an earlier plan to construct a line from More than 92 cases of animal rabies . the Bruce to Barrie violated pro - were reported in Huron County in 1986 cedural rules. compared to 36 -in 1985. "We're -not environmentalists, but - As a results 50 le received the to cut a swath through the Niagara anti -rabies vacclne a er coming in Escarpment for a power line that contact with a rabid animal, Dr. would become redundant in three McGregor, medical officer of health years was just too much." for the Huron County Health Unit said Otterville area farmer Hugh Zim- recently. mer said he was "not surprised" by Dr. McGregor said that, under a the decision, although he bitterly op - provincial regulation that has been posed the route chosen from London adopted in Huron County, -it is com- to Nanticoke, which will put two pulsory fo'r`alrdogs=and cats -three ---towers on-hhis-land months of age and over to be vac- cinated against rabies. The regulation is intended to protect people from the disease, he said. Most cases of human anti -rabies treatments result from contact with cats and dogs which have been infected by a rabid wild or domestic animal. Although vaccinating domestic animals is the only barrier between rabies and people, only 40 percent of dogs and 15 percent of cats in Ontario are currently immunized. More than 50 percent of the human exposures to the disease occur from contact with owned, unimmunized dogs and cats - often one's own household pets. Special low-cost clinics will be held and pet owners will be charged only *6.00 per animal for the rabies vac- cination. Owners also have the option of going to their regular veterinarian. An immunization certificate will be issued to the owner, indicating when and where the animal was vaccinated and when the vaccination must be repeated. In addition, a rabies iden- tification tag will be repeated. in ad- dition, a rabies identification tag will be provided for each vaccinated dog and cat. The regulation requires that dogs and cats be re -vaccinated on a regular basis. Pet owners who do not comply with the regulation are sub- ject to a maximum fine of $5,000. in the interest of protecting the peo- ple in the community from rabies, the Huron County Health Unit urges dog f ' from hearings last year`• after being refusedfinancial aid by Ontario Hydro and the province. "We were asked to sign over our farms (as collateral ) to participate and couldn't take that risk." The con- struction of power Lines across prime farmland was "just another example of urban people dumping on farmers who grow their food". The spokesman for another farm group that also made strong representations to the jont board, a group of about ,1,300 landowners in Bruce, Huron and Middlesex, was not SOLOIST WITH PROS Lisa Bedard one of the solo performers in Sunday's Exeter figure skating club carnival is shown with club pros Morg Corey and Debbie Naujohaitis. T -A photo Okay zone change for Dashwood hotel Stephen township council has.ap- proved a zoning amendment ' to change the status of the former Dashwood hotel property from com- mercial to residential to allow conver- sion to aparjments. A public meeting is being held April 7 at -7:30 p.m. at the township office in Crediton to consider the application of Ray Desjardine at part of Lot 5, LRE Concession from agriculture restricted to highway commercial. A recent public meeting approved a zoning amendment for property owned by Ilugh Ityan from AGi to general agriculture with special provisions. Council voiced opposition to a severance application in Ilay township from Robert Hoffman on the grounds it would create strip develop- ment utilizing agricultural land for commercial use. No objection was raised to an Osborne township zoning amendment for property owned by Huron Motor Products at part of Lot 14, Concession 1. Road superintendent Eric F'ink- beiner was instructed to call for tenders for the supply of gravel for the 1987 season and clerk Wilmar Wein was authorized to contact sup- pliers for quotes on the garbage pickup contract in the residential area of Huron Park for 1987. Clerk Wein was ittstructed to send outstanding taxes for the year 1986 in the amount of $143,645.83 to the coun- ty of Huron for collection.. This amount is up only slightly 'from a year ago. Overall tax arrears as of December 31, 1: , . were $194,061.43. down over $30,000 from a year ago. Rabies up_ in Huron A5 spokesman for about 100 area farmers along that leg of the power route, Zimmer said the Southern Specialty Crop Committee withdrew 1/ LINE as bitter. Stephen Thompson, who recently moved to Wingham, said the group would rather not have any _line,. but the -board's decision appears to have addressed some of the landowners' concerns. ' The -narrow -based towers were a _posilive_move. and a further -ruling giving all property owners.within 75 metres (about 250 feet ) of the right of way the option to sell the entire pro- perty to Hydro, with a three-year period to decide. was a definite improvement. - Chatsworth asorjtva 6sy Colkngwood M,rkdal ESSA. TS U • •Hanover Walkerton •Oundo& •Alliston •Shelburne SYSTEM PLAN 1 Boron Guelph • Easter Alba Craig • Strathroy • SITE N MILT TS Like pptario 4IrOLEP0RT S London ® 50� k ��� t1R • vburp Simcoe lft T Afon• Pert Dove ST Thomas Lake g$NTtCQKE Eta. Five face charges as 525,000 located Three Grand Bend area men have , been charged with 60 counts of break, enter and theft and possession of stolen property as the result of police investigation into a recent rash of thefts from cottages in the Highlands II subdivision in Hay Township. Last Tuesday, Exeter OPP„ assisted by Pinery Park OPP. recovered a total of *25.000 worth of counts each of possession of stolen property, are William Cory Cassidy. 18, and John Henry Cassidy, 19, both Of 25 Elmwood Ave., Grand Bend; and Lester William Everest, 30, of RR 3 Parkhill. The three appeared in Goderich court on Monday for a bail hearing. Bail was denied and the trio will be held in custody until their next court -stolen-proper'L,X�1eiji:Ol4 an�Jxsdt , s�PPea_! 1�e..1N1. 1�?r� some expensive silverware, TVs, Facing single counts of possession microwaves, tools, etc. of stolen property are Nancy Everest. Charged with 16 counts of break. 22. RR 3 Parkhill, and Christopher enter and theft, along with three James Hill, 19, Grand Bend. and cat owners to meet the regulation GET SCOUTING AWARDS - The annual Evelyn Lebedew awards were presented at Tuesday's annual by getting their dogs and cats Lord Baden Powell dinner at the Exeter Legion hall. Above, Paul Waddell makes the presentation of immunized. ploques on behalf of his mother to Scout Tim Nethercott, Cub Ken Hines and Beaver Sean Beattie.