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One man's junk is
Thursday's semi-annual rummage
sale al the South Huron Rec Centre
netted a profit of about $7.000 for the
sponsoring South Huron Hospital
Auxiliary.
Treasurer Olive Harvey said the
profits have been about the same for
the last number of sales.
Mrs. Harvey added. "Our auction
sale brought in same good prices and
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another's treasure
the total was over $500; up $100 from
the sale last fall. We wish to thank
.Norm Whiting for donating his
services.
One of the conveners Lillian Johhs
said a stove sold for $100. and two air
conditioners helped to up the auction
sale receipts.
Articles not sold by the 4 p.m. clos-
ing time are sent to Goodwill In-
dustries and a full truckload was
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again sent this time.
More than 100 volunteers are in-
volved in the sale including a number
of men Who do unloading, unpacking
and taking care of security duties.
Treasurer Harvey said all rum-
mage sale proceeds are used in
various ways to assist the hospital in
purchasing equipment,• beds, Ole.
The next -rummage sale is schedul;
ed for late October.
Times -Advocate, April 29, 1987
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WAITING FOR MOM Brent Tafara waits patiently for his mother
to complete her shopping at Thursday's rummage sale.
HATS ON - Charlie Smith tries on a western hot with the help of
Lloyd Lovell at Wednesday's rummage sale sponsored by the South
Huron Hospital Auxiliary. T -A photo
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MARKING SALE PRICES
shown marking prices prior
Auxiliary rummage sale.
Anna Ballantyne and Bea Dykstra are
to Wednesday's South Huron Hospital
T -A photo
leo funding gets debate, crlticisrn
The town's funding for recreation
once again was the major item for
discussion throughout Exeter coun-
cil's budget deliberations on Tuesday
and Thursday.
Recreation costs constituted the
final item when council adjourned
near midnight on Thursday and it was
back in the forefront when the budget
talks resumed on Thursday.
Despite all the talk. the rec board
members still don't know what they'll
be getting although the town budget
will include $100,000 for recreation.
However, the board, which asked for
$94,672, will only be given $75,000 and
the balance will either go to them'or
be paid directly to local participants
as the need unfolds by the end of the
year.
Initially, council had set aside only
$60,000 as a grant to the board.
Reeve Bill Mickle said Tuesday
that users pay about 43 percent of the
operating costs and he thought they
should be expected to pay at least
half.
Rec board member Dorothy Chap-
man responded that the board had
held the line in its funding request and
added that they could only do so much
at one time and in comparison to
other centres were "doing damn
well".
When Mickle added that Exeter had
paid well above the costs represented
by the percentage of users from the
town, he said that situation should
continue to an extent, "but it's time
to get more realistic".
"Do it, but at the council table,"
Mrs. Chapman responded in
reference to the need to get other
municipalities to.contribute a fairer
share.
"I'm tired of being caught in the
middle," she concluded and received
support - from Councillor Gaylan
Josephson who said the matter of
municipal funding was council's
responsibility, not the rec board.
When discussion opened on Thurs-
day, Deputy -Reeve Lossy Fuller kick-
ed off with a note that she was not
happy about the fact Exeter was be -
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• Exeter council agreed this week to
proclaim April 15 to May 15 as fami-
ly violence prevention month,
although Councillor Ben Hoogenboom
complained it may- only be
establishing one month as a period in
which wives or husbands can't be
beaten.
"It should be a 12 -month ongoing
concern," -he said.
Mayor Bruce Shaw responded that
no one would disagree that it was a
12 -month task, but the designation of
the month does help focus attention on
the problem.
Dave Overboe of the Huron County
task force on family violence explain-
ed that during the month there will be
public meetings in the five county
towns to bring it to the public's
attention.
"The need for public awareness of
the ability to prevent family violence
and an awareness of services to
families in which violence is an issue
is an important task to be under-
taken," Overboe wrote. "Violence'in
the home is extremely destructive to
children, adults and to the communi-
ty at large."
Councillor Dorothy Chapman
agreed that there was a need to
educate the public and noted that peo-
ple should be aware that if they see
or hear anything suspicious they
should be reporting it to the agencies
set up to alleviate the problem.
Adding her support to the pro-
clamation was f)eputy-Reeve Lossy
3y zr
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ing asked to contribute more for
recreation, and while saying she
didn't mind paying a little more, other
municipalities should be prepared to
do the same.
However, Councillor Ben Hoogen-
boom said he didn't think additional
funding would come from other
municipalities "and we either pay
more or make cuts."
Mayor Bruce Shaw agreed, saying
council could be hard-nosed and tell
the board to rework their budget on
the basis of the town's planned grant
or they could be realistic and realize
that Exeter was the only municipali-
ty responsible for any deficit.
Shaw said he objected "most
strenously" to subsidizing recreation
for residents from other
municipalities and then presented a
proposal that Exeter earmark
$100,000 for recreation but give the
board only $75,000 as a grant and then
see how the year unfolds as to
whether the board or local registrants
would get the other $25,000.
"That leaves us as a board in lim-
bo," replied Mrs. Chapman, while
Josephson expressed concern that it
represented under -funding for capital
d he added that the facility is
deteriora ing a
it end up like the old town hall did
under council's jurisdiction.
Rec board chairman Jim
Workman, who attended Thursday's
budget session with vice-chairman
Kathy Whiteford, said he didn't think
the $75,000 grant was very realistic
and later termed it unfair.
He noted that it was the only
department that didn't come in with
any increase this year and charged
that the priority for recreation is very
low.
When Shaw said that council
members were indicating they'd
meet any board deficit, Workman
said that if there is a deficit "I'll know
who'll get the blame and I don't want
that".
"There won't be any blame placed
at all," Mayor responded, saying he
was sick of•the snide remarks from
one side or the other "and there won't
be any more as long as I'm around".
Mrs. Chapman indicated some
chopping would be required to meet
Fuller who said that at a conference
in Sarnia she was surprised to learn
how many people in communities are
battered both ,physically and
mentally.
Later in the session when money
was being considered to help a local
group investigating the need for a
shelter for various ages, Reeve Bill
Mickle and Councillor Gaylan
Josephson cautioned against getting
into an area that was the county's
responsibility.
The latter said he realized there
were instances where "people fall
through the cracks", but he couldn't
see duplicating a county service.
Shaw said that the $1,000 being pro-
posed wouldn't be enough to take over.
any ether group's responsibility and
said it could catch those not covered
by some county programs. "It's a
stop -gap measure primarily," he said
of the local investigation into the
need.
He said he knew of three cases
where no help was available to the
people involved.
Hoogenboom said the main intent
was to act as a liaison group and not
to fund any program.
Shaw went on to say that while he
was no "bleeding heart" there was
something happening in society and
said that people never heard of chid
abuse or wife beating in the past.
"There's either a different defini-
tion or something is happening," he
concluded.
,
Stephen will defer
letting gas tender
At Tuesday's regular meeting
Stephen council deferred decision on
tenders received for the supply of
gasoline and fuel oil for the next two
years.
Of the five received, one was
returned because it arrived late.
Road superintendent Eric Finkbeiner
was instructed to check into
variances which appeared in the
other four.
Drain commissioner Ken Pickering
was instructed to repair a portion of
the lower extension of the Centralia
drain on Lots 22 and 23, Concession 4
as requested by Len Veri.
A drain petition for repair to the
llodgins-Hayter municipal drain in
the areas of Concession 22 and Sauble
Exeter court
Continued from front page
the ditch. Castle was injured and ad-
vised that he had two pickup trucks
and had changed plates from one to
the other.
Paying speeding fines on Tuesday
were Edward T. Harrison, Bayfield,
and Luigi G. Digioacchino, Etobicdke.
Ilarrison was fined $18.75 for driving
ata speed of 95 iry an 80 km. zdne on
March 22 and the Etobicoke man was
fined $39.75 for a speed of 104 in an
80 km. zone on March 7.
is being fot‘varded to the Ausable-
Bayfield Conservation Authority for
their remarks. The// petition was
presented by Mgx!Hodgins, Allen
Hayter and Allan Wainer.
A. request by Colleen Seeley to
operate a chip wagon in the Port
Blake Conservation area this summer
was denied.
'The water system bylaw was revis-
ed to allow increases in the frontage
charges for those wishing to hook up
in agricultural areas outside the
police villages. The connection
charge wll be $4,250 for farms and
*2,700 for residential.
The road department will be in-
structed to construct two new picnic
tables to be placed in' the Crediton
conservation pask.
Applications are being made to the
Ontario Ministry of Tourism and
Recreation -for new recreational
facility grants for playground use in
the parks in Crediton and Centralia.
A grant of $40 was made to the .
Huron County Road Superintendents
Association.
Council will be providing 'a door
prize valued at $25 for the May
meeting of Zone 2 of the Association
of Municipal Clerks and Treasurers
to he held in Usborne township in
May.
Permits take
sizeable hike
After taking a dip in February, the
value of building permits issued has
shot back over last year's record
pace.
The value of permits issued in
March was listed at *471,000 by
building official Brian Johnston in his
report to council this week. That
brings the 1987 total to$603,140, com-
pared to *545,704 for the same three
months last year.
Five new homes with a value of
*406,000 were included in the March
totals and Johnston said "it looks like
we're really going to do well in
housing".
There were six permits for residen-
tial renovations and additions al
*58,000, one commercial at *1,500 and
one garage at *5,000.
Included in the monthly total was
*500 for a demolition permit and that
sparked a debate among councillors
with Mayor Bruce Shaw saying it
gives a false impression of the new
construction total.
Johnston agreed, saying that
demolition permits should probably'
be handled in a separate category and
not included in the value of permits
issued.
His report also indicated there were
two permanent signs approved to
bring that total to five for the year and
an almost record number of 17 tem-
porary signs for a 1987 total of 31.
CORRECTION
In the coverage of the recent .pro-
fessional development day program
at Exeter Public School, Heather
Ross was identified as a Seaforth
lawyer.
She actually practices in Goderich
for the firm of Ross, Ross and Morris.
The Timm -Advocate apologizes for
the error.
the $20,000 shortfall from the town and
said it would be impossible to paint or
keep the facility looking acceptable.
"Cuts are always made in
maintenance and soon we'll have to
pay the piper," responded Josephson.
Workman interjected that he was
disheartened over the fact the rue
budget always appears to be the easy
one to hit and it seems everyone on
council is an expert in that regard.
"We speak with forked tongue."
Josephson charged, notingthat items
such as paint were a cost that the
board would have to consider chopp-
ing and would end up only washing
the walls.
"When you get up on the ladder,
take paint with you", he urged -in
noting that maintenance had to be
undertaken and the town was respon-
sible for the deficit.
The debate ended when Shaw ask-
ed the board duo to come back for the
second meeting in May with an
outline of costs for maintenance and
repairs that had to be undertaken.
The board's total budget this year
calls for expenditures of $374,732,
compared to last year's budget of
$341,975 and actual of .$351,516.
Salaries, wages and benefits coti-
stitute the major cost of *135,512. Last
year's budget called for that to he
$123,336 and ended up at $125,858.
Those totals do not include pool.
playground or program development
staff.
Insurance has been set at S19.000
and maintenance totals $43,000
Dirt biker rider
hurt in area pit
Only one injury was reported in
four collisions investigated by the Ex-
eter OPP this week.
It occurred on Sunday at 4:40 p.m.
when Christopher Merner, Hay
Township, was driving a dirt bike in
Cann's gravel pit in Usborne
Township.
He lost control of the machine after
going over a pile of sand. He was
treated at South Huron Hospital and
released. -
The first of the week's crashes was
on Friday shortly after noon when a
vehicle driven by Paul Bowden, Lon-
don, went out of control on Highway
83 and struck some guideposts. The
driver swerved id an attempt to miss
a groundhog. Damage was estimated
at $1,000.
SUNSHINE KIDS OPEN HOUSE - - Open House at the Sunshine Kids
nursery school continues this week each morning up to and including
Thursday. Debra Hern and son Jamie, a prospective new student are
shown with teacher Ruth Mercer. T -A photo
will support Emmas
Employees of the Exeter post office
choose a charity to support each year,
asa special project. In the past (hey
have supported the Cancer Society
and the Muscular Dystrophy
Research Association. -
This year Canada Post has chosen
the Evangelical Missionary Medical
Aid Society (Emmas). This society
strives to provide eyeglasses to
under- privileged in the Third World
countries.
The employees of the Exeter Post
Office are seeking the help of their
community in collecting used
eyeglasses.
Anyone having used eyeglasses to
donate may leave them at the post
office.
The other two collisions were on
Saturday, the first at 10:30 a.m., when
vehicles driven by Donald Lewis, RR
:3 Exeter. and John Jones, London,
collided -on the Crediton Road.
Damage was $400. •
At 7:20 p.m.. a vehicle operated by
Kevin Farrington. Stephen Township,
went off concession road 18-19 in
Stephen and struck a telephone pole
in the west ditch. Total damage was
estimated at $2,900.
During the week, the detachment
officers investigated 35 general occur-
rences. There were 44 charged under
the Highway Traffic Act, two under
the Liquor Licence Act, and one each
under the Insurance Act and the Off.
Road Vehicle Act.
Two people were charged with im-
paired driving.
kay repair
for bowlers
Despite objections from Deputy -
Reeve Lossy Fuller. Exeter council
gave approval on Tuesday to using
money from a senior citizen recrea-
tion reserve fund to repair the porch
at the Exeter lawn bowling clubhouse.
The South Huron rec centre board
requested the funds. saying the work
was estimated at $.500. '
The $1.700 in the reserve fund was
turned over to the town from senior
citizen groups who had received New
Horizon grants for recreation
purposes.
Mrs. Fuller said she had discussed
the matter with some of the seniors
involved and it was the consensus that
repairs to the porch didn't fall under
recreation. •
"What is lawn bowling if it isn't
recreation," quizzed Councillor,
Dorothy Chapman and Mrs. Fuller
said thebrequest was for a building
project and not recreation. -
Mrs. Chapman said the money was
going for the interests of seniors and
recreation and Councillor Gaylan
Josephson said money spent from the
reserve last year was used for similar
purposes and it was important to be
consistent.'
Ile also said the rec hoard should
review the rental charge of *290 for
the bowling group as it doesn't even
begin to cover the costs of repairs.
Mrs. Fuller failed to get a seconder
for a motion that the matter be turn-
ed back to the rec board and one was
passed that the repairs be paid for
from the reserve to a maximum of
*500.
Josephson also succeeded in having
a motion approved to ask the board
to review the rental price for the bowl-
ing facilities.
COOKIES ON SALE SATURDAY — Exeter Brownies, Guides and Pathfinders will be on the streets Satur-
day with fh,g it annual c okie drive. Shown with some of the goodies are from the left Brownies Mandy
Ralph and Danielle Kn¢x, Pathfinder Hazel Snedden and Guide Juanita Chappel. T -A photo