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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1987-07-15, Page 8Page 8 Times -Advocate, July 15, 1987 EXPERT BABYSITTERS - - Thirteen young people completed a babysitting course sponsored by the Hen- sall and District Kinettes. On hand to receive their certificates were (back left) Mindy Bell, Sarah Pat- terson, Lianna Goldsworthy and (front) DeAnn Foreman, Cora Powell and DWana Foreman. Missing: Rachel Nutt, Lorena Fink, Brenda Neeb, David Brock, Stephanie Thomson, Victoria Bisback.and Chantelle Crabe. Public meeting on amendments Councillors called a special meeting on June 15 to discuss future develop- ment of the northwest corner of the village with Harold Elder and Thomas and Merlin Bender. They ac- cepted the terms and conditions agreed on for the transfer of Park Lot 11 to the village for a road allowance. Acting as agent for Elder, -the Benders and Paul Ducharne, owners of Pt. lot 10, Park lots 14 and 12. •registered plan 269, council will - re- quest the Huron County planning department to proceed with a plan amendment changing the zoning designations- from special commer- cial to medium residential with a plan amendment on said lands from special .commercial to residential. and to initiate zoning by-law amendNOMMWROMMWMNOWMOMM - meats to accommodate future $1,610.25 was received from Knight medium density residential Electric for reswitching the Arena development. lights. The new system.whereby 8. 16 Raymond and MacLean were or all 24 lights could be lit at one time .authorized to -proceed with legal re- would greatly reduce power con- - quiremenls to close %Tolle • St. and sumpt ion and should pay for itself in prepare a conveyance for read • only 24 months. M.O.C.E.('.P. fun - allowance as an extension of Mill St. and a 66 -foot road allowance on the te-esferl'.boundary. Also Archibald. Grey. and McKay are 10 provide survey plans for the above. - A public meeting has been schedul- ed for Tuesday September 1 in the newly renovated council chambers to discuss these plans for fut.Jre .development. • - AI a Jul' 8 meeting of the 1tensall- Parks Board ('ornrnittee, a quote of ding is available for funding of 50% based onti 6 year payback. Clerk Bet- ty Oke will apply for the appropriate grant. Jim Robinson will attend a discus- sion of Mayors and Reeves on July 24 sponsored by the Huron County Severely Employment Disadvantag- ed Project. This research group has been set up in Seaforth to study whether or not there are sufficient local employment opportunities for willing workers. Softball teams .well supported The Hensall Minor Softball Associa- tion would like to thank the Hensall Kinettes. Signs'n Shirts and I3ob Erb's Garage for the new uniforms. They also extend a sincere thank you to the Hensall 1.O.O.F for their unex- pected and generous cash donation. The Association is having a 59!50 draw. Tickets are $2 apiece and are available from local merchants. coaches and players. The draw will be made Friday August 7. Proceeds- go to support Minor hall. • The softball season is into its second half and the teams are doing well. • Come out to a game some -evening and cheer on the home town team. Taylor picnic• The annual Taylor picnic was held at "Golden Acres", the farm of Ross and Donna Corbett on Saturday July 4 with 75 in attendance as well as two guests. Corning from a distance was Mrs. Jim (Cora MacFarlane of Calling Lake, Alberta. which is 200 miles. north of -Edmonton. - The youngest baby was one -week-old Jamie Taylor. son of Steve and Cindy of Brucefield. Family members travelled from Sun- dridge, Gravenhurst, .flamillon, Newtonville and London as well as the local area. - A good ball game was enjoyed by all ages as well as sports. races and a game of kick the slipper. Weekend -guests were Connie Taylor and recent ,great grandparents Ross and Ina Brown. Shuffleboard High ladies scores for Thursday Ju- ly 9 were: Irene Finlayson - 378, Marg Consitt and Mabel McKnight -231 and .Eileen Dowson - 214. High men's -scores were; Howard Johns - -277, Dave Kyle - 264 and Elliot.Layton - 226. - - Following the shuffling a group of 20 friends held a surprise birthday party for Pearl McKnight. The group enjoyed a delicious lunch complete with birthday cake. ice cream and a rousing chorus of Happy Birthday. Personals Albert Street residents bid farewell to Gary and Liz Moore and sons Jason and Erik as they leave this -week for their new hone in West Lorne. Charles and Karen Greenhill and family will be taking up residence later this month. - -A Welcome visit by grandmother McCourt of Ottawa took place last week at the home of Brenda and Greg Pulham. The hot spell kept everyone close to home with plenty of -time to rock the baby. While here she was able to attend a surprise baby shower for Brenda and Natalie at the home of Susan, Hartman., Mrs. ,McCourt returned to Ottawa on Monday. July • 13 but expects a visit from the Hen- son trio inthe fall. Active. week at Queensway Hello. and welcome to Queensway News. -. • On Monday afternoon our Drawing Club met for our monthly drawing ex- pedition. This month we focused on summer. and what it means in- dividually- to us. Well, we came up with all sorts of neat ideas. but all the drawings had a common themesand and water equals the beach! Tuesday- morning we all got -together for our morning exercises which really help us to wake up. in the afternnon Mr:Stojkovic came in at 2 p.m. for our weekly church service. Mr. Stojkovic. was accompanied on - the piano by his wife, Jill Stojkovic. We'd like to take this opportunity 10 thank both of them for corning in and visiting with us. Wednesday morning our Ladies' Auxiliary met at 10 a.m. to discuss several things for the month of Jul'. In the afternoon Ladies' flour took place at 2 p.m, Several of the ladies at Queensway got together for hand ed shared some very interesting massages• make-up makeovers a stories. WWTNUNIIIIPANJXWIIZMNAISKIFOXNQOXZW .0`40 cup of tea and a good time. The following afternoon our Men's Club got together. The gentlemen of Queensway played several friendly competitive games. One outstanding game was the two and one half hour euchre game. . On Friday afternoon it was once again time for the Sharing of Stories. Because of the incredible humidity. we held this activity inside. There was a terrific turnout and all that attend - TOP GUNS .— This team from Kippen was the highest scoring shooting team at the annual Claybird trap -shoot on Sunday. From left to right are, Bill Fisher, Brad Mann, Jim Butcher, Paul Middleton and Jamie Caldwefl.4he team scored 438 out of o possible 500. Annual tra TOP SHOT — Jamie Caldwell (right) accepts a first place trophy from Dwight Monck of the Claybird Gun Club. Caldwell was the top individual shooter at the Claybird annual trap -shoot on Sunday. 4 •shoot at Claybird club An annual trap-shoot,.hosted by the Claybird Gun Cub attracted :30 shooters from various clubs in the area Sunday afternoon. Participants shot in three-man teams from Kippen, Mitchell and Porter 11111. 'Team number -two from Kippen took top honours with a total score 438. The hosts of the tournament were --well represented. Claybird gunners turned in a second place finish with a score of 423. They were followed by Mitchell -one and Mitchell -two with scores of 420 and 419 respectively. Kippen number -one came in fifth with a score of 392 while Porter Hill rounded out the scoring with 391. in the -individual category, Jamie Caldwell of Kippen and Jody Mosurin- john et the Claybird club dominated the 'A' cla(s)i. After finishing in a tie for first place, the two men went into a shoot - off. Theavinner was undecided in the first round because botit-7nen finish- ed with perfect scores. In the second round, however, Caldwell claimed the victory missing only one target, while Mosurinjohn. - missed three. David Van Allen rounded out the 'A class victories with a score.of 93. The top three marksmen in 13' class were Brad Mann. 90, Joe Walsh, 89, and Bill Fisher, 88. Steve Venner topped 'C' class with an 83. He was followed by Bob Caldwell, 76, and Paul Middleton, 75. The Claybird Gun Club tourney was sponsored by Save -U -Gas, Three A's Restaurant, Oscar's Video and Records, Erb's Gas, Maple Leaf Mills in Greenway, Theo's ' Restaurant, Donut Defile andClarke'sShell. They also received sponsorship from Zurich Co-op, Canadian Tire, 7gnder Spot, Exeter Chrysler, Rollins Sports, B and L Products, Mike's Stop -n -(]D, Parkinson's Gun Shop, Valu -Mart, Barefoot Pedlar, MacLean's Hardware, Kippen Gun Club, McKerlie Millen, Dinney's Reloading,Schitbe ifardware,Exeter Coop, Argyle Marine, MiddegaI Pools, Ross Kettlewell Esso, Algoma Tire, Huron Tractor, Exeter inn, Cook's Mills, Ag -Com Trading and Extate Realty. Budget down, taxes up The budget came down at the regular July meeting of Hensall coun- cil, and taxes went up. Residential and commercial public school sup- porters will see a 5.8 percent increase on their 1987 tax bills, and taxes for separate schiml. commercial and residential ratepayers will face a 6.98 percent increase. Estimated expenditures in the general municipal budget total $810,186. Expected revenue and surplus of $571,400 leaves $238,919 to be raised for municipal purposes. The county levy of $93,532 and 8327,255 bring the grand total to $659,606. The commercial mill rate has gone from 312.34 in 1986 for public school supporters to 330:45; and=from 313 to 334.85 for separate school supported. The rate for residential ratepayers in- creases to 280.89 from 265.49 for public school supporters, and to 284.63 from 266.05 for separate school supporters A delegation headed by Earl Gackstetter attended the meeting to voice concern over harzardous park- ing on the north side of Itich►nond Sl. Gackstetter complained that the vehicles, most of which are patrons of neighbouring Hensall Motors, obscure his vision when they are parked between his lane and No. 4 highway. He asked that council con- sider the possibility of a No Parking Zone. Council concluded that no such stipulation can be made. However. should vehicles be peKtked overnight. steps could J e taken According ft') Gacksetter and Sandra Maxwell. a rental trailer was recently parked for a four-day period. The ()PP was notified by parking by-law enforce- ment officer Herman Van Wieren but to the best of his knowledge nothing was done. The area will continue to be monitored to see if a recent improve- ment in the situation will continue. A number of phone calls have been received from residents of the Elizabeth Court Apartments. Tenants complain that the building is in a "deplorable condition" and that not even basic upkeep is being done. The Public health Department has been contacted but a written complaint. must be received before action can be taken. - Reeve Robinson said "the people who complain are the caring poeple and those are the ones that we least want to lose". The Mill St. water main has been in- stalled at a cost of $31,061.25. Work was done by Machan Construction Limited, who submitted the lowest of three tenders received. Credit was given to works superintendent -John Baker and Lorne Archer of the P C • ! ' om- TOURIST INFORMATION - Summer - student travel counsellor Vanessa Thomson displays some of the information available in the tourist booth reached through the new doors on the west side of the Hensall town hall. The -booth is open weekdays from 9 to 5, Saturdays from 11 to 7, and Sundays from 1 to 6. pietion of the jot; "quickly, within the budget and with very little inconve- nience" according to councillor Cecil Pepper. Baker requested that council in- vestigate the possibility of acquiring a side mower as it has become in - creeingly dangerous to cut grass within six or seven feet of the sewage lagoons,'John was asked to come up with a recommendation on purchase or alternatives at the next meeting. A motion was passed supporting the proposed reduction of the number of directors of the A.B.C.A. from 35 to 11. Under the new formula Henson and Tuckersmilh will share representa- tion on the Board. Council's resolution calls for one individual to sit for a three-year term concurrent with council, on an alternatebasi•seenbet�_ • the two municipalities. Is village going to the dogs? A meeting on June 1 was attended by representatives of both Hensall council and Hensall Co-op and neighbouring property owner Robert Caldwell. As a result a sketch and cost estimate was prepared by B.M. Ross and Associates for an easement and a required storm sewer crossing Co- op property. A copy of the report was sent to the Co-op but to date no reply has been received. The Ministry of Housing announc- ed increased financial support for modification to both ownership and rental housing to accommodate disabled persons. Similar funding is. currently available through the ORP program It was decided to seek fur- ther infortnation as there are families of disabled people in Hensall who may qualify now or in the future. A door-to-door survey by summer student Jeff Peck turned up some in- teresting facts about the four -legged canine residents of Hensall. The dog population has soared to an un- precedented 99, up considerably from last year's 85, and the previous year's 84. Almost one-third of the animals are under two years old. and only 15 per- cent are senior Lrtuzens of 10 and over. Jeff would not be surprised. to see the population take a further jump. While only 11 females out of a total of 56 have not been spayed, 18 of the 43 males . remain unabashedly masculine. ( Women's libbers, take note. ) - - - Jeff attributes- the imbalance to "the typical apathy present in owners of male dogs." Could this be a blatant case of male chauvinism in the doggie kingdom; or sftould Hensall dog owners lake. refuge in the words of a former prime minister who once said "You know what dogs think of polls. Susan Hartman 262-2449 ramrrrrup 1 TRUST 1 1 COMPANY 1 1 GUARANTEED 1 CERTIFICATES 1 • AVAILABLE 1 1 Representing many trust 1 1 companies, highest rates usually available. 1 For more information 1 1 contact John R. Consitt at 236-4381 or 236-4560 III NB VII NI INN MININB Summer Clearance 15% _ 50 07/0 • Off If you haven't been in yet Now is the time! 122 Kin9 Hensall 262.2726 awe Walk A SPECIAL AWARD • •FOR EXTRA SPECIAL KIDS 1 Some Idde seem to stand out In a aowd . They are special. Maybe because of the kindness or hurtianity they show; their "'hand work; or the exceptional courage they have displayed. Whatever it is they are a shining example to others. Each year, Ontario Community Newspapers Association and Canadian Airlines International hdld a competition t0 honour these Helm special kids. Nominations are now being taken for this year's Junior - Citizen Program. Help us to honour them. Call your local representative foroonplete details on the awards. prizes and rules of nomklation. In your area contact: Jim Beckett Exeter Times -Advocate 235-1331 CAnadian A Intelnanonal