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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1987-11-18, Page 1* Glant fire sale 2 * It's your business 5 * ADAPT 11 * Christmas Window Contest 18 * Centennials season ends 3A * Lucan schools remember 6A Town project personally involved. but would be The main focus by the provincial asked to consider who may be inter- government which provides the fi- ested in geting it going.He went on nancing is on family accommoda- to say, "The rewards to the town are tion. Rental rates would depend on many. Projects of this kind will income of the prospective tenant. provide extra taxation, extra popula- t tion and a more stable environment.. „ On this sub usually a Parsons said, There is a good mix with for families." , some paying full rent and others be- ing helped substantially He continued, "There are many other direct benefits including the Deputy -reeve Lossy Fuller was PUC in providing hydro, more jobs told after construction completion, a and a a more stable base for retail non-profit board of directors is set and merchants. The only liabilities up and rents are paid to a property you have is some effort in getting a management company which is re- submission together, but no obliga- sponsible for cutting grass and tion." snow removal. Reserve monies are Exeter council Monday night turned a report on co-operative housing development over to the executive committee. The report presented by a former town office employee Brian Parsons 'Community is now genrai manager of Community Homes of Southwest- ern Ontario revealed how any mu- nicipality can become involved in an assured housing program. Council's only involvement is giving moral support and appoint- ing a committee to undertake the projects. Parsons said council does not get Ames Serving South Huron, North Middlesex One Hundred and Seventeenth Year set up for maintenance and replace- Tilbury." ment costs. Parsons told Reeve Bill Mickle unit sizes could be as low as 20 or Parsons disagreed when council- 25, but the ideal size would be at for Morley Hall suggested premises 40. He added, " With more units the may not be kept up by tenants with costs change and you can do more low incomes saying, " It's the exact things with -40 units than you can opposite.The kind. -of pride and_ at 20. Materials can be purchased pleasure they have is akin to own - mg your own home." Answering a question from coun- cillor Ben Hoogenboom about a lot of projects being started in larger cities, Parsons replied, "That was so in the beginning, but now we are getting underway in Ridgetown, Forest., Aylmer, Port Stanley and cheaper in larger amounts." The first step for a housing com- mittee would be a needs and demand questionnaire. In closing Parsons said, "The term most used for this type of pro- ject is "modest housing" and rents are consistent to what the commu- nity can afford to pay." & North Lambton Since 1873 EXETER, ONTARIO, November 18, 1987 Price Per. Copy 60 Cents ROBOT VISITS SUNSHINE KIDS - Constable Will Chisholm of the Exeter police department brought a robot purchased by the Exeter Opti- mist Club to the Sunshine Kids nursery school, Wednesday morning. Stu- dents in the picture are Andrew Sinnamon, Adam Little, Jamie Hern and Kyle Smith. Prediction comes true permits to million mark A prediction a few weeks ago by Exeter's chief building official Brian Johnston has come true. At that time Johnston said he -ex- pected building permit totals for the month of October would be close to one million dollars and his report to council Monday night showed 27 permits were issued with a total value of $1,025,570. Included in the 27 permits were 12 residential renovations and addi- tions, seven new residential dwell- ings, three new building commer- cial rcnovations,the same number of tool shed, sun decks, carports and garages and one each for institution- al renovations and additions and new commercial building renovations. During the first 10 months of this year, a total of 229 permits have been issued with a value of $5,398,682. This compares to the same period in 1986 of 222 permits with a value of $3,075,61.. Six permanent sign permits were issued bringing the year's total to 20 and the temporary sign total was increased by eight to 111. In answer to a question from Mayor Bruce Shaw , Johnston said, "There are 32 houses either con- structed or well on the way. I have a couple more on my desk.We should reach about 40 by the end of the year." On a question of the workload for himself from councillor Ben Hoo- genboom, Johnston replied,"There soon should be a slowdown al- though 180 of the permits are still underway. If this trend keeps up next year, we will probably need more manpower." Decorate your windows This year the T -A invites readers to deride which stores in our cover- age arca have the best Christmas windows. Details on the first-ever contest tor arca businesses are included in an advertisement in this issue. Sev- eral local stores already have attrac- tive Christmas displays and many more will be getting in the spirit soon. To encourage greater reader partic- ipation merchandise vouchers of $25 each will be awarded to three winners. Song books out this week This wcck's edition of the T -A contains our third annual Christmas Song Book. , Several of your favorite Christmas songs are printed, complete with music, in the handy, magazine -sized section insetted in the newspaper. Extra copies arc available in limited quantitie,a at the T -A and the businesses who helped sponsor the popular section: Ferguson Apiar- ies, Hensall Co -Op, Exeter Decor Centre and Selah Book Store, Agree t'o planning Exeter council Monday night passed a bylaw to enter into an agreement with Jean Monteith and Associates to carry out certain plan- ning studies in the town of Exeter. The planning firm will carry out studies on basic municipal housing, vacant core areas and assisted hous- ing. The studies are expected to be com- pleted by February 15,1988 at a to- tal cost of $9,925. Two speehil areola Exeter Heritage Foundation will be sponsoring two special holiday events this year. The holidayy` celebrations begin on December 12 with an "Old Fa- shioned Christmas Party" at the Old Town Hall between the hours of 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. On the agenda will be a bake sale and entertainment provided by Ho- rizon, a ladies barbershop quartet. This same female group performed at Heritage Day celebrations this summer. Due to its overwhelming success last year a New Year's Day Levee is again planned for January 1, 1988. The fun will start at 2 p.m. at the Old Town Hall. In a letter received by Exeter coun- cil Monday night, Heritage Founda- tion secretary Joanne Bowen said,"Come with family and friends and enjoy an afternoon of musical entertainment, neighbourly visits and good cheer." Arena agreement reached to satisfy Optimists, hockey clubs South Huron Rec board found themselves faced with an incredibly tough decision Thursday night when delegations from Exeter Mohawks, Hawks and Exeter Optimists ap- peared before the board in hopes of resolving the problem of the April ice -removal deadline. The ice at the Rec centre has been removed by April 1 in recent years to accommodate the highly success- ful Optimist Home and Garden show. Mohawks and Hawks have been forced to find ice else -where during post -season play, a factor that re- moves the home -ice advantage, im- perative during playoffs for both fi- nancial reasons and reasons of morale. This season, both the Junior and Senior teams are highly competitive and are expected to go far in post - season play. Mohawks also may Fines levied for drinking, mischief In Exeter Provincial Court held on Tuesday, November 10 a total of $1500 in fines, nine months in li- cense suspensions, and six months of probation were handed down to four persons found guilty as charged. William Crawford pleaded guilty to break and enter and two counts of mischief, against the property of South Huron District High School. On February 27, 1987, a pane of glass was smashed to gain entrance to the high school, obscenities were spraypainted on interior walls, and a pop machine, juke box, and com- puter were overturned. Damages to- talled $4,163. November 25, 1986, obscenities were spraypainted on the high school's walls. Crawford has offered to make res- titution for the damages which were repaired by staff and students of the school, but Judge R.G.E Hunter, warned Crawford, who works in a Stratford restaurant, that when he re- turns to court on December 8 for sentencing, to be prepared to go to jail for a lengthy period of time. Brian Illman, of Exeter, pleaded not guilty to driving a car with more than 80 milligrams of alcohol in his blood, but was found guilty and fined $500 with a three month driver's license suspension. Constable Finch of the Exeter OPP testified that Illman's car pulled out onto Exeter's Main Street in front of his cruiser on May 14, causing Finch to swerve and brake sharply. The driver, Illman, failed the ALERT test and was issued a 12 hour license suspension. Defense lawyer Randy Evans argued that a breathalyzer test taken one hour and four minutes after Ill - man's arrival at the Exeter OPP sta- tion was unnecessarily delayed. Constable Zupancic told the court he had had to prepare the breathalyz- er machine twice because the first test ampoule had proven faulty. Judge Hunter considered Zupan- cic's testimony an adequate explana- tion of the delay. "I am satisfied that the tests were taken at the first reasonable oppor- tunity," said Hunter as he pro- nounced Illman guilty. "I must take responsibility for this conviction," Illman told the court before the fine and sentence were imposed. Michael Reynolds was also found guilty of impaired driving and was given a $500 fine and a three-month license suspension. Paul Masse, who had been found guilty of impaired driving, was fined $500 and also suspended from driving for three months. Stephen Anderson, changed his previous plea to guilty of posses- sion of a vial containing a small amount of cannabis resin at a party on April 25,1987. Crown attorney R.N. Morris told the court that constable Chisholm was investigating the party, and An- derson had told the officer on dis- covery of the vial "If I'd known that was there I would have thrown it away." Judge Hunter recognized Ander- son's lack of a previous record, that he works full time, and that the vial contained only a small, unusable amount of the resin known as hash- ish. Hunter passed a sentence of sit months of probation to keep tlte per. have the opportunity to host the National Hardy Cup. - "If we earn the right to compete in the National championship, we would also have to play host to it," Doc Campbell, manager of the Mo- hawks told the board. "If we're vic- torious there, there's still a chance that we'd host an A11 -Canadian tour- ney." Campbell said that Mohawks post -season play could extend to April 26. Representing the Exeter Opti- mists, Peter Hrudka told the board that his organization was anxious to come to an agreement. "We're certainly not hereto throw you off the ice and that's our last in- tent," Hrudka said. "We'd love to accommodate hock- ey. We'd have it in May if we pos- sibly could," Hrudka said, explain- ing that the success of the show depends heavily on the fact that it is the first of the season in the area. Moving it back to the end of April would put it at the very end of the list. This year we made $16,000 in profit, all of which goes into minor sports," Hrudka noted. John Pryde responded on behalf of the hockey delegations by saying that Mohawks and Hawks are good tenants six months of the year but are ejected from the building at the most crucial time of the season. "Next year, what happens if we have a good peewee team or a good Midget team,Pryde said. 'To boot the adults out is one thing, but to have the kids lugging their gear down to Lucan or Hensall is another citilation." The delegation also noted that it would be possible for Hawks to play an All -Ontario final • against Lucan Irish entirely on Lucan ice. Hawks need only to win their league final to earn a berth in the All -Ontario final because they have a bye. Board chairman Jim Workman told the delegations that the board was in a hard spot. "It's a very hard decision because while the hockey fans are saying one thing, the people who control the purse -strings are going to say another," Workman said. The board suggested that, should they decide in favour of the hockey delegation, they would have to pro- vide a financial commiunent wheth- Plcase turn to sa:c 2 �F • ► 41. ETRE DEPT. 4s N c NEW TANKER- The firemen of the Brucefield fire department stand proudly in front of their new tanker truck purchased by Stanley and Tuckcrsmith townships. The $45,000 truck features a low centre of gravity 14,000 gal- lon tank specially designed by the Brucefield fire department. From left are captain Stuart Broadfoot, capt. John MacLellan, caps. Rick Brudge, deputy fire chief Charlie Broadfoot, and fire chief Bob Caldwell. Winter report on planning Exeter advisory planning committeee member Don Win- ter reported to council Monday night on his attendance at a re- cent Southwestern Ontario Planning Conference. Winter said'the theme of the keynote speaker was that plan- ning on both a short and long- term basis is essential to the continuing development and fi- nancial viability of Ontario. The economic base of Onta- rio is continually changing and it is not sufficient to only react to a situation, but be ready to meet the changing needs. An example of this is to have zon- ing in place, since a new busi- ness faced with having proper- ty rezoned for usage may well decide that the problems of re- zoning and possibly not even being able to obtain the correct zoning may' well look to an- other community where they do not face these problems. Economic development in small areas was addressed at the mbfing seminar.Full involJie- ment of all possible groups such as Business Improve ment, service groups, develop- ers, councils and planning is essential. While there may be no im- mediate results and develop- ment could take five to 10 years, it is a fact that if an area does not engage in an active plan of development, the odds are they will fall into the latter half of the statement "Development or Die." ' More co-operative ventures must be undertaken. For exam- ple, three cities are working to- gether, three townships are co- operating and while there is certainly emphasis by the indi- vidual participants on their area, there is the awareness that there are "spill-over" benefits available. For example another compa- ny with 500 workers locating in Huron Park has tremendous impact on areas such as retail, housing, services, etc., to the benefit of Exeter. As well, some areas have found they can be involved in more advertising and promo- tional shows to the long-term benefit of all. The guest speak- er from Seaforth suggested there would be benefits in such a co-operative program within Huron county. Most important there was a firm consensus that develop- ment should be undertaken by those municipalities involved since an upper tier of govern- ment is in no position to un- derstand the desires and strengths of the participants. Upper tier government was looked upon as being a resource supply to be drawn on as need- ed and , in fact, the provincial planning departments have adopted this approach and would appear to have resources such as seminars and planning help which Exeter could possi- bly benefit from. The planning issues were simply to understand the long- range goals and to assist by en- suring the items such as zon- ing and by-laws for use were in place for future development. It became evident that the Ministry has plans for numer- ous programs, a number of which arc contingent on ap- proval and funding in 1988. The main areas that appeared of immediate interest to Exeter were increased programs for seniors, changes to convert -to - rent which would place more pressure %ti parking behind Main street and allow funds to house owners to install base - Please tum to page 2