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* Hike hydro rates 2
* Exeter at night 5
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* Christmas Bureau 8
* Loony comments 14
* Luton wins
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Microwave ovens taken in Hensall heist
Thieves made off with 56 micro-
wave ovens from Drysdale's Appli-
ances on Main street in Hensel)
during the early morning hours of
Friday.
Officers of the Exeter Ontario
Provincial Police detachment report
entry to the building was gained by
breaking the front door.
Value of the stolen ovens is esti-
mated at $20,000.
A black Lincoln with three occu-
pants was seen in Hensel) Thursday
afternoon along with a white stake
truck later in the evening. Anyone
having further information regarding
any of these vehicles is asked to
One Hu
re
contact the Exeter OPP at 235-
1300.
Deer were involved in two of the
four accidents investigated this week
by officers of the Exeter detach-
ment.
Damage was listed at $200 when
a deer ran in front of a vehicle driv-
en by Clayton Merner on Highway
83, near the Black River bridge at
Squirr�ls to dine
Exeter residents will have the op-
portunity of making sure our popu-
lar white squirrels will dine in style
this winter.
Andy DeBocr, one of the town's
original white squirrel boosters told
the T -A a specially -formulated
squirrel food is now available at
Fisher Pro Hardware, MacLeans
Home Hardware or his Sunoco sta-
tion.
DeBocr said the "secret" mixture
containes peanuts, sunflower seeds
and corn and is blended at the Arva
Flour Mill.
7.05 a.m., Monday.
Thc second incident occurred
Wednesday evening at 10 p.m. when
a deer jumped in front of a vehicle
driven by Patrick Regier on Stephen
In style
"Our squirrels deserve to be treated
well", DeBoer said.
"They're making Exeter famous ---
only a couple of weeks ago I was
on a live radio interview out of Bos-
ton, Mass. where the entire inter-
view was about our famous mas-
cot", he concluded.
imes
township sideroad 20-21.Damage
was set at $50.
Sunday at 10 a.m., a vehicle driv-
en by Tho Somphothirath,Clinton
went out of control on Highway 83,
near Concession 4-5 of Usborne
township and struck a tree.Damage
was estimated at $3,000.
Friday evening or early Saturday
morning an unknown vehicle trav-
elling eastbound on Stephen town-
ship sideroad 20-21 knocked over a
stop sign.
Over the past week, officers of the
Exeter detachment laid 40 Highway
Traffic Act charges, four Liquor
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WORN OUT SHOPPERS -- Suzanne Crystal (centre) has her hands full during the Fire Sale held at the Rec
Centre on Saturday. In her arms is Harley Davis and borrowing her shoulder is Crystal Davis. A good portion of the
goods for sale had been picked over by noon Saturday.
in
assisted. opsouget
jects," said Posliff, but he pointed Posliff agreed an element of un -
out that due to the personal and fi- certainty will always exist with any
nancial nature of thc surveys, only study, and noted that if a very large
about 20-27 percent arc ever re- industry were to suddenly locate in
turned. Exeter, the housing needs of the
The housing study will also be of community would change over
use to help the town monitor the night.
housing markets and avoid housing The study will also examine the
shortages. amount of vacant space in- the
Councillor Dorothy Chapman downtown area that might be availa-
said she knew of several families ble for apartments above retail busi-
who could not find or afford hous- Oases.
ing within Exeter and were forced to "Often there's tremendous poten-
live outside the town while working , tial for downtown living space in a
here. She noted these families town such as this," said Posliff, and
would not be included in the survey, he went on to describe the loans
but might want municipal housing available to property owners from
in town. Chapman asked Posliff if the ministry under the "Convert to
these families could somehow be Rent" program for renovations.
included in the survey. The deadline for returning the sur- -
"It's not within the survey's or the veys distributed to the households
ministry's guidelines to go out of in the survey groups is this Friday,
the boundary arca," replied Posliff, December 5. Town council encour-
but he promised to look into the ages all those who received the sur -
question of outlying areas before the veys to complete and return them.
study is completed. Posliff stresses that all personal in -
Reeve Bill Mickle questioned formation in the surveys will be
whether or not the study would take kept strictly confidential for use by
into account the shift of Ontario in- the ministry of housing.
dustries away from cities and into Posliff estimated the completed
smaller communities, such as Exet- housing study should be -ivailable
Cr. by the beginning of February.
If sufficient demand is shown, Ex-
eter could have a government -
assisted housing complex within
two years.
In a Thursday public meeting, Da-
vid Posliff, of Jean Monteit[rand
Associates, explained that his com-
pany, which specializes in urban
and regional planning, is preparing
a municipal housing statement for
Exeter through the ministry of
housing. However, Posliff said it
was not often a community such as
Exeter would require assisted hous-
ing.
The housing study is comprised
of a demographic forecast of Exet-
er's population, an analysis of types
and cost of housing, and a survey of
households which might require as-
sisted housing.
Six hundred and seven surveys
have been sent to households with
persons 58 years of age or older to
determine the need for senior citi-
zens' apartments. Two hundred and
fifty-two surveys went to rental
households to find if a municipal
housing project is needed.
"It is important to the ministry of
housing to find where• there is a
need for affordable housing pro -
Authority to reduce number of directors
The Ausable Bayfield Conserva-
tion Authority will be asking the
Ontario Ministry of .Natural Re-
sources to approve a ?eduction in
the number of directors.
At Friday's annual fall meeting at
the Kirkton-Woodham Community
Centre a resolution from the execu-
tive committee decreasing the num-
ber of directors from 35 to 15 was
accepted.
The only opposition to the,new
policy came from the village of
Bayficld and the townships of Stan-
ley and Adelaide.
Municipal representation is being
cut from 32 to 14 and appointees by
the province arc reduced from three
to one.�
Since the authority was esta-
blished in 1946, each of thc 32 mu-
nicipalities appointed one represen-
tative regardless of the amount of
land in the watershed.
Combining of the 32 municipali-
ties to come up with 14 directors
will be as follows:Clinton and
Goderich township; Hensall and
Parade set
for Saturday
Santa Claus will be making one
of his first appearances of the holi-
day season in this arca Saturday af-
ternoon.
The jolly old fellow in the bright
red suit will be bringing up the rear
in Exeter's annual Santa Claus pa-
rade.
Bob Sargeant, parade co-ordinator
for the sponsoring Exeter Lions and
Business Improvement Association
reports an excellent response to a re-
cent request for floats to participate.
Providing music throughout the
parade will be the South Huron Dis-
trict High School band, the Mitch-
ell Legion band, the Stratford Sea
Cadets and the Pcrth county pipe
band.
Also participating will be the On-
tario Provincial Police colour par-
ty.Evcryone taking part in the pa-
rade is asked to be at the assembly
point on Huron street cast of Main
street by at least 12.30 p.m. The
parade gets underway at 1 p.m.
The parade will move up Main
street to Victoria and make a right
turn to the South Huron Rec Centre
where Santa will visit with the
many youngsters expected to attend.
On Santa's departure, a free skat-
ing session will be available on the
Rec Centre ice surface. Treats of po-
tato chips and soft drinks will be
provided.
Tuckersmith; Hay and Zurich; Stan-
ley and Bayfield;Stephen and Grand
Bend; Usborne, Blanshard and Exet-
er, Bosanquct, Arkona and Thedford;
Adelaide and Warwick; Biddulph and
Lucan; Lobo and London town-
ships; McGillivray, Parkhill and
Ailsa Craig; East Williams and
West Williams; Hibbert and Logan;
Seaford', McKillop and Huller.
The implementation date for re-
duced representation wa.s set for Jan-
uary 1,1989 after some discussion.
Veteran director John Deeves of
Clinton disagreed with the January
1, 1989 date for the change. He told
fellow, directors,"With elections
coming up in late 1988, some mu-
nicipalities won't be making their
appointments until sometime in
January. I think we should make the
change effective as of the annual
mccitng in February." -
Director Ivan Hearn of Lucan said,
"That can be worked out. The onus
is on the muncipalities to make
Stores to remain
open every
Beginning this week, most Exeter
retailers within thc confines of the
Exeter Business Improvement Asso-
ciation will be open for business
each evening from Monday to Fri-
day until 9 p.m. until Christmas.
BIA chairman Karen Pfaff said
this week," We believe this will be
a positive step in encouraging our
customers to shop in town by mak-
ing ourselves convenient and access-
ible and thus stem the leakage of
Christmas shopping dollars out of
night
Exeter."
Shc continued, " Our promotional
efforts are being supported by a ser-
ies of full page advertisements in
the T -A featuring White Wonder
dressed for the scason.We are confi-
dent these ads will be an effective
tool in getting our collective invita-
tion across to our customers."
The thought for the day in the lat-
ent BIA newsletter reads as follows,
"You never get a second chance to
make a first impression."
Santa Claus Parade
Sat, Dec. 5 PARADE STARTS
AT1 P.M.
Rec. Centre
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Main Street
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Parade starts on Huron Street,
east of Main Street.
Santa will meet the youngsters
at the Rec. Centre after the parade.
Huron Street East 4----
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their appointinents."
When Grand Bend councillor Barb
Southcott asked, " How will the
joint representatives be selected?",
chairman Gordon Johnson replied, "
That's a good question. The decision
is not ours. I am sure the reeves of
the municipalities in question will
use their ingenuity in coming up
with a workable system."
The guest speaker at Friday's
meeting was Steve Price, conserva-
tion vice-president of World Wild-
life Fund of Canada.
Price talked about endangered spe-
cies of plants, birds and animals in
Carolina Canada which has a north-
ern boundary line from Grand Bend
to Toronto.
He said while the land mass in
this area of southern Ontario is only
one percent of Canada's land mass,
50 percent of endangered species arc
found here.
The tulip tree was listed as a clas-
sic Carolinian species found in
southern Ontario.It fills canopy
openings in forests. The cucumber
magnolia was the first endangered
tree in Canada.
Wetlands arc very important to
control floods and droughts and also
save natural homes for wildlife.
Flowers birds and animals arc
threatened only because their natural
habitats are threatened.
Price said, "The National Heritage
Stewardship Program at the Univer-
sity of Guelph works closely with
authorities to help you with what
you are already doing."
Two significant unprotected areas
of the 36 in thc Carolinian life zone
arc situated in the jurisdiction of the
Ausable Bayficld Conservation Au-
thority.They are the Ausablc River
Valley and the Port Franks Wet-
lands and Forested Dtmes.
About 40 property owners in
these two areas received awards at
Friday's meeting for their co-
operation in leaving natural areas
undeveloped to protect natural com-
munities, plants and animals.
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Santa looking
for letters
Arca youngsters who arc contem-
plating writing to Santa can be as-
sured their letters will get delivered
if they bring them to the annual
Santa Claus parade in Exctcr, Satur-
day.
Once again, members of the Exet-
er Lioness Club will have Santa's
mail box on their float in the parade
and members will be collecting the
annual messages to Santa.
RECEIVE U,TILITY VEHICLE -The Ausable Bayfield Conservation
Authority has a new all terrain vehicle thanks to a fund raising drive by the
Authority's Foundation and Huron Tractor. Above, Wayne Mayer of Huron
Tractor turns the keys over to Rock Glenn Conservation Area superinten-
dent Andy Buchan.
Crime Stoppers ready
to go in Huron County
Huron county has joined a grow-
ing number of areas across the
country in a crackdown against un-
solved crimes and by March of next
year should have its own Crime
Stoppers program.
Constable Jeff Saban of the Godc-
rich OPP detachment who will be
co-ordinator for Huron Crime Stop-
pers outlined the proposed program
at a recent meeting in Godcrich.
A board of directors made up of 15
persons from across the county will
be responsible for getting donations
for the organization, taking care of
advertising and paying rewards to
informants.
Sabin suggested that membership
would be made up of fid represen-
tatives from the town of Godcrich,
three each from Wingham and Clin-
ton and two each from Scaforth and
Exeter.
Members to be appointed to this
volunteer board will be recommend-
ed from various police officers in
the county.
Thc Huron county program will
link OPP detachments in Godcrich,
Wingham and Exctcr and municipal
police forces in the five county
towns.
Crimc Stoppers is a non-profit
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program relying on co-operation be-
,tween police forces throughout thc
county, the news media and mem-
bers of the community.
Thc organization encourages peo-
ple to call police with information
to solve any serious crimes already
committed, those about to occur
and/or the whereabouts of wanted
persons..
If anyone has information fitting
this criteria, Crime Stoppers offers
the citizen a method in which they
can pass on information to police
and never have to reveal their identi-
ty.
At the same time the person pro-
viding the information will be eligi-
ble for a cash reward which will
range from $50 to S 1,000 depending
on the individual situation.
Through experience the Crimc
Stoppers organization has found
that most people prefer to remain
anonymous and for this reason
when someone calls the 1-800 line
which will he given to the Huron
unit, they will only be a number as-
signed to them. Even when they re-
ceive their cash reward their name
will not have to he given to any-
one.
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