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Times-Advocate, 1987-12-02, Page 40Page 2 Times -Advocate, December 9, 1987 BIG CHEQUE - Cabinet minister Jack Riddell presents a cheque for $65,205 to Exeter Mayor and PUC commis- sioner Bruce Shaw as first payment for installing chlorination facilities at the Hicks and Moodie wells. The money is part of an estimated $72,450 provincial contribution toward the projected entire cost of $115,000. Looking on are PUC chairman Murray Greene and Commissioner Harty De Vries. Most fines for traffic offences. All but one of the 10 fines levied in Exter court on Tuesday, Decem- ber 1 by Justice of the Peace Doug Wedlake wcrc on charges laid under the Highway Traffic Act. Mary Elma Cassell, RR 1 Wood- ham was fined $53.75 for failing to yield to traffic which caused an acci- dent at Main and Alexander streets in Exeter on September 29. Wedlake levied fines of S78.75 and S500 against Howard Kramer, RR 1 Exet.:r for using a plate not authorized for vehicle and no insu- rance, respectively. Kramer was stopped on November 21 in Stephen township when police believed a pickup truck was being .driven by a suspended driver. The accused produced a valid tem- porary licence, but no registration or insurance was shown. A CPIC check revealed the plate was not reg- istered to the vehicle being driven and the plate validation sticker had expired. Jeffrey Shipley, RR 1 Lucan was fined $18.75 for travelling at a speed of 65 kilometers per hour in a -50 zone.Police clocked the accused's vehicle at 78 kilometres per hour on Highway 4 in Exeter on October 18. Driving while his licence was suspended cost Douglas W. Cole- man, London $300.His licence was suspended for an additional six rronttis. He was stopped on High- way 4 in Exetcr for a HTA viola- tion and a check revealed his licence - had been suspended sinccl985 for unpaid fines. • •James D. W.ylcr, Kitchener was fined $500 for driving a vehicle :Without insurance. He told police when stopped August 3 on High= way 83 that he'didn't have an insu- ranee card with him and since that den! A;:gust 7 on Highway 21 near time has not been able to produce St. Joseph's. one. May was the driver of a gravel A fine of $250 was levied against frock southbound on Highway 21 at Donald Tomlinson of Mitchell for a a construction site and struck a fully similar offence. He was stopped on loaded Canada Dry northbound truck September 4 in Usbornc township driven by William Peters. and police learned his licence had Peters testified he entered the con - been suspended since August 11 of struction arca with the right of way this year. when halfway through he had to Found guilty of being intoxicated leave the road because a southbound in a public place cost Robert Earl gravel truck was right thVe coming Thiel of na fixcd address a fine of towards him.The southbound lane S78.75. was blocked for construction. The accused was found wandering Al Foster, a passenger in the around and bothering people in a truck driven by Peters said in court Hensall restaurant on October 15. they had slowed down and proceeded He was taken to the Stratford jail when instructed by the flagman. A for outstanding committal warrants truck was coming fast and Peters and -refused to sign a ticket saying had no chance to brake. Foster add - he never appears in court.Threc re- ed, "If he had braked we would have cent convictions have been regis- hit head on and there wouldn't be a tercd on the same charge. trial here today." A fine of S53.75 was levied May, 20 years of age was hauling against Leslie H. MacDonald, RR 2 40 tons of drainage stone from Dun - Crediton for driving a vehicle with gannon to Alvinston. He said he coated windows after being warned pushed the brakes right to the bot - by police.The charge was laid by tom, but the truck didn't. slow town police after MacDonald's vehi- much. He indicated no brake trouble cle was stopped October 28 for a before this. noisy muffler. - Lyle Stewardson who operates a In his defence , MacDonald said truck repair shop near Forest went the vehicle in question was owned to the scene to check the brakes and by his brother, so he felt he found two of the axles were worn shouldn't be convicted. out and a third needed adjustment The charge states that the driver of badly. He said in this condition the the vehicle not necesarily the owner truck would not be able to stop , can be charged. Wedlake did not re- safely in an emergency and was ducc the fine because the accused probably driven in this condition for continued to drive instead of heeding - about 20,000 miles. the warning from police chief Larry In assessing the fine, Justice of .Hardy. the Peace Wedlake said, "At least Wedlake fined Thomas May, RR two witnesses thought the gravel 3 Newbury $128.75 for driving truck speed was excessive and the without due care and attention accused stated he was aware of the which was responsible for an acci- construction being done. Usbome to retender farm rental Councillors were presented with a short and mundane agenda at their first regular December meeting. As only one party igdjcated an in- terest in bidding to rent the Webber farm from Usborne Township, the tender offer will be advertised again this week in the Times -Advocate. Christmas Surprise Residents of the Len Veri apartments on Carling St. in Exeter received an unexpected bonus this week. A poinsettia, complete with Christmas greetings from La- ragh and Len Veri arrived at every apartment Wednesday af- • ternoon at the Carling St. complex. Veri probably has the dis- tinction of being one of the few property owners in Ontario who would go to such lengths to establish a feeling of com- munity and good will among his tenants. Loan to Continued from front page The deadline for subfnissions is 4:00 p.m. on December 11. A request was sent to Hibbert Township for copies of the original invoices for boundary road construc- tion. Each township's share of the cost of ,building up the road is $29,796.42. A plowing policy was established for snowplowing hours on week- ends. Usborne road crews will plow roads between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 12:00 noon when ne- cessary on Saturdays and Sundays during the snow season. They will make a second run in the afternoon if the road superintendent deems it appropriate. Road superintendent Ken Parker informed council that he expects de- livery soon of the. signs posting a 50 km speed limit on Huron Street East. Deputy Reeve Margaret Hcrn and Councillor Ross Ballantyne advised council that Exetcr Fire Chicf Gary Middleton has been hircd as Chicf Fire Official for Usborne Township, effective January 1, 1988. Ballan- tyne also informed council that a new pump has been installed at the Kirkton-Woodham Community rec board Council agreed with the proposal to spend $4,500 for 10 new doors at the arena from this year's budget. Whcn told the doors could not be ordered in time for installation this year, a reserve fund of $4,500 was set up. To a question from Ben Hoogen- boom on the life of a Zamboni or Olympia, Stewardson said, "They arc not used a lot of hours. When I was in Windsor one was purchased in 1968 and they still use it." Whiteford said it is expected to cost about $36,000 if ordered before. December 31.The new Winter Coun- cil has$20,000 earmarked for this project. Dorothy Chapman added, "I can sec this as cncrgy conserving and it will also cut down on man hours." After further discussion on a mo- tion proposed by Chapman and Hoogenboom, council will hold $5,000 in reserve for the purchase of the ice machine providing the balance of the money is available. He said, "True expenditures have increased by 8.54 percent for each of the past seven years, but new taxa- tion from increased assessments has lowered that figure to only 3.61 per- cent. Earlier in the meeting, Rcc Centre facilities manager Cam Stcwardson and board member Kathy Whiteford approached council regarding mo- nies which the town had allocated for energy conservation at the nee Centre. A recent recommendation from the Rcc board asked that $5,000 be used to assist in purchase of a new self-propelled ice resurfacer, but the' town's executive committee �clt changing heaters in the stands would be a better energy conserva- tion project. Stewardson told council that the new machine would be an cncrgy saver in that it would keep thc ice thinner and use much less compres- sor time. Centre. Some previous motions werg for- malized into bylaws. Among them were authorization to undertake re- pairs to thc Dykeman Municipal Drain and ratification of the agree- ment with participating municipali- ties in the Exetcr and arca fire board protection arca. Suspect Continued from front page Fires at the Exeter District Co-op and Exeter and Usbornc Public .schools wcrc started within one day of each other in the last week of August of this ycar. Officials linked the incidents to the John St. garage fire, set one week earlier. Exeter Police immediately esta- blished a 24 hour hot line for any- one who had information regarding the fires and local merchants took steps to protect their property, leav- ing Main St. brightly lit for several days after the incident. Students at Exeter Public school were forced into make -shift class- rooms located at various locations around town as a result of damages caused by the fire. • Grade seven and cight students arc currently holding classes at SHDHS while the restoration of the school continues. Narrow list of consultants Huron County's waste manage- ment steering committee will nar- row a short 'list down to three or four consultants who will bc invited to make a presentation of a detailed proposal for a county -wide waste management master plan. Approval was given at council's November session to draft terms of reference for the waste management master plan. Thc plan is to be de- veloped in three stages: public par- ticipation and date collection; identi- fication of potential areas and markets, and analysis of alterna- tives; formulation of a document II which identifies the preferred system for waste management in the study arca and how best to implement that system. . r. Urban road rebates remain 45% The rate for urban road rebates in Huron County will remain at 45 percent as the result of action taken at county council's December meet- ing in Goderich. A recorded vote of 20-12 was in favor of maintaining the current lev- el of rebate and a breakdown of the vote would suggest no urban -rural split, at least on this issue. In a reversal to a recommendation it made two months earlier, coun- cil's roads committee changed its stand and recommended that the re- bate level remain unchanged at 45 percent. Urban rebates are considered to be the county's contribution to- ward road work in its towns and vil- lages. Thc earlier recommendation sought to have the rebates dropped to the minimum 25 percent allowed under provincial legislation. Coun- cil, however, had sent the recom- mendation ' back to the committee when some members of council, mostly reeves from towns and vil- lages, objected to such a sharp re- duction. At the December meeting, council was told that considerable discus- sion centered on the issue at the committee level. "I suppose you think the committee has been am- biguous in now recommending the opposite," Colborne Township Reeve Russell Kernighan, the com- mittee chairman, said during presen- tation of his report to council. However, he said that at the com- mittee level, he had already pointed out that the county highway depart- ment has more to gain from the continued co-operation of the urban and rural municipalities than from the additional funds which could be realized from the reduction in re- bates. -` In the committee report, it also states that County Engineer Dennis Merrall had advised the committee he knew no formula which could be used to calculate the level at which the rebates should be paid. Although he said he was not ques- tioning the decision of the commit- tee to recommend keeping the rebate level at 45 percent, Tuckersmith Township Reeve Bob Bc;ll did ask, however, for clarification on who actually qualifies for the urban re- bate. Both his municipality and Ste- phen Township have urban roads within their boundaries antf he asked Merrall if either or both could qualify for the rebate. Merrall pointed out that legisla- tion limits urban rebates to towns and villages and not to hamlets within a township. In other coun- ties, however, townships with a population of 2,500 or more have been elevated to town status, he said, so they would qualify for the rebate. Urban rebates then apply to the entire levy of the new town, and not just the "urban" roads, he added. "The (rebate) legislation dates -back to the tum of the century when they didn't anticipate things being. as they are today," Mr. Merrall said. Stephen Township Reeve Thomas Tomes spoke against maintaining the 45 percent level even though, he said, "I don't want to see it come down hard on the urban centres. He suggested dropping the level to 25 percent, although phasing the reduc- tion in over a period of several Years. Although every urban reeve present at the meeting voted in fa- vor of the recommendation to main- tain the 45 percent Level, it could not have passed without the support of some of the rural votes. In the re- corded vote, eight township reeves threw their support in favor of the recommendr:tion. Had the vote taken a strict "urban -rural" line, the count likely would have been the same 20-12 although the majority in this case would have defeated the recom- mendation. Grey Township Reeve Leona Armstrong, Mr. Bell, West Wawa - nosh Township Reeve Cecil Crans- ton, Howick Township Reeve Ge- rald D'Arcey, Hay Township Deputy Reeve Claire Deichert, McKillop Township Reeve Marie Hicknell, Mr. Kernigha9, and East Wawanosh Township Reeve Ernest Snell supported the recommenda- tion. With the exception of Wing - ham Reeve Bruce Machan, who was unable to attend the meeting until the afternoon session and therefore absent when this vote was taken, all of the urban reeves and deputies were in favor. ,Recorded as favoring the recom- mendation arc: Mrs. Armstrong, Mr. Bell, Scaforth Reeve Bill Ben- nett, Clinton Reeve Bee Cooke, Mr. Cranston, Mr. D'Arcey,.Mr. Deichert, Goderich Deputy Reeve J.P. Doherty, Zurich Reeve Bob Fisher, Exetcr Deputy Reeve Lossy .Fuller, Mrs,"Bicknell, Bayfield Reeve Dave Johnston, Mr. Kerni- ghan, Exeter Reeve Bill Mickle, Hensall Reeve Jim Robinson, Mr. -Snell, Blyth Reeve Albert Wasson, Brussels Reeve Gordon Workman, and the two votes of Goderich Reeve Harry Worscll. Opposing the recommendation were: Goderich Township Deputy Reeve Laurie Cox, Hullett Town- ship Reeve Tom Cunningham, Morris Township Reeve Doug Fras- er, Ashfield Township Reeve A. J. Gibson, Tumberry Township Reeve Brian McBurney, Stephen Town- ship Deputy Reeve K. J. McCann, Usbome Township Rccve Gerald Prout, Stanley Township Reeve Clarence Rau, Goderich Township Reeve Grant Stirling, Stephen Township Reeve Thomas Tomes, Hay Reeve Lionel Wilder. i:.:5. • ..:: .:'iSY`fE.F�:. %,+'$X.�..' : '�`e,. MMONAKVANMWOOMMata?...:9:L<N.:".Xcr.�',-/..�.fLifa'.&.'N."lx' New centre serves ex -patients A rehabilitation centre to serve up to 50 persons,.withdisabling psy- chiatric problems opened in Exeter last month. The Club House will be a centre for vocational training and development of employment programs as well as a place for friends to get together over a cup of coffee. - WOTCH North, the formal name for the centre, is a division of the Western Ontario Therapeutic Com- niunity Hostels Inc. which provides a variety of social rehabilitation programs at six locations in Lon- don. p• WOTCH was established 17 years ago when a handful of employees at the London Psychiatric Hospital be- gan a move to house some of the patients outside the hospital. The program has grown to include four group homes, and a large activities centre. Members arc taught the life skills - budgeting, shopping, cook- ing, personal hygeine - that are the stepping stones from an institution - A SAMPLE - Doug Ruhl, director of WOTCH North, holds a sample of the newspaper bundle The Club- house members will package for a hardware store chain. at environment back into the com- munity. The Exetcr branch serves residents from Exeter's Braemor Manor, StrathroyResidential Homes and Homes fr Special Care in St. Mar- ys. At one time most of The Club- house members worked at Semi - Fab; they were let go when mini- OPP investigate three accidents Officers of the Exeter detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police wcrc called on to investigate only three motor vehicle accidents this week. Monday, November 30, a vehicle driven by Douglas Holmes collided with a deer on Highway 83. Dam- age was set at $1,200. • The next day officers listed dam- ages at $8,100 when a vehicle driv- en by Maurice Laporte, RR 2, Zu- rich went out of control on Highway 84 west of Zurich at 5.15 p.m. The vehicle entered a ditch, struck a culvert, became airborne and land- ed on the passenger side against a hydro pole on top of a fence post. Laporte was taken to South Huron Hospital and treated for cuts and bruises. Minor damage was reported when a vehicle operated by Ray Bicrling, RR 3 Exeter went out of control on Huron road 21 and went into the ditch, Wednesday. stry of health funding was with- drawn last summer. Bill Cline, ex- ecutive director of WOTCH, was approached by the ministry and asked to establish a daily program in Exetcr for these people. The Clubhouse members meet in a former warehouse behind Acme Signs on Highway, 83 West that was purchased this summer and transformed by local contractor Doug Simpson into an attractive and functional setting combining offices, kitchen, lounge, work at -ea -and garage. Thc doors opened offi- cially on November 9. Doug Ruhl, director of the Exeter- based program and a WOTCH em- ployee for five years, said the day program is aimed at "helping people become independent, not dependent, upon institutions; these people do a lot better in the community than in the hospital". He explained that sometimes the personal t lost in large mental hospitals. There and in residential homes, many rou- tinc functions such as making out a grocery list, shopping for food, and budgeting onc's money are done for the residents. The WOTCH pro- gram teaches them to how to do these things for themselves. At The Clubhouse, the member- ship is divided into three work crews - food, maintenance and cleri- cal. Each crew has a variety of du- ties. "The food crew, for example, will plan lunch, purchase the food, pre- pare the meal, serve and clean up. In addition to doing something for themselves, the club members arc learning Skills for independent liv- ing and job skills", Ruhl explained. The day begins at 9:00 a.m. Mon- day to Fridays. Members have thcir first cup of coffee as they greet each other and plan the day. The moncy they pay into the coffee fund is used for special pay -outs like an award to whoever wins the contest to come up with an informal name for WOTCH North. The work crew will bc available for lawn maintenance, snow clear- ing and similar employment. Staff will bring the work crew to the job, and stay to supervise until they be- lieve thc members can carry on by themselves. A number of Exetcr businesses have already been con- tacted to see if they need part-time help. The work crew are paid the mini- mum wage, and the money they earn is theirs, to add to their person- al income. (The entre program is fully funoed by the ministry of health.) A vehicle-cleaninpservice has al- ready begun at WOTCH North. For $25, a vehicle will be thoroughly vacuumed, hand -washed, and careful- ly waxed with top-of-the-line prod- ucts. Staff will even pick up the vehicle and deliver it back to the client. The London owners of the Pro Hardware chain use tons of newspa- per in .their operation. They will pay WOTCH North 10 cents a pound to roll opened -out newspa- pers into .20 -pound lots. • Ruhl hopes to begin newspaper collection for this purpose in Exeter. People with newspaper bundles may call Ruhl at 235-0335 for pick-up, or drop the papers off at The Club- house. The work crews would also be in- f terested in other employment such as assembly work. "These people are passive and po- lite. All they need is a chance...They need to be respected just like any other citizen in the community", Ruhl asserted. He explained that full-time em- ployment is ruled out because many of the members areon psychotroph- ic medication which affects their enr orgy. As members of The Club- - Adienr- READY TO DECORATE - WOTCH North employee Ncrma Winsper shows one of The Club- house members how to make some Christmas decorations. house they can work at their own spm Other mcmbcrs of the staff arc Beth Patterson, Norma Winsper, Al Moody from Exeter and Veronica Holzamcr from Grand Bend. Ruhl predicts that within two years WOTCH North will become an independent agency, with its own board of directors chosen from this community.. I� SMITH TOMORROW 5 TECHNOLOGY AT YOUR TOUCH XE 5200 ELECTRONIC TYPEWRITER The Versatile Portable... With Spell -Right' Electronic Dictionary. r,. 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