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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1988-04-20, Page 1imes Serving South Huron, North Middlesex One Hundred and Seventeenth Year dvocate & North Lambton Since 1873 EXETER, ONTARIO, April 20, 1988 Price Per Copy 60 Cents Agreement Exeter council came close to re- scinding approval given a month ago for a development agreement for property located on the west side of Highway 4, north of the Co -Op Gas Bar. Councillor Dorothy Chapman who voiced objection to the plan- ; ? + j. _ i '.> f; �' r ! ning board recommendation at that time to allow an office building of 7,000 square feet to house legal and accounting businesses brought up the subject again when a change in wording in the bylaw was neces- sary. An original motion by planning board chairman Ben Hoogcnboom failed to get a seconder after Chap- man said "This kind of office build- ing should be in the core area of Main street or one sweet off." Hoogenboom was quick to point out that the project had been given thc go-ahead after the" planning board had made the necessary rec- ommendations. He went on to say, " You must remember this town is growing. Other towns are jealous of our Main: street growth. The land in question has been vacant for as long as I can remember." To this Chapman replied, " We have an official plan to control IN CHARLOTTE'S WEB - Carmen Kelly, Alicia Vanderloo and Katie Damen are appearing in Charlotte's Web at growth. Now we take• anybody St. Patrick's School in Lucan this week. wherever they want to go. Our planning. is" getting to be "higgily piggily" and destroying everything we have done." When Chapman said the core area should be kept centralized, mayor Bruce Shaw added, " I expect it will go as far as the bridge gradually." Five impaired driving convictions Five men were convicted of im- ings of 220 and 210. Laws had said otherwise he would have sent paired driving when they appeared been convicted -on the same charge him to jail, as police do not have before Judge R.G.E. Hunter in pro- two years ago. to put up with sueour. -After this discussion, Hoogcn- vincial court in Exeter on April Laws was sentenced to 14 days in Richard D. Morrissey, 117 Mill - boom again presented the motion to 12. • jail, to be served on weekends from St. Exctcr, pleaded guilty to both . give final approval and it was sec - Harold Norval Wolfe, London, 6:00 p.m. on Fridays until 9:00 impaired driving and a rnisc11 --f onded by deputy reeve Lossy Fuller. pleaded guilty to driving north on a.m. on Mondays. His driver's li- charge.. He had been stopped in Ex-. The following vote was unani- Highway 4 in Usborne township cence was suspended for two years. eter on November 28 after an officer mous,.including Chapman. on March 4 with a blood alcohol Martin G. Pas, London, was in saw a car reversing from -the west . Ona second planning matter, a count over the legal limit. After court after an incident on October side of Main St: into traffic, driv- large delegation -of neighbouring being stopped by police and failing 24. He was discovered attempting ing erratically down Gilley and slid- residents listened to discussion on a the ALERT, two breath samples to get his car out of a field belong- ing to a stop across Marlborough„ Boning bylaw amendment from gave readings of 110 and 120. ing to Ray Schroeder in Stephen St. Milton Keller to change from Resi- Wolfe,- who has no previous township by Tim Oliver, who was The accusedbecame abusive and record, was fined 5750 and had his going west on- Huron County Road violent when arrested. The mischief licence suspended for 12 months. 4. - charge was added when Morrissey - The fine was paid that day. Oliver testified that the accused smashed the plastic covering around Herbert C. Stiction, 95 Nelson - had a bump on his head, and a liq- a fluorescent light in.the cell area at St., Hensall, entered a guilty plea uor bottle on the car seat. Another the police station. He has since to the same charge. He had been car also stopped. One person stayed paid $14.97 to repair thc fixture. stopped on March 8 at 1:18 a.m. to help Oliver in case the accused Morrissey was fined 5750 on the after leaving the Hensall Hotel got the car out and attempted to impaired driving charge, and given kin lot. Evidence showed he drive away, and a second person an additional 5100 fine for causing h bchavi par 6 was not wearing a scat belt, was went to call police. mischief. His licence was suspend - driving, too slowly, and straddling Police testimony showed Pas was ed for 12 months. the centre line as he drove the one- extremely impaired, and took sever- Elizabeth Stoneman, RR2 Staffa, and -one-half blocks to his resi- al swings at an officer. pleaded guilty to failing to provide a dente, where he was charged. Pas' attorney said Pas is very re- breath sample in Hensal 1 on No - Two .breath samples gave identi- morscful and ashamed. He asked for vembcr 28 at 1:32 a.m. whcn all cal readings of 160. Stiction was a conditional discharge, as a driving cars were being stopped in connec- fined 5750 and given a -12-month ban would i . a hardship for iris tion with an investigation concern - driving suspension. a He paid thc client, who owns a landscaping ing a missing person. fine.before leaving court. business. Police read her the ALERT de - Kenneth A. Laws, Clinton, was Judge Hunter took into considera- mand whcn the odour of alcohol stopped by Clinton police on No- tion the man's age (58), and the fact was detected on her breath, but she vembcr 13 after an OPP officer he appeared to have been a model refused to provide a breath sample. saw him making a wide turn from citizen with no previous record in • Stoneman was fined 5750, which the Vanastra.Road onto Highway fining Pas $2,000 and suspending she paid that day, and had her li- 4. Two breath samples gave read- his licence for 12 months. Hunter cence suspended for 12 months. PUC asking council about development on Mill street A lcttcr from the Exeter Public Utilities Commission to chief building official Brian Johnston was heard by Exctcr council Mon- day night. ' The lcttcr written by PUC man- ager Hugh Davis asked how coun- cil planned to develop Miil street, between Mary street and the. C.N.R. tracks. According to Davis if thc street is developed as a subdivision, then according to council's requirements an underground distribution system must be installed with the develop- er paying a portion of the cost as well as all of the street lighting costs. Building permits continue towards another record year If the first three months of 1988 arc any indication, thc town of.Ex- eter should enjoy another record year in building. Chief building official Brian Johnston's report to council Mon- day night indicated 11 building per- mits had been issued during the month of March with a value of $505,600. The figure, for March of a year ago was 5471,000. The three month total in 1988 stands at 5625,095.46. That's an incrcasc of almost 522,000 over the previous year. The largest amount in March of this year came from a 5307,000 per- mit to construct an addition to the Exctcr Villa on John street cast. One new apartment building is valued at 5307,000. Other construc- tion coming up includes six residen- tial renovations valued at 512,600, two commercial renovations at 58,000 and one pool permit for 534000. in temporary signs, 12 permits were issucii bringing the 1988 total to 17. If the street is developed like John 'street, between Prydc Boule- vard and Edward street, then the in- stallation of the electrical distribu- tion system woukl be underground and council would financc thc street lights. Davis continued, " If council docs not elect either of these ap- proaches then I would assume the Commission would erect an over- head polc line and street lighting would be installed on these poles if council wants to light the area. The aforementioned would also have to be considered if construc- tion takes place on Waterloo street," There is a water line on Mill street, between the C.N.R. tracks 'and Mary street and was installed to increase water pressure in the Mary and Huron street west areas. Davis went on to say, " I would. assume that if an owner utilizes this -main, the Commission will probably assess a frontage charge based on 50 percent of the cost of installing 1500 mm water main, as this would put the development on an equal basis with a subdivision." dential• _ 1 to Residential 2 at 6.1 Gid - ley street east to allow a semi- detached dwelling. The spokesman for the delegation was police chief Larry 'Hardy: He okayed second time said he was there as a property own- er and had declared a conflict of in- terest asfar as his official job was concerned. Ile continued, " It was imperative that I protect the town." - Hardy added, This street has problems with garbage and park- ing; People park in driveways now because of close proximity to the high school. Gidlcy is very heavily trafficked. I knew that when I bought there and I can live with that, but this proposal docs not fit the rest of thc arca. The official plan says it's a single family arca." In support of the proposal, lawyer Kim McLean said, " Some of the original objectors didn't know it was going to be a duplex. This two-family unit totally conforms to R-2 zoning and as a 5180,000 building will not detract from the area, In reply to a statement by Hardy that there would not be any grass sideyards, McLean replied, ': There will be 13,8 feet of grassed area -on the east and west sides of the two proposed driveways. Please turn to page 3 Villa prepared to help in case of emergency The town of Exeter has been in- formed by Exeter Villa of the lat- ter's ability to rcndcr assistance in case of a community disaster. In a lcttcr to council, Villa Di- rcctor of Care Kathy O'Reilly has outlined what assistance her group could render. This information is a requirement for a survey by the Ca- nadian Council on Hospital Ac- creditation which the Villa has ap- plied for. , The Villas dietary dcparuncnt is designed to easily accommodate meals for up to 120 persons. At the present time, they arc provid- ing 75 meals for residents. There- fo:e, if the need was to arise, an ad- ditional 45 meals could be provided three times a day in case of an emergency. Although, the Villa docs not have lifc sustaining or emergency medial facilities available, they could provide short-term accommo- dation for two persons in the event of an overflow_ at South Huron Hospi tal. As well, the registered staff at the Villa could be called on to as- sist at emergency or temporary shelters as needed. The number available would be dependent upon insuring the needs of residents of Exeter Villa were -fulfilled. Award contracts for two road reconstruction jobs At a special meeting Monday af- - ternoon, the. Exeter public works committee accepted tenders for two road reconstruction projects. Stebbins Paving and Construc- tion of Thamesford submitted the lowest of four tenders at $42,655 for applying the top coat of asphalt on a number of streets. Tlie streets are John between William and Marlborough; John between Edward and Prydc; Iiam between Wellington and Nel- son and Nelson between Main and Carling. - The estimated cost for this project was S44,000 plus engineering. -The reconstruction of all of East- ern Avenue, north of Sanders and Edward street "between Huron and Simcoc streets will be carried out by J.L. McCann Construction for 5106,420.. The original estimate was listed at S167,000. Salaries and wages set for town employees Salaries for a number of town of Exeter employees and officials were proposed recently by the com- mittee of the whole and accepted by council, Monday night. . Salaries of councillors were ad- justed based on the existing policy of an average of the five Huron county towns for the previous year. The stipend of mayor Bruce Shaw will increase from•55,776 to S7,101 while all other council in -embers will receive an annual in- crcase of $512 to 53,353. The per diem rate for out-of-town meetings, conferences and seminars will rcmain at S70. The salary of police chief Larry Hardy was upped from $41,000 to 543,500 per year and Deputy clerk - treasurer Laurie Dykstra will receive 525,000 in 1988. That's up from • $23,192 for the year 1987. Chief building official and zoning administrator Brian Johnston's an- nual salary goes up from 528,000 to 530,500. At the South Huron Rec Centre, secretary Joanne Fields will receive S16,848 this year as opposed to 515,080 in 1987 and employee Dave Atthill will remain at $8.25 per hour or 517,160 annually. Increases for other town employ- ees will be 5.2 percent for those un- der 525,001 and 4.2 percent for those over S25,001,. • Group. life insurance will increase from a flat S25,000 to double salary in the Mutual Life group benefit package. Any town employee required tri wear safety boots will he reim- bursed up to S50 annually on pres- entation of an invoice to the treasur- cr. Any employee unable to reach work because of inclement. weather, shall have the option to use vaca- tion time or earned overtime, rather than lose wages for missed days. FAREWELL PERFORMANCE - Joe Overholt and The Standbys helped over 400 fans relive the memories of many entertaining Saturday nights at the Pineridge Chalet Saturday evening with a. farewell performance spon- sored by the Exeter Lions Club. Shown from the left are: Rick Virag, Bill Moser, Joe Overholt, Terry Dermo and Roy Albright. Joe Overholt and his original band have performed at hundreds of local events over the last 33 years and wete regulars at the Pineridge Chalet for 15 years. • "MINI -CHAIN" Wuerth family in business 50 years page 5 CAR CARE How to make your driving more efficient pages 7,8,9,10,11,12 PARENTING Course on positive parenting at Exeter UC page 14 a. OHA FiNAL Hawks bounce back against Lambton page 1A KENTUCKY NORTH Area horsemen looking for that big win page 3A