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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1979-10-31, Page 1 (2)Jobs up from 40 to 100 in two years S1 miUion expansion at Kongskilde At a special meeting, Monday. Exeter council <tarted to clear the way to permit Kongskilde Ltd. to undertake a $1 million ex- pansum-at their Highway 83 loCatiun The first phase of that expansion is expected to commence immediately after company president John Burke advised council this week there, _was no problem in granting council an easement for sanitary and storm sewers.. That easement will run under a new conveyor line that is being installed by the firm. The major part of the expansion is a 25,200 square foot warehouse to be built near the rear of the Highway 83 property. A zoning change will be required to facilitate that project and a bylaw to change the zoning from developmental to industrial M-1 was approved by council this week. Originally, council had agreed to make the zoning change on the condition that Kongskilde grant the 40 -foot The firm will be producing easement required for the two cultivators developed for sewer lines. the North American market Jfowever, Burke said that and one machine now could create some problems produced in Denmark will be and the motion was changed moved to the Canadian head to read -that the zoning change would be im- plemented on the un- derstanding that the firm would grant the easement. The addition which will Exeter council approved commence immediately is a the expenditure of $52,413.95 5,000 square foot building to for a new garbage packer, house a new painting Monday. system. The firm will be The decision was made at 'changing from a wet spray a ' committee-uf-the-whole technique to a dry spray session prior to this week's because it is less pollutinn. special meeting. Burke told the T -A on The new truck will be Tuesday that the firm hopes purchased from Belgium to have the entire project, Standards of Waterloo, including the mammoth which was one of It; different warehouse, completed by quotes considered by July of next year. council. He said the number of In backing the Waterloo production employees at that firm, Councillor Jay Camp - time should jump from the bell said he was convinced present 40 to about 70 and by the new packer would reduce 1982 the firm could have up man-hoursandthereby result to 100 production employees. in considerable savings over office in Exeter when the building program is corn- pleted. Burke said it is hoped the footings for the warehouse can be poured before winter. Okay '52,413.95 truck r . .s GREASERS TWO Friday was Greaser Day when many • t- ,,ecf ,r, the 1960's fashions. Shown above are u•. crrrd Mork Creces. T -X1 photo • Winter conditions still plague drivers • - \rca drivers were plagued '_" v. -alter conditions again ,,,eek and they were shr,nsible for two of accidents in- -'au.:ted- by the Exeter ' h- Thursday. a vehicle Beverley Bell, RR !i!, u.;rli, went out of control ••r; .; .I'i�h covered section of Hr;-!,'r.a. 1 and ended up in r:ru:agr was estimated at •1110r constable Don 1I ',on 1 passenger in the Gladys Haley, u'.tarred minor Lill tenders for offices 1• xler< ale being called =h,• ••4 'or Exeter's new •!ic.r. •• Lidice building •r,:..:;:lttr-e met on Thursday • ,t . if tinal working '.., '. liar', with Jerry :L.'r :ur•I approved the ...i :al i 'ii Itrs i. •.ultra tr,r bids will be I: =r:• an November 15 c,rur:rii will meet in that evening t'„ renders - i•., r ir:'.'! ro Municipal '.' ..I .1 h.is approved the r rl,ual cost for the •t +, .t, which will be i •sr•St of the local •F•• The house now on t., „I,• r ty is being •,•..'..r';, •: ••hairman Don \1... c;,, c„r ,.vas not in at- • at Alnnday night's meeting to present '•' flaw' Ile suffered an •:G• n=t i' earlier in the day +1••u pie'P of hot metal 'P t: runt On the same day, a vehicle driven by Ervin Pfaff. Crediton, went out of control on a snow-covered section of the Crediton Road and struck a tree .west of concession 4-5. Damage was set at $2,000 by Constable Mason in that one. There was one collision on Friday, it involving vehicles operated by John Nedz, RR 2 Crediton, and William Jennison, Grand Bend. They collided on the Kirkton Road at the junction of concession 4-5 of Usborne. Constable Mason in- vestigated and listed total damages at $850. The other incident oc- curred on Saturday when a vehicle driven by Robert Riley, Lucan, caught fire on Stephen concession 4-5, just south of sideroad 5-6. Damage was estimated at $2,000 by Constable Jim Rogers. , WON'T TAKE TRICKS While tonight may be the time for trick or treating, Exeter police -will be on the lookout for any mischief or damage. Police Chief Ted Day said all his police officers will be on duty tonight. Day said "Youngsters who are out trick or treating should have a good time, but they, are also requested to behave themselves." He added mischief and damage to other person's property will be dealt with in accordance with the law. "There will be no war- nings; anyone caught damaging property will be prosecuted," Day stated. Car, windows are attacked Three incidents of van- dalism in Exeter this past week caused damages of over $900. On Sunday, a vehicle parked in the parking lot at the South Huron Recreation Centre had its front and rear windows smashed, both outside rearview mirrors torn off and the hubcaps stolen. Constable Kevin Short estimated damage to the 1976 Cougar owned by Robert Smith of 93' Sanders Street West at $500. Frayne Chev-Olds received damage totalling $400 Friday evening when a beer bottle was tossed through the front plate glass window of the business. Late Thursday or early Friday morning a beer bottle 'broke a window in a mobile home parked at Graham Arthur Motors, Main Street. A collision Friday caused $1,350 of damage and sent one man to South Huron Hospital for treatment of minor injuries. The accident which took place on Thames Road in- volved vehicles driven by' James Ferguson of RR 1, Hensall and Robert Stoat of 67 Thames Road West, Exeter. Stoat was taken to the hospital for minor in- juries. There were no injuries reported in a two vehicle crash Thursday near the intersection of Sanders and Edward: Street. Involved in the collision were Fred Knip of • RR 2, Lucan and Ed Chambers of 300 Senior Street, Exeter. Constable George Robertson estimated damages at $740. Articles of clothing and bedding were stolen Friday morning from the laun- dramat operated by Grand Bend Clearners on Main Street, Exeter. Mrs. Sharon Steciuk told police she had left the laundramat ` for a few minutes and upon returning, discovered that the articles had been removed from the washer. Over the week, police charged six individuals with having liquor readily available in their motor vehicles. /r the next few years. -Works superintendent Glenn Kells said after the meeting that the new truck has a capacity of five cubic yards more than the present vehicle. It has a diesel engine and the garbage is loaded from the side rather than the rear. Actually. the operation can be handled by one man as the vehicle comes equipped with two steering mechanisms for left and right hand drive. Kells indicated that two men would probably be used with the new truck. At the present time. three men are used with the garbage truck. Imes Serving South Huron, North Middlesex One hundred and Seventh Year MEXICAN LESSON — As part of Wednesday's Year of the Child celebration• one Stephen Central School class studied Mexico. Shown with a Mexican hat ore Denean Haist, Shown Finkbeiner and Jean Klemke. T -A photo dvoc & North Lambton Since 1873 EXETER, ONTARIO, OCTOBER 31, 1979 COLLECT FOR UNICEF — Students of Exeter Public School will be out tonight, Wednesday collecting for UNICEF as part of their Halloween activities Shown making up UNICEF boxes ore David Balsdon, Elizabeth Robertson Cindy Mothers and Terry Alexander. T -A photo New assessment factors Townships plan appeal •Five townships in Huron County plan to appeal tax equalization factors, im- plemented by the provincial government, according to their representatives at- tending Thursday's county council meeting. The townships. who must have submitted appeals by November 1 are Tucker - 'smith, McKillop, -Morris, • ., • , ;as"- , • .t'; ' a OLYMPIC STAR SPEAKS — Former Canadian Olympic frock star Abby Hoffman was the guest speaker -,I Development Day for area teachers. Shown above from the left are tomer) Gill, Stephen Central; tri , •••,nal; Pat Quigley, South Huron District High School and Abby Hoffman. Track star faults women for most sex stereotyping F'r,rnier t'anadian Olympic tai Abby Roffman was the guest speaker at a I'rolessional 1)evtlopment Day to'F ='South Huron workers in Stratford Monday and she suggested a lot of the problems in sex stereotyping come from " gr1U'rh themselves. .114f f intra' • w tto f r-tltlte ‘upervi'rrr of sports services for the Ontario Ministry of Sports and Recreation was speaking to teachers from South fhrrnn District High School and tary feeder Victorian inn in Stratford. She said while the gap in endurance and strength between men and women in athletics has been narrowed to about 10 percent in recent years, the difference with the ordinary. Canadiaa. much higher. • She told the teachers, "With you people sitting out there the difference between male and female physical fitness could be close to 40 its six schools elemen- at the percent. This is because the average male tends to be much more active. The potential of women is un- filled." She continued, "The sex role stereotype needs to be talked about. A lot of the problems come from the self limitations fifiposdd by females themselves. We are not encouraging the motivation for young girls to reach their full potential." Miss Hoffman suggested one test to show that.boys ace ar.,l�Irrt.a, ` • at Monday; s Cathy Hume, T -A photo stronger than girls is not fair. She continued. "A baseball throw has been used where boys'Minthrow the ball at least twice as far as a girl. But, if that test is done with each throwing with their opposite or non- dominant arm ,the..distances- would be virtually the same." . Quoting from -a study done in Manitoba, Ms. Hoffman said, "Fitness problems for kids begin at an early age. Of Please turn to page 3 - Stephen and Howick townships Reeve Ervin Sillery of Tuckersmith township told council his township has already appealed their assessment "to be on the safe side " He said they can withdraw the appeal later but "we wanted to protect ourselves and see what comes out of it later on." There has been a great deal of concern that factors for rural municipalities hate decreased to a greater ex- tent than they have in urban municipalities across the county This means costs to rural taxpayers are ,ex - peeled. hr increase uch more rapidly than to urban mun'icipaliti'es. The provincial government had put a freeze on assessment in the early 1970's and the price of land has increased drastically since then. -partieulai in -rural- areas: Reeve Allan Campbell of McKillop Township asked on what grounds an appeal could be made. He admitted land prices in his township had risen from $300 an acre to $1500 an acre for farmland in recent years. He also said. "I'll adroit the towns are too low tin their assessment 1." Another member of council called out. "Sit on it!" Bill Hanly Huron County clerk -treasurer. said it's very doubtful if any municipality in the county has grounds for appeal of the equalization factors. Ile said he thinks 'the township cclr'i z.=.will_ has'e great difficulty in proving that these factors are wrong and "there may be a great many more arguments why they should be higher." Reeve Eileen Palmer of Goderich, said she read recently that no municipality will be subjected to an in- crease of more than five per cent in their assessment She• aid both increases and decrases will be custlioned over a five year period. l*eve Roy Williarftson of Grey township said kind prices in his area have gone up about 10 oet cent a could appeal the equalization factors. .lack Stafford. deputy - reeve of Howick township. said in reference to the assessment paying educational costs that "people services should be paid by people and not land values." The deputy reeve said he wasn't denying land prices have gone up. but asked. "Why should land have to pay education costs " Reeve Cal Kreuter. Brussels indicated he wasn't syrhpatheticto theplightofthe rural municipalities and said "business taxes have been 10 to 20 mills higher thin farm • taxes for some years." Reeve Bill Elston. Morris township said he knows the farm tax is lower compared to the municipal tax rate. But he said even for farmers Price Per Copy 25 Cents County needs more land for industrialpurposes the county, as well as plant' closings. He said althea _-h the county lost emplol t-: . when plants like Gay Lea (egg grading station) in Seaforth closed, "we hope that eventually- these ex- cellent buildings can be filled again in the near future." Mr. Cummings said his biggest - worry in the development. area is . still Vanastra which has lost more industry in the last three years than any other community." The development officer said he_ had been trying to interest the federal government in the community and -although they profess sympathy. they do not do anything about it " Spence Cummings, Huron County development officer. told members of Huron County council Thursday that land must be made available immediately to encourage industrial development in the county. He told council he hopes to catalogue available land in the county this winter so Marital woes lead to more .1 Chatham man who pleaded guilty to impaired driving was fined $:300 or 30 clays • when he appeared before Judge 1; G Cochrane in Exeter court. Tuesday - Robert James Menzies was charged on October 6 and a breathalizer test show- ed a reading of 1209 rpgs The court learned the man had severe marital problems and was taking therapy in London for depression Marital problems were also cited in a case of James Carter Hussey. Stratford. who was given a suspended sentence and placed on probation on a charge of break. enter and theft. He broke into a trailer of July I and consumed some food and liquor He had no home at the time and was living on the beach. Four students from Cen- tralia College of :Agricultural Technology were given absolute .dis- charges on theft counts I.rid atter they were involved Ina spree of sign thefts The court learned that restitution had been made and that the spree was out of character for the four They were Larry Wayne Christie. . KCtling sO ..percent --of their-__EdLaxd_.- — auras taxes back. "it's still a hell of Michniewicz. James Andrew a big tax billif youown 200 to Olmsted and Michael 3110 acres of land. Chester Langford complete data will be available by the spring of 1980. - Mr. Cummings said his staff have already worked on the Vanastra area and find that "although property owners want to sell their land, they will not put- a value on it until they have a buyer in front of them." He saidmaul althemp dhas thropertyghhis listed.ept they don't know its' value. The development officer also' asked council• to con- sider giving his department more money in the future to advertise Huron County. He said, "We need to put the county towns and villages before the public - by newspaper and specialty magazine advertising, We need to let the executives of companies in Canada, as well as the United States, know that we have land to settle an industry on in our towns and villages." Mr. Cummings said 13.000 was currently budgeted for advertising but that his department needs. about 115.000 to do an effective job in spot advertising. He said in comparing notes with other economic development officers at a recent conference he found firms are " hesitant to . make commitements because of the current -high interest rates. He said companies'are holding•back, waiting for a more favorable financial climate fore expanding. However, the development officer said established Canadian firms who have an export market are finding, business is booming since the devalued Canadian - dollar makes our goods very saleable on the - American s---warket .- _.. He told council in the past year there have been ex,, - pensions. in some plants in FeJe _- = ..,Tecok Two tenants for new mall Exeter developer Len Veri says his new shopping mall complex in downtown Exeter will be open by December 1 "or sooner." Two tenants in addition to Paternicks department store have tentatively agreed . to rent space in the 12 store, three- storey development, Veri said. While Veri said he • could not release the names of the renters of the stores until the leases had been signed, Exeter area resident Mary - Jane Taylor will be operating a gift boutique in ' c Tnatl. Customers will have ac- cess to the shops ' from entrances on Main street and from the 40 space parking lot at the rear of the building. Asked about a name for . the complex. Veri ,said he _�•s las- lahr'eea.name&_.solling around" but hasn't decided which would be the most suitable. �• HALLOWEEN FOR TODDLERS —Halloween come early to theJoddlers Inn nursery school Friday. Above-, teacher Susanne Strang is shown with students Kristin .Strang, Erinn Grant, Cheyenne Westlake, Mikalo MocDougall, Kristopher Zeehuisen and Aidan Cameron. - T -A photo �3410 tip pi -s -�