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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes Advocate, 1989-03-01, Page 2Page 2 Times -Advocate, March 1, 1989 Check new mail boxes - Gert Nagel of Marlborough street checks out a sample mail boxes with Postmaster Keith Ahrens. of the Maps 01 mail boxes ready -EXETER - Plans are .moving ahead for the installation sometime this spring of super mailboxes in the town of Exeter. Local Postmaster Keith Ahrens reports maps of the proposed van- ous locations of the boxes through- out the town are now on display in the lobby area of the post office. ,Also,. a sample of the boxes is available for viewing in the counter area of the post office. Ahrens urges anyone who has not filled out a card giving his or her actual street address, to do so as soon as possible. With installation of group mail boxes, mail will be delivered ac- cording to street addresses and new postal codes will be issued. Cruiser hits tree, demolished EXETER - One of the five motor vehicle accidents investigated this week by. officers of the Exeter de- tachment of the Ontario Provincial Police involved an Exeter town po- • lice "cruiser. The vehicle driven by Constable William Chisholm left Highway 4, south of Huron road 6 due to icy road conditions. and struck a tree at 12.50 a.m.; Thursday. The cruiser was demolished and Chisholm suf- fered minor injuries. At midnight, February 20, a ve- hicle operated by Leslie MacDo- nald, RR 2, Crediton struck a stop sign on Highway 83 at Concession road 4-5 in Hay township. No dam- age.or injuries. • Vehicles driven by Paul Waddell, Exeter and Donald Dunnell, Dash- wood collided at 5.10 p.m., Thurs- day on the main street in Mensal'. Saturday at 8.20 p.m., a hit and run incident occurred on Highway 4, near Centralia when an unknown vehicle struck a car driven by Wit- ham D. Webster, Exeter. Both vehicles had been north- bound on Highway 4. The suspect vehicle described as a red coloured Chrysier Daytona continued north on the highway. No one was in- jured. The same day, vehicles driven by Catherine Lavelle -Smith, London and Catherine Robinson, Kirkton collided in the village of Kirkton. • During the past week, local OPP officers laid 56 charges under the Highway Traffic -Act, eight for Liq- uor Licence Act offences, one im- paired driving charge and two driv- ing licence suspensions of 12 hours each were issued. No insurance.proves costly EXETER - Driving without in- surance proved -costly to two men when JP Doug Wedlake presided in Exeter court on February 21. - - - Nick Tzioumis, Exeter, was fined S500 after pleading guilty to the • charge. He had no proof of insu- new super rance on being stopped by police on December 13, and did not show any within the next 48 hours. • Dan Beeler, RR -2 Dashwood, did not appear in person to defend his not guilty plea on the same charge. He had been stopped on January 27 in Stephen township by an offi- cer who recognized him as having an unpaid ticket issued 10 days ear- lier, and had shown no proof of in- surance at the time. Beeler was MOE 'investigating oil spill on road near Prospect Hill The London branch of the Ministry of Environment is attempting to match oil spread on a 1.5 kilometer section of sideroad southwest of Prospect. Hill with oil from a tank at a London industrial plant. - "Wc think we know the source", John Hatt( manager "f abatement for the m. :ry, told he Journal - Argus in an interview. "We're going to try to fingerprint the oil in the tank and match it with the oil on the ground." Charges may be laid as a result of the investigation, Mr. Hatton indicated. But it may take a month to collect all the necessary information. The oil "spill", which contains arsenic and lead, contravenes a provincial regulation which went into effect Jan. 1. Initial reports concerning the spill said ministry tests showed the oil contained polychlorinated biphenols (PCBs). However, Mr. Hatton said Friday the waste oil contained no PCBs but did show an arsenic concentration of 9.6 parts per million and a lead concentration of 10 parts per million. - 'Safe levels of these substances, according to ministry standards, are five parts per million. Roadblocks were erected Wednesday at both ends of the oiled section of the gravel road, which is an extension of Clarke Sidcroad and runs north off Highway 7 between Concessions 14 and 15 of Biddulph Township. Mr. Hatton said there's no danger of water or well contamination from the oil. - The oil spread was reported to the ministry by a township councillor. Township clerk -treasurer Ray Hands said the road superintendent for London township had earlier sent a sample of road oil which had been sent for testing. "It was sent away for analysis and it's happened again," he noted. The earlier oil spill occurred partly in London township and partly in Biddulph, he said. Albert Bannister, clerk- administrator for London Township, said the sample which had been picked up by a township ratepayer. was sent to the environment ministry for testing in December. - A Feb. 2 letter from the ministry said the oil was free of PCBs and other chlorinated hydrocarbons. . Mr. Bannister said the oil in that case may have been spilled during trucking and there was nothing to suggest that it was done deliberately. Under the Environmental Protection Act, an individual may be fined a maximum of S5,000 or sentenced toa year in jail for illegal of a hazardous waste. Corporations can be fined up to $200,000. The high lead and arsenic concentrations in the oil spread near Prospect Hill is considered hazardous by the environment ministry. There is one home and a farm on- the closed off section of roadway. As of Friday, the ministry had not yet decided how much of the gravel surface would have to be removed. Mr. Hatton said the ministry would be attempting to get the person responsible for the oil spit l to remove it. Talk about the weather - Meteorologist Jay Campbell (left) held the first one -day a number of years at CCAT. Among those at the wor/.shop were Mery E .Biu Zurich and Jo WI i gsgratA weather found guilty and fined $500. John Romanoff, Crediton, entered a guilty plea to driving while sus- pended. He had not been able to produce a licence when stopped on Highway "21 in Hay township on February 18. A . CPIC check showed one suspension for demerit points, and another for unpaid fines. Romanoffwasfined $250 and sus- pended for a further six months. Donald B. Sowerby, London, was not in court to back up his not guilty plea to a charge of speeding on December 13 on Highway 83 in Stephen.. township. He had four previous convictions on the same charge. Sowerby was found guilty and fined $53.75 Jesse Kirk, Exeter, was not in court to hear his conviction on. charges of being intoxicated while on an interdicted list, and failingto leave the premises at 386 Albert St. when ordered to do so..The accused had been dating a resident of the group home. He was asked to leave when he showed up obviously drunk. Instead, Kirk entered the residence; , refused to leave, and became rowdy. Police were called, and_ he was re- strained. • Kirk has three prior convictions for drinking while on the interdicted list. He was fined S300. Crediton speaking best - Ted Wales, president of the Crediton Social Club presents trophies to pub- lic speaking winner Steve Hendrick of Stephen Central and runnerups Meagan White of McGillivray and Chris Neil, Stephen Authority celebrates 25 years of education in conservation EXETER - This year the Ausa- blc Bayfield Conservation Authori- tyy is celebrating 25 years of conser- vation education. Over the years, the program has changed with the times. Now the program is offered to grade six, sev-. cn and eight students. Groups come to Camp Sylvan for two and one half days to learn about ecology and. resource management and develop a conservation ethic. For the past few ycars,.thc program has been booked to capacity with a list of schools waiting to attend. But the Authority's efforts in conservation education reach beyond the Camp_ Sylvan program. Through the Parkhill Conservation Program, -teaches can lead their own field trip, using activity guidelines, a classroom and a camping arca pro- -the° -last "`- hill Conservation Arca. Education kits are available for seminar " teaches to use at all our conserva- Awareness Program, studentsare warned of the dangers of flooded watercourses and thin ice. At the Centralia :College of Ag- ricultural Technology, the Author- ity teaches a Conservation and Woodlot Management Course to second year students. And with the Maitland Conversation Authority; the A.B.C.A. sponsors the Con- servation Award at the Huron County Science Fair. The Authority takes its respon- sibilities in education seriously . The conservation of watershed it - sources in the future depends on the education of today's youth for they arc the landowners of the fu- ture. The attitudes they develop now will influence their actions tomorrow. The Authority thanks all those Directors, staff and teachers who have supported the education pro- grams in the past and asks them to affirm their commitment for the future. �n :•S �ssr.4 Thousands of lives saved by heart and stroke research WINGHAM - Twenty thousand lives were saved last year in Cana- -PUC ana •PUC Continued from front page utility had no altcnia ive ut to put the ,pQj Jaihe parking lots„, The water department'has not tai"cr to deal with any main brcaks recent- ly. Soil is being tested now to sec if the new main on Huron St. will need anodes for protection against corrosion. Anodes will be installed as part of the Main St. job, Davis said. Commissioner Harry DcVrics sug- gested that anodes also be used on Huron St. if the cost is reasonable. Davis warned. Commissioners that the cost of materials was climbing quickly. Galvanized steel and cop- per prices arc expected to jump 12 • to 15 percent this spring. As an- other example, Davis said the utili- ty will have to pay S498 to replace a handprcss purchased in 1962 for $43.' f da. Heart and stroke research de- serves a large part of the credit. Ongoing research has contributed to a 34 percent decrease in death rates since.1955. But this positive i+t«irriwAfl`set by the grim reality that heart disease and stroke arc still Canada's #1 killer. In Ontario rar rremisttatei -3fheWipaapiw. will die from cardiovascular disease this year. Dr. Henry Dinsdale, head of medi- cine at Queen's University and vice president of research policy for the Heart and Stroke Foundation of On- tario is concerned about these num- bers. "We're striving for last place, not first," says Dinsdalc. "We all must play a more active role in pro- tecting ourselves from heart disease and stroke. "Smoking and high blood pres- sure or hypertension, are two of the biggest culprits," Dinsdalc says. "Eating too much fat and salt, ex- cessive alcohol use and inadequate exercise are also major contributors to heart disease and stroke." Our fast paced world has resulted in a shift to convenience foods which usually contain little fiber and are high in saturated fats. Diets of this kind arc associated with high levels of cholesterol and other fatty substances in the blood. This, in tum, leads to an increased risk of heart disease. The. Foundation's fundraising and education programs are delivered by volunteers in 72 chapters across On - Police checking break and enter -,--. anc6. C"t& of meat, more fish or poultry, fewer deep-fried foods, less cooking oil and avoidance of high fat dairy prod- ucts such as create, butter and cream cheese. It is also important that smokers quit. Exercise and monitoring blood pressure - especially if your blood pressure is high - arc two other safe- guards against cardiovascular dis- ease. "High blood pressure is a sure path to stroke or heart attack if it is not brought under control and kept at normal levels," Dinsdalc says. The Heart and Stroke Foundation. of Ontario is a registered not-for- profit organization. Its mandate is to reduce death and disability from heart disease and stroke by raising funds for research and education. -C "rER - officers of the Eiret- er town police department'are in- vestigating a break,enter and theft incident. A tclevison set and V.C.R. were taken from the Bricker residence at 236 Main street on Saturday, Feb- ruary 25. The only accident of the week in- volved vehicles driven by Michael Moffatt and Mike Burdon, both of Exeter. The Burdon vehicle was parked at the time. 1 IMPROVING YOUR ODDS AGAINST ice' �' CANADA'S MOLLER. .0 ♦ 604. J Sculpture - Derek Van Dyken (left), Jeff Empringham and Thoi Chau made a dinosaur as their contribution to teacher Bill Van Wieren's grade 8 art class.