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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes Advocate, 1989-03-08, Page 1Vick EXETER TOYOTA/ 242 Main St. N. Exeter Across from O.P.P. Phone 235-2353 t• { 11 Gaiser-Kneale Insurance Exeter 235-2420, Grand Bend 238-8484 I lensall 262-21 19 Clinton 482-9747 Inside Cellular Hello on the road page 5 SH Hospital Explains funding, gets donations page 6 Seniors dining Begins in Exeter April 4 page8 Hawks playoffs On verge of quarter -final win • page 14 Clerk quits GRAND BEND - Citing getting "a better opportunity elsewhere" Dianne Mollard handed in her resig- nation as clerk/treasurer/ administrator in the village Friday. Mollard formally resigned Friday but her last working day in Grand Bend will be Friday, March 31. She is leaving to take the job of deputy treasurer in neighboring Bo- sanquct Township. "It was just a good opportunity for me personally," said Mollard. 'There will be no more night meetings for meto attend which means 1 can spend more time with my family and I can spend more time doing treasurer work which is what I really enjoy anyway," she said. Mollard came to Grand Bend in 1982 as clerk/treasurer after being on McGillivray Township Council for four years, two as councillor and two as deputy reeve. Mollard achieved the title of administrator in Grand last year. Grand Bend reeve Bob Sharcn said Mollard has done her job well over the years. "I think Dianne has performed very capably and is a very capable person and has done her job very Please turn to page 2 North Middlesex & Lambton Since 1873 Ontario's best Best front - The Times Advocate won the Imperial Oil Award for the best front page at last week's convention of the Ontario Community Newspapers Association. Looking over the winning page with the plaques in the background are editor Ross Haugh and reporters Yvonne Reynolds and Adrian Harte: The story appears on page 5. Call tenders for recycling EXETER - Tenders arc being called by the town of Exeter for garbage pickup and a recycling pro- gram. At Monday's regular council meeting, works superintendent Glenn Kells was given the go- ahead to advertise in the Times Ad- vocate and two arca daily newspa- pers. Contractors will have three op- tions to tender. They will be for regular garbage pickup, recycling Material from blue boxes or for regular garbage and recycling. Information on the tendering in- dicates there arc 1,457single fami- ly dwellings in Exeter, 16 apart- ment builduings with a total. of 207 units and 310 Commercial units. As most apartment buildings will not have the blue boxes avail- able, the maximum of recycling pickups will be 1,457. Initially, re- cycling will be limited to curb ser- vice for blue box pickup: The blue boxes will be ordered as soon as the contract is let. The cost of the blue boxes is shared equally by the municipality, the Ontario Ministry of the Environment and Ontario Multi -Material Recycling Inc. Works superintendent Glenn Kells explained to council that the contract will run to December 31, 1990. As the original contract will be for more than one year and less than two years, the contractor will bid for a twelve month period. The rate will be adjusted to take into consideration the extra time incurred to have the contract completed at the end of 1990. When Morley Hall suggested that statistics show only about 75 per - Please turn to page 2 Police make arrests EXETER - As the result of re- cent investigations by officers of the Exeter Ontario Provincial Po- lice detachment, an Exeter man has been arrested on three counts of sexual assault. Frazer Wayne Anderson aged 28 years of 88 Sanders street was ar- rested Wednesday and has been re- manded into custody at the Strat- ford Provincial jail. His first court appearance is slat- ed for Tuesday, March 14 in Pro- vincial Court in Exeter. The charges and arrest were the re- sult of investigation into three inci- dents occurring in October and No- vember of 1988, involving an Exeter area woman. Ronald Towle of Ingersoll and Timothy Magee of no fixed address have been charged with the recent thefts of cigarettes from arca stores and the break, enter and theft of liq- uor from the Hensall liquor store, located on Highway 4. Wednesday, March 8, 1989 60 cents • Firehall land deal gets OK EXETER - Council gave final passage to the bylaw for purchase of Co -Op owned land for construction of a new fire hall at a special meet. ing last Wednesday. The bylaw was amended slightly to correct a discrepancy in the size of the land parcel. The $100,000 lot should be 1.4 acres .in size, not 0.8 acres as specified on the previous bylaw. The offer has yet to be accepted by the Co -Op. Grace Project management architect Bruce Martin showed cou plans for a fire hall that would allow for doors on both ends ofi building's vehicle bays. "We're trying to develop a drive-through situation as far as doors at the back and front of the fire hall," said Martin, who also suggested the design could allow for expansion to meet the town's future needs, in- cluding an ambulance service or an aerial ladder truck. The design proposal allowed for a 7,400 square foot building, 3,200 square feet of which would be for administration alone. Martin said projected costs amount to about $50 a square foot, or a $370,000 to- tal. "We passed a resolution the other day that we couldn't go over $275,000...where does that leave us?" asked councillor Ben Hoogen- boom. . "I don't think you can build a fire hall less than $50 a square foot," replied Martin. Council concurred, but debated at length on whether it was possible to reduce the size of the administration facilities in the hall in order to cut costs. Mayor Bruce Shaw pointed out the size reduction would have to be at least 1,000 square feet to be worthwhile. Councillor Harry Klungel called the design a "big Cadillac" and sug- gested other municipalities have been able to get by with fire hall's of lesser dimensions. The plan to move Exeter's municipal offices to the Old Town Hall also came under scrutiny as Martin presented plans for enlarging the Ontario Heritage -designated building to accommodate new office space. The plans called for renovating 1,500 square feet of the building at a cost of $45,000 and adding a 6,000 square foot addition for $420,000. This would bring the total cost up to $465,000. Martin's first estimate in December for the Town Hall project was $385,000. The proposed design allowed for all public access to be on the main floor with office space on the second. Council asked Martin to have his company explore all available al- ternatives for moving the municipal offices with the goal of reducing the final cost to the taxpayer. This includes exploring alternate loca- tions. Councillor Dorothy Chapman pointed out both project costs were al- ready totalling $935,000 before Grace Project Management's seven per- cent architect's fee and eight percent management fee were included. Hoogenboom appeared unconvinced of the benefits of project man- agement as Martin explained them, but council eventually voted to re- tain Grace's services. - "When you look at what we've been through just to get started," said Chapman, "I think a project manager is worth every penny because we can't make up our minds on bugger all." 1' Farm women learn how to save lives Oak '0 .� w Olow NIL a 16 Awrolliv• Fighting the fire - Louise O'Neil, RR2 Lucan, operates a fire extinguisher under the watchful eye of Steve Matisz, coordinator of a one -day women's workshop on farm safety held at Huron Tractor, Exeter. EXETER -About two dozen women attending an after- noon workshop on farm safe- ty at Huron Tractor in Exeter on Saturday went home with a greater awareness of the importance of eternal vigi- lance as the price of safety on the farm. The program was planned and organized by Steve Ma- tisz from the Ontario Farm and Home Safety Asociation in cooperation with the Hu- ron Farm Safety Associa- tion. The women viewed a film turing actual people relat- ing how a moments forget- fulness or taking a shortcut to save a few minutes had re- sulted in the loss of legs, or a hand, or other serious injul. ry while working with farm Matisz used a straw -stuffed dummy to graphically illus- trate how quickly a person. , can be drawn into a pto. In seconds a small child would ' be whipped around the shaft innumerable times. An adult !' ' would be severely injured in the same short span of time. Each participant was shown how to operate a fire extinguisher to smother a r flaming pan of gasoline. Bonnie Groot, RR I Varna, said later that she had never . used one before, and woula have reached first for a pail of water. She learned that often that is the worst thing to do. She is now confident she could use the fire extin- guisher her husband just re- ceived for his birthday. Danger areas - Bonnie Groot (left) and Brenda Consitt mark down the PTO as one Brenda Consitt, also from of the most dangerous parts of a tractor. They were attending a farm safety work Please turn to page 2 shop for women, held at Huron Tractor. r ,•t t is . . II . .