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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes Advocate, 1989-03-22, Page 1tack EXETER TOYOTA/ 242 Main St. N. Exeter Across from O.P.P. Phone 235-2353 Gaiser-Kneale Insurance Exeter 235-2420 Grand Bend 238-8484 IlensaU 262-2119 Clinton 482-9747 North Middlesex & Lambton Since 1873 Wednesday, March 22, 1989 60 cents Massive demonstration backs Shaw EXETER - While the high school principal is the traditional focus f student complaints, South Huron District High School students umed the tables on Monday morning when thcy walked out of lasses to form a demonstration to protest the transfer of their prin- ipal Bruce Shaw to Goderich District High School. The student body left the school en masse at 11 a.m., rallied on he school lawn and headed for Main Street where traffic was held p for several minutes as they shouted slogans such as "Don't take haw.He's the Panther's paw." The students returned to class within 40 minutes. • Student council secretary Patty O'Toole described the demonstra- tion as a success. "I think there's a lot more support than- we thought," she said, ad - ping that the rally was a responsible, planned effort and not an ex- cuse to miss classes. O'Toole hoped the student support of Shaw would make the Board of Education sit up and take notice of the students' point of view of transferring principals. She said the rally was planned after the student council asked Shaw how he felt about moving to Godc rich at thispoint in his career. "We asked him how he felt about being transferred. And know- • ing,he wasn't in favour of the transfer we •went ahead (with the walkout plans)," said O'Teole. O'Toole suggested that while the presence of television cameras spurred on the rally, she said the publicity was the main focus of the event. "I think they wanted to be noticed," she said. Student Council vice-president Doug Cudmore agreed, saying the issue of transfers needs to be made more public. "What would help now would-be to get some parental support. If people start phoning..." he suggested. emonstration - South Huron District High School students left their classrooms Mon- The demonstration blocked traffic on Main Street for a few minutes before the stu- ay morning to stage a walkout in protest of the transfer of principal Bruce Shaw. dents headed back to class. Inside Easter Sunday Polish touches at the monestary page 2 Grand Bend A good place to buy a boat page 7 Sa;oty record Around world 52 times for Charterways page 12 Kelly Hern More gold for local skater page 20 Rural leaders Area residents visit Brazil pages 22, 23 To tender for town janitorial services EXETER - Council Monday night approved a general govern• ment committee recommendation to tender for jail.' a' zr: ices for town municipal I- 't rings. The tender for a new three year contract to run from May I, 1989 to April 30, 1992 will be adver- tised for two weeks in the Times Advocate. The job description will be "al- tered to list duties to be covered in each of the town municipal of- fice, the public library and the po- lice station. It is estimated that the number of hours required on an annual ba- sis would be approximately 1,300 which would include snow re- moval in winter, cleanup of litter outside buildings on a regular ba- sis as well as window cleaning that might only be done twice a year.. 1n answering a question from Reeve Bill Mickle, clerk treasurer Liz Bell said, " The jani- torial -service contractor will be responsible to the chief aaminis- trator". • General government chairman Lossy Fuller advised that she had attended a recent South Huron Rec Centre facilities meeting and learned the exterior washrooms at the swimming pool would be open from May 24 until Thanks- giving. ' When Ben Hoogenboom asked if cleaning of the washrooms should be included in the janitorial contract, Fuller said, " That will be taken care of by the rec depart- ment." Facilities manager Cam Stc- wardson will work with works su- perintendent Glenn Kells in mak- ing a sign to be hung in the picnic arca advising of dates and times of washroom opening. Clerk Bell will be asked to check into the possibility of hav- ing town rccords including assess- ment rolls and minutes micro- filmed. She ,said the cost would probably be about $2,500. Deputy Reeve Lossy Fuller sug- gested money for this project should be put in the budget each year saying, " We don't want to have a situation like Petrolia where records were lost by fire". • A grant of $307 is being made to the Exeter Ringctte Association based on 35 participants from Ex- eta. The grant for each town par- ticipant is to be deducted from the registration fee of Exeter players Council cuts own. ISIdtsad alaries set example for spending EXETER - Sticking to their principles of trying to set an ex- ample for town spending, council- lors Monday night agreed to cut their salaries for 1989. The recommendationcame from the executive committee and was approved by council. Mayor Bruce Shaw explained that a policy has been in effect for a couple of years based on an aver- age of what municipal representa- tives receive in the other four towns in Huron county. Using figures for the pdevious year from Goderich, Clinton, Sea: forth and Wingham, the mayor's salary will be decreased by S440 to $6,661 per year and the other eight members of council will find their 1989 paycheques reduced by S41 to $3,312. � ,, . Shaw said the decrease came about because of a change in the method of paying the mayor in Goderich, going from a per meeting stipend to a flat rate. .He added,. "They changed their method of cal- culations". The mayor continued, "From now on we will always be in tune, ex- cept we will be one year behind the others. We are setting an example for municipal spending". The only one opposed to the dc= crease was Deputy Reeve Lossy Fuller who said, " I think it's bad to go backwards. We could at least stay the same. What happens when we want a bigger increase sometime in the future. Nobody vv ll remem- ber that we took a drop in -pay in 1989". - Councillor Ben Hoogcnboom commented, " We have had this. policy for sometime now. .We shouldn't makea change, just be- cause it has gone the other way". In other executive committce rec- ommendations, the owner of the present fire hall will be told the town wishes to continue the rental arrangement for the month of July. -After receiving proposals from all of the banks and financial insti- tutions in town, it was agreed to continue the general revenue and expenditure account with the Bank of Nova Scotia and payroll with the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. Arsonist sentenced to EXETER - Paul Douglas Brode- rick, Exeter, pleaded guilty to five counts of arson when he appeared before Judge RGE Hunter in pro- vincial court on I\ larch 14. On the first count, a fire on John 'Street in' Exeter on August 18, 1987 which destroyed a garage owned by Mike Anstctt and a car owned by Tom Yellow, Broderick received a six-month sentence for the garage fire, and a concurrent six. months for the destruction of the car. A • six-month consecutive sen- tence was imposed for a fire set on August 26 that caused S10,874 damage at the Exeter District Co- op. An additional year in jail was im- posed for the fire August 27 at Us - borne Public School which resulted in damages of 5225,955.23, and a further three years for the fire the same night at Exeter Public School, causing damage of S1,190,272.88. Broderick also. received a concur- rent six -months for setting a police - cruiser on fire on December 3, 1987. He is to be given treatment as required for alcohol and psychiat- ricproblems. Court was told Broderick has a supportive family, and a job await- ing him in Toronto after his re- lease. - - In imposing the five-year total, Judge Hunter took into considera- tion the fact Broderick had previous- ly asked for trial by, judge and jury, • but saved the court time by electing to stand before the judge alone and plead guilty. He also noted. that Broderick has been in custody for nine months: ' • . - The judge remarked that .�hc chances of restitution arc near zero, and the fires caused inconvenience five years to many people, and had the poten- tial for loss of life. - In other cases, five men pleaded guilty to having BACs over: 80 when stopped by police. Gary Lee • Doupe, London, Brian G. !lough, Clinton, Louis R. r-orrest, KR 1 Centralia and Karl LI', Olsen, KR2 Crcditon were each fined S750 and handed 12, -month licence suspen• - sions. William A. Mangos, Toron- to, was_ fined S1,000 and had. his li- ccncc suspended for 12 months because he was involved in an acci- dent with anolhe,'vchicic. Mark Gregory acro, Kippcn, pleaded guiliv 10 pointing -a firearm at Derek Biel ling who was walking hchi,nd the Hensall .Hotel on No ve tuber 24, 1988. Nlero wasas- sesscd a fine olS500 inn] prohibited • from possessing or handling fire- arms for five years, Rifles seized from him were turned over to his fa- ther. Colleen Glasgow leads parade Irish -uoon Exeter's Colleen Clan ow,- - 22, 4v.1 ^ .narmgd-Taronte's 9 .glieett-o€-Elle wish, -o -waw the head of the St. Patrick's Day Parade, Sunday afternoon. Glasgow, a full-time pharmacy stu- dent et the University of Toronto, was chosen from more than 400 entrants in the contest which was sponsored by Sunquest Tours. By being named Queen of the Irish, Glasgow also wins a free trip for two to Ireland. Glasgow, who Is the daughter of Jim and Jean Glasgow of Exeter, worked for Huron Apothecary Pharmacy last summer as part of her training. •