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Home My WebLink AboutTimes Advocate, 1989-04-19, Page 2Page 2 Times -Advocate, April 19, 1989 Poor weather leads to four area accidents EXETER -Poor weather and road conditions were responsible for four of the five motor vehicle acci- dents investigated this week by•or ficers of. the Exeter detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police. On Sunday, April 9 at 8.30 a.m., a vehicle driven by Christa Jewell of Grand Bend struck a bridge curb on Highway 83, east of Exeter. The vehicle was severely damaged but no injuries were sustained.. Vehicles opeRted by Robert Somers, London and Harvey Clau- sius, Zurich collided on Highway 4, just north of Huron road 4 at 9.50 a.m., Monday. Damage to both vehicles was severe and Clau- sius suffered minimal injuries. Damage was light and no in;uries sustained when a vehicle driven by Joan Corriveau, Zurich went out of control. on Highway 4 at the south boundary of Usborne township at 4.35 p,m., Wednesday and struck a stop sign. The same .day at 5.15 p.m., vehi- cles operated by Eric Devlaeminck Of RR 2, Lucan and Donald Hop- kins, RR 3, Dashwood were in col- lision on the Becker Farm Equip• ment lot at the south end ofExeter. The only accidentnot involving poor roads or weather occurred on Sunday at 2A5 p.m. when vehicles driven by Joanne Shaw, RR 3, Lu - can and Joanne Miller; Woodstock collided on Concession 2-3 and the south boundary of Usborne town- ship. Miller and her five year-old daughter received minor injuries. During the week, local officers in- vestigated 41 general occurrences. Charges laid included 49 Highway Traffic Act, 13 Liquor Licence Act, three impaired drivers and 12 hour licence suspensions to four drivers. Exeter OPP has now received per- - mission to open an extended service office in Zurich. The office should bc operational in about two weeks in the council chambers -of the mu- nicipal office in Zurich. The new OPP communications system has now been implemented in Exeter. The new emergency num- ber -replacing the Zenith 50000 number is now 1-800-265-2525. Biddulph okays fire board budget LUtAN - The township of Bid- cepted subject to approval «f the dulph has accepted the budget -for Middlesex London District Health 1989 for the Granton and area fire. Unit. board in the amount of $30,570. Deputy reeve Jim Shipley will Road superintcndent'Hugh Da- be the Biddulph representative on a. vis reported to council that the joint committee established to in- roads on which oil had been spilled vestigate the feasibility of hiring a have now been. graded and fresh joint building inspector. gravel applied. He reported this Lawyer Robert Benner has been now completes the requirements as instructed to accumulate certain in- set down by the Ministry of the formation to allow municipalities Environment to make a more meaningful deci- A building permit appliciation- sion. - from Rob and Donna Windsor for Correspondence was received anaddition to their present resi- from the county of Middlesex con dente at Lot 24, Plan 221 was ac- tarring the' county levy for the Biddulph councillors. - township for 1989. The increase for Biddulph amounts to 3.3 percent. Crom Spading of the Ministry of Housing has advised council that their comments regarding the draft policy statement would be carefully considered prior to finalization. Council learned that the town- ship of London would be holding a public meeting on May 3 regarding an application to amendtheir zon- ing bylaw to permit a farm, fruit and vegetable market on the north half of Lot 16, Concession 6. No objection was forthcoming from Construction tenders come in under estimates EXETER - Mcmbcrs of Exeter council were pleasantly surprised Police called to one accident• EXETER -- Exeter police investi- gated only one accident last week. They were called to the scene of a • two -vehicle collision between a parked vehicle _owned by Leo McCarron, Exeter, and one driven by Phyllis Dorcy,-Exeter. Monday night when they received the 10 tenders submitted on an up- coming construction project: ,The lowest of 10 bids for the job came from Van Brce Drainage of R.R. 6, Forest for a .total. contract of $278,226.75. The highest tender was listed at $354,575. Works superintendent Glenn Kells listed the contract to cover re- construction and drainage work on Huron street from Carling to the CNR -tracks and- on Markct street from Huron to" Waterloo along with storm sewers on Waterloo from Markct tothe tracks. - . On the contract of over $278,000, the PUC will be charged $42,097 for watermain installation and the township of Stephen $13,145 for work on Waterloo street. The Exeter portion of the contract will be 5222,985 plus $26,758 for engineering for an overall total of $249,744. The estimated costs given by en- gineers was $301,125. On this large saving, councillor Ben Hoogenboom said, " That is really good news and probably proves it pays to call tenders early in the year." Zurich council approves parking for new St. Boniface church ZURICH - Despite objections by Huron county planner Scott Tousaw, the Zurich committee of ad- justment has granted a minor variance to St. Boniface Roman Catholic Church. . The variance approved Thursday night relaxes park- ing requirements for the new St. Boniface church facil- ity which replaces the existing rectory and church. Construction of the new combined church and recto- ry is expected to begin within the next month. Father Peter Hayes indicated mass would be held in St. Boni- - face school for probably about eight months. The application asked for relief from 70 to 35 park- ing spaces, but according to the planner the actual re- quired relief was from 86 to 15 spaces. Tousaw said extra parking would be required because thc church and mceting room' could be used at the same. time. To this Father Hayes replied, " This sort - of situation -will never happen as it would involve the same poeple." The application for reduced parking presented by Fa- ther I-layes continued, " Totonstruct parking to bylaw • requirements represents a significant financial burden on the congregation, especially when it is anticipated that typical daily parking•could be accommodated on the existing paved arca north of the church. Father Hayes went on to say,". The paved area is shared with the school and could also help relieve their cramped parking. A larger parking area would also re- quire that land owned by the church, but now used by the school as a sports field be paved." He added, " As it is anticipated that the chutch, would be filled to near capacity on Sundays only; this „ it fr t tjccr,�a> feFrnore-pet'king would be accent a y on-sncat:purkirrg as has traditionally oc- :cam,;.• • Father Hayes ceQntiiucd, Very few park behind the ': hurch now. Witti• another entrance, at. the back of the c A fence will bc constructed around the parking arca for the church and school." When Father Hayes -said, the Huron -Perth separate School Board had approved joint parking, councillor Herb Turkhcim said, "That should solve the prob- lem. Many people will still likely park on the street. - We can put up proper "No Parking" signs to assure driveways will not be blocked." - - " ?fi1F Ntburecn Rcgicr said there was only one coin - plaint from a neighbour regarding on -street parking and she felt this cdhcem should be satisfied with new signs and adherence to them. Father Hayes said he would not object to cars being ticketed if thcy were parked.illegally on the street, ad- jacent to the church. Firemen pay up c airman of the urich and arca fire board said the bud- get for 1989 would be a little lower than last year, de-_ spite higher pay for firemen. After checking pay scales with other area depart- ments,thosc for Zurich firemenwill be updated. The hourly rate will go up from $9.5 to $11.50. Standby fees will increase from $100 to S200. The fees fpr the fire chief will be S840 and $420 annually for the depu- ty chief, training officer and mechanic. Turkhcim reported that Zurich firemen were con- cerned over not getting paid for fires within the con- fines of the village and recommended this policy should be changed. Oppose higher rates A letter from the Zurich figure skating club com- plaining about the proposed ice rental increases for the 1989-90 season was included in the minutes from the recreation, parks and community centre board. The club noted that ice rental for the 1983-84 season was S32 an hour with $5,256 overall compared to $10,962 for the just concluded 1988-89 season. Theyfelt this large an increase in five years was too much. Adding their comments were meant to be construc- YOUTH CENTRE WEEK MAY y6, at SAAN'S tive criticism rather than public ridicule, the board sug- gested if these increases continue, improvements in- cluding a new sound system should be implemented. Councillor Marg Deichert reported that applications to replace Brad Clausius who recently resigned as arena manager were being considered. Dave Erb and Jeff Merner have proposed a week-long hockey school before the regular season begins and asked for ice to be in the arena by October 16-17: Be- twcen 60 and 80 children are expected to enroll for the hockey school. Engineer Ken Dunn of B.M. Ross Associates in a Ieuerto council doubted if the Zurich arena is a Hipel- - type structure. The Ministry of Labour is asking for a special structural analysis of all Hipel-type arena struc- tures. - Clerk Maureen Regier said the inspection if necessary would cost $2,500 to which reeve Bob Fisher replied, "It will be in the budget." Reeve Fishcr and councillor Keith Semple will be at- tending a mceting of the Blue Water Recycling Associ- ation in Bosanquet township regarding a proposed recy- cling program. Fisher commented, " I don't think our county would allow us to get involved in waste managment outside . of our county. It sounds expensive, but we should keep ,an open mind on it." - A building permit application from Francis and Cindy Dcnomme for a $20,000 addition was approved. • On the subject of building permits, councillor Turk- heim suggested council should meet with the building inspector regarding some applications. -Turkheim said he. was concerned that in some instanc- es, the value of construction was much higher than the amount listed on.the application. He added, " There should be some way -to recover fees for this sort of thing." Fisher reported he had received cotrirlaihk-* gar ing the lack -of parking spaces on. Main and Goshen streets because some were being taken by employees of businesses along these streets. • Fisher said, "Businesses should quake room for their customers", but added," We have no restrictions for the length of parking." - Councillor Dave Gelinas-sugggested tickets be issued for any vehicles blocking driveways or property en- - trances-.=---= To beautify village Reeve Fisher said the Zurich Chamber of Commerce should be "patted on the back" for initiating a village beautification project. This would include the use of utility poles for hang- . ing baskets'of flowers and the boulevards in the core arca for setting planters as well as shrubs and flower Rec grant -- Hay township has approved a grant of $9,500 to the Zurich recreation, parks and community centre board for 1989 and an additional $2,000 for special projects. County levy Reeve Bob'Fisher reported on the 1989 Huron county levy saying it was up 3.127 mills from a year ago. .This means an extra $25.02 on a property assessed at $80,000 or $15.63 Increase for an assessment of $50,000. • Haberer drain Clerk Maureen Regier will be sending out letters to all owners assessed on the Haberer municipal drain con- cerning necessary repair. Reeve Bob Fisher suggested a cleanout of the open portion of the drain on a private basis would be much cheaper than working through an engineer's report. Fisher added, " It would be more economical to do it our way. Some can't afford to pay for two drains in one year." Councillor Turkhcim agreed saying, " We can 'do it on our own or have it engineered at four times the cost," Reminder - Exeter SAAN- store manager Peter Antaya, flanked by Exeter -Lions Gary Bean •(left) and Ross Mathers, suscround a sign advertising the week of May 1 to 6 at the store, when 10 percent of sales Will. be donated to the Exeter Lions Youth Centre. Building permits ahead of 1988 EXETER - The total of build- ing permits issued in the first three months of 1989 and the val- ue of construction arc both ahead oflast year. . Chief building official David Moyer's report to council Mon- day night indicated -17 permits had -bean issued during the month of March for a value of $385,650. This brings the 1989 total to 36 permits with a value of $700,750: During thc same peri- od in 1988, 22 permits valued at $625,095 were issued. In March, permits were issued fir four single family dwellings with a value of $261,450. • Kirkton-Woodham Optimist Service Award KIRKTON - The fourth annual Kirkton-Woodham..Community Service Award recipient will soon be announced, so please send in your nominees before April 24, where the recipient will be decided at the business mceting of K -W Optimist club. This decision is voted on by members only. However, nominees arc accepted from anyone in community and arca. • Nominees may be any male or female who has excelled in commu- nity involvement e.g. ;schools, church, sports, leadership, etc: Any nominee's name may be deposited at various ballot enve- lopes. Former recipients of this -award have been Leon Paul; Bill Wag - horn, and Norris Atthitl. Make sure your nomination for this award is in by April 24 to Op- timist president Cord Robinson, RR 1, Woodham or call 229-6285 for further information. Authority to hire students • EXETER - The Ausable Bayfield Conservation Authority has re- ceived approval to hire seven stu- dents under the Experience '89 sum- mer employment program. Positions include a Senior Super- visor, Conservation Services Tech- nician, conservation area staff and labourers. The program will run for eight weeks, starting in late -June. "As the program title suggests, the Experience '89 program pro- vides an opportunity for students to gain experience in conservation re- lated work", said John Schwindt, Conservation Services Co - Ordinator. "It provides practical ex- perience for anyone currently study- ing in an environmental related field. The program is also beneficial for students who areconsideringa career or enjoy working outdoors." The Authority has also applied for funding and is awaiting the Pro- gram approval for the Environmen- tal Youth Corps Porgram. • Summer employment application forms arc available at the Adminis- tration Office at Morrison Dam Conservation Arca, cast of Exeter. The application deadline for the Ex- perience '89 program is May 1, 1989. -Kind one 1 Spectals Served ved First Comon,t fast Forever Bargains �� *in -�� Interest 40, Pay No Ince mens lO �a M �1�� Payments ,oAc� 60 day Y forDELIVER FREE Yt101.1tVe � atehien_`-,,,`O�� `- 3-�7g4 W SI —�,�2. 63 M�rr'�