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By Jim Beckett
Acouple from Kentucky ordered deported Monday at a hear-
ing in Sarnia could have been living undetected within a
stone's throw of Exeter if it had not been for the alertness
of a Grand Bend OPP constable. Robert Joseph Shewmak-
er, 41 and Jewell Meyers, 31 were jointly charged with
possessing a stolen car from Kentucky and marijauna for the pur-
pose of trafficking. Shewmaker was separately charged with possess-
ing cocaine. The two Americans were in the process of purchasing a
property on Highway 83, west of Exeter.
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Carl Schwarrentruber is the new owner of three Grand Bend busi-
nesses: Rings, Strings and Things, Grey. Otter Gallery and Go Fly a
Kite.
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If you haven't seen the Exeter tennis courts since last year be
ready for 'a pleasant surprise. The surface has been repainted and
patched where necessary with the work being done by Al Horton and
several other club members.
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Hundreds of bargain hunters descended on Hensall Saturday to
check out the values at the annual yard sale.
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The Youth Centre has a new concrete sidewalk thanks to the vol-
unteer efforts of a few Lions and off-duty town employees.
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The definition of who qualifies as a senior citizen has never been
made clear to me. Originally I thought it was only those over 65
but a pamphlet promoting the Ontario Senior Games to be held in
Exeter June 26 and 27 has moved the eIigiaility ahead. 10 years seek-
ingparticipants who are 55 and over.
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Usborne Central School is marking their 25th anniversary with
two days of celebrations on Friday and Saturday, June 16 and 17. A
dance will be Field Friday at Kirkton-Woodham Community Centre
and a variety of other festivities will be held at the school Saturday
afternoon. -
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The T -A staff is busy working on our annual Home Phone Book,
the largest special edition of the year. Look for your free copy to ar-
rive with your newspaper in early August brought•to you by many
local advertisers.
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I finally had the opportunity to take my annual winter vacation a
couple of weekends ago. After checking the map to see how far I
could go on a limited budget the decision was made to visit Detroit.
One of the first natives I got close to was a huge man wearing a
black T-shirt with large white letters. His chcst was about my eye
level and themessage on the sweater was frightening..."Detroit,
where we kill the meek and eat them." Talk about trying to live up
to an image.
Back
in time ,I
10 years ago
• Exeter was slapped with a $25,000 law suit by Hawleaf Develop-
ments over the issuance of a stop work order on the mall being built
at the north end of town. Developer Gerry Sprackman called the
town's order "illegal".
-The Snell Brothers General Motors dealership in town emerged
under the new name of Frayne's.
• At the Exeter Hawks banquet the most gentlemanly player award
went to Dave Bogart, and co -winners of the MVP title were Dave
Shaw and Bill Glover.
20 years ago
•Joseph Wooden, guest speaker at an AOTS meeting, told the
audience that laws limiting households to two or less children were
necessary to curb population growth, calling overpopulation the root
of current environmental problems.
•A scare was thrown into local farms after a Hay township farmer
found five cattle infected with rabies.
'An editorial took the Huron County Board of Education to task.
for spending $S,OJJ du iiiiug whedici to renovate a wing of Central ,
Huron Secondary School for the relocation of the board offices. The
board eventually rejected the plan and opted to rent offices across
the street from the Clinton Hospital.
S0 years ago
•The Times Advocate ran a front page photograph of King George
VI and Queen Elizabeth in light of the Royal couple's tour of
Canada in 1939. A civic holiday was declared for Wednesday to
mark the Royal visit to London that day.
•Leavitt's Theatre was showing Kentucky, a "special technicol-
ored feature with Loretta Young and Richard Greene showing the
actual running of the Kentucky Derby." ,
70 year's ago
•The Advocate's front page gave 14 reasons to support the
pavement bylaw passed by council. It called Main Street's condi-
tion after the latest rain a prime example of why it should be paved.
Council were planning to borrow $25,000 to build a "concrete
pavement on the Main Street, beginning at the limits of the southern
boundary; to and including the south of the Lake and Thames
Road". .
•Meanwhile, Exeter council sold Brock Street, north of Welling-
ton Street, to the Exeter Canning and Preserving Company. Council
were also petitioning County Council to make Exeter a High School
District. —
'Rear Admiral Sims of the U.S. Navy was quoted as crediting the
British Grand Fleet as winning the war. "He made the fact uninis-
takably evident that to British sea -power alone the world owes the
defeat of the Hun."
Times -Advocate, May 31, 1989
Page 5
Long ribbon - Reaching across several generations of the Haist
family, LOEB officials, and local politicians, the official ribbon for
the opening of Grand Bend's new IGA location was cut by store
owners Brenda and Peter Haist Monday evening. .
Haists open new Grand
Bend IGA grocery store
amid fanfare and ceremony
GRAND BEND - There were mu-
sicians,
usicians, balloons, pretty girls with
flowers, photographers -and police
directing traffic. - This, however,
was not the launching of a new
ship, but Monday's opening cele-
brations of the relocation of Peter
and Brenda Haist's supermarket in
Grand Bend.
The IGA store has moved into a
building more than twice the size of
the original and now sails under the
LOEB IGA banner, joining a new
marketing direction in Ontario.
Art and Betty Haist opened their
family grocery store in Grand Bend
35 years ago, expanding it over the
years, and -joined the Independent
Grocer's Association in 1962. In
1978 Peter took over thc store oper-
ation and has followedit through to
today where it is now the largest
IGA between Sarnia and Goderich.
The 18,700 square foot store was
opened to thc public Tuesday morn-
ing and, like the other 112 LOEB
IGAs in Ontario, it offers an em-
phasis on fresh produce.
"Our concept is a "fresh" con-
cept," said Peter Haist, explaining
that the new location devotes over
50 percent of its floor space to fruit
and vegetables, a bakery, and a meat
counter.
Kenneth Stashick, vice -president -
and general manager -of LOEB's
London division, notes that LOEB,
and its Quebec -based parent compa-
ny Provigo, have long been in the
wholesale grocery business and the
emphasis on fresh produce is a re-
flection of present consumer de-
mand.
Stashick also said that the line of
LOEB prepared convenience foods,
such as the pizzas launched last
It's.Youir Business
Co-op banquet - Students and
employers participating f n the
co-op education program at
,Sbuth Huron District Secondary
School were honoured Thurs-
day evening with a special ban-
quet. Keith Wonnacott (left),
presents Terry Alexander with.
the Technical Studies Certifi-
cate for his work at- Exeter Pub-
lic School, and. Kathy Hendrick
receives the Family Studies cer-
tificate from Betty Janke for
her work at Stephen Central
School.
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stores are still privately owned. •
"We're the only major food chain
that does not have corporate stores,".
said Stashick. The LOEB name
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differentiate the chain from a differ-
ent IGA operation that runs out of
Oshawa.
As part -of the opening celebra-
tions, barbecues set up in front or
the new store were selling burgers
and pop to crowds, but proceeds are
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