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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes Advocate, 1989-06-28, Page 1EXETER TOYOTA 242 Main St. N. Exeter Across from O.P.P. Phone 235-2353 sr 1 Gaiser-Kneale Insurance Exeter 235-2420 Grand Bend 238-8484 llensall 262-2119 Cliriton 482-9747 Serving South Huron, North Middlesex & Lambton Since 1873 Wednesday, June 281989 60 cents • %Let the games begin. .r. • Let the games begin - Exeter mayor Bruce Shaw lights the torch to mark the beginning of 'the Tri -County- Senior Games at the South Huron Rec Centre Monday morning. The Seniors Games took place Monday and Tuesday in local communities, with 555 competitors from Huron, Perth and Middlesex counties taking part, as Rec Director Lynne Farquhar looks on., 1 Grievance with board still . stands CLINTON - After a cial meeting behind closed doors 'ith the Huron Board of Educat. ,i it was confirmed that South Huron Dis- trict High School princip,„1 Bruce Shaw will be leaving for Godc ich District Collegiate Institute this fall. The decision to transfer Shaw met_with outcry earlier this year as the principal said he did not want to leave Exeter. SHD)-iS students organized a rally and .walkout in support of his reluctance to be transferred. • Shaw even went so far as to suggest he might resign his position with the board. The Ontario Secondary School Teacher's Federation stepped into the dispute in April and filed a grievance with the board over its de- cision—to silmutaneously transfer Shaw, Goderich principal Herb Murphy, and Clinton principal Joe Wooden. Under current board policy, teachers can only be transferred by request, but principals can be shuffled by the board's decision. Shaw arrived at the Clinton meeting with lawyer Kim MacLean: The board was represented by lawyer Dan Murphy. Shaw avoided the press after the meeting and released his statement Tuesday mom - Ing, "I'm going to Goderich," s Federation grievance with the "Arbitrations take a long tim the argument might have little bearing on his case. , "The Teacher's Federation would like to have a ruling," he said, explaining that the case will be used to determine the exact powers • of the board and the rights of teachers and principals. When asked whether he would be commuting to Goderich, or re- locating and resigning his post as Exeter mayor, Shaw was hesitant. "Those .plans 'are uncertain rhe said. "The possibility is certainly there, that Is won't be here." "I don't,know what's going to happen, to be honest." • Shaw, but added that the Teacher's board still stands. , " he said, adding that the outcome of . • Tough enforcement lack of spaces Parking problems plague Bend as council faces backlash GRAND BEND - It maybe nothing new, but the resort community's shortage of parking, -and the en- forcement of related bylaws, continues to generate controversy in the village. Some feel the stringent en- forcement of parking regulations is needed to keep traffic inline. Others think such enforcemealdiscour- ages visitors and tarnishes Grand Bend's iih9ge. `•'It's the biggest negative-toutism thing they've got," said Jim Archibald, operator of Archie's Casual Wear. "It creates a fiasco for everybody." The viljege has handed out hundreds of parking tickets thfs season already, both for those who exceed the two-hour limit on Main Street and for parking on the narrow side streets. Archibald suggested the best route the village could pursue would be to install parking meters on Main Street. He called the•ticketing policy an indirect and unfair form of taxation, saying that the current signs don't properly inform visitors of the regulations, espe- cially on the side streets. • "They have these little dinky things," said Archi- bald, adding that most out-of-town visitors are used to seeing no -parking signs on every signpost at home and don't realize parking may be illegal in Grand Bend when there is no sign in sight. On side streets Icss than six metres widdparking is forbb'dden, but a short tour of several of t1t roads sho$'ed many are signposted with one or two signs at most. The signs appear on only one side of the street and use arrows, not words, to convey their message. "They're taking the second last parking lot we have and zoning it for condominiums," said Archibald, referring to the Hevey lot on the north beach which is closed this season. , The village is attempting to encourage the use of lots on the far side of Highway 21, but says it is having trouble inform ing people of their existence and getting them to walk the extra distance to the, beach. "I realize it's a necessary evil," said Archibald of parking enforcement, but said it could be handled in a better way by the village. "We wonder why we're getting all this negative backlash - it's because we're so antiquated in the way. we do things," he said. Village councillor Bruce Woodley, who said he received a parking ticket for the first time this year, attributed the complaints about parking to signage problems - too few and far between. "We don't have enough money to put signs up. That's the problem," said Woodley, who said he wouldn't mind seeing Tess strict enforcement on the side streets, so long as the cars weren't actually block- ing the road. Woodley said he wants council to act on a sugges- tion to put a map of the free parking lots with every ticket, otherwise he said some people will continue to regard the $10 fine as a parking fee. - "The beach lot is $7, so $10 doesn't seem like a lot." Police seek suspects in break and enters EXE I ER - Area residents are -asked to be on the lookout for two men who have been involved in a number of daylight break-ins in Western Ontario. Although only one incident oc- curred in the area of the Exeter On- tario Provincial Police detachment, Sergeant Don McInnes said Mon- day that a number of break-ins were reported to the Goderich and Se- bririgville detachments. The local break-in was Friday at a residence in Hay township, west of Hensall. Police are looking for two mates in their mid -twenties- driving a black Hatchback with gold rocker panelsand wheels with a white tri- angle painted on the hood. During the week, officers of the local detachment investigated 53 general occurrences and six motor vehicle accidents. Three of the mishaps occurred on Tuesday, June 20. Dense fog was responsible for a 6.30 a.m. accident at Woodham involvirfg vehicles driven by Judy Lang of Woodham and William McKneight, St. Mar- ys. At 3.40 in the afternoon, damage was listed as light when vehicles driven by Helen McGregor and Joy Darling, both of Exeter collided at the intersection of Highway 4 and Huron road 4. Only five minutes later, vehicles operated by Jeffery Hannah of Exet- er and Perry Screda, Centralia were in collision on Highway 4. Thursday at 5.10 a.m., a vehicle driven by Damian Sunn of London went out of control on Highway 4 and struck a hydro pole and sign. The vehicle was demolished, but no injuries were sustained. At 9 p.m., Friday, a vehicle oper- ated by Randal Phelan of Waterloo was westbound on Highway 83 when it swerved to miss an animal • and rolled over in the ditch. Damage was severe. A vehicle driven by Cheryl Wil- son of Huron Park veered into the ditch- Saturday morning at 3.40 a.m. and struck two parked cars in Huron Park. . Not enough? - This no -parking sign on a Grand Bend side street is Waist high on a private fence. The arrows, apparently, include both sides of the street. said Woodley, raising the possibility that doubling the fine or allowing a double -ticketing policy would dis- courage such abuse. Otherwise, Woodley doesn't put much stock in claims that a lack of parking spaces or vigorous en- ' forcement will hurt tourism. • Single copy prices will increase in August • EXETER - Rising costs haye forced the Times-Advoc2te to in- crease both yearly subscrtption and single copy prices effective August 2. "We've been able .to hold the line on price increases since Feb- ruary 1986,"said T -A publisher Jim Beckett. Single copy prices will in- , crease from 600 to 750 with the price of a yearly subscription go- ing from $25 to $27. The T -A has always.been con- eerned about possible adverse re- action to sudden price jumps and is therefore continuing the tradi- tion of allowing anyone to pur- chase subscriptions for as many •., years as they want at the old price of $25, as long as they do it before July 30. A new S-ubscriber can save $14 . per year by taking advantage of our special offer. Present sub- scribers can protect themselves from the price increase by pay- ing in advance at our old price. (See full page advertisement )n this issue.) - A one-year subscription to the Times -Advocate, your award- wirining local newspaper, breaks down to 480 per wecK,_considcr- ably less than a cup of coffee or a candy bar." Most of the in - .crease will be devoted to ensur- ing the T -A is able to continue producing a high quality com- munity newspaper," Beckett con- cluded. 1. Reeve clarifies; Blue Box decision USBORNE - Reeve Gerry Prout does not agree with statements made by the Blue Water Recycling • Association in fast weskl T -A arti- cle on recycling, describing Us - "I don't think it's going to stop them from co g," he said, but when it comes to narrow -street Woodley would like to see a solution, perhaps by employing a 1978 traffic study's suggestion that at one-way system be used in phin 24, allowing parking on one side of the street. To quell complaints from angry church -goers who receive tickets when the United Church service runs over two hours, Grand Bend is issuing stickers for church members to allow a margin of "grace" on Sundays. Nevertheless, debate over the parking issue is not about to go away. • Connie DeJong at DeJong''s Clothing said she gets a lot of feedback from disgruntled customers who get fined for exceeding Main Street's two-hour limit. "I've had people say thcy aren't coming back," said Dciong. "I think it drives people away." Mary Lou Wight, a Grand Bcnd resident for many years, says the parking in .the village has always been bad, but recently it is more so. "A lot'of the cottagcrs arc really getting mad about people parking in front of their cottages," said Wight. She suggests the village should advertise their free parking more, but also be on the lookout for new lots. Wight also claims a lack of parking is responsible for most of the village's traffic congestion. Many of the drivers cruising up and down Main Street are just looking for an empty space, she said. .borne as following •an unusual course of action, . He described the Blue Box: sys- tem as "the most economical way to collect recyclable materials." • Lions food booth'• The Exeter s operated a food booth on the weekend at the entrance to riing's Food Market, Shown cook- ing up •hamburgs are Lions Ldrne Haugh, 'Gary Bean and Lloyd Robison. All food supplies were provided'by Darling's and pro- ceeds go to the Lions Youth Centre. - • Inside Grass is green Doves keep Ironwood in good shape pages Dream. comes true Lucan , Parkview Place opens page8 . Donnelly's Blyth season • second play opens • page. 16 Express win Capture pool in Walkerton tourney . page 17 Congratulations Graduation time at area schools pages 22, 23 Bus trip, Authority tours northern watershed page 33 %Let the games begin. .r. • Let the games begin - Exeter mayor Bruce Shaw lights the torch to mark the beginning of 'the Tri -County- Senior Games at the South Huron Rec Centre Monday morning. The Seniors Games took place Monday and Tuesday in local communities, with 555 competitors from Huron, Perth and Middlesex counties taking part, as Rec Director Lynne Farquhar looks on., 1 Grievance with board still . stands CLINTON - After a cial meeting behind closed doors 'ith the Huron Board of Educat. ,i it was confirmed that South Huron Dis- trict High School princip,„1 Bruce Shaw will be leaving for Godc ich District Collegiate Institute this fall. The decision to transfer Shaw met_with outcry earlier this year as the principal said he did not want to leave Exeter. SHD)-iS students organized a rally and .walkout in support of his reluctance to be transferred. • Shaw even went so far as to suggest he might resign his position with the board. The Ontario Secondary School Teacher's Federation stepped into the dispute in April and filed a grievance with the board over its de- cision—to silmutaneously transfer Shaw, Goderich principal Herb Murphy, and Clinton principal Joe Wooden. Under current board policy, teachers can only be transferred by request, but principals can be shuffled by the board's decision. Shaw arrived at the Clinton meeting with lawyer Kim MacLean: The board was represented by lawyer Dan Murphy. Shaw avoided the press after the meeting and released his statement Tuesday mom - Ing, "I'm going to Goderich," s Federation grievance with the "Arbitrations take a long tim the argument might have little bearing on his case. , "The Teacher's Federation would like to have a ruling," he said, explaining that the case will be used to determine the exact powers • of the board and the rights of teachers and principals. When asked whether he would be commuting to Goderich, or re- locating and resigning his post as Exeter mayor, Shaw was hesitant. "Those .plans 'are uncertain rhe said. "The possibility is certainly there, that Is won't be here." "I don't,know what's going to happen, to be honest." • Shaw, but added that the Teacher's board still stands. , " he said, adding that the outcome of . • Tough enforcement lack of spaces Parking problems plague Bend as council faces backlash GRAND BEND - It maybe nothing new, but the resort community's shortage of parking, -and the en- forcement of related bylaws, continues to generate controversy in the village. Some feel the stringent en- forcement of parking regulations is needed to keep traffic inline. Others think such enforcemealdiscour- ages visitors and tarnishes Grand Bend's iih9ge. `•'It's the biggest negative-toutism thing they've got," said Jim Archibald, operator of Archie's Casual Wear. "It creates a fiasco for everybody." The viljege has handed out hundreds of parking tickets thfs season already, both for those who exceed the two-hour limit on Main Street and for parking on the narrow side streets. Archibald suggested the best route the village could pursue would be to install parking meters on Main Street. He called the•ticketing policy an indirect and unfair form of taxation, saying that the current signs don't properly inform visitors of the regulations, espe- cially on the side streets. • "They have these little dinky things," said Archi- bald, adding that most out-of-town visitors are used to seeing no -parking signs on every signpost at home and don't realize parking may be illegal in Grand Bend when there is no sign in sight. On side streets Icss than six metres widdparking is forbb'dden, but a short tour of several of t1t roads sho$'ed many are signposted with one or two signs at most. The signs appear on only one side of the street and use arrows, not words, to convey their message. "They're taking the second last parking lot we have and zoning it for condominiums," said Archibald, referring to the Hevey lot on the north beach which is closed this season. , The village is attempting to encourage the use of lots on the far side of Highway 21, but says it is having trouble inform ing people of their existence and getting them to walk the extra distance to the, beach. "I realize it's a necessary evil," said Archibald of parking enforcement, but said it could be handled in a better way by the village. "We wonder why we're getting all this negative backlash - it's because we're so antiquated in the way. we do things," he said. Village councillor Bruce Woodley, who said he received a parking ticket for the first time this year, attributed the complaints about parking to signage problems - too few and far between. "We don't have enough money to put signs up. That's the problem," said Woodley, who said he wouldn't mind seeing Tess strict enforcement on the side streets, so long as the cars weren't actually block- ing the road. Woodley said he wants council to act on a sugges- tion to put a map of the free parking lots with every ticket, otherwise he said some people will continue to regard the $10 fine as a parking fee. - "The beach lot is $7, so $10 doesn't seem like a lot." Police seek suspects in break and enters EXE I ER - Area residents are -asked to be on the lookout for two men who have been involved in a number of daylight break-ins in Western Ontario. Although only one incident oc- curred in the area of the Exeter On- tario Provincial Police detachment, Sergeant Don McInnes said Mon- day that a number of break-ins were reported to the Goderich and Se- bririgville detachments. The local break-in was Friday at a residence in Hay township, west of Hensall. Police are looking for two mates in their mid -twenties- driving a black Hatchback with gold rocker panelsand wheels with a white tri- angle painted on the hood. During the week, officers of the local detachment investigated 53 general occurrences and six motor vehicle accidents. Three of the mishaps occurred on Tuesday, June 20. Dense fog was responsible for a 6.30 a.m. accident at Woodham involvirfg vehicles driven by Judy Lang of Woodham and William McKneight, St. Mar- ys. At 3.40 in the afternoon, damage was listed as light when vehicles driven by Helen McGregor and Joy Darling, both of Exeter collided at the intersection of Highway 4 and Huron road 4. Only five minutes later, vehicles operated by Jeffery Hannah of Exet- er and Perry Screda, Centralia were in collision on Highway 4. Thursday at 5.10 a.m., a vehicle driven by Damian Sunn of London went out of control on Highway 4 and struck a hydro pole and sign. The vehicle was demolished, but no injuries were sustained. At 9 p.m., Friday, a vehicle oper- ated by Randal Phelan of Waterloo was westbound on Highway 83 when it swerved to miss an animal • and rolled over in the ditch. Damage was severe. A vehicle driven by Cheryl Wil- son of Huron Park veered into the ditch- Saturday morning at 3.40 a.m. and struck two parked cars in Huron Park. . Not enough? - This no -parking sign on a Grand Bend side street is Waist high on a private fence. The arrows, apparently, include both sides of the street. said Woodley, raising the possibility that doubling the fine or allowing a double -ticketing policy would dis- courage such abuse. Otherwise, Woodley doesn't put much stock in claims that a lack of parking spaces or vigorous en- ' forcement will hurt tourism. • Single copy prices will increase in August • EXETER - Rising costs haye forced the Times-Advoc2te to in- crease both yearly subscrtption and single copy prices effective August 2. "We've been able .to hold the line on price increases since Feb- ruary 1986,"said T -A publisher Jim Beckett. Single copy prices will in- , crease from 600 to 750 with the price of a yearly subscription go- ing from $25 to $27. The T -A has always.been con- eerned about possible adverse re- action to sudden price jumps and is therefore continuing the tradi- tion of allowing anyone to pur- chase subscriptions for as many •., years as they want at the old price of $25, as long as they do it before July 30. A new S-ubscriber can save $14 . per year by taking advantage of our special offer. Present sub- scribers can protect themselves from the price increase by pay- ing in advance at our old price. (See full page advertisement )n this issue.) - A one-year subscription to the Times -Advocate, your award- wirining local newspaper, breaks down to 480 per wecK,_considcr- ably less than a cup of coffee or a candy bar." Most of the in - .crease will be devoted to ensur- ing the T -A is able to continue producing a high quality com- munity newspaper," Beckett con- cluded. 1. Reeve clarifies; Blue Box decision USBORNE - Reeve Gerry Prout does not agree with statements made by the Blue Water Recycling • Association in fast weskl T -A arti- cle on recycling, describing Us - "I don't think it's going to stop them from co g," he said, but when it comes to narrow -street Woodley would like to see a solution, perhaps by employing a 1978 traffic study's suggestion that at one-way system be used in phin 24, allowing parking on one side of the street. To quell complaints from angry church -goers who receive tickets when the United Church service runs over two hours, Grand Bend is issuing stickers for church members to allow a margin of "grace" on Sundays. Nevertheless, debate over the parking issue is not about to go away. • Connie DeJong at DeJong''s Clothing said she gets a lot of feedback from disgruntled customers who get fined for exceeding Main Street's two-hour limit. "I've had people say thcy aren't coming back," said Dciong. "I think it drives people away." Mary Lou Wight, a Grand Bcnd resident for many years, says the parking in .the village has always been bad, but recently it is more so. "A lot'of the cottagcrs arc really getting mad about people parking in front of their cottages," said Wight. She suggests the village should advertise their free parking more, but also be on the lookout for new lots. Wight also claims a lack of parking is responsible for most of the village's traffic congestion. Many of the drivers cruising up and down Main Street are just looking for an empty space, she said. .borne as following •an unusual course of action, . He described the Blue Box: sys- tem as "the most economical way to collect recyclable materials." • Lions food booth'• The Exeter s operated a food booth on the weekend at the entrance to riing's Food Market, Shown cook- ing up •hamburgs are Lions Ldrne Haugh, 'Gary Bean and Lloyd Robison. All food supplies were provided'by Darling's and pro- ceeds go to the Lions Youth Centre. -