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Times Advocate, 1989-08-02, Page 1- oafrare— 'EXETER TOYOTA? 242 Main St. N. Exeter Across from O.P.P. Phone 235-2353 We'II be late EXETER - Due to the Civic Holiday on Monday, August 7, the %Exeter Times Advocate will be published one day later than usual next week. Advertising deadlines will be ex- tended to 4 p.m., Tuesday after- noon and the paper will be printed Wednesday night for Thursday morning delivery. North Middlesex & Lambton Since 1873 w Gaiser-Kneale Insurance . Exeter 235-2420 Grand Bend 238-8484 llensall 262-2119 Clinton 482-9747 Wednesday, August 2, 1989 Playground construction. Sandcastle day - Despite Friday's cool weather, it was a day at the beach (or sandbox, if you like) for the Exeter Playground stu- dents. Here Jenna -Lynn Baker (left), Carolyn Eagleson, and Amy Schwartzentruber put the finishing touches on their creation. Many in arrears on PUC bills EXETER - PUC manager Hugh Davis is puzzled. He told the regu- lar July meeting of the Commis- sion that the amount of money in arrears on the latest hydro billing is the highest ever, and he knows of no reason for this. The fact that business rather than residential cus- tomers account for most of the in- debtedness adds to the mystery. Davis said Construction in Exeter is setting another - and more desira- ble - record.. Hydro service has been completed to the mobile home park, and is ready for Laid - law's new location. The next big job is the Taylor subdivision. The future looks equally busy. The PUC has received a letter from the Huron County planning depart- ment regarding Len Veri's proposed subdivision north of the river. Da- vis foresees "no great problem" in supplying water and electricity for the large project. "It will have to be developed in an orderly manner," was his only proviso. The recommendations of a recent- ly completed rehabilitation needs study will also help with long- range planning. Among the priorites would be in- creased storage capacity, and in the future an additonal supply of 200 gallons per minute. As there is no possibility of more water from Us - borne township, and none is avail- able from other adjacent municipali- ties, Davis threw out a number of options for consideration. Among these were a pipeline from the pumping station on Lake Huron, and tapping into the Huron Park line at night to refill Exeter's reser- voir. He used Clinton as an example of a town vat obtains all its water from wells within its own bounda- ries, and noted a similar supply exists in the rock at Brucefield. He speculated that Hensall and Exeter might examine the possibility of Please turn to page 2 T -A gets award for advertising excellence TORONTO - The Ontario Com- munity Newspapers Association an- nounced this week that the Times - Advocate has placed first in the an- nual advertising awards competition winning the General Excellence Award The T -A was first in their class with second place going to the Goderich Signal -Star and third to the Alliston Herald. The award is particularly mean- ingful because winners are selected by judges who are actively in- volved in the newspaper industry. 75 cents NOW 750 Thieves Arrested EXETER - Two London men are in custody thanks to the alert work of the Exeterlice deparent. Brothers Jeffrey tmand Gary Bradley of 342 Boullee street in London are in jail in Stratford following their arrest in Exeter, Wednesday after- noon by Chief Larry. Hardy and Constable Will Chisholm. They have both been charged with uttering false documents, two charges each of possession of sto- len goods valued under $1,000 and one count each of possession over $1,000. The two men were successfuLin cashing $400 worth of the money orders in Komoka and Parkhill be- fore being apprehended. They failed in similar attempts to get cash for the stolen orders in Lu - can, Huron Park and Hay Post Of- fice. Having received a call from the Lucan OPP detachment that a vehi- cle fitting the description of the suspects was heading north, Hardy and Chisholm took to the streets in an attempt to find them. Their wait was short as they soon spotted the vehicle heading north on Main street. They followed it to Hay post office and Frayne's general store where the men tried again to cash in on their loot. Once agair 'hey did not get any money, but - re immc tiately ar- rested by the local police officers af- ter leaving the store. Chief Hardy said one of the stolen money orders was found on the per - Please turn to page 2 EXETER - The fourth annual Home Phone Book published by the Times Advocate is being dis- tributed with this weeks newspa- per. For the past three years, store sales of the newspaper have been brisk with all copies selling in hours. If you are not a regular sub- scriber we suggest you get your copy early. Exeter subscribers receiving their mail at the new super boxes will get the telephone book by separate mail. ' Summer's the season for party animals ••1 '. The party animal - does he belong in your home? sUre he won't spine? By Adrian Harte and Michelle Ellison EXETER - Is it safe to leave your teenagers alone with the house when you go out of town? Given the number of alarming inci- dents happening at local parties, some might consider it unsafe to leave home ever again. Outlandish tales of mwdyism and vandalism, enough to make a par- ent prematurely grey, are becoming increasingly common. The Times Advocate interviewed a few local teenagers who have ^^ �►�gl�Rf_hngse parties that have gone out of control. • Their comments are printed here under assumed names to preserve their anonymity. "Julie" is a grade 13 South Hu- ron District High School student who enjoys socializing at local soi- rt<.P.C_ Che Aor.'p.0 hi??Pt nartirnmssow, nnore_1-un, but has been witness to se, .rgj;BU$ Oaf rersi ixet ted by house guests. says, has a special attraction. "I remember one party where they put beer on the kitchen floor, took spaghetti from the cupboard, ' ,'one wen throwing eggs around," said Julie. Trouble usually begins when far more people arrive at the event than were invited. Friends of friends of friends often don't know who lives at the house and don't cam. The trend, Julie says, is to move parties outdoors whenever the weather permits. "People are getting away from house parties. They know what can happen," she said. "Farm par- ties are the best. Everyone looks • forward to them." - -1 "Mark", also a grade 13 student, Can you be agrees that numbers have every- thing to do with how a party will turn out. "Every party around here starts out small with about 10 people and ends up with 50," he said. He has been at one party where yogourt was put into a VCR, and another when a dog was jammed into a mi- crowave oven. The dog, exposed to microwave radiation for a couple of seconds, was fortunately un- Ilanned. A small become a 'monster ParlY from keys to telephones going astray. Allison was at one event last year in Hensall where a home was se- verely vandalized. Carpets were ruined and the swimming pool was contaminated with broken glass and food. The problem, as she sees it, was too many uninvited guests, "It was just so close. There were so many people there you couldn't move," she said. One family had' to repaint and wallpaper much of their home after one New Year's Eve party. A small parrtyn doesn't become a- plained Allison. In a bid to gain popularity and notoriety, the host often makes the mistake of publi- cizing the event with maps and, in some cases, announcements over the school's PAs stem. unwanted rowdies. He likes to keep them organized, even to the point of selling tickets. "I don't mind people coming in as • long they don't take advantage of the situation," said Nichols. Exeter OPP Sergeant Al Quinn said he has seen teenagers' parties that result in a lot of damage, but charges are laid against the perpetra- tors only if the parents complain. Usually, said Quinn, parents make their children foot the bill for the damage themselves. More organized parties - those complete with maps and ticket sales - are usually less trouble, said Quinn. " _ _, _ "Those ones don't seem to be too bad. They're better controlled," he said, adding his department finds out about them early enough to set up road checks ora RIDE program. kr•ift-----..--Tetnik,pserf,. 'rte•".-"US "If things get wrecked it's only because they've been drinking. They wouldn't do it if they were so- ber," heSfui. tltn►S Wil, IS`hifl:'iiu: ties are moving outdoors to the country, he explained. Thele is simply less to damage. Mark said when parties do get rowdy, police involvement is inevi- table. "The cops find out about a lot of our parties," said Mark, but ex- plained most partygoers aren't too alarmed by police presence. "Allison", another South Huron senior student, said a major head' ache for those who host parties is preventing theft. Favorite items that disappear include music tapes and the parent's liquor supply, but Allison has heard of everything granted atG-fwd-asap' ," ter but even A[1i.cnn., : s rs s, WAeAr. either V/ Irtyw mit)* getting access to alcohol. "I don't think parents are aware of it," she said. Trevor Nichols, who lives in Grand Btnd, claims to have hosted a :,fr; t.•tPti.nvr,`.r 1,000 peo- ple. Naturally, he has see`h a tail number of mishaps, including brok- en bottles scattered all over his par- ents' property, broken furniture, and a kitchen counter that was deliber- ately dismantled. A guest's car was even pushed into a creek. Ni -hots says the. problems start with unexpected visitors. That's when the fights begin. "You get different people, differ- ent crowds," agreed one of Nichol's friends. Nichols has called the police him- self several times to help control the crowds at his parties and to evict she "There's quite a bit of underage drinking," stated Quinn, but said the police don't go out of their way to lay charges. Even though they only charge those flagrantly violating the law in ,pJu'blic, he still says a fair Shifa Y`V�i�1�1.a�til •!..,.:`l �,. �r�' main thrust is .to prevent death on the highways from impaired driv- ing. If very young teenagers are caught with alcohol, the OPP prefer to no- tify the parents instead of resorting to charges. In keeping with the idea that most party problems begin with un- known and uninvited guests, Quinn advises teenagers planning a bash to "keep it small". He said the safest route is to issue invitations person- ally and not by word of mouth, and to admit only those people without. unexpected "friends". • Inside Friedsburg Days Dashwood's popular event starts Friday page 2 Bed and Breakfast Two new places to stay page 5 ' Blockbuster Musical The Dreamland a hit at Blyth page 6 Youth Centre Lions show new facility • to youth page9 Wheels to Nature New wheelchair accessibility at Rock Glen - page 11 Pilot Project Attracts students at CCAT page 15 19th Season For Huron ' - Hockey School page 17 We'II be late EXETER - Due to the Civic Holiday on Monday, August 7, the %Exeter Times Advocate will be published one day later than usual next week. Advertising deadlines will be ex- tended to 4 p.m., Tuesday after- noon and the paper will be printed Wednesday night for Thursday morning delivery. North Middlesex & Lambton Since 1873 w Gaiser-Kneale Insurance . Exeter 235-2420 Grand Bend 238-8484 llensall 262-2119 Clinton 482-9747 Wednesday, August 2, 1989 Playground construction. Sandcastle day - Despite Friday's cool weather, it was a day at the beach (or sandbox, if you like) for the Exeter Playground stu- dents. Here Jenna -Lynn Baker (left), Carolyn Eagleson, and Amy Schwartzentruber put the finishing touches on their creation. Many in arrears on PUC bills EXETER - PUC manager Hugh Davis is puzzled. He told the regu- lar July meeting of the Commis- sion that the amount of money in arrears on the latest hydro billing is the highest ever, and he knows of no reason for this. The fact that business rather than residential cus- tomers account for most of the in- debtedness adds to the mystery. Davis said Construction in Exeter is setting another - and more desira- ble - record.. Hydro service has been completed to the mobile home park, and is ready for Laid - law's new location. The next big job is the Taylor subdivision. The future looks equally busy. The PUC has received a letter from the Huron County planning depart- ment regarding Len Veri's proposed subdivision north of the river. Da- vis foresees "no great problem" in supplying water and electricity for the large project. "It will have to be developed in an orderly manner," was his only proviso. The recommendations of a recent- ly completed rehabilitation needs study will also help with long- range planning. Among the priorites would be in- creased storage capacity, and in the future an additonal supply of 200 gallons per minute. As there is no possibility of more water from Us - borne township, and none is avail- able from other adjacent municipali- ties, Davis threw out a number of options for consideration. Among these were a pipeline from the pumping station on Lake Huron, and tapping into the Huron Park line at night to refill Exeter's reser- voir. He used Clinton as an example of a town vat obtains all its water from wells within its own bounda- ries, and noted a similar supply exists in the rock at Brucefield. He speculated that Hensall and Exeter might examine the possibility of Please turn to page 2 T -A gets award for advertising excellence TORONTO - The Ontario Com- munity Newspapers Association an- nounced this week that the Times - Advocate has placed first in the an- nual advertising awards competition winning the General Excellence Award The T -A was first in their class with second place going to the Goderich Signal -Star and third to the Alliston Herald. The award is particularly mean- ingful because winners are selected by judges who are actively in- volved in the newspaper industry. 75 cents NOW 750 Thieves Arrested EXETER - Two London men are in custody thanks to the alert work of the Exeterlice deparent. Brothers Jeffrey tmand Gary Bradley of 342 Boullee street in London are in jail in Stratford following their arrest in Exeter, Wednesday after- noon by Chief Larry. Hardy and Constable Will Chisholm. They have both been charged with uttering false documents, two charges each of possession of sto- len goods valued under $1,000 and one count each of possession over $1,000. The two men were successfuLin cashing $400 worth of the money orders in Komoka and Parkhill be- fore being apprehended. They failed in similar attempts to get cash for the stolen orders in Lu - can, Huron Park and Hay Post Of- fice. Having received a call from the Lucan OPP detachment that a vehi- cle fitting the description of the suspects was heading north, Hardy and Chisholm took to the streets in an attempt to find them. Their wait was short as they soon spotted the vehicle heading north on Main street. They followed it to Hay post office and Frayne's general store where the men tried again to cash in on their loot. Once agair 'hey did not get any money, but - re immc tiately ar- rested by the local police officers af- ter leaving the store. Chief Hardy said one of the stolen money orders was found on the per - Please turn to page 2 EXETER - The fourth annual Home Phone Book published by the Times Advocate is being dis- tributed with this weeks newspa- per. For the past three years, store sales of the newspaper have been brisk with all copies selling in hours. If you are not a regular sub- scriber we suggest you get your copy early. Exeter subscribers receiving their mail at the new super boxes will get the telephone book by separate mail. ' Summer's the season for party animals ••1 '. The party animal - does he belong in your home? sUre he won't spine? By Adrian Harte and Michelle Ellison EXETER - Is it safe to leave your teenagers alone with the house when you go out of town? Given the number of alarming inci- dents happening at local parties, some might consider it unsafe to leave home ever again. Outlandish tales of mwdyism and vandalism, enough to make a par- ent prematurely grey, are becoming increasingly common. The Times Advocate interviewed a few local teenagers who have ^^ �►�gl�Rf_hngse parties that have gone out of control. • Their comments are printed here under assumed names to preserve their anonymity. "Julie" is a grade 13 South Hu- ron District High School student who enjoys socializing at local soi- rt<.P.C_ Che Aor.'p.0 hi??Pt nartirnmssow, nnore_1-un, but has been witness to se, .rgj;BU$ Oaf rersi ixet ted by house guests. says, has a special attraction. "I remember one party where they put beer on the kitchen floor, took spaghetti from the cupboard, ' ,'one wen throwing eggs around," said Julie. Trouble usually begins when far more people arrive at the event than were invited. Friends of friends of friends often don't know who lives at the house and don't cam. The trend, Julie says, is to move parties outdoors whenever the weather permits. "People are getting away from house parties. They know what can happen," she said. "Farm par- ties are the best. Everyone looks • forward to them." - -1 "Mark", also a grade 13 student, Can you be agrees that numbers have every- thing to do with how a party will turn out. "Every party around here starts out small with about 10 people and ends up with 50," he said. He has been at one party where yogourt was put into a VCR, and another when a dog was jammed into a mi- crowave oven. The dog, exposed to microwave radiation for a couple of seconds, was fortunately un- Ilanned. A small become a 'monster ParlY from keys to telephones going astray. Allison was at one event last year in Hensall where a home was se- verely vandalized. Carpets were ruined and the swimming pool was contaminated with broken glass and food. The problem, as she sees it, was too many uninvited guests, "It was just so close. There were so many people there you couldn't move," she said. One family had' to repaint and wallpaper much of their home after one New Year's Eve party. A small parrtyn doesn't become a- plained Allison. In a bid to gain popularity and notoriety, the host often makes the mistake of publi- cizing the event with maps and, in some cases, announcements over the school's PAs stem. unwanted rowdies. He likes to keep them organized, even to the point of selling tickets. "I don't mind people coming in as • long they don't take advantage of the situation," said Nichols. Exeter OPP Sergeant Al Quinn said he has seen teenagers' parties that result in a lot of damage, but charges are laid against the perpetra- tors only if the parents complain. Usually, said Quinn, parents make their children foot the bill for the damage themselves. More organized parties - those complete with maps and ticket sales - are usually less trouble, said Quinn. " _ _, _ "Those ones don't seem to be too bad. They're better controlled," he said, adding his department finds out about them early enough to set up road checks ora RIDE program. kr•ift-----..--Tetnik,pserf,. 'rte•".-"US "If things get wrecked it's only because they've been drinking. They wouldn't do it if they were so- ber," heSfui. tltn►S Wil, IS`hifl:'iiu: ties are moving outdoors to the country, he explained. Thele is simply less to damage. Mark said when parties do get rowdy, police involvement is inevi- table. "The cops find out about a lot of our parties," said Mark, but ex- plained most partygoers aren't too alarmed by police presence. "Allison", another South Huron senior student, said a major head' ache for those who host parties is preventing theft. Favorite items that disappear include music tapes and the parent's liquor supply, but Allison has heard of everything granted atG-fwd-asap' ," ter but even A[1i.cnn., : s rs s, WAeAr. either V/ Irtyw mit)* getting access to alcohol. "I don't think parents are aware of it," she said. Trevor Nichols, who lives in Grand Btnd, claims to have hosted a :,fr; t.•tPti.nvr,`.r 1,000 peo- ple. Naturally, he has see`h a tail number of mishaps, including brok- en bottles scattered all over his par- ents' property, broken furniture, and a kitchen counter that was deliber- ately dismantled. A guest's car was even pushed into a creek. Ni -hots says the. problems start with unexpected visitors. That's when the fights begin. "You get different people, differ- ent crowds," agreed one of Nichol's friends. Nichols has called the police him- self several times to help control the crowds at his parties and to evict she "There's quite a bit of underage drinking," stated Quinn, but said the police don't go out of their way to lay charges. Even though they only charge those flagrantly violating the law in ,pJu'blic, he still says a fair Shifa Y`V�i�1�1.a�til •!..,.:`l �,. �r�' main thrust is .to prevent death on the highways from impaired driv- ing. If very young teenagers are caught with alcohol, the OPP prefer to no- tify the parents instead of resorting to charges. In keeping with the idea that most party problems begin with un- known and uninvited guests, Quinn advises teenagers planning a bash to "keep it small". He said the safest route is to issue invitations person- ally and not by word of mouth, and to admit only those people without. unexpected "friends".