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Times Advocate, 1989-11-22, Page 1On parade - A 'dog obedience demonstration was one event that attracted a fair number of spectators to Centralia Co!= lege's Showcase Friday evening, despite uncooperative weather conditions. Cindy Wiersma, from the Junior Animal Heath Technician program, had "Rita" on parade for the audi- ence. More details on Showcare are on page 13. • Town not happy with super boxes EXETER - Town council have come to the conclusion they aren't buying Canada Post's position that super mailboxes are an provement to the community's mail delivery. The crown corpo- ration are to receive a letter of complaint from the town, noting that service has, in fact, slowed since the introduction of the box- es to Exeter. Councillor Harry Klungel first raised the issue of the boxes to council when he said he and his neighbours are never aware of when the mail is delivered to the boxes, causing many wasted trips. Klungel was wondering if a flag could be affixed to the box to signify the mail had.arrived. Reeve Bill Mickle expanded on Klungel's comments by saying that Klungel's experience of hav- ing to wait for delivery until later in the day was a common situa- tion throughout town. Klungel also pointed out some mail had to be delivered door-to- door after some boxes were fro- zen shut last week. "When they came to council they said the super box was to im- prove the service of postal deliv- ery in Exeter," noted Mickle. "It definitely doesn't," said Klungel. Mickle suggested a letter should be sent to Canada Post, stressing the dissatisfaction with the boxes to see if any improvements could be made to the system. The decision to draft the letter was passed unanimously by coun- cil. Young offender charged with attempted, murder EXETER - A 15 -year-old female young offender has been charged with three counts of attempted murder; The charges were laid as a result of further investigation by . Exeter OPP into a shooting inci- dent on November 11 in Usborne township. The girl appeared in Young Of- fenders Court, Goderich, on No- vember 15 and was remanded into custody at the Elgin -Middlesex: De- tention Centre, London. Officers were called to five ac- cidents in the past week. Vehicles driven by Frederich Zchr, RR3 Brussels, and Vincez • Frainz, Hensall, collided at the junction of Wellington and Mill Street in Hensall on Sunday No- vember 12. There were no inju- ries, and damage was moderate. • Don't Drink and Drive 111 Gaiser- ' Bale Insurance Exeter 235-2420 Grand Bend 238-8484 Hensall 262-2607 Clinton 482-9747 Serving South Huron, • Inside Anne Mills switches to new career page 5 Showcase CCAT's two-day event draws Targe crowd page 13 Mohawks win toughest game of year page 17 Achievement Night 4-H club members receive awards page 30 Grand Bend chooses election GRAND BEND - Village resi- dents will have to wait until next year before the vacant council seat will be filled, but they will -have the final say as to who will fill the . opening. - Council instructed clerk Wayne Tingle to begin the election process to fill the vacancy, which has been - open since deputy clerk George . Kadlecik's death in July. Since then, council has been de- bating whether to appoint Marsha Lemon or Kyle Harrison, or to have an election to fill the vacant seat. Lem_ on and Harrison were the only two who submitted their names when council asked for applications for the position. After three months of waiting to see what council was going to do, Lemon officially withdrew her name from the list last week: Deputy reeve Bruce Woodley said at the last couple of meetings he was strongly ih favor of an elec- tion and was in no way going to change his mind, and he started the motion towards an election. The motion was backed back all re- maining council members. Woodley pointed out he is aware an election will cost the village $2,000 but said the advantage of having it in January is that it would be paid for out of the1990budget. A bylaw that .would call for an election will likely be ready to be passed by council on Friday, but no specific election date was given. Sharon said if it is not ready Friday • it will bc passed at the December 4 regular meeting. Nominations for the vacant seat will also be taken after that time and then preliminary voter's lists will bc made. Hit -run suspect caught EXETER - A 24 -year-old male from this arca faces multiple charges as the result of a hit and run and a police chase early Sat- urday morning. At 2:00 a.m. Saturday"mom- ing, a car going south on Main Street in Exeter tried to pass an- other on the right in front of Dinney's, hit that car, lost con- trol, and took out a tight post on the west side of the street just before the intersection. A motorist notified Exeter po- -lice, who were able to. track the car because of the new -fallen sriow. The driver was finally taken into custody after a high- speed chase that ended on a back road north of Lucan. •. The man will appear in Exeter court on December. 12 charged with failing to stop for police, leaving the scene of an accident, impaired driving, driving with no insurance, driving while sus- pended, with improper plates, an unregistered vehicle and open liquor in the car. The next day a vehicle driven by. Howard Heal, Grand Bend, struck and killed a deer on County Road 4 in Stephen Township. Heal had minor injuries, and his vehicle's windshield and roof were damaged. On Thursday, vehicles driven by Douglas Debus, Zurich and Tammy Keller, Dashwood, collided on Con- cession Road 2-3 in Stephen. Kel- ler suffered minor injuries. On Friday a vehicle driven by John Hill, Huron Park, went out of control on Empress Avenue, Huron Park and struck a pole; causing mi- nor damage. In a single- vesicle accident on Saturday, Robert Brand, Centralia; Icft County Road 21 and struck a hydro guidc wire. There was no damage to the vehicle. Song books are back EXETER - This week's T -A includes our popular Christmas Song Book which is made possible with the advertising support of: Exeter Chrysler, Hensall District Co -Op, Oke WoodSmith, Hensall and W.G. Thompson & Sons Ltd., Hensall. A limited number of additional copies are available at the advertisers and at the T -A office. • Restaurant smoking restrictions in town's future? EXETER - Town Administrator Rick Hundey presented to council Monday evening a substantial package outlining the town's re- sponsibilities regarding the up- coming ban on smoking in the workplace. Legislation takes effect in Janu- ary that effectively eliminates smoking from all offices, except, for' those areas designated for smoking or areas with public ac- cess. Designated areas are to take up no more than 25 percent of the work space. Mayor Bruce Shaw, noted, ho ever, that the town's current smok- ing ban for the Town Hall lobby and other public areas would not be affected by the new legistlation. "Looking at both our bylaw and the law, it appears both are compat- ible," said Shaw. "There's some scary things here, very scary," said councillor Morley Hall, reviewing the information package's comments on workplace smoking's.health hazards and relat- ed costs. Shaw said he found the legisla- tion "scary" in that should a non- smoking employee file a complaint, he employer and the smoker were liable. Offending smokers can be fined $500 and the employer is liable for up to $25,000. "I don't think it goes far enough," said councillor Ben Hoogenboom. You want capital punishment?" asked Shaw. Hoogenboom said the law should be extended to restaurants. Shaw replied a municipal bylaw could be drawn up to regulate smoking in restaurants and banks and suggested it might be a future project for Hoogenboom to follow up. Mohawks get apology EXETER - Mayor Bruce Shaw is extending the apologies of coun- cil to the Exeter Senior A Mo- hawks for neglecting to invite the team to the town appreciation ban- quet two weeks ago. The apology comes in the wake of suggestions from the hockey team that they were snubbed by council even though they won the All -Ontario Senior B Champion - ;'ship last spring. The South Huron Panthers Field Hockey team, however, were rec- ognized for their victory at OF - SAA and were invited to the ban- quet at the last minute. Shaw said the oversight was completely unintentional and that the team's name would be en- graved on the Rec Centre plaque, each player would receive his own plaque, and the Mohawks would be invited to next year's banquet. The text of Shaw's letter reads as follows: Dear sir. I feel compelled to write this.let- ter in light of what we discussed last week. Somehow, and certain- ly not through any deliberate act on our part, your 1989 achieve- ment was overlooked. Probably the confusion started as a result of your team's success in 1988. Although, as I under- stand it, you did not win a provin- cial championship, you did win the right to represent Ontarioin the Hardy Cup. We spent consid- erable time during the early part of 1989 determining if indeed we slighted you at our 1988.apprecia- tion banquet. When wediscovered that we did not make a mistake, your 1989 victory must have been. obscured by the previous year's problem. At any rate, quite by accident, we did forget, in November, your spring victory. For that we sincerely apologize and will take immediate action to make amends: i) this letter of apology ii) the plaque at the Rec Centre will have your ch2mpionship in- scribed on it iii) individual plaques will be purchased for all participants iv) you will be invited to the 1990 banquet (when we hope to acknowledge -your 1990 victory as well) and v) expand our efforts to invite the public to offer suggestions for recipients. I trust that these steps will assure you of our commitment to recog- nizing all significant achievements. As well, I hope that you will ac- cept this apology in the spirit in which it is extended. Bruce Shaw Mayor Exeter boom 'amazing' EXbIER - While 1988 was not- e slow year for building in Exeter, 1989 has already surpassed . last year's total and there are still two months to go. • Building official Dave Moyer presented his report to council Monday evening that showed the value of building permits issued as of October put the year-to-date to- tal more than $2 million ahead of October 1988. Exeter issued permits worth $7,268,672 as of October 31 this year. All building for 1988 to- talled only $6,003,385. "That's incredible," said Mayor Bruce Shaw. "That's amazing." Shaw said he considered it high- ly unlikely any other towns in On- tario were expenencing the same kind of growth as Exeter. Moyer said of the 24. permits is- sued in October, seven were for single-family homes, one for a12 - unit apartment block on Marlbo- rough Street, and the town's new fire hall, valued at $350,000. Moyer said a boom in the instal- lation of mobile homes during 1989 was likely responsible for about three-quarters of a million dollars in perniits alone. •Councillor Ben Hoogenboom's move to quickly extend service to a new industrial building in town was cut down by council. Hoogenboom asked that servic- ing be extended to a property owned by Exeter Roofing for the construction of a 12,000 square foot building at the north end of town, on the grounds that council. already had a policy to service that area. Reeve Bill Mickle pointed out the cost was likely to be $45,000 and should not be spent without first reviewing the budget. , Chapman wanted it tabled until an Exeter Roofing delegation could come before council and given a chance to discuss it. •Mickle commended Nabisco for behaving like good corporate citizens for their work in improv- ing the plant's wastewater treat- ment system and tile drainage at their own expense. Council says no Cemetery EXETER - The Exeter Ceme- tery Board's attempt to democra- tize the rate structure of burials in the Exeter Cemetery was sup- pressed by council Monday eve- ning. Councillor Morley Hall present- ed the board's report for setting rates for the coming year. While most costs were increased four percent, the report recommended that burials of residents and non- residents be made the same at $200 each. Presently, a plot for an Exeter resident costs $176, but a grave for a non-resident costs $214. seeks equal costs Clerk Liz Bell noted that, coinci- dentally, the Clinton Cemetery will also be charging $200 per ,grave. When asked why the board wanted one rate for burials, Hall replied "I think it was rather con- fusing." Bell said one concern raised by' the board was that the present ce- metery is in. Hay Township and is planning its expansion into' Ste- phen. Councillor Dorothy Chapman disagreed with that logic. "The way you look at it right now is that Exeter taxpayers arc paying $31,000 for the cemetery for the year. Anyonc who isn't a resident should have to pay more to get in," said Chapman. Reeve Bill Mickle agreed, saying that town taxes should be consid- ered a deposit on a final resting place in the cemetery. Chapman asked for a motion that the cemetery board reconsider their rates. The motion was carried. Hall also said the cemetery board may be requiring a third seasonal staff person next year because stu- dent labour is hard to find at the low rates paid by the cemetery. The summer high school student position would be retained, howcv- er. Warden's dinner- Outgoing Middlesex County Warden Charles Corbett was honored for his year of ser- vice with a special dinner at the Lucan Community Centre Friday fright. Corbett, who is also the reeve of McGillivray Township, poses with his wife Elizabeth and visiting wardens from neighboring counties. Back row, (left to right), Larry O'Neil, (Warden of Lambton), Albert Ford, (Warden of Elgin), Emie Harde- man, (Warden of Oxford), Dave Johnson, (Warden of Huron, and Bob Spence, (reeve of Blanshard Town- ship, representing the reeve of Perth).