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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes Advocate, 1991-01-16, Page 11M Inside Awards ABCA rewards volunteers page 2 -•�Yf,�is+s • TA Classifieds They really pay Call 235-1331 1 GE Gainer-Kneale Insurance Call us for Comprehensive 236-2420 North Middlesex & Lambton Restoration Keeping old furniture alive Page 5 Celebrity Howard Dell visits area page 8 Hockey Mohawks hammer Dresden page 10 • McCurdy school vandalism suspects caught HURON PARK - Three y • + �_ offenders have been charged % I the break-in and vandal' at I.A.D. McCurdy School which oc- curred over the Christmas break. The elementary school was brok- en iIIto and fire extinguishers were used io damage both the building's interior and property. The most damage was done to computer equipment sprayed with the extin- guishers. The Exeter OPP said at the time they believed the crime was solva- ble, and last week arrested the sus- pects, all of them under 18 years of "Any thing young kids do usual- ly comes forward, said staff ser- geant Don McInnis, who added that some stolen property was also re- covered after the arrest. McInnis +also confirmed that the perpetrators were connected with an earlier break-in at the school in December and with two other Hu- ron Park area break-ins that had un- til now gone unreported. First baby The baby boy born to Ma Ann and Mike Koricina at St. Joseph's Hospital in London''' at 6:12 p.m. on January 7 was the first child of the new year for Times -Advocate subscribers Seen here with his sister Michelle is baby Matthew who is eligible for the prizes donated by Times- Advocate advertisers as seen in the December 24 issue. Matthew and -his family live at RR2 Ailsa .` Craig neat Will Exetkhave to pay double GODERICH - Exeter reeve Bill Mickle doesn't want to see the tax- payers of his town, paying double for a landfill. At Thursday's meeting of Huron County Council in Goderich, Mickle stated clearly that his mu- nicipality should not have to pay for the county's proposed new landfill. Exeter has their own landfill, which according to Mickle could be used kir another ten ta.. 12' charms," 'said Mickle. "Yet they'd be forced to be paying for another site." Mickle said Exeter has a plan of its own to 'open another part of its landfill, and, depending on how much people recycle, it could last another ten to 12 years. Gary Davidson, Director of Plan- \iing and Devflopment said the county has nourisdiction over the Please turn to page 2 years. The Huron County Waste Man- agement SteeringCommittee, which fk cumery working on Stage 3A Of their master plan, re- cently received a letter from Exet- er asking several questions about the landfill sites. "We'd be forced to close of site which has already been paid for by the people of Exeter for a period ABCA wants to get tough on polluters EXETER The Ausable Hayfield Conservation Authority is prepared to liet tough with local polluters, but it first needs the go-ahead from local municipalities to do so. Tom Prout, ABCA general man- ager, confirmed that the conserva- tion authority's board of directors has agreed to ask the member mu- nicipalities if they are prepared to let the ABCA take action against those who allow manure to contam- inate local streams and rivers. Prout said that while the Drain - Act does allow anyone to lay rcharges against someone who puts something other than clean water into a drainage system, he noted the ABCA has, until now, pursued a more pro -active approach, prefer- ring to educate farmers to take steps against manure contamina- tion. "We can't do anything really," said Prout, who noted the current course of action is to notify the Ministry of the Environment in Owen Sound of violations. If and when they arrive to investigate, evi- dence has often faded. Prout said while the ABCA's pro- grams do help increase awareness of manure pollution and help pre- vent it "there are still those blatant violators". Pollution can take the form of in- correct spreading practices on rural fields, or direct discharges of stored manure into drainage systems. One result of drainage pollution that re- ceived much attention was last summer's closing of the Grand Bend beach due to a high fecal col- iform count, No direct source of the pollution was pinpointed, but poor manure handling and inade- quate rural septic systems were on the ABCA's list of suspected caus- es. Prout said he, is not sure how the municipalities will react to the sug- gestion that the ABCA is seeking more powers to charge polluters. "Traditionally, CAs were not per- ceived as enforcement agencies," said Prout. The Drainage Act provides for fines up to $5,000 against those found to have polluted Ontario's waterways. Prout says that even if the ABCA is given the go-ahead to charge polluters, the emphasis will mainly be on the deterrent nature of such charges. Once it is known the conservation authority will enforce the Drainage Act, Prout hopes the temptation to pollute will be dis- couraged. "We'd just as soon people don't do it," said Prout. Hockey School says it won't return HURON PARK - The managing director of the Huron Hockey School, says it will not be return- ing to Huron Park this summer. After 20 years of setting up the popular five-week hockey school, Paul ODacre told the Times - Advocate on Monday afternoon that he could not come to negotia- tions with the Stephen Township Arena. ' -1'at, in- a bit •of a stale 6f shock right now," said O'Dacre from his, . office in Cornwall. Huron Hockey School booked 400 hours of ice time beginning in mid-July at a cost of $70 per hour. That has been bumped to $77 plus the new Goods and Service Tax. But O'Dacre said the increase in rental fee, was not the only reason why he has made his decision not to return. "There's a number of issues over and above the ice rental," he said. O'Dacre also said he had some difficulties in dealing with Ste- phen Township arena manager Frank Funston. "We found the rental rate a liule high and there was no room for negotiations. Frank said it's his way or the highway," said ODac re Last . . night Stephen Township touncil was , holding a _ special - .,meeting and the issue of the hock- ey 'WWI was being put on their agenda. Reeve Tom Tomes said that Funston was acting on behalf of the township's arena board. Funston said he was not treated well when he tried to contact the Huron Hockey School in Cornwall in response to a letter he received. "I asked them what was going on Please turn to page 2 Students offered glimpse of life in the Persian Gulf By A rian Have EXETER - For grade five and students at Exeter Public School, the reality of the Persian Gulf confli came a little closer to home last week., Twenty-eight students of Betty Beuttenmiller and Al Beattie sent letters, • via Nova Scotia, to Canadian servicemen of the HMCS Athabaskan in Oc- tober. The ship rias been patrolling the Gulf region since September and it is expected home in February, providing all goes well. The students' letters arrived in November and 24 responses were deliv- ered to the school last Monday. Beutenmiller says the students were delighted to receive the letters, most of them handwritten. One letter included a coin from Bahrain, and another came with the em- broidered crest of the Athabaskan. While sonic letters painted a bleak picture of the service duty in the Gulf, citing soaring temperature and "boring" work, one letter fropt an air controller (the Athabaska has two helicopters) mentioned the crew had a chance to go ice skating in rOarge hotel in Dubai. Another crewman reported the waters of the Gulf are calm "so nobody gets seasick". , A helicopter pilot reflected on the more serious side of serving in an arca of potential war. "We always try to remain bright and cheery arid your letter has helped to make my day a better one." A crewman from Nova Scotia wrote "Things are quiet over [here] at the pr.unt time and I for one hope they stay that way. I would like to see Iraq leave Kuwait and everyone able to go home without going to war. War does not make much sense, it only proves that one side is stronger than the other, not who is right or who is wrong." Cam Dougall received a letter from Rick Austin who is originally from Ailsa Craig. Teacher Beutenmiller noted that the jotter writing was done as part of the students' creative writing class, but the responses have given the class a new perspective on their work. "It makes the letter writing more worthwhile because they'can see the re- sponse," she said. The students are writing a sicond set of letters to the Athabaskan crew- men they heard from. By sending the letters to Nova Scotia, they hlspe the servicemen will receive them when they return to port in February. 1'. red responses last week to letters they sent to Canadian servicemen on patrol with the I-HMCS Athabaskan in the Persian Gulf v41.w"P:YrlitteMV'ytr,• :' eis4i•tiIh+riwiit+!+M:y* 00407+844"dmt,s:n, +r...;.r.:< 4 • •