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Times Advocate, 1991-04-24, Page 3TN THF NFW.S Sentencing next week for lawn damage • EXETER - A young offender who in over 27 lawnsns in l ri the Dow subdivi- sion in Exeter an March 29 was found guilty of one charge of tresspassing in Justice of the Peace Court last i Tuesday. The offender, whose name can- not be published, pleaded guilty to the charge in which lawns were rutted and damaged by his vehicle accelerating and sliding over the grass. A 2.5 metre tree was also damaged in the incident. The accused has already made some restitution to the homeown- ers. Justice of the Peace Doug Wed - lake noted that many more charg- es could have been laid, including the more serious charge of mis- chief. Wedlake has delayed sentenc- ing until April 30 to see if the ac- cused has apologized to the other property owners as the court rec- ommended. Unsafe vehicle A spot check by the Exeter Po- lice of a vehicle owned by Terry Pfaff of Kippen resulted in a fine of $78.75 in Justice of the Peace court last Tuesday. Pfaff registered a guilty plea in the court for operating an unsafe vehicle on April 4. The police had inspected the vehicle, deemed it to be unsafe and removed the plates. Failing to yield Clarke Teal of RR5 Goderich was fined $78.75 for failing to yield to a pedestrian who activat- ed the crosswalk on Exeter's Main Street at Victoria on April 5. Police told the court their mis- er stopped at the crosswalk to al- low a pedestrian to cross and Teal's vehicle passed the cruiser and went through the crosswalk. The accused said he did not see the crosswalk. Driving under suspension Ian Thiel of Zurich pleaded guilty to driving while his license was suspended. The Exeter Police stopped his vehicle on April 7 on Main Street and CPIC records showed two suspensions were in effect on his license. The accused said he had no idea his license had been suspended for points violations, but said he was aware of a suspension because of an unpaid fine. The court fined Thiel $253.75 with an additional six-month li- cense suspension. He was given three months to pay. Speeding Ernest Springall of Kitchener pleaded not guilty to speeding on Exeter's Main Street while his li- cense was under suspension. Police told the court that radar clocked Springall's car at 72 km/h on November 10, 1990 at 1:30 a.m. After police stopped the ve- hicle at CPIC check showed Springall's license was under two suspensions. He was given 30 days to pay a $253.75 fine with an additional six-month license suspension. Complaint about ticket Leroy Kirkwood of RR2 Bay- field pleaded not guilty to speed- ing 108 km/h in an 80 zone in Hay Township on February 21. Police testimony said that Kirk - wood's vehicle was visibly speed- ing and was clocked at up to 110 km/h and locked in at 109 on ra- dar. The constable originally wrote the ticket up for 95 km/h, but changed her mind and amended it 10 108 km/h after a conversation with the accused. The officer tes- tifed the conditions were dark, dry and cold that evening, with a few minor grades along the road. Kirkwood told the court he was upset about being stopped and wanted to ask the officer some questions about the speeding charge. but she wouldn't answer any and then upgraded the ticket to 108 km/h. He said he took the ticket to court mainly because he was upset with the officer's atti- tude. JP Wedlake told Kirkwood he should take his complaints to the staff sergeant and not the court and set the fine at $108.75. Kirkwood said he has already made his complaints with the de- tachment. Speeding Marylin Barbour of RR3 Ches- ley insisted she was driving at 80 km/h when a cruiser pulled her over for speeding on Highway 4. Police told the court radar locked onto a vehicle behind an- other that was speeding excessive- ly atupto114km/h. Barbour said she was following a line of cars at the speed limit. Wedlake said the accused never told the court whether she checked her speedometer and set the fine at $97.50 with two months to pay. Exclusive cab license denied GRAND BEND - In an attempt to keep free enterprise alive, Grand Bend Council decided not to issue an exclusive taxi license to Wayne Parker. Monday night, Parker said he should be able to run the only ser:— vice erervice in the village. "I don't think we're here to elim- inate business. If anything, to pro- mote free enterprise," said council- lor Bill Uniac. Parker said other cab companies could be able to come in and oper- ate without licenses if the village did not issue him an exclusive li- cense. He even said there may be taxis operating without a license in the village now. Council told him to report that to the municipal office and in turn they would contact the bylaw en- forcement officer. In his presentation to council, Parker reported that in London, one license is issued per 1,030 people. "If you're using London as your guideline, we have to have more than one license," said Uniac. Parker said he didn't want other taxi services coming in just during the summer months and leaving, he -wants to have a year-round busi- ness. "If we eliminate come -and -go business, that's a good percentage of our business," said Uniac. Deputy -reeve Shirley Mitchell said it would not be fair to issue a license to someone for a year-round operation and then have another business come in and operate for a couple of months. Parker who is now operating his taxi in the village, says he has a cel- lular phone and his service is avail- able 24 hours. He presented a fare list to council which will be approved by the next meeting. Parker said he has other drivers and vehicles available if business gets busy but also noted he may soon have some competition. "There's a rumour you may have another cab coming in looking for a license," said Parker. Caving endangered spaces - Jackie Rowe (left) , Shannon Rowe and Laurie Glavin are launching a campaign this week to sell garbage bags in Exeter to raise funds for the Canada's Endangered Spaces program, which will in turn benefit wildlife. Firework sales to be limited Times -Advocate, April 24, 1991 Peg" Large variety of prizes for conservation authority banquet The second annual Ausable Con- servation Foundation and Exeter Li- ons Club conservation dinner will be a huge success if the quality of prizes in the various auctions and raffles is any indication. For the active sportsman, a Hawken rifle and a Remington shotgun will be on the list of live auction items and a .22 calibre rifle will be available to those bidding on the silent auction. Ted Jones, one of the dinner com- mittee members says, "The Hawken rifle is a .50 calibre black powder muzzle loader and is very eye catch- ing with brass on it." According to Jones, hunting with this type of firearm is becoming a very popular sport with an exclu- sive deer season. He added, "In addi- tion to being an attractive wall hanger, it has a practical use." The Remington shot gun is a 12 gauge autoloading Sportsman and has a vented rib and modified choke. It is a very practical gun for local hunters. Both of the aforementioned guns come in hard shell cases. On the silent auction list will be .22 calibre Ruko rifle. This is a rea- sonable rifle and popular for vermin and target shooting. It comes in a good soft case which is donated by Joe Woods of Kerwood, the suppli- er of the three guns. As of the dinner committee meet- ing of April 15, a wide variety of items totalling 111 had been donat- ed for the general raffle. „ This year's special raffle includes lawn furniture supplied at'cost'by Casual industries Inc., a gas barbe- cue donated by MacLean's Automo- tive, a portable telephone from Bell Canada, a bird bath from Shewan's Ornaments and acrylic patioware from The Feather Tick. Second prize in this raffle will be a picnic table, portable propane bar- becue, outdoor cookware, a winter sunset print, cookbook and sauce and spruce and pine trees. Third prize consists of two Adi- User -pay recycling seen to be too expensive ZURICH - The plan to install a user -pay system for Zurich's blue box recycling programhas run into a few snags. Concil are con- cerned that a fee schedule would make the cost of recycling virtually prohibitive for commercial ratepay- ers. While council at last Tuesday's meeting still seemed firmly com- mitted to the concept of the user - pay program, they acknowledged that some of the fees involved may be unrealistic. Other local munici- palities have preferred to bill the cost of recycling on the general mu- ni levy. Maureen Simmons told council that a "share" schedule has calculated the fee of $25.50 for blue box collection in the village, some $10 more than last year. However, a depot cart required for high-volume commercial opera- tions, such as restaurants and stores, is calculated to be worth 10 shares - and three carts would be required to keep materials separate. "It's outrageous," said Simmons, claiming the $750 cost to Zurich businesses for the use of depot carts was too steep to be realistic. Council agreed that the cost was enough to prevent many businesses from ordering the carts and may bust continue with an inadequate lue box. "We could give them a blue box and then they'll overload it and maybe not recycle at all, she added. Reeve Bob Fisher asked that the Biuewater Recycling Association be contacted about the rationale for the cost of the depot cans. However, Fisher wasadamant that the cost of commercial recy- cling should not be subsidized by the residential taxes. He noted when the number of de- pot tarts were added up, it was "a lot of money and we shouldn't be paying for it." said Fisher. rondack chairs donated by Gordon Johnson and dinner for four at the - Thirsty Fox at Grand Bend. The canoe raffle which was a huge success a year ago is being re- peated. In addition to the canoe from Smith -Peat Roofing, the win- ner will receive His and Hers water- proof watches from Bakelaar Jewel- lers, a picnic table, life jackets, paddles, fishing shirt and lures, a trees print, cooler bag, Thermos Gemini 30, fishing rod, hats and seasons pass from the ABCA and a variety of trees. Prize number two in this raffle will include two custom built de- luxe graphite fishing rods and reels through the courtesy of John Schwindt, Terry Romphf and Andy Deboer. The first tali_i IM6 graphite valued at $400 with light action and the second is a Limas with medium to heavy action priced at $200. Accompanying the rods will be Shimano and Browning mels. Along with the rods and reels go a life jacket and two canoe. The dinner along with vari- ous auctions and raffles will be held on Thursday, April 25 at the South Huron Rec Centre in Exeter. All 400 tickets have been sold in advance. The winner of the early bird draw was Sandra Funk of RR 2 Hensall. She won a painting of Old Dan by Tammy Laye. We're Fully Equipped for An Job Our fleet of trucks. CUSTOM CRUSHING AND SCREENING OF GRAVEL •Supplying you with various aggregate materials in gravel and stone. Crusher operating at our ph. We have the capacity to meet you needs In gravel and stone. Zurich will also be contacting Bluewater to determine why the in -1 dividual costs of recycling have in- creased over the past year, even though the association claims to be decreasing its unit cost. "It seems like costs should be go- ing down, not more," said Sim- mons. Our fleet of ezcsvators . loaders • bulldozers. *TRUCKING *GRAVEL, SAND & STONE *BULLDOZING *EXCAVATING *TOPSOIL *SEPTIC SYSTEMS Job too big or too small" GRAND BEND - In an attempt to control fireworks in the village, a new bylaw will be drafted re- stricting sales. Monday night, bylaw enforce- ment officer Keith Crawford sug- gested Grand Bend adapt Lon- don's bylaw. Currently, there are no regula- tions on fireworks sales. • "Ours is so outdated, it's use- less," said Crawford. The London bylaw indicates sales can only be three days prior to the actual holiday and bans. outside display sales. Councillor John McDowell said there are already some fireworks being set off in the village. 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