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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes Advocate, 1991-05-08, Page 28Page 28 Tlmes-Advocate, May 8, 1991 IN THE NFWS Four day barbecue considered GRAND BEND - Get out your bibs and appetites, the Grand Bend Chicken and Steak Cook -Off could be heading your way. Monday night, Grand Bend Council was presented with the idea by London's Jim Smith but Smith was told that his Cook -Off could not be held on the beach as he had wished The four-day event, planned for August 2-5 would see 10 compet- ing restaurants serving chicken and steak on a bun. Prizes and tro- phies would be awarded to the res- taurant with the best sauce on their tasty morsels. Smith requested the north beach in front of the Beachplace Condo- miniums but he was told that this property, owned by the Ministry of Natural Resources and leased by the village could not facilitate such an event. Council was going to look into the possibility of having it on the soccer fields by the Legion and was going to let Smith know of their decision on Monday. Councillor Dennis Snider said a lot of the village's residents would be upset if it was held on the beach. "I think a lot of people in town would string us up if we had something like this on the beach," said Snider. In the past, a Burgerfest was a popular Grand Bend attraction but Snider pointed out that this event turned the beach into a "giant uri- nal." "We've never had anything like this on the beach before. There has been in the parking lot," said Snid- er. Smith said his proposal, which was met by a letter of disapproval by Festival Development Group, owners of the condominiums, would generate a lot of money for local charities. He said 51 percent of the profits would be turned back to local chari- ties and that amount could be as high as $30,000. Smith said the local charities would have to provide a lot of man- power to help run the event. "It's going to be a party atmos- phere but a family atmosphere," said Smith. He said a similiar event held in London's Victoria Park last summer was very succesful. "We didn't have any problems at all, we bring in a lot of security." Council will also be looking into seeing whether or not the local res- taurants, who Smith was to contact first, would be interested. Smith said he would be charging the res- taurants about $2,000 each but they would make a lot of profits from it. Standard Trust to be wound up OTTAWA - "All insured deposi- tors with Standard Trust Company (Standard Trust) and Standard Loan Company (Standard Loan) will be receiving information concerning repayment of their insured deposits within two weeks", says Jean Pierre Sabourin, President and Chief Ex- ecutive Officer of the Canada De- posit Insurance Corporation (CDIC). On May 2, 1991, the Ontario Court of Justice issued an order that Standard Trust Company and Stan- dard Loan Company be wound up under the provisions of the Wind - Mg -up Act. The court has appoint- ed Ernst & Young Inc. as the liqui- dator. "It is important to recognize that CDIC will not simply be repaying depositors from their accounts with Standard Trust and Standard Loan", said Sabourin. "Rather, CDIC will be paying insurance claims from CDIC's deposit insurance fund and these payments will include ac- crued interest (up to the insured limit) to the date of payment which should occur within six weeks." Meanwhile, CDIC's special assis- tance programme will continue. Over $1,500 in fines levied in Justice of the Peace court 1 • EXETER -David Leader of Jelinek Boulevard, Lon- don, entered a guilty plea in Justice of the Peace court last Tuesday for driv- ing while his li- cense was under suspension. Police told the court they stopped Leader's vehicle on High- way 23 in Usbome Township and found he was unable to produce a license. When Leader identified himself as William Leader, police checked their records and found discrepancies. Leader then told them his real name and records showed his license was under sus- pension for both loss of demerit points and an unpaid fine. Justice of the Peace Doug Wed - lake gave Leader three months to pay a $253.75 fine and added an additional six-month suspension to his license. Lawn damage A young offender who ran his car over more than 20 lawns in Exeter told the court he had apol- ogized to 17 of the people whose front gardens were damaged. JP Wedlake told the accused that he was setting the fine at $300 with one month to pay in or- der to act as a deterrent. Wrong plates Walter Brown of Huron Park pleaded guilty to having license plates on his 1980 Chevrolet that were in fact registered to a 1979 Ford owned by his wife. Brown admitted to having switched the plates and the court set the fine at $78.75 with 15 days to pay. No insurance Charles Tasker of Springbank Drive, London, pleaded guilty to driving without insurance and to using a validation sticker on his plate that was not issued for that car. Police stopped Tasker on High- way 23 in Usbome Township on January 25 and discovered the in- fractions. JP Wedlake fined Tasker a total of $832.50 with two months to pay, taking into account Tasker had three prior conviction for driving without insurance. Failure to stop Lynn Halonen of Bayfield pleaded not guilty to disobeying a stop sign at the junction of King Street and Highway 4 in Hensall on February 25. Police testified they spotted a red car which proceeded at a fast jogging speed through the inter- section without stopping. Halonen insisted she had stopped her car well back from the intersection and was unable to see the actual stop line on the road be- cause it had sand over it. JP Wedlake fined Halonen $78.75 with 30 days to pay. This programme was introduced on April 18 when the companies' as- sets and accounts were frozen. The programme's aim is to provide spe- cial advance payments to insured depositors to meet cases of hard- ship or pressing need. Insured de- positors subject to such financial difficulties can apply for this assis- tance by calling CDIC's toll-free number 1-800-461-2342. Under the terms of the Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation Act, eligible deposits with Standard Trust and Standard Loan are in- sured to a maximum of $60,000 for each person per institution. Regis- tered Retirement Savings Plans (RRSPs) and Registered Retire- ment Income Funds (RRIFs) are each separately insured up to the maximum insurable limit of $60,000. Reeve new chairman of municipal I9J;y group EXETER - Town of Exeter reeve Bill Mickle was elected chairman of OSUM (Ontario Small Urban Municipalities) on the weekend. OSUM is a division of AMO (the Association of Municipalities of Ontario) which is a lobby group on behalf of cities, towns, villages, and townships to upper levels of gov- ernment, but mostly Queens Park. Exeter mayor Bruce Shaw con- gratulated Mickle at Monday eve- ning's council meeting and de- scribed him as a "political champion". Mickle gave his thanks to council and staff for their support. "OSUM's got some challenging times before them this year," said Mickle, adding that smaller munici- palities were "feeling the pinch", both through the recession and in- creasinpy restrictive provincial legislation. "I don't think the $9.7 billion def- icit is goingto help them [the mu- nicipalities] much," said Mick - le. Deputy -reeve Lossy Fuller, who was at the weekend convention, of- fered her congratulations and said she felt proud to see someone from Exeter stand as the new chairman. Sod turning - With construction slated to be completed by October, the sod was officially tumed on the new Usbome Township road shed on Friday afternoon. From left are road superintendent Ken Parker, Usbome reeve Gerald Prout, Huron MPP Paul Klopp, contractor Jim Gregus, and Bill Kelley from W.E. Kelley Consulting Engineers. Reprieve for police committee? EXETER - The town isn't yet ready to rush into plans to replace its present police committee with a new police board. The new Police Services Act re- quires that all police forces be man- aged by a police board, which would be more subject to provin- cial policy rather than local coun- cil's control. Exeter, and many other Ontario municipalities have been fighting the new ruling for over a year, but now that the NDP government has agreed to review the new Act, council is hoping that the govern- ment will agree to leave the current committee system in place. The Town of Tillsonburg current- ly has a petition before the Munici- pal Police Association at their an- nual meeting this week in Toronto. "Should we start the ball rolling for a board?" Mayor Bruce Shaw asked council Monday evening. " [councillor Dorothy Chapman's) Anxious pooch - Doug McClinchey of Exeter had a tough time con- trolling Jasper who wanted to get a jump start at the Exeter Lions walk-a•dog a-thon on Sunday. suggestion is no, we should hold off," said Shaw. Reeve Bill Mickle said since a board will not be required until Jan- uary 1992, there was still plenty of time to set it up, but agreed there was also time for the provincial government to review its Police Services Act and change its policy requiring boards over the present police committee system. Injuries minimal in vehicle mishaps EXETER - Exeter OPP reported three separate accidents this week but occupants sustained only mi- nor injuries. On Wednesday,`'at approximate ly 10:15 a.m., Freda Scott of In- gersoll was involved in an acci- dent at the intersection of Highway 4 and 84 in Hensel'. Scott's car was struck while she was turning onto Highway 4 by a southbound pick-up 'ruck driven by id Moczulski if London. In, were mi,.imal but both ve- hicles sustained moderate damage. At approximately 5:50 p.m. of the same day, Daniel Bell of Exet- er was involved in a car -deer acci- dent on Concession Road 2-3 of Hay Township. No injuries result- ed and damage to the car was moderate. On Friday at approximately 3:25 p.m. George Poortinga of R1011 Kirkton was involved in a two - vehicle collision on Highway 4 south of Hensall with a north- bound car driven by Steven Beer of London. Damage to the Beer vehicle was moderate and damage to the vehicle driven by Poortinga was light. The Exeter detachment is also in- vestigating several accounts of van- dalism which occurred over the past week. tit;:: :•S{1'0. 8C••SS4..... •.4 �. {.';}•1.%•..•i`.%i:i7.t. 11. ....- Is • x AM that Ms • Conductor Rob Robilllard controls the tempo during the Jay band's performance Wednes- day at South Huron D.H.S. Cleans Bind - Members of the first-ever Exeter and Area Community Band gave their premier perfort mance at S.H.D.H.S. Wednesday. Above am sax players Brormyn Pearson (leg), Gary Mclean, Bill Shore and Tammy Alexander.