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Times Advocate, 1991-07-31, Page 1OAR RENTALS DAILY • WUKLY • MONTHLY CALL w roe rvsuRANCE AOKACEMPIE NEEDS • CanpYM AMo ci*rrr CorotIv • c7 " Su 23 -3381 or I 238-8839 after hours iL Gaiser-Kneale Insurance WHOA Experience & Value 235-2420 Serving South Huron •New safe thwarts second robbery HENSALL - The Hensall Liquor store suffered another break-in last week, the second this summer. The Exeter OPP report that thieves broken in last Monday, like- ly in the very early hours of the morning, and attempted to make off with thetrailer's safe. This was the same scenario acted out in the pre- vious break-in when the safe was removed from the premises. Police had recovered the dam- aged safe, minus its contents, later. However, in last -week's incident, a new safe proved too much for the culprits who not only left it behind, but also abandoned a car stolen from London. Police say the two break-ins are very likely related, and say they have suspects and arrests are ex- pected pending further investiga- tion. In both break-ins, little if any al- cohol was taken from the liquor store. The Liquor Store break-in was one of five break -and -enters inves- tigated by the OPP last week, how- ever, staff sergeant Don McInnis said that the incidents don't appear related to other break-ins in the area. McInnis observed that the in- stances_-of--break-enter-and thefts have increased this year, but only if the rash of cottage break-ins last year is discounted. The OPP also recovered another stolen vehicle last week. It was found at the Ironwood Golf Course after having been stolen in the Wa- terloo Region. Unfortunately, an- other car was reported stolen from Ironwood at the same time and was later recovered in London. Police say they have suspects. The OPP also have a youth's bi- cycle that was found in Hensall on Sunday. Its owner can recover it from the police if it can be properly identified. T -A phone book coming next week Times Advocate readers can look for- ward to a special ad- dition to their paper next week as the an- nual T -A Oione hook comes off the presses. The phone book, the printing of which is made possible through the support of local advertisers, fea- tures large -print easy -to -find list- ings for local exchanges (have you ever flipped back and forth be- tween Dorchester and Fingal trying to find Exeter in the big directo- ry?)• The book will be included in all newstand and locally -mailed cop- ies of the T.A. Once newstands run out, anyone wishing extra cop- ies of the book can buy them at the Times Advocate office in Exeter for S2 each.' North Middlesex & Lambton S1nce 1873 Wednesday, July 31 1991 Royal Couple - Andrew Earle and Ashley Erb, crowned Prince and Princess of the Zurich Fair, waited patiently for the beginning of their ride in Saturday's parade. Final report on boundaries being prepared GRAND BEND - Representa- tives from Bosanquet Township and Grand Bend were to meet with the Lambton Boundary Application Committee again on Tuesday as ne- gotiations between the two commu- nities continued. A draft of the final report is due A?usut 7 and is expected to deter- mine the future municipal boundar- ies in the area. Grand Bend stands to gain territory in Bosanquet and/ or Stephen Townships, or face amalgamation with Bosanquet. Monday night at the Grand Bend council meeting, reeve Bruce Woodley met with his council be- hind closed doors to discuss Tues- day's meeting. Earlier he and clerk -treasurer Paul Turnbull had made recommen- dations on a confidential draft re- port which had been prepared by the committee. "We were requested to have writ- ten comments for that meeting," said Woodley. While Woodley and his council prepared their comments, Bosan- quet was instructed to do the same. "Those two reports, along with a verbal discussion wilt _WY_ to—We-- committee," o--[Tiecommittee," said Woodley. He was going to be joined at the negotiating table yesterday in Wyo- ming by deputy -reeve Shirley Mitchell and Turnbull. Woodley would not elaborate on any changes he and Turnbull had made to the committee's draft report. "I'm not going to comment but there are some changes," he said. On Thursday, August 22, a public meeting will be held at the Grand Bend Legion. On August 7, the committee will make available cop- ies of the final report. Grand Bend is also in boundary negotiations with Stephen Town- ship but Woodley said the August 22 meeting does not involve any negotiations or proposed boundary adjustments with it. Go ahead complain, but make It fast GRAND BEND - Any Grand Bend residents who come to the next council meeting will be limit- ed to speaking for 15 minutes if they have any complaints. The next meeting is Tuesday at 7 p.m. After each long weekend, there are often delegations which come to council, voicing their displeas- ure of the visitors which migrate to their community. The Grand Bend Ratepayers As- sociation came to council after the last long weekend with numerous recommendations, tying up coun- cil for several hours. "We spent too much time with the Ratepayers Association during the two meetings in July," said reeve Bruce Woodley. Instead, Woodley suggested the association contact the parking committee and recommendations from that committee would come to council. The reeve made the statement af- ter informing council that the Town of Petrolia's meetings last just two hours. In Grand Bend, council meets twice a month for a minimum of four hours each. Woodley said the mayor of Petrolia suggested Grand Bend make better use of its com- mittee system. 75 ccilty Village lifeguards forced to patrol Gibb's beach area GRAND BEND - Another long weekend in Grand Bend is just a few days away which means the beach patrol can expect be kept very busy. Monday night, co -captains of the patrol, Greg Shaw and Greg Sturm updated the village on their day-to- day operation. Their biggest con- cern was how to properly patrol the section of beach owned by Ar- chie Gibbs. "That area is unsafe. By 3 p.m. the glare is so bad we can't see down there," said Shaw. Although the lifeguards are not responsible for patrolling Gibbs' beach, they have said in the past they do keep an eye on swimmers in that area. This summer, Shaw and Sturm said private citizens have rescued at least three swimmers near the pier. Prior to Gibbs taking over his section of beach, there were three lifeguard stands on the north and main beach and one on the south. One has been removed from the • Gibbs area leaving two on the main beach and one, occupied only on weekends, on the south beach. "The legal opinion we got from our lawyer was that people who went in off his (Gibbs) beach, peo- ple could sue him," said reeve Bruce Woodley about injuries to swimmers. "Our lawyer also said we didn't have to have lifeguards on his beach. With money so tight, he thought it was an added expense," said deputy -reeve Shirley Mitchell. Councilor John McDowell sug- gested Gibbs either provide life- guards or compensate the village who could provide one. There are currently three full- time lifeguards and one part-time. Shaw said the beach patrol will try and bring in another part-time guard for the long weekend. "I don't feel safe trying to watch that area," said Shaw about Gibbs' beach. In his opinion, Shaw felt about 65 percent of those coming ,to the beach, were on Gibbs' portion. Dashwood gets ready for 20th annual Friedsburg Da's DASHWOOD - The German cultural heritage of the Dashwood area will be celebrated for the 20th year running this weekend as Friedsburg Days gears up for its 1991 event. The community event will be - looking back on itself this year, and the theme "Remember When" will be included in most events, in- cluding Saturday's parade,even the famous body painting contest. Several of the former Miss Friedsburgs will be returning to Dashwood, a few even travelling halfway across the province to at- tend. The public will get a chance to see the former contest winners during the parade and when they are introduced to the crowd at 1:15 p.m. Saturday. The contest for the 1991 Miss Friedsburg will follow, for which there are eight contest- ants this year (see elsewhere in this issue). Other favourite events returning le the Fried"$burg "festival once- 4 �"" again will be the mini -tractor pull, face painting for the youngsters, the Rhine Danube Dancers, the arm - wrestling contest, and all the Ger- man -style food you can eat. Hensall cattle auction discontinued HENSALL - A Thursday afternoon tradition in Hensall for nearly the past 40 years is no more, but owner Barry Miller has published an announcement to let his customers know he is still in business. The announcement, published in today's Times Advocate, emphasizes the point that while Miller has closed Hensall's Thursday livestock auction. he will still be taking cattle to the Taibotville auction and smaller lots of cattle can be brought to the Hen- sall Livestock Yard for assembly on Fridays. After it began in 1952, the cattle auction became a Urge_venue for the sale of locally -raised cattle. A decade ago, Miller says he would sec 800 to 1,000 head of cattle auctioned off on a Thursday. In the past few years those numbers have dropped and now only 200-250 head pass through the auction barn. The main reason for the drop is that fewer local farmers find the raising of cattle as profitable as it once was. "The cattle population has dropped all over," said Miller. "The farmers are having a hard time out there." The western provinces have now come to domi- nate the market. Also because the number of large-scale meat packers in the arca has declined, fewer bidders were coming to Hensall auction. However. Miller points out that while the auction is no more. he will stillte_taking caule to other auc- tions in search of the.best price for local producers. "We're not closing. Were just closing Thursday's auctions and the rest will remain the same," said Miller. Miller will also still be selling stockers and feed- ers to farmers in the region, and the hog assembly yard will continue its usual Tuesday morning opera- tion. Break from fastball- As part of Saturday's McGillivray Minor Ball Association Fun Day, the Limy Pirates dared Corbett's fastball team to tugofwar. Although Pirate leader Dwayne Marrinan (front) looks deter- mined, Corbett walked away with an easy win. A Inside Amusements Keep the Bend alive for kids page 5 Fair Zurich's agriculgural extravaganza page8and9 Swimming Exeter hosts annual meet page 16 Twins When one isn't enough page 17 •New safe thwarts second robbery HENSALL - The Hensall Liquor store suffered another break-in last week, the second this summer. The Exeter OPP report that thieves broken in last Monday, like- ly in the very early hours of the morning, and attempted to make off with thetrailer's safe. This was the same scenario acted out in the pre- vious break-in when the safe was removed from the premises. Police had recovered the dam- aged safe, minus its contents, later. However, in last -week's incident, a new safe proved too much for the culprits who not only left it behind, but also abandoned a car stolen from London. Police say the two break-ins are very likely related, and say they have suspects and arrests are ex- pected pending further investiga- tion. In both break-ins, little if any al- cohol was taken from the liquor store. The Liquor Store break-in was one of five break -and -enters inves- tigated by the OPP last week, how- ever, staff sergeant Don McInnis said that the incidents don't appear related to other break-ins in the area. McInnis observed that the in- stances_-of--break-enter-and thefts have increased this year, but only if the rash of cottage break-ins last year is discounted. The OPP also recovered another stolen vehicle last week. It was found at the Ironwood Golf Course after having been stolen in the Wa- terloo Region. Unfortunately, an- other car was reported stolen from Ironwood at the same time and was later recovered in London. Police say they have suspects. The OPP also have a youth's bi- cycle that was found in Hensall on Sunday. Its owner can recover it from the police if it can be properly identified. T -A phone book coming next week Times Advocate readers can look for- ward to a special ad- dition to their paper next week as the an- nual T -A Oione hook comes off the presses. The phone book, the printing of which is made possible through the support of local advertisers, fea- tures large -print easy -to -find list- ings for local exchanges (have you ever flipped back and forth be- tween Dorchester and Fingal trying to find Exeter in the big directo- ry?)• The book will be included in all newstand and locally -mailed cop- ies of the T.A. Once newstands run out, anyone wishing extra cop- ies of the book can buy them at the Times Advocate office in Exeter for S2 each.' North Middlesex & Lambton S1nce 1873 Wednesday, July 31 1991 Royal Couple - Andrew Earle and Ashley Erb, crowned Prince and Princess of the Zurich Fair, waited patiently for the beginning of their ride in Saturday's parade. Final report on boundaries being prepared GRAND BEND - Representa- tives from Bosanquet Township and Grand Bend were to meet with the Lambton Boundary Application Committee again on Tuesday as ne- gotiations between the two commu- nities continued. A draft of the final report is due A?usut 7 and is expected to deter- mine the future municipal boundar- ies in the area. Grand Bend stands to gain territory in Bosanquet and/ or Stephen Townships, or face amalgamation with Bosanquet. Monday night at the Grand Bend council meeting, reeve Bruce Woodley met with his council be- hind closed doors to discuss Tues- day's meeting. Earlier he and clerk -treasurer Paul Turnbull had made recommen- dations on a confidential draft re- port which had been prepared by the committee. "We were requested to have writ- ten comments for that meeting," said Woodley. While Woodley and his council prepared their comments, Bosan- quet was instructed to do the same. "Those two reports, along with a verbal discussion wilt _WY_ to—We-- committee," o--[Tiecommittee," said Woodley. He was going to be joined at the negotiating table yesterday in Wyo- ming by deputy -reeve Shirley Mitchell and Turnbull. Woodley would not elaborate on any changes he and Turnbull had made to the committee's draft report. "I'm not going to comment but there are some changes," he said. On Thursday, August 22, a public meeting will be held at the Grand Bend Legion. On August 7, the committee will make available cop- ies of the final report. Grand Bend is also in boundary negotiations with Stephen Town- ship but Woodley said the August 22 meeting does not involve any negotiations or proposed boundary adjustments with it. Go ahead complain, but make It fast GRAND BEND - Any Grand Bend residents who come to the next council meeting will be limit- ed to speaking for 15 minutes if they have any complaints. The next meeting is Tuesday at 7 p.m. After each long weekend, there are often delegations which come to council, voicing their displeas- ure of the visitors which migrate to their community. The Grand Bend Ratepayers As- sociation came to council after the last long weekend with numerous recommendations, tying up coun- cil for several hours. "We spent too much time with the Ratepayers Association during the two meetings in July," said reeve Bruce Woodley. Instead, Woodley suggested the association contact the parking committee and recommendations from that committee would come to council. The reeve made the statement af- ter informing council that the Town of Petrolia's meetings last just two hours. In Grand Bend, council meets twice a month for a minimum of four hours each. Woodley said the mayor of Petrolia suggested Grand Bend make better use of its com- mittee system. 75 ccilty Village lifeguards forced to patrol Gibb's beach area GRAND BEND - Another long weekend in Grand Bend is just a few days away which means the beach patrol can expect be kept very busy. Monday night, co -captains of the patrol, Greg Shaw and Greg Sturm updated the village on their day-to- day operation. Their biggest con- cern was how to properly patrol the section of beach owned by Ar- chie Gibbs. "That area is unsafe. By 3 p.m. the glare is so bad we can't see down there," said Shaw. Although the lifeguards are not responsible for patrolling Gibbs' beach, they have said in the past they do keep an eye on swimmers in that area. This summer, Shaw and Sturm said private citizens have rescued at least three swimmers near the pier. Prior to Gibbs taking over his section of beach, there were three lifeguard stands on the north and main beach and one on the south. One has been removed from the • Gibbs area leaving two on the main beach and one, occupied only on weekends, on the south beach. "The legal opinion we got from our lawyer was that people who went in off his (Gibbs) beach, peo- ple could sue him," said reeve Bruce Woodley about injuries to swimmers. "Our lawyer also said we didn't have to have lifeguards on his beach. With money so tight, he thought it was an added expense," said deputy -reeve Shirley Mitchell. Councilor John McDowell sug- gested Gibbs either provide life- guards or compensate the village who could provide one. There are currently three full- time lifeguards and one part-time. Shaw said the beach patrol will try and bring in another part-time guard for the long weekend. "I don't feel safe trying to watch that area," said Shaw about Gibbs' beach. In his opinion, Shaw felt about 65 percent of those coming ,to the beach, were on Gibbs' portion. Dashwood gets ready for 20th annual Friedsburg Da's DASHWOOD - The German cultural heritage of the Dashwood area will be celebrated for the 20th year running this weekend as Friedsburg Days gears up for its 1991 event. The community event will be - looking back on itself this year, and the theme "Remember When" will be included in most events, in- cluding Saturday's parade,even the famous body painting contest. Several of the former Miss Friedsburgs will be returning to Dashwood, a few even travelling halfway across the province to at- tend. The public will get a chance to see the former contest winners during the parade and when they are introduced to the crowd at 1:15 p.m. Saturday. The contest for the 1991 Miss Friedsburg will follow, for which there are eight contest- ants this year (see elsewhere in this issue). Other favourite events returning le the Fried"$burg "festival once- 4 �"" again will be the mini -tractor pull, face painting for the youngsters, the Rhine Danube Dancers, the arm - wrestling contest, and all the Ger- man -style food you can eat. Hensall cattle auction discontinued HENSALL - A Thursday afternoon tradition in Hensall for nearly the past 40 years is no more, but owner Barry Miller has published an announcement to let his customers know he is still in business. The announcement, published in today's Times Advocate, emphasizes the point that while Miller has closed Hensall's Thursday livestock auction. he will still be taking cattle to the Taibotville auction and smaller lots of cattle can be brought to the Hen- sall Livestock Yard for assembly on Fridays. After it began in 1952, the cattle auction became a Urge_venue for the sale of locally -raised cattle. A decade ago, Miller says he would sec 800 to 1,000 head of cattle auctioned off on a Thursday. In the past few years those numbers have dropped and now only 200-250 head pass through the auction barn. The main reason for the drop is that fewer local farmers find the raising of cattle as profitable as it once was. "The cattle population has dropped all over," said Miller. "The farmers are having a hard time out there." The western provinces have now come to domi- nate the market. Also because the number of large-scale meat packers in the arca has declined, fewer bidders were coming to Hensall auction. However. Miller points out that while the auction is no more. he will stillte_taking caule to other auc- tions in search of the.best price for local producers. "We're not closing. Were just closing Thursday's auctions and the rest will remain the same," said Miller. Miller will also still be selling stockers and feed- ers to farmers in the region, and the hog assembly yard will continue its usual Tuesday morning opera- tion. Break from fastball- As part of Saturday's McGillivray Minor Ball Association Fun Day, the Limy Pirates dared Corbett's fastball team to tugofwar. Although Pirate leader Dwayne Marrinan (front) looks deter- mined, Corbett walked away with an easy win. A