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Times Advocate, 1991-11-27, Page 29roMMUNITYnmesAdve`c3te "civembE27 1991 Retiring reeve of Lucan sums up accomplishments A 4-H Achievement Night was held Monday evening at Usborne Central School for five of South Huron's 4-H clubs. From left are Becky Case from Usbome 1, Derek Etherington from Usborne 2, Juanita Chappel from Exeter 2, Kathryn Hem from Elimville 2, and Barbara Tiernan from Elimville 1, who was also a 12 project award winner. Lynne Hem and Darryl Hem from Elimville 2 were also 12 project award recipients. At right is the Huron County Dairy Princess Morgan Murray from Seaforth. Downhomers to welcome the Barra MacNelis LONDON -The Forest City Mari - timers Club is bringing the sounds of the seaside and Celtic heritage to London, Ontario on November 29, 1991. Introducing: the world - renown Maritime and Scottish folk music performers and recording art- ists: the Barra MacNeils. At 8 p.m. on Friday, November 29, the Barras) are to appear in con- cert at Westminster i High School in southwest London. The auditorium at 230 Baseline Road West will welcome Maritimers, Londoners, and friends from across southwest- er Ontario. Tickets cost only $ 10 in advance and are available form any Director of the Club or by calling Fred at 455-6671 or Gerry at 681- 8445. The Barra MacNeils are a prod- uct of one very talented family hail- ing from Sydney Mines, Nova Sco- tia. fIihree brothers:` Sheuma's, Kylpr and Stewart MacNeil are joined by their younger sister, Lucy. The MacNeils have been playing music together since their teenage years and they attended and studied at Mount Allison University in Sack- ville, New Brunswick. Together, the energetic and en- thusiastic style of the Barra Mac - Neils has been charming audiences of all ages for over 10 years. The instruments are traditional and the songs are a blend of the old and the new as they celebrate their Celtic and Maritime heritage. In 1986, their first recording, "The Barra MacNeils" brought their unique blend of traditional Scottish folk music to the world stage. In 1988, the sincerity of their talents and traditions rang true to audiences in Scotland, Ireland and England, where the band toured. Enchanted listeners tuned into the Scottish sounds from Canada's east`` coast, scarcely believing they were Letter to Editor not native-born sons. Since then, the Barra MacNeils have taken centre stage at many of Canada's foremost folk music ve- nues, including the Mariposa Festi- val, the.Winnipeg Folk Festival and highland music celebrations across the country. Their two most recent recordings, "Rock in the Stream" in 1989 and "Timeframe" in 1990, have firmly established the Barra's as a vital force in Canada's music LUCAN - At Monday's final meeting of the 1991 council , reeve Larry Hotson recalled some of the accomplishments and problems handled by council since he was ap- pointed in July of 1989. Hotson, a councillor at the time was named reeve when Norm Steeper resigned and Bob Taylor was appointed to the vacant council position. The current reeve did not let his name stand at the recent election as he has accepted the position of clerk -treasurer with Biddulph town- ship. Taylor has also stepped down. Hotson praised Taylor's work saying, " I thank you for the excel- lent job you have done and the vil- lage will be poorer for not having your services on council in the fu- ture." The reeve continued, " We have also survived the resignation of clerk Ed Melanson after 16 years of service to this and preceding coun- cils. Although we miss Ed's quiet guidance, Ron Reymer has filled the void and I'm sure will keep the village and councillors on the straight and narrow path. Still on the resignation front, Mrs. Gilmour has just resigned from the office staff and I wish her well in retirement and her new challenges. This council even survived some of the provincially mandated pro- grams such as pay equity. Although there is a great deal of merit in the- ory of pay equity, the implementa- tion of this legislation was both ex- pensive and divisive. I believe this council accomplished the pay equi- ty legislation in a positive and con- structive way, so there is a strong foundation to carry us into the fu- ture. Probably history will credit this council with getting sewers and wa- ter for the village of Lucan. This is not true. We only carried on the work of many previous councils who have been working on these projects for many years. We can however be proud that during our term, we managed to get these projects through the OMB ap- proval stage and get construction started. I will probably never forget the feeling of exhilaration I experi- enced in March of 1990 when our MPP, Doug Reycraft appeared after a county council session and pre- sented me with a letter of commit- ment from the province. This paved the way for this coun- cil to get started with both under- takings. These are the most expen- sive projects the village of Lucan has evertalow this community will be equal to the task. Through the efforts of this coun- cil and especially the recycling committee, the village joined the tri -township group to the south to start the Blue Box recycling pro- gram. This program along with the sister program of composting will add many years to the available landfill capacity. A North Middlesex Building Sys- tem was created to fill a void in the building and plumbing inspection area. Each of the six communities that belong to this system could not afford to have a qualified inspector on their own so the joint agreement to employ one shared inspector was born. This is a top rate affordable system and is working well. To promote the conservation of our limited supply of water and create a more equitable system of billing, this council embarked on installing water meters. This pro- ject has been completed and is working well. Although the loss of parking spaces is regrettable, the new cross- walk light was long overdue to pro- mote the safety of our population, especially the seniors. • The tar and chip treatment of the gravel streets was a maintenance project long advocated by our works superintendent Doug John- ston and it will save upkeep dollars for years to come. These various projects were completed without curtailing the regular street con- struction and water main replace- ment programs. These ongoing pro- grams are very important and we stayed the course even though much of our attention was directed toward the larger, flashier projects." In conclusion Hotson said, " With a water system and sewers being in- stalled, this village is ready to spring forward and become a more vibrant community." Councillor Bob Taylor also at his final meeting said he was thankful for the opportunity to serve village residents to the best of his ability. scene. This special performance is being sponsored by the Forest City Mari - timer's Club. Established in 1986, • M ath■ ■ ■ N o the Club is a non-profit, social and charitable group. Its goal is to assist fellow Martimers and Londoners problem ' ■ and provide fellowship among peo- ple from the four Atlantic provinc- EXETER - Tuesday, November 19 es who have chosen southwestern a proximately 120 students partici- Ontario as their new me.` Foe�� in a "problem -fest"; a friendly . p ie impetitibti ` designed to encourage more information clip it ` tisiSof'thel ittidents' problem solo - `or the Club, please ca11'�" S"'�'i o�'sldlls, The students, who were in - vital from the 5 Huron County sec- ondary schools, and St. Mikes in Stratford, span the entire nine to OAC level and excel in the subject of mathematics. The program designer, Wally Web- ster, who teaches at South Huron High School, has been running work - was dreaming of, did not induce shops for the past five, ears for both her to change her lifestyle and situ- students and teachers. "We have had ation seriously Damian too is number at the elementary school lev- caught in now again. I do not see el, but we wanted to have on at the any way at this time, being locked high school level as well," stated out, to prevent this and to take care Webster. for him, what is very sad. Does it wonder then and can this really be treated as a crime, when the father takes his own son, he is Father replies to abduction charges Dear Editor: Re: Your article "Abducted boy returned to mother": of October 23, 1991 Letter of a presentenced father and husband Your article of October 23, 1991 is not complete yet without having heard my side too. Further it posi- tively demands some rectification in order your attentive readers kindly are able to make up their own opinion concerning this inci- _dent then. -- 1 am a German citizen as well as my son Damian Joachim Boeck, twenty month old, is too with all necessary documents. My wife, (wife's name withheld) and my former law firm Aston, Berg, Ken- nedy & Morrissey, 140 Fullerton St. London Ont. or the Provincial Court (Family Division) London, nobody did inform me in any way of the existence of a Custody Or- der, issued Aug. 02, 1990, by pur- pose or just by negligence. It was held secret and anonymous till the day I got arrested m New York State, in the process the lives of Damian and myself were endan- gered severely as well as our friends there, a properlyfamily living in Schenectady N.Y. The U.S. authorities could not held up the arrest however be- cause there was evidence that I had no knowledge whatsoever of this Custody Order up to the date of the arrest. According to Mr. Da- vid Aston that Custody Order had no validity anymore either due to several reconciliations had taken place since. Aston kept the Custo- dy Order in his file; he did not see it as im t to inform his client about after my wife and I reconcil- iatcd in August 90 again, he ad- mitted to the lawyers in N.Y. Even (wife's name) stated on oath that there were reconciliations mean- while. Also our manage counse- lor could do this as well as people in London, Exeter Zurich and SL Joseph, they saw us living together again until the day of the incident. Therefore it appears completely unreasonable that a Warrant of Ar- rest was issued at all and now is held up still. There is just nothing left what could represent a crimi- nal offence, nothing what could justify the charges and the War- rant still. It gives more and mare the impression that there is a tack of responsibility of some negligent ilialhorities involved to admit that this was a flop after a false alarm. I did not enter the U.S. with Damian under false statements or hiding him somehow. The arrest lasted only a few hours then I was able to move freely again and to return to the U.S. anytime. However there is a discrepancy. U.S. authorities han- dled this case in their very own way to get rid of, giving me the same impression that "As it was, they bent over backwards for us" (for the Exeter Police) in order oe them somehow file and to be able to close their own because it was Friday after- noon, the weekend approaching meanwhile. I do not believe, that is was legally clean and right, to take away my son, who has the same right with me to stay together, returning him back yet into the old situation to Canada eventually. The Canadians played it quite dirty, my N.Y. lawyers re- sumed after receiving ail the de- tails. I do not conceal that there were several motives to bring Damian with me, explained in a letter I had left her and our marriage counselor, indicating the reasons and our des- tination and inviting her to join us in our common winter homestead where we spent the t two wintea'ti already together:.. rmore - took care for her out -of -country health insurance at that time. My doing was governed by an emer- gency and serious dangers he was (still is?) exposed with regard for his wellbeing and life even, eventu- ally arising from her apartment, which is not childproof by any means, and the way she cares for him. The boy is sick and there is al- most everything wrong what is con- sidered to be good child care from common experience in his upbring- ing. Since she left Germany this spring, performing a so called per- fect abduction of Damian here as well, (wife's name) is living on lux- ury welfare in her downtown Lon- don Aperunent on the 8th floor. This is made possible by the Gov- ernment of Canada Family Allow- ances Dept and my support pay- ments. Besides seeing this as a dissipation of tax payers money, this free ride" she gets, "earning" plenty of money with no obligation to work and all eonveniencaa she living with, temporary with him biles for a visit to Damian's grandmoth- Automob er and other close family members- and embersand stays in our common winter target of home here in Bavaria for a while? I d d 1 cannot ima don't think so an gine, if Canada is considerably a crimes constitutional and lawful country still. Besides this, who really would assume seriously, that 1 could de- cide to return to Germany for good, leaving my complete busi- ness and livelihood back in Canada (but I just bought a house in Hen - sell a month ago), risking my ex- pensive Immigration Status, my property and, if I would have known of this Custody Order in the least, a criminal charge even? Probably only a fool. A former law secretary and so- cial worker in London having very close "relations" to London's legal system and intimate conexions to the Governments welfare facilities, (wife's name) strategy b withhold - EXE'T'ER - The Exeter Police ap- peared to find themselves investi- gating crimes involving automo- biles this past week. On Thursday, police investigated a theft from a vehicle parked at the Exeter Legion, and on Friday they were called to the South Huron Dis- trict High School parking lot where a car radio was stolen from a car parked there. Later that day, the police re- I sponded to a mischief incident on y Wellington Street where a car tire ing me the. existence of a Custody-1leenslashed= T"Order followed by prosecution in using a questionable Custody Or- der to sustain criminal charges and a Warrant of Arrest rather are rep- resenting attempted attacks to •see me dead or in prison as a result and enabling her to grab my assets fi- nally, she is after so desperately since we dated first, obviously a manner to solve her chronical fi- nancial and family problems! Dieter J. Boeck Dipl. Ing. Munich, Germany I would appreciate it very much, if you could publish this letter too, possibly in full, giving me my chance with this towards your readers. Yours very truly, Dieter J. Boeck, Munich, Germany November 23. 1991 Editor's note: A Canada -wide warrant for the arrest of Dieter Boeck for the abduction of a child under 14 years is still in effect. We have withgehd4his wife's name and address as it was never released by the police. GIVE THE GIFT OF GOOD HEALTH THIS CHRISTMAS WITH. EFernme -1 AY - Gift Certificates Christmas Specials Available at Lifetime Home Products Exeter (Mark Heimrich) 378 Main St., at Exeter Paint and Paper 235-0699 The police are also investigating a series of fraudulent cheques is- sued to local retailers. Six counts of fraud are pending against one in- dividual who police were still at- tempting to locate on Monday. There was one car accident inves- 1 ligated by police this week. On Fri-' day a car driven by Clara Statton of Huron Park collided on Main Street North with the rear of a car driven by Paul Bernard of Clinton. While there were no injuries reported, po- lice say Highway 'Traffic Act charges are pending. The police are also running their RiDE campaign (Reduce Impaired Driving Everywhere) on a sporadic basis throughout the festive season. They advise anyone planning a Christmas party to consider using designated drivers or hiring vans or buses to ensure safe transportation. NOETIUE Ratepayers of Township of 4McGillivray 4th Installment of 1991 Taxes Due on or before November 29, 1991 Shirley Scott, Clerk -Treasurer Notice Is hereby given of the ANNUAL MEETING in the Clinton Town Hall Auditorium WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4 AT 8:00 P.M. for the purporme of receiving reports and financial statements for the year ending on September 30, 1991, electing Directors and Credit Committee officers, appointing auditors; for the purpose of amending By -Laws and of transacting all other business of an Annual Meeting. Lunch will fellow the meeting. Door Prizes. Dated at Clinton this 14th day of November, 1991. 70 ONTARIO ST. CUNTON 442-3447 Ilarlorie Dobson tleoretery Clinton Community CREDIT UNION "'""""��a 476-0440