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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes Advocate, 1992-03-18, Page 1rams Carnations 795 Cash & Cany 41, COUNTRY fIOWfkS Bunch tar lU Exeter at leneurealwe Exp Value 235-2420 ;Serving Soutn Huror Who's the fittest, Zurich or fiensall? Nort MidrilrsF A . Lamhto. Street upgrade no longer critical Sine, .1S7, Wertnes.da!, March 1t•. 1942 7h cent., Zurich adopts two -zone development plan ZURICH - Village council - agreed to embrace a plan from the Ausable Bayfield Conservation Au- thority that divides flood -prone we - as of Zurichsiglo two zones, paving the way tor easier development of some of these area,. Council and the ABCA clashed during the summer of 1990 when the authonty established that some roads in the village would have to be graded much 'higher to meet emergency flooding requirements. The village in tum requested the ABCA establish a two -zone policy for Zurich, but with an eye for tak- ing into account impmvemenes made in the east side of Zurich with recent upgrades to the Zurich drain. Councilviewed the two -zone ZURICH - Not wanting to be out- done by a neighbouring village, Zu- rich council has agreed to pick up the -gauntlet thrown down by Hen- sel'. -The two municipalities will be in- volved in a Fitness Challenge on May 27 when each village will vie for the largest percentage of people physically active in exercise for at least 15 minutes. Whenn-Zurich council considered R Hensall's challenge last Wednesday evening, it was decided councillor Dwayne .Laporte .should organize Zurich's response. Laporte gladly accepted. "I don't want to lose to Hensall in anything," claimed Laporte. White out triggers eight - car -highway- pile hig-hwey- p le up LUCAN - White-out conditions are being blamed for an eight -car pile up on Highway 4 south of Cen- tralia Thursday morning. The Lucan OPP repos that a white out at about 7:50 a.m. caused a chain reaction pile up of eight ve- hicles, but the only injuries report- ed were minor. Involved were drivers Donna Turcott, David Fuhon, David Hayter, Michael Cottenie„and Mal- colm Campbell, all of London, and Brenda Geiser of Exeter, William Vanderhorst of Strathroy. and Peter VanDenbroek of RR6 Se Thomas All except the Gaiser vehicle were heading north on the highway. _NorhaigesJiavebeen laid. David Suzuki shaking at Grand Bend school GRAND BEND - Environmen- ialiirDavid Suzuki will be appear- ing at Grand Bend Public School Saturday. March 28. Luis Hoffman, owner of Saga Bound Book Store in Grand Bend, has arranged for the host of The Nature of Things to visit the school while pronating his new book. "We're really excited about it,” confirmed Hoffman. "And were hoping it will be a good learning experience." Suzuki's new book is entitled "Wisdom of the Elders" and ex- plains how we could take better care of our planet by looking to- wards.the aged in society. Suzuki will give a lecture, field questions from local enviraunen- talists and afterwards be available for book signings. There is no charge for viewers and inquiries can be directed w the book store. The event begins at 7 p.m. in the school gym. Irian Breaik magic Bob Howard from Meadowsweet Productions kept his Aasdience enthralled Monday afternoon at the Exeter library raw a March Break puppet and juggling show. Howard also mod in Kirkton earlier in the day. OPP seeking information Mailboxes smashed by vandals in .Stephen EXETER - The Exeter OPP report that they are investigating the destruction of "a large num- ber" of mailboxes along Stephen Township Concession 6-7 north of Crediton. Police say the vandalism oc- curred Saturday night and the culprits likely used either a baseball bat or pipe. The OPP were also .called to investigate a break-in into a cube van panned on .the lot of Grand Bend Chrysler:on High- way 21. Items stolen .from the van included a set .of CTC booster cables, an mange 50 - foot extension cord, a Champion pricing gun, and a Shakespeare CB antenna. Police are also looking for any information the public may have concerning an attempted break- in -into a residence at 189 Co- lumbia Drive. in Huron Park in the past.two weeks. The OPP ask if anyone has.in- formalion about these crimes to ,call them at 235-1300, or to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-265- 1717. New cruiser returns as priority police purchase, council worries about cost EXETER - Town council turned down the request of.the Exeter Po- lice for a new cruiser to replace an aging 1989 model in .December. However., the .new Police Services Board is pursuing the purchase once again and some councillors appeared unhappy at Monday eve- ning's meeting. Councillor Tom--Hwtaphreys said he had just returned .from a vaca- tion and .wondercd if he had missed a change in council's policy on the matter. "1 understood this council turned down the purchase of a cruis- er...Have we changed our mind?" he said. 'The minutes of the Police Serv- es Board as presented to council suggest that the purchase is. going ahead even before a new police budget had been drawn up. But assistant clerk Laurie Dyk- stra explained the 10 participating municipalities for a bulk -buy plan cruisers has since dropped to seven, so she is not sure if the purchase will go through at all. Humphreys asked .reeve Bill Micklc, chairing Monday's meeting in the, absence of the mayor, how euuneil could direct the.new board in this and other matters. Micklc said council can probably only request information of the board, which now operates inde- pendently of council with its own budget. Councilor Ervin Sillery said he was concerned that council's accep- tance of the board report might be considered an approval of the cruis- er purchase, but Micklc said the rule that acceptance of a report im- p phes consent only applies,to cam - :noes .of council. but not.for,this • d. He said the only recourse for council to protest a board bud- get, is to appeal it. .However, ,Micklc .said ,the prov- ince is already nl,aking.plans to re- turn Police Service Board budgets back into municipal council's hands. "Until then we're working with a whole new set of rules," said Mick - lc. plans at Iasi Wednesday's meeting, and comments were made suggest- ing the reduction in the regulated development area were not as much as hoped "I guess it's pretty much the an- swer 1 expected we'd get," said mimed tor Keith Semple, who said he still didn't understand why there is a large difference in the regulated zones on either side of Highway 84. The north side of the highway is mapped as being much more prone to flooding than the south. Acting clerk Steve Annsaogg said he was told the culvert for the' Zurich drain is the reason for this disparity, because it may restrict flood water flow. "I don't feel like taking it any fur- ther anyway," said Semple, com- menting, on how long he has been working with the ABCA to intro- duce the two -zone plan. One major point of the two -zone report, is that all existing streets in the "floodfringe" area will have to be raised when next improved or repaired. They will have to be raised to within 0.5 metres of high- est expected flooding. "That was our biggest concern ...the roads...when we got started." said reeve Bob Fisher commenting on the report. The one street -which sparked the controversy otcr Zurich's claimed flood -prone areawvas Parkside Ave- nue, which was found to be 0.6 me- tres below floodwater grade, but the report agrees it will be only necessary to raise it when recan- strtxted in the distant future. Miracle Child to attend Exeter waikathon EXETER - A special guest will be -attending the sec- ond annual Sick Kids Walkathon in Exeter on Sunday April 5. Melissa Rossoni, the 1992 Miracle Child, will be on hand for the start of the event, explains organizer Audrey Skinner. The five-year old girl is presently winning her battle with leukemia and has been chosen as this years repre- sentative for the Sick Kids Hospital Telethon, to which the proceeds from the Skinner walkathon will be sent. Last year's event, held in memory of Steve and Au- drey Skinner's daughter who -lost her battle after a liver transplant, brought out 350 people to raise 523,000. For their efforts, the Skinners were presented with an award by the Childrens -Hospital Foundation in Octo- ber. EMA Foods has confirmed that Coca Cola will be providing soft drinks at the halfway point of this year's nine -kilometre trek from the Lions Youth Centre to Morrison Dant and back. Sponsor sheets are available at several Exeter busi- nesses and at South Huron District High School, and - Audrey Skinner says she has already had to provide mon: Sheets to some who have run out. Should it rain or snow on Sunday April 5, an alter- nate date for the walkathon has been set aside on April 12. Too many studies, not enough action, claims Zurich councillor ZURICH - The time for studies is over, and it is about Umc somebody did something, con- cluded Zurich councillor Barb Jeffrey -at -last Wednesday's eoun- cil meeting. Jeffrey was referring to her first meeting with the=South Hu- ron Economic . Development Committee, which she says is now realizing it has been more of think tank group than an action group. "The contrail/ea has been meet- ing for two years, and now they .say.they should finally do some- - thing instead of just talking." said Jeffrey. An Economic Development Committee survey has been sent out to local businesses to gauge their impressions of problems of government interference in their operations, but Jeffrey explained -to-council .are -already- atuue concerns that the survey may not accomplish much. The Economic Development Committee has also seen fit to criticize the County's propensity for studying problems without finding solutions. One example, ,said Jeffrey is the Huron County Study on farming. "Wc thought this was a waste of time because all it was was their tfartnersl- points of view. Anyone could have done this with a tape recorder. What the guy got paid • for this I don't know." said Jeffrey. Zurich reeve and present county warden Bob Fisher agreed with Jeffrey that many studies are-condtulseemiagly without purpose, except to employ county staff. He said the 1991 warden's study saw 500 responses to 1.000 questionnaires sent out to Huron residents. „People are dissatisfied about everything. is all it says." said Fisner, who added that the only pertinent point of the study ap- pears to be that it is time to step the studies and do something to improve the ewnonic situation. No money in budget for paving, Mill, Mary Street petitiorwrs told EXETER - A petition signed by.32 Exeter residents received only a passing glance at Monday's council feeling. The petition was a demand for nwrc auen- on to the lack of paving on Mary and Mill Stree t council acknowledged that plans to pave tho*e s eels are still sonic years away. A sewage. line has just been extended to that south- west corner of town under the PRIDE 2 anti -recession funding program, and the residents' petition says.tltat this area continues to be "the fastest growing part of town" and "asphalt streets are a necessity". That writer of town has indeed seen rapid growth with the construction of several upscale homes on pri- vately purchased lots. Without a plan of subdivision, the gravel sweets have remained unpaved. Cour illor Ben Hoogenboom expressed some frus- uation gnat those residents were,again inpatient with tie town's plans to servlice,Ihat carper of town. He said that the town chamberswere filled with ijaze residents only a yelar,ago, over elpriceritsabout the PRIDE ptg- ject, and they were told then that paving could not be afforded in the capital .budget fur another tune years. "And here we have a petition demanding that they be paved this year." ,laid lloogenbuom, adding that he thought it shows the public doesn't remember. "They hoc to keep knocking at the door," comment- ed councillor'! um Itumphrics. Inside ilewiisYes, ttte� have lanes in Huron Park page 5 Canadian pians _local>author charts • their history page B :Zurich 4skt ters On Broadway, Jan ice page 2 D OMHA f ittals Generals versus Clinton Second front Who's the fittest, Zurich or fiensall? Nort MidrilrsF A . Lamhto. Street upgrade no longer critical Sine, .1S7, Wertnes.da!, March 1t•. 1942 7h cent., Zurich adopts two -zone development plan ZURICH - Village council - agreed to embrace a plan from the Ausable Bayfield Conservation Au- thority that divides flood -prone we - as of Zurichsiglo two zones, paving the way tor easier development of some of these area,. Council and the ABCA clashed during the summer of 1990 when the authonty established that some roads in the village would have to be graded much 'higher to meet emergency flooding requirements. The village in tum requested the ABCA establish a two -zone policy for Zurich, but with an eye for tak- ing into account impmvemenes made in the east side of Zurich with recent upgrades to the Zurich drain. Councilviewed the two -zone ZURICH - Not wanting to be out- done by a neighbouring village, Zu- rich council has agreed to pick up the -gauntlet thrown down by Hen- sel'. -The two municipalities will be in- volved in a Fitness Challenge on May 27 when each village will vie for the largest percentage of people physically active in exercise for at least 15 minutes. Whenn-Zurich council considered R Hensall's challenge last Wednesday evening, it was decided councillor Dwayne .Laporte .should organize Zurich's response. Laporte gladly accepted. "I don't want to lose to Hensall in anything," claimed Laporte. White out triggers eight - car -highway- pile hig-hwey- p le up LUCAN - White-out conditions are being blamed for an eight -car pile up on Highway 4 south of Cen- tralia Thursday morning. The Lucan OPP repos that a white out at about 7:50 a.m. caused a chain reaction pile up of eight ve- hicles, but the only injuries report- ed were minor. Involved were drivers Donna Turcott, David Fuhon, David Hayter, Michael Cottenie„and Mal- colm Campbell, all of London, and Brenda Geiser of Exeter, William Vanderhorst of Strathroy. and Peter VanDenbroek of RR6 Se Thomas All except the Gaiser vehicle were heading north on the highway. _NorhaigesJiavebeen laid. David Suzuki shaking at Grand Bend school GRAND BEND - Environmen- ialiirDavid Suzuki will be appear- ing at Grand Bend Public School Saturday. March 28. Luis Hoffman, owner of Saga Bound Book Store in Grand Bend, has arranged for the host of The Nature of Things to visit the school while pronating his new book. "We're really excited about it,” confirmed Hoffman. "And were hoping it will be a good learning experience." Suzuki's new book is entitled "Wisdom of the Elders" and ex- plains how we could take better care of our planet by looking to- wards.the aged in society. Suzuki will give a lecture, field questions from local enviraunen- talists and afterwards be available for book signings. There is no charge for viewers and inquiries can be directed w the book store. The event begins at 7 p.m. in the school gym. Irian Breaik magic Bob Howard from Meadowsweet Productions kept his Aasdience enthralled Monday afternoon at the Exeter library raw a March Break puppet and juggling show. Howard also mod in Kirkton earlier in the day. OPP seeking information Mailboxes smashed by vandals in .Stephen EXETER - The Exeter OPP report that they are investigating the destruction of "a large num- ber" of mailboxes along Stephen Township Concession 6-7 north of Crediton. Police say the vandalism oc- curred Saturday night and the culprits likely used either a baseball bat or pipe. The OPP were also .called to investigate a break-in into a cube van panned on .the lot of Grand Bend Chrysler:on High- way 21. Items stolen .from the van included a set .of CTC booster cables, an mange 50 - foot extension cord, a Champion pricing gun, and a Shakespeare CB antenna. Police are also looking for any information the public may have concerning an attempted break- in -into a residence at 189 Co- lumbia Drive. in Huron Park in the past.two weeks. The OPP ask if anyone has.in- formalion about these crimes to ,call them at 235-1300, or to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-265- 1717. New cruiser returns as priority police purchase, council worries about cost EXETER - Town council turned down the request of.the Exeter Po- lice for a new cruiser to replace an aging 1989 model in .December. However., the .new Police Services Board is pursuing the purchase once again and some councillors appeared unhappy at Monday eve- ning's meeting. Councillor Tom--Hwtaphreys said he had just returned .from a vaca- tion and .wondercd if he had missed a change in council's policy on the matter. "1 understood this council turned down the purchase of a cruis- er...Have we changed our mind?" he said. 'The minutes of the Police Serv- es Board as presented to council suggest that the purchase is. going ahead even before a new police budget had been drawn up. But assistant clerk Laurie Dyk- stra explained the 10 participating municipalities for a bulk -buy plan cruisers has since dropped to seven, so she is not sure if the purchase will go through at all. Humphreys asked .reeve Bill Micklc, chairing Monday's meeting in the, absence of the mayor, how euuneil could direct the.new board in this and other matters. Micklc said council can probably only request information of the board, which now operates inde- pendently of council with its own budget. Councilor Ervin Sillery said he was concerned that council's accep- tance of the board report might be considered an approval of the cruis- er purchase, but Micklc said the rule that acceptance of a report im- p phes consent only applies,to cam - :noes .of council. but not.for,this • d. He said the only recourse for council to protest a board bud- get, is to appeal it. .However, ,Micklc .said ,the prov- ince is already nl,aking.plans to re- turn Police Service Board budgets back into municipal council's hands. "Until then we're working with a whole new set of rules," said Mick - lc. plans at Iasi Wednesday's meeting, and comments were made suggest- ing the reduction in the regulated development area were not as much as hoped "I guess it's pretty much the an- swer 1 expected we'd get," said mimed tor Keith Semple, who said he still didn't understand why there is a large difference in the regulated zones on either side of Highway 84. The north side of the highway is mapped as being much more prone to flooding than the south. Acting clerk Steve Annsaogg said he was told the culvert for the' Zurich drain is the reason for this disparity, because it may restrict flood water flow. "I don't feel like taking it any fur- ther anyway," said Semple, com- menting, on how long he has been working with the ABCA to intro- duce the two -zone plan. One major point of the two -zone report, is that all existing streets in the "floodfringe" area will have to be raised when next improved or repaired. They will have to be raised to within 0.5 metres of high- est expected flooding. "That was our biggest concern ...the roads...when we got started." said reeve Bob Fisher commenting on the report. The one street -which sparked the controversy otcr Zurich's claimed flood -prone areawvas Parkside Ave- nue, which was found to be 0.6 me- tres below floodwater grade, but the report agrees it will be only necessary to raise it when recan- strtxted in the distant future. Miracle Child to attend Exeter waikathon EXETER - A special guest will be -attending the sec- ond annual Sick Kids Walkathon in Exeter on Sunday April 5. Melissa Rossoni, the 1992 Miracle Child, will be on hand for the start of the event, explains organizer Audrey Skinner. The five-year old girl is presently winning her battle with leukemia and has been chosen as this years repre- sentative for the Sick Kids Hospital Telethon, to which the proceeds from the Skinner walkathon will be sent. Last year's event, held in memory of Steve and Au- drey Skinner's daughter who -lost her battle after a liver transplant, brought out 350 people to raise 523,000. For their efforts, the Skinners were presented with an award by the Childrens -Hospital Foundation in Octo- ber. EMA Foods has confirmed that Coca Cola will be providing soft drinks at the halfway point of this year's nine -kilometre trek from the Lions Youth Centre to Morrison Dant and back. Sponsor sheets are available at several Exeter busi- nesses and at South Huron District High School, and - Audrey Skinner says she has already had to provide mon: Sheets to some who have run out. Should it rain or snow on Sunday April 5, an alter- nate date for the walkathon has been set aside on April 12. Too many studies, not enough action, claims Zurich councillor ZURICH - The time for studies is over, and it is about Umc somebody did something, con- cluded Zurich councillor Barb Jeffrey -at -last Wednesday's eoun- cil meeting. Jeffrey was referring to her first meeting with the=South Hu- ron Economic . Development Committee, which she says is now realizing it has been more of think tank group than an action group. "The contrail/ea has been meet- ing for two years, and now they .say.they should finally do some- - thing instead of just talking." said Jeffrey. An Economic Development Committee survey has been sent out to local businesses to gauge their impressions of problems of government interference in their operations, but Jeffrey explained -to-council .are -already- atuue concerns that the survey may not accomplish much. The Economic Development Committee has also seen fit to criticize the County's propensity for studying problems without finding solutions. One example, ,said Jeffrey is the Huron County Study on farming. "Wc thought this was a waste of time because all it was was their tfartnersl- points of view. Anyone could have done this with a tape recorder. What the guy got paid • for this I don't know." said Jeffrey. Zurich reeve and present county warden Bob Fisher agreed with Jeffrey that many studies are-condtulseemiagly without purpose, except to employ county staff. He said the 1991 warden's study saw 500 responses to 1.000 questionnaires sent out to Huron residents. „People are dissatisfied about everything. is all it says." said Fisner, who added that the only pertinent point of the study ap- pears to be that it is time to step the studies and do something to improve the ewnonic situation. No money in budget for paving, Mill, Mary Street petitiorwrs told EXETER - A petition signed by.32 Exeter residents received only a passing glance at Monday's council feeling. The petition was a demand for nwrc auen- on to the lack of paving on Mary and Mill Stree t council acknowledged that plans to pave tho*e s eels are still sonic years away. A sewage. line has just been extended to that south- west corner of town under the PRIDE 2 anti -recession funding program, and the residents' petition says.tltat this area continues to be "the fastest growing part of town" and "asphalt streets are a necessity". That writer of town has indeed seen rapid growth with the construction of several upscale homes on pri- vately purchased lots. Without a plan of subdivision, the gravel sweets have remained unpaved. Cour illor Ben Hoogenboom expressed some frus- uation gnat those residents were,again inpatient with tie town's plans to servlice,Ihat carper of town. He said that the town chamberswere filled with ijaze residents only a yelar,ago, over elpriceritsabout the PRIDE ptg- ject, and they were told then that paving could not be afforded in the capital .budget fur another tune years. "And here we have a petition demanding that they be paved this year." ,laid lloogenbuom, adding that he thought it shows the public doesn't remember. "They hoc to keep knocking at the door," comment- ed councillor'! um Itumphrics.