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Sheaffer
Pen to close
within two
years
Staff of the Sheaffer Pen plant
in Goderich received word from
senior management last Monday
morning that the plant will be
closing for good within 24
months.
According to the Goderich
Signal Star, Sheaffer operations
manager Noel Weir informed
staff of the company's plan to
close the factory and sell the
lands and building. Sheaffer has
operated in Goderich for 38
years and the closing will see
the permanent layoff of more
than 30 people.
The process will begin by the
end of May when the art depart-
ment is moved to Toronto. The
art department was part of a
$140,000 expansion project in
late 1990 by Sheaffer Pen Cana-
da Inc.
Perth board
may face
court case
STRATFORD - The Perth
County Board of Education
could be going to court accord-
ing to the Mitchell Advocate.
Affidavits are currently being
prepared and may be sent to the
Human Rights Commission as
the Perth County Parents' Coali-
tion for Quality Education plans
to charge the board with dis-
crimination after it laid off five
speech and related therapists.
The group claims children
with speech and learning disabil-
ities are being discriminated
against because of the layoffs.
They claim the board's motto
"Education :for -All":doesn't in-
clude the disabled.
Plans
considered
over arena
grant
r 'ection
- Conditional
plans are being considered if the
Mitchell and District Arena does_
not receive a Wintario grant of
$180.000 this April.
Mayer Hugh McCaughey has
asked council to think about
kicking in an extra $67,000-
$75,000 in addition to their al-
ready pledged amount of
$110,000 for renovations.
Should council approved the
idea, construction could begin in
May, and would see renovations
completed by the time ice sched-
ules resume in September.
As reported in the Mitchell
Advocate, renovation cost is
prq jeered at $550,000 which will
be ihared by the Mitchell and
the inert:ships of Fullerton, Lo-
gan and Hibbert. -Each council
has committed their share
should the grant be approved. by
the Ministry of Tourism and
Recreation, but if not they will
reconsider contributing more.
Fundraising efforts have already
been launch.
Committee
to study fire
chief's job
ST. MARYS - A committee
has been formed to examine the
future of the fire chiefs position
in St. Marys.
Current chief Don Swan has
informally announced that he
plans to retire at the end of Au-
gust, having served as such
since 1974.
According to the St. Marys
Journal Argus, the committee,
formed at last Tuesday's council
meeting, will evaluate the chiefs
job description and compare St.
Marys' situation to other munici-
palities of a similar size.
A key issue to be considered
will be whether . a full cf• part-
time chief is needed. )
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This downed aircraft was Investigated by 'Transportation Safety Board of Canada officials
Wednesday morning where it was found in a field west of Whalen Corners. Two people were
killedM'the crash, which has beeri'liftilbuted to ice buildup on the wings.
Plane crash claims two lives
Continued from front page
a cornfield owned by Jack Harri-
gan, west of the -Roman. Line in
Biddulph Township.
Lucan OPP said it appeared the
plane had clipped the top of some
trees in the nearby bush, causing it
to angle to the northeast before
crashing into the snow-covered
field about 7:05 p.m.
Aubrey, who had been piloting
the aircraft, wasn't qualified to fly
in bad weather according to Rick
Wynott, chief instructor of the
Brampton Flying Club to which
Aubrey belonged. Aubrey had his
commercial pilot's license for visu-
al flight rules, but didn't have an in-
strument rating which pilots are re-
stricted to during poor visibility.
• The wreckage of the plane has
been shipped to Richmond Hill for
examination by Transport Canada
aviation safety experts.
Sandra Hern, whose farm is just
south of where the aircraft went
down, said she heard the plane go
over her house before it crashed,
but did not know there was an
emergency at the time.
"It didn't sound like it was in
trouble," she said as she looked at
the twisted remains of the craft
scattered in the field.
Scaffold collapses, worker dies
HURON PARK - A Kitchener
woman died of injuries after falling
from a wall that collapsed at Cen-
tralia College shortly before noon
last Tuesday.
Bricklayers were reconstructing
the south wall of Huron Hall When
their scaffold collapsed. Evelyn
Porter, 39, of Kitchener died at
University Hospital in London of
head injuries suffered in the col-
lapse. Two other bricklayers,
Wolfgang Uhden,' also of Kiwhen-
er, and 16 -year old Shawn Mason
of Huron, park were treated for mi-
nor cuts at South Huron Hospital.
The construction is part of a $1.9
million facelift for the college fund-
ed by the province.
Helga MacDonald at the College
said the construction on the wall
was being done through the Minis-
try of Government Services which
sought to repair deterioration to the
Huron Hall brickwork. Since the
accident, however, work has halted
A bdck wall of CCArts Huron Hall stands enclosed by a fence
after the Ministry of Labour closed off the work site when the
wall collapsed last week, fatally injuring a female bricklayer.
and a fence erected around the site
while the Ministry of Labour inves-
tigates the incident.
"As far as we know they're not
doing any work," said MacDonald,
who said the college has not yet
been told when to expect work to
continue on the project.. Otherwise,
she said, the silent work area is a
grim reminder of last week's trage-
dy.
Times-Aelvocate, April 8, 1992
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Teachers served notice
LONDON - (60-111tw1100. tod
seven probationary ludo! 1NMt
the London and Middlingrt Cettwty
Roman Catholic School fold re-
ceived notice last Thee* their
jobs have been terminated, effec-
tive August 31. 1992.
Each teacher affected received a
letter from the superintendent of
esoiltetr positions Operations, and
The WWI of trustees is reviewing
the 1992 estimates and said it re-
quires the fkxibihty that this action
provides.
Currently the board faces a reve-
nue shortfall of between 5 and 7
million dollars.
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