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Times Advocate, 1992-05-06, Page 1lot IMIONeses May ilOpmsails itmre rpt,&.can) 40 COUNTRY FLOORS AIMler inside Stopping down Bill Mickle winds up year with OSUM page 2 The high end Crediton business into custom audio page 5 Asad end Championship slips away from Irish Second front Pioneer Days .Usborne School gets taste Tor ieth century rage -28 • A11lut 1 1 l setected for youth -:seminar Palos Immik adold Isimini fold to rut tov Adrian Harte EXETER -'Town council dealt its first blow of defiance: against the- - new Police Services Board on Mori - Allay evening, rejecting the board's "police budget and demanding that 1 IIXETER -.Grade 10 student -Ian Jean has been selected as South hu- ion:Distact High School'srepresen- _.1ative: at the .Hugh O'Brian Youth .Stammer Southwestern Ohio _LSadership..Seminar held May 8 10. .:Asan,, a hissed :Bend native, will lbesrruagtg`130 grade 10 students -rfsanv- ttanth,-.western :arid Mid- western id e rn Ontario coming together at - she -University OfAtestern Ontario. Jean.was oimsen'ta:attend _after demonstrating his leadership skills at South Huron. Jean will interact with groups of distinguished leaders in business, gof.r,.urcrtt;education, the food in- - dustry_and radio and:television me- dia, to discuss present and futures is- LINCS. • Thegoal of the program is to pro- vide _the ;students with a unique forth for learning about Canadian free enterprise, the media, educa- tional system, entrepreneurship.and the food supply of the future for broadening their understanding of their leadership potential and quest for development. Amongthe leaders at this year's seminar.,will be:Dave.McCbrg of Dale Carnegie; Ross Daily of CFPL London, and controller Jack :Bur- ghardt. lin Jean increases bo kept to only two per- cent above fast year's budget. Mayor Bruce Shaw presented the board's report and budget to council and reeve Bill Mickle was first to note Shaw hadn't voted on a board to adopt wage increases ',thief and police secretary. U b tdIteolansurned Shaw ole motion. ""pinat is correct," said Shaw. Councillor Ben Hoogenbooni asked what the salary increases were. Shaw saki white be considered it logical the taxpayers should know what their public employees • arc paid, tie said atV ent legislation con - a ilignsphy was:one;of the hottest events -during Pioneer siineadhlg the Hugh for homebaked bread was Ashley Day at Hensall-Rublic School on Friday morning. Here, Rowcliffe during Pioneer Day activities at Hensall Public Dustin Elder tries7his hand. School -Friday morning. *I 1E1111 any Dirl gra Haw illation R --The Goderichand Exeter Railway Company (GEXR), ,;shemew:iatners of the:l lines.runxungjhrough ;Huron County, . .s;bave opened the door for the possibility of -preserving Exeter's old mil station. The station, which has been used for little else than storage since clhe last passenger service ended in the area, has been the subject of Rome concern over its historical value for some time. -A.seply to an inquiry from council was presented at Monday's council meeting, .and it noted that while the GEXR now owns the station when it bought the lines from Canadian National, they are willing to sell the building for one dollar. The leiter notes that the purchaser would be responsible for the costs of moving the building to another property. Councillor Ben Hoogenboom, who initiated the inquiry, said he was pleased with that response and recommended the idea be hand- ed over to the Exeter Heritage Foundation for further consideration. :011: GBbudgett Than tive 1 less dinner anierunt 11y expected te lie new records - = 1D -BEND --=Mayor Tom Lawson said he was plesaod to -announce at Monday's council meeting, that the 1992 budget would see an increase of only 4A6 percent. Administrator Paul Turnbull said two percent of that is due to.ndvice given by the assessment office which said some of those who:bave ap- pealed their assessments in.Gtand.Hend will be getting a rebate. "Historically it proves that's the way it works," said Turnbull. A breakdown of the 1992 budget observes the -environmental portion of the budget, which includes waste management, .will nearly double going up from the actual 1991 cost of $61.393 to $123,730. Grand Bend deputy -mayor Cam Ivey said most of this is due to the fact the landfill will be closed by Labour Day and yatbagc will have to be trucked to another site. One noticeable saving -in the 1992 budget is -council members' was, which have dropped from $27,3()0 to $20,000. Employee salaries howovet are up to $121.200 from $106,103. Part of that increase went to Turnbull who had his job title changed from clerk -treasurer to administrator. .•.No more wamings dOPP sallgt! tositsaAk up beach party EXETER - The Exeter OPP de- tachment were called to break up a .large beach party Saturday night ppivi'tg many underage drinkers. rhe OPP were called to a party at :JP . Joseph's Phase II off of High - „ay 21. Approximately 150 local -,wrung people were found at the party, most underage. PoliCe,ls to remind these Y°011411MageeaSilWetstSoftiOne es 13. that if ti y:lyto 1a0cd to 4r04, then they will:bave to afford the fines of $103.75. Police have stated that they will prefer charges rather than warnings in the future. During the past weekend, the Ex- eter detachment Jaid three impaired driving charges, issped four 12- twur license sgspensa ns, Jaid sev- en liquor rt res and in- vosli Saturday, a pick-up truck driven by James Poortinga of R 1 Wood- bam collided with two parked cars on Mill St. in Hunan. The tIrec vehicles sustained mirror damage. Friday. vehicles driven by Ken- neth Giugerich of Zurich and Re- becca Steophenson .of RR 1 Zurich collided at the iotersectiou of Gosh- en Street and Rosalie St. in Zurich. Both vehiclesreceived mirror Ain - .igc. While official -tallies are -otrin;-►tstost educated guesses predict _that .the :third annual Con- servation Dinner will net more money for ;kcal conservation pro- jects than ever before. Thursday evening's dinner auc- tion likely raised between. 324000 and 325,000, money which will be split between the Ausable Bayfield Conservation Foundation and .the Exeter Lions Club. The Founda- tion will be putting some of the money towards barrier -free nature trails, and the Lions are still forg- ing ahead with,iheir plans to beau- tify,Exeter's MacNaughwn Park. The 25 items in .the live auction raised $10,905 alone. The flagship piece of artwork for .the evening, Watershed Scene, an original by Tammy Layc, went for $1,600 to high -bidder Ken Hermann, which assne.said etas..at Least .$1,000 less Ijp , bad, ed it i Another Tammy Laye item, the remarque print of Horse and Bug- gy, went for a final bid of $675, and a Patricia Downie original of L-Lake/Port Franks, sold for $725. Perhaps the most spirited bidding of the evening was seen over a -handcarved duck by Mel Geiser. The winning bidder was Andy De - Boer, who paid 3550 for the item he said he just had to have, partly because he was wearing a duck - design tie. The :silent auction raised about $7,000 by itself, with the lop item being a Patricia Downie limited edition print going for $475. Kathy Monk at the ABCA said with all the auction items, raffle pr000eds..and ticket sales included, the profit left after all the bills are paid is expected to exceed last year's total. Monk pointed out the Foundation and the Lions faced fewer expenses because nearly all Continued on page 3 siders such information private and only wage ranges and perccenmge increases can he made -public. 1 can tell you the increase, •over last year, was in excess of nine per- cent," said Shaw, referring to the police chiefs new salary. Shaw then said the police secre- tary's working conditions have changed since the Police Services Board came into effect and her wages reflect that with an increase "in excess of 17 percent," said Shaw. "Well I find both those percentag- es completely unacceptable fmm where I stand," said Hoogenboom, stating they were "completely unre- :alistic." "Absolutely terrible," agreed Mickle, who suggested council "create" a police budget of 102 per- cent of the 1991 budget. The 1991 budget was $500,387, and the 1992 proposed budget is $572,230, a 14 percent increase. Mickie said the Police Services Board, if they don't like council's decision, should appeal to the prov- ince. "1 think the province would agree with this town that those increases are unacceptable,"•staid Mickle. "They had hoped everybody would be reasonable this year," said Mickle of the province's re- quest for restraint. The reeve blamed the solicitor general for creating an atmosphere in which a "police old boys club" reigned. He said he recognized there are pressures on police forces, but council's executive fres offend suggestions to the police board to help them with their budget, but it came back unchanged. "We have no choice than to send the budget back, and give them a two percent increase," said Mickle, which he said was better than the province offered the town in uncon- ditional grants. "d isesanally-sok support this budget_ submitted . to .us," concurred councillor Bob Spears. Councillor Robert Drummond questioned if sending it back would do any good when previous recom- mendations and calls for restraint have been ignored. "I cannot foresee getting any sig- nificant relief," he said, adding that even with a two percent increase the town's police was still "pretty expensive" and wasn't sure the town could afford it. "Until someone sticks you up with a gun," interjected councillor Dave Urlin. "What can you afford then?" Councillor Ervin Siltery asked whether Mickle's recommended two percent increase was over the '91 budget or the '91 actual cost, which was $13,000 over budget. Mickle said he meant only the 1991 budget. Urlin then pointed out some of the wage increases in the budget were due to a police contract signed over.a year ago. "Our hands we tied," be said, but .agreed a 14 percent overall increase in the budget was not.in tune with she Jits.;Jast "I Mink .we have to - - 'Contuw_ed on page 2 Q 2rr�9tSPstVr iske(Ofconservation Tom erl and Mac MacDougall walconefi the rs to w auction.