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Times Advocate, 1992-05-20, Page 1Miniature Carnations 495 per bunch cash a Carry • COIXrTPT fROWCRS IJcrter Servutt Mouth Huron Gainer -Kneads Insurance Seniors Fxpper fence Value 235-2420 Inside Fatality Accident claims life of Exeterwoman page 2 Pilot Famous aviator speaks in Huron Park Page 2 Graduation CCAT says goodbye to class of '92 pages 10-11 Streak broken Panthers lose perfect record page 14 i Wheels stolen from new trucks EXETER - Two sets of tires and rims were stolen from two brand new pickup trucks on a dealers lot report the Exeter OPP. Police say the Uniroyal tires, mounted on aluminum rims, were valued at $4,800 and were taken sometime ovemight last Tuesday from the lot of Frayne Chev, Olds, Geo in Exeter. Anyone with information about this theft is being invited to contact the OPP at .235-1300, or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-265-1777. Liquor charges mostly involve teenagers, say OPP EXETER - Over the Victoria Day weekend. the OPP report charging one impaired driver and laying an- other 18 Liquor License Act charg- es. The OPP say the concern to thc detachment is that 11 of those charged with liquor offenses were under 20 years old and one of the charges involved the seizure of a hotel -sized keg of beer from a vehi- cle containing four underage stu- dents of South Huron District High School. The OPP say they will continue their campaign to charge all those found with open liquor in.their ve- hicles. The fine for such a charge is $178.75. Pranks believed cause of barbecue explosions HURON PARK - The Exeter OPP have issued a warning to own- ers of gas barbecues in the Huron Park area. Police say two people in Huron Park lit their barbecues in the past week only to have them engulfed in flames. One of the barbecue own- ers suffered minor bums while try- ing to close the main tank valve. Police say both barbecue owners discovered that someone had loos- ened off the hose from the propane tank to the barbecue. While this is believed to be nothing more than a prank, police say the consequences could have more disastrous. The OPP are cautioning people to check the connections on their bar- becues before lighting them. North Midtllc";ex 'Si Lambton Police boat launched in Grand Bend GRAND BEND - The long arm of the law, in this case the Ontario Provincial Police will be extending across the water near Grand Bead this summer. - = Thursday morning, Constable Rob Enzlin fueled the 22 -foot Pan- ther police boat which will be used throughout the summer to promote boating safety and to help enforce Liquor License Act violations by boaters. "It's to increase visibility and public awareness," said Enzlin to why the boat is docked in Grand Bend this summer. "It's to let people know we are out there," he added. Enzlin said he will be driving the boat and will be accompanied by a village by-law enforcement officer. Boats will be boarded and inspect- ed on a random basis. "We don't know what days we're going out. It depends on where the need arises." Detachment commander Sgt. Lorne Smith said the boat was used on Saturday and the boat from For- est came in on Sunday. "They checked quite a few boats but no charges were laid," said Smith. Officers were kept very busy the first long holiday weekend as they laid 435 Liquor License Act charg- es from Friday to Sunday. There were also 16 mischief, 21 theft, one impaired, one narcotics and a few assault charges laid. "We're clamping down as far as we can. A no-nonsense approach," said Smith. He added there were a few distur- bances but not as many as previous Continued on vase 2 OPP constable Rob Enzlin fueled up the Grand Bend OPP detachment boat which will be used to patrol Lake Huron this summer? Local municipalities may face crisis as county landfill delayed ZURICH - Hay Township and the Village of Zurich council repre- sentatives have already had one meeting to discuss the now uncer- tain future of their landfill site. The municipalities share a land- fill, but had been placing their hopes on seeing it eventually de- commissioned once a Huron County landfill site became availa- ble before the end of the decade. That Huron site's future is now uncertain after all six sites pro- posed by the Waste Management Master Plan have been rejected as unusable. Municipalities like Hay and Zu- rich were hoping to be able to avoid the lengthy and costly pro- cess of finding new landfill sites. The Waste Management Master Plan cost the County more than $200,000 and examined all forms of handling the county's garbage, but was mainly aimed at finding a new county -wide site. The cost of finding and creating new landfills is quickly exceeding what many smaller municipalities can afford. Not only are there rigorous envi- ronmental regulations to meet, but public resistance to new landfills is also on the increase. All landfills in Huron are expect- ed to be full by 2008, and many will reach capacity much sooner. Stephen Township is also one of the municipalities that was banking on the availability of a county -wide site. A five year extension was sought for the township dump to bridge the gap to the county facili- ty, but with those plans facing de- lays it is not known if such stop- gap measures will be enough. Townships vie for new prison CLINTON - Municipalities inter- ested in bringing a medium - security penitentiary their way will be making presentations at a public meeting tomorrow evening at the Clinton Town Hall. Some Huron County townships have expressed the hope they might win the Ministry of the Solicitor General's approval to bring the new prison, and its related jobs and eco- nomic spinoffs, to their municipali- ties. Boat rescued from lake GRAND BEND - A local rescuer was able to save a stranded boat in Lake Huron Sunday afternoon. Don Labelle used his 24 -foot powerboat to tow in a craft which, according to his wife Velma, had ran out of gas and had been out on the lake for several hours. "There was a boat out for about 15 hours. Don happened to be the closest boat," said Velma. Apparently thc stranded boat had no anchor and was a few miles off shore. The coast guard in Samia was -called and they were about to dispatch the Cape Hurd out of Goderich but Don was able to make it back by Sunday afternoon. "He towed them in. 11 was getting pretty rough and there were tornado warnings." Velma said this was not the first time her husband came to the aid of a stranded boater. County warden Bob Fisher said while Huron has no land of its own for such a project, it will offer its support to the applying townships to "get a little more county clout, behind the submissions that have already come in". The meeting will be at 7:30 p.m. in Clinton, Thursday. Fisher said the meeting will con- sist mostly of information for the public, but will be quite limited due to the fact that the ministry has yet to send out detailed information on what form the penitentiary is likely to take. The ministry had asked munici- palities across Ontario if they were interested in supporting the multi- million dollar project in their com- munities. Many are expected to be in the running for such a contract. Not "another Dashwood" Zurich council fears for loss of business space, rejects apartment... conversion By Adrian Harte T -A editor ZURICH - p coneem for a dwindling supply of business properties in Zurich led council Thursday evening to turn down an application to tun two vacant store fronts into one apartment. The applic9ion had required a minor variance for the 23 Goshen St. North property, to which the Huron County planning department had seen no cause forobjection. Contractor Michael VanPelt attended Thursday's meeting, explaining to council why he wanted to add one more apartment to the building which already has three apartments. With the conversion, there would only be one commercial unit left in the building. VanPelt also provided rebuttal to a letter council received by council expressing objections to the variance. The letter from Angela Clausius argues that the commercial spaces were ideal for someone seeking office space in town, and before allowing their conversion into an apartment council should "consider what has happened in Dashwood". "Do we really want to be a future village of apartment buildings?" con- cluded the letter. Councillor Marg Deichert noted that while the three stores at thefront of the building have been empty for a while, she said a permanent loss of business space might hurt the village. "Those two [commercial] units are pretty small" noted councillor Dwayne Laporte. Deichen agreed, but said they could be ideal for small professional of- fices. "They've got more apartments in Dashwood than they know what to do with," said Deichert, commenting on the sentiments of the letter. "We want Zurich to grow, but we want to grow commercially as well as residentially," concurred councillor Barb Jeffrey. • "I just wonder that if a small business wanted to come to town there would be no place for it to go," said Deichert. Deichert made a motion to refuse the minor variance. "They still have the option of going to the OMB [Ontario Municipal Board]," said councillor Keith Semple. Acting clerk Steve Armstrong commented that should council overrule the recommendations of the county planner, an appeal to the OMB could be successful. Continued on page 2 evenlnL' It r t pktinistid. But thelikaw did not fallio the hundred* who tq out to see the display of colour prd iof gunpowder.