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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes Advocate, 1992-05-27, Page 27The Ontario Special Olympics Law Enforcement Torch Run got an early financial boost on Sun- day as the Crediton and District Optimist Club and the Dieter Lions each donated $100 to the run which will be held locally on June 3. Here are, left; OPP Sgt. Al Quinn, Optimists' president Norm Tripp, Lions' president Don Thompson and Al Brand of the Exeter Police Department. .14 -,percent not accepted C delays decisi n on 1992 gpolice EXETER - Pointing out that two members of .council were missing front the May 119 regular meeting, the remainder of:councillors agreed to: delay a decision • on the 1992 Widget for the police services aboard. After the May 4 ma&ictg of co m - ell, a letter was `21121t,to- the Police Services .Baird ,saying a budget with a -14-epereau increase could notbe accepted. It .said council is determined . to have a ze.ro'peroatt increase in the • overall town • budget to minuaize the tax increase :canted by re- assessment, particularly for residen- tial homeow ers. :included • in: she letter was a mil, don asking that the second draft of the. budget be returned to the board •for'revision and that lite town is y -,prepared toaacoept a revised _want .nf.tlte 1991 Badge' 415111395. ,Ameturn letter -from dice Ser- vices Board chairperson Sharon Worm read as.follows: • ".The budget of .May 4, 1992 'in the amomtt of. "$565,452 plus $6,778 .for the -Police Services Board is our bettom'iine for polic- ing in the town of Exeter for the '1992 calendar year. After a lengthy :atnd thought provoking discussion, it is the concensus (sic) of the Po- lice Services .Hoard that we cannot reduce this budget and -provide the service which it the mandate of this board. •As well, it is noted, ,for ,the rezord,.;that the Police .Services Aloard_*as already reduced eight et -dines, increased only :Jour iiaesattd seven lines were -primari- ly eotmcil controlled. - In . addition it is noted -that the 5510,395 purposed by Exeter coun- cil is a decrease fipm the .actual ioadget for the year 1991 of :5513;719.81." :In.ciosing the letter said, The will continue ao'.euaree the daily operations :of :police services for the town of Ex- eter based on the budget submitted, _confident_ in the knowledge that to do less could potentially jeopardize -the community to whom we are ul- timately responsible." Council feelings were mixed on this issue. Councillors Spears and Humphreys said, "We should -work on the .102 percent at -this =time." Councillor Siliery said, "Reeve Mickle had also suggested Ave go • with the 102 percent, but that's less :than what theyentlast year." - Deputysreavalikthetwantetlitime to sit =.deem clad ta lk about ;this mare..4loogenboorn added,`"We.need.-toxieaiAmidribis .and come up with mete alumna - :fives. But, weave .missing two of :aur heavyweights (heckle and Ur - din). It -would 'be wrong to make a :deeisionsonight" :Councillor Drummond opposed .the :delay saying, "We have to stop aging our feetuttnd get on with it.' Mayor .Shaw ended the discus- sion with, "Council .doesn't have theright to set their budget, just ac- cept it or reject it" Baseball Peewees run record t0 40 EXETER Eight runs in the sec- ond inning made a big difference for the Exeter peewees.as they beat visiting Lucan 13-4 in baseball ac- tion on Thursday. Ben Glavin had a double to help lipup the offense.as Exeter ran its Western Ontario Baseball Asso- ciation record to 4-0. They have a very busy week ahead of them as they travelled to Goderich last night, have a home game on Thursday and travel to Dashwood on Saturday. "We've got strong pitching," said Exeter coach Torn Murch. "We've got 17- kids and 10 of them can pitch." Scoring runs against Lucan on ;Thursday were Kyle Fenwick, Dar- -ryl -Parsons, Mark Parous, Brad -18rown, Chris Murch, Greg Young, Ailed "Tiernan, Neil Beauchamp, $til -.Gregus, Glavin, Brendan Kraftcheck and Regan Neilands. Other members of the teem are Ryan •Bntbrige, 'Kalob McLeod, .;Biel Blears, Jeremy Mtdtell and CalebGkwer. .Harry Tivnan is the manager and Murch is joined by fellow coaches Bob Parsons and Brad Gregus. Murch -said the WOBA put Exet- er into. the 'B' division because they :only had two returning peewee - aged players. So far, the locals have been surprising everyone. �YIp� protIems stif1 to la danced up after t�olid�y By Fred Groves T -A staff GRAND BENZ) - Although some are saying the first d in Grand Bend was a quiet one, At night's Grand Bend council meeting, two local redeems complained of loud noisy parties end a lack of law enforcement. Rick Powell, owner of the Coconut Bay Lounge, publicly lashed out at his Highway 21 neighbour who owns the Fountain Blue Motel. In a letter to council, Powell said there were football games at all hours of the night and broken windows from thto>,vn beer bottles. Mayor Tom Lawson told Powell that council was well aware of the situation at the motel. "It was visited by the OPP on Saturday after ambu- lances had been there Friday," said Lawson. He added councillors also visited and -asked the own - et to keep things a little quieter. • - "It appears as though the problems 'are not clearing up. We have asked for some external advice,' said Lawson who would not elaborate. Although Lawson said 99 percent of the young peo- ple who visited the village on the weekend were well behaved, statistics released by the Grand Bend OPP detachment indicate it was a loud and very busy week- end as usual. The OPP laid a total of 502 charges, 436 of those un- der the Liquor Licence Act and 13 under the Environ- mental Protection Act which was charged to those caught urinating in public. . Shirley Andraza who lives on Crescent Lane, said there were no bylaw enforcement officers on her street at all on Sunday and the OPP were not visible,. "We did y''lw` le petrol ear and we were up until three in thel7 agl," said Andtate. However, council did indicate to her there was an .unrnatleed patrol car which circulated throughout the village. Deptuy-mayor Cam Ivey said he spent three nights with the village bylaw enforcement staff and was very pleased with their efforts. "They dealt with some sticky situatiees and repre; Grand Bend well," said Ivey. Councillor Ed Fluter said towing of `iJle vehicles which had to be off the streets by 2 a.m. helped keep things quiet on the back streets. 'At one minute to two, there were people sprinting to their cars," said Fluter. He said some businesses reported their beSt ever sales and noted the public works staff had everything cleaned up very quickly each morning. However, he suggested the village look into drafting a bylaw which would have businessesresponsible for cleaning up their own areas. Fluter also suggested for the next Victoria Day weekend that the municipal of- fice be open on Saturday morning. "There are still plenty of problems but we are mak- ing headway," said councillor Bill Uniac who said it was nice to see all the council members meet on Main Street at 2 a.m. on Saturday and have an informal meeting. Administrator Paul Turnbull reported that 20 bags of garbage which had been stacked up on the beach after the volleyball tournament had been ripped open and their contents strewn about. "It was the scavengers after the beer bottles. We have our own residents to blame for that," he said. Michigan negatives visit Shipka SHTPKA - Sandra and TonyRbe- the American Decoration Day holi- gicr, Chris, Heather and Jill - of -day in Ontario, when they visited Mount Clemens, Michigan, spent Sandra's father, Ken Baker, and at k caper pitcher caul - egus put the tag on Lucan's David Taylor during bastailaiiiiiallen Thursday night in Exeter. Taylor tried to score on a wild pitch but Gregus got to the plate and took the throw for the out to,end the inning. their cottage in the St. Joseph area. ,Mule Zietman visited her broth- er and sister-in-law, Bill and Ellen Janzen, in Leamington, on the Vic- thria Day weekend and also visited her daughter Susie ad Wayne Rob- son, Colin, Sheina and Breagh, at Essex. Carl and Phyllis Neibergall of Southcott Pines, visited an . after- noon with Hugh and Annie Mo- renz, last week. Noon luncheon guests on Sunday with the Mar nz's included Annie's brother Bill Coleman, of Kippen, the Moron's son Bill of London and John Little, of Coquitlartf B.C. John was cn a business trip to Onta- rio, in Kitchener, and had time for short visits with us and his sister Su- -aan in London. . Sandra Schroeder, presently of God rich returned home Saturday after a holiday trip to Scotland. Zurich bowler wins .Zone title in Welland By Ron Dann WELLAND - Bluewater 5 Pin Bowlers' Association's Black Tow- er Booster Club Zone Champion Jo I Ann Lebold became the 1992 Onta- rio champion Saturday at Welland's Eastside Bowl. Lebold, a Zurich Bowles' Asso- ciation bowler from Hensall. had 1 previously won the Bluewater As- , sociation zone title April 26 by just one pin. I But at the Provincials, Lebold, in only her third year of imigue bowl- ing, worked hard to win the title by a more comfortable margin. Start- ing slowly with a 156 game, and two pins over her 154 average, she moved into third place with a 214 and held it with a 228 third game. Lebold moved into second with a 197 and took the lead with 183 in the final. J.nna Doting gives her best effort in the girls. long jump at Thursday's Exeter Public School hack and field meet. The track and field day decided which of the school's athletes 'would be going on to represent EPS at the upcoming regional meet. Two careless driving convictions in Exeter Provincial court EXETbR - Two men were senienced to 5250 fines for cart- less driving in Provincial Court last Tuesday while one case was dismissed by Justice of the Peace Karan Sturdy when the crown failed to prove the ac- cused\ guilty beyond a reason- able doubt. Rich>fard Weber of Lion's Head entered a guilty pica on a charge of careless driving for a single vehicle incident that occurred June 30, 1991 'in Stephen Township. The court was told that a witness saw the accused swerve off the road into the ditch and then when unable to remove the vehi- cle walked south on the concession road. The ac- cused was taken to South Huron Hospital by ambu- lance ,and the officer felt tee was impaired but because of a lack of co-operation by the accused no blood alcohol count samples were taken. Justice of the Peace, Karen Sturdy, gave Weber three months to pay the 5250 fine. Careless driving Bouavone Ourtsamonc of Laudon, was also found guilty on a charge of careless driving. The COW beard that on September 28, 1991 the accused was involved in a single motor vehicle acci- dent on Huron St. West in Exeter. ()imamate was found in the driver's seat of a vehicle that belonged to his wife' without a seatbelt and with minor inju ries. The accthsod bad disobeyed a road closed sign, hit a pile of dirt, drove-14r[th cher gin ,t)ud int back hoc. Sturdy look illeouswiteratigneibat ibe accused is married with thole chiAdoen. is ypsmployod and that be had not endangered anyone case's safety when scntericing him to a 5250 fine with six months to lay. Open liquor Emanuel aattdaaa of London entered a guilty plea to a charge of driving with open liquor. The court was told, without the accused present, that on April 10 a car carrying many occupants was pulled over on the Main St. in Crediton. A mak person was found in the trunk of the car with en open bottle of boor as well as five sealed bottles that were not confined to a case of any kitxl. Sturdy sentenced the accused, the driver of clic ve hide, to a 5175 fine with 30 days to pay.