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Students of the ear
Bacot PaapMatratadaWrt'1hlel were honoured at the stroke of
midnight as the students of the year for 1992 at South Huron
District High School's formal "One Stbrry Night" on Friday.
Cottages will have
to start cleaning up
GRAND BEND - Those who re-
fuse to clean up their properties in
Grand Bend could soon seea crack-
down by the village.
At Monday night's meeting,
council discussed in length, how
they could force landlords and ten-
ants to clean up their cottage prop-
erties.
"It's about time we get our teeth
into this and make something hap-
pen," said Mayor Tom Lawson.
He said there are a lot of people
in the village doing a good job
keeping their properties looking
nice.
Correction, tax increase
depends on assessment
In last week's report on the new
Exeter town budget, it should be
noted that the examples of tax in-
creases quoted for average proper-
ties assumed specific assessment
increases for those properties.
While a property assessed at
S83,000 will be paying $1A0956
in taxes, the increase of $178.17 is
a result of a $30.000 increase in as-
sessment from the 1984 to the 1988
market .value year. Individual prop-
erties may not be subject to exactly
this same amotun of assessment or
tax increase.
Similarly. the increase of $351.99
quoted for a $163,000 property as-
sumes an assessment increase of
$59.000.
The Times Advocate regrets the
omission.
40 dogs and watktlM*
sought for Sunday's
annual Lions Canine`
Vision fundraiser
EXETER - This Sunday the dogs
�erili#le out for a walk. The annual
Beats walk-a-dog-a-thon will start
from MacNaughton Park at 12
noon on their route to raising mon-
ey for Canine Vision Canada.
Lions Clubs'across Canada spon-
sor the fundraising events to help
,pay for guide dogs for the blind.
Canine Vision is getting closer its
goal of training 120 one -year-old
Labrador and Golden Retrievers to
become a team with their vision -
impaired owners.
The training, which costs $6,000
per dog, is provided free of charge
Skinner
walkathon
raises over
X21,000 for
Hospital
LONDON - If you were watching
TV London's Miracle Network
Children's Hospital telethon Sun-
day morning you may have seen a
familiar face or two. Audrey and
Steve Skinner of Exeter, with their
son Lucas, presented the telethon
with the proceeds from the April 5
walkathon in which 340 Exeter and
area people participated.
Audrey said the cheque for
$21,104.51 to the hospital came as
a surprise to organizers who did not
expect the Exeter event to raise so
much for the second year in a row.
The first walkattton raised a -little
over $23,000, and so impressed the
telethon officials the Skinners were
presented with a directors' award
last fall.
"They were shocked, just totally
overwhelmed," said Audrey of the
reception to the big cheque.
On the home front, however, Au-
drey said the fact that the second
walkathon raised nearly as much as
the first means there is still a lot of
interest in the event and it will have
to be repeated at least one more
year.
"Obviously the interest is there,"
she said. "We can't quit now."
The Skinners organized the first
walkathon in memory of their in-
fant daughter who was a. patient at
the Victoria Children's Hospital in
1990.
The weekend telethon raised a to-
tal of $1.3 million for the London
hospital.
to applicants.
Bob Gehan, chairman of this
year's walk-a-dog-a-thon says he
hopes to see a total of 40 walkers
out in the park this weekend to im-
prove on last year's total of 32; al-
though bst year's event raised a
record mnmint of money.
Anyone interested in joining the
parade of pooches who has still to
pick up a sponsor sheet can do so at
the CIBC, Scotiabank, Stedmans,
Thomas H. Fine Menswear, Critters
Comers, the Municipal office or
Beckers.
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Tractor recovered
after Sunday 'joy ride'
EXETER - A tractor stolen from an Exeter dealership was recov-
ered in Stanley Township, and four people face "numerous" criminal
charges, say the OPP.
The tractor, a very large John I)eerc 8450 model, rimat missing
from the Huron Tractor dealership Sunday night. It was located in
Stanley Township across from the Bannockburn Conservation Area
and police believe it Was taken for a "joy ride".
The used model tractor, worth abotft $65,000, was discovered to
have been driven through a pond at least once and had struck a tree.
Damage is being listed as extensive.
The OPP arrested four people Monday in connection with the theft
and charges were to have been laid Tuesday. Names of the suspects
were not released as of press time. Police did say that the suspects
are from the Clinton area, three are adults and one is a young offend-
er.
A court date for the adults has been set for July 14.
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