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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes Advocate, 1992-06-10, Page 1Cash & carry �► COUNTRY f LOWQS 431I111Ior tat Mork Dividing rooms with art page 5 Adoption Baby raccoons find a new home page -11 ll anquet South -Huron -honours top:athietes page 18 Driver in critical c� edition after striking tree GRAND BEND Saturday, June 6 at_approximately 5:00.a.m. the Exeter O.P.P: with the assistance of the Grand. Bend OPP. investigated a single motor vehicle accident on ,Highway.21, a short distance north • of GrandBend which resulted in 18 year old Craig Clarke of London suffering severe injuries. The -Honda Civic he was driving left the roadway and slid sideways into a tree, trapping him in thecae. The Grand Bend Fire Department attended the scene and extricated Clarke from the car. He was trans- ported to: the South •Huron Hospital in Exeter then transferred to Victor- ia Hospital. London, where he re- Mains.ineriticai staudition. Police continue to investigate the cause of the accident. Dames released in tractor theft EXETER - Police have released .the names of three of those charged in connection with the theft of a -large tractor last weekend. Last week police reported they recovered a John Deere 8450 trac- tor from Stanley Township that had been stolen from Huron Tractor in Exeter and.taken for a joy ride. The used tractor, valued at S65000. had been severely dam- aged after the culprits drove it through_ freshly planted Gelds, over _stop .signs and mailboxes, and tried to submurge it in a pond. Police sayy tour youths have been charged with theft, Dean Nott, 21 of Clinton. Lee Norman, 20 of RR 1 Varna. Angela Ethier, 18 of Clinton .andone l6 -year old young oftend- .er. LFII MPPs volift amt Suuii*y shopping sCLINTON - Humn County's MPP is still in favour of seeing stores closed on Sundays. Paul Klopp will voting "no" to the pro vincial government's bill to allow wvwde"open Sunday shopping in On- mrio. Pranier-Bob Rae has called for. a free vote on the -bill eivhich woidd allow Sunday openings,possiblyas soon as this -Thursday. Cabinet ministers have been .directed eto vote in favour of .it, but 411 other members of the .provincial legisla- ture will beallowed to voteacrxtrd- ing to their personal feelings or constituents wishes. The NDP had long been in favour of a "common pause :day" to allow most families and friends at .toast one day a week off work. Howev- er, increasing -pressure - to increase store hours to compete with cross - borders shoppingand'the effects of the recession on mail sales has forced the government to -re- evalutate its stand. Klapp, however, says :he .ques- tions the argument that Sunday shopping .will improve the..eoono- my. Healso says he is "concerned about workers being coerced into working on Sundays when they want time with their family." Klopp said Huron retailers in the towns and small villages have told him there is still a need for a com- mon day m- mon.day to have time off. "The basis of competition in re- tailing should be management abili- ty, not cheap labour and long hours," reads a statement .from Klopp's office. "I have been listen- ing to the residents of Huron County. I will vote against chang- ing the legislation." In Middlesex County, constitu- ents can also expect . to see their MPP vote against wide-open Sun - .day shopping. A spokesperson at Irene Mathyssen's iifbce ..said .that the MPP will be -bolding to the promises she made in the last pro- vincial election. She said Mathys- sen was against Sunday openings then and will be voting against them in the free vote. In Lambton County, MPP :ellen MacKinnon will be volirig .in fa- vour of changing the legislation: to allow Sunday openings. MaCKinnon's assistant Fran Por- .tiss said that while the MPP has al- ways been in favour of. a common pause day, public pressure in the form of tetters and calls has con- vinced her that the constituents are demanding Sunday shopping. Much of the Lambton riding ties close to the U.S. border and resi- dents and businesspeople are more awan•- of the effects of cross border shopping than in most areas of On- tario. "Her personal feelings on this is- sue -don't matter. It's her constitu ents who are calling the shots ori this one," said Portiss. However, MacKinnon is still in- terested in keeping the overtime pay differential for Sunday work- ers, and also wants provisions kept so employees who refuse to work on Sundays for religious or other reasons don't suffer repercussions from employers. Perth MPP Karen Haslam has also said she will be voting in fa- vour of Sunday openings, but since she is a member of cabinet she must support the change in legista- tion. Pblice t otns.ofthe OPP were joined by town police offi- for last Wednesday's torch run:finrn.2urrch to Exeter. vers, :public 'school .students, and handicapped athletes STER' '-‘11itestateibeArsagh f oaWrtuees or s of_the :amaalLaw Enforcement Torch 'Run for -,the Ontario .Special Olympics are very pleased with the totals steel ved. Theawt, organized by the Ex- eter OPP. Detachment rained :over $4.000 on the day with a hostof participants along vari- ous stages of the ochre. On Wednesday, runners followed a onpics T.h Run a success rauteeimmailmialmilikiteNibare of: She : hest Home, along Highway -84 OPP and six J andicapped Joh- .to ibMiall, and down Highway 4 fetes. Along .the way, runners toExeter, a total of 25.5kilome- were joined by various elanet- Ues._tau school children including "It was really a great day," the -entire Hensall Public School said constable George Finch, an population. organizer of the event. "It was Additional donations and pub - very encouraging to see the lic presentations of money were large number involved." also awarded to Exeter O.P.P to The main body of runners in- be included in their campaign to chided three members of.the Ex- raise money for the Special Olympics.. Organizers received large do- nations of11.100 and S500 re- spectively from the Exeter and Hensall Legions. as well as large donations frost Accumold, Exet- er Optimists, Exeter Produce, Exeter Lions Club, Zurich Lions Club and Zurich -Public School. New school needed if Grand Bend grows GRAND BEND - The possible expansion of the Grand Bend Pub- lic School alluded to by Mayor Tom Lawson at last Monday's council meeting, will depend on the boundary negotiations between the Village of Grand Bend.and Ste- •phen and Bosanquet Townships. says the Superintendent of Busi- ness for . the Lembton County Board of Eduction. Jerry Young said although "there Bre no plans_at-tltis_poineinyme." for an expansion, the board has T,wo,ftratfo d ralr Vegeta admire this Harvard training aircraft brought to Huron Park on Saturday for the RCA! Centralia 25th -anniversary reunion. Time Advocate editor Adrian Harte ;dot a ride in one of the aircraft during the air show and de. :scribes the experience on page two. contacted Grand Bend couocil.ask- ing to be kept informed about .the possibility of amalgamating .the three areas so buying .,land for a new school could occur at an ap- propriate time. "We might be interested in pick- ing up five acres of land .... with no stipulation as to where," said Young. Since much of.tte.Stephen and Bosanquet land being consid- ered for annexation would likely be _utilized _.for _residential _ develop- ments, speculated Young, either of thoseareas.could be a possibility. Two portable classrooms joined .to the school by a hall ay will, however. be in place for aptember to account for growing enrollment Grand. Bend Public .School Prin- cipal, Garry MacNeil, says the school .presently enrolls 162 stu- dents, which is .already maximum capacity, and expects .that will in- crease by .about 15 .to 20 students in the fall. "We're growing at the primary end of the school," said MacNeil. Thus, the two new portable class- rooms will accommodate primary classrooms. Boundaries will -remain the sante :for secondary education whetter or not Grand Bend expands its bor- ders and the board may maintain the existing building on the two acres of land where ,the public school is, depending on the size and speed of growth of any new residential developments. MacNeil reasons that a new plot of land will have to be purchased if residential areas do grow. "With more people choosing Grand Bend as a community to live, if not to work in ... we have a limited space with nowhere to The possible expansion may come as a surprise .to Grand Bend residents who, in 1986, were forced to submit a proposal of potential —' residential growth in order to keep the school open when the popt)la- lion had dropped to about 95 stu- dents. Lucan council sets single family development charges at $7,240 LUCAIv - A bylaw to set the de- velopment charges for the village oaf Lucan is expected to be ready for final approval at the June 16 meeting of council. In mid-May council *greed.to set Ute development charges for single family dwellings at $7,200. The new rates will be in force im- mediately on passing of the bylaw and will apply to all in -fill lots and new subdivision development. This means any new building will be charged this rate. The only excep- tion being a replacement structure. A decision was niade at Abe lune 2 meeting of council to charge ap- proximately S3 per square ,loot for commercial and industrial deveklp- ment. Several suggestions were tossed around before the fugal decision was made. They ranged from 56.09 a square foot to no charge at all to the halfway figure finally decided upon. Deputy reeve.Harry Wraith felt everyone should pay their fair share and councillor Bl"yan Smith said, "They should pay. at least the water and sewer portions." Councillor Rob Brady thought it was important not to discourage commercial and industrial develop- ment with high charges. Reeve Tom McLaughlin indicat- ed more area municipalities have left commercial charges nut of their bylaw than put them in. Later, clerk Ron Reymer said the twornmercial charges agreed upon were less than the water and sewer portions. New paving for road south of Crediton GREDITOV - The Stephen Township road works de- parenent has changed ••,tor capital Projects this year. and now to Ms can expect to sec new pavement Concession 6-7 south of Crediton. Road superintendent Eric Finkbeii er told township council last Tuesday bis department recd nimendc that the planned resurfacing of Huron Street West be post- poned and that the funds budgeted for the project be put into new pavement on Concession 6-7. "We thought Huron Street could last until next year," said administrator Ltury Brown after the meeting, add- ing that funds "would be better to use on paving the sixth." Tenders on paving the concession from Crudhton to the Mt Cannel Road (County Road 5) will be cidleid as soon as possibly. Youth charged in break-in, cigarettes theft EXETER - After an early incurs break-in at an Exeter con- venience store, polite have ar- -iested-en _18year- old -youth Sou theft of cigarettes. Police say they investigated the break-in at Frayne's Grocery on the Main Street of Exeter on Saturday. In the early hours of Sunday morning, they execµted , a search warrant at a lvjain Street .aparunent and trade a partial recovery of the .stolen Cigarettes. Charged with brisk, eater and theft and possession of stolen .goods is David ,Jones, 18, who appeared at a ail bearing in Goderich on Muuday. The Exeter Town Police also say they investigated a noon - hour assault near South Huron District High School on Wedmeaday. Police say a teen- age girl was accosted by two other girls. On Friday. police .arrested both girls for assault catalog bodily harm, woo were released to appear at Youth Courtin Gvderich on July 2. Police arc still investigatutg a break and enter at Dr. Gan's of- fice on Main Street in Exeter. A Friday afternoon .entry need the thief sante cash .raid some drugs. A female young offender has been charged with the theft of a car from the parking lot of South Huron District High School. The car was taken from the lot last Monday. Police lat- er recovered the car ,>atid the young offender charged.