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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes Advocate, 1992-07-29, Page 2AP Page 2 Tltrtes-Advocate, July 29, 1992 • • Agreement reached for S fto GODER1CH - Unionized em- ployees voted in favour of a new three-year contract at Sifto Can- ada Inc. Salt Mines last Sunday. According to the Goderich Signal -Star, 26() employees will receive a wage increase of three percent in the first and second years and a 3.5 percent hike in the third year. A total of 207 members voted with 84.5 percent in favour of the new contract. -After talks which have continued since Feb- ruary, members of the focal un- ion and Sitio management signed a memorandum of agree- ment. June 26. Seaforth native becomes Superior J use TH SE SE TH - Five years atter applying tor a post. Seaforth na- tive Ron Sills has been granted a position as a Superior Judge. According to the Huron Ex- positor, Sills received a phone call June 24 from the Commis- sion of Judicial Affairs asking if they could set up a call between himself and Justice Minister Kim Campbell. Later that evening, Sills re- ceived the call from the Minister who told him the cabinet had ap- proved his appointment effective immediately. Five years ago. Sills applied to the federal- government to be- come a judge while a lawyer with the Kitchener -based firm Siliseartadurin, • Snyder, Came. Lackenbaneremdfleartebergcr. Body found in Listowel LISTOWEL. - Dental records have identified a body discov- ered by a Listowel OPP officer on the Mo rmngtoxn-Elma Town- ship line as 18 -year-old Seth McCutheon. of RR 1 Ethel According to the Mitchell Ad- vocate, Listowel OPP officers were called to a Bell cellular tower when the intruder alarm was set off. While searching the arca, OPP discovered the badly decomposed body 01 a young, malt. adult.. Cause off death has not been determined, but tout play is not suspected. The body was sent to the Centre of Forensic Science in Toronto for turtiher tests Eviction notice for 1pperwash I PERWASH - A 90 -day evicuon nouce for the return of Camp Ipperwash to the Stoney Point people has passed as of July 16, 1992. According to the Forest Stan- dard, an eviction notice was de- livered by Stoney Point Chief Robert George on April 16, 1992 to Captain Rick Dodson of Canadian Forces Base, London. While leaders had indicated there was the potential for a sec- ond Oka -like standoff, a the meeting July 16 was peaceful. The Stoney Point people have not ruled out roadblocks and civ- il disobedience as a measure to dee tiers; -rte... quests seriously, although to date actions and talks have been cordial. Camp ipperwash was original- ly the Stoney Point Indian Re- serve. In 1929, the Keble and Stoney Point Band smouldered and sold 377 aures, 109 of which became the provincial park, while the remainder entered pri- vale ownership. In 1942, the cabinet exproprt= sled the remainder of the reaervc under the war measures act. The Band bas since made *avast re- quests for the return of the oannP. ar.d in 1980 were award- ed close to $2.5 million. Continued from front page cedes some property owners have surrmmded their cottages with ere not strictly legal, but that he said is a council problem, not part of by- law enforcement. Either way he says the 2-6 a.m. perking ban should make the barricades redun- dant. "The reason most of these people put up the barricades was to pre- vent people from camping out in front of their cottages," said Craw- ford, adding that he no longer taw a need for the rocks, posts, or ropes residents erected on the mad allow- ances. Crawford also says there are plenty of parking spaces in town, it only visitors would seek them out, and be prepared to -pay for parking. Unfortunately, he added, everyone wants to park for free. "They try to search out that free space," he said, but added that the free lot behind the village police station often has empty spaces. Businessman Kyle Harrison agrees with Crawford, saying -as owner of the Barefoot Pedlar "1'm not having any problems. .. The Exeter police seize stolen car and stolen motorcycle EXETER - Exeter Police had 35 investigation this week, two of which involved the theft Of vette - cles. During the early morning hours last Tuesday, Exeter Police stopped a car on Main Se, and further in- vestigation showed it had been sto- len from London. Two males were taken into custo- dy after police pulled over a 1982 Mercury Lynx . A 17 -year-old youth was charged with Possession of stolen property., possession of housebotaking instru- ments, public mischief and was lat- er arrested by London City Police for being unlawfully at large from a London Detention centre. Also arrested was 20 -year-old Danny Earl Clark of London, with charges of possession of stolen qty and public misrbicf • Last Wednesday. Exeter Police arrested a youth for possession of stolen property, being a Honda din bike stolen earlier in Exeter. The name of the offender cannot be re- leased under the provisions of the Young Offenders Act. bylaw enforcement is not keeping people out of town," he says. Harrison -says the stricter bytae enforcement has done its job to re duce the overnight parking pmh- lems on sidestreets and feels that part of the problem lies in the fact that the lakeside village has gained the reputation of a partying town "Alt we're doing is -the same as any other community, but because it is Grand Bend, we get the noted ety and the bad news," says Kyle The co-owners of the latest addi- tion to the bar scene on the main strip, Big Daddy Shindif, agree with Clemens that the tourists are being encouraged to stay away fmm the Bend this summer. "The resident's association has been trying for the hist year . to clean up the five percent had peo- ple in Grand Bend but in effect they're driving away the 95 percent of good people," says co-owner Jay Watson. Watson and partner Joe Kiss are upset with the three noise viola dons they received from bylaw en- forcement this summer. They feel the village council has put too much power into Craw - ford's hands and •that they are being "initiated" into the Grand Bend bar scene rather than being treated equally to the other bars. "Town council has given Keith Crawford the right to interpret that bylaw (noise violation) and enforce it. ... How is he qualified to inter- pret that law? ... There is no law. Keith Crawford is the taw," said Watson. Shindig's neighbour and business- man Jim Todd says he hasn't found the bar to be excessively loud and agrees that perhaps the bylaw is not being handed down fairly. "We're -not complaining. There was a live hand last week. Every- one else has live bands. They seen to be zeroing inon here (Shindig's)," says Todd. As for noise complaints, Craw- ford says that his bylaw enforce- ment officers try to give some le - No license, insurance nets $750 fine EXETER - An Exeter man is faced with fines of 5750 after being convicted in Provincial count last Tuesday for not having an operators license • to drive a motor vehicle and not having insu- re. Christopher Merner of 429 Main St. pleaded guilty to both charges. The court was told that the accused was seen by an officer travelling 79 km per hour in a 50 fan per hour zone on Huron Si. in Exeter. After following the accused for several blocks, the officer stopped Meurer in a municipal parking lot on William St. Merrier willingly admitted to not having insurance or a driver's h- censc . Justice of the Peace Sturdy handed down a fine -of 5250 with -three months to pay for not having a license and 5500 with six months to pay for not having insurance. Driving with suspended license Michael Betting on 48.Surrey Cres., London, pleaded guilty to a charge of driving with a suspended license. The court was told that on June 12, the accused was stopped on his motorcycle by police for speeding eastbound on Highway 83 west of Exeter. Battling told the officer he didn't realize his license had been sus- pended for unpaid fines. Justice of the Peace Karen Sturdy fined Merrier $500 with 30 days to pay . Unsafe lane change Frederick Peel of Hullet Township was charged with making an unsafe lane change for an incident which occurred on June 28. Peel pleaded guilty to the charge. The court heard that the officer observed the accused make an un- safe lane change, hit a mail box and go into the ditch on Consession 2-3 in Hay Township. Peel received a fine of S75 with 30 days to pay. Building code violation William Watson of RR3 Ailsa Craig pleaded guilty to a charge of breaking a building code for construction of a building without a permit in Stephen Township. The building was on the construction site of a house. Watson was given a fine of S100 with 30 days to pay. Two other charges against Watson for violations to the Building Code Act will be heard August Ili $4 million fund for I-luron New program launched to create 32,000 new jobs province -wide By Ray Lewis TA -staff CLINTON - Huron MPP Paul Klopp announced Friday the Cor- poration of the County of Huron will act as 'broker'. to coordinate the jobsOntano Training Fund in the region. A renes of brokers across the province will coordinate the $1.1 billion program designed to help create 90,000 jobs over the next three years. " W e hope over the next 12 months 10 stimulate 32.000 new jobs across Ontario," said Klopp. "Funding for the County of Huron will be S4 million." Close to 20 members of the busi- ness and aervice sectors as well as media representatives and those on behalf of the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food (OMAF) tamed out at the new OMAF office in Clinton to hear the announce - The Corporation of the County of Huron is the lead organization in a coalition of county wide organize - tions, to be known as the Huron Coalition for jobaOpgKio, which will be responsible for the coordi- nation and delivery of jobsOiitario in Huron County. The Coalition will assume decision making re- sponsibilities for the identification, planning and delivery of training to program participants. The Huron Coynty Departruent of Planeing and Development will administer the fiastooial end con- tractual arraosements. "The formation of the coalition of brokers is quite . teaique to the province," added Kim) "I think that says a lot for Huron County, and I think it says a lot for industry for allowing this kind of action." According to Richard Allen, the Minister responsible for the fund, local organizations are among those best-plaoed to identify and respond to the training needs of business and unemployed workers. "That's why we have decided to coordinate delivery of the entire Program through a network of com- munity and regional brokers." said Allen. The jobaOutano Training Fund is not a wage subsidy, but provides up to $10.000 in training credits to pri- vate companies for every new job created under the program. Half of that assistance' may be used to train a hum's existing workforce. According to Kopp, the success of the operation hes in the fact that it is run from the bottom up, with industry as its base. It is funded by ---e io-tax-terrors-vvhieleacb-eer- tain parameters, but Klopp feels it will help stimulate business by up- grading the .skills of (huario's working people and those hardest hit by aha recession. While the recession can be attrib- uted to many thwgs, Klopp be- lieves there arc sane main areas which arc very key facto%. "We haven't done what many Eu- ropean countries or the japanesc have done," said Klopp. "We need to educate people and we seed to retrain, and that's what the jobsOn- tano Training Fwd is all about." Thousands of pre-employment training places will be created asuuss the province, roservcd for people who moire upgrading .in basic literacy and numeracy skills. Half of the jobs stimulated by thc. program will be filled by social as- sistance recipients, and the rest by unemployment insurance exlutus- toes. Because today's workforce con- tains both male and female people with families, the government is also creating up to 20,00) subsi- dized non-profit childcare spaces across the province. Huron County Warden Bob Fish- er told the c that there was a great deal in interest by the Huron Board to support .the program, al- though approval for the coalition has yet to be granted by county wunci I. "After tie request was submitted, it was approved by government so quickly that County Council hasn't had bine to approve the coalition or tilt program." said Fisher. "Once final approval is given. I would hope -hist --a- auff kions -mer -tot employers will be able to make use of this program.'. The jobsOruario Training Fund will be available to employers and workers throughout Ontario mid- August, and employers are encour- aged to contact the Huron Coalition after August 20 to see how the fund can help them. The Coalition consist of several groups such as the Huron County Board of Education, Coattails Col - tegc of Agricultural Technology, Women Today and the Huron In- dustrial Training Advisory Com- mittee, and other groups .are en- to join. niency to the businesses - recognizing that bars do make a certain amount of noise and new bars tend to upset new neighbours. "We try to give the business es tablishments a certain amount of leeway, but like i say, we don't al- ways get cooperation," he said. Bylaw enforcement, said Craw ford is being unfairly blamed for harming business. The tourism business is bad everywhere, due mainly to the economy and the weather. "i'm not personally convinced it has hurt the businesses. it's easy to point the finger," he said. The Grand Bend Residents As- sociation, a group of concerned citizens of trying for the better- ment of the village, said they had no comment on the businessmen's !Whiten. "We won't dignify their com- plaints with a comment," said as- sociation member Marlin Siren. Jill Frappler (left), Judy Leigh -Johnson, Lisa Robertson and John Snowdon In Don't Dress tor Dinner. Playhouse farce delightfully complicated GRAND BENZ) - The British farce has become something of a tra- dition for the Huron Country Playhouse mid-season. This rear's con- tribution to the genre is Don't Dress for Dinner the Marc Camoleur- written successor to Boeing! Boeing! that the Playhouse produced in 1990. Directed by Sean Mulcahy after the untimely death of artistic direc- tor Tony Lloyd earlier this month, Don't Dress is a little slower off the mark than its predecessor. But considering that you have three mis- tresses, a niece. two cooks, two wives, a model, a husband, and his friends all on stage at once, with only five actors it is perhaps fair to allow the audience a chance to catch up by keeping the pace. down. In the process though, many of the barbs and labs of British farce hu- mour lose their edge Don't Dress weaves a very tangled web indeed. Bernard (played by Robert More) decides to plan a romantic weekend with his mistress Suzanne (Lisa Robertson) while his wife visits her mother. His fnend Robert (Christopher Ban-yi will make a perfect alibi, except that when wife Jaqueline (Jill Frappier) fords out Robert will be there, she can- cels her trip to be with her lover - yes, Robert. Berard quickly decide.` Robert must pretend Suzanne is his girl- fnend, not realizing how it will compromise the affair of his wile and friend. Throw in a cook named Suzeuc, whom Robert mistakes for Suzanne and you have a complete mess the two men don t know how to escape from. "Is the coast clear?" Bernard asks of his [rend "I don't know about the coast, but it s bloody foggy ui here?' gasps Robert. Barry, playing Robert, is a veteran of Playhouse farces. As the only character who fully understands the situation on stage, it is up to Barry to be the pivot of much of the action. He does a so well. He has per- fected the image of the desperate vicum of circunhsuince. In tact, by the end of the first act he was visibly drenched in perspiration. Eventually. Jaqueline begins to smell a rat and the moment of reck- oning approaches. Can Bernard keep his mistress and his wife'' Can Robert keep Jaqueline without Bernard finding out. Well, iiothmg is perfect in this world, but the audience delights ui watching the two twist up their stories to unbeheveablc heights to escape telling the truth. There is some poetic Justice to the =dine, although it scents Jaime line does get the short end of the sticl. But affrciotradoes of the Brush bedroom winedwill likely enjoy this latest installment from the Huron Country Playhuusc, which plays until this Saturday. Never e ve Nome Witlioffl Them L►kwgluda sliSj1.1yrg t_an bi_ a h.isslr. 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