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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes Advocate, 1992-08-26, Page 3Regional wrap up,:: Santa Claus parade to be held at night PARKHILL - A group of in- terested citizens in Parkhill are contemplating a Sunday evening Santa Claus parade for this sea- son. According to the Parkhill Ga- zette, the parade would be held Sunday, December 6, if Parkhill and area residents agree with the suggestion. Several other com- munities have already opted for similar changes, and residents were given the chances last Thursday and Friday to voice their opinions. A followup meeting is sched- uled for Tuesday, September 1 at 7:30 p.m. in the Parkhill Li- brary basement. Police chase ends in St. Marys ST. MARYS - A London man was finally taken in to custody in St. Marys last Tuesday, after a high speed chase involving eight cruisers. As reported in the St. Marys Journal Argus, James Hannah, 25, of London, has since been charged with dangerous driving, possession of a stolen vehicle, failing to stop for police, hit and run and failing to provide a breath sample. The vehicle, a 1991 Dodge van, was spotted driving errati- cally in London at 11:58 p.m. by an officer. After striking a sign in the middle of the street, the van careened off narrowly miss- ing a cruiser. Police pursued the van until three suspects abandoned it and fled on foot in St. Marys. The three suspects, Hannah, another 25 -year-old man and a 14 -year- old girl, were subsequently rounded up. The chase reached speeds of 180 km/h, ending in St. Marys with Hannah's arrest only 27 minutes later. Plowing match nears MITCHELL - The Perth County Plowmen's Association is holding the 1992 Plowing Match Friday and Saturday, Au- gust 28-29. According to the Mitchell Ad- vocate, the program begins on Friday with a coaching at 10 a.m., ann will be hosted by War- den Vince Judge of Listowel at Carson Farms, east of Listowel on Highway 86. The Junior Match begins Sat- urday at 9:30 a.m. with the Utili- ty Classes at 2 p.m. Minister of State to visit Blyth BLYTH - Keynote speaker at the Industry and Business Pro- grams Information Days. Sep- tember 15 and 16 in Blyth will be the Honor.. 41e Tom Hockin, Minister of State (small business: and tourism). As reported in the North Hu- ron Citizen, a aeries of sessions will be put on in the community to help demystify the govern- ment and explain what programs are really available out there. Space is limited to 140 people, with the registration deadline be- ing September 11. The fee is S35 (OST included). For more information, contact Cathy Gar- rick at (519) 527-0160. Races off at Goderich GODERiCH - The Goderich Trotting Association bas decided to close the track and cancel the remainder of its races scheduled for this year. Acconling to the . Goderich Signal -Star, the Thursday night races have been cancelled. due to a lack of money. The track bas lost money ail season, managing on average to capture a meagre 524,000 in bets, compared to the Clinton Raceway which usually doubles that figure at its Sunday afternoon races. ThJTHFJTFW ,S nines -Advocate, August 26, 1992 Page 3 Chretien visits Huron Liberal leader Jean Chretien began a two -clay visit to four Ontario ridings in central and south- western Ontario last week, which included a Tuesday afternoon stop at the farm of Morris Hal- lihan outside of Belgrave. A busload from the Exeter area travelled to Kincardine, where Chre- tien attend a barbecue organized by the Huron -Bruce federal riding association. Here, Chretien autographs a copy of his book "Straight From the Heart" for Ruth and Joe Hogan. Tough odds in Million dollar hole - in -one shootout on the weekend Continued from front page inches to win a 20 inch colour TV. Local qualifiers for the final round include Dave and Colin Scatcherd, Ted Ravelle, David Johnston, Mike Wraith, Jim Masse, Dave McLeod, Mike Williamson, Ivan Herrington, Randy Snow, Mac Richardson, George Coyle and Keith Connolly. According to Sheppard, the four day event went off as planned and accomplished just what the Winter, Carnival hoped it would. "It ran as we had pictured it ... It got rid of our deficit and paid for it- self," said Sheppard. It cost about $13.000 to run. Everyone agreed the occasion was professionally organized and a great success. It was well organized and it went off without a hitch- I've never seen this done before and it was a good experience," commented CKTY/Fox Radio representative Barry Wright who was present for all four days giving hourly reports to the Sarnia station. The 50 volunteers who helped run the event were also very much appreciated, said Sheppard and many participants noticed the vol- unteers were definitely on the Ball" all weekend. "I found that there was a lot of sharpness, a lot of awareness with the volunteers," said finalist Rand) Snow. "The format here is destined to be inaugural," said Snow with re- gard to the lay out and organization of the event So, Sheppard feels that once again he has proven that a vision many initially thought ridiculous can be a huge success and hopes the fundraiser will be run again next year. "1 would hope [the Winter Cani- val board) would consider doing it again. ... Next year we'd have to go one step further than whoever is trying to copy us," said Sheppard. Bob and Ada Dinney (left) took a particular interest in the portrait of Bob's grandfather Rob- ert Rowe, who was the founder of Dinney's Furniture and Funeral Home, at the opening of the art display of Harry Burke's portraits of members of the community at the Old Town Hall last Wednesday. Burke portraits give Exeter residents a sense of their past paa By Michelle Ellison TA Staff EXETER - Many Exeter residents could be found reminiscing over original descendents of the area in the town's first art gallery displayed at the Old Town Hall last Wednesday night. Seventy-five portraits drawn of men and women from the community's past by Exeter artist ijarry Burke wore shown to the public for the first time since Burke and the Heritage Foundation started working on the impressive project almost throe years ago. Burke, his son Tom and heritage Society president Bob Heywood collaborated, with much input .from the community. together vintage photographs for the talented artist to restore. Burke used oil pastel and prisma coloured hard pencils to re-create the photo- graphs on canvas. A large number of the portraits were taken from long time Exeter resident Marion Biaset'a historical memorabilia. Burke, who is also a cartoonist and illustrator, has done a memonal wall of paintings for Bill Fulton in the Ministry of Transportation building in Toronto and says after he moved to Exeter five years ago, be decided to delve into Exeter's heritage because of "the peace and quiet. The people are absolutely fan- tastic." Also on display were biographies and historical ac- counts of the past events compiled by Burke. Heywood says this project is just the fust of many the society is planning to increase the town's knowl- edge of its past and says, "what we are trying to do is find a designated place for heritage reasons." The aext project in the works is of 58 World War 1 veterans to be exhibited in the Legion. Burke esti- mates the project will lake three yeah to complete. The portraits, which the,hatitage society framed for the art display, will remain in,the Town Hall and Her- bage Society member, Jo once Bowen says anyone wllahing to view the works should =tact a,tnembcr alba society. PCB contaminated oil aken to Stratford for :processing EXETER - The Exeter Public Utilities Commission has recently completed testing the polychlorinated biphenyl levels of contaminated oils in all its transformers in the approved PCB storage site. With the permission of the Ministry of the Environment, the town transported a large quantity of the oil to another municipality for decontamination. The M.O.E. is now allowing transportation of PCB oil and is encour- aging the disposal of contaminated oil containing PCB content over the permissible level of 50 parts per million. "The ministry has sent letters out to make every effort to [get] rid of the contaminated oils and we are complying now that they are allowing it to be shipped," said manager of the PUC Hugh Davis. "We had to test every transformer in the system and remove every- thing in access of 50 ppm and store it Then, when they allowed shipping we did," added Davis. Davis said the decontamination of 585 litres of oil that were trans- ported from the storage site, which is located behind the water tower, is a much more inexpensive process than in the past when the town had to do its own processing of the oil. The reduction in cost from about S29,000 for 1000 litres about eight years ago ilio the $5,000in late July is due to the centralization of de- contaminating the oil in large quantities at the Stratford site. Davis says the municipality is privileged to be approved as a genera- tor site. This gives it the proper licensing to move the chemical. Fire Chief Ciary Middleton says he doesn't consider the PUC site or the transportation a direct threat to the area. "We don't consider [the transformers) much of a danger. ... The biggest danger is to the atmosphere if [the oil] catches fire," said Mid- dleton. For this reason, the fire department is kept informed of movements in and out of the side in order to readily assess any situation in the case of a fire or a spill. Despite the fact that all the oil found in the transformers over the des- ignated 50 ppms was removed, the site will continue to be used to store capacitors which contain chemicals used in old street lights, that might contain small quantities of PCBs. Goldfish races highlight annual Hensall family picnic HENSALL - And they're off and, swimming'! You heard right As part of the 2nd annual Hensall Family Picnic, one of the major events on the day will be goldfish racing. Organizers of the event already have the troughs in place for the aquatic stretch run which will take place at the Hensall Community Centre Sunday, August 30. The afternoon begins with a lunch from 12:45-1:30. Bring your own or buy it there as the Hensall Parks Board will be selling hot dogs, beef on a bun and pop. From 1:30 - 3 p.m. there will be ongoing games in the pavilion, in- cluding trivia, cards, crokinole and checkers. Volleyball will be played on the court and mushball on the ball diamond. Various races are also scheduled for this time in con- junction with the goldfish races. From 3-3:30 p.m. a group photo will be taken followed by a cake cutting ceremony to help celebrate Canada's 125th birthday. The day will once again wrap up with the grand finale, the Firemen's Watershow. Everyone is invited to participate in the day, and is encouraged to wear red and white. Terry Fox Run EXETER - Pledge sheets are now available for next month's Ter- ry Fox Run in Exeter. Organizer Adrian Harte is ex- pecting a large turnout for this year's event, and is promising a very interesting course for runners, walkers, cyclists, and those who choose a more intriguing way to travel the 10 km route. The date for this year's run will be Sunday, September 20, and the event will begin and end in Exeter's MacNaughton Park. Participation in last year's Exeter run was down to a disappointing 20 runners, but Harte hopes a field of 200 for the 1992 event will not be out of the question. In 1991, Terry Fox Runs across Canada raised 53.21 million to- wards cancer research. Every dol- lar raised through pledges and do- nations goes directly to research. 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