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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes Advocate, 1992-11-11, Page 1Cedar Roping 1� 95 7" Cash and Cam '4 75 25 COUNTRY ROWFRS Exeter Inside Weight loss Program takes off page 2 Remembering Veterans recall sacrifice of war page 14 -FFSAA Field hockey team beats odds Second front 116 Too many trips by engineer? GODERICH - Huron Comity en- gineer Dennis Merrell is going to be on the road quite a bit in the next few months. He will be heading to Windsor later this month for the Municipal Engineers Association Annual Workshop and in January will be in San Antonio. Texas for the Nation- al Association of County Engineers Conference. The latter trip raised sone con- cern from county councillors Thursday morning. Tom Cunningham of Mullett Township, said the county should review the policy on how many or- ganizations and associations county employees should be al- lowed to belong to. "We're not getting the benefit of inc employee being at home," he said. • it was also noted by Cunning- ham, the county recently hired an assistant engineer to help ease some of Merralls workload. Exeter poi i c e investigating r,. a. wt -! 1,41 Head bowed In-eeeeect for those who fell in past wars, less k (front) of the Royal Canadian Army Cadets of Huron Park, is flanked: by colour p. embers Lloyd Allan (centre) and Joan Bierling (left) who accompanied the Rementtirance Day memorial ser- vice at the Hensel) cenotaph Sunday morning. several youth assault Coordinator resigns as waste complaints plan heads for $1million mark EXETER - The Exeter Town Po- lice art investigating -Wee -unrelat- ed assault complaints which oc- curred in the past week. Last Tuesday, a 16-year.old malt reported to police he was assaulted on Main Street by being "grabbed" by another male. Police say charg- es are pending in this matter. On Thursday. a 17 -year old fe- male reported being lucked by :an- other young person, nay police, who. are 000tinuing to investigate the incident. On Friday. an 18 -year old student complained to police he was as- saulted by another younger student. He said he was punched several tunes and police say their investiga- tion is ongoing. On Sunday Iwo other assaults were reported to police. who said the panics involved were able to settle their differences without po- lice involvement. The police were called to a minor accident on William Street last Monday. Vehicles involved were driven by Edna Caldwell of Exeter and Mary Gardiner of RR I Kirk - ton. No injuries were reported, say Poke - Town police also stopped a Red- ford Drive man on Saturday and charged him with driving with a blood alcohol content of over 80 milbgrans per hire Paper lade? If you are one of our subscribers, you may,bc wondering why your Timcs Advocate arrived a day late in the mail this week. While we kept to all our dead- lines and regular publishing sched- ule, mail delivery was delayed in owe areas tine -to the observance of Remembrance Day by Canada Post employees. Regular delivery is to rewmc 'lburaday and we hope your paper arrive* on schedule. GODERICIi - Huron County's --attempt to have its-wattte-manage- ment headaches.corne to an end hit another snag on Thursday. During the council session it was announced that Jo -Ann Richter. co- ordinator for the county's Waste Management Master Plan has re- signed. But despite that. continue& chairman Torn Tames said the pro- ject will continue. "Actually the timing is good be- cause it's between studies," .said 'lollies I he Master Plan was 'recently kneed back to the drawing board --after-tire-cmtdidatc-sues !or. a -nee county -wide landfill were rejected. Currently the plan is in between stages 2B and 2C and so far it has cost 5514.367 since it first began in June 1988. The total estimated bill for the project which is expected to be completed in 1997 is 1'1.164.802. Hay Township reeve Lionel Wilda said it is hard to -rational spending only another .half a mil - Lon in the next five yoers. "We're only going to spend $500:000 by the year 1997? I don't think we're going to be able to do that,"_hesaid. The next step for the project is to back into the farmers' fields and continue doing tests. The commit- tee has decided that instead of pay- ing farmers for crop damage. they will wait until next November when the ground is frozen to do the testing. Meaowhile,:landfills of the indi , vidual muttioipalities continue to fill up, Stephen Township is trying to expand its landfill by increasing the height. Les frequent collection sought to cut recycling costs GRAND BEND - It may take you three weeks or more to fill up your Blue Box with recyclable ma- terials - yct the recycling truck comes by every week. That may have struck you as a little unneces- sary or excessive, but the problem is that the Bluewater Recycling As- sociation were just following the rules to keep the provincial grants coming. All that may be changing, howev- er. Francis Veillewe at the Bluewa- 1er.Recycling Association said that weekly collection of Blue Boxes was required by the Ministry of the Enverimment in order for the asso- ciation to qualify for recycling grants. But pressure from member municipalities to cut recycling Gusts led the BRA to appeal the ruling. "We have been asked by munici- palities to sec about bi-weekly col- lection of recys1ablcs," said Veil- 14ux, and that an appeal to the MOE was able to convince the min- istry that frequent collection does not encourage win ervation of re - °ace A new ruluhg that Blue Box col lection be "equal to or greater Uwe refuse collection" opens the door to collection programs less frequenl'. than every week. "1f there is no refuse collection tin a township, then it's preuy .well up to us what to do," said Vetheux. Busanquet Township..aoied Veii- 1eux, has been able to divert 38 per- cent of its waste from its landfills, coming close to the SO penitent goals for the year 2000. Cansc- quenUY, garbage collections can be reduced aid Blte.Box routes along with thein. The end result, said Veilleux, is that the township will have no more collection trucks travelling its roads than before the recycling program was introduced. He did say that Bluewater dues not approve of collection programs such as used in Burne Metro Toxon to municipalities where an addition t al truck is used to collect Gurnyost:h bac ''material that should be dealt with in the back yard. More trucks meahns more waste of fossil fuels. "We don't disagree that leaves should be collected, but that's a spe- cial collection," said Veilleux. Reduced collection programs can be applied to more than just town- ships, said Veilleux. Grand Bend's user -pay garbage collection system has been considered for cutting to hi -weekly routes. Other Bluewater member towns and villages may also be able to reduce garbage col- lection progrants. But the ministry's requirements still insist that Blue Box programs be at least equal to garbage collec- tions, and do not take into account the less -perishable nature of recy- clable materials, notes Veilleux. "It's a rotten system I guess, but that's what wore riving with," he said. Veilleux said current costs of pro viding Blue Box services toYhouac- holds in member municipalities are about 523.48 per year, before grants are subtracted. itt GoloorelCrierato -In'taatslswce Service Experience Valine 2354420 Fire preventon officer hiring and police village dissolution dropped from County Study GODERi[CH - The Huron County Study was shortened somewhat 6n Thursday as council deckled for the time being, not to include the recom- mendation'hat they hire a full-time fire prevention officer. "That's Creating a position. I personally don't think we need a fire pre- arentionr,"raid Stephen Township reeve Torn Tomes. John Ddherty of Ooderich agreed with Tomes and said the Goderich Fire 'Department certainty, "wouldn't like someone coming in and telling them what todo." Tomes, who recently told the Times -Advocate he was against the county's-reoommendations that police villages be disposed of, had support from his fellow councilors on this point, leading to it also tieing droppeei from -the study. Huron County Clerk -Administrator Nigel Bellehamber said police vil- lages weretreated at the turn of the century. Howick Township's Norman Fairies wondered why the county -wanted them disposed. "We don't have a problem the way they're set up. Why do you want the police villages eliminated? What problems are they causing?" asked Fairies. The police village of Dashwood is in a unique position as it lies on the borders of both Stephen and Hay Townships. If the police villages were eliminated, it could mean those' township boundaries might have to be changed. "if you're going to dissolve a police village, dissolve it into one munici- pality so they can.have a voice on council," said Tom Cunningham of flue lett Township. He said up to 1914, the police village of Auburn was taking cane of its own roads and fire protection but it simply became too expensive. "It's from a financial standpoint where I see the problem," said Cunning- ham. While the draft report which came to council is simply in the draft pro - .cess, a paragraph in another recommendation was also deleted. In regards to municipal service co-operation, Tomes and other council- lors suggested the new recommendation would not only include soft ser- vices such as recreation, day .care and building inspection but water and sewer services as well. Rash of cottage break-ins leads to ;call for vigilance EXETER - The Exeter OPP de- tachment are investigating a series of five break-ins which occurred in cottage subdivisions last week. Police say there were two break- ins at cottages in Hay Township during daytime hours last week: and three otters at cottages in Oak- wood Park last Wednesday night. While the OPP believe the day- time crimes are related, and the nighttime ones too. they arc not sure if all five were perpetrated by the same culprits. Police said the items stolen in- cluded televisions, microwaves. and VCRs - typical fare for those looking to rob empty cottages. The OPP are hoping cottage own- ers will ask neighbours to keep an eye out for their properties and to watch [or unfamiliar vehicles that may be checking couages before breaking in If anyone has information about the crimes, they are invited to call the OPP at 235-1300, or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-265-1777. The OPP also responded to a col- lision Thursday on Concession 2-3 of Stephen Township A vehicle driven by Theresa Brannon of RR 1 Varna collided with a dog. Police report the vehicle received only mi- nor damage. there were no injuries. and the dog was killed. The OPP are continuing their Amnesty Month program for own- ers of unwanted guns, ammunition, or explosives. This is also an op- pottinfty -to register -any -restricted ed weapon. Bring any articles for reg- istration or disposal to the OPP sta- tion and you wili not be prosecuted for doing so. The OPP have set aside Wednesday mornings, 10 - noon, for dealing with amnesty is- sues. Blue ribbons can be seen in Exeter EXETER - While the Exeter 'I own Pollee nave not gone so far as to remove bats or badges from their uniform, some we showing sup- port for the Metro Toronto Police Assoctetton which is opposing provincial use -of -force regulations. The Toronto police began wearing non-stwitisrd uniforms and add- ing blue ribbons to protest the requirements for written reports faun officers who draw their guns. Eimer Police constable Geotgc Robertson said some nnctnbers of the town force hove been wearing blue ribbons in support of the protest. Uniforms have otherwise been standard and you won't like- ly see them ignoring 'Alec or parking violations as in Toronto. "I don't think you'll aloe us participating any more than the blue rib- bon," said Robertson. The blue ribbon campaign also has inc support of town counchl and the police services board. Council last alma also supported a resolution of the London Pollee Association protesting the new pro- vincial regulations and requesting police be allowed to carry high capacity weapuns and expanding ammunition. As for the use -Of -fume regulations, Robertaon said the main con cern of police officers is not the filling rut of the repot after a gun is drawn, "but the tact that those reputes remain in your file." 'Those protesting the regulations euggcst that police officers may be endangering their lives should they hesitate to draw.ibatenicepuns in violent situations because of Mei-eased paperwork or fear of reper- cussions in disciplinary hearings. Robertson acknowledged that he province -wide police wisest is only one of several campaigns being meted by civil tervahts against Slew regulations and legislations being introduced by the NUP gov- ernment. But he also said the campaign may be a lost cause after a court injunction required the Metro officers to return to standard uni forms. it's just a little ribbon - it'sjut,gt ipg to hurt anything," said Rub onsite.