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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes Advocate, 1993-02-17, Page 1Carnations $9.00 dozen or 750 each Cash and carry ih COUNTQY f1OWEUS aueS r Gasser KneIIe Investments Gee 4 Inside 100 years Everett Haist marks.birthday page 8 Epilepsy Group meets in Hensall page 12 Carnivals Grand Bend and Kirkton page.17 HOusoing Survey of the county page 18 Still Stompin' • . Local band heads for TV page 26 Tickets for eras d ry : i well, says Rotary Club GRAND BEND - The Rotary Club of Grand Bend is' well into one of their major fundraising cam- paigns of the year. A .three -car draw will be held June 5, and $100 .tickets dor;-the draw we selling well, reports Bob Mann. "They're really starting to take off now," said Mann. An early -bird draw was held Sun- day, and the winner was' Vaughn Minor of London, who won a $2;500 travel voucher from Robert Q, a travel bag and a bottle of wine. But the main prizes, a Chrysler Magic Wagon, a Chevrolet Geo Metro convertible, and a Ford Es- cort, will be given away at a June 5 gala evening and dance at Centralia College. Mann said since the $100 draw ' ticket includes admission to the evening, it represents a good deal. "So you buy your ticket and you've got your admission," he said, adding that the charitable do- nation portion of the ticket, about $60 is also tax-deductible. Two thousand tickets will be sold. Proceeds from the draw will go toward the VON Palliative Care program in Huron County, the res- toration of the Rokeby School at the Lambton Museum, and the con- struction of a water supply and dis- tribution system in Umuezic, Nige- ria, a 10,000 population village with no water. 0 Legal bill shocks council ZURICH ' The pdOOVf.ilitMd- vice can be a little shocking, q- cludcd Zurich council Thursday evening. Council were reviewing a $750 plus OST bill from lawyer Dan Murphys whom they asked to read over the village's bylaws on the sewage system to make sure infrac- tions could be enforced. Murphy had advised council their four bylaws were in order. and al- though they could use some updat- ing to this Revised Statutes of Onta- rio, they did. allow for adequate enforcement of illegal connections to the seweresysteni. "That's crazy for something like that, just to read the bylaws," stated reeve Bob Fisher. "That's outrageous," agreed coun- ecillor Baib Jeffrey. Council ,concluded that before seeking• legal advice in the future, they would first ask for the costs in- volved and possibly seek bids from other law firms. Landfill must be preserved. audience told By Adrian Harte T -A Editor EXETER - Although an overall presentation of the town's propo- sals for managing waste in the fu- • Lure, the focus of last Tuesday's meeting soon zoomed in on the planned $2 a bag user -pay gage collection system. The public meeting began with town officials and environmental experts offering a hard sell on why user -pay garbage collection was needed to provide an incentive to cut back waste, but once the floor was opened to the 60 people who attended, some equally hard argu- -.ttlents were offered on why the system wouldn't work. Mayor Bruce Shaw began by ad- mitting that his council faced some "controversial decisions" re- garding waste management, but said time was running for the town's landfill site and the environ- ment in general. "We must spend money on waste disposal...and that money comes from you, simple as that," said Shaw, • pointing out that money would be best spent on maximizing present resources. As for accusations that council was merely jumping on Grand Bend's bandwagon (the village be- gan a $2 user -pay bag tag system in October) Shaw said "of course that's utter nonsense. We're usually opposed to anything that comes along." He said Exeter council's typical conservative views led to a delay in e gets rough ride introducing the blue box recycling program, a program which later be- came popular and successful. "We were slow," admitted Shaw. "We thought some alternatives were better than that." Shaw said the town has to go far beyond the blue box collection plan to help conserve the landfill, which he said is currently at capacity and operating on ministry permission alone. Seaforth spent $200,000 on a landfill proposal and came up with nothing. The town now uses the county's Holmesville site. 'We were appalled. We want to avoid that if possible," said Shaw. To preserve the present landfill, the mayor said the waste manage- ment pk n calls for greater individu- al responsibility. But the overriding concern, said Shaw, was that the town's mill rate had to be unaffected by the cost§ of any such program. . Gary Kay from the Ministry of the Environment then gave an over- view of the entire environmental crisis. "Evolution goes on and we may be the great mistake," said Kay,' adding that -with six to 10 years to certify a new landfill, there is no way we can continue asa disposa- ble society. Ontarians now throw away one tonne of garbage per person each year, "and we've got no place to put it," said Kay. Kay stressed that while recycling is good, reducing garbage is the main concern these days and that arm ra crooner', liarmiseteng act in Saturday afternoon's amateur talent'4thnd Phil Maguire who sang Row, Row, Row Your Boat for the contest at Coc,pnut Bay for the Grand Bend Winter Carnival s udience, while dressed in the same nautical outfits they was none other than four village council members them- appeared in for the morning's parade. selves. From left are Ed Fluter, Tom Lawson, Bill Uniac, Great weather caps Carnival GRAND BEND - The Grad Bend Winter Carnival finished up on a positive note, say organizers. Unlike last year's first wintery weekend, followed by rain and ,*arm temperatures to melt the za now sculptures, this year's weather allowed the Carnival to conclude in winter white. Sunday was particu- larly favourable. Traffic accidents dominate weekly police report EXETER - tarsier OPP report nine separate traffic accidents in the area this week. All the accidents in- volved single vehicles leaving the roadway with two accidents involv- ing injuries. Police remind drivers to exercise common sense and slow down when road conditions dictate toensure the safety of all those us - ng the roadway. Last Wednesday, there were sev- eral incidents of fire clackers being set off in the village of Hensall. Po- lice report that two young offenders have been charged with causing a disturbance. More charges arc pending in connection with the inci- dents. Three mailboxes were targeted last Thursday and Friday for theft and damage. Jim Skinner of Centralia had his mailbox stolen, while in Dashwood, Jim Dietrich and James and Patricia Hunt received damage to their mailboxes. Sometime between January 30 •and February 14 a cottage in Ste- phen Township belonging to David Boyle, was broken into.. Police re- port a VCR and some alcohol were stolen. Anyone with any informa- tion concerning this incident is asked to contact. the Exeter OPP at 235-1300 or Crime Stoppers at 1- 800-265-1777. Stephen council support warm room proposal CREDITON - A delegation at Stephen Township council on February 2 asked council if they would support a plan to create a warm room at the township's arena and expand the dressing rooms. Council agreed to support the project, and encouraged the del- egates Diane Finkbeiner and Jim Glavin from Stephen Minor Hockey, to pursue the matter fartherr:and possibly find a group to suielartilnd fwtd,the coajuc- Township adm' logy . tlsid ,the„a�logy` sions tuming the present erena dressing rooms• into the warm room and the concession stand. New dressing rooms would then be added on the north side of the building. In other township business, council received a request from Ted Poplar, chairman of the Grand Cove Hpmeowners Asso- ciation, to give a 1993 recreation grant to the association for the purchase of a carpet bowling mat Council supported the request and agreed to grant $1,000 to the association for the purchase.. "Talk about weather," said Carni- val vice-chairman Tom MacMillan. "It snows in the morning and sun the afternoon. You can't beat it." Although official results aren't in, attendance for the second weekend Jar outclassed the first weekend. I .MacMillan said he could guess there were about 4,000 attending Saturday's parade alone. "We're still trying to tabulate the numbers," he said. The weather makes all the differ- ence. Last weekend's unseasonal lack of snow meant the cancellation of the sled dog derby and the loss of many visitors who would have arrived to see it. "We were really disappointed be- cause that's a class event for us,' said MacMillan, but he said the second weekend seems to have made up for it all. "Just about all the events this year were well attended," he said, but added the children's snow vil- lage proved the necessity of mak- ing sure the Carnival has appeal to youngsters.. "There needs to be adult-oriented event," agreed MacMillan. "But I think we proved the main focus has to be on families and kids." • Winners of the popular .interna- tional snow -sculpting competition. this year were a team from London who created "Ursula" a character from Disney's little Mermaid: Ted Hayes, Tyler Hayes, and Don Ewald. Runners up were the sculp- tors of the "Grape.Ape",David Pel - Continued on page 2 we must learn to become a "consu- mer society". "That's the ' buzzword, and it's a real challenge because no one's ever built one," he said. "You are the only person who controls the waste that comes into your house." Craig Metzger from the County of Huron told the -audience that the County's Waste Management Mas- ter Plan came into being because it was realized .municipalities can no longer afford to certify their own landfills. Even by following the ministry's guidelines for selecting a new land- fill, Metzger said it may take until 1998 or 1999 before Huron finally opens a new county -wide site. He said Exeter needs to divert as much waste from its present site as possible for as long as possible. Diversion he said, can take the form of high tipping fees for gar- bage and the banning of certain ma- terials from the site. "Waste diversion isn't an option anymore. It's a question of how we go about it and how we achieve it," said Metzger. George McEwan of the town's waste management committee said he often tells his students at the Continued on page two Protest gets smoee room at Zurich arena ZURICH - A delegation from the Zurich Minor Athletic Association came to council Thursday evening to demand council give some t till$ smoking in It atellit:-. A Iffutilar request to the village recreation board had been rejected. Instead the association were asked to restrict smoking as they, saw fit during their use of the building. The delegation, accompanied by a 100 name petition, said that was not good enough to protect children from second hand smoke. Before the delegation arrived, council seemed content that the rec- reation board had made the right decision, and were worried that banning smoking at the arena could affect the building's rental business for other functions. However, the delegation were able to convince council some ac- tion needed to be taken. "We didn't want to ban smoking at the arena .100 percent of the time," reeve Bob Fisher told the group. "We felt that would be bad for business." One man told council that, if any- thing, the glassed -in warts area should be designated smoke free. "There's a lot of children that come into that wamr area and there's a lot of smoking going on in Continued on page two. 1 1 ,•1 8