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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes Advocate, 1994-01-12, Page 1Serving South Huron r— — — — l• — -� 1 SUBSCRIBE! It you aren't subscribing to The Times -Advocate, you're missing out. I Use the coupon below and ' subscribe today!! 1 Name: 1 Address City 1 Prov. 1 Postal Code I SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Canada 1 Within 40 miles • (65 km) addressed log non letter carrier addresses $30.00 plus S2.10 G.S.T. Outside 40 miles • (65 km) or any letter 1 career address $60.00 + $4.20 G.S.T. 1 Outside Canada -$99.00 (d sae 4o postage) 1 USE YOUR CREDIT CARD 1 00000000 1 00000000 Card No. 1 I Expiry Date 0 Visa 0 Master Card 1 1 1 1 0 Cheque enclosed Retum to: TIMES ADVOCATE 424 Main St. Exeter, Ont. NOM 1S6� 11.1111— — — — — Inside A game with devoted followers page 2 Bingo! Air Show Grand Bend making plans page 3 No MacDonatd's Council rejects trailer page 5 Scholarship btarry enjoying Colgate Second front Arena expansion Stephen has plans pap l0 „,... Snow! What's the best way to enjoy it?. page 13 What's a 'core physical capital asset'? EXETER - For local politicians, the jargon sometimes piles up so fast it's impossible to keep ahead of it. Last Tuesday, at the Exeter town council meeting, council members were puzzling over a letter from a joint federal/provincial first minis- ter's meeting on boosting the econ- omy. Some of the terminology, shall we say, was a little unclear. Deputy -reeve Lossy Fuller, read- ing through the letter, asked "What would a 'core physical capital asset instrumental in the provision of public services' be?" "A streetcar," suggested mayor Bruce Shaw. I "Named Desire," quickly added councillor Robert Drummond. Thieves come up short in cigarette grab attempts HURON PARK - In the early hours of last Tuesday morning, thieves made an attempt at yet an- other cigarette theft from a retail store. The Exeter OPP say Theo's Food Town in Huron Park was broken into last Tuesday. However, all that was taken was a quantity of change and a small amount of bills. An attempt to take the store's cig- arettes was unsuccessful, say po- lice. Kyle's Shell Station in Hensall was broken into that same day, and again little was taken. Police be- lieve the thieves were also after cig- arettes, but were unaware they are no longer sold at the station. North Middlesex & Lambton Since 1873 Wednesda /, January 12, 1994 Ne w Year's ikibv The first baby born to a Times Advocate subscriber arrived Thursday afternoon to Dianne and Brian McGregor of Usborne Township. Matthew, at 8 lbs, 5 ounces, was born at the Clinton hospital during a snowstorm. EXETER - The first' baby of 1994 born to a Times -Advocate subscriber arrived Thursday after- noon. Matthew McGregor, the 8 Ib, 5 oz son of Dianne and Brian McGregor was born at 4:20 p.m. at the Clinton Public Hospital. He was brought home Sunday afternoon to the Usborne Township home of his parents, and to meet his sister Kellie who is now 18 months'old. As the first baby of the new year born to Times Advocate subscribers, Mattl.nw and his parents are the recipients of several gifts sponsored by local businesses, including Dinney's Furniture, Darlings Food Markets, Exeter Decor Centre, New Orleans Pizza, Clinton Community Credit Union, Larry's Town and Country •Restaurant, Creative Affairs, Stedmans, Frenchman's Inn, Holtzmann's IGA, Something Special, Triangle Discount, McTavish Petro Canada, and Big V Drug Stores. "I never dreamed I'd have the New Year's baby," said Dianne, who said little Matthew's birth was a week late.- He was due on December 31. Dianne is an Exeter OPP officer, and husband Brian is the manager of the Exeter Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant. Old program being disbanded (84C ♦ 6C G.`'..T.) 90 cents Why not aviation school? asks pilot A n�wplan for Centralia College By Adrian Harte T -A Editor HURON PARK - Why shouldn't history repeat itself? When some- thing comes to an •end, why not go back to the beginning? Captain Barry Morris, of Morris Aviation Consultants, is wondering questions like these as he tries to get support for what he sees as the future of Huron Park. Centralia College is scheduled to close its doors forever on May 27, Morris has confirmed, but he doesn't want that to be the end. Before Huron Park was home to a college of agricultural technology, it was a training base for NATO pilots, before that a training base for World War II pilots. Since the runway is still there, maybe bet- ter than ever, the hangars are still in place, and the college has lecture halls, dormitories for 350 students, computer rooms galore...the con- clusion is obvious, at least to Mor- ris. What he knows, that most don't is that China, and other nations in the Pacific Rim are desperately in need of trained pilots. Many Chinese pi- lots were grounded after the inter- national aviation regulatory body declared them unsafe, particularly since.they didn't speak the interna- tional language of aviation, Eng- lish. China is alreacjy shopping ittAus- tralja, _the U.S., and Great Britain "It wo a sha s colleg for training schools in order to train 8,000--12,000 pilots in the next few years. In effort to expand its growing iVeernational market; the World's third largest country (the U.S.A. is fourth) is expected to buy 796 new aircraft before 2002, ac- cording to industry squrces. Morris is well aware of the de- mands a d requirements for pilots, haying rked for Boeing, DeHav- illand, a d Bombardier before start- ing his Own company. He was in- volved in the very first Dash -8 test flights. He will be de- livering a plane to Bot- swana in the next few days. Canada, he says, does have a `reputation for first-class flight training, although he says nowadays the col- leges mostly "train wealthy people's kids to be Air Canada pilots." Morris, through his company, has prepared a 15 -page brief for sub- mission to various government agencies, outlining his proposal for turning Centralia College into an international flight school. His plan has been in the works for over a year, before the college was scheduled for closure, before he was sidelined by a crash in a micro- light icro light plane at the airport last sum- mer. His report attracted the brief at- tention of Jean Charest, then depu- ty -prime minister, before the de- mise of the Conservatives in the . Mtrlease, PJlot, page two. uld be me to ee that ge go to balls." Lucan going to Bluewater for recycling LUCAN - It ikexpected that the Bluewater Recycling Association will take over the collection of blue box materials in the village of Lu - can by the first of April of this year. After considerable discussion at the January 4 meeting, council agreed to join the association which already serves 45 other municipali- ties in Western Ontario. Several months ago deputy reeve Harry Wraith and councillor Bryan "Smith, members of a joint steering committee with the townships of Lobo, London and West Nissouri reported that their group would be - discontinuing the present recycling program by the end of March. Lion now becomes a full mem- ber of the Bluewater Association and will have all privileges along with one representative on the com- mittee. Bluewater will pick up.,a number of more kinds of recyclable materi- als than are being done now. This would include plastics, cardboard, etc. Clerk Ron Reymcr said the cost of buying in to Bluewater will be about $ 11,000 or $16.99 for each of the 641 properties being serviced. Operating charges for the first year will be $26.88 per household for a total of $17,230.08. The charge for the present system in 1993 was in excess of 521,000. Deputy reeve Harry Wraith was opposed to going to Bluewater. He argued that money could be saved by refurbishing the village's 1979 truck, buy a trailer and hire another employee. Wraith said he believes Bluewa- tcr's costs will go up over the next few years. Reeve Tom McLaughlin disa- greed saying, "It will cost a lot of money to fix up the truck, buy a trailer and hire snot ' r e , ee. Another employee is n • at u - can needs." At the request of Wraith, clerk Reymer had contacted Bluewater and found out they would accept re- cycables collected_ by the village at their depot for 58 a cubic yard for clean loads or 512 a cubic yard for contaminated loads. There is no contract for this type of arrange- ment. McLaughlin said he likes the idea that Bluewater will look after all as- pects of recycling including grant applications, record keeping, 'sup- plying composters, blue box re- placements, recycling education, promotion and advertising. He add- ed, "This will save a lot of adminis- tration time." Reymer agreed and said a lot time is spent in the municipal office working on grants and other data required by the provincial govern- ment. In addition works superintendent Doug Johnston said that public works had no room to house a recy- cling trailer. Memorial service planned for South Huron student Investigation continues into double fatality HENSALL - An investigation continues into a two -fatality head- on collision on Highway 4 south of Hensall early Sunday morning. Just before 2 a.m� 17 -year old Michael Herbert of Kippen was heading home and trying to pass a car on the snow-covered highway when he collided with a south- bound ambulance just south of the Usborne-Tuckersmith townline. Herbert was killed in the acci- dent, as was the 79 -year old patient in the ambulance, Walter Knowles of Hensall. Knowles was being transferred by ambulance from the Goderich hospital to London. Four attendants in the ambulance were injured in the collision: driver Donald Perriam, 33, of Goderich, attendant Brian Rockwood, 28, of RR6 Goderich, attending physician Dr. John Lee, 31, of London, and nurse Nancy Riehl, 45, of Gode- rich. They injured were taken to South Huron Hospital for treatment where Rockwood was released. The rest were later transferred to Victoria Hospital in London for further treatment of non -life threatening in- juries. The accident came at the end of a day -long snowstorm which dumped well over 25 centimetres of snow on the Exeter area. Police report road conditions at the time included light blowing snow over snow- covered, slippery surfaces. John Morgan, one of the volun- teer firefighters who drove to the scene with extrication equipment in the Exeter Department's emergency van said the driving conditions wer- en't too bad. The Hensall Fire De- partment was also on the scene. "We had no problems going up, but that was after the accident," said Morgan. "It was pretty hard to tell what the conditions were like at the time." The investigating officer at the scene, Rod Herbert of the Exeter OPP, said that although overall vis- ibility wasn't bad. the swirling snow kicked up by the car the driv- er was attempting to pass may have been a big factor in the accident. Dr. Liam O'Connor of Grand Bend, one of the investigating coro- ners , said an inquest might be called into the accident, but only if unresolved issues remain after all the medical evidence is in. "The only reason we would con- sider an inquest in this situation is if we couldn't answer those ques- tl'ogs: where, why, and how these peo le died," said O'Connor. After Sunday's' post-mortem in Stratford, O'Connor said it will take a couple of weeks to collect all the evidence and decide if an inquest is necessary. One question to be 'answered is whether Knowles died of injuries in the accident, or as a result of his heart condition, for which he was being treated in the ambulance. O'Connor said Knowles was be- ing transported under fairly stable conditions, which would not have required the ambulance to use its emergency flashing lights. In the weather conditions, O'Connor said he did not know if the lights were on, or if they would have made a difference. "That's one of the things we have to confirm," he said. "Visibility was fairly good....We're not sure why the accident occurred....We may never know." Keith Allen, vice-principal at South Huron District High School, said a brief memorial service will be held in remembrance of Michael Herbert on Thursday morning. Al- though Allen did not know Herbert personally, he understands he was well liked by many students. "One of hiss` best friends wants to put something together (for the ser- vice), but he was in no state to dis- cuss it today," said Allen late Mon- day afternoon. • "It would'seem to me the students are handling ft well," he said, but added "Everyone is certainly down." r�, • • Hightway 4, Just -south of the Intersection at the Usbome- Tuckersmith townhlne, neAr the Big '0" factory, was the scene of a two -fatality collision early Sunday morning. A 1989 Ponti- ac collided head-on with an ambulance on its way to London. 1 5