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Home My WebLink AboutTimes Advocate, 1996-08-14, Page 1SEIP'S valu-mart 4 & 83 Exeter 235-0262 vgse Clue Night° Wed. - Aug. 14 Sept. 11 SEIP 'S valu-mart 4 & 83 Exeter 235-0262 41 %1'- ofS $16.89 a Wednesday. August 14. 1996 's r r r r r ma It you aren't.�bThe ,fieout. 1 Use �Cyt Name: Address City I Prov. 1 1 Postal Code ontraen ' 1yew$ .t46OST4year On.4.41OST ntmuaaataaen ' trier b9 . 4.41 O8T4 yaw $119 • W O8T 0102111LCIINAIM 07:.00 Onci see.40 ooesm s) OOOOO m ' 1 OOOOOOUO caro No. 1 ' Expiry Date 0 Visa 0 Master Card 1 0 Cheque enclosed Return to; TIMES ADVOCATE mi424 Main St. Exeter, Ont. NOM 1 S8 ns N. r r gm as OM Inside Grass Roots meeting draws crowd See page 2 Cemetery Decoration Day See page 7 Area residents host Chernobyl children See Crossroads Second front Merchandise stolen from Sound Advice Cancern for corn crops HURON COUNTY - Area.. farmers are hoping for a late frost this year as they keep an eye on corn that is two to three weeks late. "There's no way we can take a frost In September," said Dale Good, manager at W.G. Thompson & Sons Unnoted in Hensall. Com needs 60 days of good weather from the time it tassels until It can handle a frosfi Tasseling, which would normally happen in mld-July, has occurred in earty August - that means many com growers are pro- jecting harvest times in ear- ly October. , Good isalso concemeda about "some awful, uneven crops" across the county. Due to a cool, wet spring, planting got off to a late start and in some oils, such as Zurich, entire coal; crops were wiped out by q! flood earlier this summer. Al a result, some were forced, to replant, making the sea- son even shorter. "What com needs is real hot, humid weather," said Good. Although recent sunshine and warm temperatures have provided ideal grow- tions;stow that the August ttsct *bowls par` a trend seems to be toward the cooler nights," said Good. "Our concern is we don't want another '92," he add- ed, referring to a year that was horrendous for com growing due to an early frost. Farmers are also con- cerned about a mold called' fusarium, which has rav- aged local wheat crops and may thigaten 2rct,weU, EXETER - Sound Advice, a store scheduled to open later this month on Main Street, was broken into be- tween July 31 and August 4. According to police, $6,500 in merchandise was reported stolen including two camcorder tripods, one pair of bookshelf speakers, two CD players, 10 walkmans, two tapedecks, two portable stereos and six camcorders. All are Sony equipment. Gent' Smi'td and daughter Lin- da Maldonado Bart DeVrtes photo Gerry Smith wins Fiddle championship SHELBURNE-Exeter fiddler Geny Smith, accompanied on the piano by his daughter Linda Mal- donado, captured a fourth Canadian Fiddle Championship in Shelburne Saturday night. In 1973 they won the novelty class and in 1984, 1992 and again this year they have won the 45 to 64 age class for fiddlers across Canada.] This is the 46th year the National Contest has been held in Shelburne. Gerry has recently released his fourth cassette tape and CD called Fiddle Favorites "just for you." They are available locally at Ma - cleans and Exeter Photo. Gerry and Linda will be playing for stepdanoers in Drayton Aug. 23-24. They will also be on the CFPL stage at the Westem Fair this Saturday. Give us water! Above, Theresa and Andrew Carey soak up the waves near Grand Bend to beat the heat wave last week. Below, from left, Miranda Rempel, Al Rempel and Jordan Reid spash it up at their pool party in Hensall. Grand Bend Perks and Recreation Committee members resign All but two members of the Parks and Recreation Advisory Committee re- sign, chairperson cites tensis between them and Grand Bend council GRAND BEND - The sudden resignation of six members of the Grand Bend Parks and Recreation Advisory Com- mittee has put the committee and their projects on hold and may have created an irreversible rift between those who re- signed and Grand Bend Council. Committee members Bill Uniac, Doreen McHarg, Ed Brown, Steve Reid, John Merkies and Chairperson Barry Richman officially resigned from the committee during a meeting on July 24 leaving councilors Bob Mann and Bar- bara Wheeldon as the only two remaining members. Richman and Uniac made a brief appearance during last • Tuesday's council meeting to work out details of allocating the proceeds taised km the Kids of Steel Triathlon held in Grand Bend recently) . However, neither spoke about . the reason fat tri resignations nor was the issue fully ad- dressed bf' toil. When Opnd by the T -A Thursday, Richman read from a cahis letter of resignation revealing tensions among members and a declining relationship with courted. "We aU.trigd to hold this committee together but there alive been; savers] problems and misunderstandings," said Richman. He said problems began when council added the word "advisory" to the name of the Parks and Recreation Com- mittee at the beginning of their term in November. No long- er a full committee of council, it can't make motions, pass resolutions or take minutes at meetings. Without minutes being recorded, or rules to enforce Richman said meetings were becoming hostile and difficult to control. He added council never gave the advisory committee a new mandate and the group was unsure of its new role. * Continued on pap 2 Lucan Council votes to begin library .gotiationS After six months of deliberation, council will disscuss the idea of moving the village library to a larger facility By Brenda Burke Merl and Muriel Culbert's library proposal. building owned by the Culberts on Main T -A Reporter For others, it means the beginning of a deal Street. Muriel feels council's decision is "a they have disagreed with all along. big beginning." LUCAN - For some, a long-awaited do- If approved, t!Ie proposal would mean the Mary Lynn Hetherington, chair of the seven- . {ate library facilities would be member Friends of the Library Committee, vision took place at Lucan's August 6 council village's inadeq brary +� Continued on . • e 2 meeting - the go-ahead to begin dealing with replaced by a new 2,766 • uare foot 1i • ...: Phone Book EXETER -The ever -popular Times -Advocate "Home Phone Book" will be delivered next week with the Aug. 21 edition. The book is Included in both sub- scriber and single copy sales. Sub- scribers who have their mail de- livered in Exeter's Super Boxes will have their copy delivered sep- arately (probably one or two days early). Thanks to tremendous advertising support this year's edition is our largest ever, 160 pages. Additional copies are available at our office for $2.00 each.