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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes Advocate, 1997-04-09, Page 1SEIP'S valu-mart 4 & 83 Exeter 235-0262 Ke Ibis Week Dragonbearr 'amt!"% $13.99 ... *AIR P nom.: ors T: .r. -e Serving Exeter and I, r SUBSCRIBE! • If you aren't subscribing to The 'Times -Advocate. you're messing out Use the coupon below and ' subscribe today' 1 Name: Address - - City Prov. • - ' Postal.Code . • SuascAlnnon BATES: ONTARIO 1 • • v•..•• > 45 GST•2 yea, S63 • 4 41 Gsr QUISIQE ONTARIO • 44.'.GST•2 vea..i!'9 . 933GST ' QUTSIDE CANAQA S•02 OC USE YOUR CREDIT CARD UJOUJC_lUU JUUUJ�JJJ Card No. ' Expiry Date " ; . -- Visa Visa J Master Card • J Cheque enclosed Return tq; TIMES ADVOCATE 424 Main St. Exeter. Ont. NOM 1S6, no am E m mi mu 1 1 I 1 I I Inside Cable company pulls plug on Lucan See page 2 Exeter Juveniles win All -Ontario See page 14 Exeter Midgets win All -Ontario See page 15 .44 We're renovating I-.XI-'1•FR I he Tones Advo- . calk: Inuit 'Vice w ill he under - g‘ mit! renw,%attons frf'in April tv I ?. I)uring this finer. customers may use the rear entrance. • Council supports squirrel bylaw EXETER - Deputy Reeve Dave Orlin shocked council when he re- ported that "an elderly gentleni..n" has trapped and sometimes killed white squirrels. Urlin reported the white squirrel population has been cut from user 10) to fewer than 15 over the last two years. Those that have been trapped ha%c been exported to other commune - ties and people outside Exeter. It's a town mascot. We have to make it illegal 10 trap or kill them. There should he a S5.001) fine. Wd have to protect them!" Re4ve Bill Mickle added. "1 sup-. port you whole-heartedly. We tried to get them on the endangered spe- cies list a few years ago and got no support from the Ministry of Natu- ral Resources." • Councillor Roy Tricbner urged the' entire community to support council's efforts, "With all the vid- eo cameras around, it should be - easy to detect who is (trapping or killing theml. Council decided to prepare an ap- propriate bylaw to include thc max- imum fines allowable under the law. In other council business. Coun- cillor Roy Triehner is concerned the people in Exeter arc not always aware of what's going on in the community. He suggested. and ▪ council approved, that a Civic Cor- ner column be written at least once a month about council activities. Hall to the Chiefs! John Rasenberg puffs on -a Cuban cigar while leading the charge. The Ex- eter Juvenile Chiefs take the honorary ride on the town fire truck after winning the All -Ontario • Juvenile "CC" Championship on Sunday. Exeter defeated Elmvafe 5-3 in the sixth- and final game of the•series to clinch the prestigious provincial crown: Education grant reductions will force local mill rates up The 5 to 6 per cent mill rate increase will raise: taxes by $45 to $50 on a $100,000 home IV Heather Mie, _ T -A Reporter CLINTON - Huron County Board of •Education trustees were • informed Monday that down- loading from the province. -com- bined with grant losses: will force - local mull rates up by 5 or 6 per cent. - Director Paul Car- roll explained the provincial Standard. Mill -Rate has hccn increased by 3.3 per cent and Assess- ment Equ d1,.11 on Factors will Increase the • property tax share by' more than 2 per cent: • He added the property tax is required to ahsorh 20 per cent of the reduction in the per pupil grant. This year's grant has born reduced 5.S .per cent .pr $2.3 million. hut Carroll said the _•.,.,d news is a cushion of, ap- pnw1mately 50(0.00 will be avail- able. - "If there hadn't have keen the Offset...we might as well have. closed the doors' and gone. home." said Carroll. adding he looks for- ward • to the implementation of funding reform. The Board Specific grants, based on declining enrolment. board and school size, is estimated in the ft►utwnl suis $400,01)(). Huron will also receive an increase in the Spe- cial: Assistance Grant for -low spending. low assessment hoards .of approximately $380.000. •Despite these grants, the hoard will experience a shortf ll.ol •nearly $1.6 million. Trustees have worked to bring spending down by about one million - dol- lars but Carroll warns in ordcrto achieve further reductions. drastic steps may he necessary. Suggestions for tind- ing additional savings were listed ui the Di- rector's .information Report: i •• eliminate adult ed- ucation - • reduce French pro- • grams to core French • • eliminate core trench in grades I through 3 • stop repairing buildings "If there hadn't have been the offset... we might as well have closed the doors and gone home." - Amalgamation update - Many uncertainties lace the Hu- ron board. including,a future amal- gatnatiyn with Perth. Until the Ed- ucation Improvement Cormnission makes the necessary rulings about trustee distribution, discussion about the merger has remained Iiv- pothclical. The Executive Committee did support the creation of • trustee ar- eas that Overlap the Huron -Perth Eedy Publications scoop nine newspaper awards TORONTO - Five weekly -newspapers owned by J.W. Eedy Pub- licauons.won nine awards at the Ontario Comtnunity Newspaper As- sueiation's annual convention held in Toronto on Saturday. - The Times -Advocate placed second out of 54 entries in the "Best Sports and Recreation .Story" category; sister papers the Elora - Fergus News Express was awarded two second place plaques for "Best Sports Section" and "Best Sports Photo and The Mt. Forest Confederate was named third in the "Best Business Story" category. Big winners of thc evening were the St Marys Journal -Argus and the Wingham Advance -Times. The Journal -Argus won first.plucc in • the prestigious "General Excellence Awards" (Circulation 2.00- 3.499) and the Advance -Times scooped three awards placing first in • the "Special Section" (under 6.000) category and 'the "Best Ag= riculture S.ory" category as well as placing second in the "General • Excellence Award" (under 1,999 circulation). Company president. Lorne Eedy was presented with the first an- nual Mary Knowles Award. given to the OCNA member who has made an outstanding contribution to the community his or her paper serves. - hit y -to create a single new e and "aVirid • the tendency to think of the new hoard as a Hurtin section . separate from .t• distinct Perth section.'. - • • • "I think the overlap. Should work- quite- well." said Trustee Norm Ptckell. Trustees asked staff 10 prepare- a -report of costs accumulated to date: based . • on amalgamation dis- cussions.. From Jan. 1:3 to March 31. the HCBE spent more than 58.000 on administrative costs. • - . Trustee brie, travel and ex- penses have not been included but planning activity that has only. be- gun has . cost -.approximately $10.00 to date. - . • "I hope the. government will award some compensation to do this work." said Trustee Bea Daw- son. - SEIP'S valu-mart 4 & 83 Exeter 235-026Z '/Ctc Helium , All Occasion 1tivl =- Balloons 99 DHC endorses Task Force report MITCHF.LI. - The Huron -Perth District Health Council strongly 'endorsed a 'final draft report hthe Task Force for- health .care re- .. strticturing .at its March 25 meet ing: - •. There have been few changes since.the final draft was released to the • public March althougha section referring. to governance _ ernance is- sues has been added. A.final Te- - port will- he completed early in April. . . • By June. an Interim Governance CoinntitIee is to be set. up to in= (hate planning "on a district -wide basis" -and retain a Chief Exccutve Office; The CEO is scheduled to be in place by September and full implementation of the "plan is to.be implemented within two years. - ."The hospitals should -proceed tluickly with administrative and support - - consolidation to: ensure that resources for direct patient tare -.can he maximii.cd." stated • HPDHC F-xccutivc.Director Fraser Bell in a press release. - Although the hospital hoards have held three meetings to discuss governance planning. South Hu- ron Hospital Board- Chair Verla Russel' feels the time -frame may. he unrealistic. - - She was- pleased. however. the DHC endorsed the Task Force's fi- - sal report that will sec 19 hods re- - train in Exeter. South Huron loins (Linton:. Scaltnth and St.- Marys hospitals •as hasic service- centres that oiler :-.24-hour emergency. in- patient, medical hods. chronic care beds; outpatient - clinic/therapies and - in .sonic••cases. low risk oh- • slcctrics.. • The three community hospitals will be •Goderich, 'Listowel ' and- Wingham. where - hasic, surgical - and obstetric- services will he- o1= I•ered.. Mental - health and re- habilitation may• also he offered at.. these locations. • • - • - -.Stratford yvill he the • location of the single. secondary or referral hos- pital : that will provide:. hasic and - conmtunifv services 'in addition to specialist programs. It was -noted by .the DHC that bed - distribution- as laid out in the linal report. is a -first footprint- that may -he modified through district -wide program planning. - Other restructuring recommenda- tions -include further consolidation of iihsietrics in Huron County.. pro- . grant structuring and medical inan- power • planning on a district -wide basis. sy sten-side continuing ed- ueatiwn . and system -wide quality . - assurace prtigrant. The plan also calls firr a standardlied admission and transfer. procecdures as well as appropriate proloeols and supports to maintain quality in smaller hos- pitals. The reorganization of Hu- ron -Perth hospitals will create a single governance. administration and support structure. • -Through this new system. the - eight hospitals have Committed—At) saving a final of 511)-1 million. This will require-aggresuvc reduca- tion in administration and 'support. Hospial slays - will be - shorter mid admissions will he avoided where . possible. During the next JO years. it is estimated: $19:90. Million in • necessary capital costs will be_ re- - mitred at the eight hospitals. - Anglers. fined 51,250 for snagging salmon EXETER - Two anglers from Huron Park were recently fined a total 01 51.25( for snagging Pacific Salmon in the Ausahle River near Exeter. John Stever of Huron Park was fined $500 .for engaging in 1ihing other than by angling and .fined 52.5() lin possessing snaggcrs John Windsor of Huron Park was fined 550) forengaging in fishing other Maiu by -angling. The case was heard in Provincial Court in Gode- rich. . "Enforcement of the law Contin: sues to he a priority for MNR.•' said Natural Resources Minister Chris Hodgson, who has maintained the number oI Conservation ()Ricers in OMarto.to ensure there is en1 ree mem. . On October. 12, two Conserv ation Officers Iron) the Ministry oI Natu- ral Resources were on patrol along the-Ausahle River watching for un- lawful lashing activity during the Pacif•ie.salnurn spawning run on the _river. Two• officers observed Stever, •in the water' using a fishing line . with a three -prong snigger- honk Windsor, was ori • the- river hank with a large landing net. The officers liund that Stetter and Windsor- had a large -quantity of snaggcrs and one salmon in their— possession. heir-possessin. Last meal From left, South Huron District High School students Jennifer Miller, Jasmin Cornish and Samantha Edwards dig into their last meal at the school cafeteria on Friday to kick off the 30 -hour famine for World Vision Canada. Flftythree participants raised at least $2,168. A portion of the funds will support Canadian breakfast programs and street youth projects. Most of the money will help eliminate obstacles that keep children in Mozambique, Sene- gal, Thailand, Cambodia and Rwanda from getting food they need. Optimist Club Horne, Garden and Leisure Show - Fri., Sat. and Sun. at South Huron Rec Centre