HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes Advocate, 1998-02-11, Page 17• e
MM LJNJ TY
Times-Adimcate, February 11, 1998
Page 17
Exeter Rodeo Committee signs contract with A -K for '98 event
Parade and chil- • "lite committee makes a rodeo,"
•
dren 's rodeo dames he said. -
b �' CAmrttiuce chairman Don Rich -
could -be included 1n . ardson agreed the committee is ex-
cellent -and -is well on its way to
this years event, making this year's rodeo an even
By Kate Monk
7-A Reporter
•. EXETER - It's official. A -K Ro-
greater success. •.
With the rodeo being part of the
Dodge Series, it will attract the top
cowboys who are competing for the
right to be part of the season cham-
deo Productions will manage this pionship, according .to Miller. Joe
year's rodeo in Exeter August 8 Alexander or Orangeville, an eight -
and 9 at -the South_Huron Res—time Ontario calf_ roping.charnpion
-reation Centre: This year's event and Caroline. Heffernan of Guelph,
the 1995 World Congress Break -
will' be part of the Dodge Truck Ro-
deo Series. prornising an even ha-
ter campetilion.than last year. ,
The opportun;:y for Exeter's ro-
deo to move up to the Dodge -Series
(lop eight - rodeos in .Ontario) is
hased on the success of last year s•
event: volvement 'and entry fees fro,►rt the
"We didn't know what kind of re- cowboys. .
sponse to expect. It was a`re- . ' Miller said Ontario- is a gond
sounding success The cowboys feeder System for the larger rodeo ..
loved it." -said Ross Miller of. A -K. circuits several `'up and coming"
Miller praised the efforts of Eioct-. cowboys: As well, cowboys in their
cr's rodeo committee as well as the --30's are coming to their roots ,in
support of the town. . Ontario:" They -like good comped
away Clainpion arc scheduled to
attend. .
Cowboys will come from eastern
North America. Exeter's purse will
be approximately $13,000 and ,is -
generated through the Dodge in -
A skip, hop
and a jump
Precious Blood winter cant
val. Top. Christina Cpok
helps junior kindergardener
Arik McQuiggan do his part in
• the potato sack relay at the
Precious Blood Winter Carni-
val on Friday.
tion but can -t travel as much be-
cause of family responsibilities.
"Exeter is becoming a meeting
place for guys who used to compete
in Exeter." Miller said. An example
is Joe -Bun who competed in the
original 'run of Exeter rodeos and
returned last year to compete with
his granddaughter. -
Miller said Exeter Chrysler owner
Matt -Clarke had a Int. to do" with
getting Dodge involved in -spon-
soring the series. •
The co nmittee would like io take___
the Exeter rodeo to. the next level
and get the community even more
involved. A parade and children's
rodeo games were identified as. two
possibilities. Miller would like to
see the cowboys discover the down-
town area of Exeter.
Jo -Anne Fields of the committee
said beside the main rodeo, the
weekend will include camping at
Elliot Park, a Saturday night video
dance, community brunch oh Sun=
day morning and other events to get
people downtown. The main rodeo
will be held during the afternoon on
Saturday andSunday..
Roped- In. The Exeter. Rodeo Committee met with A -K Rodeo productions on Thursday to
sign the contract for -'this year's rodeo. Back -row from left Ross Miller of A -K, Matt -Clarke,
Dalton Finkbeiner, Don Richardson, Karen -Foster .(A -K) and Barb Miller nee Parsons (A-K)
Kneeling in front are, from -left: Wendy -Laing, Patty Masnica_•and JoAnne Fields.
Osborne Central gets virtual
Virtual classrooms are a virtual reality at
Osborne Centra! Public School
By, Chantal! Van Raay
TA Reporter
- USB ORNE TOWNSHIP - Int=
agine a classroom where students
interact with a teacher via. touch-
tone phone/television screen. • -
At,- Usbgrne Central ' Public.
;School. this futuristic idea is a re- •
ality. ' -
Usborne Central is connected to -
Virtual Classroom, a TVOntario
•closed circuit television with two
way voice •and computer connec- ,
tions and a one-way video to pro-
. vine an interactive, inquiry -based.
resource for learning.
in:this respect, students from Us-
borne- Central 'are not restricted to
their classroom
when it comes to
learning. Rather. they are encour-
aged to take fiefd trips- Outside of
the classroom on .a 'daily basis.
They can travel to Ottawa,'Zamhia.
Michigan: for example. They can
talk to astronauts or scientists and site on the World
they can visit any.
Wide Webwhenever their little
hearts. desire. •-
Virtual classroom is becoming
widely'usedand accepted` at a num-
ber of schools across the province.
But, will virtual classroom ul-
timately replace the need for teach-
ers?
system to teachers..- students and
. parents. -
"It is really to help get students'toi
placeswhere they can't get to.
Milder explained the basics of ed-
ucation -will still have -to be taught
one -on -One.' Virtual • classroom. is
there so students can travel to .plac-
es without having to actually -go
•there physically..'
How does virtual classroom -
work? ' • '
-A touch-tone -phone connects the
teacher with the students in the -
• classroom and those students can be
connected with other students in dif- •
fcrent: schools: -The phone will al-
• low conversation to he passed be
twecn the learner and teacher/host..
' and other students -and users in vari-
ous parts of the province- can also
cornmunicatc and share work by fax
of- modem.. .
How do the students like it? -
. "The students arc so intrigued:
They really wanted to be part of it.
The). -wanted to- answer the phones
when the phone rang. they wanted'
to.askquestions." Miller said.
Miller said the students will share
the system when,it is integrated into
the school .system - hy • March or
April. -She said classes will take
turns using the resource throughout
the day. - •
'`,No." said Karen Miller. a part- Professional Development
time Usho hie Central teacher who The service is not only `available
has, been busy introducing the- new
for students but it offers corn-
-
prehensive training such as -.credit
courses to supplementary as-
sistance-, with-
ssistance-=with- particular lessons.
TVO will also host conferences de-
signed for informal information ex-
change. . ,
How did Usborne Central' get
virtual? -
Miller said Usbornc Central
made a bid for the pilot virtual
classroom project two years- ago.
She explained Ushorne was really
the only school in the region to-
push
opush for the system, although now
that teachers from other schools
have seen what thc. program does
they -arc asking how they can hook
up with it. -
But virtual classroom 'isn't free.
in fact. to hook up it costs about
$30,X)0. Miller said Usbornc paid
$5.18X) over two years for the in-
stallation of the pilot project.
TVO .partners with various -ed-
ucation and training groups to pro
vide curriculum content. special
events and virtual field trips.
Through this the" student can ex-
perience. a variety of special events
with sounds, action and on -the -spot
interviews. Some of these include
visits to the parliament buildings in
Ottawa. Indy car races and the abil-
ity to view natural disasters such as
earthquakes and volcanoes in ac-
tion. .
Wellington St. pavement tops Lucan project list
By Craig Bradford,
T -A Reporter
LUCAN The five-year capital.
works Iorecast in. Lucan is more
like a wish list because of all the
uncertainty surrounding provincial
downloading. • -
That's the feeling of Lucan coun-
cil while they discussed the five-
year project list at last week's meet-
ing. •-
Two projects will be completed
in '98: the $10.000 repaving of
Wellington St. (a carry-over from
pavement work that was supposed
to be done in '97) and the $35.500
• Kent St. sanitary sewer extension.
Village administrator Ron Reymer
said the Kent St. project is a Feder'
al/provincial infrastructure project;
meaning the reds, the province and
Lucari split the cost "We'll three ways, Lucan's
portion totalling under . save up and
$12,001. do them when
• All the other projects - possible."
on the list now come
without a set year -for completion.
Council agreed on dropping project
goal dates since money will be
tighter than ever with provincial
downloading.
Here's the rest of the wish list, in
order of priority (all are street re-
cnstruction projects): Beech St.
(Duchess Ave. -Whitfield Drain),
$230,000 total cost; Elizabeth and
Margaret Streets, $156,000; Lewis
Sr., $104,000; Chestnut St.,
$215,000.
Council put the Chestnut St. pro -
jeer at the bottom of' the list and
considered dropping it altogether
since the Lobro subdivision there
has been in limbo since '95. The
deal was that Lohro's Frank Loy-
ens would pay for the sidewalk,
water main and sewer if the village
would pave the street. The past
council decided not to pave the
street because there was little traf-
fic on it.
"1 like. spending money where we
get some revenue back," , Deputy
Reeve Harry Wraith said about the
Chestnut project.
Wraith wanted George St. paving
to be added to the list. It May get
more consideration when other pro-
jects arc completed. •
Reymer suggested scratching tar-
get dates off the forecast because
the village simply doesn't have the
funds to set aside for.them.
"We'll just save up
and do them when pos-
sible," he said.
Reeve Robert Ben-
ner said council . may
have to devise a "dif-
ferent approach" when planning fu-
ture capital projects.
"None of this may be possible,"
he said. "We simply can't approve
any of these projects."
Other notes from the meeting:
No solution?
Council came to a dead-end when
it came to a solution for the Main/
Chestnut St. sight line problem.
Jean Hodgins wrote a letter to
council describing the difficulty she
and other motorists have turning at
the corner because she can't see
through vans and other vehicles
.parked near the arena. in her letter
Hodgins said turning left at the cor-
ner'is dangerous.
"You could .take away -two park-
ing spots but it won't do a lot for
you," public works superintendent.
Doug Johnston said; adding five to
seven less spots would do
the trick.
Benner said there -are
"no practical al-
ternatives" to' solve the
problem.
Wraith suggested mo-
torists to turn onto Main St.
ley St.
No more copies
Groups who have been using the
village photocopier for their copy-
ing needs will get an unpleasant
surprise the next time they visit the
village office. Council agreed to
stop the practice because it is caus-
ing to many disruptions for village
staff and because the copier is well
past its prime.
"1 think we should put a stop to
it," Wraith said.
Caskanettc jokingly said thc vil-
lage should send groups who want
.to make copies to the Biddulph
Township office once they get- their
almost.$9,000-new copier.
You can't have them
Council is cold to the idea for-
warded by the Lucan Area Heritage
Committee that they act as the
"guardian" of all the village's
records, and add them to their ar-
chives. Heritage Committee pres-
ident Mike Anderson asked for the
records in a letter to council.
On top of council's reluctance to
hand over village records, the move
may he prohibited by the Municipal
Act. Reymer said.
'i'hc Heritage Connnittce already
has unlimited access to all village
records during regular business
hours.
"I think
we should
put a stop
t0 it."
at Stan -
Anderson requested the
records to make it easier
to "confirm dates and lo-
cations of different people'
who have lived in our
community from time 10 •
titre."
Council hopes to hear tnorc on
why the Heritage Committee wants
the records at the March 17 meet-
ing set up to gain input from the
various groups that want village
' funding.
Hensall, Crediton now local
Lucan Bell Canada customers
will he able to call Hensall and Cre-
diton toll-free in '99. Thc changes
in service were outlined in a letter
to council from Bell Canada ec-
onomic development regional di-
rector Greg Borduas.
The service improvement is part
of Bell's $200 million program to
improve service for 6.8 million cus-
tomers in Ontario and Quebec.
Lucan Bell customers who have
multi-party lines will also have the
choice to switch to single line ser-
vice in '99. Single line service will
make it possible for those custom-
ers to access the Internet, use fax
machines and have call forwarding.
The improvements in service
means a $2.57 monthly bill in-
crease average across the province.
Exeter man charged with assault
- LONDON - Jeffery William Averill. 21. of Exeter, is charged with
assault after a woman complained she was punched and choked during
an argument shortly after midnight Friday at a Briarhill Ave. house
party. in London. .
An 18 -year-old male is still in St. Joseph's Health Centre after being
stabbed with a knife at the same party. His friends took him too' hospital
at about .1 a.m. Saturday. Police have recovered the.knitc.and the '
investigation continues.
- Two injured after accident near Varna
VARNA ;An accident north of Varna at about 2:30 a.rn. on Saturday
-has Icft Donald and Tabatha Carey of Stanley Township. aged 25 and
29 respectively; in hospital. .
Huron County OPP Const. John•Marshall said Donald•Carcy was
driving a '92 Chev. pickup northbound on Huron Rd. 31 just over 2 kni
north of Huron .Rd. 3 when_thetruck lett the -road, rolled into the west
ditch and stopped in a creek. Both Donald and Tabatha were taken to
Clinton Public Hospital and Tabatha waslater Uansferred to London's
-Victoria Hospital with serious injuries. The local fire departinent also
assisted at the scene. -
Donald Carey is charged -with careless driving under the Highway
Traffic Act. -
-Youths arrested in B&Es
EXETER - Three 17 -year-old males,,two from Markdalc and -_
from Scaforth, were arrested by Exeter OPP on Jan.27 in connection
with break-ins in Exeter,. Scaforth,Mirchell, Harriston and Markdale.
Thc three youths wcrc picked up by the Exeter OPP outside Exeter
• without incident:
Marshall said all -three arc charged with possession of stolen
property, break and enters, theft and possession 01; break-in tools. One.
youth was released on an undertaking for Godcrich youth court on
April 9. one was released on a justice oldie—peace undertaking and is to
appear in Goderich youth•court on Feb; 12. 1'hc other youth was held in
custoxly.'fhe investigation continues.
Day -time B&E in Biddulph
BiDDULi'H "I'WP. - Thieve~ stole Iwo TVs, electrical tools, a fax
machine, coins, two shotguns. a rills and a skeet shotgun from a home
on Denfield Rd. during_ the day on Feb. 8. .
London OPP Cons'. Dorn a Shulist said the thieves gained entry
through an unlocked garage and then useda sledgehammer to get
through a door to the house.
Thieves foiled in Ailsa Craig
AILSA CRAIG = A pair o f thieves just couldn't get. it together in
Ailsa Craig on Saturday morning. -
Shulist said at about 5 a.m. a -Queen St. homeowner heard.rtoises
Outside her residence and looked out to see two Males trying to steal
her pick-up parked in the driveway. The duo fled when they found out
they had been spotted. 'I'he truck doors had been unlocked and the
ignition was smashed. •
At about the same time an•aucmpt was made to steal a van and truck
• from James Walsh Sales on Main Si., Shulist said.-
- A Nicoline St. resident who noticed an OPP cruiser at his neighbor's •
hone on Saturday checked his own house and found his basement
screen had been ripped and the wooden window had fresh prymarks.
S.hulisl said the thieves didn't gel in and no More damage was found.
The investigation continues.
B&E done over dinner
LUCAN - A Nicoline Ave. home was broken into on Friday between
5:30 p.m. -7 p.nr. while the family was out for dinner, Shulist said.
Thieves gained entry through the basement window and a CD player
and live silver dollars wcrc stolen.
Teens suspected in Harold Ct. theft
LUCAN - A number of items were stolen from a Harold Ct. home
during the day on Feb. 4 though there wcrc no signs of forced entry.
A Nintendo 64 system and two games, a Game Gear system and
seven games, assorted jewelry, money and liquor were stolen, Shulist
said. A neighbor told the OPP a group of teens were seen at the house
at about 1 p.m. that day. Thc investigation continues.
Dashwood truck theft unsuccessful
DASHWOOD - A thief was unsuccessful after trying to steal an
unlocked pick-up parked in the owners driveway on Centre St.
Shulist said the ignition was damaged and the driver's door was
dented.