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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes Advocate, 1998-05-13, Page 27Back in Time... By Ross Haugh from the archives of the Exeter. Ttlmes Advocate JO YEARS AGO . ' May 11,4988-- Three area residents were among more than 100 in the province to receive the Ontario' Ministry of Agriculture and Food Centennial awards. They are Robert Allan, R.R. 1, Brucefield; Gordon Hill, Varna and Dolores Shaptrin, R.R. 1, Exeter: They will receive a gold medallion especially struck for the occa- sion and mounted on a black walnut base. 20 YEARSAGO - 'May -11. 1978 - Labour Minister Bette Stephenson sent telegrams • Tuesday to the president of Fleck Manufacturing and the Canadian director of the United Auto Workers inviting them to a "command -performance' in her boardroom next Tuesday to try and hammer out i ' a settlement to the current strike. - I After the Exeter Hawks lost the seventh and -deciding game in the OHA Junior "D finals 3-2 to Lakefield, coach Ron Bogart said, i "We weren't beaten, we just ran out of time." Matt- Muller was the only Hawk to play in all 69 games during the season. Ken Pinder was the scoring leader:with 61 goals and 70 assists. • 35 YEARS AGO - . • May 11, 1963 - Ushorne school area 'board will 'engage .an archi- ".'weet and locate a site. for the proposed new central school. .. . Exeter council Monday night approved a two-hour parking limit on Main Street during business hours. Ontario Department of Education has announced_that J.,G. Bur- rows of Toronto will succeed G.J. Goman as public school inspector iii Huron No. 3 and Perth No. 3 inspectorate. Mrs. Ross Tuckey was elected president of the - Exeter Home'and School Association, Monday evening. She succeeds Mrs. Eric Hey- wood. ,Sparks from a pile of burning rubbish set fire to St. Paul's Angli can Church in Hensall. Thursday. but volunteer firemen kept the blaze from spreading. •• 40 YEARS AGO - • May. 14. 1958 - Rether'sCoffee Shop will he closed -fora period . of two weeks to effect a complete renovation of its- facilities. An unexpected gift. of S35,000 from a retired Hensall dentist,. Dr. James Bell, made-possihle• the construction cif the South Huron..Hos- jpital N.rirses• residence.uhich opens•Sunday. ,- • 50 -YEARS • May 12. 1948 - Carmel.Preshytenan Church in Hensall, marked - its centennial at special Services on Sunday. . • The carpenter work for the new Hopper -Hockey Funeral Home. has been completed.'. .The work is -well advanced_on the cement foundation for_the_ new grandstand being erected at Exeter Community Park. - Miss Margaret. Taylor. first • grade teacher of the Exeter Public - School has resigned her position and taken _a similar one in East York_ After to absence of 24 years:.Lloyd Taylor of White Riick; British Columbia is visiting at the home of his hrother; Lloyd Taylor. 75 YEARS AGO .. May 13, 1923 - The fourth annual celebration given in Crediton under.the auspices of the CAAA on Victoria Day was a decided suc- - cess- The -weather left nothing to he desired. The citizens were up early decorating their residences 'and places of business- At 1 p.m. the parade started down Main Sweet led by • Leonard Heist and James Taylor mounted on horses, . followed. by the Crediton band and the school children..- • • . The float drawn'by a team Of white.horses, represented the May -Queen with her court. After these, followed the different floats -.of the.business people and decorated cars. After the parade, the crowd - went to 'the school • grounds. The crowning of .the May Queen was. followed by • a May Pole drill exercise, A baseball game. too. be-_ tweets the. local boys and U.C.T. of London. The game was very gr ods the final score being 8-4 for the London team. in the evening. the dramatic club of Zurich put on a play entitled," Let's Get Mar- as crowded te-ihadoo a:-- - - - -- • cnMnavNrTv Lucan looking at dog bylaw, ends burning debate Times -Advocate, May 13, 1998: Page 27 By Craig Bradford T -A Reporter LUCAN - Dog owners may soon be forced to keep a more vigilant eye on their pets in Lucan. . The- village may develop a dog bylaw after receiving a complaint about a.canine incident on'Beech St. Council debated a letter from Kevin Acs at last week's meeting. Acs' letter lodged a complaint about 'a dog that "tore across the street straight at my four year old, barking ferociously" at about 8:15 - p.m. on May I. Acs said. his wife. and their three boys were .walking by the seniors' building at the time. Acs said his boy stepped backward at the last. second and - the dog. missed and landed in the trees. Acs said the dog clearly "intended to pounce on" his son. • • -After the incident .the dog ran _back to its owner who had been "Screaming"*at•it all the while, Acs said. . "With the, amount of young chil- dren in- the neighborhood and es-' pecially the walking- traffic this is potentially a very dangerous situa= tion;" Acs said in the letter. "I 'am sure we' do not want an incident like what happened in Stouffvilte to • happen here." . - • Council .directed staff to review Goderich's• bylaw governing - dog 'control and the issue will be dis- cussed again at a future meeting: . Other notes from last week's. meeting: • - Bylaw burns out A potential. bylaw. controlling back -yard fires was extinguished Draft Hensall cat bylaw almost a done deal HENSALL - The village's con- troversial cat bylaw passed first and second reading .at last Monday's council meeting.. - The bylaw now. only has: to pass one more reading before it becomes an official bylaw.. - At the beginning of the meeting. Hensall. resident Bill Bauer voiced his support for the proposed bylaw: "This bylaw •has been carefully crafted and I'd like to support it and commend council on bringing it forward." said Bauer. "This is something that should be taken seriously. ,:stray cats can eas- ily have rabies and it only takes one bite before . someone has to go through all the business of geeing needles," saki Bauer. - - "The town would only be trans- ferring a system to cats that already applies to dogs." Bauer questioned council how the bylaw would be enforced. if passed. Village reeve. Cecil Pepper an- swered. "We are not a 100 percent sure how this will be enforced...we are still working on it." Highlights of the proposed cat bylaw include: all cats owned by Hensall residents must be reg- istered. a four cats per household limit over the age of 12 weeks old and consequences for owners with 'nuisance' cats. Other council business: • - • After a lengthy discussion. Hen- sall resident Jack Philips was given Ter -mission by council to set up a chip wagon for a six month trial ba- sis in the Wellington Street parking lot. A licensing fee of S750 was im- posed, ' •- ' • Council approved the Hensall and District Horticultural Society's request for the village to donate a bench. The council however rec- ommended the bench be placed at the post office instead of the near suggested village sign. Nevin Motors explosion hurts man LUCAN - Ari explosion at Nevin Motors on Lucan's Main St. sent an RR -I- Lucan rnanto hospital with -facial injuries last week.- Shortly before noon on Friday, Chris Yule,'30, was inspecting a vacuum leak on a•'98 OMC Jimmy when hehearda loud hissjust before a fuel cannister exploded. . . London OPP Const. Donna Shulist said Yule was taken to a London hospital where be was treated for his injuries and later released. Ilderton Co-op break-in ILDER'I'ON - London Police recovered a '92 Dodge Dakota that was stolen from the Ilderton Co-op early Saturday morning. Shulist said the store's alarm was activated at about 3:30 a.m. Thieves forced their way through the gate and broke a window to gain entry.•Assorted power tools along with the pickup were stolen. The• truck's ignition had been punched and a detailed list of stolen items will be forwarded to the OPP for its investigation. Ladder stolen from Hay HAY TWP. - A 12' aluminum ladder was stolen sometime between 6 p.m. on May 9 and 12:30 p.m. on May 10 from a home under construction on Hay Twp. Cone. 8. • during a recorded vote. Councillor Perry Caskanette was the only yay vote to draft a bylaw prohibiting • people from burning garbage and other non -suitable combustibles. "i don't think anyone wants to stop the back yard roasting a weeny fire," Caskanette said during dis cussion prior to the vote.. . But he added some concerned . Lucanites he talked to wanted a by- law to stop others from burning trash. - Councillor Glenn Silver :repeated his - stance the issue was. simply- a "neighbor dispute." - "Personally, f don't see the need ' for . anything," . he said. . . : Silver -'opted. for enforcement of the Fire Code, and the village's existing . garbage bylaw that prohibit'. garbage burning. Reeve Robert ..Benner ' argued against drafting a burning bylaw - because -of the. cost of prosecuting offenders. . ' Deputy Reeve • Harry Wraith 'wouldn't support a bylaw after.talk, ing to his neighbors who -didn't seem concerned about the issue. - All. the councillors saw •what-, looked like .an unlawful fire on . their tour of the village on May..2, but none of them reported .the in-:. cident to the fire department or any other enforcement body. • The councillors agreed it is hard for homeowners to take action against -someone who they think is burning unsuitable items when none of them did anything about 'the incident on May 2. • Administrator Ron Reymer said the issue will be addressed again in next month's village newsletter that will contain advice for homeowners on what to dei when they witness unlawful. back 'yard fires. .Guarding those bikers Council received a letter from some concerned citizens about the lack of a - guard rail on Gibbon Crescent to prevent young bi- - cyclists- from landing in the creek if' they -find themselves tumbling off the. sidewalk down the grassed cul- vert. • Works superintendent Doug Johnston -said he will kook into the situation and conte hack to the next meeting with a - ..report including the. costof installing a guard rail on Gibbon Cres: He -said there are similar spots ' in the • village.. (there are 15 culverts in Lucan) and to his knowledgethere is no written • policy on when and where to install - guard rails.. - - The letter writer's second con- cern was the number of vehicles. • they feel speed through the sub- division. The -consensus of council • was that their isn't much of . a, speeding .problem there due. to the road's poor condition. Get it in writing - Caskanette has requested _the are- na management hoard review •many of its policies since many of them _ are not written down in full. . We know who you are. -. Council is asking the person who is stealing aluminum cans ri-umn vil- "I don't think anyone wants to stop the back yard roasting a weeny fire." lage blue boxes to stop it — they know who you are. Tired•of tires? • Wraith said there will he a tire pickup day sometime this summer so residents can dispose of their old tires. -• - • Johnston said any items -that were - not picked up. during' the recent; brush or stone/cement days should now be tagged as garbage so the curbside..items can be -picked up. - He added a list of items that can.he picked up along with garbage will be.drafred and handed out to those homeowners.' • Reopened - Tenders -tor the projected $35,500 Kent St. '~ewer extension project were reopened till last_Friday since only. one contractor. London's L82. submitted a hid. . That hid. $65.392,24. joins . six new htds that were received by Fri- day -that range from $59.90) to $95,900. Reymer-said coup. et! will likely -move ahead with the. project .. • since time is'running out ftr'thc vil- lage to take advantage of rbc infra- structure program grant. • - Thc federal and provincial. gov- ernments will pick up .one thirtL. ' each of the $35.500 figure with- the .village paying the 'rest .of the ,rig- incl numher plus - the refit of the $59.90) (pending c.ouncii, approval - al the May 19 nteettngi. - Reymer .said the- village'; - costs will he -offset by - development charges which will amount to half . of the village's price tag. Wide -mouths welcome. • • •Bluewater 'Recycling will .now _ accept wide-niouth plastic tubs t.n blue boxes. Grand Central fence to be erected May 23 LUCAN - If the Lucan and Are• Business Association has -its way. construction on a fence to hide th - Main St. eyesore that is the forme Grand Central Hotel lot will start . on May 23. - But the one catch is if the lot owner. Moftafa Rikhtegarzadeh of Stratford, is opposed tothe BA - funded project: - - That's the advice village council received from its Lawyer which Reeve Robert Benner shared with -BA reps at last:week's council meeting. "If he objects we should he pre- pared to remove it." Benner said. BA secretary Pat VanGeleuken was not impressed with council's stance on the issue. "I don't really understand why Lucan bends over backwards for absentee landlords." she said. "He never asked us about how we felt about the wreck downtown." . Benner countered that Rikh- tegarzadeh may have grounds to take the village to court over the fence blocking his lot which is up for sate. Benner said a prospective buyer could complain to Rikhtegarzadeh that they couldn't see the property due to the fence. • If that happens, the village so- licitor advised council that the court battle could be much more expensive than the _cost of the fence and therefore the fence would have to go. Rikhtegarzadeh will not respond to village correspondence and has yet to respond to a BA tetter in- forming him of the project. Another letter, this time 'from the village, will be sent to Rikh- tegariadeh asking him to contact the village if he has any concerns about the fence that will block the view of the lot from passersby. There will be access to the lot from either side through four foot holes in the fence. • In other BA news, small planters worth $20 will be made available to business owners for no cost as long as they water them. The BA also hopes area busi- nesses wilt sponsor between 12-15 large planters that cost S150 each to be placed at various spots (some beside benches) throughout the village. "Planting day" for the big and small pots is set for May 23. The BA also asked village staff to water the planters. Works superintendent . Doug Johnston . said his staff are swamped this summer especially since the village will not hire sum- mer students due to financial con- straints brought on by provincial downloading. The village is looking for vol- unteers to water the planters. McHappy Day raises $2716.15 All for a good cause. Above from left, John Hanson; Lion 's Club member, Frank Rozic; store manager, Janet Levack; - assistant store manager, John Prober; store owner and Paul Anstett; Lion's Club member, were all present for the cheque presentation on May 11 at McDonald's. At right, Rod Herbert, Bernie Miedema and Liam Brennan, all from • the Exeter OPP detachment, -were on hand last Wednesday to keep the Hamburgler in line and to help collect donations. EXETER - May 6. is a big day for'kDonald's Res- taurants. it's McHappy Day. All across Canada; the more than -1(X0) fran- chises ban together to help raise money t'or the Ronald McDonald Children Charities and local charities. This -year the Exeter location started their fundraising efforts early. conducting a bottle drive and garage sale. Money was also collected from the sale of McFlur- nes (25 cents) from April 13 -May 6 and a dollar•from the sale of every Big Mac on May 6. On McHappy Day last Wednesday. Exeter Mayor Ben Hoogenboom. officers from the Exeter OPP de - !a. hment and McDonald's character. The Hamburgler were on hand to help out with the effort. i -he '52716:15 raised at the Exeter NkDo- nald's will he distributed-amori,!,t Ronald -McDonald Children Children Charities. Ro- nald McDonald House. and io the Exeter Lion's Club, The Lion's plan to contribute the money to their Easter Seals fund :ind more specif- ically Camp Woodeden. Last year, the Exeter location raised $1,4(M) tiir McHappy Day. Talent Show at Stephen Central Stipploon Control ;Wilk School held a Talent Show on Thursday afternoon. Shown above demonstrating their talents are left to right Jennifer MacDonald, Shelby Thompson and Morgan Powe. 1