Times Advocate, 1998-06-10, Page 3_IN THEi\TFJ'VS
Grand Bend airshow focuses on education
By Katherine Harding
T -A Reporter
HURON AIR PARK - Over
10,000 people -attended the Grand
Bend Air Expo •held at Huron Air
Park on Wednesday.
Of those spectators, over 4,000 of
them were students from 22 arca
schools. • .
"'This year the show was more
geared. towards students," said
chairperson of the Grand Bend Air
Expo Tom Lawson: •
Expo organizers teamed up with
the Avon Maitland School hoard to
create the special field trip.
In the morning a Career Fair fo-
cusing on• aviation related op-
portunities was held at the South
Huron Rcc Centre.".
Students were given special pass-
. ports containing information maps.
a questionnaire and an area to
record what. they. had done at the
Career Fair.
In the afternoon . students -were
able -to participate in the air show
event. -
The event featured its first "Jun-
• iorSnowhirds" program. One lucky
student- was chosen from . par-
ticipating schools to meet with the
Snowhirds for a series of special
tours and a boardroom lunch. They
were also able to watch the air _
show from a VIP location. ..
In its sixth year, Lawson calls it,
"thc little show that tries."
Lawson says the air show tries to
distinguish itself from. London's
event by. "keeping their show dif-
ferent."
Besides showcasing the •Snow-
birds and Skyhawks parachute
team, the Grand Bend show fea-
tured several planes nbt in London,
-including a F-1 17 Stealth • fighter,
an A- I0 Warthog demonstration
team from Georgia, the first Ca-
nadian appearance of a T-33 trainer
'from South Carolina and a...U.S.
Coast Guard helicopter demonstra-
tion team.
Also featured was • Meal pilot
Marl: Stuart making his first ap-
pearance at the show. Stuart tlew•.a
• Cessna Acrobat.
Stuart has volunteered on the
ground since the show began and is
finally gladhe's-got a chance to fly.
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He described his show as seven
minutes of "smooth flowing acro-
batic Ilying:"
Lawson is' "pleased with how the
show went this year.
"It was a marvelous show," said
Lawson. "I'd like to thank all our
volunteer's and supporters.. they in
what make out show work year al-
ter year."
Alr show debut. Local aviator and owner of TertyAir Mark Stuart, 25,
ance at the Grand Bend International Air Expo on Wednesday.
made his first appear -
Kent St. sewer extension double the estimate
But Lucan council decided to award the tender anyway since
time is running out in the fed/province infrastructure. program
By Craig Bradford
T -A Reporter
LUCAN - Going ahead _with the.
Kent St. sanitary sewer extension
project was a matter Of darned if
you do and darned if you don't for
Lucan council.
Council decided to award the ten-
der for the project to Lucan's PVG
Excavating after mulling over -
whcther the project should even he
kme. PVG's low, hid of $59.921.18
came in well above the village staff 7.
estimate of $35,500. .
Council approved awarding the
tender to PVG with one nay vote
from Reeve Robert Benner.
Administrator Ron Rcymer said.
the estimate was based on. previous
Kent Si. - sewer work which was
done when contractors were less
busy and hungrier for work.
He said current market conditions
where contractors are h'usy with
private sector work and don't need
additional public sector work is the -
main factor in what looks like in-
flated quotes from contractors.. The
six other bids ranged • from
$62,033.25 to $95:969.37. .
In fact. the village had to tender
the job twice. The first lender call
that closed in April garnered just
one hid. Council gave contractors
another shot at the project with a
May 8 closing date.
The project is a federal/provincial
infrastructure one which.mear.s the
feds. province and village will each
pick up one third of the original es-
timated $35,500 cost of the work.
The .$36,254.51 remainder will
he picked up by the village — half
will come out of thc development
charge fund with the rest to come
from sewer reserves.
Lucan will recoup -$13.000from
frontage charges as part of the vil-
lage's mandatory sewer -system
connection program and another
$15.000 in connection charges
from the six homes on the street,
• Reymer pointed out PVG's final
price tag may clime in under its bid
and w irk is scheduled to be fin-
ished .'\ug. 31.
Other items •of interest from last
week's meeting:
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2001 Games update
Benner suggested getting some
outside help • to lobby for federal
and/or provincial grants for road
iniprovements _before the 2001
Summer Games. •-
Benner thinks Lucan, could be 'a
prime candidate to get grant stoney
since it is on the way to Grand
Bend: one of the panners in the
2001 Games Alliance along with
London, St: Thomas and , Wood=
.stock.
Benner .- recommended former
councillor. Rosemary Gahlinger-
Beaune for the job, because she has
vast experience. in community de-
velopment. Gahlingcr-Beaune is
'the Ausahle Centre chairpdrson.
Time for tires . -
The village will hold a used tire
pick-up _day on Jule 4 from 10.
a.m.-2 pant. for both village and
Biddulph residents. A Bluewater
Recycling ' truck will pick-up the
tires at the Wraith • Family Hard-
ware parking lot.
A big no to arena reserve
Council voted down letting the
Lucan arena management board set
up its own reserve fund on advice
treasurer Ruth Frost received from
municipal advisor Tim Ryall.
He said while municipalities can
maintain reserve accounts. joint
boards like the arena board don't
have the authority to keep separate
bank accounts.
The arena hoard's reserve is held
by its municipal users that include
Lucan; and •the townships of Bid-
dulph, McGillivray and Middlesex
Centre.
Workfare in Lucan?
Reymer will contact Middlesex
County training/employment work-
er Beth Engel on whether Lucan
can use people in the Ontario
Works Act program. more corn-
monly known as workfare.
The province is.expanding work-
fare from its trial stage since the act
was given final approval at, Queens
Park on May 1.
Rcymer said possible tasks for
workfare people in Lucan depends -
on the skills those people have. but
probable jobs include organizing
the village's archives or some hor-
ticulture help with the Com-
munities In Bloom program.
_ Selling the farm.::not `
The debate on whether to sell the
farm thc-village owns next to the-
sewage- treatment plant died with-'
advice from -Ministry of Environ-
ment/Energy's Jason Fani. • .
. Frost found out that under Bill
107, the sale of the farm to the pri-
vate sector is prohibited. If the vil-
lage was allowed to sell the farm, it
would have to pay hack 'the pro-
vincial grant it •received to buy the
land for the sewage plant project..
Council decided to drop the issue
of selling, the farm.
Absent, but not forgotten
Though public works super-
intendent Ddug -Johnston couldn't
attend the meeting because of hol-
'idays. hi' input wasn't.
He Ictt word that sewer headers •
to alleviate the standing -water prob-
lem on Kleinfeldt -Ave. and Harold
Ct. will cost about -$22,000-
$25,0(1() leaving about $43.()00 in
the infiltration component of the
federal/provincial infrastructure
grant program. • •
Johnston has recommended using
the'- remaining funds for the man-
datory sump pump installation
grant program to be opened up u , -
homeowners in the Grh,,,• ' i .
Willow arca. •
Those in the program ar_ gr.cr
up to $1.500 for sump ip in-
stallation in their homes to lessen
the load al the sewage plant. While
most sump ptimp jobs cost less than
the grant, homeowners have to pay
any costs over the maximum ram
amount.
Reymer said the sump pum pro-
gram is working: about 12.000 cu-
bic metres of water flowed through
the plant last month compared with
24,260 cubic metres in May '97.
26.000 'in May '96. 20,500 in Ma-
'95 and 22.000 in May '94..
Johnston will provide more in-
formation to council at thc June 23
meeting. - -
Truck sold
The village sold its worn out '89
GMC $15 "pickup truck to a Lon-
don man for $700. the highest of
six bids that started at $ I00 with
the second highest at just over
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by thieves -
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investigating damage or break-ins
to -four campers in Pinery
Provincial Park that occurred over
the weekend:
Thieves stole valuables they
found:in the -chicles in each of.the
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