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Ausable Centre all
grown up now:
Amicable split
for Library
Friends and
Ausable Centre
Craig Bradford
' TIMEi•,u,vociv 1: 5'CAH
l.li( Ar\ — The Ausable
Centre has coma. of• age .
.lust like gutting your
drjvers' licence Or turning
21, • Lucan's Ausable
(:entre has gone through
u . right of passage and
grown to tt point where it
doesn't need the Official
ties with its parent, the
friends of the l.ucan
Library,.
Ausable Centre execu-
tive director Rosemary
Gahlinger-Besaune said
the Centre filed for. its
own: incorporation to- sep-
arate it officially from the.
.Friends of the • Library.
She said it's time the
Ausable Centre 'stood
apart.
".The Ausable Centre
can- survive on its own
and has gone beyond the
-Friends original scope.'
Gahlinger-Beaune
•That original scope did
ti't include Ausabie's pro-
gram in community out-
reach and economic
-development, she said:
The incorporation appli-
cation is in front of the
Ministry of Consumer and
Corporate Affairs which is
expected to grant the
order, in the -next few
• months.
Though the incorpora-
tion officially cuts the ties
between the Ausable
Centre .and the.Friends.
both Gahlinger-Beaune
and Friends president
Tom McInerney said
nothing has changed the
unofficial close relation-
ship 'between the two
entities. The friends
executive still sits as the
Autittbh board Di direr -
tors and will commie-, to
(10 s'o till the mends
annual nieeling in Murch
where there will be .ti
beard eiectiuu. sttn►e
nienthers Can- run for re-
-
election as well.
"The Ausable .(.tentre
will always be supportive
1)1 • the � Friends:
Gahliuger-Itettune Najd.
"(The int,urpurationl is
simply a legal Matter."
McInerney agreed.
' "The sintple fact 'et the.
nuttier is that this was
going to happen anyway."
Mclneriit» said respond-
ing to runlors in the com-
munity the legal split was
not an. amicable one. '.I
believe it :watt a natural
evolution;and it clarifies
things. The rue of the
Ausable ' Centre was
_always -soonit.� tilhulistit•
one with members tram
interested groups from
throughout the communi-
ty -
The Ausable Centre
opened at 170 Main St.
on Feb " t 998, and
was ori 'lowed as
a Fri ,ttiative to
solv ,.t:k of spae:e
problem at the library. A
new library is due to be
built at the Lucite
Community Memorial
Centre.
Since its opening, the
Ausable Centre has ambi-
tiously tackled providing
a -number of services the
community lacked includ-
ing serving as a commu-
nity information/resource
centre, a visual/perform-
ing arts centre including
the formation of the
Ausable Theatre and a
career/ youth develop-
ment centre. The Ausable
Centre was made possible
through seed money from
Human Resources
Developrrtent Canada and
. other government grants.
•
Gaining momentum
• riot
.,. 1.• tilt
at;,i, tit
•
nnadl..t nne/Ut,,1'. ti.tnk u' (.1111 $$
woe
Donations are coming in for the
Exeter parkette. Last week, corpo—
rate CiBC donated $2,000 to the
project 'From left, Exeter Mayor Ben
Hoogenboom and_pmeject-co-ordina=-.
tors John Stephens and Ted Jones'
accept the cheque from Garry
Duwyn, CIBC community manager
and Exeter branch manager Jeanie
Lee.
At left, Brent Mills and Mario .
Levesque unload a green ash.The
shrubs and trees have been planted
and sod laying is scheduled for this.
week. Stephens said he.is pleased -
with the donations received thus far -
but more are needed to complete
the downtown improvement project.
Lions want
old asses
EXETER - Thelixeter
Lions Club wants your Old
eye glasses.
'fhe club will be combin-
ing the glasses collected
locally with those from
other clubs and sending
them to Sri Lanka whore
thousands of people with
vision problems will be able
to put them to good use.
Lions Club member Leo
Krohn told the T -A glasses
can be dropped off at:.
Dinneys Fine furniture.
Stedmatts or Shoppers Drug
• Mart.
Open for business
StoneyRidge Developments Incas Jack Taylor, left, his son and partner Jeff Taylor,
Exeter Mayor Ben Hoogenboom and Pipheiro Realty (London) reactor Bill
Harris cut the ceremonial ribbon to officially open the ShadowRidge Town
Homes subdivision on Shadow Lane in Exeter on Saturday.The seven -building,
28 -unit subdivision should be completed within three years, jack Taylor said,
depending on the weather arid sales. Each unit costs between.$ 150,000-
$200,000 depending on the extras. •
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