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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes Advocate, 1998-12-09, Page 1SIP'S v u -mart 4 & 83 Exeter 23 —0 2 Lucky draws & hot dogs 4 --1 _Sal., Dec. 12 Holiday cooking PAGE 18 Pork producers seg PAGE 30 Exeter, Ontario, Canada Moyer gets the job EXETER — D Moyer, Exeter's Ch Building Official h added a few more w to his job title. On Monday night, co cil passed bylaws to 0 cially .create the Servi Delivery Manager po tion and to appoint Moy to the joint building of .ciaVmanager position. Council announced th creation of the new pos tion earlier this fall fol -lowing two staff retire ments. After advertisin the Service Deliver Manager job posting i the London Free Pres '_ and Times -Advocate, short list of candidates was interviewed and -Moyer*was hired. Moyer will report to administrator Rick Ilundey and will be "responsible for the plan- ning for and delivery of services to the Town relating to public works including roads, sewers; solid waste and other services as - may be assigned, to recreation including facilities and . programs; parks and cemeteries;" according to the bylaw. ave let, as ords un- fli- ce si- er r - g y n s a S Wednesday, December 9, 1998 Gifts are pouring in $1.00 (includes (;ST) Karen Von Damm sorts/ through donations of mittens and toques at the Christmas Bureau he the Exeter United Church. Donations are being accepted at the church this week until Friday from 9 a.m. - Chamber political action on co mutteewrit esits concerns to Exeter council Scott NixonBy Scott Nixon and Kate Monk TIME•S-ADVo(:,l.It sTAFF: EXETER represent then order to interests of its members, the Exeter and District Chamber of Commerce. has created a political action committee. The committee met Monday morning at the Ranch Mouse Inn and dis- cussed several. s terns. Chief among them- - Were P.U.C. restructur- • ing, amalgamation and taxes. In terms of P.U.C., th committee expressed in letter to council concer over -Ontario hydro' $23.3 billion debt. - 1 The committee als wanted to know from council if an amalgamat ed P.U.C. will be getting involved with other forms of. energy in addition to electricity. ' •ln. addition the commit- tee wanted to know if it will be council or the Exeter P.U.C. -who will make final decisions regarding Y.U.C. amalga- mation. The committee also dis- cussed amalgamation of f the municipalities, with t chairperson Karen t Brown suggesting Exeter t was "putting the cart a before the horse" when it comes to amalgamation. • w She added the town still as isn't sure which monad- l: The town, he said, not have proper re sentation for its poop it amalgamates. The committee agr o send a letter to coo asking the town to ide y the cost of amalga ion for the town and axpayers and to addr he possibility of malgamating.. The committee al rote a letter to coon .will Reeve Roy Triebncr..was pre- concerned about the le if amount of time it would take staff to reply to the eed chamber's requests in ncil writing. nti- "We don't want to turn ma- our backs but we don't its have, enough staff time to ess- respond in writingon a .. not weekly basis," Triebner said, so Coun. Peter Armstrong cil - said the committee had he g matt, questions N tY tit • t ' king its poFition on t pa rtes it wants to join •I Committee member and • Il former_ Exeter Reeve Bill cu e . Mickle explained the the- fro a ory of amalgamation was .Mo n a response to government s downloading and is intended to cut costs. But, 0 he added, amalgamation doesn't work in practice. Mickle added Exeter • has already made many savings internally and worried the town.'s pro- gression will be lost un - tirnes"s for Proper xpayers Act. ixeter Council dis- ssed the three letters m the chamber on nday night Students lacking in reasoning By Scott Nixon TLAIIs-Ai w(x yry s•rnyt: SEAFOI'i•TI I = 1•ullowing Grade 3 testing in the Avon Maitland District School 13eard, the board has -concluded students have strong educational skills but are lacking in - applying their skills and reasoning, Marie Parsons, assistant - to the board's superinten- dent of education .Lorne. • Rachlis. said her original response to the results of the Grade 3 • "not unhappy".tests was she felt it w Id take timhe e for students to get accus- . tomed •to the new curricu- lum. however, on closer inspection of the results, - Parsons said .it's clear Avon Maitland students `need: improvements in reasoning, communicat- ing and applying their skills. . Parsons told the.'(' -:1 the board will not be releas- - ing .the results for each • school because the See BOARD page 2 Layoffs "very likely" � By Scott Nixon TiNc s-nuvcx:Aft_ s•r,\r=I� EXETER — As a result of a business merger. Bir '0' Inc. has let its office stair know there will "very likely" be layoffs in March. Big '0' g president Chuck Phillips told the 'I' -A Monday afternoon that because the company is merging with Armtec — a division who's. head office is in Guelph — the newly -formed company. will only need one head office, making Staff at the Exeter branch_ redundant. The companies Merge on .1an. 1, 1999. Phillips said a decjsion on how many -staff members in the Big 'O's Exeter branch will be laid off still hasn't, See BIG'•O' . age 2 der ,amalgamation. some legitimate a ' we should answer as best we ran." Town staff were direct- ed to write a letter to the 'omnuittee to say .infor- mation is available in t- meeting minutes and - council could meet with e -them to exchange infor- r motion. - The chamber's political action committee next -meets-on Jan. 12, at . the Ranch (louse Inn at 8:45 a.m. Brown said mem bers of the public are welcome. . Council was disappoin ed members of the cham ber had. not attended th meeting to voice thea concerns and make requests in person. • "If these parties are so damned concerned about what's going on,- why aren't they here?" Coun. Robert Drummond asked. o confirmation on Correll leaving S .H.H. imETERThe chair- things that need to be Out man of the South Huron. .in place" belYre the pub- Ilospital board would nei- • lir can. know about titer confirm or deny Currell's future. 1eports that hospital Hoover said once administrator Don Correll .Currell :flakes his deci- has resigned. Contacted• b sion on his future the Cont y the 'I' -A board and hospital staff y, Doug Iloover . will be the first to know. said the information .Iloover couldn't predict regarding Currell's posi- when. such information tion could not yet be . - would be released to the public. Ile come public: said there were "many Currell could not be , reached for comment.