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Home My WebLink AboutTimes Advocate, 1999-08-25, Page 1i& 83 Exeter 23.54262 Delicious hot N,ok--k,„ deli foods OA— to go Heritage Days PAGE 30 • vSifulf'S 4 & 83 Exeter 235-8262 Ty one of our daily dinner specials TIMES -ADVOCATE Exeter, Ontario, Canada hone book It's bean time! delivery on Wednesday, August 25, 1999 $ 1.00 (includes GST) "AREA OF EXCELLENCE" ' • : • • ••••;,i, • . . : , r . , ... g . . _ EXETtft - The popular. Times -Advocate phone book will be delivered this weekend to over 8,000 area households. The "Home Phone Book" supported by local advertisers, will arrive in the Focus Super Saver package. r4-vtil* 99 in 99 reaches goal EXETER — The Exeter library has reached its • goal of having 99 children enrol in the 99 in 99 reading program. In the program, children aged six to 14 doctunent they have read 99 botoks this year. When finished, their names are mitered into a draw to win CD- ItOM encyclopedias and other prizes. Once they have read their first 99 books, chil- • dren can enter with their second set of 99. "It gives you a good feel- ing about how many kids use the library," Jane Hundey of the Exeter library said. To enrol, call or visit the Exeter library. Child dies suddenly at. Pinery GRAND BEND — Tragedy struck a Sarnia family when they were camping at the Pinery Provincial Park over the weekend. On Saturday, the Smink family was canoeing when their three-year-old son Arron, who was sit- ting on the dock, suddenly collapsed. The parents rushed the child to a nearby office rental building where an off-duty nurse started CPR. An ambulance was called and took the child to Exeter's South Huron Hospital, where efforts to revive him failed. A post-mortem exami- nation was conducted Sunday but foul play has already been ruled out by county coroner Dr. O'Connor. Results of the post- mortem were not avail- able at press time. MORE •ORY FARMING • • • • • : ....... • . . • ean Fstivai. runs t weekend in 4." By Kate Monk TIMES -ADVOCATE STAFF ''.”10449,F441*444404.44*- do; The committee has 'Made several improve- ments to handle the crowds. Th.ishaded area for seniors has been increased and the regular eating spaces have more picnic tables. An extra meal serving line will speed up the serving process. Last year's successful Zurich Bean Festival bean meal with a smoked pork chop and all -you -can -eat beans will be back. With the children's meal of a hot dog and beans, a fam- ily of four can eat for less than $25. Dinners will be served from 11 a.m. - 7 p.m. Saturday. The entertainment line- up will include children's entertainment, an Elvis impersonator and an array of bands. Events get underway Friday night with a Cruise Night leaving the Community entre grounds at p.m. ZURICH . — Bean Festival organizers have found the recipe for suc- cess — excellent food at a reasonable price, lots of activities and community- wide support. This year's event will be the 34th annual and focuses on the Save the Babe campaign to raise funds for a new ice sur- face, boards and dressing rooms for the Babe Siebert Memorial Arena. The bean festival com- mittee has already raised $4,500 for the campaign and will be supporting the cause with future dona- tions, said festival chair- man Jody Durand. Last year, 20,000 people attended the Zurich Bean Festival and Durand esti- mates 25,000 men, women and children will visit the village Friday night and Saturday. • &Y44 Fireworks will light up the sky at the Community Centre at dusk. A midway will be in the downtown area Friday night and Saturday. The activities get under- way early Saturday with a Zurich Minor Athletic Association pancake and sausage breakfast at the arena from 7-10 a.m. The Custom Rod and Antique Car Show is at the Community Centre grounds starting at 10:30 a.m. and Has Beans Bingo starts at 11 a.m. at the auditorium. The street market will have high quality crafts and excel- lent food. . Dr. Wallace's Frog Jumping Contest takes place at the C.G. Farm Supply lot beginning at 3 p.m. Check the schedule on page 10 in today's Times - Advocate for a complete listing of events. By Katherine Harding TIMES -ADVOCATE STAFF GRAND BEND Council has approved a concept that could effec- tively ban building more factory pig barns in an area from Bayfield to Kettle Point. At Monday's meeting, council passed a motion to designate Grand Bend an "area of excellence" and will be •apa1g Ing nearby rnuniciRalities and counties to join them. They are also inviting those governments to sent a rep- resentative to form an "area of excel- lence" conunittee. • While logistics of what exactly an "area of excel- lence" is wasn't spelled out clearly in the motion, council would like the designation to create a moratorium on the approval of pig barns near established shore- line communities. The concept' was brought to council by David Cody, a Toronto resident who owns a cot- tage in the Highlands Three subdivision. Cody wrote a letter to council on Aug. 10 about his concerns regarding factory pig.barns in the area and over the meek - end he attended a confer- ence in Goderich regard- ing the issue. Coun. Shirley Andraza was also present at the conference. "Intensive pig farms are threatening to our air and water," he told council. "Imagine if the beach was closed the opening day of the 2001 Summer Games. It could happen." "However, I'm not say- ing don't have farming anymore." He used the Soer's farm on Hwy. 83 in Stephen Twp. as an example of "dangerous factory farm" in the area. "It's a right in your face farm," he said.. "You get smells from there every other day." Cody said these farms r' not only negatively affect area property values and tourism but alsoair ,an water "The London water sup– ply is directly in front of this farm," he told coun- cll. :if'•)(4* "This'is no longer family farming," he said. "We have to treat them like, factories.; • He recott- mended .council look at several ways to con- trol the farms including .f4 limiting the size, imple- menting the building 1, moratorium, investigating, odor reduction methods and as a last resort "relo- cating them." Coyle told council they could enlist the help of a land use county planner to establish a no build zone. • He also gave council the idea to establish a com- mittee of ratepayers from different municipalities to tackle the problem. "Local stewardship is very important," he said. Coun. Phil Maguire asked Coyle why these large pig farms aren't required to have a sewage treatment plant. "These farms are like small subdivisions and the ministry would never approve a subdivision without a sewage plant," Maguire said. Coyle told them the Right to Farm Act pro- tects farmers from. fulfill- ing environmental obliga- dons. Coun. Shirley Andraza interjected with a statistic she read that a 4,000 head pig farm produces the same amount of sewage as a town of 25,000 people. The Soer's See GB COUNCIL page