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TIMES ADVOCATE
Exeter, Ontario, Canada
Wednesday, October 6, 1999
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Auction
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raises
$20 ,000
GRAND BEND —• The
Huron Country Playhouse
is pleased with a fund-
raiser last Saturday
which raised $20,000'to •
go towards the play-
house's operating costs.
Auction chairperson
Joan Cookson said the
$20,000 raised at the
silent and- and live auction
exceeded expectations by
about $5,000 and added
she is pleased with the
results.
This is the first fund-
raising auction the play-
.'
'a
house has had in four
- years and, with last week-
end's positive results,
Cookson said another
auction will probably be
held next year.
A celebrity wfne auction
was also held, which
included autographs by
many athletes, such as
former NHL great Guy
Lafleur. Autographs by
Karen Kain and Margaret
Atwood were also on the
auction block.
Retraction
In the September 1,
1999 edition of the T -A we
published an article
regarding a complaint of
businessman Mick
Rapaport, concerning
Grand Bend
Mayor Cam
Ivey.
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The T -A would like to
retract any statement or
suggestion that Mayor Ivey
has a personal vendetta
against Mr. Rapaport or
that the Mayor would
abuse his position by rais-
ing Mr. Rapaport's taxes
or causing Mr. Rapaport's
business to be subject to
unnecessary inspections
by officials of the liquor
licensing office.
We apologize to Mayor
Ivey for any embarrass-
ment the article may have
caused.
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Lucan Biddulph gets update
By Scott Nixon
TIMES -ADVOCATE STAFF
LUCAN BIDDULPH — Council received
a sneak preview Monday night of how
the municipality could grow in the next
20 years.
Planner Ted Halwa appeared before
council to update them on the progress
he is making on preparing a new official
plan and zoning bylaw for the amalga-
mated Lucan Biddulph. When finished,
the plan and bylaw will recognize Lucan
and Biddulph as one entity.
Halwa filled council in on some popu-
lation projections for the municipality. In
1996, the population of Lucan Biddulph
was 4,166. Twenty years from now
Halwa said the municipality will grow to
about 4,600. This growth will include an
increase of 900 in the former village of
Lucan but a decrease of 500 in the rural
areas.
See COUNCIL page 2
Suspected smells
from Nabisco irk
Exeter woman
By Craig Bradford
TAMES -ADVOCATE STAFF
EXETER -- An Exeter mother of two children thinks
she smells a rat when it comes to odours that emanat-
ed from the direction of Nabisco last week.
Mary Ann Rogers, who along with her family lives on
Main SI. near the LCBO store, said the smell coming
from what she suspects was Nabisco's spray field
behind the plant was "putrid.
"It's a smell I feel doesn't have to be here," she said.
Nabisco sprays the field with the water used during
corn processing. Bad smells coming from the field have
produced angry homeowners in past years.
Rogers is adamant an awful smell hung around the
area for five straight days during which time she
couldn't open her -windows.
She added her two children, aged 10 and 7, felt sick
after walking to and from school after breathing in the
smell.
Rogers called the Times -
Advocate with her concerns on
Sept. 29 after a less than satisfy-
ing visit from Mayor Ben
Hoogenboom.
Rogers invited Mayor Ben
Hoogenboom to visit her home to
smell the stench for himself. He
didn't agree with Rogers on the
severity of the smell.
"Personally I didn't think it was that bad,"
Hoogenboom said.
The smell probably developed over the three hot days
early last week, he said.
Rogers maintains the stench was in the air when
Hoogenboom visited her home.
"I have a cold and I can still smell it," she said.
Rogers feels Nabisco has a responsibility to make
sure noawful smells
come froms spray
field.
"There gotsomething
has to be to be mixed with it to
get rid of the smell," she said. "I
just think as a big
company a smell can't be that hard to deal with."
Rogers also questions if the smell means what
Nabisco is spraying on its field is bad for the environ-
ment.
Hoogenboom said Rogers suggested to him that the
town ask Nabisco to move. Hoogenboom said "that's
not going to happen.
"I'm certainly not prepared to jump on Nabisco," he
said, adding the plant is one of the town's top taxpay-
ers and provides many jobs.
Hoogenboom said the smell Rogers is complaining
about may not even come from the spray field: the
smell could also be linked to the town's own sewage
treatment lagoons, a large hog operation located just
west of town or manure spreading on a nearby field.
Hoogenboom said Nabisco has been contacted by
See SMELLS page 2
"k's a smell 1 feel
doesn't have to
be here:'
-- EXETER RESIDENT
MARY ANN ROGERS
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