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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes Advocate, 1999-10-20, Page 2222044140 1406420-7775 Exeter Times Advocate tos""s'r\O(O1 ads Wednesday, October 13, 1999 BEST G.I.C. RATES Your Investment Shoppws 23S -33U 1 year 5.30% s 6,2s% rte_ (subject to change) Exeter 23S-3368 2. Community Living -South Huron's ARC (Adult Resource Centre) Industries held its seventh annual Farmers Market, Bake Sale and Yard Sale outside its building in Dashwood on Saturday. Pictured are, from left: Paul Consit.., volunteers Candi Jo Volk and Clint Underhill, Joanne Durand, Community Living president Donna Greb, fund-raising chairperson Jo Anne Pickering and volunteer Barb Consitt. (photo/Craig Bradford) �und1opts for e By 1L 1rIoi k TICS-ADVOCA'LE STAFF H • t, SALL - Council receives an unpleasant surprise at Monday night's meeting whef the only quote for a watermain project came in at $33,361.36, more than $7,000 above the engi- neer's estimate. The proposed project. is to replace the original watermain crossing at King and Wellington St. and to install a crossing at the King and Albert St. inter- section • that could service a new water•tower. To save advertising money, the village's engi- Grief surt group info EXETER — Those need- ing a peer support group can attend an upcoming event at the Exeter Villa on Oct. 27. The VON Palliative Care Volunteer Program is putting on information sessions for bereavement and grief support groups at the Villa at 3:30 p.m. and 7:15 p.m. The support groups allow people suffering grief to express their feel- ings in a safe and confi- dential environment. For more information, call Karen Lehnen at the Palliative Care Volunteer Program at 235-2510. neer recomm n ed the village invite tenders from four local -companies rather than an Open com- petition. _ : . Aough the work isn't time, the county _necessary paving County Road 84 through the village in 2000 and requested the village do the watermain work the year before the paving is done. Reeve Cecil Pepper said it should be cheaper to install the new water - mains now rather than to disturb and replace the new pavement in a few years. The King/Albert St. and water tower will be need- ed if Hensall's population increases. The Wellington/King replacement would be needed if the current watermain failed. Neither council nor the PUC know if the watermain would fail tomorrow or in 20 years. PUC commissioners Butch Hoffman and Gary Maxwell were at the coun- cil meeting to give their input. The PUC is concerned with spending the $35,000 when getting a new well into service is a higher pri- ority. The PUC has been wait- ing for nearly two years for Ministry of the Environment approval to put a new municipal well in service at an engineer's estimated cost of $50,000. Maxwell said the PUC has to get the new well in service because the deep municipal well that once. produced 50 gallons per minute is no longer in ser- vice and the King St. well had nitrate problems. The PUC reserves don't have enough money for the watermain, water tower and well projects. Coun. Grey Dayman sug- gested the watermain pro- ject be filed rather than completed. Coun. Rod Parker and Coun. Steve Towle said it would be better to do part of the ;project this fall. . Maxwell and Hoffman said although the water - main projects aren't nec- essary at this time, the Albert/King watermain is more viable because it would feed the proposed water tower. Council voted to have Lavis Contracting Co. Ltd. do the King/Albert water - main work this fall for a cost of $15,876.52 includ- ing GST. The King/Wellington St. water - main work was filed. CD theft in Dashwood DASHWOOD -- Sometime overnight Oct. 11 thieves broke into a car parked off Helen St. in Dashwood and made off with a CD player, a case of CDs and the owner's wal- let The culprits used a small tool to pry open the dri- ver's door, London OPP Const. Myra Rusk said. Residents get Sauble Road parking ban By Kate Monk TIMES -ADVOCATE STAFF RAND BEND — Residents along S.,ub1e Rd. in Grand Bend got their wish Monday night when they attended the council meeting and requested a ban on parking along their street. Teresa Jeromkin spoke on behalf of the residents concerned with the safety aspects of having cars parked along •the street. "We don't park there now and we don't want anyone parking there in the future," she told council. The citizens are particularly concerned with the potential for extra parked cars from the proposed 21 -unit townhouse development. Jeromkin said they are aware they will also having to comply with the parking ban. Council approved a motion to pass a bylaw to prohibit parking on both sides otiSauble Rd. in Grand Bend. Beach volleyball was also on Monday night's agenda. The 'Bend' wants to establish itself as the beach volleyball centre for western Ontario and needs to attract more tour- naments. That's the opinion expressed by Coun. Phil Maguire during a discussion about an application to hold a tournament on the beach July 8, 2000. Billed as a charity beach volleyball tournament, the event would require 25 courts but no bleachers would be erected for the single -day event. No food or drinks would be served on the beach but Molson, the tournament's sponsor, would be doing product promotions in the bars at night. Council approved the tournament in principle on the condition it receives more details, especially on the charities involved. Concerned parents. speak to school board By StearSitster SPECIAL. TO THE - PE At a -meeting at St. Marys high school Monday, Exeter's Randy Wagler walked a fine line between the dire financial predictions of officials at the Avon Maitland District School Board and the emotions of parents hoping to prevent schools from being closed. Following a public information ses- sion conducted by the board, Wagler made a presentation of his own on behalf of the South Huron Region. Accommodation Review Committee. "I was half conscripted and half a volunteer," Wagler explained before his presentation. "(Avon Maitland superintendent of education) Janet (Baird -Jackson) gave me the opportu- nity to come and speak." While community groups in many other parts of Huron and Perth coun- ties sat back with relief when Avon Maitland bowed to public pressure and backed off on plans to close schools a year ago, community groups in the Exeter area have remained active, Wagler said. In his presentation Wagler reviewed the process by which Exeter -area parents had continued tackling the issue of school closures on a school - by -school basis, then as larger groups making recommendationsto the Avon Maitland board. "One thing we all agreed upon was that we would not recommend any school for c1Osure," he said. Wagler's presentation drew applause from the approximately 200 people at the meeting. But that applause wasn't only in response to his group's refusal to recommend particular schools for closure, or his identification of possible communica- tion problems at the board level. The applause also indicated recognition, among other concerned parents at the meeting, for the group's continued diligence and willingness to work with the board. St. Marys parent Don Van Galen challenged the board's projections for declining enrollment (and, there- fore, declining enrollment dollars), while two parents in a row pointed to an assertion that closing one school would save $100,000. "If we're going tot be $600,000 short in the budget, that means we'll have to close six schools," said St. Marys - area parent Mike Brine. "And if the trend continues, as you say it will, we'll have to close 30 schools in five years. I don't think anybody thinks that's going to happen." The Avon Maitland board expects to name a list of schools Nov. 23, which will be studied for possible closure. Village of Zurich to collect stray cats ZURICH --- The Village of Zurich has decided to get serious about its stray cat problem. As reported last month in the k, there have been complaints of many stray cats in the Main Street area. The Huron County Health Unit said the cats were a potential health risk to a pregnant woman living in the area because they frequented her backyard. Council intended to pass a bylaw requiring all cats in the village be immu- nized. Cats who weren't were to be col- lected by the village and euthanized. Clerk -treasurer Charlene Overholt told the T -A last week the village really can't force residents to immunize their cats so they've decided not to pass the bylaw. Instead, this is what the village is con- sidering: neighbours in the area will put cat cages in their backyards. Once the cats are caught, they will be collected and taken to the veterinary clinic for eutha- n ization. Overholt said the village will advertise in the newspaper before it begins the process.