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Home My WebLink AboutTimes-Advocate, 1983-11-16, Page 13REMEMBRANCE DAY AT STEPHEN — Shown ready to lay wreiths at a Remem- brance Day service at Stephen Central School are Shawn Finkbeiner, Randy Hoff - Heather Wragg and Chad Pickering. T -A photo mon, Be An Early Bird f:. Our Christmas Stock has arrived Shop Early - Don't be Disappointed Stock up on these special items * Chocolate Initials * Variety Boxed Chocolates and Chocolate Bars * Stocking Fillers * Liquor Filled Chocolates * Marzipan * Delfts Blue Souvenirs * Spoons * Tea Cozies * Table Cloths * Wooden Toys * Shuffle Boards (a family game) The Dutch Canadian Store. MAIN ST. EXETER Times•Advocote, November 16, 1983 ach ptinv Details property taxg rants for seniors Rv Jack Riddell MPP Property tax grants che- ques were mailed to eligible Ontario Senior Citizens on Oc- tober 28. Seniors who did not receive an application and believe they are eligible for the 1983 Property Tax Grant should contact the Ministry of Revenue at 1-800-265-7700 or my Constituency Office. The amount of the grant depends on the occupancy costs of a senior, whether the recipient received an interim Property Tax Grant in the spring, and whether the Ministry is adjusting the grant to reflect changes in the seaior's account. For seniors who received the grant last year, the fall cheque is the final instalment of this year's Property -Tax Grant. The interim grant paid in the spring equalled one-half of last year's total grant. The amount of the grant is calculated as follows: the oc- cupancy cost for the year is determined (for tenants, 20 percent of rent payable in 1983; for homeowners, the amount of property taxes for the year) to an allowable maximum of $500. Any in- terim (spring) Property Tax Grant paid this year is sub- tracted from the total grant payable for 1983. The final or fall grant is the amount of this difference. Eligible seniors applying for the first time. will receive a single Property Tax Grant cheque based on occupancy costs for 1983. Those who turned 65 in the first half of 1983 and received an applica- tion form in September will get their 1983 Property Tax Grant in a single lump sum this fall. Those who turned 65 later in the year will receive an application form by January 1984. To qualify for the grant. seniors must have incurred an occupancy cost for 1983. Ineligible seniors include those living in nursing homes, chronic care facilities, or similar institutions, or living rent-free with relatives. Most eligible seniors received a $40 Home Heating Grant for 1982 this spring, as part of their 1983 interim Pro- perty Tax Grant cheque. The 1983 Home Heating Grant of $20 will be paid in the spring of J984 with ihe4984 interim Property Tax Grant. On December 2nd, the Minister of Revenue will mail a S50 Sales Tax cheque to all Save at Wuerths in Exeter 9 NM MUM ,N ch ycgr on WINT FOOTWE Men's Winter Workwear Greb i(odiaks 8" insulated Sylflex leather safety and non safety Regular 79.95 to 8495 695 NOW ONLY Gob Job Rated insulated safety toe and sole Work Boots 5595 Special Kaufman Sorels Leather upper, felt liners Regular to 49.95 Now 3995-4595 All other Workboots / 44 d. Snowboots Special Racks of Ladies dress and casual B oots all 2995 tax 'Specials' 'Cougar B oots' Ladies 3995 Boys Mens 4595 Mens Leather Snowboots By Inouk and North Star 3995 Hundreds of pairs Childrens fleece lined Sized 5 - 13 Vinyl Boots 9950, 2 pair 1695 1595 Sizes 11 - 4 killuertb's Work shoes SHOES 1 00,4 Off . Quality d Savic• Sinco 1938 369 Main St„ Exeter Ontario Seniors. No applica- tion is necessary for this grant. Those who turn 65 bet- ween October and December will receive the Sales Tax Grant early in the new year. Restraint Some 680,000 public sector employees have been given back the right to bargain col- lectively, and some have been given back the right to strike. However, the government has removed clout from these restored rights by announcing a 5 percent limit on public wage spending. The Provin- cial Treasurer, Larry Grossman has also announc- ed that Ontario's 16,000 doc- tors, who were exempt from last year's wage restraint program, will have the 10 per- cent fee increase they were were to get in 1984 reduced to 8 percent. By doing this, the Treasurer has violated the third -year terms of the government's five year fee agreement with the doctors. However, he pointed out that the doctors have the right to cancel the deal and to reopen talks next year in an attempt to fight the reduction. He has introduced in the Legislature the Public Sector Prices and Compensation Review Act, which received first reading by a vote of 83 to 17, with Liberals voting in support and the NDP opposing the Bill. Both Leaders of the Opposi- tion Parties criticized the restraint on doctors' fees, but for different reasons. Liberal Leader David Peterson said doctors should be limited to 5 percent next year, like everyone else. Low-income workers con- fronted with rollbacks by the Inflation Restraint Board will be given more freedom under Ontario's new restraint pro- gram to attempt to negotiate away the inequities to which they were subjected last year, according to the Provincial Treasurer. Recently he pro- mised to ensure that staff of Sensenbrenner Hospital in Kapuskasing would not have to pay back amounts of up to $1,000 each under a wage rollback ordered by the Board. However. he has now in- formed the Legislature that he will be taking no special measureof -those workers, nor w intervene in other cafes of rollbacks which"Opposition Members say are clear cases of hard- ship. In addition he has stated that "For those parties who feel aggrieved, the new legislation now has flexibility between employees and employers to rectify it." Apparently, this means that the new restraint program provides flexibility for some ROCK 'N ROLL South Huron students will be able to rock out their pre - exam blues at this Friday's movie presentation of "Rock 'n Roll High School." The movie's fun plot and music by the Ramones is great enter- tainment. The movie will be shown at 8:00 p.m. this Fri- day for $2.50 admission. A noon -hour dance will precede the evening's movie. Town of Exeter Souvenir Spoon Silver Only $750 Available at A NSTETT JEWELLERS ,'B1 Main St f.xvter workers to get settlements above the 5 percent guidelines set by the province, provided others take Tess to enable the average to meet the guidelines. Alternatively, an employer may take money from other programs and divert that money to pay higher wages. He also said that if the parties in a dispute have difficulty figuring out how to absorb the rollbacks the Inflation Restraint Board will be happy to assist them. Hydro accountability The controversy about On- tario Hydro continues. Our longstanding demands for a forum in which Hydro of- ficials could be made accoun- table to Members of the Legislature have won support from the Corporation's in- UNIL— terim chairman, who has stated that Hydro now views a Select Committee on Hydro Affairs, which functioned from 1975 until 1981, as "affec- tive process". His remark was made in response to questions from members of the Legislature's standing committee on general government, follow- ing a speech in which he at- tempted to respond to some of the kev criticisms faced by the Corporation in recent months. After being grilled for half an hour on the eubject of ac- countability and relations bet- ween Hydro and the Ontario Government, he told Liberal Leader David Peterson that he had entered an area "where you are attacking the Government through me." Welfare rate The government has an- nounced a 5 percent increase in basic allowances for social assistance recipients, and a 7-5 percent increase for single employable people, swelling municipa' welfare/social ser- vices. The Minister of Com- munity and Social Services has stated that the amount for single employable people is higher because general welfare for those losing jobs has been a low level intended for short-term assistance. In the present recession, many have been unable to get work for long periods and need extra assistance, he said. The social assistance in- creases are the first since Oc- tober 1982, when a similar 5 Pogo 13 percent increase was announced. Since then, the allowance levels have been under sharp attack from opposition critics and from the Social Planning Council of Metro Toronto, which recently issued a report, entitled And the Poor Get Poorer, saying that social assistance recipients have been falling behind inflation for ten years. isement is Ladies Jogging 511 _____•.•_imsoweiswe Nat lo Is di V.IuaI,i Coupon WORTN $ At Gerrard's in Exeter toward the purchase of men's or ladies' rugger pants and tops or ladies' Jogging Suits Valid until Wed., Nov. 23 a411111aaaaaaaaEaaaaasaaaaaaa•a or et... 1 1 1 1 1 11 1 1 1 .1 1 1 1. �xFr fNNR MA s� G "`1N0