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Times-Advocate, 1984-04-25, Page 1Qua ity Carpet at great prices Professional installation can be arranged 1:h.1 Whitings Phone -235-1964 Former Izet•r OPP murdered in Oakville A member of the Exeter OPP detachment for nearly 10 years, Cpl. William McIn- tyre was found shot to death in his condominium apart- ment in Oakville Saturday night. The body of the 33 -year-old policeman was discovered at about 9:45 p.m. with a bullet wound in his head. Halton Regional Police were called by a neighbor who heard the shot and 14 policemen spent the next day conducting a detailed search of the apartment, common areas of the building and sur- rounding grounds. McIntyre, during his stint in Exeter, was involved in some plainclothes work with the district crime unit co- ordinated from Mount Forest EASTER FINERY — Sarah Hodge is proud of her new Easter bonnet and dress as she goes to Crediton United Church •Sunday morning. T -A photo. OMB okays school A recent decision by the On- District Interdominational tario Municipal board paves Christian High School Socie- the way for a Christian high ty for more than six months. school to be built ,in East Dr. John Vanderkooy of Wawanosh Township. Harriston, a society spokesman, said he and his group are very pleased with the decision and they definite- ly intend to go ahead with the school as soon as the necessary funds can be raised. The township will deal with the issue at their next meeting. The decision was received by East Wawanosh Clerk- Teasurer Winona Thompson on March 26 and it settles a matter which has been hang- ing over the heads of the residents of Hutton Heights. council and representatives from the Wingham and and that led to his' involve- ment with the Toronto-based technical support branch. The branch provides probes with specialized assistance such as physical, photographic and electronic surveillance, in- cluding wiretapping. Promoted to the rank of corporal last October, McIn- tyre was off duty at the time of the killing and police have not di ulged anything about the nature of his recent work Youth gets. $275 fine for booze The stiffest fine handed out in Exeter court, Tuesday, was levied against a Zurich youth who was facing his fourth charge of having liquor while under the legal age. Dennis J. Denomme, 17 Mary St., was. fined $275 by Justice of the Peace Douglas Wedlake. The accused had been chargedon April 8 after police stopped a car in -Hay Township around 2:30 a.m. and found some beer in the -vehicle. Denomme had previously been convicted for similar of- fences in July and August of 1983 and again in February of this year. He was given 125 days in which to pay the fine. Two drivers who pleaded - guilty to driving while their licences were under suspen- sion were fined $250 each and had their licences suspended for a further six months to run consecutively to any other suspension. Davtt1-Mtchael'R1ehardson, 379 Jones St., Clinton, was charged in Exeter on March 2 and Stanley I. Gowan, Kirkton, was charged in Ex- eter on March 31. Gowan was given 90 days in which to pay the fine and the Clinton man was given 30 days. In the only other case heard on Tues 'ay's docket, Scott D. Ingram, RR 2 Hensall, was fined $53 for having liquor while under the legal age. Ile was charged on March 2. EASTER CANTATA Shown in a scene from the cantata His Last Days presented at Exeter Pentecostal Tabernacle on April 21 and 22 ore (back) Roman soldiers Ron Purdom and Ron Walker, Sadducee Jean Sharp (centre) Gary Moore as Pon- tius Pilate, Steve Towle as Jesus, Tom Richardson as a Pharisee and (front) Sad- ducee Lisa Donnan and soldier Dave Tigani. Caroline Perry directed the powerful drama, and sewed many of the costumes. Run over by pickup, lad suffers broken le A seven-year-old lad sus- tained a broken leg in one of the three accidents in- vestigated by the Exoter OPP this week. Donald Berry. Cambridge. was playing at lot 22, conces- sion 3 of Stephen on Saturday when he was injured by a pickup truck driven by Wallace Makins, RR 1 Hay. The latter failed to see the youngster as he started to back up his pickup truck and it ran over the lad's leg. Four other youngsters suf- fered minor injuries in a col- lision on Thursday which oc- curred on concession 2-3 of Stephen at sideroad 20. The drivers involved were Wiebe Berends. Exeter, and Mary Walker. Centralia. The youngsters injured in- cluded Jennette Walker, Cen- tralia and Kim. Dawn and Adam Fraser, all of Huron Park. Damage in the crash was set at $2,500. The other crash was on Fri- day and involved a stolen pickup truck. The truck, own- ed by Lloyd Ferguson, RR 3 Exeter, was found in the ditch at sideroad 10-11 of Hay Township, just west of Highway 4. It .ustained damage of $1,500. 1l was one of three vehicles stolen in the area over the weekend. The other vehicles were owned by Ronald Dougall, RR 3 Exeter, and John Melnick. Exeter. The latter two were also found abandoned, but had not sustained any damage. Thieves made off with $250 in cash and cigarettes after breaking into the Derby Dip drive-in restaurant south of Exeter on Wednesday night. The breakin was discovered on Thursday and is being in- vestigated by Exeter OPP. with the special services branch. Inspector James Currie of Halton Regional Police, said the killing is being treated as a homicide, but added that it has not yet been determined if the shooting could be con- nected with any case on which the officer had been working. Cpl. McIntyre joined the OPP in 1972 and was initially stationed at Goderich before coming to the Exeter detach- ment. He was not married. A funeral for McIntyre is to take place Thursday at 1 p.m. at the Dodsworth and Brown Southall-Sieders Funeral Home, 2241, New St., Burl- ington. A committal service will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at Brockville Cemetery, just west of Brockville. REMINISCING — Looking over an old scrapbook picturing events of the past 30 years since the Hensall Kinsmen's Club was sponsored by the Exeter chapter are Bob Reynolds, Exeter president (left), Bill Scotchmer, Hensall past president, Joe Phillips, Dep. Gov. of Zone K and Hensall president Dan McGlinchey. Recreation budget okayed in Stephen The recreation budget for the township of Stephen has been approved for 1984 in the amount of $18,025. This figure is about the same as a year ago. Members have been ap- pointed to a new Centralia and Huron Park parks and recreation board. They are councillors Ruth Miller and Ken McCann, Al Hartford, Doug Fick, Donna Glanville, Alice Watson, Ian Russell, Marj Green, Rick Walker and Don Clarke. The township road depart- ment will be instructed to do the grass cutting in all parks and recreation areas within the municipality. A number of trees are being purchased from the Ausable- Bayfield Conservation Authority for roadside planting. The township's new zoning bylaw has been adopted and the final draft should be available within two weeks. Approval has been given to closing of a 30 foot wide unopened road allowance in the police village of Crediton. The strip of land in question goes east from King street north, behind Crediton Com- munity Park and abuts Lots 1 to 10 and 11 to 20. Sharon Romphf has been authorized to attend a clerk - treasurers meeting in Barrie on May 17. A borrowing bylaw on the. Ryan municipal drain was passed along with amending bylaws on a number of other municipal drains. Serving South Huron, North Middlesex & North Lambton Since 1873 One Hundred and Eleventh Year EXETER, ONTARIO, April 25, 1984 w Price Per Copy 50 Cents ecommend Huron Park school stay open under present format The J.A.D. McCurdy Public School accommodation review committee has recom- mended to the Huron County Board of Education that the school remain open under its present format. The school located at Huron Park was one of three in the county which according to the Ontario Ministry of Education has fallen below the minimum effective enrollment. The Ministry provides a for- mula which the school board applies, based primarily on the area of any given school which determines the max- imum effective enrollment. The optimum enrollment is .considered to be 80 percent of this number and the minimum enrollment is 60 percent of the maximum. In the case . of McCurdy school, the maximum number of students is 346 and the minimum has been fixed at 208. As of September :30, 1983 the actual enrollment was 202. That Ls, McCurdy has 58.4 percent of the maximum in- stead of the required 60 percent. Ian Russell, chairman of the review committee told the recent public meeting that ac: cording to principal John Siertsema, there has been some movement of students since the figures were deter- mined and the present enroll- ment is now 210. Russell went on to say. "Student numbers are ex- pected to be fairly constant over the next few years. However, the Ministry for- mula for calculating max- imum enrollment does not allow for the inclusion of students at the Huron Ilope Centre for the Trainable Men- tally Handicapped or at the Developmental Centre." "Under Bill 82, the board will be responsible for these students partly in 1984 and partly in 1985. It these students were included in our total it would be up to 245 as there are 25 Iluron (lope students and 12 at the (Get,�ready for kick-off At its kickoff banquet Tues- day night, captains rnel to discuss the Mentally Ilan- dicapped 19134 Flowers of Hope Campaign. Representing 267 can- vassers in South Iluron and North Lambton the 1984 goal was set at $20,000. Last year's receipts totalled $19,400.00. The Association represen- tatives present were presi- dent, Herb Verbeek; cam- paign chairperson, Ellen For- sythe and treasurers Anne and Carfrey ('ann. The campaign begins an- nually on Mother's Day. It is expected by that date that over 300 canvassers will be equipped for their door to door operation. It has been reported that this area is the most suppor- tive of the Flowers of (lope campaign across Ontario. The Association has been ask- ed to share the secret of their uccess with other Associa- tions at the Annual Ontario Association Convention this week in Toronto. Developmental Centre," Russell added. The review _committee chairman in his report said, "The average cost per pupil at McCurdy was $191.41 while the county average is 187.30. If however, the Huron Hope portion of the expenses is taken out, our average cost drops to $176.66, which is six percent less than the county average." The report also reveals that the annual cost of busing students to McCurdy at present is under $14,000. If the school were to close, it would be necessary to send the• students to various local schools. As no one school could accommodate all McCurdy students, busing costs Would be about $107,000. N LAUNCH FLOWERS OF HOPE — The area campaign of Flowers of Hope sponsored by the South Huron Associa- tion for the Mentally Handicapped will begin May 13. Recently, co-ordinator Ellen Forsythe handed out packets of seeds to area captains Donna Greb, Zurich; Julie Knip, Hensall; Evelyn Pickering, Dashwood and Anne Cann, Exeter. ARC Industries 'employees seek positions in community Tom Burgess is a happy young man. The former ARC Industries employee has been working full time as a bakeshop assistant at the Country Bakery in Exeter for the past six weeks. Tom was the first ARC employee to obtain a job under a new program in-" troduced at the Dashwood facility in February. The ARC Industries staff devised a Work Experience program to enable their handicapped workers to gain experience through on-the-job training in a realistic work environment. Employers are being asked to hire an ARC employee for a two-week period at no cost to themselves (The employee continues to get paid by AR('). The employer is only asked to provide work and evaluate the employee's performance. .Janet Ilendrikx, ARC job placement officer, explained the first step after an employee has expressed an interest in a full-time position other than at ARC is art assessment of that person's work performance and abilities. Janet assistwthe ap- plicant in filling out applica- tion forms, writing a resume, registering at the employ- ment office, preparing for an interview and other necessary skills needed when looking for a job. A potential employer is then contacted and presented with information about the Work Experience program. If the arrangement works out and the employer wishes to keep his new worker on full time after the two-week trial period, the employee's wages are subsidized by the federal Job Creation Program. For the next 13 weeks the govern- ment picks up 85 percent of the tab, then 50 percent for another 26 weeks, dropping to 25 percent for a further 13 -week period. Janet continues to monitor the job placement, ready 10 assist the employer if necessary. • The practical experience employees receive in the maintenance, kitchen, con- tracts, office, bake shop and woodworking programs plus the basic education and lifestyle training at ARC In- dustries has inspired a number to seek full-time jobs in the stores, factories. ser- vice stations and other business establishments in the community. One ARC employee whose responsibilities have included cleaning Caven Presbyterian Church for the past three years is now trying to -decide between two job offers. Four- teen ARC employees are on Janet's list at present, and more have indicated their in- terest. There has also been what Janet terms "a fairly good response" from area businesses. Country Bakery proprietor Horst Bornath has no com- plaints about his new employee. "He's willing and does his job. It's just like having an ap- prentice," Bornath said. Tom works from 3:00 a.nf. to 11:00 a.m. at the bake shop and has been designated doughnut production manager. Tom likes his job very much. He said there is more to do, and more variety than in his; previous work at the ARC Industries bakeshop. Ile doesn't mind reporting for work at such an early hour, Please turn to page 2 PART OF THE JOB - - Tom Burgess, hired recently by the Country Bakery under ARC Industries Work Ex- perience program, considers washing up just part of the job. NEW EMPLOYEE Tom Burgess and bakeshop kitchen. Work Experience - Janet Hendrikx (left), job placement officer at ARC Industries, Country Bakery proprietor Horst Bornath enjoy a laugh in the Burgess has been employed full-time in the bakery through NRC's program. • A report from Michael J. Rau. plant manager for the Huron board says the McCur- dy school is in average condi- tion. There has been a prox- imately $160,000e rt in renovations and repairs in the past five years and a new roof is scheduled for 1984 capital grant. Rau continues, "Upon com- pleting a new roof and the on- going replacement of aluminum storm windows and steel fire exit doors, I feel this school will be in a state of repair equivalent to other county schools that are less than 20 years old. The McCur- dy school was built in 1952." All rooms in the school are currently being used and the facility is being used after Please turn to page 2 Lucan BIA possibility Prospects for the organiza- tion of a Business Improve- ment Association in Lucan appear bright following a re- cent meeting. Councillor Bryan Smith who has been spearheading attempts to -get the businesses in the village united said after the meeting, "We appear to be off on the right foot. It was a very positive meeting and more than 25 businesses were represented." Providing information on the establishing of a BIA group were the village's plan- ning consultant Liz Hoswon, Dianora Juozapavicius of the community renewals branch of the Ontario Ministry of Housing and Bob Swartman of Exeter who is on the board of directors and secretary of the Ontario Business Im- provement Association. Swartman said more than 30,000 businesses in Ontario are part of the Ontario Business Improvement Association. In his opening remarks Swartman said, "village council is to he commended for getting the hall rolling. Usually .'e get going and then go to council for approval". He continued, "BIA's allow the business sector to work together, instead of each go- ing their own way. You get all viewpoints of small town problems. On the subject of the new shopping mall being con- structed at the intersection of Highways 4 and 22, Swartman said, "You can't ignore this. Best way to approach the pro- blem is to be positive and find ways to get shoppers to stop here." The meeting elected a steering committee including councillor Smith, Bill Mur- phy, Pat Egan and Bill Haskett. Two members of the committee are attending a BIA seminar in Toronto this week to gather more informa- tion and knowledge. LOSE AN HOUR This is the weekend you lose an hour's sleep as the time changes to Daylight Saving Time. Set your clocks ahead one hour when you retire Satur- day night or do it at 2:00 a.m. on Sunday if you prefer to be precise.