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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1984-05-23, Page 1Qua ity Carpet at groat prices Professional installation can be arranged Wliitings Phone 235-1964 4.1 Truck wraps around free two Stratford people dead Two Stratford area men smashed head-on into another were killed early Saturday one. morning when their four- Residents in the area were wheel drive pickup went out awakened by the sound of the of control on Highway 83 and crash, which occurred around struck a tree about nine 4:00 a.m. kilometres east of Exeter. The 1982 model truck was completely destroyed and it took members of the Exeter and area fire department almost two hours to extricate the two bodies from the twisted wreckage. Alistair Farquhar, 27, of RR 3 Embro, and Ronald Knoflook, 27, of 59 Arden Park, Stratford, were pro- nounced dead at the scene by coroner Dr. C.J. Wallace of Zurich. Exeter OPP report . the truck driven by Farquhar was travelling eastbound at a high rate of speed when it went into the south ditch. It glanced off one tree and then HITS TWO TREES — The pickup truck in which two Strat- ford area men were killed hit two trees on Highway 83 about 10 kilometres east of Exeter. T -A photo A deer was also killed in one to his vehicle; was listed at of the other collisions in- 31,500. vestigated by the Exeter OPP In the only outer crash over this week. the holiday weekend, a New That mishap occurred on Hamburg man escaped injury Saturday as well when a deer when his pickup rolled into its bounded out of the ditch and side in the ditch along into the path of a vehicle be- Highway 83 west of Exeter ing driven by William near the Ausable River Duckworth, London. bridge. Duckworth had been pro- Paul Klem was eastbound ceeding along Highway 84 at 2:30 a.m. and told police west of Hensall and damage that he swerved to avoid hit- ting a dog which ran onto the. highway. His vehicle went in- to the north ditch and damage was estimated at 33,000. The other collision of the week occurred on Thursday on the Crediton Road just west of King St. in Crediton. Drivers involved were Christine Hope, RR 2 Crediton, and Daniel Anson, RR 1 Lucan. Damage in that collision was set at 3800. There were no injuries. Suspended driver handed $250 penalty A Hensall driver was fined $250 and had his licence suspended for a further six months after pleading guilty to driving while under suspen- sion, Tuesday. Steve John Hunter ap- peared in Exeter court, before Justice of the Peace Douglas Wedlake. Hunter had been charged on March 16 after he was stop- ped for driving too fast in the Kippen area. A check reveal- ed his licence had been suspended in June of 1976 because of upaid fines and was suspended a second time on August 15, 1980 for failing to satisfy a court judgement. The accused was warned that a further conviction would result in a fine of $500. In the only other case heard on Tuesday's docket, John P. Vanderburgt, RR 1 Dashwood, was • fined $53 after being convicted of driv- ing a motor vehicle with no clear view to the sides. He was charged on March 2 after a policeman saw his Vehicle with a snow-covered window on the passenger's side. FATAL CRASH — Two men were killed in a violent crash early Saturday morning when their pickup truck struck a tree on Highway 83, about 10 kilometres east of Exeter. Shown at the scene are Constable Leo Weverink, Ken Genttner and Jim Hoffman of Hoffman's Ambulance and Exeter fireman Norm Tait. Delay decision about Stephen sewer request Exeter council this week studied a scheme whereby Stephen Township residents along Waterloo St. may he allowed to hook into the town's sewer system, but stopped just short of approv- ing the proposal. Reeve Bill Mickle, who chaired Tuesday's meeting in Home shops are studied The ministryiof housing. in conjunction with the Huron County planning department. will be conducting a study to document the types and loca- tions of home occupations in Exeter. Exeter was chosen for the study by the county and among the purposes is to evaluate the conformity of home occupations with the of- ficial plan and zoning bylaw, to clarify land use and economic problems and issues with home occupations. to clarify the town's objec- tives with regard to home oc- cupations, and to assess the adequacy of home occupation policies and regulations i, the context of the town's objec- tives for the residential com- munity and the economic development. A summer student working for the ministry has already started the study which will take 10 weeks to complete. After all home occupations have been identified, a letter will be sent to the operators, outlining the nature of the study and informing them that interviews will be conducted. the absence of Mayor Bruce Shaw, asked council to withhold final approval until the executive committee completes a study on how much gallonage will be available when the current sewage lagoon project is completed. He said no commitment should be made until council decides how much of the lagoon storage will be held in reserve for future develop- ment within the town. Councillor Gaylan .Josephson said council should also make it clear that if ap- proval is granted, it is in no way a precedent that should prompt other neighbouring property owners in the townships to think that they could have the sewers extend- ed to serve them as well. Public works committee chairman Tom Humphreys said the recommendation from his committee was in no way a change of policy on pro- . .viding sewer outlets dor townshnip residents, hit was due only to the 'fact the Waterloo St situation is —tmique Ile said the request for sewer service to the Waterloo residents had come from Stephen Township and in- dicated it was due to septic tank problems being ex- perienced by. some of the township residents along the street. The proposal presented to council requires that Stephen enter into an agreement to pay one-half of the capital cost of installing the Waterloo sewer, plus the connections in Stephen, with a reasonable charge for main pumps, pum- ping stations and lagoons. The committee explained that Stephen could recover the capital cost requirement Please turn to page 2 The accused said it was snowing heavily at the time and felt he should not be con- victed due to weather condi- tions. He told the court his front window and the side window on his side of the vehi- cle were clear enough. WRAPPED AROUND TREE — An Exeter fireman is shown at the scene of the Satur- day morning accident on Highway 83, east of Exeter which killed two Stratford area men. T -A photo Permit value down sharply fora s built" permits tion in April, the figure was well below te corresponding month for the previous year in Exeter. Last year's April total was 3719,785. The entire 1984 total has now dipped significantly below the 1963 figures. To date this year, building in- spector Brian Johnston has .approved projects valued at 3493,695. The corresponding figure for the first four months in 1983 was 3965,259. The past month's permits included 15 residential renovations and additions at 382,250, two institutional at 334,000, two industrial at $100,000, two commercial at $2,000 and five tool sheds, sundecks, carports and garages at $8,025. There were four permanent sign permits issued to bring the 1984 total to seven and there were 13 temporary sign permits with the total to date reaching 61 in that category. Serving South Huron, North Middlesex & North Lambton Since 1873 One Hundred and Eleventh Year `EXETER, ONTARIO, May 23, 1984 Price Per Copy 50 Cents Presbytery vote is 59 to 15 - Area clergy a oppose homosexuals in Representatives of the 46 pastoral charges in the Huron -Perth presbytery of the United Church of Canada voted 59 to 15 (with 21 absten- tions) to reject a controver- sial report calling for the or- dination of self -declared homosexuals at a special meeting in Mitchell on May 15. , The vote was in reponse to the internal church report Sexual Orientation and Eligibility for the Order of Ministry endorsed by the church's national divislat'rof ministry, personnel and education. About 200 people attended the meeting, but only the 42 ministers present and one representative for each 250 members of a congregation were eligible to vote. Many congregations had held meetings to discuss the report before the presbytery met in Mitchell, and some had also voted on the issue. The results of these meetings were then forwarded and read as correspondence at Mitchell. The views of the in- dividual congregations were reflected in the vote at the ptesbytery meeting. Commenting later on the vote, Myrtle Walkom, RR 1 Fullarton, who takes office on May 27 as the first woman chairman of the Huron -Perth presbytery, said "it was not surprising, knowing our area and its traditions. It would have surprised me if it had passed." Mrs. Walkom said definite REHEARSING -- Tom Sawyer (Jeff Kints) gets a scolding from Aunt Polly (Lisa Birmingham) during a rehearsal of Precious Blood's producton of Tom Sawyer, to be performed at the Old Town Hall on May 1 and June 1 at 7:30 - Agri -park bylaw may be repealed A flay township bylaw establishing an agri- industrial park on Exeter's boundary in the area adjacent to Huron Tractor may be repealed and the approval process started again. That was the information supplied to Exeter council .this week by Reeve Bill Mickle. The bylaw was approved by Ilay, but contrary to provin- cial rules, was not circulated to any of the neighbouring municipalities for their con- sideration and input. Mickle said he had been ad- vised by county planning board officials that the bylaw will probably be repealed and a new one initiated and sent to the affected municipalities as required. He said that was being done so there wouldn't be a cloud hanging over the development. meeting, but co(rttpassion and a sincere desire to come to grips with the problem were quite evident. she said it was heartening so many were in- terested enough to provide local input by making their views known to presbytery. "It's good to know the definite wishes of our own people. The decision of the Huron -Perth presbytery will be noted at wt at St. Thomas May 24 to 27, and again when I fare Phis ieeue as a ,.,.. -= t.general council at Morden, Manitoba in August", she added. Another commissioner to general council who attended the Mitchell meeting was Rev. Robert Matheson, minister of Thames Road Elimville United Church. He believes there are more points still to be raised. Matheson takes issue with the report, saying he hopes the committee did a greater in-depth study than the docu- ment published in the April issue of The Observer in- dicates. By , pastaiethe entire case, the authors of the report have done neither themselves nor the church justice, he commented. "The report doesn't seem to have adequate scriptural basis; indications are they did a scriptural sleight-of-hand", Matheson remarked. Matheson said he is oppos- ed to ordination of self - declared homosexuals, but his position is not based on the same criteria as those spell- ed out at the Mitchell meeting, which concentrated on avowed homosexuals' un - BIKE RODEO WAS BUSY — Exeter Optimist club secretary Harry Stuart and presi- dent Sergeant Kevin Short are surrounded by youngsters os they sell bicycle licences at Saturday's bike rodeo sponsored by the Optimists. T -A photo Exeter won't endorse bilingual province plan Exeter council engaged in a brief debate on bilingualism this week and ended up not endorsing a resolution from the City of Ottawa that calls on the Premier of Ontario to declare the province,official- ly bilingual. "What are the ramifica- tions?" questioned Councillor Dorothy Chapman when the resolution was presented. '!ft will • ' hly cost }-nioney'' Reeve ' : ill Mickle quickly responds.. Councillor Ben Hoogeh- boom, the only member to en- dorse the resolution, sug- gested it could be a help in creating jobs and getting peopleoff the unemployment ranks. The issue almost died without further debate as no one appeared prepared to se- cond Hoogenboom's motion to adopt the resolution. It final- ly got on the floor when Coun- cillor Tom Humphreys added his name to the motion, but he then quickly made it clear he was opposed to the action re- quested by Ottawa. Humphreys noted that the correpondence from Ottawa was in both languages and he wondered if adopting the resolution would end up re- quiring Exeter to protide the same service for its correspondence. Mrs. Chapman said she was not prepared to back the resolution without knowing the full ramifications, to which Hoogenboom said it may not cost the town one iota. When the vote was called, Hoogenboom voted along in favor with Councillors Hum- phreys, Chapman, Josephson and Deputy -Reeve Fuller against Hall and Rose were missing from the meeting along with Mayor Shaw. The Federation of Canadian municipalities recently en- dorsed a motion requesting all provinces to officially recognize the language of their minorities and the three party leaders of the Federal Parliament support the en- trenchment of language rights in the Constitution for Manatobans and Franco- Ontarians, the letter from Ot- tawa noted. suitability for the pulpit because of their lifestyle. "Would it be fair to the homosexuals to ordain them? Would they be accepted? I believe there would be persecution", he said. Rev. Stanley McDonald, pastor of the Hensall charge, was disappointed that .the report, rather than the issue, was the subject of the Mit- chell vote. He had assumed the question would be whether or not to ordain self - declared homosexuals. In- stead,- the- represegtattyes were asked to vote on a resolution from the Wesley Willis United Church in Clin- ton to accept or reject the report itself. He felt a great pulpit deal of work had been done, and it should not be rejected completely. "As far as ordination goes, we are not ready for it. This is not condemning homosex- uals", McDonald said. "The Bible states sex betewen two persons of the same sex is wrong. However, Jesus .con- fronted but did not condemn the adulterous woman. He forgave her, saying 'Go and sin no more!" McDonald quoted a medical doctor at the Mitchell meeting at sayjg there is no proof medically that homosexuals have a choice of sexual orientation. Echoing that, McDonald asked "Is Please turn to page 2 Four-piex project decision delayed The Exeter planning ad- viosry committee member have held in abeyance a deci- sion on an application from Doug and Ilenderika Parker for a minor variance which would allow them to erect a four-plex dwelling at 361 Albert St. The couple asked for the minor variance for the pur- pose of obtaining relief with regard to parking area loca- tion, driveway width and multiple dwelling spatial separation from adjacent zones. Seven neighboring proper- ty owners were on hand at the committee's public meeting into the application. None of the property owners had presented objections, although some concerns regarding drainage and a planting strip were voices. • Secretary -treasurer Brian Johnston explained details of the planting strip and sug- gested that a catch basin could possibly be hooked up to a storm drain at Sanders St. to remove surface water. A complete report from works superitendent Glenn Kells regarding municipal storm drains in the area was unavyailable for the meeting a>�the committee decided to ask Kells for a report and recommendation prior to making a decision on the application. Parker told the meeting that the proposed construc- tion was very similar to the four-plex built by. Jack Taylor on Huron St. County planner Malcolm Macintosh advised the com- mittee to keep in mind the general intent of the official paln and zoning bylaw. The official plan has policies regarding high-density residential being located close to a low-density residential area and the fact of buffering and compatibility of uses is important. Also, he noted, the official plan's intent is to promote development where all ser- vices are available to be used. The decision will be made by the committee at their • next meeting on June 13, pen- ding the report from Kells. To conclude their meeting, the committee members reviewed the Usborne and Stephen zoning bylaws and it was noted that having these bylaws in place results in more restrictions on the lands compared to a general development policy which ex- ists without the zoning bylaws in place. PLANTINGS CONTINUE — The number of bicentennial white pine plantings continues to increase in the area. Students at Usborne Central were among the latest to join the planters, Wednesday. Ron Simpson holds the tree above, while his kindergarten and grades one and two mates look on. 1 i1