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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
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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
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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.
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