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Eighth accidental death this summer
District crash claims Staffei
man
This summer's eighth ac- vehicle which glanced off one a dog which ran out into his 21 north of Grand Bend by
cidental death in the area was tree and then hit another path on the Main St. of Zurich, William Thompson,
, London.
recorded early Sunday morn- head-on. The motor of the Thursday. The Grand firemen
ing when one man was killed vehicle was thrown out into a There were two accidents responded and dainage to the
and another seriously injured nearby field. on Saturday, the first involv- motor was estimated at $425.
when their car slammed into Five of the summer's ac- ing three vehicles in a rear- The other crash occurred
a tree on Highway 83 about cidental deaths haveoccurred end chain -reaction incident WELL OE LATE
seven km. east of Exeter. on the highways, one of the near the Dashwood Industries
Dead is 23 -year-old Kenneth previous ones in the same plant on Highway 4 north of Due to the holiday, Mommy,
Upshall, RR 2 Staffa. His vicinity of Sunday's crash. the Mount Carmel Road. the Exeter Times -Advocate
body was freed from the The accident was one of six Drivers involved were Sandra will be published one day
twisted wreckage of the 1979 investigated by the Exeter Teetzel, RR 2 Highgate; later than usual next week.
Mercury by Exeter firemen OPP during the past week. William Ressler, St. Thomas; It will be printed Wednes-
who were called to the scene On Tuesday, a vehicle and Donald Daugherty, Lon- day night for Thursday mor -
of the 3:00 a.m. crash. operated by Brian Topp, Ex- don. Total damage was $1,250. ning delivery.
Taken to University eter, went out of control and The other involved a car The issue willcontain elec-
Hospital in London was rolled over in a ditch on con- fire. It occurred in a vehicle tion coverage from the
21 -year-old Ronald Riley, also cession 2, north of the being driven along Highway September 4 federal election.
of RR 2 Staffa. He suffered a Crediton Road, in Stephen
fractured leg and severe Township. Damage was listed
facial cuts. at $1,000.
Police have still not deter- Damage was set at $350
mined which of the two men when a vehicle driven by
was driving the eastbound James Nelson, Sarnia, struck i
011
on Sunday on Highway 81
north of the Crediton Road in-
volving vehicles driven by
Robert Price, Wyoming, and
Scott MacGregor, RR 8
Parkhill. Damage was listed
at $750 and Price sustained
minor injuries.
Ovqr the weekend, the local
detachment officer laid 21
charges under the Highway
Traffic Act, charged one per-
son with impaired driving,
issued three 12 -hour suspen-
sions to drivers given ALERT
tests and laid five liquor
charges.
CEMETERY DECORATION — The annual Decoration Day at the Exeter Cemetery
was held Sunday. Shown going over the program are Exeter Legion member Mur-
ray Greene, Charles Atthill of the Exeter Oddfellows and Legionnaires Paul McKnight
and Eldon Heywood. T -A photo
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HONOUR MINISTER -- A picnic to honour Rev. James Forsythe who is leaving Ex-
eter United Church for Petrolia was held Sunday. From the left are Harry and Marion
Dougall of the church congregation with Ellen and Rev. Forsythe.
Over 500 get pay, benefit boost
Pact signed at
Fears of a strike at Fleck
Manufacturing at Iluron Park
were laid to rest this week
when workers accepted a new
contract offer.
The new pact affects about
500 union workers. compared
to the 68 who were employed
when the firm was bit by the
infamous strike of 1978
!'Wiled Auto Workers inter-
nalionalrepresentative Bert
Rovers of London said Sun-
day night that a57 Local 1620
members voted 74 percent
earlier in the day in favor of
a two-year agreement which
will give them increases of
about seven percent in each
year of the contract
The average wage under
PICKETING Mozart
Gelinas walks the picket
line.
the previous contract, which
expired August 16, was $5.50
an hour, Rovers said.
"They are still low paid
compared to, i would say, the
rest of the industry." but the
firm, which assembles auto
wiring systems, "is now one
of the highest paid in the wire
harness industry in North
America." he said. "In com-
parison, Fleck's doing well
within the industry."
Effective August 19, wages
arc increased by 35 cents an
hour under the new agree-
ment. They will go up another
10 cents next February 3 and
a further 30 cents next August
18. The contract also includes
improvements in holidays.
medical and sickness and ac-
cident plans.
As well. there will be a pad
education leave and a dental
plan will be established in the
second year of the
agreement
The Fleck workers had
voted an favor of strike action
:1 an agreement was not
reached and would have been
in a legal strike positionon the
weekend. Rovers said. The
union -company negotiating
committee reached the ac-
cord Thursday afternoon
When the 1978 strike ended,
after more than five months
of picket line confrontations
which made the Fleck name
Fleck
notorious across the country.
68 workers, most of them
women, went back to work.
Since then. Rovers said. the
plant has "grown tremen-
dously" with a current union
work force of 500.
This year's contract talks
began in early June.
Serving South Huron, North Middlesex
One Hundred and Twelfth Year
n.,
FATAL CRASH — Kenneth Upshall of the Staffa area was killed early Sunday mor-
ning when the vehicle shown above struck a tree on Highwoy 83, east of Thames
Road. T -A photo
& North Lambton Since 1873
EXETER, ONTARIO, August 29, 1984
Price Per Copy 50 Cents
Planner lists areas where bylaw does not conform to plan
xeter formally opposes
At a special meeting Friday
morning, Exeter council
agreed to formally oppose the
proposed development of an
agricultural/industrial
development on the northern
boundary in Hay Township
and also decided to name
Jean Monteith andAssociates
Limited to represent the town
at hearings into the
township's bylaw 16-1984.
Ms. Monteith, an urban and
regional planning consultant,
attended the meeting and
detailed several references in
both the Huron County Of-
ficial Plan and the Hay
Township Secondary Plan
with which the new bylaw is
not in conformity.
"It is clearly identified as
something that should be
stopped", she said in
reference to portions of the
11'' ndaty,"plan \vlii h
refer to development north of
Exeter.
The plan notes that "north
of the Town of Exeter is an
area of commercial develop-
ment. The businesses here
provide services to both the
agricultural and urban com-
munities, and have been in
existence for some period of
time. These existing
establishments may be
recognized by the plan, but it
is not the intent that this type
of strip development should
increase in extent in this
area".
The plan further states that
one of its basic principles will
be: "to identify certain ex-
isting urban -fringe uses in the
areas adjacent to the Town of
Exeter and the Village of
Zurich and determine the ex-
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CAMERA -SHY — Two of the office workers striking the
General Homes System plant walk away from the
camera.
Pay is prime reason
Five strike at HensaII
The five office workers at
the General Homes System
plant next to the Hensall Com-
munity Centre walked out on
strike on Monday morning.
Adam Salvona, business
agent of local 3054 of the
United Brotherhood of
Carpenters and Joiners of
America, said the workers
had been in a legal strike posi-
tion since midnight of August
20
The union, which was
organized in November 1983,
had been negotiating with the
company for a collective
agreement since March of
this year. +The plant was shut
down from December to late
February+ After further
meetings during which no
agreement was reached on a
number of issues, the union
applied for the services of a
conciliation officer from the
Ontario Labour Relations
Board.
Company and union agreed
on 95 percent of the issues -
grievances, management
rights, seniority, holidays.
vacation pay. etc , but were
"quite far apart" on the mat-
ter of wages
Present rates range from
"approximately $7 per hour
up to one employee who
receives just over $9."'
The office staff turned down
a two-year agreement which
offered no increase in the first
year, three percent in the se-
cond. and a signing bonus of
two percent of their annual
salary which would amount to
*260 to *270.
A mediation meeting has
been set up for September 6.
Salvona said he is willing to
meet with company represen-
tatives before that date.
tent of their development,
while preventing the exten-
sion of this urban -fringe
development patterns.
especially along major
roads".
The London planner said
that under the Agricultural
designation of the Hay secon-
dary plan, commercial and
industrial uses. related to
agriculture arefi permitted,
but only if certain conditions
are met, such as those uses
having at least 90 percent of
their operation relating to the
processing of agricultural
products or the servicing of
farms.
She noted thatsa:ch a provi-
sion will be difficult to enforce
in that once a manufacturing
or sales establishment has
located on the site, future
manufacturing or sales may
not he agricultural in nature.
The Hay plan also notes
that such uses should be en-
couraged to locate in groups
to provide better service and
should avoid areas of improv-
ed Class 1 and 2 lands except
where natural features, or
parcel shape renders the
parcel unsuitable for
agricultural production.
BODY LANGUAGE — Nothing frog jumping contest promoter Dr. Charles Wallace
could do would induce Sabrina Schilbe's frog to move. Jon Hendrick stands by ready
to help.
Student numbers drop;
many teacher changes
There will be very little
change in the number of
students answering the school
bell Tuesday morning at the
seven elementary schools
under the jurisdiction of the
Iluron County Board of
Education in the southern
portion of the county.
Superintendent Peter
Gryseels said Friday that
total enrolment would he
1,750. That's a drop of 40 from
a year ago. Gryseels added,
"Population in the elemen-
tary panel is stabilizing."
The total enrolment for
South Huron District High
School will be 850. This is a
decrease of 30 from the begin-
ning of September of 1983.
A number of changes have
taken place in teacher per-
sonnel. At Huron Centennial
at Brucefield, John Siertsema
takes over as principal from
Arnold Mathers who has mov-
ed up to the position of coun-
ty superintendent. Siertsema
who was principal at J A.D.
McCurdy at Huron Park.
Centennial vice-principal will
be Dave Kemp from Sea forth
replacing Rob Snell who
moves to Walton.
Two new teachers at
Centennial are Flo Keillor
from Seaforth and Tom Lyon.
a transfer from Clinton
Leaving Centennial are
Mary Moffatt going to coun-
ty Student Services, Bob Laye
to Usborne Central and Don-
na Shaddick to Goderich
Victoria.
The only staff change at
Zurich public school has
Christine Eagleson transfer-
ring from Stephen Cefilral lo
replace Beth Querengesser
who is taking a leave of
absence.
A number of changes are
•
taking place at Exeter public
school. Jean Turner has been
named vice-principal at
Seaforth public school, lois
Ottewell transfers to
Brookside and .ludy Thurston
goes to Ilolmesville.
New leachers at EPS will
be Betty Jinks and Beth
McKillop -McLellan transfer-
ring from Grey township.
At Usborne Central School,
Al Taylor moves from Clinton
to take over as principal from
Bill Lindenfield who is
transferred to Victoria in
Goderich. Bob Laye comes
from Huron Centennial to
They get
extension
If you see 91 kids walking
around the street these days
with bigger than usual smiles,
there's a very easy
explanation.
They're the student popula-
tion at Precious Blood
Separate School in Exeter,
and they've just been advised
that they're going to have an
extra four days tacked onto
their summer vacation.
At a meeting, Monday. the
Huron -Perth Separate School
board learned that renova-
tions to the school have not
been completed in time for
the September 4 opening and
as a result agreed to re-
schedule that opening for
September 10.
Some lighting, fire alarm
and smoke detection systems
have not been wired and in-
spected in the old portion of
the building.
An addition underway at
the school won't be open for
another couple of months.
replace Irene ]laugh who has
retired.
At J.A.D. McCurdy and
Huron Hope at Huron Park.
Pat Soldan is new principal
replacing John Siertsema
who takes a similar post at
Huron Centennial. The vice -
principals al McCurdy are
Mary Ellen Walsh and Wayne
Nicholls.
iIa Mathers joins the Iluron
Elope as head of the satellite
class at South Iluron i)istrict
lligh School
Former Iluron Hope prin-
cipal Eleanor Scott goes to
Please turn to page 3
lay bylaw
The land in question, she
explained, is Class 1, the
parcel size is regular in shape
and is presently in
agricultural production.
"A more important policy.
however, is found in Section
3.5(c+4 and relates directly to
the lands in question," she ex-
plained in her written report.
"In addition to the goals and
objectives of the plan which
strongly rejected the concept
of continued strip highway
development north of Exeter
there is a special policy
stating the area is not to ex-
pand to intensify".
The section referred to
states: Commercial and
residential development has
established along the west
.side of Provincial Highway
Number 4, north of the Town
of Exeter. Again, it is not the
intent of this plan that this
area should intensify in use,
or expand in area. This
development will therefore
not be designated, for urban
development purposes. It is
the intention of this plan that
the existing residential uses
Please turn to page 3
Stiff fine, warning
given out in court
Stiff fines and stiff'warn-
ings were handed out by
Justice of the Peace Douglas
Wedlake in the only two cases
heard in Exeter court.
Tuesday.
He levied a fine of $227.50
against Adrianus
Vandenhoven. RR 2 Monkton,
who pleaded guilty to a
charge of driving at a speed
of 150 in a 80 km. zone en
Highway 83 in Usborne
Township on June 17.
The charge had been
amended at the request of the
Crown from a speed of 182
km.
Mr. Wedlake noted that he
could suspend the licence of
the accused under (he cir-
cumstances. He decided on a
rate of $3.25 per kilometer for
each one over the limit. noting
that it was normally $;t each
for speeds greater than 60
km. in excess of the posted
limits.
A lawyer for the accused
urged that no suspension be
levied as his client was re-
quired to drive to his place of
employment.
Paul L. Elder. RR 2 Hen -
sail, was fined $200 after
pleading guilty to failing to
stop when signalled to do so
by a police officer on August
12.
The Crown noted the officer
involved could have classed
the incident as a police pur-
suit had he wished to do so
and the accused could have
been given a licence suspen-
sion of three years upon
conviction.
The charge arose from a
situation in Hassell when
policeman spotted a motorcy-
cle failing to stop at a sign and
pursued the vehicle. There
was some evasion on the part
of the accused as he proceed-
ed along roads, a lane and a
field before stopping.
McDowell
gets work
Exeter council members
received two pleasant sur-
prises when they opened
tenders for the Carling St.
culvert at a special meeting
Friday morning.
The first pleasant surprise
was that the winning bid was
about half of the estimate on
the project and the second
w•as,that a local firm was the
low bidder.
Council moved to accept the
hid of $22,846 from C.A.
McDowell Limited. it was the
lowest of the seven submitted
and was well under the
estimate of $45.000.
"its nice to see a local con-
tractor continue to bid and
finally win." Councillor Ben
lloogenboom commented.
Completion date for the pro-
ject. which entails replacing
the present culvert between
Anne and .lohn St., is October
31
in view of the low bids
received council members
wondered aloud if they should
consider changing the time of
other tender calls, rather than
the current practice of calling
most of them in the spring.
HENSALL LADIES WIN -- Hensoll won the ladies water ball championship in Sun-
day's firemen's games of Crediton. Shown with conch Gary Maxwell are Marietta
Bilcke, Marlene Zwoan, Ann Maxwell and Launda Campbell. T -A photo
t