Times Advocate, 1984-10-24, Page 2Page 2 Times -Advocate, October 24, 1984
Every week really
Block Parent time
Though last week was of-
ficially designated Block
Parent Week in Exeter, every
day is Block Parent day for
members of ,this caring
organization whose principal
function is providing protec-
tion and shelter for children
during emergencies.
Block Parents, begun in
Exeter in the fall of 1978 as a
service project of Beta Sigma
Phi Sorority, is now bran-
ching out and helping other
communities start their own
Block Parents associations.
The Exeter group assisted
with the formation of a
branch in Hensall last year
which is now functioning
healthily on its own. In
Dashwood, coordinator Kathy
Hayter is preparing to lead
her 20 -member group out
from under the sponsoring
umbrella of the Exeter
association.
In April Exeter Block
Parents began organizing a
rural branch. Exeter chair-
man Eileen Miron explains
that children abducted in a ci-
ty are often taken to the coun-
tryside; most rural residents
have dogs, and some are not
as friendly as others;
snowmobilers and skiers
Deaf school
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move the program so
quickly?
3. What happens to the
study committee's report
after it is handed to Bryan
Robertson on November 30?
"It's frightening to think
that our government is so
strong that they no longer
have to answer to the people,"
says Marlene Taylor.
The RSPA is appealing for
public awareness and support
in their stand to keep the
Robarts School Secondary
classes.
For further information
please contact Marlene
Taylor ( 519) 262-2021 or Fran
McCallum (519) 652-5006.
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abound in the rural areas in
the winter. A decal on a
mailbox and a Block Parent
sign in a farmhouse window
point to a place of refuge in a
crisis.
Fifty volunteers in the area
served by Usborne School
have offered to work with
coordinator Jan Gardiner. In
the area served by Stephen
Central School, contact per-
son Phyllis Collett has
already signed up 39 Block
Parents in the village of
Crediton and surrounding
territory.
Lucan,like Exeter, has its
own association, and has
agreed to work with its Ex-
eter counterpart to set up a
Block Parents group in the
country district between the
two towns.
Exeter Block Parents
recently presented the pro-
gram to children and parents
through the Mount Carmel
School, and have received 25
replies.
The energetic, ambitious
executive of the Exeter
association is carrying its
message primarily to local
schools through educational
films and poster contests.
Exeter Block Parents con-
tinued to receive financial
support from Beta Sigma Phi
last year to offset the costs of
film rental and Block Parent
signs and literature. This
year the Exeter Lions Club
will provide funding.
At present Exeter member-
ship stands at 113, which is
still not enough for the ideal
of two Block Parents on each
street. More are still needed
north of the river.
Mrs. Miron asks that Block
Parents who will be in
Hallowe'en night ensure that
their signs are prominently
displayed in a front window.
Stephen okay
roofing repair
Stephen council has ac-
cepted the tender of
Bluewater Industrial and
Commercial Roofing for
repair of the township shed
roof.
The Centralia area firm's
hid was $3,814, the lowest of
four received.
Arrangements have been
completed with township
historians Muriel Mack and
Reg Finkbeiner and the Ex-
eter Times Advocate for prin-
ting of a township history.
A meeting to consider a
rezoning application for part
of Lot F, Plan 210 in the police
village of Crediton has been
set for November 20.
Road superintendent Eric
Finkbeiner has been in-
structed to ask for tenders on
the supply of diesel fuel. gas
and furnace oil.
A resolution from Downie
township regarding ringbilled
gulls was approved.
Four tile drain loan applica-
tions totalling $30,500 were
approved.
Town of Exeter hereby proclaims
the week of October 21st to 27th
as Small Business Week and en-
courages local residents to
patronize our local businesses.
Bruce Shaw
Mayor
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BLOCK PARENTS IN ALL AREAS — The Block Parent program is being introduced in country areas os well
as in towns and villages. Shown recently of Stephen Central School are Block Parent chairman Eileen Miron
and OPP Constable John Marshall with students Leanne Dundas, Dody Sweitzer and Lynette Kramer.
Probe death of Lucan toddler
Jury recommends lagoon enclosures
A coroner's jury probing
the drowning in August of a
two-year-old Lucan boy
recommended Friday that all
farm manure pits and lagoons
be enclosed by child -proof
fences.
The body of James Davis
Langford was found August 4
in a manure pit on the farm of
John Mcllhargey on Conces-
sion 16 of London Township,
about 30 minutes after
Mcllhargey and the boy's
father Earl had begun a fran-
tic search. The boy had been
out of his sight for no more
than one minute when the
search began, his father
testified.
Langford had gone to the
farm to work on a car and
said he warned his son not to
go near the open pit, located
about 50 metres (165 feet)
away behind a barn. He said
the pit was the first place he
looked for the boy, and he and
Mcllhargey checked it at
least 10 times before the boy's
body was eventually spotted
below the scummy surface.
The jury ruled that the
boy's death in the unfenced
pit was accidental and listed
a string of recommendations
that Coroner Archie Grace
hoped would prevent "similar
tragedies."
Besides calling for provin-
cial legislation to have all ex-
isting uncovered manure pits,
lagoons and ponds surround-
ed by child -proof fences at
least 1.3 metres (four feet)
high and equipped with self-
closing gates, the jury recom-
mended that at least two
escape ladders be installed in
all such lagoons.
Testimony was that the pit,
about four metres (13 feet)
deep, contained largely liquid
waste about three metres (10
feet) deep. There were no
escape ladders or hand holds
and when the body was found,
Mcllhargey said he had to
grab the distraught father to
keep him from leaping into
the pit to recover the body.
"He (the father) might very
well have drowned,"
Mcllhargey said.
The jury urged enforce-
ment of these two recommen-
dations within at least two
years and also recommend-
ed that building inspectors en-
force all conditions set out in
a "certifcate of compliance"
issued by the ministry of the
environment.
Witnesses testified that the
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certificates are aimed less at
safety than at ensuring the
manure pits don't casuse en-
vironment problems.
London Township
adminsitrator-clerk Albert
Bannister of Ilderton said the
Mcllhargey pit was con-
structed two years before the
townshippassed a 1980 bylaw
requiring that all such pits be
built with the top metre (3.2
feet) of their walls extending
above ground level and sur-
mounted with a solid metal or
wooden wall another metre
high.
Asked by Crown Attorney
Paul Bailey why the township
hadn't made its bylaw
retroactive, similar to a 1981
bylaw requiring fences
around swimming pools, Ban-
nister said: "I guess council
had never looked at making it
retroactive."
When Bailey noted that
Mcllhargey's certificate of
compliance said the pit must
be covered, Middlesex
agriculture ministry
representative Den Agar of
Strathroy said the certificate
was little more than a list of
"voluntary guidelines" aimed
at clearing the way for a
municipal building permit.
Bannister and Agar both
testified that there was
nothing in provincial or
municipal statutes that would
empower a municipality to
refuse to issue a building per-
mit. They said there was
nothing in law to prevent
anyone from building a
manure pit without the cer-
tificate of compliance, or
penalize him for failing to live
up to all the conditions listed.
Dismisses charge
for leaving scene
A charge of failing to re-
main at the scene of an acci-
dent was dismissed against a
retired Listowel dentist in Ex-
eter court, Tuesday, when
Justice of the Peace Douglas
Wedlake ruled there was a
reasonable doubt that the ac-
cused was aware there had
been an accident.
William Laverne Lawson
was charged following a July
8 collision on Highway 83 east
of Exeter.
He had pulled out to pass a
slow moving vehicle at the
same time that a vehicle
driven by David C. Virgin,
Norval, was passing the
Lawson vehicle. Virgen had
to take evasive action and
ended up in the ditch.
Larry Virgin, brother of the
accident victim, said he had
watched the incident in his
rear-view mirror and stopped
the Lawson vehicle some
distance from the site of the
crash.
He testified that after ad-
vising Lawson of the incident,
the latter drove off.
Both the accused and his
wife said they were unaware
of the accident and reported
they did not see any vehicle in
the ditch. No contact was
made with their vehicle.
Defense lawyer Elmer D.
Bell, Q.C., said there was in-
sufficient evidence that
Lawson was the driver of the
car which forced the other
vehicle off the highway.
While Mr. Wedlake said
there was some evidence that
Lawson was the driver involv-
ed, he was not satisfied
beyond a reasonable doubt
that the accused was aware
he had contributed to an
accident.
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on Tuesday's docket, Ralph S.
Sprung, Waterloo, was fined
833 after being convicted of
driving at a speed of 100 in an
80 km. zone on August 16. He
did not appear in court and a
not guilty plea was entered on
his behalf.
Missionary
will speak
Peter Mulder, a missionary
affiliated with the Christian
Reformed Church will be in
Exeter on October 28. He will
speak at 8:30 p.m. in the
Christian Reformed Church
on the work which he has been
engaged in for the last three
years.
The Honduras in Central
America is one of the world's
trouble -spots closely situated
to Nicaragua, where a revolu-
tion is presently underway.
Mr. Mulder will be reflecting
on the impact of guerrilla ac-
tivity in his area of the Hon-
duras. For an informative,
on -hands understanding of
this important country, the
public is invited. There is no
admission charge, Mr.
Mulder will present slides of
his work also.
This presentation is in con-
junction with the celebration
of the reformation which the
Christian Reformed Church
and the Reformed church will
be celebrating on October 28
- a service of worship and
thanksgiving is slated for 7
p.m. in the Exeter Christian
Reformed Church. The public
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