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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes Advocate, 1995-01-11, Page 1SEIP'S valu-mart Vtfxeter 235-0262 Eat Smart With M.A,R.T.Y. Serving Exeter and area since 1873 r 1 SUBSCRIBE! If you aren't subscribing to The II 1 Times -Advocate, you're messing out. Use the coupon below and ' subscribe today! 1 Name: 1 Address City 1 Prov 1 1 Postal Code I SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Canada 1 1 Within 40 miles • (65 km) addressed to non letter carrier addresses $33.00 plus $2.31 G.S.T. Outside 40 miles - (65 km) or any letter 1 carrier address $63.00 + $4.31 G.S.T. 1 Outside Canada -$99.00 (nd /88 40 postage) 1 USE YOUR CREDIT CARD 1 UUDUUUDD 1 UDDDDDDD Card No. 1 I Expiry Date ❑ Visa 0 Master Card ❑ Cheque enclosed Return to; TIMES ADVOCATE 1 424 Main St. Exeter, Ont. NOM 1 S66 11•111 NMI MI IIIIIII MN 1 1 Inside Changing channels Local cable operators feel the heat See page 3 Tourism Big business for Huron, says association See page 5 Special care VON volunteers making a difference Crossroads Second front Basketball South Huron sweeps Seaforth See page 12 New BM chairperson Tom Seip takes the helm See page 20 Classifieds pages 14-16 Announcements pages 17-18 Experts ' page 19 __tea lid t SEIP'S valu-mart imes 4 & : Exeter 235-0262 See Us For Too 01§7 :Breo:rtitiTce: Wednesday, January 11, 1995 (93C + 7C GST) ONE DOLLAR 3 Wild ride A ride on an inner tube is on of winter's pleasures best enjoyed with as many friends as possible. Somewhere in this tangle of legs and arms are Jason Revington, Matt DenHollander, Jenna Revington, Brittany Revington, and Sarah Revington, all enjoying the perfect tobogganing weather Saturday morning at Morrison Dam. Is Lucan next in line for garbage bag tags? User -pay collection is being seen by village council as a means to reduce waste LUCAN - User -pay garbage collection, already in use in Grand Bend and Exeter, may next be adopted in Lucan. At last week's meeting of village council, directions were given to clerk Ron Reymer to prepare a report on the costs and implementation of a user pay system for garbage col- lection. Reymer said if approved it would take at least three months to get such a system into operation. Councillor Roserrary Gahlinger-Beaune said "User pay will get people Yo do more recycling and reduce the amount of garbage going to the landfill site. If a second blue box is necessary for some or all households, I would be in favour of that, too." After hearing Biddulph Township is going to hi -weekly recycling collection and expects a savings of about 16 per- cent, reeve Toni McLaughlin said, " I do not feel that the money saved by going bi-weekly would he worth the extra amounts of recylables that would end up in the garbage be- cause their blue box was full. I agree a second blue box would be an option." Deputy- reeve Harry Wraith, a long-time supporter of bi- weekly blue box collections said, " I also have a commit- ment to user pay and I will cease with bi-weekly dis- cussions for at least six months. We will take another look at it when user pay is up and running." The reeve, also in favour of user pay added, "With this program in effect those who are not recycling now will likely start." He told council that Bluewater Recycling has agreed to hold off switching to Mondays for blue box collection until at (east February "in order for us to try and convince Larry Lewis to switch his garbage collection days to Mondays as well." Lewis will be invited to attend the January 17 coun- cil meeting. New baby Jeffrey McNutt may have arrived a little late to ring in the tario region, and the first bom to a couple in the Exeter new year, but his arrival only a couple of hours later made Times -Advocate's readership. His proud parents are Cheri him one of the first babies born in the Southwestem On- and Mark McNutt of Exeter. First 1995 baby for Exeter Cheri and Mark McNutt's little boy was the first born to a T A subscriber EXETER - An Exeter couple arc the win- ners of the prizes awarded the first baby born to a Times -Advocate subscriber in the New' Year. Jeffrey Dillan McNutt arrived at 1:54 a.m. on New Years Day at St. Joseph's Hospital in London. Proud parents Cheri and Mark McNutt brought home their six -pound 15 ounce bundle of joy the next day to their An- drew Street home. Jeffrey had been due on January 5, but doc- tors decided to induce labour early and brought Cheri into the hospital, giving M just enough time to leave his trlsk_ jrXan- couver and fly home for the birth. Doctors tried to start labour at 8 a.m., but Jeffrey took his time through what Cheri called "a long day" and he finally arrived in the early hours of the next morning, making him one of the very first 1995 babies in the region, and the first child for the Exeter couple. The couple won a variety of gifts from 14 local businesses for having the first baby of 1995 for a T -A subscriber. The gifts range from merchandise certificates to special baby products. Contributing businesses in- clude Exeter Flowers, C.E. McTavish Petro - Canada, Triangle Discount, Something Spe- cial, Holtzmann's IGA, Frenchman's Inn, Sted- mans V&S, Creative Affairs, Larry's Town and Country Restaurant, Clinton Community Credit Union, The Purple Turtle, Exeter Decor Centre, Darling's Food Market, and Dinneys Furniture. 4 Huron to host '99 plowing match? A site near Dashwood is one choice for an International Plowing Match in 1999 DASHWOOD - Will a site just north of Dashwood be the site for thc 1999 International Plowing Match? No doubt some would like_ _ to sec the event that draws 130,000 visitors or more. and brings mil- lions of dollars to its community would like to sec that occur. Indeed, a site north of Dashwood is one of three being suggested by the Huron County Plowmen's As- sociation as a candidate in its hid for the 1999 International Plowing Match. First, however, Huron would have to win the selection process for the match. A meeting is planned for Thurs- day evening, January 12, at 8 p.m. at the Clinton OMAFRA office. Organized by the Huron County Plowmen's Association, they arc trying to draw as many interested supporters as possible, explained Ruth Townsend. "The tourism people arc very in- terested in seeing it here, of course," said Townsend, but added that thc support of local politicians, businesses, farmers, and the general public will also he greatly ap- preciated to hell?win the bid. Kcnt County is at least one other county interested in hosting the plowing match, so far. Huron County last hosted the In- ternational Plowing Match in 1978 in Wingham. Seaforth was the site of the 1966 match before that. Thursday's meeting will be at the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food Office at 100 Don Street in Clinton.