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Times -Advocate, April 5, 1995
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Spring cleaning
Tom Vlemmix gathers brush and leaves at Oakwood Inn Golf Club where he has been
working for the last eight years. The golf course is preparing to open up the greens for the
beginning of April and they are expecting a busy season.
`Honey bees'
STAFFA - Staffa Women's Insti-
tute members combined their agri-
cultural meeting with a quilting at
the home of Joyce Miller on
Wednesday, March 29.
Verlas Mahon planned the meet-
ing and spoke on the "Honey Bee".
She told the group there are 20,000
bees in a swarm. Honey was a life
saving food for primitive people.
The queen bee is described as a fe-
male and mother of the hive. Today
bees are used for pollination as well
as honey. She had a display of pic-
tures to accompany her talk. She
was thanked by Joyce Miller.
The president opened the meeting
with the Mary Stewart Collect.
Minutes were read along with the
• correspondence by secretary Rober-
ta Templeman: Treasurer Verle ' - i•
Mahon gave her &i"* ' 3 _
District director Kay Smale re-
ported on a recent executive meet-
ing in Carlingford. She reminded
everyone of the upcoming District
Annual., hosted by Glen Gowrie
Institute at Kirkton on May 9. Staf-
fa is responsible for thanking the
speaker. Each branch has been
asked to hold a meeting about the
United Nations. Both Stratford
General hospital and Western On-
tario Children's Hospital are asking
for finger puppets.
The theme for the displays at
Mitchell Fair this year is "Fowl
Play". Articles were brought to the
meeting for the Optimism Place in
Stratford and Western Ontario
Children's Hospital.
A wee smile "What Isn't a
Friend" was given by Verles Ma-
hon.
Minor repairs set for arena roof
EXETER - Monday night council
approved a recommendation made
a week ago by the committee of the
whole that $15,000 be placed in the
1995 budget for minor repairs of
the roof at the South Huron Recrea-
tion Centre.
Although B.M. Ross & Asso-
ciates had not yet completed the in-
spection of the arena roof, a prelim-
inary report as indicated in a letter
from facilities manager Cam Ste-
wardson said that $15,000 would
more than cover some temporary
work until a final solution is found.
Any monies left over from the
$15,000 will be placed in a reserve
fund for repairs in years to come.
Councillor Dave Urlin, a member
of the recreation committee said he
felt these considered repairs would
extend the life of the roof by about
five or six years.
Council also agreed to have more
monies allocated to the reserve
fund' for the arena roof in subse-
quent years.
Assess library potential
Administrator Rick Hundey re-
ported to council that the architect
T. Marktevitz was being asked to
assess the potential of the existing
Exeter library in an expansion pro-
ject of Phase II of the Town Centre.
Hundey said various financing is-
• sues were discussed and a further
report on the project details and
cost is to be submitted.
Change mileage rate
Council overturned a recommn-
dation from the committee of the
whole report regarding the amount
of money paid to staff members us-
ing their own vehicles on town
business.
It had originally been agreed to
pay 25 cents per kilometre for all
business trips, whether in or out of
town.
Councillor Urlin commented,
"We have been paying 27 cents for
out-of-town business. It should be
the same regardless of where 'you
go."
Councillor Roy Triebner agreed
saying, "It should all be approved
in one shot." Mayor Ben Hoogen-
boom sugggested the drop was an
attempt to cut back on expenses,
but councillor Bob Spears added, "
Let's get rid of the old system of
two rates. It won't amount to more
than a couple of hundred dollars a
year."
Development update
Administrator Hundey and works
superintendent Glennn Kelis
brought council up to date about
the meetings held with the develop-
er regarding industrial development
on Francis street.
The new cost estimates were
510,000 for sewers, $43,000 for
roads and $13,000 for hydro and
water. Council agreed that if the de-
veloper decides to purchase the
property and expand the building
and operations, then the town will
proceed to open Francis street,
north of Thames Road.
The monies provided in the 1995
budget for this purpose will be
$10,000 from sewer reserve and
556,000 from industrial develop-
ment reserve. The town will nego-
tiate with the PUC in respect to
payment of their costs.
A request from Albert and Franc-
es Hummel for an extension of the
town's water services to a new pro-
posed house in Hay township was
denied. The location of the pro-
posed building is at the town of Ex-
eter limits on Highway 83 west on
the north side on the top of the hill,
west of the river.
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Faith
Tabernacle
presents
`Harmony
Night'
CENTRALIA - The youth from
Centralia Faith Tabernacle who at-
tended Y.F.C. in Brucefield on Sat-
urday night listened to a dynamic
speaker from Circle C Ranch, Wes
Aarum. Their April meeting will be
a movie and pizza night.
The Sunday School of Faith Tab-
ernacle presented "Harmony
Night" on Sunday evening. Sixty-
one individuals participated in a va-
riety of ways through songs, skits,
instrumentals, solos or drama. It
was a packed evening with 21 vari-
ous talented numbers.
This year the Bible Contest was
won by the boys. The girls held the
lead throughout the past nine
weeks, but the boys took advantage
of the extra points given. on the fi-
nal Sunday for learning as many as
possible, Books of the Old Testa-
ment. This brought the boys the
victory this year. Participants are
encouraged to keep bringing their
Bibles and friends and learning the
Books of the Bible.
The Billy Graham movie produc-
tion "Power Play" will be shown on
Sunday evening April 23.
The final choir practice for Good
Friday and Baster Sunday will be
held Monday night.
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