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Home My WebLink AboutTimes-Advocate, 1996-03-13, Page 5By Ross Haugh from the archives of the Exeter Tintes Advocate 10 YEARS AGO March 12, 1986 - The XI Gamma Nu Sorority has do- nated instruments valued at $6,400 to the South Huron District High School band. A recent presentation was made by Sorority representatives Barb Passmore and Ann Baynham. Lucan council has given ap- proval to Mitchell-Seaforth Cable company to proceed with plans to install cable tele- vision in the village. 25 YEARS AGO March 18, 1986 - The Exet- er Hawks won the OHA dis- trict junior hockey champion- ship over Belmont and will now meet Caledonia in pro- vincial playoffs. Ron Linden - field was the scoring star in the final game for the Hawks with two overtime goals. Kathy Simmons again topped the junior secondary school division in the public speaking contest held at Kin- cardine Sunday afternoon. Exeter council Monday night approved "in principle" a project which will virtually complete the local sanitary sewer system in 1972. 35 YEARS AGO March 10, 1961 - R. Ross Tuckey of Tuckey Beverages was elected president of the Canadian Bottlers of Carbo- nated Beverages Association at the annual meeting in Win- nipeg. Biddulph ratepayers are se- riously considering the estab- lishment of a township area school board, with an eye to erecting a central school. Mr. and Mrs. Ward Fritz have returned from a month's trip in South America. 40 YEARS AGO March 11, 1956 - Construc- tion began Monday on a $47,000 three-room red brick school for the Roman Catho- lic Separate School Section No. 6, at Mount Carmel. Yeggs who pried open the safe at F.A. May and Son ear- ly Monday morning Blade off with about $1,500 *cording to the owners. Exeter Lions club members collected $1,300 for the Red Cross during their campaign blitz of the town Friday night. 50 YEARS AGO March 10,' 1946 - As the re- sult of a citizens' meeting con- cerning local recreational ac- tivities, a committee of Messrs. Joe Creech, C.V. Pickard, R.N. Creech, Bob Dinney, Tom Pryde, W.G. Medd and J.B. Howey was named to investi- gate the possibility of hiring a full-time director. The Guenther Transport have just completed a new addition to their terminal in Exeter North. Ladies of the Caven Red Cross Unit met in the library basement Tuesday evening and Wednesday and quilted five quilts for the Red Cross. 75 YEARS AGO March 11, 1921 - Mr. Walter Cunningham of Exeter has pur- chased Mrs. James Taylor's house on Gidley street. A meeting of Crediton base- ball fans was held in Ewald's shop, Monday night. Officers are; Honorary president, Herb Eilber; president, Ezra Faist; vice-president, Fred Haist; sec.-treas, Freeman Moriock; scorer, Sam Wein; team cap- tain, Bill Motz and manager, Herb Fahner. Mrs. Peter Case of the Lon- don Road North had a very successful sale on Tuesday and will move to Hensall after tak- ing a trip west during the sum- mer. 100 YEARS AGO March 12, 1896 - Samuel Brock of Elimville intends moving to Centralia about April I where he has pur- chased property and will open a butchering business. W.W. Revington of Lucan known as the "Adage poet" is again to the front with a splen- did rendition on the American question. George O'Neill will handle the Lucan village weigh scales for 1896. The sum paid will be $57. Lumber and timber is leav- ing the Dashwood mill in large quantities this week, showing that There is a a good deal of building going on this year. The ice crop this year is poor, but a good deal is being harvested. Exeter Main street Methodist Church has won between eighty and one hundred con- verts. IT YO LJ R R l LS T II F S S Times -Advocate, March 13, 1996 Page 5 Flowers will enhance downtown streetscape Exeter Business Associa- tion proceeds with beau- tification project Chris Skalkos T -A staff EXETER - The Exeter Business Association's beautification committee is proceeding with an am. bitious project that will see a section of Main Street adorned with hanging baskets and barrels of flow- ers. John Wuerth, committee chairperson said the pro- ject is part of the committee's long-term plans to enhance the appearance of the downtown area. "Our intention is to make Main Street colorful and alive," said Wuerth. "We want to make a strong impression with this and give people a reason to shop in this town." The number of baskets and barrels and their exact placement have not yet been confirmed, however, Wuerth said the details will be finalized when com- mittee members meet later this month. They will seek the expertise of florist Ben Hoogenboom and landscaper Fred Mommerst who will act as con- sultants. Wuerth said the committee got the idea after Exet- er placed second in the nation-wide Communities in Bloom competition last summer. However, this would be a permanent part of the streetscape every spring. "The committee is looking at it as an ongoing pro- ject. We view it as a start not an end." Wuerth said the project is tied in with the pur- chase of the vacant municipal building at 406 Main Street. Last January, the EBA and Town Council agreed to enter into a 50/50 partnership buying the property and turning it into a parking lot and multi- function green space. The plans allow for a small parkette to protrude onto Main Street and Wuerth hopes it will act as a springboard for other projects, spurred on by local merchants and aimed at beautifing the downtown streetscape. Wuerth hopes the stores with existing window - level flower boxes will follow suit and coordinate their window box flowers with what the committee plants. The barrels will be placed within a four or five block area in ;he downtown core starting at Huron Street. "Until we get them set up we don't know how far we can go. We will work within our budget to take them as far north as we can without spreading them too thin. But eventually we intend on placing them the entire length of Main Street," said Wuerth. Having the flowers within reach of pedestrians raises concerns about vandalism. According to Wuerth, some flower boxes were vandalized last year, however he said they were "minor oc- currences" and did not pose a serious problem. "We'll have to take that risk to make this work and if it happens we will work around it...we won't let it discourage us," he said. More than $5,000 is budgeted for the hanging bas- kets, barrels and the flowers that wilt go in them, however, Wuerth said half of that will pay for maintaining the flowers by an experienced gardner to bolster longevity. He emphasized funds for the project comes from an EBA levy, paid by association members, not from taxpayers. The committee will begin the project by the sec- ond week of May when the danger of frost is slim. "When we're done I think the town will look completely different," said Wuerth. Small' business loans up 22 per cent TORONTO - Business Develop- ment Bank of Canada (BDC) fi- nancing reached an all-time high in 1995. New BDC loans were nearly $1 billion ($976.1 million), up 22 per cent from 1994. BCD loans helped support a total of $1.7 bil- lion in investments to BDCs clients. "These figures show that the Gov- ernment's strategy for improving fi- naocdnAtftu_ ria a's $magi aid. me- '"diem- sized businesses is working," said John Manley, Minister of In- dustry. "The BDC is helping create jobs and growth in Canada and showing the chartered banks that small business is good business." "With our new mandate, we're delivering new products and reach- ing new markets. This is great news for small businesses," says Francois Beaudoin, BDC president and chief executive officer. The bank's man- date was revamped in 1995 to sup- port Canada's growth in exporting, high technology, and new economy industries. "BDC loans are climbing rapidly, and we expect this pace to continue in 1996," adds Beaudoin. "BDC lending operates at no cost to the taxpayer and has totaled nearly.S.1 billiypq over years. The Bank's iVd1ngoperi+tioni are totally self- financing." BDC clients employ thousands In 1995, BDC loan clients em- ployed a total of 188,000 people across Canada, three per cent of the small business workforce. Helping entrepreneurs with both financial and management services "The large growth in BDCs loan Community support will determine success of impact study Evaluating impact of new format retailing in Exeter's downtown EXETER - After a slight delay in the preparation process, OAC geog- raphy students at South Huron Dis- trict High School plan to get to work conducting a commercial im- pact study following the March break. About half of the students in Cliff Waters' class opted to participate in the project for the Town, Exeter Business Association and Chamber of Commerce. "I thought this would be easier and more interesting than an in- dependent project," said Darryl 1 Hartman. The group is sectioned to evalu- ate seven categories including downtown inventory, trade area analysis, comparative impact as- sessment, impact of London retail and consumer retail behaviour. Twenty per cent of the semester's grade is being dedicated to the study and students will be evaluted on the process as well as a seminar presenting their findings. Although they were given a guide, prepared by the University of Guelph, stu- dents have spent the last several weeks designing telephone, mail and interview surveys. "One of our biggest challenge is to have our surveys sent back," said Kim Passmore, adding in the best case scenario 24 per cent of mailed surveys are returned, usual- ly after a month's time. To combat time constraints of a May 10 completion deadline, stu- dents have arranged to have drop boxes placed in several local stores. Students who have ap- proached local business owners about the survey have been well received. Confidentiality, stressed Passmore, will be protected during the survey process. 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