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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes Advocate, 1994-7-13, Page 3W TkIEI'JE WS Times -Advocate, July 13, 1994 Page 3' Health Unit rejects $25,000 smoking crackdown. grant GODERICH - Huron County's Health Unit has turned down a $25,000 .grant from the provincial government. The money was going to be given to the Health Unit so that it may hire a part-time th inspector whose sole duty w Id be to en- force no -smoking ar s. The origins o0he Moncur Scholarship Dave McClure says the Moncur family likely -operated aL pharmacy in •pre -WWI Exeter XETER - Each year at South Huron District High School graduation exercises -the Moncur Scholarship is presented to the female and male stu- dents who have obtained the highest marks in six of their OAC or Grade 13 subjects. For many years people have wondered about the origin and details of the scholarship, but some re- search by the father of one of this year's recipients suggests that the the Moncur family (pronounced Monker) were early residents of Exeter. Dave McClure says the family attended Caven Presbyter- ian Church where William H. Moncur was an elder and the Clerk of Session in 191 1. McClure -also says that a recipe hook produced by the church's Ladies Aid in 1910 includes several of Mrs. Moncur's recipes. As well in the 1911 church history it is recorded that a Miss Edith Moncur was secretary of the Women's Foreign Missionary So- ciety of Caven Church. McClure says it appears Edith Moncur was WLH. Moncur'sdaughter and that.. she may have been a student at the old Exeter High School. Harry Strang, who is now the oldest member of the Caven congregation, remembers as a young boy, the presence of the Moncur family at church and gives quite a graphic description of Mr. Moncur's appearance as seen through the eyes of a five-year old boy. Rita Rowe Smith, Bob Dinney's aunt remembers Edith Moncur as a young lady of about 25 in 1910. Joe Wooden, retiring principal of South Huron DHS believes William Moncur operated a drug store in Exeter around that time. McClure said it appears the Moncur family left Exeter during World War I and no more is heard of them until the 1960s. At this time it was revealed that a Mr. Moncur, a retired Lindsay Ontario mer- chant passed away and had left a bequest of S59,000 to the Exeter High School. The interest earned each year was to be used as a scholarship for the boy and girl with the -highest standing and enrolling in a uni- versity. By 1969 Exeter High School was now South Huron District High School and was now controlled by the Huron County Board of Educa- tion. Therefore a legal decision had to be made so that SHDHS could be made the recipient of the an- nual scholarship. This decision was finally made and the first schol- arships wete granted at the 1972 graduation or com- mencement exercises at the South. Huron High School. Following is a list of sch($arship winners since 1972: 1972 - Susan Tuckey, Stephen Wuerth. 1973 - Chris Cann, Don Noakes. 1974 - Elizabeth Jolly, John Deichert 1975 - Kathy DeJong, Paul Reabum. 1976 - Cynthia Gunn, Paul Shapton and Vincent Glabb (tie). 1977 - Nancy Underwood, Blhke Palmer. 1978 - Heather Little, Paul VanEsbroeck. 1979 - Ann Dearing, Robin Little 1980 - Deborah Webster,-Lorrie *lathers. 1981 - Mary Anne Hogan, Paul McAuley. 1982 - Ann Triebner, Kevin Glasgow. ,1983 - Susan Deichert, Rob Gratton. 1984 - Deb Josephson, James McDonell. 1985 - Colleen Glasgow and Rachel Mellecke (tie), Greg Hartman. 1986 - Karla Josephson, Tom Kester. 1987 - Ruth Ann Essery, David Dougall. 1988 - Jeanette VanEsbroeck, Robert Bowers. 1989 - Brenda Balsdon, Said Osman and David Josephson (tie). 1990 - Leanne Dietrich, Sean Finkbeiner. 1991 - Marnie Walker, David Thiel. 1992 - Barb Tiernan, Michael Gaskin -Clay. 1993 - Kerry Manders, Brian McInnes. 1994 - Molly McClure, David Morlock. Dave Morlock and Molly McClure were the 1994 recipients of the Moncur Scholarships at this year's SHDHS granduation. Although the origin of the award has long been a local myster, McClure's father did some digging and believes the. scholarship funds came from a Caven Presbyterian Church family who used to live in Exeter. Having tro`Uble reading us? A lightning storm last Wednesday evening struck, among other things in the area, a hydro pole immedi- ately behind the Times- Advocate.— While PUC crews were able to replace all the burnt out transformers within a few ' hours, it appears the lightning surge damaged some equip- ment in our building. If you have been trying to call us these past few days and haven't been able to get through, you have our sym- pathy. Our main phone line was knocked out, without re- routing calls to our other lines, and our fax machine would only send, but not re- ceive faxes. To add to the misery, our air conditioner went on the fritz, again a likely victim of the power surge. Times -Advocate editor Adrian Harte was in the building at the time of the lightning strike, and was left with tinging ears for a couple of hours afterwards. Be assured we didn't all go off on vacation last week, but were working to get our tech-. nical problems fixed - all of which should be corrected by the time you read this. We have expanded to Exeter mil CIS CIS Asset Management Corporation is pleased to announce the recent opening of their Financial Planning Centre offering • Mutual Funds • RRSP's • RRIF's • GIC's • Commercial Paper CALL DON THOMPSON, Manager We can assist you with ALL your financial needs at 386 Main St. Exeter 1-800-395-0487 235-4080 Fax: 235-4083 1 It was anticipated that about 300 additional premises in the county would have to be inspected. The sti�trlation in geeing the $25,000 is that the county would have to hire the inspector. Dr. Maarten Bokhout, the county's Medical Officer of Health, said the Health Unit was returning the money because he felt the mon- ey would be better spent, if it was for educating against non --smoking rather than enforcing. Councillors seemed to back Bok- hout in his decision and also feel educating is more important. "If you think enforcement will stop it, you should read the chapter on prohibition," said Brian McBur- ney of Turnberry Township. Bokhout said that he recently went to the Clinton Hospital at 1 a.m. to treat a pKiient who had chest pains. This patient was told -to quit smoking. Bokhout said not only was his time and the patient's being wasted but so were tax dol- lars. Goderich Township's Dave Gow- er said the Huron County Health Unit was behind Bokhout in his de- cision. - County council has several smok- ers and non-smokers, one of those being kiay Township's Lionel Wild- er. "I think were trying to make sec- ond-class citizens but of smokers," said Wilder. He added that more money should be put towards al- cohol abuse. "If people want to smoke, that's their business," said Goderich's John Doherty. "Those who smoke should have • the same rights as those that don't." Were owners misin rmed about cost of new rain? Those living along Gill .Rd. will have to pay $2,500 each to stop flooding -By Fred Groves T -A staff GRAND BEND - Were property owners in Grand Bend misinformed when they were signing a peti- tion? Recently, local resident Noreen Culp went door- to-door seeking signatures from Gill Road property owners to see whether or not they wanted a new -municipal drain built. -- Flooding along Gill Road has been a problem for several years and.,council really began to take notice when Earl Scholoendorf brought pictures to them back in June 1993, showing damage to his Gill Road property. When there is a heavy rain, the water runs off a neighbouring farmer's field, comes across the road and onto properties. Last Tuesday night, several Gill Road property owners attended a public meeting to here engineer Bill Dietrich lay out the plans for the $105,000 drain. However, his presentation was interrupted by Russ Culp who said when his wife went and asked for signatures, she was giving them false in- formation. "The person who took the petition around was misled to why she was doing it, this is illegal," said Russ Culp Apparently, those who signed the petition were under the assumption that council would be seeking grant money - instead it appears as though the prop- erty owners will have to come up with about $2,500 each. "There seems to be some misunderstanding. We have a number of signatures on the petition to make it legal," said Grand Bend administrator Paul Turn- bull. Dietrich said with the 13 signatures on the peti- tion, which is enough for a majorityof the property owners in that arca, it becomes a legal petition. However, he did say during the meeting that any- one wishing to take their name off the petition could do so, no one did. 4_ One property owner said that was not entir because Tuesday was the first time the-Owne told they could remove their name and many th owncrs did not attend the meeting. Tuesday night council read the bylaw a first and second tithe to except the engineer's report and on July 28 at 7 p.m. a Court of'Revision will be held. , At that time anyone with arguments to the cost (S2,500) can object but must do so, in writing, 10 days prior to July 28. Bob Sharcn who said he was representing the Gill Road property owncrs, told Dietrich that the drain, • which will be built near the road allowance, is going in the wrong place Sharen said the drain should be put V the becko_r :, the properties. - ' "Why put in two drains when you can get away with one;" said Dietrik17. Sharcn noted that if the farmer has a certain crop in the field, a lot of the flooding can be prevented. "The problems have been when they've tad crops that don't give good ground cover," said Sharcn. Grand Bend deputy -mayor Cam lvcy said, "sure we don't have a prtlem this year but will we have a problem in five years?" • - .. TMt, } Yu