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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes Advocate, 1994-8-3, Page 5INTI-1F. NEWS Times -Advocate, August 3, 1994 Page 5 Back in Time... By Ross Haugh from the archives of the Exeter Times Advocate 10 YEARS AGO August 1, 1984 - Bruce McDonald, a 30 year-old in- surance broker from Mildmay will take the Huron -Bruce Liberals to the polls in the September 4 federal election. Standing around to see where a cow will mess up may not sound like a good idea to most farmers, but, it will be pan of a new game for visitors to the upcoming Sum- merfest Days in Crediton. The game called Bessie Bingo is being copied from Sherburn, Minnesota where the Jaycees came up with the idea to raise funds for local projects. A sod turning ceremony was held in Grand Bend Wednesday to mark the first step in Grand Bend's Non - Profit Housing Corporation hid to provide affordable housing for senior citizens in the community. The Sauble apartments will provide 26 self-contained apartments for seniors. with modest income. The original charges of op- erating a common gaming house against David Scott and Doug McNair of Ailsa Craig have been changed to selling tickets on games of chance. The charges arise from parim- utuel wagering on turtle races at Ailsa Craig's Gala Days. 25 YEARS AGO July 31, 1969 - The front page of today's Times Advo- cate is completely taken up by two photographs of the worst flood ever to hit Exeter. It struck mid-afternoon on last Thursday afternoon. One pic- ture shows cars turned over and floating down Anne street at the intersection of Main street. Damage was considera- ble at South Huron Hospital, Canadian Tire and the OPP station. The voice of Hospital ad- ministrator Miss Alice Clay - pole broke when she remem- bered the book she kept when she opened South Huron Hos- pital 17 years ago. Mrs. Ivan Benneweis RN of Dublin was trapped in the pharmacy room when the flood struck. She said,"One minute the water was up to my ankles. The next minute it was up to my waist and rising." Hospital staff members were alerted and they were able to throw the nurse a fire hose and pull her to safety. 35 YEARS AGO July 30, 1969 - The hot 41m - mer has given Tuckey Bever- ages Ltd. of Exeter, it's biggest season to date according to manager Ross Tuckey. The I 1 year-old firm has increased its staff to 30 to handle thy de- mand. Blaring of the plant whistle Saturday marked the end of the pea pack at Canadian Canners in Exeter. The corn pack is ex- pected to start on August 24. 40 YEARS AGO July 31, 1954 :The first Case 120 self-propelled com- bine to be sold in this area was delivered to Lloyd Knight of Woodham this week by Exeter Farm Equipment. Nearly 400 housewives from as far away as Windsor, Sar- nia, London and from this dis= trict attended the Huron Waves Mary Hastings picnic at Grand Bend on Wednesday aftbr- noon. 50 YEARS AGO July 30, 1944 - Mr. Samuel Jory of Concession 2 of Ste- phen township has sold his 100 acro farm to Mr. Harold Fah- ner of Crediton. 75 YEARS AGO July 30, 1919 - Mr. Edward Taylor, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Taylor of Exeter, saved a young lady from drowning at Grand Bend a week ago. The issuance of a special Ca- nadian postage stamp com- memorating the signing of the peace treaty is now under conn sideration by the postal depart- ment at Ottawa. Flight Lieutenant Clifford Hicks of Centralia, now a Flight Commander in the City of Ottawa fighter-bomber squadron in Normandy met up with an old schoolmate Corpd- ral Andy Bierling, who is with the First Hussars also in France. Underground `trouble spots' on the mend $260,000 is being spent to correct sanitary and storm sewer problems EXETER - The first of three infrastructure improvement projects for Exeter is nearly complete. Sanitary sewer up- grades on John and Edward Streets started before the ink was dry on a bylaw signed by council two weeks ago al- lowing the work to proceed. The project is part of a $6 billion Canada -wide effort to create jobs, as promised by the Liberal Party in the last fed- eral election. The federal government is contributing $2 billion to the fund, with the province and individual mu- nicipalities or board paying another $2 billion each. In Exeter, some of the funds are being spent on installing a larger, raised sanitary sewer line on John Street to ease backup problems. In addition, the Edward Street line had to be lowered to allow a reversal of flow through the area. The crews managed to complete the work without dis- rupting sewage flows along those streets. "Each time they dug up a pipe, it would flow a bit. Then they would plug it up and dig up another one," said town works superintendent Glenn Kells. A gravel roadbed will be completed to allow traffic through the area, and in preparation for re -paving in Sep- tember. Kells said the improvement of the sewage lines in that part of town had been on the books for some time, but it wasn't until the infrastructure program made funds avail- able that it became feasible to spend that much money on the upgrade. "It's one we sort of kept putting off because of funding - but it was a high -maintenance area," said Kells. The town will be paying one third of the total of $260,000 being spent on sanitary and storm sewer upgrades in town under the infrastructure program. The other pro- jects to be tackled under the program are an extension of a sanitary sewer on Rosemount Ave., and the upgrade of a storm sewer on an easement on Alexander Street, both in Exeter's industrial area. Kells said the infrastructure program should help bring Exeter's underground lines up to date. "It's probably relieved our worst problem areas," said Kells, adding there are no major trouble spots remaining in town at the moment. • '.;i. Construction on John Street in Exeter last week by three levels of government across Canada. was part of a $6 billion job -creation plan supported Bosanquet roadways etting new names New names and numbers will be needed for 911 telephone service BOSANQUET TWP. - New road signs will be going up soon in Bo- sanquet Township, and residents will be receiving letters in the mail notifying them of their new ad- dresses. A county -wide road re -naming program is under way in Lambton as the first step in setting up a 911 emergency telephone service. The time-honoured method of naming concessions and side roads with numbers, and properties with lot numbers will go by the wayside in an effort to reduce the confusion and duplication of addresses pos- sible under the present system. Enhanced 911 telephone oper- ators will expected to dispatch cmer y services directly to the er's property with a minimum of difficulty. All north -south roads in the ounty will be given names and termed "Roads" on signs. East - west routes will be described as "Lines". Once township residents have re- ceived notification of their new ad- dresses, they are asked to contact their telephone company, if under the Bell system, so that the new ad- dress can be added to their listing. This, say ' officials at the county planning department, could mean the difference between life and death in an emergency, as operators will be able to quickly cross- reference a caller's number with their address, should the caller be unable to give the location of the emergency. Those customers served by in- dependent local phone services can expect to be contacted for their new addresses, says county planning. The first of a new set of road signs for Lambton County's rural areas went up in Plimpton Town- ship on July 21. County warden Mary Jane Marsh and Rob Mineilly of the planning department official- ly planted the sign at the inter- section of the Churchill Linc and Mandaumin Road, in recognition of the new addressing system. I INVESTMENTS GIC/RSP 1Yr. -7.55% 3Yr. -8.55% 5 yr. - 8.875% • r.• Segregated Funds ,1 YR. -12.30%; 2YR. -11.76% 3 YR. - 9.16% 1 ri813er•It11t3sAi! 235-2420, 238-S4S4 • GIC rams subject to change. Short- term rotes available. Segregated find rates reflect actual past performance. Future returns will vary., Lambton County warden Mary Jane Marsh and Rob Minielly from county planning helped install a new sign in Plimpton Township to mark the first of a series of address changes for county residents. 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Variety evalua- tion and management studies in white beans, corn, soybeans, ru- tabagas, and other local crops, including sweet corn and peas has been conducted this summer as before. v`" The annual Crops Update Day will be held August 17 this year at the farm, just north of Huron Road 4 on Concession 2-3. Reg- istration starts at 8:30 a.m. with tours of research plots starting at 9 a.m. and ending at noon. Lunch will be available on the ground, and will feature a noon - hour speaker Brian Doidge from Ridgetown College who will speak on marketing strategies. Researchers with the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs will provide commentary for the wagon tours of the plots. Dr. Arend Smid will discuss ni- trogen rates on hard red winter wheat; Gordon Scheifele will speak on corn row widths and populations; Peter Johnson will discuss starter fertilizers on corn and beans; and Chris Gillard will give a white bean research update. 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