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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes Advocate, 1994-10-5, Page 5Back in Time... 13y Ross Haugh from the archives of the -Exeter Times Advocate 10 YEARS AGO October 3, 1984 - A number of former rectors attended Sunday's I25th anniversary at Trivittmortal Anglican Church.hey included Rev. Norman Knox and Rev. Philip Gandon. Five Exeter residents were thrilled to see Queen Eliza- beth in person in Brantford, Monday. They were Joanne Wareham, daughters Suzanne, Jenny and Lisa and Julia Tie - man. 25 YEARS AGO October 2, 1969 - A delega- tion from Boise Cascade of Canada presented a proposal to Hensall council Monday night to build a $500,000 mo- bile home plant in the south- west portion of the village. The present Hensall plant adjacent to Highway 4 will continue to manufacture rec- reation vehicles, while the new plant expected to employ an additional 150 persons will ' produce economy housing. 50 YEARS AGO October 5, 1944 - Exeter -council-has ordered an increase' in the power of the street light- ing system to that used prior to war -time restrictions. Council has delayed the call- ing of a preliminary study for a proposed sewage system until the 1945 council takes over. Crediton United Church was tastefully decorated for Sun- day's 75th anniversary service. Frank Taylor of Exeter was guest soloist and Rev. True- blood and Lawrence Schwartz 100 YEARS AGO October 4, 1894 - The mayor of Grand Bend proclaimed Thursday and Friday of last week as Civic Holidays and a large party with camping out- fits started for Kettle Point. They spent two days hunting and fishing and enjoying the beautiful scenery. A load of Ailsa Craig towns- people went to London last week and thought they knew how to drive back, but they didn't. After driving in all di- rections but the right one, they went back to London and start- ed all over again. They took about six hours to get home. It has been rumoured that a certain man of Hensall has not been conducting himself in a way as becomes a person past middle age. A number of young men of the village un- dertook to judge of the pro- ceedings necessary in such cas- es. They accordingly procured a few dozen hen fruit, some- what advanced in years and ap- plied same vigorously to the appearance of the individual for whom they had made prep- aration. EWS Times -Advocate, October 5, 1994 Page 5 Reflectors next road safety goal? Tested for over 10 years, one expert says it is time to make them standard issue By Adrian Harte year in that state. car tire goes over them T -A Editor GRAND BEND - les a dark night. the rain Hakes the road sur- face a shiny black, and the cen- treline almost invisible. A sign in- dicates a curve ahead, and all of a sudden, you see a trail of brilliant dots lead the way. These things are great, you think. Why don't they have then: everywhere? Motorists along Highway 81 as it approaches Grand Bend will see the reflectors installed in the road's centre at three different curves. They are part of a trial program through a London company, Road Mark Engineering, and approved by the Ministry of Transportation. Paul Gunning of Road Mark said positive response from motorists over the reflectors is so over- whelming he can't understand why the ministry hasn't embraced them for all the province's highways, curves and straights, after more than 10 years of study. "It's son of been on and off for us," said Gunning, but insisted his company won't give up on its cam- paign to see road reflectors, either theirs or another company's, ac- cepted province -wide. He speaks sharply of the prov- ince's treatment of the issue, es- pecially considering that the min- istry first. approved a reflector for use -back 'in 1986, but has since in- stalled fewer than 5,000 a year in Ontario since then. That pales in comparison with Michigan's re- flector program that is seeing 200,000 of the devices installed per At top, a nighttime view, on Highway 81 demonstrates how cat's eye reflectors are clearly visible far beyond headlight range. Above, costing about $40 each, the cat's eye reflectors are made with cast iron frames. Gunning said statistics clearly Criticism about them not with - show that reflectors, or cat's eyes, standing winter weather is un - reduce the number of accidents, se- founded, said Gunning. In the verity of accidents, and even the eight states bordering Ontario, amount of property damage along there are some seven minion cats highways. eye reflectors. Installing 42 cat's eyes per kilo- "We're way behind in the tech - metre per lane on highway 401 notogy," he said, insisting that the would have cost less than one per- province's boasts about aiming to cent of the project to widen and in- create North America's safest roads stall a median barrier on the high- should include reflectors. way in past years. Hay Township has even turned to cat's eyes in an effort to reduce the accident rate along Conces- sion 2-3. The plastic reflectors are only temporary, and will have to be removed for winter. Installing permanent iron -framed ones on the 10 kilometre strip would cost about $20,000 - which may be beyond the township's bud- get without a government subsidy, agrees Gunning. The current generation of cat's eye reflectors, said Gunning, last up to 15 years, cost $40 each, and don't require yearly maintenance, such as centreline re -painting. They can withstand the blades of snowplows, and unlike glass -head painted lines, are visible in rain and fog. While heavy snows will cover the reflectors just as they do the roads, Gunning said "bureaucrats want something that works 12 months of the year". Still, he said the cast- iron reflector frames are designed to squash out snow and rain when a Even the Feder - "Some have said it ated Women's In - would be the best stitutes of Ontario highway improvement has presented a res - the government has olution to the min - ever undertaken." ister, supporting cat's eye installation. About 500 people die. a year in the dark hours on Ontario roads, said Gunning. And a larger per- centage of those fatalities occur in rain than snow. Ontario's fastest growing age group is over 55, said Gunning, and one of their biggest complaints is finding it harder to see the cen- treline of the road. He said a sur- vey of Grand Cove Estates res - s Investments GIC/ P 1Yr. -6.75% 3 Yr. - 7.875% 5 yr. - 8.25% Segregated Funds 1YR. - 9.63% 2 YR. - 12.05% 3 YR. - 9.71% ANNOUNCEMENT Dan Houle Hopper Hockey Funeral Home is pleased to announce that Dan Houle has joined our firm as a full time Funeral Director. Dan is a recent graduate of Humber College Funeral Service Program and is now licensed by,the Ontario Poard of Fueral Service. Dan and his wife Anne have taken up residence in Exeter after moving here from the Port Elgin Southampton area eigGaiser-Kneale 235-2420,238-8484 • GIC rates subject lo change. Sluff: - term rates available. Segregated fund rates reflect actual past performance. Future returns will vary. IN -- ;,1.1 rem ' • Eli ,r• 1 rt. Nam OM ••• ••.......5 in MN WPM r�%—'% ��-Alto.. UMMIIII=XN. 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Reflectors on a stretch of Highway 400 were dug up for repaving, and a stretch near Milton were painted over, but both these areas are still "under testing" by the ministry, said Gunning. Huron MPP Paul Klopp said he shares Gunning's enthusialm for the reflectors, and agrees the time is ripe to see them on more roads than just test strips and corners. "Personally, 1 think they've stud- ied this long enough," said Klopp. But he acknowledged with even a modest installation program costing only about $2 million a year, that money has to come out of another budget item. "There would be some who argue 'take the $2 million and put it into the RIDE program'," observed Klopp. Klopp said one hope is to scale back the road painting program to re -line roads every other year, and use the substantial savings for re- flectors. 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L MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS ACT NOTICE OF NOMINATION SCHOOL BOARDS TOWN OF EXETER TOWNSHIP OF HAY VILLAGE OF HENSALL TOWNSHIP OF STEPHEN VILLAGE OF ZURICH TOWNSHIP OF USBORNE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that candidates for the following offices may file Nomination papers at the respective Clerk's office on October 11. October 12, and October 13 during regular office hours, and on Nomination Day. October 14 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; HURON COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION TOWN OF EXETER 1 Trustee (file papers at Town of Exeter) TOWNSHIP OF STEPHEN TOWNSHIP OF USBORNE) TOWNSHIP OF HAY) VILLAGE OF ZURICH VILLAGE OF HENSALL) TOWNSHIP OF TUCKERSMITH) 1 Trustee (file papers at Stephen Township) 1 Trustee (file papers at Hay Township) 1 Trustee (file papers at'Packersmith Twp.) HURON -PTH ROMAN CATHO .I , S .PAB,ATE SCHOOL BOARD TOWNSHIP OF HAY) VILLAGE OF ZURICH) VILLAGE OF HENSALL) VILLAGE OF BAYFIELD) TOWNSHIP OF STANLEY) TOWNSHIP OF STEPHEN) TOWNSHIP OF USBORNE) TOWN OF EXETER) 1 Trustee (file papers at Hay Township) 1 Trustee (file papers at Stephen Twp.) All candidates to be elected for a 3 year term. Each nomination paper must be signed by nt least 10 Public School electors (for the Huron County Board of Education Trustee) or 10 Sep -irate School electors (for the Huron Perth Roman Catholic Separate School Board Trustee) whose names are entered on the Preliminary List of electors or who have made application to have their names included on the list and who are entitled to vote in an election to such office. Nomination papers will be available from the Clerk's office. For further information, please contact your Clerk. If there is an insufficient number of canditates nominated for any office, additional nominations for the remaining vacancies in any office may be filed in the office of the Clerk on Wednesday, October 19, 1994 between the hours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Elizabeth Bell, Clerk, Town of Exeter, 406 Main St., Exeter (235-0310) Luanne Phair, Clerk, Village of Hensall, 108 King St., Hensall (262-2812) Sharon Baker, Acting Clerk, Village of Zurich, 22 Main St. West, Zurich (236-4974) Janisse Zimmerman, Clerk, Township of Hay, 14 Mill St., Zurich (236-4351) Larry Brown, Clerk, Township of Stephen, 38 Victoria St. East, Crediton (234-6331) Sandra Strang, Clerk, Township of Usborne, R.R. #3, Exeter (235-2900)