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Davis retires
Exeter's 37 year
PUC manager
honoured
See page 3
Grand Bend's
new council
Cam Ivey sworn in
as the village's
new mayor
See page 12
Cemetery
Exeter's 'silent
city' has 130 years
of history.
Crossroads,
second front
Irish quarter
century
Lucan's hockey
team celebrates its
anniversary
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Classifieds
pages 24-28
Announcements
pages 29-30
Experts
page 31
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Wednesday. November 30. 1994
Glorious Times
South Huron D/strlct High School's drama department took to the stage
Thursday and Friday evening to present "What Glorious Times They Had:
Nellie McClung", the performance they took to the annual Blyth Drama Fes-
tival earlier this month. At left are Jen Campbell (far left) and Jillian Col-
lings as Nellie McClung and E. Cora Hind in a musical number with Jeffrey
Bowen and Ted Hoffman (far right) as Sir Rodmond Roblin and P.J. Fletcher.
The play dealt with serious issues from women's suffrage to prohibition, all
with a sense of humour. For a review of the production, see page 16.
Huron PC's descend on Exeter
The riding's Conservative candidate will be chosen from five nominees tonight
EXETER - The South Huron Recreation Centre will be
Tory -blue this evening, as five nominees vie for the chance
to represent the Huron riding as the Progressive Con-
servative candidate in the next provincial election.
The five candidates include some,.w 11 -known
names in tit-ou/Nern' SectiOft 'OfThe riding.
Among them are Tom Tomes, the former reeve
of Stephen Township and past warden of Huron
County; Brucefield resident Lawrence Beane is
the manager of the Clinton Community Credit
Union's Exeter Branch; Helen Johns is a fi-
nancial advisor and an Exeter resident; and Ho-
ward Armstrong is the former reeve of Stanley
Township. Rounding out the five -name slate of nominees
is Wingham lawyer John Schenk.
"They're an excellent group," said riding association pres-
ident Syd Thompson, adding that it will be hard to choose
between them for a potential candidate. "I'm not sure how
it's going to go."
In fact, Thompson is predicting that the voting at to-
night's meeting will be far from cut-and-dried.
"At the moment I don't see a first ballot victory," said
Thompson.
ple."
The riding association has worked fast and hard to put to-
gether this nomination meeting since announcing its in-
, , tenons on September 26. Still, making the se -
"At the lection ptocess quick and decisive didn't deter
the candidates.
"That brought out the calibre of candidates
we have running," said Thompson, noting that
the association didn't have to ask people to run,
they came to the association.
The five have all been campaigning for sup-
port in all sections of the large Huron riding.
The Progressive Conservatives have three delegates repre-
senting each of the 125 polls in the riding's 26 municipal-
ities, plus some supplementary voters. In all, there will be
500 voting delegates at the nomination meeting. It's an old
system, but Thompson said it works best to make sure the
entire riding is represented.
The meeting is also open to party supporters and mem-
bers of the general public.
"I'd be very surprised if there weren't between six and
"They're that good....they're all capable peo-
moment I
don't see a
first ballot
victory."
seven hundred people there," said Thompson.
Despite being at the far south end of the riding, Exeter
was chosen for the meeting because the South Huron Rec-
reation Centre could accommodate the crowds expected.
Special guests for the evening include Erie Woltz, the
Southwestern legion vice-pregident of the Ontario Pro-
gressive Conservatives, and Peter Van Lan, new party pres-
ident. Also, first vice-president of the Ontario Young Pro-
gressive Conservatives and local resident Terra Ahrens will
have a delegation from the YPC present.
The doors will open at 6:30 p.m. to start the cre-
dentialling process, with the meeting to be called to order at
7:30 p.m. The first ballot is expected to be called by 9 p.m.
Despite the debate over the riding leadership, one thing is
to be taken for granted at the meeting this evening: all will
be convinced Mike Harris will be leading a front -running
party into the next election. Thompson said PC meetings
across the province are continually drawing more interested
supporters than organizers expect.
"There's momentum out there," said Thompson. "I look
forward to it. I can see the excitement growing."
Mob assault a `cowardly act'
Police say five are being charged for
their assault on a fellow student
EXETER - Five young offenders, all stu-
dents of South Huron District High School,
face charges ranging from assault to breach of
probation as the result of a "swarming" -style
attack earlier this month.
Police say at lunch time Tuesday, November
8 the five teens followed a fellow student, a
17 -year old male, along Exeter's Main Street,
"pushing, shoving and calling him names".
When the victim went to cross Main Street
at the Victoria Street crosswalk, the abuse
drew the attention of other students who
joined the group.
"The more people tag along, the more brave
these [five] people get," said OPP officer
George Robertson, who investigated the in-
cident.
When the victim started running towards the
school along Andrew Street, he was chased,
pushed :o the ground, punched and kicked. If
it wasn't for the intervention of an Andrew
Street resident who came out of his home and
"yelled at these kids to leave the guy alone",
Robertson doesn't know what would have
been the outcome.
The group, numbering between 20 and 30
students by this time, did disperse and leave.
The victim was shaken up, but mostly unhurt,
said Robertson.
The victim, whose name is not being re-
leased by police, was selected by the group
"for a reason", said Robertson. There was
possibly a dispute the day before or earlier that
week. However, the only reason he can find
for the other students to join the "mob" is "cu-
riosity" over what was happening.
"It bothers you when you see that hap-
pening. The mob, instead of stepping in to
help, ended up encouraging these guys," he
said. "Moral support for the had guys, that's
not what we need."
From the victim's point of view, being
chased down the street by such a large group
must have made him "fear for his life".
"It's a cowardly act. That's what it is," said
Robertson. "Anything that involves mobs is a
cowardly act."
OPP staff sergeant Don McInnes said the
hope is that this is an "isolated incident" and is
not likely to lead to any kind of frequent
"swarmings" as seen in some larger urban cen-
tres. McInnes said there is no reason to be-
lieve that Exeter's streets are any less safe, or
that any resident needs to fear any group of
young people.
The five students being charged cannot be
named under the Young Offenders Act.
OPP report
single -vehicle
accidents
EXETER - Three accidents were
investigated by the Exeter OPP de-
tachment last week, all of which in-
volved minor injuries to the drivers.
Last Wedne,sday morning, a vehi-
cle driven by Linda Watt left High-
way 83 and struck a tree after she
lost control on the icy road. Watt
sustained minor injuries, and her car
was described by police as severely
damaged.
Last Sunday, a vehicle operated
by Betty MacGregor struck an em-
bankment on Stephen Township
Side Road 21-22 after she lost con-
trol. Again, injuries were minor,
and vehicle damage severe.
The same afternoon Matthea Gla-
vin lost control of her vehicle on
Huron County Road 5. The vehicle
was demolished, and Glavin sus-
tained minor injuries.
Education trustees reject 5600 pay hike
Basing remuneration on other boards was rejected, but a four percent increase went through
By Heather Vincent
T -A Start
CLINTON - The Huron County Board of
Education defeated a motion to recalculate
the trustee remuneration to reflect the aver-
age of the surrounding area effective Jan-
uary 1, 1997.
After some debate at the special board
meeting held Monday, the motion to re-
calculate the remuneration of the trustees
was defeated in a vote of seven to nine.
The motion underwent several suggested
amendments including removing the high-
est paid board from the calculation. The
result would have been approximately a
$600 change in compensation. This re-
flects a 10.7 percent difference from the
current trustee remuneration of S5,600.
The motion that the chairs of the standing
committees receive an additional 12.5 per-
cent of the base honorarium, effective De-
cember 1, 1994 was carried in a vote of
nine to seven.
The trustees will receive a standard in-
crease of four percent as in past years. The
motion which invites trustees to return five
percent of the honorarium on a voluntary
basis was renewed. In 1994, approximately
60 percent of the trustees did so.
The basis of the motion to recalculate
was that Huron is somewhat lower in re-
muneration than surrounding boards. The
number of meetings and the functions re-
quired of the trustees is perceived by some
to have increased without compensation.
The Huron board has approximately
10,000 students, however, this does not al-
ways have a direct bearing on the workload
of the trustees. Regardless of the number of
students, trustees are still required to attend
meetings and deal with public functions.
"This number is comparable with sur-
rounding hoards", said board chair Graeme
Craig.
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