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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1986-07-09, Page 1Goderich 1 138 YEAR - 27 GODERICH, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 1986 60 CENTS PER COPY Two teens die in car cras. 4r� Single car crash kills two and sends five to hospital Two B`rucefreld area teenagers died and two Bayfield teens remain in critical condi- tion in Toronto's Sunnybrook Hospital following a single -car accident in which a car left the road and struck a tree on Con- cession 6, Goderich Township Monday evening. a Seven teenagers were travelling in the 1976 Oldsmobile on Conc. 6 two miles south of Township Sideroad 30 near Porter's Hill when the driver,Kathleen Carter of 91 Joseph St., Clinton apparently lost cont olFt►f the vehicle and struck a tree on the east side of the roadway. Dead are 15 -year-old Thomas David Whit- taker, R.R. 1, Brucefield and Steven Robert Caldwell of Brucefield who had . just celebrated his 17th birthday Sunday. Two other passengers in the vehicle, Dwayne Anthony Hutchings, 15, of June Street, Bayfield. and Dennis Otterbein, 17, also of Bayfield, sting to life in the surgical intensive care unit of Sunnybrook Hospital, pronto. Both were listed in critical condi- tion at press time. The driver, James Sauve, 16, of Bayfield and Lori Simms, 15, of 343 Victoria St., Clin- ton, were all listed in satisfactory condition • at Alexandra Marine and General Hospital. Investigating officer Eric Gosse of the Goderich Detachment of the OPP, said the vehicle left the road and struck the tree at approximately. 7:40 pan., trapping at least four of the passengers. Cause of the accident is unknown and police areitcontinuing, their investigation. Ambulance units from Goderich, Seaforth and Zurich responded to the call while rescue units from both the Bayfield and Goderich Volunteer Fire Departments were called to extricate the passengers fromthe vehicle.‘ It took until approximately 8:30 p.rn. before the first patient was rushed ta, hospital in Goderich by ambulance. .A team of .seYeodors-„was called: ixi-tai handle the emergency a the hospital: ` ' At 11:15 p.m., Dwayne Hutchings was Squash Club wants to expand A proposed expansion of the facilities of the Goderich Squash Club will be con- sidered along with the master plan for recreation for the town which is now underway. Two representatives from the club, Mike Lapaine and Dave Hrereton, approached Goderich council last month in hopes that council would back an application for Win- tario capital .funding. But, bse the deadline for the” application, which re- quired council's concurrence, a formal agreement and OMB approval, was two weeks from the meeting on June 13, coun- cil did not concur. . Instead, a committee was -formed com- posed of Mayor Eileen Palmer; Coun. Jim Searls,' Administrator Larry McCabe, Recreation Director Jane Netzke, Com- missioner of Works Ken Hunter and two-- epresentatives from the Squash Club. The committee will. encourage .the club to incorporate and formulate formal agreements concerning borrowing money, ,operating the facility and OMB approvals. The Squash Clubrwas founded in 1982 at the Goderich Mini Community Centre with 30 founding members. The interest . has . grown to include 47 fulltime members and 47 parttime members and the centre is at its saturation point, said spokesperson Dave Brereton. "The members are afr id to ask guests to play because playing tome is so limited. But with the .expansion,' we'd like to in- volve as many people. in the club as we can,' With four' times the available squash time, we could have 200 members," he said. They proposed adding on to the existing centre a 13 by 42 foot viewing area and lob- by, a 21 by 32 foot squash court and a 20 by 40 foot racsi,uetball/handball court. The courts would have glass on one wall for spectators'to watch the games. The club's proposed funding for the $159,000 facility would include a $53,000 capital grant, $18,750 raised by 75 annual membership fees at $250 each, $3,750 rais- ed by 25 annual membership fees a at $150 each, $25,000 raised by 25 membership loans of $1000 each and a $58,500 bank loan. The club representatives said the loan could be paid back in five years. Two victims of a single -ear accident in Goderich Township Monday had to be transported by air from Sky Harbour Airport to Toronto's Sunnybrook Hospital for treatment.'They remain in critical.condi- tion. Two Brucefield teenagers were killed when a car with seven transported to Toronto aboard Business Air ---ServicieSitineW ": thei taken tor'Sur) . nybrook Hos til. The tiiitarier Ministry of Health's, air ambulance helicopter arrived 4': passengers'left Concession 6 and hit a tree. Dennis Otterbein, 17, 01 ,:Bayfield is Wing loaded into an air ambulance for transport to Toronto. (photo,by'Dave Sykes) • from . Buttonville at 1 15 .-and transported ,jy19,,T,he (service for Thomas Whittaker will -btterbem to" ni i. e ., mat 12.40 ` rna- ; stake'plave;1t 1'-p:rl.' -and' tfie service: der Both funeral se ',i es 11he held at. Ball Steven Caldwell will take place at 3 p.m. and Falconer Funet;ai Home, Clinton, on Ju- w • • Grassroots will rebtfild party; Turner says ti Titr"nter tvas in Goderich Tuesday and. the Liberal party leader.Iola Leader took the ,riplfp ea unjty to h*ye lunch itt harbour Opposition Park with hundreds of party faithful and shake hands with people of ail ages and political per`suasibfS.;'Urder spoke at a breakfast • ., rneetiiig at' the Hotel Bedford HediatiCtiptiaihred by the, >Iitrott4trirch Liberal Aiding Association, and° their met With •fad group representatives before the itinbh the park. Later Tuesday, • T niter appeared at a funetion lite Loudon. (photos `f)y Dave Sykes) . BY MIKE FERGUSON Declaring it would take him a year and a half to equal what Brian Mulroney spends in a night at a hotel, Liberal Leader John Turner' continued his swing- --through southwestern Ontario with Tuesday's picnic at HarbourPark. "It cost me $30 to stay at the Bedford," he says,"and $1300 for our prime minister in ,New York." Turner also attacked the. Conservative's extravagant spending on a brochure for the Canadian Embassy in Washington. "I just wanted you to know that this cost us $46,000. It's full of glossy pictures of the Mulroney's" during their recent stay in the .US, also explaining what "Nancy and Mita wore to dinner." "This booklet isn't, even available , in Canada. I can think of better things to do with the taxpayer's money,"' Turner charged. In a personal interview on a Courthouse Square park bench Tuesday morning, Turner says his very busy summer is impot• tant to "find out what's on the minds of Canadians." Particularly in this region' of the country, the Liberal Party will be cd eenttating on the agricultural problems ing Canada, he says. Barbeques and picnics are an "Opportuni- ty to meet our grass roots support, those who have kept. the Party going. They will rebuild it," says the federal Liberal leader. "I don't look at polis," he says,. adding "I'm travelling enough across Canada and meetingenough people to tell me what Canadians are thinking." The perception that MPs are "a bunch of clowns" is regrettable, Turner says, but "you can't judge Parliament by Question Period. It's always confrontational, that's its nature. It's the freest system in the world where you can ask unreheatsed questions of the Prime Ministbr and Cabinet on a daily basis. I don't apologize for freedom." Turnermdi ates he's concerned about maintainin the dignity of Parliament. -Travelling to titre -high- school-a~week, listens to students and their impressions. "I tell them we need the best and the brightest to run for office. I truly believe there is no greater honor than to be elected to serve. your country," says the former prime minister. Turner agrees it's hard to persuade peo- ple to stand for election. "Sure it's tough, as a lot of sacrifices have to be made. Yoq lose some privacy, family cohesion, and .there are a lot -of pressures -but you can also gain satisfaction being in public life," he adds. Conflict of interest guidelines on Members of Pal'liainent are difficult to enforce, Turner suggests. "There is no way to codify human behaviour, It comes down to the in- d&Yrduals person's Sense of private honor. A minister shoald never be•pereeived as haV itlgfha public interest taking. second place to private ones," offers. the Liberal Party, leader, ' Day care.:is; a eri.orit y with the Liberal „Ott a to page• .e 40 units to be built on un Bayfield Rd More than $320,000 in provincial loans will allow construction to begin this summer on 40 rental apartments in Goderich, Hon. Jack Riddell, MPP for. Huron -Middlesex, an- nounced on behalf of Housing Minister Alvin 'Curling. " The apartments Will, be; built under On- tario's Renterprise program, part of - the Assured Housing for Ontario strategy. " Ir 'Godei ch ge aliartmctitgirvitlobeubnilt4 by Southside Construction at 255 Bayfield Road. • "These apartments will be a valuable ad- dition to Goderich's supply of affordable housing," Riddell said.' ' Across. Ontario, 4,786 apartments and townhouses will be built in 39 municipalities with Renterprise assistance totalling more than $45 million. School success School on the "outside" is,imore like a prison than the secondary school for young offenders at the Bluewater Centre in Goderich. Students who have never had success are reaching a measure of success at the school because they are motivated to learn by the school's small teacher -pupil ratio and- --the—individually-d--cor- respondence courses. See Susan Hundert- ark's feature. -on today's community front for the details on this 'innovative school. - Favorites upset Two favouriites were upset when the Goderich Raceway hosted the Sire Stakes July 3. See today's sports page for details of the first Stakes race of the season. Daphne. designs Former Goderich- r'esiden't Daphne Ni'alins has designed the unique Okanagan tartan olr her Cast-iron loom rim on tap- pets. Daphne is branching out from weav- ing experimenting in the art of shadowing or graduating colour on the, loom. See our feature on Daphne in today's'coi ninunity section, page 2.