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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1984-07-18, Page 1r -•• • •;• ELLEN RODGER Miss Zehrs Markets KIM McGREGOR Miss Miler's Ladies Wear KIM RAE Miss B & Mitentais CINDY MOORE Miss Bridge Motors Bicentennial celebrab setto go this weeken If the weatherman cooperates, this weekend's bicentennial celebrations for Wingham and Turnberry promise to hold something for everyone. But even if storm clouds do threaten, organizers have auxiliary plans to move as many outdoor events as possible into the arena. The celebrations will of- ficially get underway Thurs- day evening at 8:15 at a variety concert and queen contest to be held at the local arena. A total of 16 young ladies will be vying for the chance to be crowned Miss Wingham and Turnberry Bicentennial and the lucky winner will be crowned by Miss Dominion of Canada who is making an official visit. Dianne McLean of Wingham, Miss Midwestern ' Ontario 1983, is in charge Of the queen contest. The 50th anniversary of the Wingham Legion gets underway Thursday with a reunion which will last all weekend. Registration com mences al 2 p.m. Thursday. Other weekend events at the Legion include a fun night Friday with cards, darts and dancing, a pan- cake breakfast Saturday morning and a dance that evening, as well as, a drumhead service Sunday at the Legion and the cenotaph. Aside from the Legion activities, sidewalk sales get underway downtown Thurs- day and continue until Saturday. A penny carnival is planned for the children at the Wingham pool Thursday from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Wingham's main street will be transformed into a "Heritage Lane" Friday and Saturday, filled with memorabilia and entertain- ment from years gone by. Friday's big event for the younger crowd is the always - popular bike and buggy wade at 5:30 p.m., starting at Crtckshank Park. The'yoUng bikers will be led down the main street by the Wingham Optimist Community Band 'and the hChadetes -to a stage where they will be entOrtoinqd 11401p.,v4V4Whimi-, • Other Friday events in- clude: a slow pitch tour- nament which gets' un- derway at 6 p.m. a oth parks and continues all weekend; a Lions bingo from 8 to 10 p.m. on the main street ; a Jaycees dance from 8:30 to midnight at the Ar- mouries; and an adult dance from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. aLthe arena. A full day of activity is planned for Saturday. A new event added this year is the 10 -Kilometre 'Read Race which starts at 9:30 a.m. at the Liens picnic shelter at Riverside Park. Another new event this, year is the heritage fair and antique market to be held at Cruickshank Park from 10 a.m. Saturday to 5 p.m. A baby show is scheduled Jor 11 a.m. Saturday at the Wingham Town Hall for babies from Wingham and Turnberry Township. The babies can be up to one year ' in age and entries -will be 'received at the newspaper office until 12 noon Friday. The downtown will be alive with activity Saturday af- ternoon t Some .of the even.* •P10,009040;•*.0/0000.t show from 1 to 4 p.M.;' a horseshoe tournament start-. ing at 1 p.m. at tbe Crawford Motors car lot; and an exhi- 04.1.1fEN MeMICHAEL Advanee-Times SHELLEY MOFFAT Miss Flower Nook TRACEY. FISCHER Miss Ttirnberry township 4 KIM STATIA Miss Howick Optimist bition by a group of profes- sional 4eakdancers and a breakdance competition 'to be held at 3:30 p.m. 'on the main street. A Lions bingo is planned for Saturday evening from 8 to 10 p.m. and it also will be held on the main street. Three dances will be held Saturday evening : one at the Armouries for the Jaycees from 8:30 p.m. until mid- night, one at. the Legion and a third at the arena,. Things will wind down Sunday with morning church services, slow pitch finals (starting at noon), a band concert at Hiverside Park at 3:30 in the afternoon and an open-air church service Sunday evening at seven at the old fair grounds in Lower Town. • odest fee increase proposed • • committee studyin o' day care A modest increase in day care fees this fall and as '"0 annual review of the fee schedule during 1985 are the major recommendations of an ad hoe committee studying day care in the Town of Wingham. Design not feasible The committee, which resented its report at the July meeting of town council, also recommends several courses. Of action to be followed in case day care services are threatened by a withdrawal'of government funding. - However it does not recommend any large fee increases, voluntary or otherwise, or dramatic changes to the existing program. It also rejects relying more heavily on voltinteer staffing at the: centre • since, under • its provincial licence, this would not reduce costa of operation. It does recommend that fees, which were already • 'Please turn to Page 2 No ram is planned at Wingham Town Halt- betrage,01:thedikfigidtgy OE: JO incorporating it into The existing design of the en- tranceway, a ramp for wheelchair access is not planned as part of the renovations at the Wingham WOO Oodthemidth of ...-pAtiggV.19....7*, A4ant4 4grPc!,1:-.Witti" cloorwx,, he adding she is sure there are' 'iltachan's explanation of the instead of in the Town Hall, eitplained. takes four feet many others in town with a reasons a ramp was not adding that for a 'wheelchair (ramp), similar problem. She also included in the renovations. thing happens to prevent it which only leaves 21 or 23 noted. she would like to vote As far as. voting. is eon- he 'intends to move' the in the election set for this cerned, however, he said polling booths to the, Ar - inches (fot steps)." mouriei: for the next elec- . fall. He said the committee also Ad hoc cOmmittee sought, Town Hall. had looked at the possibility Clerk -Treasurer Byron polling booths could be placed in the AtmOnries Bruce Machan, chairman of adding another entrance tion. , , of the town council's into the town hall for wheel- . a Public meeting called property committee, said the chairs, but felt if would have • committee had discussed destroyed the appearance of adding a ramp »when the the building. steps were replaced, but The rise on the new steps todiscuss. dam solution eo,n,cluededbiggitesist:rootbifeemasiwbiaes, hehaas hbeethnat keaptwhsehercrawir • vont& be brought up, A public meeting is scheduled for July 30 at the Wingham Town Hall to decide how to deal with the recent collapse of the Lower Town Dam. All interested citizens are invited to attend the meeting, set for.8 p.m. The agenda calls for a rofiew of the.current situation at the dam and a look at various alternatives. Vnluideers also will be. 'sought to sit on an ad hoc committee to review the alter- natives, look for sources of funding and make recommendations to the Town Council. Councillor Bruce . Meehan said the meeting will be mostly for information, to review the history of the dam and look at the consequences of either replacing it or possibly even moving it to another location. ' -I think there are a lot of people who remember the history of this a,rea better - than I do," he said, and he hopes the town can draw on their experience. He also hopes tp have information available on some possible alternativesto replacing the present dam, such as perhaps ,movirig the location of the dam downstream to permit flooding of a larger area in the floodplain to the south of Winghain, he said. This idea of creating an artificial lake at the southern end of the town was a long -tine dream of, former Wingham mayor R. E. McKinney, who also was instrumental in establishing the Riverside Park system which included the dam and the millpond. Mr. Machan said the meeting also will bring in a number of 'representatives from other Organizations with a possible interest, in a new dam,. though he preferred not to identify them publicly at this point. ' "Right now I want to get some feedback,V he said, noting he does not want to spend $400»,000 of the town's money if other solutions are available. That was the ball-. park figure suggested to council by its engineer for the replacement of the old dam with a new,Meir'-type structure. • The decision to form an ad hoc committee to recommend $f-fntions to the collapse of the dam and the draining of the millpond arose from an emergency meeting of council on June 25. tha • e represen- tatives from the provincial • • istry of Natural Resources and the Maitland Valley Conservation Authority told council their organizations have no particular interest in the dam and will not help to pay for its repair or replacenient: . It also was suggested the town could look at alternatives to the dam and millpond, such as cleaning up and landscaping what had been the bottom of the pond. • •••••••,. HUMBER GRADUATE Lisa Hamilton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ross Hamilton, RR 5, Wingham, graduated in the Equine Studies course at Humber College. Lisa is °employed by Kilbyrne Farms, RR 1, Thorndale, On- tario. . provided there are a couple of people to help, he said, adding that to build a ramp which a person in a wheel' - chair could negotiate unassisted would have required extending it almost out to the main street sidewalk. He also noted there will he handrails on the new steps; which the old ones lacked. The question of the ac- cessibility Of the Town Hall to the handicapped was raised recently by Wingham resident Margaret Martin. In a phone call to The Ad - Vance -Times, Mrs. Martin said she is disappointed to see no provision for the handicapped in the new front of the building. She cannot manage steps, she explained, and as a consequence has been unable to get into the Town Hall to use the library or vote in elections. "I mould like to go to the library sometimes, and Two seriously Injured in motorcycle accident released. Four-year-old had been eastbound along of RR 1, Wingham, which the highway, had stopped to . Amber Delight Simmons, a • passenger in the,Thompson turn left onto the sideroad When another vehicle driven vehicle, and Tariq Abdullah, the driver of the truck, by Tariq Abdullah, 25, of the . escaped injury. Gorrie area, approached Property damage in the from behind: accident was estimated at $4,000 to the Thompson station wagon, $7,000 to the Abdullah pickup and $800 to the Park motorcycle, .a .982 Honda: Police reported that Tariq Abdullah has been charged with careless driving in connection with the accident Two Toronto -area resi- dents were taken to hospital witkinajot injuries on Satur- day after the motorcycle they were riding collided with a pitkup truck in . a three:vehicle accident near Bluevale. Paul Park, 19, of Gormley, Mr. Abdullah, driving a the driver of the motorcycle, 1981 Datsun pickup, was and his passenger Susan unable to stop and attempted Glouster, 17, of Newrharket, to swerve around the • both 'Offered severe frac- Thompson car when he saw .tures in the accident. They the motorcycle. approaching were taken by ambulance to from the 'other direction and the Wingham and. District swerved. back, strikingathe Hospital and then to rear of the station wagon. Goderich where. they, were At the same time the • transferred by air am- motorcyclists, who were ha -Alice to » Wellesley part of the International Hospital in Toronto. Christiaii-tilrers'; Tilly near Provincial Police at Gorrie, hit 'the side of the Wingham reported the truck as it swerved into their mishap occur d shortly lane, receiving major in - before noon Saturda at the juries. junction of Highway 87 and Also injured in the ac- Turnberry Sideroad 30-31, 2ident were Mr. Thompson about one-half mile east ,of and Mohad Abdtillah, 31, a the Bluevale corner. pasSenger in the pickup. A 1978 Ford station wagon Both were treated at the driven by Tim Thompson, 17, Winghand hospital and then HOLIDAY CLOSING The Advance -Times office will be closed -for staff holidays from July 28 to August 11 , There Will be no issues of The Advance -Times those twb weeks. GWEN BERWICK Miss Pepi's Pizza KIM GIBSON Miss Home Place TINA DOWER, Miss R. W. 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