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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
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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.*
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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-
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Miss Flower Nook
TRACEY. FISCHER
Miss Ttirnberry township
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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. Pike
& Associates
MAUREEN BEATTIE
Miss Layton -McBurney
Furniture
BARB THOMPSON
Miss Lake Huron
Moving Systems
BONNIE ABLETT
Miss Turnberry
Sales & Service
DEBBIE SCOTT
Miss Kentucky
Fried Chicken
DEBBIE HODGINS
Miss Riverview
Drive -In
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