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CRIME STOPPERS
1-500-265-1777
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Crime Stoppers and the
Goderich Town Police are seeking
your assistance to help solve a
chain of break -enter -and -thefts.
Sometime overnight on Feb. 25-
26, 19', thieves broke into Strick-
land Motors, Gardner Real Estate,
Goderich Esso, and Mays Decora-
tive Accessories, all in the Town of
Goderich.
In all cases, the thief or thieves
gained entry by smashing a win-
dow and itis believed that all these
occurrences are related.
Stolen were:
—Keys to customers' cars from
Goderich Esso.
—Loose change from Mays Deco-
rative Accessories and from
Goderich Esso.
—Two vans stolen from Strick-
land Motors and recovered in
Mount Forest.
If you have information about
this or any other serious crime, call
Crime Stoppers of Huron County
toll-free at 1-80f-265-1777. You will
never have to t estify in court and
you will never have to reveal your
identity. If an arrest is made, you
will get a cash reward of up to
$1,000.
Remember, crime doesn't pay,
but Crime Stoppers does.
Hurn -Bruce
NDP elects
1989 executive
Tony McQuail of RR, 1 Lucknow,
the NDP candidate in the last feder-
al election, has been re-elected pres-
ident of• the Huron -Bruce New
Democratic Party.
Others elected to the executive
during the riding association's first
post-election meeting are: Keith
Cleveland of Bervie, vice-president;
Fran McQuail of RR, 1 Lucknow,
treasurer; Jocelyn de Boer of Luc -
know, secretary; Peter Vaughn of
Port Elgin, and Ron Purvis of Kin-
cardine, members -at -large.
Plans were made to keep the
Huron and Bruce riding associa-
tions actively working together,
and a discussion focused on hold-
ing a public forum on provincial
issues.
Church Directorydl
St. Paul's Church
(ANGLICAN) WING HAM
John Street at Centre Street
THE ANGLICAN PARISH OF
WINGHAM AND BELGRAVE
All services from the "Book of Common Prayer'
SUNDAY, APRIL 16, 1989
11:00 a.m. - Matins
Special Music by: Colin- The New Life Singers
Church Parade - Eastern Star
Sunday School & Nursery
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Minister : Rev. D. Madge
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Trinity Belgrave - 1:15 p.m.
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Schneiders 175 g
Ham Steaks
Schneiders 175 g
Cooked Ham
*Smuckers 375 g
Grape Jelly .. . ........ .
Christies 250,g Choc. or Cinn.
Teddy Graham Cookies ®• .
Kraft 225 g
Mae & Cheese Dinner .. ®® .
Cloverleaf 7 oz.
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STORE HOURS: Mon. -, SAL 7:30 a.m.. - 7:00 p.m.
Phone 357-2240. We Deliver.
THE FIGURE SKATING CLUB at Belmore was just one of the groups operating a craft table at
last Saturday's maple syrup festival Over 2,000 people were served at this year's festival.
Lake Wingham proposal
put on 'hot seaF at meeting
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tiously, especially since the project
could have a detrimental effect on
drainage systems on some farms.
Mr. Squires said funding for the
project would come from federal,
provincial and local levels — not
investors. He said that both the fed-
eral and provincial representatives
have expressed interest in the pro-
posal.
SERIOUS CONCERNS
A number of people raised con-
cerns about the concept in a ques-
tion period following Mr. Squires'
presentation.
One lady, Ina Hill, claimed her
Lower Town property would be
flooded under the proposal and
therefore useless.
"You don't own this land, what
gives you the right (to flood
it)?"she asked.
Mr. Squires said that no private
landowners' Wo'ulld be
flooded, except perhaps one. All
land is owned by the Maitland Val-
ley Conservation Authority.
However, engineer Art Clark of
Wingham challenged that claim
and raised several other questions.
"We've heard all the good points
(about the proposal) and only one
detrimental effect," Mr. Clark said,
adding that a good deal has been
overlooked.
Among the concerns Mr. Clark
raised were:
--gingham's sanitary and storm
water system has been installed on
the basis of the current height of the
Maitland River. What happens if
the water level were raised?
—Will private property be flood-
ed?
—Under the proposal, the Town
of Wingham would be forced to
totally re -map its floodliries, a pro-
cess which has required a great deal
of time and energy in the past.
—According to the concept, a
gravel pit at Zetland would be
flooded. If it's flooded, the gravel
could not be extracted.
—The Lower Town Bridge, as
well as bridges on Highways 4 and
86 are designed to handle present
river -flow conditions. What hap-
pens to them, as well as the high-
ways themselves, which would
effectively become causeways?
They would. require, extensive rip,
.rap to keep- from being undermined
by the water.
—Farm drains would not func-
tion the way they do now, nor
would septic tanks.
—A project of this size would
require an environmental assess-
ment, a costly and time-consuming
undertaking, one in which the sur-
rounding townships could be
unwilling to participate.
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should also be considering some of
these other factors," Mr. Clark con-
cluded.
RESPONSE
Mr. Squires was quick to agree
that there are many areas that have
to be studied. "We (the business
association) made no pretense other
than doing something that would
greatly enhance the area. If the
problems are of significant magni-
tude, we simply will not go ahead."
Rick Whiteley, chairman of the
newly -formed committee interested
in seeing the lower pond restored,
said he did not want to be seen as
in competition with the Lake Wing -
ham proponents.
Mr. Squires agreed, saying that
possibly the dam could be restored
as phase one of the project with the
lake coming later.
Ed Rich commented that the
Maitland Valley Conservation
Authority has done a good jitib in
Lower Town creating parkland and
it would be a shame to see it .flood-
ed..,
Jeff Hughes of Ontario Hydro
spoke briefly about the possibility
of harnessing a dam built at Zet-
land for hydro -electric power. He
estimated such a dam could gener-
ate as much as $120,000 worth of
power yearly, but an assessment
and viability study would have to
be conducted.
However, Mr. Clark cautioned
that constructing the dam in the
first place would take a tremendous
amount of money. "(The possibility
of creating) Hydro should not be a
be-all and end-all to make this pro-
ject go."
NEXT STEP
When contacted after last week's
meeting, Mr. Kopas said the next
step will be to take input from the
public meeting back to the next
meeting of the business association
on April 19.
However, he says, while the asso-
ciation has provided the impetus
for the Lake Wingham project, it
should become more of a communi-
ty undertaking.
If there is sufficient interest,
shore -line mapping and land -use
committees may be formed to delve
more fully into the proposal and try
to come up with some concrete
answers.
Even if the project does not go,
Mr. Kopas says, the committees'
'ff i,i' S 'could pi�ovi4le 7,a',japer
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up the cause in the future.