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Home My WebLink AboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1995-05-31, Page 1Nsrr 0 you'renot subscribing to I The Wingham Adkance•TImes, you're missing out Use this coupon below arid subscribe today) Name: t Address: City: Prov.: Postal Code: Subscription rates Canada within 40 miles (65km) ad- dressed to non letter carrier address- es $27 plus $1.89 GST. Outside 40 miles (65km) or any tetter carrier address $40 plus $2.80 GST. Ouside Canada $80 plus $5.60 GST USE YOUR CREDIT CARD Card No. 00000000 ❑00000a❑ Expl Date: Visa Master Card ❑ Cheque enclosed El peturn To; WINGHAM ADVANCE -TIMES P.O. Box 390, 5 Diagonal Road Wingham, Ontario, NOG 2W0 L Students in the top three J Two local elementary school students placed well at the Can- ada -wide science fair held in ' Whitehorse, Yukon, May 13-21. Janet Lisle, a Grade 8 student at Wingham Public School was second in the biological science category, receiving $300. Sjaan Gerth, a Grade 8 student at East Wawanosh Public School in Belgrave was third in the bio- logical science category, receiv- ing $200. Lisle's project was entitled "The Rotting Project" The title of Gerth's project was "Treated Kindly." ``a Gerth's project plated first at the regional competition held in April in Goderich, and his pro- ject was arso the best • at the school in Grade 8. Lisle's project placed third at the regional competition in Goderich, and placed first in the school science fair event. • Also winning from Huron County was Shana Hayter of Robertson Memorial Public School. She won a bronze med- .'al and the.Pulp-and-Paperatvar•d fora total of $450. Lions Arlene Perly Rae, wife of Premier Bob Rae, addressed women's issues during a stop in Goderich. Page 3. shopping spree ebt Y,E xn$ba= Education and learning what rural youth want. Workshop at the Ark helps youth workers connect. Back Page. The OFSAA West Regionals were held in Tillsonburg over the weekend. See Sports 4; :ss Qf' Dora McGuinness of Belmore was the winner of the Lions Club of Wingham three minute shopping spree. The draw was made last Tuesday evening at the regular meeting of the Lions Club. Tickets were sold May 17 to 20 at the Zehrs market. Over 1,000 tickets were sold. McGuinness completed her three minute shopping spree Tuesday morning at the Zehrs market. Mary Hunter of Wingham was the winner of a $25 gift cer- tificate from Bakelaar Jewellers. Sandra Burbidge of Gorrie was the winner of a $25 voucher from Wingham Drive -In Clean- ers. Dayle Moffat of Wingham was the winner of 50 litres of gas from Barry's Service Centre. Janet Day of Wingham was the winner of dinner for two at the Great China House Restau- rant. Dorothy Procter of Brussels was the winner of a $25 gift cer- tificate from Hanna's Gift Wear. • Premiers wife visits..■ Arlene Perly Rae, right, Ole .of Ontario„Premier Rae, was in Goderich last Wednesday to take part in a forum on women's and family issues. Heather Klopp, left, wife of Huron MPP Paul Klopp, centre, organized the event. Story, Page 3. Bob i to /• -s7 Y,3 Three candidates tackle police issues Bullets, poaching, budgets among,. the questions posed to the hopefuls McGrath back on council Special meeting fills seat; clarifies bag tags agreed that under the user pay Veteran municipal system, if • refuse is bagged and round through elected by council to fill the s tagged, the waste collector must remove it from the curb. In addition, council, applied a weight In a recorded vote McGrath re- this week and will assume collectedbythe contractor. Any- thing h regular meeting. thing over 351bs may not be picked up under the neW system; the seat Burrell received the last Council also made some clan6 to prevent people from stuffing as cation motions in dealing with the Each councillor was allowed to bag tag system for garbage collet much as possible into their one free bag per week. , register one vote A candidate r that officially begins June - At a works department meeting, a minimum of five votes to Although garden refuse is no Monday, the issue of a municipal i ce ted as waste council compost site was also discussed. pal politician voting. Following that. if. re - Bill McGrath will return to Wing- quired, a person would gain the ham Town Council after being seat in the second eat majority. vacated by Bob Steffen. McGrath will be sworn in some time ceived six votes in the first round his position on council June 5 at — above Alice Baker and Tom the next Burrell who were both seeking BAG TAGS two votes, Baker none. e- tion 1. quired gain the seat in the first round of longer accepted . RN layoffs Koch clarDies News Editorial Letters Sports Community T.V. Guide Classifieds Horoscopes Crossword Page 2 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 8 Page 11 Page 12 Page 16 Page 16 A LOOK AT. Highlights from the Teeswater performance of Soundsation. Page 16 The Wingham Advance -Times is a member of a family of community newspapers providing news, advertsing and Information leadership Wingham and District Hospital chief executive • officer Lloyd Koch clarified the laying off of three nurses at the hospital. He said that nurses do not work one in three weekends. He noted that they are scheduled, as re- quired by the ONA contract, to work three out of six weekends. "This has been the scheduling practice for several years, but the difference with the contract is that a penalty premium of time and a half must be paid if more than two consecutive weekends are worked," said Koch. He said the primary objective of the layoff was to reduce the num- By CAMERON J. WOOD The Advance -Times In a more informal setting than • usual for . all -candidate debates, three of the five election hopefuls for Huron County fielded questions on law enforcement and conserva- tion issues. The most notable stand taken was that by the three main party candidates —. New Democrat incum- bent Paul Klopp, Liberal John Je- witt and Progressive Conservative Helen Johns — on the hollow -point bullets for police officers. Hollow point bullets have raised 'a great.deaiocontroversy, mainly... from those outside of law enforce- ment, because of the extent of dam- age they inflict on a shooting vic- tim. Police agencies have requested the use bf these bullets partly due to the fact that many armed crimi- nals are now carrying more fire- power than law enforcement offi- cers. Just last year the Ontario Labor Board approved new side- arms for law enforcement person- nel after they determined the previ- ous sidearms were dramatically outdated. Jewitt said his personal view was that he would not like to see bullets that would inflict more damage than what is necessary. "It seems inhumane to me to in- flict more damage than what is re- quired. I don't believe I could sup- port hollow point bullets," he said. Johns said under a PC govern- ment, law enforcement agencies would be granted use of such bullet types. She quoted from a news re- lease her party, stating a Mike Har- ris Conservative government would ber of full-time positions in order to increase the flexibility available with more part-time nurses and de- crease the number of times two nurses had to be scheduled to do the work of one nurse, particularly as the hospital enters a period of reduced patients and the planned temporary closure of Team A. EAEHA TI EPUTLOCIARC frstof thr `: -caindiditt0debates to lace in°'Wtngham,. en Johns emerged as ' strongest ofe three tpalte Johns was ittl writtefl e tta. artd party'; orcemterk {Illttdlif #ti df, Iast9eriOd for senior students totweitiOnithem cin, the etecti an lasUesa. ..:�'A�'nf!3��:�:�:,r;•xa:.�°iii':'..'"•'4[�`kLi{L^� :.':,5,",Y:r ,Y,r,�y.n:;y:..:�.aN`::5�'•,,• Top mathematicians...Madm took first place honors In Zone s78 for the Des- cartes Mathematics Contest, out of 22 schools. Coach pave Hawkins (left) was impressed by the hard work of the top five, Including Angie'loon, Chris Eigenheer, Chris Jones, and Kevin Doerr. Absent is Bryan deBruyn. Story, Page 2. to s amend the Police Services Act within 100 days of assuming office to allow for hollow point bullets. "We believe. this to be a health ' and safety issue," she said, making reference to the death of Sudbury police officer Joe MacDonald, whom some claim would still be alio4 if he had been adequately armed. "A Harris government would see that not one more police officer will fall in the line of duty because of inadequate and inappropriate bullets." Klopp told the audience that the government needs,, to •, allow the Ministry of Labor to continue to •' discuss the issue of hollow point bullets. "The Ministry of Labor is re - Please see CANDIDATES/3 ids have to learn a tough life lesson Criminals pilfer favorite toy from Highland Drive hone Dear Editor: During the nighttime hours of May 24/25. someone re- moved a Little Tykes basketball set from the front lawn of 424 Highland Drive. I had purchased the set two years ago for my young son and daughter, who are now three and six years old, confident that they would have many years of enjoyment playing with it. It was popular with many of the neighborhood kids and was used daily. To the person(s) who stole this pleasure away from my kids, i ask — How could you be so cruel? Not only did you steal an expensive toy, but you also hurt two little kids. The frustrating part is that, as a single parent striving to raise four children, I do not have the resources to "make it better". It's sad that my kids have had to learn at such a tender age that the bad guys win and there isn't much anyone cares to do about it. I know that this "petty theft" is insignificant compared to other crimes. However, it matters to Greg and Janine who no longer have one of their favorite games to play. Joan (Stamper) van der Meer, Wingham