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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1995-06-07, Page 1you"re'not subscribing to The Wingham Advaance-Times, you'remissing put. Use thrs coupon. below and subscribe todayi Name: Address: City: • Prot'.: Postai 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 letter carrier address $40 plus $2.80 GST. Ouside Canada $80 plus $5.60 GST USE YOUR CREDIT CARD Card No. ❑❑❑❑❑❑,❑❑ ❑❑❑❑❑❑❑❑ ExpirOate: Visa LJ Master Card ❑ Cheque enclosed ❑ Return To: WINGHAM ADVANCE -TIMES P.O. Box 390, 5 Diagonal Road Wingham, Ontario, f10G 2W0 Two WPS students were among the winners in the "Write a Top Story Canada" competition. Page 2. ingbant Two'Madill students were honored recently for their contribution to the co-op, education program. Back Paged Get that bump_ and spike polished up for the Wingham Co -Ed' Volleyball Tournament. See Sports Foul balls will now be corralled Town will erect net over part of Josephine park Foul balls shouhl now be further prevented from interfering with main street traffic with. the erection of a net at the Josephine St. dia- mond. Facilities Manager Peter Quennell explained to town .. council Monday night that the screening in the proposal will prevent "90 per cent" of the foul balls from going onto the street. •'Last year • the town was in- volved in • a lawsuit regarding a "' ball that damaged a car when it. left the park. • Quennell said a fertcifig firm from Chesley was in town to ex- amine the situation and the pro- posal to inhibit balls from leav- ing the park involves erecting a screen, across the top of the backstop and running 65 feet down the first base line. The 25 foot wide netting will be angled into the diamond and across the top of the backstop over home plate. "I don't know if it will totally stop the problem,. but it should eliminate about 90 per cent of the balls leaving the park," Quennell said. The cost of installing the net is $2,160 plus taxes: Quennell said if council wanted to run the net down the third base line as well, it would cost an additional '$1,320. "There still will be the odd one leaving the park," he warned. In other sports/recreation news at council, it was suggest- ed the town re-examine the Sun- day Sports by-law. After approving another Sun- day use exemption, councillor Ward Robertson suggested the review as the town has never re- jected a request for Sunday use of the facilities. "It may be redundant," he said of the by-law. Council was also reminded that during the winter, the by-law does not ap- ply to the adult recreational hockey league as they play eve- ry Sunday morning. News Editorial Letters Sports Elections • T.V. Guide Classifieds Horoscopes Crossword Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 8 Page 11 Page 12 Page 18 Page 18 ALOOK AT.mm Constable loses hair at Madill...but all for a good cause. Page 3 The Wingham Advance -Times is a member of a family of community newspapers providing news, advertising and information leadership imeti Corporate Challenge...Christina Ortleib was a member of the Wescast Warri- ors during the Corporate Challenge held last Monday at the Lockridge Memorial Arena. Ortleib, ' shown competing in the Emergency Trikes event, helped her team to a first place tie. Corporate challenges Wescast Warriors and Team Ca- nadian Tire finished the Corporate Challenge, held last Monday eve- ning at the Lockridge Memorial Arena, tied for top spot. Both teams finished the five - event competition with 31 points. The Foxton Funseekers were second with 30 points, and third- place went to Wescast Machiners with 27 points. A total of 10, four -member teams took part in the Corporate Challenge, which was held as part of Summer Active 95. Other teams included CIBC, the Saan store, Bank of Montreal, Keil Insurance, Wingham and District Hospital and Dr. Hall's office. The games and activitieswere all organized by the recreation de- partment. Prizes were donated by Jags Roadhouse and The Beer Store. The Corporate Challenge was sponsored by Jags Roadhouse. 75 Thert there was two... Liberals, New Democrats, Reforiners; all pass F.E. Madill students' debate By CAMERON J. WOOD The Advance -Times In perhaps one of the more pecu- liar political developments of the current provincial campaign in Hu- ron, three candidates said no to the students at F.E. Madill and did not attend their all -candidates debate — despite apparent repeated invita- tions. Liberal John Jewitt, New Demo- crat incumbent Paul Klopp and In- dependent/Reform Association of Ontario candidate Kimble Ainslie were no shows, leaving Progressive Conservative hopeful Helen. Johns.. ,andpi»ttey,.Family Coalition. Party's 1?hil Ornish to debate their' respec- tive view points on education, job creation and the future for today's youth. Some 300 students listened to the platforms. An estimated one third will be first time voters tomor- row. ' ' Cornish offered a unique idea on the funding of education — unique at least'•to this region. The concept revolves around a voucher system, in which each family with children in school would receive a funding voucher that could be used to edu- cate the child at a school of the par- ent's choice. According to the FCP platform, the government would provide the cost of educating each student di- rectly to the school of choice. This would eliminate the Board level bu- reaucracy. Publicly owned schools would have to accept each appli- cant in its district. How would the FCP arrive at the cost per child? According to their policy statement, the scholarship JV J—T AIDIEBATE Bri1TLno/ aar, would be calculated by dividing the current cost of education in Ontario by the total number of students. The amount of the scholarship would be increased for children with special needs. The only ques- tion not answered is, in Huron for example, the .cost of transportation for a student travelling from one centre to another would be ex- tremely high — especially if that Wingham student wants to attend South Huron Secondary School in Exeter. How would this expense be covered without current school bus links? Cornish said the voucher system has worked in parts of the United , States and New Zealand. Johns said education is one area Please see TWO/8 The reason behind .the Madill no-show Liberal John Le'wiit and New Democrat Paul Klopp both defended their reasons for not attending the Madill all -candidate debate at the June 1 meeting of the election hopefuls. In addressing the audience at the Armouries, both candidates said they had made previous commitments for that time period and felt the debate should not have proceeded without all parties represented. In `speaking with the Advance -Times, campaign officials for both Jewitt and Klopp said they were not contacted by the staff'at F.E. Madill, but in fact, volunteers with the Progressive Conservative campaign. Upon dis- covery of this, both felt the debate was partisan and explained prior to Wednesday afternoon that they would not attend. • Officials with the PC campaign explained that the volunteers with the party were asked to make the phone calls on behalf of the school, due to the timing and the school staff had administration duties more demanding than organizing invitations to the meeting. The volunteers were told to ex- plain they were calling on behalf of the school. Both Jewitt and Klopp said following the June 1 meeting they felt the two candidate meetings already scheduled for Wingham, the law enforce- ment debate on May 26 and the June 1 debate would provide ample oppor- tunity' for the public in Wipgbaip to hear them address the issues and field questions. Wingham was one of two centres to host more than one all - candidate debates. W A T election coverage Madill Royalty...1995 Prom Queen and King are Afesha Moffat and Brandon Cowes.