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The Wingham Advance Times, 1995-09-06, Page 1754 If you're not subscribing to The Wingham Advance -Times, you're missing out. We this coupon below and subscribe today! Name: 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 letter carrier address $40 plus $2.80 GST. Ouside Canada $80 plus $5.60 GST USE YOUR CREDIT CARD Card No. ❑❑❑❑❑❑❑❑ ❑❑❑❑❑❑❑❑ Expi Date. Visa] Master Card ❑ Cheque enclosed ❑ Return To• WINGHAM •ADVANCE -TIMES P.O. Box 390, 5 Diagonal Road Wingham, Ontario, NOG 2W0 L Police probe possible connection Is Bernardo involved with Lois Hanna's disappearance? Police investigating sever- al murders of young women in Southwestern Ontario have not ruled out any connection with the recently convicted murderer Paul Bernar- do. And in that process, police re- portedly are also investigating the possibility of a connection to the disappearance of Lois Han- na. The news of the overall in- vestigation was published in an extensive report in the Toronto Star on Saturday, one day after. , Bernardo was found guilty in the murders of Leslie Mahaffy and Kristen French. Hanna, 25, disappeared on July 3, 1988 after arriving at her Kincardine home following an evening out with friends in Lucknow. In investigating the connection, police have said Bernardo was known to vaca- tion in Midwestern Ontario and particularly Owen Sound. Rumors of a connection have persisted since the arrest of Ber- nardo on February 17, 1993. Some attest that evidence was found in the Port Dalhousie home Bernardo shared with his. wife Karla Homolka. However, no proof has been offered to back those rumors and police re- main tight-lipped about the on- going investigations. The Ad- vance -Times attempted to substantiate these rumors with investigators with the Green Ribbon Task Force in 1993 when they first came to light. However, no comment was of- fered. Police are also reviewing the files of: 17 -year-old Cindy Hal- liday, who disarlpeared in April 1992 while hitchhiking from Barrie to Waverly; Lisa Leona Maas. 22, disappeared from her Owen Sound home on July 17; Valerie Stevens, who disap- peared in 1989 on her way to a Toronto night club Bernardo was known to frequent and Kimberley Ann Fraser, who dis- appeared in June 1994. Bernar- do was a YMCA camp counsel- lor in the Waterloo area at the time of her murder. Battling back with a new business after the closure of Crown Windows in Wingham. Page 3 The Huron -Perth District Health Council is won- dering what impact Bill 173 will now have. Page 2° • Three local athletes are part of the Eastern Canadian Pee Wee championship team. Page 6 iinco News Editorial Letters Bruce Morgan Sports T.V. Guide Classifieds Horoscopes Crossword Page 2 Page 4 Page 5 Page 5 Page 6 Page 11 Page 12 Page 16 Page 16 A LOOK AT.. CKNX-Radio is under fire for withdrawing the Sunday evening church services. Page 15 The Wingham Advance-TImos Is a member of a family of community newspapers providing news, advertising and information leadership The battle against the airport we]] quality results has belonged to one woman nresented to public By MARGARET STAPLETON and CAMERON J. WOOD Tht? Advance -Times Meet Debby Himmelman: wife, mother, Canada Customs inspector and for the past several months, the most vocal opponent of Wingham's municipal airport development. Since April of this year, when was announced that the proposed airport site would be just east of Wingham in Moms Township and adjacent to her nearby farm, Him- melman has done everything in her power to stop or hinder the devel- opment. She has launched a letter -writing campaign, doggedly pursued bu- reaucrats at all levels of govern- ment and attended more public and council meetings, in both Morris and Wingham, than she cares tti;re-` member. A self-proclaimed "pain in the butt", Himmelman says she knows she' has rubbed some people the wrong way, but really doesn't care. She is fighting for something she believes is right. But she is fighting an uphill bat- tle and knows it While many peo- ple "in the community may agree with her, they don't want to speak up, she says. Himmelman is fight- ing a very powerful interest, Wes- cast Industries of Wingham. Wes - •cast wants to see the airport development. In fact, it has com- mitted $300,000 toward the $2.9 million project. At a time when many industries Debby Himmelman....of Morris Township has been the most vocalopponent of the Wingham Municipal Air- port development. are cutting back or streamlining op- formed and public meetings were erations, Wescast is a notable ex- held in Wingham and later in Turn- ception. The company is expanding its operations in both Wingham and Brantford with an eye on the mar- kets of the world. • Two years ago, the then Western Foundry came to town council pro- posing that Wingham needed a mu- nicipal airport. A committee was berry. The general consensus ap- peared to be that an airport could provide a benefit to the town, both in keeping established industries here and attracting future business- es. A site was selected in Turnberry Please see AIRPORT/5 Students return to grind; face some new teachers High school enrolment increases By JIM BROWN The Advance Times Students returned to, classes at area schools yesterday, for the 1995-96 school year, with some students facing new teachers. Five new teachers will be in- structing students at F.E. Madill Secondary School. Christopher Lawson and Mari- lyn Ruetz will be teaching business and mathematics, and Dave Wright will be teaching business educa- tion. Gerald Shuck will be teaching tech studies and Lynn Gracey will be instructing music. Lynne Fis- cher has taken an extended mater- nity leave, and will return at the end of January. School vice-principal Joe Porter said 1,135 students have registered for the 1995-96 school year at Ma- dill. The number of students regis- tered for this year is about 100 over the number of students who attend- ed the school last year. There will be two exchange stu- dents attending the school until No- vember. One student is from Italy and another is from France. Students at Wingham Public School have a new vice-principal this year as well as four new staff members. Jim Binns is the new vice- principal, coming over from How - ick Central School. New teaching staff at the school include Grade 6/ 7 teacher Terry Walker, who is coming to the school from F.E. Madill Secondary School. Erla Koch is the vision resource person for the school and George Barker will be working in the li- brary. Cathy Goetz will be teaching the special education students until, March as she is filling in for a teacher on maternity leave. There are three new teachers at Turnberry Central School. Mary Hall will be teaching jun- ior and senior kindergarten, Marina Reed comes over from Wingham Public School to teach Grade 7/8, and Suzanne Irwin will be teaching Grade 6/7 for two weeks before go- ing on maternity leave. Diane Heibein will then teach the Grade 6/7 class. Sheri Cloke is a new bus driver for Turnberry Central School. She takes over bus 2 from Lorne Ham- ilton. Hamilton is now driving bus 3, which was driven by Dave Moore last year. Ron Zimmer is the driver for bus I and Lillian Patterson will be driving bus 4. The students at Howick Central School have a new principal. Dick Whiteley comes over from Brook- side. School to lead the staff of the school. Dave Shaw is the vice- principal. Please see SCHOOL/5 By JIM BROWN The Advance -Times HOWICK TOWNSHIP - The con- tamination of drilled wells with E - coli (sewage bacteria) is not seri- ous in the three hamlets of Howick Township. That was just one of the general conclusions reached by Penny Boak and Mary Inglis. The two were students who were testing wells in the three hamlets. The project began the end of May with the actual testing taking place from mid-June to the first week in August. Since then, they were analyzing the results and pre- paring their report for the public meeting held last Wednesday eve- ning at the Howick Community Centre. Boak said that she was pleased with the turnout to the public meeting. She added that those that attended were genuinely interested in the results of the testing. Another of the general conclu- sions of the testing was that the contamination of dug wells with E -coli is more common than it is • in drilled wells. Boak reported that there is evi- dence that septic tank effluent is • affecting the shallow aquifer that supplies water to dug wells in all three hamlets. The levels of nitrate were elevated, but still safe. There is a serious problem with the lack of maintaining septic, sys- tems, which could be alleviated by ' regular pumping. Boak stated that there is a seri- ous lack of knowledge about how septic systems work and people not knowing about the system they have. She noted that the people don't .know how old their systems are, and some didn't even know where the system was on their; property. • "The results .indicate that much of the contamination found in Wells is due to poor well mainte- nance," said Boak. . She added that people with very old septic systems — more than 20 years old — should be looking at replacing the system. Please see WATER/2 iigust was steamy, ut not the hottest Although August's temperatures were two, and one-half degrees above normal, it is not the hottest August on record, according to the London office of Environment Can- ada. Randy Mawson of Environment Canada reports the mean monthly temperature for August, 1995, is 21.7 degrees Celsius, considerably lower than the 22.9 degrees set in Please see AUGUST/3 School Fair, 1968...Doreen Taylor is shown with Glen, 5 and twins Marion and Murray, 4, at the 1968 Belgrave School Fair. Our tribute to the fair, which marks its 75th anni- versary on Sept. 15, is found on pages 8 and 9 of this week's edition.