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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1984-03-14, Page 11 AM'Midget . Tour- y'att Loekridge it e ,20th year that qm acro$s (Wadi and even haVebeeu gathering -here to ,aind.fame. .11Pfithe tournament grew from at .`prrl nt sing. of.32, with eight '#* 0000 d vlsi4ps. . toiirna ent features 'sem ht on bytlie earlier than usual reak. Unlike past years when dent~' opened on the weekend ;school brgait and resumed the ..__ .. thio. year the tournament he sp►rng breakand concludes on trend.' - afned the changewas made a-44401 of the Ontario. Minor nn which states that 'teams in yoffs..limy not participate in Moving the tournament ahead a week to 00 tide with the school break would INTERCLUB WINNERS—Figure skaters from the Wingham club competed successfulfp at an interclub held at Brussels last week, returning with a number of medals and trophies. Winners included , Yvonne and Charles Trapp, Karen Montgomery, Patricia Qaer and Christa Crawford. Charles won the Intermediate men's interpretive free skate and he and Yvonne were third in the Junior mixed dance; Karen was second in the pre - Novice ladies' interpretive free skate while Christa and Patricia placed . first and second respectively in the Novice ladies' interpretive free skate. `Everybody's quite satisfied' Settlement pay for'fIr • The Wingham Area Fire Board and officers of the fire department have reached an agreement on salaries that appears to have resolved past differences and left everyone happy.. Under the terms of the agreement, the fire chief will be paid a total of $9,000 a year in addition to his fire- fighting pay. This is made up of $6,500 as chief, $1,500 as ' fire prevention officer and $1,000 for expenses. The deputy chief, still to be named, Will get $1,250 and the captains, and secretary - treasurer will each get $500. The compromise came during a meeting last Wednesday night between the members of the fire board and the firemen, with Jerry Sundstrom from the fire marshal's office in • is reached on chief, offi London as mediator. The meeting itself was held behind. closed doors. However Fire Board Chairman Doug Fortune reported the following day that the tWo sides had set- tled, "and I think every- body's on„ good terms now." The meeting had for the most part been friendly, he said, and in addition. to the salaries it. had'resolved,other questions . dealing with policies and with the satellite fire hall planned for Howick. Fire' Chief Dave Crothers also said he was happy with the settletnent. "There was give on both sides = very good compromise and judg- ment on both sides. "Everybody's quite satis- fied now." He blamed some of the earlier problems on a lack of communication and said that has been corrected,' the two sides planning to meet regu- larly. The major friction point in earlier negotiations had been the money offered to the chief, with the firemen asking ,$10,000 while the board was offering about $6,600. Eventually the two sides got to within about $1,000, Mr. Fortune said, and the captains, who had been offered $750, agreed to take a smaller increase if the board would add more to the pot for the chief. He said the board realizes Mr. Crothers will have in- creased duties related to starting up the satellite fire hall in Howick and agreed to pay the- extra money. The board also agreed to pay a salary to the FIRST SECTION have meant .some of the teams invite Could not have taken part: - A its it stands, the tournament will kick off this Thursday morning at 8:30 with a match bet- ween Elma-Logan and Mildmay in the D division, followed at 10:15 by Brussels and Iucalh. The host team and defending C division champion Wingham Lions Midgets take to the ice at noon against Ayr, followed by another C match between Palmerston and Tavistock. Play in the B division opens Thursday evening with Kincardine meeting New Ham- burg at 7:30 and Listowel playing Goderich at 9:00. The rest of the D and C division teams get into action Friday with Teeswater meeting Paisley at 8:30 a.m., Dresden II playing Ripley at 10;15, Sutton nketing Elora at noon and Durham playing Nobleton at 2 p.m. Playoffs continue throughout the afternoon and evening. Action in the B division resumes with Mount Forest taking on Meaford at 8:30 Saturday s Thurs. morning and Bolton meeting Tilbury^� Playoffs, continue during the aft culminating'in the D consolation gam t 1.0:15: rnoo* at7:30 pm I Play .starts. at 1 p.m. Sunday with the 1' championship match, followed by the G championship game and then the B and. C consolation finals. The high-powered AAA division teams go to work the following weekend, with Waterloo, meeting Dearborn at 8:30 Saturday morning, followed by Stratford vs. Milton, London Sabres vs. Michigan Hylanders and Owen Sound vs. Oakville. Playoffs in the AAA division continue all day Saturday. On Sunday, the action wraps up with the final games in the B and AAA divisions, with the AAA consolation final at 4:30 and the cham- pionship game at 6:30, followed by the B championship game at 8:30. Opening ceremonies for the tournament will be held this Friday evening starting at about 7 o'clock. bbancfrZimt Wingham, Ontario, Wednesday, March 14, 1984 Single Copy 50c council sets tough policy on charges by members Wingham Town Council has adopted a tough; new policy aimed at curbing criticism by ,;members , of council of other councillors or council as whole. Under the new policy, any member of 'council' who levels accusations, either at the council table or in public, at . another member of secretary -treasurer of the fire • department after previously refusing on the grounds they had been told his duties didn't concern - them. The fire marshal's representative explained the duties of the secretary - treasurer, "and once we realized what he was doing, we agreed to pay him for it," Mr. Fortune said. He said both sides also agreed to have a deputy chief appointed in place of one of the three captains. He said he assu''ned the question of appointing a deputy would be discussed at the next meeting of the fire board, planned for this evening, March 14. The appointment would give the department a chief, a deputy chief and two captains as well as the secretary -treasurer. council or the enf�re c , will have to back up his charges, withdraw them' or face eviction from the council , er. a "The ,loll ' ,O+ate .y.t . anyone nlalig?. such ac- cusations Will be, given an opportunity, at `the next meeting of council, , to sub- stantiate them. Failing this, he or she will have to with- draw the charges and apolo- gize or be removed from the council chamber until council decides to lift the ban. The new policy grows from the anger of some council members over a letter to the editor of The Advance -Times written by Councillor James A. Currie several weeks ago, which they said made. un- substantiated accusations against council generally. They had asked for a special meeting at which Mr. Currie would be required Co either substantiate the charges or withdraw them, but the meeting was never held. At last week's council meeting, . Councillor Tom Miller asked why the matter had not been. followed up. Mayor William Harris said there had not been a formal motion requiring such a meeting, adding he doesn't believe in "pulling skeletons out of closets." - "I don't think it was worth bringing up; it wouldn't prove anything," he said, adding it .would only add to g—=thc problem of personal grievances and conflicts on council. Councillor William .Crump, who had been among those den -landing a meeting, 'Ob- jected that this is nota matter of personal grievances. "When accusa- tions are made like were in the paper, they should be answered." Deputy Reeve. Patricia Bailey agreed with the mayor, saying' . you' don't have to defend yourself if you have not done anything wrong and that to pursue the matter further would just be opening up old wounds. Councillor Jack Kopas, who .had also supported asking Mr. Currie to justify his statements, said he had mixed feelings. While he agreed there might be nothing to gain, at the same time there had been un- substantiated allegations about council. He suggested that any councillors who feel they have been wronged should sue, "seek individual recourse through*, the courts. However Mr. Miller ob- jected that would.not work in this case since the allegations were not against any particular councilor; no one was named in the letter. He added 'that he was con- cerned if council took no action it might be seen as adding substance to the alle- gations. Mr. Currie, who was away on holiday; was not at–the-- meeting t-'thymeeting to give his side of the story. Eventually, however, councillors agreed not ;to -push this. matte further butrto create.a. policy to deal with any future oc- currences. This was passed without opposition. PRE -TYKE TEAM-•--Wingham's Similes( hockey players were out in full force last Fri- day afternoon. Team members and coaches are: back, Bob Pegg, Craig Laing, Mur- ray Baler, Brian Elmslie; third row, Peter Gusso, Travis Baler, Jamie McKay, Steve Anger, Patrick Magee, Jo& Pegg, Jasdn Evans; second row, Jason Crawford, Josh Johnston, Peter Shaw, Evan Poll, Neil Mowbeay, Craig Baynton, Shawn Gedcke, Chris Alexander, Mark Gibson, Todd Edgar; front, Arley Pautler, Mike Remington, Danny Gusso, Kevin Haskins, Paul Machan, Andrew Shaw, Lucan Wei, Jordon Kuyvenhoven, Regan Leibold, Gary Skinn, Katie Elrnslie and Matthew Adams. ti Summer experience offers jobs Over 9,200 jobs will be available. to Ontario young people through Qthe Summer Experience '84 program: The program allows participants to work atthe minimum wage, in a wide variety of positions through 28 provincial ministries and various community ' organi- zations. Guidebooks with. brief descriptions of all the positions and employers' addresses are available from secondary schools, college and university placement centres, Canada Employment Centres and the Ontario Youth Secre- tariat., FLOWERING ORCHID—Five blooms adorn 'this orchid grown by Mrs. Helen Sanders of RR 4, Brussels. The first, of the delicatelyLcolored, fleshy flowers opened on Valentine's Day and it just kept going. Mrs. Sanders received the plant last year from her son. It grows in a pot of tree bark and never has more than threeleaves, but obviously is happy with its surroundings. Weekend fire destroys Wroxeter restaurant An early -morning fire of unknown origin caused an estimated $60,000 damage to a Wroxeter -area home and restaurant on the weekend. No one was injured in the blaze which roared through the Copper Kettle, owned by Rob Burkholder, at the corner of Highway 87 and County Road 12 on the edge of Wroxeter. Although the owners lived in a portion of the building, they were away when the fire started and returned to find firemen battling to control the flames and save a portion of the building. More than a dozen fire- fighters from Wingham, aided by the tanker from Harriston, battled the blaze for seven hours, hampered by high winds and blowing snow which reduced visibility almost to zero at times. They managed 10 save a garage containing two cars and a truck, which was attached to the restaurant and living quarters but protected by a fire wall. The Wingham Fire De- partment received the alarm at 12:50 a.m. when a neigh bor, Mac Wylie, spotted the flames. Chief Dave Crothers reported that when the crew arrived shortly afterward the living quarters and res- taurant were completely en The cause of the blaze is gulfed in flames which had fiefinitely unknown, Chief broken through the rogf. Crothers said. It started in It was quite a battle to hold either the restaurant or the the fire down, he said, with living quarters and spread firemen hampered by a lack from there. He said no in - of water and the blowing vestigation is planned. snow which at times meant they could not see the trucks or even other firemen. He said the firefighting crew was under the com- mand of Deputy Chief Haley Gaunt, who had 14 men on duty from 1 to8 a.m. Fire levels barn kills 500. pigs About 500 pigs were killed in fire that destroyed a barn on the property of John Rose, on Howick Township Con. 2, on March 11. Rhys Williams, deputy chief of the Listowel Fire Department said they received a can at about 10:30 p.m. and when they arrived the top of the barn was burned off. Firemen worked to control a potentially dangerous situation. "The wind was blowing the fire across the barn and up over the house," said Deputy Chief Williams. Listowel firemen battled the blaze, which eventually levelled the barn, for about 31/2 hours, with assistance from the Palmerston Fire Department.