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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1984-05-30, Page 1• A . . I . , . • . FLY UP TO GUIDES—Several Wingham Brownies flew up to Guides last Tuesday afternoon at a ceremony held at the Wingham United Church. They are: back, Danielle Heibein,,Tharen Keil, Anita Massey, HONORARY MEMBERSHIP—Mrs. T. A. (Chris) Currie of Wingham was presented with an honorary member- ship of the Maitland Women's Missionary Society at the 100th anniversary celebration of the Maitland Presbyterial Monday at Kincardine. Another member of the Wingham WMS, Mrs. Gordon Wall, presented Mrs. Currie with the certificate. Mrs. Currie has belonged to the OMS for 50 years. New priest arrives at Sacred Heart Father Stan Soltysik is the new priest at Sacred Heart Church in Wingham and St. Ambrose at Brussels. He replaces Marentette week for his Rev. Jack who left last new charge at GRADUATED Jack Carman Whytock graduated May 24 from the University of Waterloo, Renison College, with a Bachelor of Arts degree. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Carman Whytock of RR 5, Lucknow. Jack received the Willis Theological Scholar- ship and is enrolled at Re- gent College, University of British Columbia, for the fall, where he will be study- ing theology. (Forde Studio) London. Father Soltysik arrived last week from his former parish in London. This is his first rural parish as he has served in London and Windsor prior to this. But he has no qualms about the Wingham area because the people have made him feel very welcome. He was born in Poland where his father was a bricklayer. During the war, Father Soltysik was educated at an underground school and following his secondary schooling he entered the priesthood. In 1966 a bishop from London was touring Poland and recruiting young men to come and serve as priests in this country. Fr. Soltysik was one of those men who decided to come to Canada and he has been here ever since. He has not made any long- range plans as yet for his new parish, but has decided to take a wait-and-see ap- proach for the time being. NAMED TO DEAN'S LIST Deborah Ellen Shore, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Shore of Wroxeter, was named to the Dean's List at Pensacola Christian College for academic achievement during the spring semester of the school year. This honor is the result of earning an average of 'B' or higher. Tammy Thynnp, Amy Jo Cretier, Shari Mundell, Kara Neil; front, Can- dice Allen, Ciara McKenna, Carolyn Ruff, Keril McGrath, Wendy _McBride, Kim Marr, Angela Swanson, Andrea Plumb County employees paid fee for investing assets Last year the clerk and deputy -clerk of Huron Coun- ty made $4,000 each handling the estates of Huronview residents. Huron's Deputy CIerit-ad- ministra(Or Bil Akock; Said on May 28 that both he and the clerk -administrator re- ceive a finders' fee for in- vesting about $3.4 million of Huronview residents' assets: The two county employees also received for the first time, a finder's fee for in- vesting county reserve funds this year. Mr. Alcock said in 1979, the clerk and deputy clerk offi- cially became agents for Victoria and Grey, an action approved by, Hirron County Council. The deputy clerk said at that time Victoria and Grey was the only trust company around, but now there is Standard Trust. So, earlier this year, the county re- viewed its previous decision of having the two men act as agents on behalf of the resi- dents and agreed to extend that to Standard Trust. Mr. Alcock said the find- ers' fee is about one per cent of what is invested, but it dos depend on how many -4yearq the Money is being in- vested. "We look at it as part of our salary," said Mr. Al- cock. The clerk's 1984 salary is. $46,228 and the deputy clerk's is $39,000. • The deputy clerk said .the finders' fee does not cost the taxpayer any money and saves the residents money. The county, said Mr. Al- cock; could have the trust companies invest the money for the residents. One method would cost about $250 per resident and there are approximately 300 resi- dents. Another method would cost about $120,000 based on a fee of 1.25 per cent on the principal plus five per cent on such things as in- terest. The deputy clerk said REV. STAN SOLTYSIK is the new priest at Sacre!,:,1 Heart Church in Wingham and St. Ambrose in Brussels. He replaces Father Jack Marentette who recently went -.to London. Mr. Soltysik was born in Poland and -came to Canada in 1966. This is his first rural parish. •there is more invoWed in, handling the estates than dealing with paperwork. in • many cases he is in charge of selling off *estates for resi- dents and Vends after-hOur, time ori thee details. As for the county reserve account, Mr. Alcock 'said those funds had, until Janu- • ary of this year, always been invested with the Canadian Imperial Bank of Com- merce. At that time, short term in- terest rates were higher at the trust companies and the county money was invested with the trust companies. Mr. Alcock. said $600,000 in reserves, in $60,000 chunks, was invested. The county made $1,600 more in interest than would have been made if the money was left in the • bank. The deputy -clerk said he and Mr. Healy can *split $80 for that transaction. "To be honest though, I didn't know we'd get a com- mission on the reserves," said Mr. Alcock. The executive committee of Huron County Council is reviewing establishing guidelines for its employees. , Hospital hits roadblocks in attempt to build wing The Wingham and District Hospital is continuing to encounter roadblocks in its effort to build a new out- patient and emergency wing. As a result, nearly two months after the contract for the project was awarded, the contractor has not yet been able to start actual con- struction. As of arly this week the hospital still had not been able to obtain a building permit for the project as a result of its failure to meet parking requirements, and efforts to solve the parking problem also appeared to be bogging down. A bid to lease land from Sacred Heart Church for parking as a short-term solution to the deadlock has Police investigating tire -slashing incident Wingham police are continuing their investigation of an incident May 18 in which tires were slashed on three vehicles in town. A total of 11 tires were punctured in vehicles belonging to William Craig, Norman Rude and Gerry Wilhelm, all of Wingham. In each case the vehicle was parked at the residence and the Wilhelm vehicle was inside a garage, with the door open. Police said all the tires were punctured with a knife some- time during the early morning hours. Each of the vehicles attacked belongs to a member of management at the local Premium -Lloyd door factory, which has been closed by a strike since March. However Chief Robert Wittig said police are not restricting their in- vestigation to the strikers, since it is possible someone else such as a disgruntled former employee might be responsible. Chief union steward Elmer Schultz declared strongly that he does not believe in such tactics and, so far as he knows, no union member was involved in the attack. Total damage in the incident has been estimated at over $900. Wenger Bros. purchase press Wenger Bros. Limited, publisher of The Wingham Advance -Times and several other community news- papers, has recently pur- chased Sheldun Press at Shelburne, Ontario, from Community Impressions of Durham. The • Shelburne plant presently provides press room services for several weekly newspapers in that general area. The addition of the Wenger newspapers, which will be phased into production at the plant over the next few weeks, will effectively double its volume. The switch -over ter- minates several years of excellent service provided by Signal -Star Publishers of Goderich, on whose press Local teacher elected national vice chairman Allan Harrison of Wingham, a teacher at the Turnberry Central School, has been elected national' viee chairman of the Science Fair Committee of the Youth Science Foundation. The election took place at Halifax, Nova Scotia, during the 23rd annual Canada - Wide Science Fair, which Mr. Harrison attended as an official delegate of the Huron County Board of Education. As vice chairman, his duties will include serving on sub -committees, attending meetings in Ottawa and serving on the National Committee at the annual Canada -Wide Science Fair. He will serve as vice chairman at the fair in Corn- wall, Ontario, next year and as chairman in Calgary in 1986. No end in sight in Lloyd strike A strike by about 140 employees at the Premium - Lloyd door factory in Wingham is now entering its 11th week, with still no end in sight. Despite offers by ht. the union to resume negotia- tions, the two sides have not met since )ate April. At that time negotiations broke off after the workers rejected a company offer which would have given them a raise of about four per cent in each year of a two-year contract. The union has been asking for 55 cents each year, an increase of about 6.5 per cent on the average wage of about $8.40 an hour. four of the Wenger publica- tions have been printed. Community Impressions of „ Durham has been printing The Mount Forest Confeder- ate and Farming Today. With few exceptions, all weekly newspapers in Western Ontario are now being printed in central press plants such as this, where modern equipment makes possible increased page content and excellent quality reproduction. The addition of the press room personnel at Shelburne will bring to about 80 the number of full-time and part- time staff employed by Wenger Bros. in their offices at Wingham, Listowel, Mount Forest, Milverton and now Shelburne. The strike started March 21 when workers walked out of the plant during an af- ternoon coffee break .and it became a legal strike two days later, Initially job security and seniority rights were cited as the major issues in the dispute, but negotiations bogged down over the question of wages after the other items were withdrawn from the negotiating table. run into local opposition, leaving its future in doubt. The town last week received a petition from about two dozen residents in the area expressing opposition to the parking lot, and it was reported that church members also were opposing the parking plan. Hospital Administrator Norman Hayes said Monday that he would not comment further on the matter until it is resolved, but he did confirm that the diocesan authorities had not yet ap- proved the lease proposal. He said he was aware of a petition to the diocese op- posing the lease, but the hospital had not yet received a final answer one way or the other. Ian Moreland, chairman of the town planning advisory committee, said Tuesday he was not aware of any new developments in the case. The committee's position remains that the hospital must show some progress in developing new parking before a permit will be issued. Mr. Moreland suggested, however, that the committee would be somewhat flexible in its requirements. If the hospital can show progress in at least ,starting to meet the parking requirements, together with a firm com- mitment to continue the process over the next few years, the committee would view this favorably, he suggested. The hospital has proposed acquiring properties on the hospital block as a long-term solution to its "parking problems, and it was learned this week that 'verbal agreement has been ob- tained to purchase at least one of these properties. However there was no of- ficial confirmation of the deal; or word on whether this would satisfy the require- ments for a permit. Dismisses charge A charge of murder against a Wingham man in connection with a death at Belgrave last fall has been dismissed. -- Judge W. J. Cochrane dismissed the charge against Clarence 'Joseph Schnurr.. after heating •tbe,:eild,e0ce against him at a preliminary hearing earlier in May. Mr. Schnurr had been charged by provincial police at Wingham after a Belgrave man, John Edward McKin- non, was found dead outside his apartment on the morn- ing of Sept. 28, 1983. A post mortem exarnina- tion attributed the cense of death to a head injury and Mr. Schnurr was arrested and Chargett .09hieitti polfd,e later However at the prelimin- ary hearing Judge Cochrane ruled there was not sufficient evidence to bring the case to trial. Committee meets to discuss plans for bicentennial Wingham and Turnberry Township's bicentennial committee for this summer's celebration held a meeting last Wednesday evening to iron out details for the July 19 to 22 program. Doug Layton of Wingham reported on behalf of the midways and concessions committee that 22 cars are registered so far for the antique car show and, hopefully, he said another 12 or 15 will register yet. Dave Cameron would like two or three volunteers to help him with the show. The Trivial Pursuit con- test, scheduled for July 21 has been cancelled. Michelle Kennedy of Wingham reported in- vitations have been sent out for the heritage fair and antique market, set for July 21 at Cruickshank Park. In the event of rain, the heritage fair will be moved to the arena. • A baby contest will„be held the morning of July 21 at 11 o'clock Audrey Currie will chair the event. The next meeting of the bicentennial committee is Wednesday, June 20, at 8 p.m. GUIDES TO PATHF1NDERS—Kirsten Keil, Michelle Cummings (back), Samantha George and Lori Belanger took the step up from Guides to Pathfinders at a ceremony held Tuesday night. The four are members of the Wingham Guiding organization.