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HomeMy WebLinkAboutWingham Advance-Times, 1977-08-10, Page 11.AN.D-SEAmA t PACK/000.T." Business or pleasure - book newt • FIRST SECTION W ingliam,. editesday, August 10, 1977 roAvoSERVICE Listowel, Ontario A& 2!1.21111 Cull Toll Free 1-800-265-6332 Single Copy Not Over 30c Anderson born lost in blaze The Wingham fire department answered a call at 4:15 a.m. on Sunday and arrived to find the barn of Soren Anderson on 5 -Iigh- way 86 between Bluevale and Wingham already engulfed' in flames. A neighbor, Bill Armstrong, had alerted the Anderson family to the fire whenhe saw it from his nearby farm. Fire Chief Dave Crothers says spontaneous combustion was the cause of the fire that burned the 'barn to the ground. Mr. Anderson lost a hammermill, hay crop and tractor in the blaze. Council approves building permits Wingham council approved a large number of applications for building permits at its meeting Monday night. Town Clerk Wil- liam Renwick explained there were more than usual because the applications covered two months. William Rintoul, who resigned as building inspector last month, had submitted the last of his ap- plications and Murray McDoug- all, appointed to replace him, had brought in the applications for which he is responsible. Permits were issued to: Mr. and Mrs. Barry Reid, garage; Mr. and Mrs. Ian Deslauriers, side entrance patio deck; Ivan Harkness, replacement veranda ; Fred Moore, house; Gary Tem- pleman, laundry room; Harry McDougall, sun porch; and Don- ald Delmage, replacement veranda. Building permits also went to: Mr. and Mrs. Charles Clark, to convert a carport into a recrea- tion room; Gerald Brophy, addi- tion•to house; Mrs. Ene McGre- gor, renovations,.. addition and carport; ,Robert Leachman, above -ground swimming pool; Eugene Skinn, new home and garage; Stewart Leedham, gar- age' aif •;'filthily room; C. 'E:: Force, addition; and Rintoul Bros. Holdings, two bachelor apartments. Drug use alarming bat re D eft to tecichers One quarter of all students in Ontario schools have used can- nabis (marijuana or hashish) at least once in the past 12 months, according to a recent study presented to the Huron County board of education Monday. A total of 81.9 per cent had used alcohol in the same period. The provincial study of alcohol and drug use among Ontario students in 1977, which included Huron County, said 25.1 percent BARN DESTROYED—A barn owned by Soren Anderson, located between Blilevale and Wingham, burned to the ground early Sunday morning. A neighbor alerted the Anderson family to the fire. When firemen arrived on the scene the .barn was already. engulfed . by flarries. Mr. Anderson lost a hammers ill, tractor and his crop of hay. Spontaneous combustion was the cause. ouncil to investigate lowering of speed limit Town council is looking into the possibility ., of dropping Wing - ham's speed limit to 25 miles per hour from the present 30, a move that would not only slow traffic, but might allow the town to keep money collected in 'speeding fines. The suggestion for the .change came from Chief Robert Wittig,of the Wingham police department. Councillor David Cameron, re- porting for the police committee, told council the chief feels this is an ideal time to lower the limit since 'SIPS art' al hh °' to ' .bev" changed to metric designation anyway. He reported Mr. Wittig said Wingham to get visit from new sister city Wingham will get its first chance to entertain visitors from its new sister city later this month when 15 couples from Standish, Michigan, arrive for a short visit. Mayor William Walden told council Monday night he received a call from the mayor of Standish recently, informing him Wing - ham has been "adopted" and telling him of the visit, planned for Aug. 20. The call also invited a delegation from Wingham to visit Standish and Mr. Walden said he and Councillor AngtA Mowbray plan to leave tomorrow for an overnight visit. Other councillors were invited to accompany them, but none were free. • Mr. Walden said the Standish visitors want to play golf while they are here and suggested ar- ranging a dance for them in the evening. Last month Wingham council agreed to. designate this town Standish's sister city after hear- ing a letter from Standish which suggested the arrangement. The letter 'suggested citizen ex- changes and school programs as two of the ways the sister cities could learn from one another. lowering the speed limit would allow Wingham to keep speeding Pines rather than having them go to the province: Mr, Wittig later said it is not quite clear this would be the case. But he suggested the town solici- tor, Robert Campbell, should in- vestigate whether a speed limit set by town bylaw would em- power the town to retain the fines. In any event, councillors agreed, the speed lUnit through town should be lowerfd to slow traffic. Meanwhile, :Mr. Camp- bell will be asked to check out the rules governing fine collection. The matter now goes to the Ministry of Transportation and Communications, which must ap- prove any change. • Parking Lot Planned Council's property committee will begin the work necessary to convert town property along David Street in south Wingham into a parking lot. Councillor Angus Mowbray assured council there is sufficient property there if the town decides to go ahead. He noted the town owns a sizeable chunk of land in that area', including the lot behind C. E. McTavish, Ltd. and the plot on which the Frosty Queen sits. He also poitted out this lot will not be much farther from down- town than the one proposed for Victoria Street. (The parking authority had approached council last month with a proposal to pur- chase a lot 6n Victoria Street to convert to parking.) Mr. Mowbray said it isn't necessary to pave the lot im- mediately, suggesting the town wait to see how much it is used. Councillor Jack Bateson reported he has been doing a cas- ual survey of parting available along Edward and Centre Streets. If you can't find a park- Wingham police investigate two accidents . Two' -minor accidents Wise investigated by the Wingham Po- lice Department last weekend. Damage estimated at $200 was caused Friday to a vehicle driven by Norman Elwood Gowing of Blyth when a vehicle driven by Jeffrey Hayes of Wingham back- ed into it. The incident occurred at the Brewers' Retail parking lot in Wingham. An accident on Saturday on Josephine Street, involving three vehicles, occurred when a vehicle driven by Clarence P. Hollinger of Wingham pulled out to',pass a stopped vehicle. As. Mr. Hol- linger pulled back into the right- hand lane, his vehicle was struck by a car driven 'by James P. Brennan, Toronto, who was pull- ing away from the curb. Damage to the Hollinger car was °esti- mated at $140, to the Brennan car $30. During the past week, the Wingham Police Department charged 20 people under traffic related offences; eight under the Highway Traffic Act and three under the Liquor Licence Act. ing space there, he said, even on the busiest days, '.!there's some- thing wrong _with your eyes". Reeve Joe Ker agreed there is "no parking problem in this town". The property committee was also instructed to contact the operators of school buses which park along David Street to tell them to find other parking. Agreement .Accepted • Under terms of an agreement to be signed with Doris. Reming- ton, the town will be shouldering 50 per cent of the cost. of provid- ing services along short stretches of Wilfred Street and Charles Street in northeast Wingham. The agreement relates to a subdi- vision Mrs. Remington is de- veloping in that area. Council decided to accept the agreement on the advice of its solicitor. Mr. Campbell, warned that if the'agreement is rejected, the town could end up paying more. It could get stuck with the other half of the servicesand would also lose the $600 per unit impost fees, he• said, explaining that the problem arose from the subdivi- sion being registered without a subdivider's agreement being signed with the town. . Lack of an agreement means the municipality can be forced to provide services otherwise raid for by a developer. He predicted it will cost the town $5-6,000 for its half of the services, mainly paving, curb and gutter and some water -main,' while rejecting the agreement Please turn to Page 2 Postal code no guarantee A correct postal code, it seems, is not always a guarantee your mail will reach its destination posthaste. In contrast to last week's story of the letter with the postal code which brought,it from Texas to Wingham, .Ontario, in three days, despite being ad- dressed to Wingham; • Australia, is the recent experience of a Brussels area woman. . After readingthe story, Gordon Walter of Wingham showed us an envelope containing a pattern which he had ordered sent from Toronto to Mrs. Leona Arm- strong of RR 3, Brussels. The fetter bears the correct ad- dress for Brussels, Ontario, in- cluding the postal code, so guess where it went. Right: straight to Brussels in Belgium. A postmark on the front shows the letter was mailed from To- ronto May 20 of this year and three more on the back attest to it. havingbeen in Belgium in June. Eventually it got turned around and finally reached Mrs. Arm- strong last month. • You just never can tell. On the positive side; for a world travel- ler the 'letter was still in eircellent shape. ,t :,Ludents m grades 7 to 13 had usr, i rnnabis in the last year. T, study, which involved 104 schows, said the users of most drugs used them infrequently in the previous year. "The majority of users of glue, solvents, heroin, speed, psychoactive drugs and illicit drugs reported using them only once or twice. However, use of alcohol, cannabis and tobacco was much more frequent among users,"• the report prepared by the Addiction Research Foun- dation said. Alcohol was drunk at least once a week or more by 17.9 percent of the students, cannabis was used 10 or more times by 11.9 percent of all students. About 16 percent had been drunk and 23 percent had had at least five drinks on some occasion in the preceding month. In most cases there was a higher drug use among male students, except in the case of tobacco. According to the sample 52.1 percent of female students smoke, compared to 28.5 percent of the males. The study found drug use was "significantly and positively" lated to age, with most requent drug use occurring in the 16 and 17 year old age group. An inverse relationship was found' between drug use and grade average. As drug use in- creased grade average 'de- creased..In the case of cannabis,, 12.1 percent of the students with the highest grade average reported use, but 40.2 percent of those with the lowest grades reported cannabis use. Alcohol consumption was also related to grade average with frequent drinkers having lower averages. Students in northern Ontario Louise will join Jim in Lindsay as reported amore • use of - alcohol,- . n • . housj g }s- , se-... tobacco, cannabis, LSD and other aired. • hallucinogens. The Midwestern region most often had the lowest rates of drug use The study notes that surveys of alcohol and drug use typically "under -report" such use as compared to estimates derived from official records and other sources. The report concludes that changes in drug use since 1974 "have probably been small and increases confined to a few drugs, e.g., alcohol, cannabis and LSD." The board decided -to make the report available to teachers througout Huron County. Deneau family going to Lindsay Friends in Wingham, Tees - water and the surrounding area will be sorry to learn that Jim Deneau of the latter community reports to the Lindsay office of the Ministry of.Social and Family Services .on Aug. 15'. Mr. and Mrs. Deneau and fami- ly came to Wingham 17 years ago when he was appointed area di- rector for the then Department of Welfare. They resided in Wing- ham for several years before moving to the Teeswater area, where they have since inadetheir home. The Deneaus lived in Lind- say before coming here. Active in many circles and or- ganizations within the communi- ty, the Deneaus were perhaps best known -ascongenial hosts and warm friends: They Will icer= tainly be sorely missed by many friends .ii5 this area. Mrs.' Deneau. and daughter Budget chairman resigns over field trip approvals Blyth Trustee John Elliot re- signedas chairman of Huron CountBoard of Education's budget committee Monday., Mr. Elliot's resignation at the end of the board's regular meeting Monday afternoon was obviously unexpected by other board mem- bers. Board Chairman Herb Turkheim asked Mr. Elliot to leave the m..7 der for the chair- man's advisory committee to consider.. "I think the chairman's advis- ory committee should appoint an- other member because I am not going to reconsider," Mr. Elliot replied. Earlier in the meeting Mr. Elliot had strongly objected to the board approving three field trip applications which he said were "unbudgeted expendi- tures". "That is roughly $440 of unbud- geted money we are spending,' he said. Mr. Elliot said the un - budgeted expenditure was for supply teachers to replace those that are away on the field trip. Over the year a lot of funds are spent that aren't budgeted. Try- ing to set an accurate budget was an "insurmountable task" for the budget committee, Mr. Elliot said. , Ontario Soho/ars at F. E. Madill D. t": Cochrane, director of education, said the money wasn't totally unbudgeted as it ,was in- cluded in the supply 'teacher's budget. The board bases its sup- ply teachers' budget . on how much cost they had the year . be- fore. The board approved the three applications for field trips. Trustee Shirley Hazlitt said the board should look at the number of field trips taken and the bene- fits derived from them as well as the fianancing,. A three-member committee was established to investigate the, matter with Mrs.. Hazlitt as chairman. SANDRA FINLAY Sandra Finlay, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Finlay of Lucknow, will be taking a course in animal health technology, leading to a veterinary as- sistantship, at the Centralia College of Agricultural Tech nology this fall. STANLEY LOREE Stanley Loree, son of Mr. and Mrs. Austin Loree of Lucknow, plans to study mathematics under the co-op program at the University of Waterloo this fall. DOREEN ANDERSON Doreen Anderson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ross Anderson of Belgrave, will be studying mu • sic at the University of Western Ontario in 'London this fall. LORNE SCOTT Lorne Scott, son of Mrs. May Scott of RR 3, Blyth, is planning to study agricultural science at the Ontario Agricultural College of the University of Guelph this fall. JOHN DAY John Day, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Day of RR 3, Wingham, wi!I be pursuing a degree in engineering science at the Uni- versity of Toronto beginning this fall. TAMARA HAYES Tamara Hayes, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Hayes of Wingham, plans to attend the University of Toronto this fall, where she will study engineer- ing. Miss Hayes is also enrolled in the Reserve Officer Training Program of the Canadian Forces. • • f