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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1978
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Youths charged alter tires slashed
A 15 -year-old area juvenile
and two youths from Huron
Park face several charges
following police in-
vestigation into the slashing
of 40 tires on cars parked at
the Hensall arena early
Saturday evening.
The three are also charged
with break, enter and theft at
Scholl's Abattoir, Hensall.
The two youths charged
are John Wayne O'Neill, 18,
and Benjamin S. Hiliman, 16,
both of Huron Park,
A total of $2,000 damage
was reported to the abattoir.
Windows were broken and
NEW LUTHERAN MINISTER — The Reverend Jack Dressler was installed Sunday as the
minister for St. Peter's Lutheran Church, Zurich. Flanking Rev. Dressler are Rev. Kenn Ward,
dean of the western district of the Eastern Canada Synod of the Lutheran Church in America
and Ken Baker, vice-chairman of the church board. Rev. Dressler is a native of Langenburg,
Saskatchewan and comes to Zurich from Waterloo where he attended Waterloo Lutheran
Seminary for the past four years. Staff photo
Speaker tells chamber to
make noise about village
The annual ladies night of
the Zurich and Area
Chamber of Commerce had
one of its largest crowds in
recent years as close to 60
people were in attendance at
the banquet Saturday night.
Guest speaker for the
night was manager of Lon-
don's visiter and convention
services Ted Mandy.
Mandy explained the role
of his department and said
it's not only concerned with
London itself but all com-
Hi.Hopes get
gov. grant
Residents of the seniors'
apartments on Highway 84
have some new _recreation
equipment thanks to a New
Horizons grant from the
federal department of health
and welfare.
Murray Craig of Hi -Hopes,
the seniors group which
applied for the grant, said
they received $2,594 to be
used towards the purchase of
recreation equipment.
The group received the
funds last week and have
purchased an exercise bike,
a stereo and some games for
the apartment's common
room.
Craig said the new
equipment has already
benefitted the residents of
the building.
"It just picked everybody
up," Craig stated.
Some of the money will go
towards the purchase of
summer recreation equip-
ment according to Craig,
munities within a fifty mile
radious of the forest city.
Mandy paid tribute to
Zurich, saying it's much
easier 'for small com-
munities to get together and
put on efforts that will
benefit the community.
Mandy told the gathering;
"I'm happy to be in Zurich,
the bean capital of the
world. You can make a lot of
noise about that.
"I'm glad to be with
human beans."
Mandy stated Zurich was
mentioned in this month's
issue of a publication which
his department distributes
in southern Ontario and
Michigan.
"Your festival is a great
drawing card," Mandy said.
Mandy drew a roar from
the crowd when he said
"We're (London) glad to be
a suburb of yours
London is now the third
largest convention centre in
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two Toledo weigh scales
were extensively damaged.
The office was also ran-
sacked.
A small amount of petty
cash was stolen, along with
four butcher knives.
Shortly after 8:00 p.m.,
Saturday, Exeter OPP were
advised by a car owner that
his tires had been slashed
while he was attending an
intermediate hockey tour-
nament at the Hensel]. arena.
.OPP Constable Jack
Straughan arrived on the
scene and arrested the trio
as they were leaving the
parking lot,
During his investigation,
Straughan found that a total
of 40 tires had been slashed
at the parking lot, involving
19 different owners. Some
had all four tires slashed,
while others had one, two or
three damaged.
The car owners were from
various locations, some as
far away as Sarnia and
Toronto. They had been
attending the hockey event
as well as a dance.
A few of the owners
managed to get
replacements so they could
leave Saturday night, but
several others were still
looking for tires in the area
on Sunday to get their
vehicles back on the road.
Damage to the tires has
been set at almost $5,000.
Hillman and the juvenile
have been charged with 18
counts of mischief, plus one
break, enter and theft
charge. The latter was laid
by Constable Bill McIntyre.
O'Neill faces one charge of
break, enter and theft and 19
mischief charges.
One of the latter was laid
after the holding cell at the
local OPP office was
damaged. Police charge that
O'Neill pulled the bunk out of
its moorings and used it to
batter the walls and toilet
facilities.
Hillman and O'Neill are
scheduled to appear in
Exeter court on December
16. A court date for the
juvenile has not been set.
School yard hit
Two incidents of van-
dalism are also under in-
vestigation by the Exeter
OPP this week.
Friday evening, ap-
proximately $100 damage
was done to the Usborne
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in Goshe
Area drivers had their
first major test with winter
driving this week and handl-
ed the situation com-
paratively well with only
five accidents being in-
vestigated.
Three of those occurred on
Saturday, the first involving
vehicles driven by Dale Erb,
RR 2 Zurich, and James
Geoffrey, Redford,
Michigan. They collided on
Goshen St. in Zurich and
damage was set at $3,150 by
Constable Jim Rogers.
Erb sustained cuts and
bruises in the collision.
A vehicle driven by Gor-
don Kenney, RR 1 Exeter,
was forced off sideroad 20 in
Stephen by an unknown vehi-
cle and struck a tree.
Damage was estimated at
$500 by Constable Wally
Tomasik and Kenney
sustained cuts and bruises.
In the other Saturday acci-
dent, a car driven by Doreen
Beuerman, Exeter, skidded
on an icy patch of road on
Highway 83 west of
Dashwood and struck guide
posts on the south side of the
road. Damage was es-
timated at $975 by Constable
Bob Whiteford.
The other two accidents
occurred last Tuesday, the
first involving vehicles
driven by William Anderson
and Marjorie Morgan, both
of Huron Park. They collid-
ed on Algonquin Drive and
Central School. Glass panel
of a door was kicked in and
the lawn torn up and gouged
by a vehicle.
Eight mailboxes were
ripped off their posts and
damaged in Usborne on
Friday night as well.
Constable Straughan is in
charge of those in-
vestigations.
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damage was listed at $475 by
Constable Bill Osterloo.
A vehicle driven by
Douglas Mason, Huron
Park, went out of control on
fresh gravel on concession 2-
3 of Stephen and struck a
hydro pole.
Mason sustained cuts and
bruises and damage was set
at $1,800 by Constable Al
Quinn.
NEW ST. BONIFACE
PASTOR — The Reverend P.
F. Mooney is the new pastor
for St. Boniface parish,
Zurich. Reverend Mooney, a
native of the Belle River area,
comes to Zurich from Wind-
sor where he was pastor at
St. John Vianney. Previously
Reverend Mooney has served
the church in Bothwell, Sar-
nia and Peru. Staff photo
BUCKEYES WIN AT HENSALL — The Zurich Buckeyes won the "A" division
of an intermediate "C" hockey tournament held over in the weekend in Hen-
sall. In the back row (left -right) are Pete Postill, Tim West, Ken Smale, Grant
Lee, Ron Rader, Steve Haberer and Bob Farquhar. In the middle row are Carl
Finkbeiner, Mike Clarke, Dave Cyr, Rich Schilbe, Ron Desjardine, Gerald
Weido, Rick Grenier, Elroy Desjardine and Herb Turkheim. Kneeling are Kim
McKinnon, Pat Bedard, Randy Oke, Jon Graham and Percy Bedard.
Staff photo