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Wednesday, June 23, 2004
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A special fun day was
held at MacNaughton
Park June 15, hosted by
counsellors and staff of
Camp Kintail, a camp
based north of Goderich
and run by the
Presbyterian Church.
Children in Exeter last
week played games and
sang songs. Camp Kintail,
which his open to chil-
dren of all faiths, offers a
number of activities for
children including swim-
ming, kayaking, music,
drama, canoeing, arts and
crafts, games, campfires,
chapel and leadership
development.Above cen-
tre, Exeter's Buddy
Webster has some fun in
a parachute while below
from left, Lucas and
Ashley Toornstra, Stacey
Wushke and Jelaine
Jackson all participated in
the camp.The event was
sponsored by the Caven
Presbyterian Church.
(photos/Scott Nixon)
Detours
this week
By Scott Nixon
TIMES -ADVOCATE STAFF
SOUTH HURON — There will be some traffic detours
this week due to construction on the Hwy. 4/83 intersec-
tion.
South Huron operations manager Dennis Hockey
reported to council Monday night that traffic islands will
be removed from the intersections Wednesday and
Thursday. Asphalt will also be laid down those days.
On Wednesday, work will be done on the west side of
the intersection. Southbound traffic turning west will be
detoured through Walper Street, while northbound traf-
fic turning west will be detoured on to Alexander. On
Thursday, during work on the east side, traffic going
north and south turning east will be detoured through
Orchard Street, while vehicles eastbound on Hwy. 83
will be detoured onto McConnell and Alexander.
There will still be a single lane going north and south
on Hwy. 4 during both days of construction.
Hockey said traffic flow so far during construction has
gone "very well."
Other council notes:
Fire agreement
The municipality entered into its annual agreement
with the Lambton Shores Fire Department, which sees
South Huron pay Lambton Shores $30,220 this year for
fire service from the Lambton Shores department in
some parts of the municipality. South Huron also pays
extra depending on how many calls Lambton Shores
responds to.
The cost of the deal is the same as last year and is
ongoing between the two municipalities. South Huron
owns one-third of the Lambton Shores Fire
Department's capital equipment.
Coun. Jim Dietrich expressed concern that the
Lambton Shores department comes into areas of South
Huron where it would be closer for the Dashwood and
Huron Park departments to respond. The matter will be
looked into.
See DEMOLITION page 2
Police delegation
speaks to council
Meeting on proposedAusable River drain
By Mary Simmons
TIMES -ADVOCATE STAFF
ZURICH — A meeting
will take place at the
Bluewater arena in
Zurich June 23 at 7 p.m.
to discuss a proposed
Ausable River drain.
Ausable Bayfield
Conservation Authority
(ABCA) general manager
Tom Prout updated the
ABCA board of directors
on the proposed drain at
a board meeting
Thursday.
Prout said a drainage
petition was first submit-
ted to Hay Township in
August 1996.
In May 1998 engineer
Paul Elston declared the
petition not valid and a
second petition was sub-
mitted in August 1998.
At that time it was
declared valid by Stantec
Consulting Inc., but in
October 1998, the town of
Exeter pulled its name off
the petition, so it was
once again declared
invalid.
A third petition was
submitted to Hay
Township in January
1999, but the process was
stalled once again due to
concern over billing
issues.
In 2001 the Municipality
of Bluewater was created
through the amalgama-
tion of Hay, Stanley,
Bayfield, Zurich and
Hensall. The new munici-
pality applied to the
Drainage Referee about
the proposal.
In February 2002 the
Drainage Referee decided
the third petition was
valid and reserved a deci-
sion with respect to costs.
A preliminary report
was received in May of
this year and Bluewater
council will review the
report and make recom-
mendations at the June
23 meeting.
Prout reminded the
board of its recommenda-
tions in May 2002 that all
services requested from
the ABCA should be
expensed to the drainage
engineer and become a
part of the project costs.
The board also decided
not to pay 50 per cent of
the Cost Benefit Study
and Environmental
Appraisal if the project
does not go to completion.
The board decided not
to make changes to these
recommendations and
also made a motion
allowing staff to make a
presentation to Bluewater
council at the upcoming
meeting.
By Mary Simmons
TIMES -ADVOCATE STAFF
LUCAN — Insp. John Stephens and Const. Terry
Hamilton of Middlesex OPP presented a report to
Lucan Biddulph council Monday night.
Stephens told council both property crimes —
which include break and enters, thefts, mischief
and fraud — and violent crimes — all assaults,
threats and sex crimes — have increased in the
county.
In 2003 trends have shown an increase hi the ille-
gal drug trade in the county, evidenced by increases
in high risk drug seizures including grow houses
and evidence of drug labs.
"Meth labs are the thing of the future," Stephens
said. "It takes a small amount of start-up money
and you can make big bucks."
Stephens said there has also been an increase in
armed robberies in the county, with weapons used
in four of seven robberies, including two handguns.
Two more handguns were seized during arrests.
See DELEGATION page 2