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Home My WebLink AboutThe Times Advocate, 2004-11-03, Page 22 Exeter Times—Advocate Wednesday, November 3, 2004 Municipality seeks quotes for insurance coverage Continued from front page Municipal staff will request proposals from insurance companies for its 2005 insurance cover- age. As Brown reported to council Monday night, the municipality has been with Jardine OME since 2001. At the time, insur- ance cost $69,536. By 2004, the municipality's renewal policy with Jardine had jumped dra- matically to $163,399. The problem municipali- ties face is there is only one other competing insurance company — Frank Cowan. An interest- ing sidebar is that Cowan owns Guarantee Company, the bond com- pany South Huron is still trying to get money from over the delays and increased costs for the South Huron library, a sit- uation that saw the build- ing sit half completed for a year after the original con- tractor went broke. Brown said he hoped municipalities were "over the hump" as far as big insurance increases are concerned. Flood control project Tenders for the first phase of the estimated $700,000 flood control project south of Huron and Simcoe streets is scheduled to start in a couple of weeks. The first phase involves open ditch work and the smaller dry holding pond south of Simcoe which will be designed as park land. A.G. Hayter submitted the low tender at $50,920. The estimate for the work was $57,200. Flood committee mem- ber Armstrong said the tender for the large dry holding pond on the McBride property will go out in February. That pond will be able to hold 7 million gallons of water during major storms, enough to hold water from a 260 -acre watershed area. On the block The former Family Practice Clinic and PUC buildings on Main Street will be put up for sale. The municipality has been unsuccessful at try- ing to sell the PUC building through the public tender process and now that South Huron Hospital has opened the medical cen- Kelly Maidens on the Roof EXETER — The second annual Man on the Roof will commence this Friday at noon, as Chamber of Commerce president Kelly Maidens will be on the roof of McDonalds in Exeter to raise money for Easter Seals. The goal this year is $4,000 will all the money going to local chil- dren with disabilities. For a $25 donation, a ribbon is posted on the ladder in your name and Maidens time is reduced by 15 minutes. For a $50 donation a flag is post- ed on the ladder in your name and the amount of time Maidens has to spend on the roof is reduced by half an hour. A $500 donation will have an entire stair dedicated to the donor and the time is reduced by five hours. Donations can be made at McDonald's in Exeter or by calling Maidens while he is on the roof at 878-8378. tre, the building that was used for the Family Practice Clinic has been deemed surplus by the the municipality. Both buildings are owned by the Exeter Community Development Fund, which manages the money received through the sale of the Exeter hydro system. The municipality will request proposals from local realtors to sell the two buildings. A donation South Huron approved a request from the former trustees of the Village of Dashwood to donate $5,000 from the Dashwood Community Development Fund to the Dashwood and Area Fire Department to buy extri- cation equipment. Bluewater also kicked in $5,000 for the equipment. South Huron fire chief John Morgan said another $3,000 from the Grand Bend Legion will go to the equipment, as will addi- tional money from the department's coffers. The equipment is a hydraulic power unit, which will operate tools and includes a hose and a sprayer/cut- ter. Fire calls down Morgan was at the meet- ing to present his quarter- ly South Huron fire response report. He noted calls are down this year, with only 41 calls to date in Exeter so far in 2004, compared to 57 calls at the same time last year. The Exeter station responded to 22 calls between July and September, including two house fires, while the Huron Park station responded to six calls in the same time period. There were five calls in Dashwood, including one house fire. Morgan reported there was a problem in Exeter in July which saw youths setting Main Street garbage bins on fire. He said police have addressed the problem. There were also two false alarms at the Early Childhood Centre on Victoria Street which were pulled by the same child. Morgan said the centre has solved the problem by installing a plastic cover over the alarm. Zurich woman killed in crash MIDDLESEX CENTRE — A Zurich woman is dead after a single vehicle acci- dent occurred on Wonderland Road between Ten Mile and Nine Mile Roads in Middlesex Centre Township at approxi- mately 2:10 p.m. Oct. 29. Middlesex OPP say a 2002 silver Honda was northbound on Wonderland when it left the roadway and struck a hydro pole on the east side. Arva firefighters and the OPP attended the scene. The driver, 20 -year-old Mirja Filers, was trans- ported by ambulance to London Health Sciences Centre with life threaten- ing injuries. She was later pro- nounced dead at University Hospital. Eilers was the sole occupant of the vehicle at the time of AIS sells magazines to Annex Publishing EXETER — Exeter - based AIS Communications Limited announced Monday the sale of its publications to Simcoe-based Annex Publishing and Printing. The sale was finalized last Friday. 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