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Exeter, Ontario, Canada
Wednesday, August 10, 2005
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VanderBurgt and Beth Hundey. (photo/Pat Bolen)
Fraud artist targets service clubs
By Stephanie Mandziuk
TIMES -ADVOCATE STAFF
EXETER — A 47 -year-old woman from
South Huron is facing eight counts of
fraud and one count of attempted fraud
following an OPP probe that began in mid
June.
Police were called to Hansen's
Independent Grocer in Exeter over an
attempted fraud. An officer learned a
woman had entered the business and
tried to purchase about $430 worth of
groceries. She wanted to charge them to
a service club in Exeter. The officer dis-
covered the woman had no authority to
make these purchases.
During the course of their investigation,
police learned there was a possible con-
nection to a second service club in
Exeter. Police say several grocery pur-
chases were made in May and June
totalling $1,328.
Ron Helm, past president of Branch 167
of the Royal Canadian Legion, says the
See FRAUD page 2
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Residents demand
flood solution
By Scott Nixon
TIMES -ADVOCATE STAFF
SOUTH HURON — Concerned Exeter
residents packed the Olde Town Hall
Monday night urging council to solve the
flood situation.
Wayne DeLuca and James Parker, both
of Pryde Boulevard, led the delegation
and submitted a five page petition to
council requesting that "council immedi-
ately identify and correct the source of
flooding in the east end of Exeter, in par-
ticular the immediate vicinity of Pryde
Boulevard."
Referring to the recent July 16 flood,
the petition also states that until the prob-
lem is solved, further development nega-
tively impacting the Anne Street drain
should be "curtailed and
all new water control
efforts include the diver-
sion of water to a sec-
ondary route other than
the Anne Street drain."
The petition, signed by
82 people, also requested a
public meeting concerning
the municipality's plan to
solve the problem.
DeLuca stressed the importance of
council keeping the public informed.
Without consultation with the public, he
said there are too many rumours.
"That type of talk is not good for the
community ... We have to work together
and put an end to this," DeLuca added.
hi addition to the tangible damage done
by the floods to properties, homes and
household items, DeLuca said "you can't
put a price on the hidden damage" such
as the stress, anxiety and tension felt by
Exeter residents who fear another flood.
Parker urged the municipality to hold
off on development that would cause
water to empty into the Anne Street
drain.
Council is already moving ahead with
an $800,000 project south of Simcoe
Street that will see a large dry holding
area dug to hold up to 32,000 cubic
metres of water. That project, intended to
be done last fall, was delayed and is now
slated to be done this fall. With that pro-
ject under way, council is now looking to
tackle the problem of flooding in Exeter's
east end, the portion Monday night's
group was most concerned with — areas
such as Pryde, Rivers and Motz boule-
vards, Sherwood Crescent and Eastern
Avenue.
Chief administrative officer Larry
Brown said he and Mayor Rob Morley
recently met with the property owners
(the Hamathers, Dows and McBrides)
east of Eastern Avenue to pursue a flood
control project in that area. He said the
property owners are willing to look at
solutions for the flood problem and initial
engineering work will be done by engi-
neer Bill Dietrich, who also engineered
the Simcoe Street flood project.
Morley, answering one of the delega-
tion's concerns, said there will be a public
meeting concerning the new
project.
Members of the audience,
which exceeded the council
chamber's seating capacity,
wanted to know how the
municipality started working
on the flood problem after a
major flood in 1996.
Coun. Pete Armstrong said
the former town of Exeter
council held meetings with firm B.M. Ross
and the concerning property owners for
five years and a deal was never worked
out. That plan was abandoned and the
municipality then hired Dietrich and
began work on the Simcoe Street project.
"We've always worked to do this,"
Armstrong said of a flood control project,
adding one of the reasons behind getting
the south project completed was to open
the door for positive negotiations with
landowners concerning a project in the
east.
Douglas Fletcher of Exeter suggested
the municipality expropriate land if cer-
tain landowners don't participate in the
project.
"After nine years, it's time you recog-
nized that right if landowners walk away
from the table," he said.
However, Morley said expropriating
land is "a seven year process," and nego-
tiating with landowners in a friendly
manner is ultimately the better way to go.
See COUNCIL page 2
The petition, signed
by 82 people, also
requested a public
meeting concerning
the municipality's plan
to solve the problem.
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