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HARD AT WORK — A group of three to five year olds work at cutting and
ning, Dawn Crobe is running the program for children,
pasting at Grand Bend library Saturday mor-
T-A photo
Board may turn off floodlights
in effort to curb vandalism
PINERY
FLEA MARKET
Open Every Sunday
May 4th - Sept. 28
3 miles south of
Grand Bend, Ont,
Hwy. 21
238-8382
tile contained the fire
retardent material to meet
fire resistant specifications,
The whole question of
asbestos use .and con-
centration in schools has
sparked a great deal ,of
controversy in the province.
Recently some schools in
Toronto were closed when
the concentration was found
to be at unacceptable levels.
The ground breaking for
the new Dashwood Zion
Lutheran Church will take
place Sunday morning and
construction is expected to
start the following week.
Building chairman
Howard Datars told the T-A
Monday night that the tender
of Bratt Construction of
Hyde Park had been ac-
cepted. Six other bids were
considered.
Daters said the regular
and this week in Milton, two
high school technical wings
were temporarily closed to.
students. •
Also a maintenance.
worker in a York borough
school developed a lung
disease from working with
asbestos and died About a
year ago. The board eon?
firmed that Ken Gardner
developed an Asbestos-
Sunday church service
would begin at the normal
time of 11 a.m. at the Dash-
wood United Church and
then move to the original
Lutheran Church site for the
ground breaking ceremony.
The original church was
destroyed by fire on April 5,
1979.
The architect . firm in
charge of the church con-
struction is Snider, Reichard
and March of Waterloo.
related chest condition in
1978 and died at the age of 60.,
Be had been. employed by
the board since 1950. and
came in contact with
asbestos by removing
Asbestos coverings on pipes
and boiler fittings.
Dashwood church
to be rebuilt
Arriving this week
More to come next week
NURSERY
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• Shade Trees
• Flowering Shrubs
• Potted Roses
• Hedging Plants
Huron Ridge Acres
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R.R. #2 Zurich, Ont, Phone 565-2122
1 1/2 W, of Zurich & 3'h mi. north
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prices on
everything
in our stores
Nether you're looking for men's
wear or designer ladies fashions,
you won't beat these
VI NES
bours and police cause for
investigation,
Dangerous asbestos levels being checked
in all Huron county ublic schools
for atrial period.
"We could maybe turn the
lights out for a trial period
and the spring and summer
would be a good time to test
the proposal," she said.
Lighting around school
buildings is used all year
round, even during the,
summer months when the
building are not in use.
Board member M. Mulvey
suggested that school.
principals could bring the
board up to date onvandalism
to school property.
"Vandalism runs in cycles
or certain areas," he' said.
"In the rural areas, perhaps
vandals are more tempted
by more lights."
Some board members
expressed concern that the
OPP don't check rural
schools often enough for the
lights-off theory to be tested
properly, However, trustee
Bert Morin said the trial
period should be lengthy so
the board would have a
substantial period time to
draw conclusions from.
"We can't make the trial
period too short because
most vandalism will be in the
discussing Hawaii 5-0.
Apparently it is going off the
air. At present it is the
longest running show on
television. (Speaking of long
running shows, did you
realize that MASH has lasted
longer than the Korean
War?)
Anyway, these two deejays
were guessing how the
powers-that-be would do
away with Steve McGarrett.
They suggested that the top-
cop will fall out of a
helicopter into an exploding
volcano. I'm afraid that I
haven't been watching
enough television lately to
'see how accurate their
predictions are.
It may sound far-fetched,
but then we never thought
the fugitive would ever catch
the one-armed man, did we?
Or was it a one-armed man?
All I remember now is that
we sure stayed close to the
T.V. set that night for David
Janssen's last show.
Another great television
series episode which stands
out in my mind was the day
that Katie and Robbie had
triplets. Like J.R.'s shooting
and the fugitive's last chase,
the episode received plenty
of advance promotion.
You don't remember Katie
and Robbie? Robbie was one
of. Fred McMurray's Three
Sons. All season we had been
waiting for the baby, when
suddenly T.V. Guide hinted
that it would be triplets.
Which reminds me, has the
girl from Eight is Enough
who married Merle the Pearl
had her baby yet?
The Huron County Board
of Education will investigate
the theory of discontinuing
the use of floodlights around
schools at night in an effort
to curb vandalism on school
property.
John Henderson, chair-
man of the management
committee, presented a
report to the board Tuesday
that recommended the use of
outside floodlights at schools
be discontinued to deter
vandalism and other illegal
activities. Henderson told
the board that the Ontario
Provincial Police suggested
that if schools are left in total
darkness, any lights seen
around the building will alert
neighbours and police.
"The OPP have suggested
that there is not as much
damage if there are no lights
around a school," he
said."And we could also
conserve energy at the same
time."
Board. member Shirley
Hazlitt said that the
OPP may have suggested
such a move there was no
Study to support the theory
and asked the board to try it
aawmg, ammo,
Mary's
musings
BY MARY ALDERSON
I have found a way to
survive the play-offs . Of
course, I am referring to the
next six or so weeks of
National Hockey League
play-offs which I am going to
be forced to watch on
television.
I joined a hockey pool.
If you're going to be
watching hockey, you might
as well make the game a
little more interesting. Join a
hockey pool, and invest some
money in the game. It makes
it a lot easier to watch if
you're rooting for one of the
teams.
Since I was a non-
committed hockey fan, I
rather like the pool I'm in. In
this particular pool we pull a
number from a hat, and the
total score of the game has to
add up to that number. It
doesn't matter who wins or
loses.
The theory that pools
make television more in-
teresting could be carried
one step further. For
example, I would like to
organize a "Who shot J.R.?"
pool. I suppose people would
argue that Dallas is in-
teresting enough and doesn't
need pools to get viewers.
But ,when they leave you
hanging all through the
spring and summer to find
out "whodunnit", you cer-
tainly need something to
pass the time.
We weren't big Dallas
fans, but we got caught up in
all the publicity over J.R.'s
shooting. In that so-famous
last episode. I think we
counted no less than seven
people with a good motive
for shooting J.R.
I have predicted that his
mistress did it. For those of
you not familiar with this
night-time soap opera, I
believe his mistress is also
his wife's sister, just to make
the plot a little more ex-
citing.
Others have argued with
me that the footsteps heard
just before the shooting were
masculine. But that's
debatable. I have also heard
it predicted that the assassin
Will be someone who hasn't
yet been introduced to the
viewers. Or maybe it was a
paid killer, hired by the
whole cast of Dallas. It was
even suggested that he was
shot by his own dear mother.
Does J.R, die? No, of
course not - he's the man
everybody loves to hate.
Recently I heard two disc
jockeys on the radio
good weather," he com-
mented. "We should delay
the trial period to February
to see the difference between
summer and winter."
Trustee' Herb Turkehim
said that while some were
concerned over policing of
the rural areas the board
should also have some input
from the municipal police
forces in the County.,
"We should hear from the
municipal forces because
they may feel differently
about it," he said. "most of
the damage is occurring in
the larger schools anyway."
The board agreed to wait
another month before
adopting any recom-
mendations or initiating a
trial program. They will
solicit reports from school
principals and municipal
police officials about the
program as well.
Soine school boards have
abandoned the use of outside
lights and found the practice
to be an effective deterrent
against vandalism. The OPP
also support the practice
claiming that if aschoolis left
in total darkness, any lights
in the area will give neigh-
Pinery liquor
charges up
Liquor charges were up
-.again this- week: 24„
charges were laidOntario,
Provincial Police at Pinery
Park.
Nine charges were laid
under the criminal code and
seven charges were laid
under the highway traffic
act. Two impaired drivers
were charged, and one
arrest warrant was
executed. One case of wilful
damage was investigated,
along with 10 'miscellaneous
occurrences.
Developer
purchases
core home
One of the few remaining
private homes in Exeter's
business core has been
purchased by a local
developer.
Len Veri told the T-A he
has some plans for the
property which he purchased
from Miss May Jones
recently.
Veri said he's had little
time to work on the project
but that a use for the
property situated at the
corner of Sanders Street
West and Main should be
determined within the next
12 months.
Miss Jones a former
primary Sunday School
superintendent for the
Exeter United Church and
long time employee of the A
and H Supermarket is
currently residing in theBlue
Water Rest Home near
Zurich.
A good driver is not just
one who obeys traffic rules,
but one who is quick enough
to dodge those who don't.
Huron Comity Seheds have
been checked, or are in the
proceSS of being checked, for
dangerous: asbestos levels,
Director of Education,
D.J. Cochrane said Tuesday
that the board is carrying out
a directive from the Ministry
of Education to check all
schools in its jursidictioe,
The Ministry issued the edict
last month, requiring all
.boards to conduct a study of
school buildings.
"Our plant superin-
tendent, Bob McVean and his
maintenance staff have
checked or are in the process
of checking,all' schools in the
county," Cochrane said,
"We have also been in touch
with the architects of these
buildings to determine if
asbestos was used and
where."
Cochrane admitted there
have been some staff con-
cerns over the problem but
the inspections have not
turned up anything so far.
In many schools asbestos
Was used around duct work
and many makes of ceiling