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Times-Advocate, 1983-06-01, Page 2Page 2 Times -Advocate, June 1, 1983 Two women jailed on assault charge Two London women were given jail sentences for their recent attack on a Lucan man. Penelope Sue Emery, 19, and Adele Nicoletti, 17, plead- ed guilty in London court to assaulting Douglas McLeod, 39, of 189 Frank St. Emery was given a sentence of one month and Nicoletti was handed a term of four months. Assistant Crown Attorney John Sutherland said Emery had been temporarily staying in McLeod's home and the two had a "disagreement of some sort" three days before the assault May 16 in the parking lot of Medway High School in Arva. - She and McLeod were drinking and driving May 16 when they picked up a friend of Emery's, Adele Nicoletti. Nicoletti has three prior assault convictions. The trio disagreed about "where they were going to go" in the car, Sutherland said, and McLeod, who works in Exeter, refused to lend them the money they requested. Emery then drove into the Medway parking lot and McLeod took the car keys from her and refused to return them, the prosecutor told provincial Ja E.H.A. Carson. She threatened to beat him. The women grabb- ed McLeod and "began pun- ching him in the head" Sutherland said. The two dragged McLeod - who has a brace on his leg - from the car and kicked him in the head while he was on the ground, the prosecutor said. They pulled down McLeod's trousers and turn- ed his pockets out, although nothing was stolen, court learned. The women fled when school custodians came out. Defence lawyer Scott Mer- rifield said Emery had a "tur- bulent adolescence" and within two years went through 18 placements involv- ing group and foster homes and her family home. Carson said while Emery's co -accused received a four= month penalty, she had a lengthy criminal record in- cluding multiple assault con- victions. Emery, he noted, has one' prior conviction for possessing a narcotic. The judge also ordered a one-year term of probation. HOSTESS OF THE YEAR — Cathy Seip of Exeter has been named Welcome Wagon. Hostess of the Year for Ontario for communities with populations under 10,000. The award goes to. -the hostess giving most all-round service to her community. T -A photo. Liberal task force in Goderich Monday The date for the Goderich visit of the Ontario Liberal Task Force studying pro- blems confronting rural municipalities has been changed. The meeting was scheduled for today in the Goderich council chambers, but -has been set over until Monday due to changes in the legislative 'schedule and the beginning of estimates at Queen's Park. Seven Liberal MPPs will be attending. including Huron - Middlesex representative Jack Riddell. 'fhe task force was established by Liberal Best Interest 113/x% Guaranteed Investment Certificates 'subject to change Gaiser•Kneale elInsurance' Brokers Inc. EXETER 235.2420 GRAND BEND 238.8484 CLINTON GODERICH 482.9747 524-2118 leader David Peterson to in- vestigate ways. Ontario's rural municipalities can ad- dress current socio -economy difficulties. Questions to be addressed: • How can we keep skilled labour in the small towns? plow can we make appren- ticeship and manpower train- ing programs more suitable to the smaller industrial facility? • How can we improve the revenue picture for small municipalities? How can we reverse the erosion of municipal government autonomy? • We need improved transportation between rural communities. How can we develop more effective and viable links between smaller centres? • We need a workable policy on the locating of in- dustrial facilities. How can srnaller municipalities be assisted to more effectively compete for jobs and investment? • Rural municipalities need a stronger voice in govern- ment. How can we strength( n their political clout? Kippers By MRS. RENA CALDWELL Mr. and Mrs. Art Wheeler, Mississauga visited friends in the Kippen area last weekend. THE BOOK SHOP New Ownership but an old tradition continues! Books for everyone The whole family Hey Kids...Don't forget Father's Pay June 19 We'll help you find the right book and gift wrap it - no charge Mon. - fat. 11130 a,m. vlw till 6 p.m. Accepted Friday till S p.m. (3111)2011.3171 13 Wellington St. N., St. Marys NOM 2V0 behind the Royal Sank I 1 AUCTION SLAVES -A couple of months ago,Gerry and Shirley Brintnell of Woodham purchased the services of mayor Bruce Shaw and Murdeno Glover at the Exeter Hawks auction. Saturday the pair fulfilled their obligations at the Brintnell farm. Above, Shirley Brintnell instructs Mrs. Glover in painting procedures and the mayor in weeding her flower bed. T -A photo. Huron Farm and Home news Be careful with pesticides If you plan on using ditch, creek or pond water as a car- rier in your pesticide applica- tions you should know that Ontario law requires a back- flow device (foot valve) to be installed on the intake hose. Failure to install this valve could cause part of your tank mix to be back siphoned into the water source after the pump is turned off. The result could be devastating for farmers ir- rigating or spraying sensitive crops downstream. Adopting the same logic as in the above situation it is legally and en- vironmentally unacceptable to wash pesticide application equipment in any surface water -(stream, ditch, pond, etc.). Disposal and decontamina- tion of empty pesticide con- tainerst m. is a w ys rob According 6 to p;recent Agriculture Canada`tesfs, an easy way to remove 99 per- cent of remaining pesticide residues in "empty" con- tainers is to triple rinse them using a 10 percent volume of water each time. Rinse water should then be added to the spray tanks. Once rinsed, all pesticide containers must be made unusuable through punctur- ing or breaking arid then . stored in a restricted area un- • til they can be taken to an ap- proved landfill site for burial. Paper or/ cardboard con- tainers may be burned pro- vided humans or animals are not exposed to the smoke. Many thousands of dollars are paid each year in yield loss compensation following the accidental drift of her- bicides from the target area onto adjacent sensitive crops. Spray drift can be reduced by taking into consideration such factors as -wind speed, spray droplet size ( involving nozzle size and pressure) and height of boom. When applying pro- ducts containing dicamba (eg. Kil-mor and Banvel) do not spray near sensitive crops (eg. soybeans, rutabagas) when temperatures exceed 25 degrees C. Problems involving any of the above matters can be dise sed with your local Pestrikips Control Q.jficer. • Wray Lampman - Doug Morrow (Elgin and Mid- dlesex Counties) 681-3600. Bruce Lobb (Bruce, Perth, Grey and Huron Counties) 482-3428. Ontario's Red Meat Industry Research was conducted by the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food in the past year on the Red Meat In- dustry in Ontario. Papers have been written on this research and are designed for discussion purposes. Hoping- ly they will stimulate new thinking on the long term direction of the red meat sec- tor in Ontario. In order to more properly obtain the 'views of par- ticipants in the industry, regional meetings will be held at - Walkerton, Wednesday, June 15, 7:00 p.m. at the Royal Canadian Legion Hall, McNab Street. London, Monday, June 20, 7:00 p.m., W.K. Riddell Room, Middlesex Municipal Building, 387 Ridout Street North. Oral and written briefs are welcomed from com- modity organizations and in- dividuals involved in red meat production and marketing. the research papers mo be obtained by writing -. Wm. Doyle Assisftinrit Deputy Minister of 1, Marketing and Development Legislative Buildings Queens Park, Toronto Ontario M7A 2B2. Request the publication "Summary Studies on the Red Meat Sector. 1982-83." Stan Paquette Farm Management Specialist, OMAF Rewiring costs extra ag in dual energy program PUC man:: ' lugh Davis informed the May meeting of . the commission that the dual energy program to add plenum heaters to suitable furnaces had hit an • unex- pected snag. A meeting in the Clinton of- fice of area PUC employees and contractors was told that if any of the furnaces have unapproved types of 60 amp service, the wiring would have to be brought up to ac- ceptable standards, and the cost would not to included in the contract package. "Usually there are a few hitches on any new program. If this means better and safer installation for our customers well and good. Too bad it wasn't worked out earlier", Davis commented, adding that another change has been made, and now Ontario Ilydro and the utility will split the sum of $200 towards the cost of conversion 50-50 instead of the previous one-third, two- thirds division. Work to install a 12 -inch main on William Street will begin July 4, and is expected to take three weeks. The west, side of the street, already hosting a gas line, three telephone lines and an eight inch water main to Canadian Canners has been chosen. The other side has storm and sanitary sewers, a domestic water line, and is slated for a proposed duct system for Bell Canada. The price of the pipe is the sante as three years ago; the company is overstocked. The new provincial sales tax will offset, that saving. The lower of two tenders, submitted by Triebner Elec- tric, was accepted to remove the old heating system in the Three charged in breakins Three London men face charges after being arrested by Exeter OPP who were in- vestigating area breakins this week. Tuckey Beverages at Huron Park was entered on Thursday and one man has been arrested in connection with that incident. Nothing was reported missing. Four residences in the Cedar Banks subdivision in Hay Township were entered on Wednesday and items valued at $1,500 were stolen. Two men were subsequent- ly arrested and most of the items were recovered. pumphouse and install a new one. The PUC is supplying the heating units, which Davis managed to buy wholesale. The PUC will continue to bank with the Bank of Mon- treal. After examining all submissions,Davis told the commissioners "we can justify this decision...it is financially more beneficial to the commission to accept the Bank of Montreal's terms." Flow testing of all hydrants has been completed, and col- our coding of the bonnets will begin as soon as time is available. Only six of the town's 117 hydrants were ranked in the lower' category. PUC employees have begun draining the Morrison Dam this week so stop logs can be put in place. In the annual spring ritual, two men are lowered over the spillway to drop steel bars into special holes to hold boards that add an additional five million gallons of storage capacity to the regular 50 million, in preparation for customers re- quiring large -amounts of water. At the same time the PUC will work with the Ausable-Bayfield Conserva- tion Authority to poison the weeds while the flow is reduced. The Exeter PUC was com- mended by the Electric Utilities Safety Association for 13 accident -free years in • the hydro department. The Commission asked secretary Marilyn Sillery to draft a letter to the Exeter BIA passing on their dissatisfaction in dealings with the contractors who built and landscaped the adjoining parkette. Davis had advised the contractor in 198() that one of the three large trees look- ed very unhealthy, and was assured it would be replaced if it died. When the tree was pro- nounced dead, it was replac- ed by what Davis referred to as a twig. The PUC manager wrote the company, giving the height and circumference at a given distance from the ground of the two original trees. That was over a year ago, and the contractor has not kept his promise to return and personally examine tit.. situation. "I find it upsetting that a company would deal with the town in this fashion", Davis concluded. He wanted the in- formation passed on so the BIA would make sure that particular company never got another job in Exeter. �DISTINCTIVE� WEDDING INVITATIONS HONORARY CHIEFS - - Students of the Toddler's Inn nursery school visited the Ex- eter police station Thursday. Shown taking over -Chief Ted Day's office are Gareth Lichty, Joshua Watson and Sunny Dinney. T -A photo. Wait on eye -sore petition Exeter's public works com- mitter agreed. .londay, to • wait a week before taking ady action on a petition from -residents in the north-east 'section of town regarding an "eye -sore.. in their neighborhood.. The petition from citizens bounding :Andrew St. N., George .St.. Devon I )rive and and Alexander St. E. com- plained that properly owned by Len Veri adjoining or in- the nthe immediate view and vicinity of their properties "is in a state of neglect and an eye -sore to the entire neighPurhood." • The petition noted that "the grass and weeds on said pro- perty as well as the mounds of earth allowed •to remain therein on these vacant ser- viced residential building lots are not only a detriment to the value of property adjacent but the ruts and mounds aro an enticement to the mos- quitos who enjoy the soggy hollows for breeding grounds. Parents of small children must be constantly on watch in the event their youngsters should wander to the area for fear of accidents due to debris left by the contractor." Wally Tomasik, who ap peared with a delegation of three at Monday's committee meeting, said there had been some effort to clean up the property on Saturday. A copy of /he petition had been sent to Veri. Mayor Bruce Shaw sug- gested that it would appear fair to delay action for a week to see if the cleanup continues and the delegation agreed with that suggestion. The matter will be updated at council's regular session this week. Select your wedding invitations from our complete catalogue. For you...a Keepsake copy of your Invitation ' in luxurious gold. Pize#0.4 T4.6 mes dvocate IFULL PROPANE SERVICE Birch Bark Trailer Park Hwy. 83, 11/2 miles East of Hwy 21 1404%0' 9O`4s Open 7 days 9 a.m. - Dusk Honk for service Phone 238-8256 es /Volk, /404.* Campers and Tenters Welcome Li "11 - BETA THETA EXECUTIVE — The new executive o the Beta Theta Sorority was named recently: From the left are recording secretary June Essery who was also named Girl of the Year, vice-president Elsie Tuckey, treasurer Donna Webster, president Shirley Walkom and corresponding secretary Marie Beaver. T•A photo. i LIONESSES HOST SENIORS — Members of the Exeter Lioness club entertained area senior citizens Monday night. Above, lionesses Liz Bell, Marian Knowles and Sue Pearson that with seniors Ray Francis, Marjorie Delbridge and Ruth Bullock. T -A photo. 24 oz. "Tasty Nu" sliced White, or 60% WW Bread in Exeter To Celebrate we have the following... "Super Anniversary Specials" (Exeter store only) "Fresh Made" yeast 249d... Donuts or cake Your Choke, Crusty, Soft, or Whole Wheat (Poppy, Sesame or Onion included) 69 Rolls 994 doz. Cheeses - fresh off the block'. Highest quality Canadian Medium Cheddar Cheese £49 lb. Maple Leaf Mozzarella 2391b. Imported Fresh *owe German Edam 229 lb. "Thank You" for your patronage over the last year! eahep & Cheee ..)Joule 443 Main St., Exeter 235.0332 i