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Times-Advocate, 1988-08-17, Page 1PEDESTRIAN DOWN - Theresa Klimkosz was hospitalized Tuesday after she walked into the side of a moving motorhome on Main St. Above, ambulance attendants place Klimkosz on a stretcher. ••. OPP investigate fatality Devil's elbow claims life EXETER- - Officers from the Ex- eterOPP detachment were called 10 seven accident scenes .during the week of August 8 to 14. One was' fatal. A vehicle drivenby bandy A: Finkbcincr, 33 of RR2 Crcditon left sideroad 20 in the area known locally as Devil's Elbow in Ste- phen township at approximately 1:45 a.rrl. on Sunday, August 14 and struck a tree. Finkbeincr was. pronounced dead at the scene. His vehicle was demolished. The first collision of the week occurred on August 8 between ve- hicles driven by Melissa Scldon, RR3 Exeter, and Betty Dowell, RR5 Clinton, at the intersection of County Road 6 and Highway 4 in Usbornc township. There was moderate damage to the Dowell ve- hicle, and severe damage -to the Seldon vchicic. On August 10 Warren Asmus, Serving South Huron, North Middlesex One Hundred and Seventeenth Year RR2 Zurich, was eastbound on the Hay -Stanley township line when . his vehicle was struck by .an unat- tended vehicle owned by John Gam- - ble, RR2 Zurich. The latter had been accidently set in motion. There were no injuries and damage was Slight. A vchicic driven by Shawn Mona- han of•Willowdale failed to nego- tiate a curve on flay township road L -1:1 -LRC on August 12 and skid- ded into a ditch. No damage or in- juries were reported. On Saturday a vehicle driven by Mark Burton, Exeter, failed to stop at Waterloo and William Streets. It skidded across Waterloo, struck a pole and then a tree. Passenger Norman Atkins of Huron Park suf- Cued minor injuries. The vchicic was demolished. • Also on Saturday, driver Geoffrey Boyd, Kitchncr,wns passingseveral vehicles while westbound on High- way 83 in Usborne township when he encountered an oncoming east- bound vehicle. He swerved to the left shoulder of the road, striking a tree and a sign before the vchicic came to a stop in a cornfield'. Dam- age to the vehicle was described as moderate. There -were no injuries. In the third Saturday accident, a vehicle driven by David Brysoin, -Huron Park was northbound on Highway 4 in Usborne township. Thc driver was forced to leave the roadway when traffic slowed sudden- , ,ly. He struck two guide posts, causing light damage to the vehicle. During the week, officers investi- gated 40 general occurrences, laying eight criminal charges, five under the Compulsory Automobile Insu- rance Act, four under the Liquor Li- cence Act and 59 under the Highway Traffic Act. vocate & North Lambton Since 1873 EXETER, ONTARIO, August 17, 1988 Price Per Copy 60 Cents EXETER - The town's police de- partment has been given a clean bill of hcalrh by the Ontario 'Police Commission, and town. council is calling the report a • remarkable achievement within the four years chief Larry I Tardy has been with the force:• The Commission's in-depth re- port finds no serious flaws with the police amongrosv nce s es reports on down," said Hardy, who presented the report to council. "I'd stack this police force up against any of the 122.othcr forces in the province," he added. Reeve Bill Ivtickle noted concerns about the lack of funding support from the province were not ad- dressed in the report. Councillor Dorothy Chapman raised a motion Chief claims Exeter Police Force and only sin- gles out instances where room must be made in the budget to improve the station and to replace aging equipment. Thc report praised the force's morale, good community re- lations, cooperation with othcr po- lice forces, and their internal affairs. "The administration of this force leaves nothing to be desired," reads the report by T.J. Bird. "My in- spection/ review processrevealed this force is well and efficiently managed and offers good service to its community and, in turn, holds a reasonably good" profile in the eyes of the community." ."This year's audit has been the most. thorough I have ever seen. He went through everything from Council protest bilingualism . EXETER - Council dcba:ed Mon- far too much already for bilingual- the population," he said. "I don't day evening the best method to ex isrn, but I don't think a referendum think they're going to be responsive press their displeasure at the steps is the way to go," stated Councillor to our ideas.'Shaw cited the Sun - the Ontario government is taking to Dorothy Chapman. day shopping and separate school+ make Ontario officially bilingual. Hoogenboom said he had never funding issues as instances of ig- A letter from the Alliance for the had any trouble with travelling in noring popular opinion to pass leg - Preservation of English in Canada Quebec once he made it clear he did islation. fle saw no difference with urged council to make the issue the not know French, but he then said the bilingualism issue. object of a referendum on the bal- Quebecers do not believe in bilin- Councillor Morley Hall agreed, lots`for the next municipal elec.- gualism, citing unilingual signs as but warned against complacency tions and to forward thc results to an example. when dealing with government. the province. Reeve Bill Mickle said a letter of "l'm pessimistic about our in - Deputy reeve Lossic Fuller at concern to thc government would (Thence," added Shaw. first made a motion to file the re- probably accomplish as much as a floogenboom pointed out Exctcr quest, but the motion failed. Coun- referendum. Mayor Brucc Shaw probably needed only three copies cillor Ben 1loogenboom then mo- agreed. of the Frcc Tradc deal in French, tioned to adopt the request and hold "I think this government is com- a refere ndUM. mitred to the making -this a bilin- "I think it has cost the taxpayer guai province . - for four percent of Three charged in altercation EXETER - Three arca residents Exctcr police investigated two were charged with a number of of- two-vchicic collisions last Week, fences after an altercation at thc On August 12 George Barwick, Exctcr Legion on. Sunday, August Godcrich, was southbound on Main 14. St. when hit by a vchicic driven by Twenty-nine-year-old Thomas, Jamie Tomes; Centralia, exiting McVecncy, Centralia, was charged from.Canadian Tire. with 'having liquor displayed on The next day, police were called public view, resisting arrest, as- when Sheila Penhale, Exeter, was g -police and wilfully dam - hacking out of her driveway and col- ing the town police cruiser., r c with a vchicic bcing driven James McVecncy, 27, of Exctcr was charged with being intoxicated in a public place and obstructing police. Larry Parsons, 29, also of Exctcr was charged with obstructing po- licca Thc three will appear in Exctcr court en September: 13._ south on Main St. by Frances Westetaken of Hensall. Earlier in the week Theresa Klim- kosz, Exctcr, walked into the side of a northbound Winnebago driven by Carman Dandy of Dutton while crossing Main St. She was kept overnight at South Huron Hospital. Big '0' buys plastics company EXETER - Big '0' Inc. of Exeter, Ontario, and NSP Inc. of Clarkson, Ontario.havc announced that Big '0' has acquired the plastics manufactur- ing assets of NSP located in Si Thomas, and Deschaillons, Quebec. NSP produces a line of plastic tubing and associated products. . There will be no disruption to the service being offered to customers from either of the NSP locations. Big '0' manufactures and markets across Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom a complete range of corrugated pipe productsfor drain - but of those received by the munic- pal office, most have found their way tothe dump. Council rejected the motion to hold a referendum in favor of send- ing a letter of concern to all three provincial parties and to APEC. "Thc input ofthe population in this country has no effect on the government as far as this piece of legislation is concerned," said coun- cillor Gaylan Josephson. Application denied Exctcr will not receive PRIDE funding from the province to spruce up the town's streets and recreation centre this year. Thc engineering for the application cost the town S2,500. Mickle wondered if reap- plying next year would cost another S2,500. Clerk Elizabeth Bell said it might, because since the arena is to be metal -clad at the town's expense, the entire perspective of the applica- tion would be different. A request for funding to improve Victoria Street would likely be added to the application. I didn't know these grants were being handed out for the purpose of engineers making money,' observed Mickle. Third variance Chapman noted that another ap- plication for a minor variance in the Len Vcri subdivision development has been received. "When you get the same builder coming back for the third time you have to question it," said Chapman. Solicitor Randy Evans explained minor variances are usually needed when a house has been built with- out exact reference to the surveyed lot lines. "Whcn you have a brand-new sub- division and the lots are just laid age systems in-siics -from-I- I/4" -to 36" diameter, with optional filter ma--- out, there's no excuse for it, said teri:lls, including large diameter corrugated pipe, both single and dual wall Chapman. for agricultural, municipal and industrial applications. • Mrcklc suggested the 5300 fee for NSP will continue to manufacture and sell its non -plastic product lines in a minor variance should be in - St. Thomas and Deschaillons, includingtlay flue liners, clay brick, sewer creased beyond the cost of survey - pipe, Jetmaster fireplaces and other associated products. ing a lot. to separate police force income and expenditures from town finances to allow an exact operating cost for the force tobe determined. "So we know where we stand," she said. Council approved the motion. Councillor Morley Hall raised the issue of foot patrols, citing a lack of public contact with cruiser -bound officers. "How can they get a closer con- tact if they're in a cruiser?" asked Hall. "How can they check store fronts from a cruiser?" Chapman, angered by the sugges- tion, defended the officers on the ba- sis of their workload, stating in- creases in incidents and paperwork Please turn to page 2 Vote for strike at Fleck HURON PARK About 180 of the primarily fe- male 500 -member work force at Fleck Manufacturing Inc. attended a meeting on Sunday to hold a strike vote. When the ballots were counted, 157 were in fa- vour, 10 were opposed; and thc remaining ballots were spoiled. Thc plant was the scene of a long and often violent labour dispute 10 years ago when 68 employees clashed with up to 500 pojice officers during a strike that lasted for 168 days over demands for a first con- tract and union security. • The Huron Park workforce at present tarns an aver- age of $7.40 per hour, not including benefits, produc- ing automotive wiring. Fleck has another wire man- ufacturing non-union plant in Tillsonburg.employing 600 workers, and a plant in Mexico paying about S 1.50 per hour to 1,500 workers. Huron Park workers have heard rumours that Fleck may move its entire automobile wiring operation to Mex ico. Fleck began contract negotiations with the lluron Park work force on July 11 by asking that the present contract be frozen for two years, according to Bert Rovers, London, the national representative for the Canadian Auto Workers. Rovers said word was received from the labour ministry on Monday that Mr. J. Reed has been ap- pointed conciliation officer, and a time andplace to . meet will be arranged soon. A number of options arc open to both the com- pany and the union. The union will not be in a legal strike position until and unless thc conciliation•officer decides a conciliation board would serve no useful purpose and issues a no -board report. Sixteen days later, Fleck could impose a lock -out, or the union could call for a strike. Either party can request mediation services from the labour minister. BIKE RODEO - Goderich.O.P.P. Constable John Marshall keeps a watchful eye over the Hensall playground's bike rodeo last week. Over 30 participants tested their bike handling skills. Here Shane Wilcox gets the go-ah•eod t� leave the starting gate. AUDREY Il Something monstrous growing at Playhouse Page 2 STONEY/RIDGE Condos come to Exeter J Page 5 SUPREME QUEEN Amanda MacDonald goes international Page 11 NEW PAD Next hockey season sees new equipment Page 1A EXPRESS Exeter is ready for Senior D tourney Page 2A CONSERVATION No -till farming essential fo future Page 13A