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Times-Advocate, 1988-10-05, Page 2Page 2 Times -Advocate, October 5, 1988 ILDERTON QUEEN - Deanne Smith was crowned Queen of the 1988 II- - derton Fall Fair. Stanley councillors state intentions VARNA - Howard Armstrong, deputy reeve of Stanley township, has announced' his intention to try in Novemberfor the reeve's posi- tion left vacant when current reeve Clarence Rau said he would not be running in the next election. - ` Councillor Jack Coleman will run for deputy reeve. Bill Dowson will seek re-election as a council- lor, Councillor Richard Erb will run again, but has not decided yet which position he will be aiming for. Sharon Bunn has been hired as secretary for Stanley township. -She was one of 48 applicants. She began her duties October 3. - Stanley council has received a petitionfrom Lloyd Steinberg, a resident_ of the Durand-Huronview subdivision, asking for an extension of the proposed Highway 21 water- line beyond the two -and -one-half mile stretch desired by 80 percent of area property owners. Clerk Mel Graham said he. expects more peri- tons making the same request. The township's lawyer is drafting bylaws pertaining to financing the system and setting rates. Graham hopes the bylaws will be published by November 1. Objectors will. have an opportunity to air their views at that time. - A zoning change fromrecreation- al-residential. to recreational - residential special to reduce the set- back from 30 to 15 metres- was ap- proved at the September council meeting for a lot owned by Tony Denomme in plan 117. A geologi- cal survey was done after the zoning change was originally turned down by the ABCA. . Gordon Erb will receive no com— pensation for the 80 chickens in a flock of 81 killed by a weasel. A municipality only pays when such killing is the work of dogs or wolves. - - Two tilt drainage loans totalling 529,000 were approved. They are the .first applicationg received this year. Okay police report EXETER - Council Monday night accepted a number of recom- mendations from the town's police committee. Third reading was given to a by- law to adopt the agreement for the Huron County Communication. System. This agreement will be in effect until December 31, 1989. When councillor Morley Hall said he thought the original agreement was only good until the end of this year, councillor Gaylen Josephson replied, " We didn't give it. third reading before because we objected to the termination date. Now it's October and it's too late for any -4 body to make any changes now, so we will go until the end of 1989". Josephson added that the police budget was under estimates by 522,870 because of mi'npowcr shortages earlier this year. Budget expenditures and a five year forecast are to be ready by De- cember 1 of this year. In the police station parking lot Fleck Continued from front page `iamesses from the Mexican plant. "They flew the parts back here and we repaired them," she said. • "I feel Fleck owes the people at this plant something," Wright add- ed, but claimed the company was of the opinion nothing was owed the workers, including a severance Package. report, two no parking signs were approved on the west side of the driveway and .2 hour parking signs be placed for the island parking to the existing island next to the Post Office. When Reeve Bill Mickle quer= tioncd if the police parking lot was not public parking, Josephson an- .swered, " Ycs, it's public,: but we want five spots near the island for those on police business". The subject of the local Justice of .the Peace Doug Wedlake retiring in the near future was brought up. Mayor Shaw replied, " Bill (Mick - le) has raised that question with the Ontario Police Association •and chief Larry Hardy and police com- mittee chairman Dorothy Chapman have sent letters to the Attorney General's office. Councillor Hoogenboom added, " If police had to go out of town for JP work, the cost would be much higher". Councillor Chapman was absent from Monday's meeting as she is attending the MPA conference this. week~ On the subject of alternatives for __policing, Chapman and Hardy Will be contacting a sampling of munic- ipalities with -comparable popula- tions to compose a report of the following information: town, popu- lation, number of officers, support staff, budget, cost per capita and comments. Josephson stated that he felt the police committee has been very for-, tunate with the coherent, continu- ous co-operation while Dorothy' Chapman has been chairman ana hoped this would continue after the election. Nominations Continued from front page ipal government. Norma Peterson is a member of the Kincardine Council and she chairs the Library and Parks Committees. She is a graduate of the University of West - em Ontario and is marred with two children. Tony McQuail is a West Wawa - nosh Township farmer who is a member of the Huron Board of Edu- cation. He was president of the Hu- ron County Federation of Agricul- ture and the Foodland Hydro Committee. He is married with two children. Arlene Rae who is the wife of New Democratic Party leader Bob Rae will be the guest speaker. There will be a social hour after the nomination meeting. f Friendship House premieres video countering sex abuse misconceptions By Adrian Harte GODERICH - The Survival Through Friendship House pre- miered a videotape Wednesday eve- ning focussing on the problems of sexual abuse of women. The video, titled "No Means No" was produced in Goderich, Owen Sound and Kincardine to bring to light some of the misconceptions surrounding the crime of sexual as- sault. Julie Lee, executive director of the Survival Through Friendship House, hopes the video can be toured _through the county and shown to interested groups. The frank, and often disturbing, 23 -minute production presents sex- ual assault as more of a social prob- lem than just a crime. "We do not give women permis- sion to be assertive in our society," said Lee in a filmed interview, stat- ing that women are always assigned submissive roles as opposed to dominant males. This causes victims of sexual as- sault.to feel guilt and self -blame af- ter the attack. Many feel no one will .believe ibem and they will re- ceive no sympathy, but Lee stresses these attitudes must change. - "You cannot cause someone to rape you," says Lee, indicating that no one is guilty of provoking a sexual assault. "It is never the woman's fault," said one of the victims interviewed on the video. Another problem according to Lee is that people see the perpetrators of sexual assault as "sickos and cra- zies", but she points out that the criminals 4o not usually have psy- chological problems. It is simply a problem of how women are per- ceived in society. After the video presentation a panel of four addressed questions from the small audience. - Heather Ross, a Goderich lawyer, pointed out that while the court of appeal in Ontario was encouraging tougher sentences on sexual offend- : ers, some were still slipping. through the cracks due to inconsis- tencies in how seriously the crime of sexual assault is perceived. "There is a difference in sentenc- ing in our county between our dis- trict court and provincial court judge," charged Ross. - - Sergeant Rick Turnbull of the Goderich O.P.P; provided statistics on sexual assault in the district of Huron, Perth, Grey and Bruce counties. He noted this year there have been 73 reported cases of sexu- al assault, resulting in 28 charges. to 22 males and two young offend - dip at five accidents EXI TER - Officers from the Ex- eter OPP detachment investigated five accidents in past. week. On September 23, a vehicle driv- en by Doris Switzer, RR2 Dash- wood, went out of control on Ste- phen Concession road 18-19 south of Stephen sideroad 5-6, struck a ditch and rolled over. The vehicle was demolished, and the driver was taken to south Huron Hospital with minor injuries. Two accidents occurred on Mon- day. In the first, vehicles driven by Lois Hayter, RR 1 Zurich, and Douglas Phillips, Seaforth, collid- ed on County Road 11 south of County Road 6. Both drivers were taken to South Huron Hospital, - and both Vehicles were demolished. The same day, vehicles driven by Adriaan Brand, RR2 Crediton and John Hardwick, RR2 Grand Bend, collided do Sideroad 20 at Conces- sion 6-7, Stephen town hip. Dam- age was moderate. Hardwick was ' taken to the hospital in Exeter with minor injuries. On Tuesday vehicles driven by Henry Harvey, Exeter, and Kelli McBeath, Zunch, collided on High- way 83 west of Hay township road Concession 2-3. There were no in- juries, and damage was moderate to both vehicles. • Later that day vehicles driven by Leeland Restmayer, Dashwood, and Margaret Kapp, Huron Park, collid- ed on Huron Road 21 at Columbia Drive, Huron Park. The drivers were not injured, and damage to the vehicles was light. During the week, police laid five charges under the Criminal Code, 32 under the Highway Traffic Act, three under the Liquor Licence Act and one under the Canadian Auto- mobile Insurance Act. Teachers settle salaries CLINTON - The Huron County Board of Education and its 283 Sec- ondary School Teachers represented by District 45 of the Ontario Sec- ondary School Teachers' Federation are pleased to announce that they have reached an Agreement for the 1988/89 school year. The Agreement calls for a 3.73 percent increase in grid salaries ret- roactive to September 1, 1988, fol- lowed by another increase and a re- structured grid effective February 1, 1989. As of February 1, 1989, the minimum and maximum teachers' salaries will be $24,500 and $53,000 respectively. The total cost increase for the 1988.89 school year is approximately 4.55 percent. The Agreement also calls for small changes in staffing and bene- fits. The Board and the teachers arc pleased to point out that for three successive years the parties have concluded negotiations before Christmas in the year in which they started. ers. His detachment alone has laid four charges so far this year. Ross said she did not believe in "spontaneity" as a defense against sexual assault charges, or that "men are not thinking beings and are nor in control of their bodies or parts of their bodies." . Turnbull agreed, saying that those who claim "I was to the point I couldn't control myself' don't get any sympathy from him. Clothes, drinking, or locale have nothing to do with an assault on a woman. Blanche Savage, co-ordinator of the sexual assault centre in London, ' disagreed with treating the Crime as a legal problem. "The criminal justice system is not the answer," said Savage, claiming that convictions do, little to eliminate. sexual assault asa so- cial problem, although she said harsher sentences were in order. for VIDEO PREMIERE - Julie Lee (right).of the Survival Through Friendship House talks with -Drew Ferguson and Linda Thomas, co -producers of the "No Means No" videotape. Also present is Sophia Gubbins of the Kincar- dine Women's House_of Bruce -County. those convicted. • "Education is at the bottom of the thing here," she said. Savage noted that while Huron is lacking a rape crisis centre, London also does not have the group pro- grams to deal with the needs of vic- tims. Insufficient funding is a problem everywhere. Savage pointed out the London Sexual Assault Crisis Centre re- ceived about 80 calls a year'six years ago. This year she expects over 300. About 40 percent of all cases are through telephone coun- selling only. Savage also expressed ambiva- lence toward the June television ad- vertisements to increase public awareness of misconceptions about sexual assault. While she appre- ciated the spread of information, she regrets the lack of funds made available to the province's crisis centres. Lee said after the conference that while the video is slated to tour the county, she is aware it may run into some opposition.. She said' fundamentalist religious groups still cling to notions of submissive female roles.' Plus there is the problem of denial. -Many rural are- as assume sexual assault as an ur- ban problem; when it occurs in their community it is either ignored or. the blame is placed on the vic- tim. • Vote against homosexual ordination GRAND BEND - An exchange of ideas and -opinions, based on first-hand experience; drew over 100 people to the Grand Bend United Church on Monday night to hear Rev. Morley. Clarke and Rev. Rick Hawley -discuss thein- terpretation and implications of "Membership, Ministry and Hu- man Sexuality", the statement adopted by the 32nd General Council of the United Church of Canada when it met in Victoria in September. Both Clarke, a farmer. London minister and one of -three candi- dates for moderator, and -Hawley, minister of Exeter United Church, were voting delegates at the con- ference, and are General Council- lors until the -next conference. Some clear diffences emerged as chairman Brian Pearen directed the discussion- to some of the more controversial sections of thestate- ment. Clarke pinpointed the authority of scriptures as the basis of the debate currently taking place with- in the United Church. He said a consensus among scholars over 2,000 years interpreted passages in both Old and New Testaments as condemning homosexuality. "Only recently have gay theolo- gians reinterpreted scripture", he added. Hawley noted that the statement calls for further study of the au- thority and interpretation of scrip- ture. He said that some time ago an advertised get-together for this purpose brought 12 people. - Later in the discussion, Clarke - stressed the importance of this is- sue, and recommended the whole church engage in this study. ' - "On this rock we will be built or founder", he said. -Clarke Was concerned that an amendment to strike out the words "regardless of sexual orien-. tation" was defeated at General Council. He said one lesbian had been officially quoted as saying that "for us in AFFIRM, orienta- tion assumes practice". In response to a question from the audience, Clarke said that once a congregation had hired a minister who later proclaimed his homosexuality, it would be very difficult to dismiss him. He could appeal under the Charter of Human Rights. Hawley said he too had voted to have the amendment 'deleted. He emphasized the -importance of the session finding out whether or not a candidate was suitable for the ministry before passing that person on. "There is no impeachment pro- cess", Hawley said Hawley quoted Rev. Peter Scott in saying the questioning of a candidate's sexual orientation is not only inappropriate, but impo- lite. Clarke thought the question was relevant, and should be asked. Another questioner brought up the fact 80 percent of those who have contracted the deadly AIDS disease are practicing male ho- mosexuals, and asked if this had been discussed at Victoria. Clarke said he had raised the is- sue, and been subjected to the most insulting dressing-down he had ever experienced from a man aucnding that session for "daring to break the conspiracy of sr-• knee". Clarke also stated he felt the presentatkons by three high- profile United Church representa- tives before the vote influenced some delegates who had come with open minds. Another questioner triggered the first round of applause by asking WIs this a Christian organization? hat do we have at head office?" Clarke supports the Community of Concern's demand for a referen- dum among all United Church members on ordination of homo- sexuals, while Hawley disagrees with the concept of an ultimatum. One member of the audience twice spoke up wanting to know how the panelistswould react if science proved homosexuals had no choice about their sexual orien- tation. Clarke termed the question hypothetical, while Hawley said he hoped the church would listen "to that kind of information". Bob Southcott, a member of Grand Bend United Church, drew - applause when he said it seemed the people of his church were against the ordination of homo- sexuals. He asked that they stay in the church to address the,prob- lem, and not withhold mission funds, as that would hurt the wrong people. • - Southcott asked for a vote ,on the policy statement adopted by : the Huron -Perth Presbytery in Wingham on September 27 which stated: "We .expect members of the United. Church of Canada, and most certainly our ministers, to believe, practice and promote fi- delity within marriage and chastity outside marriage. Therefore we believe that self -declared; practic- ing homosexual persons -are unac- ceptable and unsuitable as -mini- sters in the United Church. of Canada." The vote at the public meeting was 74 for, two against, and a number of abstentions. DESCRIBING THE FORMAT - Brian Pearen, centre, outlines rules governing the discussion between Rev. Rick Hawley (left) and Rev. Morley Clarke at Grand Bend United Church. Co-op housing waiting EXETER - The town of Exeter's application for a Co-operative hous- ing program has been placed on a waiting list by the Ministry of Housing. • The local committee was told re- cently by Marnie Coulson of Com- munity Homes in London that the application had been accepted, but had been placed on a list for a new project program. This program is quite similar to the federal -provincial non-profit housing program, but it is fundcd entirely by the province. This pro- gram has been streamlined and should have better timing for Mu- nicipalities and will create an easier flow from application to approval. 1t was noted that 19 of the 54 Ex- eter applications had been rejected, duc to lack of information and Community Homes was given per- mission to contact the applicants for the required information. NEIL OSTRANDER PHOTOGRAPHY • Weddings • Portraits • Commercial • Groups • Framing • Custom Black & White R.R. 3 Parkhill, NOM 2K0 238-5056 Hwy. 81 halfway between Grand Bend and Parkhill Grand Bend Area' ' Medical Centre News T he directors of the Medical Centre are having an Open House . Wal Through of the centrQ on Sunday October 16188 in order that the community. can see what a beautiful ex- tension has been added 40 both the dental and medical side of the building The tour will be guided by staff and directors to point out all the improvements that . have been made along with accom- modation for those that are handicapped. - There will be coffee and doughnuts supplied under the leadership of Mrs. Irene Kennedy, one of the directors of the Medical Centre. Don't forget the Date - Sunday Oct. 16th, 2:00 p.m. -4:00 p.m. Come and see what you the people have done Staff: Dr. W.F. O'Connor Dr. R. Glaskin-Clay Caretaker: George Winegarden Executive: Chairman - Wm. Harwood • Vice Chairman - Larry :ole Past Chairman - Grant Taylor Finance Chairman - Ted Hunt Secretary - Lynne Desjardine Treasurer - Pat Kading Directors: Wm Sturdevant, Prosper VanBruaene, Jack Smeekens, Madelaine Dalton, Jean Pollock, Irene Kennedy, Bob Chapdelaine.