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i t n denied
are_ a l Hca to
GoIf course slip
Food had been consulted and
both disagreed with a buffer
as large as the one requested
by Westco.
Davidsonrtsaid both the
planning board and Ust,orne
council would be recommen-
ding to county council that the
application not be supported.
"If the county does refuse his
request, Mr. Westcott hi:s the
option of appealing to the On-
tario Municipal Board, which
could unilaterally satisfy his
request. U not, he is free to re-
apply to the township once
more, he said.
Westcort said he expected
the matter to go to an OMB
hearing. Mary Lou Sander-
son, his lawyer, will be at the
April 29 meeting of county'
council to make a brief
presentation, he said.
An application by Allan
Westcott, owner of the Iron-
wood Golf Course, to extend a
2,000 toot restricted
agricultural zone around his
course has been denied by
Usborne Township council on
the recommendation of Huron
County Planning Board.
The planning board's ad-
vice was guided by a report
from the county planning
department which stated,
among other things, that such
a designation usually applies
to areas of urban or recrea-
tional useage. The golf course
is designated open space in
the county official plan.
According to county plan-
ner Gary Davidson, "it was
felt that a redesignation
would adversely affect the
LOCAL MODELS - Mary Fisher and Dean Frayne of Ex-
eter will be appearing as models in the May 5 Cancer
Society fashion show at the South Huron Rec Centre.
Miss Canada joins
fashion show models
Carf Cann chairman of
special events for the Exeter
Branch of the Canadian
Cancer Society reports that
plans for the fashion show to
be held in the South Huron
Rec Centre ice arena on May
5 are being coincided to
produce another good show
this year.
Under' the guidance of
Mrs. Melva Ecker co-
ordinator of the show, at
least three meetings have
been held, with all branches
of the Cancer Society in
Huron County being
represented. Each branch is
responsible for advertising
the show in its respective
areas. Local schools are
being approached to make
advertising posters as well
as colorful murals to
decorate the show.
- Tickets are distributed to
all centres and as last year,
bus loads are being planned
to transport 'ticket holders
from %Ingham and
Goderich. Many business
firms have indicated a good
support in supplying a large
member of excellent prizes
for the draw of lucky ticket
'owners.
The stage will be raised
this year to allow the
audience a better view of the
show. The number of chairs
and seats will be the same as
last year.
The School of Elegance of
London will be providing the
professional models in-
cluding Karen Baldwin,
current reigning Miss
Canada. Karen is very busy
with her regular activities
plus attending many other
fashion shows. She works in
Toronto at a fashion show
right up to 5:00 p.m. on the
same day as the Exeter
show. So it is necessary for
her to be flown directly to
London and hence by car to
Exeter to arrive on time for
the 8:30 p.m. show here.
Merry Rags of Grand Bend
supplies all clothes for the
lady models and promotes
the show. They will also have
four local models, Eileen
Frayne, Mary Fisher, Joy
Hogg and Gail Spencer
participating in the show as
well as one male model,
Dave Shepherd from Grand
nearby farmers and the ex-
pansion of their operations.
Since the course operates for
only part of the year, the
change would affeet the
farmers and not greatly help
the golf course," he said.
Continuing requests and
correspondence between
Westcott and the township
.eventually, led to a public
hearing February 4 to hear
both sides of the issue.
Several farmers whose land
would fall under the zone felt
their operations would be
hampered if the redesignation
proceeded. It was pointed out
that the Agricultural Code of
Practice reqplres. a cer-
tificate of'compfa`nce to set
up or expand a poultry or
livestock farm in a restricted
zone.
The planning department's
report pointed out that five
golf courses in Huron are cur-
rently designated agriculture
or restricted agricultural and
do not have buffer zones. This
Building is
still slow
was made in rebuttal to,4111
earlier complaint by Weateott
that his was "the only golf
cowse in Huron County which
does not have the benefit of
proper designation and buffer
areas."
' The report also defended
- the surrounding farmland
because of its high quality.
Two officials from the
Ministry of Agriculture and
LOW HOUR
Area residents will lase an
hour's sleep this weekend.
Daylight Saving Time starts
officially at 2 a.m. Sunday.
Using the old adage
"Spring Ahead", move your
clocks ahead one hour before
retiring Saturday night.
A VICTORY PARADE - The Lucan-Biddulph fire truck paraded the new OHA Junior "D" champion Lucan Irish
through the streets of the village early Thursday morning after their 4-3 win over Langton. T -A photo
The month of March failed
to generate any im-
provement in the number of
- building projects started . in
Exeter.
Building official Brian
Johnston reported this week
that only 115,500 worth of
construction was approved.
This included three per-
mits for residential
renovations and additions
valued at 510,500, two
commercial permits for
53,500 and one institutional
for 51,500.
The permit total continues
to lag behind last year's
record low..
Bend. Jim Swan of CFPL TV
will M.C. the show.
Cann said that a lapse of
two years from the last show
in 1980 showed an increase of
costs all the way down the
line, thus the necessity of
increasing the price of the
ticket to $7.00. He said
comparable shows in the
cities were asking $10 to 512.
Those attending the Exeter
show would see one of the
best fashion shows available
at a bargain price and also
allow them to support the
work of local branches of the
Canadian Cancer Society.
Next week's paper will
provide a full list of the
fashion show program.
Drop plan
to collect
Exeter won't proceed in an
attempt to collect the tests of
last year's rezoning ap-
plication from Laidlaw
Transport.
The town expended over
$6,000 in costs related to the
planned mewl* L,aWtttw,to.
a site on Highway 83 at the
eastern outskirts.
Council had authorized
their solicitor to proceed
with attempts to collect the
costs from the firm, but
reversed that decision this
week when the solicitor
asked for a decision on
whether he should proceed
with a writ in view of the
firm's stand that they would
not pay the costs involved.
Finance chairman Bill
Mickle questioned whether
the town had much of a legal
leg to stand on, adding that
he was torn two ways on the
subject.
Councillor Tom Hum-
phreys said the town was
trying to attract industry
and it was not advantageous
from that standpoint to be
going into a suit against one
that was located here now,
His motion to halt
collection attempts was
approved unanimously.
Members appeared to be
of the opinion that in the
future, the town should have
agreements with anyone
before incurring any costs on
such mallets.
A TASTE OF VICTORY - lucan Irish managers Bob
Taylor and Jim Freeman get a sip from the OHA Junior
"D" championship trophy won by their club Wednesday
night in Langton. T -A photo
Planning board gets
one new member
A meeting of the Exeter
planning board called for
last Wednesday had to be
cancelled due to a lack of a
quorum. • ,
Only member Robert
Spears was in attendance for
the session, along with
secretary -treasurer Brian
Johnston and bounty planner
Gary Davidson .
Absent were Stu Homuth,
Dorothy Chapman, Alvin
Epp, Ron Cottrell and
Dwayne Tii�ney.
Business on the agenda
will be dealt with at the next
regular meeting on May 20.,
The board at present has
two vacancies.
Monday night, council ap-
proved the appointment of
Bruce Eccles to the planning
board after he volunteered his
services. Mayor Shaw in-
dicated he was still seeking
another member to fill the
final vacancy.
.Serving South Huron, North Middlesex
ex",
One Hundred and Ninth Year
& North Lambton Since 1873
EXETER, ONTARIO, APRIL 21, 1982
Price Per Copy 50 cents
For municipal purposes only
Following two four-hour
marathon meetihigs in the last
week, Exeter council finally
settled on this year's mill
rate,, resulting in an, increase
of slightly aver five percent
for municipal. purposes.
. "1 would like to point out,
what We have done tons ht on-
ly affects part of the to. lax
dollars collected in Exeter,"u employee salary struc-
commented finance conimit- tura qnd also issued $state
tee chairman Bill Mickleln(urea
a : to , neighbouring
Monday's final budget
prepared statement tablegetdat : mimieipalities that the latter.
were: not contributing their
deliberation. ' To maintafh A fair share to local recreation
reasonable taxation requires; and culture facilities and.pro-
all areas to meet tlte:
challenge," he added jag grams and some negotiations
noting that the levies for° seeded in (has matter.
x
County, schools not tabulated
r mill rate up 5.Z3%
While the commercial rate
goesto 123.79 from last year's
119.54 tnflls for municipal
purposes.
n establishing the rates
'during the two lengthy
meetings, council became
bogged down in one pro-
ceder/II _hassle, delayed a
decision regarding a . com-
plete professional study of
This
year �` , .r pendrtures
county and the tw6 school
boards have increased
significantly more than the
municipal tax portion in re-
cent years.
The county rate is up about
10. percent this year and the a big portion of the budget at
levies for the school boards $567,000.
have not yet been settled. At their first budget session
These, of course, will be com- . last Tuesday, council had
puted at a later date to com- moved to chop about $20,000
plete the local tax picture. from their original estimates.
The mill rate for residential but that was put back in at the
purposes has been increased final debate this Monday
from 99.99 to 105.22 mills, When the reconstruction of
will total about 51,650.000 with
most areas showing an in-
crease. A surplus of $79,387
from last year will help
cushion some of that increase.
Wages and benefits take up
EXETER BUDGET HIGHLIGHTS
Waterloo and Marlborough
streets came in about 520,000
over estimate.
The result was that the mill
rate ended up at the 5.23 per-
cent increase rather than the
twopercent that had been en-
visioned at the earlier session.
The expenditures for the
various departments this
year areas follows (with last
year's actual expenditure in
brackets):
Council 529,500 (525,855),
general administration
5128,000 (598,884), fire depart-
ment 5152,466 (588,2'71) ,
building and zoning inspec-
tion 534,700 (529,420), police
5263,680 ($236,913) conserva-
tion authority 58,860 (57,278),
animal control 51,000 ($651),
roadways $54,700 ($49,004),
winter control 535,500
($21,406), parking 52,900
(51,633), street lighting.
*45,000 (533,116), sanitary
sewers 1168,100 (5158,999),
EXETER BUDGET HIGHLIGHTS,
storm drains $75,600 (572,210).
Garbage collection 536,300
($34,077), garbage disposal
527,050 ($19,423), public works
adtninist4ration $106,600
($84,203), cemetery 519,000
(516,000), social and family
services $1,500 ($911), recrea-
tion 578,000 (568,000), parks
and downtown parkettes
518,900 (528,392), library
$8,300 (56,694), other cultural
- grants $1,000 ($600), planning
and committee of adjustment
Want more townsh;
Exeter Mayor Bruce Shaw
led an attack against the con-
tributions the neighboring
townships are making
towards local programs and
facilities shared by their
residents and succeeded this
week in having council use
the South Huron rec centre
board of management's
budget as a "tool" to arrive at
a reasonable solution to joint
funding of those programs
and facilities.
• While agreeing this week
Rocky debate on roads
Street paving ended up as
one of the hottest issues in
this year's budget for Exeter
council as the matter hit a
procedural snag and
resulted in some harsh
words from Mayor Bruce
Shaw for his cohorts.
However, by the end of
Monday's regular council
session, the matter had been
resolved to everyone's
satisfaction, although it had
taken a circuitous route.
The budget had called for a
560,000 expenditure on
resurfacing of six streets:
Victoria from Carling to the
Co -Op, Edward from San-
ders to Huron, Simcoe from
Edward to Main, John from
Andrew to Edward, James
from Andrew to Edward and
Albert from John to Sanders.
At last Tuesday's first
budget deliberation, finance
committee chairman Bill
Mickle had argued that the
paving should be reduced,
but Mayor Shaw said that the
total was not near what'.
should be -done this year.
"It's not where it should be
done either," countered
Councillor Gaylan
Josepheson.
Mickle said he didn't think
that John, James and Albert
were priorities in com-
parison to somestreetswhere
traffic is heavier. . •
A vote called through a
EXETER BUDGET HIGHLIGHTS
Not the antidote
Exeter Deputy -Reeve
Alvin Epp is sick. Exeter
Deputy -Reeve Alvin Epp, by
implication, thinks the local
tax rate should increase
more in keeping with the 12-
14 percent inflation rate
rather than the 2-5 percent
considered by council this
year.
Those two facts are not
necessarily associated,
although there May be some
who consider them to be.
Epp, who is confined to
home through illness, this
week wrote a letter to his
cohorts on council
suggesting that a mill in-
crease of two percent could
result in cutting services
"which in future years will
necessitate either a large
increase in our budget or a
lowering of our standards."
in his letter, tabled
Monday, Epp said he could
see the need for setting aside
dollars to develop the in-
dustrial tax base and to
improve services such as
drainage. sidewalks, etc.
Further, he questioned
cutting the recreation
budget, noting there is a
concerned board who spend
a lot of energy planning and
working for the community
in recreation and they should
be listened to as they see the
needs for improving, con-
serving energy and making
the necessary changes to
sve dollars for the tax-
payers. •
Epp, a member of the
South Huron rec board, said
the double entrance would
conserve heat; the electrical
panel would save *1,000 per
year and the heaters in the
arena should be changed as
recommended by the board
to conserve heat and im-
prove the warmth of fans.
"In conclusion, unless
there is some rethinking and
reworking of this budget, i
would not be in favour of It,"
the ailing council member
concluded.
show of hands indicated that
Mickle and Morley Hall
favored reducing the paving
budget to *50,000, while
Dorothy Chapman, Gaylan
Josephson, Lossy Fuller,
Tom Humphreys and Don
MacGregor suggested it
should be left at 560,000.
The issue surfaced again
on Monday's final
deliberation when the
paving tenders were opened
along with the tenders for the
reconstruction of Waterloo
St. and Marlborough St.
The reconstruction
projects came in about
519,000 over budget and at
the urging of Shaw, public
works committee chairman
MacGregor moved that the
tenders for the recon -
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that the rec board's budget
was reasonable, council
decided to make some cuts in
it as a means Of stating that
programs and facilities will
be jeopardized unless
neighboring municipalities
pay a fair share towards
them.
The discussion regarding
the financial assistance from
the neighboring
municipalities . surfaced at
last Tuesday's first budget
deliberation when the matter
of a grant to the local fair
board was. broached by the
social services committee.
Mayor Shaw presented a
motion that Exeter not con-
tribute the normal 5300 to the
fair board this year in lieu of
having already contributed
$18,000 for the . new
agricultural building erected
last year.
Shaw said the contribution
of Exeter taxpayers had
already been significant and
added that all the neighboring
municipalities had to come to
grips with the contributions
being made to the fair as well
as recreation.
"We have to establish once
and for all we are a communi-
ty. and Exeter doesn't carry
the load," he said. noting the
message should be relayed so
as not to disturb the harmony
which exists with area
municipalities.. Shaw com-
mented that he was getting
the impression Exeter was
being taken advantage of "or
perhaps more accurately.
people don't appreciate the
57,000 ($3,971).
Main St. revitalization pay-
ment 55,500 (55,500), in-
dustrial promotion $6,000
(54,390), reserve for sewer ex-
pansion $77,000 (5145,000),
public works contracts
$24,000 (5309,247), property
budget $8,000 (510,342).
Also included in the budget
is $'8,000 for a management
study of • local salaries,
although it has not yet been
approved.
,assistance
contribution being made b.'
Exeter ratepayers." •
The Mayor noted he was
disturbed to see some of Ex-
eter's neighbors withdrawing
some of their support for
recreation this year.
Councillor Gaylan
Josephson said he agreed
with much that'Shaw said and
regretted the unequal
distribution of costs as far as
recreation is concerned. but
contended the fair should be
treated differently.
The grant of $300 was
subsequently approved for
the fair board, but Shaw's opi-
nion regarding contributions
towards the South Huron rec
centre board of management
budget gained support as he
again called for greater finan-
cial contributions from the
neighboring municipalities.
He said he had no quarrel
with the rec board's revenues
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EXETER BUDGET HIGHLIGHTS
Decision delayed
Exeter council members
have delayed a decision
regarding a proposal to
develop a new system for
administering salaries and
benefits for town employees
and members of council until
(hey•can get clarification of
the extent of the work to be
undertaken.
Personnel Management
Associates had presented a
13 -page report outlining their
proposal to develop th,. new
system with the cost being
set at $6.500 plus expenses
such as mileage. phone calls,
printing and related out-of-
pocket charges.
However, PMA failed to
indicate whether the report
would cover the question of �.
staff requirements for ef-
ficient operation of the town.
Members felt some sort of
time study was required to
make the report complete
and three members were
delegated to meet with PMA
to discuss the matter.
Council set aside $8,000 in.
this year's. budget for the
study.
The project would provide
job descriptions for 10 staff
pasitions.and would provide
"a fair and easily understood
salary and benefit struc-
ture" according to PMA
president, Lion J. Sharzer.
Councillor Dorothy
Chapman said that if the
study was to be undertaken.
• it should not be done piece-
meal or it would be a mess.
"Do all or nothing." she said.
ect)oing the sentiments of
many members in adding
that she had mixed feelings
about the proposal and the
cost involved.
CHICKEN CARRYING SKATERS - The Exeter figure skating club precision team participated in a different fund
raising project, Saturday. Above, Kathy Whiteford, Laurie McLelland, Monique Aunger and Ronalynn gels carry
chickens from one barn to another for Winchelsea poultry farmer Lorry Taylor. T•A photo