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Times-Advocate, 1982-04-28, Page 1Drup,alcoholuse. like weather, OetSdIsCussjonbu$. no action Drug and alcohol abuse in the area may be in the same category as (he weather: ev ase tanto about it, but no OM is prepared to do anything about It. A meetingheldbyttib Huron Council for Action on Alcohol and Drugs (CAAD) was well attended at., South Huron Hospital, Tburpday, but it didn't result in the action that the organizers had anticipated. P Brdwn, q;nµrse at South Huron Hoepital, who organized the Meeting along with two cohorts, Valerie Nairn and •Jean Palframan, had hoped some people may have been interested in set - ting up a local "aisle centre but a questionnaire tenteraudience resulted in only interested person signing for more information. Ms. Brown, who acted as volunteer in a crisis centre Michigan 10 years ago bet moving .td this area; sa there wa as need fora cent where people with drug a .alcohol problems could ca for assistance. • She said the veluntee were Instructed in counselling and provided a "listens ear" to people who wanted assistance and advice on drugs or alcohol. On her find night in the emergency ward at SHH, M. Brown said she received a call from a person wanting to know where to get help. with a drug problem and she was troubled that there was no list she could turn to in an effort to provide assistance to the caller. The local nurse indicated that even London was not well equipped to handle such calls, relating how she had decided to do an experiment while visiting there recently and found it very upsetting and depressing that her calls to numerous agencies failed to get the type of assistance she was seeking in her pretend- situatibn of being the mother of a 16 -year-old who was on drugs. "By the time I was done (making numerous calls) I felt it was a totally ignored are," she concluded. • Ms. Brown, who expressed disappointment with the lack of response from the 80 people in attendance at the local meeting, noted that a crisis entre was staffed by olunteers (usually in their own homes) who could offer ssistance when a parent or rug user sought help. She mphasized that it was not a tre that acted after a drug- erdose, the latter being tuations only the hospital or lice could handle. In her presentation, Valerie airn said t . a 1979 survey owed that. - cilities were eking to dle chemical rs, partic : "'y teenagers. 'The cpm f . ity has to " realize we have s dru�p pro - the biem and act so It doesn't get one out of hand as alcohol use it has," she stated, noting there was a drastic increase in a chemical use in the past 10 In years. ore She told the audience it id • makes sense to develop a re prevention plan novel', rather nd than waiting until a member 11 of a person's family becomes { a drug or alcohol abuser. is CAAD provides aid to • alcohol . and drug users ng WIN TWICE - Maja Gans and Ronalee Bogartwille c in Kingston this weekend competing in the OFSAA bad- v minton championships. The two South Huron students recently won, the Huron -Perth and WOSSA titles. a Stephn tax rate cen ov si jurnps1O percent po Lake Road West Concession, sh nett"' Grand Bend. la The township's two year use Please turn to page 3 The township of Stephen municipal tax rate has been • set by cout>ejl and shows an increasie of slightly over five mills or 10 percent from a year ago.• The overall tax rate will r1`• i s tons r m - e em n a y, separate and secondary schools and the county of Huron have been received and calculated. The rate for township pur- poses only will be 54.54 mills for farm and residential pro- perties. That's an increase of 5.03 mills. The 1982 commerical rate has incresed by 5.92 mils to 64.17 mills Clerk -treasurer Wilmar Wein said the increase for farm and residential proper- tyowners works out to about 10.16 percent. Wein said the 1982 budget which has been approved by council calls for expenditures of 11,495,598. Of this amount 1395,902 will be made up in property taxes. The 1981 audited financial statement has been received and accepted. It reveals a surplus of about 130,000 on township operations and an • accumulated surplus of 162,000. • The auditor stressed the fact alllocalboards should get rid of their own bank accounts and let all financial matters be handled by the township of- fice and treasurer. Council has agreed to pay a portion of the study being undertaken by the Ausable- Bayfield Conservation Authority on erosion on the Walker Drain at part of Lot 2, be Fined $503 for offence An Exeter man was fined 1503 after pleading guilty to driving while under suspension when he ap- peared in Exeter court before Justice of the Peace Douglas Wedlake on Tuesday. John Ivan Barrett pleaded guilty to the charge and the ;503 was imposed after the court learned it was his second offense. His licence had originally been suspended for unpaid fines. IVMr. Wedlake gave the accused four months in which to pay and added a further licence suspension of six months, to run con- secutive onsecutive to any current suspension. In the only other case, Peter George Sereda, RR 1 Centralia, was fined 8183 after pleading guilty to travelling a speed of 140 in an 80 km zone. The charge was laid on March 16 and the offense results in six demerit points. APOLOGY A news item in last week's issue. of the Times -Advocate • incorrectly identUied Allan Westeott as owner of the Ironwood Golf Course. Mr. Westcott is owner of the Exeter Golf and Country Club. ' The publisher apologizes for the error and any in- convenience . it may have caused Mr. Westcott or other persons. through program of preven- tion, education and treatment 2(. Palf.raman, who along • with the two others has at- tended several meetings of CAAD elsewhere in the coun- ty, gave a talk on the pro- blems associated with," prescription drugs, citing the need in many cases for doc- tors and patients to consider alternatives to tranquilizers and barbituates in view of the chological • and physical •, • - they can develop. ° explained that people most be prepared to accept that there will be a cert�tln amount of stress involve4 In their daily lives and that drugs won't cure all their pro- blems but give only tem- porary chemical solutions. The nurse suggested people should look for alternatives to Chemical solutions, such as Working with people, taking a walk, getting involved in a course or exercises and iden- Please turn to page 3 DISCUSS DRUGS - A drug information meeting was held at South Huron Hospital, Thursday, at which time Exeter Constable Kevin Short displayed some of the drugs and paraphernalia seized in the area. With him ore two of the organizers of the meeting, South Huron Hospital nurses Valerie Nairn and Peggy Brown, and Clinton high school student Kandy Dobson, RR 2 Kippen, who attended to get some information for an essay on the topic. vocaI Servks South Huron, North Middlesex bton Since 1873 & NorthLam One Hundred and Ninth Year E e. it Public school jumps 13.8 The Huron County, Board an 11.5 per cent increase of Education has approved a over the 1981 requisition of 13.8 per cent. beget In- 0,441,824. The remainder is crease, from 128,748,562 1981 •paid by the Ministry of to 132,712,999 in 1982. Education. At a special meeting en The taxpayer with an April 26, the board presented average assessment of 33,110 its budget. The amount to be will lay 132.22 more this raised locally is 810,530,161, fir. The average education WORKS ON DUMMY - Mayor Bruce Shaw, one of five members of council cur- rently taking a cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) course, has his hand position checked as he works on Resusi-Annie. Kneeling beside him are instructor Kevin Short, Councillor Tom Humphreys and instructress Dee Beuerman. Standing from the left are other members of council, Lossy Fuller, Dorothy Chapman and Morley Hall. Councillors take CPR course Want one in Members of municipal „ having one in every five councils often have to act in Exeter residents skilled in the ability to give car- diopulmonary resuscitation and members of council decided to take the course several weeks ago to show some lea0ership in that regard. The Business Improvement Area (BIA) board of management have also signed up for the course. It is also being offered as a night class at SHDIIS and about 12 people are in the current session. CPR teaches basic life support for choking and emergency situations, bit Exeter council will soon have members able to cope with more than the normal emergency situation in- volved with their positions. Five members enrolled in a cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) course last week and others are expected to join in the program being provided by instructors Dee Beuerman and Constable Kevin Short. The two CPR proponents hope to reach . their goal of five! heart attack victims, as well as those who they suffer arrest through drowning, electrocution, sports injuries or other accidental causes. The instructors noted that in the case of a respiratory or cardiac arrest, assistance must be provided within four to six minutes or irreversible brain damage will occur. CPR involves rescue breathing and chest com- pressions that can prevent a victim from reaching biological death for as long as the rescuers are able to continue with CPR. in 1f81 was 8329.44 and eat will increase to increase-10.36';-mills,Ca ge to ` from '• 105.93 mills in 4111 to 116.29 mills in 1982 This represents a 9.8 per cent increase. "lam very pleased that we have been able to keep the increases as low as we have," said board chairman Dorothy' Wallace. She said when the surrounding boards come . out with their budgets, the Huron board will "look pretty good". She com- plemented the ."dedicated and' hard working" ad- inistration staff on their part in putting the budget together. "We're trying very hard to keep quality programs, without penalizing the taxpayers as much as we can possibly help," said Mrs. Wallace. • There was considerable paring of the proposed 1982 expenditures at an executive committee meeting on April 21. The total budget at that time was $33,203,044. A psychologist, at an ex- timated cost of 819,200, and a special education reserve fund of 1430,845 have been deferred. An expected need for five secondary school teachers was reduced to two for a further 840,000 saving, leaving the final board ap- proved figure. Elementary The total elementary school budget increased 13.7 per cent, from 113,441,462 to 815,278,163. The largest single expenditure i in salary and benefits including teachers' salaries for a 12.3 per cent increase from 110,581,663 to $11,887,135. Transportation for elementary schools in creased 21.9 per cent, from 8987,743 to 81,204,487. Operating the board's own buses has been budgeted at 8202,742, up from 8165,506, Contracting of school buses has been budgeted at 8983,678, up from 003,653 in 1981. Capital projects have been budgeted at 614,030, a 197.4 per cent increase over the 1981 expenditure of 1206,471, This includes the budgeted replacement of eight board - owned school buses estimated at 8240,000. Other capital projects include a new roof at Hensall Public Schdol, estimated at 868,000; a new roof at Clinton Public School estimated at =218,000; and new boilers at Colborne Public School, estimated at 828,600. The total secondary school budget increases 13.2 per Please turn to page 3 EXETER, ONTARIO, APRIL 28, 1982 Price Per Copy 50 cents budgets take jump OFF TO FINALS Jacqueline Hyde and Catherine Pat terson will represent South Huron in the OFSA gym nastic championships this weekend in Lindsay. Coach Carey Eddy is shown in the centre with the two gymnasts. Stephen asks OMB Separate school up 14.56 The Huron -Perth Separate School Board has approved its 1982 budget of $6,783,402, a 14.56 per cent increase over 1981, and a 10 per cent mill rate. increase. At a special meeting on April 19, the board approved the ;862,623 budget increase over 1981. The amount to be raised locally is 81,312,857, or 19.33 per cent of the budget up from.17.85.per cent of the. 1981 budget. Superintendent of finance Jack Lane said the taxpayer with an average assessment of 83,50r/will have a tax bill of 8190.75 for elementary school purposes. This is up 817.25 from 1981. The 1982 budget is over the provincial ceiling by 859,000. Mr. Lane said the provincial ceiling has not kept up to the board's costs. The increased costs are particular to this to settle the issue board's costs. The increased The township of Stephen is making application to the On- tario Municipal Baord for a hearing to settle a sewage system dispute with the village of Grand Bend. The OMB will be asked to determine how much Grand Coves Estates pays Grand Bend for hooking up to the village's sewer system. Months of negotiations bet- ween Grand Bend, the township of Stephen and Ridge Pine Park Ihc. of Brampton, developers of the Grand Coves subdivision in the township. failed to settle the issue of a price. Stephen reeve Doug Russell in making the announcement of the decision to call in the OMB said. ''We've talked un- til we are blue in the face and Grand Bend has done the same thing. There appears to be no other way but to go to the OMB for a decision. The dispute centres around the rates charged Grand Cove s Estates residents to hook on , to the Grand Bend sewage , system which was installed in , 1981. • Grand Bend has sent bills to Ridge Pine for sewage treat- ment and they have been returned unpaid. The Grand ('ove rate is bas- ed on the rate charged Grand Bend residents plus a 20 per- cent surcharge of cover the extra cost of connecting the area to the system. This extra charge amounts to $57.60 per unit. There are 258 homes in the Grand Cove subdivision. According to solicitor An- drew Orr, Ridge Pine has not paid the bills because they disagree with the method of calculation used by the village. Money has been put into a trust fund held by Stephen township until the 0M13 decides what rales should be used for payment. Ridge Pine figures are bas- ed on a percentage of the operating costs of the system and not on capital costs. The company feels since it is not using the entire system it should not be charged for capital costs. The company has spent considerable monies on -enlarging the sewage lagoon and on installation of an over- sized pipe to handle effluent from the Stephen subdivision to the treatment centre. Grand Bend pays 25 per- cent of capital costs of the system with the balance shared by the federal and pro- vincial governments. In the meantime, Ridge Pine faces five charges for • violations of the Water Resources Act for not hooking up to the village sewage system as soon as it was operational. The charges will be heard in Goderich court on June 18. A Ministry official said the charges stem from violations of the subdivision's certificate of approval. Since the charges were laid in March, the sub- division has been partially connected and should be com- pletely connected in the very near future. costs .are particulaur`to this board because of the vast area it covers and its smaller schools which are more expensive to operate. Mr. Lane explained the1982 provincial ceiling for the • board is 82,107 per elementary school pupil, while the dctual expenditure budgeted by the board is 12.131 per elementary school pupil. There are 2,589 pupils in the Huron -Perth separate school system in 1981-82 and a drop to 2,533 is anticipated for 1982-83. Mr. Lane added historically actual enrolment has in- creased over the projected amount. The 1982 budget represents a 10 per cent mill rate in- crease over 1981. This raises the average mill rate 4.95 mill to 54.50 mills. '"A 10 per -cent increase is less .than inflation," said Stratford Trustee Ron Marv. Dublin area trustee Ron Murray was not happy with the increased and while voting in favor of the budget, - was the only trustee who voted 'against the mill rate increase. He asked how much the increase would be if the budget was not over ceiling. "About five percent?" he asked. Mr. Lane nodded in 'agreement, and lt 4ald the provincial ceiling is not enough for the board to keep up with its expenses. "This budget has been fined tuned to the nth degree," said Mr. Lane calling it a"conservative", budget. Chairman John O'Leary said the board has to come to grips with the over -ceiling. "I am confident the board and administration will reduce the over -ceiling before the year is out," said chairman O'Leary. While not giving any specifics, Mr. O'Leary ex- pressed confidence costs would be u Pleasebroght turn todown pageat 3 One collision in two weeks After going the previous week without an accident, the. Exeter OPP report only one collision in the area this week. It occurred on Sunday at 5:30 a.m., when a vehicle driven by Margaret Thompson, RR 2 AiLsa Craig, left the roadway and struck a hydro pole on concession 4-5 of Stephen north. of the Crediton Road. Damage to the vehicle was listed at 81.500 and another 8400 to the pole. The driver sustained minor injuries 4 LOADING WINDBREAK TREES - Don Kennaley of the Ausoble-Bayfield conservation authority helps George Wickham load an Austrian pine tree into the back of his von. The authority is distributing the windbreak trees and seedling trees. •4.