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Times-Advocate, 1982-08-18, Page 1Luzon plow s(te hives ofortivity iuit�d.T i The 1982 International Plowing Match scheduled for September 28 to October 2 in Middlesex county in and around Lucan is still six weeks away, but, the site is a hive of activity these days. Starting a week ago workmen totalling as many as 60 a day are busy putting up snow fencing around the host farm owned by Lucan businessman and farmer Allan Scott. Tented city chairman Mert Culbert of Lucan says activi- ty will continue and increese each day as the match gets closer. i the CLOWN AND PET — Robert McCarty puts a hat on Mitzi Smith prior to Sunday's. Lucan Fair parade. Two groups show interest in Hughes , At least two investment day pay and sei, ranee pay. groups have indicated some London lawyer Robert Bee - int assets of Hughes ipurchasing )the urea, hired by the former Colut>1ttbla •employees to represent them, Inc. as a total package wfth a told the T -A this week that view to, keeping the Ijuron writs have been issued Park -Thin -in *ration, against the firm's three direc- The : boat,Ail3,;woaNti,iratQ_ ,,tom for jl�, °93- tart4>1 t receivership on June 8y put.. eaiployeers'claun. the direr tipg about 8o area residents tors aretoward and. Mary out of work. Hughes and Kathleen Fait. Twenty-two of those He said he has been asked employees were re -hired by by the trustees to withhold ac the receiver, Yale anis Part- tion against the company and ners Ltd., Toronto, to com- the bank with the assurance plete work on boats in from the, trustee that 'no progress. • money will be distributed un - Tim Geary, of the Toronto til the employee claims have firm who has been managing been considered. the Huron Park plant, said Major secured creditors in - the staff would remain as long chide the Toronto -Dominion as there were boats to com- Bank and the Ontario plete, but gave no indication . Development Corporation, of how much longer that may who are owed .$800,000 and be. $300,000 respectively. Tenders were recently call- Beccarea indicated there ed for the firm's assets, but was a spirit of cooperation be - Geary said it was too early for ing displayed in the situation. the firms interested in the en- A member of the grievance tire package to present bids. committee named by the Meetings have been held with former employees indicated the groups and he expressed that most are optimistic that hope that the package would the plant will be re -opened. be sold intact and re -opened. However, he said there No settlement has yet been weren't too many boats left made for the $431,269.54 being for the 22 re -called and he ex- claimed by the 84 former pected they may be finished employees for back pay, holi- by the end of this month. work Monday afternoon. He added, "We have the same people working here today that helped tear things apart in Barrie last fall when the 1981 match was over." Construction of the Mid• diesex county building is also underway and work on most of the other buildings will get going shortly. The Cast street sign to go up Monday afternoon was that of McNamara Avenue in honour of the chairman of the Mid- dlesex county planning com- mittee former warden Jack McNamara. • It's the first time the Inter- national event has been held in Middlesex since 1928 and McNamara expects about 200,000 visitors to -the five day event. Success of •the 1981 IPM held near Barrie was hampered by heavy rains on Underwood gets new job Jack Underwood, P.Eng., 'a resident of Exeter and a member of the staff at Cen- tralia College of Agricultural Technology has been ap- pointed head : of the agricultural engineering department at the Ridgetown College. He will be assuming his new duties around September 1. The ministry of agriculture and food has been re- organizing and in his new capacity, Underwood will also be in charge of the 'ad- ministration of the various county extension engineers in Kent, Essex, Lambton, Mid- dlesex and Oxford in addition to his duties at the college. Prior to coming to this area, he was employed at the University of Guelph in the engineering science department. "We'll miss this communi- ty," he said, "it's been pret- tygoodtous." He and his wife, Flo, and their two youngest children, Dave and Deanna will be tak- ing up , residence in Kingstown. Dave, !fp o wjU be -„.entering ga •3 r 3 1a811ri'; • :'Blenheim, will take up residence in Ridgetown iq September with his father, while his mother and sister will probably remain in Ex- eter until they sell their house. The family has. been ex- tremely active in many com- munity pursuits, especially minor hockey and figure skating. ONLY ONE CRASH The Exeter OPP report on- ly one accident in the area this week. It occurred on Wednesday when a vehicle driven by Brian Dinney, Huron Park, went out of control on the Crediton Road just west of concession 4-5 of Stephen and slid into the south ditch. The driver sustained minor injuries and was taken to South Huron - Hospital for treatment. Damage in the collision was estimated at $600. 4^� M y. 4 • • ' 41, ti • to at lest trio days which mired. officials and visitors alike in deep mud and cut attendance considerably. A number of mayors and reeves . from neighbouring Municipalities will be com- peting in a special plowing class during the IPM. Representatives from most counties in Ontario will be competing for the honour of Fug crowned Queen of the rowMiddlesex will .be Furrow Queen a� ruts will be judged on plowing and speaking skills as well as ap- pearance and deportment. Her prize will be a new car and a chance to spend the next year to promote the 1983 match to be held in Ottawa -Carleton. It is expected London's Karen Baldwin who was recently named Miss Universe and last Year's fur- row, queen Yvonne Palliser are expected to 'be in one,of the parades. I• i shit! • Camping facilities will be a'vallaOle!, tor Visitors and there will be no charge for match pinkinngg Admission will be$4foradults and $1 for U the atlandance of 200,000 is realized this year's event could greislt as 'much as 8860,000 aeeording to Bob McMahon, secretary. manager of the Ontario Plowmen's Association, the sponsoring body of the match. A number of neibouring farms will be used for the ac- tual plowingand for parking purposes. • One of the features of a display .f faros machinery and • 1 ' ' • pilau depicting Midd1= ”--' County more than 50 years ago will include a pop corn wagon used . in Springbank Park in London at that time. It is expected close to 600 farm building and machinery exhibitors will inhabit the tented city which will .be .located on 115 acres of the e Scott farm. In addition to overall chair- man Jack McNamara and tented city chairman Mert Culbert other members of the general Middlesex committee are Wilson Hodgins, MPA; vice-chairman, Don McLean and Bill Franc; Brian Hughes,- treasurer; host farmer, Allan Scott; Tom Rushton, tractors; Dave Jackson, billeting; Bernard Hann, antiques; Bob Earley, special events; Clarence Har- dy, lunches; Meredith Robb, bands and parades; Henry Van Bilsen, wagon tours; Fred Dobbs, gates and park- ing; Marilyn Jenken, ladies • program; Duncan Fletcher, team and horse show; Harold McCutcheon, lounges; Marg Jackson, billeting; Ken Lyons, traffic; Joyce and Bill McLean, farmstead improve- ment; Floyd Wills, land; Bob Feasley, banquets; Tdm Green, camping; Sandy For- syth, secretary; Fred Lewis, OPA director. ••.., LA,* .+•%. J.. h,.M,.14.01.• 1:. . MATCH STREET SIGNS —..Workmen ar - busy erecting fences and many of the facilities needed for the 1982 International Plowing Match set for Lucan from September 28 to October 2. Above, match chairman Jack McNamara and Tented City chairman Mert Culbert are ready 10 erect the sign designating McNamara Boulevard. McNamara is a former warden of Middlesex county. T -A photo vocat & North Lambton Since 1873 One Hundred and Ninth Year Wednesday, August 18, 1982 Shoreline residents object CUFFED — During a talk on police work to children from the Exeter playground, Constable Jim Barnes tested his handcuffs with the help of Billy Graham (left) and Dwayne. Myers. Huron Park playground supervisor Caroline Degraw looks on. Exeter pons to oppose reduction of county assts Exeter council agreed this week to fight a move by Huron County council to reduce representation on the latter, although there was some confusion regarding the situation. The subject was broached when CoUnclllor Dorothy Chapman, who will be a town delegate to the upcoming con- vention of the Association of Municipalities of Ontario, asked council for direction on how she should vote on some` of the resolutions on that group's agenda. She said one of the resolu- tions stemmed from Huron County and called for a reduc- tion in the number of representatives on county councils in Ontario by allow- ing only one representative for municipalities with less than 5,000 population. At the present time, Exeter, A day for castle builders 4444044 Cam Anderson has been one bt those on the beach in Grand Bend for the past few weekends building sand castles, in preparation for this Saturday's competition. The beach area is expected to attract several teams and individuals competing for the sizeable cash prizes being r provided by the resort's Chamber of Commerce. Entries will still be ac- cepted up until the starting time. A parade and other ac- tivities are also scheduled. Anderson's completed cas- tle is shown to the right. 4 t. 1• with a population of 3,750, has two representatives on coun. ty council, Reeve Don MacGregor and Deputy - Reeve Alvin Epp. Epp, who was ill when county council made the deci- sion, was unaware that Ex- eter's deputy -reeve would not have a seat on county council if the resolution was passed. Several members sug- gested that Exeter vote against the resolution at the AMO convention. There was a comment at Monday's ses- sion of council that the move was an attempt by the rural members of Huron council to reduce the voting power of the urban municipalities., Mayor Bruce Shaw recom- mended that council provide Mrs. Chapman with a letter explaining that Exeter had not been officially notified by Huron County council of the Building permits show 'increase The value of building per- mits issued in Exeter during July showed a bit of a jump, going over the *100,000 mark for the first time in several months. The actual total approved by building inspector Brian Johnston was 1108,906.60. There were 21 permits for residential renovations and additions of 844,413, five for institutional at $31,061,60 and two for commercial at $21,800. Eight permits for tool sheds, carports and sundecks were valued at $11,132 and there was one swimming pool permit for *500. intent to reduce representa- tion and that'such a move was being officially opposed by Exeter. Mrs. Chapman was also ad- vised to vote in favor of a resolution at the AMO con- vention which calls on the On- tario government to make equal grants to all municipalities for policing costs. At the present time, regional Municipalities receive a grant of $17 per cap- tia for policing, while separate municipalities receive only $12 per capita. "It should be the same (figure) all across the pro- vince," commented Coun- cillor Bill Mickle. Mrs. Chapman also in- dicated there were resolu- tions coming up calling for fines of up to $300 for people who allow their dogs to run at large, a move to have only elected officials appointed as municipal delegates to con- servation authorities and a move to have separate tax notices for municipalities and school boards so taxpayers could see the actual amount of money being collected by each body. Mickle said he didn't think the latter was of particular concern to Exeter, noting that the local tax bill detailed in dollars and cents the municipal and school board portions of the tax bill. He also said that taxpayerswere well aware of the budgets of both groups through reports in the local newspaper, although he said that perhaps taxpayers in all .municipalities did not get as much explanation. Price Per Copy 50 ants Hay halts pion .for drain Monday night was delega- tion night at Hay township's mid-August meeeting. A dozen residents of the Highlands. 2 subdivision crowded into the council chambers to discuss with council and engineer Bruce Halsworth an original petition circulated in the subdivision regarding a municipal drain. Eleven of the original 38 signatorie&. -; bftd later *ithdrawn their Haines: One of these, , Jim Collins, told council the petition had Plan session for bed plan Interested in providing bed and breakfast accommoda- tion for visitors to the upcom- ing International Plowing Match in Lucan? If so, you are invited to at- tend a public meeting on Mon- day (August 23) at the Exeter municipal office and the names of those interested will be passed along to the com- •mittee in charge of accom- modation for the event. The executive committee, in advising council of their plan this week, said they hoped this would be a trial run for a permanent bed and breakfast program in the community. Those who plan to offer ac- commodation for the plowing match, would be called back to an evaluation meeting and • through their feedback, the group would be able to evaluate the program and to suggest standards, fees and regulations required to establish iton a permanent basis, if this is what the com- munity wishes. Okay study at rec centre In compliance with a re- quest from the Ontario ministry of labour, Exeter council this week approved the appointment of Jack Underwood, P.Eng., to con- duct a structural study of the South Huron rec centre. The ministry requires periodic studies by structural engineers on public buildings. The executive committee, which received quotations from two engineers, recom- mended that Underwood be hired at the rate of $150 per day plus expenses. The minimum charge is to be $200 including the report. One of the quotes from another engineer was for a price of 11,200 to undertake the inspection. It is anticipated that the in- spection can be completed in one day. Council also approved the committee's recommenda- tion that Jean Vanderlaan be re-engaged as school crossing guard at a salary of $4.50 per hour and that a new safety vest be purchased at an ap- proximate cost of 820. been presented to property owners as a request to have Hay township study all 'aspects -of the situation the need for a drain, where it should go, and the estimated cost of the project - and they now feared the drain was go- ing ahead despite objections. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bax- ter, owners of a large lakeside property; said they had been misled' into signing file erigieat'artiti6a; 'they tinders- - tood they were signing only to determifb'the costs of a drain, not to give permission to go ahead and build. While talking about the ex- isting drainage system in the affected area, an argument ensued with the engineer over the drainage act's use of the $2.20~ word "source", which Baxter interprets as Lake Huron. The majority of the delega- tion was also concerned about block assessment and ob- jected to the possibility of paying a large sum of money as their share of a drain they did not want and one from which they ould derive no benefits; in fact, some would be adversely affected. Before the meeting ad- journed, sMNetil . *ettaal+eexe. ject the 'engineer's report. They concluded there were many dissatisfied people, and very few in favour of the drain had come to the council meeting to present their side. By the time a delegation of two, Clarence Rau and Glen Please turn to page 3 Niger for 3 pit, Kessd4hw(>Clamp e,� Freech Coachrhie � 1 OVER THE TOP — A contribution of $1,000 from The Twins Kentucky Fried Chicken has put the canvass for the Exeter soccer pitch fund over the top. Itwas the second $1,000 donated by the local firm to the park pro- ject and is being made above by Ted Johnson to grounds development committee chairman Don Cameron. The Colonel smiles approvingly from above. Cameron said the fund-raising drive for the soccer pitch is now over $8,000. Time for reading, money for taxes How is the current economic situation affecting Exeter residents' There were two indications at Exeter council's meeting this week. The first was that most local ratepayers were coping with the situation financially if their ability to pay municipal taxes was any indicator. Clerk Liz Bell said that in the past two weeks, about $365,107 had been paid in local taxes, which is about 96 per- cent of the amount owing on the instalment due on August 15. "It came in pretty good", she explained. On the other side of the pic- ture, there was a suggestion that local residents haven't been taking summer vacation trips: they've been staying at home reading. Councillor Lossy Fuller said she had been talking to librarian Elizabeth Schroeder prior to the meeting -and the latter reported that this was the busiest summer ever at the local library.. In fact, Mrs. Schroeder in- dicated that this summer's use of the library had. been on an equal basis with the winter. "They can't afford to do anything so they stay at home and read," commented Coun- cillor Dorothy Chapman in reference to the situation. "It's a sign of the times," added Councillor Bill Mickle.