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Times-Advocate, 1985-07-17, Page 1BEAT CHAIN SAW A chain saw may be easier, but these two chaps proved on Sunday that a saw in the hands of two experts can be quicker. Doug Fonger and his son, Steve. of Kerwood, recorded a time of 12.7 seconds to7saw through this log. A chain saw had earlier recorded a time of 14.2 seconds at the Tri -County Heritage show in Ilderton. Will eurtall ag building Iiquor permits Baseball tournaments and other special events at the community park could be drier events in the future following a notice this week from the Iluron County health unit that special occasion permits will no longer be ap- proved tor the agricultural building. Paul Dawson. public health inspec- tor. advised that permits will not be granted after January 1 unless separate washroom facilities are available at the agricultural building itself. In a letter to clerk Liz Bell. Dawson pointed out that special occasion per- mits were approved initially under the condition that the washrooin facilities at the rec centre were available for use by all patrons. "11 was our understanding al that time that such events would he inire- quent". Dawson wrote. "This year there has been a great increase in the number of special occasion permits requested for this premises. Due to the increase. as well as the distance between the agricultural building and the washrooms. the Iluron County health unit will not give approval on this basis as .of January 1, 19811." As of that date. approval will only be granted if separate washroom facilities are - available at the agricultural building either in the form of permanent toilets or portable Attempted murder charge A 77 year-old Exeter man appeared in Goderich court. Friday. 011 a charge of attempting to murder his 73 -year-old wife. Cornelius Verkerk. 97 Andrew St. N., also faces a second charge 01 wounding following the assault on his MIN Serving Sout Giron, North Middlesex •; wife at their residence in the early morning of July 6. Gerrigje Verkerk sustained major injuries in the incident. Her husband was remanded in custody following Friday's court ap- pearance to the London Psychiatric . Hospital for a 30 -day assessment. toilets. or a combination of both. A permit for 220 people would re- quire a minimum of five toilet fix- tures and two waahbains for each sex. A request tor a larger permit would increase the required fixtures proportionately. When the matter came up for discussion at council this week• Reeve 13i11 Mickle suggested that council or the rec ix►a,:d should fight the edict from the health unit "1t doesn't slake sense to I ie." Mickle urged. noting that part of the problem may stem Ilion the health unit's interpretation 411 "occasionally" . He also contended that it the facili• ly was suitable for occasional use he could see no problem in using it more than occasionally. VOC & North Lambton Since 1873 One Hundred and Twelfth ear EXETER, ONTARIO, July 17, 1985 Price Per Copy 50 Cents Industrial land purchase also delayed by north end residents Objections put groes ho The status of a proposed group home in the north-east section of Ex- eter was described by Mayor Bruce Shaw as "on hold" this week alter a -lengthy debate at council's Monday session when- it was learned that residents of the area 1 i led an objection over the zoning bylaw which would allow group homes in institutional zones. At the same time. (he residents have also filed an objection over the plan to rezone development land own - .ed by Ted and Donna .cones that the town is planning to buy for industrial purposes. Legal advice given council over the appeal of the zoning bylaw pertaining 'Trustees- ok- 20 percent hike At least one member uI (he iluron- Perth Catholic school board said trustees aren't setting a good exam ple when they give themselves a 20 percent honorariike. Al its July 8 meeting. the Huron - Perth Ronan (*alhulic separate school hoard voted smell to five in a recorded vote in layer of the increase. • .'The increase represents it 211 per- cent increase over two years. 'That's not good example. 11 wecan'l :Set an example who will'.'" commented Dublin trustee Louis Maloney. Trustees current h' receive a mon- thly stipend of $230 and the chairman receives $:173. In 1981i. this will in- crease In $3(111 a month for trustees and $:38:3 for the chairman. The honorarium will remain the same in 1987 but in 1988 will increase to $3311 tor trustees and 5.1:33 for the chairman. School 'mord set the honorarium for the incoming school hoard a new board could be elected in Ihe municipal election This 1311.1 The new 1551111 cannot raise the amount set by this -ear's board. but 11 can roll the amount back. Those voting in Iavor of the in- crease are Vincent .k1nnes. Tim McDonnell, Dave Durand. oily VanVliet. Bon Murray. Arthur (laid. Michael Mnriarity 'I'hhose opposed are 1 imis Mahinv%. Bill Kinaha n. \like Ryan. John Devlin and F.rnieh'aurdcrschofl Trustee Gerald Groolhuls way all sent and c•hairti5in Rom Marcy didn�1 ONLY ONE CRASH only one collision was investigated by the Exeter WI' this ‘‘4.4.k as area drivers maintained then- sale pr -ac liceS during the ('111'1'(nt s1II0Ii1(I' period. The lone crash occurred on Highway- 1 .just south of llensall on Friday. involving vehicles driven by Gregory. !lay inan and Robert Cameron. both 01 I h•nsa l l Damage waS only $2511 to the group home is that the town should operate under the new bylaw until the Ontario Municipal -Board asks to have it amended. Mayor Bruce Shaw said that under those conditions, if the South Huron Association of the Mentally Handicap- ped ask for a building permit for the lot adjacent to the Lutheran Church, the permit would have to be granted. However. due to restrictions on the distance between institutional buildings, only one large group home could be erected, and not two smaller outs. Noting that both the Association and the residents would appear to fav r two smaller homes as opposed to one large one, Shaw said council could rescind the new zoning bylaw and then two smaller group homes could be erected under the old zoning regulations. l. Clerk Liz Bell• said the situation may even be more clouded because the,town's solicitor had advised that the definition for group homes in the bylaw may be unconstitutional under the Charter of Rights as it may not be possible to designate where certain classes of people can or can not live. Building inspector Brian Johnston noted that the Association could make application for a minor variance to reduce the setbacks required between institutional facilities. it is currently 300 metres and Johnston said applica- tion could be made to have that figure n:ed to 10 metres. e a Y attivised-eounei no building permit request had --from-the Association. blit he was ex - ting one later this week. c When asked if the request be or one iaege home or two tfihaller- on� Johnston replied. "check with me by Friday" explaining that the matter was still in the hands of the South Huron board. Councillor Ben Hoogenboom said it would be "good sense" to build group homes that would be compatible with other homes in the area and Shaw noted that the best way to appease REMEMBER WHEN? --- Bill Weston, Granton, displayed one of the oldest vehicles at the Tri -County Heritage show in Ilderton this week. He's shown here with his polished 1917 Model "T" touring car stopp- ing for a chat with one of the many in attendance at the show. Legion grant helps push. lights near top A $5.01111 donation from the R.E. Pooley branch Legion has pushed the collection for the new ball lights al the community park to within $f.100 of the target. "We're looking awfully good to what -we Were a month ago." com- mented re director Lynne Farquhar Legal costs are mounting With legal battles facing then on several fronts. Exeter council could spend a record amount on lawyers' fees this year. in the past month alone. council has spent over 55.000 in legal fees. Of that amt1unt. Little and Evan received $786.16 pertaining to the work for the new nursing home site purchase and $1.131.61 for the open- ing ( 'John St. Some of those costs will be recouped from the nursing home developer. The Stafford law firm of Mountain. Mitchell received 51.0())1 for work on the OMB hearing over the Berl and Elaine Knip truck parking situation 311(1 a 11111 her $2.359.75 for the OM13 hearing into the proposed agri- industrial park in Hay Township. The littler hearing still has at least one more clay to go. TOOT TOOT The 'Heritage Special" was used to conduct tours around the Ilderton fairgrounds on the weekend at the annual Tri - County Heritage Club show. Many youngsters lined up for a ride on the outfit.. at Thursday's meeting of the South Huron rec centre board of manage- ment after she made the anndunce- menl of the Legion's donation. - She also advised the Legion had donated $500 to help defray expenses of the Lake Iluron Zone Sportsfesl which Exeter will host in August. Donations for the ball lights now stand at $13.400. The cost was 514,69:3. Tom Humphreys. who was late ar- riving for Thursday's session. had further good news with him as he presented a cheque for $200 from the local Kinsmen and Kinetics. The Exeter Lions contributed $6.2011 and the Exeler inn-dians baseball and hockey teams provided 51.010. Dona- tions of 5500 were made by the Exeter Royals and the Greys Ushorne representative Brian Hardeman termed the donations "super" and said hopefully that the full amount will he raised by the lime of the next meeting. Ile said a thank - you advertisement should he placed in the T -A so the members of the con Iribuling groups will know how ap- preciative the hoard is 01 the assistance in her report, Farquhar advised (hat adjustments had to be made to the pool staff when supervisor Scott Batten left to accept a job in Yellowknife Sharon Rundle was elevated to the supervisor's post and Steve Batten was named assistant. Mary Birmingham was added to bring the staff up to the required number. Due to a shortage of Red Cross swimming instructors In the area, a course will be run at the Exeter pool starting this weekend for candidates for instructors. Eleven youths have already signed up. The Lake Huron Zone will contribute 5200 towards the cost of the course. The rec director said the shortage of qualified instructors was so acute that two pools have been dosed down this summer because they couldn't get qualified staff. The playground program got underway last week and the initial response from local youngsters has been disappointing. Farquhar said that 60 youngsters.were expected. hut only 2.5 or so had shown up for the program. She also told the board that registration for the Sp(n•tsfes) ac liyilies has been slow. but was assured by the Lake Iluron Zone directors that wos normal al this time and the registrations should soon in- crease significantly. e 'on hold' .both groups would be to have two smaller homes erected rather than one large one. The next step is apparently up to the South Huron Association for the Mentally Handicapped. Delay plans In view of the objection over the rezoning of the Jones property west Please turn 10 page :3 Three votes needed to share` grant cash it took three Voles to settle the Councillor Gaylan Josephson. who issue. but Exeter council this week - led the tight to turn the grant over the agreed to split a $5.11)))1 provincial rec hoard. noted (hat the balance 01 grant with the South Horan rec cen- the money for the project had been tre board. raised through private aortailions and from the soccer club. Josephson and fellow rec hoard member Tool Humphreys received support only. from Ben IIi#ogenhooni when the vote was held to turn over the full grant. The rec centre board asked council however. the two then presented au l rhat c rn linithe full grant over to them for motion that half the grant go to the come futurn aptf?it'ti51't`>z board and this time they received .gestion was opposed by seven gllp i li':AIt►3IeOdiull lemhers and -also clerk l.it. Bets. in addition to Iloogenloom. — ---That-was allthei needed to defeat 1'i thinl5,(he grant should come hack the trio of Mickle. Fuller and Gimp - fa the tdwn.'• the latter stated. noting man -who wanted the entire amount that a large portion of the funds used turned over to the town coffers. for the project had leen from local But the matter didn't end there. Concern was expressed dial the As the debate ensued. the clerk got money may not make its way into out the file and advised council !bat capital projects and council then en - the total cost of the soccer pitch and dorsed a resolution ham Fuller and fence has been just over 520,1))))0, with Mickle that the money. be put into the the town contributing just under capital reserve fund for recreation $10,000 in materials and labor. The grant had been received under the Community Rec ('entre Act ba- the construction of the new soccer pitch al the local community park and also for a fence that was placed al the east side of the park. taxpayers. purposes. k tet -, -�:jjam� CREATIVE HANDS Sherri Jantzi (left)• Monica Gingerich and Sherry•Erb display the attractive pla- ques they are making as part of the activities in the grade eight class at the Zurich Doily Vacation Bible School being held in the facilities of Zurich Public School and St. Peter's Lutheran Church. Not worth Usborne's efforts Won't e�llect from feds 'I'apping into the federal treasury is something all municipal councils en- joy doing, but sometimes the work in- volved isn't. worth the time i1 lakes. That was the situation facing llsborne council at (heir July meeting when (hey discussed writing off old and uncollectible expenses on various municipal drains. Public Works Canada was on the list. owing $5.78 for its portion of ex- penses -on the Passmore drain which services the weather station. Council members were advised that to collect the account, it would be necessary for the road superintendent to measure lhe'property involved and the office staff would then have to fill nut some very detailed and com- plicated forms. When all was considered, council determined that the cost involved in attempting to collect the account would be considerably more than the account was worth and decided to add it to the write-offs Other amounts written nif included (he Amos drain for 5699.55. the Ander- son drain for 51.31.4.03. the Pridhaip branch "E" drain for 5113.01. the Pridham main drain for $1.110.1.1. the Scott drain for $33.20 and the. Washburn drain for Stow Tenders were opened for 1114. demolition of the Elimville hall and the contract was awarded to 'Total Demolition inc al a cost to the township of $6600) The Iirm will gel any salvageable material from the structure. In other business. council Learned 1ron1 road superintendent John Batten that construction of con cession 4 and 5 is off to a good start and that the application of calcium and gravel to the township roads i' now cotnpleled Were advised by building inspector Herman Van Wieren that one building permit in the value of SHAKO had been instructed the acting clerk treasurer to advise the rncner of I Brie Molded products Ltd that it lie wished 10 chain water Irmo the pro perty of his new building site of Usborne (hal council would require the drainage work 10 be done under an engineer's report Approve(' the attendance oSSanoh;i Strang al the municipal election seminars which are to he held 1n September by 111e ministry 01 municipal illans and housing. Namid .101111 Tyro and (Irian 1 la rdema 11 to represent Ihe township on the area task 10111( dealing with ice rental rate, at area recreation centres. Heard from Reeve Gerald 1'r•aut that he had inquired whether the Ex- eter and aura fur department -etc trained In handle silo gas entergeti cies and c•onfirme(i that They are :\flet EMI(''ing (-nrt1lll(`p1S tr•0n1 the Iltn-on County Planning depart concerning a request from Ex (ter Pentecostal Tabernacle to (reel a screen to show church movie~. in- structed that a tetter is' sent granting approval wish the st►pulat ►n that a1 huikling permit be s((•Inrtl Decided 10 ale erase Inr :u1 asses lant to the :long clerk treasurer In replace the present office assistant w110Se sunl11t(r ('n►p1 i 111(111 (ods 111 nod-Sepl(mher - Ilecornmended to the county that consent be given to the owner 01 lot 16, concession 210 sever one parcel 01 land for a proposed residence