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Times-Advocate, 1985-01-09, Page 26Page 14A Times -Advocate, January 9, 1985 LOTTERY DREAMERS — Zehrs clerk Linda Soldan was busy keeping up with ticket buyers for Saturday's $10.4 million draw. Grand Bend approves sewer, wage increases Grand Bend council met on Monday for their first meeting in the new year. Many increases were discussed in dif- ferent areas. Clerk Dianne Mollard received cor- respondence from the ministry of the Environment suggesting a further in- crease in the sewage system rates for '85. The primary rate was increased to 111.1 from 105.8. MOE suggested that if the rate be increased according to calculations, it should be 123.2. Mollard sent a letter to the Township of Stephen on December 18 for their agreement on this matter. Alan Walper, Reeve of Stephen, feels that the ministry is projecting costs too high for the operation of the system. Stephen council does not feel a higher rate ( over the 5%) should be requested at this time. The MOE felt the increase would keep 1986 rates more in line. Reeve Bob Sharen said "our rates here are the lowest in Southwestern Ontario." 1t was moved by Councillor Bruce Woodley and seconded by Deputy - Reeve Harold Green, to approve the proposed Public Utilities Commission rates. The PUC chairmen will receive $60.00 per regualer meeting, raised from $50, and $20.00 from $15.00 for a special meeting. The Commissioners will receive $55.00 and $15 for special meetings with a maximum of six specials per year. Employees wage increases are to " be reviewed at a 3:00 p.m. meeting with the PUC on Tuesday, JanuTry.8. The Reeve will remain at the same level, $60.00 per meeting and $20 per special, while the Deputy -reeve re- mains at $57.50 and $17.50 respective- ly. All three councillors will also re- main with the same regular meeting pay of $55.00 and $15 per special meeting, with no increase for '85. Vacancies due to terms expiring on the following boards were discussed. One on ( Mae Piggott) recreation, one on planning (Ted Hunt) and two terms expiring on harbour. ( Russ the lawns with the blade. The tractor is used to clean snow from the walkways. The second complaint was a dog problem. It was referred to by-law of- ficer Keith Crawford who will talk to the complainant and the owner to see if the problem can be resolved. This was not a trespassing problem but one of noise. In other business the Colonial Hotel wanted approval to reclassify from hotel to tavern. The hotel wished to eliminate their guest bedroom ac- commodations. It was noted that the - Colonial Hotey is zoned CT1.2, which allows a restaurant accessory to tourist establishment. Therefore a zoning by-law is required to changje the status from the present accom- modations. The Liquor Licence Board of Ontario is to be notified of this varience. The village garbage charges for each village business was reviewed and increased or decreased to suit their needs for the new year. Parking will be banned on the north side of King St. to Huron St., on the east side of Hill St. from Centre to Oak and on the west side of Hill from Oak to Oakwood. No parking will be allowed on 81 Crescent to Sauble Rd. and the remainder of the parking by- laws are to be posted. It was agreed to remove the bicentennial flags due to their extent of damage. Head Lifeguard, Bruce Helm, was requested to attend the first meeting in February for the final agreements on his bathouse proposals for '85. Municipal Affairs & Housing notified council of the new Municipal Tax Sales Act effective January 1. 1985. In the past, the proceeds of a tax sale went to the municipality, whereas under the new Act, the monies are paid into court. The pro- perty can be advertised for sale by public auction or by tender. The only amount to be collected is enough to cover the tax arrears. The court will deduct the arrears of taxes, interest, costs and anyone who has an interest in the property, with the remainder to be paid to the owner of the property. Wondergrove owner, Bob Simpson. was granted a minor varience for the trailers located in his park. Local government week. January 14-19 will be observed throughout the area. Skits are to be planned in the schools. Sharen suggested that a recycling theme or a water quality theme would be beneficial to this community. The meeting adjourned at 9:55 p.m. for an incamera session re wages. By MRS. HUGH MORENZ Dick and Annie Zielman, hosted a Christmas -New Year family dinner gathering at their home on December 30. As well as their immediate fami- ly, it included Janzen relatives, on An nie's side of the family. There were about 40 in attendance that came from Leamington, Essex, London, Dashwood, Exeter and Zurich. John, Bev, Sherrie Lynn and row, of Edmonton, Donna Baker's fiance, who flew up to London to spend Christmas with his parents and joined the "Bakers" for their dinner. Ken and Ortha visited Sunday with his brother, Earl and Minerva Baker, at St. Thomas. With Wray and Madeline Sweitzer on Christmas day were daughter Barb and Don Dundas r. i on, ant en- son Ron and fami- ly from Stratford. Hugh and I spent the "Morenz" Christmas at his sister's Mrs. Hazel Corbett, in Hensall Out of -the area, drop in holiday visitors with us have been, Sue Anne Schroeder, of Ottawa; Wayne, Jen- nifer and Ian Parker, Goderich; Rosanne, Jackie and Jenny Russell of Cottam. Sympathy is expressed to Olive and Earl Ratz in the death of her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth A. Ed Turnbull has moved from this area and taken up residence at Spruce Villa Apts. in Zurich. A former area resident, Ed LipPert of Gravenhurst passed away December 24. an rey '1c e Clerk Mollard received her percen- tage increase which brings the wage to $20,000.00 and secretary Christine Smith will receive $14,472.50 in 1985. Village foreman, Jack Stanlake will earn $18.746.00 and roadsman Paul Bossenberry will increase to $17,425.00. Clerk Mollard brought two com- plaints expressed by concerned citizens to the regular meeting. Ap- parently the blade on the sidewalk tractor is too wide and when it ex- tends around the poles it has cut into NEARLY LOST -- Waterford Tri - Cat hockey player, Dove Scott, • almost lost his little finger after it was severed in a game against the Hawks at the annual Junior "D" tournament in Exeter, Satur- day. The dangling digit was sewn back together at South Huron Hospital and Scott returned to Ex- eter, Sunday, to be a spectator at his team's final two games. Puckster gets finger stitched A visiting player from Waterford had the end of one of his fingers severely severed in one of the games during the eighth annual Exeter Hawks tournament over the weekend. During a Saturday evening game against the host Hawks, Dave Scott caught an errant stick on his hand and the end of his little finger was left dangling. The puckster tossed his gloves to the ice and raced to the bench and then dropped back onto the ice in pain as team officials scurried to his assistance They had to race to the Waterford dressing room.for their first aid kit, while Hawks trainers Ralph Batten, Gary Ford and Don Field raced from their bench to help stem the flow of blood from the youth's injured digit. Scott was carried from the ice and taken to South Huron Hospital, where the finger was sewn up. Scott travelled back to Exeter with the team for Sunday's games. - - ,• holidays with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Roy Kirk, at Rothsay. They all enjoyed a family dinner along with Bev's sisters, Barbara and Gerald Higdon and Scottie, Donna and Bill Burnett and family and David Kirk, all of Rothsay area. Due to the ice storm many New years day dinners had to be postpon- ed. With Lorne and Dorothy Fenner on January 2 were Clyde and Evelyn Nicholson, Shirley Nicholson, with Bradley, Angela. Aaran and Corey, all of Courtright, Leona Moore, Julie and Brent of Sarnia, and Mabel Guenther. Harold and Lucille Vincent, Lori, Mike and Michelle spent some holidays in Evart, Michigan, with Lucille's sisters, Janet and Bruce Navarre, Beverley and Horst Kovit- zki and their families. They also visited Lucille's mother. Mrs. Fred Hoffman who is hospitalized. Colleen and Wayne Cunningham. with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Willis Hodgins, at Parkhill. Intended for last week Seventy nine members of the fami- ly, of the late Elmer Pickering. gathered at the Shipka Community Centre on Christmas day to celebrate a family dinner with relatives coming from London. Grand Bend and Parkhill. Cathy and Doug Walper, were din- ner guests at his parents, Harvey and Anne Wainer, at Greenway, on Christmas day. Joining Doug and Cathy on Boxing Day were her parents Mr. and Mrs. Don Harmden, of London. Visiting with Ella, Willis and Michelle Mable Desjardine, were Clara and Alvin Statton, Grand Bend. Gloria Ferguson, Exeter and Debbie, Harry and Eric Plantenga of Huron Park. With Sid, Eleanor and Glenn Durie, were Dennis and Sharon Durie, of Strathroy, Sharon's parents, Stella and Ron McDougall, of Manitoulin Island, Pam and Norbert Hererrias, and the Durie's grandsons Sebastian and Emanuel Hererrias of London. Boxing day family guests with Fer- man and Leota Snyder were her sister, Kaletla Musselman. of Kit- chener, Suzanne and Otto Plein, Christopher and Melissa, of Elmira, Esther and Ric Storey, London, Keith and Nancy Snyder, of Greenway. Ed- win and Gail Snyder of Strathroy. Jim and Judy Snyder. Garson and Elsie Brady, Helen and Mike Prisciak and Mrs. Elsie Com- fort, all of Welland and St. Catharines area. visited here on the weekend with Mrs. Comfort's three daughters. Doris Sweitzer, Marilyn Pickering and Eva and Milton Sweitzer, when they all enjoyed a Christmas -New Years supper, Saturday evening. Christmas dinner guests with Ken and Ortha Baker and Garry on December 27th were, Ken Jr. and Carol Baker with Tracey and Shellie from Stratford, Sandra and Tony Regier. Chris, (feather and Jillian, Detroit, Don, Sharon and Jamie Baker. A special guest was Mike Var- A Area residents seek millions Fever on the increase Business was brisk at lottery outlets Monday as area dreamers with vi- sions of a $10.4 million Lotto 6/49 jackpot lined up to buy a piece of the magic. At the Exeter Zehr's, lottery clerk Linda Soldan said she expected it to be busier than usual all week, "especially towards the end of the week when people get their payche- ques." Soldan was cashing a ticket from last week's draw for Wayne and Susan Chong of Exeter. The Chongs had picked four out of six numbers correctly, and that netted them $67.60. But nobody won last Saturday's $8.8 million jackpot, so this week's is ex- pected to hit $10.4 million, the second largest in Canadian history. The extra -targe jackpot had some people buying more tickets than usual. The Chongs bought 12 Lotto 6/49 tickets, twice their usual six. They said they pick their numbers at random. Peter Hurkens of Granton, buying his tickets at the Shaw's Dairy Store in Lucan, said he's buying 36 this week, up from 10 normally. He also chooses numbers randomly. Janis Dougall of Exeter, who doesn't generally buy lottery tickets. was buying two chances on the 6/49 dream. And Janice Latta of Lucan was buying three tickets, keeping her New Year's resolution to"start buy- ing two or three every week". The large jackpot didn't affect some regular buyers like Judy Cronyn of Huron Park. who says she buys five tickets every week and always uses the same numbers, or Rick Quesnel of Huron Park, who buys 18 every week, "hit or miss". Some ticket buyers have special systems for choosing their numbers. Bev Lindenfield of Exeter bought six tickets, choosing numbers based on the birthdates of his nurses in hospital -- he was just released on Fri- day. Percy Noels of Exeter buy's a ticket every week, using five family birthdays and his wedding anniver- sary date. John Eberle of Exeter gets one ticket each week, using dates based on the beginning and end of both World Wars and the Great Depression. The most complicated system seems to be the one used by Mery Cowing of Lucan, who always buys at least eight tickets, and uses 48 of the 49 numbers. "I feel it gives me a bet - Given little chance for early sewer job Although services for the southwest section of Exeter are included on the list of projects to be undertaken if pro- vincial funds are made available through the town's ONIP application, a property owner from that area was not given much hope of any im- mediate action on sewer services. Elmore McBride, who purchased the former Easterbrook property west of the CNR tracks in 1981, said he had read of the proposed projects and wondered when he could expect sewers for the property. He explained that with sewers, the property would be subdivided into six lots, whereas there could only be four if septic tanks were required. Many of the trees on the property would also have to be eliminated. Mayor Bruce Shaw explained that sewers for the southwest section were not in the top two priority list and he emphasized that it was not known how much money the town could ex- pect under the Ontario Neighbourhood Improvement Plan (ONIP). "If any," Councillor Dorothy Chap- man quickly added. Mrs. Chapman went on to explain that it was not a..sim EEEEEEEEEEE 1,0 Vi • • • r' committee for their consideration and McBride would be advised of their recommendation. When McBride commented that he was running out of time, Mrs. Chap- man noted that her area in the nor- theast corner of town was also without sanitary sewers and she didn't expect to see them there in her lifetime. ter chance," Cowing said, "I've had good luck this way." This week Cow- ing was tripling his usual ticket buy- ing and getting 24. Local councillors not big spenders In some municipalities. the con- ference expenditures and other "perks" enjoyed by elected officials often cost taxpayers more than the basic stipends of those elected officials. That is clearly not the case in Ex- eter again. In the past year, four of the nine members received nothing over their basic $2,300 annual fee. They were Morley Hall, Ben Hoogenboom. Gaylan Josephson and Bill Rose. Conference registration fees for Dorothy Chapman, Lossy Fuller, Tom Humphreys, Bill Mickle and Bruce Shaw amounted to $660 in total. Their lodging, mileage and meals to those conferences was another $2,353.83. The totals include $1.091.32 incurred for conferences and other industrial promotion- business undertaken by Reeve Mickle and Mayor Shaw. The total of stipends and expenses was $24,780.95. At a meeting in December. members concurred with a sugges- tion from Mayor Shaw that stipends be based on those being paid to other elected officials in the area towns. A survey was to be undertaken to determine what the average is and local council members will consider paying themselves that fee in the future. It was noted by Shaw that Ex- eter will always be a year behind. the shop where you can find it all TAKE ADVANTAGE OF OUR I t. v1�e sanitary sewers to that section as a lift station would be required. Councillor Ben Hoogenboom wondered if the town's annual allot- ment for roads could be diverted for one year to provide services for the southwest corner. That suggestion met with silence from other members of council. Works superintendent Glenn Kells was asked what the cost of sanitary sewers would be and he replied that a previous estimate suggested that with the cost of the lift station includ- ed, the town would be looking at a figure in the area of $300,000. "That's a lot of money," Shaw responded. 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