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Times-Advocate, 1985-05-08, Page 35SCIENCE FAIR WINNERS — Winning medals for their fingerprints project at Precious Blood Science Fair were Shawn Jacobs, 3rd, (left), Darren Kints, 2nd and Erin Kraftcheck, 1st. 1 SCIENCE FAIR WINNERS - Testing various stains and detergents for a winning project at Precious Blood Science Fair were Penny Parent, 2nd, (left), Rosie Brand, 1st, Todd McCann, 2nd, Wily Vannavong, 2nd, Michelle Birmingham, 1st and Denise Kints, 3rd. Big savings could result if garbage is managed If Exeter managed its waste "in- stead of just covering it ender" there could be major benefits according to a written report submitted. Monday. by Councillor Don Winter. Winter, who attended a waste managment seminar in Clinton in March, said that managing waste could reduce by one-third the amount of garbage haddled. He Said this would result in a sav- ing of $8,010 in covering costs. one- third in truck mileage costs and depreciation and one-third of the manpower presently required for pick-up. Council members were told that full recycling of waste would appear to be non -feasible. but the recycling of paper and compostable waste can save as much as 50 percent of the weight of material to be disposed of. Winter said the newspaper recycl- ing could be handled by a service group to collect on a regular basis or an idea being used in Kitchener could be implemented. In that city. 50 gallon drums are provided to homeowners for composting materials and even apartment dwellers are involved. ''The taxpayers benefit by lower cost of operations -with the added benefit of giving natural composted soil for lawns, gardening. etc.." Winter stated. He also noted that estimates are that 10 percent of the total wasteln a town's dump site originates from out- side that town. coming from nearby residents utilizing j,he dump illegally or town residents and contractors dumping cgnstruct4pn debris and other matter which did not originate in the town. One method of reducing this or recovering the cost is a strict. well - supervised dump. - Winter advised council memhers they can feel fortunate that they are not in the process of establishing a new site location at this time due. to new government regulations. One of the new rules expected is to legislate the allowable "after closure uses" of dump sites and this will app- ly to all new and existing sites, in- cluding Exeter's. In concluding his written report, Winter said "with the government in- volvement and interest, it would seem that the Town of Exeter might ap- proach various government agencies and departments for funding to at- tempt a pilot project for 'waste management for small towns'. Sup- port could well allow us to try out new, more effective waste management system at little or no cost." Mayor Bruce Shaw urged that Winter and his committee take on a project to make local citizens aware of what they can do in the way of recycling and composting waste material. That suggestion was incorporated into a motion by Councillor Gaylan Josephson that the matter be turned over to the sanitation committee for recommendations to council. CABBAGE PATCH STUDENT - Lucan Public School had a cabbage patch day on Tuesday. Many of the children brought their dolls to school, where there were special assignments tying in with the theme. Here Stephanie Scarborough works with her doll on her desk. BOOKSELLERS -- Zurich Public School students Sherri Erb and Terri Farquhar helped out at the school book fair last Tuesday. The book fair was o fundraiser to provide new books for the school library. Finkbeiner Clan hosts The Finkbeiner family of ('rediton had special visitors over the weekend. Ten hotel owners and restauranteurs from Germany came to visit. The visitors were all from the Baiersbronn region of Germany. the same area many ('rediton settlers came from hack in the 1850s. About five years ago Reg Finkbeiner, a present-day ('Fediton citizen. con- tacted cousins in Germany while trac- ing his famiy tree. Since (hal time. several people from the Canadian and German villages have visited each other. This group of visitors were friends with the German F inkbeiners. The ten are all on the same bowling team, and all of them are in (he same business. But this was a pleasure, not a business trip. The men were -spending a week in Canada. visiting such places as Niagara Falls, the 1000 islands. and Ottawa. as well as making the Crediton connection The touring is being done during (heir slack season, before the summer rush. The Germans were hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Reg Finkbeiner and their son Michael. Mrs. Laura Finkbeiner, Mr. and: Mrs. Dalton Finkbeiner. and Mr. and Mrs. Ray Morlock. Times -Advocate, May 8. 1985 Page 19A Exeter employees given four p er`ent increases is called out to work while off deity be paid for a minimum of four hours overtime. Employees currently receive a minimum of two hours' overtime for any call -outs, with the exception of the police. who get paid for a minimum of four hours. Josephson and Humphreys presented a motion to comply with the employee's request. but it was turn- ed down -on the votes of Mickle, Hoogenboom, Fuller. Hall and Winter. All town employees, with the excep- tion of the police department•person- ne!, have been granted four percent pay increases by council. The police received pay boosts of about six percent. At the same time, council ratified a recommendation from the ex- ecutive committee that no merit in- creases be granted to any employees this year. Clerk Liz Bell expressed disap- pointment with that move at the con- clusion of Monday's council session and asked that her four percent pay increase be split among the other members of her staff at the municipal office as merit increases. "They work hard," she com- mented, noting that most of her pay ' boost would only go to Ottawa any way. Councillor Ben Hoogenboom, a member of the employee relations comniittee termed it a "fantastic of- fer' but advised the clerk that it could not be accepted by council. Council rejected a recommendation from the executive committee that seven senior members of the staff be removed from the present salary grid system and that their salaries be reviewed this year with any changes to be implemented next January 1. The seven would include the police chief, clerk, works superintendent, rec director, rec centre facilities manager, zoning administrator and cemetery superintendent. The salaries of all other employees were. to be reviewed in 1986 by a special committee of council, with pay adjustments to be made retroac- tive to January I. Mayor Bruce Shaw said it was con- ceivable that there would be ad-• justments at all levels next January. The recommendation prompted another of the periodic debates on the current salary grid system. Councillor Gaylan Josephson term- ed the recommendation a "retrograde step" and questioned if the committee had any idea of how much it would cost the town next year, implying that the cost could be substantial. Josephson said that if council went to a job rate system. most employees would get -sizeable in- creases next year, and he argued for retention of the grid system. Mayor Bruce Shaw said the recom- mendation was an effort to leave everything as open as possible for next year and said that whilf the sug- gestion may lead to a dismantling of the grid•system, it was not abolition of it. Council finally moved to turn the matter over to another committee for . study and recommendation by the se- cond council session in June. "You're saying the executive didn't do a good job," commented Reeve Bill Mickle. The new committee will consist of Josephson and Councillors Don Winter and Ben Hoogenboom, the lat- ter two being current members of the Town drops $30,000 mower Two tenders were approved by Ex- eter council this week, one of which ended consideration for the purchase of a $30,000 lawn mower to cut the grass at the sewer lagoon site. A special mower with the capabili- ty of safely cutting the grass on the steep slopes of the lagoons had been considered by council, but it was decided to call tenders for the work before approving the purchase. Members were pleasantly surpris- ed to receive a tender of $350 per cul from Dennis McBride, Kippen. Ile was one of two bidders. the other price being $1,800 per cut. McBride was awarded the job; which will be carried out four to six times a year, and the $30,000 capital expenditure for the new mower was removed from this year's budget. Council's mood changed slightly when tenders were opened for the reconstruction work to be undertaken on portions o(plexander. Carling and Huron stre.,ets. Lavis'ConstructiOn submitted the lowest of five bids at $89.499.90. The high bid was $111,498.27. The work had been estimated at $85,000, including the engineering costs. That makes the work about -$15,000 higher than anticipated and council added that figure to the works department budget before approving the 1985 -budget this week. employee relations committee. During the discussion, Winter noted that the naming of the seven depart- ment heads to management would end their eligibility to be members of the employee relations committee. Council also approved new mileage rates for employees who use their own vehicles for town work. They will receive 27 cents per km. for in -town use and 20 cents per km. for out of town driving. . Turned down was a request from the employees that any employee who REFILL — Elsie Tuckey refills Pat Skinner's cup while his wife Gladys looks at the Exeter UCW's smorgasbord lunch. Almost 500 people were served a delicious noontime meal. Police get $1,700 added to salaries Members of the Exeter Police Association have signed a new agree- ment with the town, calling on the five members to receive pay boosts of $1,700 each, retroactive to January 1. The rate of pay for a sergeant is now $30.523 per annum and $29,152 for first class constables. One major change in this year's agreement is that no officer will be re- quired to be on call. If a member is available and is willing. he could be called on a phone -out basis by the dispatcher to work. Every member will be available for a natural disaster of a life or death situation, then any member contacted will report for duty. In the past, one member of the force has been on call at times when no one was assigned to any shift and each received one week's salary for that on-call time. Under the terms of the agreement. officers scheduled to work on a statutory holiday will be paid double time and given one day off. In the past, they were given two days off. Members are entitled to 11 statutory holidays; three weeks of holiday after three years of employ- ment, four weeks after 10 years. five after 15 years and six after 25 years. If called back to duty during off- duty hours, members are credited with a minimum of four hours over- time and receive time and a half for each hour of overtime. The town pays each a dry-cleaning McGillivray taxes jump McGillivray Township council mel on April 25 to finalize the 1985 budget. Due to the sizeable increase in the Middlesex County Board of Education levy, council agreed to trim the township budget to hold the mill rate for township spending at the same as last year. The Middlesex County Board ?If Education levy for 1985 was a total in- crease of 35.01 mills, a 24 percent in- crease from 1984. The mill rates for 1985 are as follows: the township.rate set at 64.74 from 64.54 in 1984; county rate at :35.13 up from 32.87; the Middlesex County Board of Education rate al 179.74 up from 144.73. Total mill rate for farm and residential set at 280.61 for 1985 taxes. Total mill rate for 1984 was 243.14. The 1985 fire agreement with the Town of Parkhill for $13,122, an in- crease of five percent on last year. was given approval by council. Tile drain loans totalling $72,0(K) were approved. allowance of $150 per year and for a meal ($5.00 i when a member is re- quired to work more than three hours past normal quitting time on any shift. Each member also receives $80 each year as service pay after five years of continuous service, $160 each year after 10 year and $240 a year after 15 years. When required to use their own vehicles for duty, members receive a flat $5.00 or 27 cents per km., whichever is greater. The town pays 100 percent of OHIP -and extended health insurance premiums as well as 100 percent of Ontario Workers' Compensation and contributes on an equal basis to the pension fund with the member. FINED $500 Only one case was heard by Justice of the.eace Douglas Wedlake when he presided at Exeter court,Tuesday. in that one. he imposed a fine of $500 against William T. Moffatt. 120 Algonquin Drive, Huron Park. after the latter pl(saded guilty to a charge of driving while his licence was under suspension. Moffatt, whose licence had been under suspension indefinitely since October 20, 1983, had been previous- ly, convicted of the same offence on March 20 of this year. ._ The current charge was laid on April 12 after his vehicle was seen driving in Huron Park. The accused pulled into a private drive and was .apprehended and charged. ile was given four months in which to pay the fine, which is the minimum for the second conviction, and was also given a further suspension of six •months to run consecutive to any cur- rent suspension. IN HOSPITAL Huron County's clerk -treasurer was kept in Mississauga General Hospital Iasi week after experiencing a ,numbness on his left side vv bile visiting in the city. Bill Hanle. in his mid -50's. was visiting his daughter in Mississauga when he woke up in the morning of Saturday. April 27 with the nurnbness. . Huron Warden Paul Sleckle told the May t session of colnly council that Mr. thinly has been in daily com- munication with the county offices and he is feeling fine The clerk - treasurer has been kept in the hospital and having tests. Mr. thinly was expected home last weekend. The clerk -treasurer has been with the county for over 25 years and this marks only the second county coun- cil session he has missed. VISITORS FROM GERMANY — The Finkbeinershad o full house last weekend, when they had►10 hotel and restaurant owners from Germany staying with them. The men were over on a vacation tour of Ontario. From back: Wolfgang Wagner, Herbert Moehrle, Mike Finkbeiner, Helmut Beilharz, Rudi Klumpp. Centre row: Rudi Moehrle, Pauline Finkbeiner, Gustav Gaiser, Karl Guenther, Richard Goiser. Front: Reg Finkbeiner, Kvirl Heinz Ling, Werner Hoist.