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Times-Advocate, 1987-10-28, Page 1* Lioness host rally 2 * Brady at Heart annual 2 * New business page 5 * Ansa Craig pharmacy opens 12 * Soccer needs support 16 * Karate draws crowd 2A Usborne approves fire deal with hydrant Usborne council met twiqe during the month of October. The selling of licences to hunt phea- sant and rabbit in the township was approved at the first meeting. The fee will be $8 for non-residents and *5 for residents. Eighty-six Norway maples will' be ordered for roadside planting. Councillor Jim Kerslake and roads superintendent Ken Parker indicated they will attend the Good Roads con- vention in February. A policy statement arising from the death of former reeve and warden . Roylance Westcott was established when councillors met in special ses- sion on October 20. Usborne township made a $25 donation in Westcott's memory, and resolved that in future births, deaths and sickness within the immediate families of former and present members of Usborne Township council and staff will be dealt with accordingly. Parker advised council that the Anderson bridge should again be open to traffic in eight to 10 days. Payment of an invoice of $3,407.17 for steel for the bridge was approved. Council also approved the borrowing from the Webber Farm Reserve Fund for the Anderson municipal drain loan; this is to be repaid in full by October 1988 at prime interest rate. The Exeter and area fire board draft agreement, which councillors had taken home from the previous meeting for perusal, was approved on . condition the hydrant policy be .7; Ames clarified to stipulate that Usborne and 25 percent of the cost of the hydrant Hay townships will each be assessed at the north end of Exeter on Highway Proclaim A.D.A.P.T. Exeter council has proclaimed a being carried out in all five towns in two week period from October 6 to the county. November 6 as A.D.A:P.T. weeks to At a recent meeting of -council, support a drug and alcohol awareness reeve Bill Midde said, "I attended the program sponsored by the Huron .kickoff and I feel it is a very wor- County Board of Education. thwhile and intensive awareness Under the direction of local corn- program." mittee members Bonnie Becker and Councillor Ben Hoogenboom corn - Terry O'Rourke a very ambitious mented, "I think it should be an ongo- agenda is being planned for South ing program. for 52 weeks of the Huron District High School. year." The program is aimed at heighten- A full agenda of the local program ing the awareness of the community appears elsewhere on these pages of. in regards to substance abuse and is the Times Advocate. . Serving South Huron, North Middlesex One Hundred and Seventeenth Year provisions 4. Exeter is responsible for the re- maining 50 percent. Council approved a water connec- tion to the second well at the Kirkton- Woodham Community Centre to alleviate the Centre's water pro- blems. Costs for the new well will be shared by assessing 50 percent to Kirkton-Woodham swimming pool board and the other 50 percent to the K -W Community Centre board. Council accepted a cost-sharing ar- rangement for the photo -copier used jointly with the ABCA. Usborne's share will be a monthly lease fee of 35 cents per copy, plus a monthly *30 administration" fee. A fee of 10 cents per copy was set for photocopies for Please turn to page 2 dv�cate & North Lambton Since 1873 EXETER, ONTARIO, October 28, 1987 Price Per Copy 60 Cents White bean crop is first over two million bags The 1987 white bean crop, expected to total between 2.4 and 2.5 million bags, is the largest ever harvested in Ontario, and the first to top the two million mark. Ontario Bean Growers Marketing Board manager Charlie Broadwell said 2,251,918 bags are already in the elevators, and another 10 percent is still to come in. Broadwell said almost every coun- ty in Ontario grew white beans this year. Nine new dealer facilities were established in the province, including four satellite elevators and a seed dealership in the Ottawa Valley. The advent of new varieties, and advanced combining technology, have allowed producers to cope suc- cessfully with adverse conditions. Broadwell noted that though weather conditions were worse last year than in the disastrous 1977 season, more beans were harvested in 1987. Selling this bumper crop heads Broadwell's List of priorities. Over one-half million bags have already been sold.. Broadwell anticipates more "sales from a recent- trip to Europe. Broadwell, accompanied by Bean Board chairman Alan Siemon, Earl Wagner from the Hensall Co-op, Doug Hope from W.G. Thompson, - Bill Harvey and Roy Ellis from Cooks, Peter and Dini Twynstra.from the Great Canadian Bean Company, and Jack and Helen . Chinnick from Chatham Beans Ltd., attended the ANUGA held in Cologne, Germany from October 10 to 15. ANUGA is the largest food trade show in the world, and Broadwell terms this year's one of the most successful. Mare than 75 buyers and canners UNEARTHING THE PAST Rev. Walter Vipperman (left), rector's warden Gary Balsdon, his son Gary and bricklayer Pat Regier are part of an historic occasion as a time capsule from 100 years ago is removed from beneath a stone at Trivitt Memorial Anglican Church. Local council supporting Goderich brief on roads Exeter council is supporting a re- cent brief from the town of Goderich to Huron county council regarding county contribution towards- urban roads. Reeve Bill Mickle says the town would lose $28,585 if the county pro- posal to cut the contributions to urban centres from 45 to 25 percent. Mickle added, "This would mean an increase of five mills in our tax rate without.any tangible returns. In the Exeter brief Mickle says, "The towns and villages pay 34.59 per- cent of the total highway levy. This in- cludes the cost of the "rebate" back to themselves, so in effect the reduc- tion is not actually 45 percent of ex- penditures for county roads, but in- cludes 45 percent of county contribu- tion for urban roads as well. Therefore, the true rate of reduction to urban municipalities is less than 45 percent, because the urban municipalities are charged 34.59 per- cent of the 45 percent rebate." The total miles of county roads in urban municipalities is 4.9 miles out • of a total of 328.2 miles. This represents 1.5 percent of the' total county roads. According to Mickle, "The Act calls for counties to contribute to urban roads. as well as county roads. This makes the system equitable. The term "rebate" should be discontinued and should be called "contribution to urban roads" as per terminology in the Act." The Exeter reeve concluded, "It was good to listen to the comments of McKillop township reeve Marie Hicknell at the ACRO convention that her understanding of county govern- ment was to support programs that assist the county as a whole. The county road program has done just that since the early 1960's." The Goderich brief indicates that their town is the largest contributor to the total highways road levy, pay- ing 12.5 -percent. Stephen township is second at 10.7 percent and Exeter is third at six percent. Hay wants fire boundary change Hay council remains interested in rearranging the boundaries of their fire protection area to maximize the benefit from the _ five percent minimum contribution to the Exeter and Area Fire Board. The present area under the jurisdic- tion of the fire board measures at around 3.5 percent of the total assess- ment, but Hay township fnust pay a minimum of five percent. Conse- quently, Hay reeve Lionel Wilder would like to increase the assessment area to five percent to get the township its money's worth and possibly to lessen the tax burden on anon r municipality. re we going to take it away from Dashwood. Ilensall, or Zurich," Wilder queried. "We are looking at 82,400 of fire protection from Exeter that we don't need," saidWilder when speaking of the waste that the extra 1.5 percent will cost the township. "It's not their fault, it's the agree- ment." conceded Wilder and did not blame the Exeter Fire Board direct- ly for the problem. council was also concerned about the addition of the thew fire truck to the liensall fire department, because the old truck was partially funded by Hay township. Wilder proposed investigating the possibility of reclaiming the depreciated portion of the 25 percent investment Hay made in the truck if Hensall wishes to keep the older vehicle. "We don't need tw►o fire trucks from Ilensall, never have," insisted Wilder noting that the township has mutual aid agreements from Zurich and Dashwood as well as Henall, should a large fire ever require more than one truck. Still time 'for police answers 600 'questionnaires have been name. All that is required is marital Have you filled out the Exeter police questionnaire? If not you have the rest of this week to place your answers on the survey and return to the municipal office. Police committee chairman Dorothy Chapman reports that only 100 of the returned. Anyone that did not'receive a ques- tionaire and wishes to participate may call the town office at 235-0310 and answer the questions by, telephone. You need not give your status and age range. Chapman says the answers will he used to identify unique policing pro- blems and set future goals in meeting public expectations for policing in Exeter. from 30 countries made contact•with the dealers at the Canadian display. Commerce officers from various Canadian embassies also dropped in to take back information on the. white pea bean. Picking up news is a two-way street. Broadwell brought home samples of bean threads from China; the strand-like product is eaten like spaghetti. Another innovative idea he - spotted was the see-through plastic cans withmetal tops and bottoms us- ed by Anglia Canners in England. Broadwell hopes to 'interest resear- chers both at home and abroad in developing other uses for the pea bean. What is needed is some im- aginative person who will do for the white bean what George Washington Carver did for the peanut. From Germany, Broadwell went on to the UK to attend the International Pulse Association's annual mini-1�_. conference. Here he met with English canners, brokers, research- and transportation people. Among the Canadian officials were Tom Wells and Neil Gordon from Ontario House and Janet Farmer from the Canadian High Commission in London. - - "There was a warm feeling with the British buyers. Canada will be a -more dominant and reliable source -in their market", said Broadwell, who is cur- rently IPA vice-president. Broadwell went on to explain that when beans were in short supply last ,year, IPA ,' buyers bought from countries they had not dealt with before; and ran in- to problems such as, unreliable delivery and weevils ir1' the beans. Broadwell believes Canada can now pick up where thefr left off with European customers h 1977, a black year in,Canadian bean history. That was the year that set off seven years of litigation when the forecast harvest of two million bags "didn't happen". Referring to IPA, Broadwell en- thused "I think the future of this baby. is super—, adding "We have the exper- tise in our system to compete anywhere in the world." Trivitt cornerstone reveals fast The Anglican Church past came the ...�:.o. stone and n selection of c .These were Church corner - and a of c . These were back Friday afternoon at Trivitt Memorial. A small sealed box, concealed beneath the corner stone of the church for the past 100 years, was removed. and- opened this week to reveal -ar- tifacts left by Thvitt Memorial's foun- ding fathers. This year marks the 100th anniver- sary since Trivitt Memorial's con- struction and seemed an appropriate occasion to locate and open the time capsule, existence of which is detail- ed in the description of the 1887 ser- vice for the dedication and laying of The excitment began on Tuesday October 20, when- masons were removing bricks from the north but- tress above the corner stone in hope the time capsule was embedded in the stone as described in the 1887 service. However, the corner stone proved to .be solid, so the excavations were postponed uhtil Friday when the whole stone was moved to reveal a cavity in its plynth. This cavity con- tained a sealed copper box, about 25 centimetres in length,which contain- ed no less than ten newspapers from 1877, two posters, handwritten letters, all fitted into a space which could not contain one copy of today's London Free Press. A small crack had -allowed some moisture to enter the box, but Reverend Walter-. Vipperman speculated that this may have prevented the papers from drying out and turning to dust. Officials on hand to witness the opening of the capsule included Joe Hogan from the Huron County Historical Society, Gary Balsdon, the rector's warden, Vipperman, and Please turn to page 2 Four breakins in area Officers of the Exeter detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police are investigating a rash of breakins which occurred early Friday morning. A total of $930 in property and - money was taken from Hayter's Turkey Farms in Dashwood and Country Corners store in Mount Carmel. No entry was gained, but some damage inflicted at the other two locations which were Ratz's store in -Shipka and Fisher's Abbattoir in Zurich. Police are looking for the owners of - four cattle beasts and a set of truck racks which were found on Highway 83 in Usborne township, Thursday evening. Anyone with information regarding this occurence is asked to contact the Exeter detachment at 235-1300. Vehicles owned by two Dashwood residents suffered minor damages when they struck the same storm drain grate on Main street, Tuesday. Damages sustained by Melvin Restemayer's vehicle totalled $200 while damage to a vehicle driven by Beverly Keller was set at $650. Vehicles driven by Herbert Redden and Irene.Finlayson, both of Ilensall collided Monday on East street in Zurich. Damage was estimated at 8200. Saturday. a vehicle driven by Mar- tin Pas of London went out of control on Huron road 4, entered the ditch and rolled over. Officers listed damages at $3.000. Two impaired driving charges were laid this week along witti five driving licence suspensions of 12 hours each. Exeter detachment officers wish to remind drivers to exercise extra cau- tion Saturday night while local children are out trick and treating for Halloween. A crime stoppers program will soon be operational in the county of Huron involving all OPP detachments and municipal police forces. Anyone with information regarding any criminal activity is asked to advise your local police department or detachment. Your name need only be given if you wish to do so. A LITTLE GIRL'S DELIGHT Katrina Snedden was delighted to pose with two dolls at Thursday'% South Huron Hospital Auxiliary rummage sole. T -A photo