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Times-Advocate, 1988-01-27, Page 2• - Times -Advocate, January 27, 1988 FAREWELL GIFT - Hensall reeve Jim Robinson presented retiring clerk -treasurer Elizabeth Oke (right) with a gift from all the councils at Friday's open house. Elizabeth Bell (centre) was on hand from Exeter on behalf of all the Huron County clerk -treasurers. Usborne opposes reassessment School. The contest closes January 31. January 21 at 10.00 a.m. an on- site meeting for the Mitchell Drain- age Works will take place at lot 1,• concession 3 where the dram crosses the Boundary Road between Tucker - smith and Usbome townships. Us- borne landowners affected by this work have been notified. A meeting on the North Branch of the Black Creek Drain will be held in the Hay township council cham- bers on January 27 at 3:00 p.m. A public meeting to prepare for Usborne township's 150th annivcr= sary has been tentatively set for March 21 at the Kirkton Communi- ty Centre. Members of Usbome council have In other business at a special agreed to support the present system meeting held on January 19, Coun- of county and school board assess- chlor Pat Down was appointed to ment, and will also inform Huron speak and vote for Usborne town- . County council they are not in fa- ship at the annual meeting of the your of adopting either section 63 or section 70 of the proposed coun- ty -wide reassessment system. Councillors want. to maintain the status quo. At present the county and education levies arc calculated on1984 market. values, with an . equalization factor. Under the pro- posed change, the local levy for Us- borne -would not be changed, but their combined school and county levy would go up 4.78 percent if section 63 were adopted, and 8.37 percent if section 70 becomes law, acording to county assessment offi- cer Ron Moore. " • On location or Studio Bart DeVrie PHOTOGRAPHY COMMLRCOAl • WEDDINGS PORTRAITS -GROUPS PUBLICITY Telephone 21;-1298 1 37 Thames Rd., East, Exeter. Ont. t Comp -Account Computerized Accounting For small & medium sized businesses Private corporations, manufacturers • Financial statements and projections • Accounts "receivable payable • Payroll • Management reports • Complete monogement accounting and bookkeeping services Don't flyby the Seat of Your Pants' Let up help you manage your business better with accurate, timely monogement reports. CaII Now - 262-3431 Highway 4 - Hensall ROMA Insurance Program Inc. Information about a ministry of natural resources contest asking youngsters aged from- 9 to 11 to choose an official provincial bird was passed on to Usborne Central Three mishaps on town streets - Officers of the Exeter town po- lice department laid 13 charges un- der the. Highway Traffic Act this week along with one infraction of the Liquor Licence Act and one for art kn P The firstof three accidents oc- curred Thursday on Sanders street east and involved vehicles driven by Robert Miller, Kirkton and Joseph Gosar, Exeter. The Gosar vehicle was westbound on Sanders and the - Miller vehicle was exiting from a parking lot. Saturday, vehicles driven by Wendy Coward, Woodham and Da- vid Bieman, Exeter collided at Main and Anne streets. The Bicman vehi- cle was waiting to turn onto Anne street when the Coward vehicle at- tempted to pass on the right. Vehiclesoperated by Richard Co- nium, Centralia and Keith Stephen- son, London were in collision at the intersection of John and Andrew strcets.Conium was northbound on Andrew and Stephenson was travell- ing . south on John street. Usborne Continued from front page mittee. He will be paid $36 per meeting plus mileage. Prout and Hem will also be on the building committee. The history book committee wilt consist of Hcrn, Down, Fern Dou- gall, Gwen Coward, Kcn Oke, Mary Blacklcr, Ross Hodgcrt, Kcn. Dun- can, Walter Creery, Garnet Hicks, Dc mar Skinner, Howard Pym,Gre- ta Richards and and volunteers re- quired from time to time. The Celebration 88 committee will be composed of Hem, Down, and Keith Strang and Donald Rich- ardson. Ito %Otte* sot,. s _ ,2‘0701414. CaPagoSOISISS TO"010,300G 0, Gq►t S pnpN G �O • �' o�'�P V�•pOO 14.1 � r, o`d R flaw Five plead guilty and fined various drivhig on Driving with no insurance proved costly for Michael J. Bud- ny, 97 Wolfe St., Goderich, who was observed going oNo -stop Thames Road West on December 18. Buddy said he was taking his re- cently purchased 1979 Toyota for a test run, and had come to a "rolling" stop. He was fined $500, with five months to pay. Thane Edgar Odell, 31 Goshen St:, Zurich, was convicted of oper- ating a vehicle without valid insu- rance when stopped on Highway 4 in Usbornc township on December 8 for a minor traffic infraction: He Five persons appearing before Justice of the Peace Doug Wedlake on January 19, pleaded guilty to charges laid under the highway traf- fic act. Two were convicted • 1 1 un t er 1 e compu sory au- tomobile insurance act. - Tracy Ratz, RR 2 Crediton, lost her probationary license for 30 days and was fined $128.75, with 30 days to pay, for passing a stopped school bus. An OPP offi- cer westbound on county road 4 on October 29, 1987, behind Ratz saw her pull out and pass to the right of the bus, which had stopped, had its left turn signal and four-way stop arm both flashing. A child who had just disem- barked from the bus was hit by the mirror on the Ratz vehicle, but not injurod. A charge of failing to remain at the scene of the accident was with- drawn. Lawrence K. Bunn, Victoria St. Bayfield; was convicted of driving at 94 kph in an 80 -kph zone, on October 1, while southbound on concession 2-3 in Stephen town- ship. He paid a fine of $18.75 Christopher Jeffrey Becker, RR 1 Elmwood, pleaded guilty to remov- " ing a large wooden highway sign with the word "Benmiller" on it from Huron County Road 1 in Goderich township on November 25, 1987. The undamaged sign was re- trieved. Becker paid a fine of $128.75. A conviction was registered against Ronald Steeper, 52 Wil- liam St., Exeter, for speeding at 120 kph in a posted 80 kph zone on cou road 4 in Stephen town- shi�6iT September 28. He was gi en 15 days to pay his out-of- court fine of $93.75. Ray W. Woodburn, 152 Walker St. Clinton, was given six months to pay a fine of $500 for driving' while his license was under sus- pension. Woodburn was apprehended dur- ing an OPP RIDE spot-check while westbound on highway 84 in Hay township on December 24. The accused has a number of previ- ous convictions for the same charge. " FOR A JOB WELL DONE -- Former Rec Board chairman Jim Workman - was presented with an award by Mayor Bruce Shaw -Thursday night fol his contributions to Recreation as a board member. Rec Board adopts new format At the first regular meeting of the South Huron Rec Board, Mayor Bruce Shaw, who has decided to take a more active role in the busi- ness of the body this year, suggest- ed a change in format concerning monthly reports from the Rec direc- tor and facilities manager., Noting that facilities committee members often come to meetings without an understanding of current facilities issucs, Shaw suggested that the two reports be made on the committee level rather than at the regular monthly meetings. "1 see facilities people asking the facilities manager questions," said Shaw, adding that committee mem- bers should know what is going on before thejegular meeting. y esenting the respective re- ports ahead of time, Shaw main- tains that at least four members of the board will have an understanding of the issues at the regular monthly meeting. In answer to the problem of poor attendance at the committee level, Shaw also suggested that a regular monthly meeting be established for cach committee.• In the past, beard members have tried to fit committee meetings around busy personal schedules, causing confusion. As a result of Shaw's suggestion, the board passed a motion establish- ing committee meetings in the fourth• week of each month and reg- ular board meetings in the second week of each month. Specific meeting days for each committee were established after the Thuday meeting. A motion was carried by the board to approach council recommending a no -smoking bylaw for the arena portion of the Rec Centre. There were no -smoking signs on the doors of the arena at one time,•but no by- law existed to back them up. All you need to remember about home comfort is SYSTEMS BY LENNOX INSTALLED BY GBAILEYP Serving from l,x.ar, to myth HEATING AND AIR CONDITIONING? %HENSALL "We're proud to be your Lennox Dealer" was fined 8500 and given three months to pay. Willard Schweitzer. London Road So h xc1er, faileet-to-appeaa•; bu was found guilty of driving a 1975 Chev with plates issued for a 1980 Oldsmobile when his vehicle was stopped in Exeter on November 11 on Main St. He was fined $53.75, and given 15 days to pay. A letter and cheque were received from Zaharias J.C. Prattas, Willow- -dale, who had been charged with speeding on June 1 on highway 4 in Hay township Prams had entered a not guilty plea, but had changed his mind. The the a as to pay his $47.25 -fine. Appeal: withdrawn for Hay drainage project Hay Township council entered Under a government grant pro into agreements with the Ausable gram, the ABCA will be eligible Bayficld Conservation Authority as for a one-third grant of the cost to decided at the January 18 meeting. the authorityfor drainage work of council. done on their lands. . The NBCA will undertake a Lake Huron Process Study to. monitor • the movement of sediment along the lakeshorc. It will determine the effect of beach control meas- ures, such as .groynes, on the sedi- ment movement. -Hay Township's share of the cost of this 'study is $775. A second study to be conducted by the ABCA will use the data ob- tained from the process study to map areas of the Lake Huron Shoreline which are subject to ero- sion and flooding. "Where were headed is that we will be producing a shoreline man- agement plan," said Prout. Hay Township's share of the cost of this study, named Hurd Coun- Tom Prout general manager of ty Flood Erosion Risk mapping, the ABCA confirmed that a delega- will be $1,908.. tion from Hay council and the en- A bylaw was passed to allow an ginecring consultants had appeared ' agreement between Hay council before the authority's executive and the authority concerning the committee .to request that the ap- control and maintenance of erosion peal be withdrawn. in the Pergel Gully. The ABCA has agreed to with- draw its appeal to the cleaning and reconstruction of the West Branch of the Black Creek Drain. This was the only objection outstanding on the proposal, which means that once council has notified the Onta- rio Drainage Tribunal of the with- drawal, tenders can be called for the work on the $140,460 project to begin in the spring. The Authority appealed the bene- fit assessment assigned to them in the drain report. Because the agri- cultural lands within the drainage area have no commercial purpose, the ABCA considered the assessed benefit and shared cost of the pro- ject to be incorrect. Two year jail term for 1986 fatality Rodney John Dobson, RR 1, Exeter wassentenced to two years in jail in Goderich court -on Janu- ary 19. He pleaded guilty to dangerous driving on December 3, 1986 when the vehicle he was driving struck Mary Blanchard of Exeter who was walking along Huron street, near the Mary street intersection. Mrs. Blanchard dicd a few weeks after the accident. In addition to the jail term which is two years, less a day, Judge Hon- ourable F.G.Carter levied one year of probation and a four year driving suspension. Dobson also pleaded guilty to con- suming alcohol in excess of 80 mg of alcohol in 100 ml of blood and received 30 days concurrent. Na'FOr 10 days Only at Stratford Hyundai the bottom line is: No down payment!* No payments for 4 months!* SO in February! SO in March! SO in April! 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