Times-Advocate, 1988-05-04, Page 1mes
Serving South Huron, North Middlesex
One Hundred _and Seventeenth Year-
dvocate
& North Lambton Since 1873
EXETER, ONTARIO, May
4, 1982 Price Per Copy 60 Cents
Ministry volunteers to act as mediator in
zoning dispute between Hay and Exeter
EXETER - The Ontario Ministry
of Municipal Affairs has offered to
act as mediator between the town
of Exeter and the township of Hay
regarding the proposed Huron Trac-
tor Agricultural Park, just north of
the Exeter -Hay boundary.
An Ontario Municipal Board hear-
ing to consider Exeter's appeal of
Hay's comprehensive zoning bylaw
has been delayed until July 18.
A letter read to Exeter council
Monday night said, "After our re-
view of the proposal and meetings
with thc'County of Huron and Min-
istry of Agriculture and Food, we
feel there may be some merit in dis-
cussing the issues involved, prior
to the rescheduled Board hearing."
It continued, "Our Ministry
would act as a neutral third party to
bring the disputing parties together,
assist in the invention of options
for solution and criteria for evalua-
tion of the options, and act as a ref-
eree in discussions."
In conclusion, the letter asked
that each party be represented by a
maximum of two individuals, one
of whom should be in a position to
make commitments on Denali of
professional staff and suggested any
mediation attempt must have the
backing of the participants.
The letter produced considerable
discussion from councillors and
terms of reference will be requested
before approval is given.
The first comment came from
councillor Gaylan Joscpshon who
said, " My greatest concern is who
are the participants."
Reeve Bill Mickle was quick to
reply, " I agree. We have to clarify
who sits at the table. There should
be nobody there but representatives
from.the two municipalities and the
mediator."
Mickle continued, "In addition
commitments should not be made
at that meeting. The ideas should be
brought back to council for approv-
al. Discussion should be between
four mature council members in an
attempt to find common ground to
solve the problem."
Councillor Morley Hall added, "
Why not take a look at it. Avoiding
a hearing will save a lot of money."
Riddell denies opposition to
Sunday shopping legislation
EXETER - Huron M.P.P. Jack
Riddell denied on Friday allegations
that he opposes provincial Sunday
shopping legislation.
A press release from the Ontario
Progressive Conservative caucus
states that "A survey by Progres-
sive Conservative Party staff has re-
vealed that Jack Riddell, M.P.P. for
Huron, opposes Sunday shopping."
The release explains that Liberal
constituency offices were tele-
phoned and asked if the member fa-
voured Sunday shopping. Of the
82 responses, the release claims 33
•percent were opposed to Sunday
shopping, and 38 percent refused to
comment.
"It is a misrepresentdtion of -my
views on the matter," said Riddell
when contacted at his office. "I ccr-
• tainly do support the proposed leg-
islation."
Riddell considers the draft law to
be similar to what is in place al-
ready, but adding the option of giv-
ing municipalities a chance to al-
low Sunday openings.
"The thing just got to the point
where you couldn't enforce it," said
Riddell of thc old legislation. "If a
bunch of merchants decided they
wanted to open they would simply
have the municipality declare them
a tourist area....It just got to be a
joke."
Riddell dismissed opposition
charges that the legislation would
cause a domino effect of wide-open
Sunday shopping. He pointed to
areas in Huron County, such as
Bayfield and Goderich where stores
open on Sundays in the summer
without causing demand for Sunday
shopping elsewhere.
"1 can see Windsor maybe open-
ing up because Detroit is open,"
noted Riddell.
"Why should the province be tell-
ing Windsor what to do and also
telling Sault St. Marie w.hat to do
which is maybe in a whole different
situation."
"You know yourself if it wasn't
for stores being open in Bayfield,
Bayfield would be dead. Same with
Grand Bend," he said.
"We feel that with this law it's
fair to all merchants. It's enforcea-
ble and it's coherent."
Riddell also made a distinction
between the legislation and shop -
READY TO SELL COOKIES - Displaying some of the boxes of the
cookies they will be selling on May 7areack left) Girl Guide Juanita
Chapman, Pathfinder Tracy Urlin and (front) Brownies Molly Dinney and Ju-
lie Godbolt.
ping on Sundays.
"The opposition talked about
Sunday shopping," he said. "The
legislation is not Sunday shopping.
The legislation is prohibition of
Sunday shopping, but leaving the
option to the municipality if they
want to open up.
Again Riddell stressed that he
hadn't spoken to anyone from the
Conservative office, but his secre-
tary Ruth Stover explained that
someone had called asking for Rid -
dell's views on Sunday shopping.
She had said she couldn't comment
on his views except that in a televi-
sion interview with Murray Gaunt,
Riddell said he wouldn't shop on
Sundays.
"I don't shop on Sundays
don't intend to start," said Riddell
of the television interview." "I said
I'll make my views known to the
municipality, and I said that I hope
everyone else who docs not want to
see stores open on Sunday will let
their municipality know what their
views arc because they're the ones
who are going to have the decision
to make."
Charges laid for
growing marijuana
GRAND BEND - A Tillsonburg
man was released on bail when he
appeared in Provincial Court in
Goderich, Monday on a charge of
cultivating marijuana.
Richard Paul Vernon, aged 36
was arrested Saturday by officers of
the Exeter Ontario Provincial Po-
lice detachment.
Police found 882 marijuana
plants in a plot in Stephen town-
ship, about five kilometres, north-
east of here.
Vernon will make another appear-
ance in Goderich court on June 6.
Deer struck
in only mishap
for local OPP
EXETER - Friday at 10:20 a.m. a
vchicic operated by Ivory Romphf,
London, collided with a deer on
Highway 23. Damage was light.
During the week officers of the
Exeter OPP investigated 40 occur-
rences, laid 48 HTA charges, 3
LLA charges, 1 Trespass to proper-
ty Act Charge, 3 Criminal Code
charges, 1 Narcotic Control Act
Charge and 3 impaired driving
charges, 5 people were issued 12
hour suspensions. -
it occurred at 10.20 p.m., Friday
night when a vehicle driven by Ivo-
ry Romphf, London struck a deer
on Highway 23. Damage was light.
The full time No. 6 District
RiDE team is now in operation
and will be augmenting the Exctcr
OPP RiDE program on occasion.
The RiDE program is in effect.,
weekly on arca roads. Please don't
Drink and Drive.
Citizens arc also reminded of Hu-
ron County Crime Stoppers. if
you can help call 1-800-265-1777.
The program is working.
TRYING OUT THE MERCHANDISE - Janice Graham with the help of Jackie Morley and Katie Graham tries
out a tricycle at Saturday's garage sale sponsored by the New Huronia Singers.
Plan economic development seminar
EXETER - Former councillor
Don Winter has undertaken the du-
ties to organize a seminar on eco-
nomic development.
Wintcr told council Monday night
that the seminar will be held Timis -0
day May 19 at 7 p.m. at the Old
Town Hall with three excellent
speakers in attendance.
They are Tom Lemon who will
talk about cconomic development
in Seaforth, Cathy Brown of the
Ministry of Municipal Affairs and
Rick Aircy.
Winter told council , " We need a
greater awareness of the value of cc-
onomic development on the part of
a larger and more diverse segment
of involved residents of Exctcr."
He continued-, " Any additional
input received will assist council
and the cconomic development
committee in developing and imple-
menting a policy on economic de-
velopment."
Invitations to attend will he is-
sued to the three neighbouring
townships and the villages of llen-
sail and Zurich,
At the conclusion of Winter's
presentation, councillor Gaylen Ju-
sephson said, " It's an excellent pro-
Ixlsal and we are wholeheartedly be-
hind it."
Peter Darbishire is chairman of
the Exctcr cconomic development
committee.
Council approves mapping program
EXETER - After hearing a pres-
entation by Carl Celestin of the
surveying firm of Archibald, Gray
and McKay, Exctcr council Monday
night agreed to an Ontario Base
Mapping Program.
In 1982, council passed a resolu-
tion to join the Ministry of Natural
Resources program for mapping.
Celestin said, " Hundreds of appli-
cations were received at that time
and you were put in thc pecking or-
der. You arc now at the top of the.
list for this year."
Celestin told council, " Many
new and innovative applications for
this type of mapping arc going to
be used in the future. The maps
will be on a scale of one to 2,000
and will include everything in the
town such as all existing buildings,
curb lines, fences, spot elevations,
sewers, watcrmains, etc."
The surveyor said the cost of 12
map sheets would be about S69,600
with Exeter's share at 53,000. If
digital mapping was added the cost
would rise by 59,600.
Projects of this nature take about
two years to complete. Aerial pho-
tography is included and this can be
done only in the spring or fall.
Celestin continued, " In the
spring before the leaves come out is
the best time for this photography
so I would suggest doing this in
the spring of 1989 and we should
have the maps ready for you by the
fall of the same year."
When councillor Ben Mogen -
boom asked about any arca munici-
palities participating in this pro-
gram, Celestin replied, " Grand
Bend opted for the digital program
last year and should he receiving
their first sheets this summer."
Deputy reeve l.ossy Fuller made
the motion to approve the basic
mapping and mayor Bruce Shaw
added, the digital decision can l'e
made later."
Planning non-profit housing
EXETER - Plans are going ahead
to establish a non-profit Co -
Operative Family Housing complex
in Exeter.
Results of a recent Co -Operative
Family housing project committee
meeting were passed on to Exeter
council, Monday night.
A total of 54 questionnaires were
received and reviewed. Included were
those received by Jean Monteith and
Associates and Southwestern Com-
munity homes.
After reviewing the survey, the.
committee decided to apply for a 40
unit Co -Operative Housing Com-
plex to contain 24- one bedroom
units; 11 of two-bcdroom size; four
containing three -bedrooms and one
unit to house four bedrooms.
Of the 54 replies, 22 applicants
required one bedroom for seniors;
14 required one bedroom for sin-
gles; 11 others need two bedrooms
for family accommodation, six re-
quire three bedrooms for a family
and one application needs a four-
bedroom family unit.
For financing purposes, the com-
plex will be split into 50 percent
for subsidized housing and 50 per-
cent market housing.
'Hie complex will be named Ex-
andarca Mcadows Co -Operative
Horsing incorlxlratcd. Bill tilickle
is chairman of the committee and
Morley Hall is treasurer.
Format changes designed
to encourage readership
During the past several
months, T -A readers have com-
mented positively on what we
believe have been improvements
in thcir local newspaper.
Larger photographs, increased
business coverage and a higher
news - advertising ratio arc all
areas where major improvements
will be noticed.
in order to be able to accent
key local items and features, we
have decided to discontinue the
segregation of news and photos
from certain areas. Beginning
this wcck, family and sports
news pages will be increased
while other pages designated for
specific areas will be discontin-
ued.
For example, Zurich, Ilensall,
Lucan and Grand bend news will
have an equal opportunity to be
featured on the front page with
stories originating from Exctcr.
As well, each item will have the
origin of the story datelined and
identified in capital letters.
When readers have become ac-
customed to thc new format,
they will he expected to devote
more attention to thc entire
newspaper. This, obviously,
will be more beneficial to both
our readers and advertisers.
We arc making these changes
because we believe the results
will he an improved newspaper.
As always, reader comments arc
welcomed and encouraged.
Jim Beckett, Publisher
EXCEL IN
EDUCATION
SHDHS presented Excellence
in Education awards
page 3
STATION WAGONS
Canadian favourites make
comeback
page 5
LEGION
CELEBRATION
Exeter Legion completes
renovation program
page 12
VILLA GROWS
Sod was turned Saturday for an
Exeter Villa expansion
page 16
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MOHAWKS OUT
Mohawks eliminated in OHA
Senior '13' semi-final
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