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Times Advocate, 1989-05-03, Page 2Page 2 1 tines -Advocate, May 3, 1989 Sign debenture - Friday morning, officials of the Usbome Hibbert Mutual) Fire Insurance Company is- sued a $1.1 million debenture to the Tuckersmith Municipal Telpehone System for an -upgrading pro- gram. Shown in front signing the agrement are from the left Tuckersmith township clerk Jack McLachlan, Usborne Hibbert president Jack Harrigan and Tuckersmith Telephone past chairman Dave Brock. At the back are Tuckersmith Telephone chairman Ross McBeath, Tuckersmith deputy -reeve Bill Carnochan, Tuckersmith Telephone secretary-mananger Mel Graham and Usborne Hibbert secre- tary manager Mike Caers. No objections to amendment EXETER.- A public meeting was called in the midst of 'the delibera- tions of Usborne council on April 18 to hear applications from•,Nor- man and Leona Amos for an official plan amendment and rezoning at Part Lot. 9, Southeast Boundary -Concession. The Amos request would extend the urban limits of the hamlet of Kirkton. A small portion would be rezoned residential, and a larger part classed as developmental. The latter parcel could be used for resi- dential, commercial or industrial purposes. There were no objectors. Howev- er, Jamie Hackett, speaking for Cooks Division. of Parrish and Heimbecker Ltd., voiced some con- cerns in the event residences were built near the mill. He reminded council that Cooks had long been established in its present location, and the mill did run for long hours and create extra noise and dust at certain times of the year. Usborne township council gave first and second reading to the zon- ing bylaw. The application was sent to county council where the of- ficial plan amendment must be ap- proved before the township can give the bylaw third and final reading. Once that happens, any objectors still have 35 days to submit their objections to the OMB. A group of grade 8 students from Usborne Central Public School, ac- companied by teacher Al Beattie; observed part of the council ses- sion. They heard Fern Dougall re- port on the progress of the History Book. She also focused on some highlights of settlement in Huron County in general, and Usborne in particular. Councillor William J. Rowcliffe declared a conflict of interest and left the, room while the report on the McDonald-Rowcliffe Municipal Drain was reviewed. Those attend- ing had no ob'ecti Unofficial - Town council renamed a number of streets, Monday Here is one they missed at the intersection of Mill and Mar- ket streets. 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Council approved paying 17¢ per foot for approximately 1,900 feet of tile to be placed about 10 feet inside the property line of the McBride farm at Lot 15, Concession 2. The township accepted responsibility for paying the cost of five connecting spurs with French drains. One tender was received for pur- chase of the old Elimville Hall property. Floyd Cooper's bid of $101 was accepted. Road superintendent Ken Parker was authorized to post reduced load limits on township roads. Charges against James L. Pfaff for vioti ion of a zoning bylaw were withdrawn after council was, advised that Pfaff had been granted a permit from the Huron County Health Unit to install a holding tank for his commercial establish- ment. This action met the town- ship's conditions for minor variance approval. Council approved connection to the Exeter PUC water pipeline on Highway 83 for Susanne Strang at Part Lot 21, Concession 2. Cable TV Continued from front page nity bulletin board will continue. As for studio use, I didn't know it was ever available." He was told by council that a fund raising program was held from the cable studios when the South Huron Rec Centre was be- ing built. Stinson has taken over opera- tion of Excen Cablevision Limit- ed which was started in 1973 by the.original owner Ronald McIn- tosh. He has asked to have the agreement assigned to him. When asked by Mickle if there was a cutoff point by the CRTC for a minimum number of sub- scribers for community program- ming, Stinson said, " We must have a good subscriber base. The CRTC does not require communi- ty programming for under 1,500 subscribers." He added, " We will take a seri- ous. look at this aspect of it for our next budget period as we now have 1,502 subscribers in Exeter. Yes, it's a priority we will have to address and I am quite confident that within a short time wc't'oiriti` ' have a limited amount of commu- nity programming in Exeter." Stinson indicated that Lions bingos in Godcrich and Clinton "have gone over well." In concluding the discussion, councillor Ben Hoogenboom said to Sinson, " I am encouraged with What you have told us and the fact you now know that council is concerned about community pro- gramming." Police Continued from front page. Of this $152,000 was recovered. Hardy said partly due to the RIDE program impaired driving charges had increased to an even dozen over the year and 20 drivers had received 12 hour licence suspen- sions. Mayor Bruce Shaw said he was pleased with the annual police re- port, not only in staying close to the budget, but in cutting down on the number of accidents and an in- crease in the number of clearance of offences. Get debenture locally EXETER - Neighbours helping neighbours. That's exactly what happened Friday morning when • officials of the Usborne and Hibbert Mutual Fire Insu- rance Comp ny issued a $1.1 million debenture cheque to the township of Tuckersmith. The debenture money is to be used for recent renova- tions and upgrading of the Tuckersmith Municipal Tel- ephone System. Dave Brock, past president of the telephone company said, "We are pleased to be able to get this money at an excellent rate from a local group." Brock continued, "With this rate of 11 percent per annum over a'seven year period, we are expected to save about $200,000 and we also have the option of early repayment." He added, 1 call this corporate conscience on the part of the insurance company in that they arc putting the money back into the area where it was made. Many of our telephone subscribers and I am included arc in- sured with Usborne and Hibbert." Usborne and Hibbert president Jack Harrigan agreed saying, " We have investments in many areas, includ- ing every province in Canada and it's much nicer and more practical to have some of our money working right at home to improve services for the phone com- Pant'.,, In explaining the need for the debenture, Tuckersmith Telephone System secretary -manager Mel Graham said, " We rebuilt our system with digital systems and re- motes to the tune of $1.5 million. We had $400,000 available , but needed this debenture to complete. the transaction." Graham added, " This was a good opportunity to bor- row money locally and at very attractive conditions. We have received approval from the Ontario Telephone Service Commission and verbal approval from the On- tario Municipal Board." • The idea of the two local companies getting together for a financial transaction came about two years ago when Brock and Robert Gardiner, who recently retired from the insurance company board of directors dis- cussed the possibility very informally by chance. Involved in Friday's official debenture signing and cheque turning over were president Jack Harrigan and secretary -manager Mike Caers of Usborne-Hibbert; Tuckersmith Telephone System president Ross McBeath, past president Dave Brock and secretary man- ager Mel Graham with Tuckersmith township clerk Bob McLachlan and deputy -reeve Bill Carnochan. Advance sale - Mayor Bruce Shaw has already bought his box of Girl Guide Cookies from Brownie Lauryn Baynham (left), Guide Juanita Chappel and Brownie Julie Godbolt. The Brownies, Guides and Pathfinders will be selling cookies on Main Street and door to door on Saturday, May 6. Biddulph hears Granton concerns_ LUCAN - Trustees of the police village of Granton met with Bid- dulph township council recently to discuss a number of problems. The trustees were concerned over the condition of several properties in the police village and council ad- vised they had full intentions of in- vestigating the establishment of a property standards bylaw. On the subject of improving Granton's main street, trustees were advised that the county had. not al- tered the schedule regarding im- provements and Reeve Earl French assured them that any alteration of this schedule would not happen if he had any control over same. 7 he trustees also inquired whether property owncrs in the village would be permitted to hook up to any drains which would be installed when thc county did thc construc- tion on main street. Council replied that they did not know and directed clerk -treasurer Ray Hands to contact the County engineer to ascertain property owncr rights to connect to drains. The Granton mill rate will remain the same for 1989 and trustees asked the township to continue to advance them a rebate equal to 10 mills on the Granton assessment. Two building permit applications were received and approved. Jim Blake will construct a sunroom ad- dition to his existing residence on the north half of Lot 2, South Boundary Concessiona and George Hindmarsh will erect a garage and storage shed on part of Lot 34, Concession 1. Council voiced no.objectioit to a G=hi „Ii,'1"essior-h3 '-• proach the township of McGillivray for the supply of water for a lot which he intends to purchase front- ing on Middlesex road 22 A resolution from the town of Paris.asking the province to permit municipalities who provide fire ser- vices to churches and schools to levy a cost for this service against these otherwise exempt properties was filed. Correspondence was received from the National Transportation Agen- cy, acknowledging receipt of the township's corespondence regarding their opposition to the proposed abandonment of the operation of the CN rail line from St. Marys to Parkhill. Local OPP investigate half dozen accidents EXE I"ER - Officers of the Exeter detachment of the Ontario Pro- vincial Police investigated six motor vehicle accidents during the past week and only minor injuries were sustained. At 9.20 a.m. on Monday, April 24, vehicles driven by Patrick Co - Lombe, Cambridge and Richard Conium, RR 1, Centralia collided on Huron Road 21 at the entrance to Centralia College. A vehicle operated by Wendy Steele, RR 2, Kippen was in coli- cion with a parked vehicle owned by Oscar Clarke, RR 3, Zurich to King street in Hcnsall. At 1.50 p.m., Wednesday, a vehicle driven by Scott Lovie. Exeter left Highway 83, west of Exeter and struck a road sign. Only 40 minutes later, a vehicle operated by Sharon Fletcher, Hu- ron Park was in collision with a parked vehicle owned by Tim Smith, also of Huron Park. The mishap occurred on Empress Avnue in Huron Park. A vehicle driven by Kris Bedard, RR 2, Zurich left the roadway of Concession 2 of Hay township at 11.15 p.m., .uaday and entered the ditch. Vehicles driven by Danny Smith, RR 3, Exeter and Koren Wells, Exeter were in collision Friday at 7.45 p.m. at the intersection of Concession 2 in Usborne township and Huron Road 6. Minor inju- ries were sustained by Smith's four year-old daughter Courtney. During the week, charges, three under the Insurance Act, four • Criminal Code charges and two impaired driving charges. In addition, two drivers received 12 hour licence suspensions. The RIDE spotcheck program continues to operate on area roads. The public is reminded that the OPP emergency number is now 1- • 800-265-2525. You will be talking to the District Communications Centre in Mount Forest, so try to be specific as to your address and tir- .t;;;>i.;tance is appreciated.-..._ McCurdy Tree Planting - Stephen township Clerk Wilmar Wein, former school trustee Harry Hayter and present trustee Yvonne Slaght look on as students Tina Gibson, Daryl Mcllrea and Soupin Inlak- hana plant a tree at McCurdy school.