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Times Advocate, 1989-05-17, Page 1Rick EXETER TOYOTA) 242 Main St. N. Exeter Across from O.P.P. Phone 235-2353 4 6' Gaiser-Kneale Insurance Exeter 235-2420 Grand Bend 238-8484 ttensall 262-2119 Clinton 482-9747 North Middlesex & Lambton Since 1873 Wednesday, May 17, 1989 60 cents Workshop blaze - Both the Crediton and Huron Park units of the Stephen Township Fire Depart- ment responded to this fire Friday evening at the farm workshop of Tom MacEvoy, just north of Mt. Carmel. The fire is believed to have been caused by a wood stove and it resulted in $6-10,000 damage to the property. Hall wants recycling action EXETER - Councillor Morley Hall told fellow members of coun- cil Monday night that he was frus- trated with the lack of progress in getting a recycling program going in the town. Hall continued, We have been talking for two years on the possi- bilities, bantered back and forth, but nothing has happened. I'm plugging away, but can't get it off the ground." The councillor added " I have people ask me every time I come up town about the proposed recy- cling program." The only action council has tak- en is to approve payment of a $200 entry fee to the Bluewater Recy- cling Association which now has 14 municipalities signed up in Lambton and Middlesex counties. All the entry fee does is give Ex- . eter the right to get operating costs and full details for hp to two years and join the program when enough municipalities have joined to war- rant operation of a third truck. Bluewater will operate a two truck recycling operation in the be- ginning and has already hired a co- ordinator. They expect to start in operation by September of this year. Council has also received a pro- posal from Bruce Melner of London which would start the recylcing pro- gram right at the kitchen sink while the Bluewater Recycling Assocai- Dougall gets site plan approval EXETER - Council Monday night approved a site plan for in- dustrial property on Thames Road East after the request was tabled: by, the planning advisory committee, Wednesday night. Roger Dougall was asking for permission to construct a 44 foot by 100 foot addition to an existing building on his property. Councillor Ben Hoogenboom, a member of the committee and chief building official David Moyer agreed that the reason the original request was tabled was for lack of information. Hoogenboom said, " The plans we saw Wednesday night were too sketchy. If we had .the plans we now have tonight, I think we could have approved it. In all honesty, we couldn't make a decision on the information we had:" Although Dougall said he had rectified some of the details since the planning board meeting, he argued he had met all requirements as far as the building was con- cerned. When Deputy reeve Lossy Fuller asked about parkin and was told by Moyer, "Yes, that's okay, Dougall added, " That's my point. I had everything right. Dougall concluded by saying, " Next time, 1 will have so many de - We'll be late EXETER - Due to the Vic- toria Day holiday on Monday, the Exeter Times Advocate will be published one day lat- er than usual next week. Normal Monday deadlines will be set back to Tuesday and the paper will be printed Wednesday evening for Thurs- day morning dttltvety. tails, you won't be able to read the plans. You are not committing to anything more than a building per- mit right now. Hoogenboom presented a motion to accept the site plan and that was amended on the suggestion of Reeve Bill Mickle that it be subject to approval by the public works de- partment and the PUC. Approval was given to a site plan application presented by Trevor Boyle and Wendy Smith to provide bed and breakfast accommodation at 240 William street south. Similar approval was given to a site plan review for Dr. David Klein to construct a building on the southeast corner of Main and Huron streets. The building will front on Huron street and have five parking spaces. Youth pleads guilty to charges. laid after fatal local accident GODERICH - .A 17 -year-old ley was pronounced dead at South youth appeared in Goderich provin- Huron Hospital, and Harsha Vard- cial court on May 10 to face charg- ham, Detroit, died the next day at es arising from an accident last Sep- University Hospital, London. tcmber 4 in which two cyclists The driver and his throe passcn- were killed. gers were not injured. eoupl e. riding_ .The ..youth pleaded guilty to two bicycles along Highway 14 about a charges of impaired driving causing mile west of Greenway when they death and one of leaving the scene were struck by a truck driven by the of an accident. He will be sen - teenager. Maruyn Larkin of Berk tenced in Goderich on July 12. Public invited to police station EXETER - All residents of Exeter are invited to drop into the Ex- eter town police office later this week to help celebrate Police Week. Police chief Larry Hardy informs that Open -House will be held on Thursday and Friday of this week from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Hardy adds, " We invite the public to stop in to sec our police fa- cility, meet some of the staff and have a coffee with us." _ During the week officers of the town police department investigat- ed two motor vehicle accidents. On Saturday, May 13, vehicles operated by David Elliott, Central- ia and Elaine Bancroft, RR 2 Ailsa Craig collided on Main street. The next day , vehicles driven by Kevin Wallace, Exeter and Mar- garet Saville of -Stratford were in collision on Main street, near Sanders street. tion would use the blue box sys- tem. Although costs have not been fi- nalized for any of the systems, it's estimated Exeter's share of the Blue - water class one blue box curb pick- up would be S24,710. While Hall said he favoured the Please turn to page 2 Taxes jump almost 10% Exeter holds costs down but County and education up EXETER - As the result of the budget and tax rate set Monday night, most residents of the town will be facing an increase of 9.63 percent when their 1989 tax notices arrive. In the amount of extra money coming out of the taxpayer's pock- et, this increase adds up to $94.60 more than he or she paid in 1988 on a property assessed at $50,000 with support going to the public school fiystem. Of this additional $94.60; $23.90 goes to the town of Exeter for local expenditures, $25.60 to the county of Huron and $45.10 to the Huron County Board of Education. The individual percentage increases are broken down as follows: Town of Exeter six percent; County of Huron 19.58 percent; ele- mentary public school 8.32 percent and secondary public school 12.10 percent. The total mill rate for this year for a residential public school sup- porter is 21.534 mills as compared to 19.642 mills a year ago. The increase for commercial and industrial public school support purposes iS also 9.63 percent going from 23.107 mills last year to 25.333 mills this time around. For residential separate school supporters, the total increase is 11 percent. The town and county rates are the same as for public educa- tion, but the secondary separate school rate goes up by 22.56 per- cent and the elementary separate rate rises by 5.63 percent. The overall separate school residential rate will be 22.078 mills, compared to 19.89 in 1988. On an average assessment of $50,000, the increase will be $109.40. The total tax monies raised on overall assessment of $114,428,750 is $2,613,172.47. Of this amount $1,021,645.48 stays in the town of Exeter. After the tax bylaw was passed, reeve Bill Mickle said, "This council has done a good job in keeping our own increase down to six percent. Sure, it's above the inflation rate, but we arc putting monies aside for future projects." The final tax levies, less the interim levy of 10 mills shall be paid in two instalments, due and payable on August 15 and November 15. Late payments shall be subject to penalty charges of 1.25 percent on the first day of default and 1.25 percent on the first day of each month until paid. Fire hall site close EXETER - Mayor Bruce Shaw when questioned Monday night about the progress in negotiations for the purchase of land for a new fire hall said, " A deal is in the offing." Shaw added, " We should have the. necessary land in the very near future, possibly this week. .It's just a matter of crossing the T's and dotting the I's." Council Monday night approved a lease agreement with the pur- chaser of the old fire hall property until a new location has been bought and a new facility built. Until that time the town will pay a rental fee of $2,000 per month. Bike Safety The Kirkton Optimists held their annual Bike Rodeo Saturday morning and. after the participants passed their bike handling tests, they were treated to some road -wise bike tips from Festival City Cycle Club member Steve James. The rodeo was the final event of Bike Safety Week, combining school activities with the Optimists' event. Inside Chief Administrator Rick Hundey now on the job page 5 ' Still shining Star Lite going strong after 35 years page 7 Nightbeat '89 SHDHS showcases local talent pages 8, 9 Panthers Successful at Huron -Perth meet page 17 Fish derbies Success at Grand Bend, Exeter page 17, 19 Cap, gown time Graduates at Centralia College page 26, 27 Workshop blaze - Both the Crediton and Huron Park units of the Stephen Township Fire Depart- ment responded to this fire Friday evening at the farm workshop of Tom MacEvoy, just north of Mt. Carmel. The fire is believed to have been caused by a wood stove and it resulted in $6-10,000 damage to the property. Hall wants recycling action EXETER - Councillor Morley Hall told fellow members of coun- cil Monday night that he was frus- trated with the lack of progress in getting a recycling program going in the town. Hall continued, We have been talking for two years on the possi- bilities, bantered back and forth, but nothing has happened. I'm plugging away, but can't get it off the ground." The councillor added " I have people ask me every time I come up town about the proposed recy- cling program." The only action council has tak- en is to approve payment of a $200 entry fee to the Bluewater Recy- cling Association which now has 14 municipalities signed up in Lambton and Middlesex counties. All the entry fee does is give Ex- . eter the right to get operating costs and full details for hp to two years and join the program when enough municipalities have joined to war- rant operation of a third truck. Bluewater will operate a two truck recycling operation in the be- ginning and has already hired a co- ordinator. They expect to start in operation by September of this year. Council has also received a pro- posal from Bruce Melner of London which would start the recylcing pro- gram right at the kitchen sink while the Bluewater Recycling Assocai- Dougall gets site plan approval EXETER - Council Monday night approved a site plan for in- dustrial property on Thames Road East after the request was tabled: by, the planning advisory committee, Wednesday night. Roger Dougall was asking for permission to construct a 44 foot by 100 foot addition to an existing building on his property. Councillor Ben Hoogenboom, a member of the committee and chief building official David Moyer agreed that the reason the original request was tabled was for lack of information. Hoogenboom said, " The plans we saw Wednesday night were too sketchy. If we had .the plans we now have tonight, I think we could have approved it. In all honesty, we couldn't make a decision on the information we had:" Although Dougall said he had rectified some of the details since the planning board meeting, he argued he had met all requirements as far as the building was con- cerned. When Deputy reeve Lossy Fuller asked about parkin and was told by Moyer, "Yes, that's okay, Dougall added, " That's my point. I had everything right. Dougall concluded by saying, " Next time, 1 will have so many de - We'll be late EXETER - Due to the Vic- toria Day holiday on Monday, the Exeter Times Advocate will be published one day lat- er than usual next week. Normal Monday deadlines will be set back to Tuesday and the paper will be printed Wednesday evening for Thurs- day morning dttltvety. tails, you won't be able to read the plans. You are not committing to anything more than a building per- mit right now. Hoogenboom presented a motion to accept the site plan and that was amended on the suggestion of Reeve Bill Mickle that it be subject to approval by the public works de- partment and the PUC. Approval was given to a site plan application presented by Trevor Boyle and Wendy Smith to provide bed and breakfast accommodation at 240 William street south. Similar approval was given to a site plan review for Dr. David Klein to construct a building on the southeast corner of Main and Huron streets. The building will front on Huron street and have five parking spaces. Youth pleads guilty to charges. laid after fatal local accident GODERICH - .A 17 -year-old ley was pronounced dead at South youth appeared in Goderich provin- Huron Hospital, and Harsha Vard- cial court on May 10 to face charg- ham, Detroit, died the next day at es arising from an accident last Sep- University Hospital, London. tcmber 4 in which two cyclists The driver and his throe passcn- were killed. gers were not injured. eoupl e. riding_ .The ..youth pleaded guilty to two bicycles along Highway 14 about a charges of impaired driving causing mile west of Greenway when they death and one of leaving the scene were struck by a truck driven by the of an accident. He will be sen - teenager. Maruyn Larkin of Berk tenced in Goderich on July 12. Public invited to police station EXETER - All residents of Exeter are invited to drop into the Ex- eter town police office later this week to help celebrate Police Week. Police chief Larry Hardy informs that Open -House will be held on Thursday and Friday of this week from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Hardy adds, " We invite the public to stop in to sec our police fa- cility, meet some of the staff and have a coffee with us." _ During the week officers of the town police department investigat- ed two motor vehicle accidents. On Saturday, May 13, vehicles operated by David Elliott, Central- ia and Elaine Bancroft, RR 2 Ailsa Craig collided on Main street. The next day , vehicles driven by Kevin Wallace, Exeter and Mar- garet Saville of -Stratford were in collision on Main street, near Sanders street. tion would use the blue box sys- tem. Although costs have not been fi- nalized for any of the systems, it's estimated Exeter's share of the Blue - water class one blue box curb pick- up would be S24,710. While Hall said he favoured the Please turn to page 2 Taxes jump almost 10% Exeter holds costs down but County and education up EXETER - As the result of the budget and tax rate set Monday night, most residents of the town will be facing an increase of 9.63 percent when their 1989 tax notices arrive. In the amount of extra money coming out of the taxpayer's pock- et, this increase adds up to $94.60 more than he or she paid in 1988 on a property assessed at $50,000 with support going to the public school fiystem. Of this additional $94.60; $23.90 goes to the town of Exeter for local expenditures, $25.60 to the county of Huron and $45.10 to the Huron County Board of Education. The individual percentage increases are broken down as follows: Town of Exeter six percent; County of Huron 19.58 percent; ele- mentary public school 8.32 percent and secondary public school 12.10 percent. The total mill rate for this year for a residential public school sup- porter is 21.534 mills as compared to 19.642 mills a year ago. The increase for commercial and industrial public school support purposes iS also 9.63 percent going from 23.107 mills last year to 25.333 mills this time around. For residential separate school supporters, the total increase is 11 percent. The town and county rates are the same as for public educa- tion, but the secondary separate school rate goes up by 22.56 per- cent and the elementary separate rate rises by 5.63 percent. The overall separate school residential rate will be 22.078 mills, compared to 19.89 in 1988. On an average assessment of $50,000, the increase will be $109.40. The total tax monies raised on overall assessment of $114,428,750 is $2,613,172.47. Of this amount $1,021,645.48 stays in the town of Exeter. After the tax bylaw was passed, reeve Bill Mickle said, "This council has done a good job in keeping our own increase down to six percent. Sure, it's above the inflation rate, but we arc putting monies aside for future projects." The final tax levies, less the interim levy of 10 mills shall be paid in two instalments, due and payable on August 15 and November 15. Late payments shall be subject to penalty charges of 1.25 percent on the first day of default and 1.25 percent on the first day of each month until paid. Fire hall site close EXETER - Mayor Bruce Shaw when questioned Monday night about the progress in negotiations for the purchase of land for a new fire hall said, " A deal is in the offing." Shaw added, " We should have the. necessary land in the very near future, possibly this week. .It's just a matter of crossing the T's and dotting the I's." Council Monday night approved a lease agreement with the pur- chaser of the old fire hall property until a new location has been bought and a new facility built. Until that time the town will pay a rental fee of $2,000 per month. Bike Safety The Kirkton Optimists held their annual Bike Rodeo Saturday morning and. after the participants passed their bike handling tests, they were treated to some road -wise bike tips from Festival City Cycle Club member Steve James. The rodeo was the final event of Bike Safety Week, combining school activities with the Optimists' event.