Times Advocate, 1989-11-08, Page 1Way to go
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Crime Stoppers
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Part-time
Do students work
. too much?
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War and
Remembrance
Survivors of World
War II tell
their stories
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Freak accident
Hawk player
ruptures spleen -
during game
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We're number one - The cheers could be heard all over town Saturday night when the South Huron District High School
Field Hockey team returned victorious from OFSAA. They were treated to a ceremonial, and noisy, tour around town on
the Are truck reserved for Exeter's champions.
Co-op housing project coming next year
EXETER - The town will
likely be getting an affordable
housing complex next year, and
it will be one of `the first cooper-
ative housing initiatives under-
taken in a community of Exet-
er's size. The announcement
came at Monday's council meet-
ing when the town authorized
thetsale of property for the pro-
ject.
Exandarea Meadows (the ex-
otic -sounding name comes from
"Exeter and area") is a 35 -unit
apartment complex built on land -
severed from the parcel of land
bought by the town for the new
fire hall. The units will include
single, two, and three-bedroom
units as well as special units
with access for the handicapped.
The purchase price for the
land parcel is $200,000 more
than the original price paid by
the town for the entire lot.
Exeter reeve Bill Mickle, who
serves as president of the incor-
porated Exandarea committee,
said co=ops differ from other af-
fordable housing projects pro-
moted by. the ministry of hous-
ing, because they are non-profit
organizations that rent the units
at an initial market value.
Mickle showed a possible site
plan that portrayed buildings of
four units each with greenspace
encircling the complex. Room
for expansion is also available.
Residents of .co-op housing
become part of a committee re-
sponsible for the maintenance of
the complex. Savings realized
by an efficient operation are re-
flected in the tenants' rent.
Mickle said ministry, experience
• _with cooperatives has shown
them to be successful projects
that do not interfere with the
values of a community's private
residential marketplace.
"It's something I believe Exet-
er needs," said Mickle. The
MOH is already forcing afforda-
ble housing projects on large ur-
ban centres, but Mickle cau-
tioned smaller communities will
also face the same restrictions.
"We're going to be -ahead of
the game here," he said.
Up to 40 percent of the ten-
ants could have their rents subsi-
dized by government.
- The project, which is expected
to cost around $2.5-3 million.
has received tentative approval
from the ministry. Other hur-
dles face the Exandarea com-
mittee before ground can be
broken for building, possibly as
early as May, but likely before
mid-August of 1990.
"We are very pleased the min-
istry supported our proposals,"
said Mickle, noting that most
co-ops are larger than 40 units,
but the 35 -unit Exandarea pro-
• posal is being treated as a pilot
project for such housing in
smaller urban centres.
Funding for construction will
mainly come through ministry-
supported bank mortgaging, to
be repaid by tenant rent.
Engineer offers refund
EXETER - Town council has
reached a solution to its problem
with a tender error discovered ear-
ier this year. While the engineer
responsible for overlooking the
nistake has offered compensation
A the town, not all of council
igrces the compensation is ade-
tuate.
B.M. Ross, consulting engineers
!or the reconstruction of Huron
Street, offered Exeter $7,000 in
;ompensation for neglecting to no -
ice a missing zero in a tender of-
fered by Van Brec Construction on
the project. The company was
awarded the job, but council later
liscovered the actual cost was
tome $20,500 more than quoted - a
difference of $7,000 above the cor-
rect lowest tender.
Reeve Bill Mickle was upset that
:ompensation for the tender error
may eventually lead the ministry of full payment for the project.
transportation to deduct some of its Councillor Dorothy Chapman
road subsidy next year, making the was annoyed the engineer was not
pursuit of compensation almost "owning• up" to the full amount of
without reward. He accused the the error.
MTO as being "hand in hand with "They have owned up to it, to the
the contractors". tune of $7,000," disputed Hoogen=
"They put this municipality over boom.
a barrel," said Mickle "1 think that's Mickle agreed with Chapman,
irresponsible." saying that the real mistake was
Deputy -reeve Lossy Fuller asked that council was led into tendering
who was going to pay the $13,500 with incorrect information.
difference between the tender' error Council voted to pay Van Bree,
and the $7,000 B.M. Ross was of- but withold $7,000 plus the usual
feting. Councillor Ben Hoogen- five percent holdback until the new
boom argued there was no diffcr- year, thus preserving the town's
once . because the engineer MTO subsidy rate.
compensated for the difference be- Clerk Liz Bell suggested there
tween the project's actual cost and should be a longer period between
the true lowest bidder. the time tenders were opened and
"In my way of thinking, that's all when they were accepted, giving
we need," said Hoogcnboom, and the engineers more time to inspect
suggested Van Brec was entitled to the offers.
Port Franks gets no respect
PORT FRANKS - Residents of
his lakeside hamlet want their gov-
xnment's attention. They say their
interests have been ignored for too
long and they want the restructur-
ing of Lambton Countyto include
tome recognition of their needs,
;ven if that means the creation of a
mew township tb separate the lake -
'bore cottage country from pre-
dominantly -rural Bosanquet Town-
ship.
A public meeting held Sunday at
the Optimist Community Centre at-
tracted about 100 arca ratepayers to
hear the Port Franks Ratepayer's
Association present their proposal
for "Bluewatcr Township" - a slice
of lakeshore west of Highway 21
including Grand Bend, the Pinery,
and Port Franks all the way south ,
to Ipperwash.
"There's been a lot of talk about
Bosanquet taking over Grand
Bend, Grand Bend taking over Port
Franks. If that's the. way people
want to talk, then you can say that
what we're proposing is that we
take over Grand Bend and we take
over everything west of the high-
way all the way down to County
Road 12 and make a new urban
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Neighbors organize pIowijgjee
STANLEY - A silver lining has
appeared in the aftermath of a mud-
er-suicide that orphaned four sis-
ters living on a farm in Stanley
township. The surrounding com-
munity is providing the Aisen-
. preis children with both compas-
sion and practical assistance.
Neighbour Ken Faber took off
the white beans, and another, Paul
Betties, harvested the soys. Other
neighbours loaned their gravity
wagons. Now that the crops are
off, the land has to be plowed.
Faber, Hugh Hendrick and Gerry
Johnson have organized a bee be:
ginning November 9 to plow the
600 acres of land owned by the Ai-
senprcises in Stanley. Faber re-
ports the response has been imme-
diate, and generous.
Many, neighbours have already
volunteered. Huron Tractor, Cart-
er's Farm Equipment Sales and Ser-
vice, Hill and Hill Farms and Cana-
dian Canners are among the
companies supplying equipment
and men.
"We are glad to have the big
ones. They go faster, and operate
beuer in wet weather," Faber said.
Faber expects representation
from miles around.
"Farmers have gotten together
before, to help someone out, but
we've never done it on such a large
scale. This is a big underthking,"
Faber .added., pointing out that
Richard Aisenprcis owned and/or
rented over 1,000 acres of land in
Huron county:
Fuel and food will be supplied to
those taking part in the plowing
bee. For more information, contact
Ken Faber at 263-6502.
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Tavern owner disputes charges
HENSALL - Allegations con- Sylvia answered a call to pick claims for libel and slander.
ceming an incident at the Hen- up a female passenger employed Brunner challenges some of
saltTavern on September 9, as at the tavern. Walker's accusations. She states
well as other purported occur- After a report appeared in this that she has been owner-
rences in the vicinity, have paper on October 18, the Times- operator -manager of the tavern
stirred up a legal wrangle. Advocate was sent a copy of a since September 1988, and hard -
Ron Walker, owner of Earl's letter from the lawyer acting for ly fits the description of the
Taxi, attended the regular Octo- Ms. Kim Brunner, current own- male referred to as the manager
ber meeting of Hensall council er of the Hensall Tavem, to who supposedly came out and
to. document some of the unci- Walker. The letter stated that pounded on one of the cabs with
dents, and ask for support in get- Brunner had no knowledge of a pool cue.
ting the LLBO to take action. any of the incidents, and wanted Brunner also wonders why
His visit to council had been' a "full and fair retraction and Walker would send his wife to
precipitated by a scuffle outside apology in the next issue". This the tavern to answer calls if the
the tavern when Walker's wife retraction would not limit any Plca:•e turn to page 3
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Pioneer Day - Engellna Van Essen demonstrated the art of fuming wool into yam during Pioneer Day at
Exeter Public School. Scott Keys cards some wool, while Ryan Ralph holds a finished skein.