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Times Advocate, 1989-11-08, Page 1Way to go Field Hockey Panthers! • NIP Serving South Huron, 1 Inside Crime Stoppers The program has proven its worth in Huron • page 3 Part-time Do students work . too much? page 5 rhS{� 4 War and Remembrance Survivors of World War II tell their stories pages 8 and 9 Freak accident Hawk player ruptures spleen - during game page 19 North Middlesex & Lambton Geiser- : Bale Insurance Exeter 235-2420 Grand Bend 238-8484 Hensall 262-2607 Clinton 482-9747 Since 1873 Wed., November 8, 1989 75 cents 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 • Please turn to page 3 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. 4 1 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 1 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.