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Times Advocate, 1993-06-23, Page 1Lioimpaissing mstressimplia 95b.nch with baby's Imes th (;ah h any 4 CQIONTRT f IQWFR� 61118tt3r Budget Exeter goes lean page 2 McDonald's 'kiew mobile restaurant for Grand Bend page 3 Grant Bluewater Recycling picks up $92,000 page 9 .1OO miles Yacht race in Grand $end Seconttfront Portratts Exeter's war heroes page 18 New book Albias publishes poetry page 19 S.um nye r !bray program starts 'Monday nday - -s- eds6itg-progmrat the Exeterlabrary starts this Mon- day. Called Trade. up to the Book Leagues, the Huron County li- brary -sponsored progtmm,rnns .for seven hour-long sessions inflamer. A summer student will he con- ducting the program:fontbe•yenag- sters, not only including raiding, but also crafts and games. The sessions are on June 28. July 5,12. 19, 27, and August 9 and 46. Monday's program starts at 2 p.m., but the library notes tbatonly •the first 25 children kern be accom- modated for the afternoon. The recommended age group is for 5-9 year olds. The Centralia library is holding the same program on August 17, from 2-3 p.m. and the age group is 6-10 years old. • Triebner to join PUC board EXETER = The empty seat on Exeter Public Utilities Comnussion wilibe filled by Roy Triebner. Triebner was appointed by the town's executive committee after interviewing three candidates inter- ested in competing the term of commissioner Harry DeVries, who died last month. The PUC board has three voting members: two commissioners and the town mayor. Commissioners are elected in each municipal elec- tion. and Triebner will be complet- ing DeVries' term up until the No- vember 1994 municipal election. High School graduation Tuesday EXETER - South Huron District #lh School will hold its annual salstmencement exercices on Tues- • day,June 29. ganing at 8 p.m. dozens of g students will complete high school career and begin "Other further their educations or View the work fields. The cerntonies ,will be held in the small gym and everyone is wel- come. Just a.reminder from the school 'Abet last years yearbooks are now 4 l'lr. ;+ 1 i h 11 :belle tNaber and Kelly'Hoffman were vat e - - t Wednesday's lin and• Strawberry Supper in Dashwood. For the Dashwood United ` h fundraiser,Weber Hoffman were helping outas part of their youth group activities. Businesses may take bylaw to court Tag system starts next week for Exeter garbage By -Adrian Harte All I can say is they are in the ties have introduced similar pro - T AEditor process of seeking legal advice on grams without legal problems. EXETER - TLis :marks .the .last the mandate of the town," said Reeve Bill Mickle.uoted Bill 7 week you Ian sit your garbage Hoogenboom. has been introduced.Jn the legisla- backs out.atIke .curb in Exeter for "'Why -would rte :think he has a tare for the purpose of strengthen - free. Well,aortof. right ito -challenge' its?" wondered .ing the powers of municipalities in Tsc6oiedlty,lhe first 26 tags -you :mayorBruce Shaw. regards to waste management. The • place on: :your garbage bags after Hundey said the whole user -pay . hill has received its second reading July 1 are iree. but any you weal.- concept is what is probably at is- at Queens Park, he said. ter that will cot you $2 each. As sue, but he said there is a•provision "Perhaps you could give la copy] of January there will be no more in the Municipal Act to introduce to some of the reluctant types," sug- free tags. user fees for "discretionary servic- gestedShaw. Town administrator Rick Hundey- es". ppt}y,said.othe.m rutti(tjpali- ncdedthere has berm gsttta'ttetarity :.••."" .� _ ..'' ' �..�. m..» `-.•,. getting ' the sticker tags across the .border, but he was expecting them in as of press time. "We can begin to deliver the stickers tomorrow," Hundey told town council Monday evening. Hundey said the town can expect to see some abuse of the user -pay .tag system, but told council that Kincardine quickly got over its • teething problems with a similar •r -pay pin. Hundey said ,dumped untagged ;garbage has been easy to trace and retnot tothe property owner. "We will have a little bit of Mum.. but I- don't think it'll be a lot of - abuse if Kincardine's a yard- stick," explained Hundey. While some residents may op- pose the waste management pro- gram with subterfuge. according to councillor Ben Hoogenboom, some others may be prepared to fight it in the courts. Hoogenboom told council he is aware of a grpup of industries and merchants in Exeter interested in hiring a lawyer to fight the user pay garbage bylaw. "On what grounds?" asked coun- cillor Robert Drummond. Police continue search for body parts GRAND BEND - Ontario Provincial Police divers continued their search on Tuesday for the remaining parts of a body which was found in Grand Bend Suridaynight. At about 7:30 p.m. people walking along.the main beach in the village, found human remains about 40 feet north of the pier. They found the low- er torsoofabody. As of press time. the identity and sex of the body could not be deter- mined and it was sent to the Centre of Forensic Science in Toronto. OPP officers had the area near the pier blocked off •and divers searched the Lake Huron water near the pier for several hours. "There was quite an area blocked off while divers were down," said Grand Bend OPP detachment Staff Sgt. Lorne Smith. They are looking for the rest of the body." he added. • Smith said the rain and bad weather on `Sunday night might have dis- turbed the lake bottom but divers had not planned on looking anywhere else. Last fall, Bruce Sharpe of London who cottaged in Grand Bend went missing but Smith said it is not certain if the body remains were that of Sharpe. "Anything could be possible. We've sent out messages on both the Onta- rio and Michigan sides." Thendon Police have been incontact with the Grand Bend OPP. OPF Inspector. 'ark Goodlet from Toronto is in charge of the investiga- tion. "There is nothing to indicate it's a homicide," said Smith. "It could be a drownino " fd (wiser Kneate lnmstmentrs RSP's r/C's ,5.g Meads 230-2420 Growth freeze Hnsaltaeeds $2.5 million impigrading of sewage woof= By Catherine O'Brien T -A Staff HENSALL - The Village of Hen- sall is faced with a growth freeze until its existing sewage system can be upgraded. A study by an engineering con- sulting group, B.M. Ross and Asso- ciates Ltd., found that the Hensall Creek does not have adequate ca- pacity to handle existing sewage. Although this is not harmful to communty residents, it is a strain on the creek, said Steve Burns a representative of the consulting group. "Discharge needs to be con- trolled," he said. And until that occurs the Village can't develop any new subdivisions, -he told council last Monday night. • Council agreed with recommen- dations made by Burns and will be applying for grant funding as well as retaining the consultants to re- view treatment alternatives, "It sounds like the writing is on the wall if we want to have any more growth in the village," said councillor Butch Hoffman. The cost of the upgrading will be approximately $2.5 million and it will take about three years to com- plete the project, Burns said. He told council they should be el- igible for a grant from the Ontario government for up to 80 per cent of the cost. The existing system was put in place in 1976 and was originally designed to serve a population of 1,500 with only a discharge in the spring. The consulting group was hired in 1990 when Hensall's population reached 1,228. The consultants originally set out to prove that the present system needed to expand to a fall discharge. But the Hensall Creek doesn't have the capacity to receive the cur- rent annual discharge from the ex- isting lagoons, Burns said in an in- terview on Monday "There is now 15 per cent more sewage than system was originally designed for." Burns said a number of factors could be involved such as rainfall, per capita water use or leaky sew- ers. From fireworks. to flags. to volleyball Legion ready for Canada Day party EXETER - C 'mach Day used to be a fairly quiet affair in Exeter - some even accused it of being the town's most boring holiday - but no more. The Faster Lesion, pleased -'nti:lttxltell to_iasi's Cao- aria 125 celebration, has organized yet another day -long festival to mark the nation's birthday. A fireworks display will once again be the finale for the day's events. The display will be put on by the Exeter and Stephen fire de- partments, and any donations col- lected will go to the firefighters community fund. Organizer Bart DeVries promises that the display won't be any less spectacular than last year's, even if Canada's 126th birthday isn't quite as big as its 125th. "It will be the game kind of dis- p]ay. The same dollar figures are being used to do it," said DeVries. The South Huron Recreation Centre will be the one location for all the day's events, which DeVries says is being structured to make sure there is something for every age group. The youngest participants will be interested in the bicycle decorating contest. Older children may want to join in the bicycle scavenger hung. Adults can watch the beach volleyball tournsunent being held beside the agriculture building until late afternoon. Music will be provided by the re- vived Jug Band in the afternoon, and -by the Community Band in the evening. Child :Find will be holding a of .the.riryc,and held .after dinner startingilbout 6 p.m. Snacks -will be provided by the Lions chip wagon, and :there is a roast beef dinner being run by the Exeter Agricultural Society for $20 a family to help raise money for the Fall Fair. Most of the fun, however, is com- pletely free of charge. "The Legion isn't using it as a fundraiser. It's to give something back to the community," said DeV- ries. A $2.500 grant from the federal government is helping pick up the tab for the festivities, an Le- gion had some money ver from last year's breakf thousand Canada Day ve been purchased to be given away to visitors, for waving during the mu- sic, playing of 0 Canada, or during the fireworks. DeVries promises there will be no set program, no speeches, just a party day to mark the holiday Thursday. In case of rain, most of the events can be held indoors at the Recrea- tion Cadre, and the rain date for the fireworks is the next evening. Tornio touches down at Biddulph Township fa.,. By Fred Groves T -A staff LUCAN - While the phone at the honk of John and Curry Vanderloo was making a very strange ringing noise, their neighbour's property, less than a quarter mile away, was being destroyed. Sunday afternoon at about 3 p.m. a tontado ripped through Eldon Locke's farm on Concession 6 of Biddulph Township. Reports say the tor- nado touched down for about three minutes. The Vanderloo's had a house full of company as they were in the midst of celebrating Father's Day when the storm whipped through Southwestern Ontario. . While many farmers were left with several inches of water lying in their fields, the Locke log -cabin house, garage and barn were destroyed by wind. "It was raining hard and thundering. The hydro was going on -and -off," said Corry Vanderloo. The hydro going on -and -off at their home caused the phone to ring. No one was home at the Locke house and there were no injuries report- ed. Froin their house, the Vanderloo's barn blocks their view to the Locke farni so they could not sec the roof being torn off the house, the garage flattened and a car turned completely upside down. "The car was inside the garage at the end of the Janeway." At first, Environment Canada officials felt it was not a tornado which touched down but what is called a 'downburst'. Officials from the London weather office were scheduled to inspect the property Monday. "We were lucky," said Vanderloo whose fame received no damage at all. However, just across the road from the Locke home large trees lost sev- -oral branches and one large tree laid • a laneway. Insulation and other tom the Locke house. ;441.bris was statigtol for hu ds • 1 Little remains of the Locke farm near Lucan which was hit a tornado on Sunday.