Times Advocate, 1993-10-27, Page 2"Thillaineidaetetete, October 27,4993
Police board
considers
hiring
part-time
officer
MITCHELL - The Mitchell
Police Services Board is consid-
ering hiring a part-time police
officer, and sponsoring that offi-
cer through studies at the Aylm-
er Police College.
The board agreedoxo Allow
Chief Chuck Zehr tommvestigate
the Oct. 6, proposal softer .he
made .another plea for an extra
officer at their monthly board
meeting, it was reported in the
:Mitchell Advocate.
' "Lkeep saying it, but we need
:rsttt•1lter person," chiefZehr said,
adding that last week alone, due
to holidays and.Sge Joe Bosi's
compensation robe will have
worked at Ieast7/0tiotrs from
Monday to Friday.
"l don't think 1bts'sneafe," he
said.
Festival of
lghtsVices
$7,000
brownout
AGGIDBRICH - The annual Fes-
iiirtakini,ghts will be aiarkh,st-
•r this year, after town
arotnicil trimmed $7,000 from
the festival's budget to meet ex
pendit ure control measures.
The S28,000 budget will pay
for employees. and hydro to dec-
orate The Square and arterial
roads for Christmas as well as
display fireworks on Nov. 19,
hire Sawa for the weekend and
pay` ,de handed -out during
the parade on Nov. 20.
"We really need voktateers to
keep the Festival of Lights go-
ing," festival chairman Cindy
Bazinet told the Goderich Sig-
nal -Star.
"Now with government
cutting back so much this is
really the only way to keep it go-
ing," she said.
.unty
idering
speed limit
hike
MITCHELL - Perth County
Council will oouaider increasing
the speed limit on county roads
from 80 km/h to 90 km/h •
According to the Mitchell Ad-
vocate, at the recent county
meeting, reeves were told that
Huron County increased the
speed on its county roads and
asked Perth if it would do the
stone with bordering roads.
Dentis Morrell, Huron
County's engineer said Huron
reeves decided to increase the
speed limit because they felt 80
km/h was uutraalistioally low
and few people obeyed it.
Perth County Council voted to
investigate -the suggestion.
: i,ocial
rpntract
-hurts police
board
budget
SEAPORTH - Despite triut-
ming sounds of dolwrs from
t this year. the Setaforth
Police Services Board will have
to cote up with an unexpected
$2;2g0 to meet its Social Con-
tract obligations.
The board received it8 final
figure on the Social Contact
two Nooks ego end it was sore
than the saner oak t te, it doss.
last W
..+. r a1i� ,,,,,,s ,, ' ,rine
at
Brand Bend
i r ,epi
about
speedboats
QRAND BEND - Are wa-
.nft going through the
'riiretd Bend harbour, too fast?
•While the booting season
has coarse to ant end in. the vil-
lage, village councillors hope
the problem can by cleared
up before next spring.
"You .can put, all the signs
up in the world but if you
don't enforce it, it doesn't
noon a thing," said Mayor
Tom Lawson.
Usually the co ern is
about jet skis but as pointed
out at the last council meet-
ing, it's not just those small
crafts which are basking die
rules.
"It's not jest the jet skis,
there arc others that go whip-
ping through dere," said
couneiUor Cam Ivey.
There Aliso has to be in-
creased patrolling of the har-
bour, especially in the
ahnured chtanute htc
almost hit a this
pest summer.
Council' rd to pass
it on to i g and haw
Enforcement Commitee.
At Tuesday's meeting.
cOwEil received notice that
the Power Boating Magazine
wants to bring to Grand Bead
1ipproxiruately 70 boats to
part in power boat lac-
' es this summer.
While the proposed date of
the July 1st weekend was
brought forward, council has
requested the group look at
a<i ve
wistkapd.
Above, Murray Car-
diff and his wife Bet-
ty accept second
place in the Huron -
Bruce polls with dig-
nity
ignity Monday evening
in. Brussels, while
family members and
campaign support-
ers shed a few
tears, not only for
Cardiff's defeat, but
for the complete
rout of Conserva-
tives across the na-
tion.
At right, disappoint-
ed with his third
place finish, Reform
candidate Len Lobb
puts on a -brave face
for his campaign
-staff in Goderich
and -tells them he
was proud of how
--their campaign was
-waged..,
At left, tlerry Lam-
port posts the re-
sults at the.Liberal
headquarters in Var-
na Monday evening.
Steckle's win be-
came apparent early
in the evening.
O'Brien crushes
opponents with 53
percent of London-
Middlesex
vote
LONIX)N - A tide of red across
Ontario swept Pat O'Brien along
with the federal Liberals into victo-
ry in the London -Middlesex riding.
O'Brien emerged the clear winner
in the riding recently held by re-
tired Conservative MP Teary Clif-
ford. O'Brien took slightly more
than 53 percent of the popular vote
in the riding that encircles London.
Placing second- in • London-
.Middlesex was Reform candidate
Mark Simpson, with 19 percent of
rw
the vote, :and Conservative Ed
Holder in third with 18 percent.
The NDP's Carolyn Davies placed
a distant fourth with little more
than 4 five percent standing in the
polls.
The other seven candidates all
had less than 600 votes each, com-
prising less than four percent of the
vote altogether.
O'Brien. celebrating his victory at
the Best Western Lamplighter Inn,
could not be reached for comment.
in 1
PCS f811 to oust
Liberais from
latex
STRATkIKOY - The Lambton-
Middlesex riding, in which Times -
Advocate readers in McGillivray
Township, Bosanyuet Township
and Grand Bend voted Monday,
yet another example of the Lib-
eral sweep of. the province.
Liberal Rose -Marie Ur kept the
Liberal banner flying in the riding
after longstanding MP Ralph Fer-
guson retired from politics .earlier
this year. Ur captured nearly 49
perces of the popular vote in tate
riding.
David Crone. on whom the ' igh
hopes )f rlocal Conservatives were
riding,placed a distant second with
only 22.5 percent of the vote. Re-
fotm's Randy Dayman was just be-
hind at 19.3 percent o[ the vote.
The NDP's Janne Hamilton fell
behind the Christian i eritage Par-
ty's Ken Willis, with 3.6 Percent
and 3.8 percent of ;the Lgmttn_
Middlesex vote.
The National Party's Larry Fergu
sun got just over one percent of the
vote, with both independent Alex
Qubbels and Natural Law's Travis
Callender easing less than uaacper-
centeach .
Three local riding,
l�ur�n�
Ste lde (LIB)
21.846 441%
Cardiff (PC)
:13,852 27.996
Lobb (Reform)
;10,464 21,1%
McQuail (NDP)
2,064 4.2%
Zekveld (CHP)
782
1.6%
Dettweiler (UBT)
272
0.5%
Alexander (NL)
242 0.4%
Total
49.521 70% turnout
ldPesex
•
O'Brien (LIB)
27.2a2 93.996
Simpson (Reform)
9,8286 19.4%
Holder (PC)
9,088 • 18.0%
Davies (NDP)
2,646 ;y.2%
Howell (NP)
563 ,1.1%
Winters (CHP)
589 1.1%
Goodman (NL) -
Sehgal (CP)
9
114%
153 0.3%
Ewart (Marxist)
56 0.1%
Foster (Abol)
44 •0.08%
Total
Lanibtidwaillaskiiimmox
lJr (MB)
Crone (PC)
:0,292
x.869
22.6%
Dayman (Preform)
.,049 19.3%
Willis (CHP)
• 1,689 3.8%
Hamilton (NDP)
1,421 • 3.6%
Farquharson (NP)
447 1.196
Gubbels (Ind.)
247 0.6%
C.Mencler (NL)
165
0.3%
Woo
41,669
l