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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