Times Advocate, 1994-01-26, Page 2Page 2
Times -Advocate, January 28, 1994
Regional.
wrap up
Bluewater
staff
discuss
pool tables
GODERICH - An adjudica-
tion meeting held two weeks ago
to decide the fate of pool tables
and equipment at Bluewater
Youth Centre ended withbut a
decision when Bluewater staff
and management agreed to make
another attempt to work issues
out themselves.
The dispute was sparked in
October after a corrections offi-
cer refused to supervise youths
playing pool because of con-
cerns that the balls and cues
could be used as weapons.
A lawyer representing Blue -
water management argued that
pool tables and equipment are
"tools of therapy," it was report-
ed in the Goderich Signal -Star.
However Toronto lawyer Lar-
ry Steinberg, representing Blue -
water staff, said pool cues and
balls are potential weapons in
the hands of residents whom he
characterized as "the nastiest of
the nasty, as far as young of-
fenders are concerned."
Since 1986 there have been
'210 or 11 incidents involving
pool balls or cues" used as
weapons or to threaten staff or
other residents, he said.
Student
smoking
may be
banned
CLINTON-- Central Huron
Secondary School students may
be banned froth' smoking on
school premises in September, it
was reported in the Clinton
News -Record.
At a parents' council meeting,
held January 12, the issue was
discussed by parents, students
and teachers.
Students disagreed with the
-motion to recommend CHSS ad
ministration ban -smoking on all
school property_
Before the proposal can be
made—into policy, principal Jim
Moore will have to take the is-
sue to the Huron County Board
of Education. He has not made
decision on whether he will.
Teen caught
with fake
licence
MITCHELL - An 18 -year-old
Mitchell teen was charged with
uttering a forged document last
Thursday night after police act-
ed on a Crime Stoppers tip.
Mitchell police chief Chuck
Zehr told the Mitchell Advocate
a female was charged with pass
-
mg a fake driver's licence, trying
to prove she was of legal drink-
ing age.
Library's -
future
unknown
MITCHELL - The future of
the 86 -year-old Mitchell Public
Library was the topic of heavy
debate during Mitchell Tow_
Council's regular meeting last
Monday night.
A recommendation by library
board chairman Ruth Fiebig,
also a town councillor, and li-
brarian Judy Thorup for Council
to study the present site of the li-
brary was met with resistance by
a majority of councillors, it was
reported in the Mitchell Advo-
cate.
Mayor Hugh McCaughey was
the most vocal opponent of
spending money for a study say-
ing, "The community has to de-
cide amongst -themselves," he
said. "We study ourselves to
death."
Burglar flees scene
DASHWOOD - A Tate -night burglar was foiled in his attempt to,
steal cigarettes from a Dashwood variety store when confronted by\
police.
The Exeter OPP report that it was about 3:18 a.m. Thursday morn-
ing when an .unknown male broke into Doug and Nancy's General
Store in Dashwood by breaking the window in the inner front door.
The owners living above heard the intruder and contacted police. A
cruiser in the area arrived on the scene quickly, in time to surprise
the suspect exiting the front door.
A foot chase ensued, but the suspect escaped in the darkness. The
cigarettes he had ready to remove from the premises were left be-
hind.
The suspect, described as about six -feet tall, 180 lbs was wearing a
black balaclava, grey insulated overalls, and black gloves.
A GMC van stolen earlier from Goderich was found in the parking
lot of the Dashwood Medical Centre, behind the store. Police be-
lieve the suspect made his getaway complete by stealing a car from a
Dashwood residence. The car, a brown 1985 Pontiac station wagon,
license 587 -HAV, has not been recovered as yet.
Anyone with information about the vehicles or the crime can con-
tact the OPP at 235-1300, or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-265-1777.
School bus sideswiped,
blowing snow blamed
EXETER - Poor visibility is be-
ing blamed for an incident in which
a school bus was sideswiped on
Concession 9-10 of Hay Township.
Last Tuesday at 8:40 a.m. Jo-
hannes Jacobs of RR 1 Zurich was
driving a school bus along the con-
cession, when it and a pickup truck
driven by William Finlay of RR2
Zurich sideswiped each other.
Neither of the drivers was in-
jured, but a nine year old student on
the bus had a minimal injury, say
police. Because the accident was
attributed to poor visibility in blow-
ing snow, no charges were laid.
Also last Tuesday evening police
investigated a single vehicle acci-
dent in which a car driven by
Theresa Bezaire of Exeter struck a
fence on Wellington Street in Exet-
er. There were no injuries.
Last Wednesday at 1:50 a.m.
there was a collision on Algonquin
Drive in Huron Park involving
Donald Leitch of Lucan and Paul
Mathers of Huron Park. Again
there wow no injuries.
Friday morning at9:40 a.m. there
was a collision on Victoria Streetin
Exeter involving Catherine Har-
wood of Exeter and Jeffrey Bowen
of Exeter. Neither were injured.
Saturday afternoon at 3:55 p.m.
on County Road 11 in Usborne
Township vehicles driven by Rob-
ert Edwards 9f RR Kirkton and
Beverly Nicoll of Chesley collided.
Edwards suffered a minimal injury,
say police.
On Friday an OPP constable
found a man's gold ring with an in-
scription on it, and on Saturday a
women's gold bracelet was turned
into the detachment. The owners
can claim their jewellery by visit-
ing the Exeter detachment.
Dispatch program pursued
'Continued from front page.
what is happening with the Huron
County system.
There are currently 10 fire
phones in Grand Bend and accord-
ing" g1; e des if those were taken/
out -and replaced by .the dispatch'
system, it would be a savings of
about $1,200 per year.
As pointed out by Hebden, there
are some problems with having fire
phones.
"We have 10 fire phones in the
area. This oast year we had a phone
off the hook for four days and it
tied up the lines."
Boyd explained that there are 21
Lambton county fire departments
and many of them are in favour of
the new system and have already
got the necessary equipment.
Hebden said he already had a
phone and the cable in the Grand
Bend fire station.
"It came because there was a
complete breakdown in Mutual
Hay refuses
to pay up for
ABCA's
Shoreline
Plan.
ZURICH - Hay Township council
has refused to pay an invoice to the
Ausable Bayfield Conservation Au-
thority.
The invoice for $384.68 repre-
sents the township's share of the
zosts of Phase IV of the ABCA's
Shoreline Management Plan (SMP).
The plan would regulate land uses
along the Lake Huron shore and,
give certain planning authorities to
the ABCA.
Several townships have argued
that any shoreline land use regula-
tions beadministered by the munici-
palities.
Hay Township Council, said
clerk -treasurer Janisse Zimmerman,
indicated in late 1992 they would
not be supporting the continuation
of the SMP, and thus rejected the
invoice for Hay's share in the costs
of the project.
Hay is also protesting the fact that
only the ABCA's lakeshore munici-
palities are being affected by the
SMP and are being billed for it, but
all watershed municipalities are be-
ing allowed to vote, and approve,
the SMP.
"All the water flows toward the
lake...in effect everybody's water af-
fects the shoreline," said Zimmer-
man, summing up council's views
on the issue.
Aid," said Boyd of the reason the
departments are switching over to a
central dispatch system.
He said in the past, there have
been difficulty in communication
and at times, departments were be-
ing sent to the wrong location.
"Last week we had two depart=
ments Wino car fire on Highway
401 and it was neither's area."
Hay Construction drops $2 HI
ZURICH - Construction took a
sharp downturn in Hay Township in
1993.
Chief building official Milton is-
sued a summary of the year's con-
struction to township council on
January 17, pointing out that the to-
tal value of building permits issued
in 1993 was $1,342,820. This was
more than S2 million less than
I992's totals of $3,378,110.
Only 72 permits were issued in
the township in 1993, compared to
118 in 1992. The slump in con-
struction was linked to an overall
downturn in property development
in seasonal recreational areas - the
cottage country along Lake Huron's
shoreline.
Cottage subdivision development
has driven Hay Township's con-
struction industry in past years, with
the farm sector fairly stable. r5
Vicious cold makes
fighting fire unforgettable
CREDITON - As fires go, it wasn't a catastrophe,
but last Tuesday's battle with a blaze in Crediton
will be one Stephen Township's volunteer firefight-
ers will be talking about for a long
time.
A small fire in a trailer owned
by Dean Allen on King Street N.
in Crediton didn't cause too much
damage, said fire chief Robert
Pertschy. The biggest obstacle in
fighting the fire was the extreme
cold.
"The cold, that was terrible," said Pertschy. "That
was the coldest fire I'd been at."
Even the batteries on the head -mounted flashlights
of the firefighters were losing powek in the cold.
Fire hoses had to be kept running for fear the
couplings would freeze solid.
Pertschy said a weather report he heard said the
wind chill that evening rated at about -50°C, and he
can believe it. While trying to
warm up in the emergency van,
they had a supply of hot coffee.
"Any time we spilled any cof-
fee, as soon as it hit the floor, it
froze," he said.
Pertschy said he hopes he
doesn't have to fight another fire
under conditions like that again.
"Something you've just got to live through to ap-
preciate it," he said.
The fire was caused by an open flame from an at-
tempt to thaw out frozen pipes.
Stephen Township firefighters had a double battle on their hands last Tueaday evening
in Crediton. Not only did they have to fight a fire burning under this trailer, but they had
to contend with an extreme cold that affected equipment, threatened to freeze hoses and
any exposed flesh.
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