Times Advocate, 1999-06-02, Page 3Wednesday, June 2, 1999
They're classics
Members of the Antique & Classic Car Club of Canada Chemical Valley region (Sarnia) made an overnight stop
in Exeter at the Ranch House Inn last week during. a 'Box Car Run'. Seen here are Cec Wilson, left, Gerry
Vanderhoek, Roy Wilson and Glen Hayter.A total of f nine cars and 19 people made the trip. Hayter has a per-
sonal connection to Exeterahis sister Donna Jones lives there.The Chemical Valley club has 80 mermbers.What
type of cars were they driving? Hayter was behind the wheel of a 1923 Model T,Wilson owns a '55 Dodge,
Vanderhoek has a '59 Caddy and Wilson a '40 Plymouth. Members sometimes have special connections to
their cars. For. instance,Wilson's- car was owned by his father and Hayter's Model T is exactly like the one his
grandfather "owned. •
aigamation
:By Scott Nixon
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group disagrees
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l iaron amalgamation group oiganiza-
t .,n committee have agreed to dis-
azree about how policing will jcpe .,paid
in the new municipality.
Usborne Township, concerned about
rising policing costs after the amal-
gamation of Exeter, 'Usborne and Ste-
phen
Township, asked the committee
to consider area rating the policing
costs.
Usborne Reeve Robert Morley told
the committee the reason for the re-
quest is that Exeter receives a higher
level of policing service than Usborne
and Usborne shouldn't be paying for
Exeter's service. He added that . Us -
borne doesn't want the level of police
service Exeter gets.
Exeter Deputy -Reeve Dave Urlin,
though, said Exeter wants policing
costs to remain in the general tax
rate, meaning all residents of the new
municipality of South Huron would
pay the same for policing.
He said if someone from Usborne -
calls the police at 3 a.m., that officer
- comes from the Exeter office and --Use
borne has to' iary - something : for. ,that
service. •
cpognilttee chairperson Tom Tomes
said die thought the =transition.. board
should deal with .the matter, but re-
minded Usborne that the committee
had already agreed to put policing un-
der . the general tax rate in its draft
proposal.
During the discussion,. Morley asked
Exeter if it would be satisfied .ac-
cepting
accepting a lower level of policing,. such
as what Usborne now gets. Exeter-
Coun. Robert Drummond answered no:
The • group eventually compromised
by stating in their draft proposal that
policing costs will be collected on a
generallarea rate, meaning a decision
on whether to area rate policing costs
or take it out of the general tax rate
will have to be made by the first coun-
cil of the new municipality, which be-
comes official on Jan. 1, 2001.
But while the motion to place po-
licing . under a generaVarea tax rate
passed, Exeter's two representatives,
Drummond and Reeve Roy Triebner
(sitting in for Urlin, who had to; . leave
the meeting early) voted -against it.
Exeter awards tender
EXETER -- A Clinton company beat oust !seven others
to win the tender for this year's road Worts In Exeter.
Lavis Contracting Co. Ltd. submitted the- lowest ten-
der of $326,630.88. The other tenders ranged to a high
of $409,673. Town .council accepted the =tender' at a
special meeting on May 27.
The tender comes in just under the original estimate
of $330,000 for all of Exeter's -'99 road work that
includes reconstructing Sixncoe St. from Andrew St. to
Edward St. and . Riverside Dr. from Hillcrest Dr. . to the
last work done on Riverside. •
-The woikto be done also =includes repaving Churchill
Dr. from Pryde Blvd. to Eastern Ave. and smaller
repaving jobs on Anne St., James St. and Hill St.
- New calculations 'on the work have -Exeter picking up
$283,839.01 of the -Work with the PUC- paying for
$77,762.43 of the work. - • "
.The road work , is expected to be finished long before
the snow flies.
In other business," council approved a bylaw that will
allow the town -to _ borrow up to $4 million- from the
Bank of Nova Scotia pending the arrival of what's
owed from Stephen Township, Nabisco and Ministry of
Environment grants for the sewer system
upgradqexpansion.
Councillors agreed they likely won't need anywhere
near $4 million to pay for the ongoing work, and staff
confirmed the town will not have to pay interest on the
entire borrowing capacity.
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