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TIMES ADVOCATE
Exeter, Ontario, Canada
Wednesday, December 29, 1999
$1.00 (includes GST)
By Craig Bi'adAIO'
TIMES -ADVOCATE STAFF
with Exeter's own time chest
EXETER The Exeter
R.E. Pooley Branch 167
Legion is giving you a
chance to show future
Exeter residents: what liv-
ing at the end of the 20th
century was all about. -
The Exeter Legion is
sealing its millennium
'time chest' on New
Year's Eve at midnight.
The chest will be opened
on Canada Day, July 1,
2099.
The chest was made out
of oak with inlaid walnut
strips from Huron County
circa 1867 by Norm
Eveland.
Almost every Exeter
community club and
church has contributed
items that typify Exeter
including history books on
,t -the library, the town, the
Legion, photos or por-
traits of the oldest family
business (Dinney's) and
he first reeve, Isaac
Carling. Other items in
the chest include the town
flovver, a zinnia, and a
Plowing
match
makes a
profit
By Monk
onk
TIMES -ADVOCATE STAFF
HURON COUNTY —
The highlight event of
'99 for Huron County
will finish in the black.
International Plowing
Match Chairman
Graeme Craig told the
T -A last week the event
will make a profit.
"It looks like there's
going to be a slight
profit," Craig said.
He explained the final
tallies aren't available
because of outstanding
issues with some
landowners.
Craig said it's difficult
to measure the amount
of profit the event
made because groups
participating in booths
made profits that won't
be included in the IPM
books. For example, a
church group kept the
profits from selling box
lunches as did the
organization that ran
the lounge.
Craig said this method
See IPM page 2
plan sten-Be squid
rel; both donated by
;Neacy Heron, and an
Eueter photograph collec-
tion by Bart Devriet.
Alsp' included are the
winners of the elementary
school poster and essay
contest.
Canada Day co -chair-
person Tom Burke said
the hope is Legion mem-
bers and the general pub-
lic will bring small photos
and little mementos •to put
the final touches to the
time chest 'before if is
sealed. He added the
most sought after item is
an Eaton's credit card.
Burke invites everyone
to participate.
"It's the people's last
chance to contribute," he
said.
Burke said the time
chest will be registered
with the international
Tiara Capsule Society
based out of Oglethorpe
University in Atlanta, GA.
He believes the Exeter
Legion's efforts to spear-
head this project is a first
for Canadian Legions.
Millennium mennentos. Exeter Legion members Naim Eveland, left, and Tom Burke show offthe inside of a
time chest that will be sealed at the Legion on New.Year's Eve at midnight. (photo/Craig Bradford)
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2001. A transition board for the new
etpality will form once official
approval comes from Queen's Park.
Another group, the Municipality of
Bluewater, is also waiting for Queen's Park
and will become official at the same time as
the South Huron group. The new
Municipality of Bluewater will include
Hensall, Zurich, Bayfield and Hay and
Stanley townships. Tuckersmith Township,
originally in the group, dropped out after
deciding it would be better to merge with
Seaforth.
And Grand Bend, despite its efforts to
avoid it, will merge with its T.ambton
County neighbours to the south —
t3osanquet, Thedford, Arkona and Forest ----
to form North Laambton.
A new municipality was born in 1999.
The 'Village of Lucan and Biddulph
Township merged to create t_,ucan
Biddulph. The 10 -member council will
decrease to five in 2001,
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the Avon Maitland District School Board
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new doctors to Exeter, with a third to come
in the summer.
• The Tories were once again victorious
in the provincial election, with local politi-
cian Helen Johns winning the Huron -Bruce
riding and was named Minister of
Citizenship, Culture, Recreation, Seniors
and Women.
• As there is every year, 1999 included
some bad news. The Exeter area grieved
the deaths of Lawrence Cole and Chris
Wilhelm in a car accident on Feb. 20 and
Lucan had to cope with its first ever mur-
der -suicide in January. Two other men,
Daniel Martin and Tyler Trimble, were
killed in July in a car accident south of
liensall. An Elimvilla man, Dennis Hutton,
died in February stemming from a house
fire in January.
• Grand Bend continues to prepare for
the 2001 Canada Summer Games. Many
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•Mega p
enter -
ended up
a controver-
sial topic as Grand Bind wants to become
an Area of Excellence, which would ban
farm factories between Bayfield and Kettle
Point. This comes from complaints from
cottagers who say the smells from the large
barns have decreased the enjoyment of
their stay in the village. Closer to Exeter,'
Usborne Township resident Dave Vern is
concerned about the increase of mega
barns near his home.
The past year was also a year of change
for the Times -Advocate as Metroland, a
subsidiary of Torstar, bought the T -A along
with nine other newspapers that made up
Eody Publications.
South Huron District High School student
Braydcn Lord of Crediton took a look back
in 1999's T -A issues and compiled the
major stories.