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Times Advocate, 1984-10-31, Page 5Former Exeter. yeieh# bulider gets year in fril A former lExeter builder who tried to keepyhis ailing company afloat by tak- ing In boats for repairs or display, then selling them to other customers without their owners' knowledge was Karl Vermaeten, 52, who volving more than $80,000 sentenced Monday to one pleaded guilty to two counts of worth of boats and ac - year in jall. fraud and three of theft in- cessories, engaged in "a DISCUSS RECREATION — The physical education staff at Huron's elementary schools convened in one of the special subject area workshops held at the professional activity day at J.A.D. McCurdy School in Huron Park, Friday. Shown reviewing some new concepts in equipment are, back row, left to right: Joe Laurie, Huron Centen- nial; Georgina Wells, Seaforth; Ron Livermore, Howick. Front row: Ron McKay, Clinton; Al Beattie, Huron Centen- nial; Bud Walker, Huron Centennial; Bob Livermore, Gray Central; Dee Graham, Brookside. Riddell charges raise Tory outcry Continued from front page $37,000 from his legislative also gets a $35,000 pension. his daughter, Kathleen Giffin, pension. In other words, the Walter Borosa, former ex - who works for the Ontario Treasurer writes his daddy a ecutive assistant to the Depu- Lottery Corporation and cheque for more than $100,000 ty Premier (Mr. Welch), whom Riddell met at a June a year." earns $48,325 as chief of pro - 28 Wintario draw in Seaforth. "Among Tories now holding tocol for the province. Terry "Kathleen was the one in- key positions is Lincoln Alex- Yates, former chief fund - stance where I tried to in- ander, a former Hamilton raiser for Joe Clark, earns terfere," by unsuccessfully area Tory MP, who earns $25,000 as chairman of the On - arguing she should attend col- $60,000 a year as chairman of tario Racing Commission. lege or university instead of the Workers's Compensation "Gerald Nori, former presi- accepting the lottery job Board. He also receives an dent of the Ontario Pro - straight out of high school, he undisclosed indexed gressive Conservative Party, said. parliamentary pension. Gor- earns a yearly honorarium of Defending his own don Aiken, former Parry $2,500, a $174 per diem and background, Westcott said he Sound Tory MP, earns $57,000 money for travel and out -of - has never raised funds for the as chairman of the Commis- pocket expenses as a director Tories and said reports of an sion on Election Contributions of the Ontario Energy Corp. appointment to the police and Expenses. He is also Omer Deslauriers, who was commission are merely eligible for a federal pension. newspaper speculation. "Willis Blair, former PC Riddell noted Thursday he riding president in the federal had made errors in calling riding of Broadview - some in-laws Westcott's Greenwood, earns $61,000 as children, and had wrongly in- chairman of the Liquor dentified the office in which Licence Board of Ontario. one of Westcott's children Bradford Bowlby, a one-time worked. federal Tory organizer, earns "I was in error and I offer $55,000 as chairman of the my humble apologies for any Assessment Review Court. embarrassment this may Ross DeGeer, former ex - have caused Clare Westcott,' ecutive director of the Ontario Riddell told the house. PC Party, earns $90,000 as Riddell, who admitted Agent General at Ontario Wednesday he was un- House in London, England. familiar with the qualifica- "Robert Macaulay, former tions of Westcott's relatives Ontario Tory cabinet and had no evidence that minister, earns about $75,000 Westcott played any part in as ci,u„ ,,,an .,f the Ontario their being hired by the Energy Board and a further government, told the house $14,000 from his legislative Thursday: "My apologies pension. Bill McAleer, who is also go out to the many active in both federal and pro - families in Ontario who tried vincial Tory election cam - unsuccessfully for one job paigns, earns a $125 per diem with Ontario government." as chairman of Ontario Place. Riddell's statements on "Robert McDonald, former political patronage touched Hamilton area Tory MP, other area residents as well. earns $71,000 as Deputy Excerpts from Hansard on Minister of Community and his speech are as follows: Social Services. John White, "For some, the patronage former Ontario Treasurer - plum can be a double bonan- "Let me continue. John za. For example, former Yaremko, former Ontario cabinet minister Allan Solicitor General, earns Grossman receives about $60,000 as chairman of the $66,463 as chairman of the Commercial Registration Ap- Criminal Injuries Compensa- peal Tribunal and the Liquor tion Board and a further Licence Appeal Tribunal and Dropin before they drop thepuck. kntucicy cnic 14TN►IIVS KentuckyFried Chicken 227 Main St. N. Exeter defeated in Ottawa East in 1981, earns $88,684 in salaries and perks as Ontario's agent general in Brussels. Ward Cornell worked on the Premier's leadership cam- paign in 1971 and earns $71,845 as Deputy Minister of Municipal Affairs and Hous- ing. John McBeth, a former Solicitor General, earns more than $60,000 as vice-chairman of the Ontario Police Commis- sion in addition to his $15,400 pension. Edward Goodman, a key adviser to the Premier, holds the prestigious but non- paying chairmanship of the Royal Onatrio Museum. Gor- don Thomson, a defeated Tory candidate in Windsor - Riverside, earns $60,100 as a member of the Ontario Municipal Board. "Relatives of people well connected to Tories have also received appointments. Louis Alexopoulos makes $125 each day he serves as an Ontario human rights commissioner; his wife Tula is the Premier's special assistant on policy matters. Donald Misener was appointed the sheriff and local registrar of the Ontario Supreme Court in Perth coun- ty in 1982: his wife Colleen was the unsuccessful Tory candidate in Perth a year earlier. "Let me get a little closer to home. My predecessor, with all due respect to Charles MacNaughton, was appointed upon retiring from this place as chairman of the Ontario RacingCommission at $25,000 per year. He has since retired, but during that period of time and now he receives a monthly pension of $1,845.10. "Elmer Bell spoke at the Tory nomination in my riding. He got up and said how important it was to have a member on the government side, that we in Huron - Middlesex are tired of being the caboose. There was nobody more on the gravy train than Elmer Bell. Elmer Bell, a former PC organizer, was appointed chairman of the Ontario Police ('ommis- sion at $55,000, and he has since retired and gone back to his law practice in Exeter. "William Stewart is a chap who works very hard against me every election. i unders- tand he even appointed the cr ndidate who is to come against me in the next elec- tion. He works very hard for those people, but he is a former Progressive Conser- vative member and he has been appointed to the board of directors of Ontario Ilydro at dear knows what price, and he is chancellor of the Univer- sity of Guelph, God bless him, and receives a pension of $2,802.56 every month. "There is Jim Britnell, the guy who ran against me in the last election. it is my understanding that Jim Britnell was promised he would get a Tory position if he happened to he defeated in the election. He got the ap- pointment all right. He was appointed a member of the Environmental Assessment board where he receives $175 per day plus expenses. The members should listen to this and see if this is not a blatant abuse of taxpayers' money and political patronage to the nth degree. planned scheme which ultimately resulted in disaster," said provincial Judge W.A. Cochrane, who sentenced Vermaeten to con- current 12 -month jail terms on each charge. Three theft charges against Vermaeten's 20 -year-old son Frank were withdrawn at the request of Huron County Crown At- torney Gary Hunter. In passing sentence, Cochrane said he was taking into consideration pre- sentence medical reports showing Vermaeten suffered memory lapses and still re- quires medication and therapy for a head injury he sutained in a fall from a boat in August, 1983, at his former Exe Fibrecraft Ltd. plant in Exeter. The firm was peti- tioned into bankruptcy by bank foreclosure on a loan last year. Evidence read into the court record showed Ver- maeten started juggling boats and owners in a complicated series of deals, starting in the spring of 1982, and was not found out until after his family-owned business failed. A lengthy investigation car- ried out by OPP Constable Wayne Charlton of Exeter and Detective -Sergeant Tony Griffin of the Toronto anti - rackets branch led the of- ficers on a trail from Exeter to northwest Saskatchewan, Florida, Connecticut and Michigan, tracing boat ownerships and registrati A six-page synopsis of findings showed: At the end of the boa season In 1862 Verma agreed to make repairs ajustments to a new 30 - (nine -metre) Nord sailboat owned by a To area school teacher, De Price, who was then work in northwest Saskatche but spent his holidays sai out of Bayfield and Pa Sound. Vermaeten agreed provide winters storage a cost to the owners. However, he subsequen used Price's boat as demonstrator at an Onta Place dockside boat sh There it attracted the inte of an American buy Charles Anasis of Rochest N.Y. After a test sail, Ana purchased the boat (belo ing to Price) from Vermae for $33,035 (U.S. ) and was a persuaded by Vermaeten become a Nordica yac dealer in western New Yo State. In the spring of 1983 t boat was slightly damaged a storm and Vermaeten su gested he take it back to E eter to be fixed. Anas agreed. Vermaeten sailed th craft from near Rochester Port Credit and managed get it back to Exeter just tw days before its righrf owner, Price arrived fro Saskatchewan to claim h property. Price got his boat back bu Anasis, who arrived in Exete later looking for the boa found the Vermaete ons. business in receivership. On a their tip from an employee, he traced the boat to Parry ting Sound, confronted Price and eten learned he had been and defrauded. foot In another deal, Vermaeten Ica was paid $24,625 as partial Tor payment on a new Nordica by anis Dennis Brigham, a Toronto ing lawyer, who, wanted some wan modifications. While sup - ling posedly completing the work, rry Vermaeten sold Bigman's to boat in Michigan. t no Finally, a third boat which was sold by Vermaeten tly through a Montreal dealer to a a Toronto area customer, rio Sami Kelada, was regained ow. by Vermaeten on the pretext rest of using it as a boat show ex- er, hibit but it was then sold to er, Tony Barone of New Haven, sis Conn., for $37,000 (U.S.). ng- Vermaeten was described ten by his lawyer, Ted McGrath Iso of London, as "an industrious to and hard-working person" ht who was "trying to keep rk several balls in the air" in a desperate attempt to keep his he ailing firm afloat. He said in Vermaeten had hoped to g- recover from his financial x- plight and build more boats so is everyone could have one. e As a consequence of his to acts. Vermaeten, father of to five, lost his former $100,000 o Exeter home by public auc- ul tion and now lives with his m wife in a two-bedroom base - is ment apartment in London, McGrath said. He is unable t because of his ill health to r work. The defence lawyer t, suggested a six-month jail n sentence. n CREATIVE LEISURE WORKSHOP — A day -long seminar was held at Exeter United Church, organized by Flora Doerr and Audrey McGregor. Shown in the church foyer are (back left) Pat Cook, Elsie Tuckey and (front) Flora Doerr, Grace Drummond, guest speaker Helen Burkholder, Beth Batten, Marion Dougall and Jean Murray. N. , Area women .advised about plan for aging Sixty-nine ladies from Ex- eter United Church and district UC congregations at- tended a one -day workshop on aging coordinated by Flora Doerr and Audrey McGregor at the Exeter church. The guest speaker was Helen Burkholder who looks back on a busy and active life working with YWCAs, on the commission that formed the UCW, involved with her hus- band in Christian Education, leader at camps and con- ferences, and still going strong as a senior citizen. Mrs. Burkholder was on the planning committee of the 11(' national workshop on aging, which represented every con- ference across Canada, and participated in a Ministry with Aging Persons task force set up by the London Conference. Mrs. Burkholder challeng- ed her listeners to reassess their role models, examine ing the dishes, examining the myths about aging, and one's beliefs, not resisting freshen their outlooks by get- change, getting rid of un - ting ride of mental garbage wanted possessions, joining such as old resentments, or beginning a Bible study regrets, disappointments and group, taking stock of oneself heartbreaks. before a full length mirror, and changing one's way of entertaining were among the suggestions given by Mrs. Burkholder to keep a youthful mind and body. Mrs. Burkholder said time spent in meditation each day refreshes the spirit. Even Jesus knew when to withdraw to renew his inner resources. Mrs. Burkholder said seniors should be more demanding as dconsumers, asking for suitable clothing styles and smaller homes in- stead of the huge county institutions. Mrs. Burkholder said truly mature persons take one day at a time, treat it as a gift, and neither dwell on the past nor live in the future. Coping with illness and disability takes courage, she said. Those in reasonable health can help themselves by sitting down and reviewiing where they are, where they want to be, and where they are headed. Among the things one can do for oneself are car- ing for the body by exercise such as walking and eating the proper amount of nutritious food, and the endless sources of compan- ionship in the church, the community, and the world. . Living each day as if it is one's last, monitoring one's memories during routine tasks, to be grateful for water and ample soap suds while do - Times -Advocate, Octobor 31, 1984 Pogo 5 i Are you between 60 and 71? 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MARYS. 203 Durham St E WALKERTON A warm welcome awaits you at Centralia College of Agricultural Technology Huron Park Ontario Centralia College presents OPEN House '84 "Building on our Heritage WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7 228-6691 Ontario 1:00 - 9:00 p.m. Ministry of Featuring: Agriculture and Food - course displays - Agricultural Business Management - Food Service Management - Animal Health Technology 2:00 p.m. - Re -Opening of Bruce Hall Residence Bicentennial Events - period costumes - displays of Ontario's past lifestyle - horseshoe pitching by Elmer Hohl, Wellesley - square dancing called by Les Greenwood al