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Times Advocate, 1997-12-03, Page 5On the Street by Jim Becket: Food Drive and carol sing The First Exeter Scouts and Aux Sauble Girl Guides have captured the spirit of Christmas. On Friday, Dec. 12 from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. they will have a Food . Drive and Carol Sing at the Exeter Lions Youth Centre. They are inviting people to come out and participate. Starting at the • Youth Centre, caroling will be in the downtown core of Exeter while food picks at curbside will be throughout most parts of. town. Parents, Beavers, Cubs, Scouts; Venturers, Guides, Brownies and others can either -sing or help pick up food. Everything collected will be donated to the - Exeter & Area Food Bank. For additional information please call: 235-1959, 235-0931 or 235-0529. - Posties sent back to work Although the federal government_ was reluctant to bring in • legislation forcing - postal workers back to their $17.00 plus per hour jobs, it looks like this is going to happen some time this week. • Their fearless leader CUPW president Darrell Tingley seems to be backing off on threatening civil disobedience -as a way.of continuing the protest. 'The Times -Advocate is only one of thousands of small business across the country that have - been hurt by the stoke. A.I.S. in Exeter, publisher of several national agricultural publications, have seen their products piling - up as they depend bn reliable postal delivery to get their magazines in the hands of their readers. The Times -Advocate has been • pretty lucky ds the newspaper is • still being delivered to most local subscribers through the smaller post offices which have remained open: Exeter and the Exeter rural routes are another story as ihe Exeter Post Office is shut down by the strike. Last week subscribers from the town and rural routes who normally get the newspaper in their mail box Wednesday had to come directly to our office to get their copy. Most of them did and for this we send a sincere thankyou. . To tar employees of the Exeter Post Office with the same brush , I would use on many of their city cplleagues would be unfair as , 'we have received excellent service IT'S YQIIRP,ll&INF.SA Times -Advocate, December 3, 1997 Page 5 Bed and Breakfast session attracts unique B&B ideas B&B ideas range from a B&B shooting preserve to a B&B for snowmobilers and kids By Chantal! Van Raay T -A Reporter HENSALL - Many people as- sociate a bed and breakfast as a place to rest ones head and indulge in breakfast the next morning. The Bed and Breakfast session held in Hensall Thursday night proved B&B's can - be more than that. • About twenty people attended the session with different plans about starting a bed and breakfast. Vaila Baehnisch from Hensall hopes to create a B&B for snowmobilers, where they can "drop and go," she. said.. She also wants to open her B&B to families since they 'have kids of their own. Deanna Snell from. Blyth hopes. to integrate a Christmas and coun- try theme into the B&B she wants 16 one day open: - Snell owns a large house in Blyth with 10 acres of property. in front of the house there is a pond where they attract `sometimes 400-500 Canada geese. She said this will probably he her biggest selling at- traction. She explained that her yard is also tilled with gardens and -occasionally a white swan visits the pond. Snell will decorate each room in the home with a unique Christmas How to run a BIM People interested in running a Bed and Breakfast got a -lot oiJU Ttfie Bed and Breakfast sessions in Hensel! on Nov. 20 and 27. Hensall Economic Development Committee member Mary Lynn MacDonald (shown in picture) and, instructor -Rosemary Peer spoke to -a group of about 20 on' the ups, downs and requirements of running a B&B. Al- most everyone came out of the session with unique ideas for their own bed and breakfast. tering. -"It won't only be los B&B• guests hut for parties as well," she said. Every dream is unique. Rut in or- der to make these dreams reality, they need to consider legalities. in- surance. privacy concerns. meals. theme. She said she will put lour maintenance -and other conditions, Christmas trees " throughout iheTexplained course house and eche. ' .legalities; need to consider . instructor Rose-' rooms_ will ' he legalities; insurance, pi -i-• mary Peer from Rosediff B&B decorated differ-. vacy concerns, meals, in Wiarton. , ently• - maintenance... Turner said the Mark • Benven course was very / from Brussels • also • had a -unique beneficial to her because,. while it idea for the B&B he hopes to open. dealt with the reality of opening a He has plans to make his B&B a B&B, it 'also gave people a chance shooting preserve. to network and brainstorm. "It will be an ahea where people' ,-rh _ sions'at_the session led can' come for hiking, cross-country them to the conclusiixi that more 'skiing and hunting," he.said, adding people arc becoming interested • in they will.put pheasants out for peo- ple who wish to do some hunting. Sandra Turner wishes to have a B&B where there will offer ca - over the years. It is time for the federal government to declare mail' delivery a vital service to ensure there is no chance of a disruption of this magnitude happening again. To have this ' ' much power'in the hands of a small number of militant union representatives is a gross injustice to the taxpayers of Canada. A mechanism should be established for some system of arbitration'setling labor disputes before strike action , happens. Club praised in legislature • Received a fax from Hank Kresch who is the Rotary Club of Grand Bend Chairman of the Nature Trail Committee. He • detailed how the MPP from Lambton, Marcel Beaubien praised the club's accomplishments with a speech in the legislature recently. Beaubien's remarks areas follows. "I am pleased to rise in the House today to inform you and my colleagues of the Rotary Club of Grand Bend nature trail in my riding of Lambton. The trail was officially opened on Sept: 28. The seven -kilometer trail connecting the village of Grand Bend and the Pinery Provincial ' Park is the result of three years of dedication and hard work. The trail was made possible . • by a partnership between the Rotary Club of Grand Bend and the town of Bosanquet. The 30 -member club raised . S150,000, and the town provided the engineering, tendering and accounting. More facilities are planned for the future to complement the trail, such as a toboggan run, so :cer pitches and other recreational facilities. This type of partnership is what Ontario is all about." • i their Own backyard: Peer explained since people want t� see what's go- ing on around them they will take a few mini ,vacations . •- • instead of long trips farther away.• "It offers People are-- also experience more interested in the country life. "it • offers a country ex . perience for urban bilk." Peer said. Pamela' Hall from Lilacs . and ' . Lace B&B near Si. Joseph has had . her business open for about three years She•talked to the group about - . the ups and downs .she •has ex- perienced since then. She said running a B&B• is nor- mally a supplementary income for e most people,=:adding that rarely can a person survive from running a B&8 alone: Grand Bend council sworn in GRAND BEND - Grand Bend council members Shirley Andraza. Phil Maguire. Robert Mann, Brian Knights and Mayor Cam Ivey were sworn in at the Grand Bend Legion yesterday. Ivey said he expects council to face three key issues during the next teem: ' minimizing property tax: the cdntinuing pressure to amalgamate with neighboring municipalitics;,and,preparing for the 2011 Sum-. • mer Games. . , ' "This is a once in a lifetime opportunity for Grand Bend.” he said. Ivey also congratulated the old council for their ongoing struggle to win back what was formerly known as Grand Bend Beach. A committee of the whole meeting will be held at the Grand Bend mdnicipal o'ffice,on. Dec._ 15 at 5 p.m. At the meeting. council will discuss three issues including the Winter Carnival, consolidating re- serves and reserve fund accounts and committee structure. Council will also discuss what type of committees they will have and who will be on them. The committee structure is as follows: . Main Street/Beach Enhancement; Harbor Parking/Public Services; Salmon Derby; ' Fireworks. e ' Enjoy Your Tax Refund for Christmas Contact our office. You may be. eligible for an early 1997 tax .refund PRE -CHRISTMAS CA$H Monday to Friday 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. 490 Main St. Exeter Call Now: 2351153 1-800-524-0231 .- She said eventually they would like to add a tea room to their bed and breakfast- and. then she may 'he able to afford to run the bed ,and break- s countryfast without carrying for urban on another job. folk. 91 In February, a sec- ond phase to the ses- - sion will- he added for those who would -like to delve further into the opportunity of run- ning a p&B` , "The ,second' phase 'is ad action plan." said Hensall Economic De- velopment Committee member' Mary Lynn MacDonald: "It's for people who really -•%van( to pursue this:" ' • The worksho}t leader for -the sec- ond session will -B Rc se a . To register call 519-'262-„21312. Business Directory AUCTIONEERS 111111111111 Hensa!! Ont. All types of auctions. Complete service. Will purchase partial or complete estates. 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