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Keep sex offenders locked up
Dangerous criminals should be, behind' bars plea of petition
By Heather Vincent
T -A staff
EXETER - Keeping sex offenders and dangerous crim-
inals locked up is the subject of a petition started by Steve
Carpenter and now carried on in the Exeter area by local
resident, Anne Gould -Sullivan.
Sullivan became interested in the petition to the House of
Commons when her brother, John Gould, a detective for
the RCMP in Vancouver, was assigned to the case of Mel-
anie Carpenter.
Carpenter, was murdered by Fernand Edmund Auger,
who had previously been charged and convicted of sexual
assault and considered a high risk to re -offend. Auger was
given a "slap on the wrist", according to Sullivan, and re-
leased to commit more violent crimes.
With this knowledge and the ongoing media reports of vi-
olent offenders who are not kept behind bars, Sullivan de-
cided to do something in her own community.
"You shouldn't have to live in fear of your life and your
kids lives," said Sullivan.
She feels that a member of your immediate family
shouldn't have to be victimized before you take action.
"Why wait for something tragic to happen,?" she said.
The petition will be posted in several locations in -and -
around Exeter including Oscar's Video, the Post Office,
South Huron Recreation Centre, Greeting Card World,
Eclipse Hair Salon, Petro Canada and Designers.
Covered in the petition are appeals to Parliament to keep
dangerous sex offenders and pedophiles locked up for life,
eliminate statutory release, have a central registry for the
names and addresses of violent offenders, eliminate the in-
sanity, drunk and drugged defence and reinstate capital
punishment for first degree murder in which there is no
doubt of guilt.
The last ple4 is the only issue of concern among people
Sullivan has spoken with. She responded by saying; only
when there is no doubt of guilt would this punishment be
applicable. With the advances in DNA testing, Sullivan
thinks the margin of error is greatly reduced.
For the most part, however, "People are not hesitating to
sign the petition," said Sullivan.
The response to the death of Melanie Carpenter and her
father's efforts has been tremendous in western Canada. To
date, 173,772 names have been collected since mid-
February and they will be taken to parliament in Sep-
tember.
Sullivan said that growing up in a small community like
Exeter, she has always felt safe but now, even here, vi-
olence is something that can and does happen. By doing
everything possible, we can help to "protect the people in
this area," said Sullivan
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Bayberry Cafe
Joanne Johns
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ventures on Main
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More than an
alternative
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red deer
farming
Crossroads
Second front
Racing returns
Grand Bend
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full-time
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Experts
page 17
Classifieds
pages 18-20
Announcements
pages 22-23
County oliticians took County won't give financial
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home .almost $200,000 backingfor Exeter Iibrary
in wages, expenses
The new building may be reduced to 3,500 square feet
GODERICH - Want to know
how much yourrepresentative on
county council receil'ed in salary,
convention and other expenses
last year? Here it is.
In 1994, members of Huron
County Council and those ap-
pointed to be representatives on,
various boards and committees
were given a total of $198,825.04
Taxpayers shouldn't be too un-
happy though because this figure
should drop considerably in 1995
since there are seven less mem-
bers sitting on the present 26 -
member council.
Leading the way in 1994 was
warden Allan Gibson whose -sal;
ary of $26,175.92 and expenses of
$6,944 come to a total of
$33,126.79.
Others in the Times -Advocate
coverage area were Stanley
Township's Howard Armstrong,
$3,686.91 (total), Jack Coleman,
$4,518.53; Usborne Township's
Pat Down, $5,382.00; Zurich's
Bob Fisher, $3,442.31; Exeter's
Lossy Fuller, $4,569.92, Bill
Mickle, $3,120.36; Hay Town-
ship's Murray Keys, $4,132.34,
Lionel 'Hilder, $5,801.38; Ste-
phen Township's Bill Weber,
$7,828.92, Tom Tomes,
$6,584!49; Hensall's Cecil Pepper,
$3,464.96.
Exeter Villa applies
for 13 more beds
EXETER -Exeter council has approved a request from the Exeter Villa
to apply to the Ontario Ministry of Health for the addition of 13 beds to
the local facility.
A letter from owner Tom Kannamphuza said he proposes to purchase
18 nursing home bed licences from Waldheim Nursing Homes of Hunts-
ville.
Kannamphuza states that 13 of the beds will become available in Exeter,
four going to Fordwich and one to Sutton.
The Exeter Villa currently has 41 beds in the nursing home portion of
its facility.
By Fred Groves
T -A staff
GODERICH- It appears as
though the Town of Exeter will
have to forget about a new 5,000
square foot library as they are hop-
ing but instead, as a result of dis-
cussion at Thursday's county coun-
cil, it will be a smaller 3,500 square
feet.
Although the county's library
board has recommended that Exeter
be able to go ahead with the larger
plan, on Thursday county cou cil
said it would only be able to
finance 3,500 square feet.
The refurbished library in Exeter
would be built at what is being
called the civic corner. Early es-
timates have the one -storey build-
ing costing an estimated $50,000 of
which half, according to county li-
brarian Beth Ross could be fi-
nanced by the jobsOntario pro-
gram.
Each library in the county re-
ceives a maintenance grant from
the library board. Currently it is
$4.50 per square foot which is not
going to be raised in the near fu-
ture.
"As far as I understand it, the li-
brary board is planning to deal with
this issue in 1995. Local municipal-
ities see it is an issue," said Ross.
Thursday, Exeter reeve Bill
Mickle was told that while the
board, in principle, supports the
larger library, it would only give a
maintenance grant covering 3,500
square feet.
"That tells me all you (county
council) are doing is looking for
3,500
square
feet al-
though
the li-
brarian
suggests
5,000
square
tet."
said Mickle.
Huron County Warden Bruce Ma-
chan of Wingham said this subject
has to be looked at more closely
and any increase from the $4.50 per
square could have a big impact on
the overall 1995 budget.
"We hope to review this," said
Machan. "There might be an error
in our (county council's) ways. Be-
cause of our budget restraints we
can't expand on our 3,500 square
feet and still have a zero percent in-
crease in the budget."
What originally started the dis-
cussion on Thursday was Exeter
and Goderich's request to have the
maintenance grant rate of $4.50 in-
creased. Seaforth's Bill Bennett,
chairman of the Social and Cultural
Services which oversees the library
f `It goes back
to that the li-
brary board
doesn't have
Income
coming in:"
club marks anniversary
Exeter Skating Club celebrated their 40th birthday Thursday evening with en informal recital. Shown here ready to blow out
the candles, from left to right, Hilda Steele, Megan Geiser, Amy Taylor, Jodie Geiser, Meaghen Ellison, and Jordan Darling.
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board doesn't see that to be possible
in the near future.
"I believe the last rate increase
was four years ago. It goes back to
that the library board doesn't have
income coming in," said Bennett.
The library board collects some
money in fines from overdue books
but most of its money comssirom
county and provincial funding.
Like so trrany other issues it seems
at the county government level, the
decision to increase the main-
tenance grant fee will be sent to
Huron's very busy Strategic Plan-
ning Committee.
"It's been an ongoing question
and ongoing discussion," said.
Mickle. "I think it's time it came to
a head rather than going to strategic
planning."
It seems libraries are a very big
drawing attraction for local mu-
nicipalities. Bill VanStone of Col-
borne Township suggested a poll
be taken by library users to indicate
that if their municipal library was
closed, would they still come to
town.
That question certainly gives
county council something to think
about when re -thinking the notion
of upping its $4.50 per square foot
maintenance fee.
Shaw seeks
federation
position
TORONTO - Former mayor
Bruce Shaw will know Sunday if
he will be leaving his position as
principal of Goderich District High
School to become an executive of-
ficer with the Ontario Secondary
School Teachers' Federation.
Shaw is one of six candidates
seeking three positions with the
federation. If elected, he will be
taking a two-year leave of absence
and moving to Toronto.
Mathyssen
to run again
LONDON - Irene Mathyssen,
MPP for Middlesex, was nominat-
ed Thursday to be the New Demo-
cratic Party candidate for Middles-
ex in the upcoming election.
"i'm grateful for your confidence
and support," Mathyssen told the
crowd of cheering supporters at St.
Martin's Co-op. "We've been able
to get a lot done, but there is much
more work to do."
"I've been knocking on doors and
the reception from people has been
good," Mathyssen added. "I'm
looking forward very much to the
election campaign."
Mathyssen said her campaign
will focus on the results that the
NDP government's economic re-
covery plan have brought to Mid-
dlesex.
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