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Times Advocate, 1994-12-7, Page 28Page 28 Times -Advocate, December 7,1994 C OM A411 JW TTY Christmas concerts in abundance St. Boniface School will be hav- ing their Kindergarten Christmas concert on Wednesday, December 14. By Carmel Sweeney ZURICH - The Zurich Public School will be hav- ing their Christmas concert on Tuesday, December 13 in the gym. Dress rehearsal is at 1:15 and con- cert at 7:30 p.m. Everyone welcome! The South Huron Drama Club from Exeter High School will be presenting a play at Zurich Public School on December 13 at 10:00 a.m. St. Boniface School will be having their Kinder- garten Christmas concert on Wednesday, December 14 -at 7:30 p.m. Everyone welcome. Don't forget about the Christmas concert at South Huron District High School on Wednesday, Decem- ber 7 (in large gym). Admission is a canned good item for the Christmas Bureau. Skating program There will be an adult skating program beginning on January 7, 1994 for 10 weeks through the Zurich and Area figure skating club which is designed for people who have or have not skated previously. There will be 45 minutes of group instruction by professional coaches or you can have private les- sons. If interested please phone club president Bren- da Schilbe 236-4805 as soon as possible. St. Boniface CWL The St. Boniface CWL meeting will be held on Tuesday, December 13 following the 7;30 mass for vocations. The members have been making a spe- cial effort through drawing names at the monthly meeting to visit the sick, shut-ins and elderly of the parish. Santa arrives Santa Claus will be arriving at the Tenderspot in Zurich this Saturday, December 10 between the hours of 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. There will be treats for the children and Doug and Dan will help you pick out a Christmas tree while there. Personals May we offer our sincere sympathy to the family of a former Zurich resident Jenevieve Doyle who passed away on December 2 at the home of her daughter Catherine near Seaforth. Her son Carl Zimmer lives in Zurich. Fr. Wronski conducted the funeral mass on Monday held at O'Connor Funeral Home. Congratulations to Lenny and Joan Rosehart who were married in Las Vegas recently on November 12. Several relatives from the area attended the wed- ding. Mother Dorothy Oesch gave the bride away (while Elvis sang) The couple are now living at RRI 'Medford and a reception was held in their honor on November 256 at the Alhambra Hall in Grand Bend. Best wishes for a speedy recovery go out this wee to Jordon Jeffrey. Andrew Rau and Don Oke. An appreciation wine and cheese social will be held in the parish hall of St. Boniface Church on Thursday, December 15 following mass at 7:00 p.m. for all the people who are involved in assisting with the Liturgy for Fr. Wronski. A correction from last week's paper concerning Josie Dietrich who was only 91 years old on her re- cent birthday in November. Happy 75th birthday to Lloyd Otterbein on De- cember 13; happy birthday to Justin Soudant on 21st; Nathan Regier on December 9 and his brother Nicholas on the 12; Christopher the 19th all sons of Mark and Deb Regier. Welcome back to town Tim and Donna Cooper and two children who have recently moved into the former home of Ted Soudant on Edward Street. Lisa Smuck and children, Timmy and Billy of London spent the weekend with Bill and Diana Smuck at the Spruce Villa Apts. and helped to dec- orate the common room for Christmas. The family of Madeline Rau recently travelled to Stratford and helped son and brother, Gerard Rau celebrate his 60th birthday. Congratulations to Leon and Theresa Bedard RR2 Zurich who celebrated their anniversary on Novem- ber 28. The Ladies Auxiliary will have their annual Christmas party of the residents (complete with gifts for everyone) on Tuesday, December 6 in the Auditorium followed by the monthly meeting. The Golden Agers will be having their Christmas dinner at the Dominion Tavern on Monday, Decem- ber 123 beginning at 4:00 p.m. with their dinner at 5 p.m. Approximately 150 people enjoyed a lovely eve- ning at the Mennonite fellowship hall last Friday when a delicious Christmas turkey dinner with all the trimmings and more prepared by Jerry Rader and cook Mary Lou Erb and staff which was fol- lowed by a musical program of singing by Mozart and Julie Gelinas and children Aimee and Chantel. Teachers at St. Boniface School being Mrs. Tripp and Marg Suplat along with principal Mr. Kraft - check were among those who attended a "Peer Me- diation Workshop" in Toronto from last Thursday to Saturday. The girls club will be having their December meeting at the Mennonite Church hall on Thursday, December 8 at 7:30 p.m.. and will be making Christmas crafts. Head shaving raises money for white gifts Teacher Brian Q'Connell, shown above, has his head shaved by Dennis McCann. New manager named for PUC Sherman Roth will come from Elora to take over the Exeter utility starting January 1 EXETER - The town PUC has announced the appointment of a new manger for the utility, starting January 1. Sherman Roth, currently manager of Elora Hydro and previous manger of the Tavistock Public Utilities Commission, will be work- ing with retiring manager Hugh Davis "until the new manager gets established", PUC chair Murray Greene announced last week. According to the Fergus -Elora News Express, Roth had been with the Elora utility for six and a half years. Prior to taking on his posi- tion with the Tavistock PUC, Roth operated his own electrical con- tracting firm. Roth told the News -Express his biggest achievement in Elora was the reduction in power outages due to routine tree trimmings and up- dates in overhead services. Roth saw the Elora utility th the addition of a Hydro Electric Commission vehicle sere tre, a street light conversion project, and the computerization of 1 e and billing program. Big cheque donation The Saan Store made a donation to the Salvation Army Thursday morning, a cheque for $361, the first installment in the sale of Christmas gift boxes. All proceeds from the $1 packages of boxes goes to the Salvation Army's Christmas Cheer Fund, which will be used for food, and baby needs, Christmas treats in hospitals and seniors homes, and for meals for the homeless. At left is Salvati n Army captain Kenneth Ritson, with Saan store manager Peter Antaya. No deputy -mayor position Councillor Bob Mann said it would stop any agony GRAND BEND - There will be no deputy -mayor in Grand Bend for the next three years. Monday night, at the inaugural session of the new council, coun- cillor Bob Mann stopped any spec- ulation that council or thc public had when he made the motion there should be no deputy -mayor. "Since Lambton County has been restructured, there's no need to have an election for a deputy -mayor," said Mann, one of three new coun- cil members. Barbara Whecldon, who received the most councillor votes in thc No- vember 14 election, had speculated publicly she that should be the dep- uty -mayor. "1 would suggest, so we don't prolong any agony, that this council docs not have a deputy -mayor," said Mann. Mayor Cam Ivey sat on the last council as the deputy -mayor, a newly created title which saw Ivey appointed to the position by former mayor Tom Lawson. In the 1990 election, Ivey received the most councillor votes. Monday it was decided that the mayor will appoint a councillor at random to act on his behalf when it is required for whatever reason. This was agreed to by all members of council, including Whecldon. "It would not necessarily have to be thc same person, it could,bc any- one of us `four," int$uired :Whecl- don. Appoinunents were made to the various committees and the assign- ments are as follows: Mayor Cam Ivey - Police Public Your Views Letters to the editor Relations, P.U.C., Joint Fire Board, County Council, Tri -Municipal. Councillor Phil Maguire - Parks and Recreation, Harbour, Ad- ministrative Systems, Tri - Municipal. Councillor Shirley Andraza - Parking and Law Enforcement, Parks and Recreation. Councillor Barbara Whecldon - Harbour, Public Services. Councillor Bob Mann - Public Services, Parking and Law En- forcement. Also Monday, the honorarium for the mayor rejnains ,at.,,�400, per month while; 'councillors will - re- ceive $300 per month. Council, as initiated by Mann, has decided to set up a committee to take a look at its procedures by- law. Facts still remain the same There was a time when indepen- dents were cheaper than the oil companies, because of inferior gas. What now?.... Dear Editor: • At the risk of boring your readers, I would like to respond to the current and ex, Exeter gas retailers. It seems that they have completely missed the point I was trying to make. Perhaps I didn't express myself properly. Whenever I can, I also shop in Ex- eter (often paying more than elsewhere) so it isn't so much the money as the principle. 1 personally, have no problem with any other Exeter business and hope that new businesses opening up as well as ex- isting ones, have continued success. Actually gas was 50 point something last Wednes- day in London. Perhaps I should point out that I don't go anywhere just for gas, that would be silly. I buy the gas wherever I happen to be on a shopping expedition or whatever. As regards to price fixing, as was pointed out, all five (six?) gas stations are within point two of a cent per litre and I notice that any increase is made at all stations within a couple of hours. Doesn't this seem like price fixing to you? It was said that the large oil companies in London were able to "edge out" independent retailers. If this is so, then the Exeter independents must be doing something right because one major outlet went belly up in town and one down the highway also depart- ed. No Exeter independents suffered, I'm happy to say. There was a time when independents were cheap- er than the oil. companies. Some said because they sold inferior gas. What now? If it's still inferior, why docs it cost so much? If it's "top grade" what's th,e difference between them and the oil companies? I don't suppose the oil companies care who they sell to as long as the gas gets sold. I'm afraid that the facts still remain: I. All outlets always charge virtually the same price. 2. All outlets seem to change the price either up or down on a given signal. 3. The price is usually the dearest in the area. (Pre- sumably outlets in Lucan etc. have the same costing problems as Exeter outlets). 4. As a matter of interest, one outlet in Exeter al- ways seems to be the dearest of the lot albeit by a small amount. Yours sincerely, John Sanderson County to discuss planning fees Is it a step towards solving Exeter's dispute with Huron? EXETER A "round table" discussion ir.- are too high. "They know our position. We don't want to itiated by the county over planning fees might Town administrator Rick Hundey said this pay those fees," said councillor Bob Spears, not win any major battles for Exeter, but it's a meeting came about partially in response to who wanted to know what the specific func- tion of the meeting was. "We're not going to get our consent function back at this meeting," acknowledged Hundey. "If we can accomplish anything out of this, that's possibly lowering those fees." A more specific meeting to deal with the problems of Exeter and Clinton may come at a later date, he said. • start, town council was told Monday evening. work done by Clinton and Exeter (the two mu - The town is still facing a possible legal bat- nicipalities who had planning authority' re- tie with the county over after county council yoked), and partially "in response to an obvi- took away Exeter's right to grant severances in ous problem". October - after the town refused to charge and "We're going to try some common think - pa user fees for planning services to the ing," said Hundey, but later added "I'm not so c6unty. sure they will share the same views. Exeter's A meeting planned for next week will allow situation is unique." tic was referring to the Huron municipalities to debate the planning fact so few Huron municipalities do their own fee issue - many of whom have argued the fees planning, particularly severances.