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Times Advocate, 1994-12-14, Page 5• Back in Time... By Ross Haugh from the archives of the Exeter Times Advocate 10 YEARS AGO• December 19. 1984 - After a tense four ballots. Stanley township reeve Paul Stcckle was elected as warden of Hu- ron county for 1985. After be- ing elected, Stccklc said. "Di- alogue and not konfrontation will be my methyl of govern- ing the county." Murray H. Hodgins of Lu - can was one of the numerous residents of Middlesex county • to receive Bi -Centennial med- als recently. Hodgins said. "l never stood a chance in a con- test for brains or beauty, but here at last is a medal which could be said to he for endu- rance and stubborness of pur- '. pose..' 25 YEARS AGO December 18, 1969 - Grand Bend council has refused to accept the resignation of councillor Douglas Martin. Instead they granted him a three months leave of ab: Bence. Clerk Murray DesJar- dins said Ontario law allows for councils to grant such a leave of absence. Exeter council held pay raises for employees to a min- imum for 1970. Clerk Eric Carscadden's salary will rise $400 to $7,400 and police chief Ted Day's increase will be $200 to the same rate as the clerk. At the final meeting of Ex- eter council for 1969, mayor Jack Delbridge said, "We should have had a woman on council years ago" as council- lor Helen Jermyn passed around some home-made cookies and cake. 50 YEARS AGO December 14, 1944 - All work and no play doesn't just happen at the Exeter branch of Canadian Canners. Thurs- day evening last, the night shift in the dehydration plant enjoyed a midnight duck sup- per when 48 employees and night supervisor Harry Pen - hale feasted on 13 ducks and the same number of pies. Tuesday night, thc beet pack- ing and warehouse employees enjoyed a fAlle.course fowl supper at Wo) 's Cafe. The annual Commencement exercises 'were held Friday night at Exeter High School. The top students in each grade were Donna Bowden, Patsy Hay, Peter Fraser, Laurene Zurbrigg and Marie Fletcher. Principal H.L. Sturgis em- phasized the need for a new high school building and sug- gested it would be a splendid tribute to former students now serving in the armed forces overseas. 100 YEARS AGO December 13, 1894 -Quite an excitement has been raised in Kirkton this week by the re- port that a peculiar light has been seen near the bush on the Ushorne side of the road. Ac- cording to reports it appears at about 11 o'clock at night and is about one foot to 18 inches across, and is of irregular shape of a somewhat bluish ap- pearance. It perforins. some queer antics, moving from side to side. going up into the air then descending rapidly. Tuckcrsmith township coun- cil' has set wages and salaries for officials. The reeve will re- ceive $45 a year; the deputy - reeve $35 and thc clerk and treasurer $ I (X) each. ILLYUR BUSINE S Temp services coming to Huron Times -Advocate, December 14,1994 Page 5 A Zurich woman sees `temping' as a step to finding full-time work ZURICH - Finding jobs for peo- ple has traditionally been a govern- ment responsibility in Huron County. Now. a Zurich woman is taking a private -enterprise ap- proach to getting people employed, by opening her own temporary em- ployment, or "temp" agency. Martine MacDonald is fecruiting both clients and workers this month as she aims to open the doors on Temp -Ted by January. Until now, businesses finding themselves short staffed due to illness, unexpected resignations, or faced with seasonal or contract demands, had to either tough it out, try to hire someone. or deal with an urban -based temp agency. By having local people on file, MacDonald said she hopes to be able to find someone to fill in that gap, on a contract basis, right away. "I may be able to provide them with someone who has those skills and is unemployed right now," she said, adding that companies can quickly avoid overtime costs or em- ployee stress from being short- staffed. MacDonald is building a file of prospective employees in fields from office services to light in- dustrial work 10 food services. Be- cause they are hired on a contract basis through Temp -Ted, the com- pany doesn't have to be concerned with advertising, interviewing, or severance costs. Temp -Ted's fees are paid through a commission on the hourly rate of the employee. While office temps are most com- mon, MacDonald said "a lot of it I think will be Tight industrial work", particularly since many companies have work forces pared down to a minimum and contracts are coming in. MacDonald worked as a temp herself in London, and later landed a good job through her experience with a large company. Since mov- ing to Zurich. she thinks a temp agency is something Huron County is missing. - "I realized there was a niche for it and decided to take advantage of it and supply some businesses with good temporary employees." she said. MacDonald is working from a market survey she drew up while enrolled in the Conestoga College Small Business Program. She is a graduate of the Huron Employment Liaison Program (HELP), and also has the support of the various Can- ada Employment Centres and job- sOntario to help find the right peo- ple to fill temporary job vacancies. Training. she said, is a big issue. "That's a big complaint Ibusi- nessesl have is they have a hard time finding skilled people;" she said. Putting people with the right skills together with the right em- ployers is only half the story. Mac- Donald aims to train temps with skills she finds most in demand, and will even make sure employees get special training before showing I up on the job. Brian Regier will also. be offering hazardous materials awareness courses to those temps entering fields where that is an issue. "Time is of the essence to a client," said MacDonald, adding that should she not have a skilled employee on file for a client. she will even do the advertising and in- terviewing to find one. There are people who enjoy the flexibility of being a temp more than being permanently employed. The good ones. said MacDonald, can find work nearly full-time if they want it, or can take time off between contracts whenever they want. However, many view "temping" as a bridge to a permanent employ- ment, said MacDonald. "I'd like to be able to get them into a full-time position." she said. Temps are often able to pick up a variety of new skills. experience a variety of working environments, d dr Martine MacDonald believes Huron County is ready for a temporary employment agency of its own. 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