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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1984-09-05, Page 1,t01 DjV.4A 4$ 1o. 4 Wingham, Ontario, Wednesday, Sept. 5, 1984 Single Copy 50c ;atter of intent recommended Sunrise permit application 9 `.;::'. s P0, ANOTHER SCHOOL YEAR started Tuesday at schools all around the province and these students in Mrs. Kinahan's Grade 1-2 class are eager to get back to work. There are 121 students enrolled at Sacred Heart this year, up nine from the same time in 1983. Tories sweep to landslide victory In the greatest landslide since John Diefenbaker's triumph of 1958, the Progressive Conservative party under the leadership of Brian Mulroney swept to an overwhelming victory in Tuesday's federal election. Will study Catholic In the process the Liberal party was decimated, losing nearly 100 seats. Among the ranks of the defeated were most members of the Turner cabinet, and it was predicted that Prime Minister John Turner himself would fail in his bid for election in Van- couver Quadra. At press time Tuesday night, with most of the western vote still to be counted, analysts were several polls still to report, Mr. Cardiff had polled more than 21,000 votes to slightly under 8,000 for Mr. McDonald and about 3,700 for Valerie Bolton of the NDP. Mr. Cardiff had won the riding in 4980 with 16,520 votes to 14,364 for Liberal Graeme Craig and 3,804 for Tony McQuail of the NDP. In Wingham, with all the polls reporting, Mr. Cardiff - m ° - projee_ting�.he Tories would won impressively, in every ��h 1 1 win 212 of the 282 seats in poll, i -ie posted a total of 1,087 Parliament. The Liberals votes in the town to 376 for . were expected to win only 37 Mr. McDonald, 131 for Ms. seats, while the New Bolton and six for Litter - Democratic Party was tarianJoe Yundt. holding steady at 32.Also elected with solid. lnclude'il�"in the Tdirytotal tnajot'ities were PC in: were 61 seats in Quebec, a cun'ibents Gary Gurbin m traditional Liberal strong- Grey -Bruce, Gus Mitges in hold, where the Con- Grey-Simcoe and Perrin servatives increased their Beattie in Wellington - share of the popular vote to Dufferin-Peel, while Harry 51 per cent, up from just 13 Brightwell held onto the per cent in the 1980 election, Perth seat formerly oc- while the Liberals dropped to cupied by Bill Jarvis, with an 35 from 68 per cent. increased majority. Nationwide, the Tories were garnering about 49 per cent of the popular vote. On the local front, the Conservatives retained their hold on all five of the seats in Western Ontario, increasing their margins of victory in virtually every case as the Liberal vote appeared to evaporate. In Huron -Bruce, in- cumbent Murray Cardiff easily retained the seat he first won in 1980, posting a nearly three -to -one margin over Liberal challenger Bruce McDonald. With The Huron -Perth Separate School Board is setting up a steering committee to study the possibility of establishing a Catholic high school inthis area. At its Aug. 27 meeting, the board approved the forma- tion of the committee. Now, the board is looking for two parents., one from each county, one priest to be ap- pointed by the deanery and one teacher to be appointed by the Huron -Perth teachers' association to serve on the committee. Others on the steering committee will be the chair- man, two other trustees and the director. The^committee is expected to set up a plan that will help the board decide how best to provide a Catholic high school in the area. A report identifying long range planning needs, major constraints or special con- cerns and outlining recom- mendations is expected to be presented to the board in No- vember. Florist business has new owners One of Wingham's oldest businesses changed hands recently, with the sale of Lewis Flowers by Jack Lewis to his son-in-law Al Dickson, formerly of Belmore.. The new owner, who moved to Wingham with the purchase, said he plans few changes to the business: It will keep the name Lewis Flowers and employ the same designers as before, Bill Templeman, Debbie Secord and Mr. Lewis in addition to himself. While. he is learning the florist business, he will continue to work as a chemical operator at the BNPD heavy water plant, but eventually he plans to devote 'himself full-time to the greenhouse and flower business, Mr. Dickson said. He added he has always had a strong interest in gardening and. greenhouse work and ha been taking, courses in rticulture. He pla s to hold a grand opening at Christmas to celebrate the changeover. The flower and greenhouse. business has been located at 135 Frances Street since 1905, after being started in the 1890s at a downtown location. Mr. Dickson and his wife Chris, who works at the Reavie Vocational Centre ln Wingham, now live in the former Lewis home, while Mr. and Mrs. Lewis plan to build a retirement home on a lot behind the greenhouses. Minor injuries in accident Two persons received minor injuries in a, two - vehicle accident at the in- tersection of Highways 4 and 86, south of Wingham, on Sunday afternoon. Injured were Isabel Snyder, 43, of Elmira and Mary Cunningham, 74, of the Wingham area. Provincial police at Wingham reported that Mrs. Snyder was westbound on Highway 86 at about 2:55 p.m. when she stopped and then entered the intersection immediately in front of a vehicle driven by Mary L. Cunningham, '52, of RR 5, Wingham. The resulting collision also caused an estimated $560 io the Cunningham vehicle, a 1981 Chevrolet, and $1,200 damage to the Snyder car, a 1984 Pontiac. An application by SunRise • Dairy of Wingham for a "`:'.Thudding permit to expand its .downtown milk -processing plant is being bounced back -to town council this week for a decision on what, if any, conditions should be placed on the permit. In a recommendation :expected to come before a• council at its Tuesday night eeting, the Wingham lanning advisory com- tnittee suggests council should ask the dairy for a letter of intent before it receives a building permit. Such a letter would spell out the plans for expansion and would include a com- mitment to adhere to all aspects of the town zoning bylaw. The dairy's application to expand its processing operation has proven to be a ticklish issue, raising con- cerns about possible problems with noise, odor, sewer capacity and access for trucks. At a special meeting of the planning advisory com- mittee Aug. '22, the ``com- mittee was advised by Patty White from the county planning office that the town has the option of placing the dairy under site.plan control, which would mean town approval would be required for any future development. • It is unusual, Miss White noted, to find a processing dairy located in a downtown commercial area and it is '.possible that what planners had in mind was a retail outlet. However, as the town's zoning bylaw now stands, the dairy is a per- fectly legitimate use. Despite concerns raised by scene come ittee-memberewho--- predicted there will be a lot of complaints from residents on neighboring Centre Street if the expansion goes ahead, the dinunfifee 'at that meeting decided against SCOTT SCM'"�STEL did not appear to be overly anxious about his first day of Kindergarten Tuesday morning at the Wingham Public School and young Lindsay Johnston took the first day all in her stride too. Scott is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Dave Schiestel of Charles Street and Lindsay is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Johnston of Highland Drive. wo young local.. men bicycle from Vancouver Home never looked so good as it did last week to John Campbell and Daryl Anderson who returned last Thursday from a month-long bicycle trip from Vancouver." The two young men ex- perienced the entire range of climatic conditions from blistering heat and wind across the prairies to cold and rain, in Northern Ontario. They first had .discussed the idea to bicycle across Canada last New Year's, but each laughingly admits he never thought the other one was serious. Mr. Campbell, who attends the veterinary college at Guelph, had the' month of August off before starting back to school and Mr. Anderson, a recent graduate of Ryerson Polytechnical Institute at Toronto, was intending to take some time off before starting some serious job hunting. So everything fell into place and they started to plan for the trip. Mr. Anderson said an incredible amount of time in planning goes into a trip like this one. They had to buy new 18- speed bikes to make hill climbing easier and they had to purchase racks, bags, helmets and even special clothing. They left from Toronto airport on July 24, arriving in Vancouver in the early hours of July 25 and had to assemble their bicycles right there in the airport. After one day of sight- seeing in Vancouver, they left that city and set out on their trip. It took them almost one week to get to Calgary, where they :Tanta - week visiting friends before setting out on the most ar- duous part of their journey: the prairies. Mr. Campbell said that long, hot stretch was definitely the worst of the entire trip. Temperatures of up to 40 degrees Celsius were recorded and the high winds made the going very rough. But they kept up a steady pace of nearly 100 miles per day. At nights, they camped outdoors and stopped to eat or do their laundry. Mr. Campbell said they ate incredible amounts of food just to keep up their strength and estimated they con- sumed approximately 10,000 calories per day. Even at that, Mr. Anderson reported he lost 16 pounds over the course of the trip. When asked if he would do it again, Mr. Campbell hesitates, but says that he would make the trip again, although next time he would want to have more than one month 'to spend. He would like to bicycle tour Europe some day too. Mr. Anderson said he is not sure whether or 4-H members finalists in Reach for Top BELGRAVE — Four en- thusiastic Belgrave 4-H members took part in the newly -organized "Reach for the Top" competition held at Clinton, August 28. The boys -had very close, and exciting matches. They defeated the Huron Poultry Club, entitling them to go into the finals. The boys lost out in the last game, however, everyone in the community is very proud of the performance of Paul Coultas, Steven Coultes, Robert Gordon and Chris Michie. The boys belong to at least two 4-H clubs in the community. not he would make the trip again, but said it was a great experience. Mr. Campbell is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Campbell of Wingham and Mr. Anderson is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Don Anderson of Teeswater. recommending any par- ticular restrictions and a motion was passed stating that the permit application by SunRise conforms with the zoning bylaw. At the committee's regular meeting the following week, however, concerns resur- faced, leading to the recommendation to ask for a letter of intent. 4mmittee Chairman Ian Moreland, who had not been at the earlier meeting, ex- plained in a later interview that several other members also had not been at the Aug. 22 meeting. As a result, when the..committee met Aug. 29 there -were "more and dif- ferent people expressing more and different con- cerns." Several members of the committee said they had been approached by various peue'.e, "neighbors and citizens", with questions about the expansion, he said, and there is concern the matter could become "a political`hot potato". "We want to make sure everyone understands the rules and agrees to play by them." Mr. Moreland said the recommendation to ask for a letter of intent does not mean the committee has - misgivings --about the .dai application. He compared it to the decision to ask for parking assurances before issuing a permit for the new �W wing at the'ng aid• District Hospital, and said a permit application from the Western Foundry is being handled in exactly the same way. According to the zoning bylaw, a permit application must be accompanied by a letter stating the proposed use of the building, he noted. "We're just asking for a little more elaboration." He said a letter would be sent to both council and to the applicants, explaining the recommendation for a letter of intent. Prior to receiving the letter, Mrs. Patricia Bailey of SunRise Dairy said last week she is concerned at the length of time it is taking to get a permit. "As far as we know we have all the approvals (from the various ministries and departments)," she said, adding she had not been told why the town would not issue the permit. She said the dairy already has purchased the equip- ment it plans to install as part of the estimated $300,000 expansion and it is losing $12,000 a day in potential business which it cannot supply until it gets the new equipment operating. However she confirmed work is underway on renovations to the existing dairy's building. Eventually, she said, the dairy plans to take— down the hairdressing salon next door and expand in that direction, although that n iggt not h ppen until. next. year.' Pair narrowly escapes bomb blast in Montreal A couple of young men from Mount Forest got more excitement than they bargained for when they traveled to Montreal for a sports weekend over the Labor Day holiday. Doug Kerr, an employee of the Wenger Bros. publishing company, and Tony Polaz, both of Mount Forest, had traveled to Montreal with a couple of friends from Georgetown and Cornwall to take in the Canada Cup hockey and an Expo baseball games. On their way home they narrowly missed being caught up in the bomb blast that killed three people and injured at least 25 in Mon- treal's Central Station. Mr. Kerr reported they were just getting ready to check out of their hotel to head for the station when they heard the an- nouncement on the radio of a bomb explosion. In the taxi, on their way to the station they heard more details, including news that several people had been killed. "By the time we got there, "everything was closed off," he said, but they were able to see the area where the bomb had exploded and "what a mess ! " "While we were there, they apparently got a second threat," he 'said, because someone started shouting in French and people started running, "so we thought we should run too." After that, he said, they just waited around 'the station until finally they were bussed to Dorval where they caught the train for home. One person from CN told them another bomb had been found, he said, but he is not sure whether or not that port was accurate. If we had got up a little earlier, we could have been right there putting our stuff in the locker," Mr. Kerr noted. "That's where (the bomb) was. Right in the main lobby." He added that originally he and his friends had tried to get rooms in the Queen Elizabeth Hotel, which is right above the train station, but it was full. "I'm kind of glad," he concluded. As a result they ended up staying in the Dorval Hilton, well away from the blast. The bomb, which was hidden in one of the lockers at the station, is believed to have contained about 25 pounds of dynamite. It blew lockers 30 feet across the floor, showered bystanders with broken glass and sparked a fire in the luggage room. The explosion came one week before the Pope's visit to Montreal and police were checking for possible links between the bombing and the papal visit. A 'mysterious note left at a Via Rail desk on Friday included threats against the Pope and listed Central Station, Sept. 3, and a time of 9:30 a.m. The bomb actually went off at 10:20 a.m. CYCLE FROM VANCOUVER—John Campbell and Daryl Anderson returned last week after a bicycle trip from Vancouver. The month-long trip was very gruelling, but both of the young' men said they enjoyed the holiday. Mr. Campbell, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Campbell of t4Vingham, is enrolled at the veterinary college at Guelph and Mr. Anderson, formerly of Teeswater, Is 8 recent Ryerson graduate.