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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1985-06-12, Page 1r Blyth Branch Li tawy Box SON Blyth, Ott. NOM 114 J8f,, 1 r E % APPLETON CUP WINNERS—A contingent of young athletes from the Wingham Track and Field Club journeyed to Toronto Sunday for the fourth annual Ap- pleton Cup Track and Field Meet. Local medal winners 4 bain FIRST SECTION Wingham, Ontario, Wednesday, June 12, 1985 Single Copy 50c LACAC members get grants toward cost of repairing homes The chairman of Wing - ham's Local Architectural Conservation Advisory Com- mittee (LACAC), better known as Heritage Wing - ham, and another member of the committee have been successful in obtaining grants through the tpwn to help pay for repairs to their homes. Ernest Eaton, chairman of LACAC, will receive an estimated $2,000. toward the cost of repairing and re - shingling the roof on his were: back, Shawn Gedcke, Ryan Leibold, Anna and home at 63 Albert Street, and Paul Sakasov; front, Jamie MacKay, Jenni Kerr, Julie Li- installing aluminum fascia sle, Reagan Leibold and Eric Deyell. and soffit. Young athletes do well at Appleton Cup meet The Wingham Track and Field Club put on a good showing at last weekend's Appleton Cup . meet in Toronto, bringing home a number of medals in the club's first outdoor meet of the season. Coach Tanya Sakasov reported that over 600 young competitors from all across Ontario, as well as Alberta, Quebec and some parts of. the 'United States took part in the meet. Unfortunately the Wingham group had to leave before all the results were posted,. but the medal win- ners had been presented with their awards. Little Julie Lisle won three gold medals in Mite girls' competition. 'Her time of 34:3 seconds in the 200 metres won her gy'Id as ' did her 3:29m long jump. She also was part of the club's first= place relay team. Other team members were Jenni Kerr, Carolyn' Pike and Ansley Simpson. Anna Sakasov shone in the Bantam girls' pentathlon, setting personal bets on her way to the high -point total of 2,252. Anna's results. were: 80m hurdles, 13 sec.; long jump, 4:37m; shot put, 9:22m; high jump., 1:40m and 800 metres, 2:45 minutes. Reagan Leibold won a silver medal in the Mite' boys' long jump with a jump of 3:34m. The Tyke boys' relay team of Jamie MacKay, Eric Deyell, Ryan Leibold and Shawn Gedcke took a'silver medal. Paul Sakasov also MASTER'S DEGREE Evelyn L: Morin, daughter of Betty and Bert Morin of Wingham, received her Master's Degree in elec- trical engineering (bio- medical) at a convocation May 23 at the University of New Brunswick, Frederic,- ton. rederic-ton. She is, a graduate of the Wingham Public School and F. E. Madill Secondary School and received her Honors BSc from the Univer- sity of Toronto in 1981. Ms. Morin's published thesis was' "Investigation of Surface- Recorded Spinal Somato- sensory Evoked Potentials". She has presented papers to the Canadian Medical Association and the North American Bio -Engineering Society and will present two more papers to the Ameri- can Medical Association and Bio -Engineering Society at their conference in Chicago. She is continuing her educa- tion in the doctoral degree (PhD) program at the Uni- versity of New Brunswick. VETERINARY DEGREE On June 7, 1985, at the University of Guelph, John R. Campbell graduated with honors and received the degree of Doctor of Veterinary Medicine; John also received the W. G. Stevenson Memorial Schol- arship for proficiency in herd health. Dr. Campbell has accepted 'a position at the Owen Sound Veterinary Clinic. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Camp- bell of Wingham. Men sentenced in bank robberies Two men have been sentenced and a third is awaiting trial on charges stemming from bank rob- beries at Ripley and Hensall earlier this spring. Donald William Green- away and James Robert Smith, both of Hamilton, entered guilty pleas and were convicted last week on charges of robbery and of using a firearm in the cpti1 ission of an indictable offence. They were sen- tenced to a total of six years each in a penitentiary. A third man, Prank James Lortie,' also of Hamilton, entered a plea of not guilty and had his case adjourned awaiting trial on the same. charges. The men were charged in the wake of a bank robbery at Ripley which netted an estimated $10,000 on March 22 and a second robbery which netted $5,000 frorn a bank at Hensall on April 19. won a silver in the Atom boys' shot put with a put of 8:88m. Michelle MacDonaId was third in the Atom girls' shot put, while Linda Harkness was fourth. Linda also was fourth in the high jump. Wingham's Allan Baillie was eighth in the Bantam boys' pentathlon with 2,680 accumulated "points. His results were: 80m hurdles, 13:3 sec.; shot put, 7:32m; high jump, 1:45m; long jump, '3:83m and 800 metres, 2:37 minutes. -The . team travels to the provincial .. meet this weekend at Oshawa. The top two finishers in each event in the Atoni and Tyke divisions qualify to participate at the regional meet this August in New Jersey. Athletes in the Bantam division will try out at a meet scheduled for later this summer in Toronto. VETERINARYDEGREE Ross Earl Caslick received his Honors degree as Doctor of" Veterinary Medicine at 'the convocation of the University of Guelph on June 6, 1985. He has accepted a position at the South Huron Veterinary Clinic, Zurich. Family members attended the . ceremony, including his wife Ethel and two children, Peter and Tara, of London. Ross is the son of Wilford and Mary Caslick of Wingham. Wenger newspapers win national awards Three newspapers, which belong to the Wenger Publications , group have been named as award winners in the cross -Canada competition sponsored by the Canadian Community Newspapers Association: The Wingham Advance - Times was in second place for the Dorothy- Hoodspith Award for outstanding community service for a series of articles written by the editor, Henry Hess. The Listowel Banner was awarded first place for East Wawanosh edit.orial writing. Editor Marion Duke is the writer so honored. These two premier awards are open to all Canadian weeklies, regardless of their circulation. +� The Milverton Sun won third place in its circulation class for the best overall editorial page. Managing Editor Shawn Denstedt is responsible for this award. - Presentation of the awards will be made at the annual convention of the CCNA at Quebec City. Belgrave Kinsmen request liquor vote A ' liquor vote may be on this fall's municipal election ballot in East Wawanosh if council gets approval from the proper authorities. The Belgrave Kinsmen Club has requested the liquor vote be part of this November's election ballot and the matter was discussed at last Wednesday evening's meeting of council, Council members had no objections to the liquor questioh being included on the ballot and instructed Clerk -Treasurer Winona Thompson to contact the legal council of.. the Liquor License Board of Ontario for its permission. If the liquor question is included, the Kinsmen will be responsible for some of the costs involved, council members agreed, including charges such"as advertising. In its 118 years since in- corporation, East Wawanosh Township never has been "wet". The last time a liquor vote was held in the township was 1980 and it was defeated. In other business at last week's meeting, council made a grant of $1,020 to the Blyth Commpnity Centre. Board, one-half of the town- ship's 1985 share of the centre's operating budget. East Wawanosh also granted $2,130 to the board for a land purchase it has made for additional parking space. After a request from council for a user -breakdown at the Blyth Community Centre, East . Wawanosh's contribution to the centre has been dropped to 17 per cent from 20 per cent. Three building permits were approved at the meeting: Siebo Siertsema, a steel granary, Lot 31, Con. 1; Allan Campbell, a garage, part Lot 41, Con. 14 and Bob .Burchill, Part Lot 41, Con. 14, a garage. The next meeting of East Wawanosh council is scheduled for July 2 at 8 p.m. designated by the town, on requests. Council eventually the advice of LACAC, as gave its consent, despite heritage buildings, enabling misgivings expressed by them !'to qualify for grants several members. under the Building Rehabili- Councillor James A. tation and Improvement Currie suggested the request Campaign (BRIC). Under on the Eaton property should BRIC the town can provide a be returned to LACAC for grant of 50 cents on the dollar "reprocessing in appro- to a maximum of $2,000 per priate fashion", since he said project for eligible repairs to there might appear to be a heritage buildings. conflict of interest in the way It is up to town council to LACAC acted on the matter. decide whether a project is Deputy Reeve Patricia eligible for a grant. The town Bailey, who was chairing the is then reimbursed the council meeting, initially money,plus an ad- agreed to send it back, ministration fee, from the however Mr. Eaton, who was province. present at the meeting, told Dianne Grummett, also a The requests for per- council that LACAC is not member of LACAC, will get mission to undertake the bound by the same rules it is an estimated $800 toward repairs and for a grant with regard to declaring a repairing the brickwork at toward the work came to conflict of interest. her home at 104 Patrick council last Monday night, If the matter were Street. accompanied by a letter referred back he is not sure Both houses have been from LACAC supporting the what LACAC could do dif- Huron will oppose transmission line Huron County Cbuncil will go down to,the bitter end op- posed to any hydro transmis- sion lines running through the predominantly agricul- ' tural county. County planner, Gary Davidson, told the June ses- sion of county council Ontar- io Hydro will be announcing its preferred route; for trans- mission lines from Bruce Nuclear Power Development tg.. ,nod^ i'on AO 8. -13r. Davidson said. it "ap- pears'', , Hydro's favored route will either Ml or M7, both of which run right through Huron County. The MI route has two lines, one running from Bruce to London through Huron and the other, from the Nanti- coke lenerating station • to, London. A new route, M7, has three lines, one from Bruce to Essa near Barrie, one from Bruce to London and the third, from Nanti- coke to London. The county plainner said of the four alternative plans, only one, M3, has no lines through Huron County. How- ever, he said Hydro has said M3 is "electrically defi- cient". Environmental hearings. are expected to be held this November, and Dr. David- son said it will be up to the county planning department to prove that M3 is not deficient in any way. The county planner also said of six' potential routes through Huron County, Hydro has limited the choices to two. They are the east and west routes. When asked if Ontario Hydro is aware of the county stand against the hydro lines, Dr. 'Davidson said Hydro was notified by letter and acknowledged receipt ferently, he said. However he also took pains to point out that council is not bound to follow LACAC's advice. "It doesn't look right, in a way. We've only had two requests under BRIC and both come from people on LACAC who had houses designated," commented Councillor Tom Miller. "It just doesn't look so hot." Councillor Bruce Machan also inquired what the proposed repairs to the roof, fascia and soffit had' to do with the heritage value of the house. Mr. Eaton said he was not talking about restoring the house to its original appearance, just protecting it from the elements. He also said the aluminum fascia Benefit auction planned J and soffit should not change the appearance of the building, Councilor Jack Kopas, on the other hand, said he was concerned about "second- guessing" LACAC. "We have entrusted these things to LACAC," he said. "I respect their judgment.. It's not going to cost the rate- payers -anything." Mr. Miller continued to object, saying he thought the grant program was intended to subsidize any additional costs involved in restoring a heritage property to its original condition, not just doing ordinary repairs. "I'm afraid more people will apply to get their houses designated, so they can get $2,000 for repairs." However Mrs. Bailey who is council's representative on LACAC, told him people designate their houses for historical 'and architectural beauty, "not just to get a few bucks.": Eventually council voted on the grant and it passed easily. The request for the Grummett property was handled separately and it was approved quickly and with little discussion, although it was noted the, A repair work had been started without waiting to get council's permission, as required in thecase of a .heritage building. Mr. Currie suggested perhaps council needs to have a meeting with LACAC "and get things straightened out." Radio appeal raises fund for tornado relief A fundraising effort radio, Wingham, one of the sponsored by radio stations across. Canada on Monday raised an estimated total, of $500,000 for tornado victims in central Ontario. When matched three -for - one by the provincial government, this will boost the fund to $2 million. Jerry Chomyn of CKNX stations whichtook part in the effort, said public response to the drive was, "just ' unbelievable". ' Be- tween 9 a.m. and 8 p.m. local listeners called in pledges totalling $85,661. Originally the program was supposed to end at 7:30 p.m., Mr. Chomyn noted, but NURSES DONATE TO HOSPITAL—Barb Pletch, president of the Registered Nurses' Association at the Wingham and District Hospital, and Eileen McGlynn, treasurer, presented a cheque for $1,500 toward the hospital building program to Tom Miller, fund-raising chairman. The donation, which was raised through the collec- tion of Zehrs tapes and a .bake sale last fall, is to be used to purchase equipment for the new outpatient department. it was extended for a half- hour because at 7:30 the phone lines were still tiedup by callers pledging their support. He said the idea of the fund-raising originated with the Telemedia radio chain in Toronto and eventually stretched to include about 50 radio stations from the Maritimes to the western provinces. The money raised by CKNX accounts for more than 17 per cent of the total collected. Mr. Chomyn said the people in Toronto "couldn't believe it" when the station phoned in its hourly totals. He noted the local broadcast area in- cludes part of the zone struck by the tornados. Another interesting fund- raising plan for the Ontario Tornado Relief Fund is being organized by two local auc- tioneers, Wallace Ballagh of Teeswater and Grant Mc- Donald from Ripley. Knowing how successful the Mennonite auctions have been in raising money for charity, they have Scheduled a tornado relief auction for Saturday, June 29, at the Teeswater Fair Grounds and arena. They hope people from the area will donate articles for sale — machinery, furniture, live- stock, anything except clothing - "to be sold by auction with the entire proceeds going to the tor- nado relief fund. They said they are very pleased at the enthusiasm with which the idea has been received so far andr ap- preciate the offers of help and items. All the people involved with the sale are donating their time. Anyone who would like to contribute something to the sale is asked to call one of the following numbers as soon as possible so advertising can be done: Wallace Ballagh, 392-6170 or Grant McDonald, 395-5353.