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The Wingham Advance Times, 1995-07-19, Page 1If you're not subscribing to The Wingham Advance -Times, you're missing out Use this coupon below and subscribe today! Name: Address: • City: Prov.: Postal Code: Subscription rates Canada within 40 miles (65km) ad- dressed to non letter carrier address- es $27 plus $1.89 GST. Outside 40 miles (65km) or any letter carrier address $40 plus $2.80 GST. Ouside Canada $80 plus $5.60 GST USE YOUR CREDIT CARD Card No. ❑Lori❑❑❑❑ ❑❑❑Loom Expi Date: Visa Master Card ❑ Cheque enclosed ❑ Return T9 WINGHAM ADVANCE -TIMES P.O. Box 390, 5 Diagonal Road Wingham, Ontario, NOG 2W0 L J A Local girl has been bringing the sweet sound of the harp to Iife...and now on disc. Page 8 No more weeks declared Wingham joins other towns in current trend There will be no more special' weeks in the Town of Wingham. Following a motion that gained unanimous support from the local council, Wingham will no longer make declarations• of special weeks throughout the year. The move by communities across Ontario to .stop declara- tions came after the Bob Mor- row, the Mayor of Hamilton ,was sued by a,gay-rights group. Morrow, who previously had declared special weeks, refused to declare Gay Pride Week. The activists won the initial suit and Morrow was forced to make the declaration. Instead, the City of Hamilton made a motion that would put an end to all declara- tions. By doing so, the city argued, no preference would be given to any particular special interest group: Ultimately, the groups that lose out on this trend across the province are• those who have a tradition of special weeks and months: Heart and Stroke, Par- ticipaction, Big Brothers and Sisters; No -smoking, etc. Wingham does not have an extensive history of making such declarations, but chose to clarify its position for future ref- erence. Gas company obtains land for station The Town of Wingham and Union Gas have reached an agreement for the location of the second pipeline station. The town agreed to sell the gas company a 12 metre by 25 metre section of land on the western most section of the trail- er park. This station will mark the southern point in town, while another station had already been arranged for Wescast Industries property. Business Page 2 Editorial Page 4 Letters Page 5 Sports Page 6 Feature Page 8 T.V. Guide Page 11 Classifieds Page 12 Horoscopes Page 16 Crossword Page 16 A LOOK AT.. - The Blyth Festival returns war brides to the days of their youth. Page 15 The Wingham Advance -Times is a member of a family of community newspapers previtling news, advertising and information leadership East Wawanosh Twp. is gearing up for the 911 addressing system with proposed road names. Page 3 tance ©:. The Wingham Kings were beat out of the Eelgrave slompitch final on the weekend. See Sports imts ua; Bidi.R;; Media Slammers...CKNX-TV cameraman Darin Foulkes prepares to set up the ball while teammates CKNX-Radio's Margaret Jarvis and T.V.'s Brian Higgins watch. The local media team finished third in this past weekend's Co -Ed Volleyball Tournament, sponsored by the Wingham Recreation Department and the Wingham merchants. For more information on the tournament, see Sports. Fa' i F ;ws a`f4 S'U"✓',V7;eL; THE SToah? Wingham PUC crews aid in Goderich crisis The Wingham PUC have been helping Goderich clean up and re- store power after last weeks dam- aging storm. Wingham PUC manager Ken Saxton, said thet two men and a truck were in Goderich Friday, Sunday, Monday and . there is good possibility that they could be there the rest of the week. He said that the Wingham PUC will be billing Goderich for servic- es. Saxton added the crew wasn't helping in Goderich on Saturday, because they had some repairs of their own. A hydro pole was broken in town; which resulted in 10' to 12 customers being without power. The PUC manager said power was. restored by 5 a.m, Saturday. pointed LSS., i.st Sees : opportunity for balance QUEEN'S PARK - Huron MPP Helen Johns has been appointed as the Parliamen- tary Assistant to the Minister of Health. Johns will provide support for Jim Wil- son, the Minister of Health under the new Progressive Conservative government, by preparing legislation and bringing it before the House for consideration. She will also be responsible to the Legislature for the Health portfolios when the minister cannot be. present. Johns, a first time politician, said she was pleased to get the posting. "It's a very, busy ministry. It will be a good training ground for me. It's one of the biggest porfolios and the biggest money portfolio" With an extensive financial background, Johns said she was consid- ered for the post to help bring a balance to the ministry. "(Premier) Mike Harris wanted a strong business and financial per- son and it is because of my background that I was'chosen," she said, Johns said the appointment of a rural representative to the ministry should also help increase awareness to rural health care issues, such as emergency room coverage and physician recruitment. HELEN JOHNS Former Teeswater resident now a Devil By MIKE ANDERSON Special to the Advance -Times Nathan Perrott is a fighter. While that describes one of the skills he best exhibits on the ice, it has come to mean so much more in the uplifting story df one deter- mined young hockey player:. There is no better way to de- scribe a person who has come from where Perrott has to where he is now and to where he is go- ing. "I do reflect a bit," says the quiet hut well-spoken Owen Sound native. "You learn to appreciate it." Not too much, though, because he still has the biggest goal yet in front of him. And simply being drafted by a National Hockey League team won't be enough. He's going to play there someday. Perrott is the 1 8 -year-old son of Andrew and Cindy Perrott of Owen Sound, and formerly of Teeswater. His grandmothers are Dorothy McKinnon and Molly Perrott of Teeswater. Other rela- tives in the area include aunts Su- san Cronin of Teeswater, and Te - 4 resa Foxton and Kathleen Forsyth of Wingham. He also has numer- ous cousins in both Teeswater and Wingham. Ending a successful minor hockey career in Owen Sound, where he'd parlayed his size and strength into buckets of points, 'Nathan Perrott did what' so many other budding players do. He decided to try his hand at junior hockey while still midget - aged and eligible for next year's Ontario Hockey League draft. Starting the campaign as a 15 - year -old, Perrott suited up in 1992-93 •for the Western Junior 'C' Hockey League's Walkerton Black Hawks. Like others before him who have managed to use Junior 'C' as a springboard to higher levels, Per- rott says the opportunity to play with and against players up to five years his senior proved beneficial. "It made me realize what junior hockey is like," he says now. Physically, the game was a lot more challenging than minor hockey, Along with that came an introduction to fighting. But it's ironic, says Perrott, now being called the all-round toughest prospect in this July's NHL draft. In Junior 'C', known tradition- ally as a hard-nosed level of hock- ey, he only fought three times. As his old Walkerton coach Jim Parker recalls, Perrott handled himself just fine. Parker remembers Perrott's first junior fight, against a much re- spected opponent in a much re- spected barn. He remembers the youngster physically overpower- ing his older, formidable opponent in Brussels. "Afterwards, I went into the room and he said; 'Well coach, not bad for my first fight'." Perrott, as they say, hasn't looked back. But he could very easily have. Despite a decent season in jun- ior hockey after overcoming a bat - de the previous summer with mon- onucleosis, he was passed over completely in the 1993 OHL draft. He sat in the London Gardens awaiting is name, but it never came. He went home and tended goal in a lacrosse game that night. Parker says he tried hard to get Perrott drafted,, He felt he had a Please see PERR'OTT/6 Nathan Perrott ..was selected by the New Jersey Devils in the NHL draft. (Photo courtesy of The Hanover Post)