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WINGHAM ADVANCE -TIMES
P.O. Box 390, 5 Diagonal Road
L Wingham, Ontario, NOG 2W0
A Howick Township
dairy farrning operation
was severely damaged
by fire on July 29
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Gorrie
couple
win big
Instant Bingoticket
rewards Yulls with
$10,000 cash prize
AGorrie couple are
$10,000 richer after their
Instant Bingo lottery
ticket turned up lucky last week. •
Lynn Yull and her husband
David were just. about to watch
the television show ER when
Lynn scratched the winning
ticket. The Yull's own and oper-
ate Stone's Radio and TV in
Gorrie. .
The bouple, who . have two
daughters, plan to pay some
bills and buy the, family a tent.
The winning ticket was pur-
chased at Howick Gas B'ar and '
° Variety
Lynn told the lottery officials ,
she yelled out and 'missed half
her show. "I had to double
check it, nobody believed it."
To date Instant Bingo has
generated over $413 million in
sales and players have claimed
more than $199.9 million in
prizes.
According to the Ontario Lot-
tery Corporation, nearly all On-
tario lottery winners invest or
pay bills, and most share the
winnings with family.or friends,
or donate to chanty.
Two charged
in coat thefts
On Tuesday, August 1, offi-
cers from the Ontario Provincial
Police, Wingham Detachment
arrested two men in connection
with the 'break-in' at `Bainton's
Old Mill in Blyth and the theft
of two motor vehicles on July
26.
Charged with break, enter
and theft, theft over $5,000 and
possession of stolen property
are Paul McNamara, age 18, of
Mississauga and Mark Mede-
rak, age 19, of Kitchener. Both
were remanded in custody to
the Walkerton Jail pending a
bail hearing on August 2 in
Goderich.
Thirty leather jackets were re-
covered; valued at $4,000. Con-
stable Al Hunter is continuing
his investigation in recovering
the remaining 60-70 coats sto-
Council News
Fire News
Editorial
Letters
Crossword
Sports
T.V. Guide
Classifieds
Horoscopes
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A LOOK AT...
The Maitland Mill Project
has attracted the interest of
both young and old.
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The Wingham Advance -Tines
is a member of a family of community
newspapers providing news,
advertising and information leadership
Listowel's. Marion Duke
takes a look at, the Blyth
Festival's Ted Johns
and his newest play.
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411Ct
Women's Invitational
winners; plus, results
from the Brussels
Fastball Tournament.
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iinto
Teeswater Flower Show...The Teeswater-Culross Horticultural Flower
Show and Victorian Tea was held last Friday afternoon and evening in the town hall. Ruby Jar-
vis of Teeswater and Pat Dodds, Wingham, admired one prize-winning arrangement at the
show. -
ownship receives 911 update
BELGRAVE - David Hedley
came to East Wawanosh Town-
ship council last Tuesday because
he was concerned about the imple-
mentation of the 9-1-1 system in
Huron County.
Hedley said that he just wanted
to stimulate discussion on the pros
and cons -of 9-1-1 and the Huron
County Municipal Addressing pro-
posal.
He was not opposed to 9-1-1
but was concerned about hidden
costs. He added that he was also
concerned because he has not been
able to get all his questions an-
swered.
Hedley said that a final decision
to install 9-1-1 should be made
only after all the facts are known
and made public.
Care should be taken to balance
Please see UPDATE/3
Sweeney returns from Bosnia
.By MARGARET STAPLETON
The Advance -Times
For Bombardier Ed . Sweeney,
stationed with United Nations
peackeepers in the former Yugosla-
via, cards, letters and boxes from
home are a reminder that the work
he is doing in that war-torn country
is necessary and appreciated.
Sweeney is the son of Lee and
Joyce Grove of Wingham, husband
of Carol (Blackwell) and father of
Amanda, two and one-half and Ja-
cob, five months. He arrived home
last Monday, July 31, for a- well-
deserved three-week leave.
He admits that he could not have
gotten out at a better time: the situ-
ation there virtually has changed
daily in the past week as the Croa-
tians have rejoined the war to eject
rebel Serbs from their territory. The
fighting has been intense and UN
peacekeepers in Croatia have been
escorted away from their observa-
tion posts.
Sweeney has spent the last three
months at Camp Visoko along with
700 other UN peacekeepers from
Denmark, Malaysia, France and the
Council to award
airport contract
A special meeting of Wingham
Town Council has been called for
this Thursday, Aug. 10, at 5 p.m. to
award the contract for a municipal
airport.
Tenders were called last month
for the construction of phase one at
the airport, which will be located
just east of Wingham behind the
Bridge Motors property.
Ed Sweeney...is shown relaxing
tions motel room in Kiseljak, Bosnia. Behind him is some of
the art work he has received from school children back here in
Canada.
in
his
United
Na -
British Isles to name just a few.
Bombardier Sweeney serves with
the tactical group "3R -22R", tasked
with a French infantry .unit outside
Sarajevo in Bosnia.
The situation in the former Yu-
goslavia is a complicated one, says
Sweeney, but is best described as
different ethnic groups fighting for
position. "They (the Serbs, Croats,
Muslims, Bosnians) don't want to
give up space," he explains.
The role of the peackeepers is to
observe what is going on and to
make sure humanitarian aid gets
delivered to its destination. Al-
though they must strictly adhere to
the UN's "rules of engagement",
the peacekeepers usually are fired
upon at night.
For part of his stint, Sweeney
stayed in ai United. Nations motel in
the small town of Kiseljak. While
stationed there, they delivered aid
and visited people in a Mental hos-
pital. Then it was on to a mountain-
top observation post and then to a
check -point on the Muslim -Croat
border.
Sweeney described conditions in
the war-torn country in a poignant
letter published last month in The
Advance -Times. He is a firm be-
liever in the United Nations' role as
a peacekeeper, saying he believes
conditions would be much worse
without UN involvement. Howev-
er, he does admit to being frustrat-
ed that the warring factions do not
allow the peackeepers to do more
as far as helping the victims of the
conflict. "The real heroes are the
common people," says Sweeney.
This will be a pivotal summer in
determining the fate of the former
Yugoslavia, says Sweeney, adding
that he does not know how much
more the city of Sarajevo can take.
Please see RETURN/1S
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Sawmill fence raises
ire of township residents
By MARGARET STAPLETON
The Advance -Times
A delegation of Turnberry rate-
payers attended the Aug. 1 meeting
of council to register their dissatis-
faction with council's decision to
erect a fence next to the McGlynn
sawmill property.
Michael McDougall was spokes-
man for the group and presented a
petition signed by over 100 people.
A number of ratepayers attended
the meeting, including several who
had, made an early presentation
about the condition of the Turnber-
ry-Culross boundary road.
The . fence at the sawmill was
built earlier this summer at a cost
of just over $2,000, plus $700 in
surveying fees to locate the proper-
ty line. The fence is constructed on
township property and was built to
alleviate what council considered a
safety hazard: logs piled near, and
encroaching on, the roadside.
Rather than have the taxpayers
of the township pay for, the fence,
McDougall and the petitioners be-
lieve the cost for the fence and sur-
veying should fall„ back upon the
landowner as he was posing a dan-
gerous situation. -..
Further, the petitioners said they
believe the township council "exer-
cised poor judgement in passing
this ?off to the taxpayers and must
take measures to correct the situa-
tion".
McDougall suggested, that an-
other solution to the problem could
have been found, perhaps through a
sneers! bylaw. He also said he felt
council has set a precedent with
building the fence. "1 know nothing
can be done now (about the fence),
Please see FENCE/2
Hospital presents
posinon on case
(Editor's Note: The following
press release was received last
Friday from Lloyd Koch, execu-
tive director of Wingham and
District Hospital.)
The Wingham and District Hos-
pital wishes to provide the follow-
ing statement of clarification with
respect to the medical professionals
that have been charged further to
provisions of the Child and Family
Services Act with failing to report
suspected child abuse in circum-
stances where a child was in need
of protection.
The Wingham and District Hos-
pital has conducted a review of this
incident and wishes to make it clear
that m all respects it is supportive
of the care and treatment provided
'to the child in question by nursing
'staff and the physician.
As this is a matter currently be-
fore the courts and in light of the
Ontario law with repsect to confi-
dentiality of health care informa-
tion, there is little comment that
can be made by the hospital or any
health care provider with respect to
these issues.
At all times, the primary concern
for the health care providers in-
volved was both the well-being and
safety of the child. It was never the
intention of any health care provid-
er to not report their concerns to the
appropriate authority.
The hospital and its staff were.
aware that authorities were notified
within four hours of the child's at-
tendance at the Emergency Depart-
ment of the Wingham and. District
Hospital. It is the hospital's under-
standing that at no time following
the child's attendance at the Emer-
gency Department was the child at
risk of further harm.
The hospital is unable to make
any further comment with respect
to this matter.
Drain debate may end
up in front of tribunal
By JIM BROWN
The Advance -Times
BELGRAVE - Water and drains
were the main topic of discussion
at the. August meeting of East
Wawanosh Township council last
Tuesday evening.
Two appeals regarding the
McVittie Municipal Drain Im-
provement 1995 were settled by a
Court of Revision, while a third ap-
peal may be going to the Ontario
Drainage Tribunal.
Andy McBride of Maitland En-
gineering Services told the court of
revision that—at error could have
been made when' an inspection of
the Aldredge and Mindziger prop-
erty was done in the early winter,
with some snow on the ground.
He said the assessment area on
the Mindziger property was re-
duced by three hectares, which
would result in $130 less being as-
sessed. The Aldredge property af-
fected by the municipal drain as re-
duced by foufa hectares, which .
would be $160 less in assessment.
However, McBride said that
council would have to determine
where the $290 would be assessed.
Council said the assessment
would be put onto roads assess-
ment for Concession 2-3.
McBride told that court of revi-
sion that according to the Drain-
age Act, the appeal by John Van
Eeden-Petersman could not be
heard under a court of 4evisioti,
Please see DRAIN/2