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Wingham Advance-Times, 1981-11-18, Page 1• Off 4 1.•",4 1' • -' • •'• • • • •-••••'.". • ; • " • . •••• i•••••ptil:,t•itrf :9. . . • • • • .:.• 1.4 • .• • - vIS ;Ott' I • 40 31. 't • • • ^ 1N, v1 1 : I�cal134 surnmert .?-§Orv, dtO .111.41 • • '0 OP • t.,t • . ••••; • '••:• .. • • GOING FOR THE GWNESS—RandyCIarke, ,Kevin Townsend, Kevin Hestia, Blaine McCutcheon and OwertCurtis Pose with the more Wpo 20,, 9,00 beer bot-, ties they collected at- -th Hashe'faintriear Gorrie over the past four years. The fat should earn thema place in the Guiness Book or Recoyds which they report u0 Until now had no record for largest bottle collection although there leone'foicaps. -The lads spent last Saturday MOP ning''Setting up.(hellOttles for a' photo, before trucking then, to Hanoveria,cash them in. At 10 cents a bot110, the haul -netted mcire,than $2, 000.4ilsa involved the effort werefDafe Ed9arand Don and Bite'? ,Hastie. t of •vyl •-4i7,0r# ;year ,am A •^: been the P ernory for s interest wing the t per cent, ew housing he past. building the Town : is year new house eight last rojects at the and District Hospital and the building .being Tennyated for he Bank of COMMe0e. Both projects are contracted, to out-of-town firnit A similar situatiop existed last year when three projects, all related to the , new Winghain shopping plaza, accounted fqr nearly 60 per cent of the Wel value of permits issued.. By contrast., in 1979 there was no single project valued at over $100,000and.the- Only two major nen-residential projects, the additions at the Wingham Baptist Church and the post office, ac- counted for only 12' per cent of the total construction. New housing, on the other hand, ampunted to $543,000 in 1979 and represented 56 per cent of the total con- struction. In 1980 this dropped to $451,600 or 31 per cent, vv.bile this year it plumineted te $60,000. and accOlit.ettiP.F.All}11:!14,11er cent of construction. • Hans KuyVenhoven; president of Royal Homes Ltd. of Wingham, confirmed that this year has been a terrible one for builders, and last year was not much better. He blames the high cost of mortgage money and the un- stable economy for the building slump, predicting that if mortgage rates could of buliding •;issued pared 10 4 in 1.979)r.,:-• malority 79. ord number ;its has been 89, com- 1 • 1980and 73 ervtrhelming • been for a : relatively 1( t .1 §1( . 00 : 40. , t or repairs and More, 0 , per cent of I the.:permits ,e for projects estimatedat under $10;000, witk.iti....:iiiier of those van; Pf,7 • bylaw ,ti • ,,require •-!4 • sat 4„, • undert $1,000. issued relates to which now mitriti oaf for roofworking ,tscape'a.": __permit, Cie Treasurer • Byron Ada* expldined. HOweverwwhile'lhe total value of -the building Ormits issued totfar this year at $1.2 million is' not far below last year's total of $1.5 million, and'vell above the $91 400 recorded in 1979, title of t money has stayed in town. Fully two-thirds of the $805,000 — is at - for by two rnajcir As of laie' last 'Week, . Wingham and District Hospital still had received no • word from Queen's Park on the fate of its -request for funding to ineet increased operating costs this year. Norman Hayes, hospital executive director, said he still is optimistic the hospital will get the money by the end of the year, but he would not speculate on when nurses and service employees might get their retroactive pay increaset Any decision on that must be made by the hospital board, he noted, though he said he plans_ to recommend to the board that at least a portion of the money be paid this year. The retroactive increases, which follow contract settle- , Merits between the.Ontario litspital Association and the unions representing service employees and nurses, date back to October of 1980. Earlier indications were that the Ontario Health' Minister would announce its dedision con the supple- mentary budget request by the end of lett month, but the day came and passed. "They've had it (the appli- catiorb for three months. I don't know what's taking so long,", Mr. Hayes com- mented, but he added he suspects, the ministry might have beep waiting to hear the details of the federal budget announced last week. Thal budget, which plans to cut some $1.8 billion from federal transfer payments to One-year sentence in attempted murder A Fordwich man has been sentenced to a year. in jail after pleading guilty this week to a charge of at- tempted murder, Franc Stroop, 60, also is prohibited from possessing firearms or ifrnmunition for a period of five years. Mr. ,Stroop appeared Monday at Goderich provincial court to plead guilty to the charge, which had been laid following a shooting incident in Morris Township earlier this fall. In passing the -sentence, Judge W. G. Cochrane commented that because of the roan's age, poor health and the fact he had no pre- vious criminal record, one year is an appropriate sentence. Mr. Stroop was charged by provincial police following an incident Sept. 4 in which Rene Vercruyssen of RR 1, Blyth, suffered .a gunshot wound. Since then he has been held in custody at Alexandra Marine and General Hospital, Goderich, undergoing psychiatric examination. New face at the town hall There's a new face at the Wingham clerk's office these days and it belongs to Scott Metcalfe. Mr. Metcalfe has been hired as a part-time bookkeeper, but so far he's been putting in 35 -hours a week since he started two weeks ago. The job entails keeping ledgers, helping with the tax collection and just general bookkeeping, said Wingham Clerk -Treasurer Byron - Adams. He added that Mr. Metcalfe will be kept busy for at least the next six months with taxes, A,A•14.z.11.4riltrr?.!041-ttrittrVirk1.Ftsinefstrer.:111L0,2 budgeting and mill rate preparation . Mr. Metcalfe has lived in the Wingharn, area all his life. In addition to his new job at the town hall, he also farms. He is also taking the certified accountant's course through the University of Waterloo and attends lec- tures there one night a week. The course,4 which is in correspondence form, will take five years to complete, and in the meantime he said he considers himself very lucky to be getting ex- perience at the clerk's office. 11.V Otte v • the provinces,- could have ari adverse effect on level's of health funding, despite federal assurances to the contrary, he predicted. At the very least, it will trigger a dogfight at Queen's Park as all -the Aministers compete to maintain their budgets. • Mr. Hayes added there is a good chance an announce- ment on health funding will come out of the OHA con' vention at the end of November and -beginning of December. Premier William Davis is scheduled to speak at the convention Nov. 30, and Health Minister Dennis Timbrell will speak at a breakfast Dec. 2. - • '1 guess the word will be. there'll be restrictions." In addition to the supple- mentary funding requested earlier this summer to cover raises for service employees and the increased cost of supplies, the hospital has made a recent subnaissiOn to provide for higher nursing salaries. However Wingham is not alone in being caught short in its budgeting this year. Nearly every hospital in the province is in the same boat, Mr. Hayes said. total counted uron teachers, boar *agree on sala s By: Stephanie Levesque Salaries are keeping Huron County secondary school teachers and the Board of Education from reaching a settlement for the Sept. 1, 1981 to Aug. 31, 1982 collective agreement! With the release of a fact - finder's report on Monday. BLasomoors,„,','SOIStatrailliCr.Y frf "1,74, SCOTT METCALFE has taken over the position of part- time bookkeeper at the Wingham Town Hall. Mr. Met- calfe is currently in the process of becoMing an accoun- tant and said he considers himself lucky to get the job experience working for the town. AS 41 .•4004.) Nov. 16, negotiations bet- ween the two sides are at an impasse. No meetings to continue negotiations have been set. Shirley Weary, chief negotiator for Ontario Secondary School Teacher's Federation i OSSTF ) District 45. said, "There is no reason to believe a settlement can't be negotiated. '' When asked about the possibility of a strike, Mrs. Weary said any discussiofl. on that topic is "extremely premature". In a telephone interview Monday evening, Mrs. Weary said the two sides would 1 take a "breathing space- for a couple of weeks and then resume talks. She said both sides haVe been involved in negotiations since January. and the feel- Twofire calls Sun. morning Wingham Fire Depart- ment answered a call in the early hours of Sunday morn- ing to the Con 6, Turnberry Township where some round bales of straw were ablaze. Returning from that fire the inen stopped at Pizza Train, 315 Josephine Street where an outdoor storage tank of propane gas was leaking. A Pizza Train em- ployee. aware of the poten- tially dangerous situlation evacuated the building and the firemen had things under control in a matter of min- utes The leakage is believed to be caused by a pressure valve malfunction but is still under investigation accord- ing to Fire Chief Dave Crothers. be fixed at 16 per Cent414 field there, for ' five business would • People can ,adjutt to a ' steady rate, even as high as • 16 per cent, he said, but the uncertainty associated witii; mortgage •rates' fluctuate from vyeqk to week is very, bad for bu.sineat. While building has been off right across this. area,. the market in Wingham is in worse shape than Mott, Mr. Kuyvenhoven added,A leek of jobs coupled with a very high population of senior citizens has virtually 'killed the demand for new" honlies: "We built two houses two years ago and they,'Te for sale." He also '.noted that' in resales hornet are goingler ing is bet want some time before continuing talks. In the past four years, both sides have been involved in a strike, arbitration., mediation and fact-finding. This is the fourth fact - finder's report for Huron secondary schodl teachers. A. fact -finder's report includes a list of recommendations for both sides. Trustee John Elliott, chairman of personnel committee, said at a press conference Monday after- noon, talks would continue until the contract is settled. It is the board's opinion, Trustee Elliott said, that the fact -finder's recommen- dations are a "reasonable compromise for the par- ties". The major issue of disa- greement is salaries. Using maximum salaries, fact - finder Anne Barrett, ap- pointed by the Education Relations Commission, re- commended $36,180, while the board has offered $36,200. For comparison purposes, Huron uses the surrounding counties of Bruce Middlesex, Perth and Lambton. OSSTF's last request for a teacher's maximum salary is $37.200, and have rejected • the board's offer. Mrs. Weary maintains the provin- cial average should be used, as most of the surrounding boards are in second and third years of a collective agreement. She said the pro- vincial average is more realistic because of the higher number of boards and 'some are in the first year of their agreemf thnets. staTthees, fact•finder's report average maximum salary for the Please turn to Page 2 less money ' than ."'41.eir i•,- ,,,,,,,,, brought three year*aati, ana ..alg.t.,,Ii.a --.. some of. ,these houses are . 10T SluIfl, 6 1-....,,,,, only three or fojir.,,$Tork 00. market, saidRicl. ifor the industry, ',1*#00 '' buyers, but it is ,a.,had..aign ; That may be good; fir - ,, ci,,,, -, ,' or . slowed ownqu He igOil*tgfit0.41 ' which wbolithetp the'irarket , housing.4 .1... in _ of a nevi- industry In teivu, eille,r;:` here would be the attraction butfarmers. q % (4 and he s(! he ksig!a41Y4ee '. ' r 9-v4 well;, the townI• council is paying , inoreatteritic419.4hat,00 On the Otherand;fli.e44' striietionaf additional public housing, as promsd toVvh,wattldlOt:make worse. he added. is newapa apartments i. necessar.y *ibi'iO4 outlof all'those houses onto the market. I ' ,Neure:7". V0P iirnaryc a'a Au, a e uiJcJing • • • • ••••, • o , • 11* WE WILL REMEMBER—World War I veteran Dick Burbridge stoops to pin a poppy on the wreath honoring those fallen in war, as he takes part in the Remembrance Day service at the Wingham Legion Hall. Behind him is James H. Currie, another WW1 veteran from Wingham. Large crowd attends Remembrance service A standing room only crowd filled the Wingham Legion Hall for the Remem- brance Day service last Wednesday. This was the second year the service has been held indoors instead of at the Cenotaph. and Legion Branch President Willis Hall. noting the large turn- outsaid this undoubtedly will become the standard pr a et ice. The unpredictability of the weather on Nov. 11. coupled with the fragile health of some of the older veterans. led LegiOn members fo move the service indoors. The crowdin which many young laces were evident in addition to the older Ones. opened the familiar service by singing the hymn. "0 God. Our Help In Ages Past'', There was a scripture reading by Rev. Jack Marentette of Sacred Heart Churchthe prayer of remembrance by Rei. Paul Mills of St Andrews. and i ngh am Mayor \ihIiani Iarris read out the natries (it those who tell in the two world wars Following the placing of memorial wreaths by many town organizatons. there was the reverent moment when the veterans tiled forward to pinone by one. their poppies on a large wreath dedicated to their fallen comrades. The mournful notes .ot "Last Post" faded into a long moment of silencewhich finally was broken by Roveille''. Rev. John Sw:in of SI. Pauls gave the bene diction. and the sery ice closed with the singing of the nal iona 1 ant hem • ... ... • „ - .• • !Na. •tc. i — .