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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1979-06-20, Page 1I f "Ir"11104PIP1 --- LAND-TEA-AIR PACKA04 TOLM Busin*ss or plswsur* - book now! T,Iri�VEL $E --------- Listowel, Ontario VO 291-2111 Coll Toll Froe 1-800-266-3220 FIRST SECTION M' inghsm, Wednesday, June 20, 1979 Single Copy Not Over 86c Poilor'Commission r� .s NOTICE_ Annual Staff, Holidays �;Sw.-Ont, has excess Of ower "We're pretty happy with it." ' generating capacity located in was a need for more studies and "Government approved con - That was Lloyd Moore's Southwestern Ontario to supply better methods of forecasting struction of Bruce GS B on. The Advance -Times reaction to the findings of the Ontario Hydro's forecast load in energy needs on the part of forecasts that have now con - will not be published Royal Commission on Electric this region to the end of the Ontario Hydro. clusively been shown to be Jul 2 Jul 11 Power Planning regarding the century. Mr. Moore, chairman of the inaccurate. It's my view that the s: ; Y or Y need for additional bulk power As a result the commission Food Land Steering Committee, need for the completion of the OFFICE CLOSED facilities in Southwestern On- came down against the im- an umbrella organizations for construction at Bruce GS B5 tario. mediate construction of a second agricultural groups, said the should immediately be reviewed ✓{.<_, ..:/ /. In a press meeting in London 500 kV transmission line from the committee really hadn't much before it becomes even more of a July 2 - 13 Inclusive last week, the commission Bruce Generating Station across hope following the hearings technological albatross than it headed by Arthur Porter, stated the prime foodlands of South- which were held throughout the aiready is. There are no trap- • • • • • • • • • • • • • • there is already an excess of western Ontario and stated there area by the commission in smission facilities for power March. from Bruce B, and farmers are "We were pleasantly sur- not of to allow the use of food P Y going prised," Mr. Moore said. "We've land for transmitting power that, W'i* . 'police been working so long and so hard has no demonstrated need." et n g h 9 on this that we can hardly believe In its report the royal com- it's over ... the report was a very, mission calls for a re-evaluation y s fair one." Continued on Page 2 - Elbert van Donkersgoed of Drayton, secretary-treasumr P° Belgrave couple and a spokesman for the Food Land committee, was reported as ;3 new summerhelper saying the committee had argued holds Open House throughout the March hearings y g y g system for the police that Hydro's forecasts "didn't to mark 60 years°S' ' Y She won't be making an end of August. Y po 'ce records. Y arrests, patrolling the town or She was hired through the However, she does get to help out match what we know is hap-" , even issuing parking tickets, but Experience '79 program and her in other ways. One of her first Penang in Southwest Ontario ... BELGRAVE—An Open House Linda Renwick's summer job is salary is being paid by the On- jobs was to roll 20,000 coins Mr. Porter has obviously agreed was held Sunday for Mr. and xv still a little unusual. tario Police Commission, Chief collected from the town parking with our . _.. a." - Mrs. Gordon Higgins at the This Belmore area teenager Robert Wittig reported. meters, a task which took a Pat Daunt, a beef farmer from Women's Institute Hall here. has been hired to help out in the Two of her major duties will be couple of days, she said. Wallace Township and another Many friends, relatives and; r �s office of the Wingham Police to keep the office open during the Chief Wittig noted that nor- spokesman for the committee neighbors congratulated them on Department from now until the daytime and to organize a filing mally the police office is open said "It's more than we ex- their 60th wedding anniversary. y , only in the afternoons when the pected, but not a bit more than Guests were present from secretary, Pat Angus, is there. agriculture deserves," regarding Toronto, Orangeville, Stratford,, People who stop by the station at the commission's report. Listowel, Brussels, Blyth, x other times usually find the door The Food Land Steering Belgrave, Wingham, Bluevale, Committee was the main public Wroxeter and Gorrie. locked. He said that during P centennial year he wants to keep intervener. during the March A dinner was held in the hall for the office open in case people hearings which were held in the family, grandchildren and 60TH ANNIVERSARY --Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Higgins celebrated the 60th anniversary of visiting town want to drop by. London, Kitchener, Wingham honored guests. Three relatives, their wedding with an open house at the Belgrave Women's Institute Hall Sunday. They - Having the extra person and Chatham. it is made up of Mrs. Lena Higgins of` RR 5, were married at the home of her parents, the late Mr. and Mrs. George Procter, on the 5th around the office will also enable representatives of seven farm Brussels, Mrs. Lila Higgins, line of Morris Township on June 18, 1919. Rev. Sidney Davidson of the Belgrave Methodist the department to get its files in organizations. including the Belgrave, and Mrs. Margaret Church performed the ceremony. . order and Linda will be helping Concerned Farmers of the United Kerr of Brussels, were present. out too when Operation Townships, the Ontario Institute All had attended the wedding 60 Provident, an identification of Agrologists, the Ontario years ago, Mrs. Kerr serving as service for businesses, gets Federation of Agriculture, the musician for the couple's special underway shortly. National Farmers' Union and the day;`which took place at the Ex erience Is --ft to = -I Although she has an interest in Christian Farmers Federation of .bride's home on the fifth con - police 'work, Ontario. cession of Morris Township. p gained partly • ng «spa through an aunt who is a bylaw The Concerned Farmers group The bride of 60 years is the • '� enforcing stand bylaw'', enforcement officer in Waterloo, first organized in this area back daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Linda said she doesn't intend to in 1972 to oppose Hydro's George, Procter, formerly of pursue it as a career. In fact she Proposed construction of a Morris Township. The groom is Although its defenders are not Ontario government's Neigh- everyone has cooperated. ;ka p second 500 kV line from Bruce the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. entirely wrong in claiming borhood Improvement Program So far the building inspector �x has enrolled in a nursing course across prime farmland in Huron Elizah Higgins who formerly similar legislation is working and originated with a sample has been responsible for en - at Conestoga College, which she and Perth Counties. lived in Morris, Turnberry and elsewhere, experience with copy obtained from the ministry forcing the bylaw, he said. There w will be starting this fall. g "For five or six ears farmers Wingham. property standards bylaws, at of housing. He said the town has has been some talk of hiring a y� Still she is glad to have found Y the job and one of the things she have been saying that Ontario Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Higgins least in this part of the country, only recently begun to look at fulltime bylaw .enforcement Hydro has never roved that it have four sons, Jack, George, appears to be quite limited. enforcing its provisions, in officer but no action has yet been has already discovered is that Y P g "cops are human too", she n� Bruce Generating Station and Robert of RR 5, Brussels and Only two towns in this area response to a complaint from a mks, w seem to have a bylaw similar to ratepayer, advertising He also reported the town reported. B," Mr. van Donkersgoed said. Chester of Bluevale. Y p yer, and is advertis for P the one passed here recently, and persons to sit on the standards originally adopted the bylaw to s a r y only one of them has attempted to committee. get into the Neighborhood Im- + x z • • enforce it. The town is proceeding quite provement Program and started may;, Wingham appears to be alone slowly on the matter, he added, with a sample obtained from the w Lions ex a cuff ve chosen in having passed the bylaw noting that the bylaw is "quite a housing ministry. R�r primarily for the purpose of document" and provides for an Mr. McCabe explained that the new executive was chosen In other centennial plans the COLOR TELEVISION forcing a clean-up of properties enforcement officer to go right Residential Rehabilitation Y June 12 at the second last Lions club will build a centennial float TO BE DONATED in town. into someone's home to check for r > - Club of Wingham meeting of the in cooperation with the The club will donate a 20 -inch Wingham's bylaw is a direct violations in responding to a Assistance Program within NIP season. Teeswater Lions Club, which will color television to Wingham and Y p° is similar to the Ontario Howie f g copy of one passed last year by complaint. Renewal Program in which yg! Nick O'Donohue will preside use the float in its Aug. 6 old boys' District Hospital. The downstairs Goderich and that town has been Kincardine, on the other hand, Wingham has been participating ' dpi over club activities for the next reunion parade. sitting room at the hospital cited as an example of a place reports a similar bylaw has been for the past two years, although "s s 3 x• . year. Assisting him will be Arun Profits from the third doesn't have a television and the where the bylaw has been suc- in effect for two years and, at financing arrangements differ.' Ghosh, first vice resident; And preliminary talent hunt show bus upstairs sitting room has an F p y y Y P g cessful. In fact, however, least in the opinion of the town He also pointed out that no new Ritskes, second vice president; were $148 and organizer Andy older set, so the Lions recom Goderich has never tried to clerk, it has been working well. applications are being a^cepted X."k past president Rev. Bob Arm- Ritskes reported there is some mended the new set be put up enforce the bylaw and has only A three-man committee ap- for the program and so there is no y rg strong; Lloyd 'Casey' Casemore, good talent to compete in the stairs and put the older set in the recently begun to look for citizens pointed by council meets with the immediate point in passing a - r yd secretary and Arun Ghosh, centennial talent show Aug. 2, less frequented lower room. to sit on the property standards building inspector every month bylaw for that purpose. - treasurer. when winners of the preliminary Mr. Ghosh reported the club committee which must be set up to review complaints received - ' The new board of directors is shows compete. had raised $2,142 for crippled before enforcement can begin. and action taken. Typical Exeter, the only other town in f made up of Jim Carr, Colin One regret he has about the children, plus $2,699 for. the club's Clerk Larry McCabe said the complaints have to do with run- this area to have considered a I Campbell, Russell Zurbrigg, upcoming show is that no share of receipts from the winter bylaw was passed as a condition down buildings and derelict cars, standards bylaw, recently sent Jerry Kavanaugh, Lloyd Ben- Wingham people will be com Timmy Snowarama snowmobile for obtaining grants under the the clerk reported, and so far the bylaw back to the planning s ninger and Dave Dineen. peting. To give the show some run. board for further study. Exeter Fred McGee is the tail twister Wingham content and to balance Reeve Si Simmons noted most out the man dance acts, the and John McInnes is the new Lion Y people will look after their tamer. Lions approved adding the property voluntarily if they can A half-size replica of a 1910 Marklevitz sisters who perform a • • afford to do so and a solicitor Model T Tin Lizzie is being song written by one of them just Ma ICe me n n [JIF%JVIFUF"aasked to review the bylaw purchased by the club. The car for the Wingham centenary. The recommended deletion or will be used in the Wi^.bhpm act will be for entertainment only amendment of many sections, centennial parade and will later and the sisters wtii nui co --ii: t: „ �„ce. nf the main centennial chairman, estimated the alcohol required by saying enforcement would be raffled off in town, for the centennial trophy. celebrations Aug. 1-6 is being seht to the 2,000 the and :tt eth-r licensed establish- otherwise be very difficult. POLICE HELPER—Linda Renwick of Belmore is working with Pat Angus in the office of the Wingham Police Depart- ment this summer doing filing and helping out in other ways. She was hired through the Experience '79 program, with funding provided by the Ontario Police Commission. A NEW LIONS EXECUTIVE was chosen June 19. From left: Andy Ritskes, second vice president; Rev. Robert Armstrong, past president; Nick O'Donohue, president; Arun Ghosh, treasurer and first vice president; and Lloyd 'Casey' Casemore, secretary. to 3,000 people on the Wingham centennial invitation list. The program, which may be changed slightly by the time the main events are ready to start, was distributed at the weekly Wingham Centennial Committee meeting June 14. A finalized program will be distributed about July 15. Preparations for feeding the big crowds expected in town Aug. 1-6 took most of the time of the Thursday night meeting. Robert Foreman of Walkerton detailed his plans for a beef barbecue the Saturday night of the celebrations and a chicken barbecue on the Sunday evening. After some discussion the people assembled at the meeting told him to prepare meals for about 800 Saturday and about 500 Sunday. The meals will be served in a 30 by 60 -foot tent at the town park, near the lawn bowling green. Murray McLennan, representing the Wingham Kinsmen, worked out plans for the Kinsmen Bavarian gardens to be held in a tent adjacent to the Wingham Arena on Diagonal Road. The gardens will be, open each day from Aug. 2-6. Bjll Rantoul, centennial committee mets set up for the week at about 750 cases of beer and 220 bottles of spirits. Doris Bushell, maker of the official cen- tennial quilt, presented the centennial committee with the quilt and though bashful about her six-month contribution to Wingham's centenary, she received a round of applause for her efforts. She will also get a $2.50 cheque. Andy Ritskes reported on the Lions Club of Wingham's preliminary talent hunt shows and reviewed the list of competitors in the Aug. 2 centennial talent show. Branch 180 Royal Canadian Legion sent a letter detailing its plans for the big weekend of centennial events. The Legion will hold a drumhead service at the town park and a brief memorial service at the cenotaph. At a special meeting June 12 the centennial committee decided any profits made by the centennial committee will be divided among community groups which participate in committee activities according to the number of hours the groups spend doing centennial work. The committee also decided to decorate Wingham's main street with flags attached to street light poles and is pricing different ways of flying the flags on the poles. Injuries minor in motorcycle mishap A Tiverton area youth suffered minor injuries when he lost control of his motorcycle while he was riding on private property, provincial police at the Wingham detachment report. Kenneth Cooper of RR 3, Tiverton, was riding on the Otto Hohnstein property in Belmore when he was thrown to the ground. He was taken to Wingham and Districh Hospital where he was treated and then discharged. Police report there were a total of four motor vehicle accidents during the past week which caused an estimated $3,900 in property damage. Eight charges were laid under thb Highway Traffic Act and two warnings issued. Eight charges were also laid under the Liquor Licence Act and eight under the Criminal code.