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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 2013-12-30, Page 5Monday, December 30, 2013 • Lucknow Sentinel 5 www.lucknowsentinel.com South Bruce OPP respond to 'gun shots' in Walkerton Police descended on two Archy St. apartment buildings in Walker- ton on Dec. 20 after receiving a 911 call reporting gunshots fired about 4:30 p.m., the building owner said police told him. No one at South Bruce OPP could be reached by phone or e-mail by Sunday morning and no news release was issued after an incident in which about 10 OPP cars were seen in the vicinity of Archy St. in a residential area, one block south of the main street, a few blocks west of the downtown core. Robert Miklas owns the Terrace Place Apartments at 203-205 Archy St. He said in an interview Saturday that police told him they would be performing a door-to-door search of at least one of the two apartment buildings there because shots were reportedly heard in the vicinity Friday. But police left the buildings by 8 p.m., Miklas said in a phone inter- view from Hanover, and there were no police around on Archy St. the next morning when someone else drove by. A police officer told him the 911 call came in "around 4:30" and the caller reported "they heard some gunshots ... like, bang -bang, bang - bang." Police asked him if he had any guns, which he doesn't, Miklas said. The 62 -year-old lives occa- sionally in one of the 24 apartments in Archy St. buildings, which he's owned since 2001. He spoke with police after he drove to the police station and con- sented to a video -recorded inter- view which lasted a good part of an hour. He told police he was eating in a Hanover restaurant around 4:30 p.m. Friday. He showed them the restaurant receipt, gave them the keys to his apartments and wasn't allowed to come up with them, he said. Miklas said the 911 call might have been a hoax. "Nothing was found, no guns were found, noth- ing was found after the police left the building," he said. "They couldn't confirm whether there was or wasn't," gunshot fired, he said. "Obviously someone was filled with a lot of malice, right?" he added. He's a landlord and sometimes he has to evict people for not pay- ing their rent, though it's been two years since he's had to do that, Mik- las said. He wonders if a former tenant may have placed the call. On top of stress of the 911 call and police involvement, he has family issues he's dealing with right now, including concerns for his ail- ing mother in a nursing home as Christmas approaches, and diffi- culties with a sibling, he said. "I feel very upset that someone would do something like this," he said. "It's just not something I want to take anymore bad news. And I don't want to spook the tenants. I want to protect them the best I can." Farmers, landowners share best practices Town and Country Bowling in new stormwater runoff videos Scores for Dec. 19 Healthy Lake Huron has released three online videos to share some of the good work local groups, farmers and other landowners, commu- nity partners, and students are doing in a largely rural area that stretches from Sarnia to Tobermory. The local people in the videos are working together, along the shoreline, to better manage runoff during storm events and to keep sediment out of creeks, rivers, and Lake Huron. The videos were produced as part of the Rural Stormwater Management Model Project and can be viewed at ruralstormwater.com and by click- ing on 'Videos' or by going to this link: www. ruralstormwater.com/page.php?page=videos "These videos were only possible thanks to the landowners who took part, the local groups and people doing great things in the community, schools and students, parents and guardians, staff, the videographers, and the members of the Healthy Lake Huron partnership," said Tim Cum- ming, Communications Specialist with Ausable Bayfield Conservation and Healthy Lake Huron's Rural Stormwater Management Model (RSWMM) Project. "It is very powerful to hear local people share their personal stories and we hope their work and their vision will give other residents ideas of some things they can do to protect and improve water quality in their local creek or river." The main video is about ten minutes in length. It is called Working Together for Clean Water, Clean Beaches. The video features landowners and conservation staff from five priority areas Lucknow Hockey Scores DEC 21 ATOM DEVELOPMENT 5 GODERICH 6) Goals: Nic Humphrey (4), Lane Edgar Assists: Brody Brindley, Nic Humphrey along the Lake Huron shoreline. Property owners in the video talk about projects they are doing to keep soil on the land and to keep bacteria, chem- icals, and sediment out of watercourses. The video covers five sentinel watersheds along Lake Huron's southeastern shore, including the Lamb - ton Shores, Main Bayfield, Bayfield North (Gul- lies), Garvey Creek - Glenn Drain (North Shore), and Pine River watersheds. The second video is only two and a half min- utes long and it features students from Lucknow Central Public School planting dune grasses along the shore through a project by the Lake Huron Centre for Coastal Conservation. The third video is about three minutes in length. It is shot at Bannockburn Conservation Area and it focuses on the work the community around the Bayfield River is doing to create the new Main Bayfield Watershed Plan and put the plan into action. Healthy Lake Huron: Clean Water, Clean Beaches is developing a new Rural Stormwater Management Model. The project is funded by a grant from the Ontario Ministry of the Environ- ment's Showcasing Water Innovation Program and in-kind contributions from other partners. Healthy Lake Huron is a partnership of federal and provincial ministries, county and local gov- ernment, public health and conservation agen- cies, landowners and community groups, and other partners working to protect and improve water quality in Lake Huron. 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