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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."
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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
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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. For more informa-
tion visit healthylakehuron.ca and ruralstormwa-
ter.com
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