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The Lucknow Sentinel, 2013-11-27, Page 1I spy a comet! ISON in view! Christmas Fun! Ripley Christmas in the Park Super Spuds everywhere! Students show potato art skills Adnline The Luck www.lucknowsentinel.com n ow Se n 1.50 HST included PM40064683R07656 tine i Wednesday, November 27, 2013 Fun with Clifford at Lucknow Central! Troy Patterson Kincardine News Clifford the Big Red Dog, a storybook favourite of children, was one of the highlights at the Lucknow Central Public School's Scholastic Book Fair on Nov. 21, 2013. Grade 8 student Christina Listman joined Clifford at the book fair to check out the annual event, along with Grade 5-7 teacher Miss Hamilton. Four cut, four move on as Troy Patterson Kincardine News The Nuclear Waste Management Organ- ization has completed Phase 1 of its pre- liminary assessments of eight of 21 com- munities vying to host a long-term deep geologic repository for used nuclear fuel. The `Adaptive Phased Management (APM)' high level nuclear waste deep geo- logic repository project, is ongoing, but www.Iucknowsentinel.com NWMO used fuel project progresses with the communities of English River First Nation and Pinehouse in Saskatchewan, and Ear Falls and Wawa in Ontario not selected for more detailed study on Nov 21. "We're sort of taking stock in identifying what communities have more potential," said NWMO's Mike Krizanc. "The decisions here don't affect work going on in other communities throughout the process." Creighton in Saskatchewan, and Hornepayne, Ignace and Schreiber in Ontario, were assessed as having strong potential to meet site selection requirements and have been identified for further study. Preliminary Assessments are the third of nine steps in a multi-year process for evaluating potential suitability to host a deep geological repository for Canada's used nuclear fuel and an associated `Centre of Expertise; the release said. Krizanc said the Bruce and Huron county com- munites, as well as others in Ontario and Sas- katchewan are "a year or more" away from com- pleting the same stage as these eight communities, which were also the first to express interest in hosting the used nuclear fuel project. These communities include Huron -Kinloss, South Bruce, Arran-Elderslie, Brockton, Saugeen Shores in Bruce County and Central Huron in Huron County. "We're still very early in the process," said Kri- zanc. "This is not a race to the finish and we're tak- ing our time to do it. We're working in collabora- tion with communities because it's a community -driven process." Krizanc said the communities that will not be moving forward will have a debriefing with NWMO staff in the coming months and to thank them for taking part. Also new is a one-time $400,000 per -community contribution from NWMO for taking part in the process up until this point, to "recognize the con- tribution" of the communites in advancing Cana- da's plan for managing used nuclear fuel over the long term. CONTINUED > PAGE 3