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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 2013-11-27, Page 1010 Lucknow Sentinel • Wednesday, November 27, 2013 Donation! Honours for Huron 4-H LEFT: Seven members from Huron County Beef Clubs participated at the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair (RAWF) in the steer and heifer shows recently. These seven have worked on their project calves throughout the year and have ended the showing season by exhibiting them at the RAWF. Participating in the Queens Guiness were Cole McEwan and Cole MacPherson. These two local youth prepared their steers to compete against fifty other participants in this show. Brad and Melissa Maclntyre, Tyler Murray and Connor and Colton Rodgers participated in the National Junior Beef Heifer show with 350 other competitors this year. Brad was awarded Honourary Showperson in the Intermediate Division of Showmanship and is one of the six participants from the show that are now eligible to compete for a spot on Team Canada to travel to the Young Show Stars Challenge at Beef Expo in the UK in May of 2014. Melissa Maclntyre won Champion Limousin Heifer and competed for the Overall Heifer Champion. Tyler Murray won Reserve Champion Limousin Heifer. ABOVE: The Lucknow Coop contributed to the Lucknow 4H Beef Club and Sheep Club through donations for their Customer Appreciation Barbecue on Nov. 21. This annual event was well supported by the local community. The clubs appreciate the support of Lucknow Coop and use the donations to fund projects within their respective clubs. The Lucknow Sentinel invites you to help fill their annual mitten tree. Donations of new mittens, gloves, scarves and hats will be collected until December 12. All donations will become part of the Salvation Army's Christmas packages, delivered to area children who are not as fortunate as others. For more information please contact the staff at the Lucknow Sentinel (519) 528-2822 'Lower tiers' should decide willing/ unwilling host designation Jennifer Miltenburg arrived without a placard or megaphone, or a charged up group of like-minded individuals in tow. The Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh resident cut a solitary figure while suggesting to Huron County council they should not declare the county an unwill- ing host. That phrase is commonplace in the province nowa- days, usually after a municipality declares they are not willing to allow wind turbines on their land. Rest assured, province -wide, boatloads of them have done just that. Miltenburg flicked the switch and instead asked that council stay away from declaring what she believes is a decision best left for the lower tiers. She is absolutely right. If individual municipalities can't decide what is best for their residents on a polarizing issue such as wind power, then why do they even exist? Hands went skyward when councillors were asked if there was a conflict, so we know some of those lower tiers are palms out to the province's ambitions. Others will remain silent because of pecuniary interest. A dairy farmer from Ashfield and a leaseholder with K2, Miltenburg is a fan of green energy. The view out of her picture window on her family's dairy farm will include a big lug of a turbine and she's fine with that. She is concerned about alternative energy and glo- bal warming, and, though few dare suggest in these times, those turbines are part of that equation, she believes. • v 4k J "I was involved with the protect issue many years ago where we tried to bring in nutrient management programs. That pitted the cottagers against the farm- ers, and caused some hard feelings. I agreed with it - protecting the environment. My husband and I have long supported protecting the environment" Miltenburg said the sheer number of turbines already in operation in her home municipality com- bined with those who have signed leases for the K2 project, which will see upwards of 140 turbines, clearly shows there are residents in favour of the projects in ACW. "I think the anti -wind turbine people have a right to voice their opinion, as do the pro -wind turbine peo- ple" she said during a break from the Nov 6 meeting. "I marched in my first march for something when I was 14 and I have done it many times since and it's a lot of fun. But it's a lot easier to get people to rally behind 'this is wrong, this is wrong', then to say, 'we agree with the government, we like the status quo'. Miltenburg said council should consider jobs and economic activity brought about by wind projects. The pro -wind turbine set is not being asked questions, per- haps because they make for a boring soundbite, she suggested. The 'for' outnumber the 'against' in this argument, Miltenburg said. "When people agree with something they tend not to get involved." Miltenburg said her neighbours don't all agree with her and though most haven't turned a political issue into a personal one, some have. "I think it is more about the pettiness of the person than the issue of wind turbines. They were proba- bly bullies as chil- dren and they are bullies as adults." Part of Milten- berg's reasoning for addressing council is that both ACW i There's no better time than Christmas to thank your customers for their year-round patronage. Say it with a greeting in The Lucknow Sentinel to anew Sentinel — .$. To book your ad: Email: jillian.underwood@sunmedia.ca Phone: (519) 528-2822 Fax: (519) 528-3529 In Person: 619 Campbell St, Lucknow representatives at the county level have pecuniary interest in the mat- ter - and often left the room when it was discussed at ACW meetings in Carlow. ACW has not declared itself an unwilling host, she said and county council should respect that. "County Council should respect the lower tier munici- palities and their right to govern themselves and they should not overstep their boundaries." For their part, county council is waiting for a report and made no deci- sion either way at their meeting.