The Citizen, 2015-05-07, Page 24PAGE 24. THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, MAY 7, 2015.
Despite MDS concerns, Windmill Lake approved
Total receipts for Brussels
Livestock for the week ending May
1 were 1,772 cattle and 528 lambs
and goats. On Tuesday fed steers and
heifers sold on a good active trade at
steady prices. Choice steers and
heifers sold $193 to $198 with sales
to $204. Second cut sold $189 to
$193. Cows sold on a good trade at
steady prices. On Thursday veal sold
on a steady market. Lambs and
sheep sold steady, while goats sold
on an active trade. On Friday grass-
types calves sold steady. Fleshier
calves sold under pressure. Yearlings
sold fully steady.
David Bowles of Brussels,
consigned five cattle that averaged
1,292 lbs. and sold for an average
price of $199.41. Two black steers
averaged 1,410 lbs. and sold to
Norwich Packers for $199.50. Greg
Higgins of Brussels, consigned eight
steers that averaged 1,464 lbs. and
sold for an average price of $196.44.
Five blue steers averaged 1,414 lbs.
and sold to Cargill Meat Solutions
for $196.75.
Owen Chaffe of Mitchell,
consigned one heifer that weighed
1,640 lbs. and sold to Cargill Meat
Solutions for $204. Ron Smith of
Denfield, consigned nine cattle that
averaged 1,468 lbs. lbs. and sold for
an average price of $201. Three red
heifers averaged 1,468 lbs. and
sold to Norwich Packers for
$203.25.
There were 136 cows on offer.
Export types sold $115 to $125;
beef, $135 to $145 with sales to
$152; D1 and D2, $120 to $130; D3,
$105 to $120; D4, $85 to $105.
Andreas Vongutten of Williamsburg,
consigned one charolais cow that
weighed 1,540 lbs. and sold for
$152.
There were 10 bulls selling $134
to $157. Todd Konecny of
Walkerton, consigned one black bull
that weighed 1,705 lbs. and sold for
$157. Richard Glen Clarke of
Fullarton, consigned one simmental
bull that weighed 1,460 lbs. and sold
for $157.
There were 153 head of veal on
offer. Beef sold $200 to $240 with
sales to $243; good holsteins, $140
to $160 with sales to $170; medium
holsteins, $130 to $140; heavy
holsteins, $140 to $150. Lamar Frey
of Listowel, consigned eight calves
that averaged 855 lbs. and sold for
an average price of $210.70. One
limousin heifer weighed 820 lbs. and
sold for $248. Mosie J. Shetler of
Lucknow, consigned three calves
that averaged 915 lbs. and sold for
an average price of $214.30. One
heifer weighed 760 lbs. and sold for
$246. Mervin K. Martin of
Harriston, consigned five calves that
averaged 723 lbs. and sold for an
average price of $199.87. One
charolais steer weighed 725 lbs. and
sold for $244.
Lambs, 50 - 64 lbs. sold $304 to
$330; 65 - 79 lbs., $292 to $317; 80
- 94 lbs., $280 to $295; 95 - 109 lbs.,
$284 to $292/lb.
Sheep sold $75 to $120/lb.
Goats: kids sold $200 to $340;
nannies, $70 to $110; billies, $150 to
$300/lb.
Top quality stocker steers under
400 lbs. sold $305 to $327; 400 -
499 lbs., $305 to $335; 500 - 599
lbs., $292 to $332; 600 - 699 lbs.,
$288 to $307; 700 - 799 lbs., $268 to
$295; 800 - 899 lbs., $237 to $256;
900 - 999 lbs., $224 to $244; 1,000
lbs. and over, $205 to $229.
Top quality stocker heifers, 300 -
399 lbs., sold $314 to $322; 400 -
499 lbs., $278 to $307; 500 - 599
lbs., $257 to $295; 600 - 699 lbs.,
$253 to $320; 700 - 799 lbs., $236 to
$252; 800 - 899 lbs., $230 to
$254; 900 lbs. and over, $211 to
$225.
Central Huron Council has
granted Windmill Lake Wake and
Eco Park a one-year extension of its
temporary use bylaw, effectively
allowing it to continue operation
while various zoning issues are
worked out.
Council made the final decision at
Monday night’s meeting after
councillors deferred the issue on
April 20.
In a recorded vote, Mayor Jim
Ginn, Deputy-Mayor Dave Jewitt
and Councillors Alison Lobb, Genny
Smith and Burkhard Metzger all
voted in favour of the extension,
while Councillors Alex Westerhout,
Marg Anderson and Dan Colquhoun
all argued against it.
At the April 20 meeting, the
business was applying for a one-year
extension of its temporary use
bylaw, during which time the intent,
according to the operators of the
business, Jennifer Pate and Andrew
Oke, is to apply for a permanent
amendment to the municipality’s
official plan, allowing the business
to remain operational for the
forseeable future.
Huron County Planner Monica
Walker-Bolton expressed her
admiration for the business and
those involved with it, but told
council that she has to approach
every application from a strictly
professional standpoint. As a result,
Walker-Bolton said she was
recommending that the bylaw
extension be denied.
First and foremost, Walker-Bolton
said it is difficult to think that the
intent of the extension is temporary
in nature. She said that with the
investment in infrastructure at the
wakeboarding/stand-up paddle-
boarding facility, her conclusion is
that the investment is not temporary.
The real challenge for the
application, she said is a number of
infringements of minimum distance
separation (MDS) with
neighbouring farms.
As a recreational facility, MDS
areas are doubled, putting the park in
violation of MDS with two farms.
However, it wasn’t necessarily
current barns that concerned Walker-
Bolton, she said. If some sort of
agreement was to be reached
between the municipality and the
park, it would restrict as many as
three neighbouring farms from
expanding in the future.
Several of those farmers were at
the meeting, saying that while they
have had nothing but pleasant
exchanges with Pate and Oke, and
they wanted to see a local business
do well, they didn’t want it to
happen at the cost of their farming
operations and potential future
expansion.
Walker-Bolton said that one of
Central Huron’s options could be to
extend the park’s permit with a
condition dictating that it is not
allowed to expand until a full official
plan amendment is reached.
One farmer who was in attendance
cited a letter that neighbours
received late last year stating that
Pate and Oke would like to erect
yurts on the property, allowing
guests to stay overnight – although
the expansion had yet to be
implemented.
He said that he and other area
farmers felt that the park was “just
the beginning” and that expansion
was imminent.
Oke said that he was under the
impression that the property was
zoned commercially, so there would
be no issues with things like MDS. It
was only after the business opened
in spring, 2014 that some of the
issues began to surface. He said that
he and Pate have done their best to
be co-operative since the issues were
revealed and that they have been
nothing but open and transparent
with their neighbours, as well as the
various levels of government and the
Huron County Planning
Department.
He told council that his business
has had a successful first year,
catering to over 1,500 paid
customers and countless spectators.
Customers, he said, have ranged in
age from four to 74, coming from all
over Canada and the U.S.
Oke said that he and Pate have
attempted to create an
environmentally-sustainable
business that helps the entire
community. Through various local
partnerships, he said, the park has
resulted in increased business for
local hotels, restaurants and shops.
Rob Panzer, a consultant and
retired London planner working on
behalf of Pate and Oke, suggested
that perhaps an agreement could be
struck between Oke and Pate and
neighbouring farmers that allows for
some adjustments on both sides of
the MDS. If the farmers would be
willing to allow MDS infringement
to go ahead, he said, Pate and Oke
would then be similarly
understanding if one of the farms
wanted to expand.
Walker-Bolton, however,
reminded Panzer and council that
MDS represents far more than
circles on an aerial photograph.
The concept behind MDS, Walker-
Bolton said, is to minimize the
potential for land use problems.
There are numerous examples in the
past of neighbouring farms and
recreation areas not getting along,
and MDS is a way for those
properties to do two very different
things in close proximity to one
another, but not too close. The closer
those two businesses get to one
another, the more potential for land
use conflict, she said.
Walker-Bolton also said that even
if neighbouring farmers were open
to an agreement that would accept a
certain degree of MDS infringement,
it doesn’t mean that every future
owner of that property will be open
to it as well. She said that planning
policies like MDS aim to see a
problem before it’s there.
Several councillors said they were
legitimately torn, saying that on one
hand, they would hate to restrict
farmers from the ability to expand,
but on the other, they would hate to
shut down a business started by two
young entrepreneurs, thus flying in
the face of economic development, a
major priority across Huron County.
Councillor Alex Westerhout said
that while he didn’t want to
effectively shut a business down, he
felt that allowing it to continue
would be setting a dangerous
precedent and he said he would be
voting against the allowance.
Councillor Genny Smith, however,
said that young entrepreneurs
starting an out-of-the-box business
is exactly what Central Huron is
striving for and that she would be
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By Shawn Loughlin
The Citizen
Great on the ice
Several local hockey players were honoured late last month as the Blyth Brussels Minor
Hockey Association held its annual year-end awards banquet. Jeremy Wilts, left, was one half
of the pair that won the Bokhout/Hesselwood Dynamic Duo Award – Colton Rodger was
absent – and Ethan Scrimgeour, right, won the Jeremy Austin Memorial Award as the Bantam
Rep team’s most dedicated player. (Vicky Bremner photo)
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