HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Bayfield Bulletin, 1965-08-19, Page 2PAGE TWO--Bayfield Bulletin Aug.19/65
VAGARIES of NATURE
On our holiday trip to Northern Ontario and
Northwestern Quebec last week the effect of the
weather on the countryside and on businesses of
various kinds was plainly to be seen.
Bush workers in the north were complaining that
they couldn't remember a day when it had not rai-
ned to some extent.The two hottest and dryest
days of the year, according to them, were the
same two days your editor had a pack on his old
back in the bush. It hit 94 one afternoon, the
high of the year.
Seems as though while we were worrying about
the white bean crop in the Bayfield area because
of the month-long drought, the people up north
were cursing the perpetual rain. Now some group
up north is trying to take action against the
so-called "rainmakers" employed by the govern-
ment for ruining the tourist trade in their loc-
ality.
The spotty weather between here and Kirkland
Lake has been largely responsible, we suppose,
for more than a dozen restaurants and tourist
shops going out of business along Highway No. 11
and Highway 400. Those places look pretty forlorn
with their "Closed" and "For Sale" signs promin-
ently displayed.There, but for the grace of God,
go we.
CARRY OUT PLEDGE
It is gratifying to see that the council of
the recently re-incorporated Village of Bayfield
has been able to carry out its pledge of econom-
ical local government.
Without prying too deeply into the means empl-
oyed, it can be noted from the news report on
page one that the mill rate is down from last
year by nearly two mills. High school rates,both
residential and commercial are down, but this is
not the whole story.
Anyone attending council meetings will have
heard with monotonous regularity the phrase:
"It's a good idea, if it doesn't cost any money".
What About Equal Rates?
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celebrated her 6th
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occasion.
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People of this area are in for
a special treat when Dr. Clem
E. Bininger D.D., L.H.D.
speaks in Goderich on August
22.
Dr. Bininger is recognized
as one of the outstanding speak-
ers in the United States. He is
minister of a very large and
/try active congregation at
First Presbyterian Church. Fort
liuderdale, Florida.
He and Mrs. Bininger will h
visiting with Air Vice Marshal
and Mrs. J. A. Sully at Rosny
Manor and he has agreed to
preach at Knox Presbyterian
Church.
His sermons in Fort Lauder-
dale attract thousands of winter
visitors and early arrival is nec-
essary to gain entrance and get
a seat in his large church for
each of the three services he
conducts on Sunday mornings.
Many Canadian winter visit-
ors to Florida have indicated
that they will come to Gode-
rich for his sermons on August
22nd. There will be two iden
tical services, 9:30 a.m. and
11:00 a.m. and everyone is in-
vited to attend and to hear this
outstanding speaker.
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A news story in a recent issue of The
Toronto Globe and Mail, datelined from
St. Catharines, states that members of the
Public Utilities Commission in that city
will join with other commissions in the
area to protest a proposal for rate equali-
zation by Ontario Hydro. A meeting was
slated for Monday of this week so that the
commissions in District No. 5 of the On-
tario Municipal Electric Association could
formulate a united front in opposition to
Hydro's proposal.
Since we live in a section of the pro-
vince many miles from the Niagara region
we earnestly hope that commissions in
such remote area as ours are also plan-
ning to present a united front—in favor
cf the proposal.
Ever since the Hydro concept became
reality the municipalities closest to Niag-
ara Falls, where the first power develop-
ment was completed, have enjoyed a
much lower rate than those farther aviay.
In the early years this situation was, per-
haps unavoidable.
However, Ontario Hydro is supposed
to be the finest possible example of pub-
lic ownership. Over the past 50 years
consumers in alt parts of the province
have paid rates which not only met the
costs of power production and distribu-
tion but provided for vast surpluses and
reserves. These monies were used to ex-
tend Hydro's coverage of the province, to
provide for research and development
programs to improve its services—for all
consumers, no matter how far they might
be from Niagara Falls.
When you turn on the basement lights
or flip the switch on your washing ma-
chine the power which begins to work for
your benefit may be coming from any one
of a hundred generating stations other
than Niagara Falls — and the very same
situation exists for the consumers in the
Falls area. Hydro power is now produced
in many stations and fed into a complex
network of distribution lines.
The day has long since passed when
consumers in the Niagara area could claim
that the cost of energy delivered to their
homes and factories was less than in sec-
tions farther afield. Ontario Hydro has
been paid for by and is the property of
consumers throughout the province and
the rates should be the same wherever
the consumer is located.
Rather than fighting the possibility of
higher rates the Niagara district commis-
sions should be quietly thankful that they
have been so highly favored for such a
long time.
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