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Mandatory septic program
gets approval from county
Summer Lovin’
Brooklyn Tiffin and Ashley Johnston were part of the
Grease play at East Wawanosh Public School. Part of the
school’s art festival, the event featured the vocal and acting
talents of many students. Johnston, shown here playing
Sandy Olsen, belted out favourites like “Summer Nights”.
(Denny Scott photo)
Shoot party yields
big winners in May
After being approved by Huron
County Council at the May 11
Committee of the Whole meeting,
the county’s ‘mandatory’ septic
tank inspection program will now
return to the lower-tier
municipalities in order to receive a
triple majority.
The program, which is now said to
cost $155 per inspection ($31 per
year, based on a five-year cycle), has
been a topic of much discussion by
Huron County councillors with
some representatives seeing it as
an absolute necessity and others
seeing it as a waste of time and
money.
Bob Worsell of the Huron County
Health Unit said that inspections
would begin on tanks the health unit
considers to be high risk, such as
septic systems the county has no
record of, systems over 20 years old,
systems near a municipal drain or a
wellhead and systems close to Lake
Huron.
Worsell said that the funding that
would come from council for the
program would be $125,000 of start-
up money for the program, which
would be paid back by the health
unit at a rate of $25,000 per year
over the next five years.
Councillors voted in favour of the
program with just Art Versteeg of
Howick voting against it. Versteeg,
however, wasn’t necessarily against
the program, he said he just didn’t
think it should be mandatory.
“Howick doesn’t want to be
pushed into this program because of
problems along the lake,” Versteeg
said. “I think we’ve managed what
issues we’ve had at the municipal
level pretty well.”
In order to make the program
mandatory, it will have to receive a
triple majority throughout Huron
County.
The first step in the triple majority
was obtained with the Huron
County Council vote.
The program will now be
circulated to the lower tier
municipalities where it will need to
be approved by a majority of the
municipalities in Huron County. For
the third aspect of the triple
majority, the percentage of citizens
in municipalities that approve
the program must represent a
majority of the citizens in Huron
County.
If all three of those regulations
are met, then the septic
inspection program will be made
mandatory.
Several councillors made their
views known that they felt it was
time to stop discussing the program
and finally move ahead with it.
“A lot of lakeshore owners have
been asking for this for years. They
want to see it,” said Ashfield-
Colborne-Wawanosh’s Ben Van
Diepenbeek. “As a property owner,
you have a responsibility to do
what’s right.”
A May birthday party was
celebrated at Huronlea Brussels
on Tuesday afternoon with a
program by the Belgrave
Community Club.
After greeting the residents, the
emcee Kay Roberts opened the
entertainment by playing ‘The Holy
City’, which was a favourite tune of
the residents. An interesting
program followed starting with a
humorous poem by Clifford
Coultes, and also poems by Ross
Procter which he had composed and
recited.
John McIntosh then favoured with
the solos, “It’s a Wonderful World”
and “Amazing Grace”. Two
interesting poems which were
provided by Alice Nicholson were
read in her absence as were the
poems which were provided by
Nancy Jardin and which were read
by her mother Gladys Van Camp.
Kay played a few more of the
residents’ favourite tunes and
Arnold Bruce, Doris Walker, Mary
Hehn and Dave Wall entertained
with their usual toe-tapping
instrumental music. Steve Cook
rounded out the program with a
couple of solos and Happy Birthday
was sung for the residents
celebrating May birthdays.
Everyone then enjoyed cookies
and beverages which were also
provided by the Community Club
members.
There were five tables of shoot at
play at the community centre on
Friday, May 13.
The winners were: high pink card,
Louise Hammond; second high pink
card, Jane Grasby; most shoots,
Laura Johnston; high white card,
John Pollard; second high white
card, Marie Stewart; most shoots,
Ross Taylor.
The next shoot is Friday, May 27
at 1:30 p.m. Everyone is welcome.
With the closure of several
schools in the area students will be
attending schools, both new and
existing, whose names are yet to be
determined.
The proposed new public school
in Wingham, Grey Central Public
School and Hullett Central Public
School will be housing new student
bodies amalgamated from previous
schools, and the Avon Maitland
District School Board (AMDSB)
will be considering new names for
all three.
Through the board’s website
(amdsb.ca) parents and students can
suggest possible names for the three
local schools as well as several other
schools throughout the board.
The submission period ends on
June 3, at which point the entries
will be tabulated for the transition
committees.
Once the submissions are all
received, the transition committees
for the individual schools will
review the entries and suggest one to
the AMDSB Board of Trustees.
During the board meeting on June
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