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Dog care is lacking
A successful mission
Huron Clean Wateraccepting landownerfinancial applications
The Huron Clean Water Project
has funded more than 950 landowner
projects
The Huron County Clean Water
Project is accepting applications
from Huron County landowners for
financial assistance to complete on-
the-ground projects to improve and
protect surface water and
groundwater in the county.
The highly-successful project has
funded more than 950 projects,
according to Doug Hocking, of
the Maitland Valley Conservation
Authority (MVCA). Hocking,
along with other stewardship
staff at the MVCA and stewardship
staff at the Ausable
Bayfield Conservation Authority
(ABCA), provide advice on
how projects can be completed in
ways that are cost-effective,
practical and provide a long-lasting
solution.
The county has committed another
$250,000 to the program this
year.
“The County of Huron has
demonstrated its commitment to
protecting and improving water
quality through the project,” said
Kate Monk, ABCA Supervisor of
Stewardship and Conservation
Lands.
Huron County residents can
receive up to 50 per cent funding for
projects approved by the review
committee. Activities eligible for
consideration include livestock
barn eavestroughs, river and
field erosion control,
decommissioning unused manure
storages, fencing cattle out of
watercourses, planting trees,
upgrading wells and
decommissioning abandoned wells.
Community groups can also apply
for projects and events that lead to
water protection.
“The combined partnership of
landowners, Huron County and
other program partners has resulted
in more than $3 million in water
quality improvement work on the
landscape,” Monk said. “It’s making
a difference in our environment and
in the lives of Huron County
communities.”
For information on the Huron
Clean Water Project can help you
protect and enhance water quality,
contact Monk at 519-235-2610 or 1-
888-286-2610 or Hocking at 519-
335-3557.
THE EDITOR,
Thanks goes out to everyone who
donated to the Mission to Haiti.
We collected: 47 pairs of crutches,
13 - three-pronged walking canes,
11 canes, 12 walkers and a lot of
other things that were then taken
to Norwich to be packed for
shipping.
A group of 22 people are leaving
on April 10-17. They will conduct
five medical clinics and hope to
build three homes and repair some
other buildings.
Seven of these people are from the
Blyth area: Herman Thalen, Joanne
Van Amersfoort, John and Jane
Klasen, Mike Siertsema, Susan
Wilts and Cheryl Wilts.
If you like to see what they are
doing visit: www.mthcanada.org.
Gaye Datema, Blyth.
THE EDITOR,
I am really fed up with stupid dog
owners.
On Good Friday, April 2, I was
sitting in my place trying to watch
TV and all I could hear was a dog
barking.
People say they want to shoot the
dog that is barking. I say don’t shoot
the dog, shoot the stupid dog owner!
Put the stupid dog owner on a leash
and let them have a taste of their own
medicine.
If they aren’t willing to look after
the dog, then why have one?
Animals love us unconditionally. All
they ask for or look forward to is a
pat on the had and a bowl of food
and fresh water.
A Concerned Blyth Citizen.
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YOU ARE INVITED TO ATTEND
The Seaforth X-ray Department
Open House and Ribbon Cutting
to celebrate the new digital X-Ray equipment
at the Seaforth Hospital Site
Thursday, April 15, 2010
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
X-Ray Department
Refreshments will be provided.
It’s lasagna, no fooling
Helen Craig gets served some lasagna by Donna Govier at the Blyth Community Centre, on
Thursday, April 1. (Denny Scott photo)