The Citizen, 2010-09-09, Page 7THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2010. PAGE 7.
NEWS
FROM AUBURN
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16 - SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18
Join us
Thursday,
September 16
from 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
for live entertainment with
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Road Hockey Day fast approaching
“Road Hockey Day in Auburn” is
fast approaching. Register your
team for an exciting game of three-
on-three (plus your goalie). There is
a $10 entry fee. Please contact Ben
Craig at 519-526-1060 for further
details. A dance will follow at the
Auburn Hall from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.Tickets for the dance are $5 and ageof majority is required.Would you like to be part of the50th anniversary celebration of theHuron Pioneer Thresher and Hobby
Association? The Souvenir
Committee is planning a 50th
anniversary cookbook for the
Threshers and is looking for recipes
from the locals. If you havefavourite recipe to contribute, pleaseforward it to Kaye Seers, 139Goderich Street, Auburn or to TracyMcPhee at gphee@sympatico.caTwo other important dates to
mention: Kris Bjerg celebrates his
18th birthday on Sept. 7
and his father Ben turns 40 on
Sept. 9.
It will be a busy week in the Bjerghome.Waste Management has placedflyers at Sticker Restaurantregarding a change in its garbagecollection schedule. Effective Sept.
13 garbage collection in the village
will be on Mondays. Garbage tags
can still be purchased at Stickers
Restaurant.
By KoreenMoss
519-526-1060
kandkmoss@
sympatico.ca
PEOPLE AROUND AUBURN
What a job!
Auburn gardening enthusiast Paul Johnston poses with his brugmansia, which has grown to
be unusually large, Johnston says. He says the plant usually grows in places like Brazil and
usually only grows to about four or five feet. Johnston’s plant, however, has topped eight feet.
(Shawn Loughlin photo)
Wawanosh 4-H Club
begins scrapbooking
The first meeting of Wawanosh 4-
H’s Scrapbooking Project was held
on Thursday, Sept. 2 at 7 p.m. at
Charlotte Drennan’s. Before the
meeting began, the members played
a game of “Guess What” with
stickers of scrapbooking tools and
supplies on their back trying to guess
with a yes or no question. Leader,
Cathy Drennan, then opened the
meeting with the pledge. She then
talked about the club requirements
and started the election of officers.
Reba Jefferson was elected
president, and Jillian Martin became
vice-president. Reba volunteered to
be press reporter and Meagan
Higgins volunteered for attendance
recorder.
Next, Reba led roll call which
asked members to name a personal
highlight of their life they wanted to
preserve. Members answered with
family road trips, prom, graduation
and more. The club then broke up
into pairs to read about
scrapbooking. They summarized the
information and shared it with the
club. The members learned about
different tools, equipment and terms,
such as mats, which are paper used
to frame a photo and one can use
multiple layers of paper with
different colours and sizes.
Cathy then showed the club some
of the tools and supplies she had
bought like cardstock, protective
sleeves, cutting tools and more. She
also showed the club a sample of a
scrapbook which was pre-made to
give the club ideas. Jolande
Oudshoorn allowed the members to
use some of her tools and supplies
while scrapbooking. The group then
began to scrapbook about their
families, prom, graduation, summer
trips and more. Reba then closed the
meeting and the club enjoyed a
snack. The members are to have one
page of their scrapbooks done by the
end of the second meeting on Sept.
17 to enter into the Lucknow Fair.
County Council
debates land and
off-shore turbines
Off-shore and landlocked wind
turbines were hotly contested issues
at a recent Huron County Council
meeting.
Councillor Deb Shewfelt of
Goderich stated that, while he
wasn’t staunchly opposed to the off-
shore wind turbines, any
construction in Huron County would
need to be implemented with some
forethought
“I doubt that [the turbines] would
be built in the shipping lanes, which
is a major concern,” he said. “But
we also have to worry about what
people consider to be the million
dollar sunset.”
Shewfelt said he brought the
information forward because the
Ministry of the Environment had
extended their deadline for receiving
input regarding potential offshore
builds to September 7.
Councillors agreed that they
should make their wishes known,
but didn’t want to rush any
information.
Scott Tousaw, Senior Planner for
the County of Huron, assuaged the
council’s fears, stating that the
decision making process would take
months, and they could probably
submit their thoughts after the
September 7 deadline.
Tousaw also stated that the
provincial government had recently
released a “White Paper,” which
includes regulations about how and
where the equipment could be built.
He stated that, in the paper, the
government says that the turbines
would need to be built away from
intake zones, and at least five
kilometres from the shore.
Councillor Neil Vincent of North
Huron stated that he wanted council
to deal with the issue immediately,
instead of following Tousaw’s
advice to wait until the next meeting
– which would be after the deadline
– and make their voices heard.
Councillor Joe Seili of Huron East
questioned establishing two sets of
rules - one for the water and one for
the land - and unfair to private
property owners.
“It’s a double standard,” he said.
“Now that it’s a county issue, it’s
five kilometres, but when it was
private people with private residents,
it was only 550 metres?”
County staff will be bringing
information to the County’s next
Committee of the Whole meeting for
discussion.
Councillor Ben Van Diepenbeek
of Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh
turned the conversation to
Continued on page 19
By Denny Scott
The Citizen