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verandah then he was smart
enough to be able to build it."
County council in the old days
used to only meet four times a year
but generally for two or three days
at a time. "My early recollection
was that the county business was
done in the hotel rooms and they
just verified it in the council
chambers."
Today the council meets once a
month and using a committees
system, most of the debate takes
place in the committee meetings.
The committee reports may be
discussed but are seldom changed
by the full council.
Drains are an example of how
much more complicated doing
township business is today. If a
petition for a drain is received, the
Ministry of Natural Resources
must be notified and the Maitland
Valley Conservation Authority. An
engineer has to be hired and then
representatives of all parties and
the farmers involved, must have a
site meeting to discuss the plans.
Today the Ministry of the
Environment constantly monitors
the waste disposal site and unless
some sort of toxic wastes find their
way into the site it should be good
for years, he says. But the dangers
to the environment from farming,
for instance, have been increasing.
Mr. Elston believes farmers are
going to have to be much more
careful with the spraying and
disposal of waste chemicals than
they often are today. The township
has experienced drains blocked by
material from liquid manure tanks.
If farmers can't halt the problem
themselves, he says, it will only
mean more regulations, more
inspections, more costly govern.
ment. Some farmers may not be
able to manage the size of the
operation they're in charge of
these days, he says.
He worries about the current
state of agriculture in the township
with many younger farmers caught
in the squeeze brought on by poor
commodity prices and dropping
land prices. He worries, too, about
absentee landlors. Out his window
he points to a field of corn filling up
with the early December snowfall,
where a large operator from the
southern part of the township
hasn't yet harvested the crop, let
alone plowed the fields. He worries
about deterioration of the farmland
to the point where it will only grow
crops with the use of more and
more chemicals which produce
more and more danger to the
environment.
It is frustrating for a municipal
politician to look at the trouble in
farming and be able to do so little.
"You can't change anything. This
past year we saw good homes being
literally burned with people just
moving out a week or two before
they destroyed them."
Destruction of farm buildings
puts direct pressure on township
council however because it cuts the
grants available to the township
that are based on population. It
also means a loss of tax dollars on
the value of the buildings. And yet
the owners of the property still
expect the roads to be kept up and
other services provided.
While such things have been
depressing, there have been vic-
tories. He takes great pride in the
council's work in opening a new
subdivision in Belgrave and bring-
ing more people into the township.
"Without that subdivision I be-
lieve we would be in danger of
losing the school in Belgrave,
possibly some of the churches and
the community as a whole."
Despite some regrets in "pro-
gress" over the years, he'd gladly
do it all again. "I met a lot of nice
people. I enjoyed working with
people. I had a lot of benefits
money can't buy."
Among the pleasures over the
years was planning projects, parti-
cularly the many bridges to be
built, and then seeing them
completed.
His successors, he feels, must be
very firm in dealing with senior
government people and not be
bullied into doing things. "Not
many people in the township of
Morris know that we did take the
Ministry of the Environment to
court and we defeated them.
They've been much better people
to deal with since then."
The battle was over changes in
restrictions being placed on the
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landfill site that had been complied
with originally but had been
changed when the civil servants
dealing with the situation chang-
ed. "If I had been a new reeve and
hadn't known what exactly was
going on I suppose they could have
gotten away with it and it would
have cost the township thousands
of dollars. We took them to the
Environmental Hearing Board and
it' upheld the council."
He spent probably two weeks
time dealing with the lawyer, etc.
to set up the township's argument
for the hearing, he said, but it
saved the township thousands.
One of the highlights of his years
in municipal government, has
been the long-term relationship
with municipal employees. Nearly
all employees have worked for the
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rewarding thing to work with
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spoken of in Isaiah 40: 8 as standing
for ever.
May we also see more clearly for
1986 what the apostle. Paul said in
Philippians 4:19 in the Good News
Bible: "And with his abundant
wealth through Christ Jesus. my
God will supply all your needs."
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