The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1970-11-19, Page 19NOTICE
Ratepayers of the
TOWNSHIP OF HAY
The SECOND INSTALMENT of the 1970
TAXES of the Township of Hay are DUE
on or before the
30th day of NOVEMBER, 1970
After November 30th, Interest will be charged on
outstanding taxes at the rate of 1% per month.
W. C. HORNER
Tax-Collector,
Township of Hay.
NOTICE OF
NOMINATION
Nominations of Separate School Supporters for
Representation on the Huron County Board of Ed-
ucation will be held in the
Hay Township Hall
ZURICH, ONTARIO
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1970
between the hours of 1:00 p.m. and 2: p.m. (EST)
Nominees must be a Separate School Supporter and
may be from any municipality within the County
of Huron (One Representative to be elected)
W. C. HORNER.
Clerk, Hay Township
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A Quantity Of
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Christmas presents
• BULKY KNITS
• CARDIGANS
25% OF,
• TURTLE NECKS
• PULLOVERS
Your Christmas
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More At
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All other
F SWEATERS
and
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A Good Selection
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YOUR HOME
TOWN
Produced by Grade 12A 6 128 Science Students
The main problem
is water pollution
The following suggestions are
just beginnings but they are
published here on the premise
that the first steps in curing
pollution require each one of us
to recognize that we all
contribute to the decline in the
quality of our environment.
1. Since automobiles cause
much of our air pollution we
should all try to walk or ride
bicycles for short distances.
Motorcycles cause much less
pollution than automobiles. In
the cities use public
transportation instead of your
car whenever possible.
2. If you commute to work
or school fill up your car. One
car carrying four persons
produces only 25% as much
pollution as four cars carrying
only one person each.
3. Keep your car tuned up; it
is less of a pollutant if running
properly.
4. Refuse to buy the high
phosphate detergents; use
laundry soap or at least use the
detergents which are low in
phosphates.
5. Refuse to buy
non-returnable bottles or cans.
Buy your soft drinks etc. in
refundable bottles. Pressure the
provincial government to ban
the non-returnable bottle and
aluminum can.
6. Reduce the amount of
paper you use; take a re-usable.
shopping bag to the grocery
store to cut down on the use of
bags and wrapping paper. Try to
avoid using aluminum foil; it
cannot be handled by any
garbage disposal system.
7. Refuse to buy colored
tissues - the dyes pollute the
water.
8. Do not flush garbage down
sinks as it adds to the sewage
load.
9. Use less electricity.
Thermal power plants are big
polluters.
10. Do not burn leaves and
trash. Mulch leaves.
11. Do not use persistent
pesticides such as D.D.T.,
aldrine, Dieldrine, heptachlor,
eudrine, Lindane, Chlordane.
12. Do not flush waste oil, or
other petroleum products down
the sewer.
13. Do not be wasteful with
water.
Action that can be taken
on environmental quality
IIMAMMIMMONOWERWIPAN
This page is designed to
inform the readers what is being
done about the ever-increasing
pollution problem. We thank the
Exeter Times Advocate for
allowing us this Page to Present to
you our views and to show that
somebody does care. We hope
these articles will be a benefit not
only to us as Biology students but
to everyone who reads them.
arausemoWAWSKST
READERS WRITE
Pollution - I'd say the largest
percentage can be attributed
directly to overpopulation.
What's wrong with planned
parenthood? It could be a very
workable solution!
With the creation of
dependable contraceptives and
the inititation of abortion-ron-
demand, such an ideal could be
possible. A child is probably the
biggest parasite there is, and a
rational thinker can probably
understand the advantages of a
reduction in his procreation.
Susan Tuckey 12A
-Or
The world is coming to an
end. Shocking as this thought
may be, it is true. In twenty or
0, thirty years there will be no
more living things on the face of
the earth. No more grass. No
more trees. No more animals. No
more people. There will be
nothing but a total wasteland.
Think of it, if you dare, for it
will happen in your lifetime.
Think of death. A slow
agonizing gasping death. A death
caused by poisoning. A suicide
wherein we poison ourselves by
breathing and drinking.
I could give proof for all this
but it would run into volumes.
Volumes ' and volumes of
ecological studies, proving that
we are murdering ourselves by
means of contaminating the two
most necessary commodities for
life, water and air.
Can you not feel the unrest
among the young people around
you? How many worry about
the future? They are too busy
trying to enjoy themselves
today. Trying to • fit. a lifetime
into twenty or thirty years.
We have only two alternatives
to stop this annihilation of living
things. We can either stop
drinking and breathing (which
0 defeats the purpose) or we can
fight it.
By fighting it, I do not mean
the petty attempts our electives
are making. It is time for us, the
people, to get off our fat fannies
and quit twiddling, our thumbs
and get out and do something. It
will not be an easy fight or a
short one. It may mean putting
all of our social ideals in
jeopardy. But remember what
we are fighting for, our lives.
First we must put boycotts
on products made by the
companies which mostly aid the
ik downfall of our environment
and put these companies out of
business. This will mean giving
up some luxuries. Perhaps by
giving up these items we can
safely keep others. I guess it all
depends on whether you want a
short luxurious life or a long
healthy one.
Then we must put in a
government which is not backed
by these wealthy manufacturers.
A government is needed which
will get laws passed that will
keep these products off the
market indefinitely and clean up
as much as possible the mess now
ilk made, so that nature can once
more take over.
Finally we must keep watch
so that we never again slip into
this pitfall called pollution.
Remember we caused this
creeping death and only we can
im put an end to it quickly. We
have a challenge we must
meet-restitution or death,
Robb Doerr
Bare facts
14A - the world population ' is
skyrocketing
- it has taken more than 1
million years for us to reach a
population of 1 billion in 1850
- now we are 3.6 billion
- estimates are for 7 billion
in 30 years
- scientists fear that our
earth cannot sustain that many
people
DID YOU KNOW -
- the average North
American, by the time he is 70
years old, consumes 26,000,000
gallons of water, burns 21,000
is gallons of gas, eats 10,000
pounds of meat, buys 6,000
dollars of clothing (not to
mention the luxuries).
SOME SUGGESTIONS
a specified number of
children per family
- available information on
birth control
- planned parenthood
- planned "Unparenthood"
- adoption of the children
(orphans) we do have now
- mercy killing
- sterilization of unsuitable
parents (1.e, criminally insane)
By GAIL SWEET
Water pollution is a main
problem today not only in
Canada but many other countries
too. Although many efforts are
being made to correct-or-attempt
to correct this problem, we still
have a long way to go. Did you
know that 50,000,000 gallons of
polluted water are poured out
from various sources, a year?
Some sources of our water
pollution are the municipalities,
industries, tributaries, pleasure
boats, lake vessels, and sediment
from land run-offs.
Such types of this pollution
range from bacterial
contamination from untreated or
partly treated sewage, viruses, soil
and riverbank erosion, garbage,
metals, chemicals, dredging and
vessel wastes. Oil and gas wells are
being considered as a potential
source too.
One of the worse pollutants,
are the phosphates from soap and
laundry detergents. Phosphates
(along with nitrogen) are cleaning
agents in detergents and are also
the compound that promotes the
growth of algae and the depletion
of oxygen on which many aquatic
species depend. This slowly
"kills" the water.
Did you know that 90% of
Lake Erie's phosphate pollution
is from the United States? Is it
true? Lake Erie has been
pronounced dead at the scene"
from pollution and nobody seems
to care too much.
Mercury poisoning is also a
great danger. This comes from
industrial and urban area waste. It
is constantly being poured into
the lakes and rivers in the form of
raw waste. The mercury
poisoning involves a food chain
from the algae to small fish, to the
bigger fish and eventually to man
the big consumer.
POLLUTION CORRECTION
How can we do it? Well, for
starters, treatment of wastes and
proper treatment of water
required for domestic use, which
then can provide the use of water
over and over again.
The Ontario Water Resources
Commission is doing a
tremendous job in this
anti-pollution job. Of course this
committee is one of a very large
number of other organizations
which are all contributing to the
problem.
Here are a few aims and plans
of Ontario Water Resources
Commission:
- operation of survey
programs on individual streams
basis or country-wide basis to
check on water quality, pollution
control and over all water
resources.
- control through a "permit"
system of water use from all
sources.
- searching constantly for
Soil pollution
Put feed lots and manure
stock piles on cement or a level
plot of land. The surface runoff
pollutes streams, kills fish and
transports disease. The liquid
from large manure piles seeps
down to the water table and can
pollute wells. The storage piles
would also be easier to clean up.
Dumps with a stream running
through them should be
condemned. The runoff of
dumps could kill fish and
animals.
Septic tanks should not be
allowed to run into streams
because the bacteria pollutes the
,stream with disease-laden
organisms and causes foul odour.
Do not allow run off from
kitchen sinks and laundry tanks
to run into streams because the
detergents are high in
phosphates which encourage the
growth of algae which, in turn,
uses up large quantities of
oxygen.
Avoid excess use of fertilizer
because the run off into streams
pollutes the water and stimulates
growth of plants which uses up
oxygen in water.
Don't spray swamps for
mosquitoes etc. The spray
pollutes the water, kills many
other insects and some fish if it
is used excessively.
Handle all pesticides and
insecticides with care. Follow
the instructions issued by the
manufacturer and the Dept. of
Agr. and dispose of these
chemicals as recommended
because if you don't it may cost
you more money in the future
due to posioning.
A recent American
publication states that farmers in
certain parts of the States have
found that arsenic used as a
pesticide at the turn of the
century is now killing cattle
which graze on grass which has
taken up the poison into the leaf
part of the plant. We now use
more lethal chemicals and if
they are improperly used they
will in the future poison your
livestock'r even you.
new ground water resources.
- licensing of province's
well-drillers.
- co-operation with industry
in seeking solutions to persistent
and new waste treatment
problems.
- supervision of operation of
water supply and water pollution
control plants in the province.
- control through a "permit"
system of use of chemicals to
check the growth of air and other
aquatic nuisances.
SOME CONTROLS
- low lift pumping stations
which involve screening the
water.
- micro strainers which
involve removal of algae.
- flocculation involves
removal of bacteria.
- Chlorination, flouridation
both involve purification of the
water.
So you see we are in trouble
but somebody is doing something
and they care. Now if everybody
did something we would
probably get somewhere. You say
what can I do?
Well, you can start by
supporting any number of natural
resource groups, or making sure
you don't fall into bad habits like
throwing junk into rivers or over
bridges, this sort of thing. You
can also help by supporting our
views and help us show everyone
else that somebody does care.
Pollution is boundless
It seeps, it flows, drifts and slides
Or blows across borders
At the will of the nature
We have raped
It spills from the land
To creeks, rivers and lakes.
Not to blame
Dear Reader,
The purpose of this page is not
to blame. We are all polluters! We
have no choice but we can try to
minimize the effect of our
pollutants on the environment.
Most of us love our "mother"
earth but like the old addage says,
it is human nature" not to
appreciate something of value
until it is gone.
Again, this page is not an
affront to some special group of
polluters in our community!
It is an attempt by a group of
interested students to draw us
together in a course of common
'interest - that being a clean
environment.
J. D. Marshall
Science teacher
S.H.D.H.S.
Litter, garbage
1) The reuse and recycling of
items that would normally be
thrown away or discarded would
be the main solution to the
problem. We cannot afford to
throw away "things" that could
prove to be of importance in the
years to come as far as the
environment is concerned.
2) Place organic substances in
a separate container, thus
allowing it to break down.
Therefore aiding in the fertilizer
which some areas need badly.
3) Do NOT buy
non-returnable bottles (if you
must, reuse them OR deposit
them in a suitable place.) We
cannot afford to let Mother
Nature down at this point in the
game. Let's get "together" and do
HER a favor as well as keep OUR
environment clean, healthy, fresh
and above all LIVEABLE.
Parting is
so sweet
Hi! I am that small leaf you see
clinging to the branch of the old
maple tree just a short way from
your house. I have heard you
complain long and loudly because
I and my friends will not let go
and fall for you to rake us into a
pile. I have been chosen to tell
you why we are being so
stubborn. It is because we do not
want to be cremated after we die.
Oh, I know, I know. You think
my friends and I look simply
terrible sprawled all over your
yard. Well, rake us up, we don't
care. Even though if you left us
alone we could help protect your
lawn and flowers from the cold.
But, if I may borrow that old
human cliche, when you burn us
"You're only hurting yourself".
After all, why do humans
complain of air pollution
spreading from the cities if people
in small towns and on farms are
helping it to spread. (Not only
that, I honestly do not see how I
have managed to live this long
near your smelly old ears.)
I know this attempt to
communicate with you humans
has been a lost cause. It always is.
At least I have tried. Now, people,
I can die With a clear conscience.
Goodbye, cruel World.
14. Stop littering. If you see a
litterbug pick up his discard and
politely hand it back to him.
Obey the municipal bylaws on
littering.
15. If you know of a
company polluting the air,
water, or land write the
company and ask what it intends
to do about it.
16. Do not buy alligator
purses, boots, shoes, etc.,
leopard coats or any product
made from skins or feathers of
endangered species. Boycott
dealer who sell them.
17. Become informed on the
ecological issues.
Poetic
LOVE NEEDS TO BE
Love runs singing like a brook -
Over a waterfall -
Pretty and endless.
The sun is always returning
Even if covered
Under dark clouds.
Love is a flower opening petals
Delicate, to the blue,
With scent unknown.
The moon sends pale gleams
Lighting every thing
With real fantasy.
Love wants a touch like
strawberry
Jam to a peanut
Butter sandwich.
A star shines like eternity,
With one light
Pointing quietly.
Love is five varied boxes,
And only one
Contains beauty
A kitten cries softly, then
When cuddled,
Purrs sweetly.
Love blows through fields of
standing
Grain which bend
To adoration.
A raindrop falls on a
windowpane.
Quickly enveloped,
It soon dies.
Love is safety in the dark,
walking
Past graveyards
At midnight.
All these, yet more, tell of
everything
In my love
For you.
vo,k, mwo,
vatam,
18. Let your mayor, reeve,
councillor, M.P. and M.L.A.
know how you feel about the
pollution problems.
19. If you are a shareholder
in a company, write "your
company" and find out what it
is doing to counteract pollution.
20. If you live in a town or
village find out how the sewage
is handled. If there is no sewage
treatment, pressure your
council, if there , is a disposal
problem, to do some thing about
it. If you have sewage treatment,
satisfy yourself that it is
adequate.
21. Encourage your service
club, lodge, sorority, church
group, etc. to look into
environmental problems.
Perhaps your group could
support organizations like the
Bruce Trail Association, the
Ontario Federation of
Naturalists and similar groups.
22. Find out what the
Province of Ontario intends to
do about such things as logging
in Quetico Park, Algonquin
Park; about quarrying; sand and
gravel operations in scenic areas
like the Escarpment.
23. If you are a farmer or a
land-owner, leave some
unmowed fence rows or brush
piles for wildlife. If possible,
leave the woodlots; Southern
Ontario is experiencing a rapid
loss of farm woodlots.
24. If you are a hunter or
fisherman, observe the
regulations.
25. Encourage your school to
become involved in instructional
programs in ecology and the
environment.
26. Acquaint yourself with
this planet's population problem
and ask yourself how many
children you think you should
have. Urge the government to
begin thinking about some kind
of population policy. Remember
each Canadian utilizes as much
of the earth's resource base as 50
or 100 persons in the
underdeveloped areas.
2 7 . Encourage the
government and industry to do
much more in the re-use of
materials - paper, metals, etc.
There is not ever a paper
collection in this area. Re-use of
materials reduces garbage and
conserves resources.
28. Support the work of the
Conservation Authority.
29. Find out how well
managed your municipal dump
is.
30. Do not dump refuse along
roadsides.
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to motorists and increases the cost of maintenance.
Your co-operation in connection with this matter
would be greatly appreciated.
It is the request of the Council and Road Super-
intendent of the Township of Hay, that farmer's
refrain from turning onto Township Roads, with
farm machinery, upon leaving their fields.
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