HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1974-06-06, Page 18Page 18 June Ot., 1974
Show concern
over lagoons
A group of Stephen township
farmers Monday afternoon ex-
pressed concern for the safety of
their wells and drainage as the
result of extension of lagoon
ponds for the town of Exeter.
The Ontario Environmental
Board held a hearing into the
proposal to expand the Exeter
sewage system by the con-
struction of two additional
holding ponds on the town's
property located at Lot 24,
Concession 2 of Stephen.
The new ponds would cover an
additional 44 acres of land and
would be nearer farm buildings
on Concession 2 and 3. This
construction would be part of a
$650,000 project to bring sewers to
the one-third of Exeter which is
presently unserviced.
Exeter reeve Derry Boyle
assured the concerned farmers
that the Huron Health Unit would
take samples of the water before
the additional ponds were con-
structed.
When Donald Dearing, a
resident of Concession 3 asked
what would happen if his wells
became polluted, he was told
"the Ministry would probably see
you get a deeper water supply".
Engineer Burns Ross told the
meeting all steps will be taken to
seal off three existing wells on the
lagoon property to keep con-
tamination from getting into the
water veins.
Ross suggested the wells with a
maximum depth of 20 feet should
be filled with cement and 'con-
tamination would be avoided.
The other farmers Gerald
Dearing, Wallace Makins,
Winston Shapton and Dalton
Finkbeiner were told all existing
drains would be rerouted around
the lagoon system.
Gerald Dearing, owner of the
farm directly south of the lagoon
property said sewage has been
seeping into the sub-soil.
Ross said this problem could be
corrected if the Ministry tiled
within the boundaries of the
lagoon property.
Gerald Dearing and Stephen
councillor Dave McClure
questioned Ross about odour
from the system as the ponds will
be closer to farm buildings.
The Goderich engineer said,
"the only time odours could
occur could be for two or three
days during the spring break-up.
The danger of odours will be
much less than in the past. There
will be no discharge of affluent
during the summer.
McClure suggested this type of
sewage system used up too much
good" farm land and should be
replaced with a treatment plant.
Ross said this was impossible
as continuous discharge of af-
fluent from a treatment plant
would not be practical with the
lack of running streams in the
summer months.
With the pond system affluent
is discharged in the spring and
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When asked by McClure about
the amount of storm sewer water
from Exeter entering the
lagoons, Ross said, "very little,
Exeter has made great strides in
separating sewer water."
The meeting was told Canadian
Canners would continue their
method of a pre-treatment of
spraying sewage. Ross said the
canning factory waste was of
such volume and strength that
pre-treating is necessary.
The Environmental Board
hearing was conducted by Mrs.
Eleanor Lancaster with the aid of
members Harold Brown, Hugh
Brown and John Root.
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Exeter's application for ex-
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Tuckersmith Twp. Council
issued a building permit, subject
to final approval of the Ontario
Municipal Board, to Maple Leaf
Mills Ltd., Toronto to construct a
30,000 ton plant for the
manufacture of livestock and
poultry feed.
George Sword, representative
of the firm who attended the
Tuesday night council meeting,
said it would be a grain receiving
and drying plant with 1,000 bushel
capacity.
Sword said fertilizer will be
manufactured eventually and a
retail store opened. In the
beginning, ten to 15 employees
would be hired and as the plant
expands, about 50 people would
be working in the plant, he said.
Stanley Deske of Toronto,
project engineer who was at the
meeting, said the plant would be
completed for the 1975 crop and
G. C. Hobson Ltd. of Scarborough
will do the construction work.
The plant will be located on a
38-acre site south of Highway 8
about four miles west of Seaforth.
The residents of Vanastra will
have their new swimming pool in
the recreation area by July 10 or
before, Council awarded the
contract for pool construction to
True-Form Co.
Caven theme
is miracles
The theme of the devotional
period for the June meeting of
Caven Presbyterian Church,
given by Mrs. John Pryde and
Mrs. Arthur Whilsmith, centred
on the reading from Snowdon's
book, "Miracles in the Garden".
Mrs. Wm. Sillery and Mrs.
Chas Hoffman sang a duet. A
number of ladies said they would
attend the June Conference of the
Stratford Presbyterial in Atwood,
June 10.
Andy Orr and Chester Merkley
performed an instrumental duet
of two favourite numbers. The
study "To Tell What Truth" was
introduced and led by Mrs.
Norman Stanlake.
Seven ladies told of the ideals of
their faith and at the end the
"Christian" was asked to stand.
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does a person of another faith or
none, see and hear as he looks at
your church and mine - at you
and me - Christians?"
Loss per hog
could be $15
By ADRIAN VOS
For those consumers who think
the pork producer will be paid
$37.50 by the Canadian taxpayer
for each hog marketed and who
resent this I have some news.
From this amount of money will
be subracted the cost of a weaner
pig and the cost of feed, leaving
the pork producers with a loss of
between 10 and fifteen dollars per
hog.
The effect of this stabilization
program is good in this sense,
that for the first time a
stabilization program takes some
of the input costs in con-
sideration. All it does now is an
assurance to the producer that he
won't lose more than that amount
per hog shipped. It doesn't seem
likely that any payment will be
made to anyone. The manner in
which it was announced left the
impression with the public that
the producer is guaranteed a
profit but he is only guaranteed a
maximum to his losses.
The editor of the London Free
Press joined the Consumers
Association's Mrs. Marion
Brechin in asking that farmers
let consumers representatives sit
on their selling organizations. If
that is the case then we as
newspaper customers should
have a voice in the pricing and
selling of the Free Press, After
all what is sauce for the goose is
sauce for the gander.
Farmers never had it so good
has been stated and generally
that is true, However, the
average income of Ontario's
farmer in 1972 was $5,000. This
means that even if he never had it
so good, his average income is
still only half that of organized
labour. Labour has practically no
investment while farm in-
vestment is a minimum of
$100,000. Why do We do it? A
variety of reasons, from liking
the way of country life, to that we
are inveterate gamblers.
Do you have trouble with flies?
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Flies are attracted by the beer,
they say, eat the sugar and killed
by the insecticide. Paint on
plywood and hang upside down
high enough so your animals
can't reach it.
Three members of the
Recreation and Community
Centre Board were at the
meeting to discuss the pool and
other recreation projects at
Vanastra. They were James Hill,
Wilfred Schneider and James
Broadfoot.
Hill outlined the plans for the
20' by 60' addition to be built on
the community centre. Andy
Vanaltena of Vanastra is to be
retained at a fee of $1,000 to carry
out all the carpentry work on the
addition and to supervise the
other work to be done.
Hill said volunteers will also be
working on the project.
Schneider said volunteers are
constructing new picnic tables
for the park in the recreation
area. E, H. Uderstadt of
Orangeville was appointed to
bring in a report on the (Douglas)
Hugill Drain.
For construction work on the
Hensall road, tenders are to be
advertised for supplying and
delivering 13,000 yards of B
gravel, 4,000 yards of fill and
5,000 yards of A gravel.
Mrs. June Martene, RR 3
Seaforth, of the Huron County
Health Unit was at the meeting to
explain the proposed Day Care
Centre for Seaforth and area and
to ask Tuckersmith to share the
costs of operating the centre.
Mrs. Martene reported a
survey of the area indicated there
is a need for day care centre.
She said it is to be on,the second
floor of the Optimist Building now
under construction with the
Optimist charging $2,400 yearly
rent.
Reeve Elgin Thompson4said it
was his understanding that
Kenneth Cardno, an Optimist
member, had said there would be
no rental charge when the centre
was discussed at an information
meeting in Seaforth, last week,
because the Optimist Building is
being constructed at the Seaforth
Recreation Park which is owned
by the residents of Seaforth.
Council did not deal with the
request because of the length of
the meeting which was not ad-
journed until 1:40 a.m.
One member of council said he
thought such a centre should be
self-sustaining with those using it
paying sufficient fees to cover the
cost.
David Morrissey of RR 3 Ailsa
Craig was awarded the contract
to clean up rust and paint the
Broadfoot bridge over the
Bayfield River.
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to build a tool shed was granted to
William Henry of Vanastra.
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