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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1985-01-02, Page 1single copy 35c Printed In Lucknow Ontario, Wednesday, January 2, 1985 I 16 pages Isobel Miller receives Bicentennial medal The recipient of the Bicentennial .medal for fir Township. of . West Wawanosh takes the spirit ,ofs the Christmas season and applies it all year long. Isobel Miller; a lifelong resident .of the township, cared for her mother and her aunt until both were well in their 90th" year. She provided transportation for the . . homebound of the community as well as delivering provisions to them, winter, and su'miner, in fair weather and foul. She has canvassed annually for the CNIB, the Cancer Societyand the Bible Society and just recently retired .as treas- urer of the two-point St. Helens Ashfield pastoral charge of the United Church of Canada, a position she. held from'1969 until this past September. She served as. treasurerfor the St. Helenscongrega- tion prior to that. A Sunday School teach- er, she also sang in the church ,choir. A. life member of the St. 'Helens Womet.'s Institute, Isobel performed janitorial duties for the Institute Hall in • • • -St. Helens and the village United Church for many years without • remuneration. She also mowed lawn at the institute hall and the church. She acted as librarian ' for the village library after her sister's marriage and still takes her turn at the library desk when her group of the St. Helen Institute takes library duty. For many years she operated the general . Store in St. Helens, ' a three generation family business until it was sold in 1961. Always independent, she operated the family business and obtain- ed her driver's licence at a time when few women worked at a career qr drove cars. She says she just naturally offered to do things. If there was a job to be done or someone needed help, she never thought about it, she just offered to do her part: She points out that janitorial duties at the. _institute. hall and 'the church involved more than running a vacuum cleaner. Years ago the wood had to be polished and the floor scrubbed and waxed. Energetic and full. of vitality, even. though she celebrated her 70th birthday. at a family barbeque held on the lawn of her nephew's home last August, Isobel now lives with her sister, and together they care for their garden in the summer and mow their own lawn. They .also. enjoy lawn bowling and Isobel has competed in the provincial playdowns. She likes the exercise and the sociability of the sport. You meet people from all over the province, she says. ,.. Irk, recent years the two sisters have enjoyed travels abroad during the winter months including trips to' Hawaii, The Holy ''Land, Euorpe,, Florida and . a Caribbean cruise. Surprised to receive notification she would be the recipient of a Bicentennial medal, Isobel is pleased to have been honoured in this manner. She was among Turn to. Page' 30 Proposed Lueknow treatment facility is unique in Ontario The residents of West Wawanosh Town- ship, who object to the location= of.a sewage. treatment facility to service the Lucknow sewage works near the their homes, have received a letter from the Ministry of Environment, saying there is no' other plant in the province of Ontario with the same major features as the one proposed for Lucknow. The' letter addressed •to Glen Walden was sent by:ENillard Page, .district _officer, southwestern region, for the Ministry of Environment in Owen Sound. The letter is in response to questions asked by Walden at an information meeting. November 22, when Walden asked Page several times for the locations of other treatment facilities in , the province similarto the one proposed for Lucknow. Walden and other concerned residents in the area want the opportunity to tour such a similar facility. In the letter Page said the system proposed for Lucknow uses existing and ;recognized technology and the Ministry of Environment is confident the works will be • operated in an acceptable manner with minimal impact on the neighbouring resid- ents. Page „goes on to say he has been• unable' to locate a plant, in Ontario;ith the same major features as, the one proposed for Lucknow i.e. municipal opera- tion,- 60,000 IGD capacity, extended aera- tion or rotating biological contactor (RBC) treatment with discharge to a tile bed system that has been constructed: and in operation. , The letter 'says three plants near Lucknow using an extended aeration treat- ment system with the discharge into a receiving water course are available for , inspection. They include ,the . village of Brussels, the village of Blyth and 'Ben�r►i1- j� ler Inns Ltd. In addition say§ Page in l 0;J,, , letter, arrangements could be made with Residents object to new site for proposed treatment facility Thirteen West Wawanosh residents have signed, a letter addressed to the Village of Lucknow notifying Lucknow Village Council they object not only to the present proposed location of the sewage treatment facility on Michael Snobelen property near their homes, but also the re -location of the facilityfurther east on the Snobelen property. Both sites on the /Snobelen property are unsuitable for the project, says the. letter. The letter was written an signed by the residents in response to reg tered letters froA the Village of Lucknow Council they., received, asking them to accept • the proposal by council to relocate the treat: ment facility, which is to service the Lucknow Sewage Works, further east on the Snobelen property. The letter from council to the residents said that while the . residents were not being requested to agree . to the site location on the Snobelen property, they were being asked to accept the proposal to move the plant further to the east behind a buffer of trees. Council decided to send the letters to the residents at their December .3 council meeting.' Council in their discussion expressed the hope that the residents would resign themselves to the location of the treatment plant on the Snobelen property and would • accept „ council's proposal 'to move the facility further to the east. Herb,Clark observed at the meeting that if the residents would not accept the proposal to move the plant further east on the Snobelen property. council would proceed to purchase the property and build the facility on the first site proposed on the Snobelen property. Council discussed at the December 3 meeting how rejections by the residents to the proposal to move the plant further east would indicate the residents were prepared to take their objections before an Ontario Municipal Board hearing: Council discus- sed that if the village must prepare a case for an OMB hearing, the village would not move the plant further east on the Snobel- en property because it will be more costly to build at this location. If the location was to be contested by the residents, council would proceed to build the facility on the original site proposed on the Snobelen - property which is more suitable, subject to approval by the Ministry of Environment. • manufacturing representatives for the residents to -receive information and possibly tour non -municipally operated works using • the .RBC treatment method. In an interview with, The Sentinel December 21,,Page, said this is the first time 'a municipality is • only servicing a portion of the•corrimunity, which makes the treatment plant very small in size and • because of the. capacity an • RBC can be used. Up to this point, municipalities .required larger units, said Page. • The Ministry of the Environment how- ever no longer provides, funding to service an entire municipality including the portions which are functioning adequately on septic tank systems. Page said the Lucknow system is the first small. second- dary : sewage treatment plant disc argrng; to "a ills b�d system whxkh rsto 'bei � m fl ipa11� owned. Page said' Lucknow is one ,of they, first municipalities to design their. sewage .facility to service only part of the municipality. Lucknow is one of the first municipalities to 'approach their sewage treatment in this way. • Page emphasized that the components of , the design are existing wand recog- nized technology and the ministry is confident the system will operate in an acceptable manner. Page said RBC units are operating successfully as components of treatment systems servicing onstruc- tion camps and robi home parks. It would be possible nts to tour such a facility if -they desire said Page. Page pointed out as was e plained at the November 22 meeting, tha the Village of Lucknow does not have the z • tion o con- struct an effluent producing •sewa:e works that can discharge into the Lucknow River, as the river does not have.; the assimilative capacity to accept the sewage flow for the proposed works. • For this reason the consultant is proposing to construct a system which ultimately discharges into a subsurfacet}le bed system. F•e' causes . dama e g No one was injured when a chimney fire resulted . in extensive smoke and water damage to the home of Donald Upthegrove of Ashfield Township, December .19. Lucknow Fire Departmentanswered the call around' midnight and remained on the scene for several hours before the fire was Out. Lucknow branch of the Royal Canadian Legion bas ,presented a cheque in the amount -of S3,999 to the Village of Lucknow to cover the cost of improvements- made to the Lucknow Cenotaph. Shown at the cheque presentation are from the left, Leonard Clarke, first vice-president; Bud Thompson, cenotaph committee; George Joynt, ,reeve of Lucknow; Eldon Bradley, Legion president; Eldon Mann, cenotaph committee and George Anderson, second vice-president. Absent, Herb Clark, cenotaph committee. • [Photo by Sharon Dietz]