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Home My WebLink AboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1985-03-20, Page 11 single copy 35c Published in Lucknow, Ontario, Wednesday, March 20, 1985 20 Pages • Doug Clark Carol Rintoul Kim Rintoul Debbie Rintoul Lynn Murray Helen Maclntyre Nominate area young people for Junior Citizen awards Six area young people were nominated for the Ontario Junior Citizen of the Year awards presented by lieutenant Governor John B. Aird dining the Ontario Community News- papers Association convention earlier this month. The Junior Citi3en of the Year Awards- program is a joint oemmunity 'project of CP Air and the Ontario Community Newspapers Association. The local nominees included Helen Macln- tyre, Lynn Murray, Doug Clark, and Carol, Kim and Debbie Rintoul. They were eligible • to win one of 25 passes to. a .Cana�in destination courtesy of CP Air, a plaque cztiiig their accomplishments, a Junior Citizen of the .Year lapel pin, $200 and a family portrait with' the lieutenant Governor. Unfortunately the local nominees were not selected by the awards committee of community newspaper editors -and represen- tatives of the patron, CP Air to be among the award recipients. This does not diminish however, the outstanding achievements and initiative of the local nominees. Each has received a copy of Ontario, A Bicentennial Tribute, provided by the Ontario Bicentennial Committee for being a Bicentennial year nominee. Any residentofOntarioi aged 6 to 18 -years, is eligible to receiVe anOirtarie oeCiti2en of the Year Award.. Recognition is given to outstanding achievements and acts of cour- age and initiative. Award recipients are also "good kids" who utilize ingenuity and resourcefulness in their daily lives, or are involved in some worthwhile community endeavour. Co-ordinated by the Ontario Community Newspapers Association with CP Air as the patron, the Junior Citizens 'program was inaugurated in Ontario in 1981 and has already honoured 'many individuals and the entire student body of one school. The six local nominees were nominated by Gordon Cayley, Anne Pritchard and The Lucknow Sentinel.. Doug Clark Doug Clark is an accomplished musician playing trumpet rn1 the Ladmow School Concert Band and formerly, a baritone. A "natural rriuSician" he isvice-prisidentof the 4,14.4 nd varsgo° 140* ttiO bandiri the FE. MdiI1Pita' "On Of 4114 Music Man". Carol, Kim and Debbie Rintoul -The three Rintoul sisters from St. Helens are making a name for themselves in 4-H beef cattle 'competition and showmanship circles. All have competed at the prestigious Royal Winter Fair, in the Charolais and Hereford competitions. Carol won the Canadian Junior Hereford ShowmanShip title in Manitoba in 1981. She was Ontario Hereford Queen in 1981 following a year as Junior Hereford Queen in 1980, Kim was Junior Hereford Queen in 1983 and was first ruruienip in the Zone Hereford Princess competition. Debbie won the Junior Speaking title for the Ontario Hereford Association in 1981 and was reserve diampipn in 1982. „ Lynn Murray Lynn Murray has been on the executive of the Lucknow School Coneert Rand.'since he joined the band in grade,' .41t„ grade 13 . Student at F. E. Madill Seitiondary in Wingham, he is an excellentstudent and has received several proficiency awards for his academic excellence. Lynn is also a good all round athlete and an asset to any group he belongs to. Helen Maclntyre Helen Maclntyre is the president of the students' council at F. E. Madill Secondary where she is a grade 13 student. A member Of the Lucknow School/ Conceit Band throughout her school years, she is the secretary -twos: urer of the band and writes articles for the newspaper about the band concert tours. 'A swimmer, she has worked as a lifeguard at the Lucknow Swimming Pool for three summers and enjoys baseball and MIAS country skiing. Councillors want decision on sewage treatment site soon Members of Lucknow council expressed their frustration with attempts to purchase land in West Wawanosh township for the proposed treatment facility to service the Lucknow sewage works project when they met for their March meeting. The frustration is aimed at lawyers acting for the village and and the township of West Wawanosh, the village engineer, and the Ministry of Environ- ment. One councillor indicated if a decision on a certificate of approval to proceed with the purchase of the property is not made by the end of the month he will resign from council. The discussion of the purchase of the land for the treatment facility arosewhen council questioned the reeve about an expenditure for engineer costs on the property,which was not included in the 1984 budget. The village auditor Bill Vodden is presently completing the year end report for the village's fiscal year and. reeve George .Joynt pointed out that $19,327 had been spent to conduct tests and prepare engineees reports for the Ministry of EnvironMent to determine whether the property owned by Michael Shobelen and two of his employees ' and adjacent • property owned by Chester Firmigan in West Wawa - nosh Township was suitable for the proposed tile bed system which is to receive the discharge from the sewage treatment facility. Reeve Joynt said the money had not been included in the 1984 budget because council did not know, when the budget was prepared, how much they were going to spend on these engineer's costs. Reeve Joynt commented "dickering with these engineers, is like dealing with Pennsyl- vania lawyers". The reeve went on to say the only way the town could pay this kind of cost for engineees reports on the property, since it was not included in the budget, is because everything is paid up to date and the village doesn't owe any money. Joynt said the village ended up' with g $200 surplus at the end of 1984. Additional costs of $9,814 for tests completed on property owned by Floyd Milne which Was being considered previously were also paid by the village in 1984. Councillor Ab Murray remarked the village solicitor George Brophy is dragging his feet in arranging a hearing with the Ministry of Environment's Environmental Advisory Com- mittee: Brophy apparently protnised council he would arrange such a meeting in two weeks time and it has been more than six weeks. The committee appointed by the Minister of the Envimment would decide . whether Lucknow will be permitted an eiremption without an Environmental Assessment Hear- ing. Such a hearing would assess the impact of the proposed sewage treatment facility on the envirmunent and theoksurrounding com- munity. Reeve George Joynt told council he has received a copy of a letter George Plaxton, lawyer representing the municipality of West Wawanosh Township, sent to the Minister of the Environment asking the minister to reject the application for an exemption to proCeed without an Environmental Assessment Hear- ing.. The letter also asks the minister, that in the event he does not agree to reject the application for exemption, not to appoint the advisory committee for several months to permit negotiations between the village and the Township of West Wawanosh to continue until testing at two other sites suggested by West Wawanosh are completed in the spring. "As far as I'm concerned if we don't make a decision by the end of this month, rye had it. 1 quit. We've been the long mile on this," said councillor Murray. "Now (West Wawa - nosh) wants us to take an option on this (Snobelen - Finnigan) pmperty.,..1 don't ,want an option. I want to buy this land. If we don't buy the land, rm done. We have a by-law saying we plan to buy the property and I'm ready to go to court or whatever it takes," added Murray. "rm done signing cheques," remarked reeve Joynt. "I said that six months ago. We can't buy $16,000 worth of land and 13111 Davis can give the go ahead for millions and millions of ;dol- lars for a new dome stadiurn in his last 'days in office," obse,rved councillor Eldon Mann. "This is 'nothing but a stall. It's nothing but a game to spend money on lawyers," commented reeve Joynt. "Let the environ- ment ministry find a site if they won't approve the site we've got." Reeve Joynt suggested council meet with 'the Minister of the Environment to air their concerns but councillor Murray said he had nointention of going to see the minister. He said the minister would only prolong the issue again and of all the meetings he's been to with a provincial minister, not one has ever gotten back to council about the issue involved yet. Councillor Mann observed that . everything council wants to do and every decision they Turn to page 31