The Lucknow Sentinel, 1985-04-10, Page 1single copy 35c
NOW. SENTINEL
Published in Lucknow, 9ntario Wednesday, April 10, 1985
`24 Pages
Toy bunnies and ducks and chocolate eggs make Easter morning a
delight for children and especially for Angela and Chris Boyd this
year, since they got to help 'aby brother, Jarret hunt for his Easter
surprises. Easter baskets made by their grandmother also added, to
the fun. Special treats for special kids, they are the children of Brian
and Susan Boyd of Lucknow. (Photo by Sharon Dietz)
Children's Aid
assists more
children in '84
New programs designed to, assist
Children without removing them•frem their
homes enabled the Bruce County Child-
ren's Aid Society ,to assist more children
and families in 1984.
Although the society assisted more
children, fewer were placed in foster care
or residential care homes. The society
assisted 571 children from 330 families in
th'e, county Last year which represents an
increase from 1983 when thesociety
worked with 512 children from 312 .homes.
The majority of the children helped by the
society were in the six to 12 age group.
Despite the increased case load, the
society placed/ only 54 children infoster
homes, a decrease of five from 1983 and of
those children, 34 were girls and twenty
were boys.
Parenting. problems were the ' major
reason children were placed lin foster
homes. The society placed 33 children in
other homes due to parenting problems
while only 17 children were placed in other
homes because of behavioural problems.
Four girls were removed from their homes
due to child abuse.
Approximately 36 per cent of the
children served in their own homes needed
help due to parenting -difficulties, while 32 '
per cent had behavioural problems.,
Murray gown, the executive director df
i.''e Children's Aid Society said increased
financial difficulties during the past year
may have contributed to the increase in
parenting problems. He said financial
difficulties often result in lower parent
tolerance, toward their children.,
Brown said the society plans to establish
the first comprehensive sexual abuse
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Lucknow council to consider alternate sewage disposal sites
By Sharon Dietz
Lucknow Village Council has decided to
examine alternative disposal sites
for the Lucknow sewage treatment facility.
The village engineer is to report to council
on the suitability of alternative sites by
May 15, before council renews the options
on land owned by Michael Snobelen .and
Chester Finnigan in • W est W awanosh
Townshipsouth of the village.
Council also decided to apply to the
Ministry of the 'Environment for project
management of the sewer system project
and for preliminary engineering
and .legal costs expended to date for
engineering reports prepared on sites
owned by Floyd Milne and Snobelen and
Finnigan by B. M. Ross and Associates:
The decisions were made April 2 at a
closed special meeting of council with Al
Patterson, project 'supervisor, environ-
mental approvals and project engineering
branch, the Ministry of Environment,
Willard Page, district officer with the
ministry and Steve Bums of B. M. Ross
and Associates, the village's engineering
firm.
To this point Lucknow council has
refused to look at alternative sites despite
objections raised by W est ' Wawanosh
Township council and village and township
residents living near the proposed site.
Lucknow councillors reiterated their in-
tentions to persue the matter to an Ontario
Municipal Board hearing if necessary at
their March meeting.
From the councillors' viewpoint too
much money has already been spent
examining two sites for the treatment
facility and they are.. frustrated and
exhausted from the responsibility of seeing
this project through eight years of work to
find a site and get' funding approval.
Unwilling to spend money on legal costs
to take the matter before an OMB hearing
for decision, council was also reluctant to
spend additional money to search for a
third site. Lucknow has spent close to
$30,000 on engineer's fees and legal costs
to examine and prepare reports on
property owned by Floyd Milne and then
on the West Wawanosh Township site
owned by Michlael Snobelen and Chester
Finnigan. The Milne site became unavail-
able when Milne refused to renew an
option to purchase the property.
W est W awanosh Township Council with
the support of Huron County Council
objects to the facilitryt being located in the
township• because it is near prime
residential lots making it a poor planning
decision. The township fears a loss of
assessment and the county does not want •
another municipality from outside its
borders dumping its sewage into a site
within its boundaries. The county and the
township feared other larger neighbouring
municipalities would consider the county
for bigger treatment facilities if Lucknow
was permitted to use a West Wawanosh
site.
Residents in the vicinity were concerned
the treatment facility which includes open
tanks of raw sewage would create odour
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MiKe Snobelen bets Conservative nod in Huron -Bruce
• - •
Ripley area farmer Mike Shobelen edged
W ingham broadcaster Bill Thomson by 26
votes Last week to win nomination as the
Progressive Conservative candidate for
Huron -Bruce in the May 2 provincial elec-
tion.
At the nominating meeting held in the
Teeswater Community Centre, a standing
room voted 419 for Snobelen, who had
resigned as president of the PC riding
association to throw his hat into the ring, to
393 for Thomson, who had won nomination
in the previous meeting 'last fall but then
had to decline it in order to return to work
when the expected election was postponed.
Following the vote, both candidates
appealed for party unity in the election
campaign. I
Delcaring that "There is no glory in
winning when you defeat someone you
respect as much as 1 do Bill •Thomson, "
Snobelen invited members of the Thomson
team to join his organization, while Thom-
son, gracious in defeat despite his clear
disappointment, offered congratulations
and called on. the gathering to "make this
u Iianimous" .
Before voting, members of the crowd
estimated at close to 1,000 people listened
to brief speeches by the candidates and
their nominators.
Speaking first, Loran Peter, borrowed
from a popular advertising slogan to tell
the gathered Tories that, "Mike Snobelen
has the beef!" He also reviewed his can-
didate's qualifications as a former reeve,
director of the Bruce Agri -Park and
chairman of the Bruce County Board of
Education.
This was seconded by Alma Conn, who
described the candidate as very successful
in business and human affairs, "with the
ability to listen' as well as hear".
Snobelen then recalled, that four years
ago he had wished former liberal MPP
Murray Gaunt good health and a happy
retirement, saying he now offers the sanie,
wish to Gaunt's successor, MPP Murray
Elston.
He also spoke df his own experience in
handling public moniesand dealing with
the problems of agriculture.
"1 know What it is to meet a payroll and
calm an angry banker."
He vowed to do his best for the riding,
commenting that a domed stadium for
Toronto is fine, "But Lucknow needs an
arena and W inghain (where the nomina-
tion meeting had originally been scheduled
before being moved to Teeswater to accom-
modate the large crowd) needs a larger
hall." - Turn to page 5