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BLUE
RIBBON
AWARD
1984
The right decision
iLuclaiow Village Council has decided to examine
alternative disposal sites , for the Lucknow. sewage
treatment facility to. service the proposed sewage system
for the village.
A recision some councillors were adament they would
not consider; the motion to examine alternate sites was
made and seconded by councillors Mann and Murray
who were most vocal' at the March council meeting about
their objections to considering an alternative site for the
treatment facility.
Council has made the right decision. /Faced with
objections from the council in West W awanosh Township
and township and village ratepayers living in the vicinity
of the proposed treatment site, Licknow council' would
have been committing the taxpayers of Lucknow to
exhorbitant legal. costs to persue the issue to an Ontario
Municipal Board hearing. Their refusal to .even consider
other sites, despite the objections raised, would also
have created a damaging rift in the community.
• .No one wins' when such an issue goes to an ,OMB '-
decision. Lucknow and West Wawanosh Township must
work together with Kinloss. and Ashfield on the
recreation committee, the arena board, the medical
Centre board and the fire board. Relations between the
two municipalities are already strained over the issue of
cost sharing on. the Medical centre with West W awanosh
refusing to sign the new medical centre agreement Which
will see all four municipalities share capital and main-
tenance costs equally. .
To persue theissue of disposing of Liclmow's sewage
at a treatment site in West W awanosh Township to an
OMB hearing or in the courts would have caused
irreparable damage to the working relationship between
the two municipalities and it would also have divided the
Community as people took sides on the issue.
• The site in West W awanosh is technically suitable for
the disposal site and the treatment facility may yet be
built there. But it is necessary for Lucknow Council. to
consider all alternate suitable sites. If, , after an
exhaustivesearch for a site which would be technically
suitable and more environmentally suitable for planning
interests and to the surrounding residences, no other site
is found, then at least everyone involved )mows Lucknow
has done its best to find- another suitable site.
For their part Lucknow council is frustrated that the
sewage project has taken eight years to come this close to'.
approval, only to have nearby residents raise objections.
Concerned that Lucknow taxpayers will consider too
much money has already been spent looking for a site,
they. are justifiably unwilling to begin yet a third search
for a site.
Their application to the Ministry of the Environment
for . pireliminary engineering and legal costs should
relieve some of the financial burden to the village and
their application to, have the' ministry appoint a project
.manager will also relieve councillors of the responsibility
of searching for yet another site.
The meeting with the ministry has clarified several
areas of concern for council. and their decision to look at
other sites is'a positive step. If an OMB hearing on such a
confrontational issue can be 'avoided, the whole com-
munity will benefit.
High tide
(Photos by Sharon Dietz)
It did not take long for Rebecca Barclay
to accept a position for employment with
the doctor., She arrived promptly at eight
o'clock each morning , to start work and
stayed as long as necessary to complete the
day's routine. Sometimes, after a ' busy
night,the doctor was late in getting out of
bed, but Rebecca carried out her duties,
tending to the minor ailments of the people
who had gathered at the surgery.
"My medical knowledge is only theoret-
ical," she had told Doctor Cameron when
' she first began her duties.
"If that is so," the good doctor said,
"with a little more practice you will
become a better physician than me!"
When Cameron bad to leave Redtrees to
visit patients in the outlying countryside,
he was able to do so with a much easier
mind. Rebecca was a very capable person.
One evening in midwinter, she began to
tidy up the surgery before she departed to
her lodging at the minister's house. She
was loath to leave before the doctor
returned and kept looking out of the
window, expecting at any moment to see
the lamps on his sleigh coming down the
driveway.
In the light of a brilliant moon, the
landscape was a glittering fairyland of
snow and ice and although she could see
clear across the fields towards the sixth
line, there was no sign of the doctor.
She put on her coat and wrapped alarge
woollen scarf around her head in readiness
for braving the winter chill. Suddenly there
was a loud, ...impatient knocking on the
surgery door, and she opened it to admit a
very' excited young man by /the name of
MacPhee.
• "Please, Miss. I hae tae see the doctor!"
"Perhaps, I can help you," Rebecca
said. '
"No! not" he said quickly. "Begging
your pardon, Miss. It's the doctor I want.
My wife has started in labour - she's a
month before her time - where is Doctor
Cameron?"
"He'll be back very shortly," Rebecca
said in a calm and collected voice. We'll
just leave a note for him. In the meantime I
will come with you to prepare your wife."
The young man was very dubious about
this arrangement and had no alternative
but to agree. It was almost a quarter of a
mile to the. MacPhee cabin and Rebecca
wished she had dressed in warmer clothes.
When they arrived, she went directly to
the bed where the woman was lying.
"Did ye ever deliver a bairn?" the
woman said in a suspicious and pained
voice:. "Where is Doctor Cameron? - I'd
rather hae the doctor tend tae me!"
"Doctor Cameron will come as soon as
he gets back to Redtrees," Rebecca said in
a stern voice. "But even if he doesn't, you
have nothing to fear. You will not be the
first woman to give birth without a
doctor!"
REDTREES
By Don Campbell
Rebecca had studied the procedure for
/child birth off by heart. It was true she had
never witnessed a birth in her life, but she
had no intention by speech or act to convey
that fact to her r patient.
"Let's get some light in here," she
commanded the husband. "Put some
water on to boil and get me whatever clean
linen you have."
The young man brought two extra
lanterns into the bedroom and when his
concern for has wife caused him to linger,
Rebecca spoke very sharply to him.
"That will beall, Mr. MacPhee - you can
wait outside. If I need anything else, I will
call."
The young husband was scared of the
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