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The Lucknow Sentinel, 1985-09-11, Page 11 BEST ALL ROUND COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER IN CANADA (Circulation Class under 2200) C.C.N.A. Better Newspaper Competition -1985 Reverend, Bob Roberts. has assumed the four pointcharge of Dungannon Union. He, was given the responsibility Sept. 8 in a service at Dungannon United. Church. The congrega- tions also welcomed student minister John Williams.. Experimentalpastoral Barge T11'e Dungannon parish ' is undergoing . approve of the new system. spiritual renovations, in the sense that a "The church is not losing it's support from new pastoral charge experiment is being in- the people. But the economic climate in the stituted. smaller centres has called for a number of The . Dungannon parish of the United . families to move to the city, the. spokesman Church of Canada is going to be sharing it's • said. • •." pastor with three other parishes.. According to the spokesman Dungannon ' The churches involved in this new is a stable congregation and it's numbers religious format are the congregations of are growing. Donnybrook, Dungannon, Trinity and Nile. "We have stability in that congregation, and that would indicate that the people are The wholescheme came about, because ' very interested in the spiritual aspect of life. the Church of St. Helens had to close it's, : At present the .Dungannon parish has a doors' because there weren't enough people Large percentage .of younger families atten- attending. The remaining members of the ding and that is very positive," the spokesman said. Pastor Roberts will not be required to con- duct all of the sermons himself. He has a helper. On a Sunday there is a total of four sermons conducted. Reverend Roberts does two and the newly hired theology student, Mr.John Williams, conducts the two later. sermons. • Seminary training at EmmanuelCollege in congregation then contacted Reverend. Roberts 'about the matter. He then con- tacted the parish headquarters. in London and they instituted the pastoral charge on anexperimental basis. A church spokesman is very. enthusiastic that thenew system will work to benefit the. congregation. There are over 300 families affected by the new structure, and the spokesman is .confident that everyone will " Toronto. Hydro hearing date chosen ,Stephanie Levesque A preliminary hearing on the proposed transmission line route through Huron County will be held Wednesday, Oct. 16 at' the Holiday Inn, Guelph at 10:30 a.m. Dave Abbott, community relations officer with Ontario Hydro; explained the/ route chosen this past summer by the provincial utility at the Sept. 5 meeting of Huron Conn ty council. He also announced the dates of the preliminary hearing and the regular hearings. The regular . hearings ' are ex- pected to start Nov. 12, the day of the municipal election across Ontario. Turnberry Township Reeve Brian McBurney questioned who chose the Nov. 12 date and Abbott told him it was the• joint hearings board, which conducts the .hear-. ings.. The hydro spokesman Said the date and location of the hearings Guelph - could be changed by the joint hearings board if Suffi- cient reason is given by the people involved when the prelimuinary hearing takes place. Ontario Hydro announced its chosen route . M7 in mid-July. The proposal, if approved, will have hydro constructing: s A 500,000 volt transmission line from the Bruce Nuclear Power Development to the Essa transformer station near Barrie. This line 'would run north of Chesley, 'south of Markdale' and ,Flesherton ' and cross the.. Niagara escarpment near Lavender; • A 500,000 volt transmission line from the Bruce Nuclear Power Development to a new London area transformer station in Caradoc Township. This line would pass east of Ripley and Zurich and west of Ailsa Craig;, i A 500,000 volt transmission line from the new London area transformer station, along an existing 115,000 volt right-of-way, to the Nanticokegenerating station. This line would pass north of the Caradoc Indian Reserve and follow the existing right-of-way east of St. Thomas to north of the Nanticoke generating station. • Abbott said there are alternatives Ontario Hydro is willing to consider. One such alter- native in Huron County, would be to follow the existing 220 ktr line from ..Bruce to Seaforth instead of the more westerly route. The chairman of the joint hearings board is R.B. Eisen, a member of the environmen- tal assessment. board. The other two members, J.R. Mills and R.W: Rodman, are both members of the Ontario , Municipal Board. Hydi'o':move questioned By Alan Rivett HURON, COUNTY Many motorists in Huron County must have been wondering about the curious signs adorning the roadsides during the final days of August. , The 25 signs . stating "Ontario Hydro staked. this power route before public hearings ?!" were placed on county; and paved roads from .'London to Ripley on August 30 and remained up through the Labour Day weekend. It's part of a publicity campaign by the Foodland Hydro Committee, a group opposing a hydro power, corridor through Huron County farmland, to draw attention to hydro's survey work in the area. According to Glen ' Ribey and Gerald Dustow, both/ members of the hydro committee who were :. responsible ; for erecting . the signs, the survey is unnecessary because hydro. claims it's to be used for an. aerial survey. The hydro committee members say this survey has already been completed which leads them to believe Hydro is staking the actual route prior to the hearings. "Thisis just another instance of their arrogance, thinking they can go ahead with fh's line before any approval has been given. It's another Sign of their ii►competance," said Mr. Dustow who, along with Mr. Ribey, have farmland in which the proposed hydro route would affect. - Hydro announced its plan for a 500,000 volt transmission line through Huron County, on July 8 of this year. The,plan. called M7 would involve a power corridor running from the Bruce Nuclear Power • Development (BNPD) to a London area•transformer. The line. would paSss east of Ripley and Zurich and west of Ailsa Craig. Another 500,000 volt line would run from the BNPD to a transformer near'Essa. The third part of the plan involves a 500,000 line from .London to the Nanticoke generating station. Ontario Hydro's media relations spokesperson Lois Wallace, says the surveying in Huron County is • part of Hydro's plan to stake all the recommended and alternative routes in order for.an aerial photograph to be taken of the areas. "It's being staked sin order to establish reference points so aerial photographs can be taken of all routes. The reference points • will correspond with the aerial photograph. //It's not a staking of the route itself,'." she said, adding that the aerial photographs will be used to show the 'proposed plan, at the public meetings. . Glen Hoglund, Hydro's project engineer, says the surveying using the aerial photography called artho-photography will be used for a highly; detailed prelirhinary lay -out of the route. The actual ground surveys which will ultimately decide the tower' placement will begin only after the hearings and assuming approval is given. The surveying which started in early July should be finished bymid-October, he says. If approval for the plan is given by the.. Ontario government, the work on the power corridor could begin by 1987 ",assuming the • beatings don't take forever." The Foodland Hydro Committee is also concerned about Hydro's inaction towards providing the public with copies of the environmental assesssment. The document was slated for release to the Ministry of the Environment on August 3, says chairman Tony McQuail. •• The document, he says, will be a major instrument they will use when appearing before the Hydro hearings. "We'll know then what environmental -impact the towers will have on the farmland:" .M.Hoglund said • the enviromental assessment is currently being sent out to those who requested them. He said the document has been. cleared . through the Ministry of the Environment and consists of five large volumes of environmental findings concerning the proposed hydro route. He also announced the times and dates for the public hearings for discussions on the 'project. The preliminary hearingywill take place on October 16 at the Holiday Inn in Guelph. He said another meeting is tentatively set for, the samelocation on November 12 with other meetings meetings. announced after thdt point. Jane Rose, a member of the . Foodland Hydro Committee and •a member of the ' group's promotion and " information committee,., says the signs were a way of telling the public that the group is closely, monitoring the movements • of Hydro concerning the proposed hydro corridor. • "We want the publicity to be ongoing but not disruptive. The public should not have to. be subject to rallies' and . demonstrations. We're hoping we're doing it in a considerate way," she said. ' ArmstrQng:isflrsl 1986 Huron warden hopeful Stephanie Levesque Leona Armstrong, the 51 -year-old reeve of Grey Township has a life-long goal she wants to achieve in 1986. She took a second step towards that goal. at the Sept,. 5 session of Huron County coun- cil. Reeve Armstrong is the first member of county council to announce intentions to seek the Huron warden's position fornext year. Her first step towards that goal was taken last year. Then she ran against cur- rent warden. Paul• Steckle of Stanley Township as Well as Bob Bell of Tuckersmith Township, Brian McBurney of Turnberry Township and Harry Worsell of Goderich: Only Reeve Bell has said he definitely is not seeking the position a second time. It was a close race between Bell and Steckle. Reeve Armstrong carne in third. "Most of you know one of my goals in life is to be the warden of Huron County," said Reeve Armstrong. "I would consider it a great'honor," . She isn't , unfamiliar with the role of warden. Besides having sat on county coun- cil under four wardens, her late father was a warden at one time. Her dad, Harvey Johnston represented Township On county council, serving as warden in 1952. She first started in municipal politics in November of 1974: She Was then deputy - reeve for three years before being named reeve in 1981 when then Reeve Roy William- son illiamson resigned in mid-term. She has,served as chairman of the county's pinning and development depart- ment. Reeve Armstrong notes Grey Township hasn't had a warden since 1945, The reeve and her husband James, have four children.