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ouncil oppose dump..
site 'in Ashfield township
Ashfield Township council passed a
motion at their meeting January 5 opposing.
the location of a liquid industrial and
hazardous waste ' management facility is
Ashfield Township.
Council state in the motion that Huron
County is ply agricultural and the
Township :of Ashfield is ' 99 per cent. class 1,
11 and 111 land. Sime the principle of
Township planning is to maintain a viable
agricultural community supporting land uses
compatible. with agriculture, the council
recommended the Ontario Waste • Manage-
ment Corporatio i use criteria that would
avoidprim agricultural lands such as
Ashfield. Township.
Copies of the motion were forwarded to
the Ministry of the Environment and the
Ontario Waste Management Corporation
chairman, .Dr. Donald Chant.
Residents of Ashfield and neighbouring
municipalities unanimously opposed locat-
ing the dump in Ashfield Township • at a
public meeting held at Brookside Public
School, December 30. The meeting elected
committee to spearheaad their opposition to a
decision to locate the site in Ashfield. The
committee of nine men will prepare a proper
petition which is to be circulated in the area
and will accompany a brief stating reasons
why Ashfield is not a suitable location.
Since Ashfield was suggested in •previous
studies for the Ministry of the Environment
as a potenhialy desirable site for a liquid
industrual and. hazardous waste manage -
went facility, residents in the area fear the
Ontario. Waste Management Corporation
will choose a site in Ashfield. The corpora-
tion has abandoned plans to construct such a
facility on government owned land at South
Cayuga and has commenced studies . to
determine a new location for the facility:
Area residents are skeptical about Dr.
Chant's assurance that the Corporation is
. establishing new criteria for choosing a,site
and elected the , committee to prepare
opposition to any decision to locate the dump.
in . Ashfield Township: '
Appoint Lucknow clerk -treasurer
Lucknow Village Council passed a motion
at their regular meeting. January 42 ap-
'pointing Bertha Whitcroft ' of Lucknow ' as
Clerk -treasurer of the village.
Mrs- Whitcroft, has .been deputy clerk- '
treasurer since the illness and death of Alf.
Herbert this past summer.' .
She worked for four years as deputy, clerk
for the village prior to her appointment as
deputy -clerk -treasurer:
Council brief's
i:onoc® ,and Mtge Empisyees Receive
Increases
The reeve of Lucknow will receive an
honourarium of $1,000 in 1982 and the
councillors will receive honbrrariums of $900
and an,- additional ,'$30' for each special
meeting:; The reeve received, an honourar-
ium of 5836 last year and councillors
i received, $781: •
The village works employees will be paid a
salary beginning this year' instead : of an
hourly wage. They win make 517.000 per
annum plus the payment of their OHIP
premiums. The village clerk -treasurer will
make a salary `of 517,200 plus the payment of
OHIP premiums.
Floyd Milne of Lucknow will receive an
additional 520 per week for pickup and
hauling away garbage in the 'village.. This
will increase his fee to $260 a week.
• interest on. Arrears
Council decided to continue charging a
rate of 21'4 per 'cent interest per annum on
tax arrears. The interest rate will ' be
re -assessed each -month and will be adjusted
should the bank rate fluctuate significantly.
Council Approves Grants
Members, of council approved motions
which make grants -to the following organza-
tions: Jamboree '83 committee $1,500;
Lucknow District Agricultural Society, 5500;
Lucknow District Horticultural Society., 3400;
Silver Circle Nursery School, $375:
HorI1eIturai 'Society, Appoints Tree
Planting Committee
Jean Whitby, president of the Lucknow
District Horticultural Society, reported to
council that Rev. George Garratt, Harold
Stonehouse and Herb Clark will form.,a tree
planting' committee to work with the
Horticultural' Society on their .project to
replant trees in the village" She said the
Society has, set aside 5500 to replant trees
this year.
M,rs.•Whitby noted that the Society would
like to plant as many hard maples as possible
to replace those which have diet and been .
cut down
The a Society was granted permission to
place flower planters along the main street
sidewalk to beautify the business core
during the summer months. Mrs. Whitby
said they would measure approximately five
feet long by 2' feet wide and about 21/2 feet
deep. She suggested they be removed and
placed in the town shed for. the winter
months to facilitate snow removal. Mrs.
Whitby and .Councillor Herb. Clark will
obtain price estimates for the purchase of
such flower boxes.;
WiA Replace Culve t .
Council has authorized B. M. Ross and
Associates of : Goderich to prepare plans to
widen the.Campbell Street culvert over the
Lucknow River at the east end of Campbell
Street. The firm is also to prepare plans for
the proposed work on the downtown culvert
over the Lucknow River. The downtown
culvert is to be relined, following a recom-
mendation from the Maitland Valley Conser-
vation Authority:
The Luchlow Women's Institute had donated a walker to the Silver Circle Ninety Schaal ie
Wlnglcam. Mrs. Grace Gibson, president of the Ike made the presentation to the
/Wren at the school Crystal Jrudise,. of Luciano*, sigh is the walker, Swab:.
Fo ixi to. Crystal's and from: the left in 'the ..foreground, JewMer Hewlos, Jason
A Shortreed and Nicole Ritchie. The children participate in *program for dhiabled preachOolers
at the school. Ares youngsters ahio lbeuefiC from s hosts vWtatios program:which assists
children who have developmental problems.. • • • • [Sentinel Staff Photo]
eadershp hopefuls discuss prospects.
By Henry Hess '
Despite the raging weather, . the three
prospective successors to Michael Cassidy
as leader of the New Democratic Party in
Ontario turned up in Wingham .Saturday,
only to find the scheduled public meeting
had been cancelled. '
However; in interviews at the Great China
House where they relaxed before heading off
to an evening meeting in London, Jim
Foulds, • Richard Johnston and Bob Rae
discussed their aims and hopes for the future
of the NDP in this province. . ,
All three agreed some substantial •changes
are required if the party is to reverse its poor
showing in the provincial election • last
March. •
They have different ideas how this can be
accomplished, ' but all expressed confidence
that, properly organized, the NDP can not
only replace the Liberals as, the ' official
opposition, but can take a run' at unseating
the entrenched Progressive Conservatives.
Foulds. at.44 years of age with 10 years, in
the Legislature under his belt, is the senior
contender. Formerly a teacher in Thunder
Bay, he has represented the riding of Port
Arthur since being first elected in 1971
He is the current deputy house leader for
the NDP as well as energy critic; previously
he held the posts of natural resources critic
and education critic in the' party caucus.
• Foulds said the key to electoral success for
his party is to spell out for the voters exactly
what . theycould expect from an NDP
government -- a, tactic used successfully by
Tommy Douglas to win his first victory in
Saskatchewan.
"The party must run on a solid platform4of
what it wants to achieve in the first four
years."
As leader, he promised to focus party
policy on several areas:
--improvement in social servicesand health
`care, . while gradually eliminating OHIP
premiums; .
--more priority for regional development;
--reforms in provincial income .and resource'
taxes;
--a "clear but limited" . commitment to
public ownership. • ,
Tax reform is needed to ensure -large
businesses pay a fair share, he said,
claiming that banks, for example, are taxed
at a' rate of only 15 per cent on profits. He
also said the resource sector never has been
taxed sufficiently.
"it is ridigtilous that the treasurer of
Ontario collects' five. times as much in
revenue from OHIP fees as he' does in
resource taxes." saki Foulds.'
On� public ownership, he said the party
often' is hit with the false allegation it intends
to take over everything in sight. He sees as
logical targets for public ownership:
--the uranium mines at Elliott Lake, which
he says 4he province could .operate more
cheaply . than by ' going , through with its
.., contract to purchase the uranium;
--Inco;
--public auto insurance; `
--A Crown corporation to give Ontario a
window into the ° forestry industry and to
guarantee proper management and reforest-
ation. .
Win Voter Confidence
In past elections, particularly the two
which resulted in minority governments.
Ontario voters have heen saying, "in •a small
conservative way''', that they don't want
the Tories but are 'not sure ' the New
Democrats can run, the government, Foulds
suggested.
The way to gain voter confidence, he said.
is to spell out clearly the l"iarty ' policies.
which was not done in previous elections.
He said the recent victory by the NOP in
Manitoba, "also a small conservative
province demonstrates that sincerity and
hard work can bring.success.
On the topic of agriculture: Fouids agreed
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