HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1996-04-24, Page 1WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1
by Pat Iiiiip111
The Ministry of ..
Municipal .Affairs
advised,.: Bruce -county to.
dust, off its 'controversial
1991 restructuring study.
in the search .for ways to
deal with provincial grant
corn but so far county
councillors aren't rushing
totake that advise.
Brian Riddell; of the
Ministry of.Mnnicipal
Affairs n warned that
municipalities will have
to change as more:. fund
ing cuts arehanded .down
.and ; the rules about
library`; ,watered . sewer
services' are changed.
.ne%enbigger blow
for seine municipalities
is a.proposal to end free
1P coverage. Riddell
said a cost of P°two huu.
dred dollars and .change®
per household is . being
discussed by the Solicitor
General's odes.
qlow•are wesupposed
to keep. raising all this
'money?" Culross reeve
Ralph ,Kreutzwiser .asked-':
Riddell. "Neill let the
blame (for tax increases),
not you`
Free :policing is .c
impediment;to- restruetur-
ing,".;Riddell replied,
These members of the 1
Panda Dance Theatre
performed The Yang
Worriers : dance at
LCPS last week. In this
scene, , Mu Guei Yang
refuses to let her son
come with them to the
battlefiedl for fear he
rill .be killed.. Young
won-Guong. chal-
lenges his . mother to
prove his corrrbat skills
and finally wins a place
in the army: ranks. (Pat
Livingston photo)
b Inid Scott
fs the Mid -Huron
landfill ` Site . (MHLS) . at
alrtxesville . part of
Huron County's solution
to its ,landfill ' problem
whichhas run .up .ao esti;
mated $1.2 million price -
tag. se far?
HL . board chair.
aurie Cox, Reeve` of
oderich Township.,
recently received a capy�:
of the Alterative Studies
Report from two engi
neering flans ° which. will
be reviewed. at Huron
Co ntv Council. tomor-
row, April, . 25, He shared
some of the information
with the MIMS board on
April 18.
"The study states the
epuntyy,,doesn't need a
ucw large landfill site.
It's uneconomical. The
(landfill) capacity around
the county is nine year's,"
said Coxa
The board heard at its
meeting from Jim
Yardley of Conestoga -
Rovers and Associates
that the Mid -Huron site
had an estimated life of
12 to 13 years remaining.
(The two engineering
fi