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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1983-05-11, Page 2news Lucknow Sentinel, Wednesday, May 11, 1983—Page 2 Leeknew's Centennial Baby is Ruth Ann Henderson, daughter of Sins and Mary Henderson of Lueknow. An honours grads. ate in health sciences today, Ruth Ann Was born during Lucknow's Centennial CelebraN flans in 1958. Centennial baby Isabel MacKenzie of Lucknow was the first of several to correctly identify the picture of Lucknow's Centennial baby, printed in last week's issue of the Sentinel. Ruth Ann Henderson was shown in the arms of her sister, Mary Elizabeth. Born during .Lucknow Centennial Celebration in 1958 (Dr. M. H. Corrin missed the celebra- tion's gala parade). Ruth Ann is the daughter of Jim and Mary Henderson of Lucknow. Today she is an honours graduate in Health Sciences from the University of Waterloo and her sister, Mary Elizabeth Henderson-Betkus is a public health nurse in McBride, British Columbia. Sewers are necessary: Bruce MOH *from page 1 1950s when the Bruce Coun alth Unit re ived-complaints o "sm s" in the main usiness area or the age from village residents. The Bruce -County Health Unit did tests and took samples and discovered raw sewage in the storm sewers and the Lucknow River in the tore area of the town. The Bruce County Health Unit approached the village council at the time, told the council of their findings and explained it was a problem that. could not be solved by installing septic tanks or forcing residents and business owners along the main street, who did not have septic tanks, to install them. There is not enough land available in the core area to adequately handle the effluent from a septic tank system. The sewage leaves the weeper beds and immediately runs to the river. The system in place was designed to handle water pumps at the kitchen sing, not the 80 - 100 gallons of water per person which is flushed through the septic tanks since the creation of indoor toilets, automatic washing machines and dish washers. Over the years village council has argued village residents and the village treasury could not afford sewers. There were other priorities for the tax money being raised, Government grants were only 25 per cent of the project cost and at the time the whole village would have been serviced. (Under the present grant system, government Jamboree parade Have you planned your Jamboree '83 project yet? Why not enter a float in . the parade! See the ad in this weeks paper for • hill details on categories and prizes. Plan early and submit your entry form to Bob McIntosh. Farmers discuss Bill C-653... *from page 1 in the free enterprise spirit, says Pyke. If there is a legitimate effort to help farmers you cannot write him off the books. The Act also at -tempts to bring the status of the secured and unsecured creditor to the same level. The Bill attempts to prevent the secured creditor from trouncing the debtor into the ground. The idea of reducing the principle on the debt has happened in special circumstances. By reducing debt that cannot be serviced, there are losses which won't be recouped, but reducing debt to a level where the debtor can meet his payments, you come out ahead in the long run. Pyke explained the history of the original Farmers' Creditors' Arrangement Act say- ing that of the 142,000 farmers in Saskatche- Nan with a debt of more' than $482 million, .)nly 5,094 proposals in a five year span were accepted under the Act. Current statistics show farmers paid $641 million in interest rates during 1981-82 and 14 pet cent of the bank loans under $1 million go to farmers. Pyke believes Hill C-653 will provide assistance for some farmers who have acted in good faith without favouring the debtor to the distraction of the creditor. Toronto -Dominion bank representative Larry Thompson is not in favour of the reenactment of the Hill, because it permits debt to be written down. The reduction of debt and the time period to liquidate assets are two main points of the bill which appeal to farmers. However when the bill was in effect during the 1930s, it made long term debt difficult to obtain and suppliers immediately went C.O.D. Thompson is critical of two aspects of the 13111. It basically removes the right of a farmer to put up security for credit and the time lapse to go through the process of appraisal of the assets, is a disadvantage. Thompson noted the Hill will not help farmers with zero equity and the farmer must have acted in good faith with his creditors to use the Bill. Allan Wilford. president of the Huron - Bruce Farm Survival Association, speaking from the floor of the meeting. said the impetus of the bill is to make everybody. debtors and creditors, deal in good faith. "The threat of the Hill is enough to make creditors deal in good faith." If banks are going to liquidate. they should do it responsibly. Wilfords says he knows of farmers who have been sitting in limbo for more than two years. They should get their act together and negotiate, says Wilford. Under the provisions of the Act, the receiver appointed to do the appraisal of the assets will be local and paid by the federal government. usually, the receiver is paid by the banker in a receivership and says Wilford. whoever pays the piper. calls the tune, Film creates controversy... •from page 1 Superintendent of program Robert McCall said the teachers are responsible for the films shown in the classroom and that administration doesn't attempt to monitor films shown in the classroom, it was noted that the film was not available from the board's media centre. Mr. Rau indicated the teacher from South Huron Secondary School had obtained the film from the Huron County Health Unit. Mrs. Regier said she has five students attending the Exeter High School with two ir. Grade 12. The Zurich woman said she was responsible for obtaining the film and having it shown to the group of parents. The board has referred the matter to its education committee and Mrs. Regier said she will "just have to wait and see what the board does". grants pay 75 per cent of the capital cost of the project). Over the years exchanges between council and health unit representatives continued, acknowledging the problem could not be eliminated by septic tank systems. As the director of inspection for the health unit points out, if septic tanks would have solved the problem, residents and property. owners would have been forced to install them. In 1977 village council commissioned a study which reported septic tank systems were inadequate in the core area and sewers was the only way to solve the problem of raw sewage in the Lucknow River. Council looked at several design proposals and chose a design including a sewage collection system by individual services throughout the commercial core area and then north along Stauffer and Inglis Streets to Gough Street; a pumping station with stand-by power and a sewage treatment plant including land disposal of effluent. Why is the entire village not being. serviced? When sewage works were originally desgined for municipalities, the entire municipality was put on the system. But in recent years, governments have found they have to cut costs to make their funds go further. As a result, the Ministry of the Environment will not provide sewage service for that part of a municipality which is functioning properly on a septic tank system. In Lucknow this means only the core area of the village will be serviced. The provincial government is not willing to provide funding to service the entire village, when the remainder is functioning properly on septic tanks. The competition for public funds is increasingly demanding and the government must be more selective in funding various programs. According to Burns Ross, it is unlikely the entire village will ever be serviced unless the provincial treasury finds money it doesn't know how to spend. The sewage system proposed at the present time will only tolerate the expected expansion in the serviced area and a new system would have to be built to service the entire village. Does the existance of an emergency gravity overflow from the pumping station to Lucknow Creek mean raw sewage will still be dumped into the Lueknow River after the sewers are in place? A notice appeared in the Lucknow Sentinel April 13 and April 20 outlining the Village Council application to the Ontario Municipal Board for approval of the sewage works construction and the passing of proposed by-laws to impose such sewer rate to raise the whole or the annual payments on the debentures to cover the cost of the project. 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