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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1989-06-07, Page 1VOL. 5 NO. 23 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, 1989.45 CENTS This big ball gavethesestudentsfrom Hullett Central Public School boundaries. The game, called Earth Ball, was one of the many quitea blast as two teamstried to push the ball through theother’s activities these students participated in at Playday last Tuesday. Second stage of waste study begins Faced with statistics that showed that by 19% Huron County will have run out of places to put its garbage, Huron County Councillors Thursday quietly approved partici­ pation in the second phase of the Waste Management Master Plan Study. While the study has been a point of contention at times since the project, costing more than a quar­ ter million dollars, was first author­ ized in April 1988, there was very little discussion when the motion to go into phase two of the study was made. Council also voted to accept the Stage 1 final report, the stage in which data on the current stage of waste management in the county was collected. It was from among that data that Dennis Merrall, county engineer presented a graph to the council­ lors showing that by 1996 the county will be producing more garbage than there is room left for it in all the county’s waste disposal sites. This could vary from as early as 1995 to as late as 1997, he said, but the point was that action must begin to have a new site on stream in time. He estimated that there is no immediate crisis but if the long process of finding a new waste disposal site begins right away it would not likely be or^^eam before 1995. If the county didn’t go along with the Stage Two of the study the hope of current landfill sites such as the Mid-Huron (Holmesville) and Turnberry township sites to get special ministerial exemptions to save them having to go through full environmental assessment hear­ ings over expansion plans at the sites, might be dashed. Such exemptions were given to projects where long-term solutions were in the works, he said, and without the study being ongoing, the long range planning wouldn’t be under­ way. Bill Mickle, Reeve of Exeter said that other municipalities across the Continued on page 5 Hicknell takes another shot at County rejects reform proposals The elements of a position paper of Huron County toward a proposal on county reform put forward by the Consultation Committee for the Minister of Municipal Affairs were approved by county council Thurs­ day. The clause-by-clause response, which, will be dealt with in final form at the July meeting of council, rejects many ot the key recommen­ dations of the report although agreeing with the majority of the 41 recommendations. The response was formulated by the executive committee of county council and presented to the full council for its approval. The county rejects a call for a minimum size of 4.000 people for a municipality, calling instead for permissive legislation to alluw each county to set its own minimum size for municipalities. The proposal in the study which recommends county councils also be limited to 20 members (there are currently 31 in Huron) also was Neighbours upset over noise Brussels Village councillors de­ cided Monday night not to issue licences for a north-end business to operate a poolroom and arcade, after a large delegation of neigh­ bours appeared to complain about the noise from an unlicenced poolroom and arcade already oper­ ating at the site. Councillors also voted to tell Art Crossman. owner of The Sea-Hut Coral to remove the arcade and poolroom immediately. Mr. Crossman is also living in his rejected by the council. The execu­ tive committee recommendation was that Huron County did not agree with restructuring and all municipalities should be represen­ commercial building in contraven­ tion of the village zoning by-law and had earlier appeared before council promising to be moved out before the end of June. That residency, said one neigh­ bour. is part of the problem. The Sea-Hut operates as a business during the day time but after 11 claims to be a residence with the right to invite friends over to use the facilities. “He doesn’t seem to have any respect for his neigh­ bours,” she said. ted on county council. The county did agree, however, that police villages such as Auburn, should be disbanded and the Continued on page 5 Councillor Mary Stretton, the village’s representative on the Ontario Provincial Police’s Extend­ ed Services Office committee for the Brussels area said the police are aware of the problem. They have received several calls with complaints of noise but by the time they arrive the noise is over. In future, how'ever, police will be making foot patrols and this may help, she said. Mr. Crossman had installed the Continued on page 2 Wardenship Marie Hicknell, Reeve of McKil- lop township will take a second run at the wardenship of Huron Coun­ ty, she announced Thursday. Reeve Hicknell’s announcement came after Lionel Wilder, Reeve of Hay township, announced to Huron County Council that he would be seeking the wardenship. It’s the first attempt for Reeve Wilder. Mrs. Hicknell said many people knew officially last fall when she lost the campaign for the warden’s chair to Bayfield Reeve Dave Johnston that she was already throwing her hat in the ring for this year.. Now, she said, she was making it official. The voting among members of the county council will take place early in December. Mrs. Hicknell would become only the second female warden, following Leona Armstrong of Grey who was war­ den jn 1986.