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
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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
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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
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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.