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The Citizen, 1989-08-30, Page 1Queen contestants 7 seek Brussels Fair title See page 5 Award given Londesboro farmer honoured for conservation award See page 16 Entertainment Festival announces Fall season See page 22 Ethel girl injured in Bayfield crash Serving Brussels, Blytti, Auburn, Belgrave, Ethel, Londesborough, Walton and surrounding townships. Three girls received major injur­ ies following a single vehicle accident on the Bayfield Road about 9 p.m. Saturday evening. Michelle Krauter, 19, of Ethel and 20-year-old Ellen Tanner of Listowel were passengers in a car registered to Miss Krauter's father Ed Krauter. According to Goderich OPP. the ‘78 Ford Pinto, which was being driven by Gayle Sleightholm, 20, of RR 2. Listowel was west­ bound on County Road 13, when the front tire entered the gravel shoulder. The driver then lost control and the car rolled into the culvert, striking a post. The three victims were taken to Clinton Hospital suffering what police described as major injuries. Miss Sleighthom and Miss Tanner were transferred to University Hospital in London later that evening where they are both listed in fair condition. Miss Krauter, who was wearing a seat belt, remains in Clinton in good condi­ tion. An OPP spokesperson says that no charges are to be laid. The Krauter vehicle was demolished. Local streams fail pollution test, MVCA ‘Beaches’ study shows Streams and rivers in the Mait­ land Valley watershed are failing the pollution test, a technician with the Maitland Valley Conservation Authority (MVCA) told the Soil and Water Conservation Day held at the Morris township farm of Peter and Brian Oldridge, Wednesday. Bob Fuller who headed the Provincial Rural Beaches Manage­ ment Strategy study looking at water quality in the MVCA basin said that of 25 water test stations in 1987, only one met the objective of the Ministry of the Environment for Fecal coliform levels. Fecal coli­ form is a bacteria that can cause Holiday hours announced The last long weekend of the summer approaches with most businesses being closed Monday for Labour Day. At The Citizen there will be only a minor change for holidays, how­ ever. The Citizen will appear next week on Wednesday as usual meaning most of our staff will be working Monday. The Blyth office will keep regular hours. The Brus­ sels office will be open from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p. m. due to staff holidays. Deadlines for advertising and editorial copy remain the same: 2 p.m. in Brussels and 4 p.m. in Blyth. VOL. 5 NO. 35 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1989.45 CENTS Hullett postpones meeting over new hall Plans for a public meeting to discuss a new township hall in Hullett have been postponed until a survey of community interest has been held. Hullett Reeve Tom Cunningham said Thursday that council had decided it wanted to seek as wide a response from the ratepayers of the township as possible so has decid­ ed to send out a survey along with tax bills so that everyone will have a chance to speak their mind on the possibility of building a new com­ munity centre to replace the old township hall. The problem with meetings' he said, is that the small portion of the citizens who attend may not represent the feelings of the whole community. The surveys, included in tax notices, will be in the mail in the next few days and sore throats and ear infections in humans and has led to the closure of many beaches to public swimm­ ing. The goal was for water to have less than 100 bacteria per 100 ml. of water. The one test station that passed showed only 85 bacteria per 100 ml. but the other 24 stations ranged from 264 to 6730 bacteria per 100 ml. Testing in 1988 showed only the one station of the 25 that again met the standard. Tests of phosphorous levels were also carried out. Phosphorous pro­ motes excessive plant growlh that can rob the water of oxygen, turning streams to a sluggish green appearance and sometimes killing fish for lack of oxygen. High phosphorous levels can come from farm fertilizers, or livestock and human waste. In 1987 not one of the 25 test stations met the standard of .03 mg. of phosphorus to one litre of water, Mr. Fuller said. In 1988, seven of the stations met the standard. Part of the Rural Beaches pro­ gram also involved surveying farms within 500 feet of an open w'ater course (open ditch or stream). Major concerns, he said were run off from solid manure waste stor­ age. cattle in waterways, milk­ house wastes making their way into waterways, manure handling prac­ tices and domestic wastes from septic tanks. Eighty per cent of manure stor­ age in the Maitland watershed is solid manure storage without con­ trol of runoff liquids, Mr. Fuller most are expected to be returned with tax payments by Sept. 30. A public meeting will be scheduled after the survey has been received, probably in October, he said. Reeve Cunningham stressed that the township has made no decision at this point on whether or not to build a new community hall. Coun­ cil had earlier approached the Londesboro Women’s Institute and the Lions Club and had received favourable response to the idea of a larger facility for dances and dinners and had set aside $45,000 in a reserve fund for the possibility. Reeve Cunningham said that council had been told that the old township hall is not worth fixing and has to decide what to do. “Do we do without a hall? Do we build a new one? Do we use the school?” said. The area gets 36 inches of precipitation per year so there is a good deal of runoff that can reach waterways. There are 400 sites in the watershed where cattle come in direct contact with streams, he said. This contributes to stream bank erosion and it can also help spread disease from one herd to another and even from one animal in the herd to another through the water. Often, he said, milkhouse wastes are drained directly into streams or into tile drains where the milky water eventually finds its way into a stream. With the average waste from a dairy farm this is about like dumping about 35 kg. of total phosphorous into the stream in a year, he said. The survey showed, Mr. Fuller said, that about 35 per cent of farmers spread manure in the winter time when it can much easier be washed off the fields causing pollution in streams. The MVCA would like to promote better storage and better spreading prac­ tices, he said. Mr. Fuller said he feels the septic waste disposal systems of homes are contributing a major amount of bacterial material to area streams. Often dishwasher and clothes w'asher “grey water” isn’t put in the septic system but is pumped into a drain and makes its way to the stream. There’s a problem too with maintenance of Continued on page 19 their 60th weddingHatti and Edwin Wood celebrated anniversary with200friends, neighboursand relatives helping them Sunday at Londesboro. The couple were married 60 years agoMonday and still farm on the same farm they started on in 1929. Woods family marks 60th anniversary Two hundred guests gathered at Londesboro United Church Sunday to help Edwin and Hattie Wood celebrate their 60th wedding anni­ versary. The ladies of the Londesboro UCW catered for the event. The family later gathered at the Classic Restaurant in Blyth for a family dinner. The day also marked the 35th wedding anniversary for their daughter Lois and her husband Bill Andrews of Toronto. Both couples were married on August 28. Present at the ceremony were Mr. and Mrs. Andrews, and the Wood’s son, Ken and his family of Wingham. A total of seven grand­ children and one great-grandchild were in attendance. The couple still resides on the farm on the 13th concession of Hullett (RR 1, Blyth) that they took up following their wedding trip in 1929. The couple were wed at the home of the Bride’s parents Mr. and Mrs. William Gray of Hullett township on Wednesday, August 28, 1929 at 11 a.m. The ceremony was performed on the spacious lawn by the Rev. S. J. Mathers of Gesto, cousin of the bride, assisted by Rev. J. W. Johnson of Londesboro. The bride, who was given away by her father, took her place beneath a beautiful arch, under a lovely old walnut tree in the lawn, coming slowly to the strains of Lohengrin’s wedding march, play­ ed by Miss Mary Wood, sister of the bridegroom. The bride was becomingly attired in a gown of croquette crepe and carried a sheaf of garden flowers. The pianist wore a pretty printed georgette frock. After the ceremony some 80 guests repaired to the dining room where a sumptuous dinner was served by four of the bride’s cousins, after which Mr. and Mrs. Wood left on a motor trip for Ludington, Benton Harbor and other points in Michigan. The bride donned for travelling a dress of autumn brown with hat and acces­ sories to match.