HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1989-11-15, Page 1Recycling study
Brussels to conduct study
See page 3
Riddell gets earful
Education officials
want more consultation
See page 25
Local victors
Bulls win,
Crusaders stop slide
See page 14
Farm neighbour objects to Blyth zoning change
VOL. 5 NO. 46 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1989.50 CENTS
Vandals
strike
elevators
Vandals caused close to $3,000
damage to Canadian Agra Eleva
tors on Highway 4 in East Wawa-
nosh Township over the weekend,
according to a report from the
Wingham OPP.
Police state that property mana
ger, Dietmar Schroeker, discovered
the damage on the morning of
November 11 and reported it to the
police. All windows, double pane
glass and the front door glass had
been smashed in the office while
three windows had been broken in
the power house shed. The gas
pumps also sustained damage.
There are no suspects and OPP
are investigating the incident.
Cattle beast
stolen
from farm
A cattle beast was stolen from
the farm of Ross Youngblut Satur
day and Crime Stoppers is seeking
assistance in getting information
on the theft.
Sometime between the hours of 4
and 10 p.m. Saturday, someone
entered the barn on the farm just
west of Blyth on County Road 25
and loaded a 500-600 pound cattle
beast. The animal is described as
being a Charolais-Angus cross and
brown in colour.
Anyone with information on the
theft can call Crime Stoppers at
524-6851 or 1-800-265-1777. The
person’s name does not need to be
given and a cash reward of up to
$1,000 could be earned.
Festival’s
Kaszas
resigns
Katherine Kaszas will step down
following the 1990 season as artis
tic director of the Blyth Festival.
When she leaves on Nov. 1. 1990
she will have had the longest term
of any artistic director in the history
of the Festival which began in
1975. This coming season will be
her sixth year in the position as the
person who sets the artistic direc
tion of the Festival.
Ms. Kaszas first came to the
Festival in 1980 as a stage manager
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Remembering
Karen Hastings and Bill Beacom lay wreaths at the cenotaph in Brussels during the Remembrance
Day ceremony on Saturday. Ceremonies in Blyth, Brussels and Londesboro marked the day in
remembrance of those who served in two World Wars.
Despite the objection of a neigh
bouring farmer, Blyth Village
Council voted unanimously Wed
nesday night to recommend a
zoning change on two north-end
lots to make way for a new
subdivision.
The two lots, located on the east
side of Hwy. 4, south of the Blyth
Distributors plant, are currently
designated for highway commercial
use but owner John Van den Assem
had requested the change to resi
dential because he wanted to link
them to his proposed 31-lot sub
division to be built east of the lots.
But at a public meeting held
Wednesday night before the regu
lar meeting of village council David
Webster, whose farm abutts the
proposed subdivision, lodged an
official objection to the change. Mr.
Webster said that back in 1980
when the subdivision was proposed
for a mobile home park, he had
been informed that his farming
operation wouldn’t be affected.
Now, however, as he and his son
Stephen seek to expand their dairy
operation, they have been told they
don’t meet the code of practice (of
the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture
and Food) and therefore can’t get a
building permit for an addition to
the north side of the barn for a
milking parlour, a tank to hold
runoff from the barn and an
outdoor cattle manger. Under the
code of practice farm livestock
buildings must be a specified
distance from the nearest land in
residential use.
The Blyth councillors were some
what at a loss on the situation of
Mr. Webster because as a resident
of Morris township, his building
permit is being dealt with in the
township. But Cindy Fisher, a
planner with the Huron County
Planning and Development Depart
ment said she understood from
Wayne Caldwell, the planner in
volved with Morris, that a solution
could likely be worked out to
reduce the Code of Practice re
quirements in this case to allow
Mr. Webster to expand.
At any rate, she said, there were
already residential properties clos
er to the Webster farm than the two
lots in question and she didn’t feel
that turning the lots from highway
commercial to residential would
have any more adverse effect on
the Webster farm than they would
have under their current designa
tion.
Another area farmer Siep Bosma
who has a farm on the west side of
Hwy. 4, also worried about the
effect of close proximity of residen
tial property to his farm. A plan he
had once discussed to convert his
dairy barn to a broiler operation
had been killed by the proximity of
the residential area, he said. But
Mr. Van den Assem pointed out
that under the highway commercial
designation the site could be used
for a motel that might bring even
more complaints about farm
odours.
Ms. Fisher pointed out that the
lands in question were within the
village limits and were intended to
be developed for urban uses. She
said the village plan wasn’t saying
that the existing farms within the
village should go away, but that
they should not be intensified.
Several other neighbours were
present at the meeting but none
made any complaints about the
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