HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1979-03-07, Page 1Lucknow . Flea . Bradley Murray leaps for joy after. scoring on the
Tiverton goalie =during their game Saturday' at thee Lucknow Flea
Hockey Tournament. Eight teams competed in the annual event
• including Teeswater, Brussels, Mildmay, Blyth, Lucknow, 'Tiverton,
Ripley .and Belgrave. Luckttow' made' it to the consolation playdown
• but lost the consolation championship 'to Belgrave..Teeswater put out
Blyth to. win the tournament. Picture story on pages 12-13.
[Photo by Dave Sykes]
Vandals
pW..zIe.
board
BY JEFF SEDDON
Incidepts. f vandalistn
at cotinty' schools has got
the Huron County board.
of education scratching
heads with one hand and •
writing cheques with the
other. The board received,
several reports Monday.
from schools in the
county tha•t. received
property dapages as a
result of vandalism.
Board chairman Sohn
Elliott told the board he
was concerned about the
'costs and :frequency of •
vandalism and warned
that: if the board did not
.come up with some sort of
preventive schemes ,the
costs would becomea
real burden on the
board's' budget,
"Inall my years ex-
perience on the school.
board I .have never . seen
anything as serious,"
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WEDNESD:AY,:MARCH 7, 1919
Single Copy 25c
24 PAGES.
Huron. Farmers arepreparing a brief .to
present to thePorter Commission hearings
in Wingham this month; objecting to any.
plans Ontario Hydro may have .,to build- a
-hydro corridor through'. Iuron to London,
Hydro says it is imperative' to get a line out
of the Bruce Generating Station to carry:
power produced by a reactor whih will be in
service in 1982-83. •`.
But, farmers who have hydro lines
crossing ; their property :.insist there ; are,
hazards which threaten .anyone- who works
around hydro lines much of the time. .
Aside from; the usual criticisms that the
towers` are ugly, they sacrifice rich farmland,
depreciate property and .. make farming
operations more difficult because the diag
onal severance isolates part of the farm
property: The farmers' main objection is to
the straneiings they say happen beneath
the lines or near them.
The lines often crackle and hum and
occasionally give off , a ghostly glow: They
• sag ominously attimes, and parents
automatically check the whereabouts of their
children:
Farmers say cattle won't graze under, the
lines and people working, in the fields get
nauseated, develop headaches, even vomit.
They get electrical shocks off vehicles+.
Electrical equipment reacts in erratic .fash-.
ion:. Two 'w ay radios; for communication
•
sesame
Street
fever.
Oh dear! ..This little one
;had .a hard time staying
up enter Skatea when she
took .part In the • Ripley
FIgure Skating carnival on
Sunday. The skaters •
chose a ' Sesame Street
theme which featured all
the familiar characters.
• Big. Birds Cookie Monster,
Ernie Sid Bert were there•.
and Grover added a little
disco,fever with the 'song,
Sesame :Street Fever from
his
neW arum.' More
pictures are oh page 6.
[Photo•by Bev Clark]
with barn or field, are unreliable at certain
times of the day. Electric seed . monitors
develop unstable .tendencies. • .
Farmers caution their ..children..: not to
refuel vehicles if they run out of gas below
a • . the lines unless they use a . conductor.
Hydro says there isno danger if a ,plastic
container is bonded to the vehicle.
Hydro towers preventthe use.of planes to •
spray .crops and installation of the towers
requires gravel roads through the property
to carry equipment.
Hydro keep saying the risks are exagger.
ated'= even products of overactive imagina-
tions because it has been unable to.'
reproduce many of the•'reported happenings
in . its test centre at Essa.
The Hydro experts are firmly contradicted
however by Walter Scott, a safety engineer
and farmer who is: in demand as a consult-
ant, . even to Hydro, ,throughout North
.America.
Scott, who runs a farm in the Milton area,
says he got a numbing jolt when he drove
under the 230-kv line crossing his farm one
rainy day:. He says he touched.the side of the
tractor ,getting out and he ached for. ten
minutes and had a, severe headache •
He .maintains there is no doubt at all that a
fatality could..happen in certain circumstanc-
es under a power line. Children, he says, are
most vulnerable. _
Scott says data accumulated indicates
there is enough charge built up in rural areas,
where lines,cross the highway to kill a child
if a school bus was stopped under the line for
any reason: The child would be okay if: he
jumped out of the vehicle, but he would be
killed if he held onto the (door) rail.
Scott also says people, and 'animals that
spend a great -deal of time near -the fines
could . become sterile. - It -depends on the
strength of, the magnetic field but he could
set up a demonstration to show that sperm,
under the line, is killed both in cattle and
• humans.
Hydro disin.isses this by pointing .out. that"
some linesmen, 'who work 20 hours a week
•under the line, have big families: But, says
Scott, those men get away from the lines. and
their cells regenerate.. le's different with
people living near the lines all the time..
Women are moresusceptible than men
Power failures and .brownouts in. metro-
politan..,
. areas. Hydros' inability.••.to .project
load growth (Hydro over-estimated the load
growth for the 1980's by about 40 per cent)
and its plans to `export electricity to , the
United States sho'ul'd not result inthe
sacrifice of the health of farmers and their
families and the loss of rich`, agricultural
land in . Huron County.
The Huronfarmers plan to tell the Porter
commission and . indirectly, Ontario Hydro
that they are not willingto take on the
burden of exporting electricity to the United,,
States, nor do they intend to pay for.Hydro'a
mistakes. The Bruce Nuclear Development
is in the wrong location and extensivepower
corridors must be constructed to take the
electricity produced at Bruce to the areas
where it is required.
The Porter Commission hearings are'
being held in Wingham on March 19, 20 and
21. Anyone'who is interested in helping.with
the preparation of the brief or would attend
the hearings tow s port should contact
Tony McQuail, 528-6542.
andals pay price
Two Lucknow youths were sentenced to 15.
days in custody . after pleading .guilty to
seven counts of wilful damage in the village
of Lucknow and Kinloss .Township, between
.October 22 .and December 3, 1978. The
sentences were• handed down in Walkerton
Provincial Court a week ago.
Upon their release `from custody, the
youths will be on probation for one year.
They were also ordered to make"restitution
for the damage toi,the amount of $396 each.
A number of windows were broken in the
related incidents as well as the glass door on
the front of the Lucknow arena. Windows
were also smashed at the South Kinloss
Presbyterian Church. Total damage amount-
ed to $766.78.
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