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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," CONTINUED ON ,PAGE 2 Sll A Year In 'Advance $21.50 To. U.S.A. and. Foreign 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. • •