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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1991-10-23, Page 1News Features Sports East Wawanosh ratepayers to be consulted more Couple to take snow business on the trail Bulls, Barons tie 1-1 in season's first big face-off See page 21 -See page 13 See page 15 C itizenTheNorthHuron Landfill could cost $6-$10 million to open Vol. 7 No. 42 Wednesday, October 23,1991 60 cents Compacted truck Blyth firemen and police comfort accident victim Gary Caldwell (left) at the scene of a Thursday morning accident on the fourth concession of East Wawanosh near Westfield. Mr. Caldwell's pickup collided with a gravel truck and pushed 100 feet from the point of collision. He was taken to London hospital with serious injuries. Blyth man seriously injured in crash A Blyth-area man remains in London's Victoria Hospital follow­ ing an accident in East Wawanosh Township last Thursday morning shortly after 8:00. A Wingham OPP spokesperson said that Gary Caldwell, 33, of RR3, Blyth, was driving his 1987 GMC pick-up north on Sideroad 40 when he failed to stop at the stop sign at the intersection of County Road 5. The Caldwell vehicle was then struck by a westbound dump truck, owned by Seegmiller's and driven by Cecil Brear, 28, of Trout Creek. Mr. Caldwell sustained major injuries and was taken to Wingham and District Hospital by ambu­ lance, then later transferred to Vic­ toria Hospital where he remains in fair condition, according to a hospi­ tal spokesperson. The Caldwell truck was demol­ ished. By the time a new Huron county landfill site opens in 1996, taxpay­ ers could have paid $6 to $10 mil­ lion, county engineer Denis Merrall told a meeting of 30 people affect­ ed by the Grey candidate site No.6, Thursday night. Jeanne Kirkby of Walton had asked how much had been spent on the Waste Management Master Plan, and Jo-Anne Richter, co-ordi­ nator of the projects said the cost was already $350,000 and would likely reach $500,000 before the Stage 3A report is published show­ ing exact plans of what Huron will do with its garbage and ranking the still-eligible sites in order of least environmental harm. But that, Mr. Merrall said, is just the beginning. At the very beginning someone who had been through this kind of process before has predicted Huron would spend $8 million, Mr. Mer­ rall said, and that figure is looking very accurate. "A good chunk of that doesn't buy things you see on the ground- it buys paper," he said. He said that county councillors have indicated they want to see that cost recovered through "tipping fees", (a charge for each truckload tipped into the site). "It's not going to be cheap. It's going to be a good incentive to reduce waste." Because of the distance garbage will have to travel from distant parts of the county to any eventual site, there will likely be transfer stations located in various parts of the county, Mr. Merrall said. If there aren't stations where people can take their garbage and leave it for transportation to the landfill, a lot of garbage might end up in ditches, he said. In answer to a question of how much traffic can be expected by the residents in the area of the site finally chosen, Mr. Merrall said because of the transfer stations there won't likely be any individu­ als visiting the site to dump their garbage. The predicted amount of garbage produced by the county would be the equivalent of 20 garbage packer trucks a day but with employees of the landfill site and others, he felt it would likely double the daily traffic of a normal concession road to about 200 vehi­ cles: "but it's not like the 2000 cars a day that are on County Rd. 25" he said. Mrs. Kirkby wondered what the site would be like when it's in oper­ ation. Mr. Merrall said it's hard to predict until the site is chosen and the rules for running the site are set up but "My goal is to try to be a good neighbour. I have to live in Huron and I have to deal with the problems." He said he would like to see an operation similar to the Erb St. landfill in Kitchener-Waterloo where there is nothing to be seen by the public. But, he said, "It will take a lot more meetings, a lot more information before we decide how the site will be operated." Reduction in the amount of garbage to go into the landfill is an important part of the plans. The county must meet the provincial standards of a 50 per cent reduction of waste from urban areas by the year 2000 and a 15 per cent reduc- Gibson pulls out, Hullett council set Hullett township's current deputy reeve Joe Gibson last week with­ drew his name from the running for the post in the upcoming municipal election meaning there will be no election in the township. With the withdrawal, Ron Gross, currently a councillor, wins accla­ mation as deputy reeve. He joins Reeve Tom Cunningham who was acclaimed and councillors Ken Hulley, Tom Duizer and Tony Mid- degaal, all of whom were acclaimed. There won't even be an election for public school board trustee as John Jewitt was acclaimed to repre­ sent Blyth and Hullett. Donna White heads North Huron 2 seek vacant seat development steering committee on East Wawanosh council Donna White, Clerk-treasurer of Brussels was appointed chairman of the North Huron Community Development Steering Committee when the group held its inaugural meeting in Brussels Wednesday night. Rhea Hamilton-Seeger, Deputy­ reeve of West Wawanosh township was elected the representative from the North Huron committee to the over-all Huron County Community Development Committee by the eight representatives from munici­ palities in North Huron as well as five representatives of the special interest committees on agriculture, economic development, education and personal development, environ­ ment and health and social services. Those appointments were the only concrete results of the meeting which had been billed as a chance for the committee members to get acquainted and ask questions about the role of the committee. Much of the evening was devoted to ques­ tions from skeptical committee members who wanted to make sure the $468,000 Community Develop­ ment program wasn't just a chance to create more jobs in the county's Planning and Development Depart­ ment. "What has already been pre­ determined by county planners?" Nancy McDonald Exel said, at one point after hearing that staff had already approved going ahead with compiling an inventory of industri­ al sites and buildings in North Huron to go along with the same study taking place in the South Huron, Central Huron and West Huron community development areas, "I get the feeling there is a plan of what you people want and you're trying to say it's coming from the grass roots." "I don't mind coming and sitting al productive meetings," said Wray Wilson of Howick township," but I hale to come to a committee and sit as a figurehead." Jason Chu, one of the two Huron County Planning and Development officials who has spearheaded the North Huron group said the tradi­ tional way to develop an economic development strategy was to make policies -at the county level and have it come down from above. The North Huron experiment is to develop policies from the ideas of the special interest groups made up Continued on page 11 There will be an election for council after all in East Wawanosh but only for one of the four seats. Nominations were reopened Wednesday of last week after one of the seats was unfilled at the close of the original nomination period Oct. 11. John A. Currie and Dianna A. Robinson were both nominated for the single seat avail­ able. Nobody wants A post on Blyth's Public Utilities Commission was there for the tak­ ing but has gone unwanted. Only one person ran for the two PUC posts open when the original nomination period ended Oct. 11 (the third position is filled by the village reeve). Dave McLellan was acclaimed to one of the two posts. Nominations were reopened They'll join three candidates for the position of Reeve on the ballot for the Nov. 12 municipal election. Incumbent Ernie Snell, former reeve Neil Vincent and current councillor Jim Hunter are all seek­ ing the reeve's office. Acclaimed to positions on coun­ cil were current councillors Mau­ rice Hallahan, Fred Meier and Don Schultz. PUC post Wednesday but the post remained unfilled. Clerk-treasurer Helen Grubb said from her understanding the post will now remain vacant until after the Nov. 12 election after which interested persons will be asked to come forward and a commissioner will be appointed to fill the vacan­ cy. Continued on page 11