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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1992-06-10, Page 1News______ā– _____Sports_____[ Achievement J Community Blyth, Brussels gear up for festivals See page 2,3 Bulls' Lightbody OHL draft pick See page 7 Area girls win trophies at baton competitions See page 8 E. Wawanosh officially opens new twp. office See page 11 Lieut. Gov. opens Blyth Festival's 18th season CitizenTheNorthHuron Remembering Members of the Brussels Legion and area residents took part in the annual Decoration Day service at Brussels Cemetery on Sunday. Dismal damp weather contributed to the poor attendance. The parade was led by the Brussels Legion Pipe Band. Here, Sarah Stevenson leads the gathering in prayer. All bets off as dump site selection opens Those who breathed a sigh of relief that the new Huron County Landfill site wouldn't be in their backyard can start worrying again now that all six candidate sites (four in Grey township) have been turned down as unsuitable. In fact, all 41 of the original can­ didate sites in the Stage 2B report of the county's Waste Management Masterplan have been reexamined and rejected, meaning the selection criteria will have to be set all over again and sites originally rejected will have to be re-evaluated. Of the six original sites, the Goderich Township site was first to be eliminated when Western Foundry in Wingham indicated it would want to use the new landfill, increasing expected volumes and making the Goderich site too small. Later, soil samples taken by the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food (OMAF) upgraded all five remaining sites from class 5-7 farmland to class 1-4, eliminating all remaining sites. In addition, drilling on the five remaining site indicated Grey sites 2, 3 and 6 did­ n't have the minimum thickness of 15 metres over the bedrock while Howick site failed because of the presence of significant gravel con­ tent. The criteria for selection that only class 5 -7 farmland could be considered for site for the landfill. This brought criticism from some councillors who felt there was little likelihood a suitable site can be found on poorer farmland. "Maybe it's time to look at Class 1 farm­ land," Hay Reeve Lionel Wilder told council. When the city of Lon­ don can take 62,000 acres of prime farmland away from the county of Middlesex why should Huron worry about one or two hundred acres, he argued. "I don't think 60 cents we're going to spend the money in the right place if we keep searching for it (the site) on Class 3 and 4 land. It's just not going to work." Seaforth Reeve William Bennett said the current situation is an exact carbon copy of what hap­ pened when Seaforth and Tucker- smith township spent $300,000 searching for a suitable site and still couldn't find on. "It can just break small municipalities," he said. County Engineer Denis Merrall said he agreed that the chances of finding a suitable site are best on the best farmland but that the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food (OMAF) insists that the poor­ er classes of farmland be rejected first. "OMAF still says look at classes 5 and 6 land, then class 3 and 4, then class 1 and 2. " He agreed that the chances of finding a site on class 3 and 4 probably The Honourable Henry N. R. Jackman Lieutenant Governor of Ontario officially opens the Blyth Festival's 18th season on Friday, June 12. The Festivities begin Friday at 5:00 p.m. with the board of directors hosting a welcoming reception at Blyth Memorial Community Hall. Tim Porteous, President of the Ontario College of Art, is the special guest speaker at the Blyth Festival Art Gallery's opening of the George Agnew Reid weren't good but the county has to cover itself because it will have to defend its decision at an environ­ mental hearing. "We have to find a way so if we go to a hearing we're not fighting OMAF," he said. A technical committee meeting was scheduled for Tuesday to dis­ cuss the work program for complet­ ing the Master Plan Study. The work plan and costing estimates will be taken to the Steering Com­ mittee on June 19 and brought to County Council July 2 for review. The work plan is likely to include new criteria for selecting sites. Mr. Merrall wondered if new criteria should also be added. For instance, many people criticized the selection of other sites that would have required bush to be cut down. Should it be a criteria that bush not have to be cut, he wondered. exhibition at 5:30 p.m. in the Bainton Gallery. Two local people, Carol and Jerry McDonnell, were instru­ mental in assembling the Reid show after months of dedicated searching through private and public art collections. This famous 19th century painter, from the Wingham area was the first Principal of the Ontario College of Art in Toronto (1912-29) and co­ founder of the Art Gallery of Ontario. Bringing greetings from Her Majesty at the Blyth Festival Opening Night Dinner beginning at 6:00 p.m. is the Lieutenant Governor. Before his appointment as Ontario's 25th Lieutenant Governor last December, he enjoyed a distinguished business career as Chairman of the Board of Directors of National Trust Company, The Empire Life Insurance Company, E-L Financial Corporation Ltd., and Algoma Central Corporation among others. His roots in the region go back to 1830 when his great-grandfather and two brothers came to Stratford, with his great-grandfather eventually settling at Millbank. A long time supporter of the arts, he has served on the Boards of The Canadian Opera Company, The Ballet Opera House, Stratford Festival, and Shaw Festival. This is his first visit to the Blyth Festival. The Puff ā€˜nā€™ Blow Boys by Valoreyne Brandt Jenkins, opening the Blyth Festival's 18th season is directed by Bill Dow and features Jerry Franken, Dwight McFee and Patrie Masurkevitch as the cowboys who tell tall tales from the bunkhouse - the beautiful mail­ order bride that ran away, a saddle- continued on page 16 Huronview on schedule Work by the contractor on both Huronview sites is expected to be completed by Oct. 30, Huronview administrator Wayne Lester told Huron County Council Thursday. Mr. Lester said Granville Con­ structors, the contractor, still feels the Oct. 30 target will be reached on both sites. Work began at the Brussels site Oct. 11 last year and the Clinton Site started Oct. 15. Meanwhile Seniors and Social Services Committee Chairman Bruce Machan, Reeve of Wingham, said "fill" taken from the Brussels site and deposited on the Brussels, Morris and Grey Community Cen­ tre property was taken there by a sub-contractor without authoriza­ tion from the county. Referring to an inquiry from Brussels about when the fill would be leveled, Reeve Machan said the county might even be wanting the fill back again. The county, its architect and its lawyer, all agreed that the county should not pay a bill from a sub­ contractor for extra gravel put on the Clinton site because there was no authorization for the gravel to be applied. The bill was for $181,000. A lien had been put against the North Huron site by a local sub­ sub-contractor for non-payment by a sub-contractor but that had been resolved, Reeve Machan said.