HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1993-01-13, Page 1Vol. 9 No. 2
Wednesday, January 13, 1993 60 cents
The North Huron
itizen
Corn picker
It's January and there's snow on the ground yet farmers like Freddy Pot of RR 3, Auburn are
still trying to bring in the crop. Mr. Pot, who farms in partnership with Hans and Audrey
Boonstoppel of RR 1, Auburn, says the 10 acres of corn they picked this Thursday and Friday
when the sun was shining is better quality than the corn they picked in November. Though it
is slightly moldy, Mr. Pot said they needed the corn to make ground feed for their dairy herd.
Like many farmers, they still have corn in the field—approximately half of the 70 acres they
planted this spring—which they hope to get combined and sell to the feed mills.
HCBE ok's tentative contract
Environment
East Wawanosh students
get surprising results
from school project
See page 6
Sports •
Brussels Bulls fight
to maintain tenuous
grip on second place
See page 8
News
Drop-in centre board
ready to train
volunteers for the Ark
See page 17
County signs contract
for landfill site study
It looks like Huron County ele-
mentary teachers are going to
receive a wage hike similar to their
secondary counterparts.
The board supported a tentative
agreement with the elementary
teachers at their Jan. 11 meeting.
Teachers will vote on the deal
later this week.
No word is being released on the
contents of the deal. The only indi-
cation of a wage increase was a
remark from Godcrich trustee Nor-
man Pickell. He said "I'm voting in
favour of the agreement. Not
because it's good for the taxpayers
but because it meets the secondary
teachers agreement."
The elementary teachers old
Last week while checking into
the condition of accident victim
Joanne Mason, 13, of the Belgrave-
area, The Citizen was told by a
spokesperson from the Wingham
Hospital, that the patient had been
taken to St. Joseph's Hospital, Lon-
don. That name was not listed on
agreement expired Aug. 31. In it,
the maximum teacher's salary came
to just over $62,000 per year.
the patient list so it was assumed
she had been discharged.
Miss Mason, had been admitted
instead to Victoria Hospital under
the name of Churchill. She is
reported to be in fair condition.
We apologize for the error.
The the next step in the search
for a suitable site for Huron Coun-
ty's garbage will to cost $269,368.
The county signed a contract
Thursday with Gore and Storrie
Ltd. the consulting company which
has been preparing the Waste Man-
agement Master Plan. The next
step, Stage 2C will identify poten-
tial sites for the landfill site for the
county. A year ago the company
had identified six sites, based on
the criteria that Class 1 and 2 farm-
land couldn't be used, but all the
sites were rejected, most because
they were unsafe due to hydrogco-
logical conditions.
The new candidate sites will be
chosen using new criteria which
will allow better quality farmland
to be used.
Lionel Wilder, reeve of Hay
Township, questioned the haste in
signing the agreement, noting that
the final Stage 2B report hadn't
been received. Denis Merrall,
Huron County's engineer pointed
out that if the beginning of Stage
2C was delayed until April, it
wouldn't be possible to do test
drilling on the new candidate sites
next winter and testing would be
delayed until 1993-94, losing a
whole year.
Reeve Wilder complained that if
the original study had allowed con-
sideration of Class 1 and 2 farm-
land the county now wouldn't be
stuck with another $269,000 study.
But Mr. Merrall said Meaford and
St. Vincent township had made that
mistake and the Ministry of Envi-
ronment had rejected their study.
Brussels council will not be tak-
ing an increase in salary for the
upcoming year. This was decided at
the regular meeting on Monday,
Jan.4.
Reeve Gord Workman's salary is
$2,400. Councillors will be paid
$1,800 yearly. In addition there
will be a payment of $100 daily for
extra meetings, $75 for half day
meeting and a mileage expense of
30 cents per kilometre.
Village employees were, howev-
er, given a slight increase over the
previous year. Clerk Treasurer
Donna White will be paid $31,000
up $1,000 from last year.
Deputy Clerk Treasurer Lori Pipe
is to be paid $9.25 per hour up
from $8.50 last year.
Fifty percent of both salaries will
be paid by the village while the
PUC will pay the remainder.
PUC Foreman Don Crawford and
Road Superintendent Hugh Nichol
received an increase of 25 cents per
hour to $11.75.
Georgie Hockey has been
engaged to clean the office and
library at $6.50 per hour.
Emergency office labour rate is
set at $7 per hour and outdoor
labour rate is $9 per hour.
Appointments were made as well
to various boards and committees.
Mr. Bruce McCall will be the vil-
lage's representative to the Mait-
land Valley Conservation
Authority.
Ms Bev Brown will serve on the
Wingham and District Hospital
study, there remain the Stage 3A
and 3B studies, estimated at
$149,480 and $60,500 respectively.
If all those hurdles are passed, the
county still must pay to buy and
develop the final site.
Craig Metzger was also appoint-
ed Project Co-ordinator for the
Master Plan study, replacing
Joanne Richter who resigned the
position in the fall. Mr.Metzger, a
member of the Planning and Devel-
opment Department staff, has been
serving as interim Co-ordinator
since that resignation was received.
One of Mr. Metzger's jobs will be
to update information on the capac-
ities of existing landfill sites in the
county. Current information, con-
tained in Stage 1 of the Master Plan
study, is now four years old.
Mr. Merrall pointed out that
many of the communities that had
some breathing room when the
original study was done, now are
coming close to reaching their
capacity. Originally, the county had
hoped to be finishing the process of
finding a new landfill in 1993.
Past Warden Robert Fisher.
Reeve of Zurich, wondered if Mr.
Merrall had heard anything of
rumoured legislation from the
province that would force counties
to take over all existing landfill
capacity in the county. Mr. Merrall
said he had talked to someone who
was helping draft the legislation but
said the law may, or may not, ever
make it to the legislature. There is a
disagreement between different
ministries on the bill and if those
conflicts can't be resolved, the bill
Board. She will receive $25 per
meeting plus $9 mileage.
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Area skaters
to compete
at Nationals
Two area skaters have done the
community proud again at the Divi-
sional Figure Skating competition
in Brandon, Man. this past week-
end.
Peter MacDonald, 19, of Brussels
and his partner Suzanne Killing, 18
of Tavistock took second place in
the Seniors Dance Pairs competi-
tion earning themselves a chance to
compete at the Canadian Champi-
onship in Hamilton in early Febru-
ary. This is the third year the pair
has competed and the first at the
Senior level. In 1991 they took
third place in the Junior event,
while the following year they also
skated to a spot in the National
Championship, where they ended
in fifth place.
Mark Shepherd, 15 of Blyth, and
his partner Debbie MacKenzie of
Kitchener will also be in Hamilton
having taken first place at Division-
als in the Novice Dance event.
This is the second year the pair,
has competed and the second year
that they have advanced to the
Nationals. They have been skating
together for five years.
Shepherd also placed ninth in the
Novice Singles Free Skate competi-
tion.
Sorry, our mistake!
As well as the $269,000 Stage 2C might not be tabled.
No pay increase for
Brussels councillors