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Vol. 9 No.21 Wednesday, May 26, 1993
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The North Huron
itizen
You light up my life
Matthew Snyder (left) and Trevor Wilson (right) of Brussels had their own miniature fireworks
display before the real thing got going at the Hullett Central Public schoolyard Monday night in
celebration of Victoria Day. Hundreds of cars were on hand to witness an electrifying variety
of fireworks which were put on by the Londesboro Lions, Men's Slo-Pitch League and
Londesboro businesses after Hullett Twp. council decided they would no longer sponsor the
annual event. Over $3,500 worth of fireworks dazzled watchers this year.
Feature
OSAID speaker shows
parents, teens, the dangers
of drinking and driving
See page 6
Sports
Area elementary students
compete in annual
track and field meets
News
Blyth Festival unveils
its 1993
season poster
Public meetings set
for landfill criteria
Huron MPP Paul Klopp said in a
phone interview last week follow-
ing the announcement of the new
provincial budget that he felt "very
good"about the decisions reached
by Ontario Treasurer Floyd Laugh-
ren.
"I think Mr. Laughren listened
and came up with a fair budget. I'm
feeling very good about it," said
Mr. Klopp.
This budget, he said looks at
expenditure control which meant
cuts to program spending rather
than large tax increases, he said.
"People expected to see an increase
in the PST which didn't happen, nor
was there any further tax placed on
cigarettes, alcohol or gasoline."
Taxes were instead increased in a
number of areas not normally
taxed, such as insurance premiums.
Other areas highlighted by Mr.
Klopp include a minimum corpo-
rate tax of 10 percent on businesses
making over $5 million, a reduc-
tion in the tax write-off for such
things as business lunches from
100 percent to 50 percent and the
removal of the tire tax.
Mr. Klopp said he felt foi the
ratepayers of Huron the removal of
the tire tax and the fact that there is
no increase in the gasoline tax will
be a "big hidden savings."
With this budget, Mr. Klopp
says, the province hopes to get the
projected deficit down to $9.2 bil-
lion for this year. "While making
sure that such necessary services
as hospitals don't have to take any
less than they needed, we knew we
were to the point that if we didn't
get this (the deficit) down and
under control it was going to be
disastrous."
For its part, Mr. Klapp noted that
there has been a decrease of 4.3
percent in government spending,
the highest since 1942. With the $2
billion savings projected through
the social contract, Mr. Klopp
added that there was "no doubt the
Huron County residents are being
given the opportunity to provide
valuable input into the process to
locate a new County landfill site.
Public meetings have been
scheduled in Blyth and Hensall to
discuss the landfill search process
and the criteria to be used in
locating the new landfill site.
These public meetings are
scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m. and
are being held on May 26, at the
Blyth Community Centre and May
27 at the Hensall Community
Centre. During these meetings the
public will have the opportunity to
suggest modifications to the
landfill siting criteria and will rank
the relative importance of the
secondary criteria.
There are three types of criteria
that will be used to locate a new
landfill site: exclusionary,
secondary, and boundary criteria.
Exclusionary criteria are plotted
first on a map of the County to
identify areas that are unsuitable
for landfill (such as urban areas or
wetlands). These areas will not be
considered further as potential
landfill sites.
After the exclusionary criteria
have been mapped, the secondary
criteria are then applied. Secondary
criteria are used to identify those
lands upon which it is preferable to
avoid locating a landfill. However,
Monday night's thunderstorm
caused a five-hour power failure in
Blyth and Belgrave and for some
residents in Hullett, Morris and
East Wawanosh Twps.
The power went out at approxi-
mately 6:30 p.m. when a corner
pole on Conc. 7 in Hullett Twp. fell
across the road, explained Wayne
Kuntz, a Line Trades Supervisor
for Ontario Hydro in Clinton.
"We're not sure, but we believe
the pole was struck by lightning
which started the fire, causing the
insulators to fail," he said.
The fire started about 12 feet
from the top of the pole, causing
the upper portion to fall over.
Clinton firefighters were called
to contain the scene along with
Ontario Hydro line workers. These
workers had to replace the pole and
reconnect the hydro wires.
All residents had power again by
MPPs will have to share the load.
We have already frozen our salaries
for the past three years in the hopes
of setting an example." Staff and
inventory cuts of 18 percent have
been made as well, he said.
Difficult times call for difficult
measures and the budget is not
going to answer every problem,
Mr. Klopp agrees, but it is a begin-
ning he can live with. "Sure, there
are things that I see differently, but
I appreciate the work that was done
and where the Treasurer was head-
ing. If we keep ourselves on a
steady ship there's always next
year."
if other, more suitable sites are not
available a landfill could be located
on these lands. The secondary
criteria are applied one at a time in
a predetermined order (based on
input from the public meetings). If
all potential areas are eliminated
after the secondary criteria are
applied the last secondary criteria
applied are removed in order to
yield a sufficient number of
candidate areas.
Boundary criteria are applied
after the secondary criteria to
divide the candidate areas into
candidate sites. Examples of
boundary criteria include railway
lines, roads, and property lines.
The comments and rankings from
the public meetings will be used to
prepare a list of exclusionary,
ranked secondary, and boundary
constraints for formal adoption by
the Waste Management Master
Plan Steering Committee.
Using the approved constraints, it
is anticipated that a short list of
candidate sites (approximately 10
sites) will be announced at the end
of this year. On-site investigations
(i.e. drilling) will then occur during
the winter so as to minimize the
impact on the affected properties.
More information regarding the
public meetings is available by
contacting Craig Metzger, Project
Co-ordinator for the County Waste
Management Study, at 524-2188.
11:30 p.m., some earlier.
Mr. Kuntz said having a hydro
pole burn down from a storm is an
"unusual" occurrence.
Terry Fox Run
seeks local
organizers
It has been 13 years since Terry
Fox had to end his Marathon of
Hope outside Thunder Bay, Ont.
Terry passed away in June of 1981
but left a tremendous legacy which
lives on through the Annual Terry
Fox Run. Millions of Canadians
have embraced his dream as their
own, raising over $100 million for
innovative cancer research. Noted
Canadian researchers have said that
there has been more progress in
cancer research over the past
decade than in the previous
millennium.
If you believe you can make a
difference in the battle to defeat
cancer, call 1-800-387-1200 for
information about how to get
involved in the 1993 Terry Fox
Run.
OPP report
quiet weekend
All in all the first long weekend
of the season was a relatively quiet
one in the area.
Wingham OPP report that though
they received several calls in the
detachment regarding incidents
they were minor. No charges or
arrests were made.
There were as well no serious
accidents in the area over the three
day holiday.
MPP says he's happy with budget
Storm causes power failure