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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1993-06-09, Page 1 The North Huron itizen Vol. 9 No.23 Wednesday, June 9, 1993 600 Gsr included Anyone travelling down Grey Township Conc. 14 at the Elma boundary this past Saturday morning would have been stunned by the horrific scene before them. Fortunately, looks in this instance were deceiving. Members of the Grey, Elma-Logan and Elma Township Fire Departments did a mock school bus accident, with tremendous assistance from students of the Listowel District Secondary School's Black Door Theatre. The purpose was for training. Area firefighters get realistic training Community Survey looks at rural response to abuse of women See page 6 Government County goes to the top to fight Centralia closure See page 9 Health County, public offer input into DHC issue See page 11 Entertainment Blyth takes their Many Hands on parade See page 23 Blyth, Hullett takes Turnberry's garbage Blyth and Hullett councils have agreed to accept Turnberry Town- ship's household waste. At their meeting June 2, Blyth council voted unanimously to accept the waste as did Hullett Twp. council the night before. When the issue came up, Reeve Dave Lee said "We should get the wheels turning on this because it's more than just saying yes and the truck coming tomorrow. It could be months before we get the necessary approval." He's referring to the provincial government which must approve the deal before the Blyth-Hullett landfill site can accept another township's waste. Councillor Steve Sparling said he couldn't see the extra waste being "a problem" for their landfill because it will only make small impact on the life of the landfill and the money generated from accepting the waste will cover future capping costs of the site. It has been estimated that the extra waste from Turnberry will reduce the estimated life of the Driver's Ed. to run total cost recovery To save money, the Huron Coun- ty Board of Education will no longer supplement the Driver's Education program: Trustees decided at their June 7 meeting to offer the program on a total cost recovery basis. This means the student's fee would be raised from $230 to an estimated figure of between $260 and $275 to ensure all expenses are covered. This type of approach will be on a trial basis for the school year 1993/94, including the 1994 sum- mer period. The HCBE offers the driver edu- cation program in partnership with the Huron County Driving School and the Bluewater Driving Acade- my. Brussels hit by gov't. cutbacks Brussels village council will try to hold the line and still take up the cost of provincial government cut- backs and new taxes. "We'll have to cutback on spend- ing or end up with a deficit," Act- ing Clerk-Treasurer Lori Pipe told councillors Monday night. The province's cutbacks mean the village will get $4052 less in unconditional grants than it had fig- ured on when the village budget was set. In addition, as of June 1, no roadside maintenance expenses (grass cutting, etc.) will be accept- ed by the Ministry of Transporta- tion for 50 per cent grant purposes. A new government tax will also hit the local budget. The province is now applying its eight per cent sales tax on insurance premiums, a move that will hit the employees benefit package. It will cost an Continued on page 2 dump from 14 years to 11.4 years or 12 years if a recycling program is initiated in Blyth and Hullett. In return, Blyth and Hullett will receive $45-50,000 in revenue from Tumberry. Anyone travelling down Grey Township Conc. 14 late Saturday morning would have been greeted by a horrifying sight. Fortunately in this case, seeing was not believing. At 11 a.m., volunteers from Grey Twp., Atwood and Monkton Fire Department took part in a mock disaster. Thirty-eight students from An attempt to short-cut the site- selection process for a Huron County landfill site was delayed for more consideration at Thursday's meeting of Huron County Council. Robert Fisher, reeve of Zurich and past warden, stirred controver- sy when he made a motion to ask the Minister of Environment to forego the rest of the expensive process of searching for a suitable site for the landfill and adopt a Grey Township site (Grey Site No. 5 which occupies portions of lots 10, 11, 12, 13, 15 on concession 14 and lots 12, 13, 14, 15 on conces- sion 15) which had failed because it was classified as class 4 farmland, instead of the class 5 and 6 used in Listowel District's Secondary School's Black Door Theatre set the stage for a school bus accident. Also participating were members of the OPP, and ambulances from Wingham, Seaforth and Listowel Hospitals. Grey firefighter Randy Knight, who, with Gary Boyer, is training the criteria. "One site met all the criteria but the class of land," Reeve Fisher said. "We're going to spent $500,000 to $1 million (con- tinuing the search). I think it is time this county wrote the minister and asked if he would consider this pro- cess (shortening the search)." His concerns were teamed with those of Lionel Wilder, reeve of Hay Township who was concerned that the county is prOceeding with identifying new sites without a commitment from the province to pay 50 per cent of the costs of the study. He suggested an upper limit of $100,000 be set until the province makes a written commit- ment to pay its share. The two con- officer for the Grey Department set the demonstration up as a training workshop for the firefighters. "Every day in Grey Twp. alone, busses travel over 1400 kilometres. We felt it was important for this reason that we be prepared to han- dle such an emergency. " The volunteer firefighters train in cems were eventually tied into one motion. But concern over Councillor Fisher's part of the motion was immediately registered. "My fear is alienating the public," Dave Lee, reeve of Blyth and chairman of the Waste Management committee said. "We assured them from the beginning they could participate in the process. What message would be sent if we change the rules now?" But Bob Hallam, reeve of West Wawanosh argued that it was in the best interests of the public to save money by shortening the selection process. A stunned Grey Township Reeve first aid and auto extrication during the enactment. One thing making this particular- ly incident unique is the fact that the volunteers actually cut the bus apart, thanks to Carl Subject of C.J., Truck and Auto Parts, who donated a school bus for the pur- pose. Leona Armstrong said she wanted to go on record as opposed to the move. Grey 5 is not a safe site, she said, with springs on the property. Denis Merrall, Huron County engineer warned that councillors would be making a very big jump in making such a request to the minister. "Grey site 5 had only three (test) holes drilled. Actual testing to prove the site will cost $250,000 and it still could fail. I think you have to remember this county made promises to people. It would be an impossible situation. We couldn't deal with the public." Besides, he said, if the criteria call- ing for use of only class 5 and 6 Continued on page 6 County sidetracks process shortcut