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A service of Hope for the Holidays:
For anyone who has experienced loss and is coping with grief.
Sunday, December 02, 2001
2:00 p.m.
Place: Wingham United Church
217 Minnie Street, Wingham
Sponsored by Wingham & Area Palliative Care Services
in co-operation with:
MacKenzie & MacCreath Funeral Home
Schimanski Family Funeral Home
McBurney Funeral Home
L More information - please call Palliative Care Office 357-2720_1
WIN A $10000 GIFT CERTIFICATE
EVERY SUNDAY!
Sunday Shoppers ONLY
Enter to win a 5100m Gift Certificate.
Each Sunday Nov. 25 - Dec. 23/01
OPEN SUNDAYS from 12 - 4 PM
, NOVEMBER 25" - DECEMBER 23rd
The Wingham and Area Chamber of Commerce and the Blyth Business Association, along with representatives from
Lucknow, Teeswater, Wroxeter, Belgrave & Brussels have
completed a Community Events Calendar.
The Calendar is on the Chamber's web site at
www. wacc. on. ca
We were able to do this with the support of the Huron Business Development Corporation funding opportunity.
We will be updating the calendar on a monthly basis-so when you are planning an event, it will be much easier to pick an appropriate time.
If you have events or meetings that you wish to have on our calendar,
please contact Terri at the Chamber Office - 357-4990
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Wed Thur
2001
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Mildmay's Santa Breakfast
Spitfires Game, North
Huron Wescast Community
Complex, (NHWCC)
8:00 p.m.
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Puhlic Skating
NIIWCA:
12-2
P.m.
3
Atom
Silverstick
Tournament,
Wingham
siivergick,
NIIWCC,
6 p.m.
4
Atom
Silverstick
Tournament,
Wingham
Silverstick,
NIIWCC,
6 p.m.
5
Atom
Silverstick
Tournament,
Wingham
Silverstick,
NIIWCC,
6 p.m.
6
Atom
Silverstick
Tournament,
Wingham
Silverstick,
NIIWW„
6 p.m.
7
Atom Silverstick,
Wingham
Santa Claus
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Santa Claus
Parade, Lucknow, 7 p.m.
Silverstick, NHWCC,
6 p.m.
8
Atom Silverstick, Wingham
Lion's Christmas Dance,
Birth
Mildmay Christmas House
Tours
Teeswater's Suitt Bop,
lighted parade
Silverstick, NHWCC, 8 a.m.
Spitfires Game, NHWCC,
9 p.m.
9
Atom Silvermick,
Wingham
Mildmay
Christmas H ouse
Tours
Silversfick,
NIIWIX:
10
Rockers
Game,
NIIWC,C,
8:30 p.m.
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Spans Game,
NIIWCC, 8 p.m.
15
Optimist Breakfast
with Santa, Lucknow
Spitfires Game,
NIIWCC, 8 p.m.
16
Public Skating
NIIM,
12-2p.m. •
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Rockers
Game,
NI INVCC,
8:30 p.m.
16
Duffel Bag
Theatre, Blyth
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Duffel Bag
Theatre, Blyth
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Duffel Bag
Theatre, Blyth
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Ironmen Game,
NIIWCC, 8 p.m.
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!roomy, Game,
tslIWUI, it 30 p m
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Public Skating
NIIWCC,
12-2 pin.
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Tim Horton's
FREE Skate,
NIIWCC
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25
CHRISTMAS
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SpitftrisGame,
NINU,
83(I p.m
Tim I lorton's
FREE Skate,
NIIWCA:,
12-1:311 p.m.
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Tim Horton's
FREE Skate, NIIWCC
12-1:30 p.m.
kortmen Game,
NIIWCC, 8 p.m.
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30
Public Skating
NIIWC,
12-2 p.nt.
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Nov Year's Ev . Party, Lucknow
Tim I lonon's FREE Skate, NIINVCC I 2-1:30 p.m.
Rockers Cant . NIIWCC, 8:311 p.m.
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MONTHLY MEETINGS
Wingham & Area Chamber of
Commerce Executive Meeting - 2nd
Tuesday of the month.
Gordon's Olde Tyme Musk - 3rd Friday
of the month at
8:30 p.m..
Lucknow Senior's Dinner - 1st
Wednesday of the month
Formosa Lion's Bingo - every Monday
Wingham Knight's of Columbus Centre
Bingo - every Tuesday
Wingham Masonic Lodge - 1st Tuesday
of the month
Howick Optimist - 1st & 3rd Wednesday
of the month at 8:30.p.m.
Ontario Open Country
Singing Contest Executive Meeting-1st
Thursday of the month.
PAGE 20. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2001.
Brussels man fined $10,000 for manure spill
By Sarah Caldwell
Goderich Signal-Star
Taking a shower in her own home
the morning of Dec. 1, 2000 quickly
became a horrifying experience for
a Brussels-area woman; before she
was done the water turned brown
and foul smelling due to pig manure
contamination. Every time the toilet
was flushed it refilled with pig
manure.
"It was exactly like having pigs in
the house," said Valerie Watson in a
victim impact statement. The
statement was read as evidence
during a Ministry of the
Environment hearing in Goderich
provincial offences court on Nov.
15. The charges being heard were
against Raymond Rammeloo, a
custom-manure applicator, working
for Cranbrook Swine Inc., (CSI)
owned by Charles Terpstra.
She said the contaminated water
caused her family, including four
young children, undue stress in the
months following the incident.
Rammeloo pled guilty to three
charges laid by the MOE under the
Environmental Protection Act, and
the Ontario Water Resources Act.
He was fined $10,000 in total for
discharging pig manure on the
Watson property and causing an
adverse effect, discharging pig
manure that impaired the
groundwater and for not notifying
the MOE of the discharge, which
occurred on Nov. 30, 2000.
Notification was made to the
MOE on Dec. 1, by Michael
Watson.
On. Nov. 5, 2000 Terpstra
informed Rammeloo that the corn
was harvested off the fields and that
spreading could now take place.
Rammeloo was able to spread on
one field on Nov. 7 but stopped after
that day due to rain.
For the next three weeks adverse
weather conditions - rain and snow -
prevented Rammeloo from finishing
the spreading. He decided to resume
spreading manure on Nov. 30
because the weather forecast was for
snow within the next few days. He
took it upon himself to return to the
field and was not directed to do so
by anyone at CSI, according to the
agreed statement of fact reached by
the two parties.
In a submission in court on Nov.
15, Rammeloo's lawyer said
Terpstra had threatened her client on
previous occasions that he would be
fired if he did not spread the
manure.
Rammeloo chose to spread the
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manure for this reason on Nov. 30,
because 40 per cent of his custom
manure application business was
done for CSI and he was worried
about the financial and economic
impact of losing this large contract.
He started spreading manure on
Lot 25, Conc. 7, Morris Twp. and
moved across Cranbrook Road to
spread on Lot 24, Conc. 6, Morris
Twp.
At about 3 p.m. on Nov. 30, the
sun started to shine, causing the
snow to melt. The drainage tiles that
run under Cranbrook Road from the
south to north, started to flow on to
Lot 24.
The runoff, now containing pig
manure, then crossed the property
line to the west and flowed onto the
south half of Lot 23, Con. 6, Morris
Twp. - the Watson property.
According to Blagy Novakovic, a
hydrogeologist with the MOE, the
pig manure runoff impaired the
groundwater at the Watson well.
Michael Watson arrived home at
about 3:30 p.m. and observed the
pig manure runoff flowing, onto his
property and ponding in a low area
about 60 feet from the well that
supplies the water for the Watson
family and their animals.
Rammeloo's lawyer said in court
on Nov. 15, that her client talked
with Watson and decided to
construct a berm, a high
embankment, to prevent additional
manure from crossing the property
line.
As a result of this discharge, the
MOE issued a Provincial Officer's
Order on CSI. The order required
the company to provide a potable
water supply to the Watson property,
hire a consultant with expertise in
hydrogeology and have the
consultant determine the cause of
the well contamination, delineate the
extend of the contamination and
develop a groundwater remediation
program.
Watson did note that Rammeloo
was remorseful and even helped the
family get a water tank to have a
potable water supply. Justice of the
Peace G.L. Obokata took this into
consideration when making his
decision and commended
Rammeloo for his actions.
"You're the only person that has
shown concern," said Obokata, to
Rammeloo. "I'm glad you took tithe
step on your own."
The Ministry of the Environment
originally laid six charges on
Wednesday, Sept. 26 in connection
with the incident. Three of the
charges were withdrawn by the
MOE. Rammeloo's first court
appearance was in Wingham
provincial offences court on
Thursday, Oct. 4.
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