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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1994-08-17, Page 1Huron • Xp OSltO 70 cents plus 5 cents G.S.T. (75 cents) LOCAL Theatre touched local nursing home residents where they live. see page two. Briefly ' Walton -area man injured in accident A Walton -area man was taken to Seaforth Community Hospital Monday following an accident in Logan Township. Sebringville OPP reported that Jason McNichol, 21, of RR 5 Walton and Helen Gloor, 54, of RR 5 Mitchell, collided on Perth County Rd. 10, near Logan Concession Rd. 2/3 at about 5:30 p.m. McNichol was taken to Seaforth Community Hospital by a friend and Gloor was not injured. The 1987 Buick driven by McNichol received severe damage. Further details about the acci- dent were unavailable at press time as police continued their investigation. Local woman to compete for CNE fair title Sharon Kelly, Seaforth Fall Fair Ambassador, will be vying for the title of 1994 CNE Ambassador of the Fairs against more than 100 other local fair winners in Toronto next week. The contestants arrive in Toronto on Friday, August 19 and spend three days touring the city. Health Council sets guidelines for office site A new committee of . the Huron -Perth District Health Council is making guidelines to determine the site of its first permanent office site. Since being formed at introductory meetings of the Health Council, the site selection committee has determined these criteria: acces- sibility, central location and appropriate services and facil- ities. In the past Dublin has been suggested as a possible site for the Health Council office. Other suggested sites include Mitchell, Stratford and Seaforth. No offi- cial decision has been made on what municipality will host the District Health Council. Thc Huron Perth District Health Council has asked for comments from the public on the proposed criteria. Please send your comments to: Huron Perth District Health Council P.O. Box 40 Stratford, Ont., N5A 7M3 ATTENTION: Site Selection Committee. The new advisory body has also formed : a committee to search for an executive director. Another committee has been formed to investigate possible grants. The District Health Council is a new health care planning body which will advise the province on how to spend health care dollars in this arca. Huron -Perth was the last arca in Ontario to introduce a District Health Coun- cil. INDEX Entertainment...page 13 Weddings...page 13. Obituaries...page 3 "Your community newspaper since 1860...sei'ving Seaforth, Dublin, Hensall, Walton, Brussels and surrounding communities." • MILTON J. DIETZ LIMITED SEAFORTH 522-0608 • Pesticides & Custom Spraying • Spraying Equipment & Parts • Nutrite Premium Fertilizer • Ventilation & Livestock Equipment 1�l [le ■ PURINA FEEDS Pa & PET FOODS THE HURON IXPO$ITOR, August 17, 1994 ARTS Seaforth youths learn about theatre through Blyth play... parents 'made them do it.' see page 11. ._&z Your Full Une Dealer FORD MERCURY Sales - Servlce - Selection HART FORD MERCURY USED CARS 1:9f0 'The Friend+, ! pith The Big Heat' EDUCATION Local children have fun with computers at new private school in area. ;see page 12. PAUL CIUFO PHOTO BABY BOOM! - Proud parents and nurses (I) Clara Vanderlaan and Martha Murray show off three babies born within four and a hail hours at Seaforth Community Hospital on Tuesday morning. Marie Blake holds baby Patricia, Dean Glanville holds his first child Marina Ashley, and Jared Boughen cradles Jessica. Marina Ashley's mother Marlene and Jessica's mother Shelly Hayter are not in the picture. The births were the quickest since 1974 when there were three deliverled within two hours and 50 minutes. New markets for waste, landfill told BY DAVID SCOTT Expositor Staff Dwindling cash from the province has forced the Ministry of the Envi- ronment and Energy to take a hard- nosed approach to recycling and waste reduction in Ontario. Representatives from the Ministry of the Environment and Energy (MOEE) presented some strong suggestions concerning recycling initiatives to members of the Mid - Huron Landfill Site (MHLS) Board at their August 11 meeting. "Everybody's broke. We want to shift the burden to people who manufacture it (non -recyclable materials) and people who use it," said Gary Kay of the MOEE. Kay said consumers have the choice every time they walk into a store to buy recyclable goods or not. "More responsibility has to go hack to the individual - to the users and manufacturers," said Kay. Gary Kay and Ron Farrell spoke about the increasing markets for recyclable goods. Kay talked about China currently having a shortage of paper fibre in their country. They have recently targeted old phone books in Ontario to help their situ- ation, said Kay. Thc Province of Ontario set a goal of 25 per cent waste reduction by the end of 1992. Kay said Ontario has currently reduced waste by a 27 per cent provincial average. The target is a 50 per cent reduc- tion by the year 2,000. In terms of waste generation, half is created by industry, the other half by munici- palities. Industry percentages were up around the 70 per cent mark at one time, said Kay. Most industries are looking into potential markets for hazardous waste, reported Kay. "The new term is 'industrial ecology' - it's coming out of Europe and the U.S. The philosophy is we don't generate waste, just products for new mar- kets." Some companies have taken waste reduction and recycling initi- atives themselves. Kay said office supply giant 3-M has saved $500 million worldwide through their Pollution Prevention Program which was established before waste reduc- tion legislation was introduced by the government. Ten to 50 million tonnes of con- struction material is generated every year in Canada. "It's designated as waste now: brick, concrete, drywall, steel, wood - if it's together. If you're going to recycle it, it has to be separated at the site," said Kay. Aerosol cans also pose a disposal problem. "There is a philosophy that aerosol cans are hazardous waste," said Kay. The communities of Belleville and Quinte currently collect empty aerosol cans in their Blue Boxes. If the cans arc dis- posed of at a hazardous waste site, it costs $4-6 per can. Kay said equipment is available for landfill sites for under $1,000 to safely puncture cans so they can be recycled. He said after the plastic caps are removed, the empty cans can be sold as high-grade scrap metal for $90 a tonne. As far as provincial funding for landfills, Kay said the Province of Ontario doesn't know where it's going. "Budgets have been slashed over the last few years. The dollars aren't there. We're chasing more and more projects with less dol- lars." There are problems that exist with the disposal of paint containers. A container with a bit of paint in it is now considered waste to a landfill site, said Kay. "The manufacturer has to be involved (in recycling). They try to push it on the retailer." Home Hardware has a program now where the customer can take hack leftover paint to the retailer Mid -Huron Landfill Site Landfill site may face changes The Mid -Huron Landfill Board will meet with employees soon to discuss possible changcs because of waste reductions at the site. Waste being landfilled by eight municipalities at the Mid -Huron Landfill Site has been reduced by a 40 per cent average from 1993 figures. Ken Hunter, of the Town of Godcrich, presented a report to the MHLS board at their August 11 meeting about the reduction in waste. "If there's less garbage shouldn't there be less operating costs?" asked Bill Carnochan of Tuckersmith Township. There were comments frorn board members on changing hours for landfill employees, reviewing the situation later or changing hours when preparing the next budget. "If we're not handling as much waste there's no way we should have as much machinery, employee costs," said Carnochan. The board agreed to meet with landfill employees in September to discuss the situation. Fire kills 7,000 baby chickens BY DAVID EMSLIE An early morning blaze last Saturday levelled a Stanley Township barn, killing about 7,000 baby chickens. Two Ontario hydro employees, returning from a call, noticed the fire about 5:30 a.m. on August 6 at the farm of Henry Damsma, located just south of Vanastra on Highway 4. They reported the fire back to their base in S. aforth, who then contacted the Clinton and Arca Fire Department. The Clinton department, on the way to the fire, contacted the Brucefield and Area Fire Department, as it is in their coverage arca, and both departments responded to the alarm. Brucefield Fire Chief Pete Caldwell noted last week that the barn was "fully engulfed" by the time trucks arrived on the scene. "It had been burning a fair length of time," he said, or else the Hydro employees would not have noticed the fire. Due to the severity of the blaze, and the damage already done to the ham before the fire departments arrived, the firefighters concentrated their efforts on ensuring fire did not spread. remained on the scene for over an hour, while Brucefield was them for about three hours. Caldwell explained that aside from making sure the fire didn't spread, adjacent buildings were also sprayed down "Io make sure everything was cool in the buildings." The barn, containing the 7,000 chicks that were not even a day old, burned right down to the foundations. There was, as of press time, no cost estimate on the damages. that the Clinton and they, in turn, can return it to the manufacturer. "But you need 17 certificates of approval to move from point A to point B. People just throw up their hands," said Kay. In cities like London, paint trade programs exist where people at no cost or a low cost can exchange leftover paint for home use. "By legislation this CAN'T happen. But they're (the government) tuming a blind eye. "We have to change legislation," said Ministry of the Environment and Energy representative, Gary Kay. "We need you people on the outside to point out the inequities." Kay again stressed the importance of the individual in reducing waste. "Don't buy a gallon of paint if you need a pint." * r * In his report to the Mid -Huron Landfill Site Board, Supervisor Frank Postill told members that there is now someone crushing scrap porcelain "to use as a fill like gravel." However, Postill reported "it's kind of sharp." "When you bust up a toilet you get cut 90 per cent of the time," replied Lynda Rotteau of the Town of Goderich. Suspicious fire at high school The following is a report from Seaforth Police Chief llal Claus: Fire Calls On Wednesday, August 10 at about 2:30 p.m., Seaforth Police together with the Seaforth Fire Department attended a fire alarm at the Seaforth Public School. this turned out to be a 'false alarm.' On Thursday morning, August 11, at approximately 8 a.m., Seaforth Police together with the Seaforth Fire Department attended a fire alarm at Seaforth District High School. This time the call was for real. The shop area was filled with smoke which was gradually seeping into the rest of the school. Smoulder- ing ashes were located in the sawdust bin at the rear of the school beside the shop. This caused smoke to filter into the shop through the exhaust fan. It would. appear that this fire could have been deliberately set. Damage to the school was con- fined to smoke damage. This fire is suspicious in nature as the school's alarm system was acti- vated earlier that same morning at about 2:30 a.m. The premises were checked at that time and all entrances found to be secure. Anyone having any infomlation that would assist in apprehending suspects in this incident is asked to call either the Seaforth Police or Crime Stoppers. Theft Complaint On August 11, an elderly gentleman was arrested at a local business establishment and charged with "Theft under one thousand dollars." The man was caught after he cashed in a Nevada Lottery Ticket that had been altered. The man was also charged with a previous theft of the same nature that was com- mitted at the same place on July 21 this year. Radar Reminder Now that photo radar legisla- tion is in place all motorists are reminded to have unobstructed and clearly legible number plates on their vehicles. There is no out-of-court monetary finc for anyone charged with having an altered plate on a vehicle, the driver or owner would be attend- ing court to answer the charge. The fine for confusing the ident- ify of plate is $90 and the fines for having an obstructed plate, dirty plate, or a plate where numbers are not clearly visible _arc $35_ DAVID SCOTT PttOTO BURNING SCHOOLHOUSE - The Seaforth Fire Department answered an early morning call on Thursday. A fire started in an exhaust unit for the wood shop at the rear of the high school. Smoke backed up Into the shop through ventilation ducts. Here firemen check out the unit for further burning and create a water spray to move smoke out the open garage doors of the high school shop. The cause of the fire is currently undetermined. it