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to create two -zone waste system Decisionut on hold
py
of the municipal election and one of the zone landfills and said Mickle. "We are looking cerned the establishment of bureaucratic concerns which
on-going discussions between Reeve Bob Elliott asked why way down into the future and operating guidelines for exist- come with operating a land -
SSP News Staff the host municipalities of the the county wants to proceed a lot of work has to be done." ing landfill sites. fill.
zone landfills, decided a deci- with the decision "so quickly." The key component of the The guidelines include He said Stanley Township is
The decision to create a sion could not be made until Elliott said more prepara- new waste management plan monitoring programs, site free to expand its landfill if it
two -zone system for waste the new council had time to tion time is needed before let- is the designation of two supervision and schedules for wants to, but noted the town -
existing landfill sites in Exeter seasonable sampling of the ship should be prepared to
management in Huron County familiarize itself with the ting a new council decide on
was put on the back burner issue. such an important and compli- and Moms Township as long- sites. face the inherent risks of geo-
Thursday by Huron County The Municipal Act requires cated issue.m
term landfill sites for all the Despite Metzger's asset- logical tests and environen-
Council. 60 days notice be given before Reeve Bill Mickle of Exeter municipalities in the county. ances the guidelines could be tal regulations and certifica-
County Waste Management County Council considers a , host of the other zone land- Then, as existing municipal ignored or used by the runic- tion required to expand.
co-ordinator Craig Metzger proposed Waste Management fill, agreed with Elliott. He landfill sites reach capacity, ipalities, Cunningham said the He explained the zone sys-
wanted the council to give Plan. Metzger wanted that 60 said county council member- their municipal waste will be existence of the guidelines tem will benefit the county by
notice it would soon make a day notice period to begin p would mean continual moni- ensuring the Morris and
decision on the Waste Thursday, but council decided toting by the county and more Exeter sites have the capacity
Management Master Plan to defer the decision to give Reeve Tom Cunningham of work for the municipalities. and the environmental
which has been in the works notice until their meeting in needed new councillors 1 Township "We need to revisit the sec- approvals in place. Then,
for 10 years, but the council January. ommendations to discover when existing municipal land -
did not agree. Council, in light Moms Township will host waste management issue what wilt work and decrease tills reach capacity, the county
the bureaucracy, said need only pass a by-law to
Cunningham. „ redirect the municipal waste
Reeve Jack Coleman of to the zone landfill.
Stanley Township asked about Reeve Mason Bailey of
the possibility of expanding Blyth said the whole idea of
existing municipal dump accepting a zone system is lit -
facilities. rte more than "smoke and mir-
Metzger replied the coup- rots" being used to convince
ty's waste management master council there is a need for
plan is intended to deal with such a system.
waste on a general, county- "Municipalities are capable
wide basis, and as such is of looking after their own
palities money and the
intended to save the munici- affairs," said Bailey.
BY BLAKE PATTERSON
ship is facinga dramatic redirected to one of the zone
change m the upcoming elec- landfills
tion and a period of time will
be d d forll Hulett owns ip agreedmore
to become familiar with the time is needed, but added
once the zone agreement is
which has taken 10 years to reached, the county should
resolve. remove itself from the process
He said there is still much and let the municipalities han-
discussion needed between dle their own affairs in regards
Exeter and Morris to come to to waste.
a consensus regarding differ- "I hope the role of the cours-
ing "philosophies" and to ty will diminish and be mini -
develop a plan which is work- mal," he said.
able for all municipalities con- Cunningham questioned
corned. That discussion and one of the recommendations
planning, however, will take of adraft waste management
time -- more time than 60 report Metzger distributed to
days. members of the council.
"It's not a simple exercise," The recommendation con -
Community Calendar
WED., NOV. 12
1:00-3:00 p.m. - Parents' and Tots'
Skating at the Arena
1:30-3:30 p.m. - Senior
Shuffleboard at the Arena
7:30-9:00 p.m. - Junior and
Minor Broomball at the Arena
7:30-8:30 p.m. - Fitness/Step with
Drusilla at the Arena
9:00-10:30 p.m. - Ladies'
Broomball at the Arena
10:30-11:30 p.m. - Men's
Broomball at the Arena
THUR., NOV. 13
9:00-10:00 a.m. - Fitness is Fun
with Drusilla at the Arena
4:00-6:00 p.m. - Figure Skating
at the Arena
6:00-7:30 p.m. - Goderich vs.
Pee Wee Il Hockey at the Arena
7:30-9:00 p.m. - Minor Broomball
at the Arena
9:00-11:30 p.m. - Men's Broomball
at the Arena
FRI., NOV. 14
10:30-11:30 a.m. - Storyhour at
the Library
1:00-3:00 p.m. - Seniors' Bowling
at Starlight Lanes
4:15-5:15 p.m. - Senior and Junior
Houseleague Hockey Practice
5:15-7:15 p.m. - Minor Hockey
practices at the Arena
7:15-8:15 p.m. - Ringette at the
Arena
8:15-9:30 p.m. - Bayfield vs.
Intermediate Girts' Hockey
at the Arena
9:30-11:00 p.m. H4ron Park vs.
Legion Oldtimers Hockey
SAT, NOV. 15
9:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m. - Peter
Flanagan Memorial Novice
Hockey Tournament
10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. - Craft
Show and Sale at the Arena
8:00-9:30 p.m. - Durham vs.
Pee Wee I Hockey at the Arena
SUN., NOV. 16
9:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m. - Peter
Flanagan Memorial Novice
Hockey Tournament
10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. - Craft
Show and Sale at the Arena
8:00-9:30 p.m. • Walkerton vs.
Bantam Hockey
9:30-11:30 p.m. - Listowel vs.
Midget Hockey
MON., NOV. 17
4:30-9:00 p.m. - Figure Skating
at the Arena
7:30-10:30 p.m. - Minor Sports
Council Bingo at the Arena -
Tonight's host is Arena Board
9:00-10:30 p.m. - Beavers
Oldtimers Hockey
TUES., NOV. 18
9:00-11:30 a.m. • Parents' and
Tots' Playgroup at Northside
United Church Hall
9:00-10:00 a.m. - Fitness is Fun
at the Arena
10:00-12:00 p.m. - Parents' and
Tots' Skating at the Arena
6:30-8:00 p.m. - Minor Hockey
at the Arena
7:00-8:00 p.m. - Dog Obedience
at the Arena
WED., NOV. 19
1:00-3:00 p.m. - Parents' and Tots'
Skating at the Arena
1:30-3:30 p.m. - Senior
Shuffleboard at the Arena
7:30-9:00 p.m. - Junior and Minor
Broomball at the Arena
7:30-8:30 p.m. • Fitness/Step
at the Arena
9:00-10:30 p.m. • Ladies'
Broomball at the Arena
10:30-11:30 p.m. - Men's
Broomball at the Arena
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No one sure of El Nino impact on winter
BY BLAKE PATTERSON
SSP News Staff
EI Nino. People must like
the sound of those soft
Spanish consonants, because
when it comes to weather, El
Nino is a hot topic these days.
El Nifio refers to a periodic
warming of sea surface tem-
peratures off the coast of
South America which through
convection affects the trade
winds and world weather.
It usually happens around
Christmas time and was
named El Nino (the Christ
child) by Peruvian fisherman
who benefitted from its affects
on area waters.
This year, however, the EI
Nino warming began in the
summer, and no one is quite
sure what will happen to our
winter as a result.
Weather reports give dire
warnings of how the strange
warrning of water in the
Pacific Ocean will change
global wind patterns and bring
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"patterns topsy-turvy.
Aside from those sensation-
al reports and the linguistic
thrill of talking about a weath-
er phenomenon named after
the Christ child, weather
experts in Canada and at least
one local farmer are not quite
so sure El Nino will play
havoc with the atmosphere in
these parts.
Bruce Shillinglaw, who
tarms a• cash crop operation
near Londesborough, has
monitored the equatorial
Pacific water warming, and he
doesn't intend to change his
planting and harvesting sched-
ule significantly this year to
compensate for any potential
warming, cooling or raining
caused by El Nitio.
If at all, he said El Nifio
could impact the arca the fol-
lowing year by creating cooler
weather conditions and offer-
ing the crops fewer heat units.
As such, he said he intends
to plant early crop varieties as
soon as possible and generally
try to be timely with his har-
vesting.
As for this year, however,
he said it's still uncertain if El
Nifio will have any impact
locally.
"You can't really get too
excited about it," he said. He
expects conditions this fall to example, there will be less
be cool and wet, and as usual, call for highway dc -icing and
farmers will have to struggle less demand for road salt.
through it. Alternatively, if a winter is
Environment Canada's Tim unexpectedly cold, the mine
Bullock agrees it is too early has to consider that the lakes
to be raising any red El Nino may freeze early making it
flags in Canada. difficult to satisfy an
Bullock said many factors increased demand.
have to be considered When As thc leader in the salt
looking at how a weather phe- industry, Howe said Sifto
nomenon in the Pacific will intends to keep producing salt
affect the weather somewhere as if this winter's tempera -
else on the globe. tures will be average. He said
Based on what has hap- there is also a need to fill a
pened in the past, he said a gap in the salt market caused
good guess can be made by several successive hard
regarding how El Nino will winters which depleted salt
impact the coasts of the supplies.
United States, Australia and If EI Nino docs result in a
South America, but beyond mild winter, however, Howe
those immediate areas, predic- expects production at the mine
tions are more difficult. will be affected thc following
All Bullock could say for year.
certain was that the weather As for the prognosticators at
this winter will be "unusual." the Old Farmers' Almanac,
He said it's too early to tell, they predict a snowy winter
but whether this winter is for our arca despite the fact
warmer or colder or normal, temperatures will he a bit
we can count on it being more warmer than normal.
"stormy" than usual. How they came to that con -
Rowland Howe, the mine elusion, of course, is a secret
manager of Sifto's Godcrich which may or may not include
salt mine, wishes the weather consideration of til Nino.
experts could be more exact. The Almanac docs warn,
He said Sifto is keeping however, that since no one has
close tabs on El Nifio because "sufficient insight into the
anything affecting weather has mysteries of the universe," it
a direct impact on the salt is Impossible to predict the
business. weather with anything resem-
If a winter is warm, for tiling total accuracy.
El Nirio only knows.
Debate on part-time town help
Council unanimously
accepted thc report of
Seaforth Public Works
Superintendent John Forrest
at last Tuesday night's meet-
ing, but not without some
interesting debate and dis-
cussion on one item.
Forrest said the work-
share program with the
arcna for summer grass cut-
ting and winter snow
removal worked well in the
summer "but the arena is
unable to provide the help
we need for snow removal
in the winter."
"Because this work is
from 5 to 9 a.m., on an on-
call basis, I am having trou-
ble finding someone," his
report states. "Jason
Beutenmiller has agreed to
work these hours and will
be available for work as his
current employment is end-
ing soon"
The Works superintendent
asked permission to hire
him, part-time, as needed
($8 per hour, 20 hrs max) to
help with snowplowing for
the winter.
Coun. John Ball asked if
the town would be better off
hiring someone on the
county workfare program.
Clerk/administrator Jim
Crocker says of the half-
dozen workfare employees
the town has used so far,
five of them have been more
trouble than they were
worth, either having to be
hounded to go to work or
because their work, when
they got there, was below
acceptable standard, or just
plain shoddy.
"We had trouble tracking
them down and they literal-
ly just don't show up," he
said.
Even though the five had
been cut off welfare, he
said, that didn't leave the
town any further ahead.
Accepting this, Coun: Ball
thcn wondered if the town
couldn't expand on the idea
of using a part-timer
because it had "the potential
for reducing cost."
He thought thc Works
department might be able to
use a part-timer to cut down
the overtime cost of regular
staff during snowstorms in
the winter.
"That would he thc same
thing as me moving into
your classroom and teach-
ing," Forrest quipped back
immediately.
Coun. Ball is a teacher.
They were on strike at thc
time, adamant that thc gov-
ernment not use teachers
who are not certified in thc
classroom.
The councillor didn't pur-
sue his line of rcasoning.
The part-timer would be
running thc loader and
wouldn't be qualified to run
the plow or blower in any
case, the Works superinten-
dent added.
In Hensall, Nov, 20 & 27
Seminars on setting up bed & breakfast
Another presentation will be
made by the Huron tourism
A couple of seminars com-
ing up in Hensall on
Thursdays, Nov. 20 and 27,
might interest people interest-
ed in setting up their own
"bed and breakfasts."
"With summer visitors to
our area back -tracking two
hours to find accommoda-
tion, the Hensall economic
development committee felt
these b&b seminars would
help boost interest to keep
some of those tourist dollars
in Huron County," says Mary
Lynn MacDonald.
The registration foe is mod-
est, on purpose, according to
a press release.The commit-
tee kept it affordable "in
order to encourage anyone
who has an interest to
attend." association, co-sponsor of the
The seminars will be facili- seminars.
tated by Rosemary Peer, There will be more semi -
owner of a bread and break- nays next February for any
fast at Wiarton and also man- who might wish to further
ager there of the South pursue thcir interest, develop -
Bruce peninsula chamber of ing a framework for a com-
commerce/ economic devel- prehensive business plan.
opment officer. The upcoming sessions are
Workshop topics include: from 7 to 10 p.m at the
pleasures and pitfalls of run- boardrooms of W.G.
ning a b&b; assessing you( Thompson & Sons on Nelson
facility; b&b nuts 'n' bolts; Street.
expectations, your customers' For more information con -
and your own; getting con- tact the clerk/treasurer of
nected - the b&b circuit and Hensall, Luanne Phair, at
beyond; the big step - getting 262-2812.
started on an action plan.