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HomeMy WebLinkAboutHuron Expositor, 2000-04-12, Page 66 -THE HURON EXPOSITOR, AprII 12, 2000 Youth found with drill after break and enters A I5 -year-old Sealorth male has been charged alter the Freeze King Restaurant on the west edge of Seaforth anda garage were broken into at approximately 4:15 a.m. on April 5. A person entered the restaurant through a window. and• after checkingthc premises police found nothing to be missing. The owner and police found a young male walking on Main Street and after further questioning, found that the youth had broken into the restaurant, had just broke into a garage where he stole a drill press and was on n his way to break into another place using the drill. Van damaged A 1983 Ford van on Victoria Street in Seaforth was damaged sometime in the last two months. It was reported on April 3 that a person lifted the hood. cut all the wires to the distributor cap and cut several more wires that led to different areas of the engine while the van had been left in the driveway for the winter months. Anyone with information is asked to contact the OPP or Crimestoppers. Business breakfast a successful event eyScottHilBertdorff the Provincial Savings building on Main Street Expositor Editor following a March 28 report Seaforth council will from the Local Architectural donate a town flag to the Conservation Advisory Seaforth Dublin and Mitchell Committee. - Lions Club TV auction this The front door of the year. building will he painted • Administrator Jack burgundy and the back -lit McLachlan . said the sign is being, removed and traditional board game the will be replaced with a town donates to the annual'- wooden sign lit with goose- fund raising event has not neck lighting, which received many bids and conforms with LACAC's suggested the town flag guidelines• for building might generate more bidding. signage. Deputy Reeve William •Business breakfast Teal) said with Seaforth as success expected to become part of The first breakfast meeting Huron East next year, the of the Business Retention and town flag could be seen as a Expansion Committee was a momento. success, report committee Town still investigating members Gwen Devereaux what to do with its PUC and Coun. Paul Menary. With a deadline looming in Thirty-five business people November for municipalities attended the meeting with 21 to decide the fates of their people completing a public utilities, now that comment sheet, stating they Ontario Hydro had would like to see the program deregulated. Seaforth is still continue. exploring its options. - "That's good response for Several new hydro the first time out," said companies have come Mayor Dave Scott at forward looking for this. council's March 28 meeting. area's PUCs to join them. The meeting is being set up Municipalities in Huron as a chance for the business and Perth County have been community to network and to looking into forming what is hear from speakers about called a "joint venture business related issues. company' where together, Devereaux told . The' they would look after Expositor the first speaker. supplying hydro services to Chris Lee, was well-received: the area, following newly He spoke about e-commerce established regulations for opportunities for business how the power must be and the need to explore the distributed and billed. markets available through the Other options include internet. selling the PUC to the newly The next meeting will take formed. provincial -run power place April 20. company. With the,success of the Area municipalities have business — retention been trying for more than a committee's first breakfast year to determine whether or meeting, Coun. Heather not- to form their own joint . venture company. Mayor Dave Scott told council at its March 28 meeting he hopes a decision can be made in the next few months so there is time to go through the procedures of setting up the new PUC structure before the November deadline. He said municipalities are realizing it will be hard to operate the companies on their own without another corporation's expertise in the energy industry to help handle the operation. Municipalities met with one energy company two weeks ago and with two more last week offering ways of forming partnerships. seeking this area's public utilities' business. "It's ongoing and there's a lot of information happening all at once," said Scott. ' LACAC's budget approved Council approved thc Local Architectural Conservation Advisory Committee's $1,500 budget that Deputy Administrator Cathy Garrick said, was "virtually the same as last year." at council's March 28 meeting. The balance of last year's budget, $1,211.61 has been transferred to reserves. There is currently about .Robinet said a rejuvenation has alsotaken place with the Business Improvement Arca. That committee had a general meeting last month that sawseveral business people join the BIA's executive.: Heather Robinct said there's "a lot of keen, enthusiastic people," taking part now and that they are all excited about working with the Business Retention and Expansion Committee. Dinsmore steps down from Police Services Board Bob Dinsmore, member of the Seaforth Police Services Board for seven years. has stepped down. Dinsmore was the provincial appointee- to the board and his time allotted to that position has expired. Replacing him as the provincial appointee to the board is Joe,Steffler. Firefighters construct shed Members of the Seaforth Fire Department have been given permission to construct a small building to be used for storage adjacent to thc fire hall. The building will he constructed at thc firefighters' expense and received no objections from the Seaforth and Area Fire Board. . Fire calls up $27.000 in that reserve. The Seaforth and Arca Fire Provincial Savings Department responded to 43 building calls last year. to make changes That is an increase of 13 Council approved some calls from last year. changes to the appearance of News Strong stand against mega hog barns taken by National Farmers Union By Tim Cumming • Goderich Sgnol-5tor Editor - Large meat processing firms financed their growth and mergers through the low prices paid to pork producers, said the Vice - President of the National Farmers Union (NFU) on a trip to Huron -and Perth Counties. "There's no evidence to say there was a conspiracy but the lower the price, the more profit the companies made," said Fred Tait, who visited Kingsbridge on Monday night and the Crosswinds Restaurant in Mitchell on Tuesday. "They didn't .have to go to financial institutions and borrow large chunks of capital ... they did that with the purchase of (cheap) hogs." Tait spoke to about 30 people in a circle of chairs in the basement of Kingsbridge Roman Catholic Church where he took a strong position against hog megabarns. During the pork price collapse in 1998 family farmers lost the equity they had built up over one or two generations. That loss of cash to last another two or three in the bank is preventing years; said Tait. them from competing with Large corporate farms in large operations and forcing Manitoba are essentially them to become contract or hiring farmers as labourers tenant 'farmers for big and using - agricultural companies, said Tait, a legislation to get around Manitoba farmer with a 200- paying benefits such as. acre beef operation. and workmen's compensation, sawmill near Portage La said Tait. The operations also Prairie. require long hours and are "When the prices began to leading to respiratory recover, the growers were in illnesses. a position .of facing "If they're going to be- bankruptcy," he said. "The changing us from feigners to alternative to bankruptcy was labourers we're going to to become contract growers." negotiate a better deal," said In the past, a drop in prices the Farmers Union Vice - would lead family farmers to President. cut back production. Today. Changes in the meat large processors can lose packing industry have money on their hog resulted in unsafe andlow- operations because they paying conditions for make money on the packing employees of the : large side, said Tait. This processors, said Tait. contributes to an increase in "Traditionally, it was hard production at the same time work, it was dirty work, but the price paid for hogs it paid well," he said. Today, remains flat. that has changed. "Small and medium-sized Tait claims that the growth producers cannot exist in this of large intensive livestock environment."' operations in Canada is Meanwhile, there is a largely the result of large lingering commodity price • American hog operations that slump in almost all sectors have worn out their welcome except the supply -managed in their U.S. homes. foods. Government sources Many of those who expect those basement prices attended Monday night's meeting. were organic farmers or nrcmhcrs of environmental groups with names like PROTECT and CARES (Citizens Active Representing the Environmental Sector). -The NFU Vice -President .says agriculture is, built around the aquifer and the construction of• large intensive livestock operations is creating predictably negative results • on the environment. The Farmers Union is part of. a coalition called Hog Watch Manitoba. It's . a. 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