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Home My WebLink AboutHuron Expositor, 2002-01-23, Page 5Recycling bins turning into a garbage dump By Scott Hiendorff Expositor Editor A problem with garbage being dumped at the recycling bins in Egmondville may be dealt with by adding a bluebox collection program to the Tuckersmith Ward of Huron East. "We've been having problems with people putting more than recyclables for a long time," said Administrator Jack McLachlan of the problem at the recyle bin site at the Huron East shed in Egmondville, part of the Tuckersmith Ward. "It's not been a good situation," he said. The former Tuckersmith council has posted and sent notices to residents about what can be put in the recycling bins but McLachlan said the problem has persisted. "The boxes are there for recyclable material," he said. That includes glass, plastic and newspapers. But when Harpurhey resident Jean Aykroyd went to take her recyclables there last week, she discovered a couch, boots and other trash dumped there that should have been sent to the landfill site. "There was everything you'd find at the dump," she said, frustrated that people would abuse the recycling service that way. "I thought it was a shame people were throwing their garbage there," she said. "There was garbage all over the place." When garbage gets thrown in the recyclables, the load gets rejected by Bluewater Recycling and ends up in the landfill site, defeating the purpose of recylcing. McLachlan said the Tuckersmith Ward is the only area of Huron East that doesn't have a blue box collection program and that Huron East council will likely be looking at adding one in the spring, through the 2001 budget process. A blue box program would see door-to-door recycling collection. If garbage is put in with the recylables, 'it doesn't get picked up under that program. Doctors showing interest in town, recruiting goes on By Susan Hundertmark Expositor Staff Two potential new family doctors for Seaforth were toured through town recently but recruiter Gwen Devereaux says it's too son id tell if they'll move here to work. "One was from New Brunswick so she wasn't scared off by our bad weather and the other is coming back for another look in February. But, I can't say we have a new doctor as yet," says Devereaux, adding the two were only the most recent doctors to tour the town considering whether or not to locate in Seaforth. Seaforth Community Hospital's board recently agreed to offer an incentive program to lure doctors to town to help eliminate the current doctor shortage but, Devereaux says it's more the town and the existing medical services offered that make the difference when doctors decide where to locate. "The incentive program may work to catch them but you have to get them here first," she says. "We're a very recruitable community here. We're close to London, close to the water (Lake Huron) and we have a nice • young medical staff that's appealing to young doctors coming in," says Devereaux. Seaforth's incentive program offers new doctors as much as $30,000 in moving expenses, rent assistance and financial assistance in setting up a new practice. "I know of no other communities that are not offering incentives, especially rural communities. If you want to be competitive, you've got to offer incentives," says Andrew Williams, hospital administrator. Devereaux says some communities, such as Kitchener, are offering such perks as new tires for doctors' cars, memberships at local golf courses and lease cars to attract new doctors to their communities. "The one I love is Alexandria that is offering $1,000 to any member of the community who can bring a new doctor to town. They're sending a clear message that they're desperate and will do anything for a new doctor," she says. Two more doctors are needed to care for patients in the Seaforth area and local doctors recently stressed the need for another woman doctor to care for female patients. Devereaux says that while it's hard to attract women doctors to a rural area, there are more and more women graduating as doctors. "And, I love a challenge," she says. Susan Hundertmark photo Walking for memories... Tom Fletcher and Isabelle Shortreed, residents of the Seaforth Manor and in the middle, Margie Reynolds, of the Huron Adult Day Centre, walk during the Alzheimer walk-a-thon at Seaforth District High School Saturday morning. With 12 participants, the local walk-a-thon raised $600. Future of Walton school still unknown The eight Walton - area residents and business -people who bought Walton Public School will meet at the end of . J'anuary to discuss their plans for the building, which they gained possession of on Jan. 8. "Nothing's been decided as of yet. A few people are away so we won't be able to meet until the end of the month," says Jeff McGavin, one of.•the school's new owners. The group banded together to buy the school when it went up for auction by the Avon Maitland District School Board on Nov. 8. The eight have been meeting regularly since that time, working on forming an incorporated company with plans to turn the school into a small business centre. McGavin said earlier that the group has been receiving phone calls from throughout Huron County by businesses interested in locating in the old Brussels Public School. While no opening date has been set, the group hopes to launch its new business centre sometime in 2001. By Susan Hundertmark HURON EXPOSITOR, January 24, 2001-5 ILLUSIONS You are invited to meet author SANDRA ORR ILLUSIONS, by Sandra Orr is a poignant, powerful novel ... full of romance and suspense. 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