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Home My WebLink AboutHuron Expositor, 2003-11-26, Page 66 -THE HURON EXPOSITOR, MOVEN ER 2S, 2003 4 NEW ARRIVALS Visit us for the area's largest selection of giftware! Shop Early for Best Selection! Nifty Korners 33 Main St. Seaforth 527-1680 REMINDER Huron East Residents FINAL INSTALLMENT OF TAXES DUE November 28, 2003 P.O. Box 610, 72 Main Street South SEAFORTH, ON NOK 1 WO (519)527-0160 Payments can also be paid through telephone banking or any CIBC Branches in Seaforth, Brussels & Listowel, TD Canada Trust Bank in Seaforth & the Exeter or Clinton Branches of Heartland Community Credit Union. Av Air uron NOTICE TO THE RATEPAYERS OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF CENTRAL HURON Final Tax Bills second installment is due November 28th, 2003. If you wish to use the monthly pre -autho- rized payment plan, please contact the Municipal Office prior to December 15th, 2003 for the 2004 taxation year. Share an extraordinary dinner this holiday season. Experience our "made right here" specialty meats for special occasions. Call ahead to order... • Wine -cured h, m • Hickory -smoked ham • • Boneless smoked turkey breast • • Stuffed pork loin roast Marinated beef roast Cold cuts platter And, our Gift Certificates make the perfect gift! Aow extvirdiaWit ' 180 BROCK AVENUE, HENSALL • (519) 262-3130 News Tuckersmith recycling depot being abused by Seaforth business: McGrath By Susan Hundertmark Expositor Editor Tuckersmith Coun. Larry McGrath says he's all for a blue box recycling program in Tuckersmith if the ward's ratepayers want one. But, he doesn't want them forced into it because Seaforth business people are filling Tuckersmith's recycling bins so often. "We have a ton of cardboard coming from Main Street, Seaforth for the sake of being cheap. Tuckersmith is not abusing the system," he told Huron East council at its meeting last Tuesday. Tuckersmith is the only ward in Huron East without a blue box program in place. Instead, ratepayers of Tuckersmith recycle by bringing their cardboard, bottles and cans to the depot on Front Road. McGrath said he's heard that half of Tuckersmith's ratepayers want a blue box program and half are happy with the recycling depot. "My ratepayers shouldn't have to pay more because someone else is abusing the depot," he said. McGrath said town staff have told him that the depot, which might be emptied out on a Friday, can be jammed full by Saturday. He added during a telephone interview that while the depot had one cardboard bin six months ago, it now has four cardboard bins. "I know people from Tuckersmith's recycling depot on Front Road Seaforth are bringing cardboard out because I've seen the store owners out there. Besides, we've only got one store in Egmondville," he said. McKillop Coun. Sharon McClure agreed that the Tuckersmith recycling depot is being abused, especially by people who dump their garbage there. "It's tensible -looking - you would not believe the garbage around those bins," she said. Public Works Coordinator John Forrest said town staff spends three to four hours a week cleaning up the garbage at the recycling depot. Garbage ranging from bags of garbage to televisions to mattresses to old appliances shows up at the depot and Forrest said he doesn't know who leaves it. "You name it and it's out there. And, when it gets windy, it's all over the place. I have no idea where it comes from," he said. Forrest added the municipality is left to pay the dumping fee when the garbage left at the recycling depot is trucked to the local landfill site. "We get calls about it all the time. People are disgusted," he said. McKillop Coun. Ferg Kelly suggested a public meeting be held in Tuckersmith to determine if a blue box program is wanted. He said that a blue box program will cost as little as $25 a household once a government program begins that will demand that manufacturers contribute 50 per cent of the costs of • recycling the waste. "Explain the options and let them decide," he said. Deputy -Mayor Bernie MacLellan agreed that a public meeting was a good idea. "I've never had anyone tell me they didn't want a blue box program and those who did want it, didn't know how much it might cost," he said. Mayor Lin Steffler said council should clearly communicate that each ward pays for its individual recycling option. Music has taken Paraguayan folk harpist around the world. From Pam 1 love what I do," he said. He added he was blessed not only to have come to a Santa brings us a New Truckload Every Week Fri. 10-6, Sat. 10-4, Sun. 12-4 Bayfield Rd. 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Klassen was born and raised in an isolated area of Paraguay, South America, 508 kilometres from the nearest city. He was one of six children living with his parents in a small mud house. "Could you imagine a Sunday morning service without any music — it's pretty boring because that's how I lived for many years until the missionaries from Canada came," he said. Klassen said growing up, he hunted in the bush for food with his brothers. He said he had very little schooling as his parents had none and to this day, his mother still cannot read. "We thought everybody lived this way, that we were the richest people in the world, until I saw those pictures in the books from the missionaries. I wondered if I would ever see those pictures in life." At the age of 20, Klassen said he told his parents he was leaving for the city to attend school to study music. He said that with his parents support, no money and a old car, he went on the two-week journey to the city. "I first fell in love with music at the age of seven," he said. "Our father brought home a little box and said 'this is a radio, tonight we will hear music.' It was the first time any of us heard it even my father." In 1980, Klassen began his five years of study in Asuncion at Cemta and Ateneo Paraguayo. During that time, he said he also had his first experience using a toilet and a telephone. - "It was difficult to live in a modern world. I thought I would have to go back to the bush because at least I knew what to do there," he said. Klassen said, with what money he had, he then went to find someone who could teach him a musical instrument lesson and soon found a Paraguayan harp teacher. The harp is a native instrument of Paraguayan, made of thin wood and is much lighter than the classical harp. Because of the design, the sound is produced in two areas, the vibration of the chords and from the vibration of .the wide instrument. Klassen said he not only had to learn how to play the harp but had to learn six different languages as well. He said he learned much of the English language from his wife, Christine, whom he met after coming to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1986. After their married, the couple settled in her hometown in Ontario and now have two sons. On June 8, 2002, Klassen said he paid for his parents to come to Canada for the first time to hear him play the harp. "I prayed for 23 years that one day my parents could see me play and to know all those years of love, hard work and having to leave home paid off," he said. "I am so grateful to be able to be here in Ontario and to do what I do. We should never take for granted what we have and that we are able to live in the most beautiful country of Canada." 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