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Hailey Arts, of St. James school, is shown how to work a blowtorch by Corinne Bos, a
Grade 11 student at St. Anne's Catholic Secondary School in Clinton. Grade 8 separate
school students, from throughout the county, came out to St. Anne's Friday for the first
annual Grade 8 orientation technical day, which is designed to showcase the many
lucrative careers available within the tech sector.
First Grade 8 tech day
offered at St. Anne's
By Cheryl Heath
Clinton News -Record Editor
Dozens of Huron County -based separate
school students had to get technical Friday at
St. Anne's Catholic Secondary School.
The Clinton school opened its doors to
students from area schools for the first annual
Grade 8 orientation technical day, designed to
highlight the many lucrative careers available
in the technical field.
Jason Steinmann, a transportation teacher
at St. Anne's, says the four-part session
features hands-on training in the
communication, construction, transportation
and manufacturing fields.
Steinmann notes the new program is part of
a, government led initiative to increase
awareness in the technical fields.
The day, jointly sponsored by the Student
Success and Ontario Youth Apprenticeship
programs, gives students a chance to become
familiar with apprenticeships at an early age,
adds Steinmann.
Tim Martens, board co-ordinator for the
Ontario Youth Apprenticeship Program, gives
kudos to event organizers as well as Chris
Grace, departmental head at St. Anne's.
"It's a chance for students at the school to
spend a day immersed in tech," he says,
adding each student also has the opportunity
to bring home items they crafted during the
day's session including their own photograph
downloaded onto a computer and printed on
site.
Jodi Kuran, vice-principal at St. Anne's,
reports hearing many positive comments from
enthusiastic students participating in • the
event.
"They are loving it," she says.
MOE fine of $60,000 levied
for absence of paperwork..
By Susan Hundertmark
Expositor Editor
While Huron East has
been fined $60,000 for non-
compliance with the
Environmental Protection
Act, the municipality will
not be paying the fine or the
associated legal fees.
Deputy -Mayor Bernie
MacLellan says that as a
member of the Mid -Huron
Landfill Site board, Huron
East was chosen to accept
the charges for the six -
member board of Huron
County municipalities and
the landfill board will pay
the costs.
. "Someone had to take the
charge or they (the
Mininstry of the
Environment) were going to
fine all six municipalities.
We had a lottery," he said.
Other members of the
landfill board include
Goderich, Huron -Kinloss,
Ashfield-Colborne-
Wawanosh, Central Huron
and Bluewater.
The fine was levied for
paperwork (or waste
manifests) that were not
submitted to the MOE
between January, 2001 and
June 2002 outlining the
amount of leachate
transported from the landfill
to a transfer facility in
Goderich.
"It was paperwork we
didn't do. We were not
aware we had to do it and
even when the ministry
(MOE) found out, they
didn't tell us for six months.
And, we've been doing it
ever since we've been told,"
said MacLellan on Friday.
"We didn't think we had
to do it because we were
hauling it to ourselves," he
said.
The fine was levied in an
Ontario Court of Justice in
Goderich on Nov. 30.
The landfill board is both
the generator and receiver of
the liquid industrial waste,
which Ontario Regulation
347 stipulates the leachate
must be registered and
characterized on a manifest
by the generator and
receiver and the carrier,
Pannabecker. Holdings Inc.,
which was also fined $7,500.
Goderich clerk -
administrator Larry McCabe
said the landfill board had an
internal record of the
amount of leachate that left
the landfill and was
delivered to Goderich.
"The documents were
inadvertently not done.
There were no
environmental impacts. It
seems like a large sum of
money for the severity of
what happened," said
McCabe.
MOE spokesperson Mark
Rabbior said the regulation
involved has been in
existence "a couple of years
now."
"When we make
regulatory, changes, we send
out notices but it's up to the
producers of waste to make
sure they're following our
rules," he said.
He said the regulation
exists so that the MOE can
track the amounts of waste
being transported in the
province.
The municipality and the
transport company both
pleaded guilty to the
breaches of MOE
regulations.
Huron East man loses $10,000
after failing for e-mail scam
A 35 -year-old Huron East man lost
$10,000 from an e-mail scam recentlty,
says Huron OPP.
Police were contacted Nov. 30 by the
man after he realized he'd been taken in by
a woman claiming to be from Nigeria.
The man developed an e-mail
relationship with the woman who told him
she wanted to move to Canada to be with
family members and sent a $10,000
cheque, asking him to send it on to her
family as if he were sponsoring her to enter
the; country.
He received the cheque on Nov. 2 and a
week later, he wired his own cash from
Western Union to people in the Toronto
area.
On Nov. 19, he was asked to set up a
bank account and deposit a cheque she had
sent of $15,000.
However, the bank recognized the name
of the company as being one of their
fradulent companies.
He discovered the name of the woman he
was corresponding with was false and
impossible to track down.
Huron OPP are warning all computer
homeowners not to get involved in any
scheme that uses them to pass money onto
others.
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