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News-
Fisher
honoured for service in Seaforth
Susan Hundertmark
Getting involved in the com-
munity is just part of living
there, says Bob Fisher, this
year's winner of the Seaforth
Citizenship award for Civic
Service.
"You just should be involved:
That's what makes a good,
strong community. And, some
people are able to do more than
others because they have the.
time," he says.
Fisher moved with his wife
Sandra Smithers to Seaforth in
1978 to open Pizza Train and
soon became known as "Pizza
Bob."
"For more than a quarter of a
century, Bob Fisher has called
Seaforth his home and has
made its civic growth and well
being a personal and profession-
al priority," says his nomination
letter.
Through his business, he sup-
ported local schools, churches,
sports and service clubs.
And, through his business, he
got involved in the Seaforth
Business Improvement Area
(BIA) when the province encour-
aged communities to set them
up.
"I firmly believed the BIA was
a vehicle to improve the commu-
nity," says Fisher, who was the
chair of the BIA from 1982 to
1990 "because no one else would
do it."
He says the challenge of get-
ting independent retailers to
work together to promote the
Main Street has never been
easy but he's convinced that the
BIA's efforts have improved
Seaforth's visibility.
"I've been very pleased by the
BIA's results - people did come
to town," he says.
Through his involvement. with
the BIA, Fisher also -got
involved in the Main Street
Canada program in 1985.
See COMMUNITY, Page 6
Susan Hundertmark
Bob Fisher,. who was this year's
recipient of the Citizenship
award for Civic Service, takes
his daily walk- down Main
Street.
MPPs' support part of solution, says Hall
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ignated areas," says the OPA web-
site.
The website identifies the restrict-
ed area as the "orange zone."
Green Breeze placed an ad in local
newspapers last week urging resi-
dents to protest the restrictions by
contacting their MPPs, claiming
that farmers, landowners, stake-
holders and municipal govern-
ments stand to lose millions of dol-
lars in investments and revenue.
As well, the ad says the limiting of
renewable energy projects adds to
Ontario's pollution levels.
"The OPA proposes that nuclear
power in the future is more impor-
tant than green energy today even
though only a fraction of Ontario's
population supports the expansion
of nuclear plants," says the ad.
Hall says the ad is meant to get
people stirred up to pick up the
phone and call their provincial rep-
resentatives.
"The MPPs are not the enemy.
They can hopefully be part of the
solution," he says.
Hall says the restrictions are par-
ticularly hard to understand during
a time when the province is
announcing it will not be able to
close coal-fired nuclear plants until
2014.
"We (the wind energy industry)
would definitely be able to help
shut down the coal-fired plants
quicker. It makes no sense to shut
down clean, renewable sources of
energy," he says.
David Blaney, project manager of
a new Centre for Applied
Renewable Energy in Brussels, says
the centre is also concerned about
the restrictions.
"The general reason is the grid is
not robust enough to take anymore
power at the moment," he says,
adding that the restrictions are
most likely to affect commercial
scale and co-op energy operations,
not individual farms and properties
trying to generate their own energy.
"This area has the largest wind
resource in Ontario and the
province could have stalled wind
energy for the whole province by
doing this," says Blaney.
While the centre is mostly con-
cerned with providing information
and training people on renewable
energy and doesn't generate any
power itself, Blaney says the centre
is still unhappy with the restric-
tions to renewable energy.
"We will help any lobby efforts,"
he says.
Brian McBurney, of Huron -Bruce
MPP Carol Mitchell's office, says he
is still researching the restrictions
and cannot comment on the protest.
"We think a lot of the comments in
the ad are incorrect but we don't
know enough yet," he said Friday.
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