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To the Editor,
,I'd like to respond to the series of
letters from Mr. Brand, advocating
commercial -wind turbines. I have
no doubt the author of these letters
has good intentions.
That said it would. be wonderful if
he would take the time to do some
research, attend some public meet-
ings, and lose some of the sarcasm
he has for those who oppose devel-
opment at this point. Then I think
he could contribute something more
constructive to what I believe is one
of the most important issues this
county is facing.
Electricity for our household has
been provided solely by solar and
wind for 18 years. I've advocated en-
ergy conservation, and. the possible
benefits of wind power for this area
vocally for quite some time, but the
development model we're using for
most of the commercial wind tur-
bines in Ontario is a lousy one.
County Warden Ken Oke is abso-
lutely correct in advocating a tempo-
rary freeze till the province does its
homework. There are enough alarm
bells going off in this province and
elsewhere.
As it stands right now, communi-
ties that get commercial turbines of
significant number (plans for Cen-
tral Huron at one point had 126 tur-
bines in 10 square miles), will see
legitimate health and annoyance
issues, a lowering of some people's
property values, little or negative
tax benefit for municipalities, and
about four per cent of the turbine
revenues distributed amongst the
smallest number of land owners the
developer can feasibly work with.
Add to that a handful of mainte-
nance.and public -relations jobs, and
you have the total benefit the com-
munity will likely see for the next
40 years.
Unfortunately, there will be no
measurable improvement in health,
air quality or grid stability either
for people in this area. Spending
our money on the conservation side
and improving the grid efficiency,
will have a far greater net benefit at
this point.
Mr. Brand stated in a past letter
previous councils have looked at
this issue, we don't have to.
I suggest that if you put this kind
of wind development in front of
councils in Europe that have dealt
with this issue and legitimately
tried to reduce their impact on the
environment, they would say "why
would we do it like this?"
I still believe that if we take the
time to get this right, with reason-
able setbacks, better revenue shar-
ing and perhaps even ownership
by landowners we will in the long
run make much better use of this
renewable resource, and provide
something of real benefit for future
generations.
Robert Budd
Via e-mail
Fiie.mile race bqtween
two men at nearby sk
rink as some
betting of oars in 1884
A small fire in one of the rooms of night duty for him. W.R. Smith, president; J. Mervin
the Dick House called out the bri- When the large Sunoco oil truck Nott, treasurer and Leo Hagan,
gade on Monday evening. Fortu- belonging to Ross Scott, Brucefield secretary
nately the blaze was extinguished turned out to pass a team on the February 29, 1984
without the aid of the firemen and turn on highway #8 west of town on Barring no objections, Seaforth
before any serious damage was Wednesday morning, it got too far should have its Main Street Heri-
done. off the road and turned over on its , tage Conservation District . Plan
In Stewart Bros. advertisement of side in the ditch. Little damage was in place by this summer. A public
Feb. 26, 1909 we note that ladies' done to the truckbut it took consid- meeting, the third last step towards
kid gloves sold for $1.00 and suits erable time and work to get it back declaring most buildings on Main
to measure were $18, $20, $22 and on the road: Street a heritage district, was held
$24. And - butter and egs were tak- ' February 27, 1959 Tuesday evening. About 20 Seaforth
en as cash. , Miss Mabel E. `.Turnbull was pre- citizens,attended.
The railway station and freight sented with luggage by Northside Seaforth doctors haven't been
shed of the Grand Think Railway at United Church marking 20 years able to pinpoint which bug in par-
Bluevale was completely destroyed of service as director of the Junior ticular is responsible but a flu bug
by fire the other- day. There was no Choir. Mrs. E.H. Close read an ad- has been sending hundreds of peo-
appliances or water at hand with dress of thanks and Ross Murdie ple home from work or school and
which to fight the flames. presented Miss Turnbull with theover to the Medical Clinic over the
March 2, 1934 luggage. past week.
Charlie Woods, 13 -year-old son Bill Strong, Tuckersmith was cho- The fate of the Seaforth Farmers
of Mr. and Mrs. John Woods, God- sen best actor in the fifth annual Market is in limbo, but chances are
erich Street West was seriously drama festival presented by- the the recreation department will fol -
injured when struck by a car tray- Huron County Junior Farmers. low through on a recommendation
elling east on #8 highway. Young Mr. and Mrs. Emerson Coleman that the market be held every Sat -
Woods suffered a broken arm and entertained at their home on Sat- urday during the month of June.
leg and was removed to Scott Me- urday evening when 40 relatives In the last three yeras, the market
morial Hospital. In the company of gathered for dinner on the occasion was only held three times a year,
his brother Donald and Jack Rut- of Mr. and Mrs. Rochus Faber's sil- throughout the summer months.
ledge the lad was proceeding to the ver wedding anniversary. About 10 Seaforth area citizens in -
gully at the east of the town. One McKillop and Hullet farmers who cluding the recreation department
of the boys was pulling a toboggan reside on the third concession, met committee met Thursday night to
and the other two were riding on it. in Kinburn Thursday to discuss an discuss the future of the Farmers
In some manner, young Woods fell HEPC proposal to run a high ten- Mark -t.
off directly in front of the approach sion line through their properties. A skipping demonstration at St.
ing car. The driver of the car had no Members of the Seaforth Cham- James Separate School, a blood
opportunity to avoid the accident. ber of Commerce organized for the pressure clinic and a cardio-pul-
Chief Helmer Snell has been off coming year at the annual banquet minary rescusitation course were
duty for a number of days suffering in St. Thomas Anglican Church the culmination of the- Februrary
from a sprained back. John Cum- Hallon Thursday. New officers. are Heart Month campaign in Seaforth
mings has been substituting on K. Bruce McMillan, vice-president; on Thursday.
February 29, 1884
Mr. T.J. Wilson of Hensall is tak-
ing out large quantities of square
timber for shipment at Kippen.
The timber was purchased from the
farmers in the area.
The members of the High School
Glee Club assisted by Mr. W.G. Duff
and Mr. E.B. Hollis intend givinga
musical and literary entertainment
in the school house at Winthrop on
Friday evening next.
The five mile race between Mr.
L. Stevens of Clinton and Mr. C.
Donagh of Goderich took place
last Tuesday night on the " rink in
Clinton. Considerable betting took
place - some had as much as $100
on "their man." The race resulted in
an easy victory for Stevens. A large
number from Goderich were in at-
tendance and a splendid evening's
fun was spent.
One day last week while Ghent
Darland of Gorrie was chopping
wood in the bush he had the misfor-
tune to split one of his big toes.
February 26, 1909
The Glenn trophy after a short
stay of six days with our curlers here
has been carried off by the sailors of
Southhampton. The Glenn trophy
is a challenge cup and must be de-
fended whenever the holding club
is challenged. Tuesday Southhamp-
ton came along, played a game and
the trophy is theirs. The score was
28-11, in favor of the Sailors. The
Seaforth players were R.S. Hays,
J. Beattie, W. McDougall and W.
Ament.
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