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More than 120 peopleli, ked
into the Knights of Columbus
Hall in St. Columban last
Thursday were urged to sign
a petition calling for,a mora-
torium on the St. Columban
'wind project.,
A panel of five-` frg nizers,
including Gerry Ryan, Jim
Murray, Rob Tetu, Jeanne
Melady and Jen Dixon, also
asked all present to join them
when they were scheduled to
ask for Huron East council's.
support at Tuesday's council_,
meeting in Seaforth. .
"Our goal is to approach Hu-
ron East council because we
have to start with that level of
government and if
this l
ani
people were there, that would
be awesome," said:'Ryan,
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g that next steps would be
to go to Huron County council
and then, the province.
Two wind projects are
planned by CASA Engineer-
ing and Construction, of Th-
ronto, for the St. Columban
area bordered by Maple Line,
Summerhill Road, Manley
Line and Hydro Line Road.
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Since she 'moved back to the farm she
grew up on 19 years ago, Gene Bayn-
ham and her husband Jim have been
trying to stop trespassers on their 187
acres at Nixon Hill Farms.
Worried about the liability: if anyone
is hurt or killed when they ride their
snowmobiles or ATVs on her property,
Gene is fed up. -
"It's sickening" she says. "When I
do talk to the kids and ask them what
they're doing, they say they didn't
think anyone owned this land."
"Arid, I tell them, 'Give me your ad-
dress. I'd like to drive my ATV or my
truck on your front lawn and see how
you like it," says Gene.
The Baynhams own 97.5 acres on the
south side of Highway 8 beside Lions
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or ATVers
forth Golf Club and can be accessed
through the Seaforth Industrial Park.
They also own 90 acres on . the north
side of Highway 8 where the original
Seaforth golf course used to be located
before 1940.
.While they have gated the back
entrance and placed large cement
blocks marked with "Na espassing,"
the trespassing continues with some
people even going as far as removing
the gatesand throwing them into the
bush.
"We've had signs that are ripped
right out of the ground and people
have gone home for tools to remove
the gates," says Jim.
A large gravel pit- that used to be
located at the back of the farm was
refurbished eight years ago with • a
price tag of $60,000 paid by the Man-
agement of Abandoned Aggregrate
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Properties (MAAP), cutting down the
dangerous steep slopes of the gravel :` _•,;
pit and planting them with grass and
1,000 trees.
But, ATVers and snowmobilers have
dug trails into the 'ground with their
vehicles and destroyed almost all of
the 1,000 trees planted in the former
gravel pit.
"We didn't make these trails," she
says, walking at the back of the farm.
"Every nice day, we can hear them
back here. The trees never got a
chance to grow."
Jim says itdidn't take long for snow-
mobilers to destroy the -1,000 trees.
'It's a piece of land the size of 10
football fields but you couldn't put a
foot anywhere where there wasn't a
snowmobile track," he says, of .all the
traffic that ran over the trees.
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