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HomeMy WebLinkAboutHuron Expositor, 2009-08-26, Page 5Opinion The Huron Expositor • August 26, 2009 Ptd 5 McKillop residents should visit windmills on Highway 21 and decide if they're right for the local area To the Editor, Reading about the controversy over windmills in McKillop is up- setting for an old McKillop boy. The reason for writing this letter is to suggest that everyone involved take time to travel from Amberley to Port - Elgin on Highway 21 to see for themselves the visual impact of windmills. The impact doesn't stop at sundown so you should come home after dark to experience flash- ing red lights as far as the eye can see. The most dense area is north of Tiverton. Have a look and decide if you want to do that to McKillop. Take time to visit the beautiful beaches as part of your trip and you can also stop at the Bruce Nuclear Power Development visitor's cen- • tre. We live in Walkerton and I was agricultural representative for Bruce County for 22 years but the roots still run deep in McKillop. . Mac Bolton Walkerton, Ont. Green energy bill serves international corporations more than farms and homeowners wishing to reduce dependence on grid lb the Editor, I had hoped the new green energy. bill would provide a way (modest sized turbines/solar panels/ecologi- cally friendly innovations etc) for farmsand homeowners to reduce their dependence on the grid and to offset energy costs. Instead, Ontarians will be paying international corporations (through subsidies) to build enormous tur- bines which will and in fact already are destroying farmland, interrupt- ing aquifers, spilling hazardous waste, and poisoning local residents with stray voltage,. noise and the gi- ant "pinwheel" motion. Taxpayers also face the very likely outcome that the companies building these structures will not be around when problems arise or the turbines need to be decommis- sioned. The public face paying for the demolition of these rusting gi- ants in the not too distant future. Citizens in Huron County, Ontario have lived with huge wind turbines long enough now to know some alarming facts. Our neighbours liv- ing too close to turbines near Ripley and Auburn, Ontario are getting. sick. Concerned neighbours have orga- nized a coalition called Huron East Against Turbines (HEAT). They re- cently held a brilliant information. session on wind turbines and re- vealed the sad truth. The turbines are making us sick. They are bet- ter informed than I am and will be more eloquent. I urge you to contact HEAT. http://heatont.blogspot.com/ Electricity must stay in the pub- lic's hands. The turbine companies are here for profit, for. their profit only. Citizens have nothing to gain but everything to fear with loose government legislation which al- lows corporations to fish for land- owners desperate to sign anything. The Ontario Federation of Agri- culture published an information sheet to help farmers see through some of the hidden traps in these leasing agreements. A moratorium on turbines must be put in effect immediately. Proper studies must be held before anyone can threaten the public health with this technology. Christine Hare Dublin ON Bottle of gasoline and bundle of matches found hidden in a sheaf in 1934, `stranger' charged August 22, 1884 John Kelly of Morris Township has leased his farm, 125 acres to John Boldrow of West Wawanosh. The great stallion races to take place on Fairview Park, in Sea - forth, on the 4th of September are attracting a good deal of interest all over and the indications are that there will be a larger crowd here on that day than ever attended on any previous similar occasion. Mr. and Mrs. James Carnochan arrived home from the old country this past week. Public schools re -opened in Hen- sall on Monday, but the attendance thus far is reported to be very small. One day last week Mr: R. Pater- son of the Hensall planing mills was engaged in using his steam rip saw, his hand slipped arid coming in contact with the saw, cut off the first finger joint of his left hand. August 20, 1909 The annual fall fair of the Seaforth Agriculture Society will be held on their grounds here on Thursday and Friday, Sept. 23 and .24. The prize lists will be ready for distri- bution shortly. The public library and reading room will be closed from Aug. 16 to Aug. 31 for.librarian's holidays. Russell, the five-year-old son of Mr. James Young of Egmondville met with a painful accident on Monday afternoon last. He was riding on a wagon loaded with four or five telephone poles, when in some manner he was thrown off and the hind wheel of the wagon passed over his body. The little fellow was very severely bruised; but fortunately no bones vvere broken and he is now doing as well as can be expected. August 24, 1934 While threshing operations were in progress. on the farm of Ross McGregor, Hullett Township, a bottle of gasoline and a bundle of matches were found cleverly. hid- den in a sheaf by John McCowan a neighbor who was assisting in the threshing. Police at Goderich were notified. On Sunday morning Mr. McGregor and a neighbor Will Jewitt were walking over the McGregor farm when they noticed a stranger. The man refused any information and in view of what had happened previously, Mr. McGregor called Constable McCoy who took the man into custody. Robert Armstrong, address un- known, was charged with vagrancy and a charge of attempted arson may be laid. August 21, 1959 First appointment in the New Ontario Department of Energy Resources involves a former Sea - forth man, Clare H. Westcott was named to the post of executive as- sistant to the minister on Wednes- day. Organizer for the Young Pro- gressive Conservative Association, Mr. Westcott is the only member of the new department, except for the minister. Aspecial tournament was held last week in Seaforth when prizes were given to the best district " nooker players." Larry Berger wt(n over a field of 24 contestants. Harold O. Free, life long resident of Seaforth, who with Mrs. Free and daughter Dianne, leaves this week for California where they will reside. August 22, 1984 Every Sunday afternoon dur- ing the school year approximately 10 deaf children in Huron Coun- ty get on a bus bound for the Ro- barts School Regional Centre for the Hearing Handicapped in Lon don. And, every Friday, they come home after a two hour (sometimes three hour in the winter) ride from school. The possibility that the ride could become even longer if secondary school classes are moved to the Er- nest Drury School in Milton has lo- cal parents voicing loud opposition to the Ministry of Education. Seaforth council decided at its Aug. 14 meeting to build 560 feet of sidewalk on . North Mill Street in addition to the 1984 sidewalk schedule instead of buying a chip- per after received a petition signed by close to 20 ratepayers. The petition from residents of Mill St. says the poor condition of the road and the lack of sidewalks make the street unsafe for the grow- ing number of young children and noisier from large trucks and trail- ers hitting the ruts in the road.