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HomeMy WebLinkAboutHuron Expositor, 2009-12-23, Page 5• .w- Opinion The Huron Expositor • December 23, 2009 Page 5 It's important to vote on Egmondville sewer decision To the Editor, Following the public meeting on Nov 30 regarding the expansion of the Seaforth sanitary sewer system into the hamlet of Egmondville, a ballot has been mailed the ratepay- ers of Egmondville. It is important that you fill in and return your ballot to the municipal office as 51 per cent of the returned ballots will decide whether to ex- tend the Seaforth sewage works to • Egmondville or not. One question on the ballot asks whether you want to proceed with the expansion or not. It is impor- tant that you also answer the sec- ond question which asks your choice of system, regardless if you want to proceed with the expansion or not. The choice of systems are 1) the traditional gravity sewer or 2) sep- tic tank effluent gravity system (STEG). Sewers for Egmondville are too To the Editor, Concerned home owners of Eg- mondville, Why fix it if it isn't broken? It's unbelievable that Huron East is expecting the home owners of Eg- mondville in these tough economic times to bear this cost of the most expensive sewer systems and to help fund the expansion of capacity to help development and enlarge- ment of the current system. In regards to the upcoming vote for sewers and the systems avail- able, your vote in important. The cost of these systems for each house- hold is unfair to the homeowners of Egmondville. These costs are approximately up to $30,000 if no grants are available. It is a ridiculous amount to burden each family with in Egmondville. The potential cost of the tradition- al gravity as outlined by the engi- neer B.M. Ross would be between $22,900 - $27,900 depending on the cost to complete the hook up to your home. The engineer's potential cost for the STEG system of $19,400 in- cludes the hook up to your home. There is a possibility of govern- ment grants available to offset these costs but there are no guarantees. All information about the systems and costs can be obtained on the Hu- ron East website at www.huroneast. com or the Huron East municipal of- fice. The deadline to return the bal- lot in Friday, Jan. 15, 2010. • Larry McGrath Tuckersmith representative Huron East council expensive in these tough times It is highly recommended that Hu- ron East put sewers on hold till at such time there is available grants to help with the costs or if there is a septic system not in proper working order, then the home owner should repair or install a new system which is by far not as costly as sewers for the home owner. Make your vote count. Vote no to sewers at this horren- dous cost. There are many home owners who have had to go to the expense of re- pairing or installing a new environ- mentally -friendly septic system and now are facing the expense of sew- ers. Linda Dzioba Egmondville, Ont. Christmas Carol brings together talented community members to create something magical for the holiday season To the Editor, On behalf of Huron Hospice I would like to tell you that the Christmas Carol reading was very well received this year! I do believe that there were more seniors out this year due to our change in time. There were a few younger families in attendance due to the children's choir and even cousins came to hear readers! Thank you to the readers.I know many people have a lot of events to attend at this time of year. Thank you for slowing down and sharing this wonderful experience with the community and supporters of Huron Hospice. When we start- ed this reading a few years ago, we didn't imagine that we would con- tinue it year after year, but there are people who start asking in the fall "who is going to read this De- cember"? Finding readers is less stressful than finding music and musicians, so I am personally very grateful to the organizers of the members of the community choir. The singers I know, love to have an opportunity to perform and many sing in other choirs throughout the county. We have a great deal of talent in our community. This year's choir was wonderful and the music well suited to the moods of Dickens' words. Thank you again for being part of something quite magical. In addition I want to thank the members of Northside United Church for their assistance with music sound and kitchen co-ordi- . nation. The volunteers with Huron Hospice, especially the Board of Di- rectors are appreciated as they en- joy this special event as well. I am now ready to enjoy the spirit of Christmas. May God bless each and everyone of us at this time of year and throughout the coming year as well! Janis Bisback Huron Hospice Government needs to study why people living near turbines get sick 'ho the Editor, . • For over a year now, T have been one of many advocating for safe placement of industrial wind tur- bine developments to protect . the health and well-being of Ontario's rural families. We have simply asked the govern- ment to look at why so many people are getting sick after turbines are built so closely to homes. Why are so many moving away, why have some abandoned their homes or farmed their kids out to relatives? Why are very healthy peo- ple so tired and sick after the start- up of turbines in their area? Why do they improve when they leave their homes and getting sick again when they return to their homes? We have asked the government to stop allowing more turbines un- til they look into the problems oc- curring with the first lot of them already installed by doing indepen- dent, third party studies. The "new" regulations will not help the honest, hard working peo- ple unfortunate enough to be in the path of the thousands more turbines planned for this province. We hear the same tired phrases from both the government and the wind com- panies trying to justify what has been and will continue to be done to rural Ontario. In fact they are often identical. To elaborate, just a little: - Everything is in compliance with Ministry of Environment (maybe we need to look at MOE guidelines because they are NOT working.) - There are no problems in Europe (why are there 370 groups from 20 countries protesting turbines in Eu- rope? www.epaw.org) • Engineering conservative model- ing shows noise is not a problem (tell that to a lot of people living next to a turbine and they'll tell you a very different story.) - We have to shut coal plants down (so we jeopardize rural Ontario's safety in a vain belief that turbines can actually do this? Have we heard of `scrubbers' for coal plants?) Canadian Wind Energy Associa- tion, President Robert Hornung's CanWEA, is made up of proponents of the wind industry and is a wind energy lobby group. CanWEA and the American version of the same, American Wind Energy Associa- tion, commissioned the latest study denying.adverse health effects from industrial wind turbines. All the denial in the world does not negate what is happening to people right now. Bottom line; too many people are getting sick in the wake of P indus- trial wind turbines. I would not expect an industry to discredit its own product. I do expect this government to pro- tect the people they are supposed to represent. Lorrie Gillis Grey Highlands windaffects@gmail.com