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More than a stroke of talent
Paint Ontario art competition, exhibition and sale has opened at the Lambton Heritage Museum and will run until April 3. This is the 15th annual Paint Ontario,
Canada's premiere lulled art competition, exhibition and sale of representational art was Friday night. The show Is open to the publlC 11-5 p.m: 1aily. Shown here
organizer Barry Richman (left) takes a break to chat with fellow artists Teresa Marie (who also has an exhibition In this show) and David Bannister. Joanne McLean
from Mitchell won best in the show and Gwen Card of Appin won the prestigious Tom Crossman award. More than 330 pieces were jurled and record 188 pieces are
hung at the Lambton Heritage Museum.
Lambton Shores vote to support the construction of the sewage treatment plant
Lynda Hillman -Replay
Lakeshore Advance
Lambton Shores have voted 8-1 to
confirm its support of the construction
of a sewage treatment facility (STF) in
Grand Bend and to follow the direction
of the SIT Joint agreetnent.
A tri -municipal meeting Friday in
Exeter should bring decisions from
Bluewater and South Huron regarding
the next step for the Sewage Treatment
Facility project. Because of concerns
for the environment, in 2009 the two
upper tier governments (Build Canada
Fund) gave the three municipalities
$14.9 million dollars as two-thirds
funding for a sewer treatment facility
that will expand the lagoons that have
been on Mollard line since 1979. "'the
Ministry is very interested in the project
and encourage it moves ahead," said
Chris Nutt (ENE), senior environmen-
tal officer with the Ministry of the
Envimtunent.
In an interview with Nutt, he says for
this project the Environmental Assess-
ment (EA) has been accepted, the
notice has been accepted and the next
step is for the municipalities to make an
application for construction. Ile said
there are many concerns including
capadty, "concerns that won't go away.
"That is why the $15 million was
granted; he said stating there has to be
a need before the governments would
okay funds.
For the past five years the three
municipalities have worked together to
come up with a solution for the future
of sewer needs, 'I'he study area for the
project consisted oft% large area extend-
ing along the Lake I luron shoreline
from the Ausable River Gut to I luron
Road 84. The goal of the Master Plan
(2006) was to identify a► long-term, envi-
ronmentally and economically sustain-
able servicing plan to meet the servic-
ing needs of the existing and future
development over the next twenty
years. The Master Plan is a long range
plan which examines the whole infra-
structure system and recommends a
series of projects to be implemented
over an extended period of time. (In
2007, the Municipality of Bluewater
committed to participate in the project
by securing reserve capacity in the pro-
posed plant.)
'Ihe preliminary design incorporates
sustainable design concepts such as an
effluent heat recovery system and mod-
em technologies to reduce energy con-
sumption and greenhouse gas emis-
sions, while integrating social and
environmental considerations.
Nutt explained that as part of the
Class Environmental Assessment
process, the municipalities in ques-
tion define the problems with evi-
dence to support those claims. In this
case, could the present lagoons do
their Job for the next 25 years? The
second part of the EA goes to the
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