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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1975-01-23, Page 18 (2)Page 1 • Times -Advocate, January 23, 1975 PUBLIC SKATING No public skating Saturday due to Minor Hockey Day Sunday 2:00 to 4:00 Stag Robert "Sam" Vanstone Fri., Jan. 24 9-12 HENSALL ARENA Admission 51 00 Everybody Welcome Lunch Provided FREE BUS SERVICE to the London BINGO Games Every Monday and Wednesday BUS DEPARTS AS FOLLOWS Dashwood Exeter Huron Pork Centralia Luc on 6 15 p m . 6.30 p m. 6 40 p m. 645 pm. 655 pm Phone 235-0450 Dance KIRKTON-WOODHAM COMMUNITY CENTRE Sat., Jan. 25 Music by Waysiders No Blue Jeans Please 4 ENTERTAINMENT THIS THURS., FRI. & SAT. Bopprn-Bobby Band Versatile Music The Country Room The Home of Country Style Cooking CHEF'S SPECIAL DAILY Les Pines Hotel Motel EXETER North of the Bndge Phone 235-0151 Every Friday and Saturday 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m Chicken Specials For Take -Out Phone 235-1913 Snack Pack $1.25 15 Pieces .... 55.75 Dinner Pack $2.10 21 Pieces .... $7.50 9 -Pieces $3.50 Wedgies 60c Per Order (Included Free With Snack Pack and Dinner Pack ANNE'S C HOP Main and Wellington Streets, Exeter • DASHWOOD HOTEL - Entertainment Jan. 24 - 25 Nashville Bound Tiffany Dining Lounge Hours Weekdays 12-2, 5-8 Fri. & Sat. 12-2, 5-9 Sundays 4-8 Doily Luncheon Specials Planning a special function we will be pleased to assist you Banquet facilities available .:a By JACK RIDDELL M.P.P. On December 19, the three volume report of the Environ- ment Ministry's Solid Waste Task Force was tabled in the Legislature by Environment \linister William Newman. The Vain subject of the detailed report centres on the problem of lust how much waste is caused by throwaway bottles and cans and what can be done to encourage the use of returnable bottles. While the facts in the report make clear the need for a ban on non -refillable bottles and cans, no strong recommendations were made because of the greater number of industry represen- tatives over consumer and en- vironmental representatives on the Task Force. The Provincial Task Force was formed back in the fall of 1972, to look at the problems of solid waste and the then Minister of Seeks no -return bottle ban the Environment, James Auld asked that it concentrate on the packaging of milk, carbonated soft drinks and alcoholic and other beverages. These problems were seen as the most pressing solid waste problems in the Province at the time. Two sub groups, the Beverage Packaging Working Group and the Milk Packaging Working Group were formed to study these issues. However, half of the members of the Solid Waste Task Force were representatives of the interested industries and the industry representatives further outnumbered consumer and environmental group representatives on the two working groups by two to one. The representation on these groups did nothing more than polarize the industry and con- sumer interests. Since the business of the Task Force and the Working Groups were decided by majority vote. the composition on the groups was very significant. In fact, the Beverage Packaging Group which contained seven representatives from related beverage industries and three consumer representatives were unable to agree on anything except that the 16 recom- mendations it did offer would be inadequate in themselves to produce a substantial im- provement in the availability of Cromarty ladies meet, discuss food poisoning By MRS. ROBERT LAING CROMARTY Cromarty Ladies' Aid met at the home of \Irs. J. Carey with Mrs. R Laing presiding. The meeting opened with a reading. Better to Strive. and Hymn 373, The Great Physician. Mrs. Mervin Dow gave the deovotions based on leadership. Mrs. Charles Douglas read an article on food safety which listed those ingredients most apt to be involved in food poisoning and says to prevent them from • spoiling. Nine members answered the roll call with a household hint and the payment of a membership fee. Mrs. Carey gave the December minutes and read thank -you notes from persons who received shut-in boxes at Christmas. `M,'. John \filler gave the treasurer's report. During the business. the group decided to buy Bibles for use in the Sunday School. Catering prices will he revised at the \larch meeting. Layettes for Unitarian Services will be turned in at the same meeting. The closing hymn was Sun of my Soul. followed by the Lord's Prayer in unison. Personals Anthony. Leyland of England has been a guest for the past three weeks at the home of Mr. & Mrs. John Scott. On Saturday Mr. & Mrs. Carlyle Meikle and family at- tended a New Year's gathering at the home of Mr. & Mrs. Jim Meikle. Exeter. Mrs Thos. L. Scott spent Monday and Tuesday in London at a meeting of the Board of Congregational Life of the Presbyterian Church in Canada. Mrs Scott was a delegate from the Stratford Presbyterial of the W.M.S. Mr. & Mrs. Carlyle Meikle and family visited recently with Mr. & Mrs Garry Finlayson. RR 2 Kippen. Mr. & Mrs. Otto Walker celebrated their wedding an- niversary at the home of their daughter and son-in-law, Mr. & Mrs Hugh Currie, Dorchester. Also present were Mr. & Mrs R. Hulley. Winthrop, Mr. & Mrs. A. Walker. and Mr. & Mrs. J. McGhee. London, and their families. Mr. K. Walker, London, and Mrs. Larry Gardiner, Steven and Leanne. Cromarty. Mrs. John Wallace and Mrs. Charles Douglas attended the training school for the next 4-1-1 homemaking project Clothes for Leisure. ACW plan Feb. banquet By MRS. HEBER DAVIS SAINTSBURY Wednesday evening the ACW held their January meeting at the home of Mrs. Earl Greenlee. The President Mrs. Joan Greenlee presided and led in prayer and meditation and the litany. Mrs. Ron Carroll read the Scripture. Mrs. Harry Carroll was elected treasurer for 1975 and 1976. Mrs. M. Greenlee read the minutes of the last meeting. At the close of the devotional period plans were made for an early February banquet. Mrs. Ron Carroll thanked Mrs. Greenlee for her home and social hour Personals Church service on Sunday was held at the home of Mr. & Mrs. Harry Carroll. The annual Vestry meeting will be held on February 5 at the home of Mr. & Mrs. Hugh Davis at eight o'clock. Mr. & Mrs. Pete Sovereign and children were Sunday dinner guests with Mr. & Mrs. Bob Tin- dall and family. Mr. & Mrs. Earl Greenlee and Rev. & Mrs. George Anderson were Saturday evening dinner guests with Mr. & Mrs. Larry Greenlee and Derek. Rev Anderson was observing his birthday. Mr. Gote Wennerstrom and Mr. Si Mrs. Heber Davis were Sunday dinner guests with Mr & Mrs. Harry Carroll. The ladies of St. Patrick's church quilted on Monday at the home of Mrs. Harry Carroll. FRIDAY SPECIALS THIS WEEK i Chicken Chow Mein 2.15 Honey Ribs 2.65 Fish 8 Chips 1.65 Chinese Main St. Waily's Garden Exeter Monday to Thursday 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. 235-0464. Friday and Saturday 10 a.m. to 2 a.m. Sundays 12 noon to 8 p.m. returnable bottles. However, a approach was made to makin returnable bottles moreavailabl to the public. What fife findings of the repor do show, is that non-refillabl containers are environmentall harmful and that "any switc from the use of non -refillable sof drink bottles and cans t refillable bottles is beneficial t the environment". The Solid Waste Task Force recommended adoption of the Working Group reports. The report of the Milk Packaging Working Group was tabled in the Legislature months ago. The report of the Beverage Packing Working Group produced 16 recommendations of which the Government has accepted 14. The first recommendation of the Group was that, where soft drinks were being sold, they must he available in refillable con- tainers as well as throwaway containers. This would make sure that consumers hada fair choice in the market place since it is ex- tremely difficult today to find a retail outlet who stocks retur- nable bottles. This was a key recommendation when compared to the others but one which was rejected by William Newman. Also rejected was the recommendation that the deposit price for beer containers be in- creased from the present 2 cents to encourage an even greater return of the bottles. The one recommendation adopted which requires response from the beverage industry is that the pull tab on cans be phased out over the next twelve months. The cans themselves, however, would not he banned. The fact that this was the only recommendation which required any action from the beverage industry is even more significant when one considers the fact that industry was already working on this question. On December 22, only three days after the Task Force Report was made public, the Continental Can Company of Canada Ltd., announced a new type of flip top can that is opened by a foil strip that remains attached to the can. Also recommended and adopted was that a Waste Management Advisory Board be established to provide a per- manent group to look at the broader issues which had escaped the work of the Solid Waste Task Force. The other adopted recommendations dealt merely. with "urging" or "en- couraging" soft drink companies to promote the sale of refillable containers. These recommendations will do nothing to encourage the use of returnable bottles but will merely force the vendor who now does sell returnables to he more regulated than before. In effect, while the Con- servative Government them- selves have defined non- returnable containers as a problem, they have not taken any action to deal with the problem in the last four years. It was back in 1970 that George Kerr, the then Minister of the Environment promised legislation to reduce the use of non -returnable pop containers. In March 1973 Environment Minister James Auld stated that "the Province has a very definite commitment to hold the line on the increase in the amount of n garbage. Strong leadship will be g taken in this field so that we cut e down as much as possible on one way disposable cartons that will t include cans, bottles, and plastic e containers." y Today, this so-called "strong" h leadership has sparked t Environment Minister William o Newman to merely ban the flip - o top on non -returnable cans, along with sitting down with industry to "encourage" them to use refillable containers. Solid Waste in Ontario now exceeds six million tons per year. Garbage disposal costs the taxpayers of the Province $100 million per year: In 1972, the composite beverage industry generated an estimated 241,846 tons of waste at a cost to the taxpayer of $3,869,000. The estimated waste amounted to 6.76 per cent of the estimated 3,575,000 tons of solid waste collected by municipalities in that year. Further, different surveys show beverage containers to make up between 9 percent and 33 percent of total litter in Ontario, at an estimated cost for collection anywhere from $834,005 to $13,168,500. In 1972, the total energy con- sumption connected with the manufacture and disposal of primary containers amounted to 3.233 billion kilowatt hours. This energy is sufficient to heat 25,500 average sized Ontario homes for a year and this degree of energy consumption would be valued at $32.3 million. The ideal environmental solution would be to eliminate waste at'its source. That is - to get rid of things that we do not really use such as excess packaging, and replace things that are discarded after one use with things that can be re -used many times over. A switch from the throwaway can and bottle to the returnable container would provide an excellent example. In it's inability to act on the question of non -returnable `containers for the last five years, the Government has done nothing more than intensify the problem. It has created the situation which would result in employment disruption and make a ban more difficult. The Solid Waste Task Force has also Studied this question of employment disruption by a ban on non -returnable bottles. While the container industry has estimated that 1,749 jobs would be lost by a ban, the analysis of the Task Force shows that a ban on the use of disposable con- tainers would in effect result in employment for 2,435 people; a net increase in employment of 645 jobs. A return of the system of refillable containers would save the consumer over $7 million. produce over 600 new jobs, and have significant environmental effects. However, the en- vironment has once more been sacrificed by the inability of the Government to come to grips with this issue and provide any meaningful recommendations. If the Government has been unable to deal with this clear cut issue in a meaningful way in five years, what solutions can we expect from them to more complex problems. Positive steps must be taken now for the elimination of non -returnable containers through a gradual ban in favour of re -usable containers. Third Exeter Lions ARMCHAIR BINGO Enjoy Bingo While Sitting At Home • 3 Numbers Called Mon. to Sat. For Two Weeks • 2 Numbers Called Mon. to Sat. For Two Weeks • 1 Number Called per Day Until Full Cord Woh '400 In Prizes NUMBERS TO BE DRAWN AT 10:00 A.M. DAILY COMMENCING JANUARY 27 For Daily Numbers CaII 235-1211 (This Is The Only Phone Number To Call) Should you Bingo call 235-2860 not later than 9 o.m. the following day otherwise you will have to share with anyone else who may bingo on the next number called. In the event of a tie prizes will be split. Cords available - $1.00 Cords available at various outlets in Exeter and as follows: Zurich Variety, Klopp's Garage in Zurich; Chandler's Store in Dashwood; William's Hair Styling and Ron's Health Centre in Hensall; Skyway Market in Centralia; Stardust Drive -In in Crediton. ANNUAL MEETING Kirkton Woodham Farmers' Club COMMUNITY HALL, KIRKTON Tuesday, 'Feb. 4, 1975 1:30 p.m. • Election of Officers • Reports and Discussion of Business The Management Committee requests all members to at- tend to discuss expanding fertilizer facilities and warehouse storage. President - Raymond Poynter Sec. Tres. • Ray Stephen STARDUST CREDITON Drive -In Restaurant and Motel orV?!%0fldF g • 2 (oSCV AO 27 1 O pN Open Friday, February 21 REGULAR HOURS Sun. to Thurs. - 12:00 Noon to Midnight Fri. & Sat. — 12:00 Noon to 2:00 a.m. HEATED POOL OPEN DAILY DINNERS Mon. to Fri. and Sun 5 00 to 700 Sot 5:00 to 8:00 BREAKFAST Weekdays 7.30 o m • Noon Sat. & Sun 8 00 o.m. to Noon LUNCH Every Day 1200 Noon to 1 00 p m You Are Always Welcome' Dining Room Licensed Under LLBO Sat., January 25 Special Guest Organist Green Forest Motor Hotel YOUR HOSTS "PETE" and "CAROLE" DEITZ HIGHWAY 21 — GRAND BEND Live Entertainment This Thurs., Fri. & Sat. Volume 111 SATURDAY MATINEE 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Clint Miller Come and see why he's been so popular at London's Latin Quarter PLEASE NOTE NEW DRESS REGULATIONS Friday and Saturday Evenings After 8:00 p.m. NO BLUE JEANS ALLOWED Coming ... A Real Treat ONE WEEK ONLY January 27th to Feb. 1 Inclusive New Vibrations Come Hear This Exciting, New Group From Waterloo Watch For 1t Monday, the 17th of March SPECIAL ST. PATRICK'S DAY TREAT Joe Overholt Club Albatross Huron Industrial Park Phone 228 6733