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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes Advocate, 1989-09-06, Page 1EXETER FALL FAIR Sept. 22, 23, 24 Shots fired in Lucan LUCAN - A Lucan man is in - A Lucan man is in Lustody after disturbing the peace in the village -Saturday morning by shooting a shotgun. Police initially responded to a re- port of shots being fired on George Street at 6:30 a.m. on Saturday, but an investigation of the area turned up nothing. A second call at around 7:45 a.m. informed the Lucan OPP that a male suspect was shooting a shot- gua outside his George Street house. The police cordoned off the area and warned neighbours to re- main indoors. At 9:30 the male suspect was ar- rested on Main Street immediately behind his George Street home and was taken into custody. Police described the arrest as hav- ing been "made peacefully" and said that the suspect was not armed at the time of arrest. Several weapons and ammunition were later seized at the residence. Police say the suspect claimed to be shooting at groundhogs, but it is believed the shots were fired into the air. No injuries or damage as a result of the incident were reported. Charged with Dangerous Use of a Firearm is Joseph Ira Logan, age 36, of 224 George Street, Lucan. North Middlesex & Lambton More please Breakfast - Sarah Broadfoot, Varna, was among the almost 300 people attending the Stanley township community breakfast at • the Stanley Complex on September 2. Water line concerns STANLEY TOWNSHIP - About a dozen of the property owners who were sent the results of the environmental assessment carried out as one of the require- ments in bringing a water pipeline into Stanley township along High- way 21 sent letters back to the mu- nicipal office raising•points of con- cern. These people were invited to a special meeting held at the Complex on August 24, and given the opportunity to question Steve Burns from Burns Ross, the engi- neering consulting firm in charge of the technical details of the water system. A number of those at the meet- ing were there because they want water, and as soon as possible. Councillors hope any further ob- jections can be settled at the mu- nicipal level. An OMB hearing would delay the start of construc- tion. The environmental report will be approved at the next regular meet- ing on September 12. A bylaw setting out the water rates will also be passed. Two proposals for subdivisions were brought before council at the regular August meeting. Ron Please tum to page 3 sr Gaiser-Kneale Insurance Exeter 235-2420 Grand Bend 238-8484 liensall 262-2119 Clinton 482-9747 Since 1873 Wednesday, September 6, 1989 Price per copy 60 cents Hall frustrated over Exeter recycling inaction EXETER - I'm completely frus- trated". That was the comment of coun- cillor Morley Hall following the latest meeting of Exeter council. He was referring to council's inde- cision on an opportunity to join in on the area recycling program. Hall told the T -A this week, " We have been thinking about this for more than two years and I have gathered all the information neces- sary and council are "just dragging their feet." Two members of council reported recently that in conversation with other municipalities, they learned the response to recycling had been so great, that markets for recycled items were disappearing. Hall's reply to this was, " That's hogwash. There are markets availa- ble. If that docs happen then it's the responsibility of the provincial government to put legislation into plate that will stop the manufactur- ing of articles such as grocery meat trays which are not recyclable Recycling tidbits •When asked for his advice to Exeter on the recycling issue, Francis Veilleux, recycling coor- dinator for the Bluwater Associa- tion, simply said "Join". •Bob Fisher, reeve of Zurich, said he had mixed feelings about the start of his village's blue box program. While he said "I think it's a good thing. It's a must" he regretted Hay Town- ship had not joined the program. Hay shares a landfill site with Zurich. •Hay councillor Paul Klopp said his council still has con- cerns. I guess I didn't get the mes- sage across to council that we should have joined three months ago." A September 11 public meet- ing in Hay will gauge public support for the recycling effort. •OMMRI initially thought a blue box would gather 249 lbs of recyclables from a household in a year, but by December 1988 the average had risen to 300 lbs. •The ministry of the environ- ment is expecting the Bluewater Recycling Association to recov- er 840 tonnes of material in its Hirst year. Bluewater Recycling co-ordinator Francis Veilleux confirmed Hall's thoughts on markets when he said this week, " People who tell you we don't have markets, don't have the facts". The local councillor continued, " I have talked to more than 100 town residents and all are in favour of some type of recycling program and want to know when we are go- ing to start. Hall reported at the latest council meeting that due to mass buying, the cost of the curbside blue boxes had dropped from $9 to $4.65 each. Under present regulations, the cost of the Blue Boxes is being shared*evenlyby the Ministry of the Environment, the individual municipality and OMNRI. The lat- ter is a group formed by soft drink manufacturers. - The town of Exeter has paid a 5200 fee to become an associate member of the Bluewater Recycling Association which now serves four counties in Western Ontario. • An official ceremony was held Au- gust 30 to officially open the Blue - water Recycling Association sorting depot at the former RCAF station at Grand Bend Weekly pickups arc beginning this week in the villages of Zurich, Grand Bend, Ailsa Craig and Hen- sall and the township of Usborne in this immediate area. Newspapers, coloured and unco- loured glass bottles, hard plastic bottles and aluminum and tin cans may be placed in the curbside Blue Boxes. They arc sorted by pickup employees and placed in the proper compartments in the recycling truck. Hall said it is still possible to have Exeter included in the Bluewa- ter system starting in Janaury of 1990 "if we get cracking immediate- ly:, He said Bluewater Recycling was prepared to purchase another truck for pickup if Exeter and Strathroy decide to join thc others. et Bluewater unveils recycling plant GRAND BEND - The Bluewater Recycling Association is all set to go full steam ahead with the area's first blue box collection program. That was the message delivered to a group of politicians and media gathered at the Grand Bend Industri- al Park processing plant last Wed- nesday. The afternoon featured a tour of the plant's facilities and a ribbon cutting ceremony to mark its open- ing. think the program you have launched today is long overdue," said Ralph Ferguson, Lambton Middlesex MP, while commending Bosanquet Township for taking the initiative in the area's recycling program. Bobbi Robinson from Ontario Multi -Materials Recycling Incorpo-. rated (OMMRI) said funding from her not-for-profit organization has led to the introduction of 1.6 mil- lion blue boxes into the province's households, but the Bluewater pro- gram is "special because of its sheer scope' . Bluewater is the first to involve 24 municipalities from four counties in a common opera- tion. It is also the first of the mu- nicipally -run programs to include the collection of hard plastics right from its launch date. "I notice you are even recycling an old airport for use as a process- ing centre," said Robinson, refer- ring to the building which was once part of the Grand Bend airport and the former Bell Alerospace fac- tory. OMMRI was formed by a group of soft drink producers to promote and fund curbside recycling. The only programs they fund are those using blue boxes. OMMRI has committed $20 million towards re- cycling between 1986 and 1991. John Lucas from the ministry of the environment told the crowd the Ontario government's container regulations have made a contribu- tion to the recycling effort. He called the program necessary be- cause it "stops environmental pro- grams before they start" by divert- ing waste from dumps. Recycling also conserves resources such as trees, ore, energy, and oil. Four hundred tons of recycled newsprint means 8,600 trees can be saved. Five percent of waste is being re- cycled today. Lucas said the MOE is hoping to raise that to 25 percent by 1992 and 50 percent by 2000. John Russell, chairman for the Bluewater Recycling Association, Please turn to page 3 It's Ailsa Craig vs. Port Elgin in pumpkin war Great Pumpkin - Charlie brown might have a great pumpkin but so does Ailsa Craig reeve Don Shipway, grandson Paul, showing off the pumpkin they plan to enter in their challenge with Port Elgin. pictured here with his AILSA CRAiG - A light-hearted "We're using city water full of competition to determine which all sorts of chemicals pumpkins Ontario community can produce the probably don't like and this is our largest pumpkin, has turned sour. first ever try at growing pumpkins Reeve Donald Shipway of Ailsa of any size. We don't think it's very sporting that these folks arc spreading all sorts of malicious ru- mors about our citizens who arc only seizing an opportunity to suffer the flak and innuendos. raise some money for our recrca- "Fun is fun," Shipway said, "but tion cenuc." I've had it. Enough enough,We ' Shipway-seiti`tt is-irue vears in good.fliih members .of- his.. village' ► and we've been growing our pump- Pumpkin have been in Port 11gin kins by the World Pumpkin Con- recently. "We have an Ethics federation (WPC) rules. We Committee," he said, "and we're wouldn't have it any other way be- monitoring the use of anabolic cause we're sportsmen first in Ailsa steroids and other addii ' - which Craig, and world class agronomists have been ruled ill, al • air vrrerits the - .,.,-;;at';3[sieler""11icad 1tnl ing 1.' ,:, i ,int -oi now wi, ^ dnr Craig, the village which issued the challenge this spring to the Town of Port Elgin, said Tuesday he isn't going to sit back any longer and turn on any radio station nowadays without hearing Port Elgin Mayor Fred Wucrth whining and whittcr- ing about spies from Ailsa Craig looking at his pumpkins, or "undercover agents, from the south, " or other slurs like than." Shipway said Port Elgin town council took weeks to respond to a good-natured challenge from Ailsa we put our steak dinner ua tk Craig's village council, "and even I•a • `r re zrif a wretc AYrrrrrtki- .r ;.: "",w A ..an riappt.-rrdc Vntuw wanting - some special formula And the .. • .gh-in on October 9, but worked out to their advantage about '. ha' 0 the heaviest pumpkins heat units, or some such. now anu we expect to have the "They're closer to the Magnetic heap lest pumpkins then. Mean - North Pole and they're using heavy while, Shipway said, "we're not Water from the Bruce Nuclear Plant casting any aspersions about their to water their pumpkins," Shipway use of Heavy Water, steroids, said. "They've got a dozen years' proximity to the Magnetic North growing experience on us, and still Pole, sorcery or any of the other they want all sorts of advantages unfair advantages we understand written into the wager. they are using. -tmbarrassmi at to the Ks of Pott Elgin at the o rf .. Shipway . �sr---- is wel- come to .l ,lave a lr>, k at Ailsa Cr {,kills. "We're not mak x Bret about them, or how . ; 're r •;ng grown. We said we 1 iggcr pumpkin than tl.. folks in. Port Ligin and Inside Back to school Adding up the cost page 5 Tough six months New Grand Bend clerk looks ahead page 8 Huron Plowing match Pictures on page 10 Late jumper Nick Curtis still parachutes at 67 page 13 Happy vet has found his niche page 21 Shots fired in Lucan LUCAN - A Lucan man is in - A Lucan man is in Lustody after disturbing the peace in the village -Saturday morning by shooting a shotgun. Police initially responded to a re- port of shots being fired on George Street at 6:30 a.m. on Saturday, but an investigation of the area turned up nothing. A second call at around 7:45 a.m. informed the Lucan OPP that a male suspect was shooting a shot- gua outside his George Street house. The police cordoned off the area and warned neighbours to re- main indoors. At 9:30 the male suspect was ar- rested on Main Street immediately behind his George Street home and was taken into custody. Police described the arrest as hav- ing been "made peacefully" and said that the suspect was not armed at the time of arrest. Several weapons and ammunition were later seized at the residence. Police say the suspect claimed to be shooting at groundhogs, but it is believed the shots were fired into the air. No injuries or damage as a result of the incident were reported. Charged with Dangerous Use of a Firearm is Joseph Ira Logan, age 36, of 224 George Street, Lucan. North Middlesex & Lambton More please Breakfast - Sarah Broadfoot, Varna, was among the almost 300 people attending the Stanley township community breakfast at • the Stanley Complex on September 2. Water line concerns STANLEY TOWNSHIP - About a dozen of the property owners who were sent the results of the environmental assessment carried out as one of the require- ments in bringing a water pipeline into Stanley township along High- way 21 sent letters back to the mu- nicipal office raising•points of con- cern. These people were invited to a special meeting held at the Complex on August 24, and given the opportunity to question Steve Burns from Burns Ross, the engi- neering consulting firm in charge of the technical details of the water system. A number of those at the meet- ing were there because they want water, and as soon as possible. Councillors hope any further ob- jections can be settled at the mu- nicipal level. An OMB hearing would delay the start of construc- tion. The environmental report will be approved at the next regular meet- ing on September 12. A bylaw setting out the water rates will also be passed. Two proposals for subdivisions were brought before council at the regular August meeting. Ron Please tum to page 3 sr Gaiser-Kneale Insurance Exeter 235-2420 Grand Bend 238-8484 liensall 262-2119 Clinton 482-9747 Since 1873 Wednesday, September 6, 1989 Price per copy 60 cents Hall frustrated over Exeter recycling inaction EXETER - I'm completely frus- trated". That was the comment of coun- cillor Morley Hall following the latest meeting of Exeter council. He was referring to council's inde- cision on an opportunity to join in on the area recycling program. Hall told the T -A this week, " We have been thinking about this for more than two years and I have gathered all the information neces- sary and council are "just dragging their feet." Two members of council reported recently that in conversation with other municipalities, they learned the response to recycling had been so great, that markets for recycled items were disappearing. Hall's reply to this was, " That's hogwash. There are markets availa- ble. If that docs happen then it's the responsibility of the provincial government to put legislation into plate that will stop the manufactur- ing of articles such as grocery meat trays which are not recyclable Recycling tidbits •When asked for his advice to Exeter on the recycling issue, Francis Veilleux, recycling coor- dinator for the Bluwater Associa- tion, simply said "Join". •Bob Fisher, reeve of Zurich, said he had mixed feelings about the start of his village's blue box program. While he said "I think it's a good thing. It's a must" he regretted Hay Town- ship had not joined the program. Hay shares a landfill site with Zurich. •Hay councillor Paul Klopp said his council still has con- cerns. I guess I didn't get the mes- sage across to council that we should have joined three months ago." A September 11 public meet- ing in Hay will gauge public support for the recycling effort. •OMMRI initially thought a blue box would gather 249 lbs of recyclables from a household in a year, but by December 1988 the average had risen to 300 lbs. •The ministry of the environ- ment is expecting the Bluewater Recycling Association to recov- er 840 tonnes of material in its Hirst year. Bluewater Recycling co-ordinator Francis Veilleux confirmed Hall's thoughts on markets when he said this week, " People who tell you we don't have markets, don't have the facts". The local councillor continued, " I have talked to more than 100 town residents and all are in favour of some type of recycling program and want to know when we are go- ing to start. Hall reported at the latest council meeting that due to mass buying, the cost of the curbside blue boxes had dropped from $9 to $4.65 each. Under present regulations, the cost of the Blue Boxes is being shared*evenlyby the Ministry of the Environment, the individual municipality and OMNRI. The lat- ter is a group formed by soft drink manufacturers. - The town of Exeter has paid a 5200 fee to become an associate member of the Bluewater Recycling Association which now serves four counties in Western Ontario. • An official ceremony was held Au- gust 30 to officially open the Blue - water Recycling Association sorting depot at the former RCAF station at Grand Bend Weekly pickups arc beginning this week in the villages of Zurich, Grand Bend, Ailsa Craig and Hen- sall and the township of Usborne in this immediate area. Newspapers, coloured and unco- loured glass bottles, hard plastic bottles and aluminum and tin cans may be placed in the curbside Blue Boxes. They arc sorted by pickup employees and placed in the proper compartments in the recycling truck. Hall said it is still possible to have Exeter included in the Bluewa- ter system starting in Janaury of 1990 "if we get cracking immediate- ly:, He said Bluewater Recycling was prepared to purchase another truck for pickup if Exeter and Strathroy decide to join thc others. et Bluewater unveils recycling plant GRAND BEND - The Bluewater Recycling Association is all set to go full steam ahead with the area's first blue box collection program. That was the message delivered to a group of politicians and media gathered at the Grand Bend Industri- al Park processing plant last Wed- nesday. The afternoon featured a tour of the plant's facilities and a ribbon cutting ceremony to mark its open- ing. think the program you have launched today is long overdue," said Ralph Ferguson, Lambton Middlesex MP, while commending Bosanquet Township for taking the initiative in the area's recycling program. Bobbi Robinson from Ontario Multi -Materials Recycling Incorpo-. rated (OMMRI) said funding from her not-for-profit organization has led to the introduction of 1.6 mil- lion blue boxes into the province's households, but the Bluewater pro- gram is "special because of its sheer scope' . Bluewater is the first to involve 24 municipalities from four counties in a common opera- tion. It is also the first of the mu- nicipally -run programs to include the collection of hard plastics right from its launch date. "I notice you are even recycling an old airport for use as a process- ing centre," said Robinson, refer- ring to the building which was once part of the Grand Bend airport and the former Bell Alerospace fac- tory. OMMRI was formed by a group of soft drink producers to promote and fund curbside recycling. The only programs they fund are those using blue boxes. OMMRI has committed $20 million towards re- cycling between 1986 and 1991. John Lucas from the ministry of the environment told the crowd the Ontario government's container regulations have made a contribu- tion to the recycling effort. He called the program necessary be- cause it "stops environmental pro- grams before they start" by divert- ing waste from dumps. Recycling also conserves resources such as trees, ore, energy, and oil. Four hundred tons of recycled newsprint means 8,600 trees can be saved. Five percent of waste is being re- cycled today. Lucas said the MOE is hoping to raise that to 25 percent by 1992 and 50 percent by 2000. John Russell, chairman for the Bluewater Recycling Association, Please turn to page 3 It's Ailsa Craig vs. Port Elgin in pumpkin war Great Pumpkin - Charlie brown might have a great pumpkin but so does Ailsa Craig reeve Don Shipway, grandson Paul, showing off the pumpkin they plan to enter in their challenge with Port Elgin. pictured here with his AILSA CRAiG - A light-hearted "We're using city water full of competition to determine which all sorts of chemicals pumpkins Ontario community can produce the probably don't like and this is our largest pumpkin, has turned sour. first ever try at growing pumpkins Reeve Donald Shipway of Ailsa of any size. We don't think it's very sporting that these folks arc spreading all sorts of malicious ru- mors about our citizens who arc only seizing an opportunity to suffer the flak and innuendos. raise some money for our recrca- "Fun is fun," Shipway said, "but tion cenuc." I've had it. Enough enough,We ' Shipway-seiti`tt is-irue vears in good.fliih members .of- his.. village' ► and we've been growing our pump- Pumpkin have been in Port 11gin kins by the World Pumpkin Con- recently. "We have an Ethics federation (WPC) rules. We Committee," he said, "and we're wouldn't have it any other way be- monitoring the use of anabolic cause we're sportsmen first in Ailsa steroids and other addii ' - which Craig, and world class agronomists have been ruled ill, al • air vrrerits the - .,.,-;;at';3[sieler""11icad 1tnl ing 1.' ,:, i ,int -oi now wi, ^ dnr Craig, the village which issued the challenge this spring to the Town of Port Elgin, said Tuesday he isn't going to sit back any longer and turn on any radio station nowadays without hearing Port Elgin Mayor Fred Wucrth whining and whittcr- ing about spies from Ailsa Craig looking at his pumpkins, or "undercover agents, from the south, " or other slurs like than." Shipway said Port Elgin town council took weeks to respond to a good-natured challenge from Ailsa we put our steak dinner ua tk Craig's village council, "and even I•a • `r re zrif a wretc AYrrrrrtki- .r ;.: "",w A ..an riappt.-rrdc Vntuw wanting - some special formula And the .. • .gh-in on October 9, but worked out to their advantage about '. ha' 0 the heaviest pumpkins heat units, or some such. now anu we expect to have the "They're closer to the Magnetic heap lest pumpkins then. Mean - North Pole and they're using heavy while, Shipway said, "we're not Water from the Bruce Nuclear Plant casting any aspersions about their to water their pumpkins," Shipway use of Heavy Water, steroids, said. "They've got a dozen years' proximity to the Magnetic North growing experience on us, and still Pole, sorcery or any of the other they want all sorts of advantages unfair advantages we understand written into the wager. they are using. -tmbarrassmi at to the Ks of Pott Elgin at the o rf .. Shipway . �sr---- is wel- come to .l ,lave a lr>, k at Ailsa Cr {,kills. "We're not mak x Bret about them, or how . ; 're r •;ng grown. We said we 1 iggcr pumpkin than tl.. folks in. Port Ligin and