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Times -Advocate, November 13, 1991
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Three convict ns in
Justice of Peace court
EXETER - A Toronto area man pleaded guilty
to three separate charges in Justice of the Peace
Court in Exeter Tuesday, accumulating $336.25
in fines.
Paul Lemottee of Toronto pleaded guilty to
charges of failing to apply for a permit on be-
coming the owner of a vehicle, driving with
open liquor, and driving with no currently vali-
dated permit.
The court heard that on September 21 around
4:35 p.m. in Hay Township, an officer on Highway 83 observed a
westbound vehicle speeding. One person was in the vehicle and the
officer saw a beer bottle thrown from it.
After stopping the vehicle, the driver failed to produce a valid per-
mit and upon inspection, the officer found four full beer bottles un-
der the front seat.
The accused admitted to throwing the bottle out and said that he
bought the vehicle from his sister a month prior. There were no
plates on the vehicle and a 10 -day expired sticker in the the wind-
shield revealed the date of August 31.
Justice of the Peace Karen Sturdy handed Lemottee two fines of
$78.75 and a third of S178.75 with three months to pay.
Driving under suspension
John C. Cunningham of Richmond Hill pleaded guilty to driving
while under suspension.
The court heard the accused was stopped on August 19 while trav-
elling south on Highway 83 in Stephen Township around 8 p.m. A
suspension was served on August 3 for unpaid fines with the start
date being May 6.
The accused told the court he had just returned to Canada and
hadn't had time to rectify the situation.
He was fined $503.75 and given three months to pay.
Underage drinking
A 16 -year-old Clinton youth pleaded guilty to being under the age
of 19 and conswning liquor.
The court heard that on October 4 at 9:45 p.m. police observed a
vehicle parked in an unusual manner in the South Huron Recreation
Centre parking lot. Police inspected and found three occupants, all
under age 19, each with their own beer bottle and the odor of beer.
The accused was fined $103.75 and given 30 days to pay.
ABCA says cost to tax-
payers amounts to less
than movie ticket price
EXETER - With cutbacks in government spending playing a large
part in the campaign speeches of most municipal candidates this
election, at least one chose to portray the Ausable Bayfield Conser-
vation Authority as a free -spending organization that should be held
in check.
Consequently, ABCA general manager Tom Prout issued a press
release in defense of the authority's budget, saying that its general
levy breaks down to just $7.61 per person in the watershed, "about
the same price as movie admissr t".
Prout also noted that the gennAliOvyon munieirialtuces only in-
creased an average of six pc:mai' iron 1990 to 1991, but that some
municipalities saw larger increases due to increased assessments and
for paying for special projects that benefitted that particular munici-
pality.
The general levy, about $350,000, makes up 15 percent of the
ABCA's total budget, the rest of which is funded through other lev-
els of government, mainly the Ministry of Natural Resources, which
brings the total cost up to about $50 per person.
For that cost each year, says Prout, local people can enjoy access
to local recreation areas such as Morrison Dam, hiking areas in the
Hay Swamp, skiing trails in Exeter, and nature areas such as the
Bannockburn Area.
The ABCA also provides, free of charge, technical support for lo-
cal landowners, including helping with tree -planting plans.
"We also maintain a flood monitoring and flood warning program
in the watershed," said Prout, who acknowledged that while flooding
is not that common in this area, the; system was instrumental in
warning Bosanquet Township residents of a flood in 1984.
The ABCA also operates the Camp Sylvan outdoor education pro-
gram which provides its services to local schools.
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Council,
there is a
sewage di
Highway 21.
The ministry has instructed the
county to "examine the future fiscal
and environmental ramifications of
current sewage management prac-
tices within its lakeshore munici-
palities.*
"This is a matter of urgency,"
said Hay Township reeve Lionel
Wilder.
He said it is a shame to lose po-
tential assessment and asked,
"when do we get something go-
ing?"
Wilder said there are two new
subdivisions proposed in Hay
Township along the lake. Land-
mark Developments, with the pos-
sibility of as many as 50 building
lots, is now on hold.
However, Wilder was informed
that the smaller Bluland Develop-
ments, about 25 acres, can contin-
ue.
"It's just under the wire," he said.
The MOE is concerned about the
state of the soil and ground• water
and says the county now has two
options if it wants to continue to
develop lakeshore properties.
In its letter to the county, the
MOE states, "we will endeavour to
deal with these applications on a
keshore development on hold
CH - The Ministry of
ment has placed a
any future develop -
Lake Huron.
g to Huron County
MOE has indicated
ous concern about
facilities west of
Correction
On page 3 of last week's edi-
tion of the Times -Advocate, it
was reported that Grand Bend
was having difficulties in re-
gards to a fence surrounding
the Beachplace condominiums.
The article said the Devlon
Group owned the property the
condos are on, in fact, the prop-
erty is owned by . Beachplace
Developments but it is the Dev-
lon Group which owns the
parking lot property.
1 The Times -Advocate regrets
the error.
Boat
destroyed
GRAND BEND - Cause has
yet to be determined on a fire
which completely destroyed a
boat at Four Seasons Marine
early Monday morning.
At about 5:30 a.m. the Grand
Bend and Arena Fire Depart-
ment were dispatched to the
scene where they extinguished
the blaze.
"The boat lists somewhere at
about $75,000," said fire chief
Stan Lovie.
Township looking for sidewalk sponsors
ZURICH - While a sidewalk
stretching from the Blue Water
Rest Home to the outskirts of Zu-
rich is a possibility, as reported in
the October 30 issue of the Times
Advocate, Hay Township is not
prepared to pay the cost of the side-
walk in above what the province is
willing to fund.
Hay Township clerk Janisse Zim-
merman said the township is hop-
ing that a community service club
may be interested in raising the
$8,000 or so needed to complement
the 50 percent grant.
Also, said Zimmerman, because
the township has no snow clearing
equipment for sidewalks, it would
have to consider officially closing
such a sidewalk each winter.
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According to Planning Director
Gary Davidson, the county has to
eisher stop development or get the
elopers to put in their own sew-
age systems.
He said the reason for the unsta-
ble soil along the lake is that cot-
tage owners now have saunas, dish-
washers and other heavy use items
that overload the septic system.
"Septic tanks aren't good at han-
dling a broad variety of waste,"
said Davidson who noted it could
take several months for the county
to come up with a solution.
Development in general was dis-
cussed at Thursday's council meet-
ing and Usborne Township's Gerald
Prout said his municipality is run-
ning into some difficulties with the
county planning department.
"In Usborne, we support 50 -acre
severances. We are getting rejec-
tion from the planning department.
How can we promote Huron
County if we run into this?" asked
Prout.
"If the farming economy was the
way it should be, nobody would
have to sever an acre," said Doug
Fraser of Morris Township.
Lucan council to try for new
garbage disposal contract
LUCAN - Council decided Mon-
day night to atten,,;t to get a con-
tract with Laidlaw Waste Disposal
of Warwick township for disposal
of garbage before the end of this
year.
Clerk Ron Reymer said he had
confirmation from a Laidlaw offi-
cial that they would offer an agree-
ment immediately if the collection
date was changed from Monday to
either Wednesday, Thursday , Fri-
day or Saturday.
At the moment garbage is picked
up each Monday by C.H. Lewis
Ltd. trucks and taken to Warwick.
Disposal at this location is not guar-
anteed from May until September
because of extra pickups at Grand
Bend and the Pinery Provincial
Park.
Reymer said the Laidlaw firm is
trying to get the Ministry of the En-
vironment to agree to weekly
weight totals rather than daily. If
the change could be made to week-
ly, then the present Monday Lucan
pickups and disposal could be guar-
anteed.
If the local waste cannot be han-
dled at Warwick, then it must be
taken on to Blenheim which will
cause a large increase in costs.
For a numbe- of meetings, deputy
reeve Harry Wraith has been advo-
cating a change to garbage colleci-
ton only every two weeks. -
To this suggestion, reeve -elect
Tom McLaughlin replied, " If we
make this change. I want to see
some money saved. For myself I
.now use a compostor' and blue box,
so I can't see my amount of garbage
decreasing by an ounce with the
fewer pickups."
In discussing the possible con-
tract, Wraith added, " I'm in favour,
but I would like to let Larry Lewis
know what we are doing."
To this retiring reeve Larry Hot -
son commented, " We're not going
behind his back. I'm in favour of
signing an agreement right now."
McLaughlin added, " Why
doesn't this council sign an agree-,
ment with Laidlaw for Thursday •
pickups?
Hotson continued, " We have fig-
ures on weekly and bi-weekly pick-
ups. On a weekly basis it has been
from nine to 11 tons per week and
every other week it amounted to
about 15 tons.If we can save two
tons every week that's a saving of
$120 at the landfill site in addition
to a lesser charge for trucking."
More information needed on
transportation for elderly
GODERICH - The Huron
County Board of Health will con-
tinue to look at ways to set up a
county operated transportation sys-
tem for the elderly and the dis-
abled.
Thus far, the Ministry of Trans-
portation has funded a study and
now the county will have to exam-
ine whether or not the much need-
ed service will be affordable.
"The cost of the vehicles is rela-
tively high," said county medical
health officer Dr. Maarten Bok -
bout.
'Exeter reeve Bill Mickle said the
county should proceed with caution
on this because he said he under-
stood there should be no cost at all
to the county taxpayers.
"There is a cost and it was sug-
gested the need could be met
through a variety of subsidies," said
Bokhout.
He said the board has talked to
disabled and seniors and have been
working closely with the Wheels
Away program in Wingham.
"It may not be a good time to put
in a program of this nature. The
board is going to look for more in-
formation."
It was also suggested that the
general public could use the trans-
portation service if needed.
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