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Home My WebLink AboutTimes Advocate, 1993-03-17, Page 31 Times -Advocate, March 17,1993 .Is town wast: ItseIfup for failure? Continued piens f eentpage Drummond said the notion that -ewe reduction should be borne -*li ely by taxation was a "cop-out that people walk the face of the earth and have the right to create gage,. Deputy -reeve Lossy Fuller said she agreed with Drummond, but said the public's reception to the $2 tag plan can't be ignored. But she said the program should be started eventually. "1 can see it going back to the committee and coming up with. something else," she said. • Councillor Bob Spears said at least the waste recluejon program should scan with some kind of con- trol on garbage bags, at least with giving out 52 free tags for the first year. Starting with a taxation - borne plan would be doomed to fail, he insisted. "?itis seems to me like it would maintain the status quo forever," said Spears. i Drummond also commented 'that a "status quo" beginning to the ant- bitious waste reduction program might not impress the ,Ministry of the Environment that the town was making a solid eft rt at itldttcing Ilandfilt waste. The -ministry's ap- proval is needed to certify the next phase of the town's dump. Mayor Bruce Shaw said he has been reviewing public reaction to the town's plan and came to the conclusion "then hasn't been a groundswell of opposition". He said even some who arrived at the public meeting 'expecting to oppose it, found themselves swayed by the arguments in the plan's favour. "Maybe we're being stampeded by a few people who don't under- stand how serious this situation is," Tree planting program seen as unfair competition nservation Authority strikes deal with focal landscapers and nurseries said Shaw, atidlaglitat maybe de- laying a isserporsysion,-even for a few months, oeruldn't'be accepted. Drummond asked about what de- lays could be expected if council deferred its final decision. "1 think we need at least until September 1 to see a tag system put into place...but I don't want it to be lost altogether." said Spears. Councillor Ervin Sillery defended the option to defer fees for garbage collection, preferring w see if the public would take steps to reduce waste without such disincentives. Sillery said he wanted "to give'" EXETER - The Ausable Bayfield Conservation Authority shouldn't be competing with private enter- prise when it canes to providing large'nes to local property owners, was an agreement made last Wednesday. The agreement came at a meeting between ABCA officials and six representatives from landscaping nurseries in the area. The nurseries had_accused the government agen- cy of unfair competition by provid- ing large trees to landowners for use.in windbreaks. and erosion con- trol -projects at cost, and had been buying the trees wholesale from a Niagara Region nursery. Landscape Ontario, the nursery association, has also been pressing Ontario conservation authorities to get out of the.largetree business al- together. The conifers and hard- woods are bought in large quanti- ties from private nurseries under the Reforestation Assistance Pro- gram. However, the ABCA is con- vinced that the large stock program is essential to its conservation:pro- Letter to edit°, jects, but is willing to find a way to work with the local nurseries, not against them. "It looks like we're going to work more co-operatively with them," said ABCA extension services tech- nician Steve Harburn after the meeting. He said.themursery operators had been upset bythe Conservation Au- thority's large stock program. Manyprobably still are, since only six_out:of 35•.ntirseries in the wa- tershed were -represented at the meeting _at .the Exeter Masonic Hall. Mina:plait to coo -operate with the Alinsimesses was hatched at the meet- rip4g. fiarburn said it is likely the :lA1BliA will buy its large Anes liEtter from McCurdy School Dear editor: Thank you for caning :to our classroom for lunch. I hope you had a great time. We tried to make you feel at home. Your friend, Ben Parsons, the one who gave you the placemat. P.S. Happy St. Patrick'sDay! Council ;protesting Whiree rate ftnerease EXETER - Bell Canada's plan to increase local phone rates to com- pensate for increased competition for long-distance business didn't get any sympathy from town council. Agreeing with an executive com- mittee proposal to protest the planned 39 percent residential phone service rate, council will be sending a lcucr to the telephone company expressing their displeas- ure. "Are we gang to write a letter to the CRTC?" added councillor Bob Spears, noting that governing body will have the final say on whether the phone company will be allowed the new rates. '+Well, we should send a letter to the appropriate bodies," said Shaw, indicating the letter of protest ahgtild go to both. through the local nurseries, possi- bly tacking on a $1 extra charge to go to the nursery handling it. Since the ABCA bought 15,000 Zees for the windbreak program :last year, the amount of business is • substantial. Harburn said the agree- ment might not solve all conflicts, since there may be some competi- tion over who _gets the Authority's business. The =nurseryoperators have also ,raised questions about why .the :ARCA was selling its trees at ,wholesale prices to golf courses, -where they played more of a land- scaping role than for conservation. "They were pretty hot about that one, and I can see why," noted Har - hum, who said _the ABCA has agreed to discontinue that practice and stick to strictly conservation projects. But Harburn said the Conserva- tion Authority isn't about to give up that program. He stated the ABCA, and other conservation authorities have developed awareness of the values of trees for windbreaks and 'erosion control through such pro- grams and aren't about to abandon them. What he said may occur is that 'the ABCA may handle the ordering of the trees and landowners can get :'them delivered through their local. nursery. The ideas discussed.at the meeting will be raised et the Board of Director's meeting later this Wig. the people a chance", and said there would be less uproar with the pub- lic if they were first given a chance to reduce garbage without the tag system. Shaw said he favoured seeing a final decision on the matter held over antit the next' council Wean to see if more options could be found. Council agreed and tabled the motion until the April 5 meet- ing. March 20. 21- 10 a.m. - 5 p.n 22 Goshen St. Zurich Featuring "new" Victorian Showroom I • ulterior rt, sh,' • alston drapers anihertsnfre)C: i • /Vett 'Duni' e' ' aiithen•,, ' rearoductror coal: cot-er;n. anti border, i • Showroom overfiowinr. tit itr innovative ideas and tabrlc Bus. 236-4793 Home 263-2650 Hornetown ibroud � e people are amid of cbang F prou of at. Because change allows me to better pro- vide for those who shop at my store. We lave a new look and a new sign. 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