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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes Advocate, 1993-04-14, Page 3Times -Advocate, April 14,1993 F F A ward recipient Carol Darling With her plaque-fromrthe Minlstrybf the Solici- tor General for her work with Child Find. Exeter woman wins provincial crime prevention award WINDSOR - Exeter's Carol Dar- ling received a CrimePrevention Award from the Ministry of the So- licitor General and Correctional :Services in recognition of her work niesetting up the Huron Chapter of hild'Find and** her devotion to provincials program as well. Darling was nominated for one of the 63 awards presented annually .by town police chief Jack Hark- ness. Harkness noted Darling was instrumental in organizing the local chapter, continues to sit as its chair- person and is also on the board of directors at the provincial level. Child Find otHuron County was created in June 1991 and is 'billed as being the first rural chapter in Ontario. Seventy-five volunteers have 'Kid.' Checks and All :Abutit:Me' .� ' in'. Exeter, .Gaderich. Lucan, Gowrie Blyth, Zu- rich, Bayfield and Wingham. pro- cessing some 1,172 children. A plaque was presented to Dar- ling at an award seminar in Wind- sor on March 10. Recycling program proving to be successful LUCAN - In a report to Lucan council on April 9, councillor Bryan Smith reported the area Blue Box recycling program was work- ing well. The village of Lucan is involved in a joint recycling sharing agree- ment with the townships of Lon- don, Lobo and West Nissouri. Lucan with 1,810 residents pays 11.91 percent of the cost of the en- tire program. The township of Lobo with a population of 5,448 pays 35.86 percent; the township of Lon- don with 4,630 residents contrib- utes 30.47 percent and the balance of 21.76 percent comes from West Nissouri_ wIth_A.:jlopulati 3,307. Smith said that during 1992, a to- tal of 807 tons of recycled materials was collected by the system. He added, "That's 807 tons that did not go to the landfill site. We are cer- tainly working in the right direction to reduce the amount of regular gar- bage." Included in the 807 tons of recy- clable materials were 390 tons of newspapers, 175 tons of glass, 58 tons of coloured glass, 156 tons of aluminum and 28 tons of plastics. The Lucan councillor said this year should be better financially for the recycling system as a market has been found for newspapers. He continued, "We are lucky to have located a company in Dela- ware that will pay us $20 per ton for papers.This is the first time we have been able to get any money for it. The papers will be shredded and used by farmers for animal bedding." The village has signed another one year agreement with the other municipalities. Included in the new agreemejs an increase in the fee paid fdr dre truck and trailer units provided by London and Lobo townships by five percent from $9.80 to $1029 per hour. Works superintendent Doug Johnston told council that the annu- al spring cleanup would be held during the week of May 3 to/. Johnston said brash • would -,be picked up on Monday and Tuesday with other large items to be collect- ed the next three days. He added, "We .do accept most large articles on the regular pickup carried out each Friday." No increases for Lucan tax rate LUCAN - Residents of the vil- lage of Lucan will get some good news when they receive their 1993 tax notices. The mill rate for the amount of money raised for village purposes will be set with a zero percent increase. At the April 6 meeting of council reeve Tom McLaughlin sai' . " We have to thank clerk Ron Reymer and treasurer Ruth Meszaros fo their diligence in coming up with this very prudent budget. It's very realistic given our present tough ec- onomic times." McLaughlin added, "We have not yet received the requisitions from Middlesex county or the school boards. We have no control over the rate set by the school boards d very little as lar as the county des. I am only one of 21 county councillors, but I will be doing my best to keep any increase as low as possible." He continued, "We have done our best to cut back on spending. This is not a time to raise taxes when so many people are unemployed or on welfare." Gabble Mol and Larry Northover ca Briggs & Stratton c• Tecumseh ce Kohler a Stihl c I Ionda, etc. ce Small Power Tools G► Parts & Repairs HUREX EQUIPMENT & TOOLS 263 Main St. North, #4 North of OPP Station Tei: 2850918 Fax: 235-0970 A blood donor clinic held in Lucan recently drew many eager to give the gift of life. Organized by the Red Cross, volunteer help was co-ordinated by the St. Patricks CWL. Here Steve Pineau of the London Red Cross checks on donor Mary Jane VanKasteren of Lucan. 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