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GRADUATES AT PRECIOUS BLOOD — Graduation exercises for grade eight students at Precious Blood Separate
school in Exeter were held Thursday night. Back, left, teacher Carol MacDonnell, Christopher Beierling, Peter
Verberne, Jeffrey Kints, Fred Gregus, Chris Weernink and principal Laurie Kraftcheck. Front, Vatsona Vannavong,
Robert Smits, Lisa Birmingham, Patricia O'Toole, Shawn Moore and Lynette Gryseels. T -A photo
Said costly in money, environment damage
Court throws out Hydro's plan
Ontario Hydro's plans for
two major new power cor-
ridors to feed Southern On-
tario were short-circuited by
a,divisional court ruling Mon-
day that a Hydro official says
will increase environmental
damage and cost tax payers
about $2 million a week.
The court, in a 73 -page deci-
sion by Mr. Justice R. F.
Reid, overturned provincial
approval for new high-voltage
transmission lines to carry
electricity from the Bruce
Nuclear Power Development
near Kincardine to Southern
Ontario.
The ruling negates ap-
-proval for the 500,000 volt
routes granted almost exact-
ly two years ago by a provin-
cial consolidated hearings
board after months of public
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PUBLIC MEETING CONCERNING
A PROPOSED ZONING BYE-LAW
AMENDMENT'
TAKE NOTICE that the Council of the Corpora;
tion of the Township of Osborne will hold a
public meeting on July 31, 1984 at'7:00 p.m. at
the Usborne Township Offices (south off of
Highway 83 on Conc. 3) to consider three pro-
posed zoning by-law amendments under Sec-
-tion 34 of The Planning Act.
One proposed zoning by-law amendment
would add to the Definition 2.141 - Sewage
Disposal Facilities, "and also includes a septic
tank and tile bed disposal area." Section'
would be amended by adding a new s ctio
"3.12.3 - No parking lot area shall be located
on a septic tank and tile bed disposal area."
These provisions will apply to the entire
Township.
The second proposed zoning by-law amend-
ment would change the zoning on the rear two-
thirds of the Frayne Chev. Olds Ltd. property
(as shown on the attached map) (Part Lot 14,
Conc. 1) from Highway Commercial (HCI) to
Village Industrial (VMJ). The VMI zoning would
permit uses such as contractor's or tradesman's
Tlop or yard, a retail outle4 and warehousing.
T e applicant proposes that such uses might be
accommodated in a combination of separate
buildings and an Industrial Mall.
The third proposed zoning by-law amendment
would change the zoning on Part Lot 14, Conc.
1 (as shown on the attached map) from Village
Residential (VR1) to Highway Commercial to
permit the establishment of an automotive
dealership.
ANY PERSON may attend the public meeting
and or make written or verbal representation
either in support of or in opposition to the pro-
posed zoning by-law amendments.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION relating to the
proposed zoning by•law is available for inspec-
tion between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. at the
Clerk's Office at the Usborne Township Offices
(south of Highway 83 on Conc. 31), Monday to
Friday.
DATED AT THE TOWNSHIP OF USBORNE THIS
25th DAY OF JUNE, 1984.
, rot.a,, d C',an¢es t , Csharne To+.nsnip
Zoning Ry -lav
TOWN OF EXETER
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14
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Corfl-„r..a: 1'.1, to
Village industrial
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lane:, proposed to b. ch •ng.•d f t-. T
Village ites1Jent,a1 Loa f)ensiv ,V;:1
to 111 gh%,a y Come. r c: a 1 1 11C 1 1
Larry Stuck
Clerk -Treasurer
Township of Usbotne
Box 1420
EXETER, Ontario
NOM 1S0
Telephone: (519) 235-2900
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hearings in Stratford and ap-
pears to be a major victory
for opponents to expanding
the utility's power grid.
The ruling is believed to be
the first time a court has
overturned a consolidated
hearings board decision since
the board was created about
four years ago to streamline
the environmental hearings
process.
One corridor would have
run from the Bruce complex
to Barrie, across the en-
vironmentally sensitive
Niagara Escarpment south of
Owen Sound to link up with'
existing lines running into the
Toronto area.
The other route would have
run along Highway 401 to the •
Nanticoke -Milton area. It
would be built in two stages,
with the first running
eastward along Highway 401
and -the second, to be built a
decade later, going through
Oxford County and
Haldimand-Norfolk region.
Hydro initially had faVdred
a southern route' linking the
London area with the
Brantford-Middleport area
that would cross numerous
tobacco farms. It opted for
the highway 401 route after
the consolidated hearings
board suggested it as an
alternative.
. The divisional court
became involved; n January.
this year when it heard
arguments from a half-dozen
objectors that included
municipalities and groups of
citizens — such as Oxford
County tobacco farmers and
ratepayers in Grey, Simcoe
and Dufferin counties — who
found themselves in the path
of the new power corridors.
In its judgrr%nt released
Monday in Torl3to, the court
threw out the board's decision
allowing Hydro to build the
lines and, in effect, "ordered
a new hearing,” said Toron-
to lawyer Gary Smith, who
acted on behalf of the Central
Ontario Coalition, a collection
of ratepayers and public in-
terest groups.
"Hydro's form of notice
was found to be insufficient"
by the court, Smith said. Ile
and others had contested
Hydro's method of notifying
the public of hearings over its
proposals. Ile said the court
"accepted our submissions"
that the notices were inade-
quately distributed and were
misleading by identifying the
hearings as involving only
Southwestern Ontario.
When the court heard the
case in .January, Smith told
the panel of three supreme
court judges that "my clients
don't feel they live in
Southwestern Ontario, but in
south-central Ontario."
Smith said the decision was
delivered by Reid, with the
other two judges in
agreement.
Asked for his reaction to the
ruling. Smith simply said:
"Finally."
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He added that ' he• had
discussed the decision with .
his clients and they are "very
pleased" with the success of
their battle against the giant
crown, corporation. f''
•Ian Wilson, manager of
public hearings for Hydro,
said Monday night that Hydro
has been struggling to get ap-
proval for a secondtransmis-
sion line from Bruce for '10
years and ."now we have
nothing."
He said delays in approval
so far have cost Hydro — and
thereby taxpayers — $150
million to $200 million
because Hydro's "earliest'
expectation"to have a second
line running from Bruce "was
late 1988."
"That money is gone,"
Wilson said, and the decision
means that "on top of that
there is now a penalty of $80
million to $120 million a year,
or about $2 million weekly."
He said the extra costs
come from Hydro being forc-
ed to' use coal-fired
generating facilities ipstead
of Bruce nuclear energy.
Since burning coal is a ma-
jor cause of acid rain, the rul-
ing "will also have an impact
on the acid gases in the pro-
vince — so we'll have an en-
vironmental penalty as well
as an economic one."
Wilson, reading from the
decision, said the court has
"quashed" the entire 35 days
of hearings in 1982 as well as
the notification procedures
used in late 1981 to announce
the hearings. Ile said the
court found "the form of the
notice was deficient" and
"natural justice" was denied
to people affected by the
transmission routes.
"It's cold comfort to us, but
all Hydro did was publish the
notice in the form we were
told" by the government,
Wilson said.
Another lfydro,spokesman,
Bill Settatree, said "the
highest levels of management
are now "assessing it with an
eye to minimizing any
delays" in upgrading the utili-
ty's transmission facilities.
"It's a complicated document
and we want to take the time
to carefully assess i(."
Wilson said Hydro is "ex-
amining what avenues ar'e
open to us" todelerniine if the
decision ans "we're back
at square { ne." '
Congregation at Cromarty,
marks 120th anniversary ,
By Mat. ROOM LAING
Cromorty
The Rev. James Patterson,
Gorrie was the guest speaker
when Cromarty church
celebrated its 120th.anniver-
sary-on Sunday morning. He
spoke on the theme, Tomor-
rdw is for God.
He said that the meaning of
the past is always the future.
When our forefathers built
churches, they were thinking
of the future. The world we
live in is characterized by
pain and suffering. Examples
he gave included deaths from
measles in Africa, crime as
youths kill toobtain.glasses in
order to be popular with their
friends, injustice when five -
sixths of the world lives on
$200 a year, poverty, hunger,
war. This is a world of pain -
not meaningless pain, but
pain of new birth. This pre-
sent age is the,stuggle that
will produce the beautiful
world of heaven:
We have personal pain as
well: We are sinners, not what
we would want tO be. He ask-
ed, "Is God responsible for
the mess the world is in?" Is
it a test to see if we are wor-
thy to be sons and daughters
of God? Life is set out as a
course to see if we have what
it takes to love each other.
We have four enemies: us -
we are our own worst enemy.
self gets in the way; suffering
- when suffering we lash out
at people we love; injustice
and criminology - we lock our
doors against theft, etc: and
lethargy - `we can't be
bothered to stand up and
reach out.
We should overcome such
enemies. God guides us and
sometimes like a child we
have to do something we don't
want to. Mr, Patterson con-
cluded by stating that 120
years ago our forefathers
looked to the future and built
a church. In the next 120
years we have some work to
do. Can we do it, or, will we do
it?
Music for the occasion was
provided by twenty-five
members of theSeaforth Har-
mony Highlites, a ladies'
barbershop chorus. Their
songs were Harmonize the
World, Tell My Why, You'll
Never Walk Alone, A Song of
Friendship, Beautiful Isle of
Somewhere, and Now the Day
is OVER. MaryF. Dow was
at the, 'tSrgan Tr. the hymns
and the offering was received
by Larry and Chris Elliott.
Visitors were welcomed at
the door by Larry and Alice
Gardiner.
Nearly 600 were fed at the
ham and strawberry supper
on Wednesday evening. Con-
vener for the very successful
event was Dorothy Miller.
The Bob Laing's were sur-
prised Sunday afternoon
when, on hearing what they
though( was the milk truck in
the lane, they looked out and
found a truckload of donkeys.
a The driver was looking for the
town of Staffa. The donkey
baseball game that was
scheduled for that evening
was played on Tuesday with
a huge crowd in attendance.
Recent visitors with Mr.
and Mrs. Eldon Allen were
Janet and Barry Gammon
and family, Stratford, and
Nancy Hudson and baby
(laughter, Ashley of White
Rock, B.C. Mrs. lfudson
returned home on Thursday.
Anniversary visitors with
the Aliens were Calvin and
Gwen Christie. and timer,
SISTERS GRADUATE Jim and Diane Becker,
Dashwood, are pleased to announce the graduation of
their daughters, Cindy and Sue -Ann. Cindy Hamather
graduated from Huron College on June 13 with o
Bachelor of Arts in Phsycology. She was on the Dean's
honour roll and plans to attend Althouse College in the
fall. Sue -Ann graduated June 19 from University of
Toronto, with on Honours B.A. in English. She has ac-
cepted a position with Dylex Corp. in Mississauga.
Photo by Doerr
Mary F. and Nola Dow.
Bill and Noreen Rinn of
Thamesford visited Sunday
with Jim and Dorothy Miller.
Sunday visitors with Bob
and Ruth Laing were
Margaret Laing and Jeff
Allen, Guelph, Bob and
Evelyn Allen and Jennifer,
Toronto.
Congratulations to former
Cromarty residents, Ross and
Grace Sararas of Hensall,
who celebrated their 40th
wedding anniversary on Fri-
day evening.
Bob and Ruth Laing at-
tended the 40th wedding an-
niversary celebration for
Jack and Ruth Pipe of
Brussels on Friday night.
Gas is promised
to Vanastra people
The residents of Vanastra
will be getting gas from Union
Gas before heating season ar-
rives this fall.
A letter from Union Gas in-
formed Tuckersmith
Township Council Tuesday
night itis prepared to pipe gas
to Vanastra and will be
holding an information
meeting for all the residents
some time in August to
outline the company's con-
struction schedule, as well as
the appliances available.
Elgin Thompson of Clinton
has been nominated for the
Ontario Bicentennial medal
being given to a member of
each municipality this year,
for service to that municipali-
ty and for volunteer work in
the community. -.
Thompson, a retired
Tuckersmith Township
farmer now living ir(,Clinton,
served on Tuckersmith Coun-
cil from 1957 to 1961 and as
reeve from 1962.to 1976.
A very community minded.
citizen, Thompson has been
active in the local agricultural
societies; he has been a
member of the Rural Ontario
Municipalities Association
where he was.vice-president
when he retired from
municipal life; active in the
life of his church. Brucefield
United Church, where he has
served on the session; active
in the Ausable-Bayfield Con-
servation Authority for many
years where he served an ex-
tended'term as chairman and
he was active in the 'Odd -
fellows Lodge. Thompson has
been a busy man, well known
for his quiet deeds of kindness
and friendliness. .
Council passed a bylaw
authorizing the sale of Lot 13,
Plan 133, (the former recrea-
tion centre of the armed
forces) Vanastra for $13,900 to
Wunder ' Machinery of
Kitchener.
Council approved the ap-
plication§ for three ,tile
drainage loans for a total of
$27,600.
Council agreed to the rezon- .
ing of Lot 198, Plan 131, at
Vanastra, an apartment
building, to change it from
residential to light commer-
cial. It is expected to be a
research centre on
hydroponics. -
SEEK READERS
Exeter Branch Library's
summer reading program for
children is called "Summer
Reading Olympics". Colour-
ing sheets are available in the
junior library for children
who would like to participate.
Young people are en-
couraged to read as many
books as possible during the
summer months. At the end of
August, certificates will be
awarded to the most consis-
tent readers.
Mrs. Moffat has details in
the junior library. -
NOTICE
to Public Utilities
Water Consumers
To conserve water, the Exeter Public Utilities
will limit the use of hoses for the watering of
lawns and gardens.
Effective immediately and until further notice,
the following schedule for the use of hoses will
be permitted:
Residential Customers (households)
Sunday to Saturday inclusive
7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Commercial Customers (businesses).
Monday, Wednesday and Friday
9 a.m. to 11 a.m.
These hours will be strictly enforced.
Your co-operation will be appreciated.
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