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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes Advocate, 1984-09-26, Page 27Page 12A Times -Advocate, September 26,1984 • COLORFUL SHOW — The Exeter Fair featured an Arabian horse show for the first time, Saturday, attracting entries from as far away as Peterborough. One of the most colorful classes was that for native costumes. Shown following the judging are the winners, from the left in reverse order of finish: Shayna Snider, Dorothy Calhoun, Faye Henigar, Michelle Currie, Bernard Calhoun and N(arysa Snider. VETERAN EXHIBITORS — Andy Dixon chats with Mr. and Mrs. Vic Hogarth as vegetable displays were being arranged at Exeter Fair Friday morning. The three have been exhibitors for many years. T -A photo HAVE SOME MILK — Dairy farmers Dorothy and Glen Jeffrey take their turn selling milk at one of the booths at the Exeter Fair. HAPPY HOOKER — Carf Cann demonstrated his rug - hooking skills at the Exeter Fair. With all the mess in our house created by the building of an addition, my husband and I convinced ourselves that a heavy-duty shop type vacuum cleaner would be a good purchase. It didn't take much convincin.;. I am quite happy with my present vacuum cleaner and had no desire to wear it out on heavy duty jobs. Besides a shop vacuum can suck up water, and we thought that it would come in handy for cleaning the carpeting in the boat. So the new shop vacuum came home from the store in a big box. The moment it came out of the box, 1 realiz- ed it was different from an or- dinary vacuum. It didn't re- quire lifting out of the box, it sort of climbed out and fell on its own. That's when I decided that it wasn't a vacuum. but a robot visiting us from another planet. Ile even resembles R2D2. This fellow isn't even an ordinary robot -- he doesn't require programming; he has a mind of his own. Right from the beginning, it was apparent that he was starving 1 guess you would be. too. if you had been living in a cardboard box in a store. Fortunately, he's not difficult to feed -- he thrives on dust and dirt and we have plenty of that. He is so hungry that when he finds a place where there's a lot of saw dust or sand on the floor, he adheres himself to that spot. And no amount of pushing will move his mouth piece along the floor. You have to turn off his power supply and talk gently to him to get him to move along If he's not watched closely. he will eat everything in sight. The other day I caught him munching on a small braided rug, when I turned my hack for just a second. Again, I had to shut off his power source and then coax him to spit out the rug. Even though the rug was filled with sand, I was able to convince him that it shouldn't be part of his diet. But as I said, this creature has a mind of his own, and it Mary's musings By Mary Alderson wasn't long before 1 caught him snatching at the curtains. He has some other pretty nasty habits. too. When he adheres himself to a par- ticularly delectable section of the floor, his elephant -like snout contracts. Then if he's standing behind you while your trying to get his mouth piece to stop sucking on the floor, he will sneak up on his quiet little wheels and give you a good thump, sending you head first on the floor beside him. The other day his greed almost got the better of him. We were letting him feed on a nice pile of sawdust that contained a few wood slivers as well. While he was hungri- ly munching away. a piece of wood got caught in his throat and he almost choked to death. But after a couple of good thumps he was able to digest it. 1 thought maybe he'd like a nice snack of sand, so decid- ed to let him clean off our bedspread. You see. our very spoiled dog likes to nap on our waterbed, and usually leaves a pile of sand behind him. So I took R2D2 into the bedroom. First I carefully tucked in the comforter, so he wouldn't try to swallow it, too. I was letting him slide his mouth over the bed when f noticed that rather than becoming cleaner. the bedspread was getting dir- tier. Then 1 noticed that the dirt was little tiny dead flies. Where could these flies be coming from' R2D2 had positioned himself so that he was blow- ing air from the top of his head directly at the ceiling light fixture. Now. I don't know about your house, but sometimes at our place. the light fixtures don't get clean- ed as often as they should and by summer's end quite a few dead bodies can collect. R2D2 had very effectively spread these flies all over the bedroom. I reached over and turned him off. As his whining noise died down, 1 am sure f heard him laughing. PUPPETS — Margi Chaffe, (left), Mary Martens, Patti Love and Dianne Cyr prepare their puppets for a puppet show put on by the SHDHS students at the Exeter Fair. A PLENTIFUL parade were DISPLAY — Showing their bountiful garden in Saturday's Exeter Foir Kerri Lynn, Jennifer and Becky Case. T -A photo I � 111 AMID BALLOONS --- The Exeter Kinsmen club float in Saturday's Exeter Fair parade was covered with balloons. T -A photo By Jock Riddell MPP One of the most contentious envrionmental issues is that of the disposal of industrial wastes. According to the Ministry of the Environment, Ontario generated some 72.4 million gallons of hauled liquid in- dsustrial waste in 1983 - over and above the wastes which are not hauled but are dumped directly into the en- vironment by industries. The total amount of liquid in- dustrial wastes generated is estimated by the Ontario Waste Management Corpora- tion to be close to 150 million gallons per year. Approximately 27 million gallons of this waste is relatively innocuous oily water, inert sludges and in- organic (petrochemical), organic solvents, paints, pigments and adhesives, plastic resins and acids. Smaller, but still significant, amounts of very highly toxic wastes were also generated in 1983, including chlorinated solvents, cyanides, metal finishing wastes and PCB's. Looking specifically at the hauled liquid industrial wastes, 21 million gallons (29 percent of the 72.4 million) were hauled to sewage treat- ment and liquid waste treat- ment facilities. Unfortunate- ly, many of these plants don't have the capacity to treat tox- ic chemicals adequately, and much of the liquid industrial waste enters our waterways relatively untreated. Another ten million gallons (13.8 percent) were buried in landfills and on sludge farms in the province. Six million gallons were sent to public landfills and four million gallons were sent to private sites. In 1983, the Ministry of the Environment permitted serven public landfills in On- tario to legally accept liquid industrial wastes. These sites were in Barrie, Brantford, Guelph, Paris, Welland, Hamilton and the Tricil facili- ty of Corunna. It's interesting to note that in 1980, some 23 sites in On- tario were accepting wastes for landfilling. During the past twenty years millions of gallons of highly toxic wastes were il- legally dumped in small land- fill sites throughout Ontario. Many of these landfills have now been closed and capped with clean soil and seeded grass. Some are still open, but now only receive relatively harmless domestic wastes. The fact is, however, that over eight hundred abandon- ed garbage dumps have been identified in Ontario, some of which contain liquid in- dustrial wastes which are now migrating into ground- water drinking supplies. Landfills which no longer receive liquid wastes, but which did so in the past and now pose serious health hazards to the adjoining com- munities are: Eric Pauze, Perkinsfield (4 wells con- taminated); Waste Manage- ment Inc. Stouffville (14 wells contaminated) and WMI, Aurora (8 wells contaminated). Plumes of contaminated groundwater are migrating off each of these landfills and have contaminated the drink- ing water of a number of homes in the vicinity. In addition to the municipal landfills, there are more than fifty private and industrial disposal sites which received liquid industrial waters. These include Dow Chemical and Polysar in Sarnia; Rob- son Lang Tannery, Oshawa; Dill Ltd., Streetsville; Canada Printing Ink, Burl- ington; and Beardmore Tan- nery, Acton. Tricil Ltd. operates On- tario's largest chemical waste incinerator and the pro- vince's only publicly - accessible secure landfill • that is a landfill located in deep clay soil which inhibits liquid wastes from leaching down into the groundwater. This landfill receives over half of the liquid industrial wastes disposed of in landfills. Tricil's incinerator burned over twelve million gallons of liquid industrial wastes last year. In total, Tricil received Cancer can be beaten4- flac4 �offin�� 15 million galloons of wastes in 1983, representing 21 percent of the total liquid industrial wastes generated that year. In addition to the wastes which are sent to the landfills, incinerators and water treat- ment plants, thirteen million gallons were reclaimed and reused by industry. Eight million gallons were sent to waste transfer stations for resale to other users, and 7.6 million gallons were shipped out of the province, primari- ly to the United States and Quebec. Ota, FIELD CROPS — Former Exeter fair presidents Roy Pep- per and Bob Down look over the corn and white bean exhibits, Friday morning. T -A photo FEEDING THE ANIMALS — Shannon Kammererr and Bryon Negrijn give some goats at the Exeter Fair on extra portion of hay. PRECIOUS BLOOD PARADES — Appearing on the Precious Blood Separate School float in Saturday's Exeter 1=pir parade were Diana Verberne, Stephanie Cook, Rochelle Geoffrey, Laura Cook, Gregory Geoffrey and Jennifer Cook. T -A photo t� •�.�.. .t .1 EXAMINE EXHIBITS -- Cathy Coates, Ruth Ann McAuley and Bridgette Newton look over some of the indoor exhibits at the Exeter Fair Friday night. T -A photo i OPEN FAIR School fair president Muriel Dalrymple is at the microphone during Friday's official opening of Exeter Fair. T -A photo BIG BROTHERS, SISTERS - The local Big Brothers and Big Sisters group participated in Saturday's Exeter Foir parade.