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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes Advocate, 1997-07-23, Page 1SEIP'S valu-mart 4 & 83 Exeter 235-0262 New Release Videos ;"_'x$1.99 (YC Everyday Serving Exeter and area since 1873 r— III<• IIS — III. SUBSCRIBE! If you aren't subscribing to The , 'Times -Advocate, you're missing out. Use the coupon below and subscribe today.! 1 Name: 1 Address City 1 Prov. I Postal Code ____ SUBSCRIPTION RATES: CAMA 1 year S35+ 245 G57.2 year Rear S63*441GST 1 OUTSIDE CANADA 1 $102.00 USE YOUR CREDIT CARD 1 00000000 1 1 00000000 Card No. Expiry Date 1 0 Visa ❑ Master Card ❑ Cheque enclosed 1 Return jo; TIMES ADVOCATE 1 424 Main St. Exeter, Ont. NOM 1S6 ills...• — sm, J 1 1 1 1. 1 1 Inside Crops feeling drought stress See page 11 Emu - farming A low fat red meat alternative See Crossroads Second front. Three men charged with garden centre theft ST. JOSEPH - Huron County OPP report approximately 100 flag- stones were stolen from. a garden centre,, just north of St. Joseph. An . alert citizen observed the theft and advised the police of the licence • number. The vehicle was stopped in Park- hill by Strathroy OPP and Huron. County OPP from Exeter attended the scene and arrested three males. A search .of one male revealed 300 grams of cannabis sativa (hash oil) • worth $4,000. The vehicle the cul- prits were using was stolen from London. Charged are; John Wayne Mills, 25, of 26 Carfrae Cr., London, Wil- ham Thomas Girling. 26, of 67 'Duchess Ave., London and Frank Williams Porter, 27, of 240 Emery St. E., London. • • Mills -was charged -with posses; sionof stolen property over $5,000, possession of stolen property under •$5,000 and theft under $5.000. Girling was charged with posses- . sion of stolen property under $5,000, theft under $5,000, breach .of probation and possession for the purpose of trafficking. Porter was charged with' possession of stolen property under $5,000, theft' under $5,000 and breach of probation. • All three men are to appear in Ex- eter Court on Sept. 25. Pouring coolness A real refresher. Brittney Vandergunst, 6, left, and Christopher Pfaff, 4, sold lemonade and popcorn in front of Looking Good on Friday. The cool treats •were part of 'Christmas in July' festivities, the annual sidewalk sale Sponsored by the Exeter Business Association. Draft waste management plan SEIP'S valu-mart 4 & 83 Exeter 235-0262 Folding - VC lawn cloaks I i . ', " $12.99 Apartment and recreation centre complex approved By Kate Monk T -A Reporter EXETER At its Monday night meeting, Exeter Council approved a zoning bylaw amendment which will pave the way for a 36 -unit apart- ment complex and recreation center at 205 Victoria St. W. in Exeter. The property is west of Glenn Haven Apartments. Owner Gerrie Glenn intends to begin construction on a recreation center this fall. The special zoning addresses concerns with the proximity of the development to the.Goderich-Exeter Railway Co. property. Liquor and beer stores open Sundays• Exeter's liquor and beer stores will be open for -business on -Sundays in August. The Liquor Control Board of Ontario and theBrewers Retail Inc. have received government approval to open the retail outlets to the public but wanted to ensure municipalities had no objection to the pilot project. • Each member of council voiced their -opinions on the proposal. Those in favor of Sunday opening were concerned if people wanted to buy alcohol and were -unable to do; so in Exeter, they would travel to another town and patronize additional sures in that town. "Although 1 don't think you need another day to buy liquor,. I am con, corned people may go to another community to buy liquor and_end up buying"something else," said Councillor Wendy Boyle. - Councillor Thom Hughes also supported Sunday sales. " All it does is give people the, option. The public will ultimately decide by going or not going." . Councillor_ Roy.Triehner was the only member of council opposed. - ."I don't support'it. We're talking the five remaining Sundays but in the • article I read, this may he permanent." ' •. For the other stores that are open, we didn't Itave a choice. I'm looking at• it from family values: 1 don't agree with any stores -being opened on Sunday . and this is our chance, to have our say. Let's, stand up and be counted," argued Triebner. Council passed the motion to allow Sunday openings with Triebner re • - corded as -•opposed. Triebner asked Mayor. Ben Hogenboom how he - would vote: "I'll vote with the majority even'though I personally won't visit;" Hoo- genboom replied. Recycling rebate Mayor Hoogenboom reported Bluewater Recycling Association member makes Eie ter host site municipalities will receive a $I per unit rebate' for the third quarter of this year. A public meeting held last Wednesday attracted less than a dozen participants By Heather Mir T -A Reporter HENSALL - Only a handful- of people turned out - -tier Wednesday night's Huron County Waste Manag- ment Plan public meeting held at the Hensall Com- munity Centre. Similar meetings. were 'organized in other parts of the county. . Those who attended discovered the process of'dc- • veloping amaster• plan has taken nearly a decade of committee meetings. studies and public consultation before arriving at a draft in February, 1997. •The in- itial goal of the waste management study was to find an alternative county landfill site. At the time. it was believed that by 1995 half -of the county's population wouldn't have a landfill site. Since then the imple- mentation of the three Rs (reduce, reuse and recycle) philosophy', pay • per use (bag tags), blue box collec- tion and composting have, dramatically extended the lite of the county's landfill sites. Exeter has seen the greatest results from its bag tag system in a 60 per cent diversion of waste. • • After completing the necessary engineering and hy- drological studies, a new county landfill site in Ash- field Township was announced in February ' 1996. Public consultation and a change in goverment regu- lation led to the investigation of alternative options including incineration.. waste exportation and max-. imizing existing capacity •in Morris Township and Ex- eter. The last option was pursued, and it was found that, two county sites, one in the north and one in the south, would serve the needs of the county as the in-..' dividual landfill sites reach capacity. Thc study de- veloped two zones allowing existing contractual ar- rangements to continue. -Although Exeter has proved its landfill site can op - crate for a minimum of 72 years, it is still waiting for word regarding the application submitted to the Min- -istry.of Environment and Energy to amend the existing certificate of approval allowing continued use of the -site. Mortis Township's landfill site., that also -serves the Village of Brussels. isexpected to have- capacity for more than 1.00 years. • • When"asked what bringing in waste from throughout the north portion Of the county does to the remaining ,capacity of the Morris landfill site. project planner Vito Cirone acknowledged it would.drop substantially: In fact the estimated 100 year capacity might drop as low as 30 years with increased use and faster filling. The rapid filling. could also have a greater ecological impact•resulting in a need to compensate the host mu- nicipalties. Meeting participants also asked organizers what ac- tion plan has been made for 2031. when the Morris and Exeter sites may be forced to close. "Nothing is inplace for 2031. We have to continue to monitor the situation," said Craig Metzger of the county planning department. adding new technologies as well as incineration and export may have wrote to play by then. Diversion has made a substantial impact on landfill capacity and may exend the projected host site closure dates. No formal agreements- have been- made with either Morris or Exeter but the county indicates discussion regarding compensation has taken place." • Thc only thing they want is to be treated fairly," said Metzger. In South -Huron. the remaining capacity al the Hensall landfill site is expected to last 10 years. Hay 15 years, Stephen six years and Osborne 21 years. HensallReeve Cecil Pepper said he has heard from the vtllagc s engineer t�tit e municipality's site— ay be- closed eclosed sooner "for reasons other than capacity." ` "There definately are some (landfill sites) that should be closed." said Cirone in answer to the question. "Are other sites facing similar problems:" Cirone added he anticipates landfill site guidelines and restrictions will be more strict in the future. Next steps Meeting organizers will take the comments made during the public meetings back to the committee. It is hoped the draft plan will be adopted by Huron County Council in September with implementation be- ginning shortly after. How school board mergers will save money remains unanswered "HURON COUNTY -' Just over three weeks into the. operation of the province's Education Im= provement Commission., co-chair Dave Cooke announced last, Tues- day directors earning more that 5100.000 will not lose their jobs. at least for now. Cooke appeared in London re - "There arc a host of, issues - that have to be resolved. It's more important to get it doge right the first time," explained HCBE acting " director Jim - Moore, The hoards are also awaiting , information regarding sec- ondary schoolreform and the ccntly to meet with education of- implementation of a four-year ticials about the amalgamation of , diploma as well as the proposed school hoards and said the pro-- re -introduction of streaming. vincial merger of - -• The 'Eft plans to 129 • school - • reduce staff slowly Thele area over time td meet boards into' 66 will not. immedi- ately cut the six - digit salaries nor the number of di- rectors or. aimp tion ' or seducuper--• more ' to get it done intendents. right the first "No one said the cost savings time." host of issues that have to be resolved. It's would start on - • - day one.. There will not he a mag- ical change on Jan. 1," said Cooke in London. This announcetnent comes as no surprise to the administration . of, the Huron County Board of Ed- ucation which has maintained the Jan. 1 implementation of school board amalgamation would take a small miracle. the Ministry of • Ed= ucation and Train- ing's $130 million reduction target. lite commission- does ommissiondoes • not yet •know how many jobs will be cut and is waiting for human resources feports ' from local - school boards. The .EIC also has to do a study of administra- tion contracts before making any decisions: • • Thc commission, comprised of co-chairs Dave Cooke, for- mer NDP education minister and Ann Vanstone, former chair of the Met- a' Continued on page 2 What are you doing to beat the heat this 1 iii ,� : _ _ • • 1 - ` ..$ „.` . tl spro '``, summer? - r : - S , t ` r► White Wonder Although eve- ryone knows squirrels can't talk, WW did indicate he enjoys swim- ming and , thinks Santa might do a bit of drinking. Santa Claus "1 don't have to beat the heat. ! or- dered it." Hoda Osmond, Exeter bus!- ness owner "1'm not doing the right thing now - sitting in front of a bar- becue." Merlssa Thompson, Exeter "We're taking swimming les sons. Rick Lambert, Calgary Alta. "We've been going to Grand Bend swim ruing twice a day." Martin Andrews, Exeter "I stay home with air condi- tioning most of the time." Brenyn Baynhan, Exeter "1'm staying in the air con- ditioning, but I like the heat." Victoria Vandergunst, Exeter "We've got air conditioning in the house and swimming at mom's (Karen Pfaff). Thank God for air conditioning!" Mike Selp, 14, Exeter "I work at a grocery store and its got re- frigeration. It's so cold in there."