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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes Advocate, 1994-8-17, Page 5TTSY�UR RlJSINF1SS Back in Time... By Ross Haugh from the archives of the Exeter Times Advocate 10 YEARS AGO August 15, 1984 - The Grand Bend Colonial Turrets team again came up big as they won the castle building division of the Sandcastle Days contest. Team members are Pat Breen, Cam Anderson, Jim Jean, Paul Maguire and Tony Verrneulen. Gerry Smith of Exeter won the Shelburne old time fid- dlers contest intermediate championship on the week- end. The special entertainment at the 1984 Lucan Lions Fair scheduled to open Friday eve- ning will be western singing star Ronnie Prophet. Jim Lamure of Usborne township is proud to have a huge sunflower plant in his garden. It has 17 blooms. 25 YEARS AGO August 14, 1969 - Huron county lost its second military base in three years when the Minister of National Defence announced yesterday that CFB Clinton will be phased out of operation within two years. Some of the militrary and civilian personnel who lined the parade square to hear Base Commander Col. W.E. Ryan make the an- nouncement were among those who heard similar news about CFB Centralia in July of 1966. South Huron Hospital may reopen its doors for service to the public early next week af- ter the recent disastrous flood. Administrator Miss Alice Claypole quipped, "The nurs- ing staff will be glad to get , back to regular duties after more than two weeks of cleaning and painting." Chester Gaiser, who was a top notch pitcher with Dash- wood baseball teams of 60 years ago threw out the first pitch at Friday's official open- ing of the new flpodlight sys- tem at the Dashwood athletic field. 35 YEARS AGO August 14, 1959 - New prices and new hours will be established by local barbers on Monday, August 17. Regular cuts will increase from 85 to 90 cents with brush and crew cuts advanced from 90 cents to $1. Children's prices will re- main unchanged. A big market for turnip grow- ers was assured this week when the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co. leased the Centralia plant of Exeter Tur- nip Sales. Production target for the firm is 500,000 bushels. 50 YEARS AGO August 14, 1944 - One of the first to arrive home safe and well from the D -Day invasion of France is U Tel. Stuart Mair of the RCNVR, a former stu- dent of Exeter High School. He is visiting his parents Rev. and Mrs. Mair. Mr. and Mrs. Luther Re- ynolds have received a letter from their son Sgt. Bill Re- ynolds with the RCAF in Eng- land in which he states he has been selected to pilot one of the big four engine bombers. 100 YEARS AGO August 9, 1894 - The finan- cial report of James Street United Church in Exeter for the past year ending June 30 shows total receipts to be $911.85 with expenditures of $938.80. Owners of cows inside the corporation of Exeter should bear in mi9d that on and after the 15th of this month, all cows arc liable to be impound- ed if not confined from eight o'clock in the evening to six o'clock the next morning. This 4 according to bylaw and will be strictly enforced. In 20 years, Canada has had but 116 divorces. Bargains this week at the Big Bankrupt Store are three pound boxes of soda biscuits for 22 cents; four pounds of ginger snaps for 25 cents and 25 piec- es of dress goods reduced to clear at five cents each. The new Ontario Legislature consists of 43 farmers, 18 law- yers, nine merchants, six dec- oseven lumbermen, five t sts, and one each of cattle drovers, miners, marble worker's, bankers and tanners. Mr W.B. Parsons of the Par- sons Produce Company has ar- rived in Centralia. He is an ex- pert on apples and is expected to purchase several carloads while he is here. Times -Advocate, August 17, 1994 New trend in garbage collection User pay garbage collection cuts costs and leads to more recycling EXETER - The business of re- cycling and garbage collection is a top priority for many municipalities that are trying to spend their money wisely and yet maintain needed col- lection services. With this in mind, the Bluewater Recycling Association decided to hold a user pay forum on garbage collection so municipalities think- ing about a user pay system could get a better understanding of what the system is all about. Representatives from about 35 municipalities from the counties of Huron, Perth, Lambton and Mid- dlesex attended an all day seminar on the topic last Wednesday. As well, municipalities such as Sarnia also sent representatives to learn about the user pay system. Those attending the meeting were basically told that garbage should be like any other utility - like hydro or water - what you use you pay for. "It's the better way to do it," said Lynda Rotteau, special projects co- ordinator for Bluwater in an inter- view after the meeting. "The secret to all waste diversion is to make it simple and available," she said. "Once you educate people about alternatives and how the pro- gram works, most people will par- ticipate willingly," she said. And right now, user pay is the trend. There are 37 communities in the province that have gone to this sys- tem and eight are within the catch- ment of Bluewater recycling. "If one community does it, neigh- bouring communities tend to fol- low. That was the case here," Rot- teau said. Grand Bend was the first in Hu- ron to go to the user pay system. "Everyone starts the program for a different reason and with a slight- ly different system. But the point is the system does work," she said. Rotteau said that municipalities that don't have user pay, collect garbage based on the assessment of each home. "Theoretically some- one with a $250,000 house would he subsidizing those in $50,000 home for example regardless of how much garbage either house- hold produces," she said. "That's not a fair system." As well, she said if people have to physically lay out cash for every bars of garbage, they will put out lei, garbage. Paul Turnbull, village administrator for Grand Bend leads one of four seminars on user pay garbage collection. Grand Bend was the first municipality in Huron county to go the user pay route. User pay is working locally Grand Bend and Exeter are leading the way with bag tag By Fred Groves T -A staff EXETER - When Grand Bend decided to go to a user -pay meth- od for garbage pickup back in Oc- tober 1992 it was out of necessity. The village's landfill was being shut down and taken over by Lambton County, leaving Grand Bend left holding the (garbage) bag. Although there was a lot of com- motion about it, a two dollar a bag charge was issued and it has caught on. The amount of garbage being trucked to the landfill in Watford has been reduced sig- nificantly. Wednesday, at the User Pay meeting held inExeter, Grand Bend administrator Paul Turnbull was one of the guest speakers and he talked about funding. "It was stepping them through the process," said Turnbull of his message to those who attended.,, "We (Grand Bend) went through through the first year and it was not a good experience." What the village has done now is taxed it's home owners $50 which buys them 25 tags. The idea here is, with the assistance of re- cycling, is to get owners to put out only 25 bags of garbage per year. Additional tags are available but it costs two dollars each. Exeter quickly caught on that the bag -tag method wo.ks and ad- ministrator Rick Hundey says, so far, so good. "It's going well, there's always minor problems that crop up," said Hundey. "Pretty well everyone par- ticipates." The town has been on the hag -tag program for a year since that time there has only been four home own- ers who weren't willing to co- operate. "We're taking more of a friendly approach. We're trying to work with people," said Hundey who said taking people to court over not using bag -tags is not the way to ap- proach the garbage crisis. Through recycling, composting and the bag -tag system, Hundey es- timates that Exeter has reduced the amount of waste going to it's land- fill by as much as 65 percent. It's nearly a self-tinanced municipal waste management program. "Exeter's system is based on user pay. We have revenue at both ends, we have tags and tipping fees." , It costs $12 a cubic yard to dump at the Exeter landfill which, tech- nically full to capacity. "The Ministry of the Environ- ment feels we're at capacity. We don't .know how much time we've got but we can use it (the landfill) until we resolve the problem," said Hundey. He said studies are being con- ducted to see if the existing site can be expanded. A new landfill would cost millions which is the route Hu- ron County is taking. The county's waste management co-ordinator, Craig Metzger said if the new landfill, expected to be completed in 1998 is to prevent a Community development co-ordinator possible for village HENSALL - The economic de- velopment committee for the Vil- lage of Hensall is looking into the possibility of hiring someone to promote economic and social activ- ities in the community. A brief overview of the position was part of an information package given to councillors last Monday night during their regular council meeting. The committee has been spend- ing the last few months drawing up a draft description of responsibili- ties for a community development co ordinator if one was to be hired. The proposed duties would in- clude planning, developing and or- ganizing recreation activities in the the village based on the needs of the community. As well, the co ordinator would work to promote the village. The economic development com- mittee is also looking into ways of funding the position. Council won't be making a deci- sion on whether to hire for the role until the develop committee finaliz- es its proposal. large amount of garbage from go- ing to the new site, a high tipping fee may be necessary. "The hag -tag decision will be left locally. There will he a tipping • fee," said Metzger. "The goal will probably be to have it high for waste diversion." User pay and recycling are work- ing hand-in-hand and charging peo- ple for the amount of garbage they put out at the curb is only making them add a little more to the blue box. "When people have to pay for the garbage they put out, the amount of recyclables we pick up goes through the root." During the seminar, those at- tending had a chance to listen to ex- perts discuss other trends in waste reduction. As well, they had a chance to ask the experts about any issues of concern. Rotteau said the most people were concerned about an increase in illegal dumping when user pay is introduced. She said this is somewhat of a fallacy. "We can say with assurance that illegal dumping has always existed and any time you go into user pay there may be a slight increase, but it goes right down to a normal level after a couple of months and some- times lower. ," she said. "It's a non issue basically." Overall, Rotteau said the seminar was a success. "The speakers from Toronto were quite impressed by the enthusiasm of our members. That shows peo- ple here are interested in waste re- duction." Page 5 Visscher Farms Country Market Broccoli $12. for 18 bunches, Cauliflower $9. for 12 heads, Potatoes $8.25 for 50 lbs. 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