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School -wide
smoking ban
concerns board
Old problems of littering and
loitering may be back, trustees worry
By Catherine O'Brien
T -A staff
CLINTON - Smokers who find
themselves on any school property
throughout Ontario will have to test
their willpower if provincial anti-
smoking legislation is passed in the
next few weeks.
Basically the law would not al-
low smoking by any person on any
school property at any time. And if
the legislation passes it could come
into effect as early as mid-October.
"It's passed third reading, which
virtually assures it will pass
through the legislature," said Gino
Giannandrea, superintendent of
schools.
Last Tuesday the issue was dis-
cussed briefly by Huron County
Board of Education officials arid
trustees. They were concerned that
the proposed law will lead to in-
creased littering and loitering
throughout neighbourhoods.
"This is really going to create
problems in our communities," said
trustee Bea Dawson. "Not every-
one is going to quit smoking."
But for those who want to try, the
hoard will be working in co-
operation with the Health Unit to
set up awareness programs for stu-
dents and staff.
Right now, Giannandrea said the
hoard is waiting for the province to
make a final decision on the issue.
The board will then have more in-
formation on how the law will be
enforced.
"Our job will be to inform people
of the legislature. But fines and en-
forcement is something that the
government will decide upon and
enforce," Giannandrea said.
It was just in November 1993,
that a fenced -in smoking area was
built at South Huron District High
School. It was built to curb prob-
lems the school was having with vi -
One dollar
garbage
tags not
feasible,
council told
Exeter residents won't
get a cheaper garbage
tag, but may be able to
buy tags at local stores
EXETER - A half-price garbage
hag tag isn't in Exeter's future, the
public works committee said last
Tuesday.
Councillbr Bob Spears, who had
asked for a look at his $I tag for
small, or half -full hags, asked why
it wasn't feasible. Printing special
tags might not be required if the
town would allow a $2 tag be torn
in half.
"How do you determine what is a
small bag?" councillor Ben Hoo-
genboom asked Spears, who re-
plied that some people deserve a
break.
"The system is working so well,"
said Spears. "People are par-
ticipating so well..."
"That's why we didn't want to
change it Bob," said Iloogenboom.
However, one change that is in
the works is the possibility of sell-
ing the $2 tags in local stores.
"In Goderich you can buy the
tags al the hanks, the PUC and
hardware stores," said mayor Bruce
Shaw. -
"Our budget is based on so many
tags at two dollars," said Micklc,
and noted that if a handling fee was
to be deducted from the tag sales
for the stores, the waste man-
agement budget would be affected.
"What we expect to get is the two
dollar a tag, regardless of where
they're sold," said Hoogenboom,
and suggested that it would degend
on community businesses wanting
to handle the tags, free of charge
"as a means of enticing people to
their business".
Shaw said he would find out un-
der what terms the tags are pro-
vided to the private businesses in
Godcrich.
Councillor Ervin Sillery jokingly
suggested what the town needed
was a vending machine for the tags.
olence as non -students would con-
gregate in areas where South Huron
students went to smoke.
School officials, on the rec-
ommendation of the police, decided
to erect a smoking area on school
property. South Huron was the
only high school that didn't have a
smoking area.
At that time, board director Paul
Carroll said that although the board
doesn't condone smoking among
students, "The board has a re-
sponsibility to keep the smoking
problem in our own back yard," he
said.
"This will come back to haunt the
Ontario government. There will he
problems. There's no question of
that," Carroll said last Tuesday.
In news releases over the past
year, the Ministry of Health has
said it is intent on setting up the
toughest anti-smoking legislation in
North America.
Call us more often, say OPP
Complaints the key to keeping
ahead of community concerns,
Stephen Township council is told
CREDITON - If residents of Crediton are
concerned about speeding in their village, they
should be complaining to the police more -
that was the message presented to Stephen
Township council last Tuesday.
A delegation from the Exeter OPP re-
sponded to council's concerns about a letter
from ratepayers in Crediton complaining about
speeding motorists. In particular, residents
said southbound drivers approaching the vil-
lage on Concession 6-7 weren't slowing, or
showing regard for the safety of children on
the streets.
Deputy -reeve Bill Weber said that council
was shown a printout of calls to the de-
tachment, and relatively few were from Credi-
ton.
"1 guess the message is 'if you call us, we
will come'," said Weber, adding that the OPP
said that with enough complaints about speed-
ing, patrols could be set up at key tunes of
day.
"All they have to do is nab a few of them,"
said Weber, after which he said the message
would get out.
Council also asked about the amount of use
the OPP were making of their Community
Oriented Policing office in Huron Park, near
the Post Office.
The OPP said the office is open two or three
hours each day, but has not established regular
hours, due to department budget and staff lim-
itations.
"1 guess they're not there as much as they'd
like to be," said Weber.
Who will run in Hensall?
HENSALL - If you've been wondering who on
Hensall council will be running again in the up-
coming municipal election on November 14, the
majority of council will tell you that they definitely
don't know.
Reeve Cecil Pepper said he is still weighing the
possibility of running. "If someone asked me a few
months ago, I would have said I was definitely quit-
ting. But now the option is still open," he said.
Pepper said he wouldn't be making a firm de-
cision.until the nomination period which runs from
October 11-14.
The same holds true for councillors Dick Pack -
ham and Jeff Reaburn.
All said there is a lot of unfinished business they
would like to see cleared up before stepping down.
Meanwhile councillor Butch Hoffman said he
would be throwing his hat in the ring again while
councillor Bob Seaton said he wouldn't be running
again because of work and family commitments.
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