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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1978-08-24, Page 15• of Being a hobo can be a serious job and these three youngsters are concentrating on the task at hand. Sherry and Darrell Lavis and Christine Kemp were only three of the young people who dressed In rags to join in the hobo parade at the Clinton Library last Saturday afternoon. News -Record photo) Separate Board integrates busing by Alice Gibb Hibbert Township students Who attend St: Columban School and Tuckersmith Township students who attend St. James School in Seaforth will be riding the bus with secondary school students this fall. The Huron -Perth County Roman :,Catholic Separate School Board voted on Monday night to integrate transportation of these .students with secondary school bus routes operated by United Trails. This action means United Trails can eliminate one school bus route a saving for the board. " The board had con- sidered extending the licence of • Keith Mc- Carthy, an independent bus driver employed by the board to pick up the McKillop and Tucker- sm ith Township students. However, since Mr. McCarthy would then be' picking up students in the protected area of the United Trails company, this action would have required special approval from United Trails and the Ministry • of Tran- sportation and 'Com- munications licensing board. • John O'Leary, one of the trustees, expressed concern that St. Columban parents wouldn't be pleased with the results of integration. He said he had already heard that "integration in McKillop Township is not good." Mr. O'Lerary said some parents were concerned about younger children riding with high school students. Jack Lane, superin- tendent of business and finance, said integrated bus routes already serve board schools, in Go'derich, Exeter, Clinton, Seaforth, Stratford 'and Kinkora. Trustee David Teahen said one benefit of in- tegration on the buses was that older students can keep an eye on the younger students. Board members were also assured that the only difference in travel time on the new route is that the route will be 2J/2 miles. longer, since in the af- ternoon the bus will pick up students at St. Columban School after driving from S,eaforth rather than from Dublin as in the past. The bold also passeid motion that Charterways Transportation Ltd. be given the contract to transport pupils to Our Lady of Mount Carmel School. For the last 24 years, J. P. Marrinan has handled the contract for the board but he has sold his business to Charterways. Trustee Vince Xourig said he was concerned, that larger companies won't be a easy to deal with in the future as, the smaller, private com- panies have been. The cost of tran- sporting non-resident pupils to Mount Carmel from McGillvaray and Biddulph Townships will he charged to the London and Middlesex RCSS Board. In • other` business, Sparkle Maintenance was again given the contract for cleaning services at St. Michael's School. The number of classrooms at the school had been reduced from 11 to eight. Trustee Gregory Fleming, of the Mount Carmel area, told the board that residents in the area are requesting a pipeline easement across Our Lady of Mount Carmel school property. The Lake Huron water pipeline is being extended into Stephen township to provide water for residents from Mount Carmel to Cairo. Mr. Fleming told the board, residents are holding V . blip`"•heeting about the issue on Tuesday night. He said residents wanted the easement across school property so the contractor wouldn't have to run the pipeline under County Road No. 2 road allowance. Trustee David Teahen asked why there wasn't a more formal approach to the board from the township or the con- tractor rather than a verbal approach from Mr. Fleming. Mr. Fleming said there wasn't time, since the pipeline .will be com- pleted over the next two weeks. He added, residents hoped ,the school would eventually hook on to the pipeline as well. The school now has :its own well on the property to supply its water needs. Trustee Michael Connolly said trustees have to think of the schoolyard and recom- mended the pipeline be run underneath the road allowance rather than on school property. The board passed a motion requesting that trustee Fleming and some of the members of the property committee attend the public meeting on the pipeline:- However, ipelineHowever, since the board doesn't meet again until September, trustees pointed out they could not grant easement across the school property. Smile How to be in the black today: make and sell red ink: J CLINTON NWS -RECORD, THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1978. -PAGE 15 ck's Jottings from Queen s Parr BY JACK RIDDELL, Recentll Liberal Leader Stuart Smith called upon Premier D av is to reconvene the Legislature as soon as possible to discuss the total breakdown in the Government's ' handling of environmental mat- ters He set out a number of issues which have been mishandled by the present Minister of the Environment, who assumed his position in January of this year. The issues cited were: absence of a provincial policy for toxic liquid inci,strial waste dis sal; . withdrawal in March of the ban on non- refillable pop bottles, government handling of the $35 -million suit against Dow Chemical for mercury pollution of Lake St. Claire -dropped in favour of a paltry $250,000 private set- tlement with affected fishermen; failure to make the Environmental Assessment Act effective and meaningful; failure to develop a policy to deal with the serious problems of solid waste. disposal in Metro Toronto; failure to act on problems of lake acidification in the cot- tage country, where fish can't survive; and the inability of Ontario to comply with com- mitments to the International Joint Committee on the Great Lakes clean-up. Stuart Smith's statement followed closely upon the an- nouncement of the Government's decision to relax an eight-year-old air pollution control order on International Nickel Co. Ltd., which has been described as demon- strating the hopeless irony of Ontario pollution enforcement policies. In 1970, the Ontario Ministry, lof the Environment ordered INCO to stop using two 500 -foot chimneys • and one 350 -chimney 'at its smelting lant ,at Copper Cliff, we ' `'df Sudbury. INCO complied, replacing the stacks with a 1,250 foot chimney in 1972. However, the Ministry at the same time ordered the company to reduce its emissions of sulphur dioxide, from 5.,200 tons a day in 1970 to 4,400 tons by the and of 1974, 3,600 tons by the end of 1976 and 750 tons by the end of 1978. According to the Ministry, this order was based "on a need to restrict tonnage emissions due to the unpredictability of dispersion under all weather conditions" and "on potential adverse effects on vegetation, soil and water in a large area surrounding Sudbury." Today INCO continues to• emit 3,600 tons a day. Yet the Ministry has issued a new order permitting INCO to maintain that level until June 30, 1982, simply requesting a report by December 1979 "evaluating the feasibility of controlling" the smelter's pollution. Instead of Penalizing the offender, the Govern- ment has bent over back- wards to rationalize and excuse failure to comply with the 1970 pollution control order. Apparently, 1976 statistics indicate that Sudbury sulphur emissions accounted for only four per cent of North American man- made emissions, and only 1.3 percent of global emissions: Also, ' tithe problems of high ground level concentrations of sulphur dioxide and widespread acute vegatation damage in the Sudbury area have essentially been resolved even at current emission rates:" As , the Ontario Government sees it, the International Nickel Company is merely doing the same as everyone else: moreover, the 1,250 foot smokestack has dispersed the emissions to some extent, which has minimized the concern which prompted the issuance of the 1970 or- der. Murray Gaunt, Liberal Environment Critic, believes that if the Government . is not prepared to agree to an emergency debate on the environmental control order, "the best thing would be for George McCague (Environment Minister) to resign...I think he's sold out to big business (in that . he's) agreed to almost five times the previously set limit for the next four years." The condition of the Great Lakes has received some publicity recently, following release of a report by the Pollution from Land Use Activities Group, which indicates that both the United States and Canada have adequate laws to prevent lake pollution, but the laws should be enforced more strictly. The group is urging broader and stronger control measures. During the last Provincial Election, Premier Davis, ina tough statement, called for the revision of the Canadian - U.S. Great. Lakes water 'quality agreement, to provide for massive (million.,dollar) fines, to be paid into an en- vironmental clean-uo fund, administered by both countries to aid pollution research. An • official of the Ministry of the Environment recently described this statement by the Premier as a " wishfulbit thinkingof".dramatic As Dr. Smith in- dicated, the Liberahasls believe that the recent INCO decision is the last straw in a series of inept Government decisions on environmental issues..."We are in a period of drift and inaction by the Gover- nment, the results of HURON FARMER'S MARKET Near corners of Hwy. 4 8 8 in Clinton on Isaac Street,_ Open every Saturday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. With vendors featuring produce, fruit, vegetables, crafts, an- tiques plus many other items. We welcome mer- chant and vendor enquiries. SEE YOU THERE! which could have far reaching and deleterious consequences for Ontario." 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