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THURSDAY, AUGUST -12,° 1971
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Twenty-four young Goderich athletes participated in the'Lake,Huron Zone and Recreation Track
Meet held in St. Marys on Wednesday, of last week, through the joint, efforts of the Goderich
branch of the -Royal Canadian Legion and the Goderich Recreation Board. About 360 competitors
from throug hout the Huro `
. � g n District took ' part' in the meet. ThCee of Godericlr44articipants
brought 'home ribbons in various divisions. Left' to right, Lori Keller picked up ,a first in the high
---------ium-p--and-third in the broad junip; Mike Wedlock' collected a third in the boy's division "D" for,
the 50 yard dash; and Lucy Stinnison managed to place third in two races, the 60 and the 100
yard dash for"the girls "B"division. (staff photo)
If{the anticipa e
the Listowel Lagoon sometime
during..._.the . next ..few weeks,,
combines with a number of
other conditions, such as water
temperature, ,prevailing weather
from the north and the opening
of the Brussels Dam the effect
on bake Huron water,;, at the
Goderich beach could be such as
to result 'in the closing of the
facilities due to pollution,
according to Reve Paul Caroli.
• In an interview with . the
Carroll pointed out ' that
• although the first dumping- 'in
April 'had little effect on the
water such might not be the case
if the community is allowed to
'discharge thousands of tons of
sewage into the Maitland river
again sometime this month.
- "At the time of the -first
discharge," he explained, "the
dam at Brussels wis closed
allowing the sewage to settle out
and reducing ,,the amount that
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River.
made i -al tie ways the lake."
"The water temperature was
also ;much lower resulting in
slower . bacteria action, but these
conditions are now reversed and
a dumping at this' time could
bring . about more serious
results," concluded Carroll.
Combined with northerly
winds Mr. Carroll suggested that
much4of the sewage would come
right down the river, through the
open Brussels Dam and be
dumped into warmer'lake waters -
resulting is a ,bacteria break
down that would seriously ,effect
ea,s ci itens theLiberal water would be blown south
from the river mouth into the
van sue the
beachA area.OWRC " few weeks ago," Carroll
t
ollution
had been dumping, conditions
would be much more serious.
At present health officials say,
'the water ' off the Beach is in
fairiy good condition , for'
swimming, according to weekly
tests conducted.
In a brief presented to the
Listowel town council, last week
the "Save the Maitland
_Association" accused the town
of being responsible for the
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~started blowing river water south
' Citizens unhappy with the, farmers along the Maitland to towards Goderich's water, intake
pollution of the. Maitland, River, sue the OWRC if the present ,and residents began, complaining
caused by • the ' overflow of a situation continues and they feel - of ' a `decrease in' the. quality of
sewage lagoon at Listowel, can it necessary. drinking water as more chlorine
now sue the Ontario Water Mr. Gaunt outlined. the was *added to the water in
Resources 'Commission, operator problem -of -the -pollution caused compensation, -for__ the., added
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p the lagoon', beforethe end of the ''' Listowel, which serves the. town n near Pollution." r
passed just be It' is important to, note that
last provincial legislature. and `the Campbell Soup
this occurred with the ,Listowel
A Murray Gad*, M.P.?. for Company plant, was flushed out
Lagoon urreshut off. If the lagoon
--..Huron-Bruce!; told a _meeting'•of ' • .Please turn to Page' 12. •
the Huron County Federation of 0,
W summer program
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moving After slow start
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As the summer season is' Barb Pickett,. a member of the energetic a Barb, "It will be
drawing to a close, the program staff there. available all day ,from lip am to 5
at the Youth Environment • "The kids have been away for pm."
Workshop' at the corner of East the summer but now they're Tuesday evening, August 17, • •
coming back and things are three films of interest to today's Spitfire ..: her -e
really rolling along," says Barb.
To keep up with the beginning at 8: 0 pm.
Agriculture in Hensall Thursday � �' i dumped...
night that the'_bill,,` passed just T
before the adjournment of the ..
legislature, ' allowed any
individual or group to sue the.
Is
harbor affected?
government or an 'agency of the
government for damage paused are also taken of the water'in the'
by pollution. F' i ,, Sparked by a -Letter to the
This, he said, would " allow Editor, published' lin a recent'immediate Goderich area by the
iss'iie of the Signal -Star, local Department, of 7 Health
increasing concern has been branch..
evident over the dumping of salt For tl�e moment the only
b .• complaint .that, has. been
into the harbour by Domtar, forthcoming with regard 'to salt
Sifto Salt.
in Lake Huron been from
According to the letter, a
front end loader had been seen boat'•ow•ners who are faced with
dumping loads' of salt and old the' problem• , of scraping away,
salt bags directly into the crusted salt from the hull ofd'
Goderich Harbour. their boats once or�twice yearly .
Officials with the Ontario , • a problem seldom faced'by
Manager there, Doug Hunter. ' fresh water sailors:
'The movie star is -a Spitfire Water Resources Commission in 0
aircraft' owned by Don Plumb of 'Toronto, who, are responsible to
• Windsor." It arrived at Sky
' Harbor this weekend with quite'
a fanfare, giving spectators in the
, area a good show of, its
Street and
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gairing momentum according to B b youth will be shown athe YEW
Color me....
SAFETY
increasing demand for new and Admission will be 25 cents.
rogram are The
The FOS -is at Sky Harbor Air
action -packed two-week period Please turn to Page 12 Services are "painting their first
There will be 'a new. issue'of .' be,ginning today' has been movie star" according ^ to the
varied activities, an ' Oh the p
to be painted
the popular safety coloring book" ' planned by the YEW people.
�� Siames
e app e
published by "the Goderich Tonight there will be a dance
Seadog John Ruxton has anything to 'do from Toronto. Admission will be s, ®v e r e d
with it, $•1.5 0 for 'the three-hour
is slated to get •b
e hildren
'officer in cpm
.y
of reprinting 'underway at 9 p. y
Police .Association if Constable at the arena featuring ea og .. di
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about coloring books
"Since there were people
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containing safety pictures drawn at the last dance, this one will be Brian and,Martha Straughan, a manoeuvrability.
children of Mr. and Mrs. Martin - The airplane is only � one of
by a former Goderich, ,resident, held on the main •.floor of the' • Straughan R. R. 2' Goderich, three Spitfires flying in North
--Sandy Weiland.' arena," reports' Barb. •' are, the'proud possessors of a /America, In.fact, there are only
A campaign to solicit Tomorrow, Friday, there will, six airplanes of this type in the
Siamese apple .
advertising froze local businesses be a candlemaking workshop at What's a Siamese apple? Well, entire world'.
to defray
onstable Ruxton. • telephone or simply drop in the, cost of printing 1 "pm at the YEW. Youth who that's just a convenient name for This particular Spitfire has
, will also be spearheaded by are interested may register.,: by, two apples joined at the side and, still anotherndistinction. It was
iii,:at . used to make 'the movie "The
The book was publishedfor the appointed hour. growing from one stem.
• about five ears between 1963 Saturday, August 14 there The children picked the apple Battle Of' Britain", a film highly
y � 'from,, tree on the family farm Praised for its account of that
and 1968, before the project was will be a oar wash at Bluewater
temporarily shelved. The Texaco at the junction of week and brought it to the part ,of ;the Second .World :War.-
' . stud �
decision this year .to revive the Highways • 8 and 21. This is a Signal—Star , for y Now Tie plan's owner, an aviation
coloring book will provide' Youth Enterprises ,,project and they're wondering just-, what enthusiast; has the craft' at Sky
copies for . all primaryade • theproceeds will be s l anion kind of4a r- xciting fruit would Harbor to be painted: The job
p � P ' g
pupils in Goderich. Cash prizes the youth workers. have developed had theyT 9eft"thee will take about two and a' half
~will be awarded for best coloring "The cost will be 75 cents for " apple the tree and watched
itefforts among'those children. a wash and vacuum," says - the carefully for the summer.
IIP IVY- "it "'� '
keep 'check on pollution of all , •
waterways in Ontario, said on Missing b
Friday that they had had no
report of this incident or • any
r
'similar cases involving salt c n i r C -p 1 n'.,� t
dumping ' in the, Goderich
Harbour. o
According to the .W.R.C.,
even if such was- the case, little
harm would be done to the
water since the salt dissolves or
A mystery, ha. marred the
uc
scessful) Blue' Water Sailing
Club regatta held` last
weekend in Goderich.
settles to the bottom resulting in , One of the Club's buoys;
little change to the water. this one owned by the
The (�'.W.R.C... also - �.in the president, George Robertson,
um . ' . is missing~ •
e The orange and. white
Huron from the Huron Drainage buoy tied by a length of line
Basin in one year, the dumping , to an anchor was located just
of salt from.. the salt works in west of the breakwall. It ,vyas
weeks, °according to Manager Goderich would have no effect. there at 3 pm Sunday butwas
Hunter. It was also `noted that regular missing by early evening.
' The paint shop. of Sky Harbor tests are, carried out on all the Information leading to the
Air Services is one of three in Great Lakes and nothing out of
recovery of this buoy would
North America equipped to do ,the ordinary has been reported be greatly appreciated by 'the
the kind of job Don Plumbby testers to date with regard to Blue Water Sailing Club
wants. The other two aviation . pollution anywhere in Lake
paint shops are in the United Huron. In addition to the Water members.
States. Resources testing, regular tests
out , that in comparison t
amount of, road salt and cal
chloride that washes into L
The five -member crew at the
Sky Harbor shop paints between,
125 and 130 airplanes annually,
about half of them from the
United States.
Labor Day
tournament
well filed
The Goderich: Industrial
L'eague's annual Labor Day
Softball Tournament is filled up
with 24 teams signed up to
provide plenty of excitemeht,for
the fans.
The `tournament runs from
Friday, September 3 until
Monday, September 6. There are.
eleven. "A" • division teams an('
thirteen "13" divine teams
entered.
In the "A" division there are
three Londons1teams, two teams
each 'from Toronto, Kitchener
and Sarnia afiidl one each from
Windsor and Stratford.
There are . four Goderich
,Industrial teams entered
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o 4oilii-:irafle as a special project is underway for the -defending tournament
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contract valued at $54,243.92 by the Town of Goderich for this work as well as the reconstruction Gord's Sports, Gower's 'Meilen
of Market and IVlontreal Streets and the installation of storm sewers around Court House Pari{. Centre and:"`Goderich Building
Centre.
(staff photo )"
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condition of the Maitland River
and also lays blame. un the
shoulders -''of the Ontario Water -
dlesources.commission."
According to the Association,
Listowel and the O.W.R.C. have •
refused ' to co-operate . in a
program . of expansion at the
present sewage lagoon system
- w h ich is shared by the
.community and the.. Campbell
Please turn to Page 12.
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pIannflg by OWRC
X 1 '2D; $971 ing- wikland t spent -a • fialf Aday- in the`
Brussels Listowel area of the Maitland River. The ,purpose of
our visitwas twofold: a. to observe first hand the conditions
surrounding the Arpil disciarge of some 296,000 TONS of
liquid effluent" into the upper Maitland River, and b. to
examine the steps being undertaken to correct the situation at
the Listowel.Iagoon.system.
• What happened in Listowel is clearly a result of the : ,
piece=meal planning of the Ontario Water Resources
Commission. As far back in time as. 1962, the .OWRC has
apparently admitted , ' that the lagoon system- -was--
approximately 400 per cent overloaded. - Their action,. almost a _
decade later, will increase that capacity by only 200 per..cent:
This project, 'as many others throughout the Province will
become a border on the already, overextended credit of the
,concerned.nunicipalities, ,
It is stated in the Goderich Signal -Star (Aug. 5) that the
lagoon will be dumped once again. If the effluent is in the
same putrid condition that I observed less than a month .ago,
the resultant contdmination of the' 'Maitland River course will
be worse than the earlier episode ,caused it to be. Why? There,.
is now less .water in the river system than there was in the.
Spring: -The water temperature is warmer; 1 would suggest -that
in the "trickle" areas into which this effluent 'is dumped, `the ' • '
Water temperature will at' many times match the temperature
"of the air, It is frightening to ithagirfet the resulting
putrification.
The impact of the second dumping .should reach the
Auburn to Goderich area about 24 hours after the initial flow
begins. If the Wind is from the North, it should create an
impressive reaction ,from the' hundreds of bathers using the
Goderich beaches...
We have been fortunate to have persistent cold water in the
lake • this year. That : is, un until two or three weeks ago. The
unusually cold temperatures have maintained '-at least a
minimal 'bacteria count. We are still plagued however by the
annual recurrence of truckloads of algae being -washed ashore
.each week. With the addition of this new effluent, we can
almost guarantee that the area Health officials will close down
the waterfront areas for recreational use. With the -now-wart, .-
water, the bacteria growth ,rate will be phenomenal. The usual
high readings of the Maitland River" (bacteria count) will go
right off the chart! "
,And what can we do? The usual letters will 'go forth from
arigry citizens, the usualresolutions will emerge from
concerned municipalities, and the usual cry 'will arise from
•- ressure groups, such as the Save the Maitland Association. The
usual =say -nothing platitudes will' be . returned from the '
government agencies and officials, who will insist that all steps •
are being taken and claiming that present technology is not
adequate to solve this immediate problem
And we see one more example of a crudely defiled
environment.
1 can't see any immediate answer to the Listowel problem.
Perhaps the discharge can be returned to the land for •its
natural 'nutrient value? Perhaps the citizens of Brussels can
move in with bulldozers and machines to create' a. huge
impassable darn? _
Ridiculous? Sure... -but there are long term answers:
1. The first serious mistake was made by some extremely
poor judgement in allowing a high-water effluent industry
begin operations in the Listowel area without consideration
for the fact that the, river flow was already inadequate for
Please turn to Page 12.
A usefulstretcher for the Emergency ward at Alexandra Marine
and General Hospital was paid for by members of the Maple
Leaf Chapter IODE. The official presentation of the $469.56
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of the special` projects committee; Tini Elliott, hospital
administrator, eiuho accepted the gift; and Mrs. R. W. Hughes,
a•
treasurer. On •the stretcher is Susan. Graves of the Physiotherapy
Departrhent at the hospital. Susan gave testimony ,that the
stretcher was Most comfortable. The money for the .stretcher
game from_the money.earned by the Imperial Order Daughters
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wihen Mrs. Pierre Berton was the speaker.'(staff photo)