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Home My WebLink AboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1972-09-28, Page 16PAS# tri ICl $ NAL STA', T11,lilt i PTEMBER 2tt. tor { ,continued from page 2 PlsaiiraWdoro.ma"t alriotat them.? Are they doing«all theyeah for the municipality? Are they managing their hQrnework and digging °into things which need digging into? Are then informed or are they making heads? decisions o?f the tops o their. maeads? Are they interfering ,° . ton much? Are they butting in whete they have no right? Have they made too many mistakes? Have theybeen too quick to ap- prove? Too slow to react? Are they progressive thinkers? These are jtmt a bunch of questions unless you've been at- .; tending council, dear readers. Unless you've followed° council for the Town of Goderich closely, you really don't know the' answers: nd•-what'more;'nOlfiYly can .gnswer.for you. ISO opinions, are nothing more than my opinions. In no way'could I presume to size up council for you. That's something ' you have " to do for yourself. Yes, the fuss and the furor • about Hayman and Dixon has died down for the meantime. Will it open up agtlin? Who knows? But unless'the people take a more active interest in council than they have in the past, nobody will ever know the final• outcome of the problem or .when a new problem looms. But then, there's always th,e newspaper if you can believe what vciu read. Keeping, it clean by Bill Dodds Recently, The Toronto Star ran a series of articles on the Great Lakes, and pollution con- trol, .by staff writer E.H. .1144$11anp. �... «.. w� :.. One of the articles, on the history of the Ontario Water Resources Commission, now part of the Ministry ,of the En- vironment, impressed me so much I asked Mr. Hausmann if I could`'pass it on to you. Here it is, in his words: "If Canada is far ahead of the ea-trirrg'--•up pthe--Gre Lakes, most credit belongs to the Ontario Water Resources Commission (OWRC), now ab- sorbed : into the province's Ministry' of the Environment. The greatest single, advantage OWRC had was that it was created very early-.- during the dark ages ' of pbllutiori and water control, back in 1956. By the time that water management and quality, became a popular issue in the world 10 years later, OWRC had already .gained momentum and was demonstrating that common-sense policies and legislation on a variety of fronts could work. These included the gamut of water» quality management: drinking water, • fartning, municipal sewage,_in- dustry, flood control and use of recreation lands. By 1956, when the OWRC began, increases in ' population and industry . combined with higher living 'standards had resulted in an ominous formula: Ever` -time population doubled, the province's water" demands tripled. Sewage plants designed for villages suddenly had to serve cities, and water mains designed to serve hundreds had to serve thousands. Industry's needs grew also—with. 70,000 gallons of water needed to make a ton of steel, 200,000 for 'a ton of nevisprint, 500,000 for a ton of aluminum, and even 450 gallons to make 'a gallon of beer. The strain on postwar water sources" was tremendous. Fortunately Ontario decided to do something about it, and the OWRC was formed. It was given powers virtually unique in North America,, and rare in the world. It had the authority to draw up standards, based on new research it carried out. It had the authority to tell municipalities what standards had to be rnet, and than to help them finance. new plants that Tinkertown in session td ° ew bylaw #or nursery cortttnuM from . pogo 1 , _ supervisor, Mrs. _ arol goner.. _ �wrekcames` the retarded youngsters, three mornings. per week. Regular Tinkertown classes are held two mornings a week and as many afternoons as rewired E to handle , the enfrolment. At the ' present 'time,. children must be between the ages of three and five years to , be ,enrdlted at Tinkertown. Goderich Town Council will, appoint a committee of five per- sons for the school and the com- mittee will be responsible to Council for its actions. The Committee will include one council, representative, one member of the' Princess Anne executive, two members of 'the Tinkertown executive and one other person. The supervisor as well as'the Town C ffice,,,will be represented'by non-voting mem- bers. Councillor. 'Stan Profit was the only councillor at laat.Thur- sday's meeting who showed any dissatisfaction with the bylaw as. it was proposed. •Councillor Profit based his opinion on a survey taken by Mrs. Elsaiaydon, town coun cillor, last `fall just prior to Christmas:,- At that time, only one or""two persons with children showed any interest at all in the establishment, of a municipal school for pre-schoolers. "Based on that survey," said Profit, '"I don't think the town should accept this respon- sibility." Councillor Deb Shewfelt felt the passing of the bylaw just; "made legal what has been, carried on in' the town .for, the last cquple Of years." Councillor Shevufelta° ex rased confidencethat the committee for int er- town would ".strive to keepit on a break-even basis." The hope has been expressed at some council meetings that a municipal day care centre could naturally evolve from Tinker - town. "But that's in the future," commented . Mrs. Haydon. cif YY would meet those standards. It also drew up regulations for in- dustrial effluent, for septic tanks and a host of other area in which water quality played a part. It was given authority to give expert advice, and to super- vise and police its laws. In the ' 15 years the plan ,has , been running, all cities in On- tario now havesecondary sewage treatment; Windsor was one of the last. The plan is almost complete for Ontario deed•--host--som- munities are well on their way: • The OWRC record in factory clean-up is also impressive, though a great deal of work is yet tobe done: OWRC uses the policy of working with .industry as an adviser and guide, rather than simply .step'ping in and shutting down a plant that doesn't conform. It takes longer this way, but upsets the economy far less. 4. Teach kids to drive early iniife Some parents teach • their children to drive, in off-street situations, long before they are legally old enough. The Ontario Safety League recommends that no youngster should be allowed at the controls of a car prematurely; and that when he is taught' to drive, it should be done by an expert,` not by a relative. A Toronto newspaper reports that'on August 30th 13-year7old Jason Hall decided to back the car out of the driveway for his mother. He mistook the gas pedal for the brake and shot across the street, knocking down. a ladder under E. 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