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Home My WebLink AboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1986-07-09, Page 2• • • PAGE 2 —GODERICH SION 11 -STAR, WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 1986 48 East St., Goderich 52447131 Watch For. Our Special on Streaks with Althea Winter coming soon. LY 24th -26th COURTHOUSE PARK, GODERICH Thursday, July 24th 1:00 p.rn. Cabbage Patch Fashion Show 2:30 p.m. Stuffed Animal Pet Show „Friday, July 25th 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Goderich Recreation Department Anndal Penny Carnival Saturday, July 26th 10:30, a.m.-12 noon Scavenger Hunt 1:00 p,M.-2:30 p.m. Children's Carnes FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT; The Goderich Recreation Department News • t• , ) at: 52*2125 or The Goderich Visitor Infbrmation Contre at: 524-.2513 • SIOROVIOt Below is just a partial list. There's more in store for you! LADIES BLOUSES cotton & rayon plains & prints HANG TEN SPORTSWEAR FOR LADIES UP TO EVIA4 E R PANTS PENNY. SPARLING , TENNt: .EAR JUNIOR SPORT SHIR S BOYS & GIRLS The Goderich Lioness Club recently donated $694.38 to Alexandra Marine and General Hospital fora Resusci-„Baby which will be used foIr training hospital staff CPR (cardio- pulminary resuscitation) and infant resuscitation for newborns. Anne Bouck, treasurer and Ruth Kelly, president presented the equipment to Ken Engelstad, hospital administrator. (photo by Susan Hundertmark) County will procee with master waste management plan. BY ALAN RIVETT „ • Huron County council passed a motion to proceed with a master plan for waste management in the county. The first phase of the project, to begin in 1987, is expected to cost between $150,000 and $20(1,000 which would be subsidized 50 per pent by the Ministry of the Environment (MOE). R.A. Dempsey, the county engineer, Said the MOE program began last year to help counties or groups of municipalities develop waste disposal sites which would comply# with the ever-increasing list of re- quirements for landfill sites. So far, 20 regions or municipalities in Ontario have taken advantage of the program. The first phase in the three phase master plan would involve data collection being carried out on the individual landfill site in the county. This would which of the sites should be expanded and which ones should eventually be closed. The first phase would also involve recommending potential new areas for a landfill site. Phase two would involve actual site selec- tions while phase three would involve the site establishment which would comply with MOE regulation' s. Dempsey warned council that the 50 per cent subsidy Would only apply to the first phase of the master plan. The other subse- quent phases of the project could cost county an estimated $500,000 to $600,000. While only six -of -the 17-landfillsitesiathe county are due to be closed within the next year and another six sites with a lifetime beyond 20 years, he said the master plan is still necessary as the MOE is constantly changing their requirements concerning landfill sites. New legislation called Regula- tion 309 places -13 conditions on any new site and, within two years, these regulations will apply to all existing landfill sites. REG. TO $16.00 SatTLTOF BASEBALL GLOVES Choose from COOPER, MIZUNO, SPALDING, RAWLINGS & SSK PRINCE INTERNATIONAL TENNIS RACQUET REG. $94.99 STRUNG KENNEX SENIOR PRO TENNIS RACQUET REG. $69.99 STRUNG Listed here are just four of the many sizzling hot values we have in our footwear department. Come in and choose from BROOKS, BAUER, NIKE, OSAGA, POWER, TURNTEC, TRETORN & PUMA PUMA FIRST ROUND BROOKS CHAMPION LEATHER LADIES & MEN'S COURT SHOE COURT SHOE ' , MEN'S REG. $39.99 OSAGA ALLSPORT LEATHER COURT SHOE: MEN'S & LADIES WOLVERINE LEATHER DECK SHOE REG. -$59.99 OPEN DAILY ' 9 am -6 prn Fridays tili 9 pm We honour • VISA & MASTERCARD "In 10 to 15 years, the sites which have 20 or more years of use may have problems and the requirements for landfill sites will get tough% and tougher," ,said Dempsey. While the funding for the program in 1986 has been exhausted, he said there is a pro- posal before the Ontario legislature for an improvement in the funding base for 1987, said Dempsey. The request for a master plan for waste management in the county met with some resistance in council. A recorded vote revealed a 27 to. 7 vote in favor of going ahead with the project. Tuckersmith Reeve Robert Bell called the implementation of a master plan for the county a "step in the right direction" because the individual municipalities are finding studies for potential new landfill sites and the legalities:that accompany, them are,!`very expensive", . "If the county could get into the landfill business it would be beneficial to the municipalities. If you go it on your own - it's expensive," said Bell. Hay Township Reeve Lionel Wilder who voted against the proposal said the project is another in a long line .of costly studies °within the county. "One study would just lead to another," he said, Turnberry Reeve Brian McBurney said the master plan for waste management would be beneficial in giving the county a clear picture of its status in regards to land- fill sites. Itcan't help but be a help;in finding out how we stand" and what the -alternatives -are_ with our landfill sites," he Said. Dempsey said if the county's application, is approved for the program, a steering commitee would be made up of two voting "members from the county, two members designated from the MOE as well as a non- voting advisor from the Environmental Assessment branch of the ministry. Huron County council will not give up Oil Huron -view funding BA1tIVETT While provincial funding has been turned down for the proposed expansion and renovation to Huronview this year, Huron County Warden Leona Armstrong is still op- timistic that funding may still be available. "We've talked to Murray Elston and Jack Riddell to work out an appointment to meet with John Sweeney (the Minister Of" Com- munity and Social Services). We haven't given up on the project. We're still hopeful" said Warden Armstrong during the July 2 Huron County Councii meeting. Huronview Administrator Wayne Lester was informed before • the June council meeting that the grant request for $750,000 had been denied by the ministry. The $1.5 million expansion and renovation project for the home for the aged was to have started this year with Matching fluids from the county and the province. The county had already placed the .$750,00 - in their 1986 budget. After the reading the the Committee of Management of Huronview report at the council meeting, Exeter Reeve Rill Mickle 'asked for an update on' the funding situation of the renovation projeet.- "What is the Huronview committee doing to regroup to deal with the situation that has ' gotten away from them I agree time is of theessenee and t want*, know what is hap- pening here at the present time," said „Mickle. ' • on file in the event funds become available. The letter also says the Huronview project continues to have "high priority" within the London area and arrangements are current- ly being made for a delegation from the ' county to meet with Sweeney. However, council is still faced with the • dilema concerning the $750,000 already budgetted this year for the project. While some discussion at the Jime meeting cen- tred around giving the money back to the municipalities, most councillors are in favor of setting up a reserve fund for future use In the Huronview project. "We haven't had a reserve fund with which to fall back on. I think we'd be Very remiss to entertain thoughts of returning the $750,000 ,we already have on hand, -To me, it's hot good business to get rid of reserve funds we have on hand" said Colborne Reeve Russel Kernighan. Hullett Reeve Tom-Cunninghain said the funding problems for the Huronview project may have been avoidedif the county had set up a reserve fund in previous years. "We wOuldn't be in this,poSition we're in today if we had set aside money in previous years", he said. "To me, it's foolish to change our minds • and give the money back to the municipalities. We shoul4 continue to s aside reserves for the project. We an raise the money by increasing the rxiill rates but Stanley Reeve, Clarence Rau, chairman . of the Huronview eommittee, said the mat- we can't afford to have the mill rates going 4 COURTH,,,r,OUrsSeEisSie9u., 52472822 ministry." ' ie• . Nil"up and down. This gets the taxpayers as. , • - ,• ' In latest correspondence dated Jen- e1-1- mad as anything. If we put this off, 1-#611' be right back where we started from." L'Em"'"', ter was "61) hold waiting to meet with the " from the program supervisor of the London gait said the Hueonview committee will • SALES &SEPtVICE , . branch oftheministry, them* request ap. meet with the ministry first before ileekling plication trete, the woo, has been retained reohied what steps to take with the motiey.already, :.- *„ " • • • • f,