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Home My WebLink AboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1988-06-14, Page 21• v1.1,3,f` • ° 1.„1 • •,•••, - • ,z'ff •;.S, 4.4:Y4 1.4 1.• • V It is anti pated thatairn�s. Ole will b visiting Wingham participating in more than 25 dL ferent events: water .p010;-autdOor badMinton„ bridge, Swimming taw.o darts, lawn bowling, skeet shooting, basketball, T-baill ,shoot, a canoe - portage race, trail 'riding, two -411 golf, coed tiFee-pitch baseball/ ba hockey, tenets, eat4raWailti, We* teeriegt horseshoes, alrAtAboarding, flag tagballp radio.operated catil.,a004er;-00400 *MOW% ere Vn#16A chefs, checkers and shuffle- board. portsfest '881s a real eonuelefifY event' and according to organizers, has already' received terrific ''sup int from town employees, residents, businesses and local service Clubs. The majority of Sporting events will take place in Wingham 'arid are being organized by a number of 'volupteer$:-.VOlun- teere are still needed, however,, to organize bali hockey,' . Crokinele, darts, radie=ePerated :cars, --Shef- flebOatd, chess andiheekerS. . • •• ' ' ••' help ease parUci sport. .ac also be plentyof roo to cheer on the n*rn: teams. The regiStra duly • • eePd7c0:11 the cost of Recreation Maser )L various reereatieeat needs: bleachers and s.coreboards identified by thetnsre board and servie00 "Wingham make this:a. a weekend and t town — in all oft to Pee others,'! . says cow-- mittee *ember Marg Beard. • . , Individuals wishing 44)OP in .any way, or wanting to, participate m certain events are asked trieontact Joelle -.4eaVie- at the Wingham Recreation Office' ATHLETES RETURN HOME A group of students from Wingham partiClOated in Special Cifyrnpics last Tuesday, June 7, at Exeter. Ready to go home after a long day are extreme back, Sue Overholt. Barb Redmond, Gwen Caeser; centre, Mary Jane Edisbury, Kevin,111111son, Allan Perrse, Michael Hincl7cliff, Bil- ly Zimmerman, Vice Principal Dave Brereton; front, Karen McInnes and'DanierSterenberg, Absent from the photo are Paul -Dawson and -Robert Kugler. (Exeter Times-Advocate•Phoe), • 1. • i'The Own of Wingham will ap Sidkedteidar:ta ,„ • Preach its 3:leighberinig muni- ,C...urrOnt leglAlation . Cipalities, and .ask- that they pick up the,e-est `,; • .-.. ' " ' -:aer- Vices: tara afe, ... Wingham Town Council has ap- proved a recommendation that it institute a recycling program as soon as possible. At its regular June meeting, council approved the recom- mendation included in a recycling feasibility report prepared by James Lang, the town's deputy clerk. In his report, Mr. Lang told council a program designed for Wingham can be instituted within four months of council's com- mitment. A program starting in October of this year would cost approximately $5,000 in the 19 budget, he added. At the meeting, Mr. Lang said his report had been prepared with the assistance of representatives from the Ontario Ministry of Environ- ment, Ontario Multi -Material Recycling Inc. (OMMRI), The McConnell -Weaver Group, technical experts in the recycling field, and staff from Resource Integration Systems — a leading consultant for recycling in both Canada and the United States. The primary goal of the MOE Municipal Recycling Support Program is to achieve the goal of diverting 15 per cent of municipal solid waste from the waste disposal system, and has committed e*- tensive funding to eoiter capital, operating, promotion and education costs. Representing the soft drink. in- dustry, OMMRI is the other ey member in developing reyc1ingand is committed to spending in Ontario over the fiat four toward that,g04 *at • program in Wingham will rely on the degree of specialization for a small operathin," Mr. Lang said. To be eligible for financial assistance, the program must be designed to meet minimum standards including: --Sowee (in the home) separation of rectgable materials from waste. --Usk-Of curbside eoptaiper — a "Bluellox". --Weekly pickup, same day as other garbage, if feasible.- ' -MUlti-material (glass contain- ers, neeiriprinti steel and aluminum cans, plaktic pop bottles). -Partial sorting at truck. -Proper.promotion. Both, the MOE and OMMRI have put a high priority on promotion and advertising, Mr. Lang said, and OMMRI offers the services of an advertising consultant to be used in the development and launch of a municipal recycling program. The promotional expenditures — in- cluding the cost of the consultant — are funded 100 per cent by OMMRI. zity the report recommends, Wingliam's program will include the hiring of a rional specialized con- tractor — the nearest is in Stratford :collect, store and process the rev fable waste. Included in the • of using a regional con - are: proven ability through ce, an access to markets narket prices, and no costs for sti# e, processing �r dditional - g. A more costly alternative would to like a Weal contractor, but dvantages other than •••cost also iiekh its bnifits. Mr. Lang said. t projections r option at $12,200, and a municipally -7 run program using a loyal con- tractor at $35,367. Another option — that of a regional co-operative program of neighboring municipalities- could very well be the opthnurn choice in several years, he said. "However, right now the lack of commitment from other municipalities does not make thisa feasible option." Since thelown is currently in the process of closing its landfill site and faced with the possibility• -of not finding another bedause of a decline in suitable sites for such operations, the move to recycling isa sound one financially, Mr. Lang suggested. When Wingharn is paying a per -ton charge for a landfill site, costs will ' rise substantially. "With Wingharn's approximate 1,200 tons Of residential waste per year; this would cost $60,000 plus collection even before collection and shipping -mists," he said. "The more Wingham recydles, • the lower the cost of this waste diseesal-" Council approved the recom- mendation arid has 'directed its finance and inana,gement com- mittee to-meetvith Mr: Lang and the regional contractor to work out the details of implerneination. Mr. Lang has also been directed to ap- proach OMMRI to request the services of an advertising con- sultant: 20 per co municipalitydfir-64• cent At pres�Wingham has been paying that 20npter; sub- sidy for a number of 'clients of. the • Wingharn Day Care.. Centre and Wingham Nursery School, even thettgh they are non-residents. At a special council meeting last nip/1th, Councillor Bill McGrath gave notice he would be introducing a motion which would call for a 20 per cent surcharge covering these costs to be billed either directly to the ,parents or to the townships in which they live. He aLsoasked for a breakdown of day care users and the municipalities in which theylive. That report, introduced at the regular Jute council Meeting, shows thatof thel2 subsidized users of day care, three are from Kinloss Township, one is from Culross Township, three from East (Continued on Pafge213) Two will seek NOP nomination • in Huron -Bruce Police still -Investigating The date for a federal election has not yet been announced, but a St. weekend party in gravel pitcomillor already have announced Helens farmer and a Kincardine The Winghanl detachment of the according to the police. Ontario Provincial Police is con- A 1984 Chrysler four -door, owned tinning its investigation into an by Mildred Leader of Wingham, was unlicended party held last Saturday destroyed when it accidentally in a gravelpitorithe T_urriberry-Cul- caught fire, say the OPP. ross boundary. However, when firefighters An OPP spokesman estimated arrived on the scene at 6 a.m. to ex - that between 500- and 600 people tinguish the blaze, they were pelted attended the party- on a property with stones and bottles, said a fire oWned by Adain, Kennedy. -The department spokesman. The OPP police, acting on noise complaintS„ say they received the same treat - arrived on the scene, assisted" by a - ment Mount Forest RIDE (Itedrice. • In addition, a 1985 Ford Thin - Impaired Drives Everywhere) derbird, owned by Laurie M. team and OPP officers from Praracci, received considerable WalkertonandListOwel. • dam e when it was rolled on its• A MDR progrant COnducted at the roef into,a swamp. scene resulted in" liquor APPreedrilately 20 police officers and fo se* on the • eene at various times, they will seek the New Democratic Party nomination for Huron -Bruce. Tony McQuail of RR 1, Lucknow, said recently he will seek the nomination, as will Norma Peterson of Kincardine. Both have run as NDP candidates in the past, federally and provincially. No date has been set for the nomination meeting yet, but the party faithful are working to set up the riding's. election headquarters in 04ga/um, An open house for the new headquarters is planned for the end of the July. Dungannon was chosen as the site • or the headquarters as it is central o the new riding which, under edistribrition, will take in the entire County of 14uron and most of Bruce, Qounty.south of Sonthazaptorv:.,,,I.,',2'..:',,, ' •••-•I their) , • .0, " 41, 746., . , ; = ,