Wingham Advance-Times, 1980-05-07, Page 6• se
Advance -Times, May 7, 1980
ques used to
ve fish production
the opening of
Season, 301 rainbow
t Were lifted at the Port
/ Albert Fishway on the Nine
Wile River. Thirty-eight of
the fish captured (13 per
cent) were previously
tagged at the fishway, nine
-were originally tagged in
1978 and 29 from 1979, Norm
Richards, Wingham District
manager for the Ministry of
Natural Resources,
reported.
Forty-seven adults were
„ transported upstream to
suitable spawning areas
where fry are know to have a
better chance of survival.
The immediate results have
been encouraging with
numerous redds (nests)
observed in good nursery
areas.
To supplement natural
spawning, seven females
and six males captured at
the fishway were stripped to
artificially fertilize eggs for
use, in Whitlock-Vibert
Boxes. Seventy-five W.V.
Boxes were planted in the
gravel of three small tri-
butaries of the Nine Mile
River. The plastic boxes
allow the sac fry to drop
from the egg compartment
after hatching into a lower
nursery section where they ,
are restricted until the egg
sac is completely absorbed,
at which time the fry can
MRS. JOE WALKER
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Bluevale
Terry Trites of Knox
College was in charge of the
service at the Presbyterian
Church on Sunday due to the
illness of Keith Humphrey.
• A very successful walk-a-
thon ,was completed by
Bluevale and area residents
of all ages on Saturday. More
than $3,000 was raised for
hall renovations.
swim out of the box and up
through the gravel.
To supplement last year's
rainbow production in the
Nine Mile River, 18,600
clipped yearlings were
planted in the lower reaches
of the river.
Evaluation of these
various techniques to im-
prove the fish production and
the subsequent fishing op-
porttmities in the Nine Mile
River will be ongoing.
Mr. Richards expressed
appreciation for the support
of fish and wildlife staff in
the Simcoe District through
the participation of Bill
• Hooper, hatchery manager
at Normandale, whoassisted
in planting trout eggs as an
experiment in several tri-
butary streams to the Nine
Mile River.
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God and Nature
theme of
speaker
GORRIE — Mrs. Aileen
Bender of Gowanstown was
guest speaker at the May 1st
meeting of Unit Five of the
United Church Women. Mrs.
Bender wasintroduced by
Mrs. Wesley Ball with her
theme being :God and
Nature'.
Mrs. Raymond Gowdy and
Mrs. Robert Strong sang a
duet, 'He Touched Me' , -
accompanied by Mrs.
Sheldon Mann at the piano.
Mrs. Robert Sanderson,
whose birthday was May 1,
received a potted plant.
Members served lunch to
more than 25 attending.
Even when the cause of
hypertension is unknown,
much can be done to keep it
under control.
Declining enrolment
spurs board transfers
By Wilma Oke/
DUBLIN — Due to declin-'
ingenrolments and changing
program needs, the Huron -
Perth County Roman Cath-
olic„ Separate School Board
will ..close two classrooms in
September and . reduce
teaching time.
The classrooms to be
closed are at.. Our Lady of
Mount Carmel Schofilt Mount
Carmel, and St., Aloysius
School, Stratford.
The board reduced the•
staff of two. religion
education consultants to one
full-time and ene part-time
consultant.
Thirteen, classro.ona
teachers are to be tran-
'sferred, however none of the.
..... ,.....atransfers. ..affect,...Sacred....
Heart School, 'Wingham.
Eight itinerant teachersalSo
received transfers, including
Terry Bullen, itinerant
French teacher at the
Wingham, Kingsbridge and
Clinton schools, who was
transferred to teach at the
Clinton and Seaforth schools.
Margaret Ferguson was
transferred • from special
education at Clinton to
principal's relief at
Wingham half-time. She will
continue to teach special
education at Kingsbridge.
Due 'to declining
enrolments there has been a
e a •
marginal 'reduction in the
teaching time of, 'eight
teachers throughout the
system, and .a marginal
increase for three teachers.
Four part-time teachers,,
, have been declared
redundant by the board. It is
hoped some will be able to'
fill positions which are,
presently open or will
become open between now
and the first of September.
Six teaching positions, •
none Of them full-time, were
announced following the
meeting and are being ad-
vertised throughout the
system.
During. the meeting the
board ,approved the appoint-
ment of Mary Flannery,
-a§ ..
education consul'tant.
Working out of the board
office in Dublin, Miss
Flannery, who has worked in
special education for the
board for the past 10 years,
will work with principals and
staff to develop, implement
and maintain a special
education program.
The board has had no
special education consultant
since 1972. During the past
eight years responsibility for
the program has been car-
ried by one off the super-
intendents of education.
BLUEVALE WALKATHON—Tim Brewer, Paul Tol-
ton, Ian Jarvis, Brian Searson, Stephen Johnston,
Donna Steckley and Susanne and Ray Grubb were
among the young walkers who participated in a
Fanner complains at HCFA
walkattion to raise money fDr the. Eluevale Com-
nninitY Hdll last weekend. Organizers are anticipating
raising mdrethan S3,000 when all the pledges from the
11 -mile hike have been collected.
Bayfield River being damaged
by Seaforth sewage lagoon
By Rhea Hamilton
"There are no muskrat
now and we don't hear the
bull frogs anymore," a
Seaforth area farmer told
the Ministry off Natural
Resources (MNR)
representatives last week.
He said since the Seaforth
sewage lagoon was built the
drainage from the lagoon
has altered the productivity
of the Bayfield River. It was
new information to the
ministry men and they were
as concerned as the farmer
about changing the situation.
The discussion was part of
the program, "Cold -water
streams: an endangered
habitat,".. that the ministry
held at the Huron Federation'
of Agriculture's monthly
•meeting.
— Stan Johns farms eking the
Bayfield River in z Tucker -
smith Township and has
lived his whole life near the
river. The lagoon was built in
1971 and he says treated
effluent is dumped into the
river twice yearly.
Mr. Johns pointed out that
treatment procedure delays
the dumping until so late in
the spring that the river is
low and the • trout have
already started to spawn.
The effluent smothers the
eggs so they don't hatch and
the trout that escape travel
back downstream..
tThe Ministry of the
Environment- has been
notified every spring and
Bruce Bowland, of the
ministry's London office,
told Mr. Johns in a con-
. versa thin earlier. oThursda y
that a study the ministry did
in 1978 on the Seaforth lagoon
will be released later this
spring.
"In this part of the country
it is cold six months of the
year and the lagoons'cannot
properly operate," said Mr.
Johns. "The lagoon is iced
over in the winter and there
is no aeration or evaporation
essential for lagoons."
"It irritates me that both
giihernment agencies
(ministries of natural
resources and environment)
leave each other alone in a
situation like this," said Mr.
Johns. "They know it's not
just the farmers polluting
the streams. This massive
discharge twice a year is the
last straw to bteak the
camel's back as far as the
ecology of the river is con-
cerned."
Physically the river looks
the same and the farming
practises have not changed
Mr. Johns pointed out, but
the productivity of the river
has declined and he would
like to see more action taken.
A short film illustrated
what unrestricted cattle
access ttastreams and bull-
dozing and stripping of
'creeks and streams can do to
the land ardind the streams
and to the natural life in the
creeks.
John Dobell, district
biologist for the
Wingham, followed
slides of the area showing
where common sense and
better water management
help prevent erosion and im-
prove the quality of water..
Areas that have been spot
-cleaned, in cooperation with
the land owner were shown
before and after the work
had been done. Rock piles
from the land around the
banks were used to shore up
the stream sides along areas
of the Belgrave Creek.
Mr. Dobell showed Sharp's
Creek as an example, of a
good cold -water stream.
In the third part of the
program Doug - Dodge,
superintendent of the
fisheries branch, Toronto,
outlined • -the ...... federal-.
Fisheries Act and pointed
out that. anything concerned
with* water has to be looked
at by the agency.
Fisheries is a federal
matter, but the provinces
were offered the job of
managing and enforcing the
law in 1967. Only. Ontario,
British Columbia, Quebec
and Alberta chose to accept
the jurisdiction.
Art Carr, from the MNR,
Wingham, covered the act
from, the province's point of
view. He adinitted to a bone
of contention in theact con -
FLOWERS OF HOPE—Trainees at the Jack Reavie
Workshop packaged the seeds to be used In the
Flowers of Hope campaign by the Wingham and Dis-
trict Association for the Mentally Retarded. Among
them are Frank Hayden, Wayne Procter, Bill Kirton,
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John Jouwsma, Bruce Freer, Jill Swatridge, Eiteen
Haugh end Verner Caswell. Connie Jamieson, work-
shop manager, and staff member Theresa Millen look
on. The canvass and mail -out campaign will be con-
ducted during Mentally Retarded Week, May 11-17.
cerning the definition of the
word, dam. Anything that
holds back water or diverts it
including . bypass ponds,
diversions and municipal
drains can be classified as a•
dam. This causes confusion
'and there is a procedure
underway. to have a better
definition implemented.
There are several acts
related to activities in-
volving lakes and rivers.
They include the Lakes and
Rivers Improvement Act,
the Beach Protection Act,
the Public Lands Act and the
Fisheries Act. There are also
statutes in four other federal
and provincial acts.
The Fisheries Act says,
"n0 person shall carry on
any work OF undertaking
that results -in thecliqmful
aiteration-'.j.distuptilen or
destruction of fish habitat."
Habitat here licit • Only in-
cludes the water, but the
surroundings in which plants
and other life 'forms interact
to make fish life possible.
• QUESTIONS
Questions from the floor
were answered by the three
speakers and Norm.
Richards, district manager
for the Wingham office of the
MNR. A primary concern of
farmers was the cost of
making ' changes to the
streams to accommodate the
ministry. At . present an
agreement is negotiated with
the landowner where in some
cases land can be leased by
the ministry to allow for
-.-fenees the•• -stream-
banks. • .
Mr. Dobell pointed out that
in some of the cleanup
projects along the Belgrave
Creek all the work and
money was on the part of the
ministry.
After upgrading the
streams and creating, suit-
able habitat for fish, one
farmer contended that he
and a lot of others would be
faced with tresspassers who
would cut -their fences, scare
livestock and make a
general nusiance of them-
selves, Mr. RiChards offered
assurances that the land is
still private property and
that the ministry is not keen
on having people fishing in
the breading areas of the
sireams "The ministo. can
be called to lay charges but
I would recommend that
signs be posted • requiring
permission from the land
owner," Mr. Richards said.
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One farmer from Morris
Township admitted to
bui iding a dam 10 years ago
on the stream cutting
through his property. He had
noticed one warm June
weekend that there were too
many dead fish in the stream
and that the water was close
to 80 or po degrees. He built
the dam to deepen the
strea m a nd directed some
spring water into the stream.
"Looking back we haven't
had any dead fish and the
water Is- sssi aro! terse feet
deep," be said. "1 never
t.heught of contacting the
mirustry, 1 just wanted to fix
the stream '•
Ministry offieials also
pointed out that a Maximum
of 10.000 gallons of water can
be taken from a stream or
flver Anyone requiring
more would have to apply for
a licence from the rdirdstry
of the Environment.
In other business Don
Little, marketing repre-
sentative for Canfarm in
Huron County, announced
that farmers can reach him
through the Clinton Credit
Union or contact te Roy,
Clinton, who will be opening
an agency for Canfarm. in
Clinton. He pointed out. that
Canfarm is a tax and
management tool and helps
producers keep a better set
of records on a monthly
basis. He cautioned that
Canfarm does historical
data, not incometax forms.
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Wingham 357-2002
ntario in spring-
time is beautiful
when it isnot.,
marred by the scrubby
look of winter's leftover
litter. The thoughtless,
throw -away habits of a
few people can spoil
it for others at a time
when our countryside is
once again ready for full
warm weather enjoyment.'
Fortunately, many community -
minded people care about this and warit
to help keep Ontario beautiful,
The19,000 members of the Ontario
Federation of Anglers and Hunters,
for, exaMple, assisted by the Ministry
• of the Environment, are staging
PITCH IN DAY on Saturday, June 7th.
Anglers and Hunters all over Ontario
4.
are organizing special
environmental PITCH IN
projects to clean-up
lifter and junk from
streams, shorelines, rural
roads and trails, picnic
areas and campsites and
other areas which lack
regular litter collection
services.
You can help to fight
pollution all year long.
Start by joining a PITCH IN project
in your area.
-• Then, PITCH IN to Keep ,Ontario
Beautiful. We all benefit when you do.
Ontario
Ministry
of the
Environment
Hon Harry Parrott, DOS, Minister
G WS
Scott, QC, Deputy Minister
Let's keep Ontario beau
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