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The 1st Zurich Scouts spent Monday night at St. Boniface School crushing pop cans, part of an effort to raise
money for this July's upcoming trip to the Canadian Jamboree north of Montreal, which will see Scouts from
across Canada meet for a week-long event. Registration costs are between $500 to $600 for each Scout, with
travel expenses extra.At Jamboree, Scouts will take part in different programs each day, learning how to be
prepared and improve their survival skills. Leader Mark deLange said he hopes about 15 1st Zurich Scouts are
able to make the trip to Quebec. Pictured in front from left are Maggie Earle, Morgan Pockett, Shannon
deLange, Jackson Bieman, Laura deLange and Kara deLange; in back from left are Matt Quick, Braden Pryce,
Nick Kester, Lucas Walper, Christoph Beeler and Andreas Beeler. In addition to crushing the pop cans, which
will be delivered to a scrap yard for money, the Scouts are saving the tabs from the cans to help raise money
for the children's cancer unit atVictoria Hospital in London.To help the Scouts with their fundraising efforts,
contact Mark deLange at 237-3870. (photo/Scott Nixon)
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South Huron buys property
west of Exeter landfill site
By Scott Nixon
TIMES -ADVOCATE STAFF
SOUTH HURON — The
municipality has bought a
nearly six acre parcel of
land just west of the Exeter
landfill site on Highway 83.
The property cost
$121,304.74, plus legal fees.
South Huron chief adminis-
trative officer Larry Brown
told the Times -Advocate
Monday the reason for the
purchase was to provide a
buffer area for the landfill
site. Brown said the newly -
purchased land will provide
a visual buffer and a buffer
against any offsite impacts
from the landfill site.
He added the municipality
hasn't decided on whether
or not the house on the
property (formerly owned
by Wallace and Katherine
Fletcher) will be removed,
but he believes that's the
direction council will go,
turning the land into a treed
property.
Brown said the municipal-
ity hadn't looked at buying
the property until the
Fletchers put it up for sale.
Mayor Rob Morley said at
last week's council meeting
that during a countywide
bus tour it was suggested to
South Huron that it buy the
land.
In several years, the
Exeter landfill site will be
about four times busier than
it is now, Brown explained.
The municipality has a
`Memorandum of
Understanding' that will
eventually see Goderich,
Huron East and Central
Huron using the Exeter site,
due to the fact the Mid -
Huron landfill, owned by
Central Huron, is due to
close by the end of 2009.
Brown said those municipal-
ities likely won't be using
Exeter's site for four to five
years.
Other council notes:
Noise bylaw exemption
South Huron District High
School is planning its third
annual Canadian Cancer
Society Relay for Life June
9-10.
Part of the the 12 -hour all-
night event includes the
playing of music to motivate
walkers around the track at
the school.
In the past, council has
always granted the noise
bylaw exemption and will
again this year, but wanted
to ensure the high school
spoke to neighbouring prop-
erty owners and had their
support.
Meeting schedule
Council has set its meeting
schedule for the rest of the
spring and summer.
Regular council meetings
will be held April 3 and 10,
May 1 and 15, June 5 and
19, July 10 and Aug. 8.
Steckle looks
forward to
new session
By Pat Bolen
TIMES -ADVOCATE STAFF
HENSALL — Huron Bruce MP Paul Steckle took
questions on a wide ranging number of topics March
24 at a question and answer session with residents at
Queensway in Hensall.
The visit was set up by the operations group at
Queensway
Steckle was questioned on topics from food and
farming to environmental sprawl and looked ahead to
the new session of Parliament beginning April 4.
Food issues were a primary concern of the residents
and Steckle agreed, saying "food is a national security
issue."
He added the beef outlook has improved slightly in
the past few months with the Japanese market opened
but the American market not yet open to older beef
cattle.
Although Steckle said prices farmers are getting
don't make sense when compared with the prices con-
sumers pay, he said there are better tactics for farm-
ers to use than blockades.
Steckle said farmers would be better served by going
into shopping malls and letting consumers know the
prices food producers are getting.
"Everyone can add on costs after leaving the farm
gate except the farmers," said Steckle.
He added Canada is facing a more competitive food
market than ever with countries producing food that
weren't thought of 25 years ago.
See STECKLE page 2
Rally at Queen's Park
By Nina Van Lieshout
TIMES -ADVOCATE STAFF
EXETER — A Grass Roots
Income Crisis Rally at Queen's
Park in Toronto brought out sever-
al local farmers March 23.
Farmers left locally from
Hensall, Seaforth., Mitchell and
Lucknow.
Joe Vermunt, member of the
Grass Roots is still not pleased
with what he is hearing from the
government.
"I'm pissed off," says Vermunt.
"The budget got cut," he adds.
Vermunt is getting frustrated
with the government.
"They say they have long term
money but they won't announce it.
They keep putting it off."
Vermunt is also frustrated with
an issue brought to his attention
by Steve Webster, a Blyth area
farmer who has stayed in his vehi-
cle for over two weeks at Queen's
Park.
Webster told Vermunt that the
office of Agriculture Minister Leona
Dombrowsky has not received any
letters from concerned farmers
regarding the farming income cri-
sis.
See FARMERS page 2
Gordon Hill, a 79 -year-old Varna
area farmer and a founder of the
Ontario Federation of Agriculture
(OFA) rallies March 23 in Toronto
with the Grass Roots. (photo/sub-
mitted)