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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1988-03-23, Page 1INDEX //ft Dublin — AS, A9 Hensall — A10, All Sports Al2, A13 Walton — Al 4 Births — A15 Obituaries — Al 5 Legion — A15 • Serving the communities and areas of Seaforth, Brussels, Dublin, Hensall and Walton New librarian happy with job. See page A4. Huron xpositor Seaforth, Mario HURON EXPOSITOR, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 1988 a df�ll agreeme Ministry of the Environment approval of Holmesville Landfill site, is all that keeps it from being a solution to the landfill dilemna faced by the Town of Seaforth and the Township of Tuckersmith. At present Goderich Township, Goderich and Clinton are the only three legal users of the site. However, Lucknow, Hayfield, Colborne Township and part of Tuckersmith Township also use the site. The rest of Tuckersmith and the Town of Seaforth are asking to be included as well. At a special meeting of council held last week, the Town of Clinton voted to sign the Holmesville Landfill Agreement, which outlines both the players and the rules of the Holmesville site. Clinton was the 'last of eight municipalities to sign the agreement. The others (listed above) had already sign- ed and passed by-laws concerning the agreement. Clinton had refused to sign until certain of its questions about the site were answered. Ken Hunter, a representative of the landfill site committee, addressed their concerns last week and Clinton voted unanimously to sign the agreement. t fuily endorsed per procedures - or would tender it out or have one municipality run it and bill the others. For now, he said, getting the agreement signed is the first step. It (the agreement) will now be sent to the Ontario Municipal Board (along with the eight by-laws), and the (Holmesville Landfill Site) committee will become a board. Each municipality will get one vote, regardless of its size, with the vote cast through the member sitting on the board. "There's really no other way to do it," said Mr. Hunter, adding municipalities can let their feelings known through their representative on the board. "Through the 10 years there have been no disagreements. Everyone has the same thing at heart - they want to run a good site with the least trouble to everyone, including the neighbors," he said. Seaforth Councillor Carolanne Doig, also a representative on the Holmesville Landfill committee, agreed the signing of the agree- ment by all eight municipalities was just the first step. "'It signals the other municipalities have Of greatest concern to Clinton council was accepted us into an agreement, and now it's the proposed site management. It was con- in the Ministry of the Environment's court," cerned a new group would be running the she said. site without any expertise. "They have to give us final approval." •. Council was assured by Mr. Hunter the Councillor Doig admitted there have been board would probably hire people to run the problems with the Holrnesville site in the site, sending them to school to learn the pro- past, but added those problems have been SDHS aims at alternative A second chance for secondary school dropouts is being explored at Seaforth District High School. In partnership with the Province of Ontario and the Huron County Board of Education Jim Empringham, principal, and Jim Moore, vice-principal, are working with school staff to explore methods of starting an alternative educa- tion class as part of SDHS programming. This venture will begin as soon as facility, programs and student surveys can be organized and completed. The new class will represent the board's second step_in its pilot project to offer non -graduating lc"hool leavers a chance to return and work towards a graduation diploma. School courses will be devised on the basis of in - dealt with to MOE satisfaction. She said site management could even. be improved with the addition of more municipalities to the landfill. "We'll all be looking at the future manag- ment of the site," said Councillor Doig, ad- ding Seaforth and Tuckersmith will be able to pass on everything they've learned from their dealings with the MOE to date. "It will also help to have more people put- ting money into the pot. Environment assessment is very expensive, and it'll be easier if we all amalgamate and work towards the same goal. We've been through the whole process before." The cooperation that is being shown by the eight municipalities looking at the Holmesville site, will also, according to Councillor Doig; ensure in the future that the county will have an easier time incor- porating a countywide landfill system for Huron County. - "That's the advantage of us all working together in large groups, rather than on our own," said Councillor Doig. At the Holmesville site 55 acres have been licenced as landfill, but tests must be car- ried out on the land and the other municipalities brought in legally. Now that all municipalities have signed an agree- ment, all that is needed is formal MOE approval. The Holmesville Landfill Committee will meet next on Friday. It will be an on-site meeting. education dividual student needs and work placements such as Cooperative Education will be con- sidered for part of the program. The local board has received a total of $50,000 in special funding, toi elt4ore options for the Ministry of Education in a -rural Ontario set- ting at each of its regular secondary schools. By the end of next year, all five schools are expected to operate such alter- native classes. In the Seaforth setting, Jim Empringham would like to consider an off-site, 'storefront' location if suitable community facilities can be found. "Very often," he has stated, "dropouts have bad feelings about the previous school experience and often find it easier to return to school in a non- threatening location." Superintendent Paul Carroll agrees. Although the first class is located in the CRSS building in Clinton, he had confirmed an agreement can be made with any private individual, business, community or municipal agency who might be willing to donate or provide at nominal cost, a suitable Turn to page WA • Hospital opens tenders on addition 50 cents a copy SEAFORTH'S POST OFFICE has been recognized as a federal heritage building by the Federal Heritage Building Review Office, and will be due for some imporvements in the near future. It was one of five offices in Southwestern Ontario to be given this recognition. Post Office is designated Seaforth's post office has been declared a The following is taken from "The Story of federal heritage building, and Will be due for Seaforth" by Isabelle Campbell" and brief - improvements in the near future. ly outlines the history of the Seaforth post A rumor reached town hall the Post Office office. was to be torn down or altered in some way so a letter was sent to Henry Langlois, the The Seaforth Post Office was established Coordinator of Federal Heritage Buildings on December 1, 1859. There is no record of Policy of National Historic Parks and Sites, the location of the Post Office at this time. to inquire about the alleged impending In July,1911, the contractor, J. B. McKen- demolition. zie, of Georgetown, commenced to build the Mr. Langlois said the rumor was false, new Post Office, on the east side of Main and added the federal government had done Street -the present red brick building with a its federal heritage reviews last September clock in the tower. The clock was installed and Seaforth and four other post offices in by J. F. Daly. This new Post Office opened Southwestern Ontario had been designated for business on December 3, 1913. as historical buildings. Till the 1950's, a row of sheds stood at the So the building will soon receive some back of the Post Office, as a shelter for the "interior refurbishing," starting with the delivery horses and vehicles that weathered heating system, and will be continually im- the elements in the mail deliveries along the proved and maintained. rural routes. `avis fine $5,000 not $50,000 Lavis Contracting Co. Ltd. of Clinton was fined $5,000, not $50,000 as reported, when it pleaded guilty to a charge of failing to en- sure safety measures were in place during construction of a water main extension in Egmondville last September. During a phone interview last week, Gord Lavis acknowldeged his corn 'any has to bear the responsibility for its employees. He stated the Ministry of Labor was trying to get the fine set at $17,000 to $20,000, but the judge set the fine at $5,000. The Expositor apologizes for any embar- rassment or inconvenience that may have been caused by the error about the fine levied. AN EXERCISE IN EXERCISE - Kelly Devereaux of Egmondville found out just how hard It was to inflate a balloon. This balloon, intended to become a Ruffle Fish, was one of many creations that turned up at a balloon workship held at Carnegie Library in Seaforth on Thursday morning. The workshop was conducted by Marian Doucette of the Huron County Library system, and coincided with the March break. Mcllwraith photo. Tenders on the addition to the east of the Seaforth Community Hospital, which will accommodate additional mechanical equipment made necessary by the added hospital facilities, were opened before the building committee on Thursday. Lowest tender of five received was that of Culliton Bros. Ltd. of Stratford at $604,640 including a storm drain. Others, also including a storm drain, were: Melloul Blarney of Waterloo $637,150, Nith Valley of New Hamburg $631,676, and Van Boxmeer of Lucan $667,624, and without storm drain, D. Grant of Lambeth $638,302. Tenders have been forwarded to the Ministry for review as is necessary before Rn award is made. Merchants warned of fundraising scam Less than careful examination of invoices could be costly if you issue a cheque for advertising you did not order. The notice , although it looks suspiciously like an invoice, carries a disclaimer it is merely a solicitation for the order of service. Several businesses in the county have been receiving similar 'forms', and although they are not illegal they are, according to local police, "a very distasteful way of drumming up business". According to Seaforth Police Chief Hal Claus the invoice -like forms have been around before, and he warns area mer- chants to look out for them. But that, he says, is all he can do. Since they carry the disclaimer, there is nothing the police can do, especially after a merchant has paid the specified amount. While in this case the said advertising is in a classified directory, Chief Claus says in most cases the distributor will cite a Police Magazine as the vehicle for advertising - simply to make it appear a more legitimate venture. Attempts to locate the source of the `forms' generally go unrewarded, since the distributor has usually changed phone numbers or relocated. In the case of the forms being distributed in this area, only a post office box number was given. "It's a fundraising program," said Chief Claus. "It's very common in a lot of the bigger places, where the companies are bigger, and money is no problem." OTHER BUSINESS The Seaforth Police Department laid a number of liquor charges over the first weekend of March break. Police Chief Hal Claus said seven liquor charges were laid between March 10 and 12. DIRECTORY LISTING FORM AfA " 15191 527-0240 CLASSIFIED DIRECTORY mss- •�,. ADVERTISING NEWSPAPER HURON ExPnSITOR / THE 12 MAIN s Hnx 69 SEAFURTH ON Uftl( 1 NU 188021 + HECK ONE L,shng rs COrreCt Please enter as SIMwn OR Please enter wan [nanges where "d.Cared Iaddrtrona, space on weasel =CHEQUE ENCLOSED C BILL ME LATER x NMI 7337 room Orncq use OAK... 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He received no injuries, but police say there was extensive damage to his 1980 Ford pickup truck. b e