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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1990-08-29, Page 1Serving the communities and areas of Seaforth, Brussels, Dublin, Mensal, and Walton INDEX Sports • 6-10A Births - 11A Weddings • 11A Obituary - 10A Graduals - 16A Huron candidates state their stance. See page 3A. Seaforth veteran recalls the Lancaster. See page 5A. Memorial trapshoot draws record field. See page 10A. Huron xpositor Seaforth, Ontario HURON EXPOSITOR, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1190 60 cents a copy A NEW ANGLE ON THE GAME has Dean Price of the Seaforth Hoffineyer's Mill'rs testing his ball skills to the limit during Seaforth's Saturday moming game against the 1989 Ontario champs from Napanee. Dean missed number 39, but a quick fling to first got the man out. Seaforth hosted the 1990 Mite C Ontario Championship over the weekend, with good crowds out to the Optimist and Lions diamonds. More photos, story on the sports pages. Elliott photo. Town recycling can be blue or white BY SUSAN OXFORD The symbol across Ontario of a community that recycles are the blue boxes filled with cans, glass and newspaper and lined up outside houses waiting for pick-up, right? Wrong. "Why a blue box?" asks Jerry Nobel of Nobel Nursery and Sanitation, a local company that picks up household trash. "The blue box has become a symbol for recycling. People, and town coun- cils, are having a hard time chan- ging their thoughts to picture a different container than a blue box. I've got about 300 white pails for recycling that people can ask for." Seaforth council is currently in- vestigating types of grants available for starting up a recycling program. By 1992 Ontario municipalities must reduce their garbage by 22 per cent and by 2000 by 50 per cent. One-time only grants are available to help municipalities start up recycling programs. Jerry Nobel has offered free recycling services to Seaforth residents for a couple of years and some residents do use this extra service. "If a family wants to recycle I give two pails per household; one for glass, the other for cans. Newspaper can be bundled and put alongside," Jerry said. Currently Jerry picks up recyclable goods for McKillop township and 70 per cent of the 90 customers in McKillop participate in the township run recycling program. Householders put all their recyclables into a blue box obtained from the township. "Everything's put into one blue box and it's a slow procedure to have to sort through the stuff and separate it," said Jerry. "I have to take lids off jars because people don't understand what to put in the box. Each house with a blue box slows me down by a minute and a half to two minutes." When Jerry arrives at the landfill site he puts the recyclables in ap- propriate sections of depot bins set up by a private recyclable materials pick-up company. It takes him six and one-half hours to pick up gar- bage and recyclables for McKillop township, and Jerry feels he could save one and one-half hours if two containers were used instead of blue boxes. The extra time he spends with each blue box he also has to pay for an employee and fuel. If municipalities had recycling programs that involve two con- tainers per household, Jerry says his time at each house with the con - Turn to page 18A • Campers, owners march in Kincardine against tax BY NELLIE BLAKE A convoy of campers, trailers, vans and people crept slowly down Queen St. in Kincardine August 22 to protest an announcement that seasonal trailers would be assessed as permanent structures or issued a license permit fee. About 200 campers and campground owners picketed in front of Bruce MPP Murray Elston's office to protest the move by the Ministry of Revenue an- nounced June 9. The announcement was not known by the Ontario Private Campground Association (OPCA) until early July. The assessment would come into effect for seasonal trailers in all trailer parks, municipal, provincial .J private, as of January 1, 1991. Campers and campground owners are demanding the assessment tax be revoked and an agreement, made in the fall of 1989, be finalized before the September 6 provincial election. They waited in front of Elston's office for about an hour and a half but he didn't show up. Elston's spokesperson Rod Mac- Donald said August 24 that seasonal trailers will be exempt from the assessment tax. But he said that the definition between a seasonal and permanent trailer has yet to be determined. Mr. MacDonald said OPCA 'president Bill Jay has been assured the Ministry of Tourism and Recreation that no changes will be put into place without consultation with the association. Second of tour rallies The rally was one of four planned to protest the assessment tax. The first occurred on the weekend of Aug. 17 when about 300 campers picketed in Sauble Beach. The next protest was Monday at the Ministry of Revenue office in Leamington, and another was held on Tuesday at Queen's Park. A letter from Revenue minister Remo Mancini to George Wands, president of the Sauble Beach Property Owners' Association Inc. dated June 25 said that the as- sessment tax will affect seasonal trailers that are permanently at- tached to land. Other seasonal trailers would be charged a $50 permit license fee pending a decision to do so by each municipality, the letter said. OPCA president Bill Jay said there is no legislation to allow a license fee, referring to a statement made by Tourism and Recreation Minister Ken Black. At the rally, Richard McArthur, owner of Fisherman's Cove Campground near Kincardine, said campers and owners are protesting the new tax because they are al- ready being taxed too much on the purchase of their trailers, land, businesses and the new Goods and Services Tax (GST). A director with OPCA, Mr. McArthur said that he and director John Stewart organized the rallies against the assessment tax. Turn to page 3A • "An absolute paper • "• Rai • BY PAULA ELLIOTT When the proposed assessment of seasonal trailers in private parks is implemented, says Peter and Lil Raithby of Walton's Family Paradise campground, the boom is going to fall on the industry. And the shock waves will be far- reaching. "We had no idea that this was as serious as it is," admits Mrs. Raith- by, who along with her husband learned of the Ministry of Revenue's tax assessment plans for seasonal trailers this past Sunday night. The couple, who have owned Turn to page 3A• 200 ANGRY PROTESTERS, campers and park owners, marched on Murray Elston's Kincardine office on Wednesday, rallying against the proposed tax to be levied against seasonal trailers as of January 1991. Few surprises at OFA sponsored Hcandidates debate out, will give agriculture a needed shot in the arm. He added that he would like to sec Canadians stand behind the farmer until the United States and the European Economic Community bring their farming subsidies under control. Until that happens, Mr. Campbell stressed, the Canadian farmer will be scrambling to sur- vive. "Canada can't compete with their treasuries," he said. "And they shouldn't have to." Turn to page 3, • BY PAULA ELLIOTT A crowd of about 150 election - minded Huron County voters filed into the Central Huron Secondary School auditorium on Friday night for the OFA -sponsored All -Can- didates meeting. Huron's five can- didates, representing the PC, Liberal, NDP, Libertarian and Family Coalition parties, fielded questions from the crowd for a little over two hours at the meeting, which held few surprises for the panel and the audience. Brenda McIntosh, First Vice - President with the Huron County Federation of Agriculture, was on hand along with 2nd Vice -President Bob Harris and Regional Director Jeanne Kirkby to keep the questions circulating to the panel of can- didates. Moderator for the evening was Federation President Chris Palmer. Although organizers had intended the meeting as a forum for agricul- tural concerns, questions ran political gamut from farm 'safety net' financial programs to County restructuring, and from MP pension plans to the OKA crisis in Quebec, LIBERAL CAN DA Jim Fitzgerald (right) makes a point while NDP Paul Klopp and Tom Clarke of the F amily Coalition party tike notes Elliott photo gas price fixing and the dread zebra mussel. Tom Clarke, Family Coalition Party (FCP) candidate for Huron County, spoke of an overvalued Canadian dollar as one of the bugaboos of the agriculture industry in Canada at the moment. He noted that a 60 cent Canadian dollar would put Canada back in com- petition with the world market. "We'll see farming pick up when the dollar drops," he assured the audience, and also voice the FCP's visions of a farmers' financial institution with interest rates at 6% or less. "I think a farm bank is long over- due." New Democratic candidate Paul Klopp stressed that higher prices at the farmgate would reduce the need for safety nets andovernment assistance for farmers. Even lower interest rates are not making up the difference, he added. "We need decent prices for our products" to establish the farming community at a decent standard, he told the crowd. "in farming today, we are doing the sowing while other people are doing the reaping," Mr. Klopp said. "People in rural Ontario are tired of being taken for granted." Voicing the Liberal outlook on top agricultural priorities, Jim Fitzgerald refreshed the audience on a his party's commitment to farming and the 100 -plus programs for farmers which the Liberals have introduced under Liberal Premier David Peterson. Keeping the head of the farmer above water under the tax programs of the Federal PC government, Mr. Fitzgerald claimed, "..makes the province feel like a little boy with his finger in the dyke. It's impos- sible to stop." Mr. Fitzgerald went on to state that the Canadians have to decide that they are going to *row their own food, and establish trade, monetary and financing policies to this end. "We have to get our farmers off of welfare," countered Allan Det- tweiler, running under the Liber- tarian banner for Huron County. Although he agreed, along with Paul Klopp, that consumers must start paying "higher, more realistic prices at the farmgate," he would like to see no government interven- tion or controls. For example, working with a product marketing board should be each farmer's choice, and not mandatory. Government control, he told the group, will end up costing the farmer in the long run. "i know there is no free lunch," Mr. Dettweiler stated. "And you can't make a blanket bigger by cutting a piece off one end and sewing it bock on another." Making that blanket last longer to begin with is the aim of the Progressive Conservatives, indicated Huron candidate Ken Campbell, citing the creation of long-term agricultural policies in Canada as the key to farm prosperity. "When a common-sense approach is taken to most problems, a reasonable solution can be found," Mr. Campbell assured the audience. Long-term, fixed-rate financing for farmers, and easier access to assis- tance for young farmers just starting ADDRESSING THE ISSUE is Libertarian Allan Dettweiler (right), with PC Ken Campbell looking on pensively F Mott photo 1