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The Huron Expositor, 1982-07-07, Page 1I 'Aaron (Fx nsitor Incorporating Brussels Post SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, WEONSD.Y, JULY 7: 1982 — 20 PAGES 50c per copy Se fort ti seeks When municipalities need t>lind solutions to tough problems, like Seaforth's rakquirement for a new dump; a phenomenon called "NIMBY" surfaces. NINIBY means, according to engineer Burns Ross. "Not In My Back Yard" and it's most people's immediate reaction to the search for a dump site. That's a reaction Mr. Ross and Seaforth council hope to prevent anetthat's why the public is urged to attend a Monday. July 19 public meeting to discuss garbage disposal alternatives. The meeting is at the town hall at 7;30. , Because new dump site is not necessarily the answer to Seaforth's garbage problems. problems that arise because the present dump. just south of town in Tuckersmith, and used by most of that township as well as by Seaforth, has almost no space left, Ontario's environment ministry has asked that the dump be closed, by the end'of the year, but that deadline may be.exten-cled if the .ministry knows the town is working on an alternative. Both Mr. Ross of B.M. Ross and Associates Ltd. of Goderich. and town clerk Jim Crocker stress anew dump site isn't the only choice in the wind. "If you have, new original ideas. Lcome on out Ito the July 19 meeting)." says Mr. Ross. "We don't want two people at the public meeting.'' "And 500 later'', adds Mr. Crocker. The process of finding a solution to Seaforth garbage disposal -comes under the Envii-orurgiaeli. Assessment Act and Burns Ross' en ing firm is doing an environ- mental assessment study. one of the first in the province. for the town. That makes public involvement even more important, as both men say "the whole province is watching." Among the solutions that Mr. Ross' study will look at. with help from the public. include: doing nothing. presumably leavingit to each resident to get rid of his or her own garbage: expanding the existing dump: renting facilities from a nearby dump: providing a new landfill site; or changing to other disposal methods. such as incineration and separation. So far. the engineers know that whatever New SCH course to help area diabetics Waste management solution is foond must serve a minimumpopulation Of k685 -Sea - forth and most of Tuckersmith. Hibbert plans • to open its own landfill site;, Hullett is not , interested in participating: McKillop's parti- cipation may depencLon the results of testing at its'present site near Walton. If McKillop gets involved, the maximum population to be served would be about 6,787. Among the things to be investigated would be transportation costs...how far the expand- ed existing site. or any new site. would be from the people who use .it. Under the Environmeatal Assessltent Act, Mr. Ross explains any site has to meet rigorous standards, for visibility. odour. contamina- tion of water sources. availability of cover material etc. As an example, the engineer says possible sites must be less than class 4 agricultural land. "You can eliminate sites. 'You'd be lucky if you got two sites that meet all the criteria." Mr. Ross says. Feelers have gone out to existing landfill sites to see if they are interested in any more customers, A privately nkyfiqd "Holmcsville site. for example, serves 1 a population of 16.000 or 17.000- now. including Lucknow. Clinton and Goderich. It probably has about 20 sears left at that level of usc. oMe out and see what we re doing. ook at other possibilities." Mr. koss forth and area especially Tucker- . I (help urges Se smith residents. All households produce garbage and if everyone realizes "they're part of the problem too and we need thcir help to solve it.** thc least disruptive solution can be found. Mr. Ross says. Recycling, while it contd. 0,e,„.every0ne's., favourite long term solution isn't economic- ally attractive yet, the engineer says. Clerk Crocker points out that costs at Seaforth's present landfill site have risen substantiallY from about $2000 a year five years ago to last year's $,13.000. Land acquisition or even renting another site could be more expensive and incineration. away 'back in .1974 When Seaforth last considered then dropped it. was estimated to cost $400.000. "A d,ump is a non-renewable resource." the Seaforth clerk points out and he notes that as existing sites are closed, they can't be used—for anything—for 10 or .15 years because oPmethane gas problems. Mr. Ross, the engineer Seaforth council, had hired to do the environmental assCSS- rnenttUdyJl1OPeS the July 19 meeting will be a good quejstion and answer session. that wi give his f m enough information to come up with a jreferred solution to the garbage problem by the end of July. . • • fhe next stage would be to design several concepts for that solutionand present them at another public meeting by mid-September. The engineer's next step is to submit an. environmental assessment. with input from various ministries. including health, and agriculture and food. to the environment ministry for approval. If altgoes well, B.M. Ross. and Associates Ltd. estimate there could be a solution tope garbage disposal problem by May of next year. /*•-/ - MADE IT TO THE FNS! -11 LINE—Main Street never looked so long ,to Harvey Craig, McKillbp reeve, as on Saturday during the Canada, Da 9 tricycle races: Mr. Craig looks deli hted at the site of the finish line while Roywart reeve for Hibbert, tries to catch up. The race was declared a draw. More Canada Day photos inside. (13,hoto by Fereira) len of gravel, rush to get licences in McKillop BY SUSAN WHITE -7 -\- McKillop Township is blessed. or cursed, depending on your point of view with an ALbundance of gravel. A fair sized gravel deposit or esker, runs • east -west in tit?, area where two proposed gravel pits are in dispute on Con. 13 in the township, /?erth County planner Ken Whiteford told tAktc public meeting on the re -zoning application for the pits in Winthrop last week. Craig Laing of the tvfinistry of Natural Resources agreed with FamilyParadise owner John George. whose .campground is across the road from the IwO proposed pits. that their approval "could be The tip of the iceberg...the way the esker of gravel runs through our section," Rut, said Mr. Laingeach application for a piis and quarries licence front thc ministry is judged on its own merits." Ws that licence that two wouid_be gravel pit operators. the Tow nship of Logan. and Ken Hulley of,Londesborit arc seeking. First they need he foiling in each parcel of land ehanged from agricultural to industrial and first McKillop townshipthen the county planning board must approve the change. There's no gravel in Logan. the town' ship's reeve. Carl Vock, told the meeting. - Pc WV. IlShip is ants to open thc pit to nrovidc it with an estimated 25.000 yards of BY DARLENE Fk:REIRA You can't eat yourselrinto it and (11t1.1 eat yourself out of it • that's the w a% Path Gordon describes diabetes. A registered nurse V% ith thc Sea forth Community Hospital. Mrs. Gordon is concerned with the politick misconceptions about diabetes. So much !..ti that she took a refresher course at St. Joseph's Hospital in London and will he teat.;a course on rhe disease to local residentt s t the hospital. The first session is scheduled for early September. Lorraine Devereaux. a dicti• clan, and Mrs. G4don will be teaching the - course. which is open to everyone. I he instructors encourage diabetics as yell as relatives and friends to attend the session because thc % an be invoked in thc assistance in diabetes control. ' The course co-ordinator is hoping to t both newly diagnosed and pre% toto,1 diagnosed diabetics. although 111,, diagnosed diabetic will still be receiving treatment in the hospital setting. Fhe course will hopefully teach the patients and their families how to cope «iih the disease. "Our aim is to teach them then- diabetes c‘an be under control and that the feel that they are in control of their disease rather than the disease in control of them sa% s Mrs. Gordon. They also hope to clarifs any ntisgis ings regarding diabetes Mrs. Gordon stresses in particular that althongh controllahlt diabetes is not cArable, and the disease is found among all age groups. Older people tend fo be more prone only because thc Please turn to page 1 A'bonus for readers THE PLANNED revitilazation of the downtown, section of Brussels' is becoming a reality with six student employees cleaning and painting store facades. The library. municipal office and newspaper building have been completed with McCutcheon Grocery and Ken's Mens and Boys Wear presently being painted. Armed with brushes in the above photo is Jim Stroop and Pete Exel. rear. At first the heights were scary but were all a brave bunch••, said group foreperson Laurel MacLeod: (Photo by Wassink) • BY SUSAN WHITE There are some bonuses lit store this V.eek for readers of t he Expositor and the Brussels Post. bonuses that we think will make a better paper for eseryone. The Post has bcen incorporated into the ExpoSitor and Pst readers. all 1.000 of you, will find Et clyn Kennedy's column. corre- spondence from neighbouring communities and Ron Wassink's excellent photos and news stories on page h and -. Expositor readers in turn gain a fine reporter and photographer; you'll he seeing Ron and. his byline a lot in the future. All the regular Expositor features will ointinue as well and vu.- hope Brussets and area readers enjoy them _ As always, we yelcome comments from all our readers, about anything you see or don't see in the Expositor. It:s your paper and we likc to hear from you. gravel a year. probably less than that in future as Logan has a program to tir and chip several miles of township roads' -each year. The last thing we watt to do is give people problems with a gravet pit," the reeve said. The Logan pit would work from 7 a.m. until 6 p.m.; shut dawn at 5 p.m. on Fridays and not be open Saturdays except in an emergency. He said 13,000 trees. seedlings. he admitted under questions from Judy George of Family Paradise. will be .planted on the property. and the township will keep the dust doWn on its laneway to the pit. Dust on the roads he said is McKillop's responsibil- ity. The seven and a half acre site which Mr. Holley wants to licence as a gravel pit will be developed in three stages, Murray Keith of Christian Kiar Ltd. said: from the back of the lot to the front. He suggested the pit face will block noise and dust to the south west. in the direction of Family Paradise and said the land returned to agriculture "will be a More suitable agricultural site" than the marshy treed area is now. once extraction is completed. The Hulley pit was purchased by Ken Holley in 1979 and has been in his family for 35 years. Logan purchased its pit from John Leeming of Edmonton. He's a son of McKillop councillor Bill Leeming, who declared a conflict of interest and did not take part in council discussion on the pit. The pits and quarries licence doesn't restrict hours Lit operation, but those sorts of wndit i9nS could be worked out with neighbours, pit operators and McKillop beforehand.' Mr. Laing of the ministr% agreed with John Skinner, lawyer for Mr, and Mrs. George, Dorothj Wiedernian,. who lives east of the proposed pits says neighbours are cordinu- ine their opposition co McKillOp's agreeing to the pining change. A petition all be circulated in ,the neighbourhood, she says. Other neighbourhood concerns are dust, danger to youngsters from fast moving gravel trucks and a possible unsightly mess 'once the gravel is all extracted. The province levies an 8 'cents a tonne tax on gravel pit operators now. Glenn Chesney of a Seaforth area gravel pit operator Frank Kling Ltd. says. A portion of this tax goes back to the pit operator, once a gravelled out pit is rehabilitated. "But that takes time", he says. especially as a pit may bc in ono inuous use for a long period. Now the gravel industry is faced with another prAincial tax, of 6 sent% per tonne of gravel prodnced and 4 cents of that will go back -to the township where pits are located PaY for road maintenance and other year and leaf costs, Mr. Chesney. and the Aggregate Producers Association of Ontario argue that gravel hauls are ,f.ten short. and Please turn to page 3 New arena here next week is time 0151 week. the new Scaforth and Distil( Community Centres building he on thc si c. Thc pre -fah structure t% in be shipped Fri ay. according to communitt centre building committee chairman. Ken Campbell. The ne, bui s ould be in place earls next %seek Mr. Campbell says and stork tan begin on thc interior. All the footings ttork at the site will be Completed this week. "There have been no hitches'' in constrnetion so far. Mr Campbell sass. Contractors are Construction Ltd of Kitaiener Meanwhile a contract to demolish thc arena building has been let toz John H. McLltsain Construction Ltd of Seaforth at a price of 53.-50. Mr. Campbell S,IN bith ere received tor the lob ken Cirdno. assistant fund raising earn. paign chairmandoes not hat e a riot total to announce this week but he cats money is coming in ttell for the 551n.250 dot c. n hicH stood at oNcr 1020 ON last %seek w.@k A facelift for Cardno's Hall /A3 One of three or four boiler makr, in the caul/try is right here in Seaforth /Al 5 Th*\e communi y celebrates C2 nada Day /A11 The local golf course junior invitational was international this year /A19