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Home My WebLink AboutClinton News Record, 2016-03-30, Page 5Wednesday, March 30, 2016 • News Record 5 r1777' www.clintonnewsrecord.com letters to the editor Ontario Soil and Crop Improvement Association Call to report health concerns supports project in local watersheds Dear Editor, So, Bluewater residents, it is time to step up. If you are experiencing health concerns, e.g. feeling and/ or hearing Industrial Wind Turbines in your neigh- bourhood, call the Bluewa- ter Municipal office 519- 236-4351 or 1-877-236-4351) and for all Huron County residents, call the Huron County Health Unit 519-482-3416 or toll-free 1-877-837 6143. Both calls are important. Call the Municipal office because they do not have a process for taking your com- plaint yet. So why call them? Basically, they will not develop a process unless they believe there is a rea- son to. If you don't call, then they can simply say no rea- son - Nothing to see here folks, move along. Most of the council appears to sup- port the wind developers so if you don't complain, they will not see the problem and they will not take the posi- tion of supporting health affected residents. We need them to. If they decide to take the Vibrancy Fund (and they will) and they have not taken a position to support health affected citizens, we are out of luck. Which is really aggravating, consider- ing our Mayor ran on the platform he was against wind, yet he is keen to enter into an agreement with the wind developers. I guess he didn't hear what happened to the Community Vibrancy Fund in Adelaide Metcalfe? http://ontario-wind- resistance.org/2016/03/24/ nextera-and-about-that- community-vibrancy-fund- were-taking-it-back/. Your participation in the Huron County Health Unit investigation is critical. This is a first of its kind in Ontario. This is an opportu- nity. Take it. For yourselves and the rest of the victims world-wide who are suffer- ing with this intolerable invasion in their lives. Why? Because the vehicle is there for us to use and it will be much harder for the powers to be to push their wind / greed vision forward. You can make a difference. Thank you. Patti Kellar Correction Valerie Gillies Clinton News Record There was an error made in a position title with the article "Auxilliary purchases equipment for Clinton Pub- lic Hospital" printed on Page 8 in the Clinton News Record on March 23. The correction appears with the photo on this page. Valerie Gillies Clinton News Record The Clinton Public Hospital (CPH) Auxilliary presented new equipment to the hospital. Front from left: Dianne Stevenson, President of CPH Auxilliary; Linda Dunford, CPH Auxilliary Member and CPH Foundation Member. Back from left: Steve Brown, Treasurer of CPH Foundation; Laura Brown, Interim Manager of CPH; Dr. Daniel Ooi, Site Chief of CPH; Darren Stevenson, Director of CPH Foundation. Two Huron County subwatersheds chosen as part of Great Lakes Agricultural Stewardship Initiative (GLASI) project Special to Clinton News Record The Ontario Soil and Crop Improvement Association's (OSCIA) Great Lakes Agri- cultural Stewardship Initia- tive (GLASI) Priority Subwa- tershed Project has selected two subwatershed areas in Huron County to act as sites to help evaluate the effec- tiveness of agricultural stew- ardship in improving soil health and water quality. The areas are the Gully Creek watershed, just north of Bay- field, and the Garvey -Glenn watershed, north of Port Albert. Both subwatersheds were also priority areas for the Rural Stormwater Man- agement Model Project. "There are many factors that change from year to year, such as weather condi- tions and what crops are on the land," said Mari Veliz, Healthy Watersheds Super- visor at Ausable Bayfield Conservation. "It's impor- tant to monitor on an ongo- ing basis, to collect a data set that helps to explain how well the different agricultural best management practices are working." The GLASI Priority Sub - watershed Project began in autumn of 2015, and aims to evaluate the effectiveness of focused stewardship efforts in a subwatershed by meas- uring improvements in soil health and water quality. The project will continue until December 2017. The project plans to implement focused Best Management Practices (BMPs) in these defined sub - watersheds. Staff members hope that they can measure reductions in loss of soil and nutrients - in particular, phosphorus. The project team also hopes these prac- tices will benefit the farm operation. Landowners in these two watersheds are eligible for up to 80 per cent cost -share grants (up to $25,000 per year) and, in some cases, per -acre incentives. These incentives are for specific BMP projects under the fol- lowing categories: Cover crops, Soil amendments, Erosion control structures, Retiring marginal lands, Contour and strip cropping, Conservation tillage, Phosphorus management, Crop and field nutrient man- agement plans, Windbreaks and strips, Buffer strips, Drainage water manage- ment, and Other innovative actions. All landowners applying for grants must enrol in the program, and eligible appli- cations must be sent to OSCIA through the Ausable Bayfield Conservation Authority (ABCA) or Mait- land Valley Conservation Authority (MVCA). Final decisions on the eligibility of projects for grants rest with OSCIA. This year's projects must be completed by January 2017, and next year's pro- jects must be completed by December 15, 2017. For more information on eligible invoice and claim dates, please contact your local conservation authority. To enrol in the program and apply for a grant or per - acre incentive, please con- tact Mari Veliz at the ABCA, 1-888-286-2610 or mveliz@ abca.on.ca, or Chris Van Esbroeck at the MVCA, 519- 335-3557 or cvanesbroeck@ mvca.on.ca. Wheel -Check Safety Awareness Campaign Special to Clinton News Record Altruck is pleased to announce the launch of new Wheel Check Safety and Awareness Campaign. Trucks are the safest vehicles on the road: On average, trucks represent less than 3% of all vehicles involved in Ontario acci- dents and are deemed overwhelmingly "not at fault" in the collisions that do happen. We know that the majority of our industry is focused on safety. Even though the industry is focused on safety, acci- dents may occur. Truck wheels come off for several reasons but loose lug nuts, cracked wheels and worn or damaged bearings are the most common causes. Improved wheel care and maintaining proper wheel - nut torque can help reduce the number of accidents. It is our mission, at Altruck, to work with our staff and our customers to continue to create safer roads for the public, our customers, the truck driv- ers and the environment. The Safety Awareness Campaign runs between March 21, 2016 and Octo- ber 31, 2016. • Altruck will promote the use of Wheel -Check loose wheel -nut indicators. • We will educate our staff on wheel safety. • We will also donate $1.00 for each package sold to Trucks for Change Net- work, a well-known indus- try non-profit group. Wheel -Check, loose wheel -nut indicators pay for themselves in very short order with the time and resource savings. We hope this campaign will draw attention to this issue and help prevent future accidents. Please visit Trucks for Change Network to learn more. 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