The Citizen, 2017-01-26, Page 6PAGE 6. THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 2017.
Winter soccer
Hullett Central Public School
let winter stop him and his
earlier this week as Lukas
(Denny Scott photo)
student Brett Caldwell didn't
friends from playing soccer
Hubbard-Buffinga looks on.
Lucknow's McQuail tells
UCW of her `expedition'
PEOPLE AROUND
LONDESBORO
By BRENDA
RADFORD
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It stands to reason that if a person
is an organic farmer, that person
would be concerned with many
aspects of protecting our
environment for future generations.
Katrina McQuail, who was raised on
and now owns Meeting Place
Organic Farm, is just such a person.
Her farm, formerly operated by her
parents, Tony and Fran McQuail, is
in the St. Helens/Lucknow area.
Katrina attended the Monday, Jan.
16 meeting of the Londesborough
UCW to talk about her experience a
year ago on "eXXpedition".
eXXpedition was about an all -
woman crew sailing a 72 -foot, 14 -
tonne vessel to do data collection
and raise awareness about the
environmental and human health
dangers of single use plastics and
persistent organic pollutants. The
sailboat travelled from Recife,
Brazil to Georgetown, Guyana
manned by 14 women from many
different walks of life — lawyer,
artist, university students,
toxicologist, etc., of all ages and
from seven different countries. This
is an indication that all countries
around the world are concerned
about pollution.
In Brazil, before boarding their
craft, the "Sea Dragon", the group
did education, outreach and beach
clean-ups with the local community.
Katrina told the ladies about being
out at sea, three days from land for
Potential recreation research
leads to single -tier discussion
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and a failure to provide recreation
options to older residents, Huron
will be unable to provide either
demographic with a service. If data
is collected and the county can hone
in on where best to spend its money
and serve residents, then the county
and its lower tiers will stand a
chance going forward.
Howick Reeve Art Versteeg said
he felt Hessel's idea was a good one,
despite the fact that such a study
would stand to hurt his home
municipality.
Any conceivable recreation study,
he said, would come back with
results that say Howick doesn't have
the tax base or user base to facilitate
an arena.
He said that the rising cost of
keeping facilities like arenas open
when they're not being used to their
full capacity is becoming an
increasingly demanding burden on
taxpayers.
Van Diepenbeek agreed with
Versteeg, saying that conventional
wisdom says that in a city like
Toronto one arena should serve
every 50,000 residents with the ice
being used many hours of the day.
In Huron County, he said, 10
arenas serve 60,000 people and
they're empty until 4 p.m. until
hockey begins and they empty out
again four to six hours later before
sitting empty again for another 18
hours.
A discussion about efficiency in
recreation services beyond borders,
Van Diepenbeek said, would
essentially be a precursor to single -
tier government and the abolition of
the current municipal structure.
The only way conversations like
those could happen, he said, whether
they be about recreation or another
obvious service to amalgamate like
the fire departments, would be for
councillors to abandon their
municipal allegiances and think of
services in terms of the county.
Taking an arena or a community
centre out of a town would be
devastating, Van Diepenbeek
conceded, but it may be the way to
increase usage at a few central
facilities, rather than every town
having its own, underused arena.
Huron East Deputy -Mayor Joe
Steffler urged council to consider
arenas as community centres with
ice pads attached. Communities
need community centres, he said, for
a number of reasons. While ice
usage may not be where municipal
governments want them to be,
closing community centres would
effectively gut communities.
No direction was given on the
study or on Van Diepenbeek's points
regarding single -tier government.
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2,000 nautical miles, and about data
collecting, sharing watch duties and
cooking and cleaning. She spoke
about the bonds and discussions that
happened during this experience.
A most interesting slideshow was
pertinent to Katrina's talk. She
spoke also of how raising funds for
the trip was a way of spreading the
concern about plastics and toxins in
the local community.
Moreover, Katrina explained that
what we do in our ordinary,
everyday life makes an impact on
not just our own local area but on the
wider world. Residue from waste
that we intend for recycling or
landfill sites does eventually get
flushed to our rivers and ultimately
out to sea. Each crew member was
tested to see what persistent organic
chemicals/pollutants were present in
their body/blood due to exposure.
Katrina was not surprised to learn
that, as a resident of a highly -
agricultural area, her body had high
levels of DDE.
Katrina stated she has trouble
limiting her talks, for there is much
educating she would like to do. The
question -and -answer time with the
Londesborough group was very
enlightening. She told the ladies that
eXXpedition is planning two more
trips for 2017 and accepting
applications!
Lena Nesbitt and Barb Bosman
then offered a short devotional time
with some New Year's thoughts and
a meditation, "Patterns", which
compared our constantly changing
lives to a kaleidoscope, but
reassuring everyone that God's love
is constant throughout.
President Helen Lobb conducted a
short business meeting during which
upcoming events and caterings were
noted. 2017 is the 55th anniversary
of UCW. The Londesborough group
hopes to conduct a Sunday service
during the year to commemorate this
celebration.
This is just a little aside I wanted
to include. Although we haven't had
prolonged periods of snow-covered
roads, perhaps because of my age I
am finding it difficult this winter to
see the highway markings.
Perhaps, instead of repainting the
lines in early spring, a fall painting
might make driving safer
particularly in snow prone areas. On
the other hand I did think that during
the snow storms we have had the
road crews were quite vigilant in our
area. Thank you.
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