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The Lucknow Sentinel, 1996-06-12, Page 1N 123` WK. 2 ` ne )96 ES 43.S..T. oAn KatelynMelissa Bakelaar waiting 'for the track and ;field- events: These staters - and .. � �' . �' .. are bean: sure to protect their skin from the tot begin at :Lucknow District Christian School 9 harmful -rays of the. sun. The two girls were on Monday: (Pat Livingston photo) It s official! proposed As: rue. Board of Education. reat response, reativity to st cutting plan by Pat Halpin An innovative plan to cut staff numbers without. issuing lay-off's won "outstanding" response, said director of education. Paul Martindale, at last week's board meeting. • Almost one-third of the board's 1,073 staff applied for sonie varia- • tion of the board's offer of retirement incentives, voluntary leave of absence,, job -sharing, and voluntarylunpaid.leave: days,' Martindale said there was ° also `rgreat cre ativity shown in the 94 request that combined elements of those and other payroll -cutting measures. .A report to trustees *states 182 staff volun- teered to take up to three unpaid leave days. Martindale said that group includes superin- tendents, and in some cases employees,volun- teered for more 'thanthe three days requested. That measure will save the board almost 20P, o liquo -An 18 -year-old Lucknow area man has been charged by police for having liquor at an unlicensed " event. " The youth was at the teen dance June 7 and had eight full pints of Labattsbeer. Kincardine OPP have charged a 21 -Year-old Stratford man with impaired driving after he drove through a stop sign in liolyrood. Police stopped the driver at 10:05 p.m., June 8 whenhe didn't stop for the sign on county road 6. There was a brief pursuit. before the .driver stopped. by Blake Patterson Despite spending $825,000 on the site, Huron County Council made it official Thursday abandon- ing the proposed Al landfill near. Ashfield: And in its.•place, the council approved a request from consul- tants CH2M. Gore and Storrie (CG&S) to Mast -track' the comple- tion of the .haste Management Master Planat a cost of $126,000. Planning. and Development Committee char Count Pat Down: of 1sborne Tvvp. called the deci- sign a major step ,and said, 44T'his will 'allow the people of Ashfield Twp. to filially get back on with their lives." But not all the councillors . agreed with the idea of spending. more money on waste manage- ment. Corn. Mason Baney.fr`on illyth said, "1 don't see any reason why we should continue to throw another $126,000 into, along with the $800,000 we have already, done. There must be a way that we can. discontinue this at a lot less 'expense .: hopefully none. Why is it not possible that we can jest simply drop it and goabout our way.' He .said the fact that the ,;. Blyth- Mullett landfill is now being With .rnbTwp is an shared; � Turnberry example of how municipalities' can work together. "We're not stuckfor landfill sites for a long, time to come. quite sure, iriuniciDalities will cooperate, with each other. We've had meetingsand talked about stuff like this without any : iofess signal assistance what sty ever Bailey added that the 'county needs to look at ways to. get out of the waste management business at, the least possible expense.' "The county already .'has people. on council and working for the planning department who have .the expertise needed to, , look at the landfill situation and who could make knowledgeable recommen- dations to council without having to spend thousands of tax payer dollars," he said. Downs responded to Bailey's suggestions by pointing out that some municipalities do not have landfill sites to continue serving their own needs and that waste managements : ements agreements between townships in • the past have fallen apart. She said. the county needs out- side consultants to complete the, s 'are:' the master plan because they only party who can be unbiased. and look past the prejudices of in ividuai municipal concerns, •turn to pogo e 3 � doctor nghaxn Wingham's medical community received a shot in the arm early last week, with the. news -that Dr. Greg Arrtoniadis has confirmed that he is coming to Wingham Aug 1 to take over the medical .practice of Dr. Peter Long. Dr. Longannounced last month that he is leaving Wingham :after 1 1 ' years in a practice with . Dr. John Ping., Dr. i ig Antoniadis s a ene isg al �. practitioner -anaesthetist currently working in Cochrane. At list week`s , lune Meeting . of the hospital board of governors, the news that a new doctor is coming to Wingham was welcomed indeed. Lloyd Koch and . Dr. -Brian Hanlon, both members of 'the hospital's 'recruiting committee, were thanked o e re e warmly for their role in bringing Dr. Antoniadis Wingham. to However, Koch called the recruitment of Dr, Antoniadis is d "a group effort" which involved management airl.' staff of Wingham and District Hospital. •