The Lucknow Sentinel, 1996-06-12, Page 1N
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KatelynMelissa Bakelaar waiting 'for the track and ;field- events:
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are bean: sure to protect their skin from the tot begin at :Lucknow District Christian School
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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
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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. •