The Lucknow Sentinel, 1994-11-02, Page 7Blue Box
program
expands
by Pat Livingston
The blue box program in
Lucknow.has been expanded to
alleviate even More .w,aste going
into landfill sites.
Effective Nov. 1, residents
within the village may now
include the following in their
blue boxes: telephone books,
aluminum foil, white writing
paper and boxboard.
Householders will receive by
mail a listing of what is accep-
table in the.bluc box. This handy
outline should be kept for future
reference. Why not hang it near
your blue box?
Lucknow is part of the Bruce
Area Solid Waste Recycling
Association (BASWRA), based
in Southampton. BASWRA has
just completed its fourth.year of
•operation.
This year, over 3,000 tons of
recyclables will be diverted from
landfills. This is equivalent to
25,000 cubic yards or 750
recycling trucks full.
As citizens should be involved
in recycling - a responsible
alternative to waste management.
Bruce County
gets $ 2 m for
11' projects
Eleven Bruce County projects
worth more than $2 million have
been .approved under the
Canadti/Ontario Infrastructure
Works program.
Funding' will be used to construct
the Bruce County Library 'head-
quarters in Port Elgin, renovate and
upgrade the Bruce County. Museum
and renovate the Brucelca rind
Gateway Haven Homes for the
Aged. The library and museum
projects should be completed by
•May 1995 and renovations to. the
homes for the aged should be
completed by December 1994.
. Approval was also been given to
•upgradc,various county roads and to
reconstruct County Road 1. Work
on these • projects should 'be
completed by September 1996.
Three sand/salt storage facilities
have also been approved •for Bruce,
Amabel . and Huron Townships.
Work on these projects should be
completed by September 1995.
MacDonald - Scott
Doug and Marlene MacDonald
of St. Helens
would like to announce the
forthcoming marriage of their daughter
PATRICIA ANN'
to
DWAYNE MtfRRAY
son of Jeannette Scott of Wingham and
Murray Scott of Blyth:
The ceremony will take place on
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1994
at I,UCKNOW IJNITED (1IUR('ll
.0 6:311 p.m.
OPEN RE('EPTION
to follow at the Lucknow ('ommunuv Centre
County's `well' drying up
time to, bite the bullet
by Pat Halpin
The South Bruce Economic
Development Corporation is oneof
three groups that have been served
notice there may be no money
coming from Bruce county council
in 1995. •
The Agriculture, Tourism and
Planning Committee is recommen-
ding that the council to be elected
in November cut $50,000 worth of
grants to the South Bruce Economic
Development Corporation, the
Grey -Bruce Tourist Association and •
the Bruce County Federation of
Agriculture.
Port Elgin reeve Ann MacKay
opposed the $25,000 funding cut by
Kincardine for 1995. She said coun-
ty funding is critical to the group,
which could disband• for lack of
funding without Bruce County's
support.
Planning committee chair Winston
Hollis said the planning department
is in a state of "desperation"
because of falling revenue and has
to cut 'back on the expense of
giving grants to what he called
special interest groups. Hollis said
economic development will be
promoted county -wide by the .plan-
ning department instead of by 'frag-
mented economic development
corporations, but MacKay said the
county planning .department doesn't
have the staff or expertise to do the
job. MacKay said developments. are
expected to be announced soon at
the Bruce • Energy Centre located
next to the Bruce Nuclear Power
Development, .and argued that
without the South Bruce group
there will be no community agency
to help put those developments in
place.
-Saugecn Reeve Harry Thede
suggested the planning .department
lay off staff if it is strapped, for
funds.
. "That's what I'd do in my.
operation," Thede said. •
Hollis replied that the planning
department has already laid off two
staff and, closed one office this
year, and can't crit 'more without
reducing tha. service it provides to
the county.
"There's a limit to how •few you
can have," Hollis said. "This is
almost desperation," he added,
arguing for a change in the way the
planning department is funded.
Currently the department, counts on
revenue from planning applications '
including zone changes and
severance. Those fees are down
since 1989 and the department secs
no indication of a development
boorn and resulting increases in
applications in the near future.
Hollis says the planning department
should be financed through general
levies like any other departrnent,
with its revenue going to the coun-
ty's general fund.
MacKay failed in her bid totable
the recommended grant cut for
SBEDC. Amabel reeve Bill Ferris
said his observation shows as-
sessment in South Bruce is down,
not up; in spite of the efforts of the
SB Economic Development Cor-
poration.
"The county's in trouble for
money. Somebody's got to bite the
bullet," Ferris said.
"Economic development should
be not for just 10 municipalities but
for all of Bruce County," agreed
Kincardine township reeve Weir
Sheane. Challenged by Thede about
continued funding for the Saugecn
Economic Development Corporation
serving the Walkerton-Chesley area,
Sheane ,said that funding started
three or four years after South
Bruce and didn't necessarily have
to end at the same time, He also
suggested that funding for Saugeen
"will work itself out" with the an=
nouncement of the retirement of
that corporation's director.
"We want everyone in the county
treated the same," Sheane said.
Bruce county is also recommen-
ding dropping its $15,000 grant for
the Grey -Bruce Tourist Association
in 1995 and wants to cut the Coun-
ty Federation of Agriculture grant '
by $10,000 to $3,300 next, year.
• Hollis emphasized that the sug-
gested grant cuts are only recom-
mendations that can be upheld or
reversed by the council that will
take office in . December of this
year.
Long-term care group meets
A meeting of the North Huron
Long -Term Care Advisory Commit-
tee was held at Huroniea on Oct.
17.
Nancy Walker, Home Care Co-
ordinator chaired the meeting.
The educational component of the
meeting was given by Linda
Knight, executive director for Com-
munity Nursing and Debbie Gable,
Home Care case manager. A copy
of their slide presentation can be
obtained by contacting Nancy
_
Walker, at 482-3411.
A report on the Huron County
Long -Term Care Planning Commit-
tee was given. Topics discussed
werejthe roll of the local commit-
tees, cross border funding for the
Wingham and Area Day Centre,
Regional Palliative `Care and Sup-
portive Housing.
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