The Lucknow Sentinel, 1984-02-22, Page 1' K '
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Tablished i�Lucknow, Ontario, Wednesday; Febriary 22,1984
The Lucknow Skating Club presented its annual carnival on ice Saturday evening at the
Luclmow Arena.i The theme this year was Be My Valentine and Kerrie Skillen played the ,part
of a valentine sweetheart. Even the pretty ribbons in her hsdr were decorated with valentine
beaks. • [Photo by Sharon Dietz)
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Enforce property standard briaiv
Lucknow Village Council met with the
village's by-law enforcement• officer, Leo
Murray, to discuss the animals being kept in
the barn owned by Jim Lyons on Willoughby
Street. Murray reported the barn contained
two cows, one horse and 20 rabbits, Murray
agreed to, contact ,Eugeke "Red" Oardner
about removing the animals which belonged
to him.
Councillor Ab Murray reported at the
February 14 meeting of council that Mr.
Gardner had told him this 'will be the last
winter he williceeptis livestock in the barn.
By-law enforcement officer Leo Murray is
still negotiating with Mr. Lyons on the
subject of the rabbits and some chickens. A
by-law is in place which regulates the
keeping of animals within the village limits.
• Council passed a motion at their February
meeting that Phyllis Elliott replace Helen
Riesling on ,the library board for the
Lucknow Branch of the Bruce County
Library.
Following a meeting with the contractors,.
Struthers COsistruction, Cliff Mann Plumb-
ing and Heating and Moffat Electric, when
they presented their estimates for the
renovations to the Town Hall basement,
Reeve George Joynt is -planning to meet with
' several Lucknow seniors to discuss the
proposed seniors centre which .is to be
located in the basement of the Town Hall
following renovation.
Councillor Russell Whitby reported sever-
al Lucknow residents have spoken to him
concerning the parking of school buses at the
corner &Campbell arid Inglis Streets which
seriosly obstructs the view. Council decided
the problem should be reported to the
Ontario Provincial Police.
Call tenders on newAio pi
tal wng
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By Hem Hess
Wingham and District Hospital has taken
another step toward beginning construction,
of a new emergency and out patient wing
with the decisianlot thehospital hoardlast
week to call for teliders on the project.
Bids on the estimated $1.4 million expan-
sion arerclue-by April 3, at which time the
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nutnikkind TOOa %fat ClOiSion whether
or not to grocee&
• Judging from the tone of discussion at the
meeting last Week, however, there is little
deubt that, barring an unexpectedly 'high
price tag, the project will go ahead as
planned.
• The decision to • call for tenders came
immediately following final' approval of the
expansion plans by the Health Ministry,
• which is contributing 5250,000 toward the
building. The remainder of the money is
expeeted, to come from the hospital, the
community and grants from Huron and
Bruce County. councils.
The recommendation from the board's
property committee to proceed at once to call
tenders ran into opposition fromone or two
board members, who suggested it would be'
better' to have a full scale discussion of the
• pros and cons of the project first, before
taking this step. ,
However it was pointed out that asking for
tenders does not commit the hospital to
proceeding with the project, and the final
vote was overwhelmingly in favor of calling
for tenders.
Hospital Administrator Norman Hayes
told the board it would be impossible to
make the finat decision to build without
knowing excatly what it will cost. He also
expressed concern that the long delay in
reaching the tender stage -- some of which
he said is the result of the board dragging its
feet -- could cost Abe hospital some of the
• pricing advantage it had hoped to gain by
• calling tenders last fall.
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Receives merit award
Bill Hunter of Lucknow has been
presented with the prestigious Canadian
Amateur Hockey Association award for
outstanding contribution toininor hockey.
The award was presented by Bill Kerr of
Wingham representing the CAHA at the
Lucknow Arena Monday night.
Hunter, whose contribution to minor
sports in the Lucknow area •is widely
recognized, was the recipient of the Ontario
Minor Hockey Association award" for his
contribution to hockey five years ago.
Win WOSSA championship
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• The Western Ontario Secondary School
Association (WOSSA) cross country ski
championships were held at the Vangside Ski
trails in Kinloss Township February 13' and
students from F. E. Madill Secondary in
Wingham were the champions. The chain-
pionship run was conducted along trails on
the farins of Bob Campbell, concession 8 and
Jack Mali, concession 6, Kinloss Township.
Local man appears before judicial review of hydro hearing
A Lucknow area manlas appeared before
a Judicial Review by which the Central
Ontario Coalitionis seeking to squash the
decision of the Consolidated Assessment
Hearing Board which conducted hearings to
choose an Ontario Hydro transmission line
through southwestern Ontario.
While Tony McOuail of West Wawanosh.
Township is chairman of the Foodland Hydro
•Committee which coordinated the presenta-
tion of farm groups to the hearing board, he
represented himself at the Judicial Review
• since, to represent an organization, he would
have to be represented by legal counsel.
McQuail presented his argument to the
three supreme court justices hearing the
submission of the Central Ontario Coalition,
the cities of Kitchener and Cambridge, the
county of Oxford and the Southern Specialty
Crop Committee. He spent four days at the
• hearings January 19, 20, 23 and 24.
The Centrals Ontario Coalition has taken
the petition thatreasonable notice was not
given to persons'in Central Ontario, that the
decision and proceedings of the Joint Board
were procedurally unfair and a denial of
• natural justice and •that to ensure a fair
hearing the matter ' should go back to
"square one" and be determined on the
merits by a new Joint Board.
McQuail argued that the Ontario Hydro
Public participation process has come a long
way from the early 1950s when farmers in'
the . Staff area took up arms to seek
compensation for a line through their farms
and the province sent in the OPP. With this
project the public was invited to helpwith the
general planning of the project and Hydro
held public hearings on 'that general plan
before dealing with the specific ratites which
are considered in the route state hearings.
Municipal and community organizations
were invited and / attended information
centres and fair displays once the working
groups were underway. One such informa-
tion centre was conducted at Lucknow
Community Centre in September, 1981.
A system concept was selected showing all
the routes Hyrdo was considering. Specific
locations were not selected until after the
Joint Board held 35 days of public hearings.
Despite a dear indication of the purpose cif
the hearing and the Board's power to amend
the proposed route and impose terms and
conditions, McQuail said he believes most
people expected the Joint Board to go
through the motions of a hearing and then
rubber stamp Hydro's 'preferred system
plan.
Instead the hearing board 'fulfilled its
purpose, was not a , rubber stamp and
selected a modified route M3, one line from
Bruce to Essa and two lines from London
east; one of those being London to Milton
and the other London to Nanticoke.
To this point all the public participation
and hearings and appeals had been on the
system concept with no specific routes or
impacted properties under consideration.
Hydro than began the route stage public
participation process following government
approval of the plan. •It is at this stage
specific routes and properties are identified
and evaluated. New working groups were
established to deal with the route stage issue
and following the route stage public involve-
ment, Ontario Hyrdo prepared a route stage
environmental assessment. The notice for
Judicial Review was filed 12 days before the
filing of the Route Stage Environmental
Assessment and well after most of the route
stage deliberations with regard to specific
route locations.
In his brief, McQuail commented that the
group of individuals and municipalities
appealing to the supreme court for a whole
new plan stage hearing have not indicated a
strong interest in the issues and content of
the plan stage hearing. Instead the court was
told the various officials and counsel for 'the
applicant municipalities had no reason to
expect and therefore they assumed they
would not be affected by a decision of the
Joint Board. They assumed a route along
highway 401 would not be considered. When
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