The Lucknow Sentinel, 1984-12-26, Page 161
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Lucknow Village Council will instruct 1*s.
lawyer and engineer to, proceed with the '•
purchase of property owned by Michael
Snobelen and Chester Finnigan in. West
Vyawanosh, Township where the treatment
facility and tile bed system to serVice; the
Lucknow sewage works is to, be ideated.
Council also ciecided at its December 11
meeting to send registered letters to
residents in the area who \object to the
location of the :treatment facilitynear their
homes asking thein.to itcept- the proposal •
to relocate the treatment -facility further
east on the Snobelen property. The letter
adds council is not requesting the residents
to agree with the site location,
Printed in Lucknow,: Ontario, Wednesday, 'December 26, 1984
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r to proceed with purchase of properties
residents accept proposal to relocate treatment facility
Councillor Herb Clark said the township
ratepayers might be Willing to sign these
• letters whereas they would not sign an
agreement which council proposed at a
December 3 meeting. The agreement
asked the residents to drop their objections •
to the • location of the ,facility near their
homes, if it was moved further east on the
Snobelen property.
• Councillor Ab Murray said he talked
with one • township ratepayer who said he
would not sign the agreement to withdraw
his opposition to the site of the treatment
facility, for fear he would be giving up the
opportunity to object to the Ministry of the
Environment if the treatment faciltty
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created odour problems.
' "We want to proceed with as little hard
feelings as possible If we can stay 750 feet
(from the houses), we have played as fair
arvVe,san," observed ,Murray.
Murray said he phoned his.sister-in-law
Who lives 40 rod. from such a facility and
she said 'absolutely not', it does not smell.
"These people who signed these peti-
dons,- they are only listening to what they
want to hear," said councillor Eldon Mann.
"Any that I talked to, are not in favour of
it going out there; but they are: more
favourable to the site being moved (to the
southeast corner of the Snobelen proper-
ty)," observed Clark.
"We are either going W go ahead or the
sewers are not going . to be in next
summer," commented councillor Mann.
Council passed a motion that registered
letters be sent to the West Wawanoili
residents who signed petitions, "If we get
a bunch of rejections; . there is no use
Considering (the new location on the
Snobelen site). We would have *to go to
plan A;" remarked Clark.
• Following a meeting with the West .
Wawanosh residents November 22, council
• proposed moving the treatment facility
further 'east on the Snobelen property
•where the land will have to be drained to
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Eastnor reeve is Bruce warden
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Eastnor Township.Reeve Ivan Mielha,us- •
en emerged the victor Monday as two
Bruce Peninsula reeves battled for the job
as 1985 warden, of BruCe-Tounty.
Mielhausen defeated his only challeng-
• er, Albermarle Township Reeve Doug
Thompson 18 to 13 in the first time in five
years that the job was won by an election,
rather than acclamation.
Mielhausen, 60,-, a beef farmer• arid life
long resident of Eastnor, pledged to work
towards increasing employment in the •
county. /
kie#4 attracting industryto the Brace,
energy Centre would be the 'major
Objective Of county Council during his One
year term.
Mielhausen .succeeds 1984. warden
Maurice Donnelly of -Greenock Township.,
'Heis only the second warden to come
from Eastnor, located in the middle of the
peninsula. John Dawson represented the
township' as warden ,in 1945. •
The new warden's wife Katherine, their
seven children and several of their six
grandchildren were present at the cere-
mony at the Walkerton Community Centre.
Mielhausen said during his term he
would rely on his three sons to do much of
the work on their 525 hectare farm.
As a beef farmer, Mielhausen is' expect-
ed to understand the plight of the county's
econornically depressedbeef industry. He',
has also worked towards 'improving the •
agricultural sector in the 'county. •
He said a study commissioned by the
county, which startedin the fall and will
suggest 'ways .of improving the. farm
economy in the county, will be completed
by May.•• • ••
In addition to Thompson 'three -.other
.candidates were nominated for' warden, •
but withdrew before the vote, traditionally
a sign that they could run' for warden neat,,,, •
year. They were :Rots • Herron of !Arran •
7itwAship, Mac Inglits'Ot earriOlt TO,WashiP'
andloy Pennington of Culross Township. . .
Municipal elections Will be held before
• next year's election for Warden.
• Pennington was later acclaimed to a four
year term ori the county , highWayscom-
mittee while Walkerton Reeve Owen King •,.
• was acclaimed to a three year term on the
same Committee.. ' • ,•
• The .highways •comrnittee is the onlY
elected committee on cdunty council.
After the election Mielhausen was Con-
gratulated by all • members of county
council inchiding Challenger ' Thompson,.
• who wished him the best of luck. However,
Thompson' did not suggest that the vote be
made unanimous. •
The race split the votes among. municip-
1985 the year in i•etros ect
• Jimmy
Dungannon area farmer Larry Pentland,
• 36, died suddenly in a farm accident on
December 27. Mr. Pentland was blowing
snow outside his home, when he apparent-
• ly stepped out of the cab of the' tractor he
was driving and was caught by the rear
wheel and crushed between the .wheel 'and
a snow drift.
Mike 'Snobelen was acclaimed vice-
chairman of the Bruce County Board of
Education. Trustee for Huron Township
and the village of Ripley,he has ,served
three years on the board.
• Day care representatives and parents
• from Wingham, Listowel and Vanastra
began forming a coalition of rural day care
• centres to protest government plans to cut
funding,
Don Tremeer of Clinton was appointed
acting principal of Brookside Public School •
after the transfer of Gary Jewitt to Seaforth
Public School. Tremeer was subsequently
appointed principal of Brookside in. June..
• Lucknow lawyer Rebert Campbell was
sentenced to one year in jail; when he
appeared in Goderich Provincial Court
after pleading guilty to charges of fraud
and forgery, in September, 1083. Judge E.
11, A. Carson recommended .Campbell
serve his jail term in Mississauga where he
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is employed and that he be recommended
for day parole as soon as he is eligible.
Sherwood Eddy was appointed vice-
• principal of F. E. Madill Secondary School
in Wingham following the resignation of
Robert Ritter as principal in December. '
Former vice -Principal Ken Wood •was
• appointed principal to replace Mr. .Ritter.
While financial restraint is the biggest
problem facing the Huron County Board of
Education in 'the corning year, chairman
Eugene Frayne told the board members
they have to provide an education system •
the students can depend on.
• "Young people today face, • on a
day-to-day basis, the possibility of nuclear
war, the uncertainty of a job when they
graduate, peer pressure, sexual and porno -
•graphic material that degrades man to an
animal •Ievel, movies that depict heroes
• who excel in violence and it goes on and
on," said Frayne.
• The chairman said after the board deals
with the continued implementation of Bill
82 (special education), the changes, forth-
• coining in the secondary system, financial
•restraint and accommodation reviews in
three elementary schools, the board should
look at the system and 'the product it i4
producing.
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