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Entertainers
The Howick Country Squares delighted the residents of Huronlea with some of their fancy
footwork recently. The County Home for the Aged welcomes those willing to share their
special brand of entertainment.
County, council briefs
Warden begins second term
OPP report 45% rise
in carldeer accidents
Clinton Reeve Carol Mitchell
began a rare second term as War
den of Huron County as the first
county council meeting of 2000
was held.
Mitchell had defeated Doug
Miller of West Wawanosh and
Norm Fairies of Howick when the
vote for the Huron County Warden
was held Dec. 7.
Brussels Reeve Ralph Watson
will chair the agriculture and pub
lic works committee for the coming
year. Grey Twp. Reeve Robin Dun
bar will chair the social and cultural
services committee. Colborne
Reeve Stewart Steenstra will chair
the health and seniors committee.
Roy Triebner, reeve of Exeter,
chairs the planning and develop
ment committee.***
Should a case of raccoon rabies
Contest to help you quit smoking
Quit smoking.
If only it was as easy to quit as it
is to start. But if you have ever
considered quitting, research shows
ycu have already taken your first
step to becoming smoke-free. And
you are not alone.
In Ontario, one in every four
people smokes despite indisputable
medical evidence that tobacco kills
more than 12,000 people every
year. Some smokers will tell you
they like to smoke and they have
no intention of ever quitting. But
up to half of all smokers questioned
in an Angus Reid survey in 1998,
said they want to quit. In fact, 40
per cent of the smokers said they
tried to quit last year, and are still
trying.
“That’s great news,” said Sandra
Feltz, co-chair of the Coalition for
a Smoke-Free Huron Perth. “We
know it is very hard to quit
smoking. You can’t automatically
expect to be able to succeed on the
first try. But each time you try you
ar? one step closer to success.”
“Look around and you’ll see
people of every age and stage of
life who smoked but who tried to
quit once, twice or even five times.
The point is they didn’t stop trying
and now they are smoke-free. It
doesn’t matter how heavy a smoker
you are or how many years you
break out in Huron County officials
would try to capture and euthanize
all foxes, skunks and raccoons
within a 1-5 km radius, a policy
adopted by the board of health
says. This is the same policy fol
lowed in the Prescott area last year
when the first case of raccoon
rabies reported in Ontario was dealt
with.
Beyond the 1-5 km radius of the
outbreak, all animals of the same
species would be trapped, vaccinat
ed and released in a 5-10 km zone.***
The Huron County Library Board
will work with Howick Twp.
toward the idea of combining the
library branches in Fordwich and
Gorrie into one centrally-located
branch. The new, larger branch
would have longer hours, offer a
larger book collection, more tech
have smoked, if you keep trying
you can succeed.”
Research indicates that people go
through a series of stages when
they move from smoking to
becoming smoke-free. The first
sign of motion is when a smoker
considers the idea of quitting, even
if he or she is not yet ready to do
anything about it.
The next step is getting psyched
up to quit. You picture yourself
going out for an evening and not
smoking or you decide you want to
quit by a certain date. Finally you
hit your start date and stop
smoking. That moves you into the
final stage - remaining smoke-free.
“The length of time someone
stays at a stage is entirely
personal,” said Feltz. “You may
find yourself thinking that you
don't really enjoy smoking
anymore and go on for months
before you move into the next
stage.
While you can’t be forced along
by anyone else, encouragement and
other incentives do work to help a
person choose to move to the next
stage.”
A Quit Smoking 2000 Contest
will be launched during National
Non-Smoking Week in January
2000. To qualify for prizes, people
must quit and remain smoke-free
nology and programs for children.
***
A zoning change required for the
construction of the Huron-Bruce
Community Complex on former
flood plain in the south of Wing
ham was approved by council. The
move had been held up December
following an objection from Turn
berry Twp.
***
Wingham can continue to use its
landfill site on a temporary basis.
The Ministry of Environment had
earlier refused to grant an emergen
cy extension for use of the site. The
county intervened, asking the
extension be granted while efforts
are made to come to an agreement
between Exeter and the county on
the use of Exeter’s large landfill
site for other municipalities in the
county.
for the month of March. A buddy
support system is built into the
contest requirements because
research shows how effective this
type of support system is to a
smoker’s success.
“By launching the program in
January, it gives people a chance to
think about quitting and move to
the stage of trying to quit. If you
can stop smoking even for a month,
then quitting won’t seem so
impossible.”
Information, contest details and
supports to help people become
smoke-free is available by calling
the Huron County Health Unit at
482-3416 or 1-800-265-5184.
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When deer and vehicle collide on
a dark rural road, the result is
sometimes fatal, for the animal at
least.
With the OPP reporting a 45 per
cent increase in deer/vehicle colli
sion in 1999, including 31 in
December, they are warning drivers
to continue to be aware at sunrise
and sunset when passing wooded or
swampy areas.
In the 240 incidents this season,
results range from minor damage to
the vehicle to personal injuries.
Though the 1999 hunt results
have not yet been tabulated, Mike
Malhiot, a biologist with the Min
istry of Natural Resources in Clin
ton, does not foresee a considerable
increase in the area deer population
to account for the rising number of
collisions.
The OPP have two years of
statistics and it is hard to determine
a trend with those numbers, he said.
Hunt numbers from as far back as
1980 indicate a rise in the popula
tion until about 1995 when it lev
eled off.
During each hunting season,
Malhiot said about 12 per cent of
the mortality rate for deer in Huron
County can be attributed to colli
sions. In more urban counties such
as Perth, that number can be 20 per
cent. “It is not unusual,” he said.
Approximately 50 per cent of
collisions occur during October and
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November, the mating season, said
Malhiot, as that is when the deer
are most active. “There are any
number of factors which could
account for the increased collisions
including weather and traffic vol
ume.”
In an effort to limit the collisions
between deer and police cruisers,
the force installed deer whistles on
all vehicles in December, 1998.
The OPP report no further inci
dents.
The whistles are stuck on the
grill of the vehicle, often two on
each side. The wind whistling
through the device is meant to deter
deer from crossing.
A representative for one local
automotive outlet said the whistles
have become very popular, particu
larly during hunting season. The
item costs approximately $8.99 for
two.
Of the reported accidents in
1999, only one vehicle was
equipped with a whistle.
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