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PAGE 18. THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2006.
Centre for Renewable Energy opens in Brussels
Energizing the economy
With his mandate renewed for another four years, Huron East mayor Joe Seili, left and new
Central Huron councillor Pamela Stanley, along with Joan Van der Meer, centre were on hand
for the ribbon-cutting into the new centre for renewable energy in Brussels. This centre will
specialize in renewable energy sources that do not deplete resources. (Shawn Loughlin photo)
By Shawn Loughlin
The Citizen
The main topic of discussion last
Thursday in Brussels was not wast-
ing your energy, but renewing it.
The Centre for Renewable Energy
By Stew Slater
Special to The Citizen
For one particular returning mem-
ber of the Avon 'Maitland District
School Board, a trip to the grocery
store won't be same for a while — at
least as long as the memory lasts of
the Nov. 13 municipal election.
Incumbent Jenny Versteeg of RR2,
Gorrie was the choice of the majori-
ty of public school-supporting voters
in North Perth, the only contested
school board jurisdiction in Htiron
and Perth Counties during the recent
election.
She defeated Listowel resident
Grace Urbanski, who once held a
seat on a northern Ontario school
board before relocating to Perth
County a few years ago.
According to Versteeg, her door-
to-door and meeting-to-meeting
campaign involved less discussion
has opened up in Brussels with a rib-
bon-cutting ceremony taking place
last Thursday at the centre, which
resides just above Solace on
Turnberry.
Huron East mayor Joe Seili, coun-
cillors David Blaney and Pamela
about pressing education issues than
it did questions about the process of
choosing a school board trustee.
"It was 'How do I vote for you?';
'Where do I vote for you?'; 'Why do
I have to vote for you?" the newly
re-elected trustee said after an Avon
Maitland meeting Tuesday, Nov. 14.
After including her telephone
number on an election advertisement
in the Listowel Banner newspaper,
she says she received just two calls.
But she believes the campaign defi-
nitely raised interest among the
North Perth public about education
and the school board; and it showed
when she went to town to buy gro-
ceries or other activities.
Because her photo was also
included in the advertisement, peo-
ple began recognizing her and greet-
ing her — connecting the name of
their school board trustee candidate
with the face on the street.
"Which is good," she commented,
Stanley were present along with
many of the key players in this ini-
tiative.
The centre hopes to provide infor-
mation and training in regards to
renewable energy, something that is
becoming a very real issue as energy
encouraging people to continue to
approach her in the future. "As a
trustee, you -want to be that accessi-
ble."
Classified advertisements
published in
The Citizen
are now available on our
website at www.north-
huron.on.ca
sources deplete more as time goes
on.
"We're attempting to act both as a
training centre as well as a centre for
the public to get information on
renewable energy," Blaney said. "It's
basically information on renewable
energy in the general sense and
information on everything from
energy efficiencies all the way up to
viind turbines."
Blaney calls himself "the sustain-
ability person" on this project, which
he says puts him in charge of future
development.
This is _ a co-operative project
between the federal government
through Service Canada and the
Huron Business Development
Corporation says Blaney, but they
are working on obtaining more
investors.
"Right now, we're working with
the partnership money and the
Service Canada money and it isn't
going to last forever," Blaney said.
For the future, Blaney hopes that
the centre can achieve its goal of
training and raising awareness
among the general public, who
might want to put these ideas into
practice on their farms or buSinesses.
Once that goal is accomplished,
they would hope to expand into
training through demonstrations and
perhaps a public education program.
The program is currently working
on finding more investors ,for the
project and developing partnerships
with community organizations, the
school boards and some private
investors.
Trustee discusses campaign
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