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The Huron Expositor, 1997-09-10, Page 1Straight Shooting Kippen Gun Club blows away competitors in U.S. tournament.. See page 9 Your Community Newspaper Since 1860 — Seaforth, Ontario Briefly DHC merge with Grey -B The Huron -Perth a Bruce district health are expected to Ontario's health mini representatives last Th Thirty-three DHC province are expe undertake similar m reducing their total to It appears the m expects the mergers accomplished so that t district health council ing the four counties funded as a single en next April 1, the start new fiscal year, Fras Huron Perth DHC ex director; who re announced his resign said. "It is currently not what the impact o restructuring will be on ing DHC staff and s Bell's press release s "This and a number of issues will be addresse 'transitional team' com of a small number of ex HPDHC and GBDHC bers. The transitional will be appointed by th of September." As the DI -IC restruct takes place both the H Perth and Grey -Bruce h councils will need to nize their workloads so existing planning com ments can continue, the release adds. r ruce nd Grey - councils merge, stry told ursday. s in the cted to ergers, 16. inistry will be he new cover - can be tity by of the er Bell ecutive cently ation, known f this exist- ites," tates. other d by a prised isting mem- team e end uring uron- ealth orga- that mit- press IPM winners "Cultivating Ontario's West Coast" is the winning theme of the recent IPM '99 in Huron County logo contest. It came from Margaret Mclnroy of Blyth. The win- ning slogan, "See Huron Shine in '99," was submitted by Les Falconer of Clinton. Town gives support At last Tuesday night's reg- ular meeting, Seaforth Council supported the local committee seeking to estab- lish some kind of town -based heritage collection to cele- brate Seaforth's history, by agreeing to explore a partner- ship relationship with the Huron County Museum. Coun. Heather Robinet commented some people had contacted her with concerns such a display might displace the Seaforth Food Bank a Town Hall. Clerk/administrator Ji Crocker said it was prem. ture to even talk about a loo tion, according to the co mittee's recent museum sur vey final analysis. Phone Correction A pre -registration phone number fo; a program on how those with chronic lung disease can enjoy active lifestyles, which begins at Seaforth hospital on September 17, was printed incorrectly in the August 27 edition of The Expositor.. The correct pre -registration phone number, for this pro- gram being sponsored by the Lung Association of Huron, Perth and being held in the lower boardroom of the hos- pital which runs five straight Wednesdays, is: 4$ 4�. September 10, 1997 $1.00 includes GST DOWN IT COMES - A backhoe brought down the east side of the McLaughlin Chev-Olds building on TMS nDSt Dori Monday morning with not much problem. Trucks carted away debris Tuesday. The roof had collapsed a few years ago. Manure Workshop in McKillop Pig farmers get their point across • • BY GREGOR CAMPBELL Expositor Staff Pig farmers aren't used to being high profile. They feel they are unfairly being painted as enemies of the environment in the press these days. The idea that oth- ers think they are responsible for "Lake Urine" gets them going. Friday's McKillop work- farmers making up five per soil and less pollution, along is shop was packed, `Bring cent of the population but with profits for pork produc- 1 Your Own Bale" (to sit on), controlling 95 per cent of the . as one speaker quipped. land this was to be ex ers. He said it is a win-win Terpstra's Ashfield facility expected, situation• for these producers Cu would be one of the bigger but it might be wise for pork and the rest of society. tra 88 (aproducers to be "proactive" Hilborn said such nutrient str producer in southwestern before governments bring management plans have wh Oxford has a 6,000 -hog barn) down legislation. in Ontario and seems to have Don Hilborn b become more and more com- bili become a focus for public and waste managementsuet mon amongst area pork pro- as debate. It has some crit cs up cialist with te Ontario ducers in the past five or six Tw in arms, who say it will fur- Ministry of Agriculture, Food years. sho cher aggravate an E. coli and Rural Affairs, said "agri- PROPER PROFITS unt All the buzz at Friday after- sewage bacteria problem culture has always been theManure management sys- corn noon's workshop on liquid along the Lake Huron shore- original recycler." tems and technology C manure application in 'line. In the decreases the cost of fertilizer nee ur- McKillop Township was At one point, Evert Ridder, al practises tin other reaxt of s of and maintains proper profits, logg about a producers meeting of the Huron Stewardship the world, for instance China, although some farmers still user the night before and a big Council, who put on Friday's agriculture in Ontario looks have doubts about manure as ed u article in that morning's edi- workshop in an attempt "to pretty good, he said. We have a chemical replacement, the • lain tion of The London Free do something positive to lots of manure but lots of OMAFRA waste specialist reco Press on Joe Terpstca, whose address the issue," had to, land base to spread it on, commented. And, there is he a Acre T farms is building a remind the many in atten- which isn't the case in even still ence fair amount of differ- In 3,400 -hog barn in Ashfield dance that "application is more highly agricultural ence in farming practises Coun Township, only one of 12 what we're talking about developed countries such as here in Huron. said production sites scattered today." Holland, which just doesn't We need a reliable way of Go across Grey and McKillop. PROACTIVE have enough land. monitoring manure spills and Cliffoe "It was one of the most Host fanner John Arts said A nutrient management shutting them down, he said. He interesting meetings I've ever pork producers are "front approach, in which ghi hl More than 40 per neat of "cold been to," one pig farmer was row, centre" for the environ- controlled manure applica- manure spillage in Ontario is realize overheard to comment on the mentally conscious in the tion is used to 1 su le- relatedrRoberts,irrigation. roil night before' s producer's get- press and other media at pre- ment chemical fertilizers, Gary Rbertr, ano d Agri p id t together. sent. He suggested that with produces better crops, better mist with Stratford Agri said CONTINUED on page 2 Gode m•a ' and w a tiger pointing won t solve wa . as well ter pro -totem n m There is a bl Being handed over with no repairs Hullett objects to road download from county BY BLAKE PATTERSON SSP News Staff Although a roads study is still being undertaken by the county to determine what in fact constitutes a county read, Huron County Council has decided to download several of its roads to the municipali- ties. At the Sept. 4 meeting of Council, 19.5 kilometres of county roadway was returned to the municipalities. Colborne Twp was given responsibility for a one kilo- metre section of County Road 37 from the Goderich airport to Highway 21, and Stephen Twp. was given 4.3 kilometres of County Road 21 from County Road 4 to Highway 4. In Howick, 2.1 kilometres of County Roads 29 and 33 were downloaded along with 10.5 kilometres of County Road 28 from Highway 87 to the Bruce County boundary. County Road 31 from Dunlop's Tomb to Highway 21 was also transferred to Colborne Twp., but before it transferred it will be legal - closed by the county. Hullett Reeve Tom nningham objected to the nsfer of a one kilometre etch of County Road 22 ich became the responsi- ty of Hullett Twp as well East and West Wawanosh ps. He said the road uld not be transferred it the county provides e needed upgrades. unningham said the road ds upgrading because a ing company is a main of the road and has stat- nless the road is main - ed year-round, it will nsider doing business in rea. that case, "Huron ty would be the loser," Cunningham. derich Reeve Bill ," rd did not agree. said it may seem but townships have to they can't dump their ms on the county. you want problems," Clifford, "the town of rich has a lot of them e'll dump them on you a Cu problem with are very applicable and pro- thousands of dollars. Manure include privt tc sewage treat- hocot water quality in the Lake vide a good base for action," storages cost tens of thou mural facilities, municipal wilt ha Huron watershed which Tom Prout, the general man- sands of dollars to construct.sewage treatment facilities, includes elevated levels of ager of the Ausable-Bayfield Many cottage lots do not wildlresurf the bacteria E. coli. But gyp- Conservation Authority, have enough space for new stock �operfe u operations; cultural live- f before cration, not finger pointing, states in a press release in the septic systems." • Sources of raw sewage ' receive will solve the problem, local wake of this meeting. agencies and provincial gov- ernment ministries agreed at a meeting Aug. 21. The group included repre- ntatives from the Huron unty'Health Unit, Huron duration of Agriculture, ron Pork Producers' ociation, Environmental Plan, area conservation 'horities, and representa- s frothe Ontario min- and gy, and agriculture food i ff min- ningham responded y pointing out most of her transferred roads ve drainage work and acing done to them the municipalities them. County Road wever, will be trans - as is." dded Hullett Twp, is to maintain the road er what, but in fair - anted the county to me care to the road, p until this point has ven little attention and ng to break down. id into the system as everyone else," said es ofenvironment rura affairs. vocal wa E. Coli isn't the only prob- lem but is currently receiving attention because it is the indicator used to determine when Lake Huron is posted as unsafe for swimming," he says. "Phosphates, nitrates and cryptosporidium are also of concern" NO STEREOTYPES 1, Farmers are as diverse as include private septic s s-.: fer ho. any other group, he adds, and tems, municipal sewage sy fened over the years he has seen a tems and agricultural li prepared change of attitude with "more stock operations; (of them) willing to report • Bnrtetia can survive in none matt neighbours who are polluting water and soil of watercou geva, w the environment. Some Terni- es and on beaches; give so ers even indicate they would • Rainfall flushes ba .. which u been gi like first offenses to include a from streams into is starti fine of S 10,000," Huron; "We pa well as Cunningham. In defence of the county's actions, Usborne Twp. Reeve Pat Down said the section of County Road 22 in question CONTINUED on page 3 The general manager says • Wave action stirs up se No one sector can finan- local studies by the conscrva- ment on the beaches and claily afford to fix the prob- tion authority and environ- bacteria in suspension in lems on their own. Aging .mens ministries of both feder. water where it is sampi municipal lagoons require al and provincial govern- • E. Coli bacteria ca improvements and expan- meats have found: eye, car, nose and t sions costing hundreds of • Sources of bacteria CONTINUED on.