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solutions at
farm rally
LUCKNOW - The Line in the
Dirt (LID) rally On February 4
drew approximately 1,000 farm-
ers and agri-related business
people who listened to a panel
of politicians, LID members and
various farm board representa-
tives.
After three hours, talks ceased
with no rytajor accomplishments.
According to the Goderich Sig-
nal -Star, the bottom line is that
there is no money in thegovern-
ment coffers to distribute to
farmers who face a serious cash
flow shortage due to depressed
commodity prices and the recent
disastrous growing and harvest
seasons.
"The only way to attempt to
redress the misfortunes of 1992
is an immediate cash infusion
from the government—federal
and provincial—directly into the
hands of the producer," said
LID's Paul Frayne.
According to Cornwall MPP,
Noble Villeneuve, who is also
the agriculture critic for the pro-
vincial Progressive Conserva-
tives, it costs more to run the
jails of Ontario than the Ministry
of Agriculture and Food is pro-
vided to operate its budget to
support the foaddoy in On-
tario.
New sewage
plant plan
FOREST - Forest is moving
ahead with the design of a new
sewage plant despite the Minis-
try of the Environment's recent
indication that the town has been
moved well down the priority
list.
According 'to the Forest Stan-
dard, town representatives met
recently with ministry officials
to seek answers to the process of
building a new:plant.. Those an,
swers are important since .the
minstry's own calculation of the
present plant's life span was in-
accurate. The ministry over-
estimated outflows from the
plant by up to 25 percent which
means the urgency, from a. ca-
pacity standpoint has dropped
significantly.
Mayer Gord Minielly said that
the town was encouraged finan-
cially to proceed with a design
for the sewage plant even
though the town's need is much
lest than thought.
Costly
landfill site
BRUSSELS - The cost of
drilling test holes to monitor the
Morris Township landfill site
could mean a charge of up $100
for each Brussels home -owner.
According to the North Huron
Citizen, the Ministry of the Envi-
ronment has advised Morris
Township that the test wells
must be drilled , a move that
could increase Brussel's share of
the landfill cost to S58,000 extra
this year from $22,000 last year
even, though Morris has reduced
Brussel's share to 50 percent
from 60 percent.
"I don't know where you're go-
ing to get the money other than
from the people. I don't know
whether its better dealing with it
and getting it over or dragging it
on," said Donna White, clerk -
treasurer at the Brussels council
meeting on February 4.
Ace goalie
dies
AYLMER - The 20 -year-old
goalie of the Aylmer Aces West-
ern Jr. B hockey team died dur-
ing the team's practice last Tues-
day evening.
According to the Journal Ar-
gus, Joe Puhr had just skated
onto the ice and was preparing
for practice when he collapsed.
CPR was applied for 12 minutes
but efforts to revive him failed.
He was pronounced dead at St.
Thomas General Hospital.
Assistant coach Jerry Seguin
said that Puhr played close to 95
percent of the their games.
"Playing that much, he was in
good shape. That's what I
would assume. It's just very un-
fortunate,"
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Grand Bend
Carnival
Continued from front page
legrini, Ron Rodenhuis, and Mike
Somerville of the Sarnia area.
The People's Choice award went
to the Grand Bend team of Jackie
Shute, Steve Shute, and Barb
Schottroff for their sculpture of
Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too.
Winners of the Chili Cook -off
were Finnegans in the commercial
category, and Wendy Heywood as
an individual. People's choice
awards went to Benders and a
Goderich team whose names wer-
en't available at press time.
The Winter Carnival committee
are still busy -trying to wrap up the
1993 event, making sure all materi-
als return from whence they came,
and all bills get paid. They don't
have much time; the 1994 Carnival
is less than 12 months away.
Citizens criticize user pay garbage plan
Continued from front page
high school that "the problem with
our time is the future is not what it
used to be".
He said that sounds dismal, but
he tries to remain optimistic.
• There are thousands of ways we
can change our behaviour "so the
future can be something we can
look forward to".
McEwan said some Exeter fami-
lies are already throwing out a bag
of garbage a week or less by con-
sciously deciding what to buy, re-
cycle and compost.
He 'said some town programs de-
serve criticism for encouraging
waste. He said the monthly large
waste collections means some peo-
ple actually go around looking for
Zurich parents,
coaches demand arena
smoking restrictions
Continued from front page.
there," he said, adding that the low
ceiling and poor ventilation aggra-
vates the problem.
"That closed in area is bad,"
agreed another delegate. "It ;just
gets blue in there sometimes."
He also argued seniors, who of-
ten have respiratory problems, take
refuge from the cold iaabe,glassed
in area and might appreciate i& be-
ing smoke-free.
One man told council some hock-
ey coaches smoke in the dressing
rooms in front of the team. He said
the association wanted to see
smoke free dressing rooms, but on
this point council remained firm
and said such a policy was not en-
forceable by the village, but was
best handled by the association.
The argument also arose that
smoking in the stands might be un-
safe due to the wooden structure.
"Does your insurance company
say people can smoke in those
stands?" was asked of council.
"They haven't said you can't," re-
plied Fisher, but later commented
that at one time there was a smok-
ing ban in the stands for that very
reason.
Councillor Barb Jeffrey, in the
position of being both chairman of
the recreation board and president
of the Zurich Minor Athletic Asso-
ciation, said she agreed that the as-
sociation should police its own
coaches in the dressing rooms, but
added she too felt the warm room
area should be smoke free.
"If you want to smoke you can go
[into the stands)," she said. "There
is fresh air out on the ice surface."
Councillor Marg Deichert re-
mained the most -opposed to any
kind of smoking restrictions. She
argued that making the arena
smoke free would cause problems
for the Bean Festival, the Fair, and
ball tournaments that rent out the
ice surface in the off season. She
asked how it could be fair to ban
smoking in the arena, but not in the
auditorium.
Cheryl Feagan from the Huron
County Health Unit posed an inter-
esting question to council. Since
Correction:
council voted
against
stipend raise
As reported in last week's paper,
Usborne Township council ap-
proved a 260 per hour pay increase
for municipal staff. However, it
was incorrectly reported that coun-
cil awarded themselves a two per-
cent stipend increase.
While the motion for the stipend
increase was brought before coun-
cil, it failed to pass the vote.
The Times .Advocate regrets the
error.
.pouncil agreed the arena was a mu-
nicipal workplace, she asked why it
did not have a designated smoking
area that was no more than 25 per-
cent of the building area?
"A lot of places couldn't comply
with the ventilation requirements,
and so went smoke free," comment-
ed Feagan.
Council did sot respond to that
:question.
Later after the delegation left,
council agreed that some action
should be taken.
"These people want to see it now,
not a month from now," said Jef-
frey, noting the minor hockey sea-
son would soon be over.
Laporte agreed that a decision
should be made that night, and
argued the glassed -in warm room
should be smoke free.
"I agree behind the glass should
be -non-smoking. It's a closed -off
area and there's nowhere for the
smoke to go. If there's anywhere in
The arena to be non-smoking, it
should be there," he said.
Laporte suggested eventually the
entire arena could be phased into a
smoke-free building.
"It didn't work in Blyth," retorted
Deichert, referring to the recent de-
cision to restore smoking in that
village's arena.
Eventually, council voted to post
the warm room as smoke free.
Deichert insisted on a recorded
vote and registered the only objec-
tion.
"I'm an )ex-smoker, and I still
want my smokers rights," she
joked.
things to throw away.
"If we are allowed to be waste-
ful, we probably will be because
it's human nature," said McEwan.
Dave Wilson from Bluewater
Recyling agreed that if certain
kinds of waste are to be banned
from the Exeter landfill, then
someone must offer an alternative
to dispose of them. He said pilot
projects for the collection and recy-
cling of cardboard and boxboard
have gone well in three municipali-
ties, and all Bluewater members
will enjoy the full service by April.
Rick Hundey, town administra-
tor, said that the waste manage-
ment plan was "tossed and turned
about for several months...it comes
down to voluntary versus mandato-
ry."
He said all came to the conclu-
sion that a system is needed that
provides an incentive to reduce the
cost of disposing of waste.
Hundey reminded the audience
that the town landfill's first phase
was already at capacity. If the sec-
ond phase is to be opened, it will
cost about $20,000 for hydrogeo-
logical studies, the funds for which
the town hopes there will be pro-
vincial grants.
Huntley said the main focus of
the user pay system, including the
$2 bag tags, was to give credit to
those who make the effort to reduce
waste. debated by council
"It's not fair to expect everyone to
voluntarily reduce waste...in fact
those . who .do .reduce, subsididi vEXEThR The outcome of last he is still opposed to the user -pay
those who do not," said Hut-Alenaday's public meeting on the concept.
the -present system. _;'';alum management plan for the Other ideas considered'by-coun-
, As for the new plan, the adminis- -town' is not yet known. Council are cil were "garbage police" to track
stili mulling over what direction the down those who throw out bags
overall program will take, given the without the tags, a ban on garbure-
kind of response from the public. tors to prevent citizens from wash -
At Monday's council meeting, ing their garbage down the drain, a
council members went over a 17- proposal to require apartment build -
question checklist to Dement their ings to provide composters, a ban
reasoning behind the waste man- on out-of-town garbage arriving at
agement plan. Some of the ques- the landfill, and a need to find a
tions revealed a divided council. way to not penalize those who are
While some councillors still be- physically unable to carry a full
lieve the $2 per tag garbage collec- garbage bag to the curb.
tion program is the best way to pro- The public works committee will
vide an incentive to reduce waste, be getting the first crack at finaliz-
at least two councillors favour giv- ing the policies, and -a more clear-
ing away the first 52 tags free. cut proposal should be available at
Councillor Ben Hoogenboom said the next council meeting.
she puts out one bag a week in
front of her Main St. house and
there are four or five bags there by
morning.
"I don't know where it comes
from," she said.
"Maybe it comes from Grand
Bend," commented a man.
Another resident said the $2 tag
may not be fair to some senior citi-
zens who can't lift a bag filled to
capacity. He said his neighbour
typically carries three half-filled
bags to the curb. .
Jim Darling, operator of Darlings
Food Market, agreed there was al-
ready a problem with misdirected
garbage.
He said his store's dumpster al-
ways gets garbage "dumped from
elsewhere in town because they
know we'll get rid of it."
"They're going to say 'I can't pay
$4 for garbage this week, I'm going
to dump it'," predicted Darling,
who also claimed virtually truck-
loads of garbage are by roadways
in the Hay Swamp because resi-
dents found the landfill closed.
He said many residents don't
have the same level of responsibili-
ty
council is expecting of them.
"I think we're heading for disas-
ter, absolutely," said Darling.
Another man agreed, saying
while most will pay the $2 for tags,
others will avoid theisystem and ex-
pect others to "pick up the cost".
With that came a suggestion that
council abandon the $2 tags and in-
stead allow a maximum number of
bags to be set at the curb, as, has
Bayfield.
A woman said she wanted to be
sure that council's rebate on gar-
bage collection would reflect the
percentage of taxes paid. House-
holds with high assessments should
get a larger rebate, she said.
This will be a point of contention
since some others have argued that
the rebate should not reflect assess-
ment, but be offered equally to all
ratepayers and apartment tenants.
First 52 tags free?
Final waste policy
is still being
trator said the waste committee and
councils are sure its principles are
sound, but will likely need some
fine tuning before the July 1 intro-
duction.
•
In response to a question from
the audience, Hundey said other
Ontario municipalities using a $2
bag tag system include Ganna-
noque, Palmerston, and Grand
Bend, but there are others.
One man asked what would hap-
pen if a neighbour put an untagged
bag with someone else's garbage -
would it be picked up?
"The bag will be left there, and
people know who's left what out
and people will have to work it out
in the neighbourhood," said Hun-
dey, to which many responded.an-
grily.
One man said such a policy
would "pit neighbour against neigh-
bour".
One woman said she already has
garbage arriving at her curbside
from unknown sources. She said
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