Times Advocate, 1994-10-19, Page 2Page 2
Times -Advocate, October 19, 1994
IN THE NFWL
Fall Colour Festival
Above, some 82 people joined a "fire and deer hike"
through the Pinery Forest Saturday afternoon as part of the
Lambton Fal! Colour Festival.
At top right, Carol Coleman of Kippen tries on a joker's hat
at the Lambton Museum Craft Show and says "it's me ".
The show offered your heart's desire in scented candles,
stuffed cows, and even engraved brass plates for your
sneakers.
Below right, Charolotte Brennan of Crediton looks at the
latest decorator's rage, twig furniture made by Daniel
Hughes of Port Franks. Hughes said he uses,only Lambton
County willow branches for his work.
Public meeting may settle dispute
Will Hay's office be impressive enough? asks group
ZURICH - The people behind an appeal to
block construction of the new Hay Township
office will come forward with their concerns
at a public meeting this evening.
Glen Hayter, representing a group of people
who signed a petition in the spring asking Hay
Township to build its new office in the town-
ship, not Zurich, will meet with the councils of
Hay and Zurich to dispute the minor variance
granted the new building.
The meeting is part of a "dispute resolution
mechanism" of the Ontario Municipal Board
to clear up property conflicts without needing
a full hearing.
"Maybe we have some false assumptions,"
said Hayter, speaking from his Clinton office
Monday, but he said there are some concerns
he wants cleared up before withdrawing the
appeal.
He said the minor variance allowing the
building to be closer to the road, "means the
building won't fit on the lot according to the
zoning," said Hayter.
"Municipal buildings are supposed to be im-
pressive buildings," he said, pointing out plans
to put the Hay office close to the sidewalk
doesn't allow for landscaping.
"It's going to look like a core office build-
ing," he said.
Hayter admitted his group, represented
through a London lawyer, is battling against
"two well -funded organizations" [Hay Town-
ship and Zurich].
However, he hopes to have former MPP
Jack Riddell chairing the meeting which starts
at 7 p.m. in the Zurich Community Centre Au-
ditorium.
"There's more to this than a minor variance
should entail," said Hayter.
Hay council's reeve Lionel Wilder has said
that the township purchased the land beside
the present municipal office about nine years
ago expressly for building a new office. The
old building is slated for demolition to open
up new parking. Wilder also noted the plans
for the office would make it no closer to the
road than other commercial buildings on the
same street.
Last week, when the identity of those mak-
ing the appeal was still unknown, Wilder said
any delay in finalizing plans for the building
could cost the township its $180,217 in fund-
ing from the Canada/Ontario infrastructure
plan.
New hazardous waste I
collection on trial Sunday
at Bluewater Recycling
As long as it's not
radioactive, they'll
get rid of it for you
HURON PARK - This Sunday morning, Blue -
water Recycling steps up its fight to keep hazardpus
materials out of household garbage.
A hazardous waste disposal centre is being set up
from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. in the parking lot of Blue -
water Recycling's Huron Park building. The ex-
change is a step up from paint exchanges in pre-
vious years.
"What we've found is the response to the paint ex-
change is growing every year," said Dave Wilson at
Bluewater.
Since bigger paint exchanges meant more costs,
Wilson said it made sense to upgrade to a full haz-
ardous waste program for household products.
Paint will now be collected for complete re-
cycling, as opposed to mixing it up for use as gener-
ic beige or browns.
Bluewater will also be collecting for proper dis-
posal a variety of household cleaners, disinfectants,
floor and furniture polishes, household batteries,
pool cleaners, paints and stains, automotive fluids,
pesticides and insecticides, p.nd even flea collars and
sprays. If this seems like an extensive list of what is
considered "hazardous", Wilson says there is even
more.
"There's running shoes that are hazardous waste
now," said Wilson. "The ones that Tight up."
No, Bluewater won't be collecting those worn out
sneakers this time around.
Hazardous items Bluewater won't be taking in-
clude PCBs, radioactive waste, biomedical or path-
ological waste, and no explosives nor ammunition.
In oase you think you couldn't possibly have any
radioactive waste around the house, consider that
smoke detectors use a small amount of radioactive
material. Wilson advises you contact Bluewater for
more information if you have any of the items not
being collected on Sunday.
There is no cost to residents of Bluewater member
municipalities to use the hazardous waste collec-
tion.
Bluewater will be paying Hotz Environmental
about $25,000 to collect the waste for proper dis-
posal or recycling from four locations over two
days.
"It's cost all the way," said Wilson, noting that the
material collected has no value.
However, Wilson stressed that he would like to
see as much of the material brought in as possible,
keeping the chemicals out of local landfills.
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Letters to the editor
Town clock
out of whack
"... it gives the town
a bad image when
travellers look up to
check the time."
Dear Editor:
Although I have only lived in
Exeter for five years, I have
come to like and be proud of,
our little town. Therefore it dis-
turbs me to walk down Main
Street and glance up at the
town clock to check the time
and realize that it bears no re-
semblance to the real time.
Do you think it possible that
the town could find somebody
responsible, to be responsible
for maintaining the correct
time on the town clock? To me,
it gives the town a bad image
when travellers look up to
check the time. If the clock is
stopped completely, at least it
will be right twice a day.
Yours sincerely,
John Sanderson,
Exeter
Exeter not
backing down
from battle
with county
County council pulled the plug on •
Exeter's planning authority while its
lawyer was out of the country
EXETER - The legal battle with
the county to regain control of plan-
ning matters has cost Exeter some
$3,484.62 already, but the town
isn't about to back down from what
one councillor described as a "slap
in the face".
On October6, county council
voted to revoke the authority of Ex-
eter and Clinton to administer their
own lot severances, or the "consent
function". The county's action was
in response to the two towns re-
fusing to charge a new user -fee
schedule for the use of county plan-
ning department services.
Reeve Bill Mickle presented a
letter to council Monday evening
from lawyer John Judson, pointing
I out that negotiations with the
county's lawyer Dan Murphy over
the matter were at a stalemate while
Murphy was in Europe.
The county passed its bylaw re-
voking the consent function before
Murphy could examine Exeter's
counter proposal to resolve the is-
sue.
"[It was] something that was un-
warranted...and should have had
proper procedure completed before
the county took action," Mickle
told council.
He noted county council had
asked that lawyers, not politicians,
negotiate the planning fee issue, but
acted before negotiations took
place.
Town administrator Rick Hundey
told council instructions have been
given to Judson to have the
county's bylaw "quashed". •
Mickle said the county's bylaw
offers no substantial reason for
withdrawing the consent function
from Exeter and Clinton, and he
said it puts into question the sincer-
ity of the county when entering into
agreements, citing the 1983 agree-
ment to grant consent, and a 1991
agreement over planning services.
Councillor Robert Drummond
asked if Clinton will share legal
costs with Exeter to fight the
county. Hundey said the sugges-
tion has been made to their council.
Mayor Bruce Shaw said if a
"moreharmonious" resolution to
the impasse isn't found, then the
town will have to seek an in-
junction.
"We aren't collecting any [plan-
ning] fees, for certain," said Shaw.
"It's a real slap in our face," said
councillor Dave Urlin, who argued
that the time for peaceful nego-
tiation was over. "I say we just go
right after them...why stand back?
They've already insulted, us as far
as I'm concerned."
"We're not backing down, there's
no doubt about that. They've got
the message," said Shaw, who then
described the problem as not sc
much a struggle between Exeter
and the county, as a struggle be
tween the county and its plannint
board.
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