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Wingham Advance-Times, 1981-10-28, Page 2Times, October '+Grant Cb'}sholin does not like to be talon Three and a hailf years agog he had urea for maldehyde fain ingdation installed in, his nekliow- area liortie., s- Mat'clx:. it was reMevedfrom one Mem and he intends to do the rest of the house within the next few months. But instead of sitting back and licking his wounds, Mr. Chisholm got on the .move and formed a HUFFI group for Huron County. HUFFI stands for Homeowners with Urea Formaldehyde Foam Insulation, .and many such groups have formed lately in counties and municipalities all across Canada,. They are .demanding just compensation, from the federal govertlment for their at costs due to Urea fortnaio. dehyde foam inaulatiori, Urea formaldehyde friar" IS 'a eheinical'rezain .which• is inserted into 'the wall cavities of a,gme. Many Canadians took advantage of the federal gbvernment.s Canadian Home Insulation Program (CHIP) grant system and had the fob installed, only to suffer rrr.itatron ofskis"and respiratory estenn Una to find their homes have no market value. Earlier this years the federal government bunted urea formaldehyde."foam insulation. The ClAshohns had their home insulated in February of 1978 during a period of particularly cold weather. It has since been reported that the **Shoo .adtaitdd never have been i tolled : t1u . extremely cold or extremely -- hot weather, ... Mr, Chisholm explained 'that hp had noted. how in splatron had kredadcd fuel_ consumption 0.thethomes, so he decided to inSitlate. He said he chose urea formaldehyde insulation because it sounded simple: ";drilla itollk,4910An4,little_fill u the cavities With, foai'n. So the'Chisholtns had -their home 'insulated. That first winter they noticed a reduction in their fuel bill, but the second year, their lining room was as cold as ever and the fuel bill was on the rise as well. When theyopened the walls to try to discover what the problem was, they found the. ini. intro: badly°and d a from the - e the . ,red► foam 140 140 living- rpmand fiber. glass Batts rnstta ed• . Mrs. -Chisholm saidit we an "awfully expensive and pretty messy" undertaking. Mr. Chisholm estimated •that it cost them $1,690 to have the one room:done over. They paid out approxi- mately $3,500 to have the foam installed in the first place and received a CHIP- grant of $350, Mr. Chisholm said he may end up paying close to $6,000 to have all. the insulation removed. Mrs. Chisholm said her family did not experience any serious effects from the Eadie Bridge tender awarded to London firm for $355,835 Turnberry Township re- ceived ceived nine.. tenders for construction of the Eadie Bridge at a.meeting held last Tuesd evening it Bluevale. Council decided to accept the tender of Maloney and Diegel of. London for $355,835 80,x, subject• to the approval of'thn.Ministry of Transportation"'and Com- munications 'and the - engineering firm. Ken Dunne of B. M. Ross end, Associates of Goderich, gineers, , attended the meeting to review the ten- ders with council`: The ten- ders were for construction of the bridge only. The town- ship ' will do all the ap- piroachee and. -road work associated with the : bridge. Mr. Dune's. firm had estitinated -the. cost of the bridge 'construction at ap- proximately $379,000:00. The tenders ranged from a high firm to discover what ex - bid of. $469,000 to the perience it has had in con- $355,835.80 bid of Maloney struction of bridges of this and . Diegel. size, how long it has been ' Mr.. Dunn commented operating, its _job references there were six firms slightly and its financial situation. over or below the engineer's He stressed the Eadie estimated cost and added, Bridge will be a complicated "That's good bidding." construction because it will bean a curve. Mr. Dunn said After checking for errors the contractor cotild run into and omissionsin the tenders, problems with the con - Mr. Dunn reported back to struction and added, It's no council that, save for a few bridge to start on. very minor 'mistakes, "There's no reason to say" everything seemed to„be in anything disparaging about order. them;” ,Mr. Dunn com- He said he was familiar ;;> ie lie . "We just 'don't with all of the firms with the <kiiiovii. exception of Maloney and "Thebridgeis going to Diegel, but added he could take good forming and good find no evidence of . -ut - expertise," he had noted balanced bidding in the . earlier. tender. -I, Owen King Construction of Nevertheless, Mr. Dunn , Walkerton placed the second advised council that a =lowest tender of $370,158.50. complete check be run on the . Reeve : Brian McBurney Whifechurch Personals Me. and Mrs. Don Hayes of Livonia, Michigan, visited With Mr. and MrS. Fred Tiffin from Monday to Wednesday. • Mrs.. Gertrude Tiffin visited ;with Mr. and Mrs. Tiffin and Mr; • and Mrs. Hayes on Tuesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Robert McKee of Collingwood visited Monday to Wed- nesday with Rev. and Mrs. John Bell. Mrs. Agnes Farrier returned home on Tuesday from visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Fred Davis and family of La Salle. Mr. and Mrs. Van Dam of Inverhuron were Tuesday visitors with Rev. and Mrs. John Bell. 'Mr. and Mrs. Don Hayes of Livonia were Tuesday af- ternoon callers on Mr. and Mrs. Victor Emerson. The public school pupils had a holiday on Friday as it r was a teacher's development day. ,Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Mundell, spent Wednesday afternoon in Whitechurch withVictor Emerson.' Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Emerson, Darlene ',and Brenda, of St. Catherines spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Victor Emerson. Mr. and Mrs. Hector Purdon of Strathroy spent the weekend with Mrs. Robert Mowbray. Mr. and. Mrs. Lawrence Henderson of Guelph, Mrs. Wealtha Henderson of Brantford and Mrs. Esther Lewis of Drayton were Friday visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Tiffin. Mr. and Mrs. Donald Gaunt, Jennifer and Graeme of Chatham, spent the weekend with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Pardon. Agnes Farrier spent a few days last week with Mrs. Ted Rice of Lucknow after the death of Mr. Rice. This . muni cxiFFrrH Wroxeter Personals MRS Mrs. Richard Sage, Mr. and Mrs. Stan Parker, all of Baltimore and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sage, Listowel, visited recently at Ross Toman's home. Mr, and Mrs. Edward (Bud) Stewart and Leah of l-Iarriston and Mrs. Gordon Underwood, Gorrie, were supper guests with Mr. and Mrs. Vern Clark on Sunday. Steven Dvernichuk and friend of Toronto, Robert and Judy Chaison and family of Ingersoll, were weekend guests with Mr. and Mrs. Alan Baitley and family and Mrs_ Doris Trapp. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Isa- belle, Jennifer and Chris- topher, Mississauga, visited Saturday with the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Clement. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Millen, Kitchener, Mr. and Mrs. I3oyne Sage, third line of Wallace, were Sunday visitors with their niece and sister, Mrs. Ross Toman, and Mr. Taman. Mrs. Clara Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Barry Jones and David of Thornhill visited Mrs. Allan Griffith on Saturday and, accompanied by the latter, also visited Miss Margaret Griffith and Mrs. George Griffith in Brussels. Sympathy is extended to Miss Jean Sperling, nieces and families, Gorrie, in the passing of the former's father, Harvey Sperling, a the weekend. community extends its sympathy to Mrs. Rice. ' • Mr. and 'Mrs. Dave Gibb, Albert Coultes, Agnes Farrier and Mr. and Mrs.. Fred . Tiffin attended the Carlo -McDowell wedding reception in Blyth .on Satur- • day. night. We are sorry to report that Amy Falconer had the • misfortune of breaking her collar bone . last Friday evening. She is now at home after having the break taped up at the Wingham and; District Hospital. • Rev. Martin of Gorrie conducted communion services on Sunday at the United Church. Hugh Sinnamon and Mr. and Mrs: E: W. Beecroft visited on the weekend with Mr: and Mrs. Rex Richar- dson of Livonia and called on Mrs. Oliver Kirk, also of Livonia. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Rintoul visited with Mr. and Mrs. Brad Speiran ' of Brussels on Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Elliott and Karen were Sunday visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Parrott and family of Goderich_ Karen Beecroft visited with Mr. and Mrs. Ron Beecroft and family on the weekend while her parents visited in Livonia, Michigan. Congratulations . to Mrs. Steve Irwin, the former Clara Milligan, who graduated recently from Lougheed Business College in Kitchener with a bank training diploma. Mr. and Mrs. Russell McGuire visited Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Sampson of Meaford. They attended an open house Saturday evening for Rev. Chris McNichol who celebrated his 100th birthday Oct. 25. Congratulations to Mrs. Dora Uuldriks Who celebrated a birthday last Wednesday. asked Mr. Dunn if, for the approximate $14,000 dif- ference in bids, it would not be better to go with a con- tractor with whom council and the engineering firm are familiar. Mr. Dunn was quick to discourage such a move because, "If you don't take a low tender, there's always flack." He added it can he difficult to get MTC approval if the low tender is not • ac- cepted. Councillor John Cox and Deputy_Ree've Doug Fortune agreed with Mr. ,Dunn that the low tender must be ac- cepted. After some discussion, council members agreed to accept the tender of Maloney and Diegel for construction of the Eadie Bridge, sub7eet to the approval of the MTC and B. M. Ross and Associ- ates. Mr. Dunn said he would rue a check on the 'company and report his findings to Clerk -Treasurer Dorothy Kelly by the end of the week. Still with the bridge, -Road Superintendent Ross . Nich- olson reported to council that the, township will owe Mac Eadie for 66 rods of • fence allowance for construction of• the bridge. It was decided at the last meeting of council to pay Mr. Eadie $18 a rod. Council received a bill from B. M. Ross and Associates for $28,414.65 in engineering fees for the, Eadie Bridge. The bill is up to andincluding the month of October, 1981. Mr..Cox asked Mr. Dunn if there is any sort of protec- tive surface which could be put on the )Lower Town Bridge. He said the bridge often has ice on it on cold mornings and commented, "It's not safe at all." • Mr. Dunn suggested sand pad asphalt or a tar and chip surface, since asphalt would be too heavy for such a small bridge. I Bob Burchill of RR 3, Wingham, was given the job of cleaning snow off the Lower Town Bridge this winter. Mrs. Brian Leachman sent a letter to council requesting a stop sign at Alex Mac - Donald's corner in Lower Town. 'Mrs. Leachman said she feels the corner is quite hazardous and is afraid that someone is going to get hurt. Council members decided against putting up the sign because they said they felt it is not necessary. Reeve McBurney and Mrs. Kelly signed an agreement with the village of Teeswater to give them second call on fires in Turiiberry Township at an hourly rate of $300. Turnberry council paid $793.83 for materials to fix one side of the roof of the Bluevale Hall. Morris Township provided funds to fix the other side several years ago. The next meeting of Turnberry council is scheduled for Nov. 3 at 7:30 p.m. at the municipal office in Bluevale. lit said thi t ddifad pputrhothlieic e h howiittthderthenoa rlevels of form The provincial Ov erament has set the danger level at .05 parts per +on of tformaldehyde gas al government's fret' is 0.1,parts Per rnillii The° nspector tested the atmospheric levels of for il4.ali p room iron #yde,-gas by running a t. fat the centre of each iehted. Bund readings for cetaitf ,'levels of for- maldehyde gas in every room he`tested: the upstairs bedreini n .05 ppm ; the downstairs _ bedroom, .05 ppm the kitchen and the diningroo'm, .05 ppm; the livingroom, (from Which the ins ation had already been res oved)..08 ppm; and the sun oo ,t,0.1 ppm, a room which as' net even insulated with urea formaldehyde foaiin. Mr. Chisholm said he intends to have 'the house retested by a doctor from the University of Western On- tario. Shortly .after the Chis- holms 44, the insulation removed 4 from their own home, the:.top blew off the urea. fiCitrneldehyde foam insulation' question. Mr. Chisho)m ,;;ready newspaper' reports and saw on television that •.homes .. had ;been devalued and many people were suffering. He had.. heard about a man by . the dame..of B : a from Mississauga, who ils e ground force behind -111e HUFFI movement. Chisholm contacted • Mr. Bremner,, a former.. foam insulation installer, and a meeting was scheduled for Sept. 9 in Lucknow to form a HUFFI group for Huron County. Mr. Chisholm reported that apprQxiMately 130 people atteniled`the. meeting and 90 peri cent of those people hada; urea CO dehyde foam insdlationr their homes. Mr. Chisholm was elected)president of the group at the Meeting.' Since then hebas attended several such meetings—and has learned :a great deal more about the situation. He added there are people in Public meeting . Cohan * • ' Mr. Cox ' stttdc with tree stumps and:debriS sitting in the water. , Ms. woodland admitted her firm had not looked at the mill pond because it was "not within the realms of the study" Mr. Cox said the area has potential, bit not the way it is: littered 'with, shrubbery, dead trees logs. Turnberr Reeve Brian McBurney asked Mr. Howard howw much money has been sent on the. study so far. Mr. Howard replied . the authority does not have that much to spend, but said about $4,000 has been spent ' on the study se far and it will not be complete until the master plan is drawp up. `'Do we (Turnberry Township) get the honor of picking up that 15 per cent again?" Reeve McBurney asked. lands.w He as referring to the 15 per cent levied against the Township of Turnberry the purchase a the floodplain Mr. Howard answered that most of the users 'of the recreational area will rime from the ttiwf of Wingham and therei f! the town should pay thelart share. Mr. Howard concluded by saying the f should be completed by y' e�ar'S end and presented to the �s _of Wingham and `i°etir<`rllierry Township. ?ea . tmalde . insulation approv progra * Chis ole lI itinap! as illIrrre One" s mage .7 ting the tnsuation viii. market x,tlte first ;place. dor. exaxttple�;. ta,Ge-�f'we agoHOFt ��Toronto, sever , .. HUFFI members testifiy d` at a hearing against liftaing=.the ban on urea formaldehyde .. foam insulation;. Mr. Chisholm said the insulation has not . been proven dangerous . yet because itdoesn't cause cancer in white rats. The federal government has assured HUFFI mem- bers that they are third on the government's list of priorities; right behind the constitution . and the economy. Mr. Chisholm is confident the government will accept and rectify its -mistake. But he said if it's not enough, HUFFI will reject it, and added lite group is Prepared to bring suit against the government' if. its demands are not met.. The group wants fair • compensation for home- owners Who have had the insulation installed and have suffered . ill effects. In Mr. Chisholm's case, he hopes to get back his original--in- Vestment for installing the i elation plus be Atom - ted' tor tomted'for having it 1e said he does not blame the installers; but instead feels the fault lieswith the :government and the chemical companies who allowed an.:' improperly- tested product to be put on the market. HUFFI members . have been assured by government sources that they can expect an answer :on the Urea ' .for maidehyde foam insulation question by late November. • Grant Chisholm hopes. 'to • get that answer soon. "We've all been taken." GRANT CHISHOLM of Lucknow understands the plight of people who have had urea forma/dehyde foaminsulation 1i'installed in their , homes and thensullerer th e conse- quences, izecause he did too, He is the president Of the newly. -formed -H EFI,group in Huron Gdunty, HUFFI standingfof Homeowners:with Urea Fotmaidelt*rde:Foamin- sulation. J. ', ..' 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