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control on Concession 12 and
12, Hay, and hit a ditch. A
passenger, Helen Blackwell,
Hensall received a
broken leg. Damage was estim-
ated at $450 by Constable Bill
Lewis. '
On Saturday at 11:15 p.m.
a car driven by Madeline Rau,
R, R.2, Zurich, went out of
control on Highway No 21 and
hit the ditch. Constable Don
Mason estimated damage at
$350.
On Wednesday at 9.30 a.m.
Pat McKeever, R,R.2, Dash-
wood, reported his truck stolen
during the night. At 2 p.m.
Constable Joe O'Driscoll, Exet-
er Police Department, recover-
ed the vehicle at the Exeter
Co -Op, Constable Bill Glass -
ford is investigating.
Mx. and Mrs, Morley Witmera
of Detroit, were weekend visit-
ors at the home of Mr. and
Mrs, Ted Steinbach.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold and
Bryan, of Toronto visited their
mother, , Mrs. Nancy Koehler
Saturday and Sunday, also
calling on Mrs. Pearl Koehler
and Mr, and Mrs. Leonard Erb,
of Hensall.
Members of the Zurich -
Grand Bend Figure Skating
Club, Julie Mock passed her
Fiesta Tango and Willow Waltz;
Darlene Oesch passed Swing
Dance, and Linda Shipley,
Swing Dance. Missy Sandilaads
received a national badge.
These girls attended Spring
Figure Skating School in
Clinton,
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ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS
Ontario Hydro has held inter-
views with Huron county people
to find out if they approved or
disapproved the new power
station, Huron County. However
they did not give any inform-
ation as to the consequences a
power plant would have on the
jobs and the taxes of the people
in Huron's towns and villages,
from Wingham through coder-
ich to the south.
As a result, if my informat-
ion is correct, towns' people
were generally in favour of a
power plant. I will give here
some of the drawbacks that a
power plant will have on our
owns as experienced by people
in other areas who were sudden-
ly confronted with great indust-
rial development, which they
initially welcomed with a
great deal of joyous expectation
In Bruce county about 8, 000
people work on the Douglas
Point project. Let's assume
that in Huron County it would
be 4, 000 workers. The average
family being three and one-
half persons, it would require
housing, schools, recreation
facilities, restaurants and store
expansion, sewers and water for
14, 000 people.
llydro would pay some of
this, bur the greater burden will
fall on you and me. The London
Free Press reported that a belat-
ed study in Bruce County shows
that it will cost the surrounding
municipalities $24.5 million.
The study says that the Douglas
Point station will have an adv-
erse effect on nearby municip-
alities for the cost of providing
additional services.
Our County Council would
be well advised to initiate a
similar study so we, the tax-
payers, willhave a better idea
if there are any benefits in
this type of development.
When the plant is completed
there will be at the most 1, 000
people permanently employed.
The cost incurred for the
3, 000 families that leave will
all be wasted and the empty
facilities have to be abandoned
or kept up with your and mine,
tax money.
Another side effect felt in
Bruce County was the closing
of small plants who couldn't
compete with the wages paid
the power plant workers. As a
result many were laid off and,
in the case of older workers,
(45 and up) very difficult to
find a new job.
If this Huron plant were
started in the next five years,
it would affect workers who are
now in their late thirties. This
again will hit your pocketbook,
for that is where welfare is
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corning from. I know that real
estate people will probably frowi
on this letter, for they are the
only ones who stand to profit
by industrial expansion of this
kind.
There will also be a few far-
mers who will receive prem-
ium prices for their land. This
THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1974
however, will be limited to a
very few whose land is needed
for the plant site and for the
needed subdivisions for 4, 000
families,
if it goes like Bruce, there
will be a ban on development
within five miles of the plant.
This locks this land in agricult-
ure and the farmer who owns it
is locked in a low price. Prob-
ably lower than before, for who
wants the risk of a nuclear
plant or the smoke from a coal
fired plant on his doorstep?
I could bring forth many
more rrguments, all against a
power plant in Huron County.
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