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535-03 Page 212r 60 Oxford farmers acceX� WOODSTOCK (Bureau) — About 60 Oxford County farmers have accepted a Union Gas offer of $1,200 an acre for land the company wants for a proposed Inger- soll-to-Tillsonburg natural gas pipeline. A $1,000-an-acre offer was rejected in December. 1, `i 1-1 About 3,000 acres are involved along a 21i/2-mile route from Ingersoll pumping station through South-West Oxford Town- ship west of the Dereham-Norwich town - line and through the southwest corner of Norwich Township to Potter's Road gate station in Tillsonburg. The pipeline will provide more gas to Tillsonburg and the tobacco curing oper- ations there and in the Delhi area. The pipeline is expected to be complet- ed by the end of the year at a cost of $2.5 million. OMB permits severance ov"O� for it-loftiplement business SALFORD — TheoOntario Municipal , `�he OMB dismissed an objection from Board has ruled in favor of a Salford ar- a nearby home owner. ea farmer who wants to sever about five "It is our opinion that under the cir- acres from his 54-acre farm for a farm cumstances we cannot in conscience jus- implement sales and service outlet. tify eliminating a necessary service to Ernest Bruggeman, supported by an the farming community because some Oxford County Land division committee urbanite has chosen to build a residential decision granting the severance, won his dwelling in the farming community." case against an appeal by nearby proper- ty owners. -- -------------- The main complaint came from the owner of a trailer camp across the road from the property on Highway 19 be- tween Dereham Township Concessions 2 J s t Reservoir opened TILL ONBURG he town's million - gallon, ,!$265,000 reservoir was officially . opened \Honda by Public Utilities Commission c airman W A. Hollister. The reservoir, on Highway 19 about a mile north of the town, has been in opera- tion for a month, and 3, who said unsightliness and noise s, litn.2 +�-1 / `11' 1 ._ 0_ 3 0 4 _k.t j from the commercial farm implement outlet would devalue his property. The OMB said the trailer park itself might be a legal non -conforming use of -£ cJO t7126 land generally zoned for agriculture and the proposed implement business would NNOW be of service to the surrounding agricul- tural community At present, the OMB decision noted, the closest servicing and repair shop for farm machinery is about 10 miles away in Ingersoll. awardsgarbage jt I )b /q11V DEREHAM CENTRE (Bureau) — ment ministry last ear South-West Oxford Township council awarded a contract Tuesday for garbage pickup in Beachville and the northern part of the township to R. B. Burnett Sanitation, RR 1, Courtland. Burnett will take over collection from Brian Owen Sanitation Ltd. of Wood- stock, one of three unsuccessful bidders for the contract. After the meeting, township clerk Hel- en Prouse said the area will be the first. to be serviced by the township using tax dollars. Garbage in all other parts of the township is picked up by private contrac- tors or taken to dumps or a central depot by residents, she said. The township decided to enter the gar- bage collection business last month when Owen Sanitation announced it would no longer service customers in the Ingersoll and Sweaburg areas and the Dorland subdivision near Beachville because of increased costs caused when the Denby landfill site was closed by the environ- y Tenders were called after residents complained to council about mounds of garbage which were accumulating. Mrs. Prouse said Burnett, who wwi l-he gin in early_Fe r ,will ser icy a about 1,000 customers at a rate of $28 a year per home and $30 a year for businesses. Mayor Louis Barrett said the increase in collection rates for Beachville resi- dents would be "sizeable, almost dou- ble," but was not sure how much the cost would increase in other areas where the township would administer garbage pick- up. Barrett said Burnett's contract will run for a year and then be reviewed by coun- cil. "If people are satisfied with his serv- ice he'll likely be kept indefinitely." Coun. Harry Armstrong suggested stu- dying a takeover of all garbage collection in the township next year. Township -wide pick up, he said, could save ratepayers money and allow council to close its de- pot on the sixth concessions Neilsonclosing Beach plant' r • �` years 5 ;,4-4-13 - r 97 5 BEACHVILLE (Bureau) — The Wil- liam Neilson Company Ltd. Creamery of Toronto is closing its 64-year-old Beach- ville operation, the plant's manager con- firmed Thursday George Borenovich said the head office told the 21 employees earlier this month that it will close the plant Noy„ y,10 be- cause "it is not a viable operation."/ f 7k Most of the plant's equipment is 30 to 40 years old and it would cost $750,000 to modernize the plant, Borenovich said. "Neilson feels it just can't invest three quarters of a million dollars." The plant, which produces chocolate bars, confectioneries and ice cream, is Neilson's only plant outside the Toronto area. He said the company has offered jobs in Toronto to some of the employees and will try to find work locally for the rest. He said the three -storey building will probably be demolished because it is on land leased from CP Rail. Council to purchase 2oo•., DEREHAM CENTRE (Bureau) — South-West Oxford Township council has agreed to buy the former Mount Elgin Public School from the Oxford County board of education, township clerk- Prouse says. The property will be used as a park by Mount Elgin residents and the vacant building will be torn down. The commu- nity is leasing the property The township will buy the property for $15,000 with 25 per cent of the money coming from Mount Elgin, the clerk says. About half the cost will be paid with provincial grants, Work started on Tillsonburg museum addition TILLSONBURG — Construction has begun on a $31,692 addition to the Tillson- burg District Historical Museum on Ross Street. Al:,�,, Z 8 -� t f' I? The addition, to be completed by the end of March, is being built by Left- brooke Construction Ltd. of Tillsonburg. Its 1,006 square feet will provide space for museum programs such as arts and crafts displays and for crafts lessons. The museum board has received an $8,- 000 Wintario grant for the project, as well as $2,000 from Oxford County coun- cil. Trailer park1"bNi4 agreement signed DEREHAM CENTRE (Bureau) — South-West Oxford Township has signed a development agreement with an Inger- soll developer for construction of a 55- acre travel -trailer park near here, clerk Helen Prows said Thursday. The agreement covers ramag , roads, sewers, grading, garbage disposal, water and landscaping. It also specifies the park must operate on a seasonal basis only, between May 24 and Thanksgiving, the clerk said. The proposed park cleared another hurdle several weeks ago when a local farmer withdrew his objection to the pro- ject, averting the need for an Ontario Municipal Board hearing. Developer Russel Clifford of Ingersoll said construction is expected to begin in the spring with completion set for late summer. Full scale use of the park is not expected until the 1979 season, Clifford said. Fire destroys new grist mill at Mount Elgi i-` MOUNT ELGIN — Fire destroye ,the new United Co-operatives o n ario grist mill here Wednesday ausing dam- age estimated at nitre fh n $500,000. Mount Elgin Fire Chief Pat Johnson said the fire apparently began in a motor in a grain elevator attached to the plant_ He said both the mill and an adjoining warehouse were total losses. e plant ought by the co-opera- tives about one yearn ago from Corbett Feeds Ltd. and went into operation in March. Plant manager Ed Bell said the mill will begin operating again today from its old plant in town, which has been used as a warehouse since the new one opened.