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Oxford -run ambulance ' ' '
Norwich Twp. Mayor
dispatch plan re, eeted ,lack Burn has resigned
WOODSTOCK (Bureau) — A
county -wide ambulance dispatch
a}->iem was rejected Tuesday night
by ilxford Cuunty's health and social
acre ices commlttee in the face of op-
po,ition from Tillsonburg.
Woodstock Coun, Lenore Young
asked the committee to recommend
that county council consider the idea
as an alternative to a proposed
centralimd dispatch system serving
Oxford, Middlesex and Elgin coun-
ties.
The committee decided to recom-
mend county council reaffirm its op-
position to centralized ambulance
dispatch, which was made last
Mach after a presentation on the
tri-county' system by the Ontario
ministry of health.
Young said later she thought a sys-
tem run by the 'county and serving
i )xford only might be an alternative
which would allow it to take advan-
tage of the provincial money ear-
marked for centralized dispatch.
The lrbcounty pruposaL also np-
posed by Elgin, is In be considered
early this year by the Thaltles Val-
ley District Health Council. Young,
Oxford's representative on the
health council, wanted support for
an alternativee to counter what she
expects will be an avalanche of Pro-
vincial material showing the bene-
fits of centralization.
But Tillsonburg Mayor John Arm -
siting warned he would oppose a
county -run system because it would
be of' no benefit to his muncipality,
where about 50 per cent of ambu.
lance calls are to areas outside Ox-
ford.
Ambulance dispatch there is done
through Tillsonburg+, District Memo-
rial Hospital, where attendants also
carry out other duties such as an-
swering the switchboard, he said.
A county -wide system would mean
additional costs and unnecessary du-
Oxford backs
,farm opposition
to hydro lines
WOODSTOCK (Bureau) — Oxford
County council has agreed to help
farmers fight a proposal to run hy-
dro transmission lines through the
county on a London -to -Hamilton
route.
Council decided Wednesdav to
work with the Oxford Federation of
Agriculture to seek protection of its
agricultural land base when the hv-
dro route is considered at an upcom-
ing provincial hearing.
Council also approved the.county's
participation at the hearing, which
begins Jan. 26 in Stratford. It is ex-
pected a member of its planning de-
partment will attend.
Despite the apparent need for the
power line. Woodstock Coun. Charlie
Tatham urged the county to goon
record as opposing certain parts of;
Ontario Hydro's $359-million pro-
posal.
plication for Tillsonburg while the
merits of the tri-county proposal
have not yet been proven, Arm-
strong said.
Young said the money for cen-
tralization will be used in other re-
gions if rejected here but Armstrong
replied it would be better spent in
municipalities which now have sub.
standard service.
Armstrong noted the ministry has
never said what the tri.county sys-
tem would cost.. When the county
first rejected the proposal, it cited
fears of possible errors in dispatch-
ing over such a large area and
power failures crippling the entire
dispatch region.
Young said after the meeting she
will not continue to try to gain sup-
port i'or her proposal with Till.on-
burg in opposition but felt it had a
chance of working, noting a county-
wide fire. alert system has already
been implemented.
oTfERv1LLE — Mayor
Jack Burn has resigned from
Norwich Township for
personal health reasons.
Council accepted the
mayor's resignation
Tuesday.
Council received word of
Burn's resignation in a letter
brouvhI by his wife. He was
unable to attend the meeting
due to a bout with the flu.
Although The Sentinel -
Review was unable to reach
Burn for his comments this
morning, it is known that he
suffered a heart attack some
years ago.
Burn, 51, served three
years as mayor and sat on
council for nine years. He
served four years as a county
councillor.
The atmosphere was
highly, emotional as coun-
cillors expressed their
feelings of respect for Burn.
"He had the Township of
Norwich at heart... we're all
going to be saddened by his
resignation," said acting
JACK BURN
—health reasons —
Mayor Carman Sweazey.
Sweazey was voted as
acting mayor for a meeting
Jan. 21 to fill the vacancy
created by Burn's
resignation.
Mayor Burn quits for health reasons
OTTERVILLE (Bureau) — Jack
Burst has resigned as mayor of
Norwich Township for health rea-
sons. January 11, 1982
Council accepted Burns resigna-
tion in his absence Tuesday and ap-
pointed councillor -at -large Carman
Sweazey to serve as acting mayor
for a meeting Jan. 21 to appoint a
permanent mayor.
It is expected a mayor will be cho-
sen from the remaining council
members, which will require the ap-
pointment of another councillor.
Burn, 51, has been mayor for three
New antennas to allow
fire alert expansion
WOODSTOCK (Bureau) — Three
townships — Norwich, East Zorra-
Tavistock and Zorra — will be able
to join Oxford's county -wide fire al-
ert system following county coun-
cil's decision Wednesday to buy re-
lay antennas.
Council accepted a bid from Ox-
ford Communications of Woodstock
to supply and install five antennas
throughout the county for $38,421.'
The equipment is needed to boost the
signal for paging devices used by
firefighters.
Woodstock Coun, .toe Pember said
the equipment will be delivered
within 20 weeks and completes the
county's responsibility to set up the
system. Paging devices have been
ordered by Norwich Township and
have already arrived for Zorra and
Fast Zorra-Tavistock.
Only South-West Oxford Township
is participating in the system now,
but paging firefighters in Browns-
ville has been unreliable at times.
Pember said an antenna will be in.
years and was first elected to coun-
cil in 1973 as a representative of the
former township of East Oxford. He
served as councillor -at -large for two
years before his mayoralty victory.
His wife Shirley said Tuesday
night her husband was sick in bed
with a flu ailment and could not be
disturbed. She said the decision to
resign was well thought out and was
strictly for health reasons.
Mrs. Burn said her husband still
plans to run his business — Jack
Burn Auto Body Ltd. — at 55 Spring -
bank Dr. in Woodstock.
stalled in this township first to elimi-
nate the need for a telephone system
to alert Brownsville firefighters,
The towers will likely be Installed
in the Kintore, Hickson, Norwich,
Mount Elgin and Bright or Drumbo
areas. `«--
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Woodstock Buraau
Signs welcoming visitors to Woodstock summed up the city'$ gar-
batle situation Thursday.
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Holbrook landfill site is officially closed
By LINDA HULME
SeaUaet-Review staff writer
Yesterday was the day Oxford County has been anticipating
nervously for over a year.
The Holbrook landfill site officially closed as of 4:30 p.m.
Monday. .T an ua ry 11, 1982
"It's full. The approved area is exhausted," said Neil
DetwtdEer, regional vice-president for Laidlaw Waste
Systems, owner of the site
Whether the locks will remain on the gates permanently or
not depends on whether the company will receive an extension
from the Ontario Ministry of Environment. Laidlaw applied
for a permit to me a five acre area not zoned for waste
disposal
An official with the Ontario Ministry of Environment's
Landon office said Laidlaw has not submitted all the
necessary information needed for an extension.
Jim Jaase, district officer for municipal and private
abatement, said this morning the company was to have sent
the last of the information to Toronto yesterday. He said
because of the snow. he toes not know whether it arrived or
riot.
JUST A COUPLE OF DAYS
"If all the information is there and correct, it will only take
a couple of days to get one (an emergency extension cer-
!fcate) out," said Janse.
Detweiler said the ministry must have the information it
requested from Laidlaw before it considers granting the
extension.
.An extension would give Oxford County six more months of
dumping at the site.
But even if the extension is granted, there's no guarantee
Laidlaw will begirt operations again.
A bylaw passed recently by Norwich Township council
nlacingstlingent regulations on the site's operations may stop
dumpingaYogether- It depends on whether Laidlaw wants to
Pay out anmey to meet the regulations.
County engineer Don Pratt said it Is unlikely the company,
if there is an extension, will ignore the regulations and
operate in direct contravention of the bylaw.
It would place the onus on Norwich Township council to
enforce their regulations, he said, but "nobody's too com-
fortable with that,"
THE OTHER ALTERNATIVE:
The other alternative is for the county to take the township
to court over the bylaw.
"Even if we have the extension, someone's going to have to
use some muscle, and I think they're (Laidlaw) looking to the
county," said Pratt.
CountyWarden Rosa Livingston said he doesn't really know
what will happen. Livingston, who just returned from
vacation, will meet with county staff today to discern the
options for the next move.
Public works chairman Joe Pember said he sees four
problems to contend with:
—the zoned area of the site is filled;
—the Norwich regulations make it uneconomical for
Laidlaw to operate;
—the ministry has yet to grant an extension;
Closing of landfill site
puts one business on hold
For Roy Burnett, of Burnett Sanitation, the closing of the
Holbrook landfill site yesterday means he's out of business.
Burnell, of RR f, Courtland, operates, or operated, a pickup
service for South-West Oxford and Norwich Townships. But
because there's nowhere to put the garbage he collects,
there's no need for his service.
"There's nothing I can do. I'll just sit till they find a place
for me to dump (the garbage)," he said Monday.
Burnett expressed concern last year over the possible
closing of Holbrook, but since there was word of a possible
extension from the Ontario Ministry of Environment, he said
he wasn't too worried.
Until yesterday.
"I just ain't got a job," he said.
He said unless something happens soon, the garbage
problem will become visibly messy, and it's too bad, because
people have already paid for pickup services through their
taxes.
Burnett was hired by the two townships on a contract basis,
'but he also does some private collection in parts of South-West
Oxford.
The small businessman has about $200,000 tied up in
trucking equipment, equipment which has now been rendered
useless.
Predictably, Burnett is keeping a close eye on develop-
ments. He said he will be at Oxford County council's Wed-
nesday meeting to find out what will happen, if anything.
"It's past the critical stage. Now it's an emergency," said
Burnett.
County may buy Holbrook dump
Follows Norwich meeting
County drawing up policy
to protect water supply
By LINDA HULME
we have a lot of landfill sites
people and get this thing
Sentinel -Review staff writer
we're going to be responsible
moving."
OTTERV'ILLE — A water
for. We have to come up, as a
But other Norwich councillors
protection policy is on the way
county, with a policy statement
indicated they would like to see
for Word County residents
for contamination which covers
a water agreement first, before
whose water supply could be
the whole county," he said.
reconsidering the bylaw.
contaminated y landfill
"For us to settle an agreement
While there was some talk of
leachate.
with an individual
reconsidering the stringent
County engineer Don Pratt is
municipality... I just don't lean
drawing up a draft policy to
that way," Pember added.
present to the public works
The county will draw up the
committee Thursday for con-
policy and submit it to township
sideration.
to be scrutinized by its officials
The move came after the
so they will have some input
committee met with Norwich
before the document is finalized.
Township's public works
Pember said the policy should
committee Monday. The
be passed in the form of a bylaw
township committee urged the
to give it some weight.
county to draw up an agreement
Last week township officials
to protect residents who could be
said a water agreement would
threatened with water can-
Lamination from Holbrook
be a step towards reopening the
the
Holbrook site.
Landfill site.
The site's owner, Laidlaw
Committee chairman Bob
Waste Systems, is not willing to
Pettigrew said the county shoWd
comply with a township bylaw
not only ensure fresh water
which contains provisions
immediately after con.
company officials make the
lamination, but to be respon-
operation of the landfill site too
sible for cleaning up the
costly.
creepng leschate, should it
Once the county officials
warder into water off the site
agreed to work on a water
Norwich Coun. John Helenisk
policy, Pettigrew said the
said the matter should be dealt
negotiations should be "a two
with by township and county
way street."
solicitors, but county public
works chairman Joe Pember
START IT ROLLING
said it was more than just a
"Are we going to hold to the
Norwich Township concern
bylaw, or are we going to be
bylaw, acting Mayor Carm
Sweazey said he believes the
township will remain firm with
their actions. He said the bylaw
will still be enforced if the
Holbrook site reopens on an
emergency extension cer.
tificate.
Tree planting
Oxford County's public works
committee will recommend to
county council it accept a tender
from Oxford Insta-Shade for the
1982 tree planting requirements.
The RR 2, Burgessville firm
offered to supply 220 Linden and
Norway maples, and to supply
and plant 140 royal red and
Norway maples.
NOTICE
PUBLIC
INFORMATION
CENTRE
Charles Street, County Rd. 9, Ingersoll
Reconstruction from Thames River Bridge easterly to
the town limits of Ingersoll,
Ingersoll Council Chambers
Ingersoll
Tuesday, January 19, 1982
between 2 p.ni. and 9 p.m.
Tito public is invited to attend anytime during these
hours to discuss the project with representatives of
the County of Oxford and their consufV111%, Spring
batik Consulting Erigineers Limited.
—and there has been no hearing date see,. as yet for the
Salford landfill site.
He said his vote will be to take Norwich to court over the
bylaw.
otherwise, "all the trapdoors are pretty well closed."
The county explored the possibility of trucking its garbs
outside the county, but met with - garbage
municipalities it. encountered, opposition from all
FRUSTRATION OVER RED TAPE
The fight now, said Pember, is within the county
He expressed frustration over the amount of red tape in-
volved in establishing a landfill site, and over the opposition
the county has received,
"I'm tired of using lawyers every time we have to turn
around," said Pember. "The bureaucratic red ape to gea
hearing is ridiculous."
If the county doesn't have a dumpsite approved soon, he
said. Oxford's individual municipalities will be responsible
for "getting their own garbage on stream "
"The only winners in this area bunch of lawyers," he said.
"The only losers are the taxpayers."
The issue is expected Io be discussed at county eounco,s
meeting Wednesday morning.
Because of the Holbrook landfill site has been closed, there
will be no garbage pickup in Woodstock this week.
"We are asking people to hang onto their garbage this
week," said Wayne Shiptun, the city's chief administrative
officer.
He said further notice will be given later this week whether
there will be garbage pickup next week, or whether it will be
discontinued indefinitely.
The closing will effect all areas of the county the landfill site
services.
Pember said because it is winter, he doesn't think the
garbage buildup will be a health hazard. But if it continues. to
the point where people are piling it up in their garages, it
could home a fire hazard,
start Ow
COVERS COUNTY balltl roling," saidhered Pettigrew.
"I think we are a county and "We've got to be common sense
$45,000 tender approved
for courthouse elevator
A proposal for the installation of an elevator at the Oxford
County courthouse will go to county council for approval.
The public works committee considered two proposals
Thursday, and accepted one from Dominion Elevator Limited
of London at a cost of L,,,(loi.
It will lift l,50t1 pounde and service all floors, including the
attie.
County engineer Dan Pratt said when he first received the
proposal, there was nothing to account for possible overtime
cosls. Because the installation will generate a certain amount
-
of noise, some work may have to be done after working hours.
But after consulting the firm, he learned it would cost an
extra $6,000 for job completion on evenings and weekends.
The money could be better spent on painting and carpels, said
Pratt
The drilling involved will be the noisiest part, he said.
Courthouse staff may have to put up with it for about a week.
but Pratt said he has already approached the three judges
using the building to see if court appearances could be,
scheduled around it.
Pratt also recommended the work in the proposal to be.
completed by a general contractor, be done by county staff,
instead.
"We can cut doorways ourselves and do the concrete work. L
think we'll be more satisfied but it may cost more," he said.
The proposal quoted the extra work at $7,871,
"if county council accepts the recommendation (next
Wednesday) we could start work next week," said Pratt:
"Likely the bulk of the work can be done in the month of
March."
More seedlings being sought
for Oxford County arboretum
WOODSTOCK (Bureau) — The
Oxford County arboretum should be
filled with trees as soon as possible,
without relying on the provincial
ministry of natural resources for
help, the county's administration
and finance committee was told
Wednesday.
Les Dickson of Burgessville, a for-
mer county warden who voluntarily
ran-, feu the tree haven on County
Itc)ad t rpnmt seven kilometres north
W here, told committee members
there is still room for another 80 var-
ieties and he wants to fill the site as
,00n as po.5sibie.
The committee praised Dickson
for his work, for which he refuses to
be paid, and recommended county
council let him tap a $1,700 tree me-
morial fund to help buy the neces-
sary seedlings from nurseries.
The committee also has allotted
$.5,000 In -this year's budget for tree
planting at the arboretum, which
now includes to varieties, and at
the County of Oxford Nature Area
between Beachville and Woodstock.
Dickson noted the county has pro-
vided money for planting In previous
years; but not last year. The minis-
try has been co-operative in supply-
ing trees In the past, but each year
additional species become harder to
obtain, he said. "I think it's up to us
now. They (the ministry) just can't
Seem to find them."
Dickson has cared for the site
since it was established in 1975, a
commitment he made when political
opponents of his pet project charged
it was a waste of county money,
Sweazey named mayor of Norwich
NORWICH (Bureau) —Conn. Car- fill Sweazey's council -at -large seat
man Sweazey has been appointed which also makes her a member of
mayor of Norwich Township to suc- Oxford County council. Other coun-
ceed Jack Burn who resigned Jan. 12 cil members bidding for the seat
for health reasons. were John Heleniak and Robert Pet-
Sweazey, 45, a Norwich business- tigrew.
man, was councillor -at -large for the On the first of two ballots to select
township and has been a council a councillor -at -large, Smith received
member since 1970 except for one five votes, Heleniak two and Petti-
term in 1975 and 1976. grew three. Sweazey was unopposed
Council chose Ward 2 Conn. Helen in his selection as mayor.
Smith, now in her second term, to Norm Lusk, 52, who owns an insur-
MAYOR H. CARMAN SWEAZEY
COUNCILLOR -AT -LARGE IIELEN SMITH
ance business and travel agency
here, was appointed to fill Smith's
Ward 2 post, which covers the for-
mer village of Norwich.
Lusk was a council member in the
late 1970s and finished third in a
race for two Ward 2 seats in the No-
vember, 1980, municipal election.
Council appointed Lusk on' a 7-3 vote.
The other nominee was Bill Sanders,
an Otterville real estate broker and
former council member.
BLUES CHASER
A big disappointment in life is the
discovery that the man who writes
the finance company ads isn't the
one who makes the loans.
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THE OMBUDSMAN
FOR THE PROVINCE OF ONTARIO
will be available for private interviews at:
THE COUNCIL CHAMBER
TOWN HALL
415 Hunter Street, Woodstock
TUESDAY9 JANUARY 269 1982
From 11:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M.
for individuals, groups, organizations and their representatives who
wish to bring to the attention of the Ombudsman any complaints
or grievances concerning the acts or administrative decisions of
any Ministry, Agency, Board or Commission of the Government
of the Province of Ontario. These interviews shall be conducted in
private due to the obligation upon the Ombudsnutrt and his stuff
to make no disclosure of any information received.
Appointments are riot necessary but can be arranged by writing
or calling COLLECT to.,
Mt. Batty Keams
Office of the Ombudsman
125 Queen's Park
Toronto, Ontario
M5S 20
Telephone (416) 596.3344
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Dates slated for Oxford's
legal tussle over garbage
Dales have been set for the first skirmish of
a what may be a heated battle which could
finally clear the way for a new landfill site for
Oxford County.
March 4 and 5 have been set aside for a
preliminary hearing on the Salford landfill
site. The hearing will be held at the Oxford
Courthouse.
Meantime, county officials are negotiating
with Laidlaw Waste Systems, owner of the
closed Holbrook landfill site, for its purchase,
The county needs an interim landfill site until
the Satford site can open.
Public works chairman Joe Pember said
this morning he met with Warden Ross
Livingston and county engineer Dan Prall.
Monday to discuss strategy concerning the
Holbrook site.
"We're. looking at what's best for the
county and what's best for Laidlaw," he said.
If the county purchased the site, it is
possible it could reopen with an extension
certificate from the Ontario Ministry of
Environment lasting two or three years.
Laidlaw is currently refusing to pick up the
conditional six-month extension granted
earlier this month
"I hope there's a satisfactory agreement In
the next couple of days," said Pember.
When the preliminary hearing into the
Salford site opens in March, a panel of about
four representatives from the Environmental
Assessment Board and the Ontario Muncipal
Baud will be on hand to informally present
procedures for the full hearing.
The joint hearing will consider en-
vironmental and planning matters relating to
live landfill site.
The two-day hearing will establish the,
applicant (Oxford County in this case) and
the objectors, including South-West Oxford
Township.
Evidence to be presented will also be
outlined, and documents will be exchanged
between parties. Each party is entitled to any
evidence, studies or information the other
party has complied.
The length of the full hearing will then be
determined.
A hearing date has been set tentatively for
April 13, with a month alloted, but this could
be subject to change.
Norwich delay tactics defeated
Countyapproves bylaw
water
By LINDA HULME
Sentinel -Review staff writer
If Norwich Township isn't
happy with Oxford County's
water policy bylaw, it will have
to present further suggestions in
amendment form.
The bylaw was passed by
county council Wednesday,
despite efforts by Norwich
Township Mayor Carm Sweazey
and Coun.-at-large Helen Smith
to delay the third reading.
The bylaw provides for fresh
water to residiu is whose sup -
Holbrook _dump
sold to Oxford
WOODSTOCK (Bureau) — Regu-
lar garbage collection is to resume
Monday following Oxford County
council's decision Wednesday night
to buy the Holbrook landfill site for
$275,000.
Council passed a bylaw authoriz-
ing Warden Ross Livingston to sign
a purchasing agreement with the
Laidlaw Waste Systems of Missis-
sauga which will put the 100-acre
site and all long-term liabilities from
it in the county's hands.
Livingston said the county will
take over operation of the site Mon-
day. he site closed Jan. 11 when it
reached its capacity and halted gar-
bage collection in Woodstock, Inger-
soll and South-West Oxford and
Norwich townships. Garbage collec-
tion resumed last week in Woodstock
on an emergency basis which is not
available to homes.
The environment ministry is pre-
pared to issue an emergency certifi.
cate to allow Holbrook to reopen un-
til June 30 but Laidlaw had refused
because of a Norwich Township by-
law which threatened the site with
costly strict controls.
Livingston said the Norwich bylaw
now becomes void because It cannot
be enforced on a county owned site,
He conceded the main reason for the
purchase was to block the bylaw but
noted there were other advantages.
He told council the county will ap-
ply for another extension to continue
operations at Holbrook after June
30. The extension would run until a
county -wide site is established such
as the one proposed far Salford, he
said.
Setting up the Salford site is at
Icest 18 months away but Oxford
plans to pile garbage higher on the
25 acres than zoned for this purpose
at Holbrook. Livingston said an ad.
ditional 10 feet will give the county
enough space to use Holbrook for an-
other two years.
Livingston said the ministry is re-
ceptive to this proposal because by
peaking the garbage mound at a
sharper angle, water is less likely to
seep through the site and pose the
threat ofleachate contamination.
lie ahm) noted the county will no
longer have to pay Laidlaw to accept
the county's waste, The county paid
Laldlaw 142,MO a month last year
and would have had to pay at least
$W,fa a month this year, he said.
Livingston said the site is operated
by a Brantford construction firm
which was subcontracted by Laid -
law. lie said the county would likely
continue to subcontract this firm,
lie did not know what the Brant.
ford firm charges but sources at
Laldlaw said earlier the figure was
around $15,000 a month last year.
Wooilswck Court. Phil Poole sug•
Bested at county council that the
money saved by not paying Laidlaw
would eventually mean the purchase
of Holbrook would pay for itself.
Commenting on how the purchase
would affect county taxpayers Liv-
ingston said: "I would suggest It
would not make it any worse..... It
would probably save money but I'm
going to qualify that. We are accept-
ing a long-term risk."
The purchase ends more than a
week of negotiating with Laidlaw.
The county's opening offer to Laid -
law, submitted last week but refused
by the company, was $150,000 with
the company being paid another
$50,000 a month to run the site until
June 30.
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"You sure you've got all flat?
A glass of water with crushed
ice, an orumeetl cookie, a jelly donut,
and two dog biscuits."
plies have been contaminated by
a landfill site, and for the
eventual replacement of con-
taminated systems.
Warden Ross Livingston
urged council to pass it. Any
improvements could be made as
amendments, he said.
But despite that provision, the
Norwich Township represen-
talives requested more time to
study it and include the
municipality's input.
A request which sent public
works chairman Joe Pember on
a verbal rampage.
Pember said the water policy
can't cover everything from
health problems to property
value depreciation, but it dog
just about everything else.
"If this bylaw passes tonight.
we probably went further than
any level of government I can
think of," he said
"We're probably setting a
first. They have takers over the
biggest portion of any disaster
which might happen out there in
years to come...I don't know
how far people want us to go. I
think we've gone far enough
now„
-It's to help people im-
mediately. That's all it's there
for," said Pember.
He called the bylaw "a
milestone" in the county's
history, showing what steps
council will take to protect its
people.
"I think it's just a credit to
every councillor here." he said.
He chastised the township
council for not dealing with the
bylaw earlier through a special
meeting. He said the
municipality didn't treat it as a
high priority item, as it was at
the county level.
Only Calls. Charlie Tatham
spoke in favor of delaying the
bylaw. He agreed it should be
held off for further study.
"It's Only good politics on the,
part of the county," he said.
The policy is off to a good
start, he said, but those
municipalities, as well as
Norwich Township, with landfill
sites may want to look at it
closely,
Tatham. Swea:ey, and Smith
were the only councillors who
did not vote in favor of the
bylaw's third reading._
After the meeting,: Sweazey.
said the township will "most
definitely" contact its solicitor,
Harry Poch, for advicq on how
the municipality will'move on
the by at
passing.
The Consolidated Hearings Act, 1981
(S.O. 1981, c. 20)
Proposed Salford Landfill Site
(Township of South-West Oxford, Ontario)
IN THE MATTER OF Sections 2, 3 and 6131,of The
Consolidated Hearings Act, tS.O. 1981, c, 20);
-and-
IN THE MATTER OF Sections 30, 33 and 35 of The
Environmental Protection Act, (R.S.O. 19M, c. 141);
and -
IN THE MATTER OF an undertaking of the Corporation of
the County of Oxford to establish, maintain and operate a
landfill site for the purpose of receiving, dumping and
disposing of waste, pursuant to its responsibility under
Section 132 of The County of Oxford Act, R.S.O. 1980, c. 385,
on lands described as parts of Lots 11 and 12, Concession 2,
in the Township of South-West Oxford, formerly in the
Township of Dereham, in the County of Oxford, more
particularly described in Instrument Nos. 247957 and
M25M registered in the Registry Division of Oxford (No.
42), having an area of approximately 73.19 hectares on the
south side of County Road No. 46. east of the Village of
Salford
and -
IN THE MATTER OF Sections 15, 39 and 51 of The
Planning Act (113.0. 1980, c. 379)
and -
IN THE MATTER OF a reference to the Ontario Muncipal
Board by the Honorable Claude F. Bennett, Minister of
Housing on a request by The Corporation of the Township
of South-West Oxford for consideration of that part of the
Official Plan for the Oxford Planning Area as it applies to
Sections 5.2.4 and 5.2.12, Pages 26 and 36, Minister's File
No. OPL - 0141 (O.M.B. File No. R.801917);
and -
LN THE MATTER OF an application by the Corporation of
the Township of South-West Oxford for approval of its
Restricted Area By-law 34-80, as amended by By-law 54-80,
1-81 and 35.81, insofar as such by-laws apply to parts of
Lots It and 12, Concession 2, in the Township of South-West
Oxford, formerly in the Township of Dereham, in the
County of Oxford, more particularly described in
Instrument Nos. 247957 and 22,2558 registered in the
Registry Division of Oxford (No. 42) - O.M.B. File No.
R.802280;
and -
IN THE MATTER OF an application by the Corporation of
the County of Oxford for approval of its Restricted Area
By-law 2387-81, applying, to parts of Lots 11 and 1.2,
Concession 2, in the Township of South-West Oxford,
formerly in the Township of Dereham, in the County of
Oxford, more particularly described in Instrument Nos.
247957 and 222%8 registered in the Registry Division of
Oxford (No. 42) - O.M.B. File No. R. 820128
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF JOINT BOARD
NOTICE in writing dated the 201h day of November, 1981,
and amended the 15th day of December, 1981, was given to
the Hearings Registrar by the County of Oxford in
accordance with Sections 2, 3tl) and 6 t3) of The
Consolidated Hearings Act, S.O. 1981, c. 20.
BY ORDER dated the 6th day of January, IIA2, the
Chairman of the Environmental Assessment Board and
the Chairman of the Ontario Municipal Board established a
pint board with respect to a hearing on the undertaking.
NOTICE: OF 11 EARING
TAKE: NOTICE that the joint board hereby appoints
Thursday, the 4tb day of March. 1982. at 11,00 o'clock in the:
forenoon, local time, at the following location:
Supreme Court Room,
Court Hose,
415 Hunter Street,
Woodstock, Ontario.
for a public hearing in this matter.
The first day of the public hearing will be preliminary in
nature, and the Joint Board intends to devote this day to
such matters, as, but not necessarily restricted to, hearing
motions, identification of the parties, procedural matters
and the determination of issues. The hearing will continue
on Monday, the 5th day of April, 1982, at 11.00 o'clock in the
forenoon at the following location:
Salford Community Centre,
19 Church Street West,
Salford, Ontario.
Any persons wishing to make representations to the Joint
Board regarding these matters or wishing to participate in
the hearing should attend or be represented on Thursday,
the 4th day of March, 1982, or, if they are unable to attend
or be represented, to make such representations in writing
to be received by the hearings registrar no later than
Thursday, the 25th day of February, 1982. No representat-
ions regarding the undertaking, other that, for the purpose
of the preliminary hearing, will be considered by the Joint
Board until Monday, the 5th day of April, 1982, the date set
for the continuation of the hearing.
If you do not attend on Thursday, the 4th day of March,
1982, or make written representations by Thursday, the
25th day of February, 1982, the Joint Board may proceed
with the hearing in your absence and you will not be
entitled to any further notice in these proceedings.
NOTICE OF PURPOSE OF HEARING
The purpose of the hearing is to enable the joint board to
make any decision and order regarding:
(a) whether approval to proceed with the undertaking
should or should not be given;
(b) whether the approval mentioned in clause (a) should
be given subject to terms and conditions, and if so, the
provisions of such terms and conditions; and
(c) the official plan reference and restricted area
by-laws associated with this undertaking, all of which are
set forth in the Style of Cause.
If you do not attend the hearing, or make written
representations by the date specified in the Notice of
Hearing, the joint board may proceed in your absence and
you will not be entitled to any further notice in the
proceedings.
Copies of the proposed plans and specifications of the
proposed landfill site and copies of the official plan and
referenced sections thereof and restricted area by-laws
are available for examination during normal business
hours after February 15; 1982 in the office of the Clerk of
the Township of South-West Oxford, R.R. 1, Mount Elgin,
on Oxford County Road No. 27, three miles west of
Highway No. 19; in the office of the Clerk of the County of
Oxford, 415 Hunter Street, Woodstock, Ontario; in the
Regional Office of the Ministry of the Environment, 985
Adelaide Street South, London, Ontario; the office of the
Environmental Approvals Branch of the Ministry of the
Environment, 135 St, Clair Avenue West, Toronto; and
after February 15, 1982, and prior to the hearing,
only, in the officeof the Environmental Assessment Board,
Rh Floor, I St. Clair Avenue West, Toronto, Ontario, M4V
IK7. DATED at TORONTO this 28th day of JANUARY,
1982,
H. Browne,
Acting Hearings Registrar,
'fhe Consolidated Hearings Act, 1981,
51h Floor,
I St, Clair Avenue West,
Toronto, Ontario,
M4V IK7
(410) 965-2531
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Depicts bastions of justice
City`s save the jail committee
s
onsors courthouse exhibit
An upcoming exhibit on early Ontario courthouses stock, but it won't show the major interior renova-
includes the Oxford County courthouse in Wood- tions, which are still under way.
White
to open
display
The chairman of the Ontario
Heritage Foundation, former
treasurer John White, will be in
Woodstock Feb. 5 to open an art
exhibit on Ontario's Early
Courthouses.
The exhibit which is co-
sponsored by the Woodstock
Save the Jail Committee has
been mounted to draw attention
to public buildings in Ontario,
particularly the former Oxford
County Jail.
The exhibit will include
drawings by Trevor Garwood -
Jones of proposed renovations
for the former jail.
As well as the former Oxford
County Jail, the exhibit will
include reproductions of ar.
chitechtural drawings of early
Ontario courthouses.
The exhibit is the first in a
series of travelling exhibits
Planned by the Ontario Heritage
Foundation.
Early courthouses were often
the first prominent buildings in
a community. As well as their
prescribed function they often
served as the setting for con-
certs• theatrical performances,
meetings and even worship and
marketing.
The Ontario Heritage
Foundation through the exhibit
is appealing to the public to
ensure the preservation of early
Ontario courthouses.
Garbage day returns
Tuesday in Oxfordr'BRUARY 2,
WOODSTOCK (Bureau) — Gar.
bage collection In Oxford County re-
townships have garbage collected by
Hoy Burnett Sanitation Ltd. of
sumes Tuesday when the Holbrook
landfill reopens.
Courtland which plans a special
• The county became owner of the
schedule for next weTk only.
Burnett said he will pick up gar -
IN -acre site Friday al noon when it
bage Tuesday in Beachville and
paid Laidlaw Waste Systems Ltd. of
Sweaburg and begin commercial
Mississauga $275,000.
The provincial environment minis-
collection in the village of Norwich.
The Norwich commercial section
try plans to issue an emergency op-
may have to continue Wednesday.
erations certificate Monday, allow-
Wednesday, subdivisions sur-
Ing the site to operate until June Sg
rounding Ingersoll in South-West Ox-
using an additional three acres. The
ford Township will be picked up.
22 acres now licenced for landfllling
Thursday, the rest of South-West Ox-
reached capacily Jan. I].
Cord"'o Township will be serviced.
Garbage schedules for municipall-
Garbage. in Norwich, Otterville
ties which dump at the site are:
and Burgessville will lac picked up
• Woodstock Garbage collection
Friday. Burnett said schedules will
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lu open it Monday, but the deal could
not be closed until Friday because
Laidlaw retuned. to sign the agree.
ment of purchase and sale.
Neill Detweiler of Kitchener, vice-
president of Laidlaw's Ontario oper-
ations, said it was- "not good busi-
ness .,ens-.' to sign an agreement
because it hated a closing date of
Feb. to.
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close immediately. Pratt said county
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agreed after finding no problems in
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"We don't want any 'yes men'
around here," said the chairman of
the board. "Is that perfectly clear?"
Proposed Salford landfill site
likely archeology treasure trove
By At Chater
Woodstock Bureau
(WOODSTOCK — Oxford County's
proposed Salford landfill site Is
likely the site of an ancient Indian
burial ground and should be given a
thorough archeological assessment
this spring, say researchers at the
Museum of Indian Archaeology in
London.
In a report released Monday, the
researchers say two of the five ar-
tifacts which were found at the site
are extremely rare and are gener-
ally associated with Indian burial
grounds.
It says more thorough investiga-
tion is needed to determine whether
excavation should be undertaken
and notes that the evidence studied
to this point suggests "a camp or bu-
rial ground may exist;"
The report points out the 88-hee-
tare (acre) landfill site has nu-
merous knolls and ridges which
were considered the focus of prehis-
torte habitation and burial sites in
adjacent parts of Southwestern On-
tario and were often exploited by
prehistoric cultures for -this purpose.
The. report was commissioned by
South-West Oxford Township —
which is fighting the county -wide
landfill proposal — after four ar-
tifacts were handed over to the
township in November by a Salford
widow who said her husband found
them on the site several years ago.
An analysis of the artifacts by the
museum, which is affiliated with the
University of Western Ontario,
showed they were two projectile
points or spear tips, half of a "ban-
nerstone" which was used to weight
a spear so it would travel farther
when thrown, and a "gorget," be-
lieved to be worn around the neck as
a decoration.
The gorget is most rare, the report
says, and is believed to date back to
logo BC. The bannerstone, dating
back to 5000 BC, is also extremely
rare. Both these objects were often
buried with the dead.
There are only nine gorgets and
nine of the same type of banner -
stones among the 40,000 specimens
now making up the Indian museum's
collection in London, says the report.
"We believe there's a burial site
Roo# leaks
After finally installing an
efficient heating and insulation
system at the Oxford County
courthouse, county staff are
finding the job may have been
done too well.
Public works chairman Joe
Pember told council the water
spots on the council chambers'
ceiling are a result of major
snow accumulation on the
building's roof. He said since
insulation was installed, there is
no heat loss through the roof
allowing for some of the snow to
melt.
"'There was six to seven feet of
snow up there," he said.
'fhe snow is getting on
derneath the slate roof tiles,
melting, and causing water
problems,
Pember said the county will
have to spend some money to fix
up the problem, possibly
through installing host coils or
an alternative method of
melting the snow before it has a
chance to build up.
(at'Salford)," said museum execu-
tive director Bill Finlayson In an in-
terview Monday. "The potential is
high and represents a significant
site."
The gorget and bannerstone be-
long to what Finlayson called the Ar-
chaic period. Virtually nothing is
known of the people who lived dur-
ing that time, especially in the early
period, he said.
The pointed spearheads are also of
the same period, but are not consid-
ered rare. Used on spears to hunt
deer, they were commonly used In
the eastern United States and South-
ern Ontario between 4000 BC and
1000 BC.
The report says one spearhead
was probably made in 1400 BC, but
the other cannot be dated more
closely because it is a more general-
ized type and missing its base. An-
other artifact found during a probe
of the site in December by the re-
search team was identified as a
scraper used to prepare skins and
hides, but could not be dated more
precisely than between 9500 BC and
1650 AD.
Finlayson said the more thorough
investigation needed at the site
would only take a week jf the land
were dry and already lowed. It
would involve a team of four to six
persons covering the entire site and
recording artifact locations.
The work done to date includes
discussions with the owner of the ar-
tifacts — Olive Barrett, whose late
husband Lou was a former township
mayor — and walking over the site's
higher frozen ground which was
hampered by blowing winds and
light snow. -
The report says no previous arche-
ological research has been done in
Salford, .but Finlayson said: "We're
dealing with an (archeologically)
rich area of Ontario..There are thou-
sands of sites out there, but we don't
know where they are."
The four artifacts found by Bar-
rett span 4,500 years and are from
separate cultures, the report says,
but the makers of some could have
been the descendants of the makers
of others.
Township lawyer Steve Garrod of
Eden Mulls noted that the recom-
mended timing of the additional
probe coincides with the provincial
hearing to approve the Salford site,
scheduled to begin March 4 and 5
and continue for one month starting
April 13.
Ile said he expects township coun-
cil will vote to pay for the probe, The
i latest report cost $1,652. Garrod said
he may request an adjournment if
necessary during the hearing to al-
low the work to be done.
"Certainly we want to follow this
up," Finlayson added. "If the (land-
fill) development was to go ahead
without (archeological) assessment,'
it would set a bad precedent for On-
tario archeology."
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BLUES CHASER
Sign in a store window: "Fire
,ale! if you don't buy .sometfunk
,unit — somebody's gonna get fired!
NOTICE
PUBLIC INFORMATION CENTRE
County Road 10 - Reconstruction Project
from south limits of Yerschoyle to north limits
of Brownsville
AT
Brownsville Community Hall, Brownsville, Ontario
Tuesday, February 16, 1982 between 3 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Brownsville Community Hall
Brownsville, Ontario
Tuesday, February 16, 1982
between 3 p.m. and 8 p.m.
You are invited to attend anytime during these hours to
discuss tire project with representatives of the County of
Oxfotd and their Consultants, Springbank Consulting
Engineers Limited.
Tendering
Early tendering for Oxford
County road construction
projects before final budget
approval was approved by
county council, Wednesday.
Public works chairman Joe
Pember requested permission
for early tendering because it
could mean substantial savings
on some expensive projects.
He told council as much as 10
to 15 per cent can be saved on
the total costs if tendering is
done early in the year.
"Even two to three weeks can
mean a savings," he said.
The tendering pertains to the
road and bridge construction
and the hot mix road surfacng
programs for 199'2. The budgeted
cost for these projects is
st's 3m.
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Hard work and love
Courthouse renovation
post
br*ng s back the
By LINDA HUL ME
Sentinel -Review staff writer
Oxford County's courthouse
rings with history and
character. The stoney exterior
and the wooden furniture of its
courtrooms and council
chambers and its architectural
beauty are awesome.
But the stately building has so
much more to offer to those
constantly under its vaulted
ceilings.
For county staff who have
been restoring the basementfor
the last two months, it's become
a part of their lives.
Renovations foreman Ernie
Hunt is in charge of bringing out
the hidden personality of the
building's interior.
Hunt and his staff have been
instructed to turn a shabby,
dirty basement into office space
without ruining the original
layout.
The basement area may have
been used for storage for years,
but Hunt is finding it's not your
average renovation job.
An arched window or an old
fireplace have turned into major
projects.
The staffspends days
refinishing an oak table.
"You spend a lot of time here.
You think about it all the
time ... This job grows on you.
You become a part of the
building," said Hunt.
AN ORIGINAL TABLE
An example of the history
found in his work is a nine foot
oak table, thought to have
originally been from the original
courthouse built in 1839,
It's the only one with round -
style legs, he said. The rest of
the courthouse furniture, cherry
wood tables, chairs and desks,
were purchased in 18W. They
have squared off legs, but the
design is basically the same.
"It was in bad shape. We
didn't think we would get it back
together," said Hunt,
Some decorative parts needed
replacing altogether, and a little
patching was needed here and
there where the wooden tabletop
had cracked.
"But we left some of the naws
in ... just for show," he said.
History can also be found in
some unusual, and beautiful,
places.
A fireplace surrounded by
colored ceramic tiles was once
used as a dumping ground for
rpers. old cigar butte, and the
ike. But the staff found some
letters dating back to 1894
stashed in the muck.
A WASHTUB EFFECT
A number of arched windows
had been partially covered by
wood ceilings throughout the
basement. The workers have
taken down the old ceiling and
are plastering around the
windows, creating what Hunt
calls a washtub effect. Thr
arched area is encircled with an
arch in the ceiling A dropped
ceiling completes the rest of the
room.
Even in basic Improvements,
the employees are attempting to
keep a certain style to their
work.
In a room on the building's
southwest corner, an S-shaped
wall has been installed in a room
Hunt said "is too big for one
man, but hasn't enough privacy
for two."
The S-shape allows the new
wall to curve around a window
and across to the opposing wall,
creating two offices with the
same space.
This area, incidentally, has
always been referred to as "the
old snake pit,"
"I don't know why," Hunt
added.
Hunt also drew attention to the
vaulted ceilings throughout the
basement. Their design
provides strength for the
structure, he said, and nothing
short of an earthquake will bring
It down.
ATTRACTIVE COLOR
When the basemen( is
finished, what will remain in the
western portion will be eight
offices with newly plastered
walls, concrete floors (replacing
rotting wooden ones), carpets,.
and in the halls, red tiles. ;
The two-tone green disgracing;
the walls will be painted over
with a more attractive color. ;
Then... the first Door will be;
redone.
"Everyday's a challenge.
said Hunt.
But for he and three other
county employees, the work has,
become a pet project
And it's not difficult to see'
they're people who love their,
work.
Rick Boyse works on a Iircplace reminder of the courthouse's past
in the basement of the courthouse. Flory.
Once a collector of trash, the (Staff photo by Dave Dorken)
fireplace will soon be a brilliant
LIVIIMGS'PON — fssac Per
cabal (Pere at St. Marys
Hospital, Kitchener, m Satur
day, Febrttary 20, I'M, lsssc
Perelbal (Percy) Livingston
of R.R. 1 Dnrmbo in his Slat
year. Beloved husband of
Julia Ford. Dear father of
Mrs. Henn (Betty) Boterberg
and Ross Livingston, both of
R.R.4 Bright; and Bruce
Livingston and Robert
Livingston, both of Sidney,
B.C.; and Murray Livingston
of R.R. 1 Drumbo. Also sur.
vived by 17 grandchildren,-12
great-grandetulldren, and one
sister, Mrs. Ella Lane of Sim-
coe. Predeceased by one son,
Kenneth (1956), three
brothers, Robert, Fred and
Roy and two sisters Ethel and
Blanche. Resting at the Rum-
ble Funeral Home, Princeton
from 2:00 to 4: 00 p.m. and 7:00
P.M. to 9:00 P.M. Monday.
Complete funeral service in-
cluding committal will be held
in the funeral home on
Tuesday, February 23, at 2:00
p-m. Howard Jacobson will of-
ficiate. Interment in Drumbo
Cemetery. As expressions of
sympathy- Donations to the
Canadian Cancer Society or
the Ontario Heart Foundation
would be appreciated.
WORK OF LOVE
Foreman Ernie Hunt applies some finishing as they have spent hours bringing new life to
- touches to the basement ceiling at the Oxford the building and its furniture. Another picture
County courthouse. The current restoration and story on page3.
project has become a part of the workers lives ( Staff photo by Dave Dorken )
E
Arresting display Woodstock Bureau
Historian Susan Start of Curries admires early On- Start said Tuesday she was Impressed by the 22
tario courthouses, including Oxford County's, on panels of photographs, co -sponsored by the On-
viow at the Woodstock Art Gallery until Feb. 27. tarlo Heritage Foundation.
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Norwich plans action
to block landfill sale
By At Chater
Woodstock Bureau
WOODSTOCK — Norwich Town-
ship plans to take Oxford County to
court in an attempt to have the Hol-
brook landfill site closed.
The township has passed a resolu-
tion authorizing its Toronto law firm
i to proceed to the supreme court of
Ontario or any other court to have
the site closed and a county bylaw
quashed which authorized Oxford's
purchase of the dump on Jan. 29 for
$275,000.
Township lawyer Harry Poch said
Tuesday he is confident the township
will win the battle and estimated
court proceedings could begin in six
months with further appeals taking
another two to four months.
The resolutions are among several
passed by township council following
a four-hour closed meeting with its
lawyers. "They (township council)
are looking at environmental protec-
tion and the health of the residents."
Poch said. "The township is a trus-
tee of the environment for their citi
zees.,'
The township thinks the site is un-
safe for continued use. Poch admits
its battle will cost taxpayers thou-
sands of dollars — refusing to spec-,
ify an exact amount — but says the
township fears it would regret not
spending the money if an environ-
mental problem developed in five or
10 years.
Ile argues the county's purchase
of the site is illegal under the County
of Oxford Act because permission
was not First granted by Norwich
Township where the dump is lo-
cated.
Poch also claims the county vi-
olated the planning act because the
purchasing bylaw authorized a use
for the site which contravenes the
county's official plan. The site is
designated as agricultural land and
waste disposal is not allowed in
these areas under the current offl-
cial,plan, Poch said.
The county has a proposed policy
allowing waste disposal in. agricul-
tural preserve areas but the pro-
vince has not yet approved It- Appro-
val of this policy is to be dealt with
at joint provincial hearings to con-
sider a planned county -wide dump
near Salford.
Norwich Township has authorized
Poch to oppose the proposed official
plan policies at the hearings, which
begin next month. It has also in-
structed Poch to draft an alternative
official plan policy to present at the
hearing. '
County engineer Don Pratt said
the county is not worried about the
court Threat from Norwich Town.
ship, noting the county won a similar
court battle with South-West Oxford
Township in 1979 over the purchase
of the Salford site.
Pratt said the Holbrook purchase
was carefully reviewed by county
lawyers to ensure its legality and
said he will advise county council to
Ignore the court threat. "We're pre-
pared to go to court on whatever is-
sue they want to go on."
The township has also instructed
Poch to prepare a water -agreement
for residents whose wells may be-
come polluted by a landfill site. The
county recently passed a bylaw cov-
ering this but Poch says it is "not
worth the paper it's written on."
Poch questions whether the bylaw
can legally commit future councils
Financially and noted it can be res-
cinded at any time. He said his pro-
posed agreement would require the
county to post some fnrm of insur-
ance, such as a performance bond.
Township Mayor Carman Sweazey
said the township will continue to
boycott use of Holbrook. Garbage
collection in Norwich, Burgessville
and Otterville remains cancelled as
it has been since Jan. 11 for at least
this week, be said.
He said the township is encourag-
ing all residents to take their gar-
bage to smaller sites near Otterville
and Oxford Centre. He is also asking
residents to assist others unable to
transport garbage to these sites
which are only open on Saturdays.
Pratt warned these two smaller
sites are more environmentally dan-
gerous than the Holbrook site. One
site, for example, is on a sandhill
less than one kilometre from Otter-
ville's public water supply, he said.
Oxford will honor
CX
leading land saver i-�
WOODSTOCK (Bureau) — A
[county -wide search is planned to
find and publicly recognize Oxford's
greatest land saver.
County planning chairman Charlie
Tatham said Thursday plans are un-
der way to establish a land saver
award in co-operation with Oxford
Men of the Trees. It would honor an
individual who shows Initiative, en-
ergy and devotion to help preserve
and conserve one of the county's
greatest resources —dirt.
Each oxford municipality would
nominate a candidate for what is
i hoped to be an annual award. The
winner would get a certificate or
plaque and a brass -tipped hand-
crafted walking stick.
The winner would be picked by a
panel of representatives including a
member from county council, the
melt of the fives, Oxford Soil and
Crop Association, University of
Guelph and Ontario agriculture min-
istry.
Tatham said soil erosion is a prob-
lem in Oxford, especially on farm-
land leased for short periods where
economics work against conserva-
tion costs. However, he is confident
there are plenty of candidates for
the new award, even in urban areas.
The person could be a school
teacher who stresses to pupils the
need for soil conservation, or a boy
scout leader who sets up tree plant-
ing projects for his troop, Tatham
said.
Candidates could also be a 4-H
club or junior farmer member or a
farmer who practices methods such
as soil and crop additives, crop rota-
tion, proper drainage or plants trees
for windbreaks.
The county's planning committee
agreed in principal to the award and
called for cost estimate, for the cer.
lificate or plaque.
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Modern merchandising is wher
You bear somebody saying: "Whaf
do you mean you're all out of ciga-
rettes, eggs and cheese? What kind
of a gas station is this.? "
403 linkup protest supported,
increased load on roads cited
WOODSTOCK (Bureau) — The ministry plans to extend High- same exit to get on eastbound High. avoid using the confusing Towerline
Norwich Township is backing Ox- way 4o3, which now ends just west of way 401. Road interchange to get to the
ford County's rejection of plans to Paris, to link to Highway 401 south Council decided that if the minis- concession road.
link Highways 403 and 401 south of of Woodstock between the Highway try cannot provide the access routes,
here as proposed by the provincial 59 and Towerline Road exits, the province should at least extend A Brantford -based chamber of
transportation ministry.
Council decided Thursday to ask
the ministry to add full access
routes to the linkup because It fears
the current proposal will cause In-
creased traffic on surrounding area
roads.
The planned link, to be done by
1985, makes It Impossible for a west-
bound Highway 401 motorist to get
on castbound Highway 403 without
backtracking to the Highway 59 exit.
A westbound Highway 403 motorist
would also have to backtrack to the
County Road 4 via a bridge over
Highway 401 to connect with a
concession road leading to Oxford
Centre.
The county road now ends Just
north of Highway 401 near the pro-
posed linkup area. The extension
would allow county road traffic to
commerce group, which includes
representatives from the Woodstock
chamber, is scheduled to meet with
Transportation Minister James
Snow in early March to present a
comprehensive brief urging the ear-
liest possible completion of Highway
403,
New MOE requirements
may be costly for county
Oxford County staff may be
preparing operation, main -
lenience and closure ptans for al
least, four couroty landfill sitee 10
comply with newly introduced
Ontario Ministry of Environ-
ment (MOE) requirements.
The new requirements may
mean the county will have to
spend thousands of dollars for
their completion.
The public works committee
requested a report from
operations engineer Roy
Branklev, who will find out the
costs and feasibility of doing the
work "in house". The other
alternative is to hire an in-
dependent consultant to fulfill
the MOE's request.
In a letter, Jim Jartse, MOE's
district officer of municipal and
private abatement, said plans
must be prepared "for all
municipal waste disposal sites
for which no such plans were
prepared or submitted at the
time application was made for
approval." He said plans will be needed
for the Lakeside. Drumbo, East
Oxford and South Norwich sites.
A draft plan will be forwarded
by the end of the month, and the
- MOE London office has two
consultants on hand to aid in
plan preparation, he said.
County engineer t)on Pratt
told the committee plans will
likely be needed for the
Holbrook and Tlnsonburg sites
as well.
Pratt wasn't overjoyed at the
news.
"It's beginning to gel pretty
obvious to me that we won't be
able to afford this environment
business," he said.
Having a consultant do the
work could cost at least $60,000,
the committee was informed.
Except for the closure plans,
they wouldn't be worth the
money, said Warden Ross
Livingston. The county intends
to dose the sites anyway, as
soon as it can open another
landfill site.
Brankley suggested he take on
the job himself to cut down on
costs even though "I'm inviting
myself a hell of a lot of work and
frustration".
He said a maintenance plan
was drawn up by county staff for
the 2orra-Embro landfill site,
and it could be conceivable the
same could be done for the
others.
"What gave me the idea is
that they have consultants
available for consultation," he
said,
Salford hearing
location changed
A preliminary environmental hearing on the Salford landfill
site, which opens Thursday, is being moved to a new location.
Originally set to be heard in the Oxford County courthouse, the
hearing will now take place at the Fairview Centre at the
Woodstock fairgrounds, beginning at 11:30 a.m.
Other meetings next week include city council, at a p.m.
Thursd-av-
PUBLIC NOTICE
THE CONSOLIDATED HEARINGS ACT, 1981
(S.O. 1981, C. 20)
PROPOSED SALFORD LANDFILL SITE
(TOWNSHIP OF SOUTH-WEST OXFORD, ONTARIO)
CHANGE IN TIME AND LOCATION OF HEARING
TAKE NOTICE
That the Public Hearing to be held in this matter on
Thursday, the 4th day of March, 1982 at 11:00 a.m, in
the Supreme Court Room Court House, 415 Hunter
Street, Woodstock, Ontario.
WILL NOW BE HELD ON THE
4TH DAY OF MARCH, 1982
AT 11:30 A.M.
AT THE FOLLOWING LOCATION:
FAIR VIEW CENTRE
WOODSTOCK FAIRGROUNDS
NELLIS STREET,
WOODSTOCK, ONTARIO
Doted at Toronto, this 25th day of February, 1982
M.J. CATHCART
Hearings Registrar,
The Consolidated Hearings Act, 1981
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FREE ANTI=RABIES
VACCINATION CLINICS
OXFORD COUNTY
Commencing March 16, 1982, the following anti -rabies
vaccination clinics for dogs and cats will be held in Oxford
County, in response to an increased incidence of wildlife
rabies over the past few months. Your pet may become in-
fected if exposed to a rabid animal and you in turn, would
be subject to infection if bitten by your pet.
Responsible pet ownership includes observance of local
dog control bylaws and rabies in dogs and cats can only be
effectively controlled through a combination of confining
Pets to their properties and annual booster shots for rabies.
Rabies is a reportable disease under federal low, so that
suspected cases should be repported to the Animal Health
Division, Agriculture Canada (539-8505), either directly or
through your local veterinarian, police or health unit.
Where a person is bitten by a suspected rabid animal, one
should immediately notify the local health unit with par.
ticulars of the incident.
The clinics are being conducted by,, Animal Health
Division, Agriculture Canada in cooperation with Oxford
County Council and the Oxford County Board of Health.
The rabies vaccination clinics are FREE OF CHARGE TO
OWNERS REGARDLESS OF COUNTY OF RESIDENCE and you
can present your dogs and cats, adequately restrained for
vaccination at any clinics.
DOGS AND CATS ONLY
WILL BE VACCINATED,
Dr. J.A. Schulte-Nordholt
Dr. C.P. Rochard
District Veterinarian
Medical Officer of Health
Agriculture Canada
Oxford County Board of Health
Woodstock, Ontario
Woodstock,
Ontario
Tel. 539.8505
Tel, 539-6121
Tuesday,
Foldens Comers
Township Garage
9:00 a.m:12:00 noon
MARCH 16, 1982
Beachville
Fire Hall
2:00 p.m.-6:00 P.M.
Wednesday,
Woodstock
Para Mutual Bldg.
9:00 a m:12:00 noon
MARCH 17,1982
Fairgrounds
2:00 p.m: 7:00 p.m.
Thursday,
Uniondale
Fire Hall
9:00 a.m:12:00 noon
MARCH 18, 1982
Emote
Fire Hall
2:00 p.m.4:00 p.m.
Friday,
MARCH 19, 1982
Plattsdlle
Fire Hall
9:00 a.m.- 12:00 noon
Monday,
Bright
Fire Halt
9:00 a.m:12:00 noon
MARCH 22, 1982
Innerkip
Fire Hall
2:00 p.m.4:00 P.M.
Tuesday,
Drumbe
Fire Hall
9:00 a.m.-12:00 now
MARCH 23, 1982
Hickson
Fin Hall
2:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
Wednesday,
Pm Mutual Bldg.
9:00 a.m: 12:00 noon
MARCH 24, 1982
Woodstock
Fairgreunds
210 p.m.4:00 p.m.
Thursday,
Dereham Centre
Township Garage
9:00 a.m; 12:00 noon
MARCH 25, 1982
Ingersoll
Fire Hall
2:00 p.m: 7:00 p.m.
Friday,
MARCH 26, 1981
Ottertrille
Fire Hall
9:00 a.m.-12:00 noon
Monday
Diford Centre
Fire loll
9:00 a.m.-12:00 we
MARCH 29, 1982
Norwich
Fire Nall
2:00 p.m.4:00 p.m.
Tuesday,
Burgessdlla
Fire Hall
9:00 a.m: 12:00 noori
MARCH 30, 1982
Taststock
Araea
2:00 p.m.4:00 p.m.
Works Dept. Garage
Wednesday,
Tilhonburg
20 Spruce Street
2:00 p.m: 7:00 p.m.
MARCH 31, 1992
Princeton
Fire Hall
8A0 a.m.-12:00 moon
Thursday,
APRIL 1, 1982
Thamesford
Fire Hell
2..00 p.a,4:00 pal.
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Separate hearings sought
on dump site, landfill policy
Hearings set to begin next month
Township solicitors fail to stop consolidated hearings
Ry LINDA HULME
sentinel -Review staff writer
Attempts by township solicitors to either delay or divide a
hearing on Oxford (:aunty's proposed Salford landfill site have
failed.
The consolidated hearing into environmental and planning
matters for the proposed Salford site will go on in April as
• scheduled, and it will not be split into two separate hearings, a
joint board ruled Friday.
Board chairman John Whaler outlined reasons for leaving the
hearing intact after hearing submissions by solicitors for South-
West Oxford and Norwich townships Thursday.
South-West Oxford solicitor David Estrin and Norwich solicitor
Harry Poch had requested the matters dealing with the two
sections of the county official plan relating to landfill be heard
separately.
In his decision, Wbeler said Estrin's request for the deletion of
the official plan matters from the consolidated hearing fails,
because the policies have application to the establishment of the
landfill site.
Contrary to Estrin's submission, the joint board does have
Jurisdiction over the policies, because the hearing commenced
last July did not reveal any evidence for or against them.
Because the plan policies are before the board, so is the county
bylaw regulating the use of land at the Salford site. Wheler said
the bylaw is based upon those two sections of the official plan
dealing with landfill, and cannot be separated.
Addressing Poch's concerns, that it would be too costly for
Norwich Township to be involved in the full hearing, Wheler said
that was not sufficient reason to have the planning matters ex-
cluded.
"The board recognizes the township's concerns in this regard,
but for reasons previously given in connection with Mr. Estrin's
submission, the board had decided to give paramount im-
portance to the spirit of the Consolidated Hearings Act and the
desirability of combining all matters before the joint board,"
said Wheler.
The policies as pertaining to the site specifically, he said,
Province refuses
to alter 403 link
WOODSTOCK (Bureau) — Oxford
County failed Thursday to persuade
Transportation Minister James
Snow to change plans for the linkup
of Highways 403 and 401 south of
here.
Snow rejected Oxford's request to
extend County Road 4 across the two
highways in hope. of getting addi-
tional access routes, Aid. Joe Pem-
her told city council.
fie said Snow told county spokes-
men he cannot consider the exten-
sion until traffic volumes warrant it.
Pember, Warden Ross Livingston
and Norwich Township Mayor Car-
man Sweazey went to Toronto. to
plead the county's ease because
much of the land along County Road
4 in east Woodstock is slated for in-
dustrial development.
The road now runs north -south
past the Blandford Square Mall to
Towerline Road. An extension to a
concession road leading to Oxford
Centre would provide a truck route
and an added attraction to new in-
dustry.
"If the need can be proven at any
time over the next four years ... he
(Snow) said he would listen to us,"
Pember said. "But he said, `I can't
build roads to enhance industrial
property.' "
The ministry plans to have High-
way 403 reach Woodstock in five
years. But Pember said a more real-
istic estimate is seven or eight years
because of contract delays.
fie said the ministry has a tight
budget, noting It plans to spend $2.8
million this ,year improving Oxford
Watchman to monitor
Holbrook dump site
cannot be "legally divorced" from the county -wide con-
siderations Poch is interested in.
Estrin's attempts to have the hearing postponed were also
felled.
Wheler aaid Estrin's concerns over the lack of time to study the
county's reports were not valid.
"Further delay as requested is unreasonable on the bests of the
lenggth of the time the township has had to prepare it's own case,"
setd Wheler.
He said the presence of snow at the Salford site should rat deter
an investigations Estrin wishes to make,
As for the possibility for the location of an Indian burial grand
at the site, Wheler called it "somewhat remote and speculative"
based on the township's preliminary report.
"Even if a burial ground is found, it is unlikely that it a
occupy so much of the landfill site. or render the total
useless or inappropriate," he added.
Continued on page 3.
County Road 6 west of Woodstock.
Snow also pointed out Woodstock al-
ready has four exits to Highway 401.
The planned linkup for Highway
403, between Highway 59 and High-
way 401, would make it impossible
for a westbound 401 motorist to get
on eastbound 403 without backtrack-
ing to the Highway 59 exit. A west-
bound Highway 404 motorist would.
also have to backtrack to the same
exit to get on eastbound Highway
401.
City council decided reluctantly to
endorse the proposed linkup but
noted it wants the County Road 4
overpass. It also asked city engineer
Carl Hevenor to find out when the
ministry, plans to reconstruct High-
way 59 between the 401 and Parkin-
son Road.
PRINTING
TENDER
Tenders for the printing of
the 1981 Oxford County
Minute Book will be received
by the undersigned until l:oo
p.m., Friday. March 26.1982.
Information can be obtained
at the County Clerk's Office.
Court House, Woodstock, On-
tario.
J. Harold Walls
Clerk, County of Oxford
P.U. Box 397
Woodstock, Ontario
N4S 7Y3
BLUES CHASER
Thirty years ago when you left
home for a twin -week vacation, you
checked to make sure you hadn't left
a light on. Now, you check to make
.sure you did.
! Hiring watchman for dump
Ry DOROTHY C'LARK
A full-time watchman to oversee the
operation of the Holbrook landfill site will
be hired by Oxford County as soon as
possible, council decided Wednesday.
Warden Ross Livingston said he hoped a
man would be hired within a month. He
will then have to be trained in detecting
toxic waste.
Originally to be hired under the con-
tingency plan, public works chairman Joe
Pentber and Warden Livingston said they
felt it necessary to hire someone now.
It will have to be carried out eventually,
so getting the experience now will be a
benefit. "It's a step in the right direction,"
Warden Livingston said.
Recommended in the public works
report, it sparked many questiona by
councillors before being passed.
Counc. Don McKay, of East Zorra -
Tavistock township, questioned the type of
person to be hired and the amount of
authority he would have He also brought
up the possibility of a user -pay policy.
Counc. f'ember said the county is
looking for an "extremely honest, com-
petent person," who would have guidelines
to work by, lie would gather information
on the types of garbage dumped and where
it comes from.
Warden Livingston said the user -pay
policy is something that will have to be
considered but noted one central site will
have to be. established before it could be
implemented.
"If you're going to charge one, you have
to charge everybody,"
Norwich mayor Carman Sweaxey
questioned the hours a watchman would be
on the site.
Counc. Pember said the watchman
would be on the site only during the day
with a different gate security system in-
stalled to make the property "as secure as
possible."
Warden Livingston said improvements
to the gate and fencing will make it im-
possible for anyone to enter the site un-
detected and he said he was sure neighbors
would be more than willing to report any
unauthorized dumping.
cotxrrtr or oxroao
COUNTY OF OXFORD
TENDER FOR ROAD RECONSTRUCTION
CONTRACT NO. 7320
Sealed tenders clearly marked as to contents, will be
received by the undersigned until 2:00 p.m, local time
on
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 1982
for the following:
The complete reconstruction, including sewer work,
of County Road #32. Dundas Street, West, from County
Road N9 westerly 735 metros, in the City of Woodstock.
The work to consist of:
1) 6,100 m' of excavation
2) 3,200 tonnes of Granular "A"
3) 8,400 tonnes of Granular "B"
4) 2,150 tonnes of hot mix asphalt
5) 900 metres of County of Oxford type curb
6) 850 m'of sidewalks
7) 1,300 m' of milling concrete pavement
8) 630 metres of storm sewer 250 mm die to 900 mm dia
9)168 metres of 375 mm dia sanitary sewer
10) 19 catchbasins
11) 13 precast manholes
All bids must be accompanied by a certified cheque,
payable to the County of Oxford, for $20,000.00, and
the successful bidder will be required to furnish a
100% performance bond, and a labour and material
payment bond.
Contract documents may be obtained at the Office of
the Director of Engineering, County of Oxford, Court
House, Hunter Street, P.O. Box 397, Woodstock, On-
tario, on payment of $20.00 which will be non-
refundable.
Lowest or any tender will not necessarily be ac-
cepted.
Donald L. Pratt, P. Eng.
Director of Engineering
County of Oxford
Court House
Hunter Street
P.O. Box 397
Woodstock, Ontario.
N4S 7Y3
Mn 1176
Plan hearing
on Holbrook
Lawyers representing
Norwich Township council
said following a council
meeting Tuesday night that
as environmental
assessment hearing will be
held on the Holbrook
landfill site before any
extension is granted.
Donna Shier, a partner
with John Willms, in the
Toronto law firm of Vaugh
Willms, said she has been
informed by the director of
environmental approvals
in the Toronto office of the
environment ministry that
Oxford County has made
application for the hearing,
in keeping with the con-
ditions outlined in their
emergency certificate of
operation.
Township council asked
its lawyers Tuesday night
to proceed under the en-
vironmental protection act
to obtain the hearing and
Prepare for it. Ms Shier
said she did not know when
such a hearing would be
held, but added it will be
requested to be held as
soon as possible. "Council
is very anxious to get going
on it," she said. "They
want to proceed."
The existing emergency
certificate on the Holbrook
site expires June 30 and the
hearing will he held to
Holbrook dump report
to cost $10 per copy
WOODSTOCK (Bureau) — Oxford
County residents can have a repro.
duced copy of the county's latest re-
port on the Holbrook landfill site in
Norwich Township.
But it's going to cost $to.
County council decided Wednesday
night to make the report public for
$10 despite an objection from
Norwich, Township Mayor Carman
Sweazey who argued it is unfair to
charge residents whose water is be-
ing tested for contamination.
The half -inch -thick technical re.
Port was prepared by MacLaren En-
gineers, Planners and Consultants
Ltd. for the county at the request of
the environment ministry and was
completed last month. It was re-
qulred when the county applied to
have the life of the Holbrook site ex-
tended until another site can be de-
veloped Warden Ross Livingston of
Blandford Blenheim Township said.
He suggested charging for copies
to help offset the production Costs of
between $10 to $20. Part of the ex-
pense is due W the fact the report
contains charts and maps, he said.
He said the report "Indicates"
there is no contamination at the site.
Details of the report were not dis.
closed.
Woodstock Coun. Phil Poole also
agreed with the fee, arguing it would
prevent the county from being
flooded ,by requests for the highly
technical data.
The decision to make the report
public was sparked by a Holbrook
area farmer, who is refusing to let
the ministry test his well water until
he receives a copy.
Sweazey said Gary Sackrider, who
lives about 1.6 kilometres from the
site, Is concerned about health prob-
lems which his family and livestock
have been experiencing.
The Oxford County board of health
sampled his water and found it unfit
for human consumption because it
contains high levels of coliform bac-
teria.
Norwich Township has asked the
county to enact Its drinkable water
bylaw to provide Sackrider with un-
contaminated water because his well
may be polluted by the landfill site.
County council forwarded Its re-
quest to its public works committee
Wednesday. Sweazey expressed dis-
appointment at the delay and
requested Sackrider be provided
with safe water Immediately.
But Livingston said Sackrider re-
fused to let the ministry take sam-
ples of his water for testing and said
there Is no proof the bacteria came
from the landfill site.
He noted the bacteria present In
Sackrider's well is not uncommon In
the spring and could be caused by
something other than the landfill
site.
determine whether its life
can be extended as is being
proposed by the county.
Township council also
instructed its solicitors to
complete the legal
research required for the
Possible judicial review of
the county's bylaw which
authorized the county's
Purchase of the Holbrook
site.
A consultant will be hired
on the township's behalf to
undertake tests to provide
advice on the surface and
ground water con-
tamination at the Holbrook
site for the environmental
assessment hearings,
"provided we are allowed
on the site," said Ms Shier.
The choice of consultants
will first be discussed with
council before one is
retained. Those tests will
involve hydrogeological
and hydrological testing at
the Holbrook site.
The township's lawyers
will be at the same time
monitoring South-West
Oxford's application to the
Supreme Court and
preparing to attend the
joint board hearings in
respect of the general
official plan matters and
those relating to the
Proposed Salford landfill
site.
ALLIN — At Alexandra
Ilrxspits!' Ingersoll, on Wert;
nesday, March 24. 1982;
Stanley Allis, age 66; of R. I
Ingersoll. Husband of tbeR.late
Mary Grant (1981), Dear
father of Donald, R.R. 1
Beachville. Predeceased by
one daughter, Margaret Peg
Cuthbert (1978), Dear grand-
father of John and Les Cuth-
bert and Jeff and Lecia Allin.
Dear great-grandfather of
Shelly, Kim, Sean, Trevor and
Troy Cuthbert. Friends will be
received at the McBeath
Funeral Home, 246 Thames
Street South, Ingersoll, after
2:00 p.m, on Friday, where
complete service will be held
on Saturday, March 27th, at
2:00 p.m., Audrey Whitney of-
ficiating. Temporary en-
tombment, interment later in
Hillview Cemetery, Wood-
stock.
County is falling behind
in battle against potholes
More than 100 sections of road in Oxford County are either
critically deficient now or will be by 1992, but because they are
low priorities in the county's road needs study, there are no
budgetary provisions for u ading.
County construction and des gn engineer Stewart Watts told
the public works committee Thursday the county is falling
further behind in its roads budget annually and at its present
rate there will never be any reconstruction money for these
roads.
He said the situation has been the same for about six veers.
"At 2.8 million per year, we're losing ground so fast, the day
will come when we stop building roads," he said.
"The only hope for these roads is to somehow find some
money in the existing budget or to create some money in
future years."
The roads are classed as low priorities in the road needs
study, so budget money goes to upgrading roads used more
often and reconstructing roads where traffic has increased.
In a written report. Watts said the 107 sections in question
would coat $26,5M,000 to repair in 1978 dollars. H the projects
were left until 1992, that figure will have inflated to
j $63,000,000.
He recommended the establishment of a new section in the
1983 roads budget program giving at least 10 per cent of the
budget each year be designated for improvements to these
roads.
The committee accepted Watts' report, and it will be for,
warded to county council for review.
Blues chaser
It's true that money iatka. But
now a dollar doesn't have
enough cents to say anything
worthwhile.
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Had been scheduled for Monday ... ... no new dates have been set
Salford landfill site hearing has been delayed
By LINDA HULME
Sentinel -Review staff writer
The consolidated hearing on the Salford landfill site, scheduled
for Monday, will not go ahead as planned.
An Ontario Supreme Court judge Thursday delayed a decision
on an appeal to have the hearing split into separate en-
vironmental and planning hearings. lTte full divisional court will
rule on the appeal on May 26,
David Estrin, solicitor for South-West Oxford Township, went
to bat yesterday for the municipality before Mr. Justice M.A.
Catxman in Toronto to have the hearing split. Estrin argued the
Oxford County official plan policies pertaining to the location of
•
landfill sites should be dealt with by the Ontario Municipal Board
(OMB), not by the joint board appointed to hear the Salford
landfill considerations.
The plan allows landfill sites to be located in areas designated
as agricultural preserve. Under that designation, the county
passed a bylaw regulating land use at the Salford site for landfill.
If the policies in question are turned down by the OMB, the bylaw
would become void.
Estrin charged because of this, the consolidated hearing was
improperly set up.
He said this morning the judge decided "there were too many
important matters to decide ass single judge" and adjourned the
ERNIE HUNT, who is in charge works on a table that may have
of the renovations at the tour- been built about 1839.
thouse checks out some of the (Staff photos)
brick work, above, and below
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Courthouse
undergoes
a facelift
The Oxford County courthouse
is becoming a nicer place to
visit, at least for those who are
not legally required to do so.
The exterior facelift has been -
all but completed, and now the
interior is beginning to show its
age a little more gracefully.
Hunt and three other employees
began converting the basement
into office space last December.
and it may be 1983 before the
craftsmen have worked their
way to the third floor.
Time has taken its toll on the
basement. Arched windows, a
fireplace, an oaken table have
shown themselves to be in much
need of careful attention.
A nine foot oaken table,
possibly dating as far back as
1839, look days to restore. A
fireplace that once served as a
receptacle for cigar butts and
scrap papers has had its dignity
restored, The many arched
windows, partially concealed
with wooden ceilings, are now
unobstructed. Walls will be
replastered. Concrete floors will
replace the rotting wood. Even
the color scheme will be im-
proved.
In the end, the basement will
house eight new offices yet still
retain its original layout.
township's application until the full divisional court can hear the
case.
"In the meantime, the judge was concerned that the hearing
proposed form Monday should not go ahead, because it would be
a tremendous waste of funds," said Estrin.
"We didn't necessarily want to delay the hearing," he said,
"What we wanted was a proper hearing
He said be understands the joint board will atUl be present at
the Salford Community Centre, Monday, where the hearing was
scheduled to begin at 11 a.m.
Estrin said there may be some further developments on the
situation between today and Monday.
Could last until August
Blues Chaser A generation ago most men Salford hearing s e t
who finished a day's work
needed rest Now they need
exercise,
to begin 21
By LINDA RULME
Sentinel -Review staff writer PROVINCE OF ONTARIO
$ALFORD — It took two days
of negotiation, but the hearing PUBLIC NOTICE
on the proposed Salford landfill
s ite will
begin April 21 before the RE WASTE DISPOSAL POLICIES
joint board. OXFORD COUNTY PLANNING AREA OFFICIAL PLAN
The hearing could continue
into as late as August. TAKE NOTICE that pursuant to THE CONSOLIDATED HEARINGS ACT,
Solicitors from Oxford S.O. 1981, c. 20, A PUBLIC HEARING before the Joint Board will com-
County, South-West Oxford mence at 11:00 A.M. ON WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21ST, 1982, in the Com-
Township and Norwich Town- munity Centre, 19 Church Street West, Salford, for the purpose of deter-
` ship spent Tuesday working out mining the appropriate p p p
an agreement as to when the 9 pp opriate Official Plan policies for the whole of the Oxford
hearing could take place. County Planning Area with regard to waste disposal.
County solicitor Tom Lederer The Joint Board will consider:
told the board at the Salford ( I) the draft policies for waste disposal approved by County Council as
Community Centre, Tuesday, contained in section 5.2.4. and section 5.2.12, 26 and 36 of the
the parties came to an un-
derstanding ...almost. Y Oxford Count Official Plan; and PF
The problem rested in the ( 2) an application by the Township of South-West Oxford to amend the
scheduling of witnesses and' above -referred to draft Official Plan policies.
'trying to work around other
hearings. Any person who wishes to address the Joint Board in person or through
legal counsel with respect to such Official Plan policies should attend at
F(ti the same time and place.
A copy of the County draft Official Plan policy and of the Amendment
proposed by the Township of South-West Oxford may be obtained from
the Clerk's office, County of Oxford, Court House, 415 Hunter Street,
Woodstock, Ontario or from the Clerk's office, Township of South-West
t,W,40 Oxford, Dereham Centre.
r _ EXPLANATORY NOTES
;� � xz , 1 The Joint Board was established at the request of the County of Ox-
k " yy ford to consider the proposed undertaking by the County of a waste
disposal site near Salford on parts of Lot 11 and 12, Concession 2 in
u the Township of South-West Oxford.
2 . However, prior to considering the County's proposed waste
disposal undertaking at Salford, the Joint Board by Order has decid-
ed to first hold a public hearing and approve appropriate Official
Plan policies pertaining to the location of waste disposal facilifies
.., for the whole of the County of Oxford.
t01001eq 3 . The draft Official Plan policies for waste disposal proposed by
r, County Council would allow waste disposal to occur on any lands
designated as an Agricultural Preserve Policy Area subject to the
approval of the Ministry of the Environment.
4 . The Amendment proposed to such Official Plan policies by the
III ,° Township of South-West Oxford provides that prior to waste
disposal being permitted in an Agricultural Preserve Policy Area an
a'°'11' 4i4iI
u Amendment to the Official Plan with regard to the proposed loca-
tion must be made (which process would involve public notice and
an opportunity for a public hearing) and the proposed location must
be zoned for that use.
Y, 11f 5 . The Township policies further provide that in considering whether
an Amendment to the Official Plan to permit waste disposal it up,
propriate for any specific site, a point system shall be utilized with
the objective of ensuring that adverse impacts on the surrounding
land uses, the natural environment and any individual and com-
munities in the vicinity f the proposed site are mmimized.
Y oe
6 . The point system proposed by the Township would cause on evt luo-
tion of the proposal to be made based on such matters as land
capability for agriculture, hydrogeologic safety (the possibility of
ground water pollution), distance from presently existing ano ap.
p proved residences and from rural hamlet areas.
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Published by Direction of the Joint Board. f
75 GREAT YEARS
Murray and Edna Gray sit in Murray, 98, and Edna, 92,
front of a portrait taken when they received congratulations from a
were newlyweds, 75 years ago, number of dignitaries, among
during their anniversary party them the Queen of England.
Thursday at Woodingford Lodge. (Staff photo by Dave Dorken )
NO LEACHATE MIGRATION FROM HOLBROOK LANDFILL SITE
Early water tests suggest county may be off hook
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Oxford refuses to provide safe water
to farmer with contaminated well
WOODSTOCK (Bureau) — Oxford
County council refused Wednesday
to provide drinkable water to a
Norwich Township farmer whose
well water was declared unsafe to
drink last month by the county
board of health.
Norwich Mayor Carman Sweazey
asked council to provide potable wa-
ter to Gary Sackrider of RR 3,
Norwich, under a county bylaw
which guarantees a safe water sup•
Ply to any resident whose well be -
carries polluted by a landfill site.
But Warden Ross Livingston told
council preliminary results of recent
tests by the health board show the
well could not have been contami-
nated by a landfill site.
Livingstone told .council the tests.
showed levels of fecal and other bac-
terial matter which would not have
been present in any leachate con-
tamination from a landfill site. He
said chemical contaminants associ-
ated with landfill were found, al-
though testing by the health unit and
Provincial environment ministry is
continuing.
Sackrider lives about 1.5 kilome-
tres from the Holbrook landfill site
and he is concerned about the health
of his family and animals, Sweazey
told council. He. has been hauling
water from a fire hydrant in
Norwich.
Sweazey said his interpretation of
the potable water bylaw is that it
was aimed at alleviating fears by
Holbrook area residents. He called
the preliminary results .Inconclusive
because they did not show the source
of the contamination and asked that
the county bylaw be enforced until
final testing is completed.
Livingston said if final results
show Holbrook is the cause of the
contamination, the county will waste
no time acting on the provisions out-
lined in the bylaw.
BLUES CHASER
_ Afolorim to Judge in a packed Ira
tic court "Can You taAc file rr.C'
I'm double parker-"
Publio Information Contra
Highway 403
The Ministry of Transportation and Communications will told an
Information Centre to permit the public to examine final desigr
proposals for construction of Highway 403 from grant County
Rd. N25 Westerly to Highway 53 intarclwngs.
The design of this project is subject to The Environmental
Assessment Act and an Environmental Assessment Report - Type
1i will be prepared, in order to document the design stage.
The Information Centre will be held at:
Women's Institute Hall
CATHCART
Ontario
Wednesday, April 28, 1982: 1:00 P.M. to 9:00 P.M.
Staff from the Ministry of Transportation and Communications
will be available to answer your questions. For further in-
formation please contact
Mr. E. Stevenson
Project manager
Ministry of Transportation and Communications
659 Exeter Road
P.O. Box 5338
London, Ontario
N6A 5H2 .
Telephone: (519) 681-1441 - Ext. 138
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Oxford's 12.8% budget. rise blasted
APRIL 15,
WOODSTOCK (Bureau) — A L982
Oxford County budget calling for a
12.8 per cent increase in spending
was approved Wednesday despite a
protest by one councillor that it was
"rammed through" without enough
discussion.
East Zorra-Tavistock Township
Coun. Don McKay blasted council
for passing the budget in less than
an hour without any cuts, other than
those made in,earlier committee
sessions
He said the increase was too much
and placed a burden on taxpayers
who don't know who to blame for
higher tax bills. McKay was the only
member to propose any cuts and the
only one to oppose the budget.
1982
He attempted to cut in half the
$22,000 allotted for council conven-
tions and delegations, which had
been increased from $18,000 last
year. The motion failed, without
comment, on an 8-7 vote.
Zorra Township Coon. Barry .Wal-
lace, chairman of the county's ad-
ministration and finance committee,
noted more than $500,000 had al-
ready been cut in committee ses-
sions. Individual department bud-
gets were reviewed at least twice by
We committees.
He said the traditional place to cut
was roads, but the road program
was already falling behind. The only
other area to cut was social ser-
vices, but because they are subsid-
ized heavily by the province a $200;
0o0 cut would only reduce the
county's share by $1,400, he said.
Wallace said later he did not be-
lieve the budget was rammed
through, noting he gave everyone 'a
chance to propose cuts. He said the
increases were justified. "I don't
think there's a lot of fat in this bud-
get."
One area which could not be
touched , was the landfill budget,
which is up 77.8 per cent to 1.45 mil-
lion from $818,000last year.
The county used $600,000 from, re-
serves to soften the increase, which
reduced reserves by $82,500, from the
$379,265 left from 1981. Normally,
$517,500 would have been added this
year under a set formula.
Treasurer Howard Day said he de-
cided to use reserves to reduce the
amount charged to local municipali-
ties who pay all landfill costs. The
county levy calls for an increase of
11.6 per cent in spending.
Day also noted most of the money
cut in committee sessions came
from the landfill budget, which was
reduced because of delays in holding
hearings for the Salford landfill site.
McKay pointed to the costly hear-
ings as an example of legislation
geared to protect the public and sug-
gested governments in general are
"strangling themselves" with such
legislation.
His concern over whom to blame
for tax increases was prompted by a
change in provincial grant distribtl-
tion. Some grants, such as for pol-
ice, are going directly to the local
municipalities this year instead of
being distributed by the county.
The change makes the county levy
appear to rise by 50 per cent — to
$5.4 million from $3.6 million in 1981.
The result will make local municipal
budgets appear to have much
smaller increases, with the grants
used to lower percentage raises.
The county's total budget this year
Is $16,076.009. Public works is
pegged at $5,846,500 — a 5.7 per cent
increase — while public health and
welfare is estimated at $6,580.60 or
an 8.5 percent increase.
Earlier Wednesday, council ap-
Debt toll staggering APRIL 15, 1982
Bankruptcies climb 33% in first quarter
OTTAWA (CP) — The number of
companies declaring bankruptcy
soared by 33 per cent to 2,720 in the
first quarter of 1982 compared tothe
same period last year.
And their debts were nearly twice
as high as those owed by bankrupt
firms in the first quarter of 1981.
Monthly figures released by the
consumer and corporate affairs de-
partment Wednesday said there
were another 1,= business bank-
rupteles across the country In
March, bringing the quarterly total.
to 2,720. There were 2,044 bankrupt -
elm in the same period a year earl-
ier.
Liabilities of the bankrupt firms,
that range from manufacturers to
retailers, total more than $442.5 mil-
lion, nearly twice the $237.4 million
owed by bankrupt firms a year earl-
ier.
On top of the business failures,
there were 2;879 personal bankrupt-
cies in March, bringing the quar-
terly total to 6,974, an increase of
13.3 per cent over the same period
last year.
Companies and persons who are
unable to pay their debts can de-
clare bankruptcy, putting a trustee
in control of disposing any remain-
Ing assets to banks, employees and
other creditors. The figures do not
include receiverships and other
forms of corporate tauures.
Experts such as Ian Strang, presi-
dent of the Canadian Insolvency As-
sociation, say the rising rate of
bankruptcies show high Interest
rates and other symptoms of the
economic recession are taking a
high toll on business.
On a regional basis, the highest
number of personal and business
bankruptcies occurred in Ontario.
There were 1,238 more personal
bankruptcies in the province, bring-
ing the quarterly total to 3,241, and
329 more business bankruptcies,
bringing the quarterly total to 883.
The combined total was 4.134 during
the quarter, compared to 3,839 In the
same period a year earlier
There were 1,311 additional bank-
ruptcies in Quebec in March, bring
the total for January -March to 3,470,
up from 2,670 in the previous year.
Figures, released earier this, week.
for the other provinces for the first
three months of the year compared
with the same -period last year;
Newfoundland 86 and 49; Nova Sco-
tia 222 and 219; Prince Edward Is-
land six and 17; New Brunswick 69
and 60; Manitoba 356 and 268; Sas-
katchewan 178 and 1.16; Alberta 615
and 5s8; British Columbia SW and
37% Northwest Territories two and
three, and Yukon three and three.
proved a staff hiring freeze, except
for new lobs required by legislation
or added responsibility under waste
management programs. Existing
staff levels will be maintained.
The hiring freeze is an extension
of a policy approved last year- War-
den Ross Livingston said some de-
partments, such as planning, are al-
ready short-staffed, but be believes
the county is operating efficiently.
One exception to the freeze will be
the addition of a field worker for the
social service department to handle
increasing case loads. Legislation
requires that staff levels be main-
tained in nurseries and at Wooding-
ford Lodge, a home for the aged,
based on the number of persons
cared for.
OntarioWelcomes
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth n
On April 17, 1982, the people of Ontario join with other Canadians
from coast to coast to celebrate the patriation of our constitution —a
momentous and joyous event in the annals of our national history.
The people of Ontario are immensely proud to be Canadian...
proud to be part of a country so rich and diverse in its land, culture
and heritage.
To Canada!
•
•
WOODSTOCK INGERSOLL. ONTARIO, SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1982
Constitution comes
Trumpets blare,
cannons boom:
Canada now truly
independent nation
OTTAWA (CP) — One hundred and fifteen
years after Confederation, Canada is at last truly
independent.
The updated Constitution, wiping out the last
vestige of British control over its former colony,
became law today as (queen Elizabeth signed a
royal proclamation amid trumpeted salutes,
booming cannons and cheering crowds on
Parliament Hill.
With an historic stroke of a
fountain pen, the Queen put into
effect a constitution including a
charter of rights and the power
to change the supreme law of the
land without going cap in hand
to Britain for approval.
But it was a wet celebration as
rain began to pour down only
moments after the Queen made
Canadian history with a stroke
of a fountain pen on a document
made from Manitoba flax.
Prime Minister Trudeau,
smiling broadly, sat on the edge
i of his seat next to the Queen as
I she signed. As he signed next,
dignitaries on the platform burst
into applause and the generally
restrained crowd followed suit.
Canadians everywhere were
asked to join in the singing of O
Canada and to honk their horns
if driving while trumpets blared
and pigeons — representing
doves — were released on
Parliament Hill.
The only sombre note came as
the Quebec government, lone
opponent of the federal -
provincial accord that led to
patriation, declared war on the
new Constitution in nearby Hull,
Que., and organized a protest
march in Montreal.
A PROCLAMA TION
OTTAWA (CP) — Following is
a text of the proclamation signed
Saturday by Queen Elizabeth
bringing into force Canada's new
constitution.
ELIZABETH THE SECOND,
by the Grace of Godof the United
gingdom. Canada and Her other
Realms and Territories Queen,
Head of the Commonwealth,
Defender of the Faith.
To AH To Whom these Presents
shall come or whom the same
may in anyway concern.
GREETING:
A PROCLAMATION
Attorney General of Canada
WHEREAS in the past certain
amendments to the Constitution
of Canada have been made by the
Parliament of the United King-
dom at the request and with the
consent of Canada;
AND WHEREAS It is in accord
with the status of Canada as an
independent state that Canadians
he able to amend their Constitu-
tion in Canada in all respects;
AND WHEREAS It A desirable to
provide in the Constitution of
Canada for the recognition of cer-
tain fundamental rights and free
doms and to make other amend-
ments to the Constitution;
AND WHEREAS the Parliament
of the United Kingdom has there-
fore, at the request and with the
consent of Canada, enacted the
Canada Act, which provides for
the patriation and amendment of
the Cnnstltuilon ofCauada;
AND WHEREAS section 58 of the
Constitution Act, 1982, set out in
Schedule B to the Canada Act,
provides that the Constitution
Act, 1982 shall, subject to section
59 thereof, come into force on a
day to be fixed by proclamation
iwsved under the Great Seal of
Canada;
NOW KNOW You that We, by and
with the advice of Our Privy
Council for Canada; do by this
Our Proclamation, declare that
the Constitution Act, 1982 shall,
subject to section 59 thereof,
come into force on the Seven-
teenth day of April. in the year of
Our Lord One Thousand Nine
Hundred and Eighty -Two.
OF ALL WHICH Our Loving Sub-
jects and all others whom these
Presents may concern are hereby
required to take notice and to
govern themselves accordingly.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF We
have caused these Our Letters to
be made Patent and the Great
Seal of Canada to be hereunto af-
fixed.
At Our City of Ottawa, this Seven,
teenth day of April In the Year of
Our Lord One Thousand Nine
Hundred and KighlyTwo and in
the Thirty -trot Year of Our
Reign.
By Her MaJesty',c Command
Registrar General of Canada
Prime Minister of Canada
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN
Above all, it formally ends the
intense, often bitterly divisive
drive for constitutional renewal
launched by the Trudeau
government after Quebecers
voted to stay in Canada in a
referendum almost two years
ago. home
,
to PRX11tt:#jJk
,
The queen's signuturo appears on the constitutional proclama-
tion just above that of ,Justice Minister Jean Chretien following
Saturday's ceremonies. (UPI)
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And that"s just the beginning
Salford costs sky rocket
More than $666,679.76 has been
spent by Oxford County on the
prINsed Salford landfill site as
of ACpril 1, said county engineer
Don Pratt, a figure that will
inevitably rise.
The provincial hearing on the
site began today in Salford,
which means legal fees will
skyrocket from the current
figure of about $60,000, he said.
As well as legal costs, the cost
breakdown includes engineering
and consultants fees at
i318,Wi.01, hearing costs to date
totalling $5.695,71. t308,260.93 for
land, and other expenditures
include $27,044.66,
Pratt said he doesn't know
how much more money the
county will pay out by the
hearing's conclusltm.
"l just don't kmw," he said.
"So much depends on the length
of the hearing."
He said the county's lawyers
and consultants may cost bet-
ween $3,000 and $4,000 a day,
completely blowing the original
estimate of f80,000 to cover a
hearing which officials thought
would last about four weeks.
South-West Oxford Township
solicitors opposing the landfill
site indicated the proceedings
could continue well into August.
Extra and as yet unknown
costs were incurred when the
township tried to have the
hearing split up at the Ontario
Supreme Court. The county's
strategy had been to present
environmental evidence on the
site before dealing with the
county official plan policies
regarding site location, he said.
Because the court battle would
have meant delaying the
hearing, the county conceded to
the township's wishes to have
the planning material heard and
a decision rendered by the joint
hearing hoard before the en-
vironmental evidence.
Salford waste hearing
Consultants
support
landfill site policies.
He said Oxford's official plan rec-
By Oenyse lanouette
ognizes three general categories of
of The Free Press
land use for the county — human
settlement, which includes urban
SALFORD — Oxford County's offi-
growth areas and rural buffers; nat-
cial plan policies dealing with land-
ural resources uses such as pits,
quarries and environmentally pro -
fill sites were called adequate and
reasonable as the first stage of long
tected areas; and agricultural pre -
awaited hearings dealing with the
serves.
proposed Salford waste disposal site
He said the first two. categories
got under way here Wednesday,
are inappropriate for landfill sites,
Peter John Martin, vice-president
and under the county's policies they
and planning director for M. M. Dii-
would not be allowed.
Ion Consulting Engineers of Toronto,
If the proposed landfill site is ap-
said he supported the county's offi-
proved, the county will not need an -
cal plan, which allows landfill sites
other for 20 years, he said.
to be located in agriculturally desig-
Under cross-examination from
nated areas. The company was re-
South-West Oxford Township lawyer
tained by the county in 1975 to re-
David Estrin, Martin said aban-
view its landfill needs and prepared
donned pits and quarries could also
a county -wide site selection review.
be used for landfill sites under the
The hearing, before chairmen
official plan because they would re -
pert to an agricultural designation.
John Wheler of the Ontario Municf-
Board and Michael Jeffery of
However, Martin said it is almost
pal
the environmental assessment
impossible to plan waste disposal
sites around quarries because it Is
board, is divided into two stages.
The first deals with the county's
difficult to know when they will be
landfill policies and South-West Ox-
available.
ford Township's proposed amend-
He saidthe unty'slocatonpolicies for
ment to the offical plan. -
the landfill
determining
The second stage, to be held at a
sites is adequate. Anything more de-
eco-
tolled would us costly and unela.
date yet to be determined, will deal
nvelylo because of Oxford's rate•
with environmental concerns of the
ti n.
proposed Safford landfill site. It will
Martin saidcounty's decision
not be held until the board reaches a
to locate landfill sites on agricul-
decision on the planning matters.
tural land and delegate envfronmen-
Basically, the county's official
tal concerns to the more qualified
plan permits landfill sites In agricul-
environment ministry is "eminently
turally designated areas provided .
reasonable."
they meet environment ministry ap-
He said the proposed South-West
proval.
Oxford amendment which sets out a
South•West Oxford Township,
point system for selecting sites
where the proposed site is located, is
would be more costly and confusing
objecting to the policy, along with
than the existing policy. "Once you
Norwich Township, the Oxford
start adding crlteria and ignoring
County Federation of Agriculture
ministry of environment guidelines,
and a committee of Salford -area res-
i really think it can become cohfus-
idents.
ing." He said it is much clearer to
In addition, South-West Oxford
say there is an agriculture preserve
Township is requesting an official
designation where landfill sites can
plan amendment in which landfill
be located, subject to the ministry's
sites would be chosen on a strict
approval,
point system based on several crite-
The hearing resumes today at the
ria.
Salford Community Centre and is
Martin was the only witness called
expected to last several weeks. The
during the first day of proceedings,
chairmen have set aside May a to
which attracted about 40 people.
hear from the public.
"We really had to scramble
because of that court business,"
said Pratt.
The county's strategy is now
completely backwards, he said,
which doesn't, leave it in a very
Planning. evidence will be
heard until Friday. The county
will be defending its official plan
policies regarding landfill, while
South-West Oxford and Norwich
Townships will be opposing
them. Evidence will also be
heard on South-West Oxford's
plan amendment, which sets up
a point system for determining a
site location.
Crest's cow
is udderly
awful
By TFDTOWN
Seodnel.Review staff writer
Unless certain details are
corrected, worthy souls may be
presented with something that
just isn't what it should be.
Uke, is that a cow or a mule
on this plaque?
The Oxford County ad-
ministration and finance
committee met Wednesday and
discussed the purchase of small
plaques portraying the county
coat of arms.. This herald,
depicting a beaver sitting on a
crown atop a trinity of factories,
a ploughshare and a cow,
reproduced very well, thank
you, on the county's letterhead.
But when an Ingersoll firm
tried to match it an a larger
scale, well, things just didn't
ring true.
The cow representing Oxford
looks more like a mule.
Woodstock mayor Wendy
Calder qui ped That's ap-
propriate," but later established
her sentiments with the other
members, saying -it would be
terrible togr ve out crests with
the cow inking like that."
The cow's front legs are a
touch on the long side, the
(ahem) udder is not quite right,
and the anele of view gives a
somewhat distorted image.
NO ORDERS
Committee members were
reluctant to place any orders
before seeing corrections, and
the decision was tabled until the
next meeting. - - -
Sackrider well
is no different
says MOE study
Tests results from the Ontario
Ministry of Environment
(MOE) show the water in
Holbrook area resident Gary
Sackrider's well is no different
from other deep wells in the
area, Oxford County council was
informed.
A copy of the letter sent to
Sackrider from MOE officials
stated "it is our opinion at the
present time you water supply is
not being impacted by the
Holbrook landfill site."
Sackrider discovered more
than a month ago his well was
contaminated, and feared the
health problems apparent in his
family and cattle were caused
by landfill leachate.
Cells from the Oxford (.'aunty
Board of, Health showed fecal
coliforms present in the water,
which are not from the landfill
site.
The MOE said the samples
they look "did trot indicate
unusual quality" and while
testing for PCBs and pesticides
has been done, the results will
not be known for about three
months.
The letter mentioned
Sackrider's 70 foot deep well
was accessible by surface water
because the well height was
fns�ftctse and it had an not
pro seal. It was also not
pin ly vented.
e MOE recommended to
Sackrider to install a proper
sanitary seal and appropriate
venting, and when that's
completed, the well should be
disinfected by chlorination.
Consider
watchman
Oxford County public
works committee members
want a report on the
possibility of using a
county employee as wat-
chman at the Holbrook
landfill site.
Norwich Township has
asked that a watchman be
hired as soon as passible
but the county, which
agrees one is needed,
wants to wait until a permit
is granted extending the
life of the Holbrook site
beyond its scheduled June
30 dosing.
zorra Township Mayor
Wallis Hammond said he
sympathized with Norwich
since the contractor does
not have time to monitor
the material being dum-
SSuggestions included
using a county employee
part-time, possibly for spot
checks, and hiring other
part-time help to watch the
site the rest of the time,
BLUES CHASER
Bffssed are the nlvpntaker.. Tbe-v
are the unkj people wha can drain
nations close together.
Friendly ghost may stalk courtho
mvsti. ousts round on a small sc.
oxford County employee
the death mask of Thom
played on a wall of the co
Ernest Hunt of Ingers
as Cook, hanged in 1
unty jail until last year.,
Woodstock Bureau
oil holds a copy of
862, that was dis-
Plaque suggested in court elevator
WOODSTOCK (Bureau) — Oxford
County Coun. Joe Pember wants the
elevator which is to be installed at
the county courthouse named after
the handicapped Woodstock lawyer
who fought for several rnbnths to get
it.
Installation is to begin in two
weeks and Pember said Thursday he
plans to ask council to install a
By AI Chater
Woodstock Bureau
WOODSTOCK — Is the ghost. of a
convicted murderer stalking the Ox-
ford County courthouse?
County employees who have been
working on renovations at the build-
ing doubt it but are blaming a recent
series of unexplained, strange inci-
dents at the courthouse on their
friend "Cookie" the ghost.
Cookie is the ghost of Thomas
Cook of Innerkip who was hanged at
age t57 in nearby Victoria Park on
Dec. 16, 1862, on a charge of murder-
ing his wife. A laborer and also
blind, he was the first county jail
prisoner to be hanged.
A face mask of Cook was carved
on the wall at the main entrance of
the now -closed jail to mark the
hanging but the mask was removed
about one year ago and stored in the
courthouse basement because of
damage by vandals.
Renovation foreman Ernest hunt
said Wednesday with tongue firmly
in cheek that he can think of no ex.
planation other than Cook's ghost to
account for what has been happen-
ing at the courthouse lately.
Last Thursday Hunt and his three -
.man crew picked up some plumbing
parts and carefully checked to see
that all parts were received. On Fri-
day. a pipe elbow was missing.
Another elbow was purchased to
replace it. It was 'installed but on
Saturday the missing elbow was
plaque naming it after Jim Hutchin-
son, a former Woodstock mayor.
Hutchinson first threatened in De-
cember, 19M, to have the building
permit for courthouse renovations
cancelled if the elevator was not in-
stalled on grounds that the Ontario
building code requires provisions for
the handicapped in major renova-
tions.
Slumping economy hits
Oxford farm federation
WOODSTOCK (Bureau) — The
current economic squeeze on farm-
ers is being blamed for a member-
ship slump by Oxford County Feder-
ation of Agriculture, which has lost
about 45 members in the past six
weeks.
Federation president Albert Ruth-
erford said Monday current mem-
bership is about 1,130 compared to a
March 15 total of 1,176 and last
year's all-time high average of 1,212.
Rutherford blamed the decrease
on more farmers going out of busi-
ness or operating with tight finances
as well as the federation's move to
raise the membership fee to $70
from 00 effective Jan. 1.
""It's not that the federation is
weakening." Rutherford said.
`We're worried but not to the point
where we feel it's our fault. It isn't
anything within our power."
To receive grants from the Ontario
federation a membership of last
year's 1.212 average must be main -
tanned. Rutherford said the federa-
tion has already lost a grant of be-
tween $500 and $600 covering this
year's first quarter because of the
decrease in membership.
He said the federation is planning
a blitz in late .Tune or early July
when members will try to sign up
new members by visiting farmers.
"They're out there if we can just get
to them."
He said he has not had enough
time to travel the county in search
of new members because of the fed-
eration's involvement in the county's
Salford dump hearing, Ontario Hy-
dro's hearing to bring transmission
lines through part of Oxford and Ca.
nadian National Railways' closure
of the Paris to Tavistock line.
Rutherford said he hopes the blitz
will result in 40 to 50 new members
and will concentrate on areas where
membership is dropping or is poor,
Including the St. Marys and Norwich
areas.
aI.
fold where the men had been work-
ing.
Hunt :said there have also been
several cases where tools have dis-
appeared and were found later near
the same spot where they had been
originally placed. In addition, five
pipe wrenches have also disap-
peared. "If this ghost is a plumber,
he's well supplied."
There is also a strange photograph
taken last May which seems to show
a man's face. Several photographs
have been taken of the renovation
job to show its progress. In this in-
stance the snapshot shows a base-
ment tunnel before it was filled with
concrete.
The face can he seen inside the
tunnel but there was nothing there
when the snapshot was taken. "I
don't believe in that kind of stuff,"
said worker Rick Boyse. "But
there's something in that picture. No
doubt about that."
Hunt adds that he thinks Cookie is
a friendly ghost because he has done
nothing to harm the men. He as'
s'umes that Cookie is pleased with
the renovation job which began 11
months ago.
A theory drawn from a newspaper
article in July, 1903, seems to supply
a motive for Cookie's antics on the
grounds that Cook was never given a
proper Christian burial and was bur-
ied in an unmarked grave.
The article says Cook's skeleton
was unearthed near a building on
Dundas Street near Perry Street.
The body had been dissected by
Welfare rolls
are brimming
By LIZ PAYNE
Sentinel -Review staff writer
The months ahead could be trying times for
local social service agencies most of which are
already flooded with requests.
Many local agencies and organizations have
begun to feel the pinch. But with 1,615 people
looking for work and more layoffs on the books,
agencies are preparing to work overtime.
I Local welfare requests have
already reached a six year high.
But County Social Service
administrator Gerry MacKay
said his agency is anticipating a
busier summer.
A large part of welfare
requests -currently come from
workers who have been laid off
and are waiting for unem-
ployment benefits.
But, MacKay said, his agency
is just beginning to feel the ef-
fects of unemployment in-
surance benefits running out.
And by early fall social services
is anticipating a flood of ap-
plicants.
As of the end of March there
were 995 welfare cases in the
county. This compares to 857 for
the same period last year.
Canadian dollar drops again
MONTREAL (CP) — The Canadian dollar, which dipped
Thursday to its lowest level since the Depression at the
opening of trading, rebounded one-third of a cent to close at
88.62 cents U.S,
One currency trader described It as "a wild day" no the
dollar crawled back up after opening at 80,42, the worst
showing since the all-time low of 60,08 set in 1831,
rnse job
medic,,) ,tudents who obtained It
through arrangements with the fam-
dy shrrtfly after the hanging.
C<,ok's head Is said to have been
snapped off during the hanging but
the article does not clearly state
whether the Skelton's skull was et-
fached. It is not known where the
skeleton was reburied.
Len Coles of Ingersoll, a local his-
torian who was county clerk for 28
years until 1970, said Wednesday he
has never heard of a ghost in the
courthouse, tie said he had only one
strange incident in the building but
the mystery was later solved.
In the late 19,1(K Coles entered the
building one night on business and
was certain he saw a figure in the
chilling darkness out of the corner of
his eye. "it was just a flash. I
thought I saw a form."'
Two days later a caretaker en-
tered a rarely used storage room
and stepped on a body just before
turning on the light. It turned out to
be a patient from a nearby mental
hospital who had wandered off and.
had been living in the courthouse for
about a week.
Hunt said he really doesn't believe
in ghosts but adds it's an easy and
fun explanation for their problems.
"`If you're going to perpetrate a
hoax, you might as well go all the
way "
However. he does point out that
the series of underground tunnels in
the building" once used for ventila-
tion, offer many places for a ghost
to hide. '"You could put a whole herd
of ghosts in there."
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Ontario budget
hits consumers hard
Road work in Tillsanburg
Brantford firm wins
large county contract
Oxford County council
was a tender from a Woodstock
ednesday endorsed the tender
firm, which differed $3,a32 from
for one the biggest road con-
the accepted tender.
slruction programs to ever be
When Coun. Doug Harris
,called in the county.
questioned why the local firm
Haggerty Bros. Construction
wasn't given the lender "when
tnc. of Brantford was awarded
it's a Job as large as this",
!the contract in the amount of
county construction and design
$890,132 for reconstruction of a
engineer Stewart Watts replied
of Highway 53, Tillson
the lowest tender was the best
Avenue, in the northeast section
deal for all concerned parties.
iportion
of Tillsonburg.
Coun. Joe Pember, chairman
The Brantford company's
of the county public works
was the lowest submitted
committee, assured council the
.tender
out of 17 contractors.
project would be properly
The section of Tillson Avenue,
supervised.
from Simcoe Street to First
The Town of Tillsonburg will
street, is less than one
pick up the tab for storm and
kilometre,
sanitary sewers and sidewalks
Included in the project will be
— the Tdlsonburg public utility
the widening of the road curb to
commission will be responsible
40 feet (including one -foot
for a new truck sanitary sewer.
gutters) from the present 24
' Work on reconstruction of the
feet, sidewalks and sanitary,
road is scheduled to begin by the
storm and truck sewers.
end of May, said Watts. The date
Next to the lowest tender
of completion is scheduled Oct.
submitted by Haggerty Bros.
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BLUES CHASER
BLUES CHASER
Boss to employee: "Id like to pay
you what you're worth. but it's
against the miniumurn wage law."
Security firm may be hired
to monitor Holbrook dump
'rhe way some people complain
abour govcrtunent spending, you'd
thinktat was their money.
Oxford refuses grant,
can't pay its share
TAVISTOCK (Bureau) — Oxford
County will turn down a $654,730 pro-
vincial grant covering almost 51 per
rent of the cost of a sewage lagoon
expansion here because it is not
ready to,spend the money.
Warden Ross Livingston said
Thursday he hates to refuse a free
gift, but after discussing it with
county public works committee
members he realized it was Impossi-
ble to live up to the grant conditions.
Construction would have to start
this year on the overloaded system.
The provincial environment minis-
try would pay $35.1,000 In 19U and
1983 and the rest In subsequent
years.
A ministry letter staled Livingston
t has to confirm by May III that the
county will take Ihegrant, if not, the
money will be allocated to another
project in another municipality.
East Zorra-Tavistock Township
Mayor Harold Vogt said the project
Is nowhere near the construction
stage. Land must be acquired and
negotiations have not even been
started, he said.
The township doesn't have an engi-
neer for the project yet. A firm was
hired when the township and county
approved the project last fall, but
the company has since been dis-
solved, Vogt said.
The township is also awaiting a m
port from the ministry's London of-
fice on whether the size of the ex-
pansion is necessary. Since approv-
Ing the project, the ministry has
been studying whether some of the
sewage overload could be coating
from one industry.
Vogt said it the ministry- can con-
firm that the extra sewage is com-
ing from one source and it can be
stopped, the expansion as proposed
may not be necessary. Livingston
tried Thursday afternoon to contact
the ministry's London office but was
told officials were in Toronto until
Monday.
Livingston said he will write the
ministry's Toronto office explaining
the situation and saying the grant
won't be needed this year. It Is ex-
pected another application will be
utadefor next year.
The $1,285,000 plan calls for a third
lagoon to increase storage to K5A
million gallons from 44.5 million gal-
lons- Twelve hectares (30 acres)
must be acquired for the project.
which is expected to be adequate for -
another "_0 years.
Saturday, May 22, 1982
Fierce war rages
\4'a%es of Royal Marl nes and par'
troopers invaded the Falkland k
lands on Friday and fought Argon
tine forces in fierce land, sea and air
battles that began before dawn and
raged on into the night.
Both sides suffered losses, but
there were few details on numbers
of"casualties. Britain acknowledged
that 21 men died in the crash of a
Sea King helicopter and that a Sea
Barrier let and two small helicop-
ters were shot down and five of its
warships were damaged, two seri-
nuslti.
Argentine jets
attack British
ships
WEST
FALKLAND
v
on Falklands
� b5
3 ° a
U Fox ay-
i
"4�
South
EAST
FALKLAND
Atlantic Ocean
Warships
P r _ bombard
Stanley Port Stanley
British jets attack
..ICJ Fox Bay
British ships and planes pounded Argentine positions at Port Stanley and Fox Bay as 1,000 troops invaded Friday -
Oxford wants power to determine
how long warden should serve
WOODSTOCK (Bureau) — Oxford
County wants the power to decide
how long its warden will be required
to serve under the longer three-year
municipal terms of office which be-
gin in December.
The county's administration and
finance committee decided Wednes-
day to ask Munclpal Affairs Minis-
ter Claude Bennett for permission to
amend the County of Oxford Act to
allow the new power.
Under the act, the warden's term
of office is the same as council'
members. But several committee
members noted a three-year term
for warden would be too long for
what Is considered a full-time Job.
Warden Ross Livingston said he
was told by a ministry official the
chances of being allowed to set a
term shorter than three years are
slim because heads of regional gov-
ernments will be required it) serve
three years.
Committee members were unable
to agree how long the warden should
serve. Woodstock Mayor Wendy
Calder said one-year terms are too
short, but agreed three years Is too
long.
Committee chairman Coun. Barry
Wallace of Zorra Township said he
prefers one-year warden terms. He
said the shorter term would attract
more candidates. In the past only
two or three candidates have been
common.
The warden is elected by council
from among It own members. "it
seems to me going to three years
will make (the warden) a member
of staff," Wallace said.
16 Legal Notices
TENDER
WOODINGFORD
LODGE
Tenders will be received for
roof restoration and
replacement areas of
Woodingford Lodge, 423
Devonshire Ave„ Woodstock,
Out, N4S 7X6, up to 3:00 p.m.
Tuesday, June 15th, 1962. In-
formation and tender
documents are available from
the undersigned, 8:00 a.m. to
4:00 p.m. Monday through
Friday. Telephone 539-1245.
Lowest or any tender not
necessarily accepted.
Robert Rapley,
dg
Maintenance Su rvisor,
Woodingford Lodge,
Woodstock, Ont, WN 06
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The sound of garbage
Berms will buffer noise says consultant
Answers unsatisfactory
salford residents worried No problem
j by more trucks in the area ! says expert
on traffic
Dollar hits a sour note
Battered buck at lowest point in half century Obituary
June 1
MONTREAL (CP) — A dismal
week on foreign exchange markets
ended on a particularly sour note
Friday as Canada's battered dollar
fell to its lowest level in half a cen-
tury.
It dropped nearly a fifth of a cent
to 80.40 cents U.S., breaking last
summer's record -setting post -De-
pression low of 80.43.
The currency, which closed Thurs-
day at 80.58, now stands barely a
third of a cent above the all-time
low, 90.08, set in 1931.
"The only thing that can stop (the
slide) is an easing in U.S. interest
rates." insisted one trader.
BLUES CHASER
Wife to husband in a supermar-
ket: "Skip the cart — we've only got
Cranked telephone
to disappear in U.S.
BRYANT POND, Maine (Reuter)
— The last hand -cranked telephone
system in the United States will go out
of existence later this year, to be re-
placed by a dial system.
A "yank -the -crank" petition by the
Oxford County Telephone and Tele-
graph Company was approved on
Friday by a 2-1 vote of the State Pub-
lic Utilities Commission.
The crank -operated telephone has
been operated continuously in Bryant
Pond since 1878. Telephone customers
are identified by name rather than
number.
Although many Bryant Pond sub-
scribers opted for nostalgia, the peti-
tioners convinced the commission that
the hand -cranked equipment could no
longer be operated economically.
'Oxford won't
change mind
'on ambulance
WOODSTOCK (Bureau) — Oxford
County council refused Wednesday
night to withdraw its objection to a
planned centralized ambulance dis-
patch system for Oxford, Elgin and
Middlesex counties, despite an ela-
borate presentation on its benefits
from the man in charge of imple-
menting it.
Council voted 13-4 even though it
was promised the system would be
gradually phased in and that consid-
erations would be given to making
the area served by the system
smaller.
Woodstock Coun. Lenore Young
requested council to withdraw its op-
position because she supports the
Dollar plunges
to all-time low
of 80.06 cents
system and will be voting as Ox-
ford's representative on the Thames
Valley District Health Council on
whether it should be implemented at
a meeting today.
She said later she will still vote for
the system and added that the health
councll's vote will be the determin-
ing factor in the system's implemen-
tation.
Dr. Dennis Psutka, executive co-
ordinator of the provincial health
ministry's emergency health ser-
vices branch, told council the sys-
tem is part of a wider emergency
plan which also involves the training
of ambulance attendents as para-
medics.
The. aim is to get treatment to
trauma victims — such as persons in
car accidents and heart attack vic-
tims — more quickly by allowing the
ambulance attendant to give prelim-
inary treatment at the scene.
ADAMSIPPEL}-9 oZ
A former councillor and reeve
of Blandford township, Adam
Oscar Sippel, 94, died Tuesday
at his residence at RR 1, Angus -
A former resident of Oxford
County, he had also been a
member of Trinity Lutheran
Church in New Hamburg and a
Sunday school superintendent at
St. Matthew's Lutheran Church
in East-Zorra township.
He was a son of the late Henry
Sippel and the former Mary
Stock.
Predeceased by his wife, the
former Adelia Liepz, by one
brother and three sisters- he is
survived by: three sons, John, of
RR 1, New Hamburg, Fred, of
Richmond, B.C. and Donald, of
Whitehorse. in the Yukon; by six
daughters. Mrs. Orval (Helen)
Couch, of Whitehorse, Mrs.
Ervy tEdith) Shreve, of RR 1,
Angus, Mrs. Joe (Margaret)
Ruttan, of RR 3, Listowel, Mrs.
Ralph (Elizabeth) Schmidt, of
Kitchener, Mrs. Ralph (Dorisi
Doering, of New Hamburg and
Mrs. Earl (Mildred' Roth, of
Kitchener; by a sister. Anna
Sippel. of New Hamburg as well
as by 36 grandchildren and 50
great grandchildren.
Friends may call at. the Mark-
Jutzi funeral home, 291 Huron
St., New Hamburg after 7 p.m.
today, where the funeral service
will be held at 2 p.m. Friday,
with Rev. David Pfrimmer
officiating.
Burial will be at St. Matthew's
Lutheran cemetery. East Zarra
township.
Bank of Canada
bails out buck
BY THE CANADIAN PRESS
MONTREAL — Canada's dollar rose a third of a cent Wednesdav after
quick intervention by the Bank of Canada kept it from slipping below the
80 cents U.S. level.
The dollar sagged to 79.94 in early -morning trading on international
money markets after closing Tuesday at the all-time low of 80.06.
But currency analysts said the
central bank moved quickly to
buy up unwanted dollars,
sparkin a recovery that
ItoOsted Ll dollar to 80.37 at the BLUES CHASER
close of trading.
The dollar's shakiness meant irs fortunate that the boo thin;%
the Bank of Canada rate — set in tife sri� fine. because the other
every Thursday at the auction of thin , art, rsliolt all our nwvvc .
goverrtmeol treasury bills — --
would almost inevitably rise
today.
Oxford
opposes
rate rise
by Hydro
WOODSTOCK (Bureau) — Oxford
County council will ask the province
to reject Ontario Ilydro's plan to in-
crease its wholesale power rates 5.1.3
per cent by 1985.
The decision Wednesday also asks
the government to halt Hydro's plan
to give its top executives a 22 per
cent salary increase next year.
Council says the salaries would
jump to $76,315 from $62,500 which it
calls excessive and unfair to the
public because of unemployment
and layoffs.
Coun. Charlie Tatham of Wood-
stock said he recognizes Hydro's
problems in energy costs, but said
"to me it just doesn't seem right and
we've got to say whoa"
Ilydro has applied for a wholesale
power increase of 13.9 per cent for
next year and forecasts increases of
16-1 per cent in 1984 and 16.2 per cent
in 1985. The increase is 54.3 per cent
when compounded over the three
years.
It cites high interest rates and the
rising costs of new nuclear power
plants as reasons for the increase.
Woodstock PUC manager John
Rousam said later it is too early to
tell what.effect the rate increase
would have on- consumers here.
Rates normally increase here each
March or April.
In another matter, council sup-
ported Ingersoll town council's re-
quest to the provincial transporta-
tion ministry for a flashing red and
amber light at County Roads 6 and 9
near the Beachville quarries.
The move was prompted by acci-
dents at the intersection. The county
is requesting details from the minis-
try outlining safety aspects in plans
to improve the intersection.
Blues Chaser
A bank is an institution that
urges you to save part of what
you earn and lends you cash
so you can spend more than
you earn-
Security firm
,hired to monitor
� Holbrook dump
WOODSTOCK (Bureau) — A Lon-
don security firm has been hired to
monitor and keep records of all gar-
bage brought to the Holbrook landfill
site.
Oxford County council decided,
Wednesday to hire Burns Interna-
tional Security Services Ltd. whose
bid of $5.40 an hour was the lowest of
three received.
The firm is to have one uniformed
guard at the site during opening
hours Monday through Saturday, be-
ginning next week. The service will
cost the county $272.70 for the nor-
mal 50.5-hour week.
Norwich Township sparked the
move for monitoring at the site be-
cause of concern there is little way
of knowing what is being dumped
and where it originates.
The guard is to be empowered to
inspect waste on arrival and refuse
such material as animal 'carcasses,
stumps, building demolition refuse,
automobile bulks and liquids.
Warden Ross Livingston said in an
interview he sees a definite advan-
tage in hiring a guard because he
will be able to reject out -of -county
waste.
The security firm is expected to
work out of a car until the county
sets up accommodation, likely a
trailer or hut. When electricity and
telephone services are added, ac-
commodation could end up costing
as much as 18 months' wages for the
security guard, a staff report said.
Meanwhile, the emergency operat-
ing licence on the site will expire
June 30 with no date set for a hear-
ing to consider the county's plan to
extend its operation for two years.
the .
ing to proceed under the Environ-
mental Protection Act which will
make it shorter, because the hearing
board considers only technical as-
pects of the extension instead of al-
ternativies, such as incineration or
social effects, including noise, traf-
fic and Impact on wildlife.
Norton said in a letter a full as-
sessment hearing would cause
unwarranted delays and expeum-
1.2 million
Canadians
out of work
O TAWA —The country's jobless
rate hit a new high last month, suar-
ing to a seasonally adjusted 111.2 per
rent, as more than 1.2 million Cana
dians were officially looking for
work — the worst showing since the
Great Depression of the MWs.
lie noted the extension is an interim
measure and the only reasonable al-
ternative until a permanent site is
set up.
County engineer Don Pratt said a
hearing date will likely be set this
month and another emergency certi-
ficate is expected to allow opera-
tions to continue, pending the out-
come of the hearing.
Jim Janse of the ministry's office
in London said he strongly doubts
the site will be forced to close June
30.
COUNTY OF OXFORD
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COUNTY OF OXFORD
NOTICE TO
PROPERTY
OWNERS
TOWNSHIPS OF BLANDFORD-BLENHEIM,
EAST ZORRA-TAVISTOCK, NORWICH,
SOUTH-WEST OXFORD,ZORRA,
TOWN OF TILLSONBURG, TOWN OF INGERSOLL
TO DESTROY NOXIOUS WEEDS
Notice is hereby given to all persons
in possession of lands and property
owners, that, in accordance with the
Weed Control Act, Chapter 493, R.S.O.
1970 as amended, having noxious
weeds growing on their lands shall
cause them to be destroyed by July 1,
1982 and throughout the season. The
Weed Inspector may enter upon such
lands to cause the noxious weeds or
weed seeds to be destroyed in the
manner prescribed in the Regulations,
the costs to be charged against the
land in taxes, unless paid otherwise,
as set out in the Act.
In the interest of public health, nox-
ious weeds should be destroyed.
Although Dandelions, Burdock and
Goldenrod are not considered noxious
weeds within the County of Oxford
under the Weed Control Act, the co-
operation of all citizens is solicited in
the elimination of these nuisance
weeds.
For any complaints regarding the
elimination of weeds, please contact
your Area Clerk.
J. Harold Walls Burnice McAllister
County Clerk Area Weed Inspector
County of Oxford County of Oxford
Stockpiled
herbicide
finally sold
WOODSTOCK (Bureau) — A com-
pany has been found W buy 1,205 if-
tres (265 gallons) of herbicide 2,4,5-T
owned by the county of Oxford
which has been collecting dust and
,rust since its age was banned in On-
tario more than two years ago.
The county's public works commit-
tee recommended Thursday that
council accept the offer to buy the
chemical for $5 a gallon. It was pur-
chased in 1978 for $11.64 a gallon and
would cost $17.63 a gallon to replace
today.
County operations engineer Roy
Brankley said the offer from Mid-
land Vegetation Control Ltd. of Mil-
ton is the first from anyone willing
to pay for the weed -killing chemical,
which is not banned in other prov-
inces.
A letter from Midland says its of-
fer was made with full co-operation
from the provincial environment
ministry. Brankley asked the minis-
try in February for permission to
use the remaining stock, but his re-
quest was rejected.
The ministry says it is currently
studying destruction and disposal
methods which won't affect human
health or the environment, but final
recommendations and arrange-
ments have not yet been made.
Brad
•
•
Oxford officials
can't find ways
to use job grant
By Al Chater
Woodstock Bureau
WOODSTOCK — Oxford County
municipal department heads are
calling the county's $121,875 provin-
cial grant to create jobs for the
unemployed this year a puzzle they
can't solve, and they expect the ma-
jority of the allocation may not be
used.
Among the county's various de-
partments — all of which have been
asked to submit a list of projects to
the warden's committee — only the
planning department has come up
with a use for the money. That cov-
ers about $10,000 for a draftsman to
help complete zoning maps.
The public works, clerk, treasurer
and social services departments
have been trying for more than a
week at council's request to think
Blues Chaser
The average man now lives
about 32 years -longer than he
did in 1800. He has to in order
to get his bills paid.
about projects that would qualify
but have come up empty-handed.
The province, which announced
the province -wide allocations last
week, wants project submissions by
June 30. Money not needed by a
municipality will be distributed to
other municipalities that need more
than what was offered.
County engineer Don Pratt said
Friday he cannot think of a project
in his department which might qual-
ify.
prnoted projects would require money for
materials which has not been
budgeted for.
The grant covers labor costs only,
and Pratt said most of the work in
his department is not labor inten-
sive. Work such as spraying road-
side weeds and cutting grass is done
with machines. Other types of work,
such as road and bridge projects,
don't qualify because they are sub-
sidized by the province.
Pratt also noted that the projects
can't be those already planned for
this year. The problem, he said, is
that all necessary work in his de-
partment is already scheduled.
Stu Watts, county construction and
design engineer, blasted the timing
of the program — after municipal
budgets are set - and the short no-
tice to come up with ideas. He said
he considered tree removal for road
projects but there aren't enough
trees to cut.
Pratt said he believes it is a good
program —part of the new Ontario
budget — but pointed out that the
same budget is costing his depart-
ment about $f00,000 extra this year
because of the extension of the sales
tax.
Social services administrator
Gerry MacKay said his hands are
tied for an acceptable project be-
cause his staff is subsidized by the
province. He said he has enough
staff at least until fall and the pro-
jects would have to be completed by
Dec. 31.
Woodingford Lodge assistant ad-
ministrator Al Garner also said he is
not short-staffed at the home for the
not
and couldn't offer any use for
the money.
Clerk Harold Walls said he consid-
eredwork on the county's park
slung CounCy Road 9, west of here,
butrejectid clearing dead trees
from the Thames River there be.
cause it is unnecessary.
Planning commissioner Peter
Atcheson said one problem is that
county departments were "lean and
mean" on budget submissions earl-
ier this year because of tough eco-
nomic times.
Blandford-Blenheim Up.
mayor is dead at age 47
Robert G"m, the mayor
of Blandford-Blenheim
Township since 1989, died at
Woodstock General Hospital
early today of cancer.
A member of Blandford-
Blenheim council as well as
Oxford County council, he
was described by County
Warden Ross Livingston
today as "an excellent
person in the community.
"I had the greatest respect
for Bob," said Livingston,
who had served as a coun-
cillor with Gilholin during
the pest decade.
rat
a good, solid
councillor. He did his work
very seriously and con-
scientiously." Hewasalso "a
very devout man,"
Livingston said.
Blandford-Blenheim
Township clerk Keith
Reibling said "I'll certainly
miss him."
Reibling, who has been
township clerk since 1972,
said "I certainly had a great
deal of respect for him."
The Oxford County
planning committee, which
Gilholm' served on, held a
minute of silence when they
heard the news of the death.
Fellow committee member,
WoodstockAid. Charlie
Tatham, said Gilholm would
"be a loss to the committee,
to county council and to the
community."
Gilholm, 47, of RR 3,
Bright, had served on the
Blandford Township, and
later the amalgamated
Blandford-Blenheim Town-
ship councils since 1969, He
was deputy reeve of Bland -
ROBERT GILHOLM
—dead at 47 —
ford Township, and a
member of Oxford County
Council, in 1973-74. He later
returned to county council
following the December, 1978
election and had served with
the council since that time.
He had also served with the
school board in Blandford
Township for two years prim
to the formation of the
Oxford County Board of
Education.
Friends may tall at the
M.D. (Mac) Smith funera
home, 69 Wellington St. N.
Woodstock, commencini
Saturday afternoon. Furthei
funeral arrangements will bd
announced later.
GILHOLM — At the Wood-
stock General Hospital on
Thursda
Robert E,Gim 1Mayor8of.
the Township of Btandford-
Blenheim) of R. R. 3 Brirdtt in
his 48th year. Be oved
husband of the former Edythe
McDonald. Dear father of
Calvin of Piattsville; Robin at
home; Heather at home; Mrs.
David (violet) Balzer of Kit-
chener and Audrey at home.
Son of Mrs. Maud Gilholm of
Woodstock. Brother of Mrs.
Joseph (Ph leis) Eckhardt, R.
R. 1 Durham; Mrs. Glen
(Ellen) Carter, R. R. 11n-
nerkip and Mrs. Louis (Joyce)
Jancsar, R. R. f Inrerkip.
Friends will be received com-
mencing Saturday afternoon
at the M.D. (Mac) Smith
Funeral Home, 69 Wellington
St. North, Woodstock, until
noon on Monday. Fugal ser-
vice will be held, 2:00 p.m
Monday, June 21, at the
Missionary Church of Plat-
'tsville, with Reverend Donald
Pugh officiating Interment in
i the Chesterfield Cemetery.
Blues chaser
Civilization can be measured
by the degree of helplessness
when the electricity goes ott.
Oxford officials
can't find ways
to use job grant
By Al Chrter
Woodstock Bureau
WOODSTOCK — Oxford County
municipal department heads are
calling the county's $121,875 provin-
cial grant to create jobs for the
unemployed this year a puzzle they
can't solve, and they expect the ma.
jority of the allocation may not be
used.
Among the county's various de-
partments — all of which have been
asked to submit a list o[ projects to
ithe warden's committee — only the
planning department has come up
with a use for the money. That cov-
ers about $10,000 for a draftsman to
help complete zoning maps.
The public works, clerk, treasurer
and social services departments
have been trying for more than a
week at council's request to think
Blues Chaser
IThe average man now lives
about 32 years - longer than he
did in 1800. He has to in order
to get his bills paid.
about projects that would qualify
but have come up empty-handed.
The province, which announced
the province -wide allocations last
week, wants project submissions by
June 30. Money not needed by a
municipality will be distributed to
other municipalities that need more
than what was offered.
County engineer Don Pratt said
Friday he cannot think of a project
in his department which might qual-
ify. lie noted that most make-work
projects would require money for
materials which has not been
budgeted for.
The grant covers labor costs only,
and Pratt said most of the work in
his department is not labor inten-
sive. Work such as spraying road-
side weeds and cutting grass is done
with machines. Other types of work,
such as road and bridge projects,
don't qualify because they are sub-
sidized by the province.
Pratt also noted that the projects
can't be those already planned for
this year. The problem, he said, is
that all necessary work in his de-
partment is already scheduled.
Stu Watts, county construction and
design engineer, blasted the timing
of the program — after municipal
budgets are set — and the short no-
tice to come up with ideas He said
he considered tree remqyal for,„road
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Blandford-Blenheim Up.
mayor is dead at age 47
Robert Gilholm, the mayor
of Blandford-Blenheim
Township since 19119, died at
Woodstock General Hospital
early today of cancer.
A member of Blandford-
Blenheim council as well as
Oxford County council, he
was described by County
Warden Ross Livingston
today as "an excellent
person in the community.
"I had the greatest respect
for Bob," said Livingston,
who had served as a coun-
cillor with Gilholm during
the past decade.
He was a good, solid
councillor. He did his work
very seriously and con-
scientiously." He was also "a
very devout man,"
Livingston said.
Blandford-Blenheim
Township clerk Keith
Reibling said "I'll certainly
miss him."
Reibling, who has been
township clerk since 1972,
said "I certainly had a great
deal of respect for him."
The Oxford County
planning committee, which
Gilholm' served on, held a
minute of silence when they
heard the news of the death.
Fellow committee member,
Woodstock Aid. Charlie
Tatham, said Gilholm would
"be a loss to the committee,
to county council and to the
community."
Gilholm, 47, of RR 3,
Bright, had served on the
Blandford Township, and
later the amalgamated
Blandford-Blenheim Town-
ship councils since 1969. He
was deputy reeve of Bland -
ROBERT GILHOLM
— dead at 47 —
ford Township, and a
member of Oxford County
Council, in 1973-74. He later
returned to county council
following the December, 1978
election and had served with
the council since that time.
He had also served with the
school board in Blandford
Township for two years prior
to the formation of the
Oxford County Board of
Education.
Friends may call at the
M.D. (Mae) Smith funeral
home, 69 Wellington St. N.,
Woodstock, commencing
Saturday afternoon. Further
funeral arrangements will be
announced later.
GiLHOLM — At the Wood-
stock General Hospital on
Thursday, June 17, 1962.
Robert E. Gilholm (Mayor of
the Township of Blandford-
Blenheim) of R. R. 3 BnRht in
his 48th year. Be roved
husband of the former Edythe
McDonald. Dear father of
Calvin of Plattsville; Robin at
home; Heather at home: Mrs.
David (Violet) Balzer of Kit-
chener and Audrey at home.
Son of Mrs. Maud Gilholm of
Woodstock. Brother of Mrs.
Joseph (Phyllis) Eckhardt, R.
R. I Durham: Mrs. Glen
(Ellen) Carter. R. R. 1 In-
nerkip and Mrs. Louis (Joyce)
Janesar, R. R. l Innerkip.
Friends will be received com-
mencing Saturday afternoon
at the M.L. (Mac) Smith
Funeral Home, 69 Wellington
St. North, Woodstock, until
noon on Monday. Funeral ser-
vice will be held, 2:00 p.m.
Monday, June 21, at the
Missionary Church of Plat-
tsville, with Reverend Donald
Pugh off iciatinR. Interment in
Blues chaser
Civilization can be measured
by the degree of helplessness
when the electricity goes off.
WOODSTOCK-INGERSOLL, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, JUNE 15, 1982
Argentines finally surrender
14,800 soldiers taken prisoner
BY REUTER
LONDON — British forces in the Falkland Islands were reported today
to have taken about 14,800 Argentine prisoners following the Argentine
surrender in the South Atlantic archipelago Monday night.
Press Association, Britain's national news agency, quoted government
souArentinians are thought
o have
therces as Falklands capital Stanley, many suffering from surrendered
from exhaustion and
frostbite.
Previous British estimates
had put the size of the Argentine
garrison in Stanley al about •
on t Houseprices tumble
Britain says it has 9,91a troops
on the islands.
Prime Minister Margaret
Thatcher's office announced this
musing that the Argentine
surrender look place at 9 m). The financings ' the problem
UtlaMls time 18 p.m. FF
FaD7
Malay night.
'Her Royal Highness and son both doing well'
JUNE 21, 1982
British are iubilant as Diana gives birth to a baby boy
New prince gets four names,
will likely be King William V
LONDON (Reuter) — Britain's
new royal baby was officially
named William Arthur Philip
Louis, but Buckingham Palace
made clear Monday he will never
be King Billy,
The palace announced that the
week-old son of the prince and
pincess of Wales will be known as
Prince William of Wales and not
by the shortened forms Bill or
Billy.
The infant is second in line to
the throne after his father, Prince
Charles, 33, If he accedes to the
throne, it Is likely to be as Wil-
liam V, although he is entitled to
reign under any name.
Oxford finds
ways to spend
proffered cash
WOODSTOCK (Bureau) — Oxford
County isn't looking a gift horse in
the mouth any longer.
County council has finally come up
with a few ideas on how to use $121,-
875 of free provincial money de-
signed to create summer jobs in the
area. "A week ago we couldn't think
what to do with the money," said
county clerk Harold Walls -
When the ministry of municipal af-
fairs and housing allocated the job
creation grant to the county in the
spring, local department heads were
in a puzzle on how to spend it. The
grant is part of a $35 million pro-
gram expected to create 7,500 jobs
in Ontario by the end of the year, a
ministry release says.
A warden's committee report.
drawn up Wednesday thinks Oxford
Museum, Woodingford Lodge, th
planning and public works commi!
tees and the administration coup?
dispose of most of it. Oxford has un
til June 30 to submit the application
for the employment program.
The museum says $3,000 could I, -
used to paint the basement and re
finish floors and Woodingford
Lodge, a seniors' residence, could
use $12,000 for similar work.
Public works has a few ideas such
as employing three men at $5.50 an
hour for one month to pick up blown
garbage at county landfill sites. An
other group would patrol counts
roads, picking up garbage for a
"clean sweep effect.
The planning committee want,
312,000 to cover the cost of hiring a
draftsman for zoning map work. Ad
ministration wants $32,000, some to
pay for a computer programmer.
The projects would use $91,000
with the $30,875 balance going to
public works for other projects, the
warden's report says.
County warden Ross Livingston
said he can't estimate how many
jobs would be created until the pro-
jects are more thoroughly analyzed.
Walls said the job creation grant
came as a surprise to the county.
With little leeway in a tight county
budget this year, projects not requir-
ing a lot of material had to be found.
All of the submitted projects are
labor intensive. Oxford will be reim-
bursed for,labor costs under the pro-
gram -
Truck bypass
stalled by work
on Highway 403
I WOODSTOCK (Bureau) — Public
pressure to speed completion of
Highway 403 to Woodstock has
caused a delay in building the third
and final leg of the Woodstock truck
bypass.
Woodstock District Chamber of
Commerce director George Calder
said he recently asked the Ontario
transportation ministry for the sta-
tus of the final bypass section from
Highway 2 to Highway 59 near here.
He told fellow directors Wednes-
day that plans for the leg have been
"set aside" until after Highway 403
is completed to Woodstock in 1985.
The ministry cited a tight money,sit-
uation from the speeded schedule as
the main reason.
i
Area farmers
see problems
down the road
Completion of Highway 403 is
still years away, but a group of
area farmers whose land will
adjoin the new highway are
already becoming concerned
about its effects.
At a meeting last night called
by the Oxford County
Federation of Agriculture about
17 area farmers discussed
possible concerns about. con-
struction of the highway, OCFA
president Albert Rutherford
said today.
"They don't want to hold up
the highway," he said "but they
want a better deal, and to make
sure some things get looked
after.'
Some of the farmers' concerns
are about drainage and water
damage during construction.
and about depreciating value of
the rest of their land.
They are also concerned about
noise and pollution during
construction and after the high-
way is completed Rutherford
said.
The farmers will have another
meeting next week, and hin-
downers all along the route of
fire proposed highway will be
invited, he said.
Rutherford said the lan.
downers want to talk to
representatives of the Ministry
of Transportation and Com-
munications, but that will wait
until they become better
organized.
The groupp is currently
meeting Wedneaday nights at
East Oxford School,
County committee
lumps into the lagoon
Instead of waiting for
provincial assistance any
longer, the Oxford County public
works commitee decided
Thursday to take on the
proposed Tavistock sewage
lagoon expansion project itself.
The project was proposed
abouttwo years ago, but since
then county officials has ex-
perienced months of paper
shuffling,
The committee learned the
Ontario Ministry of Environent
(MOE) was willing to grant
funds for the expansion before
another MOE branch deter-
mined whether it was needed or
not.
The committee is still
awaiting a needs study from an
MOE official, to find out
whether one particular industry
in the village is causing the
problem and whether it can be
rectified without expanding the
sewage lagoon there.
County engineer Don Pratt
recommended the county take
on the project and start off at
square one,
"It's a big project," he said.
"It's going to involve en-
virunmenlal assessments and
exproprial ions_ it needs
somebody to coordinate it."
Pratt said a consulting firm
should be hired to determine the
project's need, instead of
relying on file MOE, and if
expansion isn't necessary, it
could save the residents a Si
million.
The committee decided the
need should be established
before any, further work is
implemented.
•
Old governor's house / 7.9,? .
House may fall to hammer
WOODSTOCK (Bureau) — The old
jail governor's house next to the Ox-
ford County Jail should be demol-
khed, the Oxford County public
works committee recommended
Thursday.
-We haven't found any use yet to
Justify keeping It up," said county
engineer Donald Pratt.
Shortly after the jail was closed in
1977, the governor's house on Buller
E
Strect was decommissioned and is
now used for storage.
The house was abandoned along
with a guard's residence at the rear
of the jail to save heating, hydro and
water service costs.
A letter to the committee says the
governor's house, dating from the
mid 1850s, "detracts from the ap-
pearance of the jail ... so it might
not hurt anyone's feelings if the
house was removed."
Edwin Bennett, president of the
Oxford Historical Society, said: "It
(the governor's house) is part of the
whole jail complex, I would hate to
see it demolished."
But he said the house interior has
changed so much its destruction
would not be a great historical loss.
Provincial employment incentive
program money could be used to pay
three or four workers to help demol-
ish the house, Pratt said.
The ministry of muncipal affairs
and housing has allocated $121,875 to
Oxford for job creation. -Public
works would need about $10,000 of
this allocation to raze the house, the
engineer said.
if council approves public work's
recommendation, the yellow bricks
from the house will be used to help
renovate the county courthouse. The
committei also recommended $20,-
o00of the employment grant be used
to hire artists to paint murals depict-
ing county scenes in the court house.
Pratt said the guard's residence is
full of relies and will be kept by the
county for storage.
9. We recommend acceptance of the recommendation of
Donald L. Pratt regarding the jail governor's house
and.the demolition of the house on Buller Street.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
Adopted by Oxiond County
COuncit, Juty 14, 1982. Joseph Pember
Chairman, Pub is Worths Committee
C�
EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED
TO KNOW ABOUT PUNKEYDOODLE'S
CORNER, BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK
Punkeydoodle's Corner is situated about three
miles (five km) southwest of New Hamburg south of
highway 7 and 8, at the pinpoint where Oxford,
Perth and Waterloo Counties meet.
In the pioneer days of the early 1809s, the
hamlet's location on Upper Canada's "main street"
the Huron Road, linking Goderich and Hamilton, was
of great and vital importance. Punkeydoodle's
Corner was then a thriving settlement and by the late
1800's had a population of nearly 100 families. It
boasted a frame hotel, a livery stable to quarter
settler's teams, a blacksmith shop for horses and
oxen, a chopping mill, a sawmill for square and
round timber, an apple butter and cider mill, and a
general store.
The first recorded pioneer settlers on Lot 29 Conc.
1, of Wilmot Township were John Zurbuchen of
German descendancy and John Zurbrigg of Swiss
descendancy. John Zurbuchen operated a hotel on
the north-west comer. Later, Sam Zurbrigg built and
operated the blacksmith shop, the sawmill, the
chopping mill and the cider mill on the south-easterly
side of the hamlet.
It seems Punkeydoodle's Corner began to wither
in the 1860's when the Grand Trunk Railway passed
it by, replacing the stage coach, and when the car
crowded the horse and buggy off the old Huron
Road, on their way to the larger centres of Tavistock
and New Hamburg.
In recent years, Punkeydoodle's Comer seems of
little importance, except for its most interesting and
intriguing name, and of course.it's "home" to a
population of 14 — the Harvey Mueller family, the
Cecil Wagler family and the Richard Lebold family.
Through the years, tales as to how it got its name
have varied from pumpkin patches, angry gestures
being shouted, to a plump and punkey innkeeper
that was always singing. The most probable version
handed down from the early settlers is based on the
innkeeper. In those days, group singing by the
patrons of a tavern was customary. The small local
inns were almost the only centres of conviviality and
sociability available. If those who gathered did not
commence to sing spontaneously, the innkeeper
made it a point to get things started.
One popular song of the time was "Yankee
Doodle went to town riding on a pony." The
proprietor of the inn, John Zurbuchen, a native of
Germany as were many of his neighbours, had
natural.difficulties with the English language and
always sang at the top of his voice "Punkeydoodle
went to town ..." As a result, Punkeydoodle became
his nickname and the hamlet of course,
Punkeydoodle's Corner.
The other versions seemed to be more rumor
than fact.
It was not until 1982 that a poll was taken of the
local residents to decide on the proper spelling of the
name "Punkeydoodle's Corner".
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The Punkeydoodle's Corner Canada's
Birthday Committee wishes to acknowledge
the foilowing:
Government of Canada and the Ontario Committee
for Canada's Birthday
The Cleo Bender Family
The Verle Bender Family
The Richard Lebold Family
The Harvey Mueller Family
The Cecil Wagler Family
The Municipalities of:
County of Oxford
County of Perth
Regional Municipality of Waterloo
Township of East Zorra - Tavistock
Township of South Easthope
Township of Wilmot
The many individuals, groups, and Corporations for
their countless efforts.
Punkeydoodle's Corner Canada's Birthday
Committee
Bruce Halliday, M.P., Oxford
Hon. Bill Jarvis, M.P., Perth
Walter McLean, M.P., Waterloo
Doug Puddicombe, Project Chairman
Glen Schlotzhauer, Perth Chairman
Glen Wright, Waterloo Chairman
Margaret Munnoch, Oxford Chairman
PROGRAM
OF
ENTERTAINMENT
AND
ACTIVITIES
FOOD BOOTHS OPERATED BY
LOCAL COMMUNITY AND CHURCH GROUPS
June 26, 1982
2:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m.
I:45 p.m. Unveiling of Punkeydoodle's
Corner Cairn by:
Bruce Halliday, M.P.. Oxford
Hon. Bill Janis, M.P.. Perth
Walter McLean, M.P., Waterloo
and residents of
Punkeydoodle's Corner.
3 PIPERS, members of Ingersoll Pipe Band.
STAGE I
Joe Hampson, M.C.
2:00 p.m.
Waterloo -Oxford High School Band
from Baden
(Pickelheimer German Band begins going
amongst crowd)
2:45 p.m.
Woodstock Choralaires
3:30 p.m.
Official Ceremonies:
Introduction of Guests of Honour
Presentations to local residents and
dignitaries by MP's
Acknowledgements
O Canada
Balloon Release
Harvard Fly -Past
4:00 p.m.
Pickelheimer German Band
from New Dundee (on stage)
5:00 p.m.
"The Mods" — Rock group of
young people from Stratford
5:30 p.m.
"Dorian" — Contemporary folk
singers from New Hamburg
6:30 p.m.
"The Bonds of Love" —
Gospel singing group
from Woodstock
7:00 p.m.
"The Nunchuka" — Rock group of
young people from Stratford
STAGE II
2:00 p.m.
Baby Show
(Registration 1:00 p.m.; Judging to
commence 2:00 p.m.)
Six Classes:
6 months and under — Boys and Girls
6 to 12 months — Boys and Girls
12 to 18 months — Boys and Girls
(NOTE: Number restricted to the first 60
babies registered.)
3:30 p.m.
Y-Promenaders Square Dancing
- Woodstock
4:30 p.m.
Nith Valley Squares
New Hamburg
DEMONSTRATIONS AND
DISPLAYS
• Artists sketching
• Natural wood and shell crafts
• Rug hooking
• Quilting
• Log sawing contest
• Senior Citizens trailer
• 1890 Steam engine
• Hot air balloon
• Punkeydoodle's Comer Post Office
- operated by Canada Post Corporation
• FROG JUMPING CONTEST —
Registration 1.:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Contest 2:30 p.m.
CHILDREN'S ENTERTAINMENT
3:00 and Musician -
5:00 p.m. Brian George, Woodstock
(pick-up truck location)
4:00 and Magician -
6:00 p.m. Michael Brown, Woodstock
(pick-up truck location)
3:30 p.m. The Church of the Good Shepherd
Scottish Dancers, Woodstock
(to follow frog -jumping)
CHILDREN'S EVENTS
(starting times indicated)
• Bean bag toss — 2:00 p.m.
• Obstacle course — 2:00 p.m.
• Water balloon race — 3:30 p.m.
• Water on a spoon relay — 3:30 p.m.
• Egg and spoon relay — 4:30 p.m.
• Tug -of -War — 4:30 p.m.
• Pass the apple — 5:30 p.m.
• Up and under— 5:30 p.m.
• London Children's Museum (children
participation)
• Clowns
• Luna and Lunas, Ingersoll
DOWNTOWN PUNKEYDOODLE'S CORNER
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TUNE 2)6, 190,-
Six levels working together JUNE 26, 1982
Government's the biggest industry
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AFTER BEING sworn in as Cecil Wagler "upholds the long
honorary postmaster, tradition of postal service in
Punkeydoodle's Corner resident Canada."
PVNKEYDOODLE'S COR-
NER — On the, one hand, said
Master of Ceremonies Joe
Hampson, this hamlet solarge
it. spills into three rxnunUes —
Perth, Oxford, and Waterloo,
and it takes three public works
departments to keep it going.
Sulon the other hand, the
town is too small to hold the
party held in its honor.
Stories
and photos
by Ted Town
Such are the paradoxes and
-"'• irregularities of this teeming
community. The name is bigger
than the hamlet, but it took six
different governments to close
the surrounding roads for the
big event Saturday. There is no
industry, no commercial
establishment, no indication to a
driver that he is passing by, no
claim to fame except the name,
yet the federal government
-` provided a $6,000 grant to help
w' pay for the celebrations.
_ It was into this atmosphere of
el _ non sequiturs that the provincial
V ° government added a bit of
- frivolty. Oxford MPP Dick
Treleaven appeared on stage
with greetings from Ontario
Premier William Davis.
"t`. • . Cecil Wagler is the cum-
., munity's new "Minister of Sport
and Recreation" said
Treleaven. It must be so, it
came from head office. Wagler
t also was made honorary post-
master for the day.
Mayor" Harvey Mueller has
a - yet another hat to wear. As the
new "Minister of Spending,"
Mueller was issued with a stern
warning not to attempt any
,'• , x -� expansion. "if you are con-
. - sidering annexing Tavistock.
just remember what happened
to Argentina," Treleaven read.
And Richard Lebold, father of
the hamlet's newest resident, I7-
day-old Bradley, was appointed.:
"Minister of Population.'
Stabilization."
1 AT NOON
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LET'S SING
'1110W O CANADA. 1,
O Canada!
Our home and native land!
True patriot love
in all thy sons command.
With glowing hearts
we see thee rise,
TheTrue North
strong and free!
From far and wide,
O Canada,
We stand on guard
for thee.
God keep our land
glorious and free!
O Canada,
we stand on guard for thee.
O Canada,
we stand on guard for thee.
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Budget offers 6%
economic antidote
Wages of civil servants curbed,
• Canadians urged to limit wage increases
to six per cent for the year starting in
July and to five per cent in the following
12-month period.
Parliamentarians asked to cut their pay
slightly this year and to limit increases to
six per cent In 1963 and five per cent the
year after.
Pay of 500,000 public servants to be
!invited to six per cent in the next 12
months and five per cent in the following
year, the same as the government is ask-
ing of the rest of the country. But the
government refused to say whether pub-
lic service salaries covered by existing
contracts will be rolled back.
Indexing of income tax exemptions, pen-
sions for parliamentarians and public
servants, family allowances and old -age
security also limited to six and five per
cent.
• Child tax credit to be increased $50 per
child to make up for limitations in index-
ing.
•Government regulatory agencies to be
asked to limit prices under their jurisdic-
tions to six and five per cent. Cabinet to
use its powers to make sure federal
prices are kept at that level.
income taxes boosted
• Government to spend $2.3 billion over
this year and the next on job creation,
help for small business, farmers and fish-
ermen, to stimulate housing construc-
tion, to pay higher child tax credit and to
make other tax adjustments.
• Government says the deficit of expendi-
tures over revenues will reach a whop-
ping $19.6 billion in the current fiscal
year, compared with $10.5 billion fore-
cast in the budget less than eight months
ago.
Government to offer interest rate relief
package that could provide new home -
buyers, farmers, fishermen and small
businessmen $725 million more a year.
This is in addition to various grants pro
prosed by the government.
Among the grants is $3,000 for first time
buyers of existing homes and buyers of
new homes. The government says it will
spend about $400 million on housing
over two years.
•Government to modify some of the terms
of reference of the Foreign Investment
Review Agency to appease critics of its
investment policies. Some takeovers by
foreigners of small businessses will no
longer need FIRA approval.
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Canadian dollar up at 77.700 U.S.
MONTREAL (CP) — The Cana-
dian dollar gained almost a fifth of a
cent to close at 77.70 cents U.S. on
Monday after see -sawing throughout
the day on nervous foreign exchange
markets.
The currency opened at 77.32,
down from Friday's 77.52 close,
firmed slightly by mid -morning at
77.39, fell again to 77,04 at noon, and
then rebounded in the afternoon.
Market anticipation of Finance
Minister Allan MacEachen's budget
was largely responsible for the
swings, currency traders said.
While the morning nosedive was
attributed to pessimism the budget
would do nothing to encourage eco-
nomic recovery, traders said after-
noon rumors about more stringent
policies sent the dollar soaring -
BLUES CHASER
(7reen light, Signal I'or the motor-
ist behind you to blow his horn.
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Holbrook certificate'�9820
extended by ministry
By Eric Reguly
Woodstock Bureau
WOODSTOCK — The environment
ministry will give Oxford County a
temporary reprieve from Its gar-
bage woes by extending the emer-
gency operating certificate for the
Holbrook landfill site today.
Nars Borodezak, manager of mun-
icipal and private approvals for the
provincial ministry, said Tuesday he
is recommending a closing date of
March 31, 1903, fur the certificate.
The current certificate, Issued in
January, expires today.
"Holbrook is environmentally ac-
ceptable .. . We wouldn't be issu-
ing a certificate if it wasn't," said
Borodezak.
The environmental safety of Hol-
brook, in Norwich Township, will be
assessed after hearings into the Sal-
ford landfill site are completed. The
county hits asked to use Holbrook
until Salford is approved and pre-
pared.
The Salford hearings started In
March under the Consolidated Hear
ings Act. The technical and planning
hearings should be finished by Sep-
tember, said Borodezak.
The emergency certificate allows
Oxford to use Holbrook before ree-
quired public hearings take place,
he said. The Holbrook hearings, un-
der the Environmental Protection
Act, will examine technical aspects
of garbage disposal such as the need
for holding tanks and waste covers,
he said.
Clair Utter, vice-chairman of the
Holbrook landfill site concerned citi-
zens committee, said he was "pretty
disappointed. We were lead to be-
lieve a hearing would have to be,
held before an extension."
He said, however, that the site is
better maintained now. "It has been
very unattractive in the past,"
Since Salford would require a long
preparation time if approved, Hol-
brook could not be abandoned right
away. said Rorodezak,
"We need two years to develop the
slle," said Oxford County Warden
Ross Livingston.
Borodetak said a "safe site could
be engineered at that location tSal-
ford),"
Oxford MPP Dick Treleaven said
he can't comment on Holbrook until
he sees details of the licence exten-
sion,
The Daily Sentinel -Review, Wed., July 7. 1982 Page 13
What resources?
Ministry's study's a bust here
By L►NDA HULME
8endeebReview staff writer
Little or no interest has been
shown by Oxford County
residents in probably the biggest
pprrooject the Ontario Ministry of
Nam,) Resources (MNR) has
taken on, the fate of the
province's resources for the
next 20 years.
For about t0 years, MNR staff
have been researching the use of
available resources and the
potential for expanding and
developing resource use in
Ontario. The studies will
ultimately culminate in a Land
Use Strategy, to be completed
by this December.
MNR Ayhner district plan-
ning coordinator Ron Spurr
said the study identified
management goals in areas
such as forestry, fisheries,
waterfowl and wildlife,
recreational opportunities and
'nature preservation. The
ministry intends to reach
development targets in all areas
by the year 2000.
Spurr said the study is nearing
completion and is now in the
public input stage.
But so far the MNR Aylmer
district has received a feeble
reaction from Oxford residents
concerning resources in this
area.
WASN'T REPRESENTATIVE
An open house in Woodstock
held in June to gather input and
explain the MNR's intentions
was attended by a disappointing
53 people, he said. Considering
Oxford's population exceeds
70,000, the turnout isn't too
representative of the area.
Because much of southern
Ontario's land is privately
owned, the MNR has adopted g
compromise policy, but it can
only work if the public is aware
of the ministry's goals.
"The ministry places em-
phases on the co-operation
between the province and the
private owner, and between
provincial and municipal
levels," said Spurr.
The strategy will only be
implemented through in-
terraction between these levels,
such as incorporating provincial
Policy into municipal planning.
Spurr said there are several
target areas here people should
be aware of, such as aggregate
resources.
Untapped aggregate deposits
exist practically in Woodstock's
back yard.
A lot of people think of mining
and gravel pits as a "dead end"
operation, he said. Use the land
once and it's finished forever.
The MNR doesn't think so.
Spurr said agricultural land
can be mined temporarily and
returned to a farming use after
the resource is exhausted.
But for all the MNR knows, he
said, farmers may think it's a
terrible idea.
"There could be a conflict
between agricultural land and
aggregate resources," he said.
"If you take away Class 2 land,
can you put it back to Class 2
land, or will it be Class 3 or 4?"
Oxford also has about 10 areas
identified as' "naturally
significant."
These places, such as Trotter
Lake near InnerkiP and the
Lakeside swamp, have been
screened by the province as
potential protection areas
because of their wildlife
characteristics. Other areas, ice
age geological formations for
example, may be virtually
undisturbed and the MNR would
like to keep it that way.
But if they are protected
through the land use strategy, it
may mean a landowner won't be
able to develop his property in
order to preserve the habitat.
Other Oxford -based issues
include drilling for natural gas
in South-West Oxford Township
and woodlot preservation.
"The ministry is very
adamant that the public have
input into this strategy," said
Spurt. "li's their land."
Oxford residents will get a
second chance to learn about the
strategy at another open house
scheduled for Aug. 11 at the
Fairview Centre in Woodstock.
Spurr said people can talk to
MNR representatives there, find
out what's going on and if they
feel something is unfair, let
them know.
The open house will be held
from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m.
BLUES CHASER
Morning. The time of day when
the rising generation retires and the
retiring generation rises
OVER LAST YEAR'S MARK
City's jobless figure
v 1 1perof
3 cep
By LIZ PAYNE
Sentinel -Review staff writer
Unemployment in Woodstock has leapt by 131 per cent in the
past year -the highest unemployment 7'ump in this city's history.
The just -released statistics to the end of June show 4,877 people
registered and looking for work.
By the end of June 1981 there were less than half that number
looking for work - 2,10B.
Part of the explanation for the "unusually high" increase es
that a number of local factories have closed down for extended
summer vacations, Vic Gaskin, manager of the Canada
Employment Centre (CEC) in Woodstock said Tuesday.
Gaskin said this includes companies such as Timberjack, who
temporarily laid off workers because of the slow economy.
Most of the workers temporarily laid off will be called back -
depending on the economy - in September or October, Gaskin
said.
"What will happen in September, time will only tell," he said.
REASON FOR CONCERN
But despite the hope that things may improve after the sum-
mer, district economist Harry Milling said today that the
statistics are good reason for concern.
"It's a pretty serious situation."
The statistics don't just reflect the fact that factories have
slowed down for the summer, he said.
Milling said one very disturbing factor is that the number of
people looking for clerical and related work has jumped
significantly - by 124.6 per cent.
FEMALE STATS
As a reflection of this, Milling said, the number of women
looking for work in Woodstock has jumped by 74 per cent over the
past year.
This indicates a serious problem for cities such as Woodstock
whose industries have been slowing down during the past two
years.
Township slings arrowheads
to covnty's quiver for sturdy
Artifacts collected from the
propposed Salford landfill site by
archeological experts hired by
South-West Oxford Township,
have been turned over to Oxford
Counl.y solicitors for
examination.
The collection arrived in
Toronto from the Museum of
Indian Archeology in London,
where they were being studied.
The township intends to use the
archeologists' reports as
evidence in the environmental
hearing nil the Salford landfill
site.
There was speculation earlier
this year the site could be a
former Indian burial ground,
Tile Ontario Cemeteries Act
prohibits landfill sites from
scaling near cemeteries.
County solicitor Douglas
Hodgson said nothing has yet
been done with the artifacts -
"I assume we will give them
to an expert to look at, ' he said,
adding any information
gathered will be outlined in a
public document.
The Salford landfill hearing,
which began earlier this year,
will resume July 12 after a
month long ac ournment. Il is
expected to .last until Sep•
lember.
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Oxford road contract won
WOODSTOCK (Bureau) — A St.
Marys company won a $2,187,991
contract Monday to rebuild former
Oxford County Road 6 to provide a
direct link beiween Highways 2 and
401.
McLean Foster Construction Ltd.
had the lowest of to tenders submit-
ted, the Ontario ministry of trans-
portation and communications said.
McLean Foster starts work July 19.
The rebuilding affects the 3.9-kiio-
metre stretch of County Road 6, now
Highway 7169, from County Road 9
north to Highway 2 in South-West
Oxford and Zorra townships, said
ministry spokesman John Burprich
In Toronto.
Phase one of the project — re-
building Road 6 from highway 401 to
Road 9—was finished last year.
When completed next summer, the
road will allow traffic to avoid
Woodstock and Beachville when
travelling to and from Highways 2
and 401, Burprich said.
Two bridges, one over Canadian
National Railways tracks and
another over the Thames River, are
included in the project.
Legislature gives
last day approval
to unpopular tax
TORONTO (CP) —A sales tax ex-
tension that moved usually passive
citizens to public protest and
prompted a series of disruptive tac-
tics by Ontario's opposition parties
"as passed Wednesday by the ma-
jority Progressive Conservative gov-
ernment on the last day of the legis-
lature's spring session.
The extension, introduced in
Treasurer Frank Miller's May 13
budget and retroactive to June 14,
will raise more than $300 million for
the province by extending the seven -
per -cent retail sales tax to previ-
ously exempt items such as pre-
pared foods, confections, labor,
school supplies, magazines, pets and
personal hygiene products.
The bill passed by a 62-to-40 vote.
In an unprecedented concession,
the government agreed last month
to refer the bill to committee for
public hearings after Liberal leader
David Peterson led his party in a.
three-day legislature boycott and a
series of filibusters that threatened
to keep the house sitting all summer.
Food service organizations such as
the Ontario Caterers Association
and the Ontario Restaurant and
Foodservices Association led the
fight with almost daily demonstra-
tions at Queen's Park aimed at pre-
serving the exemption on meals un-
der $6.
But during almost 30 hours of
hearings during the last two weeks,
the government also heard from
children, women's groups, students'
organizations, municipal govern-
ments and private citizens.
The tax was described as discrimi-
natory, regressive and Ill -limed and
likely to reduce already slumping
consumer demand during a time of
economic hardship, cost thousands
of jobs, force administrative costs
on small business and create confu-
sion by taxing or not taxing Identical
items, depending on place and
amount of purchase.
However, the Tories rammed the
bill through committee early Wed-
nesday with only minor changes, de-
feating 15 Liberal amendments that
would have preserved a number of
tax exemptions.
Miller told the committee his $22.7
billion budget is "more than the sim-
pie sum of its parts" and critics
should examine "any specific meas-
ures in the context of the over-all
budget."
Sean Conway (L — Renfrew
North) said the hearings provided ir-
refutable proof that the government
did not study the impact of the
moves and "just didn't know what
effect some of the measures were
going to have."
Peterson said he understood the
treasurer's political ego was on the
line "but I tell you bigger men than
him have backed down when they
understood that things were fun-
damentaly wrong ... you are going
to hear more from us about that."
Beach ville's
busy road
quiet again
BEACHVILLE (Bureau) — Resi-
dents of this hamlet didn't get as
many detouring visitors passing
through Wednesday, thanks to early
completion of road work on Highway
2 and Dundas Street leading into
Woodstock's west end.
Oxford County engineer Stewart
Watt said the reconstruction, which
included new watermains, sanitary
sewers and complete repaving, was
scheduled to be completed at the end
of the month.
Contractors Marshall Aggregates
of Woodstock started the $340,060 re-
paving job May 10 on 725 metres of
road and motorists had been forced
to take County Road 9 through
Beachville to cross the Thames
River and Canadian National Rail-
ways tracks — adding about seven
kilometres for drivers heading east
to Woodstock.
Watt said after general cleanup
and landscaping, the new road will
be allowed to settle until a final coat
of asphalt Is laid next spring,
Going up
Stalled doors elevate
project Is completion
The Oxford County Cour-
thouse elevator could have been
completed by now, but a hold up
on supplies will delay the
opening until August,
County engineer lion Pratt
said the contractor had trouble
with its supplier over the
elevator doors. Some were
delivered Tuesday, but the doors
for the first and fourth floors
(the basement and the roof)
won't arrive until July 15,
"We had no completion dale
on it but we told them wed like
to have it done by July 1," said
Pratt.
The county now expects it to
be done by Aug. 1.
once (he doors are installed,
they will be bricked in. Some
electrical work must be com-
pleted before the elevator is
ready for operation.
Pratt said the project was
estimated at $55,000, but it will
likely cost about $4,000 more
because the contractor had
some difficulties constructing
the shaft.
The county also intended to
purchase a 1,500 pound elevator,
but found it had room for a 2,00a
pound capacity. He said this also
cost extra.
But money was saved through
the county staff completing
some of the work itself.
ROSS LIVINGSTON
— B-B mayor —
Unemployment worst on record
Ross Livingston
appointed mayor
Rosa Livingston has been
appointed mayor of Bland -
ford -Blenheim township.
Livingston takes over for
the late Robert Gilholm, who
died of cancer last month.
Livingston, who is also the
Oxford County Warden, was
named mayor at the regular
Blandford-Blenheim town-
ship meeting Wednesday.
He has served on township
council for a number of years
and was councillor -at -large
during the present term.
Livingston's position will
be filled by Edward Down, a
member of township council.
Applications will be looked
over to fill Down's position.
"It was quite a smooth
changeover." said deputy
clerk Bob Hoskin. "It seems
a shame to have w make a
charge when an election is
coming in November."
Disastrous waste: Armstrong
July �.
County passes 1932
'useless' study
By LIZ PAYNE
Sentinel -Review staff writer
Oxford County Council in a 13
to four vote Wednesday decided
not to heed Tillsonburg Mayor
Jack Armstrong's advice a
county Economic Opportunity
Study is a `disastrous" waste of
taxpayers' money.
Coun. Armstrong, in a heated
discussion, appealed to council
to take a stand against what he
called a ludicrous waste of
provincial funds.
"We have a chance to say to
the provincial government:
'This is a useless expense that
we don't need. Why don't you cut
your spending by $50.000."
The $50,000 study — part of the
provincial Board of Industrial
Leadership Development
(BILD) grant — will be funded
75 per cent by the province and
25 per cent by the county.
Armstrong also objected to
the study, because, he said, it is
written all over the proposal
that Oxford should have a
county -wide industrial com-
mission
"I suggest this would be a
gross mistake.
"'It would produce another
level of beaurocracy that would
inhibit industrial growth in this
county "
WORK TOGETHER
Armstrong said the county's
three industrial commissioners
Paul Plant in Woodstock, Larry
Condon in Tillsonburg and Ted
Hunt in Ingersoll, have already
been working together to get
industry into the county.
"That's somethingg they've
lone locally and they didn't need
an additional county
beaurocraty."
Coun. Wallis Hammond, who
voted in favor of the study told
council that an economic study
is badly needed in Oxford.
"All our raw resources are
going out of the county. Why
aren't they manufactured
here?"
Hammond sited several in-
stances of manufacturing plants
that have closed down forcing
local producers to send their
raw materials out of the county.
But Armstrong said a county-
wide industrial commission
would not help that problem.
"I suggest it will make it
worse."
The business of selling
municipalities on industry is
already being done, Armstrong
said.
OFF THEIR BUTTS
"Municipalities can sell
themselves. It just means they
have to get off their butts."
Despite Coun. Armstrong's
plea to turn down the proposed
study only four councillors —
Armstrong, Tdlsonburg Coun.
Jean Ferrie, Ingersoll Mayor
Doug Harris and South-West
Oxford Cuun. Bill Fewster —
voted against the study.
Warden Ross Livingston said
the county has already
budgetted for the study.
He suggested a county in-
dustrial commission would be
valuable "to make sure we (the
county) keep what industry
we've got."
Livingston said he would be in
favor of a county industrial
commission if it could be set up
to compliment municipal in-
dustrial conditioners.
'fie study will be tone by
Toronto management con-
sultants woods Gordon.
Expert explodes theory
of methane gas buildup
SALFORD — Methane gas buildup will not
be a problem at. the Salford landfill site, a
hydrogeologist told a provincial hearing
board, Wednesday.
Grant Anderson, a hydrogeologist for
Gartner -Lee Associates, told the board atan
environmental hearing into the landfill site
methane will naturally escape through the
top of the ground and never get the chance to
build up to dangerous, explosive levels. -
"Methane gas has traditionally only been a
problem where you've got methane travelling
through gravels," he said.
Anderson, a county witness in The hearing,
testified the location of the site is very clayey,
and will not allow methane gas to travel
undergrodnd.
The buffer zones, soil berms to be built
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around the site, will also add some extra
protection in preventing methane from
travelling to neighboring homes.
He said a venting system isn't necessary at
the site.
A small top layer of clay is "fractured"
with cracks, he said, making it the most
permeable area. Since the clay beneath it
isn't permeable, the methane (which is
lighter than air) will Float up to the top and
into the atmosphere.
"High levels will be diluted," said
Anderson. "It won't create a potential hazard
at all."
The nearest concern is the on -site
buildings, but he doesn't anticipate problems
here either. Just in case, the landfill site
design includes the use of methane gas
monitors at the buildings to record levels.
Country Road 9 -
Charles Street, Ingersoll
Reconstruction from Halls
Creek culvert easterly to the
town limits of Ingersoll
at
Ingersoll Council Chambers,
Ingersoll
Wednesday, July 21, 1982
between 2:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m.
You are invited to attend anytime during
these hours to discuss the project with
representatives of the County of Oxford and
their consultants, Springbank Consulting
Engineers Limited.
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spend your vacation in your own
back yard and your friends will
know the kind of person your are —
,ensitive, imaginative, home -loving
— and broke.
Debenture issue approved
WOODSTOCK (Bureau) — Oxford nance a pollution control plant and
county council Wednesday approved extend some of its sewers and Inger-
is,uing $3,351.000 in debentures to fi- soll is slated to get $100,000 to inn
nance downtown renovation in Till- prove its hydro distribution, county
wtburg, sewer extensions in Wood- treasurer Howard Day said. 'Loma
,rock and other municipal projects. Township will get $300.000 to inn
Tillsonburg Is to receive $1.6 mil-
lion to finance downtown renovation,
Woodstock is to get $12 million to fi-
i
prove the Thamesford water system
and Blandford-Blenheim and East
Zorra Tavistoek townships will also
get funds.
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7ULY 1915, 82 Exp y ert says there's no risk
of water contamination at Salford
By LINDA HULME
Sendnel-R vlewstarrwriter
SALFORD — Chemicals
leaching from landfill, if placed
at the site near Salford, would
take hundreds, if not thousands
of years to move off the site,
dispelling any risk of well water
contamination, a hydrogeologist
maintains.
Grant Anderson, a
hydrogeology (groundwater)
expert with the firm Gartner -
Lee Associates, testified before
a pprovincial hearing board,
Wednesday. The nearing will
determine the environmental
suitability of the landfill site.
Anderson is a key witness in
Oxford County's case for ap.
Proving the site. In earlier
testimony by several witnesses,
hydro eology, the study of
gm water movement, has
been named one of the most
important factors in approving a
site..
It's my conclusion... if this
landfill is operated in a manner
that I've recommended, then
there would be no impact on the
environment," he said.
The Salford site is located *on
land virtually impermeable by
water. Anderson said con-
taminants from the site will not
seep down into the ground and
travel to well water sources.
THE SOIL'S CLAYEY
Through evidence given
earlier this week by a geologist,
it was learned the site is situated
on two levels of till. The highest
level is very clayey and silty,
while the lower level is
somewhat more rocky.
The presence of a sand seam
was also detected in the lower
till, but Anderson said the sand
deposit isn't large and doesn't
continue off the site.
"We've got an extremely
clayey soil situation," he said
To determine how landfill
leachate will move, 17 boreholes
were made throughout the 220
acre site to find out groundwater
levels, in what direction they are
flowing, how fast the water
moves and how much of it.
SHEARER — At the Wood-
stock General Hospital on Sun-
day, July 25, 1982. James
Caven Shearer of R. R. 1
Bright, age 77 years. Beloved
husband of Beatrice Grace
Quennell. Dear father of
Stuart, Vancouver, B.C.; Mrs.
Rudi (Virginia) Gruen,
Burlington; Wendy Shearer,
Guelph. Dear brother of John
Shearer, Tavistock and also
survived by six grand-
children. Predeceased by six
brothers. Friends will be
received in. the Francis
Funeral Home, 77 Woodstock
St., N, Tavistock, Tuesday, 24
and 7-9 p.m. Funeral service
in the funeral home, Wed-
nesday, July 28, 19a2 at 2:00
p.m. Interment in Chesterfield
Cemetery:
Where the two clayey till
layers are thinnest before the
sand seam is reached, Anderson
concluded it would take 300
years for a drop of water to
travel through both levels of till
to the sand.
The sand, a concern since
leachate passes easily through
it, would not allow contaminants
to travel along it and off the site,
he said.
SAND TERMINATES
"Once the water hits the sand
seam it doesn't run along the
sand, it goes through," he said.
Help for urea victims
moves closer to reality
OTTAWA (CP) — Help for victims of area formaldehyde foam
insulation moved a giant step closer to reality Tuesday but it
could be some time before the first cheques to homeowners are in
the mail.
After weeks of delays, a bill authorizing tax-free grants of up to
$5,000 for remedial work cleared the Commons and was sent to
the Senate.
However, cabinet has yet to flesh out details of the assistance
program — a process a government spokesman said could take
several weeks.
"Even If it did run along the
sand, the sand terminates,"
The clay around the sand
retards any water movement,
said Anderson. a "safety valve"
it contaminants ever reached
the seam.
But it probably won't, he said.
In one test area where the clay
tills are thicker, he calculated it
would take 5,200 years for water
to reach the sand.
One area, in the northeast
portion of the site, water is
actually travelling upward. But
Anderson said for water to
actually come to the surface to
run off into a surface waterway,
would take about 13,500 years.
The clay also acts as an
"attenuator" for the leachate,
leaving a certain amount of the
contaminants behind in the soil
but letting the water, even-
tually, go through-
Leschate springing to the
surface is probably the main
concern in operating the site, he
said,
Operators will have to ex-
cavate in two sections of the site
for landfilling. Anderson said
the clay is so impermeable, rain
which leaches through the
garbage will end up gathering in
the holes instead of sinking
down.
Through operating and design
procedures, the leachate
collected in these areas will be
accounted for and cleaned up
before it starts breaking through
the surface and travelling into
waterways and off the site.
Anderson also recommended
a continuous monitoring
program of surrounding wells to
ensure total safety.
Londonleenager
is Miss Universe
Staff and wire services
LIMA, Peru — A young London
woman named Karen Dianne
Baldwin, who had already con-
quered London and Canada, became
Miss Universe here Monday night.
About 600 million television
viewers from around the world were
watching as the green-eyed, 111-year-
old brunette from Central Secondary
School moved from 12 semi-finalists
to five finalists — and finally to vic-
tory.
Karen, who planned to study busi-
ness administration at the Oniver-
sfly of Western Ontario before her
plans were overtaken by winning the
Miss Canada I9M3 title last Novem-
ber, wept as she was crowned Miss
Universe,
The daughter of Bill and Marion
Baldwin of London — who were in
Peru to see their daughter's triumph
— won the title over first runner-up
Patty Chang Kerkixs of Guam, see -
and runner-up Cinzia Fiordeponti of
Italy, third runner-up Tina Roussou
of Greece and fourth runner-up
Terry Utley of the United States. Se-
veiny -seven nations participated in
the pageant.
Pollee said they doubled security
forces at the converted bullfight sta.
dium where 77 women competed for
the title because of three weekend
bomb attacks In downtown Lana.
The pageant was broadcast live by
satellite to more than 50 countries
around the world, and organizers ex.
pected ark) million people to watch it
on live television or on delayed
broadcasts.
The contestants arrived three
weeks ago to be filmed in short seg
ments to be included in the two-hour
yboee.
KAREN BALDWIN
Oxford applying grant
to 32 temporary jobs
WOODSTOCK (Bureau) — Oxford
County will provide about 32 tempo-
rary jobs with its provincial job
creation grant, county clerk Howard
Watts said Monday.
But the county, which initially had
difficulty thinking up ways to spend
its $121,875, hasn't been able to
spend the whole grant. Walls said
cite county will ask the province to
redistribute about $5,000 in leftover
money to local municipalities.
A draftsman was hired Monday to
do zoning map work until the end of
the year for the county's planning
department at a cost of $10,000,
Walls said.
And next week, six persons will be -
hired at $5.50 an hour to pick up
blown garbage on county, roads and
landfill sites. Another two will be
hired to paint the basement of Wood -
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Inflation is just a drop in the buck.
ingford Lodge and five will be hired
to do file work, index books and
paint exteriors at local libraries,
The grant, allocated by the nninis-
try of municipal affairs and housing,
is part of a $35 million program ex-
pected to create 7,500 jobs in Ontario
by the end of the year.
other make-work projects planned
With the county's grant money in-
clude demolition of the old gover-
nor's house next to the old Oxford
County jail, expected to create four
jobs beginning next month. The yel-
low bricks from the house will be
used to rebuild the jail's wall adjoin-
Ing the house, Walls said.
Also planned are paintings depict-
ing scenes of Oxford County that are
to be done by local artists and dis-
played in the courthouse. That build-
ing also will have a mural painted in
Its basement.
The treasurer's department Is to
hire a computer programmer before
the end of the year.
Some jobs will last only a few
weeks while others will continue un-
til the end of the year, Walls said.
County"s case finished;°19829
hearing resumes Aug. 16
SALFORD — Oxford County completed its case to show the
suitability of the Salford landfill site, Thursday, before a
provincial hearing board.
The hearing has been adjourned until Aug. 16, when South-West
Oxford Township will begin calling witnesses to try and prove the
site unsuitable.
The hearing into the site's environmental and planning
suitability has been continuing off and on since April.
County witnesses have testified on several factors, including
traffic impact, social impact, noise, surface drainage, geology,
underground water suitability, and design and operations.
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All witnesses recommended approval of the site.
South-West Oxford's witnesses will attempt to show a different
side to thole factors.
The hearing will continue from Aug. 16 to Sept. to, when it will
be adjourned again until Oct. 12.
Royal fairy-tale turns new page
-Prince Charles and Diana show ott 3"ay-old Prince William. (AP)
LONDON (AP) — Turning another
page in their storybook romance,
Prince Charles and his wife, Diana,
mark their first wedding anniver-
sary today with their baby son, Wil-
liam.
A year after Charles and Diana
exchanged vows at St. Paul's Cathe-
dra) in a televised spectacle watched
by an estimated 800 million people,
the royal couple planned a quiet day
in their London apartments at Kens-
ington Palace with their 38-day-old
son.
The only scheduled appearance is
a brief excursion by Charles to Brize
Norton Royal Air Force Base west
of. London to welcome the 1st Batta-
lion Welsh Guards home from the
Falkland Islands.
In honor of the anniversary, how-
ever, Buckingham Palace released
on Wednesday a series of official
pictures of the 33-year-old heir to the
throne, his bride — who turned 21
four weeks ago — and baby William.
The snaps, which show the royal
couple In casual clothes, were taken
by Lord Snowdon, former husband
of Princess Margaret.
In the year since their wedding
brightened the spirits of a United
Kingdom weathering record unem-
ployment, rioting and an Irish hun-
ger strike, Charles and Diana have
brought a cheery informality to the
1,00i -year-old monarchy.
With her sporty hair style, her
stunning clothes and her easy man-
ner with children, Diana has
rocketed to the top of popularity
Polls.
She also has charted a decidedly
independent course.
At the wedding, Diana promised to
love and cherish Charles, but not to
'bey him, as tradition demanded,
Rather than have William at a royal
residence, she'entered a. hospital to
give birth — with Charles in atten-
dance — and went home just 21
hours after the delivery.
British newspapers say- the royal
couple's home in rural Gloucester-
shire has been reverberating to the
sound of rock music as Diana
dances to get back into shape after
the birth.
When the infant prince is chris-
tened next Wednesday at Bucking-
ham Palace, a reporter, a photogra-
pher and a television camera will be
present for the first tlme,to record
the event:
Charles, too, is Immensely popular
and often bends the rules of royal
stuffiness wkth flourishes of a re-
fined and self -deprecating wit.
But the popularization of royalty
appears to have detracted little in
British hearts from the romance of
their union, called a fairy-tale wed-
ding by the Archbishop of Canter-
bury, Most Rev. Robert Runcie, who
married them.
On June 21, the night Diana gave
birth, bands played, corks popped
and Al -gun salutes resounded over
the British capital.
Film footage of Diana leaving the
hospital with young William in her
arms led newscasts the next night.
Reports of a whopping jump in na-
tional unemployment to its highest
level since the 1930s Depression
were relegated to the closing min-
utes.
And last Tuesday, when Britain
observed a day of thanksgiving for
Its victory over Argentina in regain-
ing the Falkland Islands, Fleet
Street's front pages — even those of
the stately Times — were adorned
with pictures of the elegant princess
oil her first official outing since the
birth,
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Auto sales figures dismal in July
Editorial
Terry Fox Memorial
While our editorials normally
relate to our ministry's concerns,
there is always room for an excep-
tion. The following is based opt
remarks by Premier William Davis
at the unveiling of the Terry Fox
Memorial beside the Trans -Canada
Highway outside Thunder Bay.
The memorial to Terry is not a
statement about the past. It is a
statement about the future, the kind
of future in which Terry believed
and the kind of future in which
Terry helped so many thousands of
others to believe.
There are things that happen to
each and every one of us in life that
sometimes strain our faith and trust.
But every once in a while,
however difficult our own in-
dividual situation may appear, we
find a human being who, despite
even greater difficulties, displays a
strength of spirit, a commitment to
hope and faith, a dedication to
achievement that makes our own
personal difficulties more
manageable and our life more
bearable.
Terry Fox not only did that for
thousands of people who are
fighting cancer, but for millions
who have daily struggles with their
own difficulties.
Terry showed us that what life has
in store may not always be easy;
there are times when it may not
seem right or even fair, but the
BLUES CHASER
human spirit requires that we
persevere, that we continue the
battle, that we look to the
future.
What Terry Fox did and what he
achieved will serve to remind us all
that one does not live alone for
one's own problems.
We must always, just as Terry
Fox did, find the time, the strength,
the skill, the courage to care, to
work for others, to contribute to the
welfare and well-being of those less
fortunate.
No government can take the place
of people who stand shoulder to
shoulder with their fellow human
beings in their time of need and
concern.
We can look at the example which
Terry Fox set in many ways. We can
look at it as the tragedy of a young
man who died so young. Or we can
look at what he achieved in his
young life, how much he helped
others, how much courage he
shared, how much ability to face the
challenges of life he conveyed with
every step of his long journey.
One could only wish that each
and every one of us in our lives
could make that contribution to the
sense of dignity and well-being of
our fellow human beings.
We know he did his best.
And we must continue to do ours.
He would expect it from us and
we have the responsibility to expect
it from ourselves.
"A bill collector is there, sir."
"Fine.Give him the pile on my
desk."
Prince William christened
LONDON K.P) — Six -week -odd Prince William of Wales, the
son of Prince Charles, and Diana and the second in line to the
throne, was christened at Buckingham Palace today.
The event was big news in Britain, where there is a new vogue
for following royal events. The child's mother, the former Lady
Diana Spencer, now sets fashion trends for millions of women.
About 60 people, most of them members of the Royal Family,
were invited to the white -and -gold music room of the palace to
see the Archbishop of Canterbury, Most Rev, Robert Runcie,
christen the infant William Arthur Philip Lauis and receive him
into the Church of England.
Now second in the line for the throne occupied Fry his grand-
mother, William will head the established church if he becomes
king.
75 MAN
LITTLEJOHNS — At the
Woodstock General Hospital
on Thursday August 5, 1982,
Allen Charles Littlejohns of
Imerkip, in his 73rd year.
Husband of the late Marjory
(Hofstetter) Littlejohns. Dear
father of Kenneth, Kamloops
B.C., Donald of Ridgetown,
Clifford, Carl and Eleanor, all
of Innerkip. Grandfather of
nine grandchildren. Brother of
Wilfred of Woodstock. Friends
will be received at the M. D.
(Mac) Smith Funeral Home,
69 Wellington Street North,
Woodstock, where the funeral
service will be held 2:00 P.M.
Saturday August 7 with Rev.
Johns of Innerkip officiating.
Interment in Innerkip
Cemetery. A Masonic
memorial service by Oak
Branch Lodge No. 261 will be
held at the funeral home at
7:30 p.m. Friday.
:Dollar briefly above 800 U.S.
By Felicity Munn
MONTREAL (CP) — The Cana-
dian dollar rose briefly above the e0
I ceen U.S. level for the first time in
two months Monday before drilling
back ns 79.96 by the close of furvwl'
ev.e h,uUte markcta.
Widespread opposition
Road widening compromise likely
By Luisa D'Amato
Woodstock Bureau
W'OODSTOC'.K — Plans for a con-
troversial street widening in Inger-
soll — opposed by nearly all the 192
residents affected — will probably
result in ,t compromise solutions, an
Oxford County engineer said Thurs-
day.
.'The point of contention Is how
wide is the road going to be?"
county design and construction engl-
neer Stu Watts told county council's
public works committee. Ile was
referring to County Road 9 between
the gown's eastern boundary and the
Halts Creek bridge near downtown.
The county already has approved
52o!81n this year lrr pay for tilt- dt--
sign and environmental assessment
of the project, which would widen
the street to four lanes Instead of
two and rebuild it.
But because of widespread opposi-
tion from homeowners, a compro-
mise that would widen only the se-
tion of road near the downtown area
is likely when an environmental as-
sessment report is presented to the
county next month, Watts said.
Of the 192 residents that would be
affected, 184 have signed a petition
against the project, which is esti-
mated in cost about $5750)(1 and be
completed by 1985.
Most residents say a wider road
will cut Into front yards, cut prop-
erty values and reduce their chit-
dren's safety. "'there's 10 feet
(three metro,) or less between some
of the homes and the road now,"
said Art Presswell of 183 Charles tit.
E., who signed the pelitfun.
He said he'll fight like project even
if the section of the street near his
home Isn't widened.
But Springbank Consulting Engi-
neers of Woodstock, now doing pre-
Ihninary designs for the county.
claim property values Islay well go
up alter construction Is'cumpletvd.
".'ills argument (thatproperty
values will go down) has been used
in the past and to the best of our
knowledge the reverse has been true
Once the reconstruction of
County Road 9 Is complete, It will
complement the efforts of the prop-
erty owners to Improve their homes,
sort properties," slated a response
from the engineers Issued to the
public works eonirnit(ee Thursday,
54a1'garet Murra}, environmental
planner for the firm, said four lanes
are Itcvw>Sor) because traffic is ex -
Peeled to increase to up to 8.9.50 vehi-
eles .v day by the year _'tak5. C'ur.
renUy up to ssts) vehicles use the
road daily, she said.
It the toad isti t wol,,nod, she said,
^it's a lot ul incoovelneocer and de -
la> to tilt, lrueolling public ... The
road Ls not gulp for the people who
Itve kill it."
Inger>ull Ma>or Doug Harris said
lute❑ rkilmed will take ,t position on
the issue sorte6lile in the nest teNk
weeks.1'm concerned about the
problem at evidt-nfng the street." he
sold in an interview. "It , rcates
some real problems. 'rhere'> no
question about it. There are some
properties that :nr right kin top ul
the street now."
Oxford County wants
shorter warden's term
W0OD:STOCK (Bureau) — Oxford
County wants the authority to estab-
lish a one- or two-year term of office
for the warden, instead of three:
decreed by the province.
The administration and finance
committee voted Thursday to re-
commend that county council ar-
range a meeting with Municipal Af-
fairs Minister Claude Bennett to ex-
plain why the term should beshor-
tened.
Under provincial legislation
passed in the spring, the warden's
term will be lengthened to three
years along with councillors instead
of the current two.
But Ingersoll Mayor Doug Harris
said the longer term may discourage
some county councillors from seek-
ing the warden's position. It would
be almost impossible for a warden
to continue with a regular job. he
,said.
And the salary, — about $20,000 a
year — is not enough to allow the
warden to give up another income.
Council might be forced to increase
the salary to attract candidates.
Harris said.
Council contacted Henneu in June
explaining the county's posiiiun but
the minister has asked for rlxrifiea-
tion, In a recent letter to councll,
Bennett said shortening the term
would reduce the continuity of deci-
sion -making.
County clerk Harold Walls said
after the meeting Oxford is unique
among counties in Ontario. Although
restructured and similar to a re-
gional government in operation, It
does not have a regional chairman.
Wardens in unrestructured counties
serve one year.
Walls said the longer term could
eliminate the chances of someone
aspiring to be warden. First, a per-
son would have to be elected to
county council for three years and
then try for the position,,
If he or she was not elected, it
would be another three years before
the opportunity arose. Few would be
willing to wait that long, he said.
Warden Ross Livingston, mayor of
Blandford-Blenheim Township and a
tobacco farmer, said he will not seek
re-election as warden in November.
County backs
OCFA opposition
to hydro corridor
Representatives from Oxford
County council have joined the
Oxford County Federation of
Agriculture (OCFA) in their
fight to stop the proposed
Ontario Hydro corridor.
Warden Ross Livingston was
among county representatives
who attended a meeting with
federation members to make a
joint effort opposing the
corridor.
Earlier this summer, a joint
hearing board on the proposed
hydro corridor approved a plan
that would put the hydro line
right across Oxford County
'along Highway 401.
OCFA vice-president Fred
Munro said Thursdaythat the
federation's basic objection is
that the route will follow High-
way 401.
The PIan which was approved
.crossed Oxford Countv. he said.
Old jail governor's house
to be razed, contents sold
WOODSTOCK (Bureau) — The old
jail governor's house is to be demol-
ished and its contents — mostly of-
fice furniture — auctioned off next
year, Oxford County councll decided
Wednesday.
All but two councillors voted to de-
molish the house and sell old furni-
ture stored in both the jail and the
house adjoining the jail wall. Both
buildings have been closed for five
years.
County clerk Harold Walls told
council a provincial job -creation
grant wtll pay for labor costs In dis-
mantling the house. But demolition
equipment costs will have to be
borne by the county's public works
department.
Voting against the motion, were
Woodstock Mayor Wendy Calder and
Aid. Philip Poole. "We're silly
knocking down a good solid brick
building," Poole told council before
the vote. "It's not an eyesore."
After the meeting, Calder agreed.
"I just hate to see anything torn
down because I know you can do
wonderful things with renovation
these days."
But county engineering director
Donald Pratt said later it "would
70 injured as Via,
cost a lot of money to make anything
out of it" because the roof leaks
badly and the house has been with-
out heat since the jail closed in 1977.
The $121,875 make-work grant
from the province will hire up to
four unemployed workers to demol-
ish the house this fall, saving the
yellow bricks to renovate the jail
wall and possibly the jail itself,
Walls said.
The auctions should be held by the
spring of next year and unsold furni-
ture could be stored in one of the
jail's four wings, Aid. Joe Pember
said. He suggested county council
consider renovating the jail as a pos-
sible tourist attraction.
Calder said she was in the house,
built In the mid-1850s, on Tuesday
and saw some "beautiful" wooden
bookcases and cabinets stored there.
"Some of the pieces in there could
be very valuable."
Walls said representatives from
local museums had already been in-
vited to search the house for items
of possible historical interest.
freight meet on
same (rack
Shaken passengers were thrown from their seats and
August 10, 1982
two freight cars were derailed early Tuesday when a Via Rail passenger train
collided with a CN freight at Ingersoll.
but it was not until after the
hearing pprocess that Ontario
Hydro u tested the hydro lines
woWd follow HI wsy 401.
The proposed route means
that 25 per cent more land In
Oxford County will be affected
by the corridor, he said. In the
original plan, the hydro corridor
crossed Oxford County at the
southern end.
CUTS DIAGONALLY
The OCFA also objects to the
fact that the Highway 401 route
cuts across Oxford farmland
diagonally. In the original plan,
the corridor made a cut from
east to wet, which could be
placed along the back of farm
property, Munro said.
Livingston said the county
planning department will draft a
letter to be sent to the Ontario
government expressing the
county's and the OCFA's
dissaproval of the plan.
The next meeting is ten-
tatively scheduled for Sept. 7.
C]
Computerized land registry system
to cut down mounds of paper work
WOODSTOCK (Bureau) — The on-
erous task of hunting through
mounds of paper for property titles
and land surveys will be simplified
when Ontario's first computerized
land registry system is implemented
here.
The Woodstock registry office was
chosen over about five others in On-
tario for a pilot project in which doc-
uments will be recorded on a com-
puter.
Ray Scott, manager of surveys for
the project being launched by the
Ontario consumer and commercial
relations ministry, says Woodstock
was selected for several reasons.
"We developed criteria for picking
an office based mainly on the state
of the records in the office," he said.
"We wanted to avoid a lot of prob-
lems caused because records are not
In good shape." Woodstock's records
are clearly defined.
The city is relatively close to To-
ronto for about 25 project workers
who will travel here. "We didn't
want to start in Toronto because of
its size."
Anyone seeking information on a
property will simply locate the site
on a map and punch an Identifica-
tion number into the computer,
which will locate the data and dis-
play it on a screen. Information can
also be quickly obtained by punching
in street addresses, owners' names
or assessment numbers.
"it will certainly make it a lot
easier. Now, you have to know the
lot and plan number, or the lot and
concessions," Scott 'said. Some pa-
per documents will be recorded on
microfilm, which can be photoe
pled, reducing storage and handling
problems.
Scott said maps used to locate
properties are being put together for
the first time to facilitate title
searching and surveying. Eventu-
ally, the government hopes to map
out the whole province.
The project was developed an pa-
per in 1978 but cost of the prototype
has not been determined. The sys-
tem, to go into operation April 1, will
be duplicated across Ontario, if ,u�
cessful.
August Two lma'1or Canadian banks
trim home mortgage rates
Wire services
TORONTO — Two major chartered
banks announced cuts in mortgage rates
Tuesday, reflecting declining interest
rates in Canada and the U.S.
The Bank of Nova Scotia cut its one-
year NHA and conventional mortgage
rate by a full percentage point to 17.5 per
cent, the lowest since last November.
The bank also trimmed its two-year
and three-year rates by half a percent-
age point to 18.5 per cent and 18.75 per
cent respectively.
The Toronto Dominion Bank cut its
one-year rate to 17.75 per cent, down
three-quarters of a percentage point.
Two-year and three-year rates were cut
to 18.25 per cent and 18.5 per cent respec-
tively, down half a percentage point.
All the changes are effective today.
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Fall layoff of 100
at Canada Cement
There was more bad news for about 100 employees of
Canada Cement Lafarge Ltd. Friday.
Seven weeks after they were called back from a six -week
layoff, the employees were told they would be laid off again in
October, this time for three to four months.
The depressed construction industry has resulted in a lower
demand for cement, according to plant manager Andrew
Robb. Since the plant is sitting on a full inventory, it is dif-
ficult to predict how long the shutdown will last.
The plant amploys 124 permanent hourly paid staff and
about 30 other employees.
Some of the office employees could be affected by the
shutdown, once they finish processing the laid off workers'
unemployment papers.
A skeleton staff of maintenance workers and shippers is
expected to remain at the plant.
75 Daths
DICK — Helen, (Winfield) at
the Woodstock General
Hospital on the 17th of August,
1982. She is survived by her
husband, Judge Kenneth Y.
Dick, by her son, Kenneth W.
Dick of Guelph, by her
daughter, Sally Orviss, for-
merly of Winnipeg and now of
Toronto, by five grand-
children and by her brother,
Gordon M. Winfield of Barry.
The body was cremated. A
memorial service will be held
at Knox Presbyterian Church,
Woodstock on Monday the
23rd of August at 2:30 p.m.
Friends could donate to thew
favorite charity.
Geologists testify at hearing
Avenues from Salford
may lead to
By LIND.A HULME
Sentinel -Review staff writer
SALFORD — Several geological features
found at the proposed Salford landfill site
could create avenues for contaminants to
spread into sand layers which may conduct
them to residential water wells, two
geologists told a provincial hearing, Thur-
sday.
Dr, Alexsis Dreimanis, a world authority
on geology related to the ice age, and David
Sharpe, an expert geologist in the same field,
testified before a provincial board hearing
evidence on the environmental safety of the
Salford site.
The two geologists supplied the board with
several examples of geological formations
which leave the safety of the site questionable
in their minds.
They are presenting an opposing view to
evidence presented by Andrew Cooper of
Gartner -Lee Associates, an Oxford County
witness who testified the site was geologically
compatible with landfill operations.
After scrutinizing soil samples, water well
records, geological maps, and viewing the
site and surrounding area, Dr. Dreimanis and
Sharpe found the presence of at least three
drumlins (elongated hills formed by glaciers
which may contain sand and gravel).
SOFT, SANDY MATERIAL
The core of these hills could be "soft, sandy
porous material' which could compplicate
cttempts to keep the contaminants at ltte site
ontained, said Sharpe.
To make matters worse, the geologists are
speculating on the presence of "buried"
drumlins, which are older formations
covered up by newer soils.
"The (proposed) excavation at the site
seems to cut across the drumlins identified at
the site," said Sharpe.
Dr. Dreimanis confirmed Sharpe's ex-
planations, adding the concern in this case is
well water
the relationship of the drumlins to a soil layer
they believe is more permeable than the
county experts concluded.
He noted the county experts didn't even
mention the presence of drumlins in their
report.
They're (drumlins') portrayal from test
drillings are always oversimplified and
natural cuts are necessary to fully appreciate
their complexity," said Dr. Dreimanis.
Kettles, geological features formed when a
block of ice from a glacier gets buried under
soil and later melts, are also present at the
site, the two geologists said.
DIRECT ACCESS
Sharpe said when the ice melts, sediment
usually fills in the depression, sometimes
making it level with surface topography.
The sediment, more permeable material
than the surrounding soils, provide direct i
access to lower soil layers since the top layer
is not found underneath the kettle formation.
At the Salford site, the sediment may link
up directly with the permeable soil layer
described in previous evidence by the
geologists.
Kettles and drumlins provide uncertainties
as to the safety of the site, Sharpe concluded.
"We have the potential in these two in.
stances of migration of fluids to more per-
meable beds," he said.
The geologists also believe landfill ex-
cavations may cause a fracturing of the
clayey soils they will be digging into. The
very top layer of the site is fractured (broken
up, nut solid) anyway, and if this is removed,
it may cause the lower unfractured lavers to
start breaking up also.
The cracks could also provide avenues for
contaminant migration into lower, more
permeable soils, they said.
Dr. Dreimanis and Sharpe will conclude
their evidence on the site's unsuitability
today.
Oxford to seek status
for industry, labor aid
By Lulsa D'Amato
Woodstock Bureau
WOODSTOCK — Politicians from
all over Oxford County announced
Thursday they will start lobbying to
have the county made eligible for a
k-deral aid -to -industry program that
,add bring the area up to 758 jobs
;nod more than $23 million.
The mayors of Woodstock, Inger-
soil and Tillsonburg, county warden
Ross Livingston and MP Brace Hal-
liday (PC — Oxford) all voiced their
support for seeking funds from the
S390-million federal industry and la-
bor adjustment program (ILAP).
"It is our feeling there should be a
delegation (to) go down" and per-
suade the federal enterprise devel-
opnio4t board to designate the area,
Halliday said.
t.'nder the program, manufaetur-
and processing firms in a desig-
:ted area that want to expand can
ccive interest -Free loans covering
up to half of most capital costs. Em-
ployers who create new jobs or train
workers in trade skills can also qual-
ify for wage subsidy payments.
Woodstock development com-
missioner Paul Plant said he thinks
the area has a good chance of being
designated because the enterprise
development board considers job
loss figures as well as registered un-
employment.
The county has lost nearly 37 per
cent of Its manufacturing and pro-
cessing jobs (4,507 of 12.252 jobs) in
the past three years, he said.
Registered unemployment in the
county is 17.1 per cent, Plant added.
And 423 employees in the county
are "under -employed" — on three -
or four -day work weeks, Plant said.
That figure is expected to rise to 869
— more than double — next month,
he added.
Livingston warned the unemploy-
ment figures "will probably get
worse in the next few weeks" be-
cause seasonal work on area farms
ends next month.
Renovations
are coming in
below budget
Renovations to the county
court house are continuing to
run under budget.
A break down of renovation
costs presented to the county
public works committee
Thursday showed this year's
costs are nearly $90,990 below
the budgeted amount.
From Jan. 1 to Aug. 12 1982,
the county had budgeted
$M,000. Of this, $132,882 was
actually spent.
Renovations that fell short of
the budget expectations in-
cluded the elevator and
remodeling of the ground floor
offices.
Other costs, including electric
and telephone service updates
and completion of the west half
of the ground floor renovations,
were slightly above budget.
Renovations completed in 1961
also fell short of the budget
expectations, but not by as much
as this year's.
Electrical and telephone
updating also cost more last
year than was expected.
But other items, such as
heatina and air conditioning
Woodstock mayor Wendy Calder
said industries in the city were sur-
veyed and 22 per cent of firms said
they would participate In the pro-
gram if the area were designated,
Assuming that the same percent-
age of firms in Tillsonburg and In-
gersoll were to agree, it would cre-
ate or save up to 7.58 jobs and bring
an estimated $23,560,000 in private
and government funds to the three
urban areas alone, she said.
Calder, added there would be a
"spinoff" effect from the jobs saved
and created that would stimulate the
area's economy.
Plant said it makes sense for the
county to seek the funds as one area
because "the communities are very,
very interdependent." People tend
to live in one town and travel to
work to another within the county,
he said.
Windsor, Chatham, Brantford, and
Kitchener -Waterloo are among 10
areas already designated in the
country. Windsor has received $20
million in grants and interest -free
loans to industry and $4 million for
labor programs that could create 1,-
too jobs.
Last week, Woodstock, Tiilsonburg
and Ingersoll councils all endorsed
seeking funds under the program.
Livingston said he has spoken with
all the rural mayors and they en-
dorse the move.
Plant said it will be at least three
months before the board, made up of
five cabinet ministers, makes a deci-
sion.
PUBLIC OPEN HOUSE
The Corporation of the County of Oxford owns
850 acres of forest land which is managed by the
Ministry of Natural Resources,
The Aylmer District of the Ministry of Natural
Resources is currently preparing plans for
managing these forest properties. The plans
outline prescriptions for forest management,
wildlife management and recreational oppor-
tunities.
You are invited to attend and discuss your
ideas concerning the management of these local
resources.
DATE: Wednesday, September 1, 1982
TIME: 3:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
PLACE: Oxford Museum (Old Town Hall)
City Square
Woodstock, Ontario
$4-million rural saving
Saturday mail Scrubbed
By Anne Murphy
of The Free Press
rebuilding of washrooms, and
Saturday rural mail delivery in
removal of the old heating
Ontario and several other provinces
system were less expensive than
will be cancelled after Aug, 28, a
forecast.
move which will affect about 12o,0o0
households in Southwestern Ontario,
MISLEADING
a Canada Post spokesman said Fri -
In total, $484,900 was budgeted
day.
for renovations last year, and
Tom Dalby, manager of public af-
$%7,710 was spent,
Committee chairman Joe
fairs for the crown con oration's
p
Pember said the costs are
Southwestern Ontario district, said
misleading because much of the
Canada Post expects to save $4 mil -
lion
work would have to be done
a year — $750,000 in this area.
whether the court house was
The corporation's deficit in 108i
renovated or not.
was more than $600 million,
Such things as heating,
The only province lu get a reprieve
-.,
electrical and telephone up-
was Prince Edward Island, where
dating were In need of repair,
six -day service will continue for an•
and have been included in
: ,, Cher six months, he said. uebe.c's
renovation costa as part of the
overall package, he said.
alurday rural deliver was can
But county engineer Don
'-fled ,June 5 and Manitoba has nut
Pratt, who worked out the
A Saturday rural delivery for
figures estimated the actual
'tr'time.
renovation costs have amounted
to about $19.50 per square font
.for an area of about 6,900 square
feet.
This compares with a much
earlier tslimate of about $45 a
square Oxa Pember said.
The breakdown of costs was
prepared at the request of
Ingersoll Mayor Doug Harris.
It will be presented for county
council's information at their
next meeting.
Rural route reprieve
makes change easier
The announcement by Canada delivery."
Past this week that it has given ,Canada Post said last week it
Saturday rural mail delivery a intended to cancel Saturday
one -month reprieve came as rural mail delivery Aug. 26 in an
little surprise to Woodstock effort to reduce the car -
Postmaster Bob Doyle. poration's $660 million deficit.
Doyle said he didn't think Savings are estimated at $4
Canada Post had given enough million annually across the
lead time to its affected country, $750,000 in the south -
customers to make alternative western Ontario district.
delivery arrangements. Seven rural routes setved by
"The extension will to good the Woodstock Post Office
for everyone," he said, "par- representing approximately
ticularly the newspaper 4,500 residences in Oxford
business, which will have to find County will be without Saturday
an alternative form of mail delivery.
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Traffic hazard...
A deterrent
The Doily Sentinel Review, Tues., Aug. 31, 1982 Page 3
_prime land
Public condemns Salford site
Indecision over site
discouraging industry
SALFORD — The in-
decision surrounding the
establishment of a landfill
site in Oxford County could
be acting as a deterrent for
potential industries which
could locate in Woodstock
and area, and some present
industries are having second
thoughts about expanding,
said Paul Plant, Woodstock's
development commissioner,
Monday.
Plant, along with hundreds
of Salford area residents and
represenlatvies of county
organizations, attended a
public participation day
before the provincial board
hearing evidence on
suitability of the Salford
landfill site.
Plant said he wasn't there
to criticize the site or to hail
it, and admitted he had never
attended the daily
proceedings in Salford.
But he was there to plea for
a quick decision on the
Salford site, asking the board
to keep in mind the present
and prospective labor force
which is dependent on firms
needing adequate waste
disposal.
I'm aware of the concerns
of existing manufacturers,"
he said. - Industry is very
concerned as to the long term
availability fof a waste
disposal facility)".
Citizens group
cites deception
in chosing site
Salford site hearing
goes public Monogy
Augus 1982
SALFORD — The general public will have a chance to let their
views about the proposed Salford landfill site be heard this
Monday by a provincial hearing board.
The board has set aside Aug. 30 as Public Day, when anyone
who has a. specific view on whether the landfill site should be
placed there or not can say so.
Briefs will be heard by individuals and organizations from 11
a.m. until a supper break, then from 7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m., and H
they haven't been completed by then, the rest will be heard on
Tuesday.
The Doily Sentinel -Review -Wed., Sept. 1, 1982 Page 9
Drainage concerns raised
Residents harangue
Salford site again
By LINDA HULME
Sentinel -Review staff writer
SALFORD — For the second
day this week at the en-
vironmental hearing on the
Safford landfill site, resident
after resident recited a litany of
complaints and fears about the
proposed operation to try to stop
it.
The public participation part
of the hearing concluded
Tuesday, but not before more
than 40 Salford area residents
asked the provincial hearing
board to turn down the site
proposed only a half tittle from
the village.
While all feared con -
lamination of their water
supplies and several were upset
about the potential traffic
hazard garbage trucks in the
area may create, a variety of
other issues arose.
The effect on drainage con-
cerned several farmers in the
area who are served by the
municipal drains running
through the site. The site design
includes the alteration of a
couple of major drains. The hill
of garbage and dirt will increase
the rate of runoff, thus in-
creasing flood potential.
While Oxford County experts
said no slgnlficanl changes in
runoff and flooding would be.
experienced, two farmers
downstream of one drain
thought otherwise.
BAD ENOUGH NOW
Ralph Anscombe and Roger
Nagle, living southwest of the
site, say the amount of water
coming onto their farms from
this drain is bad enough without
adding more.
Anscombe said one of the
ponds proposed by the experts to
collect excess water will fill
quickly and overnow onto his
property.
He also spoke of a sand deposit
on his property which abuts the
site, fearing contaminated
water from the site will flow
underground onto his property
through this sand and pollute his
wells.
"1'm afraid we're going to get
contamination there, that's for
sure," he said.
Nagle said he already has
trouble clearing debris brought
down from the drain and doesn't
need anymore worries.
"When you see the amount of
wash that will flood from only a
two day rain here. -The debris
now clogs upculverls, and that's
with the stuff that's there now,"
said Nagle.
Solicitor instructed
to prepare for
Holbrook hearings
Norwich Township the site are November 17-
council passed a motion at 19, November !4-26 and
its last meeting to November 29-December 3.
authorize its solicitors 3.
from Vaugh Willms to
prepare for attendance at
the upcoming Holbrook
landfill site hearing on the
township's behalf.
The dates tentatively set
aside for the en-
vironmental protection act
hearing into the safety of
I
The Canadian En-
vironmental Law
Association, acting on
behalf of the Holbrook
Concerned Citizens Group,
has requested the hearings
ba held at the Norwich
Community Centre-
The Oxford County Board of Education and its Secondary School
Teachers have had approximately 25 negotiating meetings since June
1981, in attempting to reach an agreement for the 1981-82 school year.
During these protracted negotiations, there has been considerable
discussion and examination of all issues in dispute. On June 23, 1982,
the Board tabled a final offer. The nine issues in dispute are all
monetary issues and the Board has made offers on six of the issues.
The Board's offer on salary, allowances and benefits amounts to a
13.4% increase while the Teachers are requesting an increase of
17.1%.
• The Board's offer to reduce the Pupil -Teacher Ratio for the 1982-83
school year ensured that no teacher employed in the 1981-82 school
year would be laid off.
• The Board's offer on salaries would place the maximum salary among
the highest paid by County Boards in South Western Ontario.
County Board of Education
1981-82 Maximum Salary for Teachers
(includes Cost of Living Adjustments
where applicable)
OXFORD COUNTY - BOARD OFFER.
_ $36,450
Brant........ ....
35,550
Bruce__ _ _ .........................
_ _ _.. _ $35,898
Elgin _ _..........:...................
_ _ $36,000
Essex _ _ _ ........__
_.. .. .$36,250
Grey
$36,945
Huron. _..............._..............
_ _ $ 36,310
Kent __ _...,..
_ __..... ..$36,360
Lambton _ _ _
_ _ ... $36,132
Middlesex. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ .. $36,050
Norfolk. _
__. _ ..___. __..$37,075
Perth _ _
_ $36,286
Waterloo _ _ _.__
__.. $37,280
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Hearing date set
for Holbrook site
A provincial environmental assessment board hearing into the
proppo�Acrl Holbnrok landfill site will begin Nov- 17.
TFle dale was announced Tuesday by Oxford MPP Dick
Treleaven at Salford, where an environmental hearing into the
suitability of the site is taking place.
And the date was confirmed by the environmental assessment
board in Toronto Tuesday afternoon.
Six days have beemset aside in November for the hearing, but
so far the location where the hearing will take place has not. been
announced, although an official said it may be held in Norwich.
Prior to the hearing, advertisements will be placed in local
newspapers informing interested citizens of the hearing, to allow
them time to prepare any submissions they might wish to make.
The hearing will study the feasibility of Oxford County's
contingency plan to keep. the site open for another two years. The
county is proposing to pile to garbage to a peak to increase water
runoff and lessen letachate production.
The Ontario Ministry of Environment (MOE) has endorsed the
proposal in principle.
Opposing the county are Norwich Township and the Holbrook
Concerned Citizens as represented by the Canadian Environ-
mental Law Association (CELA). CELA is a non-profit group
lending legal assistance to citizens groups and individuals.
Landfill contract let
WOODSTOCK (Bureau) — Oxford Coun-
ty council decided Wednesday to award a
$68„310 contract to P. F. Cunningham. an
equipment operator from New Dundee, to
operate the Blandford-Blenheim landfill
site for two years. The site, which also
serves East Zorra-Tavistock Township,
has been under county jurisdiction since
last year.
Garbage
debate
nears end
SALFORD — The great
debate is almost over.
The environmental hearing
into the Salford landfill site
'adjourned, Wednesday, to
resume Oct. 12at 11 a.m. when
lawyers. for Oxford County and
South-West Oxford Township
will argue their cases before a
provincial hearing board.
Evidence on the site con-
cluded yesterday after 50 days
of testimony by several experts
recommending or condemning
the site for various reasons.
When the hearing resumes
next mouth, the lawyers will
summarize the evidence in a
last ditch effort to try to con-
vince the board which way to go
on the site. The township wants
the site turned down, while the
county will argue for its ap-
proval.
The Salford Concerned
Citizens, the Oxford Federation
of Agriculture, and the Safford
Women's Institute have the
option to present arguments as
hearing participants as well.
Once an the arguments have
been heard, the board will then
have to consider more than 200
exhibits, including reports,
diagrams, and citizens' briefs,
j in snaking their final decision,
likely the greatest debate of an.
Population 24,625,000
OTTAWA (UPC) — Canada's population in
3uly totalled an estimated 34,625,000, Statisycs
Canada reported FridaySeptember 11/82
Ontario had the largest population of any prov-
ince with 8,706,500 and Quebec had the second
largest with 6,472,700.
Third largest population was in British Colum-
bia with 2,785,900, Alberta ranking fourth with
2,320,100 and Manitoba fifth with 1,036,800.
StatsCan showed Saskatchewan with a popula.
tion of 9Q.500a Nova Scotla, 853,700; New Brans -
wick. 701,iloo; Newfoundland, 571,700; Prince
Edward island, t'-20,900; the NorthwtnsI Territur-
ios, 46,700 and Yukon, 23,700.
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'Last attempt'
Oxford backed in hydro line fight
t16,0R11JISDA'K IRurt; — Itepresenta-
Iiw,, from lour nuuticipaIilies will join Ox-
Du-d Couni> m it "last attempt" to/fight a
prt mo,ed Ontario Hydro power line route
i(tin, 3linnn hi i.undon, the Oxford Count),
l odorulion )I .\,gricuhurc was told Tues-
&IN nip,hl.
Pt-det [lion pmsident Albert Rutherford
of lilt 8, I mbru, said representatives from
Ilalintand,Norfolk, Halton, Waterloo and
ItAgin federations of agriculture have
agreed to lobby the propvincial cabinet It)
eann4 the. proposed rotnle.
Tien heavy Ontario Hydra power lines,
FALLING DOWN
Some (un)construction workers of the building was reduced to
had at the Turnkey's residence rubble.
near the jail Thursday, and most (Staff photo by Dave Dorken)
High price
The bill may run somewhere
between $6,000 and f8,0W for the
demolition of the former Oxford
County jail governor's house.
Man and machine power
doesn't come cheaply these
days.
But a former county clerk -
treasurer put the prices into a
somewhat different perspective.
Len Coles, who held the
position from 1942 through 1970,
told The Sentinel -Review that
when the house was built in I697,
it cost a staggering $M,10.
Labor included. -
probably following Highway 101, are .dated
to provide London with more electrical ,
ppotwer by 19gM. But local farmers say the
Tines— and 39-metre (1211-toot) towers that
hold them — will reduce property values
and waste prime agricultural land.
A provincially appointed commission ap-
proved the route earlier this year. Only the
provincial cabinet can overturn its decf-
sion. Rutherford said.
-Thi, is our last attempt now too Over-
throw the decision," said Rutherford. He
added there are two other routes available.
one running to London from a power station
In Nanticoke and one running south from
the Bruce power plant.
Rutherford added that the strip of farm-
land in Southwestern Ontario running from
Niagara to Chatham "is 83 percent Class 1
agricultural laud, and shouldn't be dis-
rupted by power line construction.
lie said land on which towers are built
dro s in value by about 10 per cent, and
Oxford County has "well over double" the
amount of power lineage of any other coun-
ty in Ontario.
Rutherford told the federation tha, repre-
sentatives of counties to the north, such as
Huron and Bruce, had successfully lobbied
against power lines running through that
land during the commission's hearings ear-
lier this year. "The north fought very hard
and ver4 efficiently at the hearings. We
didn't in the south, and we got the lines." t
Tatham may urge
county to hire
its own lawyer
With Oxford County legal fees
continuing to skyrocket each
year, the county may be able to
save money by hiring a county
lawyer on staff, Court. Charlie
Tatham told the county planning
committee Thursday.
Tatham who said Thursday he
is concerned about climbing
legal costs will ask for a report
on all county legal fees at the
next county council meeting. On
the basis of that report, he said,
councillors may find ways of
cutting down on costs.
One of the suggestions that
came up several years ago, he
said, was for the county to hire
its own legal advisor. But
Tatham said the feasibility of a
county -employed soliciter can
be decided when councillors see
where money is being spent and
why.
"A few years ago there was
some discussion about the
county having a legal depart-
ment if the costs justified it. I'm
wondering now if it hasn't gone
far enough that we should look
into it again."
Warden Ross Livingston said
it will be difficult for county
councillors to get a true picture
of legal costs because of the
environmental hearing this
year.
OUT OF WRACK
"(The environmental
assessment hearing) throws our
legal costs completely out of
whack," Livingston said.
"I hope we won't have to
spend this much again in future
years."
But Tatham said the necessity
for environmental assessments
before roads can go in is also
adding a large chunk to legal
fees, which will not change in
the next few years.
County planner Peter
Ateheson said it was suggestel
to the county several years ago
that a soliciter could be hired for
the county and all municipalities
to share, but it was not thought
at the time that costs justified
hiring a lawyer.
The county currently employs
several different soliciters as do
each of the municipalities.. he
said.
Tatham, who asked for a
resolution from the planning
committee, agreed to bring the
matter before county council
this month.
Blues Chaser
The government has a lot of things to
be thankful for — among them that
WO have what it takes.
Shortened term for warden
doesn't wash with Bennett
WOODS-I,o 1K (Bureau)— Municipal Al-
iairs Minister Claude Bennett doesn't
-wren with Oxford County's proposal to
,.horten the county warden's term to one or
i too years hlslead of three, Warden Ross
l.,mogston said Friday.
Livingston said Bennett was reluctant at
a meeting earlier this week to allow the
counU to decide on the length of the war•
den•a term.
UvAer provin, aI legislation passed in the
Unemployment,
spring, the warden's term will be length-
ened to three years along with thoseof
councillors. Terms were previously for two
years,
But Livingston, who has been warden for
two ,years and says he won't run again for
the position this fall, said a three-year war.
den's ,job Is "heavy" and makes It difficult
to continue with a regWor job. Ile added
that the warden's salary — about sw.000 a
year phis expense•%-- Isn't enough to allow
The situation is grim
and expected to get worse
the warden Ut Rive up a reguhir ,iole
Livingston said Bennett thinks a war
-
deitn's terns should he as long as couhrillors'
to ensure continuity of county policy,
But he offered a compromise wetution, if
the county agrees, which would be to
amend legislation to allow council to re-
affirm the warden each year of the I.hree
Year term. County council will di%v".%s ih.;,
Option, which would allow a warden n:
leave after one or two �yyears, this fall
Courtly clerk -HaIold-CIN said rtx(nr i
County is unique among counties in Omar-
io, with county government having more
responsibility than other counties, .such as
Elgin and Middlesex, but he s than regional
municipalities. The warden of Oxford
C'omnc has a three year term. but in other
counties, ee ardrnti ,art(, only onv year
Sharp cutback likely,
municipalities told.
By Nick Martin
Toronto Bureau
TORONTO — Municipalities have pro-
grams which can be eliminated and they
had better start identifying and dropping
those programs before setting their 1983
budgets, Municipal Affairs Minister Claude
Bennett declared Thursday.
Bennett again told the legislature there is
no guarantee that municipalities will re-
ceive any increase in their subsidies from
the province next year. "Any increase
would be very marginal, if .any."
Fear mounts
UI benefits
may run out
Vic Gaskin of Woodstock's
Canada Employment Centre
is among those beginning to
be concerned that unem-
ployment benefits are going
to start running out.
Gaskin said there are a
number of local workers who
will complete their one-year
limit on Ul benefits this
winter and if no special
legislation is passed, that
will put a strain on local
welfare rolls.
Oxford County is not alone
in this problem, however,
and the federal government
has been meeting during the
past few weeks to discuss the
DDoesibility of extending
tmrnefits In some form, he
said. Gaskin said an an-
nouncement on the matter is
expected within the, next few
weeks,
And Mining said Oxford
County as being hit with a
double whammy" this fall,
because of record low
agriculture prices at the
same time the Industrial
sector is sufferina.
-worry starts—
Milling who is based in
London said he drove
through Oxford County last
week on a routine check.
"I can't, believe the
countryside looks so good
when the ecmomy is so
bad."
Half -million workers
get restraint slip
By THE CANADIAN PRESS
TORONTO — Ontario slipped a restraint
notice into the wallets of at least half a million
public employees Tuesday, introducing
special legislation that puts a five -per -cent
cap on wage increases for teachers, gar-
bagemen, nurses and scores of other public -
sector workers.
The Progressive Conservative govern-
ment's long-awaited plan also clamps a ban on
wage -related strikes in the public sector for
the duration of the program, which runs from
Oct. 1 through Sept. 30, 1983.
VIVO` r along legitimate costs, in-
terest, depreciation and
taxes.
2 Criticism of the plan began
n " Ew , to mount before Premier
William Davis finished
outlining it in a special
e t; ,,3 session of the legislature,
recalled three weeks early to
deal with economic problems
' plaguing the province.
PROTEST PACKAGE
More than 700 demon-
; - stralors, mostly members of
BILL DAVIS
—unveiling-
As well, it attempts to
Place a five -percent limit on
price increases -- ranging
from bus fares to hydro rates
— charged byy provincially
regulated bodies. However,
ppnee increases exceedingg
Llist limit may he allowed if
the applicant is passing
the Ontario Public Service
Employees' Union and
among the 75,W0 employed
directly by the province,
were angrily protesting the
package an hour before
Davis had unveiled it.
Three hours later, about
600 teachers from across the
province were clamting their
opposition to it. In between,
an effigy of Davis was
burned and firemen were
called to extinguish a
placard -fueled bonfire on the
steps of the legislature.
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Teachers to strike till word is clear
BLUES CHASER
Put all your money Into taxes. It's the only
thing xure to .5'eo up.
4
1982
INTERNATIONAL
PL4WINO MAtcN
C.
Alan Scott's property near Lucan is the site of the tent city for the 1982 International Plowina Match.
BLUES CHASER
tt'ho ,says MPs spend money like drunken
,afl0rs7 Sailors spend their own rnwhT.
Until at least Monday
it'll be work -to -rule
By SENTINEL. REVIEW STAFF WRITERS
Oxford County's 342 secondary school teachers
will continue to maintain strike sanctions im-
plemented Wednesday until the provincial
government's latest wage restraint program is
fully clarified.
Teachers, who withdrew their services
Tuesday, will maintain working a reduced school
day until at least Monday, says Ron Cougler,
president of the Oxford teachers federation.
It's only fitting
The Daily Sentinel -Review, Fri., Oct. 1, 1982 Page 3
First Agri -food week declared
in heart of Ontario's farmland
By LINDA HVLME
Bmdad•Review staff writer
With Oxford County's total
1981 farm production sales
totalling $250 million from its
2,724 farms, it's only fitting the
first Agri -Food Week be of-
ficially proclaimed here for Oct.
4 to Oct. 10,
The week, proclaimed by
county Warden Ross Livingston
Thursday, recognizes the food
production chain, from farm to
fridge and every processor in
between which makes it possible
for Canadians to have ample
food on the table.
It's the first year anything like
this has been held, said Graham
Hart, past president of the
Oxford County Federation of
Agriculture (OCFA).
A host program, where far.
mers open their doors to their
urban neighbors to view
operations, is the main event of
the Agri -Food Week, he said.
Several farmers in oxford will
have Agri -Food Host signs
placed on thew properties for
easy identification. Hart said
people should feel free to go in
and ask farmers questions about
their operations -
A special day will be held at
Don Kam's farm, on the Bower
Hill Road just south of Wood-
stock, between 8 p.m. and 6 p.m.
Oct. 9. The large holstein
operation will be open for
viewing during milking and
Oxford County Junior Farmers
will be on hand to show people
around, he said.
"We've chosen dairy because
it's the major Oxford County
farming activity," said Hart..
And large it is.
Oxford's 19B1 shipments of
milk totalled 165,474,000 litres.
This amount could satisfy
county residents' needs for the
next 47 years.
But dairy farming isn't all
Oxford has to be proud of.
The annual pork production
would meet the requirements of
Woodstock residents for the next
20 years, and 900 million pounds
of corn was produced last year.
Other field crops, fruit,
vegetables and livestock are
also part of the food production
composition in the county.
Livingston cited agriculture
as the "mainstay" of Oxford's
economic activity.
"Being a good, solid
agricultural community, it's
stabilizing the area," he said.
GRAHAM HART
—first time—
"We (farmers) have problems
too, but it does help."
Local Ontario Ministry of
Agriculture and Food (OMAF)
representative Cliff Matthews
said a lot of people lake food
production for granted. Far-
mmg not only has a large effect
on the economy, but it affects
our lifestyle.
"I think we're all pretty guilty
of taking everything for gran-
ted," said Matthews. "This is
one of the reasons why we're
trying to focus on this."
OMAF has adopted Agri -Food
Week and is advertising the
province's agricultural sect as
the'110 billion industry".
The campaign will spread
across all provinces, and if it's
successful, it will become an
annual event.
Blues Chaser
Success formula: Think up a product
that costs a dime to make, sells for a
dollar and is habit forming.
0
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ROSS LIVINGTSON
—recognition— .
First Canadian conquers Mount Everest
Welfare rise
brings bid
for new staff
By Denyse Lanouette
Woodstock Bureau
W'OODSTOCK (Bureau) — Oxford Coun-
ty needs another social worker to help cope
with the increasing number of welfare
cases caused by layoffs and chronic
unemployment.
The county's health and social services
committee decided Tuesday to ask county
council for permission to hire another
worker after the administrator for Oxford's
social services, Gerry MacKay, said the
county could be faced with more than 900
caseloads as jobless workers run out of
unemployment insurance benefits and turn
to the county for help.
MacKay said the county was handling 7a5
general welfare assistance cases as orSeP�t1
30 this year, compared with 494 cases ftlr
the same time fit 1981. The number of cases
has continued to rise this month, he said -
The number of requests for assistance is
also up — 580 countywide in September,
compared with 402 in September, 1981. The
heaviest demand was In Woodstock, where
requests jumped to 225 in September from
169. Tillsonburg was next, with 153 re-
quests, up from 99, while Ingersoll had 75
requests, up from 47. The rest came from
the rural areas.
MacKay said the province is willing to
provide money to hire another worker u1
handle the increased case load on a Iempo-
rary basis.
But MacKay told the com ittee the "real
brunt" of cases will probably be in January
and February as more laid -off workers run
out of unemployment Insurance benefits.
F'fgures released In August show regls-
tored unemployment in the county was at
17.1 per cent wblle 425 employees In Oxford
wets underemployed nn three- or four -clay
work weeks.
Everest conquest
First Canadian plants flag
atop world's highest peak
LAURIE SKRESLET
- - - record climb
After
50 days,
end
in sight
SALFORD — The Salford
landfill site environmental
hearing resumed today, as its
nears a conclusion after 50 days
of testimony.
This week lawyers for Oxford
County and South-West Oxford
Township will have the four to
themselves before a provincial
consolidated hearing board to
summarize and argue their
eases. County lawyer Tom
Lederer will be arguing for the
establishment of the site while
David Estrin and Stephen
Garrod of the township will urge
the board to turn the cvnmty's
application down.
Once the lawyers have con-
cluded their arguments, board
members John Wheler of the
Ontario Municipal Board and
Michael Jeffery of the
Environmental Assessment
Board will make a decision.
Their deefaion will likely be
announced in several weeks.
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Oxford has a new Dairy Princess. na Howley, Ontario Dairy Prin-
Sharon Nickolas, of RR. 1, cess.
Tavistock, was crowned by Glen- (Staff photo)
Oxford retreats
on Ingersoll
street widening
w OODSTOCK (Bureau) — Oxford Coum
ty council bowed to the wishes of Ingersoll
town council Wednesday and decided not to
widen Charles Street East without consult
ing residents and town officials.
Council rejected a recommendation from
its public works committee to approve a
draft environmental statement for the pro
ject after learning some area residents and
all of Ingersoll town council oppose the $I -
million project to widen the. residential
Street to four lanes between Harris Street
and Halls Creek in Ingersoll. Instead, coun-
eil agreed to delay action until a plan is
drvi.sed which town council and street resi-
dents agree to.
Ve just plain don't want your money.
we are telling you quite politely to take
pour money and do something else with it,"
,did Ingersoll Conn. Jack Warden, also a
,nvinber of county council.
The move would involve cutting down
more than 35 trees on both sides of the
street and would also shorten the front
,girds of :several homes.
Town Court. Robert Ball said the work is
�unneceessarv.because town council has ap-
proved other street projects that will re-
duce traffic on Charle.VStreet East, also
part of Oxford County Road 9.
Ile said the county's traffic projections
for the street do not paint. an accurate pic
tore beLause the town has not grown as fast
;� , expected and that to support the commit-
f�-e's recommendation would be -to vote
.r;oinst a member municipality."
Dianne Elliot, a spokesman for Charles
>a real residents, also told council they ob- .
jetted it) widening the road.
In other business, council agreed to let its
social services department hire a tempi)-
rary field worker to help handle the in-
creasing number of welfare cases.
The administrator for Oxford's social
,ervices, Gerry MacKay, said the county is
handling 881 general welfare assistance
eases, up from 661 cases this time last year.
"if it continues this way we can't get along
without another worker."
Interest rates continue to fall
Oxford residents to be given
chance to air corridor views
TORONTO (Bureau) — There will be as op-
portunity for Oxford County residents to have
input into the actual route of an Ontario Hydro
corridor, Premier William Davis told the legis-
County witnesses virtually unchallenged
SALFORD — Predictions by Oxford County experts of the
effects the Salford landfill site will have wentvirtually un-
challenged by South-West Oxford Township during the en-
vironmental hearing on the site, a hearing board was told
Tuesday.
County solicitor Tom Lederer, in his summation of evidence,
said the board should have faith in the accuracy of evidence
presented by several county experts, contested or uncontested,
He backed what he believes are thorough investigations into the
impact the site may have and suggested there was no better way
anything could have been done.
Experts in ecology, traffic, planning, surface drainage, and
,sound did their best to predict the worst possible situations which
could occur from site operations, he said. The county can't be
accused of underestimating any impacts,
The work by ecologist Denis Stevens was totally unchallenged.
Stevens said the site won't be a detriment to the existing en-
vironment. He noted nothing unique or rare about the site adding
the only woodlotto be removed Ihrough Imldfdling isn't a high
quality one anyway.
The traffic count prodicitions by expert Paul Hill were
generally accepted by both sides, said Lederer.
While the township criticized the sound impact traffic will have
on residences in the village and along Oxford County Road 46,
Lederer said the impact wouldn't be lessened if the site was
located somewhere else.
-'Somewhere in this county it's going to have to be accepted
that trucks are going to carry landfill," he said. "It simply
cannot be avoided."
The county chase highways 401 and 19 as major access routes,
he said, and in doing so, found roads mostsuited to truck traffic,
Only a few homes along County Road 46 not used to truck traffic
will be affected, he said, adding even if the site was on a
provincial highway the trucks couldn't avoid passing through
communities.
From a planning aspect, Peter Martin said the visual and
sound effects will be screened to reduce impact and it shouldn't
have a detrimental effect on Salford residents.
Lederer noted this opinion was alai) uncontested.
Surface drainage impacts from the hill to becreated by the site
were calculated to find out the worse possiblecase, he said. Allan
Mitchell found surrounding lands wit only beslight)qq affected by
an flooding, even though he worked out the possibifilies for a
severe once -a -century storm, not the average rainfall.
The most contested issue, apart from geology and
hydrogeology, was sound impact, but Lederer backed the method
expert vallin Henderson used to determine sound levels.
The on -site sound will be relatively undetected, the moat noise
arising from added traffic, he said.
Henderson was criticized for using an inaccurate method to
determine noise, but Lederer said it predicted higher noise
levels, therefore using the worst case approach,
Lederer added even with the high levels predicted, Hen.
derson'ti findings showed only (our honiea will perceive the added
sound levels, but at peak perioola only.
lature Thursday. But he rejected a plea from
MPP Bob Nixon that a formal heating be held.
Nixon said cabinet's decision two weeks ago to
uphold a joint hearing board's ruling would deny
Oxford residents an opportunity to participate in
discussions of such a corridor which had not
been part of the hearing process.
"It was never brought to the attention of the
people or property owners along that route,"
Nixon said,
The joint hearing board decision, upheld by
cabinet, chose a route along Highway; 401 which
had not been part of the six alternatives put
,forward by Ontario Hydro.
"The community and the people there had no
idea they would be involved," and therefore did
nol take part in the hearings, Nixon said.
Davis cautioned Nixon and the Oxford resi-
dents not to assume the corridor would he along-
side Highway 401, "The initial recommendation
covers a rather wide band," he said, pointing out
the board recommended an area about 16 kilo-
meters wide but only about :-14 metres (1,4)0 feet)
would be needed for the corridor.
County wants
Holbrook hearing
postponed
By LINDA IIULME
Senlisel-Review staff writer
oxford County is seeking an adjournment to the environmental
hearing on the Holbrook landfill site until after a provincial
hearing board's decision on the proposed Salford landfill site is
handed down.
County officials wentto the Environmental Assessment Board
office in Toronto today to try to have the hearing adjourned
hearing indefinitely. It is currently scheduled for Nov. 17.
County and Norwich Township officials will be debating
whether it's feasible for the site to be extended for a two-year
period. The co nty's roposal includes a program for proper
closure of the site, at owing for more water runoff through a
mounding of the landfill rather than leaving its contours flat.
The towliship is opposing the plan, calling for immediate
closure,
"it's our feeling that the whole lone of the Holbrook hearing
will relate directly to the Salford hearing," said county engineer
Don Pratt. "If we have a favorable decision (the site being ap-
proved) then we may not have to pursue the Holbrook hearing
very seriously."
But if the Saiford site is turned down, then Holbrook becomes
more important because the county will need the site for a longer
period while it looks for another permanent landfill site.
"We may even file an application to amend our application to
extend it (Holbrook) for five years instead of two years," he said.
The board's decision on the adjournment will be known later
this week
Klondike sloe
to finally rest
in Woodstock
WOODSTOCK (Bureau) — Klondike Joe
is coming home.
The Joe Boyle repatriation committee
won it's case In an English church court
and will be allowed to bring his remains
back for burial here, Mayor Wendy Calder
said Thursday.
Boyle a flamboyant character noted for
his imvoivement In the Klondike Gold Rush
and the First World War, was born in 1867
in Toronto but spent his youth in Wood-
stock. After attending schools here, he set
sail for India and the Far East.
In 1897, Boyle arrived in the Yukon and
became one of the most famous entrepre-
neur during the gold rush.
When war broke out in 1914, he raised and
equipped a machine-gun contingent for the
Canadian Army, aided the Russians and
Romanians against the Germans and
raised $25 million in aid after the war.
Boyle was buried in IM in Hampton Hill,
England. He was known as the "saviour of
Romania," and on his grave is a 1,000-year-
old cross, placed there by Queen Marie of
Romania, on which was Inscribed: "Man
with the heart of a Viking and the simple
faith of a child."
Calder, whose husband George argued
the case before a consistory court, the high-
est council of the Roman Catholic Church,
said the committee must put up a marker
at his burial site in Hampton Hill in return
for his remains. The court action became
necessary after 11 parishioners of the
church where Boyle is burled objected to
the move earlier this year.
Calder said the money needed to pay for
repatriating his body will be raised in a
Canada wide campaign and it will be a
while before his remains are brought home.
She said the committee's efforts have
drawn widespread attention to the city and
has captured the imagination of Canadians
everywhere. "It's something they felt
strongly about."
Both the department of national defence
in Ottawa and the British home secretary
have suppored the repatriation, Support
has also come from Botvle's only surviving
relative, Fiona Boyle P. risch of New York,
and Film Arts Ltd., an independent com-
pany a documentary on those who
'Keep hands off our garbage'
A study into the feasibility of
on Oxford County -wide garbage
pickup service is being con•
ducted by county staff, but even
before the facts and Bgurea are
on the table the idea fs already
receiving criticism from South-
West Oxford Township coun-
cillors.
Council Tuesday reviewed a
letter from county operations
engineer Roy Brankley who
requested information for his
study.
Brankley is looting for in-
formation from all oxford's
rural municipalities regarding
who collects garbage, who
receives pickup and who
doesn't, the number of residents
involved in both cases, days and
locations of pickups, and where
it's being dumped.
He also wants to know costs to
assess a unit cost per household.
Township clerk Helen Prouse
hasn't gathered any information
as yet, but township council is
already worried about possible
extra costs as a result of a
county -wide operation.
Garbage pickup is a local
responsibuty, and from the
'sounds it, councillors would like
Ito keep it that way.
Court, Howard Cook said the
more the county gets involved in
garbage operations, the more
it's going to cast the township.
"If we go by the county, then
we're really going to be suf-
fering," he said. Each town-
ship should be on its own."
if the county does take over
Fickup, the township should at
east pay for costs incurred
within the municipality, and not
have to dish out dollars for
garbage pickup in other areas,
he said,
Conn. Ernie Hardeman said
he agrees with the principle, but
added it could be a "danger"
money -wise turning it over to
the county.
Councillors agreed the system
does have merit in that all
township residents will then
receive garbage pickup and not
just selected areas as is done
currently.
The county may be starting
this as a way to begin county -
wide garbage selwration, said.
Court Bill Fewster.
The township already has its
own separation system.
In conducting the study, said
Brankley yesterday, the county
is beginning to "take a stab at
waste management."
The study's results could be
used in saving energy by
reducing traffic to landfill sites.
If the county takes over pickup,
individuals who don't have
pickup now won't have to travel
to sites themselves to dispose
garbage.
"Basically what we're looking
at is rural pickup in the county
on some kind of unified basis,'
said Brankley.
Rate falls to 13.75%
for one-year mortgage
TORONTO (CP) — Three more
financial institutions said Friday
they are cutting their mortgage
rates by as much as three-quarters
of a percentage point.
Royal Trust's one-year mortgage
rate falls to 13.75 per cent from 14.50
per cent, effective immediately.
The Toronto Dominion Bank an-
nounced its one-year mortgage rate
goes to 13.75 per cent from 14.25,
effective Monday. Two-year mort-
gages will be 15 per cent and three-
year 15.25 per ,cent, both down a
quarter of a percentage point.
National Trust lowered its one-
vear Friday to 14 per cent from 14.5
per cent. The second -year rate is
14.5 per cent, down from 15 per
cent. Three-, four- and five-year
rates go to 14.75 per cent from 15
per cent.
GAS*
Price hits 45 cents a litre
but may soon hit the skids
By BILL SCRIVEN
Sentinel -Review staff writer
Gas stations throughout the city have increased prices at the pumps,
but one proprietor predicts prices may begin to fall as soon as today.
Gasoline prices were hiked significantly earlier in the week by com-
panies in an attempt to offset the effects of a money -losing price war that
saw prices fall as low as 30 cents a litre in some parts of Ontario.
County officials
guaranteed voice
in corridor study
By LiNDA HULME
Sentinel -Review staff writer
If the Highway 401 corridor is a bad choice for Ontario Hydro's two
proposed transmission lines from Middleport to London, that fact will
emerge from the extensive study the corporation is embarking oil next
year, Oxford County's planning committee was told Friday.
"if It is really bad, it'll show up in the information," said Morris Hewitt,
H,ydro's community relations officer for the route and site selection
division.
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DARRELL AVEY., a construction ever so slightly.
worker at the court house, checks (Staff photo by Dave Dorken)
out a wall that has been shifting
The leaning courthouse of Oxford
Renovators working on the Oxford County
Courthouse are trying to avert potentially
serious structural damage to an eastern
! section which is very slowly falling away
from the rest of the building.
County engineer Don Pratt said the half-
moon shaped section which is attached to the
main wall has been moving away from it and
sinking into the ground- Staff are installing a'
reinforced con6kete foundation for the
"cupola", which„ Pratt said has moved
signdicanUy since the faults were first.
discovered earlier this sorine.
During renovations, a basement ceiling
was removed only to uncover several largge
cracks in the wall. Since the discovery the
cracks have enlarged by an eighth of an Inch.
"That's pretty significant in six months,"
Oxford Warden, Ross Livingston and
Alderman, Joe Pember at our panel on
waste disposal Nov. 5,
said Pratt.
He said they didn't take any action earlier
because they wanted to observe whether it
was moving or not.
"It's like the leaning tower of Pisa. Either
it'll fall right over or it'll stay that way," he
said.
There was some excavation in the area of
the cupola's foundation in earlier
renovations, he said, but at that time they
didn't realize there was a problem and
probably aggravated the movement..
"If it moves while we've dug it up (this
time), then we're in real trouble," said Pratt.
It's not as if this is the first time it's hap-
pened. He said steel rods have been used at
some point in the building's history to attach
the halt -moon section to the rest of the
building.._
BLUES CHASER
Letter received by a nretnber of Parlia-
went: "Please don't improve rnp lot In life
,iny further. f can't afford it."
New paging system
presents problems
in communications
insufficient information
regarding a problem with a
number of pagers used by
municipal fire departments in
Oxford County raised the wrath
of a few county council mem-
ber:, Wednesday, because they
weren't told about it sooner.
Coun. Ion McKay of East
Zorra-Tavistock Township
brought up the concern after
reading a report fmm county
fire co-ordinator Chuck Young,
The report said simply there Is a
problem but since he never saw
the tenders for the pagers he
doesn't really feel he can deal
with it.
This disturbed McKay, but
infuriated Coun. Joe Pember of
Woodstock, who lambasted
Young for not properly ad-
dressing the problem.
Pember said as chairman of
the public works committee he
was never informed of any
complaints regarding the
paging system, part of a county-
wide emergency alert program.
Upon reading Young's report,
Pember said he contacted
deputy -chief Garfield Scott for a
complete report on the
problems. He also arranged for
the contractor, Oxford Cmn-
municalions, to send a
representative to today's public
worka,, committee meeting to
discuss it.
In an interview, a red-faced
Pember blew off more steam.
"How in the bell am I sup-
posed to know if the system
doesn't work if nobody tells
me?" he said. "As the com-
plaints come in, I have to decide
whether to authorize the final
payment (of the pagers)."
If 90 per cent of the
firefighters in the county are
receiving pager signals, that's
excellent response, he said. The
pagers, if working, will be a far
better system than the phone-in
system previously used by
firefighters, he said.
COUNTY OF OXFORD
Appointments To Boards,
Authorities, Etc.
In December, 1982 Oxford County Council will be dealing with the appointment
of citizens to represent County Council on various Boards, Authorities, etc., for
the years 1983, 1984 and 1985.
Board, Authority, Etc.
Number To
Be Appointed
Term of
of Office
Upper Thames River Conservation Authority
Blandford-Blenheim Township ...........
1
3 Year
South-West Oxford Township ............
3
3 year
East Zorra-Tavistock Township..........
2
3 year
Zorra Township .......................
4
3 Year
Norwich Township .....................
1
3 Year
Ingersoll Town ........................
1
3 Year
Woodstock City .......................
2
3 Year
Long Point Region Conservation Authority
Burford Township
Norwich' Township ............ ...
2
3 Year
South-West Oxford Township
Tillsonburg Town ............ .. ..
2
3 year
Catfish Creek Conservation Authority
South-West Oxford Township ....... ...
1
3 Year
Grand River Conservation Authority
Blandford Blenheim Township
East Zorra-Tavistock Township ..... , ....
1
1 Year
Norwich Township
Oxford County Library Board • excluding
residents from Woodstock and Tillsonburg ..
1
3 Year
Oxford County Land Division Committee ...
3
3 Year
Anyone interested in appointment to any of the above is requested to make application
in writing, no later than November 15, 1982 1w
MR. J. H. WALLS, Clerk, County of Oxford.,
Court House, Box 397, Woodstock. Ontario. N4S 7Y3
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...but 3 county councillors get stars
By LINDA HULME
Sentinel -Review staff writer
Of the 99 Oxford County council rneelings held during the
current two-year term, gold star attendance records go to only
three of the 20 county councillors.
Bill Fewster of South-West Oxford Township, Warden lines
Livingston of Blandford-Blenheim Township, and Don McKay of
Fast Zorra-Tavistock Township are the only councillors who
have attended every council meeting held since the councillors
took office in December, 19M.
Les Cook of Woodstock receives an honorable mention for
missing only one meeting. He was away on county business.
County clerk Harold Walls said if a councillor is ill or is at-
tending a convention on behalf of the countyy, he still receives
council pay. Councillors' annual salary is $6,720. The warden
receives $21,060.
"You're allowed to miss four (meetings) before you're
penalized," said Walls.
Councillors will then have two per cent of their pay docked.
Attendance runners-up Include Phil Poole of Wowlxt(wk and
Wallis Hammond of Zorra Township who missed one meeting
each.
Joe Pember of Woodstock missed two, as did Barry Wallace of
'Lorra (one because of a conference), Doug Harris of Ingersoll
missed three, Jean F'errie of Tillsonburg missed four (as did
Harold Vogt of Fast 7urra-Tavistock and Charlie Tatham of
Woodstock but some of the meetings were missed because county
business or illness). Woodstock's Wendy Calder and Lenore
Young missed five each, Jack Warden of Ingersoll and Carman
Sweazey of Norwich Township missed six (two each on con.
ventions), and Cecil Wilson missed nine (eight for illness).
Two councillors had short terms. Ed Down of Blandford-
Blenheim Township became a county councillor this summer
after the death of Mayor Bob Gdholm earlier, and Helen Smith of
Norwich Township came onto county council in January, 19W..
after Mayor Jack Burn's resignation.
Down attended all five county council meetings he was ex.
peeled to, and Smith missed only one of this year's meetings f to
attend a planning conference).
Preparing for Holbrook hearings •
Committee struck to halt
problems
before they
begin
Trying to resolve as many
help to foster some trust bet -
the
concerns as possible about the
Holbrook landfill site prior to the
ween the county and
Township of Norwich in this
environmental hearing will be
area," he said.
Township Mayor Carm
the purpose of a point committee
set up last night between Oxford
Sweazey said today if concerns
County and Norwich Township.
can beresolved by the com-
mittee, it may cut a two week
The six member committee,
with three representatives each,
hearing down to one or two days.
was discussed in closed session
hour
,,
This action would be an enor-
mous savings to the .township
for more than an at county
council. The entire Norwich
and the county -
Township council appeared as a
delegation to present the idea in
_
HOPEFUL
an effort to cut down hearing
I'm definitely hopeful that
we can work at this amicably
costs
In an interview Warden Ross
and get most of the issues out of
Livingston said the committee
will discuss concerns and
the way," 6e said.
-The township isn't backing
possible solutions for several
dawn io its cause to protect
Holbrook area citizens, he said.
issues, including water safety,
additional information
It's still working toward
,gaining
on the proper closure of the site,
.-
safeguarding water supplies and
'future care, and action regar-
ding potential contamination of
ROSS LIVINGSTON
providing longterm protection to
township residents after the site
wells.
"Until the committee meets, i
—solutions—
is closes.
Sweazey said at the same time
can't tell how it's going to affect
the hearing," said Livingston.
better condition for permanent
the township wants to save
money. The municipality is only
"We're going to try and resolve
some of those issues before that
closure.
The township is opposing the
a cog m the county wheel, he
said, and like Southwest Oxford
time comes along."
extension on the grounds that
Township residents during the
added garbage will mean a
Salford landfill hearing, Nor -
EXTENSION
higher risk of water con-
wich residents will be paying for
The hearing, before the
Environmental Assessmerit
tamination to area residents.
Livingston said the meetings
both sides.
Serving on We committee for
Board, was called to deal with
the county's proposed extension
will be a give and take situation
for both sides. Problems in the
the county will Warden Ross
Livingston and public works
and closure plan. The county
wants another two years added
past between the municipalities
have led to some misconceptions
committee members Joe
Pember and Harold Vogt. The
to the already 10 year old site to
about what's really happening
township representatives are
Mayor Carm Sweazey, Bob
pile more garbage, but at the
same time leave, the site in a
with the site.
"We hope this committee will
Pettigrew, and John Escort,
A welfare
alternative
OTTAWA (CP) —.
Thousands of people who
soon will no longer qualify
for unemployment insurance
benefits now have two
-
choices: Apply for welfare or
-;
take jobs to be created
through a $500-million
a.e'"
BLUES CHASER
federal program unsoiled
Wednesday.
- "sib""
Now'adays a husband and wife haie to
Under the plan, announced
ha ve minds that run in the same channel —
by Finance Minister Marc
or else tu'o telet'fsion sets,
Lalonde, jobless
-
autoworkers, farmers,
fishermen, lumbermen and
white-collar workers could
find themselves tarring
roads, working temporarily
for private firms, painting
-�.,.----
local arenas, government
buildinge 0r highway signs.
The estimated 60,000 new
MARC LALONDE
jobs would be temporary.
—finance—
01
Fears of county -wide force
County rejects study
into police efficiency
By LINDA HULME
Seatinel-Review staff writer
An Ontario Police Com-
mission (OPCI study Into
Oxford County's policing of
Rciency would only introduce an
unwanted and costly regional
police system to Oxford's eight
municipalities, county council
members said Wednesday.
Council turned down the study
in a 12 to seven recorded vote
lest night.
The study was discussed by
each Oxford municipality with a
group of municipal represen-
tatives prior to last night's
meeting. Ingersoll council
Initiated the talks, said Mayor
Doug Harris, because they
believed it would be a positive
step to take.
The OPC study would be
provided with little or no cost to
the county, he said, adding
Ingersoll Police Chief Ron
James agreed it would have
some advantages.
But the idea was bombarded
from then on, first by Norwich
Township Mayor Carman
Sweazey.
"It could be construed to
mean that the county is in-
terested in implementing a
system of regional policing," he
said.
FORCE EXCELLENT
This action would mean a lost
rapport with local police forces
who provide already adequate
protection for community ac-
tivities. An OPC study done
recently on the Norwich Police
Force concluded the protection
was excellent he said, and to
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DOUG HARRIS
—positive step —
instigate regional policing would
not only mean a decline in
service but additional casts.
Coun. Joe Pember of Wood-
stock said he originally agreed
with the study, but after hearing
the comments of some com- '
munity representatives who got
wind of the idea, he can't sup-
port it any longer.
People wondered what was'
wrong with the city's police
force now, and if the study
"comes in and it's all roses, how
are you going to turn it down?"
He said he's heard "horror
stories" about regional policing
costs and administration
problems, and even if the study
recommendations aren't ac-
cep led by the county, ne
believes the province "would
pound it to death until we got it
(regional policing)."
SLAP IN FACE
Warden Ross Livingston,
speaking as mayor of Blandford-
Blenheim Township, said the
study would be "a slap th the
face' to Ontario Provincial
Police who are already doing a
fine job patrolling rural areas.
"I don't believe we can afford
another uncontrollable expense
in these times of testraint,' said
Livingston. "Only the study is
free, the results won't be."
In an attempt to put the
matter into perspective,
Tillsonburg Mayor John
Armstrong said the OPC study
would only address possible
improvements to efficiency. The
organization is not an advocate
for regional policing, he said,
and even if the study recom-
mends it, county council can
always turn it down.
"I'd like council to consider
Bank rate ups and downs
Fixed I Floating
rate rate
changes) changes
(Weekly)
Canadian Press
The Bank of Canada rate slipped fractionally to 11,46 per cent
Thursday from 11.53, extending a slide which began in mid -June.
The latest dip was considered too small to prompt a drop in other
lending rates, but money market players say the downward trend in
rates should continue.
CARM SWEAZEY
—regional force —
the resolution rather than a
number of anticipated
Oxford group
to request aid
from Lalonde
WOODSTOCK (Bureau) — A delegation
from Oxford County is to meet with federal
Finance Minister Marc Lalonde in Ottawa
next Thursday to discuss financial aid for
the area.
A spokesman for Conservative Oxford
MP Bruce Halliday said Thursday the min-
ister will discuss the county's ellgiblity for
aid from the $350-million federal industry
and labor adjustment program.
Under the program, manufacturing and
processing firms in a designated area
which want to expand can receive interest -
free loans covering up to half of most cap-
ital costs. Employers who create new jobs
or train workers in trade skills can also
quail'y for wage subsidy payments.
Oxford County politicans decided to ap-
ply for the program last month after meet-
ing to discuss the issue in Woodstock. At
that time, Woodstock's development com-
i missioner, Paul Plant, said the county had
lost nearly 37 per cent of its manufacturing
and processing jobs (4,507 of'12,252 jobs) in
the pool three years.
Registered unemployment in the county
was at 17.1 per cent while 423 employees in
Oxford were "underemployed" on three -
or four -day work weeks, he said.
During the August meeting, it was esti-
mated the program could bring the area up
l0 758 jobs and more than $23 million.
problems," he said
But Coun. Phil Poole of
Woodstock said the study would
only speed along the inevitable,
and council should leave well
enough alone.
Harris was disappointed with
the response to the idea. He said
he never would have brought the
motion forward in the first place
if he didn't think the meetings
resulted in an optimistic
outlook.
WORTHWHILE
"I thought the majority of
psople thought it was wor-
thwhile to present," he said,
Those voting against the study
were Wendy Calder, Ed Down,
Bill Fewster, Wallis Hammond.
Ross Livingston, Don McKay,
Joe Pember, Phil Poole, Helen
Smith, Carm Sweazey, Harold
Vogt, and Barry Wallace.
Supporting the motion were
John Armstrong, Les Cook, .lean
Ferne, Doug Harris, Charlie
Tatham, Jack Warden, and
Lenore Young.
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ONTARIO
PROPOSALS
ACT
OF THE COMMISSION
WHAT IT IS
AND WHAT IT MEANS TO YOU:
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readjusting the boundaries of the electoral districts in Ontario. The commission is required to assign
geographical boundaries to the districts, based on the population figures derived
from the 1981 decennial census.
According to the laws of Canada and the 1981 decennial census, the province receives
10 new seats increasing the total to 105. Substantial population changes have required realignment of
boundaries in most parts of the province and major changes in the area between
Kitchener and Oshawa, and also in Ottawa.
The proposal is important to you, because it may affect your own electoral district.
Public hearings will be held in eight centres during January and February Please note that if you wish
to make a representation, you must give notice to the commission within
23 days of the date of publication of this supplement.
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Electoral Rnundaries Commisslou fur t)ulario
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lOvIdInllr Ihl it 4112 6.' 111 '14l.UI i'i
0
CHARLIE SHELTON (centre), a South-West
Oxford Township farmer, was the first
recipient of the Oxford County Land Saver
Award. Warden Ross Livingston (right)
First recipient of award
Top land saver
presents the award while Les Dickson of the
Oxford Men of the Trees presents a hand -
carved walking cane.
(Staff photo by Linda Hulme)
wins two ways
By LINDA HULME successfully, he said, as well as Soil erosion costs Oxford
Sentinel -Review staff writer grassing waterways to cut down County taxpayers a lot of
Implementing soil con- on erosion there as well. money, said Shelton, in
servation practices has paid of[ There are a lot of excuses removing topsoil from roadside
for Charlie Shelton, a South- ditches and maintaining and
West Oxford Township farmer, people make about soil erosion, reconstructing municipal
he said, such as "It is just a bad
who has not only been rewarded year" or "the soil only moved drains.
with greater crop yields, but has from the hills to the lowlands "Conservation in the short
now been the first rzed ci Oxford and never left the farm." term may costa little more (for)
County as the firs[ recipient of
new machinery, but if we do not
pay the price in the short term,
the long term costs may be
insurmountable." he said.
The Land Saver Award will be
an annual presentation to a
person or group who has
promoted or implemented soil
conservation practises.
the Land Saver Award.
He received the award from
Warden Ross Livingston at
county council along with a.
wooden cane from Les Dickson Bylaw to remove traffic lights
of the Oxford Men of the Trees.
Shelton said he (first became' quashed by oxford councillors
concerned about sail erosion - W
about 10 years ago when he
noticed wider and wider rills in
his corn rows.
WOODSTOCK (Bureau) — After listen -
Since then he has been able to
ing to a request from Woodstock's repre-
reduce soil erosion on his farm
I sentatives Wednesday, Oxford County
by go per cent while at the same
council quashed a city bylaw to remove
time increasing crop yields.
traffic lights at Finkle and Simeoe streets.
Different farm equipment to
City council approved the bylaw last
till his soil and special seeding
month and referred It to county council for
techniques have been done
approval.
—
Mayor Wendy Calder said the city is con-
ducting a traffic study and would like to
examine the results before taking any ac-
tion on the lights.
Woodstock Conn. Les Cook said he real-
izes the decision to retain the lights goes
''. against election promises to keep costs
down, but said safety corner first. Many
citizens have complained about city coun-
cil's decision to remove the lights, he said.
First time for three-year terms
Voters In about ODD municipalities around the province head
for the polls today to elect their iocal leaders and perhaps cast
votes on the question of nuclear disarmament, liquor sales or
capital punishment.
For the first time in Ontario, those elected will serve three-
year terms instead of the traditional two, which may increase
voter turnout.
The usual issues -- taxation, education and annexation —
have been handled about by candidates, but a product of the
iough economic times is a new concern — jobs.
adding there is a senior citizen complex in
the area and the elderly people have diffi
culty "scampering" across the street.
Woodstock's four other representatives,
all members of city council, also voted to
reject the bylaw because of the objections
they have received from citizens in the
area.
Court. Phil Pottle said the lights are old
and the city engineer has recommended
they be removed.
The lights, which were to have been re-
placed by stop signs, were put on flashing
more than a month ago to give the public
time to react to their removal. City engi-
neer Carl Hevenor said Wednesday the
lights would be put back into regular oper-
ation if they are retained.
BLUES CHASER
n'i,ym on a Nalioual ovience headquarfvra
execulfvc',y desk: "Thi, Job Is Su Svovf
i,'v n I Dotl't KtiOw it'hat 1'nI Doing."
ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT BOARD
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
COUNTY OF OXFORD
(TOWNSHIP OF NORWICH)
PROPOSED EXPANSION
OF A WASTE
DISPOSAL SITE
The Ontario Ministry of the Environ-
ment has received an application from
the County of Oxford for approval to
proceed with the expansion of on ex-
isting waste disposal site (landfilling),
located in the Township of Norwich, on
part Lots 20 and 21, Concession 3.
The application pertains to the ex-
panded use of the existing 10-12 hec-
tares (25 acres) waste disposal area
located within a total site area of 40.5
hectares (100 acres). It is proposed to
utilize the existing area of the landfill
site and place additional lifts of refuse
on top of that area. The proposed ex-
pansion is designed to increase the
overall elevation of the existing landfill
site, which will promote more run-off
and less infiltration into the refuse,
utilizing natural attenuation of leochate.
The waste disposal site is owned and
operated by the County of Oxford, and is
intended to serve approximately 55,000
people of the County of Oxford.
The Environmental Assessment Board
will conduct a public hearing to obtain
information and to hear the views of the
public, so that it can make recorrlmenda-
tions to the Ministry of the Environment
with respect to the proposed expansion.
Written and oral submissions may be
made to the Board at the hearing. The
Board will not consider any submission
regarding the proposal after the hearing
has been closed.
The hearing will commence on Tues-
day, the 30th day of November, 1962, at
10 o'clock in the forenoon, local time, in
the Auditorium of the Norwich Com-
munity Centre, Stover Street South
(Hwy. 59), Norwich, Ontario.
Plans of the proposed expansion to
the waste disposal site will be available
for examination and inspection during
normal business hours in the office of
the Clerk, County of Oxford, Court
House, 415 Hunter Street, Woodstock,
Ontario. in the office cf the Clerk,
Township of Norwich, Otterville, On-
tario; and in the office of the En-
vironmental Assessment Board, 5th
Floor 1 St, Clair Avenue West Toronto,
Ontario.
STATUTORY REFERENCE
The Environmental Protee'ion Act
(R.S.O. 1980 chapter 141) as amended.
DATED at TORONTO this 28th day of Oc-
tober.
M.J. Cathcart,
Board Secretary.
SOUTHWESTERN ONTARIO
Hydro Transmission Studies
Hydro Begins Studies
Ontario Hydro is beginning studies to find acceptable
routes for high voltage transmission lines and a site for
a transformer station within the shaded areas shown
on the map below.
This expansion of the electrical power system in South-
western Ontario is required to;
• provide adequate facilities to deliver existing and
approved generation from the Bruce Nuclear Power
Development (NPD) to the consumers of the province;
• supply the electrical demand in Southwestern Ontario;
and,
• maintain an adequate power interchange capability
with electrical utilities in Michigan.
Information Centre Locations:
South Study Area
PETERS CORNERS
Beverly Community Centre (Hwy. 8
near Peters Corners),
Wednesday, November 24.
OXFORD CENTRE
Oxford Centre Hall (exit Hwy. 401 at
Tower Line Road, near Woodstock),
Thursday, November 25,
The Approved Plan
In 1981, Ontario Hydro conducted studies involving
public officials and members of the public to review six
alternative system plans (Mt-M6) for the expansion of
the electrical power system in Southwestern Ontario. An
environmental assessment was prepared and submitted
to the Ontario Government in October 1981. Public hear-
ings were held January through April of 1982 and plan
"M3" was approved for detailed studies by a Joint
Board (established under the Consolidated Hearings Act).
The facilities associated with plan M3 are:
North Study Area
• A double -circuit 500 kilovolt (kV) transmission line from
Bruce NPD to the Essa Transformer Station (TS) near
Barrie.
• Expansion of the transmission facilities at the Essa TS.
South Study Area
• A new 500/230 kV transformer station in the London
area.
• A double -circuit 500 kV line between Milton TS and
Middleport TS.
• Two single -circuit 500 kV lines from the new London
area TS to one or more of the following terminal points:
Nanticoke Generating Station (GS)
Middleport TS
r a Milton TS (a 6 km wide corridor centred on
Hwy. #401 between London and Milton TS
will be studied for this alternative).
• 230 kV transmission lines to connect the new London
Area TS with Hydro's existing 230 kV system; and,
• Expansion of facilities at Milton TS, Middleport TS and
Nanticoke GS.
Approval of Routes and Site
Hydro will submit an environmental assessment identify-
ing routes for the transmission lines and a site for the
transformer station to the Ministry of the Environment in
early 1984. Public hearings under the Consolidated
Hearings Act are expected later in the year.
Information Centres
Ontario Hydro is holding a series of information centres
in the study area.. Members of the public are invited to
visit one of these centres, which are listed below. Maps
and charts wilt be available and Hydro staff will be on
hand to discuss the study, answer questions and receive
your comments.
CAMBRIDGE
Holiday Inn (corner Hwy. 401 & 24 north),
Monday, November 29.
TILLSONBURG
Community Centre,
Lions' Auditorium,
45 Hardy Avenue,
Tuesday, November 30.
Open to the public 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Further Information
For more information concerning the Southwestern
Ontario transmission study, please contact:
Mrs, Laura Formusa
Community Relations Department
Ontario Hydro
700 University Avenue
Toronto, Ontario
M5G 1X6
or call collect (416) 5922016
•
•
•
Plember lauds
Livingston's
leadership
Last night's Oxford County
council meeting meant the
last hurrah for some coon.
cillors who are not returning
to serve on the 1983 council,
and for Ross Livingston, it
was the end of an active and
likely historical two years in
the Warden's chair.
Conn. Joe Pember did the
honors in delivering a
farewell speech to
Livingston, whom he
thanked on behalf of council
for his guidance, support,
and leadership.
The 123rd warden of
Oxford County had it busy for
two years, Pember men-
tioned the Salford landfill
hearing, the installation of
the county fire alert system.
various indoor and outdoor
renovations to the Oxford
County Courthouse, the
purchase of the Holbrook
landfill site, and other events
and activities which oc-
curred during his term.
He said council ap-
preciated the "extra
sacrifice" Livingston put
forth in his duties, and ap-
plauded his representation.
On a personal note,
Pember gave the warden an
extra, and humorous, pat on
the back.
"You might go down in the
history of Oxford County as
the garbage warden," he
said. "but if that's what a
garbage warden is, I hope
this county council sees a lot
more of it."
The gavel and a plaque
ROSS LIVINGSTON
—still humble--
were handed over to
Livingston, who said while
the times were for, they
were often trying. But in true
Livingston style, he was
humble about it all.
"Whatever was achieved
was gained by county
council, not the warden," he
said. "The warden just holds
the gavel."
Other councillors were also
recognized for their efforts.
Receiving plaques were
John Armstrong, Jack Burn,
Bill Fewsler, the late Bob
Gilholm (his' wife Edith
accepting), Cum Sweazey,
Harold Vogt, Barry Wallace,
and Cecil Wilson.
Lodge staff requests 5% raise
WOODSTOCK (Bureau) — The 152 full -
and part-time employees of Woodingford
Lodge, Oxford County's home for the aged,
have requested a five per cent salary in-
crease next year.
The non -union workers now earn from
$7.I0 an hour for laundry, housekeeping
and dietary aides to $11.67 for senior regis-
tered nurses, said Brian McReynolds. ad-
ministrator of the 258-bed home. Their con-
tract expires Dec. 31.
The county's finance and administration
committee referred the salary request
Wednesday for consideration at1983 budget
discussions. The five per cent falls in line
with the province's public sector wage re-
straint program.
Oxford,
Norwich Tp.
near accord
on landfill
WOODSTOCK (Bureau) — Norwich
Township council has agreed to withdraw
its opposition to Oxford County'sapplica-
tion to extend the Holbrook landfill site if
the county agrees to safeguard water sup-
plies around the site and monitor It for
possible environmental contamination.
The tentative agreement, which removes
a major stumbling block to the continued
operation of the landfill site in the township,
was approved in principle by county coun-
cil Wednesday night.
The agreement, which must be approved
by township council, comes just days be-
fore an environmental assessment board
meets to consider the county's application
to extend the site another two years.
It was reached by a special committee of
representatives from the township and
county council. The draft agreement was
reached Tuesday, and county, townshipp
and environmental officials worked aft
Wednesday to prepare it in time for council.
Although the agreement still needs for-
mal approval from county council, Coun.
Joe Pember said the county hopes to pre-
sent the tentative agreement to the board
when it meets to consider the application
Tuesday.
Pember said the agreement will reduce
the cost and the length of the hearing be-
cause the township is the main objector.
Warden Ross Livingston said it will be
forwarded to the county's lawyers and to
the clerk to be prepared as a bylaw.
The agreement seemed to hit a last-min-
ute snag when Norwich Township contact-
ed the county before council met and said it
had not signed the agreement. However,
Norwich councillor -at -large Helen Smith, a
member of the committee, said it was dis-
cussed at the township's regular meeting
Tuesday and said she did not perceive any
problems in getting it approved.
Representatives from Norwich Township
council are to meet with their lawyer in
Toronto today to discuss the draft agree-
ment. Township mayor -elect, John Helen-
iak, who attended W'ednesday's county
council meeting, said he anticipates no
problems.
In another landfill matter, the county- au-
thorized its public works committee to in-
vestigate the feasibility of compacting gar-
bage at the Tillsonburg site starting in
January. Pember said the program would
cost more but would also prolong the life of
the Tillsonburg site.
Oxford against boundary change
WOODSTOCK (Bureau) — The federal
riding of Oxford County should remain in-
tact, county council decided Wednesday.
Council voted to oppose proposed bound-
ary changes at a public meeting in London
on Jan. 28,
Acwrding to proposals by a special corn-
mittce investigating boundary readjust-
ments, Oxford would become part of three
new ridings. The townships of Zorra and
East Zorra-'ravistock would become part of
Perth -Oxford -Middlesex; Blandford-Blen-
heim Township would become part of
Kitchener -Brant -Oxford; and the rest of
the county, including Woodstock, Tillson-
burg and Ingersoll would become purl of
the Oxford -Norfolk district, which would
also include parts of EI In Count yy.
Councillors argued (gat spliltlug the
county would lead to costlier government
and inure confusion.
Zorra Township Conn. Wallis Hammond
said the changes would mean county
groups would have to work through three
members of parliament instead of one. The
move would also create problems for the
county's social services, he said.
East'Zorra-Tavistock Conn. Harold Vogl
said there is no reason for change. "How
will the people know where to contact their
MPs?"
Bland fotA-Blenhelm Township Coun. Ed-
ward Down said his area Is in a different
provincial riding than the rest of the county
and dividing itup federally would "triple
the. headaches " It already Has at the pro-
vincial level. Warden Ross Livingston, also
from Blandford.Blenheim, said he also op-
poses the changes which would see his
township controlled by the more populated
urban areu.
Oxford MP Bruce Halliday (PC) is also
opposing the proposed changes.
Wednesday's meeting marked the last
session of county council. The new1v elect-
ed council takes office Dec. 1 and au mau-
gural meeting is planned Dec_ 8.
Conn. Joe Pember presented Livingston
with an award commemorating his two-
year tern[ as warden. Awards were also
presented to eight other retiring county
councillors, including former Norwich
Township Mayor Jack Burn who mAgned
last year for health reasons. A plaque was
also presented to this wife of the former
mayor of Blandford-Blenhelm Township,
Robert Gilholm, who died earlier this year.
Other councillors receiving awards were;
John Armstrong, Tillsonburg; Bill Fe -A-
ster, South-West Oxford; Carman Swea-
r.ey, Nurwlch; Harold Vogt, East 'Zorra.
Tavdstock; Barry Wallace, Zorra; and
Cecil Wilson, South-West Oxford.
COUNTY OF OXFORD
On behalf of the Council of The County of Oxford
Warden and Mrs. Ross Livingston
invite you to attend the
to be held in the
OXFORD AUDITORIUM
Fairgrounds, Nellis Street,
Woodstock, Ontario
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1982
6:45 p.m.
Reception and Dance to follow
If unable to attend. PLEASE reply to P.O. Box 397, Woodstock,
or telephone 1519) 539-5688 by November 12th.
THE WARDEN'S DINNER
IN HONOUR OF
OXFORD COUNTY WARDEN
ROSS LIVINGSTON
1
COUNTY OF OXFORD
OXFORD AUDITORIUM
Fairgrounds, Nellis Street
Woodstock, Ontario
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1982
6:45 p.m.
Warden's Banquet
Honours Ross Livingston
MR. AND MRS. ROSS LIVINGSTON
Blandford-Blenheim's welcomed into Oxford Court
Mayor Ross Livingston was ty's exclusive Ex Wardens'
Association last Fridav even-
ing, as almost 400 people
gathered at the Oxford
Auditorium in Woodstock,
for the annual Warden's din-
ner.
County Clerk, J. Harold
Walls acted a chairman for
the evening, introducing head
table guests Dr. and Mrs.
Bruce Halliday, M.P.; Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Nixon,
M.P.P.: Mrs. H. Walls: Mr.
and Mrs. Richard L.
Treleaven, M.P.P.; Howard
Jacobson and friend of Drum-
bo Baptist Church.
Gerald Staples, a former
clerk of Oxford County, in-
troduced the ex -wardens pre-
sent at the dinner. He noted
that there are presently 22
members in the Ex -Wardens'
Association. which was form-
ed 50 years ago. in fact, they
will celebrate their 50th an-
niversary in 1983. The oldest
living member of the Associa-
tion is former Blenheim
Township reeve George
Balkwill, who was unable to
attend.
Visiting wardens and clerks
included past Warden of
Brant County. Ron Eddy and
Mrs. Eddy.
Mayor Ross Livingston
Presented a "small traditional
gift from Oxford County"
Icheesel to each of the visiting
wardens and clerks in up-
preciation of their hospitality
that he has received in their
municipalities.
Humourous digs- and
bantering among the three
guests — Dr, Halliday,
Robert Nixon and Richard
Treleaven — were concluded
with congratulations and best
wishes to the new ex -warden
Ross Livingston and his wife,
Lenore.
Edith Gilholm, wife of
former Blandford Blenheim
mayor, the late Robert
Gilholm, sQoke highly of Mrs
Livingston s participation as
Oxford County's first lady for
_the past year and presented
her with a gift.
The presentation concluded
with council member,%' ap-
pieciation for Ross Liv-
ingston's'9eadership, honesty
and straight forwardness.'
They felt he "deserved a rest'
and so Presented him with a
dark brown recliner chair.
Mayor Livingston said that he
intends to relax and that it
had keen air honour to serve
Oxford County where "over
the pest few years it has really
become my community."
The "Bonds of I o%c'
Quartet, four young men hap
receivedIele
w�ellr�and appreciel music, ated.
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Menu
TOMATO JUICE
ROAST TURKEY (WITH GRAVY) COUNTRY HAM
MASHED POTATOES
BUTTERED CORN
CARROT SALAD CABBAGE SALAD
JELLIED SALADS CRANBERRY SAUCE
RELISH TRAY
DINNER ROLLS
Y Y Y Y
CHERRY AND BLUEBERRY CHEESE CAKE
TEA AND COFFEE
Programme
CHAIRMAN - J HAROLD WALLS
Y Y ! Y
GRACE
Howard Jacobson, Drumbo Baptist Church
TOAST TO THE QUEEN
DINNER
Introduction of Head Table Guests .............. J Harold Walls
Introduction of County Council ................. J Harold Walk
Introduction of Ex -Wardens .................. Gerald R. Staples
Introduction of
Visiting Wardens and Clerks ........... Warden Ross Livingston
Greetings from .......................... Bruce Halliday, M.P.
................ I... Richard L. Treleaven, M.P.P.
. . . . ................... Robert F. Nixon, MP.P.
Entertainment .................. ..The Bonds of Love" Quartette
Presentations
Remarks .............................. Warden Ross Livingston
DANCING TO "THE INLAWS"
OXFORD
COUNTY COUNCIL
1981 - 1982
ROSS LIVINGSTON
Warden
Mayor Ross Livingston ......................
Blandford-Blenheim
Councillor Edward Down ....................
Blandford-Blenheim
Mayor Harold W. Vogt .....................
East Zorra-Tavistock
Councillor Donald H. McKay ................
East Zorra-Tavistock
Mayor Carman Sweazey ..............................
Norwich
Councillor Helen Smith ..............................
Norwich
Mayor Cecil Wilson .........................
South-West oxford
Councillor William Fewster ...................
South-West Oxford
Mayor Wallis Hammond ................................
Zorra
Councillor Barry Wallace ...............................
Zorra
Mayor Douglas Harris ................................
Ingersoll
Councillor Jack T. Warden ............................
Ingersoll
Mayor John G. Armstrong ..........................
Tillsonburg
Councillor Jean Ferrie .............................
Tillsonburg
Mayor Wendy L. Calder ............................
Woodstock
Councillor Leslie J. Cook ...........................
Woodstock
Councillor Joseph Pember ...........................
Woodstock
Councillor Philip Poole ............................
Woodstock
Councillor Charles M. Tatham .......................
Woodstock
Councillor Lenore Young ...........................
Woodstock
N° 364
Spontaneous reaction
Proposed boundary changes
bring flood of opposition
Oxford MP Dr, Bruce
Halliday said this weekend he is
greatly encouraged by the
number of Uxford County
residents who have expressed
concern over the proposed
federal riding boundary
changes.
In the past week, he said, he
has received phone calls from
dozens of Oxford County citizens
who want to know what can be
done to prevent a change in
current federal boundaries.
In addition, Dr. Halliday said,
county council, the board of
education and several township
councils have indicated they will
oppose the riding change at a
hearing fn February.
According to Dr. Halliday,
this is one of the most spon-
taneous local reactions to a
federal issue he can remember
seeing.
The electoral boundaries
commission will hold hearings,
including one in London, in
February.
Dr. falliday is urging his
constituents to become involved
in the hearing process.
"I'd like everybody with a
genuine concern to write that
concern in their ownwords."
Instead of the original one -day
hearing for Oxford County
residents, Dr, Halliday said the
committee has agreed to devote
two days to hearing local con.
cerns,
CHANGE DATES
In addition, he said, the board
agreed to change the hearing
dates from Jan. 28 to Feb. 18 and
19. The original hearing dale
was set for the same week as the
Conservative national con-
vention, he said, which would
have prevented him from
participating.
Blues Chaser
Notice in a loan office window: "For
the man who has everything and
hasn't paid f.,r it."
Dr. Halliday said he has beed
quite surprised that residents in
Biandford-Blenheim Township .
and Tillsonburg have been just
as vocal in their opposition aq
the rest of the county. He said he
originally thought those com;
munities would not oppose lhg
riding change.
if the change goes through;
Tillsonburg would become the
centre of the new Oxford -
Norfolk riding and Blandford,'
Blenheim would become part of
a new Kitchener riding.
But the message from people
in those communities, he said, is
they feel part of Oxford County
and they want the electoral
boundaries to remain the way
they are.
ONE NEW RIDING
As part of his brief to the
hearing in February, Dr.
Halliday said he will suggest
Oxford County's federal
boundaries remain intact and
that a new riding be included in
Middlesex County.
Part of the arguemenl to
change ridings, he said, is some
urban ridings are becoming too
large and must be subdivided
into smaller ridings. It is a new
proposed riding near Kitchener
that is "throwing a monkey
wrench" in Oxford County, he
said.
"What we have to emphasize
to the commissioners is that size
is not the most important con-
sideration, but you don't break
up communities of interest."
Dr. Halliday said he has
received very good reaction
from the electoral boundary
commissioners and added, "I
am not impressed that there is
any political influence involved
(in the boundary -change
proposals) at all."
Any local residents interested
in going before the hearing
board in February must send
notice to the electoral boun-
daries commission in Ottawa
before Dec. 15,
Oxford faces
trial on count
alleging burn
was unlawful
WOODSTOCK (Bureau) —A representa
live of Oxford County entered a plea of not
guilty to a charge of unlawfully operating a
waste disposal site after Justice of the
Peace Hank Cartier denied a request
Thursday that the charge be dismissed.
County lawyer Alex Graham had argued
in provincial offences court that the charge
was Invalid because the environment min-
istry waited more than six months to lay it,
contrary to the Provincial Offences Act,
Ifowever, Cartier referred to other envi-
ronmental legislation, including the Envi-
ronmental Protection Act, which allows the
ministry two years to lay a charge. He
adjourned the case to Jan. 27 for trial.
The charge, laid Nov. 20 under the Em
riottmental Protection Act, alleges garbage
was burned unlawfully at the Norwich
Township Ward 1 dump site near Otterville
Feb. 20, contrary to a condition in the pro-
vincial certificate of approval.
Norwich Township, which has been
charged with the same offence, has not
entered a plea although a representative is
to appear in court Jan. V. Originally, Gra-
ham was retained to represent both the
township and the county but he said Than -
day he could not represent both because of
a conflict.
Holbrook hearing underway
By SUZANNE HANSON
With the denial of a motion to adjourn
the hearing into the Holbrook landfill site
for one day to facilitate negotiations, the
stage has been set for a full-fledged en-
vironmental assessment hearing to con-
sider Oxford County's application to ex-
tend the site's life for two years.
The hearing on the Holbrook landfill site
got underway yesterday (Tuesday I in the
Norwich community centre auditorium
and is scheduled to continue each week
day up until December 17. It was hoped.
initially, that the length of the hearing
could be shortened considerably through a
mutual county -township agreement but
those hopes have been dashed with the
termination of negotiations between the
two groups and the absence of an accepted
agreement.
The solicitor for Norwich Township,
John Willms, made a motion Tuesday to
adjourn the hearing for one day to allow
for further negotiations between the two
sides' engineers in an effort to resolve
outstanding technical issues.
"There's a great deal to be gained if our
engineers can find out where they
disagree, if they disagree, and it could
save two to three weeks of hearing time,"
said Mr. Willms, who said he could still see
scope for narrowing the issues.
However, the county's solicitor, Tom
Lederer, indicated there would be no point
to further negotiations until the township
discarded several demands put forward in
its amended draft agreement tsee other
story this page). In light of the county''s
reluctance to negotiate and its lack of
optimism about the benefits to be gained,
the chairman of the I*ard, Mary Munro,
denied the request for an adjournment and
ordered the hearing to proceed.
However, site did point out there will he
opportunities to expedite the proceedings
during the hearing itself and either side
can indicate agreement when issues arise.
She said there are also opportunities for
the two parties tthe county and township;
to get together during the proceedings,
outside of the hearings, in an effort to
reach agreement.
Mr, Willins said at the close of the
hearing Tuesday, he was essentially in
agreement with the board. -I see no
reason discussion cannot continue," he
said. "I think that in technical terms we
are very close to settlement, if the political
will is there."
However, without any form of
agreement with the county, the township
must assume that "everything is up for
grans" and they will have to protect the
rights of their client generally, said Mr.
Willms.
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Oxford and Norwich Township
holding weekend conference?
By LINDA HUME
Sentinel -It I w staff writer
NORWICH — Oxford County
and Norwich Township
representatives will likely takee
one more shot at resolving som
outstanding issues surrounding
the Holbrook landfill site to
reduce time and money et an
environmental hearing,
Though no meeting has been
called, early indications are that
the liaison committee
representing the two parties will
attempt to get together this
weekend.
Negotiations broke down at.
the beginning of the week after
the township approved further
clauses added to a tentative
agreement approved in prin-
ciple by county council last
week. The county was not
willing to accept the changes,
But Friday there was concern
expressed by the Environmental
Assessment Board panel as to
the potential of a lengthy
hearing after listening to four
days of evidence presented by
hour meeting in
the panel and the
Willms said he believed the
parties, including represen-
tatives from the Holbrook
Concerned Citizens, would be
discussing matters relating to
the site. County solicitor Tom
Lederer said he was not opposed
to adjourning, but "so far as I
have received instructions, the
county's position has not
changed."
The county objected to four
areas the township added: a
permanent liaison committee to
be set up to deal with future
JOEPEMBER
- not negotiable —
issues arising from thesite, an
arbitration board to make
decisions on issues the liaison
committee couldn't agree on,
acquiring environmental im-
pairment insurance, and paying
the township $80,000 in legal and
hydrogeologicaI fees.
Before inclusion of further
changes by the township, the
agreement had included
numerous resolved issues, in-
cluding the assurance of fresh
water to residents and con-
tingency plans should the site's
contaminants begin to spread,
and agreement that the site be
extended until June, 1984.
'WE'RE STEADFAST'
County public works chair-
man Joe Pember said in an
interview the county is steadfast
in ils position not to give in to the
four proposals.
'I have no objection to
meeting once to try and resolve
HELEN SMITH
— wants reasons —
the issues, but those four points
have to go. They're not
negotiable. That's my position,"
he said. "Until such time as we
have an agreement, all this
evidence will have to be heard,
but as far as we know we do not
have an agreement."
WANTS REASONS
Township councillor -at -large
Helen Smith said she hopes the
liaison committee will meet. She
said she is interested in hearing
the reasons why the county can't
agree to the four issues,
especially the setting up of a
permanent liaison committee.
"We have to speak to our
counsel (Willies) to see if taking
out the four issues is
agreeable," said Mrs. Smith.
"There's been no discussion
since the township added those
things so we'll have to decide
where we stand."
New agreement I
praised,
and all are friends again
NORWICH — The agreement reached on
the operation of the Holbrook landfill site was
lauded by all parties at an environmental
hearing on the site, Wednesday, as a positive
process for dealing with potential en-
vironmental impacts.
In closing remarks, lawyers for Oxford
County, Norwich Township, the Holbrook
Concerned Citizens, and the Ontario Ministry
of Environment (MOE) all agreed the
adoption of the agreement by the Eniron-
mental Assessment Board in its recom-
mendation to the MOE director of approvals
would be meeting the concerns of all in-
volved.
County solicitor Tom Lederer said the
hearing panel should recognize the sincerity
of the agreement, and while it may look like a
settlement could have been reached before
Tuesday, the time spent at the hearing was
dot wasted.
"It's been a useful project," said Lederer.
"It happened in a large part because the
parties were willing to co-operate."
MOE solicitor David Crocker said the
agreement was a worthwhile result of the
negotiation process,
"The process, I personally found very
interesting. There were a lot of people ac.
tively involved," he said. "The relative calm
and quiet of today's (Wednesday's) session
represents the general satisfaction of
yesterday's agreement."
Steven Shrybman, representing the
Holbrook Concerned Citizens, said the
agreement was an important landmark in
that it was the first time the residents got a
chance to participate.
"The hearing and the negotiations that they
spawned allowed my clients the opportunity
of pulling forth their views," he said.
He said the confidence of the farmers,
environmentalists in themselves, in the
decisions made about the site was highly
dictated by their participation.
When we're in agreement, there is little to
say," said township solicitor Harry Poch,
He said the township believes adequate
protection will be the result of the agreement
and requested the hearing panel to make it
the bema of approval for continued use of the
Holbrook site.
A decision on the proposed plan for the site
Isn't expected until late January.
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Livingston - learning about the county
Single issue filled the term
By LINOA HULME
Sentinel -Review staff writer
Looking back on his two years
as warden of Oxford County,
Ross Livingston realises there
was more to the job than dealing
with garbage.
Since he took the position in
ORa, Livingston has also seen
half of the Oxford County
Courthouse basement
renovated, authorised the hiring
of consultants to take a serious
look at industrial Promotion in
Oxford, and has attended more
than 400 meetings and functions
a year, Plus about 90 a year at
the local level.
If Livingston didn't know what
Oxford was all about two years
ago, he said he certainly knows
about it now.
"It's my county," he said.
"When you're in office like that,
you become aware of the fact
that this really is your home. It's
a great county as far as I'm
concerned."
When he took on the position in
1980, Livingston was saddled
with an on -going issue, landfill.
At that point, the hearing on the
pro Salford landfill site
harm been scheduled and the
county didn't own the presently
operating Holbrook landfill site.
ROUGH BATTLE
Livingston's goal was to get
the Salford hearing on track,
which he did thisyear. But the 55
day battle with South -Weal
Oxford Township resulted in the
county losing the hearing.
Now it'll be Livingston's
responsibility as public works
chairman, along with the rest of
the county, to come up with
some contingencies should the
county's appeal to the provincial
cabinet be a useless one.
i While Livingston was in the
chair, the county went through
its first real garbagge crisia when
the Holbrook landfill site closed
last January for three weeks.
Since then, the site has been
the hub of controversy, settled
only a couple of weeks ago with
an agreement with Norwich
Township after about one week
of hearing time.
The cost is Livingston's only
regrat. The county spent
millions on the Salford and
Holbrook sites, making him
wonder if it was really that
necessary an expenditure.
"People, in this hearing
Process, are given the right to
have too much to say without
any responsibility," he said.
"There needs to be more ac-
countability for what people
present to a hearing."
NOT ENOUGH FACT �~
Too much emotion evolves
around the process, said
Livingston, and not enough fact.
Butgomg through the process,
while it seemed like such a
waste of time and money, was
worthwhile in finding out where
the flaws really are, he said.
"It was necessary, I just wish
it didn't cost so much," he said.
While the landfill issue gave
Livingston more headaches and
frustration than anything else he
ever dealt with, he said he's
satisfied with the county's ac-
tions.
Livingston said he believes he
can walk into both
municipalities where disputes
arose. and talk on a friendly
basis.
On the lighter side, he said one
of the most interesting things he
did was meet other wardens and
regional chairmen from other
municipalties. With Oxford
structured as a region rather
than a county, Livingston was
able to talk with regional
chairmen and find out their.
problems and concerns. It
enabled him to prevent what
other monicrpaLhas are finding
as real headaches, such as a
regional policing system.
INEFFICIENCIES
Livingston spoke strongly
t.
or
ROS.S LIVINGSTON
—looking back —
against regional policing when
the issue came to council,
because he had heard it was too
much money and inefficient.
It's been a tough two years„ he
said, but the one thing which
made it easier for him was the
support he received from county
council. The councillors backed
him all the way on his decision -
making, especially when it
came down to a crunch and
some decisions were made prior
to counciJ approval.
Some things Livingston
wanted done council never dealt
with, such as setting up a
county -wide disaster plan and
reviewing the role of the stan-
ding committees.
But you can't do everything,
he realizes.
"Personally, I feel quite a bit
of satisfaction about the term,"
he said. "I said I'd do the best I
could and I did. I think it's all
anybody can do-"
THE LONDON FREE PRESS Monday April 19 1982 Co"ONSTITUTION A5
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Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip arrive on Parliament Hill for Saturday's constitution proclamation
n -n ^.,a., ian�ai i Pccnrtr?ci by members of the Roval Canadian. Mounted Police.
�A portion of the crowd estimated at more that 30,000 watches in anticipation as the ceremonies get
Inrlar wqv MnmPnts later the sea of faces was replaced by a sea of umbrellas .
Glen Skinner of Vancouver, ,U.C., surveys an early;
morning Ottawa skyline as he claims the honor of
being the first of thousands on Parliament :Hill for
the ceremonies. He camped Friday; night behind the
West Block.
On what is called a "walkabout" in royal visit parlance, Queen Elizabeth and Prime Minister
Pierre Trudeau chat with some of the throng after the ceremonies.
With an umbrella set to ward off the worst, Saturday's
heavy rain was not enough to erase the obvious '
i.oy of these two young women.
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Triggers of conflict Ity
At Sarajevo in what is now Yu- Lebanon keeping that country
goslavia, a madman with a gun hostage as a province of Syria). rto mankind
shot an Austrian archduke and Israel is governed by a prime
his wife and triggered the First minister absolutely determined The forces of modernity; bent
'World War. to provide his country with se- on draining all life from the
Millions of men and women cure frontiers. Iiis'sountry's English language, have plun-
died. In its aftermath that war northern border is its last unsedared I3oget's Thesaurus -
left such chaos that out of it cured frontier: probably because there's noth
grew another madman, Adolf If unrest and rioting continue ing of interest left for them to
Hitier,,whose actions led to the indefinitely, Israeli attitudes will uproot in the Book of Common
deaths of another 80 or more harden, in government and Prayer or the living James Ver-
million- people. among the people. There would sign of the Bible, earlier casual -
This week in Jerusalem, yet be support for an Israeli strike / ties of trendiness.
another madman, with a fixation into southern Lebanon because The 'Thesaurus the standard
against Arabs, turned his gun on Israelis assume, rightly, that ri- t' ' a guide to synonyms and auto-
g g prayer and unrest in the occupied ." nyms, has renounced sexism. In
Muslims gathering for ra er ots
and shot several, sparking riots territories are PLO inspired. ° the new edition, God is no longer
that still continue. Given the ten- Another factor in the Israeli 06 the Father, and the Thesaurus is
sion along the Lebanese border equation is that the United no longer just a lazy men's book.
between Israeli forces and the States is preoccupied with the Moreover, the word "man-
Palestine Liberation Organiza- Falkland Islands crisis. Secre- ! kind" is no longer an acceptable
tion, that American -born, Is- tary of State Alexander Haig has , synonym for "humanity" be-
g Y , g g cause it implies sexual bias. In
raeli-immi rant madman may been shuttling between Ar en- �
yet precipitate another war in tina and Britain, interrupting his the revised edition of the The
the Middle East. travels only to return to Wash- ;, . , .. r f. saurus, mankind is a restrictive
The area is ripe for it. With ington. A deputy was dispatchednoun, applicable to men' only —
American help, Israel has a to the Middle East to try to the kind no doubt who et to-
firml - ar n e y gu t ed treaty with damp down Israeli aggressive
k ¢ : �•DAY�` gather once a weep to make beer,
Egypt which protects its south- ness, '°�"` commercials.
ern flank. Syria isn't ready to Complicating Haig's prob :,'°
charge up the sloping plains lems, to say nothing of President 't, "It reflects the language of
from Damascus to try to regain Ronald Reagan's, is that Russia
° the 1980s," explains Susan
Lloyd, the person maim
the Golan Heights (not while so is undoubtedly building itself up s °�; .,6, • _ ' e .• ®° . Y p y respon-
many of its forces are tied up in, to a change in leadership. If the - sible for stripping the Thesaurus
civilian dictatorship there is of sexism. "It makes much more
ex licit the existence of
ever challenged by iniIiLary
leaders anxious to set up their
u"VVr'. ILHI 111V� TdSL
P
women."
own version of a dictatorship,
Painting the picture with a
have to have a footnote in Eng-
and weight of food is confused.
Maybe so, but it could be hard
Reagan, Haig, the Israeli`s and a
broad brush, there's no doubt
dish texts explaining a mile in
Irrationalities abound; an 85-
on poets and other phrasemak-
neat man other people could
great Y p� p
metric is the wayto o nation-
g'
terms of kilometres. Not to
ear -old cheesemaker says he'll
Y �'
ers, Imagine John Donne writ -
"Any
face tempestuous times.
The Americans must some-
ally as `well as internationally.
In
In many respects the metric
worry; much of Chaucer s Eng-
lish has to be explained to most
have to go out of business if he's
forced to equip his plant with
ing, person's death dimin-
fishes me, because I am involved
times feel they're trying to put
out 'half a dozen merrily burning
is similar to the flag de-
bate of Lester Pearson s day.
readers. No one argues that we
should return to his English to
g
new machinery to produce kilo -
rams instead of pounds of
g p
in personkind
Now we know why the bell
fires with a single watering can..
Then, many older folk protested
cope with the technology and ter-
cheese; a retired driver of a car
tolls.
As Israelis have demonstrated
in anguish over Canada replac-
minology of the 20th century.
gets a ticket for misinterpreting
several times, however, there is
a limit to their willingness to lis-
ing the Union Jack under which
so many young men had fought
What is irritating to many Is
the federal government's pres-
a road sign; a customer watch-
ing pennies miscalculates and is
Their words
ten, If Prime Minister Mena-
and died.
sure to convert so rapidly. The
embarrassed by not having
chem Begin derides it's time to
go into Lebanon and cleanup the
Today, Canadian young people
bureaucrats who are acting on
political directions argue that
enough money for a kilo of su-
gar.
"The trouble with the East -
West relationship is that even if
. threat to Israel represented by
proudly carry the red maple leaf
on, their back packs. Its striking
the change is slower than origin-
What's needed with the metric
both sides were determined to
the PLO presence between the
Lebanon border and the Litanl,
color and shape instantly identi-
ally planned. They're right. It
should be even slower.
conversion is a. little more
thoughtfulness and a of less
'tot
improve the climate they cannot
trust each other absolutely. I am
river, he'll act first and discuss
fees Canada and Canadians
around the world,
With the pace forced as it is,
aggressive determin
to
skeptical of their finding ways o
it with Americans later:
the over-40 age group is having
shove the medicine d
wn every- -
living together before the end of
Given the volatile situation
In time, as new generations of
trouble adjusting. It is particu-
one's throat -®- form
st of those
the century."
created by a madman's Easter
school children work their sums
larly aggravating in food stores,
in the upper half oft the
age spec-_
—Andre Fontaine, chief edi-
Sunday shooting spree, anything
only in metric, Robert Frosts
where a lifetime of mental cal-
trum are not sick from metric,
for of the liberal French newspa-
can happen,
"miles to go before I sleep" will
culations about relative price
they're sick of it,
per Le iVloriaie.
Work-s,%ha%ring Lconcept
LETTERS TO THE EDIT
0 IZ
W11111in" flew
(ft;onverts
h
the right social choices, a said, the new
r not, 11 sere reporting theatre
By leonerd Shifrin
The writer is a freelance journalist sped-
technology can be a boon rather than a
nurse.
Sir: For how long are the readers of your
Bale seems to regret that 12 productions a
theatre space one of the busiest and most
alizin in social issues
9
If he had been at the Quebec govern-
ment's recent economic summit, he
newspaper to suffer the broad and stead-
fast incompetence of your reporter Doug
year have not been forthcoming. I can lo-
sate no one who recalls such an intention or
flexible in the community: .
A great deal has been happening over the
would have been very upset to hear one
Bale? Over the past decade or so, as profes-
pledge,; nor can I think of any theatre group
years in the painting; sculpture, music,
I'm not sure that backing into the fu-
t
of the union representatives propose 'a
sional, amateur and student theatres, have
— especially one composed of students —
dance and theatre of this city. Proximity to
Y y
ture in spite of yourself counts as being
urtax on the introduction of new tech® s
made every effort to develop in this coin.-,
which could with any amount of money unr
the galleries, theatres and concert halls of
visionary, but let's give Employment,
nolo' in order to save jobs.
Y j
munity, Bale has remained as ill-informed
dertake such a program. The 70 or so pro-
Toronto, Cleveland, Detroit and Stratford
Minister Lloyd Axworthy the benefit of
Unions are avid supporters of shorter
about the nature of theatrical art as I must
ductfons 'ln this theatre since 1972 (produe-
also allows Londoners to see and hear some
the doubt. He was, after all, wise
work weeks but not of work -sharing. In-
confess I am about the mysteries, of the
tions which attempted to cover the widest
of the best in North America. It is a pity
enough to ignore his own advice...
stead of a full week's a for our da s
stock market: The Free Press; however,
possible range of theatrical period and
that The Free Press cannot serve its read -
Last summer, when the unemploy-
on the job, work -sharing means four
3 g
has not invited me to contribute to its Your
style), in addition to the exceedingly
ers better in its reporting and reviewing of
ment rate was seven per cent and Ot-
,
days pay plus 'one day unemploy-
Money page.
crowded schedule of dramatics course,
such events.
0
merit insurance — about 90 per cent of
It is not a question of whether Bale hap-
workshops and rehearsals, have made this
London GERALD PARKER.
former earnings in most cases. And
peris to like or dislike a .production. What is
that, say the labor organizations, is a
step in the wrong direction.
irritating is the feeling that Bale simply
does not know enough. He does not seem to
/.�
a roar t might 1 rt wars
r"
In view of the flood of applications -
how language, dance, movement, cos -
x
y
engendered by Ottawas work -sharing
offer -- so many that funding for the
fknow
uming, painting, gg, c, sound
lighting, music,
and acting combine and interact in simple
to the theatrical
Sir: Every morning when I read the news
it seems all that's in the headlines is war.
need fear military service. The older men
can fight the modern wars just as well as
rc"
>
program has been increased ninefold -
t fig interesting that management or -
and complex ways create
Nor has he seemed, over the
It seems, that soon there won't be a single
country that isn't directly or indirectly in-
the young; •they can press missile buttons
man rockets and drivtanks. '
as well as union leaders
years,
years, to have explored those social, psy-.
volved in a war of some kind. The world is
Every time we have a war it kills off the
tt
hanizations
ave attacked it. According to the Cana-
diaii Chamber of Commerce it's just a
chological, religious, artistic and political -
experiences and events which have been
slowly becoming a not so -nice place to live
and, what's more, there's nowhere else to
best of the world's youth. Those who don't
die come home maimed, while the old men
,.
new kind of disguised welfare, paid for
g'
by employer and employee premiums,
shaping and informing the theatre of our
time as well as the manner in which we in-
o t p
g o escape the inevitable.
Most of the people of the world today
d
who send them off to fight sit home an,
drink their booze and move pins around on
fi
hreason it costs
the unemf to mesctvlytsurance fundito
terpret that of earlier times;
Bale's °columns do not reflect wide or serf
theatre
want peace, but I know as well as anyone
else that there s no magic formula to make
a map.
It seems the men who dream u these
pay five workers one days worth of
ous reading, nor significant expert-
people quit killing one another, so this is'a
wars should do the fighting. And while. I'
L
Lloyd
' Axworthy
benefits than to pay one worker five
days worth is that the normal two -week
arise as a spectator, such as might give'his
opinions about Shakespeare, Jonson, Beck-
new approach.
Propose a,treaty binding all nations not to
no psychologist, I think if we forced the
older leaders to fight their own wars there
waiting .period before benefits start-
ett, Moliere, Pinter, Ibsen, Shaw or, for
put an man into the uniform of his county
p Y y
would be damned few of them — wars, not
doesn't apply to work -sharing. A second
that matter, Porky Pig, substance or au-
thority,
until his 50th birthday. If world leaders
old leaders,
tawa s official prognosticators expected
reason is that work -sharing payments
,
Recent columns about Reaney's Shivaree,
would agree, few men in the world would
Thedford WARREN MOLOY
it to stay that way, the employment
don't reduce a recipients entitlement to
future e benefits as a regular claim
and the Drama Workshop at the University
minister presented' Parliament with two
task force reports, one on the labor
of Western Ontario, reflect something of
Bale's difficulty in coping with what he sees
hat happenedto oasis, of -democracy'.)
market and the other on unemployment
The deadline for approval of work-
sharing applications is supposed to be
and hears. In the former instance, a sub -
Sir: A few" years ago an Israeli Jew of
the Dome of the Rock Mosque in Jerusalem
insurance.
According to the labor market report,
stantive analysis of the Beckwith-Reane y
collaboration (rendered interesting, and at
Australian origin marched into Jerusalem s
g
Al Aksa Mosque, the third holiest shrine in
and went on a killing rampage. The result:
three Arabs slaughtered and dozens
the problem of the 1990s would be find=
ing enough skilled workers to fill all the
times problematical, in its fusion of very
early Reaney with early and later Beck-
Islam, and set the mosque on fire. The Is-
wounded. The Israeli authorities claimed
"disturbed,"
available jobs.'And the unemployment
�Y
with) is avoided by irrelevant twaddle
raeli authorities claimed the man was men-
tally disturbed, and that they could not be
that the man was: and quickly
hustled him away from the enraged wor-
insurance report warned that schemes
such as work -sharing could make things
'�
about musical quality in human speech, and
musically ignorant reflections on legato hit-
held responsible for the action of a de-
shippers;
worse by discouraging redundant work-
ting staccato.
mented person.'
«
One mustwonder-whether the state of Is -
rael has become a haven for demented peo-
ers from retraining and relocating
In his comments regarding the celebra-
A scant year later unknown Israeli ter-
pie setting fire to houses of God, shooting
where the jobs are,
Six months later, with unemployment
tion of 10 years of the Drama Workshop,
rorists booby -trapped the automobiles of .
the three leading West Bank Palestinian
down worshippers praying to their maker,
rising like a rocket, Axworthy an- °
5l
mayors, an act which resulted in one mayor
mowing down demonstrating school chf1-
dren with automatic weaponry, and fright-
nounced that the Unemployment Incur-
once Acts -sharing dos-
u �e Se
having his legs blown off, another losing his
ening the wits out of helpless Palestinian
work provision,
mant sines 1979, would'be reactivated.
life, and a third losing one foot. The culprits
were never caught, perhaps for lack of try-
mothers in the middle of the night would
And now, with the jobless rate at a post-
Depression high of nine per cent, he has
Sir: I have noted for some time The Free
Press s penchant for the u e of puns in its
ing by the authorities, and . the horrible
crime was soon forgotten:
certainly indicate that a trend in that direc-
tfon has become prevalent o Israel.
pronounced work=sharing the success
story of the year.
Leonard
headlines. When appropriate, injecting a
little humor into the news is enjoyable, but
Recently an Israeli army reservist, in an
What d justice a that oasis of demos-
racy and justice; we have heard. so snitch
More than 33,000. employees in over
600 workplaces are currently sharing
hifClrl
your: paper carries it too far.
I was particularly dismayed with the
Israeli army uniform .and armed with a
standard Israeli army rifle, Charged into
about'? Perhaps it never was such::
London M. H. A�iIRY
jobs, and 14,500 layoffs have been av
April; 6 front page headline: Royal Navy
eried as a result. By, the time the pro-
grand's $90 million budget has been fully
May 28, and the maximum benefit pe-
riod is supposed to be six months. That
sails, Carrington sinks. The Falkland ,Is -
lands dispute is serious, Lives already have
Poor maintenance threat to safety
committed; the number of layoffs
May deadline is almost certain to be ex-
been lost and a respected British cabinet
avoided will be about 40,000. That
tended, and the maximum length for a
minister has sadly resigned in a'growing in-
Sir: Where is the maintenance crew for
into the station, I also reported the ice coil-
means a national unemployment rate
work -sharing arrangement 'may be as
ternational crisis. Word foolery has no
the IL.ondon Via station? Last December we
dition to a station employee. He assured fine
one-third of a - per cent dower than it
well.
place in thin storyt Indeed, its pour taste is
oould not get down the outside stairs be'
the ice would be taken care of but when I
would otherwise be.
If so, that could qualify as another
reinforced by James Reston's thoughtful
cause they were completely covered with a
returned lih hours later, nothing had been
Last spring, the noted United States
visionary act forced by circumstances.
article about Lord Carrington on your April
heavy snowfall. With hundreds of people
done to cover the ice with sand or remove
economist Wassily Leontief told Labor
In its present incarnation, work -sharing
9 editorial page, How to resign with honor
travelling out of this station and the holiday
it.
Canada's conference on micro-technol-
is very much a temporary scheme re-
intact.
traffic adding to the hazard, it was very,
Will someone with a sense of responsibil-
ogy that we will soon have to choose be-
sponding to the winter peak of this
The silliness and poor judgment exempli-
dangerous.
ity do something to ensure the safety of
tween having, say, a third of the labor
year's record 'unemployment. Ex-
fied in the April 6 headline is at best unpro-
Recently I travelled to London and while
passengers before some elderly person falls
force unemployed and reducing every-
tended, it could become a permanent
fessional and raises doubts aabout the hu-
leaving 'the station I noticed the outside
and suffer: a fiprinn.q ini,iry snap to tht- care-