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It's a once -in -a -lifetime opportunity to get to know ourselves
and one another and to celebrate together where we have
come from, who we are, and where we are going.
It's a rare chance to set aside for a year our customary reti-
cence and share the pride in our achievements as a people,
and the spirit of starting fresh which has brought us to this
point and holds such promise for the future.
1984 marks the 200th anniversary of the first major settle-
ments in this province, but reachesbeyond this to commemo-
rate alike Natives and Newcomers, Voyageur and Loyalist,
artisan and artist, entertainer and inventor, people from
around the world who have journeyed here, shaped and
shared in our community life, and enlarged our sense of the
possible.
And more than this, 1984 affords the unique opportunity to
rediscover ourselves, and explore both our heritage and our
broadening horizons.
We will remind ourselves of the earlyPrench explorers, trad-
ers and missionaries as we will honour all those who have
settled here as well as our Native Community who have
more than 10,000 years of living in harmony with the land.
We invite each of you now to the powwows, pageants and
parades, that are being planned in cities, towns and villages
across Ontario.
And we invite you all - citizens, community groups, mu-
nicipalities, and service organizations - to join in, and play
yourpart and share your plans for this very special year.
Hon. William G. Davis Hon. Margaret Birch
Premier Minister
CELEBRAnNG TOGETHER 1984.
During 1984 there will be a host of special Bicentennial
events and celebrations, and fetes and festivals sponsored
by school and community groups, volunteer organiza-
tions and any number of municipalities all across the
province.
For example, our capital city of Toronto, which is cele-
brating its 150th anniversary of incorporation, will host,
among other events, spectacular sailing regattas and an
international arts and music festival. And the Royal
Ontario Museum will present a major exhibition entitled
Georgian Elegance in a New Land.
The Village of Woodville in Victoria County is celebra-
ting its centennial, as is the Excelsior Band in Forest -
Sudbury's new Science Centrewill open duringthespring
of 1984. In Prescott, theBrigadeoftheAmericanRevolu-
tion will hold a grand encampment for the first time
outside the United States. The Six Nations Indians near
Brantford will mark the 200th anniversary of their set-
tlement along the Grand River, while in Prince Edward
County, South Marysburghplans to hold reunion, old-
time parade, street dance and mariners' church service.
Industry, culture, sports and recreation, individuals,
volunteer groups and service dubs, were invitingyou to
join in the jubilee spirit - and mark this anniversary. We
would like to know what your plans are so that we can
share them with others through a Bicentennial news-
letter. Write: Ontario's Bicentennial, Box 1984, Queen's
Park, Toronto, M7A 1N3.
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Lotto dream goes on --
tothe tune of $10 million
By Bill Walker Toronto Star
Your dream of instant riches is still alive, Cana.
da — only now it's a $10 million dream.
No one won yesterday's $7 million Lotto 6/49
jackpot, setting up another week of lottery fever
with a prize expected to be $10 million or more.
The stingy Lotto 6/49 machine beat the more
than 3 to 1 odds that someone would win yester-
day's draw by choosing the numbers 1, 7, 14, 31, 41
and 43, with a bonus number of 12.
Though an amazing 37,876,074 tickets were sold
across Canada last week, no one was able to match
the six numbers between t and 49 drawn yester-
day. A winning ticket would have earned a cool
$7.072,577.10 in tax-free dollars.
The lottery's computer shows, however, a Mark-
ham ticket holder won $246,201.30 by matching
five numbers and having the bonus number,
Wendy Horne of the Ontario Lottery Corp. said.
Because so many tickets were sold, lottery offi-
cials were almost certain a grand -prize winner
would be found yesterday.
The odds of matching the numbers are about 14
million to one. But with more than three times as
many tickets sold, the odds said that at least three
people should have [Hatched the number.
Record sales
"Let's put it this way, we've never sold more
than 14 million tickets for a draw before this week
and we've had 26 winners in 82 draws," Horne
said.
The last winner won on the Dec. 3 draw and col-
lected just more than $500,000.
Lotto 6/49 made record sales this week because
the past four draws failed to produce a winner —
while the grand prize kept growing.
The $7 million up for grabs yesterday was the
largest lottery prize ever offered in Canada. Next
week's prize, which Horne admits could exceed
$10 million if ticket booths are stampeded, will be
another record.
Convention
gets green light
without a peep
For the first time in years, a
recommendation for Oxford
County to provide a ttnspitality
suite at the annual Good Roads
convention in Toronto was ap-
proved without argument.
There wasn't even a peep, as
the administration and finance
committee recommended the
expenditure on a room at the
three day convention be&n-
ing Feb, IB in Toronto.
Warden Charlie Tatham,
clerk Harold Walls, and
treasurer Howard Day were
authorized to attend the con.
vention, but it's anticipated
there will be a significant tur-
nout from Oxford because this
year's president is East 2orra-
Tavistock road superintendent
County council also approv-
ed a SM expenditure on non-
alcoholic supplies for the coup-
ty room.
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Handful of losers- Fanny Lemesurier, holds
up the balls that were to produce the winner in
Lotto 6/49, No one had all six right.
Principle posses
-but the price
brings concern
By LINDA NULMf
Sentinel -Review staff writer
It's dne of those, 'it sounds good on
paper, but what about the cost'' � ="
proposals.
A suggestion by Oxford County's public
works committee to seriously investigate
the feasibility of building agarbage in-
cineration plant at the Oxford Regional - -
Centre was adopted in principle by coun-
cil, Wednesday.
But more than one councillor was wor-
vied about more than the capital and
operational expenses — it's those whopp-
ing great hearing costs the county might
run into should there by any opposition.
So far there are only a few estimated CHARLIE
figures, handed to council in a report by TATHAM
Warden Charlie Tatham.
An Ontario Ministry of Energy computer determined it may be
feasible to burn about 15,ODO to 20,000 tons of waste a year to Pro-
duce heat or steam to be sold to the ORC- It's roughly estimated it
will cost $15 per ton of processed garbage.
Conn. Wallis Hammond said testing and
hearing costs may be extreme. He refer-
red to the Canada Cement Lafarge project
to burn liquid industrial waste. The plant
has spent in excess of $500,000 already for
a three month test burn. H it's turned
down by the Environmental Assessment
Board, that money will by and large by
wasted. IMP —
Acting public works chairman Phil ..
Poole said the county would no doubt be in-
volved in a hearing, but he added there are
already examples of this type of
technology in action in other palls of the
country.
But good technology or not, Conn. Joe WALLIS
Pember said the county would be wasting HAMMOND
money if it even contemplates getting into
a hearing.
He said the county wouldn't have a chance financially as long
as the provincial environmental approvals system remains the
way it is and as long as there is a NIMBY (Not-in-mv-back-yard)
syndrome. These two factors combined don't make it
economically feasible to go to a hearing with any kind of pro-
' •I feel just as sorry for the people oppos-
-
ing." he said, "but until the NIMBY situa-
tion stops, I don't think we should spend a
nickel if there's a hearing."
The proposal is far from hearing status.
At present a series of letters will be sent
out to the Ontario Ministries of Energy,
'>
Community and Social Services,
Municipal Affairs, and Environment ask-
ing for comments and useful information
about the province's longterm plans for
the ORC.
County officials will also be inquiring
about subsidies for a. feasbility study on
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the incineration proposal.
POOLE
Won't ap Salford decimon
Oxford County won't appeal the decision
by the Ontario supreme court last month
Permitting South-West Oxford Township to
take the county and the province to court
over the proposed Salford landfill site,
Mr. Justice Robert Held ruled against
the couoty's attempt to have the town-
ship's lawsuit switched from a trial court
to a divisional court for a judicial review
on December 22,
The county had attempted to have the
lawsuit, which seeks to quash a cabinet
i decision approving plans for the Salford
i site, handled by the supreme court as a
Judicial review instead of through a trial,
which could take more than a year to
finish.
Warden Charlie Tatham said Thursday
the county won't appeal the ruling
requiring the case to go to a trial court.
As well as oxford County, the lawsuil
also names Ontario's lieutenant -governor.
in -council, Attorney -General Roy Me.
Murtry, Environment Minister Andy
Brandt and former environment minister
Keith Norton.
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Increases limited to five per cent
County staff won't merit raises
By LINDA NBIME
Sentinel -Review staff writer
No merit increments will be
.given to Oxford County
salaried staff in 1984, county
council decided Wednesday,
despite the obT7actions of some
councillors wAo believe this
type of wage restraint.is
unfair.
The administration and
finance committee made the
recommendation after calling
for a five per cent wage in-
crease policy for the year.
Committee vice-chairman
Wallis Hammond said it's an-
ticipated the province will pass
Oxford
County
Briefs
Oxford County Warden Charlie Tatham
will be taking part in a panel discussion on
i the ministry of environment's Blueprint
for Waste Management when he attends
the annual meeting of the rural section of
the Association of Municipalities of On-
tario on February 7 in Toronto.
Members of Oxford County council will
be visiting the recycled Wellington County
Administration Centre in Guelph on
Monday, January 30 to visit the jail there
that has been stripped and prepared for
tendering. Oxford County has initiated a
study into the recycling of its own jail
building in Woodstock and is interested in
the steps taken and the success of the
Wellington County project.
wage restraintlegislation
along these lines. The county
could run into financial dif-
ficulties, not to mention trou-
ble with the wage restraint
board, if it offers wages
beyond the confines of the pro-
vincial legislation. The in-
crease is expected to be five
per cent, period, he said, and
that includes increments.
But the argument didn't
wash with Coun. Joe Pember.
He said merit increments
shouldn't be looked upon as
just another raise, but as a
management tool. If council
wants to bandy about with it,
the whole ment system should
Oxford County council approved the
replacement of its Xeros 7000 copier with a
Xerox 8200 copier at an all inclusive
monthly rate of $1,495,30 for a five year
period. The cost will drop after five years
to $420 a month. Based on past per-
iormance of the 7000 copier, over seven
years, the additional increase per month
will average out to approximately $30. The
new copier was required because of in-
creasing breakdowns and rising repair
costs and time lost.
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be abolished entirely because
council's decisions won't affect
everyone equitably.
Coun. Phil Poole agreed with
Pember, calling the recom-
mendation "most unfair."
"We're being fair to the guys
who've already achieved it,-
he said, "but you're picking on
Individual ppeeoopple. 'You're not
treating everyhrxly l)hc same.
It's not fair to the people on the
lower level. They're getting a
lower salary to start with."
He later added the answer
may be adopting a four per
cent salary increase policy,
leaving the remaining one per
cent for merit increases.
Warden Charlie Tatham said
there have been tough
economic times in recent
years and the county is
obligated to restrain where it
can. "My own feeling is five
per cent is five per cent, no
matter which way you want to
give it.'
Tatham's comments were
augmented by those of Corm.
Les Cook, who said the com-
mittee's recommendations are
a way of handling wage
restraint responsibly.
"Everybody is.. guaranteed
some raise. In this county,
you'll agree, a lot of people
have not had a job much tens
an increase for some time. I
don't believe deleting (merit
increments( for one year is
gonig to discourage our
employees." be said.
OUR 130TH YEAR WOODSTOCK-]NGERSOLI , ONTARIO, FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 19a4 THWTf CENTS
Eight allegations of negligence
leveled against Oxford County
By GREG ROTH W ELL
Sentinel -Review staff writer
Eight allegations of
negligence on the part of Ox-
ford County authorities are
contained in a statement of
claim filed this week in a
lawsuit arising out of a motor
vehicle accident last summer
In which a Princeton or
woman was seriously injured.
Among the at allegations
contained in the statement I'll.
ad by lawyer James Searle,
who is representing the
woman, her hustwnd and one
of her sons, is one that the
county failed to keep its
highways in proper repair, and
another that the county allow-
ed a stop sign to deteriorate,
Other allegations are:
• that the county failed to
remove earth and structures
which it is claimed obstructed
the view of motorists ap-
proaching the intersection of
Oxford County roads 3 and 8 at
the Village of Washington,
where the accident occurred
last Aug. le;
• that the county failed to
create or maintain sight Him
on the approaches to the
intersection;
• that it failed to install
red and amber warning lights
at the intersection;
• that it failed to install
corrugated warning strips
before the intersection;
• that it failed to warn
motorists that it was "a
dangerous intersection";
• and that it allowed
maximum spy limits in or
near the village "that were
excessive."
Margaret Marion
Ainsworth, of RR 1, Princeton
was left a virtual quadriplegic
as a result of the two -car acci-
dent. She was in hospital until
Dec. 23, and remains an oub
patient at University Hospital
in London. Her am David 14.
was hnspitalixed until OC40ber
as a result of the accident, in
which he received fractures
and scarring.
Mrs. Ainsworth, her sort, and
husband Ronald were
pnssongers in the couple's car,
which was being driven by
their daughter, Linda
Graham, of RR 4, Red Deer,
Alta.
WILLLE MAN
car was involved in a
with a car dnven by
Beurermann, of
Mrs. Graham, who is also
been alleged to have been
negligent, and the County of
Oxford have been named
defendsnta in the action. An
in sate txtabar county evwn-
cil awed the fpstallathvn of
tom ships to the pavement
Of Cdtmty Road 3 to warn
motorists of the slop sign at fist
ieterseetion. The recomsopt,
dation came from the pubtle
works committee acting on a
petition signed by 43 residea[a
of the Washington area. Tice
committee rejected the pelf
IIW1e1. request that a red and
amber flashing light be
erected at the [Mareecfioe.
Here are the big ones that got away
Ontario winner scoops
$13.8 million in Lotto draw
By Kathleen Kenna
Toronto Star
Someone in Ontario holds
the only winning ticket to the
Lotto 6/49 jackpot of
$13,890,588.80 - the largest
lottery loot in North Ameri-
can history.
Lottery officials know where the
ticket was sold, but they won't
give out that information before
tomorrow
They should know then if the
winner is an individual or a group,
said Chris French, secretary -
treasurer of the Interprovincial
Lottery Corp.
And if the ticket holder(s) are
planning to celebrate, they should
keep it quiet, he added."Say noth-
ing to anyone and call the lottery
office at (416) 961-6262 to make
certain of the number.They're bet-
ter to keep it to themselves or
they'll have all kinds of people
bothering them."
Drinking -driving committee
in response to a request from the
Province's attorney -general Roy Mc-
Murtry, Oxford County councillors voted
last week to approve in principle the
establishment of a committee to deal with
the problem of drinking and driving,
The matter was then referred to the
county's health and social services
committee for a recommendation con-
cerning its terms of reference and the
membership on such a committee.
Woodstock Councillor Lenore Young
voiced her strong support for the for-
mation of such a committee. "I don't know
if it will do any good ... but the initiative
should be taken by somebody to do
something about this situation, Homebody
should start somewhere,"
In his letter to municipalities across the
province requesting the formation of such
community committees, Mr. McMurtry
stated it would be counter -productive for
the provincial government to try to impose
any specific program on any community.
"You, your colleagues and your citizens
are the treat judges of what would be the
most effective measures in your own
community," said Mr. McMurtry and
Marlene Catterall, president of the
Association of Municipalities of Ontario
tAMOI.
"We realize the law and the courts have
a significant role to play in this seemingly
Intractable problem but we must try to
stop drinking and driving before it oc-
curs " he said, "While our courts can play
a punitive role, our citizens must be in-
volved in the preventative role experts and
citizens alike regard as so necessary."
The attorney -general said the new
drinking -driving countermeasures unit
now established within his ministry will do
everything possible to assist the citizens of
Ontario as they participate in various local
programs.
WILSON — At Victoria
Hospital, London, on Saturday
January 21, 1984, Cecil W.
Wilson, age (37, of 44 Clark
Side Road East, Ingersoll.
Beloved husband of Helen
(Banbury) Wilson. Dear father
of Mrs. James Town (Ellen),
Woodstock.,Dear grandfather
Of Jay,Jon and Jeff Town.
Dear brother of Marlon, Lon-
don, Walt, R R 1 Salford, Dr,
Delbert, Delta, Ontario,
Friends will be received at the
McBeath Funeral Home, 248
Thames Street South, Inger-
soll, after 7:00 this evening,
where complete service will be
held on Wednesday January
26 at 2:00 p.m., Audrey
Whitney of Belford United
Church officiating. Temporary
entombment, Ingersoll
Mausoleum. Interment later In
Harris Street Cemetery.
Remembrances to the
Memorlal Fund of Belford
United Church, or the Renal
Unit of Vfotorla Hospital, may
be arranged for at the funeral
home.
The Doily Sentinel -Review, Fri., Jan. 13, 1984 Page 3
Supreme Court ease next week
County joins citizens
battling Hydro hearings
By LINDA NULME
Sentinel -Review staff writer
Oxford County will be among several municipalities and citizens groups
making presentations before three Ontario Supreme Court judges Jan. 18 to try
and quash hearing proceedings regarding Ontario Hydro's proposed transmis-
sion line routes.
The county will be arguing the citizens along
ridor from the Bruce Nuclear Development to a
the proposed Highway 401 route weren't given
London area transformer station. The joint
sufficient notice prior to the corridor hearings
board chose the at-3. which involves a route
in Stratford in 1982 that their properties may be
from Brute to the Barrie area and from London
chosen for a 500 kilovolt transmission line.
to either Nanticoke, Milton or Middleport. The
Planning commissioner Peter Atcheson said
board added Highway 4o1 as a study area in its
the county will be represented by lawyer Marc
decision. That route was previously not includ-
Somerville, who was obtained by a special
ad in the proposed corridors butis now being
county steering committee formed to oppose
recommended as the preferred route by Hydro.
Hydro's actions.
The county is following in the footsteps of the
MOPING FOR NEW NEARING
Central Ontario Coalition, a large citizens
"We hope the court strikes down the'82 deei
group representing residents in the Bruce to
sign and a new hearing is ordered before a new
Bartle corridor. In December the Coalition fil-
joint board," said Gilbert,
ed application with the Ontario Supreme Court
He speculated the Coalition's chances aft
for a judicial review into the notice given by
good that a decision will be rendered in its
Hydro for the hearing before a Consolidated
favor. The group has conducted surveys in
Heating Board in Stratford in 1982,
dicating less than three per tent of the people
INSUFFICIENT NOTICE
Jack Gilbert, chairman of the
legal committee, said yeste
municipalities of Cambridge, Kit
Waterloo Region are among the pa
pear at the court proceeding to
Oagoode Hall in Toronto. He added
be is also Involved, as well as o
groups not connected with the Dual
The group is arguing: thousands
Kite
affected by the proposed transmission lo,e
routes knew they might be imolved,prior to the
Coalition's Stratford hearing.
rday the "From a pure matter of law, we're satisfied
and we
tin the right track," he said.
rties to ap- Only one day has been set aside for the pro
be hold m ceedings, but Gilbert anticipates at least one
> nergy Pro- other day will be needed to hair alt the
thar citizens arguments, It may take half a day just to in.
icon, troduce the lawven, he added,
due to insufficient notice.
'the Stratford hearings involved selecting one
of six proposed corriders for the transmission
line routes. Hydro's choice was the Md, a eor-
The preliminary, hearing for the route stage
hearing before the ,joint board is scheduit\l for
Feb, 14at the Fairview Centre in Woodstock. l(
the judicial review is not completed by then,
Gilbert said the Coalition will ask the tvwrt to
postpone the preliminary hearing date.
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Former township Mayor
Cecil W. Wilson dies
Cecil W. Wilson, 67, farmer mayor of
South West Oxford Township Council, died
Saturday. January 21, 1984 at Victoria
iHospital, London.
Mr. Wilson was mayor of South West
Oxford Township from 1981 to 1982, and
over the years was active in area politics.
He was secretary -treasurer for the
Dereham Township School board, former
chairman of the Ingersoll District
Collegiate Institute School Board, and
served on West Oxford Township council
from 1968 to 1980,
He was a director of the Oxford Mutual
Insurance board, and a member and past
master of King Hiram Lodge 37 AF and
AM.
Mr. Wilson was born in Dereham
So, nobody's perfect
Township, the son of the late Mr. and Mrs.
Walter Wilson.
He farmed on the first concession of
Dereham Township for a number of years.
He is survived by his wife, the former
Helen Banbury; his daughter Mrs. James
(Ellen) Town of Woodstock; three grand-
sons, Jay, Jon and Jeff Town, and three
brothers, Morton of London, Walt of R.R.1,
Salford, and Dr. Delbert of Delta, Ontario.
He was predeceased by his brother
Leroy.
Audrey Whitney of Salford United
Church will officiate the funeral service at
McBeath Funeral Home today at 2 p.m.
Temporary entombment at Ingersoll
Mausoleum, interment later in the Harris
Street Cemetery,
Only Ed
Down
and
the warden
get gold
stars
for
attendance
By LINDA HULME
Sentinel -Review staff writer
Out of 24 Oxford County council meetings since the inaugural held Dec. 8,
1982, only twice have all councillors
been present for the roll call.
Tardiness among several councillors
was rampant last year as well as
absenteeism, though no one councillor
stood out as a painfully obvious abuser.
Attendance records
Harris of Ingersoll (late six times), Walt
for the current coun-
cil's first year show
Wilson of South-West Oxford Township, Nell
Hostetler of East Zorra-Tavistock., Jim Glbb
only two councillors
of
Zorra Township, and Howard Cook of South -
worthy of a gold star
West Oxford were all absent twice.
and a handshake.
Coun. Wallis Hammond of Zorra was absent
Warden Charlie
once and late once.
Tatham and Conn. Ed
Down of Blandford- `fie
IMPORTANT TO BE THERE
Blenheim Township a `T
stand up and take a
Warden Tatham said he's not disturbed by
bow for in the only
the late arrivals and absenteeism.
It's important to be there, to lake part and to
members who didn't Fn
miss a meeting and
vote, he said, but it's not all there is to the job,
DOWN
"They're important, yes. We have to have
were n tlme to boot.
Coup, Don McKay of East Zorra-Tavistock
Township, Coun, Les Cook of Woodstock, and
Coon. Jack Warden of Ingersoll receive silver
stars. They attended all meetings lastyear, but
their perfect records were slightly tarnished by
each being recorded late for one meeting.
AND SOME CAME LATE
Other councillors who attended all meetings
but were late on various occasions were Phil
Poole of Woodstock and John Heleniak of Nor-
wich Township, each late six limes, and Joe
Pember of Woodstock who was late four times.
Coon. Jack Whitmore of Tillsonburg was the
worst offender for absenteeism, though not
outrageriuhsly so. Records show he was absent
from flour meclings.
Those who missed three meetings were
Couns. Jean Ferrie of Tillsonburg /late twice),
and Wendy Calder of Woodstock. Those who
were absent twice were Couns. Ross Livingston
of Branford -Blenheim, Helen Smith of Norwich
(late once), Lenore Young of Woodstock, Doug
them there to vote, but that's only part of the
work, It's just as important to be prepared for
the meeting," he said.
Sometimes a councillor will spend a lot of
time making phone calls and talking to rpeople
ebnt issues, not to mention participating on
county committees.
added it's seldom a councillor hasn't read
over the agenda prior
to any of these
meetings.
The same politicians
are also involved at
the local level, he said.
Sometimes It's dif-
ficult to allocate time
for county and local
malt---, especially
they all happen at the .
some time.
"I don't think
anytody on our count•
cil i- slacking off," he CHARLIE
said, 'TA'THAM
Any corridor
but Hwy. 401
okay: Oxford
TORONTO — (Staff-CP) Oxford County council Is
objections to a proposed Ontario Hydro corridor
along Highway 401 was made known here Friday at
a divisional court hearing.
Cambridge lawyer Marc Somerville, speaking on
behalf of the county, told the hearing the county op-
posed the 401 route, which is preferred by Ontario
Hydro, but would be prepared to accept new lines in
the southern part of the county.
Somerville said the proposed 401 route would prejudice future
planning along the 50-kilometre stretch of the highway running
through thhe county, as well as "impact" on agricultural land.
The lawyer said if Ontario Hydro deletes its preferred 4ol
route, Oxford County•"would have no complaint" with any other
route Hydro would plan to use in the county.
The Friday hearing was also told that a provincial board ex-
ceeded its jurisdiction when it proposed in 19E2 that Hydro in-
vestigate construction of a major transmission line along the 401,
ingsthree-member Act 981 board rejected & traned smission n plder thean thalidated Hear-
t Hydro had
recommended in favor of a scheme that would include study of
the line along the highway.
Since then, Hydro has come out in favor of the 401 route for one
of three lines required in the transmission plan.
The divisional court heating is dealing with several different
bids to have the board's decision quashed. In addition to the
representation from Oxford, the three judges presiding at the
hearing heard from lawyers for Waterloo Region and the cities of
Cambridge and Kitchener. All agree that the Highway 401 route
had not been keriously considered by Hydro before the board
ruling.
The lawyers said a transmission corridor along Highway 401,
as now proposed, wasn't included in any of the alternative plans
Hydro had submitted to the hearings board as being technically.
acceptable. They said maps produced during 59 days of public
hearings at Stratford had shown the freeway within an "excluded
area.,,
Lawyer Vernon Copp, representing Cambridge, said the board
decision amounted to creation of a seventh alternative plan that
wasn't subject to the type of critical examination given the other
six.
Waterloo Region counsel Connie Giller argued
that once the
board began have paused and considered the lack of notice toathoselwho it should
be affected."
The hearing continues.
New noxious weed
working its way
into county crops
A new weed — identified on the borders of Oxford County
for'the first time last summer — poses a potential problem
for tobacco, wheat and rye producers, according to the Ox.
ford Soil and Crop Improvement Association,
Silk
p Princeton, beat grass, which showed up last summer in the area
near has only been identified in Ontario for the
Past four years. It was first noticed in an area between Sim-
coe and Tillsonburg, according to the Soil and Crop Assoc cia.
tion's annual report.
Silky bent grass is a winter, annual, like winter wheat, in
the fall the seedling is small and insignificant, but in the spr•
ing the plant can compete with wheat, often growing a foot
higher,
Wheat in a thick stand of silky bent grass, according to the
report, is not worth harvesting.
There are currently no registered herbicides available fol
:vmtrolling this weed, although one is being tested.
finding a spot
still a challenge
at courthouse
Fin din a parking spot
around L Oxford County
Courthouse at times is a
challenge count • councillors
agreed Wednesday, but con-
trolling it, so county and court
staff and politicians can find a
spot, remains is still
undecided.
Council received a letter
from David Milne, the county's
deputy sheriff, requesting a
bylaw be enacted to enforce
the reserved parking areas
around the building. It pro-
mpted several councillors to
relate various stories about
their sometimes frantic at-
tempts at finding space prior
to council and committee
meetings during the day.
Several spots in the county
square have signs reserving
spots for cowry and court
staff, What's left isn't enough
to accommodate the re-
mainder of the courthouse
employees. Some spill over in-
to a paved lot on Graham
Street, which is signed for
county and court business
only.
Coun. Joe Pember said the
Graham Street lot is abused by
the public because it offers
free parking relatively close to
downtown Woodstock while all
other parking is metered. He
suggested taking down all the
reserved signs near the
building, allowing that space
to be used by the public for
Courthouse business, and put-
ting up a gate or using a
sticker system placing all
comfy and court employees in
the Graham Street lot.
That way the prime space
can be used by people coming
and going instead of having it
tied up for eight hours a day by
employees, he said.
Mother suggestion was put.
ting up a barricade when coun-
ty council holds a daytime
meeting.
After a brief discussion,
council decided the public
works committee would be
given the responsibility of
coming up with the ultimate
solution to the parking
problem.
Request from ministry
leaves warden baffled
A letter from R.M. Golfs, director of the
environment ministry's waste
management branch, really "got" to
Oxford county Warden Charlie Tatham,
The letter, discussed at Oxford County
council's meeting Wednesday night, left
the warden wondering if the ministry staff
even know what's going on within their
own ministry.
"Sometimes I think there are two
ministries of the environment,^ the
warden told members of the county's
public works committee when they
discussed the letter last week.
It was sent earlier this month to the
county requesting an update on the
county's waste management situation. In
the letter Mr. Golfs noted that "your
munici,:allty undertook an area waste
management study in 1972 with financial
assis once from this ministry. In view of
these facts, we would appreciate your
consideration of the following request so
that we may address more fully our future
program and budget requirements for
waste management master plans."
Warden Tatham said it is almost in-
comprehensible that the ministry should
need an update on the situation that has
involved both the ministry and the county
for almost the past 10 years.
He said the request for information
about any problems the county has in-
volving garbage is a sign of a serious lack
of communications within the ministry.
First in three years
South-West Oxford Councillor Howard
Cook, a member of the public works
committee, said the letter shouldn't be.
viewed as a slap in the face.
Maybe it's time the county started work
on a new blueprint for waste management,
he said.
It took 20 years to get where they have at
the Safford landfill site, said Councillor
Cook. He firmly believes it is time now to
start working on another landfill site. By
starting now, the county may be able to
bypass the problems it has encountered
with Salford.
A 1484 road a bridge con-
struction program will be
prepared by the Oxford County
public works committee to the
time of $2,572,500.
This represents a five per
cent increase over the 19&3
budget. It received county,
council approval prior to the
total county budget being
drawn up to enable the com-
mittee to take advantage of
tendering at times when con-
tractors are bidding com-
I petitively for jobs.
Potable water
Oxford County council op.
Paw
in principle a draft
bylaw establishing a new
Potable water policy which will
enable residents who fear their
supplies might have been con-
taminated by a landfill site to
receive fresh water im-
mediately by the county.
The bylaw calls for a con.
tract to be drawn a between
the resident and the county
calling for the county to pick
up immediate expenses in sup.
plying the fresh water, but be-
ing reimbursed should tests
prove a landfill site was not
responsible.
The bylaw will be reviewed
by a lawyer before it is submit-
ted to the manly for three
readings.
Loto 6149 winner surfaces,
it°s a Brantford couple
TORONTO (CP) — Stuart and Lillian Kelly, a Brantford,
Ont., couple were presented with a cheque for nearly $14
million at press time today by Ontario Lottery Corp, officials
for picking the six winning numbers in the record Jan. 14
Lotto 6/49 draw.
Stuart, 57, has been a transport truck driver with
Thibodeau-Finch Express Ltd. for 35 years. His wife, 54, has
worked in the laundry business for 31 vears.
The couple have no children, but plan to share a "signifl-,
cant portion" of their winnings with Kelly's mother and his
seven brothers and sisters, a lottery statement said.
The statement said the couple plan to purchase a new
house, do some travelling and donate some of their winnings
to charity. The rest of the money will be invested.
The winning ticket was purchased at Diselice Grocery
Councillors get pay hike
By SUZANNE HANSON
It was the first pay raise in three years
and tome county councillors fell it wasn't
needed but a five per cent increase in
councillors' salaries still receive approval
in a 14.5 recorded vote Wednesday night.
The five per cent increase approved at
the county council meeting will raise
councillors' salaries from $6,720 to $7,056
for 1994 while Warden Charlie Tatham's
salary will rise to $21,168 from 120,160.
East Zorre-Tavistock Mayor Ronald
McKay was the first to speak against the
increase in discussion before The vote was
taken
He admitted council had a right to the
increase since it hadn't had one in three
years, but he also said council has "a
responsibility to show some leadership in
restraining government spending."
He asked councillors if any of them
"would really be in a bind" if they did not
get the increase. "Would you have to sell
the house or send the kids to school without
breakfast?"
Councillor McKay pointed out the in-
crease in salaries will amount to about
$7,5W. "If that's responsible leadership to
add $7,500 to an already bloated county
levy for something that is not necessary
then I'm right out to Inch."
Woodstock Councillor Joe Pember
agreed council should forego the increase,
lie urged council to "show that ounce of
Ltd. in Brantford, an industrial city 100 kilometres
southwest of Toronto.
Thecouple purchased nine $1 tickets in the draw, which of-
fered the largest tax-free lottery prize in North America.
The couple kept the country in suspense for l9 days after
the winning numbers two, Ii, 29, 31, 44 and 46 were drawn
Jan. 24,
Mathemeticians say the winner beat odds of almost 14
million to one in picking the correct six numbers and more
than 135 million to one that only one ticket would have the
winning combination.
The pool reached $13,1199,588.90 after there was no winner
for several weeks. It prompted a ticket -buying spree with
would-be millionaires scooping up more than 67 million
tickets.
leadership by not taking that five per
cent."
While he acknowledged the fact that
another year without an increase may put
the council too tar behind fit terms of its
salaries he still could not give his support
to the increase when council voted at an
earlier meeting to do away with the merit
increases for its employees this year.
Councillor Howard Cook of South-West
Oxford said he had run for public office to
serve the community, not for what he
would be paid.
But while Woodstock Mayor Wendy
Calder admitted she had really wrestled
with the problem, ultimately, she decided
the raise was justified.
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Oxford ordered
to pay $4,299
in cleaning dispute
WOODSTOCK (Bureau) — A county
judge. In Kitchener has ordered Oxford
County la pay $4,299 to a firm which took
the county to court in a dispute over a
contract to clean the exterior of the court-
house in Woodstock.
A letter from the legal firm representing
the county was distributed to members of
Oxford's public works committee when it
met Thursday. It advises that Judge F. J.
McDonald has ordered Oxford to pay New
Look Restoration Ltd., of Kitchener, $4,299
plus court costs as settlement of a dispute
in which the firm was seeking $9,299.
The dispute arose over work the firm did
in 1980 to clean the sandstone exterior of the
county's 19th-century courthouse. After. the
restoration — in which chemical cleaners
were used — was completed, the building's
exterior was left stained and discolored.
The county said the job was,unsatisfac-
tory and eventually paid another firm
$5,000 to sandblast the exterior but did not
pay the original firm.
Although New Look Restoration Ltd. said
it was owed $9,299, McDonald ruled that the
firm should be paid only $4,299 since the
county had to pay $5,000 to repair the dam-
age done by the firm.
Don Pratt, the couMy's enginee*g di-
rector, and Bland ford- Bien heim Mayor
Ross Livingston, chairman of the public
works committee, criticized the judgment
Thursday. "I think Its a pretty poor deci-
sion," Pratt said. The county will not ap-
peal, however.
In another legal matter, Pratt advised
the committee that it cost the county $4,900
for legal representation at a recent two-day
inquest Into the death of an Embro-area
man killed at a county construction site last
summer. A coroner's jury ruled that Paul
Hisser, of RR 5, Embro, died accidentally
when his auto slammed into a concrete bar-
rier on a bridge on Oxford County Road 6 on
Aug. 3.
In other business, the public works com-
mittee is suggesting the county spend
$12,700 for an engineering consultant to
study how to expand municipal sewage
treatment facilities in Tavistock. The study
would take about a month.
During Thursday's meeting, the commit-
tee began discussing the 1984 public works
budget and was told by Pratt that Oxford's
road construction and maintenance budget
will need to be increased by five per cent to
$2,572,500 for 1984.
Deciding how to spend it
Committee paves way
for 184 road projects
By LINDA HULME
Sentinel -Review staff writer
Oxford County's public works stall' know ap-
proximately how much money they've got for
road work. The problem now is deciding how to
spend it. And thhat's just what they're doing at
the moment -
Preliminary budget discussions officially
began at the public works committee meeting.
County engineer Don Pratt outlined to
members how the $2,572,500 county council ap-
proved last week for road construction and
maintenance Projects could be used. He also
hinted there should be considerable discussion
in the near future about other responsibilities
such as garbage and upkeep of county
buildings.
Pratt recommended budgeting $50,000 for en-
vironmental assessment studies on road pro-
jects. That's been the average expenditure, in
the past few years. The county has been for-
tunate in avoiding any environmental hearings
on road construction projects. If there is one,
Pratt said that expenditure could easily jump
W 10 times the amount.
NEW PROJECTS
The $2.5 million construction budget was
broken down into several areas. He recom-
mended setting aside $1,679,635 for new ppro-
jecls, which include upgrading brid4ges
throughout Oxford and one major road Pro ect
— phase 3 of the reconstruction of Tll on
Avwnur in Till ... hura
said the reconstruction of a portion of
County Road 16 west of Kintore is badiv need-
ed, but it will cost at least $7M,000- To afford it,
the county will have to wait until INS, he said.
"We'd have to kill a lot of other projects to
get onto that one," said Pratt.
Other programs include hot mix resurfacing
on County Road 8 near Plattsville, and minor
upgrading for several critically deficient toads
throughout Oxford which are presently low on
the county's priority list for major
improvements.
The committee will continue discussions on
proposed road projects at its next meeting, but
Pratt reminded the members to begin thinking
about two large public works programs — solid
waste disposal and the rehabilitation of county
buildings such as the courthouse, jail, and
governor's residence.
A HEADACHE
Garbage disposal is going to be "a
headache", said Pratt. Public works staff are
currently wrestling with what's expected to be
a major portion of the department's 1984
budget.
The buildings will be the portion where staff
will need the most direction from the commit-
tee as far as priorities. Any work on the jail is
currently up in the air until the county receives
an architects' recommendations me feasibility
study. But Pratt speculated the county could
also look at ineiudittg lothe former governor's
residence (behind the jail) - in thatmajor
rehabilitation program. The committee agreed
later provisions for sufficient parking should
also be considered.
Oxford County jail receives Heritage
The Oxford County jail has received a
$30,000 grant from the Ontario Heritage'
Foundation to aid in recycling the building
for use by the county board of health and
Homecare services.
Foundation grant
Princeton
housing plan
approved
WOODSTOCK (Bureau) — The Prince-
ton and District Housing Association's pro -
postal to build a 23-unit senior citizens'
apartment complex received Word Coun-
ty council's approval in principle
Wednesday,
But before approving the project, several
council members emphasized the Impor-
tance of ensuring that the rural site has an
adequate water supply in case of fire.
Work on the building, expected to cost
nearly $1 million, is to bpgln by May on a
site not serviced by the public water sys-
tem. Under the county's official plan, a
local water supply system, using a well or,
reservoir, must be provided for multi -unit
housing projects.
Conn. Joe Pember of Woodstock stressed
to the housing association, represented at
Wednesday's meeting by Princeton resi-
dent Wilma Forrest, the importance of pro-
%iding a water storage facility that will
provide ample protection in the event of
fire,
"If we're going to allow multi -unit devel-
opments like this in rural settings, there
have to be some hard and fast rules set
down, such as requiring an ample water
supply," he said, adding he is opposed to
the development because the site is not
serviced by the public water system.
However, Blandford-Blenheim Mayor
Ross Livingston said there is a need for the
development and that it should not be diffi-
cult for the housing association to ensure
that the water supply will meet firefighting
requirements.
i
Expected grant
for jail project
short $70,000
WOODSTOCK (Bureau) — So where's
the other $70,000?
That's a question at least one Oxford
County official was asking himself Wednes-
day after learning that a project requiring
$1.2 million to restore the vacant county jail
in Woodstock has received a $30,000 contri-
bution from the Ontario Heritage
Foundation.
"We were hoping it would be more than
that," Warden Charlie Tatham said, add-
ing that the county would have liked at least
$100,000 in grants from the foundation.
County council has yet to give Its final
approval to a plan to turn the 19th century
jail into an office building for Oxford's
board of health and home care department.
But county officials in touch with the foun-
dation have received indications that "at
least $100,000" in grants would be available
from the foundation for such a project,
Tatham said.
He added that while he appreciates the
$30,000 contribution, he will be looking into
the matter and seeking more money.
We'll certainly see If more money Is avail-
able because this Is a big project of provin.
cial, maybe even national, scope."
Meanwhile, county council voted
Wednesday to go ahead with the second
Cage of the jail renovation project, which
involves stripping and cleaning the
;wilding.
Rental fees
proposed
for restored
Oxford jail
WOODSTOCK (Bureau) — Oxford Coun-
ty's plans to spend $1.2 million to restore
the vacant county jail In Woodstock took
another step toward reality Monday.
The administration and finance commit-
tee proposed that the county board of health
pay rent of $120,000 to $180,000 a year to use
the building after it is completed.
County council learned last week that the
19th century jail can be restored and con-
verted for use as an office building at a cost
of about $1.2 million, The county has plans
to use the building to accommodate both
the board of health and home care depart-
ment.
Council, after hearing the estimate pre-
pared by gimcoe architect Carlos Ventin
during the first phase of a $14,200 feasibility
study, turned the matter over to its public
works and administration and finance com-
mittees. The two committees are expected
to hammer out details of the project, such
as financing and space requirements, be-
fore reporting back to council in two weeks.
During Monday's meeting, the admhds-
tration and finance committee decided to
submit a proposal to the board of health
suggesting a basic rent range of between
$120,000 and $180,000 a year for the building,
which will be expanded to provide a total of
about 1,080 square metres (12,000 square
feet). The rental fees suggested do not in-
clude hydro, heating and maintenance
costs and taxes.
A representative of the Ontario health
ministry in Toronto was to have attended
the meeting to discuss details of a long-
term lease between the dounty and board of
health, which is subsidized by the ministry.
The ministry official was unable to attend
the meeting but Oxford's medical officer of
health, Dr. Cecile Reehard, expressed opti-
mism that the rent range suggested would
be acceptable to the ministry, which covers
75 per cent of the health board's annual
costs while the county covers the remaining
25 per cent.
A special meeting of the health board is to
be called this week to consider the propos-
al. If approved, it will be sent to the minis-
try.
The committee also recommended cre-
ation of a special committee to handle the
jail restoration project. The special com-
mittee, subject to county council's approv-
al, will'consist of Zorra Township Mayor
Wally Hammond, chairman of the adminis-
tration and finance committee, Blandford-
Blenheim Mayor Ross Livingston, chair-
man of the public works committee,
Warden Charlie Tatham and Rochard.
Members of the special committee will at-
tempt to arrange a meeting early next
week with ministry officials to discuss
terms of a 20-year lease on the building.
BLUES CHASER
when If canes to giving, .vntne people will
slop Ott nothing.
Chambers urge
a county - wide
waste board
By LINDA NULME
Seminal -Review staff writer
Setting up a county -wide
waste management board to
aid Oxford County in resolving
its garbage disposal dilemma
was among the recommenda-
tions handed to council,
Wednesday, from a chamber
of commerce ad hoc commit-
tee on solid waste.
The committee, comprised
l=pf members from the
Woodstock, Ingersoll, Tillson.
burg and Norwich Chambers
of Commerce, also recom-
mended the county start look-
ing for another landfill site and
that it try to have provincial
legislation changed to expidite
approvals for this site,
1$
LARRY
CONDON
Committee chairman Larry
Condon told county council the
group has been working for
about a year on the problem of
garbage disposal in Oxford
and agreed earlier this month
on these recommendations. All
four chambers endorsed the
report last week.
The recommendation to look
for another landfill site,
whether the one at Salford
goes ahead or not, is a'
longterm planning matter,.
said Condon.
TWO OR THREE
"The feeling behind this is
maybe it would be time td
look," he said. He suggested if
all municipalities within Ox-
ford can't work together to find,'
one, it may be possible for two
or three to work out a solution.
While the committee admits
it has no answers for the short
term disposal problems, set -
Vag up a waste management
'board may assist the county in
resolving the long range
issues, council was told.
Committee member George
Kloster said a board, con-
sisting of chamber members
:.county -wide and represen-
tatives from all communities,
would likely help identify and
resolve multiple issues involy-
ed in garbage disfwsal- Nat on can It discuss the social and
economic factors but help dif-
fuse "sensitive situations', he
said.
It would give the opportuni.
ty to air view and slate opi-
nions," said Kloster. "The
chambers feel that the entire
responsibility should not be
placed on the elected people."
The committee can be used
as a resource by council, he
said, especially since there
seems to be no existing
satisfactory vehicle to do the
"mammoth job that needs to
be done."
CAN DO THE JOB
There have been inade-
quacies on the part of all of us"
in not resolving the issues in
the past, he added.
The proposed board could
take a serious took at the
county's quest for a landfill
site near Salford and possibly
capitalize on the learning ex-
perience, said Kloster. There
are people with the ability to
do the job,
The committee's proposals
drew mixed reactions from
councillors. Conn. Ross Liv-
ingston, a former warden, said
the whole idea of looking for a
second landfill site "makes me
shudder."
"Going for a second site
really bothers me," he said,
adding he agrees the provin-
cial legislation should be
changed regarding landfill ap-
provals. Under the present
system no landfill site can be
approved, he said.
A word of encouragement
for the committees efforts
came from Conn. Helen Smith -
"I think these people should
be commended for coming and
offering us assistance. Maybe
more public input will help the
county work as a family,
possibly. We feel we've
covered every angle that's
possible to cover but maybe we
haven't, I don't know."
The recommendations will
be discussed at length by the
county public works
committee.
Oxford board OKs
Covey memorial fund
WOODSTOCK (Bureau) — The Oxford
County board of education approved Mon-
day establishment of the Marilou CoveN
memorial scholarship fund to ammalt-v, pro-
vide two graduating Tillsonburg high
school students with scholarships of $'i,o
each.
A former Tillsonburg resident, Covey, 31.
of Toronto was among 269 persons killed in
,September when a Korean airliner was
shot down by a Soviet military jet. A trust
fund created to collect money and establish
a scholarship in Covey's name resulted to a
total of $5.365 being collected from Oxford
County residents.
The money is to be Invested and the annu-
al interest will provide two $250 scholar-
ships. The board agreed Monday that the
scholarships will be. awarded for the first
time later this year to two Tlllsonburg high
school graduates. Selection of scholarshipp
winners will be based on academic stand-
ing and citizenship participation within the
community.
0
Oxford to seek approval
for dump extension plan
WOODSTOCK (Bureau) — Despite oppo-
sitlon from Norwich Township officials and
residents, Oxford County council voted
Wednesday night to seek provincial ap
proval of a plan to extend Oxford's use of
the Holbrook landfill site beyond its sched-
uled closing date of June -30.
Council's decision follows a recommen-
dation by its public works committee which
suggested the Holbrook site in Norwich
Township be kept open two more years
while the county goes ahead with plans to
develop a permanent county dump in
South-West Oxford Township near the vil-
lage of Salford.
The pmposed Salford dump is not expect-
ed to be operating before late 1985, if at all,
since the plan is being opposed in court by
the township. In the meantime, the environ-
ment ministry has been exerting pressure
for the county to spell out its plans for w ste
disposal beyond the scheduled closing date
of the Holbrook site.
During Wednesday's council meeting,
Norwich Township Mayor John Helentak
said his council is sympathetic to Oxford's
problem of having no county facilities In
which to dispose of its grabage beyond June
30 but objects to keeping Holbrook open two
more years.
Blandford-Blenheim Township Mayor
Ross Livingston, head of the county's pub -
lie works committee, replied the county has
no choice but to seek provincial approval to
keep the dump open.
"We must move ahead with this. We dgn't
have much choice," he said. Before a deci-
sion to keep the dump open is made by the
ministry, the issue will be the subject of a
public hearing, during which both Norwich
Township and Holbrook area citizens have
said they may appear with lawyers to op-
pose the plan.
In a related matter, council heard from
an ad hoc committee composed of mem-
hers of the chambers of commerce in Wood-
stock, Tillsonburg, Ingersoll and Norwich
Township. The group, through spokesman
Larry Condon of Tillsonburg, urged council
to develop plans to build a second county
dump, Instead of relying on plans to open
one large dump near Salford, which may be
blocked in court.,
not speculate when a solution might be
found.
lie said he met with officials from Oxford
at this week's Ontario Good Roads Assocl-
ation conference in Toronto and suggested
a series of modifications to the Holbrook
site could be worked out to satisfy all
concerned.
"It hasn't been determined yet," he said.
"I haven't got a formal request for an
extension."
Brandt said a solution will have to be
found soon. "The alternatives are limited in
that area" and trucking the county's gar-
bage elsewhere could be costly.
"Don't ask me what the alternatives are,
because that's part of the problem."
"The computer just told him how to pay for it .... sell the farm!`
, Residents taking
Oxford to court
over dump site
WOODSTOCK (Bureau) — A group of 29
Salford property owners has gone ahead
with plans to take both Oxford County and
the province to court over Oxford's plans to
open a permanent dump near their South-
West Oxford Townhip community.
Jennifer Young, an assistant to Toronto
lawyer David Estrin, said from Toronto
that a writ of summons and a statement of
claim invoking Section 7 of the Charter of
Rights, which guarantees `life, liberty and
the security of the person," was being is -
.sued Wednesday. _
The, defendants named in the writ are
Oxford County, Ontario's lieutenant-gover.
nor -in -council and Attorney -General Roy
McMurtry. The Salford group, besides in-
voking the charter, is arguing that a -cabi-
net procedure allowing the county to go
ahead with plans to build a dump of about
90 hectares (200'acres) contravened the
principles of fundamental justice. The citi-
zens are strongly opposed to the Salford
dump proposal because they fear it will
threaten the quality of both the local water
supply and the living environment.
Hired to check corridor feasibility
The court action by the Salford group is
the second to arise over Oxford's proposal
to build a dump near Salford. South-West
Oxford Township has also turned to the
Ontario supreme court in its opposition to
the plan. The township has filed a suit
against not only the defendants named by
the Salford group but also Environment
Minister Andy Brandt and former environ-
ment minister Keith Norton.
The township took action IbDowing a pro-
vincial cabinet decision approving Oxford's
application to build a dump near Salford.
Cabinet ruled Aug. 9 in favor of Oxford's
appeal of a joint hearing board's earlier
rejection of its application to build the
dump. South-West Oxford will be seeking in
the supreme court to have the cabinet deci-
sion approving the dump declared null and
void and a "contravention of the principles
of natural justice."
Despite the opposition to the Salford plan.
Oxford officials have said they will contin-
ue working to develop the Salford site until
ordered by the courts to stop.
Consultant may help fuel hydro battle
• A planning consultant will be
hared by Oxford County to
ooin a report on the
feasibility of Ontario Hydro's
proposed transmission line
routes through the county and
southwestern Ontario, county
council decided last night in a
closed meeting.
The information will enable
county council to decide
whether it has enough fuel to
BLUES CHASER
Next time you get depressed about get-
ting older, consider the alternative.
oppose Hydro's proposals at an
upcoming environmental
assessment hearing.
Warden Charlie Tatham said
the county is already on record
opposing the use of the
Highway 401 route from Lon-
don to Aberfoyle for a 500
kilovolt transmission line
route because the property
owners, it believes, were in-
adequately notified of Hydro's
But Hydro will not only be
presenting that route to the
joint board this year, it will
also present alternative
routes, three of which still cut
through Oxford. One, the. pro-
posed 115 kilovolt route
through the southern part of
the county, Is being recom-
mended for use in the !Dills.
GOOD OR BAD
"We should know from a
planning point of view, are
these goad routes or are these
bad?" said Tatham this morn-
ing. "We hope to get an objec-
tive assessment.'
He said the planner will be
comparing routes within the
southwestern corridor with
other power corridors
prent seed by Hvdroat hearing
in Stratford in t WW. The assess-
ment will determine whether
the county has enough
evidence to properly back a
position opposing the proposed
routes through Oxford in favor
of better ones elsewhere in the
province.
"We don't want to be in the
position of opposing without
reasons," said Tatham.
"Where it should go should be
based more on fact rather than
gust saying, 'I don't want W "
The work, he estimates, will
cost the county $15,000 to
$80,00o. At least $10.000 has
decision to include the 401
route in the southwestern On-
tario corridor it selected
following the Stratford. hear-
ing. A decision from the divi-
sional court has yet to be hand-
ed down.
]Endorses tobacco tax resolution
By SUZANNE HANSON
Oxford County council went against a
recommendation of its administration and
finance committee Wednesday might and
voted to support a resolution from the town
Of Aylmer expressing concern over the
Present tobacco tax system being used by
federal and provincial governments.
The administration and finance com-
mittee had recommended to council that it
note and file the resolution and take no
action on it. Tillsonburg Mayor Jean
Ferrie questioned that lack of action in
light of the importance the tobacco in-
dustry has in the county.
The chairman of the committee, Zorra
Township Mayor Wallis Hammond, said it
was a unanimous decision of those present
at the committee meeting, "It. was felt that
it was something county council wouldn't
become involved in as it doesn't usually
become involved with most pressure
groups in any industry.,'
Blandford-Blenheim Township Coun, Ed
Down said the resolution had not come
from an industry pressure group but from
another municipality asking for support.
He pointed out the tobacco industry is
important to several areas of the county
including Biandford-Blenheim Township,
Norwich Township and Tillsonburg.
"We're talking about unfair taxation --
triple taxation — on a product that's
destroying an industry," stated Blandford-
Blenheim Township Mayor Ross
Livingston. He said council should be
United Press Canada
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2
PM t ombis. W
0 resresign,
it's official
OTTAWA (CP) — Prime
Minister Trudeau will resign
as soon as the Liberal party
can select a new leader, press
secretary Ralph Coleman said
today.
Trudeau informed Liberal
president Iona Campagnolo of
his decision in a hand -
delivered letter this morning,
Coleman said.
The resignation is effective
the day "a new leader is
chosen and swore in."
The liberal executive is ex-
MWit to meet within days to
begin preparations for the
convention.
Jacques Hudon, another
Trudeau press aide, said the
prune minister reached the
decision Tuesday night after
talks with Montreal friends
over the weekend.
"He told us he'd had a long
walk in the blizzard last
night," Hudon said. "He slept
on it."
Trudeau informed his staff
at noon today.
A date for the convention
probably won't be set for at
least a few days, but it is ex-
pected in either May or June.
Liberals have said repeatedly
over the last year that it would
take about three months to set
up a convention.
Trudeau's retirement has
been the subject of mounting
speculation for weeks since he
wound down his peace in-
itiative with a visit to Moscow.
About 50 reporters,
photographers and
cameramen besieged the
weekly Liberal caucus
meeting last Wednesday think-
ing Trudeau might announce
his plans there.
Caucus, after all, was among
the first to hear of his short-
lived retirement in 1979, and
some speculated the announce-
ment would come before the
one -week parliamentary break
which began Friday,
But Trudeau dismissed all
such speculation last week,
telling reporters they had the
right month but wrong year,
taking a close look at file resolution, not
noting and filing it,
CEUftCR
JAKEMAN
First mayor
dies in Guelph
The first mayor of South-West Oxford
Township, George F. Jakeman of
Sweaburg, died Sunday in Guelph.
The 70-year-old former councillor served
as the township's first mayor in 1975-76
after the municipalities were recon-
structed. He served one term and vas
defeated in the following election 'uy the
late Lou Barrett.
Before he was mayor Mr. Jakeman
served on the former West Oxford
Township coucil. He was born in West
Oxford Township and farmed there all his
life.
He is survived by his wife Anne, sons
Larry, Robert and Bruce, daughter Carol
and sisters Mariam and Ina.
Funeral service was held this afternoon
in Woodstock.
75 Deaths
JAKEMAN — At the
Homewood Sanitarium, Guelph
on Sunday, February 26,
1984, George F. Jakeman of
Sweaburg in his 71st year.
Beloved husband of the former
Anne V. Nancekivell. Dear
father of Carol Long of Toron-
to, Larry E. Jakeman, Parry
Sound, Robert G. Jakeman
and A. Bruce Jakeman, both of
Sweaburg. Grandfather of
eleven grandchildren and one
great'grandchild. Brother of
Mrs. Marlam Richardson of
London, Mrs. Keith (Ina)
Moore of Sweaburg and the
late Thomas L. Jakeman.
Friends will be received com-
mencing Tuesday afternoon at
the M.D. (Mac) Smith Funeral
Home, 69 Wellington Street
North, Woodstock where the
complete funeral service will
be held 1 :30 p.m. Wednesday
February 29 with interment
later In the Sweaburg
Cemetery. Those planing an
expression of sympathy are
asked to consider the
Alzheimer Society, A Masonic
memorial service by King
Solomon's Lodge No. 43 will
be held at the funeral home
7:30 p.m. Tuesday.
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The garbage crisis
1986 is end of the line says Pratt
By LINDA NUIME
Sentinel4eview staff writer
A report by Oxford County
engineer Don Pratt released
yesterday shows a bleak future
New Deputy Sheriff
for Oxford County
By RON PRESTON
Oxford County has its first new Deputy -
Sheriff in 33 years with the recent
swearing -in of David Milne, who has held
the "interim position" for the past eight
months.
He replaces Lois Powers, who died last
year after a brief battle with cancer.
Deputy -Sheriff Milne, 29, came to the
Oxford County Sheriff's office after three
years as a sheriff's constable in Toronto.
Tbree years prior to that he served as an
Ontario Provincial Police officer.
"I'm glad I came when 1 did," he said
(because) she (Miss Powers) actually
taught me this job."
After 26 years in Toronto, the move to a
smaller community was "a bit of a shock -
twta pleasant one." People here are much
friendlier, he said., which makes them
easier to deal with,
The sheriff's department is responsible
for serving writs of eviction or custody
notices, and often people are not receptive
to the idea.
In Toronto he was assaulted at least a
half -dozen times, "and I had a shotgun
pulled on me once," he recalled, "but he
didn't get a chance to use it."
Both he and Sheriff Richard S. Beaudoin
are appointed by the Lieutenant -Governor,
acting on information from the provincial
Attorney -General.
In addition to his responsibilities as
Sheriff Beaudoin's assistant, he is also
Deputy Local Registrar for the Supreme
Court of Ontario, Deputy Local Clerk for
Oxford County court and Deputy Registrar
for the Surrogate Court,
Deputy -Sheriff Milne said the extra
duties are for "efficiency's sake" since its
a small county, and the courts are not too
busy.
He has found his brief tenure here to be a
positive one, especially when dealing with
local lawyers.
"I can deal with the bar here," he said,
"on a more personal basis" than in the
larger centres.
Deputy -Sheriff Milne said he believes he
is one of the youngest people appointed to
this position.
for garbage disposal in the
county — 19ss is the end of the
line,
Unless the Salford landfill
site is open by then, no landfill
site in oxford will have room
for more garbage.
The eight page report was
presented to county council in
camera, Wednesday. It show-
ed how, one by one, the small
sites throughout Oxford will
Double duty , Woodstock Bureau
Although he has been acting as deputy sheriff and deputy registrar
of Oxford County for several months, David Milne, 29. was officially
sworn into office Thursday. Milne succeeds Lois Powers who filled
both positions until her death in 1983.
close between now and June,
1986. At that point the gate to
the Holbrook landfill site, the
largest one in the county, will
close permanently — and
that's if the county's suc-
cessful in its bid for a two year
extension after this June.
In light of Pratt's pessimism
over the successful opening of
the Safford site in 1986 — he
believes the current law stilts
against the county will con-
tinue for another five years —
he said the disposal situation is
at its most desperate point.
SPEAK FREELY
Wednesday's meeting was
closed to the public because he
wanted councillors to speak
freely on the issue and offer
any suggestions, no matter
how far out. Pratt frankly ad-
mits he doesn't know what to
do to resolve this short term
problem. He's looking for
anything.
"The inference is, if there's
something to be done it must
be started soon because
whatever we do with our waste
beyond that time period will
entail an environmental hear-
ing. We've got two years to
figure out what and get the en-
vironmental undertakings
under way," he said in an in-
terview, Thursday.
"Salford won't be ready. It's
dangerous to assume it will. H
we assume that it will and it's
not, then where are we?"
He said some councillors
were "truly shocked" by the
report. "After all this talk, the
end is there I think some peo-
ple didn't really believe it
would happen."
Pratt's report, describing
the condition of each site,
speaks for itself:
e Embro — will reach its
capacity by April, 1984. He
recommends waste to be
redirected to the Lakeside
landfill site, which shouldn't
require a hearing.
*Lakeside — presents
moderate potential for ground-
water contamination. As well
as receiving garbage from the
Embro site, garbage from the
Drumbo landfill will be
transferred there after April,
1985, which will require a hear-
ing. The site has sufficient
capacity until a central landfill
site opens in 1986.
•Holbrook — currentiy ser-
ving 55,000 people, itcan not be
practically extended beyond
June 30. 19%. An application to
the Ontario Ministry of En-
vironment has been made to
extend it beyond its June 31,
1984 expiry date, which will re-
quire a hearing. Plans should
be made to transfer garbage
from the Otterville landfill to
this one in 1984. Holbrook
would be a suitable site for a
transfer station if the county
starts trucking garbage out-
side Oxford's boundaries in
1986.
e0tterville — should close
by Aug. 1, 1984, It's redirection
to the Holbrook site can be in-
corporated into the application
for that site's extension.
e Drumbo — should be ex-
hausted by April, 1985. Waste
to be redirected to the
Lakeside site in 2orra
Township,
e1111sonburg -- is adequate
until sprittg, 19&{, Hasa fairly
Ihigh potential for environmen-
impairmant. No ideas oat
where this waste, serving
more than 10,000 people,
should be redirected,
is East oxtgrd - will be ade-
quate until a central landfill
site opens,
•Salford — final dewilin and
operations report will be sub
mitted to the ministry for ap-
rovat by March 30 this year.
Plans artd specifications for in-
itial site works can not he
prepared until approval of the
design and operations report,
Construction can proceed later
this year and in 198,5.
Except for the Holbrook site,
Pratt said the closure of the
small sites between now and
1986 will be expensive because
day and cover material are
not available on site and must
be imported. He also included
recommended budgets for
hearings, fencing. ground-
water monitoring programs
and interim operations.
MUST BE CLOSED
The dismal news may sound
like a broken record to some
people.. but Pratt insists "this
isn't just another Chicken Lit-
tle kind of a thing."
"We've heard for Io years
that the existing landfills are
bad and they should be closed.
Now we're saying they have to
be dosed," he said '"They're
full. Were just out of space.
That's it."
"We don't have a now solu-
tion. It's a now problem- H we
don't get the extension on the
Holbrook site, it's a yesterday
problem. Were counting a lot
on that extension, mayber
more than we have a right to
count on it."
After Wednesday night's
meeting, it looks like the pro-
spects for shipping garbage to
the Southwold landfill site in
Elgin County are minimal as
well. Coun. Joe Pember told
councillors he spoke to several
Elgin politicians at the recent
Good Roads convention in
Toronto.
In an interview, Pember
said Oxford might as well
forget about that idea.
"They told me that we can
expect one hellma good fight,"
he said.' Therregomgtofight
us tooth and nad. They don't
want their landfill site used up,
it's a precious commodity
these days."
He expects the opposition to
the proposal will turn into a 10
year legal lkatt➢e-
Pember places a lot of the
blame for Oxford's dilemma
on the province for developing
an environmental approvals
process which is just tot) strict.
"The legislation Is too high a
hurdle," he said. "Jessie
Owens would have trouble go.
ing through the stuff that we
have to go through."
But according to Warden
Charlie Tatham, the province
isn't too sympathetic
Last week Oxford officials
met with Environment
Minister Andy Brandt in an at-
tempt to secure some funds for
waste management in the
county. The local opposition to
the Safford and Ho hl raok sites
was explained to them, said
'Tatham, but the ministry in-
sists it's not their problem. Th r
rliticians were told it's mat
lust a squabble betwve
municipalities, something k%\
ford should work out for its"i
"1 don't think they rea.';
understand that this tee,
vironmental approvals
system is flawed." sou:.
Tatham
With the problem finny
secured in the lap of Oxford
Politicians, county council will
now have to decide just how
much money it wants to spend
to sort out it's short term
dilemma.
"We'll have to think In er
than we have been," hr said.,-
febrwiy Y9, 1994 tHf NONWICfI GA(M[ Vay: 3
Ontario Electoral Boundaries Commission
NOTICE OF PUBLIC SITTING
►%fil
A public sitting of the Ontario Electoral Boundaries Commission will be
held in London (The Court House, 80 Dundas St., 10 a. m. , Thursday,
April 12, 1984) for the proposed electoral districts of Elgin, Lambton-
Middlesex, London Centre, London North, London South, Middlesex,
Norfolk, Oxford and Sarnia.
Below is the proposal for the
electoral district of Oxford.
Electoral District of Oxford
— consists of the County of Oxtbrd excepting Ihercout the'limn
of Tillxonburg.
The complete rrxt of the Commission's proposals and the restilutionof the Legislative
Assembly appear in the Ontario Gazette of Feb. 11, 1984
Rules of procedum governing public sittings of the Ontario Electoral Boundaries
Commission 1983 for the hearing of representations or objections by interested parties,
in accordance with the resolution of the Legislative Assembly..
I. Notice of public sittings of the Commission shall be published in the Ontario
Gazette together with the proposals of the Commission for the redistribution of elec-
toral boundaries at least 42 calendar days prior to the public sittings to which the
proposals apply.
2. At any public sitting of the Commission, representations or objections from •
interested parties will be heard and considered to the extent that they apply to the
Commissions proposals minting to the electoral districts for which the sitting is held;
any decision on relevance shall rest with the Commission.
3. Representations or objections may be made orally or in writing, or both.
4. Subject to Rule 6, the Commission will hear represenratiorsorobjectionsonly fin w
those interested individuals or gmups who have signified their intention m make them
by lodging written notice with the Commission within 23calendar days from the date
of the publication of this advertisement and such notice shalt state the place and hmc
of the sitting at which they propose to be heard.
5, Representations or objections on behalf of associations or groups shall be made
by one person,
6. The Commission in its discretion may receive and consider at any public sitting
relevunt representations from any Member of the Legislature who appears in person.
whether or not the Member has complied with the requirement for notice in Rule 4
7. If it appears to the Commission that all the relevant mpresentatiorsand objections
cannot be made during the time allotted for public sittings in any advertised place,
siting% may be adjourned or postponed and the Commission shall give such oral or
written public notice of then resumption as it considers adequate in the circumstances.
8, If no notice is lodged in accordance with Rule 4, a sitting may be cancelled at the
discretion of the Commission.
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Councillors and engineers
called to discuss the crisis
Oxford council delays vote
on waste collection plan
WOODSTOCK (Bureau) — Oxford Coun-
ty council decided Wednesday to delay vo-
ting on Blandford-Stenheim Mayor Ross
Lhingston's controversial proposal to have
the county take over waste collection from
area municipalities until the county has
met with municipal representatives to dis-
cuss the idea.
Council was to vote March 26 on the pro-
posal, aimed at making increased recy-
cling of county waste more feasible by giv-
ing the county responsibility for waste
collection as well as disposal, which the
county already handles.
But following Woodstock city counell's
suggestion that the proposal be subjected to
more discussion between representatives
and engineers from both the county and
area municipalities, the vote was put off
until next month.
Meantime, county council will meet
March 28 with elected officials and munici-
pal engineers from Oxford's eight munici-
palities to discuss the proposal, hear con-
cerns and answer questions.
So -far, the proposal to give the county
control of waste collection by petitioning
the provincial government to amend the
Oxford County Act has met with mixed re-
action from municipal councils.
Township councils in East-Zorra Tavis-
tock, Norwich and Blandford-Blenheim
have supported the proposal. Tillsonburg
and Ingersoll town councils and Zorra
Township council, however, have not sup-
ported the proposal. Tillsonburg council
wants more Information before taking a
final stand on what it says is a "vague"
proposal.
Waste major factor
in Oxford works budget
The Oxford County public works com-
mittee's budget shows little increase in
proposed spending over 1983's actual
spending figures.
The $7,155,000 budget places a heavy
emphasis on solid waste disposal and road
work. last year, the budget figures were
$6,387,272 but county engineer Don Pratt,
said $600,000 was saved last year from the
winter maintenance budget due to lack of
snowfall. That money was put into a
reserve account and recorded as an ex-
penditure.
Operating costs for Oxford's eight
existing landfill sites and the recently
approved Salford site are $1,320,000. Most
of these costs are directed to the closing of
these sites in the next couple of years, Mr.
Pratt said.
Getting material to protect the sites
from continually absorbing water will be
expensive, he said. The sites need heavy
clay for capping.
The Salford site budget is UN,000,
$M)0,000 of which is reserved for con-
struction. The rest is for legal fees,
engineering, building and site main-
tenance, groundwater monitoring and tree
planting. ,
Road and bridge construction totals
$2,572,500, 'this includes projects from all
over the county, including the third phase
of the Tihson Avenue project in Tillson-
burg.
County councillor
to head provincial
safety organization
A Zorra Township councillor has become the
first Oxford County resident to be elected presi-
dent of the Ontario Farm Safety Association..
Jim Gibb, one of Zorra Township's
representatives on county council.
became Farm Safety president at the
association's filth annual conference in
Kingston.
Gibb, who has been active in the ax
Farm Safety Association at both the
local and provincial level for more
than a decade, served as ist vice presi-
dentof the provincial association for
two years before becoming president.
Gibb, a cash crop and hog producer,
first became involved with the Farm
Safety Association through his involve- JIM
ment with Zorra Township Council. GIBB
Tatham tells Davis
the hearing process
just isn't working
A letter condemning the provincial joint hearing process has
been sent to Ontario Premier William Davis by Oxford County
Warden Charlie Tatham.
Tatham recounted Oxford's difficulties in acquiring a landfill
site under the Consolidated Hearings Act (including th $1.2
million spent on the saga). He also wrote of the immense opposi-
tion to the use of Highway 401 as a route for an Ontario Hydro
transmission line, that route chosen by a joint hearing board.
"Mr. Premier, as far as Oxford County council is concerned,
the joint board system is not working. It is costing our taxpayers
too many hard-earned dollars," he said.
Tatham said environmental approvals legislation promotes an
adverserial approach rather than a co-operative one.
"To build our community, we must encourage cooperation
with one another, rather than confrontation. We, in Oxford,
believe that the practical application of this legislation needs to
be reviewed," he concluded.
Copies of the letter are being sent to other Ontario regional
governments. ,
Oxford agrees to restore
house adjacent to old jail.
WOODSTOCK (Bureau) — Ox-
ford County council decided
Wednesday to go along with engi-
neering director Don Pratt's sug-
gestion to restore a 18th century
house attached to the vacant county
jail in Woodstock.
The county plans to spend about
$1.2 million to restore the jail on
Buller Street and In a report sub-
mitted to council Wednesday, Pratt
suggested that as longas the county
plans to restore the jail, It should
also restore the adjacent house
known as the jail governor's
residence.
The report said the two -storey
house should be restored for use as
an informal meeting place for coun-
ty officials, as well as a place to
display county artifacts and memo-
rabilia. No estimate has been given
for the cost of such a project, al-
though Pratt has said it would be an
expensive one.
Council decided to approve the
start of exterior work on the house,
which will Include replacing the
roof and windows and cleaning the
bricks. The exterior work is expect-
ed to cost about $32,t1116, Coup. Floss
Livingston, chairman of the public
works committee, said later,
BLUES CHASER
Revolving char re account. a charge -
count which makes tour head spun wht
I'm h.,11v to faar if_
Oxford objects to roads document
By SUZANNE HANSON
Oxford County council wants to give the
province a taste of its own medicine.
Because of concerns it has about the
Class Environmental Assessment
document regarding roads, as reviewed by
the provincial environment ministry,
Oxford County has requested an en-
vironmental assessment hearing be held to
review the document and provide a proper
forum for reviewing and resolving the
county's many concerns about the
document as it has been amended.
The original document governing
municipal road projects was prepared by
the municipal engineers association and
submitted to the environment minister in
19K for review. Two years later, the
government review of that document has
finally been released for comment by all
municipalities and any other interested
parties and many have %,Diced concerns
about the subtle changes made in the
document.
This document was intended to establish
and define the planning and design process
for municipal road projects while other
documents defined the process for
sanitary sewers, systems projects and
water system projects, which are subject
to the environment assessment act.
Stewart J. Watts, county construction
and design engineer, said the county
should be concerned about the amend-
ments in the document. If the ministry's
documents were to become law, they
would "affect everything you do regarding
roads, water and sewage," said Mr. Watts
at Wednesday's county council meeting.
"There are all kinds of things buried in
there," said Mr. Watts.
He pointed out that "people power" has
been increased through the 40 to 50 subtle
changes in the original document and
could effectively bring projects to a halt if
someone objects.
"Someone could come forward someday
with a smart lawyer and hold up
everything," said Mr. Watts. And those
subtle changes have been drawn up by
"people who don't have to answer to the
taxpayer for the cost of projects doubling
because of the delays imposed." Mr. Watts
suggested in his report to council that will
be forwarded to the ministry of the en-
vironment that "construction projects
already take too long from the original
decision to proceed to actual construction
being initiated."
That time frame could be even longer it
the power of the people to hold up projects
is increased by the ministry. "If someone
objects to a project you can do nothing
until the objection is resolved."
Mr. Watts also went on record as being
opposed to the method being used to
establish the document as the
municipality's class environmental
assessment for roads. By using the
provincial regulation method, "we feel a
very small number of municipalities will
know about it or get an opportunity to
comment before they are stuck with it,"
said Mr. Watts.
Oxford County Warden Charlie Tatham
encouraged area municipalities to join the
county in objecting to the changes being
imposed by the review. "The more support
there is, the better."
But Woodstock Councillor Joe Pember
suggested the county should only put
forward one letter of objection and then
"forget it".
"Until the province comes to a complete
standstill we'll never get things cleaned
up," said Councillor Pember. "Let it
continue on until the province comes to a
complete standstill... because of all this
legislation and when -the public asks why,
point the finger at the government
bureaucrats," said Councillor Pember.
"People drafted this who aren't ac-
countable to the taxpayer."
Woodstock Councillor Les Cook
disagreed with Councillor Pember. "I'm
afraid that if we do nothing and let
everything come to a shuddering halt it
will cost millions to fix it. 1 would suggest
that an ounce of prevention is worth a
pound of cure" and he encouraged
municipalities to voice their objections.
Mr. Watts advised councillors that
municipalities will not be privy to the
discussion of amendments to the document
if they do not voice their opinions and
become party to the discussions now. If
each municipality submits their objections
directly to the ministry, they must be kept
informed of what is happening.
It the ministry is unable to resolve the
objections to the document, an en-
vironmental assessment hearing must be
held to hear all of the objections and allow
the board to recommend for and against
the alternatives.
"It the province has to play their own
game they might realize how ridiculous it
is," said Blandford-Blenheim Councillor
Ed Down.
Mr. Watts also stated the county has not
yet addressed the water and sewage
problems but there is "an equally bad set
of documents there".
He reminded councillors that April 2 is
the deadline for submitting any objections
to the ministry and he expressed the hope
that when the concerns are aired, the
minister "will back oft and look at it (the
document) again."
"Can he call you back? He's on
another line right non."
Warden says board system too costly
As far as Oxford County is concerned,
the joint board system of reaching
decisions on matters ranging from the
location of landfill sites, to hydro tran-
smission corridors, just isn't working.
That is the message being conveyed by
Oxford County Warden Charlie Tatham in
a letter to Ontario's Premier William G.
Davis.
In his letter to the premier, Warden
Tatham said the system is costing the
county's taxpayers "too many hard-
earned dollars" as it L too tong and too
complicated.
"f believe we are not being well served
by a system which causes municipal
taxpayers' funds to be pitted against
provincial and or "hydro" dollars," said
Warden Tatham in his letter. "The system
needs to have an appreciation and un-
derstanding of how difficult it is to raise
municipal tax dollars. The present system
promotes dissension and discord amongst
our member municipalities."
Warden Tatham suggested to the
premier that the practical application of
the legislation -- the Environmental
Assessment Act and the Consolidated
Hearings Act -- needs to be reviewed and
changed to make it responsive in
protecting the environment but at the
same time judicious in arriving at a final
decision within a reasonable period of time
and cost effective to the people it is in-
tended to serve.
He said the activities association with
the environmental assessment act and the
consolidated hearings act now, tend to
encourage the adversarial hired gun
approach and result sin a "waste" of
taxpayers' dollars.
Mr. Tatham pointed to the process of
establishing a landfill site at Salford as an
example, noting the effort to establish a
"safe landfill site" has involved many
years of reports, discussions, and a joint
board hearing on the site. The joint board
turned down the site but an appeal to
cabinet resulted in that decision being
overturned and a certificate for a landfill
site being approved. Law suits have since
been launched by South-West Oxford
Township and Safford concerned citizens,
however, in an attempt to have the cabinet
decision declared null and void.
"Since 1972. our landfill saga has cost
over $1.2 million," said Mr. Tatham in his
letter. And the legal bills to date to oppose
the selection of the Highway 401 corridor
for a new hydro transmission corridor
already total $17,000,
"We can see more money being spent to
do legal Battle with our "own" political
commission."
Mr, Tatham requested comment from
the premier and a reassessment of the
entire joint board system.
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Higher interest
inevitable price
of sliding dollar
By Gary Regenstrelf
MONTREAL (CP) — Higher Interest
rates are inevitable, economists said Mon-
day as the Canadian dollar sank lower
against its American counterpart — Clos-
ing at 79.31 cents U.S.
Monday's close was down a third of a cent
from Friday's close of 78.63, which came a
day after the Bank of Canada raised its
trend -setting weekly Interest rate to 10.56
per cent from 10.20 per cent.
The new interest rate, at its highest level
since mid -December, 1982, caused only a
temporary strengthening of the currency
Thursday before sliding again Friday.
Economists say that to attract invest-
ment into the'country, Canadian interest
rates must stay higher than those in the
United States, where several major banks
raised their prime tending rates Monday to
11.5 per cent from 11 per cent.
Daniel Hill sworn in
as new ombudsman
TORONTO (Cl') — Daniel Hill
promised to be "the interface be-
tween the administrative ma-
chinery and the citizen in rela-
tion to human rights" as he was
sworn in Wednesday as Ontar-
io's third ombudsman.
Hill, (lo, former chairman of
the Ontario human rights com-
mission, told about 200 digni-
taries and guests who attended
the official ceremonies at the
provincial parliament building
that his door will always be oppen
to any citizen who has a griev-
ance against government
bureaucracy.
"However, those who appeal
to me should remember that I
am not there to dispense favors
but to safeguard rights. Indeed,
it is my duty not merely to act as
a buffer between any one Indi-
vidual and authority, but to be
actively employed in promoting
justice."
Hill succeeds Donald Morand,
the former Ontario supreme
court justice who retired last
summer. During his speech, Hill
praised the efforts of Morand
and Arthur Maloney, named the
province's first ombudsman in
1975.
Besides being a former mem-
ber of the Ontario human rights
commission, Bill operated a pri-
vate consulting firm which,
among other things, helped Ber-
muda set up its own human
rights commission.
Hill will receive $97,000 a year
to head an office that hears more
than 10,000 complaints annually
from citizens against the Ontario
government.
While opposition parties at
Queen's Park have been critical
of Morand and Maloney, both
Liberal leader David Peterson
and Bob Rae of the NDP wel-
comed Hill to his new post.
Rae joked that it might be the
last time the opposition parties
had anything nice to say about
Hill, but the new ombudsman
told the crowd that he welcomed
public scrutiny.
"You have made me the
watchdog but the question is
who, indeed, will watch the
watchdog. in this regard, I invite
the voluntary sector of our soci-
ety — private organizations, citi-
zens and the press — to keep an
eye on me."
Hill is the father of singer -
songwriter Dan Hill who attend-
ed Wednesday's ceremony.
Oxford County
education taxes.
up 8.7 per cent
WOODSTOCK (Bureau) — Oxford Coun-
ty's public school supporters will pay an
average 8.7 per cent more in education tax-
es this year following the Oxford board of
education's approval Monday night of a
1994 budget of 951,094,333.
The budget, an increase of six per cent
over last year's $48,189,888 budget, will in-
crease the tax rate for public school sup-
porters by an average of 8.96 mills, which
translates into an actual increase in the
education tax of $44.80 on a property as-
sessed at $5,000.
Elementary schools account for
$26.889,519 of the budget, while secondary
school expenditures are expected to
amount to $24,204,814. About 49.5 percent of
the board's estimated expenditures, or
$25,283,032, is to be paid through revenues
from provincial grants. The grant figure
represents an Increase of only 3.5 per cent
compared to 1993,
The budget also calls for a total of
=1,006,163 in municipal levies for school
purposes, up $1,839,629, or 8.7 per cent,
compared to last year's figure of
821.166,534.
Archives committee
established in Oxford
WOODSTOCK (Bureau) — A new com.
mittee met Thursday as the tint step to-
ward establishing an Oxford County
archives.
The Oxford County Archives Group was
formed during a meeting of local histori-
ans, librarians and museum officials at
Woadstock Public Library, said Beth Ross,
a librarian at Oxford County Library.
"Our group is interested in preserving
the historical material of Oxford County
with the hope that some day we'll have a
county archives," Ross said after the
meeting.
Ross said the first meeting was a way to
"open lines of communication" among
groups that have an interest in local histo-
ry. The county does not have a central ar-
chives but museums and libraries keep
some historical material and photos.
BLUES CHASER
A TV antenna on your roof used to 1e
status symbol. Nnu it means you can's
ford Cable.
Province expresses interest
in Oxford incinerator energy
WOODSTOCK (Bu-
reau) — The prov-
ince's ministry of gov-
ernment setvices has
advised Oxford County
that it is interested in
buying energy that
would be produced by
a county -installed
waste incinerator at
the Oxford Regional
Centre.
Before entering an
agreement with the
county, however, the
ministry would need a
guarantee that the en.
ergy could be provided
on a tong -term basis
and that the cost would
be lower than the cur-
rent system of beating
the 30-building centre
THE FAMILY CIRCUS, By Bil Keane
in her eye, It happened the day we
came, too."
for the mentally handi-
cappedcounty Is'investi-
gating the feasibility of
using an energy,-pro-
ducng waste inciner-
ator at the centre in an
attempt to reduce the
amount of garbage go-
ing into landfill sites.
Oxford officials be-
lieve that a large gar-
bage incinerator might
be able to produce
enough energy to heat
and perhaps cool the
centre, located just
north of Woodstock on
Highway 59.
Council recently de-
cided to contact sever-
al government minis-
tries to determine
factors such as the cost
of Installing and oper-
ating such a plant,
whether the heat pro-
duced could be sold
economically to the
centre and whether the
province will help pay
for the project.
Meanwhile, the min-
istry of energy has ad-
vised Oxford it will
provide grants equiv-
alent to 50 per cent of
the cost of having con.
sultants prepare a de-
tailed feasibility study
of the project. As welt,
grants are available to
obtain and install an
energy -producing in-
cineratar.
Warden Charlie
Tatham said the coun-
ty's next step will be to
contact the ministry of
community and social
services to determine
the future of the re-
ggiional centre, so Ox-
tord will be In a posi-
tion to guarantee a
lung term beat supply
under the proposed
scheme.
Mixed reaction
greets garbage
collection plan
Not the bag, the garbage COUNC11, MEFTIAG 01,� lARClf 28, 1984
County may hen pick-up
y toughen
8y LINDA NULMi
Sentinel -Review etaH writer
Instead of Oxford County
taking over garbage collection
from local municipalities for
more efficient recycling,
perhaps it should set out
stricter guidelines for them to
follow.
That was the general
message received by county
council last night during a
special meeting at the Cour-
thouse. Local councillors from
Oxford's eight municipalities
were invited to discuss the
issue and possibly figure out
some answers to a mounting
crisis.
It was primarily an informa-
tion session. No decisions were
made, but several councillors
admitted afterwards they
learned a few- things.
The facts were laid out on
the table by public works
chairman Ross Livingston.
-The county's existing land-
fill sites will all be closed
within two years, They'll fill up
one by one, and for a couple of
years garbage will be
transported to different sites
-
within the county. Once
they're filled up, it may have
to be transported elsewhere if
the Salford landfill site is not
open-
-This means the construc-
tion of transfer stations is a
distinct possibility. Otherwise,
it may mean some
municipalities will have to
truck their garbage as far as 40
miles to a landfill site, which is
clearly uneconomical.
-The County of Oxford Act
doesn't define whether
transfer stations is a county or
a municipal responsibility. No
one knows who snakes any
Rescue
More than $1400 in auto
rescue equipment will be pur-
chased by Oxford County.
A request by county fire co-
ordinator Chuck Young was
approved by county council
recently. Young had approach-
ed the administration and
finance committee about pur-
chasing equipment to use in
addition to the auto extrication
equipment bought from
Woodstock Ambulance in 1982.
The new equipment includes
a hydraulic spreader hand
tool, a heavy hyydraulic rescue
ue blank unit, rescets, a por-
table quartz light, air bags,
bases and safety valves totall-
ing $14,17209.
The money will come from
the county's auto extrication
reserve fund, created last year
when it applied for a $25,000
grant from the Ontario Fire
Marshal's office,
Budget
The 1984 Oxford County
budget totalling $18096,115
with a net levy of $6,385,557 will
be considered at the April ll
meeting of county council.
decisions, whether they should
indeed by built at all, when,
where, and for how much
money.
-Because these grim
realities are facing the county,
action is needed to reduce as
much as possible the amount
of garbage going into landfill
sites to prolong their ex-
istence. Recycling is an option,
but this responsibility is also
unclearly defined.
A few weeks ago, Livingston
proposed the county take over
garbage collection and operate
it in conjunction with its ex-
isting disposal responsibilities.
Iasi night he suggested this is
the best route to follow if
there's going to be an effective
recycling program.
RELUCTANCE
Presently so me
municipalities don't have gar-
bage collection. He saidonly
by complete county -wide col-
lection can the county try to
reduce what goes into landfills.
Local representatives were
quick to identify with Liv-
ingston's frustration over the
situation, but few agreed with
his ideas. Therewas
widespread support for recycl-
ing, but last night's discussion
revealed a reluctance on the
part of municipalities to give
up collection.
Several councillors had
reservations about the cost
factor. If the county initiates
total residential pick-up it will
inevitably mean higher costs
to ratepayers, said South-West
Oxford Township Coun. Archie
Langworth.
Other suggested complete
collection would generate even
more garbage.
Road beads
Drop -on glass beads used to
illuminate painted road lines
were purchased by Oxford
County council from Flex-0-
Lite Canada of St. Thomas for
$6,5W
The lender from the Niagara
paint and Chemical Company
of Hamilton was acceptees for
the supply of white and yellow
traffic paint at a coat of
$23,444.10,
The county should set down
strict guidelines regarding
what can actually go into land-
fills, suggested severalcoun-
cillors. A major advertising
and education program could
also be initiated.
MORE RECYCLING
Ingersoll Coun. Bob Ball said
the county could encourage the
municipalities • to promote
you should make
and promote it," he
But Coun. Ed Down of
Blandford-Blenheim Township
said a two-tier system of
recycling is probably the least
efficient way.
If the county sets down
guidelines for municipalities,
it's like Toronto setting down
guidelines for the county to set
up a landfill site. if the county
sets the guidelines, we'd better
run the show too," he said.
Zorra Township Mayor
Wallis Hammond said the
municipalities may have dif-
ficulties enforcing county
regulations calling for
residents to separate their gar-
bage into recyclable and non -
recyclable materials. "Are we
going to have an inspector ride
the truck and tear the bags
apart?" he asked.
Livingston said the way to
promote recycling is to put a
dollar value on garbage. He
suggested making residents
pay for every bag of garbage
which goes to a landfill site,
but offer no charge for pick-up
of recycled goods.
Woodstock's city engineer
Carl Hevenor said he can see
source separation working in
urban areas, but it would pro-
ve too costly in rural
municipalities because of the
distances involved in picking it
uThat-is, unless the county
builds transfer stations.
The question of transfer sta-
tions had most councillors
stumped Woodstock Mayors
Wendy Calder was the first to
admit she didn't really know
what they entailed, and other
councillors said little or
nothing about them.
Hevenor, however, agreed
with Livingston that trucking
garbage long distances is
uneconomical. He said
Woodstock is on the borderline
pushing their packers on the
current 12 mile trip to the
Holbrook landfill site.
Bridge
The tender oI Jim Daly Crew
trading of Cambridge was ac-
cepfed by Oxfand Cotmty Coun
col for a brid0'e deck rehabitita-
tion project in Otterville. -
The tender amount was
$68-M,59. The work will be on
County Road 19 over the Otter
Creek.
Construction
A $150,567.5f1 tender from
Marshall Aggregates of
Woodstock was accepted by
Oxford County council for the
reconstruction of County Road
29 from Drumbo easterly to the
Nith River Bridge.
Machinery
Oxford County council ac-
cepted several tenders for
i trucks and machinery for use
�in the public works
department.
A GVW closed utility vehicle
was purchased from
Woodstock Chrysler Sales for
$8,874.10, two GVW trucks with
two-way dump sanders were
bought from Parkway Ford
Sales of Waterloo for
$69,754.16, MacNab Auto Sales
of Ingersoll sold the county a
GVW tandem drump truck
with plow and wing for
$50,118,80 as well as a GVW
tadem dump truck with front
Plow harness for $49,874.84.
Weeds
cor-The tender of Pfizer
poration of London for the sup- -
Ply of chemical weed and
gbrush control was accepted by
ohh County council.
The tender amount is
$10,22C
Garbage incinerators
merit new consideration
Oxford County officials have shunned
the idea of garbage incinerators in the
county for years becausethey were too
expensive but in light of the garbage crisis
facing the county have deciged to re-
examine the idea.
County engineer Don Pratt said the
county needs three garbage incinerators
by 1986 and the county's public works
committee instructed him last week to set
up a meeting with a Toronto waste
management consultant immediately to
discuss the possibility.
The public works committee Is seriously
considering building incincerators in
Woodstock, Tillsonburg and Ingersoll to
take care of urban garbage once the
county's landfill sites reach capacity in
two years' time. Mr. Pratt said he believes
the rural areas could likely do without an
incinerator or a landfill site if residents get
involved in recyling.
In discussing the problem of what the
county is going to do with its waste when it
runs out of landfill sites in 1986, public
works chairman Ross Livingston first said
county officials have clearly run out of
ideas and perhaps now is the time to call in
private industry to work out the problem.
He mentioned several waste
management corportations which should
be able to sort out the crisis somehow, but
for a price. Mr. Livingston suggested an
appeal to the waste management industry
through advertisements.
In was then Mr. Pratt suggested the
construction of incinerators in the three
urban centres as a partial solution to the
problem.
He suggested the rural people in the
county could get along without a landfill
site after 1986 but said there's no way
people in the urban municipalities could
survive without one.
He said the county really isn't in the
Position to worry about economics. if the
facilities are built they won't involve any
type of heat recovery for use by industry
but will be strictly for burning garbage.
"If you don't have any landfill what's
your choice?" he asked.
Mr. Pratt estimated between 60 to 70 per
cent of all urban garbage can be in-
cinerated. The rest will have to be trucked
to a landfill site somewhere outside the
county.
A meeting with a waste management
consultant may be called this week if It can
be arranged.
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Perseverence
will bring end
to garbage crisis
By CHARLAE TATHANI
Warden, Oxford County
The first floor of the Oxford County Court House is now
occupied by the county treasurer's department, engineer-
ing department and the warden's office, making handsome
quarters for our county staff.
The environmental process has baffled Oxford County
council on matters of solid waste disposal. I believe we
resemble one of Al Capp' characters, Joe Btfsplk, who
always appeared on the scene with a black cloud over his
head, however, we shall persevere and arrive at an en-
vironmentally safe solution.
The ticker tape parade of paper that
Ontario Hydro has showered upon us,
as it spends its way from the "Bruce"
to London is overwhelming. Ontario
Hydro is a rudderless ship buffeted by
trial and error and presently blown
towards the 401 corridor. Your county
council is endeavoring to see if this is a
sensible and responsible corridor.
Landfill siting and Hydro corridor
siting are prime sxamples of Queen's
Park legistlation that is not working
properly.
it is encouraging to see Natural Gas
Pipe Lines going to more of our Oxford CHARLIE
communities; Hickson, Bright, TATHAM
Tavistock and Oxford Centre.
The Charlie Shelton and John Harts of Oxford County
are to be commended for their leadership in soil COMM-
tion. The most precious physical asset we have is our land
and we are responsible for saving our land for ourselves
and those people who come afterus.
Digital communication, paralled processing, diodes, bits
words which are becoming more familiar as we move
towards the 21st century one man says, "We define the
history of computers as that of working toward an ar-
tificial brain."
Back in 195o, on the advice of North America's Dr. Ed-
wards Deming, statistical engineer, some Japanese
manufacturers started quality control. Now statistical pro-
cess control in becoming part of our quality control, in
some of the manufacturing plants of Oxford County as we
compete in the markets of the world.
The French poet Paul Valery predicted more than half a
century ago, "nothing will be done any more without .the
whole world being involved".
Bull semen from the Western Ontario Breeders Inc., line
stringing equipment from Timberland Equipment
Limited, automotive parts shipped from Livingstone Ex-
port Packing Inc., all world shippers. We reside in Oxford
County, but the world markets are out there to trade with.
• If step number two is successful, and proper financing is
arranged with the Ontario Ministry of Health we will recy-
cle our 19th century jail. This will provide modern quarters
for our Oxford County board of Health and Oxford County
home care people. On the completion of this recycling pro-
gram we will have added another jewel to the County of
Oxford Square.
To build our community of Oxford it takes the decation
and hard work of many people. Our success depends on the
ongoing efforts of all citizens.
Word's success is your success.
County picnic
The annual Oxord County
picnic will be held at the Mount
Elgin Community Centre on
June 14 at 6:30 p.m., county
council decided.
Archives committee
formed for Oxford
Increased communication and reduced
duplication of work is the objective of a
newly -organized county archives com-
mittee.
The Oxford County Archives Group,
consisting of local historians, librarians,
historical society members and museum
officials, was formed Thursday dtwing the
first meeting held at the Woodstock Public
Library.
Eighteen different organizations are
represented on the committee, including
the Norwich Museum and Archives. There
were also representatives from the Oxford
County and Woodstock Libraries as well as
from the Oxford Genealogical Society and
Local Architectural Conservation Ad-
visory Committees.
The first meeting Thursday provided a
chance for the organizations to become
aware of the various information being
collected by the other organizations so
duplication of the work will not occur.
Scott Gillies, managing curator at the
Norwich Museum and Archives, said the
Norwich complex will try to submit a
general listing of its collection by the
summer to the other representatives on
the committee. Mr. Gillies said the idea of
establishing a cotmty, archives was not
discussed at the meeting, but a suggestion
was made by a Perth County historian
present that the establishing of a number
of satellite archives in the county be
considered.
The next meeting of the Oxford County
Archives Group will be held October 18 in
Norwich.
OFFICIALS HOT ABOUT TIGHTENING SECURITY
City man who lumped to freedom
still at large at press time
By GREG BOTHWELL charges of break and enter. A David Milne, Oxford other parts of the building. On
Sentinel -Review staff writer second man, who has been County's deputy sheriff, said the second floor there is a
A man waiting for a hail charged with the same break- this morning the sheriff's of- holding room for prisoners
hearing jumped from a first in, and two lawyers, were in fice may have to consider n- who are to appear in the cotm-
storey window at the cour- the room at the time of the ing another room for conulta- ty or Ontario Supreme Court.
thouse Monday and escaped, escape. Police officers remain- lion between lawyers and Milne said the sheriff's office
the second such escape from ed outside the room while the their clients. He said a mom is still waiting for a report
the court building in the past lawyers talked to the two men. located across the hall from from the Ministry of the
three years. Immediately after the man the provincial courtroom, Attorney -General about cour-
City police were still sear- jumped, police officers ran which has no windows on the [room security in the province
-
ching for the 20-year-old from the courtroom trying to outside of the building, might The attorney -general's office
Woodstock man this morning. catch the man, but they were be appropriate- began a o- study on security pr
The escape has once again unsuccessful. "We're going to have to do blems It
the shooting of
got local court officials think- later in the day Judge Jack something," he said. a lawyer in a Toronto
ing of ways to tighten security McCormick, of Kitchener, who There is more security in courthouse.
at the building. was presiding at the court,
About 11:10 a.m. Monday, issued a bench warrant for the
while the provincial court was arrest of James McCulloch, of
in session, a man jumped out 130 Keats Drive.
an open window in a room ad- In 19al a Tillsonburg man
lourning the courtroom. The jumped from a different win -
room is used by lawyers and dow in the same room and
their clients for consultations. made his escape.
j LANDED ON CAR That man, and his brother,
The man um about five had been left alone in the room
metres and �anded on the hood for a few moments by a police
of a car, denting it. Ile then fl= officer. Both men were facing
ed from the area. charges of armed robbery. The
A city police officer said the man was recaptured later the
man was apparently standing same day and charged with
by the open window smoking a escaping from custody. He
cigarette just before he made received a reformatory term
the leap. The man was waiting after pleading guilty to the
for a bail hearing on two offence.
County continues Hydro study
Despite objections from some county
councillors Oxford County council will
continue with its assessment of the
proposed Ontario Hydro corridor for new
transmission lines across Southwestern
Ontario.
The county budgeted $100,000 this year to
defend the county's position with regard to
the proposed new transmission lines but
some county councillors feel no more
money should be spent.
Following a closed session of county
council Wednesday, when the report of the
Oxford County hydro liaison committee
was received and discussed, Warden
Charlie Tatham said the money has been
set aside "and we will try to spend it as
judiciously as possible."
He pointed out there is still no judgment
in the judicial review of the consolidated
hearing board's decision to include the
Highway 401 route in the Southwestern
Ontario corridor it selected following the
1982 hearings in Stratford.
"The (liaison)committee is trying to get
some answers so when we do gel a
judgment we're ready to protect the rights
of the citizens of Oxford County, whichever
way it goes," said Warden Tatham.
"We're just trying to find out what we
should be doing and which way to go." If
the judgment requires the hearing process
to begin all over again, "that's a whole
new game" and the county wants to have
its facts together before that decision is
made, said Mr. Tatham.
"We've got to look after our people."
To date the county has spent about
$33,000 on legal and consulting fees. The
county tired a planning consultant earlier
this year to examine the county's position
with regard to the hydro corridor. "The
idea is to find out whether this is a good
idea from an environmental point of view.
We may decide it isn't so bad," said
Warden Tatham.
Putting on the pressure
Committee out to battle drunk drivers
By LINDA MULMI
sentinel -Review Shelf writer
To tackle the problem of
drinking drivers, the newly
formed Oxford County drink-
ng driving Committee agrees
it most pressure governments
to tighten laws and promote
social change locally.
The committee formed early
this year at the request of On-
tario Attorney -General Roy
McMurtry. In in a letter to
municipal councils he en-
couraac ged more local tion
against drinking drivers.
Oxford's committee has
representation from a variety
of sectors — municipal, legal,
medical, education, emergen-
cy. and private business.
Monday the committee met
for the second time to identify
concerns and discuss its direc-
tion in the corning months.
At its first meeting, the com-
mittee passed two recommen-
dations involving the taking of
blood samples to test alcohol
levels from drivers involved in
traffic accidents. The commit-
tee agreed if a death has occur-
red, the -coroner should have
the right to take samples from
at parties, dead and living,
without having first obtained a
warrant by telephone..
REQUEST SAMPLES
It also recommended
policemen should be em-
powered to request blood
samples from suspected im-
paired drivers if a breath test
has been refused.
Because several members
were absent for the first
meeting, discussion on the pro-
posals continued Monday.
Coroner Dr. John Blackwood
was the first to strongly sup-
port the measures.
"We are compelled by law to
take samples from a dead
driver.. but if he's still alive, we
can't," he said. "That law pro-
tects the driver ... it protects a
murderer."
Dr. Blackwood said he
doesn't want to continue going
to accidents to pull dead people
out of cars who have been kill-
ed by drunk drivers.
"What annoys me is that at
every accident we've been to
where we've dragged these
dead people out, it could have
been my family," he said.
Chairman Lenore Young
said if the committee agrees
this is the route to take, the
recommendations will go to
county council for approval. If
passed, they will then be sent
on to federal Justice Minister
Mark MacGuigan.
CONTENTIOUS
"It will be a contentious
issue," she said. It was . -
gested at the last meeting if
arty resolutions are sent to the
government, they should Ire
accompanied by an ex-
planatory brief. Mrs. Young
said she intends to keep notes
of all discussions in order to
accurately reflect the commit-
Lee's concerns.
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Lawyer Jim Searle said the
committee should not just push
for changing the Canadian
Criminal Code at the federal
level, but should lobby the pro-
vincial government to make
changes as well. Currently, if a
doctor takes a blood sample,
he is not only subject to
criminal charges, but to civil
suits as well. It's the pro-
vince's responsibility to pro-
tect doctors from those ac-
tions, he said.
"The only thing to do is to
keep writing and sending
things onto the government,"
said Oxford medical offficer of
health Dr. Cecile Rochard.
"Governments act on constant
pressure."
EXERTING PRESSURE
But the committee agreed
that, as far as making any
legal changes, exerting
pressure is about all it can do.
"It's a social problem, isn't
it?" said Warden Charlie
Tatham. "It's a training thing,
an educational thing. Do we
use a carrot and a stick at the
same time? Change is not go-
ing to happen overnight."
Mrs. Young said making
penalties more strict for drink-
ing drivers is likely not the
total answer. Despite
Penalties, people would pro -
Dr. Blackwood agreed. He said
he's been at accidents where
the drinking driver was
oneratine a car with a
The committee discussed the
possibility of introducing
education programs in
elementary schools to promote
responsible driving. Another
suggestion was to implement a
program where people at
taverns who have had too
much to drink can be driven
home.
Southside Hotel owner Jim
MCCLlntock supported
educating young people on the
hazards of drinking and
driving
He said of the clientele at his
establishment, it's the older
crowd, those over 25 years,
who are most concerned about
drinking and driving.
"The people who don't seem
to be aware and aren't really
concernd about it are the
young ones, the 19 and 20-year-
olds," he said. "The older peo-
ple talk about it continuously.
The younger jpeople don't
worry about it. They just like
to drink."
Having hashed out several
directions to pursue, the com-
mittee members each agreed
to make a list of their concerns
and bring it to next month's
meeting. The concerns will
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then be reviewed and it'll be
determined what the commit-
tee can do locally
Famous guest
Canadian diplomat Ken Taylor achieved world-wide recognition when he duetted the
escape of six American diplomats from Iran in 1980. He shared some of his experiences
with students and residents of Tillsonburg during a visit here Tuesday and also signed
the town's official guest book at the town hall while Mayor Jean Ferric and Greg Pep-
pier, president of the Joint Service Council, looked on. Mr. Taylor's visit was organized
by Mr. Peppier to have him speak at the Joint Service council's annual banquet Tuesday
evening. (Staff Photo)
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Miss Canada stresses need for love
By SUZANNE HANSON
The 1984 Miss Canada, Cynthia Kereluk,
dispelled a few of the myths surrounding
the person behind the title when she spoke
to the Oxford County Family and
Children'sServices 89th annual meeting in
Woodstock Thursday evening.
While she spoke as Miss Canada, she
Celebrity treatment
Cynthia Kereluk received celebrity treatment when she spoke at the 89th annual meeting
of Oxford County's Family and Children's Services Thursday night. The reigning 1984
Miss Canada signed autographs for many after speaking to the annual meeting about be-
ing an adopted child. Twelve -year -old Ellen Pelton of Thamesford was among those who
lined up for an autograph from Miss Canada. (Staff Photo)
also spoke as "a chosen child" on the
subject of adoption. The 23-year-old young
woman was adopted at birth and her
home -life is probably not one people would
expect to produce a Miss Canada. It is
Miss Kereluk's goal to convey to people
that, while she didn't come from the ideal
home or the ideal background, she did
come from a home filled with love.
"I want them (people) to realize that
giving life is one thing but life is nothing
without love," said Miss Kereluk, who
thinks of her adoptive mother who raised
her as her "real" mother.
Her biological mother was the daughter
of her mother's friend. The girl was 16-
yearsold, pregnant and unmarried so
Miss Kereluk's mother, unable to have
children of her own, offered to adopt the
baby at birth.
Miss Kereluk said she wasn't told she
was adopted until she was nine -years -old
when she and her mother moved closer to
relatives in Vancouver. Her mother felt it
best to tell Miss Kereluk the truth before
she learned it from someone else.
It was her first night in Vancouver when
her mother decided to tell her the truth and
having left all her friends behind to move
to a strange, new city, Miss Kereluk was
feeling insecure. it was not surprising then
that she initially felt she had been
betrayed and lied to when she learned she
was adopted.
She'd grown up in a house full of foster
children and, "1 assumed I was her
(mother's) real daughter," said Miss
Oxford levy increases reduced to 3.5%
in dramatic turnaround from last year
WOODSTOCK (Bureau) — Oxford Coun-
ty municipalities are facing a county bud-
get levy increase of 3.5 per rent — a dra-
matic turnaround from the 13-per-cent rise
last year,
The levies were set Wednesday after
cewnty council approved a 1984 budget of
`i18,096,815, an increase of about 4.4 per cent
over last year's expenditures of $17.3
million.
That means a total of $6,385,557 is to be
collected from the municipalities this year,
vompared with $6,166,6.52 in 1993. Grants
from other levels of government make up
about half the revenue in the budget.
Last year's 13-per-cent levy rise was
largely the rerun of a sharp Increase In the
public health and welfare budget. included
was a 47-per-cent rise In the general wel-
fare assistance budget of about $4.4 million.
The welfare cost this year is down slight-
ly to $t,350,700 while the total budget for
public health and welfare rises to $8.7 mil-
lion from $8.4 million last year.
Councillors reviewed the proposed bud-
get and added a grant of $500 to the Spring -
ford and Area Agricultural Society.
A motion to drop the $8,767 cost of a nutri.
tionist for the Oxford County board of
health was defeated. The province has indi-
cated that position will be mandatory with-
in five years.
Included In the budget is $100,000 for spe-
cial study of a new Ontario Hydro transmis-
sion plan for Southwestern Ontario. Oxford
County and five other groups are asking the
divisional court to set aside the decision by
the consolidated hearings board which ree-
ommended Ontario Hydro build major
transmission lines east from London along
HI hway 401 toward Milton.
Meanwhile, the county's budget for solid
waste disposal continues to grow. This
year's allotment of $1_375.800 is up from
$981,500 last year. Included is $10.000 for a
study of incineration and $35,000 for a study
of transportation of garbage in the county.
Other areas of the budget which have
Increased are: recreation and community
services, $387,775 compared with $375,36
last year; general government expenses,
$542,633, compared with $496,960 in 1983;
protection of persons and properly, includ.
ing fire service, $268,465, compared with
$247,368.
The only area that has been reduced from
16H31.4 financial expenses, at $477,000 com-
pared with $787,01)0 last year.
The net le%J, to each municipality Is:
Blandford-Blenheim, $747,122; East Zorra-
Tavistock, $582,520; Norwich, $7M,975;
South-West Oxford, $628,148; Zorra,
$1,027,455; Tillsonburg, $715,876; Ingersoti,.
$403,643; Woodstock, $1,521,81:3.
Kereluk. "I had thought I was a little bit
above them."
Once she recovered from the initial
shock, "it never really bothered me that I
was adopted." While it was difficult at
times growing up in a house filled with
foster children and adult boarders her
mother took in to support them, Miss
Kereluk said she doesn't have any regrets
about the way she grew up, adding that "it
had a lot to do with the type of person I am
today,"
She praised those in the audience at the
annual meeting who similarly took
children into their homes and their hearts
as foster children or adopted children.
"My mother was doing exactly what you
people are doing," said an emotional Miss
Kereluk in recalling her mother who died
three years ago.
"It's not those people, who give us life,
it's those who give us love," she said.
In an interview following her talk. Miss
Kereluk said there is no set time for
parents to tell their children they are
adopted. It depends on the maturity of the
child. "I think you have to have a bond
there; they have to feel secure with your
relationship and your love."
She also said she could understand the
need for adopted children to seek out their
biological parents. "It's important to know
your roots." She said she hopes someday
to find her biological mother before she
settles down to get married, just to learn
about her background.
Several awards were also presented
during the annual meeting. Tillsonburg
Police Constable Patricia DeLeeheeck
was among three people to receive awards
for having made significant contributions
to children or families in the work of the
agency.
In presenting the award to Constable
DeLeebeeck. Wayne Smith, the president
of the FCS board of directors, said she has
given 'outstanding cooperation" to the
agency in its investigation of child abuse in
the Tillsonburg area. He noted too that she
has given many of her off -duty hours to
assist with those investigations.
Another award recipient was Jack
Hedges, a juvenile probation and after
care officer for Oxford County. He was
commended for his work in that field and
for organizing wilderness canoe trips for
young people on probation. He has also
been involved in putting on workshops for
professionals, dealing with the new Young
Offenders Act.
The third award went to Betty Hogg, a
registered nurse at Woodstock General
Hospital. She is the head nurse on the
children's ward and a member of the
hospital's child abuse team.
The special Judge Ball Memorial Award
for the best essay on child abuse by a
senior sociology student this year went to
Lois Griffin, a Grade 12 student at
Woodstock Collegiate Institute.
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County representatives
join tobacco
By MARLENE OPDECAM
The tobacco industry will be getting a
little help in its fight to save the industry
from death by government taxation.
At a meeting Thursday, representatives
of the five counties in the tobacco belt met
with the tobacco marketing board to
discuss in detail the economic impact of
the reduction of the tobacco crop
production on the respective communities.
On hand at the meeting were: Oxford
County Warden Charlie Tatham; Brant
County Warden Mabel Dougherty; Elgin
County Warden Bud Marr; Reeve
(Caradoc Twp.) Bill Skinner of Middlesex
County, Regional Director of Haidimand-
Norfolk Keith Richardson and Economic
Development Officer for Haldimand-
Norfolk Armas Pukala. Tobacco Board
members attending included Chairman
George Demeyere and Vice -Chairman Al
Bouw. The meeting was arranged by Mr.
Tatham.
Initial assessment of the effect of the
small crop on local employment indicates
the 32.5 per cent cut from 215 to 145 million
pounds will not only put some 800 ]'arms
out of production and do away with 8,000
seasonal jobs but could also result in the
closing of one or two of the current three
auction exchanges which each employ
approximately 100 persons.
A rough tally of the additional jobs which
could be lost in local processing plants was
put at 550,
At present, there are approximately
2,500 tobacco producing farms which
employ 25,0W persons on a seasonal basis,
fight
Mr. Demeyere said that as a result of the
meeting, the five wardens have decided to
make strong representations to troth the
federal and provincial levels of
government in order to explain the social
and economic impact of the reduced crop
on their respective communities.
Mr. Demeyere said the board has
received a written statement from the
Ontario Federation of Agriculture
supporting its fight to save the tobacco
industry from extermination. The Norfolk
chapter of the federation has also put its
weight behind the industry and has sent a
representation to the government
protesting the system of taxation against
tobacco which annually pours as much as
$2.4 billion into government coffers.
A press release issued by the Ontario
Flue -Cured Tobacco Growers' Marketing
Board stated that Dennis
Timbrell, Provincial Minister of
Agriculture and Food has initiated a
meeting between George Demeyere,
chairman of the marketing board, and
Peter Gage, chief negotiator for the
Canadian Tobacco Manufacturers'
Council.
The meeting will take place in the United
Kingdom and is being held in order to
conduct further discussions relating to
United Kingdom tobacco requirements as
they relate to negotiations of the I984 flue
crop.
Negotiations are now scheduled to
resume in Toronto Tuesday, April 17.
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WOODSTOCK, ONTARIO
Tenders will be received until 12:00 Noon, Tues-
day, April 24, 1984 for the foundation work, for
the Woodstock Police Headquarters Building.
Plans and specifications are available at the of-
fice of Walter, Fady, McCarger, Hachborn,
Engineers & Project Managers, 546 Belmont
Avenue West, Kitchener, upon deposit of $50.00.
Tenders will be received at EITHER 546 Belmont
Avenue West, or Woodstock City Hall. Attention:
Bernie Clermont (Purchasing Agent). This project
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Oxford council approves
energy -from -waste study
WOODSTOCK (Bureau) —Oxford County has
ordered A feasibility study on a plan to turn
garbagetntoenergv et the Oxford ReglonalCen-
tre Just north of here.
Council decided Wednesday to hire Toronto
consultant Derek Wilson to carry out a $30,000
study.
The county wants to do more than bury its
Eglarbage and Is Interested in building an energy-
aarum-waste plant at the 30-building centre for
the mentally handicap on Highway 59.
If built, the plant will not eliminate the need
for landfill sites but it would reduce the amount
of garbage going Into those sites.
The decision to hire Wilson came after the
county received encouraging replies to the
scheme from several government ministries, in-
cluding the ministry of government services
which Indicated it Is interested in buying the
steam or electric energy produced from the
plant.
The study will help determine the cost of intall-
jng and operating the plant, the chances of sell-
ing energy to the centre, legal and environmen-
tal hurdles which must he cleared and what type
of financial help the senior level of government
would give the county.
Several other municipalities In Ontario, such
as lire regional munlelpalltles of Peel and Hel-
ton, are investigating similar energy-from-
wasle plants, In Peel, a Min based com-
pany has agreed to build a plant and take most of
the financial risks with the region paying the
company a fee for each ton of garbage dumped
into the giant incinerator.
Last week, Wilson told the county's public
works committee a county -installed Incinerator
that doesn't produce energy would cost about $60
per capita or about $200 per household.
Blandford-Blenheim Mayor Ross Livingston,
chairman of the county's public works commit-
tee, said later the feasibility study will help the
county decide how much garbage will be burned.
Incinerators can be built to handle as much as
300 tons a day.
Oxford officials believe a big Incinerator
might be able to produce enough energy to
steam heat and perhaps cool the centre.
The ministry of energy has already advised
Oxford It will provide grants equivalent to 50 per
cent of the cost of having the feasibility study
prepared. Grants are also available to build en-
ergy -producing incinerators.
The decision to go ahead with the study was
approved by 12.7. Some councillors questioned
the cost and timing of the study.
Highway 403 Construction
Between Brantford and Woodstock Progressing
The extension of Highway 403 westerly to Highway 401 will relieve the heavy traffic
conditions on Highway 2 between Paris and Woodstock.
Construction on the grading, drainage and structures for this new four lane freeway
is now well underway between Rest Acres Road and Highway 53. In 1964 work will
continue on this link under two contracts for the granular base and paving. The easterly
contract for a distance of 11.5 kilometers will commence early in the construction season
and the westerly contract for the remaining 10.6 kilometers will follow completion of
the advance grading later this fall,
The opening of Highway 403 to the travelling public between Rest Acres Road and
Highway 53 will take place in 1985.
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Committee hangs up
search for improved
telephone system
The search for a better tolePh0ne system for Oxford County ser-
vices reached the end of the line, Mnnday,
The county administration and finance committee decided to
make only minor improvements to the system Currently used at
the Courthouse in Woodstock. The decision put to rest a request
from County council last year to look into a more cost-efficient
system.
The committee will, however, recommend to ;,,unty council
that a separate telephone line be installed for the treasurer's
department. Staff in the clerk's office are still taking calls for the
treasurer, even though the two departments no longer share
-
facilities.
Last year the treasurer's staff moved to new quarters on the
courthouse's first Floor, but the clerk's staff remains in offices on
the second floor,
Clerk Harold Walls said 90 per cent of the treasurer's calls must
be transferred downstairs, adding they also receive a fair
number of calls for the engineering department.
Installing the new line will cost about $196. plus a $too monthly
charge.
NO CONFERENCE CALLS
That's the only extra the committee is willing to spend on the
phone service for county staff presently. Warden Charlie Tatham
inquired about a service which would allow in-house conference
calls, but learned it would require a switchboard operator — an
expense he nor the rest of the committee is willing to absorb,
A new system offered by Bell Canada would do the job, but that
means completely removing the old one and replacing it with new
lines, new connections, and new hardware.
Walls said a survey of county department heads showed
everyone is happy with the present system and once the
treasurer's line is installed, there should be no further problems.
The committee agreed the new system sounds great, but decid-
ed the time wasn't right for change. Once the Board of Health
moves into the old county jail, it may be feasible to book them up
with several other county departments.
That idea will be studied by Bell Canada, but it likely won't be -
put into effect for at least two years.
76 legal Notices 76 Legal Notices
COMPLETION OF STUDY
The Ministry of Transportation and Communications IM.T.C.) has
completed planning and design studies for Highway No. 4W.
from Oxford County Road 14 westerly to Highway 401 near Tower
Line Road.
This project was exempted from the formal requirements of the
Environmental Assessment Act by an Exemption Order signed
by the Minister of the Environment.
An Environmental Status Statement IE.S.S.) report describing
the planning, design, and construction of the new freewoy has
been prepared and is available for public viewing, during nor-
mal business hours, of the locations listed below,
Ministry of the Environment
Environmental Assessment Branch
7th Floor - 135 St. Clair Ave. W.,
Toronto
Ministry of the Environment
Southwestern Regional Office
985 Adelaide Street South,
London
Ministry of the Environment
Cambridge District Office
400 Clyde Road,
Cambridge
County of Oxford
Clark's Department
Court House
415 Hunter Street,
Woodstock
Ministry of Transportation and Communications
Planning and Design Section
3rd Floor - 659 Exeter Road,
London
It you have any comments or questionsplease contucr.
Mr. Ed Stevenson
Project Manager
Ministry of Transportation and Communications
669 Exeter Road, P.O. Box 5338
London
Telephone: 1.519.681.1,1 i
or Toll Free 1-800.265.6072
No money available
Jail governor's new roof delayed
In March. county council decided to re• on the social services building this year.
By Howard Bums store the house for use as an Informal meet- Work on replacing the roof on the gover-
Woodstock Bureau ing place for county officials as well as a nor's house could be included in the 1985
place to display county artifacts and budget.
WOODSPOCK — Oxford County doesn't memorabilia, The committee endorsed the report.
have enough money set aside in its recently
approved budget to replace the roof on the
19th-century house attached to the vacant
count)' jail, according to a report by county
engineering director Don Pratt.
In his report to the county's public works
committee Thursday, Pratt recommended
plans to replace the roof on the building,
known as the jail governor's house, be
ahelvtd until 1955.
In the budget, council set aside a total of
$24,500 to replace toot's on the governor's
house and the County's sorts) services
building. it turns out estimate was low,
says the report, which the committee
passed on to council for approval,
Tice report recommends the county stay
within the budget and only replace the roof
Let there be
By LINDA RVLME
Sentinel -Review staff writer
Now the old lady has had a
facelift, she won't be hiding in
the shadows anymore.
Plans are under way to pur-
chase lights and posts to be
erected around the Oxford
County courthouse.
A few years ago floodlights
in front of the Hunter Street
building were removed
because they were too costly.
if county council approves a
plan by county engineer Don
Pratt, the building will be lit
once again — only this time in
style.
Pratt presented the plan
Thursday to the public works
committee. He wants the coun-
ty to purchase heritage -style
lamps and posts to go with the
Courthouse's Victorian ar-
chitecture. If council goes -
along with it, flood lamps will
light up the building's facade,
while street lamps will be plac-
Councillors to pay
$20 each for lunches
WOODSTOCK (Bureau) — Oxford Coun-
ty council approved on Wednesday a pro-
posal to have each councillor pay $20 a year
for six noon lunches provided in connection
with county council meetings in Woodstock.
The lunches are designed to promote
goodwill and bring councillors together six
times a year. Councillors used to take a
lunch break at the Food Right restaurant
on Dundas Street but last year they started
eating at the Royal Canadian Legion hall in
Woodstock.
Total bill for the lunches is about $480.
In a separate matter, the committee
heard a proposal to light up the courthouse
square in Woodstock. No cost estimate was
given in the report from the county engi-
neering department. The heritage -style
lighting scheme would provide mounted
flood lights at the front of the building with
walkway lights around the courthouse. "To
do it right is an expensive proposition,"
said Pratt.
light: Pratt
ed at the building's four cor-
ners and by the rear entrance.
This is only the beginning of
a long-range plan to light up
the entire county square.
Pratt's proposing the in-
stallation of high pressure
sodium lamps, which give off a
soft, pinkish glow. The
engineering department ex-
rimented with several types,
he said. High pressure sodium
lamps were chosen because
they weren't as harsh as other
types but they do have the
drawback of slightly changing
the hue of the building's stones
at night.
Pratt said of all the choices,
the lights he's recommending
are the most energy -efficient.
He couldn't tell the commit-
tee how much the lamps and
posts will cost exactly, only
that it won't come cheap.
"To do it right is an expen-
sive proposition," he said.
Clocks go ahead
When you awake Sunday morning
and you still seem tired, it is because
daylight savings time goes into effect
on Sunday, April 29 at 2 a.m.
As clocks are set ahead one hour
before going to tied Saturday night, the
loss of one hour of sleep will be
rewarded with an extra hour of daylight
to be enjoyed in the evening.
Even though an hour of daylight will
be lost early in the morning, the extra
hour in the evening will allow children
more time to play outside after supper
and employees to enjoy more of the
outdoors as well.
Vanderspek- Halliday wed
But that's okay with Coun.
Howard Cook.
"We shouldn't worry about
the money," he said. "We've
got a building here that
everybody stoppss to look at
when they tErive by. We
wouldn't want to cheapen it."
Coun. Les Cook agreed.
"Let's do it right. It's going to
be here for many, many
years."
The lighting program is
another in a series of steps to
revitalize the courthouse pro-
perty. Interior renovations and
a clean-up of the exterior was
completed last year. County
council is interested in even-
tually fixing up the entire
county square, not only to in-
crease the efficiency of the
municipal buildings, but to
present them as a heritage
showcase in a park -like
setting.
Mr. and Mrs. C. Vanderspek The wedding took place on
of Embro, Ontario are happy April 19, 1984 in the KenPtville
to announce the marriage of Christian Reformed Church,
their daughter, Elizabeth, to Kemplville, Ontario.
Dr, Bruce Halliday of Dr. and Mrs. Hallidaywillbe
Tavistock, Ontario. residing in Tavistock, Ontario
700 trees
Vandals who set a grass lire
in the Oxford County park near
Beachville managed not only
to burn up the scrub but 700
young trees as well.
In 1991 the county signed a
forestry agreement with the
Upper Thames River Conser-
vation Authority to establish a
stand of trees under the
Authority's Private Lands
Assistance program. In 1982,
1,600 seedlings were planted -
Last week, an inspection
revealed about 700 of the young
plants were lost in the rue.
Because the loss of the trees
wasn't due to improper plan-
ting techniques, the authority
is not responsible for replan-
ting. It will, however, supply
700 more seedlings.
Scouts helping keep
Oxford County green
by planting seedlings
Oxford is a greener place today thanks to several hundred bops
scouts who spent Saturday morning planting tree seedlings in
various areas around the county.
Both the Woodstock and Ingersoll scouting districts were in-
volvedin the annual Trees for Canada reforestation campaign for
the second consecutive year.
Trees for, Canada is a program spearheaded by the Boy Scouts
of Canada and designed to restore lands which have been stripped
of their trees over the past several decades. It is also a major
fund-raising event for scouting as youngsters seek pledges from
the public for planting the tree seedlings.
400 GO APLANTING
In the Woodstock district, 350 to 40o beavers, cubs and scouts
took to the bush, along with parents and a fewsiblings, to plant a
total of 11,000 trees.
The trees were planted in three areas - at the north shore of Pit
-
tock Lake and south shore on lands owned by the Upper Thames
River Conservation Authority (UTRCA), and at the Chesney con-
servation area between fnnerkip and Drumbo. a natural reserve
managed by the Grand River Conservation .Authority.
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Zorra farmer helping to revive
forests of southwestern Ontario
Story and photo
by Gabe Peracchia
ZORR.A —Peter Baldwin's farm in the former township ai
Fast Niss turi is a special place for those concerned about
reviving the forests of southwestern Ontario.
Baldwin's 200-acre farm on Concession 13, WL 8 is the site
of the 1,0(xah reforestation project by the Ontario govern-
ment in its Aylmer district which includes most of Oxford.
Middlesex and Elgin counties.
Under the Woodlands Improvement Act at I11Ii6, the On-
tario Ministry of Natural Resources assists landowners to
rehabilitate abandoned agricultural lands and improve
management in existing woodlots.
Ultimately, the program helps to regenerate woodlands,
and, in the process, the landowner's property becomes more
valuable because of its grown lumber, Aylmer district ac-
ting manager Bill Gilmore said, just prior to a presentation
ceremony at the -Zorra farm.
MORE PER ACRE:
A participating farmer could accrue $5 to $30 per acre per
year by having his land planted with trees.
Under the program, a landowner pays for tree seedlings at
a cost of 2- . cents each, and the ministry plants them on his
or her property.
The landowner signs a 15-year agreement requiring him to
protect the growing trees from threats such as grazing
animals. grass fires and field mice, which, at peak popula-
tions, tend to debark tender seedlings.
Oxford County Warden Charlie Tatham, who participated
in the plaque presentation ceremony along with Zorra
ZORRA FARMER Peter Baldwin gets an
engraved plaque from the Ontario Ministry of
Natural Resources for being the 1000th lan-
downer in Aylmer district to enter into a
woodlands improvement project, with the
Work on ja
gets under
By LINDA HULME
Seatinel-Review staff writer
Work on the rehabilitation of
Ube Oxford County Jail has
been delayed up to now by the
county's difficulty in obtaining
tural students will get to work
measuring the interior of the
historical building. Later this
spring it will beeleoned upend
gutted in preparation (or its
rehabilitation Into offices for
the county board of health.
The work was to have begun
earlier, but attempts by the
county to hire students through
Mayor Wallis ❑anunund, said there are another 20.000 to
30,000 acres of land in Oxford County which should be
reforested. "It's an excellent program. •'
Gilmore said Oxford County has about 12 per cent of its.
total land area under forests, but productive forest land may.
be as low as four per cent of the total land area.
It costs the ministry $120 to $Ch) to plant an acrewith the
average 1,000 seedlings, he said. The smallest parcel of land
which the ministry will consider for planting is five acres.
A pGreet of land is characteristically planted with soft
woad, such as pine or, cedars. Under the process of
ecological succession, the softww d trees grow and, after
years, change the environment so that hardwood trees can
thrive, The softwood, coniferous forest then gives way to a
hardwood, deciduous forest, which yields lumber suitable
for commercial use, Gilmore said,
It takes about 100 years for a hardwood forest to mature
from the initial softwood planting,, he said.
NUNIRF t THREE
The Aylmer district is the third in Ontario to have reached
LOW reforestation projects. The total number in the pro-
vince is I0,000.
The Aylmer district projects include more than 2,8w hec-
tares (6,012 acres) of new plantations and more than 4,800
hectares of improved woodlots.
In Zorra alone, there are 530 hectares under cooperative
management
The program can also be applied to existing woodlots. The
ministry selects and marks trees which the landowner cuts
to improve the growth of remaining trees.
J .J
ministry. Making the pre'.
Aylmer district manager
companied by Oxford Cow
Tatham and Zorra Town:
Hammond.
tation is acting
Il Gilmore, ac-
warden Charlie
) Mayor Wallis
i I rehabilitation
way
the Canada Works surarner
program proved fruitless. The
application for five students
was turned down. However,
the county will be hiring the
two architectural students
under the Canada Career Ac-
cess Program, which pays up
to $3 an tour for 18 weeks,
Clerk Harold Walla then ap-
proached Woodstock to find
out whether some of its fun-
ding under the Canada -Ontario
Employment and Develop-
ment (COED) program could
be turned over to the county,
The city won't beable to use all
Its funding in eoitstnicting the
this week
new police station because of hiring workers to tear out the
the deadline, but Walla later jail interior at 1W percent cost
found it wouldn't be possible to to the county. He said diseus-
transfer the excess dollars sfons with the chief architect
anyway. will determine how many
Walls said the county will be laborers will he needed.
"What's it gonna be: go for
walkies, or have this bone
and watch the game on TV?"
DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING
AND DEVELOPMENI
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CLERK -TYPIST
to pwform typing and secmtatal
duties -
Skill m typ,n. dktaphone. 01
prosedwes. and the operation of
duplicating equipmeol is required.
A familiarity with 1.9.M. Mag
Cord end System Six typewriter
would be an asset.
Snlory cammonser-Ohe with
goanikalirms omf exrerrenee, and
ow,dos all County Innge
benellts. Applitaro should stoma
a resume of goolifkatians and ex<
pwiwke, in confMwx+, to
Mr. J.P, AkhesM. MX 1,P,
Plnmm�g Cummoisianw
Dena lnsent of Planning
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County makes no change
in convention
Despite some councillors' dissatisfac-
tion with the present system, the policy for
county councillors attending conventions
will remain unchanged.
At last week's administration and
finance committee meeting, East 'Lorra-
Tavistock Mayor Don McKay suggested
that councillors pay half the cost of at-
tending conventions, claiming councillors
are reachiing subsidized holidays when
they go to such events. But the recom-
mendation of the committee was to leave
the policy unchanged, and that recom-
mendation was adopted by Oxford County
council at its meeting Wednesday evening.
Councillor McKay said councillors in
many cases attend conventions that
coincide with a holiday so the county is
subsidizing that holiday to some extent. He
proposed the sharmg of the expenses, "so
it's not just a ace ride on the taxpayers."
Policy
Councillor McKay agreed the in-
formation garnered at the conventions can
be useful "but for the guy that's back home
paying the levy, there's not too much
comes back to him on these conventions."
The current policy allows councillors to
attend one out -of -province and two in -
province conventions annually and to
charge the expenses incurred to the
county.
Most committee members agreed the
policy is not being abused and in fact, few
councillors use it to its fullest extent. The
convention budget this year is set at
$20,000. If all councillors attended the
conventions they are entitled to, that
amount would be in the $60,000 range.
takes in the Oxford Auditorium proceedings at Tuesday's annual meeting
of the Oxford Liberals with Charlie Tatham, Oxford County Warden and
Liberal delegate.
THE LONDON FREE PRESS, Friday, May 11, 19U
Officials to air issues
of landfill extension
WOODSTOCK (Bureau) — Nor-
wich Township and Oxford County
officials will meet next Thursday
in an attempt to resolve outstand-
ing Issues Involving the proposed
extension of the Holbrook landfill
site.
"I'm very optimistic we can
come to some sort of an agreement
on this," Ross Livingston, chair-
man of the county's public works
committee, said Thursday.
An Ontario environmental as-
sessment hearing on Oxford's ap-
plication to extend the use of the
site in the township beyond its
scheduled closing June 30 is to be-
gin June 11 at the Norwich Commu-
nity Centre.
The county has asked the prov-
ince for permission to keep the
dump open an additional two years.
Norwich Township council and resi-
dents have voiced concerns about
that plan. A special committee
headed by Norwich Mayor John He-
leniak is attempting to reach an
Mother
Nature sure unloaded
on us on Mother's Day
A 611Aana MrK
Rader said, but it will be a about Thursday, he said, of the week.
of ry twnyW140,14W
slow trend. There will be and temperatures should Today's forecast high is
Mothers of the Woodstock
some cloud cover until reach 17 degrees by the end 10.
area didn't get much of a
present from the weather-
man Sunday,
Mother's Day 1964 will go
down on record as not only
wet, snowy and miserable,
but the coldest Mother's
--..
Day on record.
In Woodstock, the day
BLUES CHASER
that began cold and rainy
I urned even worse when the
People who build caslles in the air usually
temperature dipped at mid-
cant afforei ttn' real'eslate underneath.
day and It bel(an to snow,
After several hours of
snowfall about fi cm of snow
was recorded — the
heaviest snowfall this late
in the season, said officials
at the London weather
station.
agreement with the county that
would keep down the costs and the
length of the provincial hearing by
getting some of the issues out of the
way.
"We hope to cover the issues and
once that is done there Is no reason
why we can't have a short hearing
and be done with It," Livingston
said after a committee meeting
Thursday.
That committee met in closed
session briefly Thursday to discuss
a financial compensation plan in-
volving the landfill site. No details
were released. Aside from seeking
compensation, Norwich also wants
the county to reimburse the town-
ship for legal costs incurred two
years ago when It opposed the cur-
rent operating certificate.
Once an agreement is put in writ-
Ing it would then have to be formal-
ly approved by both Oxford County
council and Norwich Township
council.
Oxford councillors
see U.S. energy plant
WOODSTOCKC (Bureau) — Redwing, Minn.,
isn't a big tourist attraction, but it was a must
stop for Oxford County Warden Charlie Tatham
and two councillors this week.
Tatham and Councillors Ross Livingston and
Joe Pember visited Redwing on Tuesday to see
an energy -from -waste plant while attending a
planning conference in Minnesota.
The three wanted to learn more about the
plant because oxford County has ordered afea-
siblllty study, on its own plan to turn garbage into
energy at the Oxford Regional Centre north of
Woodstock.
The county, in a garbage crunch of sorts, with
landfill sites quickly reaching capacity, has
hired Toronto consultant Derek Wilson to carry
out the $30,000 study.
Tatham said Wednesday the Redwing plant
has been operating for two years and appears to
be a success, although there is a problem involy-
Ing emissions at the incinerator which is being
corrected.
In a report to council, Tatham said the Redw-
ing plant operates from Monday to Friday and
was built for about $A million. It handles house-
hold garbage and reduces the amount of waste
that needs to be buried at the area dump.
Oxford County has already received an en-
couraging response to its plan. The ministry of
.government services has indicated it is interest-
ed fit buying steam energy which would be gen-
erated by the plant at the regional centre. The
county study will help determine the cost of
Installing and operating the plant, the chances of
selling energy, legal and environmental require-
ments
and what type of financial help the senior
levels of f;oeernment would give the county-
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Canada's first woman governor-general, Jeanne Sauve, shakes hands with children in Parliament's Hall of Honor after
her swearing -in.
Sauve sworn in
as governor-general
Peace and national unity are the
twin goals of Canada's first
woman Governor-General.
Jeanne Sauve, the former Speak-
er of the House of Commons, was
sworn in last week to replace Ed
Schreyer, who is leaving to be-
come high commissioner to Aus-
tralia.
Sauve spoke of peace as "our
rallying cry, our foremost cause
and the most compelling objective
of our common action."
Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau
,aid Sauve is the ideal candidate
or the post.
"After being represented in
Canada by men for such a long
period, it is right and proper that
Her Majesty should finally have a
woman representative here."
Sauve said Canadians today have
more money and more lesisure
time but act all too often like "chfl-
dren who leave their broken toys
to demand new and exciting ones,
capable of arousing them from
their state of torpid satiation."
Sauve, who will be on the job for
I ive years, will earn about $48,000
a year.
Trudeau said society is increas-
ingly aware that a woman's qual-
ities of mind and heart are every
bit as valuable as a man's.
"For some years now outstand-
ing women have been challenging L.
and conquering old taboos. With
skill and determination they have j'i
won access to the highest positions I
In the land."
Sauve will have to lake it rele-
tively eery for awhile — she spent
six weeka in hospital during the
winter with a respiratory illness.
ENVIRONMENTAL
ASSESSMENT
BOARD
IN THE MATTER OF Sections 32 and 33 of the En-
vironmental Protection Act (R.S.O. 1980, c. 141) as
amended,
— and —
IN THE MATTER OF an application by the County of Ox-
ford for approval of the expansion of its existing waste
disposal site, and its service area, on part of Lots 20 and
21, Concession 3 Township of Norwich.
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
TAKE NOTICE THAT the Environmental Assessment
Board has appointed MONDAY, the 11 th day of JUNE,
1984 at 1:30 o'clock in the afternoon, for the commence-
ment of a public hearing to be held at the
Norwich Community Centre
Stover Street South
Norwich, Ontario
The purpose of this hearing is to receive evidence with
respect to this proposal and to obtain the views of the
public so that the Board can make recommendations to
the Ministry of the Environment. Written and oral submis-
sions may be made to the Board at the hearing. The Board
will not consider any submissions regarding the proposal
after the hearing has been closed.
Documents regarding this proposal will be available for ex-
amination and inspection during normal busines hours In
the office of the Clerk of the County of Oxford, 415 Hunter
Street, Woodstock, Ontario; in the office of the Clerk of
the Township of Norwich, Otterville, Ontario; and in the
office of the Environmental Assessment Board, 5th Floor,
1 St. Clair Avenue West, Toronto, Ontario.
EXPLANATORY NOTE
The application pertains to the expansion of the service
area to include part of the former Township of South Nor
with, and to the expanded use of the existing 10.12 hec-
tare (25 acres) waste disposal area located within a total
site area of 40.5 hectares (100 acres). The proposal for
the expansion Is to utilize the existing area of the landfill
site and place additional lifts of refuse on top of that area,
and to Increase the overall elevation of the existing land-
fill site which will lend to promote more run-off and less
infiltration Into the refuse.
The waste disposal site is owned at present by the Court
_ ty of Oxford. The site expansion will continue to be
operated by the County of Oxford. it is Intended to serve
approximately 52,000 people of the County of Oxford.
The site would accept domestic, commercial and non-
hazardous solid industrial waste amounting to approximate-
ly 180 tonnesla day. It Is estimated that the proposed site
expansion can accommodate landfilling operations for ap-
proximately 2 years from June, 1984. The proposed ex
tension of the landfill site Is designed to handle the Coun-
ty of Oxford' waste during the time Interval between June
301h, 1984 and the lime until a now county waste disposal
ads becomes operational
DATED at TORONTO this 9th day of May, 1984
H. Brown, F. Eng.
Oxford body
turns down two
bids for grants
W.00DSTOCK (Bureau) — Oxford Coun-
ty's administration and finance committee
turned down grant requests Monday from
organizers of the Woodstock Fair and the
annual Norwich historical show.
But committee members agreed the or-
ganizations should make their pitches for
financial support again next year.
Donald MacPherson, chairman of the
Norwich and District historical Society,
requested a $5W grant in writing, saying
the show of antique agricultural equipment
serves many of the same purposes as agrf-
cultural fairs across the county and should
qualify for a grant. .
Woodstock Agricultural Society secre-
tary Bev Wallace also sought a grant for
Woodstock Fair this year.
Because the county's budget has already
been set, the committee decided no addi-
tional grants should be approved. But the
groups were invited to submit grant
appli-cations in time for consideration in the 1985
budget.
County council has promised to give A-
nancial support to agricultural fairs in
Springford, Tilisonburg and Embro this
year.
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Landfill
deal gives
township
$34,1000
By Howard Burns
Woodstock Bureau
WOODSTOCK — Norwich Township is
expected to receive $34,000 from Oxford
County under an agreement to extend the
life of the Holbrook landfill site.
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The accord also maintains the tight con.
trols on the operation of the landfill site in
the township, assures water supplies are
safeguarded and comes complete with a
guarantee the county won't seek an a di-
tional extension of the landfill's operating
certificate two years from now.
As part of the deal, the township in return
has assured the county it will not oppose
a
Oxford's bid to keep the Holbrook site open
beyond its scheduled June 30 closing date at
an upcoming Ontario environmental as-
sessment board hearing,
Details of the agreement were disclosed
for the first time Wednesday night after
county council quickly ratified the deal In
closed session. Norwich Township ap-
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proved it at a special meeting Tuesday.
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Although the agreement will not avert
the June 11 environmental board hearing, it
will keep down the cost and the length of the
hearing, Norwich Township Mayor John
Heleniak said after the deal had been en-
dorsed by the county.
The money will be put in a general fund
for costs incurred by the municipality or
any future costs associated with the exten-
sion of Holbrook's,operating certificate,"
Heleniak said. He said the township had
spent more than $150,000 in recent years on
matters involving
the landfill site.
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Heleniak said the deal will save taxpay-
ers a considerable amount of money be-
cause the township will not be forced to hire
high-priced legal and technical help to fight
the county at the hearing.
Under terms of the agreement, the
$34,000 payment will be made once the
county has received official word from the
Ontario environment ministry that the
landfill site can remain open. The agree-
ment also confirms the county's intention
to close Holbrook on or before June 30,1986.
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might have decided to fight the county as
the major objector at the hearing.
The agreement is similar to one worked
out in December, 1982, during a previous
environmental assessment board hearing
on the same landfill site.
Heleniak said he was satisifed environ-
mental concerns voiced by township offi-
cials and concerned citizens have been ad-
dressed by the county as part of the new
agreement.
Oxford County Warden Charlie Tatham,
obviously pleased an agreement had been
hammered out, said the $34,000 figure was
'general compensation" to the township.
He said the county felt it could make the
.
payment becau6e of savings it would real•
"reduced"
iz under a monitoring program
that would continue to examine the quality
of ground and surface water on or near the
landfill site.
The agreement also includes a provision
to have complaints about the potable water
supply directed to the county engineer, who
will (hen alert the environment ministry.
Also, the agreement calla for the site to be
graded, seeded, reforested and subsequent-
ly kept as a wildlife refuge after It is closed.
The county also has promised that it
won't purchase adjoining sites for develop-
ment of a new landfill area.
In return, the township has agreed to co-
operate with the county and to keep the
citizens informed of operations at the site.
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Canada's oldest pilot, Woodstock rest
dent. Tam Williams, has been named
honorary chairman of this year's Cons -
than International Air Show fC1ASt:
Wi"lams who will celebrate his 100th
birthday this year, has been actively in-
volved in aviation all of his life. As
Canada's oldest pilot Williams travels to
Toronto every year to watch the CIAS.
The 35th annual
Canadian Interna-
tional Air Show will 'P.:
take Tlace at the
Canadian national
Exhibition water.
front Aug. 31, Sept.J'k
1,2and3at1:30
p.m. Featured this
year will be the
Canadian Forces'
Snowbirds,yawksParachute
Team, F-18 Hornetas well as a salute
I the aircraft used TOM
by the RCAF dur- WILLIAMS
ing their 60 years.
The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds will
appear for the first time in Canada in their
new F-16 aircraft on Friday, Saturday and
Sunday with the British Airway's Con-
corde flying Saturday and Sunday only.on
all four days of the air show, stunt pilots,
daring men and women, will thrill the
crowds below.
RERMAN"
"Do you realize itts been 12
years since we went through
the express checkout?''
Agreement makes
Holbrook hearing
a bland affair
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N..trORWICH — The environmental hear
mg on the two year extension of the
Holbrook landfill site began and ended
almost without incident, Monday
afternoon.
Officiats from oxford County, the On-
tario Ministry of Environment (MOE) and
Norwich Township appeared before a two
person panel of the Environmental
Assessment Board to make brief presenta-
tions supporting the extension.
Only a couple of citizens listened to the
proceedings in the Norwich Community
Centre, but none appeared before the
board and no one had any objections.
Board members Barry Smith, chair-
man, and James Britnell were to have
entertained a motion to appoint a provin-
cial mediator to work out conditions for
the extension. But that proved un-
necessary when they heard about the
county -township agreement.
The document, signed May 29, was the
result of weeks of negotiations between
the county and the township. It calls for
the continued. operation of the site until
June 30. ISM and includes provisionfor
continued groundwater and domestic well
monitoring. The two parties also agreed to
an operation plan which specifies how the
site will be graded and what the final
mound of garbage and dirt will look like
when it's ready for closure.
NO MIGRATION
General details of the extensive
monitoring program carried out by the
county over the last two years and what's -
planned until 1996 comprised most of the
evidence presented yesterday.
Dr. David Charlesw•orlh, a
hydrogeologist with MacLaren's Con-
sulting Engineers, said the monitoring of
more than 3o testholes drilled on and
around the site have revealed ground-
water contaminants are not migrating off
the site. He admitted the complex geology
of the area isn't conducive to landfilhng,
but the site appears to be handling the
Operation quite well. He called the impact
"relatively mild."
MacLaren's has been testing for a varie-
ty of chemicals four times a year. In-
dicators of landfill contamination, such as
chlorides, appear in elevated levels in
some areas of the site, but are almost non-
existent in others. None are found in of
the residential wells tested, he said.
though Were have been fluctuating levels
of phenols in one well.
NO SIGNIFICANT IMPACT
This isn't a health risk, stressed Dr.
Charlesworth. High levels are found in
mouthwash, for example.
"I believe that the continued use of the
landfill for another two years will not have
any significant impact," he said.
County engineer Don Pratt explained
how the site will be engineered for the next
two years. For about the last 10 years. gar-
bage
has been dumped in the northcasl
area of the site, creating "a fairly sizeable
hill", it will continue to go in that area, he
said, raising the peak of the mound about
12 feet.
While litter is always a problem, the
county has endeavored to improve the
overall condition of the site since it's pur-
chase from Laidlaw Waste Systems in
1992. flats have never been a problem, but
he added the site gets its share of seagulls.
The county plans to encourage water-
fowl to use the area once the landfill is
closed. A breeding pond will be designed
on the advice of Ducks Unlimited, a
private conservation organization. The
county will also plant as many species of
trees as will survive at the site, eventually
turning back into a wildlife area.
STILL ARE CONCERNS
The county has spent a lot of time and
money on erosion control and storm water
management, said Pratt, but despite these
efforts,. MOE officials raised concerns.
Because the slopes of the hill will get
steeper, the MOE is suggesting a more
comprehensive erosion control program
be initiated, said Jim Janse, officer of
municipal and private abatement.
He asked the board to include conditions
to that effect in the certificate of approval
for the extension.
The MOE also requested the addition of
two more chemicals to the list being tested
for by the county and to modify its grading
plan to encourage rainwater runoff in all
areas.
Mayor JohnVlwv
Heleniak made a
brief presentation
on behalf of Nor t1
wich Township
before the board,
but the township �- -
didn't have any
questions about the
evidence or call
any of their own. IIF_hENI:IK
The two members of the Environmental
Assessment Board will take the agree-
ment and the MOE's recommendations
back to the full board in Toronto. They'll
make recommendations to the MOE direc-
tor of approvals who will then decide
whether to issue a permit or deny one.
It's not known when a decision will be
rendered.
In 1992 when a similar agreement was
reached on a similar two year extension, a
decision took about three weeks.
The current certificate of approval on
the site runs out at the end of this month.
BLUES CHASER
The only thing that goes as Par as If did 10
years ago is the dime that rolls under the
bed.
Brandt to hear
water rate plea
from Pla'ttsville
By Mary Nesbitt and Nick Martin suggest the province increase its subsidy of
the entire project or offer some sort of rate
of The Free Press rebate scheme, perhaps similar to the rate
i relief farmers Re t from Ontario H'ydro
PLATTSVILLE — A group of village
residents is to meet Environment Minister
Andy Brandt next Monday to argue for re-
lief from a 65-per-cent increase in water
rates that is in the pipeline for July 1.
Meanwhile, Liberal MPP Bob Nixon
(Brant -Oxford -Norfolk) brought Platts-
ville's plight to Brandt's attention in the
legislature Monday, pointing out it is one of
a number of rural municipalities facing wa-
ter rate increases of as much as 100 per
cent because of miscalculations in antici-
pated growth rates.
Nixon called on Brandt to introduce a
policy for limiting increases to a maximum
of 10 per cent a year for small municipal-
ities whose water system was built to ac-
commodate growth which subsequently did
not occur.
Margaret Klosch, who represents the vil-
lage on Blandford-Blenheim Township
council, said Monday night she and several
other residents have an appointment in To-
ronto with Brandt on Monday when they
will explain why the water system — built
by the ministry in 1979 at a cost of $3.5
million — is too large and costly for a com-
munity the size of Plattsville.
The 156 village householders are being
asked to pay $360 this year, compared to
$217.50 last year and about $180 in 1982. The
payments cover water service and financ-
ing costs of the project. The water system
also serves several small businesses and
one4ndustry, Canada Sandpapers.
Klosch said the group will not be asking
for a refinancing scheme that would length-
en the 40-year period the village has to pay
off the project. Instead, she said they will
"We are not just going fora handout,"
Klosch said. She said the residents' group
wants to make it clear there was an error in
scale in planning for the project that rest
dents did not make but which they now
have to pay for. The system was built for a
community twice the size of Plattsville and
"It is costing more than they (the ministry)
anticipated."
The township is responsible for collecting
the amount billed each year by the prov-
ince, which operates the system. in 1982,
the bill was $41,000, Klosch said, and that
sum has doubled in two years. The bill is
likely to increase by five or six per cent in
subsequent years and '-at that rate in 40
years people will be paying a terrific
amount."
At Queen's Park, Brandt admitted that
"In some instances, there have been abnor-
mal increases."
But the minister said some municipal-
ities have only themselves to blame be-
cause they deferred annual increases in
water rates until the province finally had to
hit them all at once.
While he is trying to establish a province -
wide policy, municipalities have to come
and deal with him on an individual basis if
they are having problems, he said.
Klosch said there was no indication that,
after the initial "honeymoon period" when
the new system went into operation, rates
would skyrocket. "It was difficult in the
beginning to know what the bill (from the
province) would be. I am sure in 1982 ...
they (township council) did not anticipate
this $82,000 in 1984."
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Official says Beachville deserves
a chance at baseball hall of fame
By Howard Bums
of The Free Press
BEACHVILLE — Beachville deserves to
be formally recognized as the site of Can-
ada's first baseball game, Bruce Prentice,
president of the Canadian Baseball Hall of
Fame, said Tuesday.
The village is being considered as a possi-
ble site for the hall of fame either on a
temporary or permanent basis.
"We would like very much to be assmiat-
ed with Beachville in some way," said
Prentice, who visited the village on the
weekend to discuss the idea with municipal
officials. "I think Beachville should get
some type of recognition and I think some-
where down the road that will happen."
While in Beachville, Prentice visited the
site of the first game and took a look at the
St. Anthony's separate school property as a
possible location for the hall of fame. The
school is now closed and Oxford County
separate school board education director
Frank Sloan and chairman Maurice Benja-
min of Beachville, also met Prentice on the
weekend.
Sport historians and baseball buffs seem
to agree that Canada's first baseball game
was played in Beachville in 1838. It's be-
lieved the players positioned home plate at
what is now the corner of Queen and Martin
streets in the village.
"The people down there are very enthusi-
astic about the idea of locating the hall of
fame in Beachville," Prentice said. He said
he'll make a report on his Beachville visit
to the hall of fame's board of directors
when they meet for induction ceremonies in
Montreal later this month.
Prentice said the hall may be permanent-
ly located at Toronto's proposed domed sta-
dium. It Is to open at a Front Street location
in Toronto this summer.
"If we go to Beachville even for three or
four years we'd put It on the map," he said.
"Then it we do depart from there to go to a
permanent location we would leave behind
some remembrance to keep the village on
the map," Prentice said.
COUNTY OF OXFORD
THE RESTRUCTURED MUNICIPALITY OF
THE COUNTY OF OXFORD
TREE CUTTING NOTICE
County of Oxford By-law No. 2300-80 restricts and
regulates the destruction of trees in woodlots that are one
acre or more in area in the County of Oxford. This By-
law is administered through the County Clerk's Depart-
ment, which has Tree Conservation Commissioners who
are available for consultation on proposed tree removal.
Before cutting, please phone 539-5688 or your area Tree
Conservation Commissioner.
TOWNSHIP OF BLANDFORD-BLENHEIM
Mr. John Mitchell 469-3362
TOWNSHIP OF EAST ZORRA-TAVISTOCK
Mr. Delmer Zehr 655-2274
TOWNSHIP OF NORWICH
Mr. Jack Griffin 449-2393
TOWNSHIP OF SOUTH-WEST OXFORD
Mr. Morris Farr 539-9249
TOWNSHIP OF ZORRA
Mr. William Sutherland 485-5964
Additional information and advice on woodlot manage-
ment can be obtained from your area Ministry of Natural
Resources.
J. Harold Walls
Clerk, The Corporation
June 13, 1984 of the County of Oxford
lie saki he hopes a formal proposal from
Beachville will be discussed by the board
later."After that, our executive committee
will probably go down to have a look and to
continue negotiations," Prentice said.
"I'm sure Mr, Prentice was impressed,"
township Coun. Howard Cook said Tues-
day. "He's going to get back to us."
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Claim to fame
Woodstock Bured:_
South-West Oxford Township Councillor Howard Cook promotes Beachville as the
site for Canada's Baseball Hall of Fame by clutching a bat near sign hailing the
village a§ the lime capital.
COUNTY OF OXFORD
NOTICE TO
PROPERTY OWNERS
AUTHORIZED BY THE FOLLOWING AREA MUNICIPALITIES
TOWNSHIPS OF BLANDFORD-BLENHEIM, EAST
ZORRA-TAVISTOCK,
NORWICH, SOUTH-WEST OXFORD, ZORRA,
TOWN OF TILLSONBURG, TOWN OF INGERSOLL,
CITY OF WOODSTOCK
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 530, R.S.O. 1980, Sections 4, 14 and 21,
having noxious weeds growing on their lands shall cause
them to be destroyed by July 1, 1984 and throughout the
season. The County 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, noxious weeds should be
destroyed. Although Dandelions, Burdock and Goldenrod
are not considered noxious weeds within the County of Ox-
ford 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.
Mr. Burnice McAllister, County Weed Inspector, acts for all
the Area Municipalities named.
J. Harold Walls Burnice McAllister
County Clerk Area Weed Inspector
County of Oxford County of Oxford
John McGinnis, Clerk, City of Woodstock
G.R. Staples, Clerk, Town of Ingersoll
Helen L. Prouse, Clerk, Township of South-West Oxford
W.A. Johnson, Clerk -Administrator, Township of Zorro
K.E. Holland, Clerk -Administrator, Town of Tillsonburg
Robert C. Watkins, Clerk -Administrator, Township of Nor-
wich
Keith Reibling, Clerk -Treasurer, Township of Blandford-
Blenheim
John V. Killing, Clerk -Treasurer, Township of East Zorra-
Tovistock
Official opening Oliver, librarian; Norwich Township Mayor John Helenfak; Mrs.
The Otterville Public Library had its official opening Thursday Ross Edwards, chairwoman of the Oxford County Library Board,
evening and an Open House was held for the public to see the im- and Jean Stewart, member of the Otterville Library board. Signing
proved facilities. Present for the official opening were standing left the guest book is Mrs. Webb, chief librarian of the Oxford County
to right: Lorene McMullen, head Otterville librarian; Elaine Library Board. (Staff Photo)
Otterville library opened
The official opening of the Otterville
Public Library, an achievement of a long
awaited goal, was marked on Thursday
evening.
Mrs. Ross Edwards, chairman of the
Oxford County Library Board, Woodstock,
congratulated the people of the Otterville
branch of the O.C.L.B. She wished much
success for the facility with many hours of
enjoyment and happy reading ahead.
Mayor John Heleniak, speaking on
behalf of Norwich Township Council,
congratulated Lurene McMullen and
Elaine Oliver on the opening of the library.
He was very happy to announce that
circulation has close to tripled since the
move which was the projected outcome of
those seeking new facilities. As well, he
was pleased to be informed a local history
section is to be a winter project of the
library.
Lurene McMullen, head Otterville
librarian, thanked all special guests in
attendance and all patrons who helped to
support the move, especially Jean Stewart
who worked hard for the change in
facilities. As well, the Otterville Sunshine
Club and The Spring -Otter Optimist Club
were thanked for their contributions of
primary furniture for the children's
section. She hoped everyone would find the
library a pleasant facility, a pleasure to
use and in which to work. Both she and
Mrs. Oliver look forward to seeing
everyone in the future.
Mrs. Webb, chief librarian of the Oxford
County Library Board, reminisced about
the quarters of the old library, dark and
dingy with one light bulb amongst high
stacks of books. in contrast the new
facilities are ones of which the citizens of
Otterville and surrounding area should be
proud. Appreciation was expressed to
those who helped with the move, the
Library Board staff and Norwich Towm-
ship Council. _
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Turner, the Liberals new leader graciously ae-
County road closed
Construction on Oxford County Rd. 19,
1.6 kilometres west of Otterville is closed
to traffic in the area for the next two to
three weeks.
Thornton Sand and Gravel of Woodstock
is undertaking the county project
reconstructing the culverts located at the
west village limits of Otterville. Work now
includes putting in the cutoff walls and
sheet piling for the wire structure. The
new culverts will be put in place today with
the old culverts being removed next week.
People who are familiar with the dip in
the road at this point will no longer ex-
perience it for the road will be raised bet-
ween four to five feet when completed.
There are well -marked detours at both
ends of the road to warn travellers of the
construction.
Oxford's finally
got a Humane
Society outlet
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After 21 years, Oxford County has its
own humane society animal shelter.
"11's been a long, hard struggle," John
Grant, president of the Oxford branch of
the Ontario Humane Society, said Salur,
day during the opening ceremonies for the
mini -shelter on Juliana Drive.
Grant said there has never been a
humane society shelter in Oxford. "We've
been working at getting one for a long
lime."
He called the shelter project "a labor of
love."
The shelter is situated on land, and in a
building, financed with the $14,o0o raised
by the Oxford branch over the years
thrash various fundraising activities, as
well as by funds from the humane society
office in Toronto.
NO BUCK BACKING
The Ontario Humane Society receives
no financial support from any level of
government.
The shelter building was once used as a
holding station for pets at the Metro Zoo.
Pets brought by their owners to the zoo
were housed at the station until their visit
was completed. But once zoo visitors
became more familiar with the no -pet
regulation. the use of the station declined.
On Saturday visitors to the new Oxford
shelter saw a few kittens and a year -old
English pug that were up for adoption.
Owners who can no longer care for their
1 pets, or do not want them, can now bring
them to the Woodstock shelter instead of
travelling to London, Brantford or
Kitchener.
And people wishing to adopt those pets
will have ample opportunity to do so.
SEEK A WEEK
There is one full-time supervisor at the
shelter, but there is also volunteer help
from the 150 branch members. Grant said
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seven days a week, from 9 a.m. until 5
p. M.
Pet seekers will be given time to find the
animal of their choke, "one they will be
happy with," said Grant.
Discretion will be used in screening
those who wish to adopt a pet. There will
also be an adoption fee which will depend
on, among other things, the size and type
of animal being adopted.
At present there are pens on the main
floor of the shelter, but renovations are
taking place to make room in the base-
ment for more animals. There should be
about 20 pens there when the shelter is ful-
ly operational
The length of stay of an animal brought
to the shelter will vary as well, depending
on the condition and age of the animal. If
there are too many animals brought to the
shelter for the society to handle, the extras
will be taken to other shelters.
FUNDRAISING
The society will continue its fundraising
efforts, such as its Sunday flea market and
its garage sales, to finance the shelter. A:
bingo game will be held June 30 at the
Silver Dollar bingo parlor on the Ingersoll
Road.
There is room on the property for an ex-
pansion of the shelter.
Tom Hughes, the chief inspector for the
Ontario Humane Society, who was on hand
for the opening ceremony, said: "This is
just a beginning. We can, and will, build a
bigger shelter if we're given the
opportunity."
In 23 years the humane society has built
26 animal shelters across Ontario, which
house 75,000 animals each year.
Still, he said, "there are many areas of
Ontario that still need shelters.
'It's a dreadful situation that in 1964
people try to solve an animal problem by
shooting them.
"It's not an animal problem," he said,
"it's a people problem. We create the pro-
blems, we have to find the solutions."
OFFICIAL OPENING
Tom Hughes (left, on the porch), chief in- local branch, greet visitors to the mini-
spector of the Ontario Humane Society, shelter at its official opening Saturday.
and John Grant (right), president of the (Staff photo by Greg Roth well)
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Adequate notice
not there: court The 1361t1
IV LINDA NULAIf
of The seatinel-Review
TORONTO — Ontario Hydro's
Plams to construct transmission
ees through southwestern and
central Ontarin have screeched
to an abrupt, halt because of an
Ontario Supreme Court decision
handed down Monday.
Three Supreme. Court judges
unanimoush quashed the recommends-
tion of a provincial joint hearing board
allowing Hydro to atudy power' routes
from 1.rn,m dto stilton Rorn the Bruce
nuclear development to the Barrie area.
They tuund the board's decision invalid
because citizens and municipalities poten,
! tiagv affected by the project were-n't given
iadequate notice.
The decision is the result of a court ac-
tion launched by several municipalities
and citizens groups live months ago. A
l;,DN member Barrie area group, the Cen-
list Ontario Coalition, took exception to
. the board's decision and brought it to the
Ontario Supreme Court. They were later
joined by Oxford County.- two Tillsonburg
area citizens groups. Kitchener, Cam-
bridge, and Waterloo Region as well as
other groups.
i 'NAS-N'T FAIR'
"coy argued Hydra's plans to string 500
kilovolt transmission lines across their
' municipalities and properties wasn't fair.
Tbey said they were never properly made
aware of the potential impact to the areas
when a hearing was conducted two years
ago in Stratford to review six different On-
tario power corridors. At that time, Hydro
recommended a corridor from the Bruce
development to the London area, That cor-
ridor was not selected. Instead the board
decided Hydro should further investigate
routes in the Bruce-&ssa, London -Milton
, M-3` corridor. The board also called for
s W dy of a route along Highway 401, a route
never introduced by Hydro throughout the
hearing process_.
GUAM STIon
at raw S
The court decision not only decided the
hoard's decision is quashed, but also the
poceedings and the formal notice which
led up to it. In other words, the 19M Strat-
ford hearing has been thrown out in its
entirety.
tan Wilson, manager of H-vdro's public
hearings section, told 7be Daily Sentinel -
Review this morning the 73 page decision
cites fault the with joint board in not pro-
vidiag a proper notice. It notes that Hydro
supplied the board with sufficient informa-
tion to prepare and serve notice to all
potentially affected people in all six
corridors.
To Hydro_ the decision means that more
than two years has been wasted in its ef-
forts to provide reliable power to
southwestern Ontario and also an outlet
for the increasingly backed -up power at
E4 the Bruce development.
The delays involved in the approvais
process itoelf to date meads uP to $w
ijt B in taxpayers' money will have to
be spent to utilize coal-fired plants instead
of the cheaperauclear power. Wilson said
because of the court decision, that cost
will rise by about 52 million for every week
of delay beyond the anticipated IN8 date
they'd hoped to have the lines in place. He
estimates it'll cost Wto-$120-million per
year more until the transmission lines are
finally established.
Senior Hydro officials will be meeting
with provincial officials W determine just
what direction they will take now the deci-
sion is out. Wilson said one option is to
work toward a combination corridor -route
hearing to try and save time.
A formal position is expected to be
reached later this week.
"The need for these facilities has rot
disappeared by the announcement of this
deeiakxt," said Wilson. "There may be
sortie impression that this is a major vic-
Vfor some people. These 4routes i are
stilt options that have to be considered.
The court decision really doesn't relieve
the pressure on these areas... people
sfiutild not become complacent."
one problem to be tackled is what ac-
tually constitutes a proper notice The
ewe decision describes the hearing
notice as "a regrettable but plain denial of
natural justice" and "a jurisdictional er-
rs/`, best it doesn't define what the notice
dtatid have included.
oN TM BOARD
lbrdecfaion clearly puts the onus on the
board to properly reform ail potentially of
fected residents of the proposal, Whut Is
doesn't consider is the massive public par-
Wsipstiou and media relatiom program
Hydro embarked on, said Wilson.
The utility held numerous information
centres and supplied an almost continuous
stream of press relaasea to all media
outlet, in tin• pountiaily affected areas to
try and inform the public of Theta
inrentiorn.
"We th oght this was useful," said
Wilson, "But this judgment a that in
u,errms of befog appropriate 1 's as though
we had slaver chile any of that."
Ixespdo dw exclusion of Hyydro's public
krp parta ki" efforts. it tennis to continue
with lhsm, "ankwa were 41nvied not to,"
en inn - etite�
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Only Tillsonburg
registers growth
in its population
By LINDA HULME
of The Sentinel. Review
When people talk of Oxford County's rural -oriented living, maybe
they should look more closely.
According to a population study conducted by the county's planning
department, about 70 per cent of Oxford's residents live in an urban
setting.
The study shows 59,405 of
Oxford's 84,302 residents
live in either cities, towns,
hamlets, or villages.
Unincorporated set-
tlements in the county's
five townships (hamlets,
villages, and small urban
growth areas) account for
substantial portions of the
population in these rural
areas.
The following is a sum-
mary of the study's urban
population findings:
• Blandford-Blenheim
— 30.3 per cent live in
Washington, Wolverton,
Bright, Princeton, Drum-
bo, and Plattsville,
• East Zorra�Tavislock
41.6 per cent live in
Hickson, lnnerkip and
Tavistock,
Norwich — 40.5 per
cent of Norwich's popula-
tion lives in Hawtrey, Ox.
ford Centre, Curries, Spr-
ingford, Burgessville. Ot-
terville, and Norwich,
• South-West Oxford —
33.5 per cent of South-West
Oxford's live in Dereham
Centre, Verschoyle,
Culloden, Ostrander,
Delmer, Foldens, Safford,
Mount Elgin, Brownsville.
Sweaburg, and Beachville.
• Zorra — 39 per cent
live in Dickson Corners,
Uniondale, Harrington
West, Kintore, Lakeside,
Embro, and Thamesford.
The study also showed
that Oxford's population
since 196o has grown from
66,763 to its present 84,302.
All municipalities except
Tillsonburg have actually
declined in population
since 1977, said planning
commissioner Peter
Atcheson.
"The growth has been
nominal, if at all." he said.
Highland games
set for Saturday
EMBRO — Altering tradition, even by j List one
day, is something the sponsors of the 47th Embro
Highland Games don't want to have to do again.
The games are on Saturday,.June 30, instead
of the usual July 1 Canada Day holiday.
"It's the first time we've done it and it has
caused a lot of confusion because people auto-
matically expect it to be on July I," admits Bob
Matheson, president of the sponsoring Zorra Ca-
ledonian Society.
Group says floodplains
best left to authorities
WOODSTOCK (Bureau) — Floodplain
management can be made more account.
able to the public without munfclpalI les
taking over the job, Oxford County a plan-
ning committee decided Thursday.
The committee recommended that coun-
ty council oppose any provincial move to
wrest the responsibility from conservation
authorities. A report prepared for the natu.
ral resources ministry favors transferring
responsibility for floodplain control to local
municipalities to allow greater public par-
ticipation and accountability.
However, a report prepared on the issue
by Oxford planning commissioner Peter
Atebeson says implementation of flood -
plain regulations is best left with the con.
servation authorities. "While local munici-
palities in Oxford are -prepared to assist the
authorities, we do not feel that they should
be given the responsibility of enforcing reg-
ulations established by the authorities," At-
cheson said.
The Association of Conservation Authori-
ties is also opposed to the proposed transfer
of power. It contends that taxpayers who
demand protection from flooding would
lose out under the transfer.
Atcheson's report, endorsed by the con
mittee, said Oxford municipalities don't
have the expertise or technical staff to take
over the job of floodplain management.
The committee called for closer ties be-
tween conservation authorities and local
governments. "There is a need for better
awareness and information regarding
floodplain regulations from the conserva-
tion authorities and more public involve-
ment in the development of those regula-
tions," Atcheson's report said.
He said there have to be better ways to
make floodplain management more ac-
countable to the public. Conservation au.
thorities should adopt the rules municipal-
ities now use in zoning matters, he said, to
allow sufficient public participation and ap-
peal' procedures when property owners are
affected by flood prevention policies. "It is
our belief that these steps will improve the
accountability of the conservation authori-
ties while retaining the Implementation of
Dollar continues its ride
at sub 76—cent levels
MONTREAL (CPI — The Canadian
dollar continued to ride below 76 cents
U:S. today, despite a hefty rise Thursday
in the Bank of Canada's trend -setting len-
ding rate.
The dollar opened at 75.90 cents in U.S.
funds. unchanged from Thursday's close.
The Canadian currency has closed at
record lows against its U.S. counterpart
for the last six trading sessions.
The central bank boosted its lending
rate more than one-third of a percentage
point to a 21-month hi of 12.36 per cent in
e an effort to hot ster t dollar, which has
lost about 4.5 cents against U.S, currency
since the beginning of the year.
Canada's biggest chartered banks swift-
1 foiJowcA the Bank of Canada's lead
Thursday, raising their prime lending rate
half a percentage point to 13 per cent,
BLUES CHASER
Don't tell people your troubles. Ralf of
them aren't Interested and the other half
are glad to see You get what's coming to
You-
noodplain management at the authority
level."
Meanwhile, Zorra Township has already
told Natural Resources Minister Alan Pop( -
that the transfer of responsibility would
lead to "chaos." "Conservation authorities.
for the most part have developed highly
skilled staff with the expertise and compe
fence to properly administer floodplain
management," said a township brief io
Pope.
Welfare.cases
continue decline
in Oxford County
WOODSTOCK (Bureau) — Oxford Coun-
ts''s welfare caseload is 19 per cent lower
than a year ago and is continuing to drop.
according to figures released Monday by
the county's social services department.
Welfare figures for May revealed 1,0t
Oxford residents were receiving welfare
assistance, a drop of 74 from the previous
month and down 244 from the May, 19s3
total.
Gerry MacKay, Oxford's director of so-
cial services, said the slight decline in Mav
compared W the previous month continues
a downward trend to welfare rolls this year.
Ile said the May drop can be party attrib-
uted to an upswing in industrial activity in
parts of the county and the Canada-0ntario
Employment Development Program which
is a make-work pprogram for persons who
have exhausted thofr unemployment insur-
ance benefits. The city has hired many
workers under the program this summer.
Some are helpingg to renovate city hall.
MacKay said they number of people get-
ting welfare assistance appears to bestead-
ily declhting' In the last four months and
added the department is "within budget"
so far this year. The county's welfare aasis.
tance budget. for 199.1 is $3,976,1 W, about the
same as lust year's total.
9
•
Drinking -driving committee wants tougher measures
Oxford County's drinking/driving com-
mittee is requesting tougher measures
against impaired drivers in a brief to be
submitted to Justice Minister Mark
MacGuigan.
The committee, formed by county coun-
cil to examine solutions to the problem of
drinking drivers, is comprised of council
members, professionals and residents of
the community.
In its brief to the justice minister, the
committee recognizes that "impaired
drivers create a hazard to Innocent people
that can no longer be tolerated by our
society." While the members also
recognize the dilemma caused by a
necessity to balance the civil rights of the
driver against the safety of his potential
victims, "we feel that the civil rights of the
innocent person to drive on our highways
without fear of being injured or killed by a
drunk driver should take precedence over
the civil rights of the driver."
After full consideration of the issue, the
committee agreed the coroner should be
empowered to take a blood sample from
all parties, living or deceased, without
first securing a telephone warrant. The
committee also agreed that a policeman
who believes a driver may be impaired
should be empowered to request a blood
sample without first obtaining a telephone
warrant if the driver refuses a breath test.
The committee is looking at local in-
itiatives for educating the public about the
dangers of drinking and driving and will be
holding a community meeting on Monday,
October 29 at the board of education office
in Woodstock.
New agreement
was well worth
the challenge
By UNOA Na1Mf
of the semi"keeNaw
An agreement will be drawn up between
Oxford County and the Princeton and
District Housing Association to provide a
water supply for a proposed senior citizens
complex in the village.
It ends a challenging search for an ac-
ceptable water supply by the Housing
Association, which intends to construct a
$1 million apartment development before
the end of 1994.
When Association representatives ap-
proached council in February to inquire
about setting up a public water supply for
the complex, they received cautious sup-
port: Council said they'd go along with
idea as long as the Association provided a
well whichwould not only drinkable water
but enough to meet firefighting
requirements.
The Association did just that, but not
without a few entanglements. When the
well was drilled, it provided a more than
adequate supply for fire emergencies, but
the quality was questionable. However,
that was later taken care of to the county's
satisfaction.
SPECIAL FILTER
In a letter to council, Association
secretary -treasurer J.B. Beaton said the
county's concern about high iron content
in the water can be taken care of with the
use of a special filter. Architects have
been instructed to design a pumphouse to
house this equipment.
Although the amount of water for fire-
fighting appeared adequate, the Amocia-
tion has been told bq Blandford-Blenheim
Township it will be building a 5,000 gallon
cistern on the site. The water will be used
by the local fire department as well as pro-
vide a back-up for the complex's sprinkler
system.
"1 trust that those efforts will satisfy
your concern," said Beaton.
The well will now be put in the county's
name, but will be operated and maintain-
ed by the Housing Association. The county
retains the right to inspect the premises
and conduct water tests if necessary.
Beaton said the complications have
meant a set -back in the construction star-
ting date for the Outs t building. They had
hoped to get it under way in July, but that
won't be possible. He didn't say when the
Association anticipates work will begin.
It hasto be done this year, however,
because the $1 million grant from the
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corpora-
tion (CMHC) is only good for 1984.
BLUES CHASER
Baseball Is the only business that can't sur-
vive without frequent .strike-s.
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be Jim Erskin, a retired OPP commis-
sioner and the head of the drinking/drivers
countermeasures unit. He will .speak to the
meeting on what other communitif-s are
doing to curb drinking and driving.
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itom-I .rill talks, but it makes' a for frss
Ministry extends
life of Holbrook
another two years
The certificate of approval allowing the
Holbrook landfill site to operate for
another two year-4 is in the mad.
Oxford County and Norwich Township
officials late last week were notified of ex-
tension's approval by the director of ap-
provals for the Ontario Ministry of En-
vironment (MOE).
It came as no surprise, and just in time.
The site's former permit expired June 30.
The extension means the continuation of
a groundwater monitoring program,
though it won't be extensive as it was in
the past two years. The mound of garbage
will creep 12 feet higher and an im-
provements program started by the coun-
ty in 1882 will continue.
County engineer Don Pratt said county
crews will start construction of a new pond
at the site this summer. The pond will be
J.-
used for retaining storm water runoff
from the hill, but it will also be designed as
a refuge for waterfowl.
Other improvements will begin
immediately.
We've been two summers at it and
never really completed it," said Pratt.
"We're still trying to catch up with things
that should have been done earlier."
Landfilling is occurring on. about 15
acres of land, leaving the county about 85
acres to rehabilitate.
Final grading and construction on the
Iandfiilled area can't start until the site is
closed, he said.
But, we're making sure that we've got a
minimum of work when the last day
comes so we don't have a backlog. Ob-
viously, there's going to be certain work
we can't do until then," said Pratt.
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The provincial environment ministry is
making funds available to Oxford County
for improvements at three of its landfill
sites.
The county's public works committee
learned last week that a total of $14,000 will
be available this year with $3,000 to be us-
ed for improvements at the Lakeside site,
$5,000 for the Embro site and $6,000 for the
landfill site near Otterville.
Jim Janse, a district officer with the
ministry office in London said in a letter to
county engineer Don Pratt that the
ministry can give no assurances the funds
will be available in the future should the
municipality decide not to take advantage
of their availability now.
A bylaw taking the ministry up on the of-
fer is to be prepared for county council's
approval.
County defers action on powerfine fight
Oxford County council won't spend any
more money to defend its position on On-
tario Hydro's proposed new transmission
lines until there is some indication of what
Hydro's plans are following a divisional
court ruling Monday that quashed Hydro's
approval for the new lines to carry power
to Southern Ontario from the Bruce
Nuclear Power Development.
An light of the divisional court decision
regarding Ontario Hydro I wonder if the
county shouldn't take some action to cur-
tail any further spending on expensive out-
side help," said East Zarra-Tavistock
Mayor Don McKay at Wednesday night's
county council meeting.
"I think from what i've heard it will be a
new game and probably we should defend
ourselves with our own staff without get-
ting into this $100,000 expenditure," he
said. "I would be reluctant to spend more
money unless it's absolutely necessary."
Peter Atcheson, county planning com-
missioner, said the county's lawyer does
not feel the county should do anything until
Ontario Hydro decides what it's going to do
but he has made a submission to divisional
court for recovery of the county's costs in
the proceedings.
Blandford-Blenheim Mayor Ross Liv-
ingston said he didn't think Hydro would
be spending any more money until it can
get'the environmental approvals system
changed. "This is a ridiculous waste of
money," he said. "It's a system that just
simply doesn't work."
Zorra Township Mayor Wallis Ham-
mond pointed out that he was not in favor
of the county's initial position in opposition
to Ontario Hydro but said Wednesday
night that the colmty should have some
ammunition ready for the next round of
hearings with Hydro. "What's the use of
spending $2043a,080 if we aren't ready to
fight the thing at the next stage'" he ask-
ed.
Coun, Hammond said the county should
be gathering information now to support
its cause at another hearing.
Ed Down, Blandford-Blenheim coun-
cillor, agreed the county should continue
but it should wait and see what Hydro is
going to do first.
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Tuesday, July 10, 1984
Newsstand price 304
Distant areas 54 higher
It's off i c i a l at last BLUES CHASER
Quadruplets — four crying out loud.
7
we vote on Sept. 4
By Gary May
Ottawa Bureau
OTTAWA — Batten down the cot-
tage — the politicians are coming.
Prime Minister John Turner on
Monday called a Sept. 4 general
election and announced that Queen
Elizabeth's July trip has been post-
poned to Sept.. 24.
Turner paid a 15-minute call on
Governor-General Jeanne Sauve
about 12:45 p.m, Monday, asking
that Parliament be dissolved and
new elections scheduled, the first
since Feb. 18, 1980.
That came after a weekend visit
to Britain where the prime minister
explained to the queen Canada's po-
litical realities. Ninety minutes
after his Mondav call on Sauve,
Turner made It official at a news
conference.
BLUES CHASER
If you don't believe money grows on
trees, try buying some lumber.
®ay centre for seniors
opened in Woodstock
WOODSTOCK (Bureau) — An adult day
centre to help seniors who don't get out as
much as they once did was officially opened
Wednesday by the local chapter of the Vic-
torian Order of Nurses.
George Paul Molnar
A man active in the business and com-
munity affairs of Tillsonburg for 30 years,
George Paid Molnar, died Wednesday, Ju-
ly 11, 1984, at University Hospital, London,
after fighting a courageous battle with
cancer.
Born and educated in Winnipeg,
Manitoba, Mr. Molnar came to
Southwestern Ontario in 1945 and to
Tillsonburg in 1954 when he purchased the
dry-cleaning business known as Pauls
Cleaners. The years from 1964 on were
taken up with the forming of a new com-
pany, Syleo Nail and Wire Ltd., which
started in a small factory on Vienna Road
and moved in 1970 to the old Norfolk
Tobacco factory at 157 Tillson Ave., where
later business took on the forming of two
new companies, FiberCoat Manufacturing
Limited and the Mohawk Canoe Company.
He was an active member of St. John's
Anglican Church, Tillsonburg: member of
the Kinsmen Club of Tillsonburg from 1956
to 1970, serving as president in 1964;
member of the Tillsonburg and District
Curling Club, serving as president in 1958;
member of Tillsonburg Golf and Country
Club; served on town council for six years,
including one year as deputy -reeve, when
he represented the town on Oxford County
Council.
In May of 1955 he married Sylvia V.E.
Livingston of Woodstock and together they
have made their home in Tillsonburg,
residing at 51 Parkwood Drive for the past
24 years.
The centre, located at Woodingford
Lodge on Devonshire Avenue, provides sen-
iors with a program of supervised activi-
ties, excerri.se and gives them a chance to
get out and meet others, centre co-ordina-
tor Dianne Hodges said. She said social get-
togethers can become an Important part of
the day for the elderly, especially those who
have particular trouble getting around.
The program is designed, in part, to help
frail seniors, stroke victims and others stay
out of Institutions, she said.
"We provide stimulation and socializa-
tion as alternatives to Institutional care for
the homebound elderly within the popula-
tion," said (lodges, who also supervises a
similar centre in Tillsonburg.
She said the Woodstock centre has been
offering help to a "flexible and growing"
number of participants since May 29, the
first such VON centre In Ontario. The Till-
sonburg centre, located at the town's com-
munity centre, opened June it,
VON hatlonal director Millicent Taylor,
on her first visit to Woodstock, said the
organization hopes to open several other
centres before the end of the year. The
centres receive funding from the comnluni-
ty and social services ministry and United
Way campaigns.
He leaves his wife and children, an only
daughter, Kimberley Dawn (Molnar)
Knapp of Mississauga, Ontario, and two
sons, Stephen Brent Molnar and George
"Paul" Molnar at home. along with a
niece, Miss Stephanie Anne Livingston,
who resides with the family in Tillson-
burg; a grandson, Matthew Ryan Knapp;
son-in-law, Stephen Howard Knapp;
sisters and brothers, Mrs. Wesley
(Elizabeth) Callcott of Thomdale; Miss
Mary Molnar of London; Stephen Molnar
of Tillsonburg; Dennis Molnar of
Strathroy, and Joseph Molnar of
Woodstock; and many nieces and
nephews.
He was predeceased by his parents,
Peter in 1970 and Elizabeth rHajas)
Molnar in 1992, and a brother. Peter
Molnar in 1963.
Visitation for family and friends at the
H.D. Verhoeve Funeral Home, 262 Broad-
way North, Tillsonburg, on Friday, July
13, 1984, from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m.
Funeral service will be held Saturday,
July 14, at St. John's Anglican Church,
Tillsonburg, at 12 noon, with Canon S. Lup-
ton officiating.
Interment to follow in Tilisonburg
Cemetery.
As expressions of sympathy, the family
would gratefully appreciate memorial
donations be made to the University
Hospital General Surgery Research Fund,
P.O. Box 533% Postal Station A. London.
Ontario. N6A 5A5, or to the charit- of your
choice.
$100 U.S.
now costs
us $134
at banks
By Dennis Bueckert
MONTREAL (CP) — The dizzying de -
(,line of the dollar continued Wednesday, as
the currency crashed through the psycho-
logical barrier of 75 cents U.S. to firush the
day at 74.86, yet another record low.
The dollar now has lost five cents in six
months against its American counterpart.
It now will cost travellers headed south
more than $134 Canadian to buy $100 in U.S.
currency. The rate consumers pay for bank
notes is higher than the official exchange
rate and varies slightly from bank to bank,
Oxford seeks ministry study
40
on equalizing assessment
By SUZANNE HANSON
Zorra Township thinks it may be paying
more than its share for county services
and it would like the ministry of revenue to
study the impact of equalized assessment
on a county -wide basis.
.A motion requesting such a study and
asking that the county be included under
the definition of municipality in the assess-
ment act was approved in a 12-7 recorded
vote during Wednesday's county council
meeting.
While some councillors voiced the opi-
nion that such a study would only lead the
county down the "same old path they want
us to go down," Mayor Wallis Hammond of
Zorra Township sees the study as part of
the "sweeping and cleaning" that needs to
be done as a prelude to a clean up of the
whole system.
"What I'm proposing isn't going to solve
all the problems but it will bring us to an
equalized assessment in the county,"
Conn. Hammond said in an interview
following the council meeting.
During the meeting, he pointed out that
there is equalized assessment within each
municipality but each of those
municipalities is working from a different
base "so we're still not equal in the coun-
ty",
Zorra Township now pays the largest
percentage of the county levy and Conn.
Hammond said he would like to know how
the assessment is calculated. He pointed
out that for years after restructuring there
were four or five different mill rates.
"They (the ministry) told us it would be
equalized and it got worse," he said. "I'd
like to understand it so we can set our own
mill rates. We here should be able to deter-
mine our share (of the county levy)."
Ingersoll Mayor Doug Harris supported
Coun. Hammond in his request for the im-
pact study, but he wondered "if any study
will solve the inadequacies of the
bureaucracy of the system. There are a lot
of inadequacies and ridiculousness in the
bureaucracy itself."
Woodstock Mayor Wendy Calder could
not support the motion, however. "I feel
the situation is so muddy and so com-
plicated 1 don't feel this is the right
The Blandford Square Mall doesn't appear to be nion store closed last Saturday and Shoppers Drug
too busy these days. Some merchants are worried Mart will close at the end of August. There is still
about future business after two major tenants an- no word if new tenants will be found.
nounced they were closing down shop. The Domi- (Staff photo by Ted Rhodes)
Fear impact of closing of two major stores
Idea of energy -from -waste plant
scheduled for Oxford County talks
WOODSTOCK (Bureau) — The idea of
turning garbage into energy will bring Ox-
ford County council and municipal repre-
sentatives together July 23.
Council decided Wednesday to meet with
elected officials and public utility represen-
tatives from Woodstock,. Ingersoll and Till-
sonburg and discuss having an energy -
from -waste plant in the county.
Oxford has hired Toronto consultant
Derek Wilson to do a S30,000 feasibility
ntudy on Its plan to turn domestic garbage
into energy at the Oxford Regional Centre
and other county locations. The county has
already received an encouraging response
with the ministry of government services
indicating interest in buying steam energy
generated by the plant if It is located at the
regional centre north of the here.
In other business, council approved a
county report urging the province to leave
floodplain management in the hands of con-
servation authorities. The report, prepared
by planning commisioner Peter Atcheson,
says floodplaln management can be made
more accountable to the public without mu•
nicipallt.ies taking over the job.
A provincial report prepared for the min-
istry of natural resources says municipal-
ities, not conservation authorities, should
have control over floodplaln management,
answer," she said. "The assessment pro-
blem is a problem but I don't think this is
the answer."
Woodstock Councillor Lenore Young
agreed. "If everything is so muddy why
ask for a study that is going to lead us in
the direction they want us to go?" she ask-
ed. "The system is wrong so I will not sup
port a motion that perpetuates the
system."
Warden Charlie Tatham also voted
against the motion asking the ministry to
conduct the study. "We need tax reform."
he said. "The whole system needs to be
shaken up. He said he could appreciate
Coun. Hammond's point of view but "I
think we'll just be going down the same old
path they want us to go down."
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Hosting clerks,
treasurers
Oxford County will play host to the an-
nual fall meeting of the Assocition of
Clerks and Treasurers of Counties and
Regions of Ontario.
The county's administration and finance
committee agreed at its meeting Monday
it was time the county hosted the event to
be held in Woodstock and set aside a max-
imum of $1,000 for arrangements. A
specific date for the meeting has not been
set but it is expected to be in October.
Oxford County Clerk Harold Walls
estimated the cost of hosting the meeting
to be about $500 but committee members
set aside $1,000 to give the county some
flexibility in organizing the meeting.
Tillsonburg Mayor Jean Ferrie and other
committee members said it is important
the county not appear to be "cheap."
Between So and 60 municipal officials
from across Ontario are expected to attend
the day -long meeting. This will be the first
time the meeting has been held in Oxford
Down really up
on attending
Oxford council
WOODSTOCK (Bureau) — A mid -year
attendance check of Oxford County council-
lors has put Blandford-Blenheim's Edward
Down at the top of the class.
Administration and finance committee
figures released Monday show Down is the
only councillor with a perfect attendance
record — he has attended the 13 council
sessions and all of his 16 scheduled commit-
i�,pl k� toe mtings so far Chairman syear. of c uncil.'spanning commit-
tee, Down also is a member of the county's
land division committee.
The number of scheduled meetings var-
ie wildly from councillor to councillor.
Woodstock Mayor Wendy Calder, for exam -
pie, had 20 scheduled county -related meet-
ings while Norwich Township Councillor
Helen Smith had 35 during the same period.
Calder attended 85 per cent of her county
meetings. Smith made it to 91 per cent.
Only one councillor, Norwich Township
ti =I Mayor John Heleniak, attended fewer than
half his scheduled meetings.
Page 10 The Daily omit, -.-I l """W, Wed.. July 18, 1984
Chuck Young (left), Oxford County fire co-
ordinator, receives a cheque from a trio of
Oxford County Junior Farmers to help pur-
chase fire equipment for rural fire depart-
ments in the county. From left to right are
Young, Oxford County Junior Farmer past
president Dave Dyment, past treasurer
New
signs
to
Stratford
may
go up
on
the 401
Traffic from Highway 4ol to Stratford
may be directed to use Oxford County
Road 6 instead of Highway 19.
The county public works committee,
Thursda m , recommended use of the county
road following a request by the Ontario
Ministry of Transportation and Com-
munications (MTC).
Operations engineer Roy Brankley
studied the proposal and had no objections
to it. He said he believes the signing
change request originated in Stratford in
an attempt to find a more direct route for
lourkua going to the annual theatre
festival. Travellers are currently directed
onto Highway 19 through Ingersoll and
Thames ord.
If County Road 6 is used, additional
signs would be needed at the Highway 2
and County Road 9 intersections. The MTC
has offered to install the Highway 2 sign,
but the county would be responsible for the
other one.
A new section of County Road 6 was
completed last year as a truck bypass
around Ingersoll and Woodstock.
Brankley said trucks use it, but the
volumes of traffic at present are low and
added traffic wouldn't create a hazard.
"It's a very excellent alternative if you
want to go directly to Stratford," he said.
Coun, Phil Poole of Woodstock sug-
gested members of Ingersoll council be
contacted for Input Into the proposal. After
all, it does affect the town atraffic flows
directly.
But chairman Ross Livingston said
more than just Ingersoll would be of
fected. It was later recommended to ap-
prove County Road 6 to promote discus-
sion when It goes to county council. That
way all municipalities affected can voice
their opinions.
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Alex Hartley, thi4 year's president Ron
Marshall and Fire Services Advisor Ken
Agnew. The local junior farmers raised
more than $5,000 through a number of fund
raising campaigns last year.
(Staff photo by Bob Hutton)
'Bragg named to top post
in health association
The new president of the Canadian In-
stitute of Public Health Inspectors hails
from Oxford County.
Mike Bragg, the director of environmen-
tal health at the county Board of Health,
will be- dividing his time between health in-
spection activities and the Institute for the
next two vears.
In an interview, Bragg said he received
support from the board when he was of-
fered the presidency of the 1,500 member
.organization last month. Although it
means he'll be spending less time in Ox-
ford, the board agreed the opportunity was
a positive one.
Bragg has been a member since 1966,
when he first became a health inspector.
He said it was about time he got more in-
volved in their activities.
"It's a motherhood thing. I feel that
somewhere in my lifetime I should,con-
tribute to the organization that's helped
me all these years," he said.
There's a lot of paperwork involved- In-
deed, his first month as president has
meant few free evenings and weekends.
NATIONAL ISSUES .
But despite the work, Bragg's en-
thusiastic about his new role. The Institute
deals with national, even international
issues.
For example, public health ins tors
have lobbied provincial and ederal
governments to ban the sale of raw milk.
It's already illegal in Ontario, said Bragg,
but they want a blanket taw for the coun-
try. So far the response has been positive.
On another issue, the Institute was in-
volved heavily in a study of toxic gases
found when drilling oil wells. An incident
in Alberta where people over several
miles were exposed to "sour gas" from a
drilling operation sparked the study. It
was to orginally to have been been done by
the company, but the Institute was made a
party to it.
That kind of recognition from the
federal government. shows that public
health inspectors are being accepted as
professionals with expertise and integrity.
INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS
The Institute also has a couple of inter-
national programs on the go. One involves
the use of health inspectors as advisors in
Belize, a Central American country. The
other is a multi -faceted project in the
African nation of Sudan being done in con-
junction with the Canadian Public Health
Association. Canadian inspectors will
review sanitation and water resources,
while others in the health field will give in-
put into nursing and even dental care.
Bragg said the Institute has never had
this type of high profile in health care.
Formed in 1913 and incorporated in 1931,
it's continued to grow and has the potential
to get even larger.
Ontario is on the brink of using the In-
stitute for certifying graduating health in-
spectors, which means membership may
jump dramatically in the coming year.
Soil meeting
Oxford County Warden Charlie Tatham
wants to .set up a county-sfwnsored soil
Conservation woritsttop this fall.
Tatham said he wants to invite
members of Oxford's township councils
and drainage superintendents to talk
about erosion control and more effective
drainago techniques.
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Parking may be changed too
Courthouse may get new lights
fli iMA Na1.Mt
of iM S"Wal-Mriew
A $13,148 figltng prepose] and a new
parking plan for the Oxford County Cour- are among several building im.
provement recommendations to be con.
sidered by county council.
The public works committee, Thursday,
reviewed proposals from three companies
for fighting Cixtures to be erected in the
county square. The committee is recom-
mending a proposal from Gladden
Associates Ltd. be accepted.
A few weeks ago county engineer Don
Pratt was authorized to pursue a plan
where colonial -style lamps and posts
would encircle the courthouse. Flood
lights would illuminate the building's
facade, while other lamps would provide
light in parking areas and walkways.
One proposal didn't meet the specifica.
tions, said Pratt. Another one was close to
what they wanted, but the poles were too
short, the fixtures not as big, and it was
about $4,000 more than the Gladdon
proposal
Pratt admitted the $13,000 plan being
recommended to county council is about
$3,000 more than he'd intended to spend.
SOME EXPERIMENTING
"If that's too much money ... I'm not
recommending that the others be ac.
cepted. The whole thing should be referred
back," he said.
Pratt said his staff experimented with
different lamp types and decided high
Burning garbage.
still hot issue
B1 LINDA HULME
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of The Sentinel -Review
There's nothing like garbage to prompt a discussion in Oxford
County.
Monday night city, county and PUC officials gathered to discuss the
idea of burning the stuff and possibly getting electricity from it.
Consultant Derek Wilson, who's been
He said he feared the proposal's success
considering the idea of building two
may hinge on the ability to sell power and
$20-million incinerators in Oxford, told the
steam, when really what they should be
gathering some of the possible prices for
considering is whether it'll be an accep-
electric power,
table alternative to garbage disposal
He also mentioned that taxpayers might
"Why don't we treat this thing on its own
have to put out $120 (each) for a steam
merit? Why don't we discuss the incinera-
generating incinerator.
tionof solid waste simply as that? Why
If the legalities could be worked out, Ox-
does the notion of incinerating garbage
ford could sell its electricity at com-
have to hinge on some other premise? Who
petitive rates.
the hell cares? is it a good idea or a bad
But this idea didn't garner much sup-
idea?"
port. Woodstock PUC general manager
Pratt said if it's
John Rousom was the most vocal on this
decided incineration is
point, wondering why PUCs and their
too expensive a.
customers should have to be burdened
method for getting rid -• ;r.'
with Oxford's garbage crisis,
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of only about half the
BEAR THE BRUNT?
If electricity is sold to PUCs, it will pro-
bably be at a higher rate than what On-
tario Hydro is offering and power will be
less reliable. Rousom said Woodstock tax-
payers would be bearing the brunt of the
cost of a plant fed by garbage from all
over the county.
"If it's cheaper to bury it, then i suggest
you keep on burying it," he said, "Why
should the customer of Woodstock pay
more?"
Wilson said he won't push something the
public doesn't support. If that means no
power sales, then the capital cost will have
to be divided differently between the other
revenue sources. He said later in an inter-
view that won't mean an increase over the
$120 per household per year estimate.
GRANTS UNCLEAR
Currently the county can count on a
federal grant coyering 20 per cent of the
capital costs providing the proposal
receives provincial environmental ap-
proval. What the province would grant is
as yet unclear, he said, but added there
likely won't be money forthcoming unless
the project includes reuse, recycling,
energy recovery, and reducluon of
garbage.
County engineer Don Pratt said the in-
cineration proposal was becominngg in-
creasingly oomPllcated, tie salA he
wondered whether people were logingg
sight of the original purpose — getting rid
of garbage.
consultants study is
still useful
Wilson said he will
be approaching local
municipalities in the
next few weeks to get
their impressions of JOHN
the pproposal. At the ROUSOM
co
unty's August council meeting, he'll be
asking for some definite decisions directly
affecting costs. Before undergoing an en-
vironmental assessment, he must know
how much the county is willing to charge
to residents, what tipping fee will be used,
and whether it will go ahead with steam
and electricity generation.
He said he hopes to have a cmncrete pro-
posal ready by September,
pressure sodium lights were well suited
for the building. These low energy lights
are pink in color, which Pratt said brings
out the building's features more effective•
ly than a plain white light.
"I won t guarantee that everybody'll
like it when we're finished,but I will," he
added.
Pratt also presented a proposal to
remove parking spaces from directly
behind the building. Nine spaces will be
eliminated from the area, and he also
wants to change angle parking in other
areas to 90 degree spaces.
Traffic Bows should also be altered, he
said, to discourage people from driving
directly behind to building to get from
Graham Street to Light Street. Parking
spaces on the building's west side can be
reached from the Light Street entrance,
however.. These will be the. only angle
parking spots, encouraging drivers to exit
onto Graham Street.
DISABLED SPACES
Spaces for the disabled closest to the en-
trance will be provided, as well as reserv-
ed spaces for court staff and judges.
As for the unused parking behind the
building, the committee agreed to a plan
to place sidewalks and grass to make the
space more attractive.
"What used to be the back door is now
the front door," said Pratt, "and it's the
scuzziest side of the whole place. Let's
beautify it by getting the cars out."
A garbage bin has already been remov-
ed from the area, be added.
Switching their attention to the front of
the building, Warden Charlie Tatham sug-
gested something be done about replacing
the aging trees lining the sidewalk on
Hunter Street. They're about 125 years
-old, he said, and if new ones aren't planted
soon, the old ones will die and no trees will
be left.
It was decided Tatham will worts with
the engineering department to determine
the best type of replacement plan.
THE
requires
CLERK -TYPIST
to perform typing and
secretarial duties. The
following skills are
essential;
Accurate Typing
(50.60 wpm):
Excellent Grammar
and Spelling;
Ability to function with
minimum supervision,
Salary commensurate with
qualifications and ex-
perience and includes all
County Fringe Benefits.
Applicants should submit
resume of qualifications and
experience, in confidence to
Mr. J. Harold Walls.
Clerk, The Corporation
of the County of Oxford,
P.O. Box 397,
Woodstock, Ontario.
N4S 7Y3
around oxford
Contract extension
The Oxford County public works eorn-
mitfee is recommending the contractor
currently operating the Blandford-
Blenheim Township landfill site near
Drumbo be given a six month contract
extension.
The committee discussed the passibility
of tendering the contract, but because the
closing of the site is anticipated by the end
of 1984, it was decided the best route was
just to extend the current contract.
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180 UNIT MOTEL
RESTAURANT
BANQUET&MEETING FACILITIES
SQUASH COURTS FITNESS CENTRE
SWIMMING POOL • 9 HOLE GOLF COURSE
AFTER MANY years of scuttled plans, Woodstock is going to have
a new accomodation facility. Construction of the Quality Inn, com-
plete with a nine -hole public golfcourse and health and sports com-
plex, will begin next week and is expected to be completed next.
February, The inn will he located at the Highway 401-Norwich
Avenue interchange.
a5laff photo bl' BW Scriven )
Meeting set
on sewerage
expansion
in Tavistock
WOODSfOCK (Bureau) — An environ
mental assessment of the "overloaded"
sewage system In Tavistock will give citi-
zens a chance to have their say about its
proposed expansion, Oxford County design
engineer Stewart Watts said Wednesday.
The county will schedule a public infor-
mation session in Tavistock, likely in the
fall. Watts said. "We want to show people
what we plan to do and ask the public for
any comments they might have."
The environmental assessment to he car
rigid out by county officials is the latest
move in a continuing effort to upgrade the
village's sewage system, installed in 1962.
A report done for the county by Ma-
cLaren Engineers Inc. of London says the
best solution is to expand the existing sys-
IeM
"There really isn't much of a choice,"
Watts said. "It's already overloaded."
Watts said that while there is some dispute
about the figures. it's believed the system
was built to handle a population of about
1,500. Tavistock now has a population ap-
proaching the 2.,000 mark.
Ile said the need for the expansion has
been well defined but the exact nature and
cost of the upgrading has yet to be decided.
"Possible grants haven't been estab-
lished yet . we're still looking at possible
alternatives, but there's not much argu-
ment about the need to expand at this
point," Watts said. Early estimates put the
cost of renovations over the $1 million
mark. Senior government grants could cov-
er as much as 75 per cent of the final cost.
he said.
Oxford County, East Zorra-Tavistock
Township and provincial environment min-
istry officials met earlier this month and
agreed that the county should conduct an
em>ironmental assessment as soon as pos-
sible.
The procedure could be relatively speedy
because provincial involvement is num-
mized under "class" assessments which
deal with small-scale municipal projects.
In 1978, a doubling of the lagoon capacity
in Tavistock was proposed, but East Zorra-
Tav9stock officials claimed the need for the
expansion wasn't clearly defined. Three
years ago, township council asked the min-
istry to oversee construction and operation
of an expanded facilty. After a discussion
on where the new lagoon should be con-
structed, council decided to wait. In May.
1982, the county turned down a $654,730
grant covering about half of the expansion
casts because it wasn't ready to proceed.
County animal shelter
now reality for Oxford
By DOREEN HOOVER
Oxford County is now equipped with its
own animal shelter after many years of
fundraising to establish such a facility.
The Ontario Humane Society, Oxford
County Branch located on Juliana Drive,
Woodstock, opened June 23. "It is
something that has been needed in the
area for a long time," Sue Wilson,
manager of the facility, said. Money to
purchase the property and build the facili-
ty was raised over many years by the Ox-
ford County Humane Society as well as
from funds received from the Humane
Society with its head office in Newmarket,
Ontario. Volunteers have also given their
time and effort to prepare the building for
use as a mini shelter and adoption area.
The animal shelter has upstairs
facilities to house many cats, kittens and
puppies. A downstairs area is being built to
hold larger dogs. It also contains a bath
area for proper care of the animals.
During its first month the animal shelter
has been busy and has found homes for all
the dogs it received and many of the kit-
tens. "There has been a tot of interest
shown," Miss Wilson said. "People visit
and say they are glad we're here." Many
people have also donated food or money to
aid in the operation of the non-profit
organization. ,
With the existence of the animal shelter
in the county people can now take their
animals to the shelter where a good home
can be found for them instead of having to
take them to Simcoe. Brantford or London
as before. It is also saving a lot of kittens
and puppies from being drowned or drop-
ped off along the roadside where they are
unable to fend for themselves, she said.
Miss Wilson is the one full-time staff
member at the facility. She is responsible
for answering the phone and exercising,
feeding and caring for the animals. She
"loves" her job because of the time it
allows her to spend with animals and "it
feels good to see one go out the door with a
new owner," she said.
At the shelter people can bring in an
animal and are asked to make a donation
to help for the operation of the facility
depending on the type and age of the
animal. The animals are cared for and
THE FAMILY CIRCUS, By Bil Keane
"Mommy, would you fake the bone out of
my peach'?„
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given general vaccinations while they wait
for someone to come looking for a nice pet.
Donations are also asked for from the new
owners who find the pet they have been
looking for.
The county animal shelter now has three
dogs and many cats and kittens. To help
find homes for the animals a segment call-
ed Pet of the Day is broadcast on CKDK,
Woodstock.
The facility basically keeps cats and
dogs but will take in small pets such as
guinea pigs and rabbits. There were even
small raccoons at the facility for a short
time until they were old enough to be
released to the wild. Many animals at the
shelter are brought in by people who are
moving, can no longer care for the animal
or who just find the animal has lost its
cuteness after it grows.
Miss Wilson is glad the county finally
has the animal shelter for it was "really
needed in the area" and she hopes it will
expand in a few years.
The Ontario Humane Society, Oxford
County Branch office is open from Tues-
day to Saturday from 10 a.m. to noon and
from 1-5 p.m. and can be contacted at
539-3500.
HERMAN/by Jim Unger
"Send in the next three patients."
OCFA soil saving film
receives a top award
from American group
The Oxford County Federation of
A riculture (OCFA) received Lin award in
O la Noma Cit . Okla., this week night for
a'24-minute firm on soil conservation.
The OCFA was one of four groups nam
ed as recipients of a Soil Conservation
Society of Americo merit award ❑t the
society's 391h annual meeting,
I'he Oxford County group was recogntz-
ed for its efforts in producing the color
film, A Question of Balance, to help ninke
all levels of government awure of the role
the county might play to flnure food
i production.
"We were very happy to hear that we
have received recognition for the film,"
OCFA president Don Woolcott said 'rues.
day morningg, "A lot of work went into it
and ahlbougli it was made six years ago,
this shows that it is still it valid aiatment
on what's µpinµ on."
The film address" many of the land use
conflicts that affect prime farmland in Ox-
ford County.
It stresses the need for proper land use
planning to protect the agriculture produc-
tivity of the area, which is being threaten-
ed by highway development. The film also
attempts to educate consumers about the
importance of agriculture to the eeonouty,
and it deals with the issues of urban people
moving into rural areas and the resulting
requests for services such as water and
sewage.
The federation's work, according to the
m SCSA, is an example of a treendous et -
fort by a group of dedicated
agriculturaliststo bring their concerns
forward to the government and general
public.
'rho SCSA is it private, non-profit scien-
tific and educational organization
dvdic:ticd to advancing the science.
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Port Stanley set for invasion
Tall ships expected to draw up to 100,000
By Bert Marotte
of The Free Press
PORT STANLEY — When the tall ships
sail into the harbor here this Civic Holiday
weekend, it is expected that from 50,o0o to
100,000 people will see them.
Oxford blames province
for landfill site delays
By SUZANNE HANSON
Oxford County places part of the blame
for its inability to locate a new landfill site
near Salford in South-West Oxford
Township squarely on the province in a
lengthy letter it has written to Attorney
General Roy McMurtry.
The strongly worded 18-page letter, writ-
ten by Oxford County Warden Charlie
Tatham with the assistance of the county's
lawyer Tom Lederer, was presented to
members of county council at their
meeting Wednesday.
The letter notes the history of the coun-
ty's 10-year long battle to establish a new
landfill site in South-West Oxford township
— a battle that has been complicated by op-
position from South-West Oxford township
and local residents opposed to the location.
Throughout the process, the county
believes it "has been badly served by the
administrative procedures set in place by
the Province of Ontario." The letter from
the county to Mr. McMurtry, signed by
Warden Tatham, states the county has
carried out the necessary planning for the
Salford site, using the best consultants,
and has engaged in a 10-year process to ob-
tain approval for the site.
"We have obtained that approval and all
that we are confronted with now are two
lengthy and protracted courtroom pro-
ceedings which cannot be concluded
before we run out of landfill capacity,"
states the letter.
"In effect, the conduct of these pro-
ceedings is now in the hands of others — in
particular the provincial government,"
says the letter. "In these circumstances
we would have hoped the province would
have looked to assist us, but rather it ap-
pears to be more concerned with the nar-
row academic point of Crown privilege and
not prepared in any way to assist us out of
these difficulties."
The letter warns that if some resolution
of the problem is not found in the very near
future, the County of Oxford will simply
not be able to comply with its statutory
obligations to supply waste disposal
facilities. "We will have no option but to
outline out litany of complaints and to
quite literally allow garbage to pile in the
streets with no short term solution,"
By 1986 all existing landfill sites in the
county will have reached their capacity,
leaving nowhere W dump the garbage
unless a new bite is cot stream. but it ap-
pears plans for the Salford landfill site will
be stalled for several more years until the
lawsuits are resolved.
"We want to get the matter before the
courts as soon as possible," said Warden
Tatham following Wednesday's county
council meeting. "We have to get things
resolved and quit fiddling around."
He said the letter to the attorney general
is intended to put the county on record with
the province "so the people in Toronto
know exactly where we are at."
The letter sets out the background of the
situation in factual terms "to let people
know where we've been, where we're com-
ing from and to get some resolution.
"All we're trying to do is look after the
garbage," said Warden Tatham.
Over the past 10 years, the county has
spent about $1 million on legal and con-
sulting fees seeking approval of the
Salford site. A provincial hearing board
refused the cou»ty's application for site
approval in December, 1982, but the pro-
vincial cabinet subsequently set aside that
decision and approved the county's ap-
plication to establish the landfill site.
Township council and a group of 29
residents have since taken the province to
court over the decision.
Attempts to speed up the legal process
haven't worked as there is little impetus on
the province or the township to move to
deal with the problem "since... the real im-
pact arising from this matter will be felt
by the county, not the province or the
township," said the county's letter to Mr.
McMurtry.
"It is unfortunate that the Province is
more concerned with privilege than with
solving this important social issue which
it, through its legislation, has placed. in the
hands of the county," says the letter.
"Surely it was not intended at the time
that restructured government was im-
plemented that it should lead to different
levels of municipal government fighting
out its disagreements in the courts and
hearing rooms rather than in the council
chambers where they belong," said
Warden Tatham, asking the province to
consider the statutory framework upon
which all of these problems are based.
Woodstock Councillor Joe Pember in
commenting on the letter during Wedrtes-
day's council meeting urged the county to
press the province for action.
" For the sake of South-West Oxford and
the sake of Norwich whose landfill Is coin-
ing to an end; for the sake of the county,
this mattes should be heard," he said.
"The people have a right to an early trial,"
BLUES CHASER
The problem isn't making ends MEWL .. .
irs getting them to overlap.
Conn. Pember said the province should
be pressed to get the issue before the
courts "before the garbage starts to pile
up.
"We've been battling the courts and
hearings for years and the province should
be told to get off their butts and do
something."
County Council Briefs
Sincere regret
The resignation of Oxford County's
executive secretary to the clerk and the
warden was accepted by county council
last Wednesday with "sincere regret."
Betty Wood retires, effective
September 30, after more than 30 years
working for the county. Several county
councillors paid tribute to Mrs. Wood at
last Wednesday's county meeting.
Promotion
Due to the resignation of Betty Wood
as executive secretary for the county,
the appointment of Brenda Tabor as
senior secretary to the clerk and the
warden was approved by county coun-
cil, effective October 1. The county staff
was also authorized to hire a clerk -
typist for the county clerk's office.
County host
Oxford County will play host to the
1984 fall meeting of the Association of
Clerks and Treasurers of Counties and
Regions of Ontario. County council last
Wednesday authorized clerk Harold
Walls to make the arrangements at an
estimated cost of $1,000.
Cornell Road
Oxford County council approved a
recommendation last Wednesdav from
its public works committee to advise
Norwich Township that the Cornell
Road, which the township had asked the
county to assume responsibility for,
does not meet the requirements for in-
clusion in the Oxford County road
system at this time.
Lighting proposal
A proposal from Gladdon Associates
Ltd., in the amount of $13.148 for the
first phase of the lighting program for
courthouse square, was accepted by
county council last Wednesday.
Landscaping
County countil has approved a public
works committee recommendation pro-
posing the construction of sidewalks
and landscaping at the north side of the
court house as recommended in sket-
ches prepared by the county engineer..
New sidewalk
County council has approved the
replacement of the sidewalk at the front
(south side) of the court house at an ap-
proximate cost of $7,8W.
BLUES CHASER
It's really a .shame that all the people who
know horn to run the count{r Are tied up
driving caps, cutting hair and tending bar.
Stratford-401 link
option supported
Both directions
Don't sign us off
says Ingersoll mayor
0, LINDA NULM1
of The Seetimi-Ihviw
A proposed change in signs directing
Highway 401 motorists to Stratford via Ox-
ford County Road 6 should be done in addi-
tion to the existing sign directing them up
Highway 19, says Ingersoll Mayor Doug
Hams.
He didn't totally disagree with the
changes proposed by the Ontario Ministry
of Transporation and Communications.
He told county council the signs should be
placed to augment the existing sign which
directs traffic to Stratford through Inger-
soll and Thamesford. not to replace it.
County council later compliers with a re-
quest to amend a resolution expressing
there are no objections to the new sign
posting in addition to the existing one.
The ministry is proposing to remove the
existing directions to Stratford once the
new sign is approved. But that existing
sign, directing eastbound 401 motorists,
means a lot of business for Ingersoll
residents. said Harris. They rely on
Highway 19 traffic going through the town,
business that would be lost if the sign is
removed.
PROMOTE ITSELF
He doesn't object to the additional route,
which would take motorists through Em-
bro, he said. But the county should try to
promote itself as much as possible by of-
feringa variety of routes, giving motorists
a choice and maintaining Important
business potential-
Let's get on with promoting. Don't take
away something we've already got, but
add to it," he said.
Coun. Joe Pember of Woodstock backed
Harris' request, adding he knows of at
least one restauranteur in Woodstock who
suffered a permanent 40 per cent loss of
business when Highway 401 was con-
structed. Directing people through Inger-
soll and Thamesford may be a tourist trap,
but that's a positive thing, not a negative
one -
He said the more direct County Road 6
route is a "cold hard engineering
approach',
Some councillors wondered why there
weren't signs directing westbound
travellers through the same routes. Coun.
Phil Poole said they are currently directed
W Stratford from Hespeler, but Coun. Jim
Gibb said that means an absence of any
signing for travellers coming onto the
highway west of Hespeler.
' WANTED C
Information on location of relatives and
Photographs of the following men:
REEVES OF WEST OXFORD
Senjomin
-Reeve 1850
,John Mcdonold
-Reeve 1851
Charley Mason
- Reeve 1852, 1853, 1857
Walter B. Mabee
- Reeve 1854, 1867. 1870
Thorns Holcroh
- Reeve 1855, 1856
Wright Sudworth
. Reeve 1858
Henry F. Martin
Reeve 1859 1860
Jomes Harris
Seneca Lewis
- Reeve 1861, 1862
Reeve
Jacob Topp,rW
Nicholas Smith
1863
Reeve 1864 1865 1866
-Reeve 1876, 1180- 1882
Freemort Karn
Franklin Folden
Reeve 1883 - 1885
-Reeve
1907
REEVES OF DEREHAM
George Lish
. Reeve 1851
Chafes Hopkins
Reeve 1852
John Smith
Reeve 1853, 1855 - 1861
aenlomin Hopkins, Reeve 1868 1875, 1879. 1884
George Portia
- Reeve 1903 - 1906
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TEMPORARY FIELD
REPRESENTATIVE
OXFORD SOCIAL SERVICES
We require a temporary field rep. for our
department, who will be responsible for
maintaining case records, completion of
statutory documentation and narrative
reports, budget worksheets, to be familiar
and maintain contact with related agencies
and perform related duties.
Applicants must hold a valid Ontario driver's
license and possess a reliable automobile.
Suitable academic background and/or ex-
perience with a minimum of grade 13
required.
Applications In writing with complete per-
sonal data will be received by the undersign-
ed until 4:30 P.M. Aug. 16/84.
G.H. MacKay, Administrator
Oxford Social Services
Box 397, Woodstock,
N4S 7X3 aq,IM
BLUES CHASER
Success is being able to afford to hire .soinc
one to mowthe lawn while you play golf for
exercise. -
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COUNTY OF OXFORD
COUNTY OF OXFORD
NOTICE
The County of Oxford proposes to carry out certain im-
provements on Oxford County Road No. 6 located as
follows:
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in Concession II and 111, Lot 12/13, West Oxford,Township of South-
West Oxford, from King's Highway No. 401 southerly 1 km. Project
No.67063.
The work to commence on or about August 20, 1984 and to include
selected tree removal, ditching, road excavation, shouldering and road
gravel. Construction will last through the fall of 1984 and spring/sum-
mer of 1986.
If you have any questions or concerns please call the County of Ox-
ford Engineering Department at l519) 537.7961. AN IiAli
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Randy Sageman
Local hero comes home
h Tia "Go _.
of Tao SaeMsol-AHer
Thamesford's Olym-
pic son has returned
home to a hero's
welcome. Randy
Sageman, of the Cana-
dian diving team, was
greeted by an ap-
preciative gathering of
proud friends and
neighbors as well as an
admiring throng of
local youngsters.
The occasion was the
three metre specialist's
homecoming, his first
visit since his Los
Angeles od easy. The
place was his parents
Thamesford backyard,
with a good deal of
spillover into next door
neighbors, Bob and
Sharyn Fishers yard.
In an emotional mo-
ment, the 24-year-old
hero told the assembled
friends, "It (the Olym-
pics) was something
I'm never going to
forget, and I'll never
forget the support I got
from this town either."
While he feels
satisfasetion at just be•
ing in the Olympics,
"bittersweet" is how
Sageman refers to the
memories, saying he
badly would've liked to
make the finals 'But I
guess fourteenth in the
world on a bad day is
pretty good."
lie missed the cut
from the preliminary
rounds to the finals by a
scant five points over a
total of 527. Of the 30
divers who began, 12
advanced to the final
round. Randy was
number 14.
He points to difficulty
in maintaining his in-
tensity over the nine
hour grind of competi-
tion as the decisive fac-
tor holding him back at
the Olympics. Saying,
"I didn't have quite the
right concentration,"
he figures on a good day
he could realistically
finish in the top eight in
the world.
For two years
Sageman has been
working with Toronto
sports {nychologist, Dr.
Scutt Mcradden, work-
ing on prepparation
through visualization of
fhe diva itself as well as
the scene, a practice
which came into play in
Los Angeles, where he
says the roar of the
crowd and importance
of the situation were not
an overiding factor in
his performance.
"Ejust started having
trouble with my
confidence."
Heading into his final
year at University of
Toronto with
Economics and Com-
merce majors,
Sageman is a member
of the U of T Diving
Club under the tutelege
of coach Skip Phoenix.
Asked about his
future in the sport, he
quickly replies, "I have
no intention of
quitting."
In fact, come next
weekend he'll be on the
platform again, this
time at the Nationals in
Montreal, with a possi-
;OXFORD COUNTY Warden Charlie 'Tatham, left, and Norwich
Township Mayor, John Heleniak mark the official opening of the
newly expanded Norwich Museum with cheese -cutting, pioneer
(style.
(Staff photo by Linda Hulme)
With one slice
Norwich museum
gets bigger pie
ble jaunt to China for
the to
performee stars.
Silting in thnds
in Los Angeles were
Randy;a parents. On
his feelings at that
time, the elder
Sageman admits to a
crushing dissapoint.
ment for his son. "f
know how badly he
wanted to make the
final." However he con-
tinued by saying his son
was a principled in-
dividual who had made
a lot of sacrifices and
that they had a lot of
reasons to be proud
long before the
Olympics.
Following a spirited
autograph session and
general backyard romp
with the enthusiastic
gathering of young ad-
mirers, Randy's friends
and neighbors showed
their appreciation and
esteem in presenting
him with a gold
medallion inscribed
with ''Canada's
Number One Diver".
More than 300
9y LIM11A MULME
i of The Sonfinal-Review
I
RANDY
SAGEMAN
Thamesford fans had
come out to show their
support a month
earlier, raising a street -
wide banner and
presenting him with a
good luck telegram and
the passboek from a
bank account opened
for him with locally col-
lected funds.
As for the 1988 Olym-
pics, Sageman is
.,philisophical. "Five
guys in this year$ top 12
were 27 or 28. Who
knows." Twenty four
now, in four years he
will be 28. As he says,
who knows?
Dump woes
prompt letter
to province
WOODSTOCK (Bureau) — MVP
Dick Treleaven (PC —Oxford) has
appealed for immediate provincial
action to help solve Oxford County's
garbage woes.
In a letter to Attorney -General
Roy McMurtry, Treleaven supports
municipal calls for Ontario to help
end the legal wrangling over county
plans to build a landfill site near
Salford in South-West Oxford
Township.
That plan has been stalled by
complex lawsuits against the coun-
ty and Ontario which officials fear
could take several years to resolve.
In his letter, released by the coun-
ty's public works committee Thurs-
day, Trevealen echoes concerns
raised by Warden Charlie Tatham
in an appeal to the province earlier
this month.
If the lawsuits aren't settled soon,
the county could be facedwith the
stark prospect of having no place to
put its garbage when existing
dumps reach capacity.
Local officials contend the prov-
ince has the option to move the legal
procedures ahead but is in no hurry
to do so.
"I would ask you to take all steps
necessary to expedite matters ...
and not become hung up on techni-
calities," Treleaven writes. He also
says Oxford is on the "edge" of a
garbage crisis.
Last August, South-West Oxford
Township decided to take the prov-
ince to court over cabinet's approv-
al of the Salferd site. The county
also is named in that writ.
NORWICH — It was a most delicious taste of history.
What better way to open the new addition to the Norwich Museum than with a few
morsels of historical content — and some scrumptious ones at that.
The event, held Sunday at the museum complex and attended by more than Lao peo-
ple from all over Oxford County, was far from a bitter pill to swallow — it was mark-
ed by a pie and cheese cuttinj ceremony.
The addition, built with more than $200,000 from the recently completed Canada -
Ontario Employment and Development CCOED) program, was a dream finally
realized by the Norwich and District Historical Society. It's a mark of progress with a
definite air of the past.
About 14 years ago the Society took over the meeting place of the Society of Friends
(the Quakers) and made it into their headquarters — a museum with some of the
finest exhibits and pioneer artifacts in Oxford County.
Last year, knowing their small building was just bursting at the seams with
materials, historical society members decided they would apply for a COED grant
and build an addition. The new space would beused to house some historical exhibits,
allowing space in'the original building for meetings — the purpose intended by the
Quakers who constructed it..
BALL BEGAN TO ROLL
The grant came through. 14 unemployed workers were hired and the ball was roll-
ing by December, 1483. A rough winter kept the pace at a crawl, but nevertheless,
work continued on the building. Historical Society president Laverne Irving told the
crowd there are still a few things to be done — installing ceiling tiles and some doors
to name a few. Butjust one look shows that, by and large, the new section is beginn-
ing to adopt the nostalgic ppccrsonahty the original building exudes.
A fund-raising program by thesociety will also continue into next year and 1986, Ir-
ving added. About $20,000 has been raised to dale and so far pledges for the next two
years amount to about$4,000,
Tribute was paid to the project by a number of dignitaries — Oxford Progressive
Conservative incumbent Dr. Bruce Halliday, Oxford MPP Dick Treleaven, Norwich
'township Mayor John Heleniak, and county warden Charlie Tatham.
BITS OF INDECISION
Curator Scott Gillies, bursting with pride, thanked the historical society members
who worked so hard, the COED empPloyees and the contractors and building suppliers
who had. to put up with a bit of indecision at times. He also thanked a few close ac-
quahttances for some much needed moral support during the past nine months.
"Il seemed like I was the expectant father, he joked.
The apple pie cutting was attended to by Dr. Halliday and Treleaven, while
lielentak and Tatham did the honors on the cheeac with an antique cyder. The two
delectobles replaced the usual ribbon -cutting — the apples represented the
township's bountiful orchards while the cheese represented the many cheese -
producing operations in Oxford throughout the past 2W years.
The afternoon then took on a festive air, with musical selections played by the Nor-
wich Musical Society Band and the Milian and District Pipe Band I of which Gulies is
I memher). The tastiest sort of all was savoring the pieves of chtvse and pie handed
ull (o the )�,ursls
May as well
rent out site
says Charlie
oxford County Warden Charlie Tatham
would like to lease 100 acres of unused
land at the Salford landfill site to a farmer.
The warden made the suggestion Thurs-
day at a county public works committee
meeting. He said the land could be leased
on a long term basis as it will not be re-
quired for at least another 10 years -
He has discussed the matter with Ox-
ford's .agricultural representative Cliff
Matthews he said, and believes the project
could be used as a demonstration model in
soil conservation.
Some wheat was planted on the land this
year with good results, county engineer
Don Pratt said.
Warden Tatham said he would prepare
a formal proposal for the next committee
meeting.
BRIAN MCREYNOLDS, administrator of muse educator with the Canadian Cancer
Woodingford Lodge and lodge employees Society.
recently attended a lecture,by Jennifer Roy, (Staff photo by Margaret Boyd)
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ALF APPS
LIBERAL
SEPTEMBER 4th
WAYNE COLERAN
PC Halliday
outpolls Apps
two to one
By BILL SCRIVEN
of The SentineVReview
Dr. Bruce Halliday, riding the national Tory blue tidal wave,
easily won the Oxford colony riding seat Tuesday, soundly
defeating Liberal upstart Alfred Apps by a 2-1 margin.
Halliday was never in any trouble as
early polls across the country indicated
a Conservative sweep and Oxford prov-
ed no different. Halliday's success in
the election paralled his one-sided vic-
tory over Liberal candidate Ron
Calhoun in the 1979 election when he i
won by over 10,000 votes — Halliday
won yesterday's election by 12,774
votes over Liberal candidate Apps.
The PC incumbent finished with
25.W votes to Apps's 12,874 tally. NDP
candidate Wayne Colbran finished a
distant third with 6,076 votes while
Libertarian Kaye Sargent snagged 322
tallies.
BRUCE HALLIDAY
P.C. OXFORD
OXFORD COUNTY
HALLIDAY 25,648
APPS
COLBRAN 6,076
SARGENT 322
TOTAL 44,920 1
THE NATION
around oxford
It's official
Oxford Riding returning officer Slyly
? Foster made it official Friday.
j The "official results" of the voting in
Oxford during Tuesday's federal election
are only slightly different from the unof-
fieW tallies released election night.
Conservative Bruce Halliday finished
with 25,642 votes tsix less than the unof-
ficial tally), Liberal Affred Apps received
12.884-(10 more than he was credited with
- Tuesday night) and New Democrat Wayne
Coltman received 6,0a .- tone more than his
Tuesday night tally!
Libertarian Kaye Sargent's tally of 3:"
votes did not change.
Tory tidal wave
by THE CANADIAN PRES6 ■ Brian Mulroney's boyhood
dream came true Tuesday when ' ���rlm'ts
his Conservatives swept to their
largest victory in history.
Women in Business
Giving aged that special touch
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Life experience has taught June Brown. -i held
worker at Woodingford Lodge how to deal with Leh
elderly people in a positive, caring way.
Employed by the home for the elderly since its open.
ing in 1969. Mrs. Brown has been providing a personal
contact for elderly people since 1975, She started as a
bookkeeper and worked her way up to her present
position As a field worker, she interviews all prospec-
tive residents of the home and helps with some of the
admitting work.
She doesn't consider herself ^a woman's libber,"
but she does believe women are more suited to certain
types of employment, particularly those involving
detail and record keeping.
NFCESSITY
When she started working, it was a matter, of
necessity. In 1971 Mrs. Brown lost her husband and in
1972 and 1974 she lost two of her three sons,
"When it comes to a degree, 1 feel I've had a real
taste of the ups and downs of life." Mrs. Brown said. -I
understand these people. My father was ill for a long
time. I fell into this position because I was familiar
with older people."
Despite the stigma attached to retirement and nurs-
ing homes for the aged, a move fo such a home usually
gives relief to both the elderly and their families,.
Mrs. Brown believes that elderly people enjoy and
need the company of people their own age. The
average age of residents is 85. Residents rarely move
away from the lodge. In Mrs. Brown's experience,
Fan iiq trcns
residents tend to wean themselves away from
dependence on their younger family members.
"They come in here to live " she stressed.
Mrs. Brown can find no fault with her place of
employment. In her view, the staff of Woodingford is
topnotch and the atmosphere reflects their care.
I love this work. I love working with people," Mrs.
Brown said. "I can honestly say I never get bored. No
two days are ever alike and Igo home with a sense of
accomplishment., Older people are very grateful for
any kindness."
In her experience, once the elderly have made the
move, their initial fears are dispelled. She tries to
make all applicants feel the lodge is a place that cares
about their needs.
'Thev are very apprehensive, oftentimes suspicious
when they come in to visit and they leave feeling much
more comfortable once they understand what it's like
in here," she said. "One of the most important things
we're concerned with in admissions is their attitudes
in coming in here. We want them to look forward to
it."
WAITING LIST
There has been a waiting list since the lodge opened
15 years ago. In 1975 a 150-bed addition complete with a
heated pool was constructed. The pool is well -used by
the community for therapy for arthritic and other
physical disabilities.
Woodingford Lodge offers a residential environment
with three levels of care, including bed care and
special care. The therapy available makes lot of dif-
ference for residents, Mrs. Brown said.
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"The coffee table is NOT for break -dancing!"
Woodstock council
returns to city hall
WOODSTOCK (Bureau) — Something
unusual happened at city haR Thursday
night.
For the first time since last summer,
council took care of city business in its own
chamber, which has been refurbished as
part of an ambitious city hall renovation
project. Council has been holding its regu-
lar meetings in the Oxford County council
chamber at the courthouse on Hunter
Street.
Council's improved setting includes oak
desks, a backdrop and a new seating ar-
rangement for officials and the media.
JUNE BROWN, a field worker at Woodingford Lodge, chats with
Isabel Briggs, a 90-year-old resident of the home for the elderly.
(Staff photo by Alargaret Bovd )
Oxford dump situation
claimed under control
TORONTO (Bureau) — There is no im-
mediate need for concern over Oxford
County's long-range garbage problems,
Environment Minister Andy Brandt said
Wednesday.
MPP Dick Treleaven (PC— Word) has
asked Attorney -General Roy McMurtry to
help untangle legal wrangles over a pro-
posed new county landfill site near Salford.
The MPP fears that the lawsuits could
leave Oxford with nowhere to put its gar-
bage when present dumps reach capacity.
"It's not a matter for environment right
now," Brandt noted. "On a temporary ba-
sis, we've got the situation under control."
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A witness to change
County's top secretary stepping down
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when Betty Wood retires the end of this
month from her executive secretary posi-
tion with the Oxford County clerk's office,
she'll become an historian of sorts.
In her 30 vear stint, she's picked up
more than typing skills.
Mrs. Wood has seen the face of Oxford
politics change dramatically over her
career as well as experiencing first hand
the ballooning bureaucracy of county
government.
She started work in 1951. Len Coles was
the clerk -treasurer and Grant Sutherland
was warden lit took the council 54 ballots
to elect him as oupoaed to the one ballot it
tookforcurrent harden Charlie Tatham).
"I started right from school. 1
graduated April 30, 1951 at 4 p.m. and I
started to work here the next morning at 9
a.m.: ' she said.
It was her first interview and her only
job. Coles had called her high school's
commercial department supervisor, Ed
Ferguson, who recommended her and a
couple of other people.
ENJOYED WORK
"I could truthfully say that after two
days I knew then I really enjoyed my
work," said Mrs. Wood.
Her responsibilities then were varied.
Not only did she do most of the secretarial
work, she did bookkeeping as well. And
everything was done by hand.
As she diligently compiled minutes of
meetings, answered phones, made the ac-
count entries and generally kept her finger
on the pulse of the county, she was also
secretary to each of the 28 county wardens
who served during her career.
In 1961, she quit her job to raise her son.
Blake, but was asked to return to work in
1%4. It didn't take much to make her go
back.
"There's never been a day that I didn't
want to come to work," she said. "I just
love municipal work. It's not so much
repetition...the work is just so interesting
and the bosses have been the best."
Activities were much the same upon her
return to work. There was another
New curator
starts work
in October
secretary to help her out by that time, but plying her organizational skilih. She
she continued to do both secretarial work believes her work has been an integral
and bookkeeping. part of the county system.
AMALGAMATION
"When it really changed was when
restructuring came into being," said Mrs.
Wood,
In 1970, county council began the study
which eventually resulted in the
amalgamation of several municipalities
and the transition of a council of exclusive-
ly rural representatives to an even urban -
rural mix.
"I couldn't begin to tell you the overtime
I took... many, many hours were spent typ-
ing. There were a lot of meetings then,"
she said.
The county bureaucracy grew with Its
increased responsibilities, and for the first
time, treasury work was separated into a
completely new department. That didn't
mean Mrs. Wood's workload was any
lighter, but by this time she knew the
operation so well, she could perform with
utmost. efficiency.
"I think maybe it's because I have the
experience and I understand it all. I can
have information within seconds," she
said.
While all the political top guns have
reaped the glory of county ac-
complishments over the years, Mrs. Wood
has been there doing the legwork and at) -
Sheila Johnson is returning to her
historical roots Oct. 1.
Mrs. Johnson, born in Norwich and who
previously worked at Norwich Archives
and Museum, will become the new curator
of the Oxford Museum, replacing Don
Milton, who leaves tomorrow,
Mrs. Johnson, 23. who is married and
resides in London, was chosen from about
30 applicants for the position of Oxford
Museum curator by the museum's (ward
of directors. She had been working in the
Library at University of Western Ontario.
She is currently attending a one-mon(h
museum training course in Ottawa and
will assume duties Oct. 1 as museum
curator in Oxford.
Milton, curator of the museum for the
past four years, earlier this year announc-
ed he would leave the job to further his
education at the University of Toronto,
where he'll work toward a masters degree
in museum studies. Milian said Thursday
while he was sad to leave as museum
curator at the Dundas Street location, he
looked forward to the new challenge which
awaited him in Toronto.
INVALUABLE
"I think a good secretary is invaluable
to the boss or to an organization." she
said.
It was a tough decision for Mrs. Wood to
resign. Despite a long and satisfying
career, she thinks it's time she ex nded
her homelife. Always an active volunteer
in community and church activities in Ox-
ford Centre; she intends to get even more
involved and to spend more time with her
husband, Jack.
But Mrs. Wood readily admits she could
never be removed from county events.
She']] continue to read and clip newspaper
stories about council activities, filing
them away in her gigantic scrapbook
collection.
A quiet woman, she said she didn't want
any great fanfare over her departure,
preferring instead a quiet transfer of
.responsibilities to incoming executive
secretary Brenda Tubor.
While she's confident in her replace-
ment, she added Ms Tubor will have her
hands full.
In 30 years of knowledge. there's cer-
tain things I know that I just can't transfer
to somebody else," she said.
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buy a pound of h rnburger for a quarter,
while forgetting that }mu had to work an
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Oxford told to avoid
battles over dumps
By Howard Burns
Woodstock Bureau
WOODSTOCK — Oxford County
will have to find a way to open new
landfill sites without costly court
battles, Attorney -General Roy
McMurtry says.
In a two -page letter released
Wednesday by Oxford Warden
Charlie Tatham, McMurtry also
says there is little the province can
do to help end the legal wrangling
over county plans to establish a
landfill site near Salford in South-
West Oxford Township.
But that's not the message county
council is getting from its lawyer in
the Salford case who says the prov-
'Ince Is partly responsible for the
current "impasse" preventing the
matter from getting Into court.
The county fears it won't have a
place to put its garbage when the
major landfill site in Norwich
closes in June, 1986.
"I don't know whether to laugh or
cry," Tatham said after a county
council meeting Wednesday.
"Abandon hope all ye who enter
here; that's about the way I feel.
We can talk all we want but the
garbage isn't going to go away.
We'd like some straightforward di-
rection from Queen's Park and
we're sure not getting IV'
Oxford, which decided about 10
years ago it needed a permanent
landfill site, has spent an estimated
$1.3 million during that time on eR
forts to open a dump near Salford.
The township is taking the prov-
ince to court over cabinet's approv-
al of the Salford plan, which had
been rejected earlier by an Ontario
hearing board.
[t appears to us that at some
point the County of Oxford and its
townships must come to an agree-
ment as to the location of future
landfill sites," McMurtry says. In
his view the county and the town-
ships must agree on a way to select
and develop sites if the current le-
gal headaches are to be avoided In
the future.
I am concerned as you are with
the delays and costs of providing
the people of the County of Oxford
with appropriately located landfill
sites, I respectfully suggest that the
issues must be resolved locally be-
tween the county and township
governments."
The county asked McMurtry last
month to help sort out the legal
mess.
County lawyer Tom Lederer of
Toronto said the matter is being
held up because of a pre-trial dis-
pute between the province and the
township at this stage. "The situa-
tion has developed in such a way
that there is really nothing very,
much for the county to do to press
the matter on," he said.
The township wants to see all the
documents the province has on Sab
ford, but Ontario is refusing to re-
lease them on a point of crown
privilege.
"The county is the one in trouble
if this Isn't resolved," Lederer said
from Toronto. "If it's not resolved
quickly, the township presumably
gets at it wants.
Meanwhile, the county is at-
tempting to have the case trans-
ferred to Woodstock from Toronto
whets there Is a backlog of civil
actions.
Plans shown to county council
Jail plus addition satisfies health board
M I1aW aatlll
of TM sen". rview
An architect's draft design using the Ox-
ford County Jail plus a 2,80o square foot
addition will satisfy the office needs of the
Board of Health and Homecare services,
said medical officer Dr, Cecile Rochard,
Wednesday.
1n a meeting of Board of Health and
county council representatives yesterday,
Simem architect. Carlos Ventin revealed
his plans to turn the historic building into
an office. His design not only includes ac-
commodations and boardroom space for
the approximately 50 employeeswhowork
at the two health services, it leaves almost
all the exterior architectural features
Intact
"We can accommodate ourselves well
with what they've shown us," said Dr.
Rochard.
The existing building's exterior, fron-
ting on Buller Street and flanked by Light
and Graham Streets, will be virtually un-
changed. The addition is being proposed
for the rear with the remaining courtyard
space to be used for pedestrian access and
landscaping purposes.
SIDE ENTRANCES
The building's facade won't be the main
entrance. Two sidedoors opening directly
into the jail's central foyer will be provid-
ed to accommodate the public.
Nursing chief retires
Eileen Showler, who
retires as director of nurs-
ing at Woodingford Lodge
on Sept. 28, has witnessed
the nursing staff grow
from one nurse (herself)
and five aides to 15 nurses,
58 aides and seven
orderlies.
"I'll miss the people
most," she said of her im-
pending retirement. "I en-
joy the residents and I en-
joy talking to them and
their relatives. It is a nice
place to work."
Mrs. Showler was the
original director of nursing
for the lodge, which opened
in 1969. She started at the
old Oxford County Home,
just prior to the lodge's
opening. She has also
worked at Woodstock
General Hospital as an
assistant head nurse, in a
Hamilton hospital and at
Alexandra Hospital in
Ingersoll.
In the early days at
Woodingford, Mrs.
Showier was the only
registered nurse on duty.
On call 24 hours a day, she
received "a lot of calls dur.
ing the night," she
recalled.
At Woodingford, Mrs.
Showler set up the depart-
ment, hired the staff as it
grew and set up the nurs.
ing services. She used to do
nursing service but in re-
cent years her time has
been taken up by ad-
ministrative duties. The
lodge has 258 full-time
residents,
PLANS
She is lw)king forward to
being able to play more
bridge, one of her hobbies,
and she plans to take golf
lessons in her retirement.
"I've worked for 29
years. I'm going to enjoy
keeping house and cook-
ing," she said.
She will be replaced by
Lorraine Walsh, who was
recently director of nurs-
ing at a home for the aged
in Napuskin ing. Mrs
Walsh starts her new post
on Oct_ 1,
Inside, Ventin's design has the space
formerly serving as the rotunda and the
tower becoming the main traffic area for
the public. All departments, housed in the
two floors of the existing east and west
wings and the first floor of the new square -
shaped rear section, converge on that cen-
tral space. Stairways and an elevator are
also located in this area.
This design would allow for access con-
trol of clients using the health services,
said architect Catherine Single. Ali a per-
son has to do is walk up to a main recep-
tion desk, say what service he or she is
there for, and the proper staff member
will be notified to meet the person and
take him to their office.
It also allows for public access to a large
meeting area on the second floor of the
new addition. Activities such as pre -natal
classes can be held in this room; while the
county may find the, space attractive for
some municipal activities, the group was
told. A separate board room located on the
second floor's front section will serve for
staff activities. -
VIEW OF THE TOWER
The new addition will also be equipped
with a skylight which not only serve to
light the interior but affords a view of the
original tower.
"What we're saying to you is, yes, it can
work. We're not sacrificing any functions
EILEEN SHOWLER, director of nursing at
Woodingford Lodge since its opening in 1969,
is busy cleaning out her d(sk this month. She
retires Sept. 28 after working 29 years in the
nursing profession.
(Staff photo by Margaret R(tvd)
by Dr. Rochard and her staff," said
Ventin.
While Ventin's mandate was to redesign
the Interior for office space, he also had a
few recommendations for the surrounding
area.
Landscaping and pedestrian walkways
around the Courthouse, just across from
the jail on the County Square, are becom-
ing increasingly important, and the jail
area should be no different.
To promote this idea, he proposed cut-
ttag large entrances into the surroundingg
wall, a point Dr. Rochard agreed was bad-
ly needed.
TOO ENCLOSED
She said staff members raised concerns
about being too enclosed by the wall,
originally used to keep inmate from
escaping the premises.
"You need to have the feeling of space
and light, otherwise people are going to
feel completely enclosed in the building,"
she said.
Theidea aroused concerns for security
and possible night vandalism, but Ventin
suggested installing decorative wrought
iron gates to combat the problem while
still leaving open spaces.
Ventin also commented on the future of
the former governor's residence, current-
ly used by the county as a woodworking.
shop. He agreed with county's council's
idea to use it as a casual meeting place as
well as a storage shed for lawn tractors
and other public works equipment.
County engineer Don Pratt added
there's still a need for a shop, and later it
was suggested a basement below the new
jail addition would be suitable.
Dr, Rochard and Ventin will take the
proposal to the Ministry of Health later
this month. After approval is received, a
cost analysis will be drawn up and the en-
tire -package will be presented to county
council.
Two routes to Stratford
MTC says no sign
council says no way
Long route the best route
in Oxford County's view
WOODSTOCK (Bureau) —
Oxford County council wW fight
to keep a highway 401 sign that
directs Stratford -bound motor-
ists through Ingersoll.
Eastbound motorists are now
directed to use Highway 19
through Ingersoll to get to Strat-
ford, but the ministry of trans-
portation and communications Is
thinking about using County
Road 6 Instead because It's con-
sidered a more direct route.
Ideally, council hopes to give
motorists the option of using
Highway 19 or County Road 6,
but the province says that's not
practical.
Council decided Wednesday to
oppose any move to alter the cur-
rent sign for Highway 19. Coun-
e for Joe Pember of Woodstock
said part of council's job is to
promote Oxford whenever it
can. "We want them (motorists)
to discover Oxford," said
Pember.
In other business, council ap-
proved a plan to bring local re-
presentatives from across Ox-
ford together for a seminar in
April in hopes that a county -wide
plunicipal association may even-
tually be formed.
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welfare cases
show 17% drop
WOODSTOCK (Bureau) — The welfare
roll is shrinking in Oxford County.
Figures released Thursday by social ser-
vices director Gerry MacKay show 943 resi-
dents received welfare assistance last
month, down about 17 per cent from the
same month in 1983.
Last year, the welfare caseload was 1,013
at the end of August.
MacKay said the figures are better than
the department had predicted for this time
of the year and attributed the Improving
picture to job -creation programs and an
upswing in seasonal work.
He said the decrease appeared to be part'
of a trend also experienced in neighboring
counties.
"We're well within our budget," MacKay
said. "I would think if it continues to go like
this or even if the caseload goes up to about..
1,000 again, we should still be within what
we've estimated for 1994."
The county spent about $2,200,000 on gen-
eral welfare assistance between January.
and the end of July, about $60,000 less than
anticipated.
Committee
sees
the light
it"
uests by the Oxford County treasury
and planning departments for increased
lightin m their offices have been agreed
to by the public works committee.
The committee is recommending the in-
stallation of pot lights embedded within
the ceiling tiles located in the main office
areas.
County engineer Don Pratt said he
doesn't want to install too many more
overhead lights (the ones there now are
'M watts and hang from chains in the ceil-
ing) because it would make the decor too
cluttered. He suggested the embedded pot
lights because they can be easily located
over desks and moved around as offices
are re -arranged.
He added the public works department
already equipped desks in the treasury
department with desk lamps, but a letter
from treasurer Howard Day indicated this
still wasn't good enough.'
said Pratt.
After a brief tour of the departments,
the committee agreed to Pratt's sugges-
tion for pot lights. — all except Coun.
Howard Cook, that is.
"I still can't see where this lighting is as
bad as they're making out. I can't go for
more lighting, I don't think it's
necessary," he said.
He added his eyesight isn't the best, but
he could see quite well when he sat at the
desks in question.
Coun. Phil Poole said later it's probably
a perception problem more than anything,
but agreed to extra lighting anyway.
"If it's done in consultation with the
complainers, presumably in the future
there won't be more complaints," added
Coun. Les Cook.
Korean memorial
Massive monument to victims
The South Korean government has erected an 66 foot (26.9 metres) high monu-
ment in honor of the 267 passengers of a Korean Jetliner kilted when the plane
was shot down by a Soviet fighter plane last September 1. The monument was
dedicated at a memorial service held this month on September I. Among those
taking part In the service was Wally Covey, a long-time Tlllsonburg resident
and the father of Marlton Covey, one of the victims in the downing. The monu-
ment has a plaque bearing the names of the victims and their place of origin.
Duck crossing zone
Roger Orth, chairman of the Long Point Region Conservation Authority (LPRCA) and
Norwich Township Mayor John Heleniak stand by one of the two newly erected duck
crossing signs placed on Main Street West in Norwich to warn drivers of the ducks that
frequently cross the road in that area. The duck crossing signs wi, t try first of their kind
in Oxford County. (Staff Photo)
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you up in 25 years. What time?"
Henry Charles Albert David,
SEPTEMBE 11 1984
but you can cafl him Harry
LONDON (AP) — Prince Henry Charles
Albert David, at two days old the newest
member of Britain's thousand -Year -old
Royal Family, today was the toast of a
country delighted by a Buckingham
Palace announcement that he will be (,all-
ot Harr%.
Henry was the name of eight crowned
kings of England, more than any other,
but the last was long ago — Henry VIII,
the excommunicated monarch who died in
1547,
"Hurrah for Harry!" yelled the crowds
Sunday as Diana, the Princess of Wales
and the baby's mother, left St. Mary's
Hospital and carried six -pound, 14,ounce
Henry. wrapped in a white shawl, to his
first nighthome in Kensington Palace.
Henry, or Harry, made his first public ap�
pearance at age 22 hours, launching his
lifetime in the limelight.
United Press Canada
Brian Mulroney takes the oath of office to become Canada's 1 Bth prime minister during ceremonies in Ottawa on Monday.
I if 1. FAMILY CIRCUS, By Hil Keane
"Mary had a little
little lamp
Oxford County has received a $14,000
grant to be used for upgrading and study-
ing of landfill sites in Norwich Township,
East Zorra Township and Zorra Township,
The grant was provided under Environ-
ment Ontario's Waste Management im-
provement Program. The county will have
sli sill for use in Norwich Township to
cover the cost of closure, fencing, grading
and seeding of the Otterville landfill site
that was closed in August. Of the remain-
ing grant, $5,e011 will be used in East 7orra
County receives r rati t
for lanidfll studies
Township and $4,000 in Zorra Township.
The Waste Management improvement
Program is intended to provide financial
assistance to relieve the burden imposed
on municipalities in meeting standard m
quirements for safe disposal of domestic
waste.
The county will use the funds to improve
local landfill operation by general
upgrading and to conduct a
hydrogeological study of the sites with
respect to leachate control.
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Oxford Canty council approved the pur-
chase of a piece of property at the intersec-
tion of Highway 19 and County Road 46, in
the village of Salford, in the amount of
$21,0 0 for municipal road purposes.
Oxford County council accepted the
recommendation of its engineer to set
aside $500,W0 for development of the
Salford landfill site in reserve.
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Qxford County Warden Charlie Tatham donned cap and
workclothes to practise up on his plowing technique, Saturday.
Tatham will be representing the county at the International Plow-
ing Match in Wellington County community of Tiviotdale next
weekend Assisting Tatham at the Fred Fleming Farm west of
,Woodstock was Ken MacAlpine of RR 5, Embro.
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Stratford signs
staying put
says ministry
Signs on Highway 401 directing traffic to[
Stratford along Highway 19 will be left as
they are, a Ministry of Transportation and
Communications (MTC) spokesman said
Wednesday.
SThe MTC had received a request from
tratford asking that eastbound traffic; he
directed to use County Road 6 instead of
Highway 19, which involves some
backtracking, said Murray Seeley, head of
the regional MTC office.
The MTC contacted Perth and Oxford
County for their comments on the matter.
The strongest objector was Ingersoll)
Mayor Doug Harris who said changing the I
signs would decrease traffic through his
town. Oxford Countyy council then inform-
ed the MTC that it di,d not object to direc-
ting traffic along Highway 6 as long as the
signs for Highway 19 were allowed to
remain.
"We can only sign one route for east
bound traffic," Seeley said. "After receiv-
ing the objection we decided to leave it
Just as it is."
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Queen Elizabeth is greeted by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney in Moncton on Monday at the start of the "
queen's 14-day Canadian tour. Between them is Secretary of State Waiter Mclean.
County council backs
capital punishment
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Oxford County council supports capital
punishment.
Last night an overwhelming majority of
councillors voted in favor of a recommen-
dation from the administration and
finance committee to support a resolution
favoring the death penalty from the
United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and
Glengarry. The resolution requests the
federal government "to reintroduce and
apply capital punishment, through the
judicial system, for the wrongful and, or,
intentional killing of human beings."
Coun. Ed Down did not support the mo-
tion saving he believes capital punishment
should remain a federal issue and ques-
tioned whether it acts as a deterrent. He
said he believes in better gun control.
"I don't think anyone in this country is
perfect enough to push the button," her
said. "Mistakes can be made. Look at the
recent case in New Bruhswick."
Coun. Lenore Young said it would be
moving backwards to accept an eye for an
eye and a tooth for a tooth form of justice.
"It'san act of revenge and it makes all
of its accomplices in the taking of another
human life," she said.
PLACE FOR THEM
Coun. Joe Pember did not agree and
said when someone takes a life there is no
Place op earth for them- He said the Cana-
dian Justice system is fair, honest and
good.
"I say give them a fair trial, and we
have a system in place to do that," he said.
"w'hen you take another life you should
lose your right to live."
After being involved in police work for
14 years, Coun. Jim Oibb safd anyone who
has ever looked down the barrel of a
shotgun would have to support taking a life
for a.life.
"A rap .on the knuckles just doesn't
work."' he said.
Coun. Ross Livingston said he supported
the resolution in principle but said he
would feel better if it stated "for
premeditated murders."
Hold up
Two county roofing projects have been
put on hold until next yeas
County engineer Don Pratt told the
public works committee Thursday that
there's not enough good weather left this
year to improve the roofing at the court
house and social services building.
Tougher sign
Oxford County's sign bylaw should be
enforced, the public works committee
agreed Thursday.
The county engineering department has
been asked to look into the details of ap-
pointing a bylaw enforcement officer to
enforce the sign bylaw. County engineer
Don Pratt said the bylaw has not been en-
forced in the past 20 years.
Signing up
Oxford County's smaller municipalities
should have signs identifying them before
spring, county engineer Don Pratt told the
public works committee Thursday.
Villages presently without signs include
Plattsville, Lakeside and Washington.
New signs will be part of the public
works department winter program.
Leaving county after 12 years
Planner Peter Atcheson
takes post in Brantford
Peter Atcheson has resigned as Oxford
County's planning commissioner after 12
years service.
County council accepted Atcheson's
resignation with regret last night. He will
join the City of Brantford as director of
planning in early November.
In his letter of resignation, Atcheson
said "1 believe it is time for a change and
for a new voice to be heard in the county
with respect to planning. It is with fond
memories, and mixed emotions, that I
tender to you my resignation as your plan-
ning commissioner effective Nov. 2."
In 1972, Atcheson joined the County of
Oxford as the first planning director of the
Oxford County Planning Board and
established the county's first planning
department. The planning board expand-
ed its operation from 1972 to 1974 until all
municipalities in the county were
members of the board.
Atcheson was involved in developing a
new Official Plan, along with council and
the public, that dealt with planning
policies for all municipalities in Oxford,.
'See recycling
lie also helped develop comprehensive
zoning bylaws for each of the area
municipalities.
"We in Oxford County owe Peter a debt
of gratitude." Coun. Ross Livingston said.
"He has done a super job for the county,"
Livingston's comments were followed
by a round of applause.
Oxford County representatives will visit
Hamburg, New York, next month to view
a recycling program.
Members of the public works committee
will attend and county councillors have
also been invited.
The Village of Hamburg has developed a
recycling program and encourages
residents to separate newspapers; bottles
and cans from their waste and take it to a
recycling centre. Local firms also take
part.
Ministry wants
county to proceed
against Karn
The Ministry of the Environment has
recommended that legal proceedings be
initiated against an Oxford County corn
farmer under the Pesticides Act.
The county's public works committee
was informed of the ministry's decision by
letter Thursday,
The letter said soil samples were taken
at the farm of Donald Karn, RR 1.
Woodstock, and nearby properties. The
ministry claims that Karn allowed
chemicals from his field to erode onto ad-
-jacentlands.
"As this has become a recurring pro-
blem, at least since 1975, aad as of this
date you have failed adequately to control
this erosion, our office has recommended
that legal proceedings be initiated," the
letter stated.
Kam could be held responsible for any
damages that resulted from the alleged
chemical erosion.
At a county council meeting Wednesday
councillors decided not to bill Kam if im-
provements he made to the soil erosion
problem were sufficient.
Coun. Walt -
Wilsnn said Kern
about
ear throve :. �'-
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Council
public
nmittee
to what
menu
nade in
avoid WALT
farmeedings er. WILSON
heavy rains in June,4he coun-
1,093 cleaning the roadside,
ditch near Karn's property.
is insurance company has
dity claiming. Kam has done
ng in cultivating his land and
n on it.
Down said he couldn't see
!,0W in legal fees to collect
Soldier still looks good Woodstock Bureau
Oxford County restorations foreman Ernie Hunt gives a statue honoring soldier George Leonard a "Rower wash" Wednesday In front of
the Oxford County courthouse In Woodstock. Leonard was killed while serving In the Boer War and the statue was orected in 1904.
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Wishes to Announce the Early Retirement
of
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EXECUTIVE SECRETARY
Mrs. Wood has served the County of Oxford
For Thirty Years
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in heh kmouh
Friday. September 28, 1984
Between 2 oo p m. 8 4:00p. m.
County Council Chambers, Court House, Woodstock. Ontario
Presentation at 3 OOp.m.
On or before Friday. September 21. 1984
County Treasurer's Office. 537-6601
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MPP Dick Treleaven (PC — Oxford) polishes his car promoting Oxford riding Monday. He says the recently painted message
is designed to promote Oxford at every turn and especially at Queen's Park.
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United Press International
The space shuttle Challenger rises on a pillar of flame as it blasts off with Canadian Marc Garneau and six other astronauts aboard
Canada
puts its
Marc
in space
By Juliet O'Neill
CAPE CANAVER4L, Fla. (CP) — The
First space voyage by a Canadian began
with a spectacular launch Friday that
stirred awe and envy among astronaut
Marc Garneau's family, friends and many
other Earth -bound observers.
About 8'h hours later, Canadian partici-
pation in the eight -day mission was high-
lighted for a second time when the Canadi-
an -made robot space arm was used to end a
problem delaying the seven -member
crew's first big job.
As his wife, children, parents, Prime
Minister Brian Mulroney and others spoke
emotionally about the sight of the Challeng-
er space shuttle roaring into orbit in a blaze
of brilliant light, Garneau was adjusting to
his first moments of weightlessness.
Garneau, 35-year-
old naval com-
mander chosen
from among 4,000
Canadians who ap-
plied to go into
space, smiled as he
floated in front of
the camera that
beamed space mis-
sion pictures to the
Kennedy Space
Centre.
About eight hours
after launch, the
seven -member,
crew had difficulty
in its first main job MARC
— launching a ch- GARNEAU
mate -research sat-
ellite with a 15-metre remote -controlled
Canadian -made robot arm.
They missed their fast chance to release
the satellite because solar panels that pro-
duce electricity to run instruments on the
2.5-tonne structure wouldn't open.
But Sally Ride, the astronaut in charge of
the job, eventually succeeded in flicking
them open with the robot Canadarm after
frozen hinges were thawed by the sun.
The satellite was successfully launched
three hours behind schedule over Califor-
nia. It is des" to collect information
about energy now between the Earth and
the sun for up to five years.
Gameau's role during satellite release
was to take video recordings of four targets
on the underside of the solar panels and six
on its base to help in development on Earth
..f „ Canadian space vision vstem.
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By GREG ROTHWELL
of The Sentinel -Review
A Woodstock man faces -a--series
of charges in Montreal, including
two of murder, but has not been charged in the death of a Woodstock
OPP constable and the wounding of another constable from the local
detachment.
Denis Colic. 22, is to be flownto-Mom
ricers from London. Mount Forest and
trbaltoface a. first degree murder charge
Perth County.
in the death of a Montreal policeman
Just prior to giving himself up Colic
Saturday night, a second degree murder
fired two shots inside the Norwich Avenue
6(iarge, in the death of a Montreal man,
home, which police my was normally oc
three charges of attempted murder, four
cupied by a male friend of his. Crane said
of armed robbery and one of kidnapping
the shots "may have just been a parting
after he surrendered to police in this city
gesture."
late Monday afternoon following a lengthy
The police recovered two .357 magnum
standoff. It is not yet known when he will
handguns inside the residence.
be taken to Montreal. Reports he was to be
Colic was alone in the house during the
transported to that city today could not be
standoff, police said.
confirmed.
Crane said a coroner's inquest into the
faces no
death of Const. Ross and Colic's com-
®Colic
charges in Woodstock
patriot will "very likely" be called. "This
at this time and the
is a triune of some magnitude."
:. Ontario Provincial
During the negotiating session Colic had
e!! Police said he did not
asked to talk to his girlfriend. The police
shoot Woodstock OPP
tape-recorded a 'personal message' from
Cons( Jack Ross, 56,
her and played it to Colic over the phone.
or wound Cpl.. Ronald
Crane said the message "contained her
Thompson, 52, of the
Personal feelings for him (Colic).""
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same detachment late
Sunday night outside a
home at 466 Norwich
Ave.
Colic was released
CONSTABLE
from an Alberta prison
JACK BOSS
February 12 of this
year on a mandatory
®supervision
order
after serving two-
thirds of a'31-month
sentence for crimes in
that province.
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A Montreal man, not
yet identified by
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police, who had come
to Woodstock from
Montreal with Colic
uas shot dead outside
the Norwich Avenue
home. Police have not
et confirmed which of
CPL. RON
its officers killed the
THOMPSON
man.
Cpl. Thompson, a 27-year member of the
force, was wounded in the left hand. He
then took a woman, who was exiting the
residence with the man who opened fire on
police, from the area.
Constable Ross and Cpl. Thompson were
involved in a search of city homes in the
Norwich Avenue area Sunday, after a car
driven from Montreal — following the
shootings in that city — was found by two
Woodstock city police constables. on the lot
of College Avenue Secondary School San -
day afternoon.
SHOOTING ERUPTED
They met with a young man in front of
the Norwich Avenue residence. Then the
shooting broke out.
Both officers were Wearing body ar-
mour at the time of the shooting.
Det. Sgt. Bernie Crane, of the OPP
districtheadquarters in London, said:
"However, looking at some of the
wounds" the bullet may have missed the
body armour of the slain officer because of
the position he was in at the time the fatal
shot was fired.
The officers "may have been caught
unawares" Crane said.
FATHER OF FIVE
Const. Ross, a father of five, had been
with the Woodstock detachment for 20
years, and prior to that he served with the
Essex detachment.
.Colic gave himself up to the police at 6
p.m. Monday, nine hours after negotia-
tions began and without shots being fired
by the police.
Crane said Colic was rational during the
standoff.
Woodstock officers were joined by of -
Related stories, photos
see pages 9,10,1 1
Also during the session he asked to
speak with a sister, Sabina Colic, in
Chicago- She was flown to London, and
met with Colic when she, their father,
Ahmed, and Colic's Woodstock girlfriend
were taken to the Woodstock OPP detach-
ment. Colic's mother, Anneliese, was in
Chicago on business.
Crane said at about 11:45 p.m. Sunday
the police heard a shot in the residence
Colic was holed -up in, and for awhile "we
thought we might have had a suicide," but
it was determined early Monday that Colic
was still alive.
The detective sergeant said he had
known Const. Ross for about 2e years. He
called the constable "a dedicated police
officer who was proud of his profession."
"We've lost a brother," Crane said.
MURDER IN MONTREAL
On Saturday night Montreal police Con-
stable Pierre Beaulieu was shot and killed
in that city, and a Montreal man, Giovanni
Dellicoli, 18, who was accompanying the
police in searching for his stolen car, was
also slain. A second Montreal officer, Con-
st. Andre Thibodeau, was fired at but was
not hit. He was treated for shock.
however.
While the police were carrying out the
search Dellicoli spotted three men
pushing his car on a north -end street -
Beaulieu and Thibodeau confronted the
three men. One pulled out a handgun and
disarmed the two officers. One of the men
was a passerby and was helping the other
two push the vehicle.
Six shots were then fired. Beaulieu and
Dellicoli were both killed.
Two of the men fled in the officer's
cruiser and took it to another part of Mon-
treal where they abandoned it.
DRIVING HOME
The two then confronted a Montreal
area man, Gilles de Grandpre,. 60, who
was driving home, jumped intobis car and
drove with de Grandpre to Ontario along
Highway 401.
When the men entered Oxford County
they stopped the car on the 401 near the
Ni th River bridge, about 5:30 a,m, Sun-
day, and ordered de Grandpre to walk into
a nearby cornfield before they took off.
The man later flagged down a
Woodstock OPP cruiser and told him of his
abduction. The man was not hurt in the in-
cident but was shaken op He was flown
tack to Montreal where he was reunited
with his family `Sunday night.
Woodstock residents
shocked by slaying
Pogo 10 The Doily Sentinel�Review, Tues., Oct. 9, 1984
black weekend in Woodstoc
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IN MEMORY OF VICTIMS
Flags in front of the Woodstock OPP detachment were lowered to
half staff Monday following the slaying of Const. Jack Ross and the
wounding of Cpl. Ronald Thompson.
(Staff photo by Margaret Boyd)
CONST. JACK ROSS
Const. J, G. (Jack) Ross, of 115 Fairview Cres., a member of the
Woodstock detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police, was killed
in the line of duty Sunday. lie was 56.
Born in Woodstock, he was a son of Mrs. Gladys Ross and the late
John Gordon Ross and had been with the Ontario Provincial Police
for the last 22 years, 20 of them with the Woodstock detachment,
Ile was a member of Knox Presbyterian Church and a member
,d the Oak Branch of the Masonic Lodge No. 261, Innerkip.
Pons). Ross is survived by his wife, the former Ruth Burton, and
tive children, Steven, Robert, Wendy (Mrs. Scott Zimmer), Kevin
and Nancy, all of Woodstock. Also surviving are a grandchild,
Daniel Ross, his mother, Mrs, Gladys Ross of Woodstock, and a
sister, Mrs. Keith (Joyce) Pearson of Woodstock.
Friends will be received today at the ALP, (Mac) Smith Funeral
)some, 69 Wellington St. N„ Woodstock, The funeral service will be
held Wednesday at 2 p.m, at Knox Presbyterian Church with hurial
en the Anglican cenulerv, Woodstock,
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A SUBDUED Ald. Charlie Tatham expressed shock at the killing of
a Woodstock OPP officer and stressed that something has to be
o" done to protect our officers.
(Staff photo by Ted Rhodes)
DEN IS COLIC, 22, (shown here in a 1978 yearbook photos is to be
flown to Montreal to face a first degree murder charge in the death
of a Montreal policeman Saturday night, a second degree murder
charge in the death of a Montreal man, three charges of attempted
nutrder, four of armed robbery and one of kidnapping after he sur-
rendered to police in this city late Monday afternoon following a
lengthy standoff. It is not yet known when he will betaken to Mon-
treal. Reports he was to be transported to that city today could not
^I be confirmed.
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Bill Davis steps down as premier
TORONTO — Pannier William Davis
shocked his cabinet and opposition parties
poised to contest a provincial election by
announcing Monday he is retiring as leader
of the party he has led to four election
victories since succeeding John Robartsin
February, 1971.
Davis First told his cabinet and then a late
afternoon news conference that he will re
tire as soon as a leadership convention can
be called to elect a successor. lie urged
party president David McFadden to call
the convention by January.
Premier Bill Davis, announcing he will retire after 13 years in office.
i First winners named
for Covey scholarships
The first winners of the Marilou Covey
Memorial Scholarships have been named.
A trust fund was established last year in
Ms Covey's memory shortly after Russian
fighter planes shot down the Korean Air
Imes jumbo jet on which she was a
passenger. The incident claimed 269 lives,
10 of them Canadian.
Ms Covey, a Tillsonburg native, was on
her way to teach languages in the far east
when the attack took place.
The community donated $5,365 to the
trust fund, interest from which will be used
for annual scholarships for local high
school graduates enrolled in modern
languages, or equivalent courses, in a
recognized post secondary educational
institution.
Trustees, headed by Chairman Joe
:-iG;,vanni, met this week to select the
first winners from candidates nominated
Oxford warden urges fund
to honor slain policeman
WOODSTOCK (Bureau) —Oxford Coun-
ty should set up a fund in memory of slain
Constable Jack Russ of the Woodstock OPP
detachment, Warden Charlie Tatham
urged county council Wednesday.
His request was referred to the county's
administration and finance committee for
discussion at its Monday meeting. Tatham
did not suggest an amount.
He said the fund would be administered
by the Ontario Provingtal Police Associ-
ation's No. 2 branch which covers Oxford,
Elgin and Middlesex counties.
Tillsonburg OPP Constable Les Burden,
chairman of the district association, said
later the money would be used to provide
bursarles to help with college and universi-
ty education for the children of police offl-
cers in the district.
Ile called Tatham's request to Initiate the
fund an "absolutely wonderful Idea. It
Study wetl
Oxford County's planning commissioner
Peter Alcheson doesn't know if new pro-
vincial guidelines for the management of
wetlands in Ontario will affect the county's
zoning bylaws but his staff will be prepar-
ing a report on the matter for county coum
cii.
Natural Resources Minister Alan Pope
wants municipalities to look at the
guidelines because they may affect the
way local councils currently look after
would be something to remember Jack for-
ever with." Burden said if the county de-
cides against initiating the fund, the associ-
ation will look at starting one.
Tatham said later he hopes a county -
initiated fund would spark additionaLdona-
tions from individuals. "Jack was an Ox,
ford County man who served our
community with courage, kindness and
common sense," he told council. "His per-
sonal character and professional know-
ledge made him a trusted friend of the
citizens of Oxford County."
Council members stood for a moment of
silence in memory of Ross, whose father, J.
Gordon Ross, was Oxford's warden In 1948.
Tatham said later he wants the fund set up
to show respect for those who are employed
to look after the citizens of the Community.
He said Ross "died looking after its."
ands policy
wetlands such as marshes, bogs and
swamps. Mr. Pope is concerned tiro many
wetland areas are being drained.
"Wetlands are important natural
resources and contribute economic values
to society as well as recreational oppou
tunities to many residents," he said. "The
value of products such as timber, wild rice
and fur is measured in millions of dollars,"
said Mr Pope in his letter to the county.
by Annandale and Glendale high schools.
Selection is based on both academic
standing and citizenship participation.
The Glendale winner is Leslie Kamps,
currently enrolled in modern languages at
Wilfrid Laurier University. Last year at
Glendale she was chosen as the out-
standing female athlete, and was involved
in many school clubs and organizations
during her years there. She was selected
as a Rotary exchange student to Mexico.
Chosen from Annandale was Justina
Wiebe of Straffordville, who graduated as
an Ontario Scholar and was recipient of a
number of under -graduate awards. she is
majoring in English and history at the
University of Toronto. She was active in
school organizations and with Youth
Across Canada for the Mentally Retarded,
and was selected by the Rotary Club to
represent Tillsonburg in the adventure in
citizenship program at Midland-
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put on hold in Oxford
WOODSTOCK (Bureau) — A pro.
posal for Oxford County to develop
plans for construction of a county -
operated waste incinerator drew
little support Wednesday from
county council members.
Council decided to table the pro-
posal from Ingersoll Mayor Doug
Harris until a $30,000 feasibility
study on an energy -from -waste
plant for Oxford is completed. That
report, by a Toronto consultant, is
expected by year's end.
Blandford-Blenheim Township
Mayor Ross Livingston said Har-
ris's proposal is "premature" be-
cause of the feasibility study. He
also said an incinerator would pre-
sent new problems such as meeting
provincial air quality standards.
East Zorra-Tavistock Township
Councillor Nell Hostetler said she
opposes Harris's proposal because
an incinerator would be too expen-
sive. She also said waste inciner-
ation is not refined enough and the
countv'should instead be looking at
recycling.
Harris, who proposed the motion
in an attempt to get county council-
lors thinking about ways of reduc.
ing landfill garbage, said he would
not give up after his incineration
motion was tabled.
He then proposed two other mo-
tions which will be considered by
council Oct. 24. One is for council's
public works committee to hire
someone to organize and submit
plans for construction and -oper-
ation of a separation and bailing
plant to be supervised by county
staff.
The other motion is for the public
works committee to set up a pro-
gram of county -wide recycling
similar to a mandatory program in
Hamburg, N.Y., where officials
boast a participation rate of 98 per
cent among its 11,000 residents.
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Under the Hamburg program
garbage must be separated at the
residents' homes. It is placed at the
curb in separate containers. One
contains glass, bottles and cans, an.
other contains newspapers and the
rest goes in a third container. It is
picked up with specially designed
trailers and bins attached to the
rear of packer trucks.
"I just think it's time to take a
stand," said Harris in proposing the
motions.
Salford site
to be leased
at $60 an acre
While the legal battle over the Salford
landfill site continues the county will rent
Ute land to the Oxford County Soil and
Crop Improvement Association.
A recommendation from the county's
public works committee that the unused
portion of the site be leased to the associa-
tion for a three years at an annual rate of
$60 per tillable acre has been approved by
i Oxford County Council.
"I hale to see the land sit there and do
nothing but I feet we should be proceeding
with development of the site not tying it
up," coun. Joe Pember said.
Public works chairman Ross Livingston
I said the agreement with the association
clearly states that the county can take
over the land at any time.
Coun. Wallis Hammond said the $60 per
tillable acre fee was too low and suggested
for the second and third year the amount
be increased to $100 per tillable acre.
Livingston said the intent of leasing the
230 acre property is to benefit farmers by
showing them what can be done regarding
soil conservation.
A motion presented by Hammond to
raise the fee per tillable acre to $100 for
the second and third year was not sup-
ported by council.
Max MacKay presented
land saver award
An Embro area farmer's efforts in soil
conservation and land management were
recognized Tuesday when Max MacKay
was presented with the 198, land saver
award, presented annually by Oxford
County and Oxford's Men of the Trees.
County Warden Charlie Tatham an.
nounced Mr. MacKay's selection from
among the farmers nominated for the
award during Oxford Corn Harvesting and
Tillage Day events held near Woodstock
Tuesday,
Mr. Tatham said it is important to
recognize residents striving to conserve
the soil to encourage others to practise soil
conservation. "If we look after the land,
it'll look after us."
Mr. MacKay, a cash crop and dairy
farmer, will receive a plaque and a carved
walking stick from the county later this
year for his efforts to develop land
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Lisa Trepanier (left), of Norwich, parsed her crown as Oxford Dairy Princess for 1983.84
onto Allyson Hagerman, 17, of Iturgessville during the judging held Sept. 28 in
Woodstock. With her duties Allyson will visit schools in the county to talk about the dairy
industry and attend milk marketing board meetings. (Staff Photo)
Allyson Hagerman wins
dairy princess title
management techniques on his farm.
Following the announcement of the
award winner, farmers heard agriculture
ministry soil and crop specialist Harvey
Wright urge them to explore new ways to
stop soil erosion through conservation
cropping. He told farmers that erosion
control measures are not the things that
cost them money -- that erosion itself is the
thing that costs.
Marianne VandenHeuvel, a conserva-
tion tillage technician with the Upper
Thames River Conservation Authority,
talked about tillage programs and the con-
servation authority.
Following the speeches, farmers viewed
demonstrations of tillage practices with
primary tillage equipment, demonstra-
tions of soil finishing and reduced tillage
planters. A corn harvesting demonstration
was featured in the morning
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ZORH.i 'I't %%\SHIP itilavor Wallis Hammond and Frank Edgell•
senior rice president of Linion Gas, lit a torch today in Memorial
Park signifying that natural gas has reached the Village of Embro.
Planning grant
for Oxford
A community planning grant of $30.000
has been awarded to the County of Oxford,
Oxford MPP Richard Treleaven announc-
ed last week.
Speaking on behalf of Claude Bennett,
Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing,
Mr. Treleaven said the grant will be used
to prepare community improvement
Policies for all municipalities within the
county.
Community planning grants are design-
ed to encourage municipalities to resolve
land use planning issues to reflect
municipal and economic priorities.
They may also be used for special
studies to develop community improve-
ment policies, to determine the feasibility
of using data processing technology in the
local planting process and to assist in inr
plementing the Planting Act.
BLUES CHASER
The fle:sI 3414rs of a nean a lifts Is itlien the
kids are• old enoµafh to Shovel the driveway
but still too young to drfry the car.
Plowing match West Oxford Township. John Heleniak, the mayor of Norwich, was
Charlie Tatham. Oxford County's warden, proves his skill in the third, and Wilfred Rosenburgh, councillor for East Zorra-
Oxford County plowing match category for township and county of- Tavistock, was fourth. Following closely behind Warden Tatham's
ficials at the proposed Salford landfill site on Saturday. Despite his plow is Bruce Burrill, a director of the plowing match. (Staff
efforts. he placed second behind Wall Wilson, the mayor of South- Photo)
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county's administration and finance com-
mittee Monday that $23,000 has already
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East Zorra-Tavistock Mayor Don McKay
said he could not support the recommenda-
tion.
Tillsonburg Mayor Jean Ferrie pointed
out that $5,000 was cut from the conference
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budget in the 1984 county budget — a more
she couldn't understand when $25,000 had
been set aside for conferences in 1982.
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look good and then have to change them. It
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Slain police officer's widow
wants vote on death penalty
The widow of a Woodstock police officer
slain a week ago wants the members of
parliament and the people of Canada to
have a free vote on capital punishment.
Ruth Ross, wife of OPP Constable Jack
Ross, who was killed a week ago on Sunday
in Woodstock during a standoff with two
fugitives, wants to personally ask Prime
Minister Brian Mulroney for a free vote in
the House of Commons on capital punish-
ment.
Mrs. Ross has asked Premier William
Davis, who attended her husband's funeral
last Wednesday, and Oxford MP Dr. Bruce
Halliday to help her set up a meeting with
the prime minister.
Municipal leaders
demand return
of death penalty
as court option
ORILLIA (Staff) — The growing clamor for
the return of capital punishment became a little
louder Tuesday when resurrection of the death
penalty was strongly endorsed by about 400 mu-
nicipal leaders.
Delegates to the annual conference of the re-
gional and counties section of the Association of
Municipalities of Ontario voted solidly in sup-
port of a resolution asking the federal govern-
ment to bring back capital punishment as an
option in the Canadian Criminal Code.
The resolution had been prepared by the
United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and
Glengarry.
Oxford County Warden Charles Tatham, urg-
ing the delegates to back the resolution, said "I
don't want to hang anybody but I would also like
to think we are going to support the people who
carry out the laws that we propose."
In Southwestern Ontario, the resolution has
also drawn support from Oxford, Middlesex,
Lambton, Perth, Elgin and Brant counties. Kent
County council plans to consider the resolution
shortly.
Recycling proposal
dumped by Oxford
WOODSTOCK (Bureau) — A proposal for Ox-
ford County to set up a county -wide recycling
program as one way to reduce the amount of
trash going into landfill sites was rejected by
county council Wednesday night.
The proposal, introduced by Ingersoll Mayor
Doug Harris, was criticized by some councillors
as being unclear and others argued the county
would have to seek provincial approval to Insti-
tute such a program.
Hams wants council to start doing something
other than burying garbage and suggested the
county should establish a recycling program
similar to one operating In Hamburg, N.Y.,
where officials boast a participation rate of 98
per cent among its II,OOD residents.
Harris, who also lost in his bid to have the
county hire someone to organize and submit
plans for the construction and operation of a
separation and baling plant, wants to get the
county thinking about alternative ways to get rid
of its garbage.
He said the county would be able, under cul•-
rent legislation, to encourage its municipalities
to ppartlelpate In a uniform recycling program or
fafling that, be able to slap restrictions on the
type of garbage going into county -run dumps.
Norwich Councillor Helen Smith credited Har-
ris for trying to do something while others don't
do anything "What do the people here want? i
wish I could figure It out."
Ross petition
made ready
for circulation
Infant tumbles
An infant who fell from a carriage down
a set of steps at Oxford County courthouse
Thursday received only minor injuries.
Robert Zenhenko was walking up the
southeast steps of the courthouse pulling a
carriage containing his daughter, Aman-
da, when the infant fell from the carriage
and down the steps about 1:50 p.m.
Woodstock Ambulance arrived a short
time later and rushed the infant to
Woodstock General Hospital where she
was admitted and later released.
Const. John Green of the Woodstock
police force was the investigating officer.
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Ross memorial
Oxford County council has established a
Jack Rosa Memorial Fund in memory of
,the Woodstock OPP constable killed by a
'gunman Thant vi i weekend.
Management and allocation of the fund
will be under the direction of the Ontario
Provincial Police Association's Number 2
branch, which serves the counties of Ox.
ford, Elgin and Middlesex.
Donations to the memorial fund can be
made at the main branch of the Canadian
Imperial Bank of Commerce. 411 Dundas
St.. Woodstock.
To help initiate the fund the county has
contributed $l,eea.
The fund will be discussed in detail to-
day at a 1:30 p.m, press conference at the
Woodstock OPP detachment.
Disaster fund
To assist the victims of the Sept. 2 tor-
nado in London. Oxford County will con-
tribute $1.000 to the City of London
Disaster Relief Fund.
County calendar
Oxford County council has approved
development of a 64-page county caledar
of events for 1985.
On Wednesday. council endorsed a pro-
posal by Jack Webster, of Topflight Pro-
motional Products Inc., Stratford, to
develop, print and circulate the calendar.
There is no cost involved to the county as
advertising will pay production costs.
Oxford County
agrees to restore
130-year-old jail
By Howard Burns
Woodstock Bureau
WOODSTOCK — Oxford County council
approved in principle Wednesday night a
$1.8-million proposal to restore the vacant
19th-century jail here.
The move gives Simcoe architect C. A.
Ventin permission to complete plans to turn
the 130-year-old jail Into an office building
for Oxford's board of health department.
Council's decision to back the project,
subject to close scrutiny and ministry of
health approval, came after Ventin pre-
sented his Ideas for the building which he
described as structurally sound.
The jail has been the subject of on -again,
off -again wrangling at council for years. At
one point the jail was to be demolished, but
that decision was eventually reversed.
The county alreadyy has assembled some
financing for the p%lect, including a pledge
of $80,000 from the Ontario Heritage Foun-
dation which is involved in preserving heri-
tage work in the province.
Warden Charlie Tatham said he hopes an
additional $20,000 or more will be allocated
by the foundation later,
As well, the county will tap into Its capital
Project reserves to the tune of $1,220,000 to
carry out the project. The remaining
$500,000 would be allocated In the county's
1988 tax levy according to the proposal re-
leased at the council meeting.
. But the approval In principle doesn't
mean construction will soon begin. Ventin
will have to return to council with his final
drawings and plans for the building before
tenders are even called.
At the urging of Ingersoll Mayor Doug
Harris, council members agreed it's impor-
tant that a special county committee keep
them informed of progress on the jail
through monthly updates.
Zorra Mayor Wallis Hammond, who in-
troduced the motion, warned fellow coup
cillors that now Is the time to stop the pro-
ject if they are too concerned with its
estimated cost.
"ff you don't want to do anything, now is
the time to stop it, It can be stopped here
tonight. From here on in, it gets expen-
sive," Hammond said in response to fears:
that council may be moving too quickly, and
giving approval in principle too soon.
Council also learned that the Ontario
ministry of health has agreed to rent space
at the renovated building, amounting to
$1,620,000 over 30 years based on current
market rates.
Ventin told council it would be necessary
to remove fill and deepen the jail's founda-
tion. His early ideas include expansion of
the basement so an addition can be, made to
the jail,
A county, committee has been working
closet y with Ventin since he was hired by
council last December. The county spent
about $$5,000 in 1976 on an architect's study
but it was never acted upon.
Council agreed "ti ilit parking and walk
ways in the jail area would be a separate
issue that would have to he studied later.
Blandfonl-Blenheim Mayor Ross Living-
ston described the proposal as "good and
practical" and a project that will eventual-
ly create jobs.
Warden Charlie Tatham Proclaims
October 20 - 27, 1984
THE WEEK
OF THE CHILD October 31, 1994 THE NORWICH GAZETTE Pie :
Study was to fight drunk driving
By DOREEN HOOVER
The need for compulsory blood and urine
tests and the need for increased education
on drunk driving were offered as ways to
combat the problem during a forum on
drunk driving in Woodstock Monday even-
ing.
James Erskine, former commissioner of
the Ontario Provincial Police and now
head of the Countermeasures Unit under
the Attorney General, addressed the issue
of drunk driving during a meeting of the
Oxford County council's Drinking/Driving
committee at the Oxford County Board of
Education building in Woodstock Monday.
Representatives of service clubs,
volunteer organizations, teachers,
members of student councils, cab owners
and tavern owners were invited to the
forum to let the committee get an idea of
where the community stands on the sub-
ject and to get suggestions of ways to fight
the problem at the local level.
Mr. Erskine said there should be com-
pulsory blood and urine tests so "people
can't continue to hide behind hospital
doors." He said legislation under the new
government should be approved allowing
physicians and police to decide when to
take the samples.
When the federal election was called the
former Liberal government's bill died that
stated police needed a telephonic warrant
from a justice of the peace to do the tests,
he said. Such a law would come into effect
when a suspected drunk driver was in-
jured and unable to give consent to the
tests in the hospital.
Mr. Erskine also suggested
municipalities organize several public
forums on drunk driving and bring in
speakers, use films and invite the public to
listen, view and discuss the problem to in-
crease the awareness of drunk driving and
the need for some action.
There is also a need for increased educa-
tion on the issue to school children. "I don't
think you can start early enough in the
schools" in educating students on drunk
driving, he said.
Education must be provided for the
older as well as the young so they have the
issue "continually on their minds."
Following a videotape presentation
showing the seriousness of the problem,
questions and concerns of members of the
forum were discussed.
A concern was expressed about
"lifestyle" advertising by many beer com-
panies to build expectations of their
viewers by promoting the drinking of beer.
Mr. Erskine said he was against such
advertising and thought beer companies
should spend an equal amount of their
advertising time stressing the drunk driv-
ing problem.
Another problem is the acceptance of
drinking and then driving in our society.
Mr. Erskine said as much concern should
be given to seeing a drunk person getting
into a car as seeing someone with a gun.
There is also a need for courts to use the
full penalties available to them when deal-
ing with drunk driving offenders. "I'm
convinced the average person is more
afraid of being caught or detected rather
than the penalty," he said.
In Ontario last year 1,138 persons were
killed in traffic accidents and 98,850 were
injured. Of these numbers more than 50
per cent of the drivers killed had been
drinking, with 44.2 per cent of those driv-
ing killed being illegally impaired. A fur-
ther 19.4 per cent of drivers involved in
fatal auto accidents and not killed were
proven to be illegally impaired.
Following Mr. Erskine's presentation,
the people present were divided into
groups to gather suggestions on how the
county committee would help handle the
problem at the local level.
Suggestions included having coasters at
bars with cab company telephone numbers
present so those drinking will absorb the
idea of calling a cab, having police make
their presence known at drinking
facilities, invite speakers and show films
at community and service clubs, make
better use of the cable station to spread in-
formation to the public and develop
posters and stickers to make the problem
of drunk driving a constant reminder to
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WOODSTOCK-INGERSOLL, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1984
the public. Other groups suggested service
clubs have the policy of calling a cab for
members and the club pay for it, have a
volunteer service to drive home these peo-
ple who have been drinking, have people
start reporting offences and have non-
alcoholic beverages be stressed instead of
alcohol at various events such as sports.
Another general public meeting of the
county committee will be held Monday,
Jan. 28, to see the progress being made by
the organizations present Monday even-
ing.
The county committee on drinking and
driving was formed in April after county
council received a request from Attorney
General Roy McMurtry.
Indiraira Gandhi
assassinated
Indira's son, Rajiv, sworn in
HULLETIN: NEW DELHI tAPi—Ina swift move to fill thepoliticaltacuum in India.
assassinated Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's son. Rajiv, was'sworn in as the new head
of government today by President-Zail Singh,
ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW DELHI — Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was
assassinated today outside her New Delhi home, mortally wounded in
a barrage of bullets reported fired by her own Sikh bodyguards.
The slaying of the woman who dominated Indian political life for
two decades threatened to plunge the troubled country of 700 million
people into new turmoil.
WILFRE1 CORP
Wilfred It. Corp. 95, of 32 Hope Street
West, Tavistock died Friday at Stratf rd
Geeral Hospital. November 27184
He was born in East Zorra lownshrp on
March 24. 1889. a snrl of (lie lute Issachar
Corp and the former Mary Quell.
He had farmed at Lot 29, Concession 12
East Zorra Township for 20 yearn, moving
to Tavistock in 1929 , � .. ,1 ,. I-
lie was a federal gqovemment'1'ruitand
vegetable inspector for 20 years. He was a
councillor of the village of Tavistock from
1933 1943 iutd served as reeve (1443'AIi).
During. hie term as reeve, he served as
chairman of the oxford County pension
boats. He served on a committee of the
Oxford County plowing association for 25
yearsand at age 79 won lop awards in the
warden'N class in plowmanship,
He's a former assessor of the village of
Tavistock and in 1946 was appointed
justice of the peace, it position he held un-
lit the lime of him death,
lie wag a former member of the
Tavisuxck Agricultural Society, former
secretary lresaurer of SS No. 15 east Zorra
school. a member of the Tavistock lawn
howling club avid had been an avid aup-
porler of local hockey and ball clubs.
lie was a member of the Grace United
Church in Tavistock and was amember of
the board of trustees of the former Zion
E.U.B. Church for 34 years.
He married the former Adeline E, Wet-
tla fifer in East Zorra township on June 9,
1909. She predeceased him in 1971.
Ile- is survived by Iwo daughters, Mrs
Marguerite Wiffen, Tavistock and Mrs.
Bryce tolivel Mack, RH 6, Woodstock,
one sister, Mrs. Carl i Birdie Wettlaufer,
Bottineau,` North Dakota, nine grand-
children, 17 great-grandchildren.
Predecased by brother Frank,
Friends will be received at the Francis
Funeral Home, V Woodstock 51. S.
TuvishgA, Saturday frets 7 to 9 p.m, and
Sunday 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m.
The funeral service will be held Monday
at 2 p.m, at Croce United Church,
Tavistock. The Itev. Norman Morton will
officiate. Interment in Grace United
Donalinux to the Hospital Fail Sick
Children. Toronto, Grace United Church
capital land or the Heart and Stroke Foun-
dation of Ontario would be appreciated,
Too little money
Oxford Counts council has endorsed a
concern expressed by the. Ontario Good
.Roads Association regarding the made-
quacy of municipal road funding.
The county has asked the Ministry of
Transportation and Communications and
provincial cabinet to give early consider n
Lion to the resolution.
Go ahead
Oxford County Coun, Joe Pember wants
the county to proceed with development of
the Salford landfill site.
- At county council's meeting Wednesday.
Pember gave notice that he will ask coup
cil to consider a motion to direct the coun-
ty engineer to start construction of the
site.
The motion will be discussed at council's
next meeting.
Court. John Helemak also gave notice 0
rbotion regarding landfill sites. lie will he
*king council to consider a motion to
direct the county engmeering department
to have studies undertaken to locate an
"environmentally acceptable" landfill
site.
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despite aid plan
KOREM, Ethiopia (Reuter) — Despite a
massive international relief operation, hun-
dreds of Ethiopians are still dying daily In
the northern province of Wollo, many of
them succumbing to starvation and disease
on the road to aid centres, relief officals
say.
Journalists who took a two-day trip to
Wollo province saw thousands of famine -
stricken peasants on the road, walking to
relief centres in search of food.
Some carried their wives, husbands or
children on makeshift stretchers. Others,
too weak to walk, lay by the side of the road,
waiting to die.
The government's Relief and Rehabilita-
tion Commission has estimated that three
consecutive years of drought have afflicted
1.2 million of the province's 3.2 million
peasants and destroyed their way of life.
Wollo is among the worst -bit of provinces
afflicted by a drought which threatens fam-
ine for up to seven million people. Tens of
thousands of the province's people are on
the march, having given up any attempt to
grow crops, commission officials said
Thee are trekking toward places like
Korem, 400 kilometres north of Addis Aba-
ba, where 31,000 drought victims are being
cared for and 18,000 more peasants have set
up scanty shelters awaiting the day when
they or their children will be weak enough
to qualify for assistance.
Yehuwalashet Demerew, the commis-
sion's regional representative, says about
50 to 100 people at Korem die each day,
many of them children too weak to survive
hunger -associated illnesses and the chilling
bight cold at 3,000 metres altitude.
Among the tin -roofed shelters and plastic
tents that make up the "intensive care"
unit at Korem, there is a place called the
orphanage, a cluster of five canvas tents.
Here, scores of children lie, their eyes
protruding from their skulls. Whooping
cough, measles and diarrhea, diseases that
are easily treated in the West, kill at least
20 of them a day, commmission offetals
said.
Some parents, too distressed to watch
their children die, leave them at the or-
pbanage and disappear into the mountains.
Korem attracts drought victims because It
lies at a spot where the three famine -affect-
ed provinces of Wollo, Gondar and Tigray
converge.
In the past 10 days, Western donor coun-
tries and Soviet bloc states have begun an
airlift of emergency supplies, including
plastic sheeting to improvise tents. But it
has not yet reached Korem or other drought
centres such as Makalle and Batt.
External Affairs Minister Joe Clark ar-
rived in Addis Ababa on a fact-finding
mission.
An external affairs department official in
Ottawa says Clark will confer with govern-
ment officials and thoseinvolved in provid-
ing food aid to starving Ethiopians.
The spokesman says Clark stopped in Ad-
dis Ababa after attending the cremation of
Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in
New Deihl on Saturday. He's expected back
in Ottawa today.
Canada provides aid to Ethiopia through
-the Canadian International Development
Agency.
BLUES CHASER
Celebrity: Someone who works all his lift
to become famous enough to be recognized
. and then wears dark glasses so nobod.i
will know who he is.
County archives proposal
to be considered by group
The Oxford County Archives Group will
be discussing a preliminary proposal for a
county archives at the next meeting of the
group on November 27.
The proposal, in the form of a research
paper, was written by Sheila Johnson, the
new curator at the Oxford Museum. The
paper was written as her thesis for a
course held at the Public Archives of
Canada in Ottawa during September and
will be distributed to all members of the
archives group,
Members of the group represent
libraries, museums, archives, local ar-
chitectural conservation advisory boards
and historical and genealogical societies in
Oxford.
The long range goal of the group is to
eventually come up with a propnaw
suitablefor presentation to county cour,cit
said Beth Boss, chairman of thearrJavW
group. But before a proposal is pr®sented
to the county regarding a county archives.
a feasibility study will have to be done and
costs outlined,
The group has decided to jointly apply
for Summer Canaria Works and other
grants to carry out the study. The group
believes if itapplies for a larger grant and
splits it among the various groups in-
volved, it will have a better chance of
getting funding.
Computer eases registry operation
WOODSTOCK (Bureau) — A new
computer system is making life
easier at the land registry office
here.
The prototype computers and
specially designed maps make the
Woodstock office the first of its kind
in Ontario to radically modernize
its services, ministry of consumer
CBC visits Oxford farm, Campus
to give Parenting a rural outlook
WOODSTOCK (Bureau)-- Television interview-
er Joyce Davidson and a CBC camera crew stopped
here Monday to get the "rural perspective" for a
show on parenting.
Davidson, producer Michael Scott and others as-
soclated With the filming of Parenting, visited the
farm business management school at the Famhawe
College eam as near here and later drove to a dairy
operation where she conducted interviews.
Parenting Is a relatively new show that provides
tips and information on bringing up children.
Davidson and Scott said they made the trip partly
because response to the show has indicated many
viewers In rural areas and small urban centres
have become loyal fans of Parenting since Its first
broadcast in October.
Davidson, who described the show as a "cornuco-
pia of Ideas" on parenting, said the program ap-
pears to have filled a gap and has generated more
letters from viewers than its creators predictod.
"It's a hit."
She: talked with odueators, second -year students
in the farm business school and farmers about their
thoughts on family life and parenting in rural Arens.
Dovidson and crew members drove to John K,en-
nedv',s dnlry'farnt at Oxford Centre where a grnup
of farm business managementstudents had
gathered.
She also inlesvle�. ed C:eorge Klo+ler, co-a•dlnator
of the farm busiiwsis program in Oxford County.
The show will be broadcast before Christmas,
Scott said.
and commercial relations commu-
nications officer Suzanne Beabien
said Friday from Toronto.
Under the new Province of Ontar-
io Land Registration and Informa-
tion System, all records will be
transferred to microfilm or micro-
fiche to make it faster and easier to
trace property titles and register
documents with the province.
In Flanders Fields
In Flanders Fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie -
In Flanders Fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders Fields.
John McCrae
ohn McCrae memorial at Guelph.
THE igs4 Oxford County Land Saver Award was also received an engraved walking stick from
presented to Max MacKay (centre) of Embro by Ken Bullen on behalf of the Oxford Men of the
Oxford County Warden Charlie Tatham (right) Trees Association.
yesterday at a county council meeting: MacKay ?Staff photo rty Alison Downie)
Embro area dairyman Max MacKay
honored for erosion control efforts
WOODSTOCK (Bureau) — Embro area farm-
er Max MacKay received the 1984 land saver
award Wednesday from Oxford County for his
efforts to control soil erosion.
Warden Charlie Tatham resented MacKay
with an engraved plaque and Woodstock Alder-
man Ken Bullen awarded him a carved walking
stick from Oxford Men' Of The Trees during a
council meeting here.
The land saver award is presented annually to
recognize accomplishments in soil conservation
and land management.
In accepting the award, MacKay briefly out -
tined some of his farming practices and said he
can't remember when he wasn't concerned with
what crops the family should grow and what
tillage methods were best to minimize soil erso-
lion at his dairy and cash crop operation.
MacKay, who has only fall plowed on experi-
mental plots in the last 15 years, plants wheat
after harvesting ensilage and grain corn to give
fields winter protection from erosion.
He also alternates his dairy feeding program
to make greater use of legumes to help keep
larger areas of his farm in cover crop and also
has worked on modifying a conservation plant-
er.
"In other areas of conservation, we maintain
about 15 per cent of our farm in unpastured
woodlot as well as planting young trees in some
very steep areas," MacKay said.
Here in Oxford County we have some of the
most productive soils and climatic conditions in
Canada. Let us take care of them for future
generations," he said.
County ottenng
top planning post
to Ingersoll native
After sifting through
about
unt apphca- this month to
Planner for the accept
of Brnntfion as chief
tions for the job, Y,
new planning commissioner. . ---
has chosen a
During a private session following coun-
cil's meeting Wednestia�y it was decided to
offer the positton toKen Whiteford, :is.
who is presently the director of planning
for the neighboring county of Perth
Born in Ingersoll, Whiteford has been
head of the Perth planning department
since 1975..Before that he headed the plan-
ning department in Grey County.
His duties in Oxford will also include se-
ung. as eecretary-treasurer to the land
division committee.
According to Coun.. Ed Down, who
choirs the county planning committee and
who sat on the hiring committee,
Whiteford will begin his new duties Jan. 2.
'rhe county's Former planning commis-
sioner Peter Atcheauan left oxford earlier
Oxford gets
planner
from Perth
'I HE FAMILY
By Hit Keane
"It's easy to quit smokin' cigarettes. You
just take it out of your mouth!"
BLUES CHASER
flow come those subscription cards in
magazines can travel across the country by
mail and then fall out on the floor the min-
ute you pick the magazine up?
Oxford County plans study
of garbage recycling project
WOODSTOCK (Bureau) — Ox-
ford County council asked its public
works committee Wednesday to in-
vestigate the chances of establish-
ing a garbag. recycling program.
The proposal to have the public
works committee study the issue
came from East Zorra-Tavistock
Councillor Nell Hostetler who said
the recycling option can't be prop-
erly assessed until all the latest
facts have been presented.
Woodstock Councillor Les Cook
asked the committee to make sure
reports are prepared `tin house" by
county staff members so the addi-
tional cost of a consultant can be
avoided.
"Before we can implement it (re-
cycling) we have to see if it's feasi-
ble," Hostetler told council in intro-
ducfng her motion. "there is a
whole host of questions we need to
address."
Oxford ponders
extra $310,000
it didn't spend
WOODSTOCK (Bureau) — Money that
Oxford County council set aside for devel-
opment of the Salford landfill, a new phone
system and other projects totalling $310,000
won't be spent by the end of the year, its
administration and finance committee
learned Monday.
Committee members agreed to meet
Dec. 3 to discuss the fate of those proposed
expenditures.
In a financial report to the committee,
treasurer Howard Day said $100,000 for de-
velopment of the proposed landfill near Sal-
ford, $75,000 for hydro hearings, $80,000 on
restoration of the county jail, $20,000 for a
new phone system and $35,00o for a roofin##,,
project at Woodingford Lodge are 1984 bud-
get leftovers,
Development of the Salford landfill is be-
ing challenged in the courts by a citizens'
group and South-West Oxford Township.
The money for hydro hearings was set
aside in case the county got more involved
in its fight against a proposed transmission
line along Highway 401, which has been
temporarily stalled by a divisional court
ruling.
Council has just granted approval in prin-
ciple for the county jail project and ques-
tions remain about its financing. The new
phone system project and Woodingford's
roofing project were not approved.
The report also shows that the county has
about $4.6 million In reserve accounts for
upcoming projects.
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Oxford County councillors question
cost of restoring vacant county jail
1Yl?O�IIS°I'()CK (Burenul — Ox-
ford t9tittnlyatay be blundering Into
spgntiiltsi��E too moth moneyy an resto-
ratbtniDffdre vaetml jail barn, East
Gard �avistock Mayor Dop Itfcliay
�akt tllednesday.
Les, Jean a month after county
Cot Opted to approve in princi-
ple a $1.8•million proposal to re -
.tore the 10th-century jail, ques-
tions about its financing and future
revenue surfaced at a council
session.
McKay doubted whether local
taxes should be used to help finance
the project and charged the county
was trying to play developer by
turrtiog the jail into an office build-
ing torollect rent. He said the coun-
ty wajl lntially led to believe that
senior government grants would be
available'to holp'offset the cost but
he now doubts that's the case.
McKay said later the county may
be blundering into the project with
too many questions unanswered.
"We're paying too much for hurl.
tags."
He voted against the motion Oct.
24 which gave an architect permis-
sion to proceed with his plans sub -
Joel to approvals and close
scrutiny.
Ingersoll Mayor Doug Harris
wanted to know how much the coun-
ty has spent on the proposal and
Tillsonburg Mayor Jean Ferric
asked that a clear picture be pre-
pared on how much money the
county will receive from the prow.
ince through rental payments.
Under current plans, the jail is to
be used by Oxford's board of health
and its home tare service depart-
ment with the ministry of health
agreeing to pay a set amount in
rent.
A financial statement released by
the county last month %aid Oxford
would receive a projected $1.8 mil-
lion in rent from the province over
20 years, based on current market
rates, almost enough to cover the
restoration costs,
Warden Charlie Tatham said the
county isseeking more money from
the Ontario Heritage Foundation
which has tentatively pledged
$80,000 toward the project.
Ingersoll Councillor Jack Warden
said he is getting worriod about the
financing and wondered if council
wouldn't find later it would have
been wiser not to tackle the ambi-
tious project. '
Woodstock Councillor Joe
Pember said he is ,annoyed at the
province for pushing the impor-
tance of preserving heritage but re-
fusing to financially assist munici-
palities. But over-all, he said, the
jail project was sound. "I think,
economically, it's viable for the
county to do it. It makes perfect
sense to proceed,
Brandford-Alenbelm Mayor Ross
Livingston conceded the country
would have to spend some money to
preserve heritage and get a good
office building as art of the pro
jest. lle said the jail will'be restored
with room to expand, hinting that
more space may be available for
rent. Ile said the praposat is a sensl-
ble solution that should end the on-
going wrangling over the fate of the
130-year-old jail
At one time, council decided to
tear it down but that decision was
reversed.
Woodstock Councillor Lenore
Young asked that no one lose sight
of the fact the restored building
Would bring honor to Oxford for
years to come and help create an
administrative square that would
be "second to none" in the
province.
Highway 403 extension to Princeton Road opens
Blinking light moves —
'and so does traffic
MUST HAVE BEEN A TOUGH RIBBON
Ontario Transportation and Communications Minister
James Snow (third from right) had plenty of help to cut
the ribbon to officially open the portion of Highway 403
between Rest Acres Road and Brant County Road 25 on
Friday. Among the people who took part in the ceremonq
were Oxford riding MPP Dick Treleaven, Brant -Oxford-
Norfolk MPP Robert Nixon, Brantford MPP Phil Gillies,
New advisor
Oxford County's clerk Harold Walls will
sit an a special Fanshowe College
Committee.
On Monday, the county's administration
and finance committee nominated Watt;
as Oxford'srepresentative on the business
program cluster advisory committee,
which covers the areas of management
studies, office and administrative studies,
marketing and hospitality.
Committee member are appointed for
three years.
Woodstock Mayor Wendy Calder, Brantford Mayor
David Neumann, Oxford County Warden Charlie
Tatham, Brant County Warden Mabel Dougherty, Rev.
David Steadman of Princeton United Church and Jim
Percy, MTC district engineer.
(Staff photo by Rill Scriven )
Retiring
Oxford Counly's weed Inspetor Burruce
McAllister is retiring at the end of this
month.
in recognition of his 16 years service to
the county lie will be honored at county
council's Dec. 12 meeting.
Extension
may help
Woodstock
PRINCETON — The extension of
Highway 40.3 westerly from Rest Acres
Road to Brant County Road 26 brings it
one step closer to its final destination,
Highway 4o1.
And municipal officials in Woodstock
feel the final link to one of the busiest
highways in the country will pave the way
towards much -needed industrial growth
for the municipality.
"We live in the
very hub of
southwestern On-
tario and we've
always said (in the
City of Woodstodtl
.hat the transporta-
tion components
make the city very
attractive." said
Mavor Wendy
Calder prior to
yesterday's official
t)t:fit)) opening. "This (403
CALDER extension) adds to,
the attractiveness
of the cite for
industry -
Mayor Calder said she understood com-
pletion of Highway 403 to Highway 401
would be completed sometime in 1985,
likely late in the year. In the 1984-85 con-
struction list of the Ministry of Transpor-
tation and Communications, the opening
of Highway 4ti3 to the travelling pubile bet-
ween Rest Acres Road and Highway 53 is
scheduledto take place in 1985.
Ontario Transportation and Com-
munications Minister James Snow said
the opening of the 403 to Princeton Road
would result in less commercial traffic on
Highway 2, thus reducing noise levels for
residents living along the highway.
Snow said completion of the extension
remains one of his ministry's "highest
priorities."
Brant -Oxford -Norfolk MPP Robert Nix -
"a. noting that Highway 2 had -stood up
very well" since its original design by
Governor John Graves Simeoe in 1893,
suggested the highway be tamed "Gover-
nor's Road, right from Dundas to Detroit"
in recognition of its historical background,
Oxford riding iuPP Dick Treleaven, who
thanked Snow for keeping the 4W project
on schedule after persistent "bugging by
myself and Phil Gillies tBrantford
MPP)," said despite financial restraints
encountered by MTC, he predicts the ex-
tension of Highway 403 to Hiigghway M
(Eastwood [load) will take .,pi_ace. neat
summer,
Oxford County Warden Charlie Tatham
seemed to put things into perspective
when he annount'e& "the next time the
Hamilton Tiger -Cats play in the Grey ILp
citizens of Oxford County can driverigftt
down 403 to the stadium." Than he added:
„The 403 will be built tewmpleted) long j
before the Grey Cup will be played in
Hamilton."
As many of the invited guests drove east
on Highway 4w, several property owners
along the way could be seen peering front
tractors and homes, for it was the first
time they'd seen traffic move along the
new highway. In a prepared speech, Stow
said the alignment of the 4W was drawn
with special attention W p�porty boun-
daries.. -We were. able to minimhe the
necimity for severance by placing the
rightof.wav akew back lot -lined wherever
Officials to take
`garbage trip'
WOODSTOCK (Bureau) — Warden
Charlie Tatham and other Oxford County
officials plan a trip to Hamburg, N.Y.,
next Thursday to see how that community
handles part of Its garbage,
Hamburg has a mandatory system of
recycling garbage and officials there boast
a participation rate of 98 per cent, Tatham
said after a county public works commit-
tee meeting Thursday.
In Hamburg, garbage must be separat-
ed before it is set out for pickup in special
containers for glass products and
newspapers.
"If you don't separate It, they don't pick
up your garbage," said Tatham, who is
organizing the trip so he can judge for
himself how effective the Hamburg oper-
ation is.
County council has asked its public
works committee to investigate recycling
options.
Watch For Our
TUES., DEC, 4th,10 A.M._til 9 P.M.
BLANDFORD SQUARE MALL
COUNTr Or OXFORD
PUBLIC NOTICE
The County of Oxford has approved the
design recommendations for Oxford Coun-
ty Road 9, Charles Street East from Halls
Creek easterly to East Town limit, Ingersoll.
A copy of the Draft "Environmental Study
Report," dated November 14, 1984 is on
file at the following locations:
County of Oxford Clerk's Office, Court House,
Woodstock.
County Engineer's Office, Court House, Wood
stock.
Town of Ingersoll, Municipal Offices, Ingersoll
Ingersoll Branch of the Oxford County Public
Library, Ingersoll
This Draft Report documents the rationale
for the improvements, the alternatives con-
sidered. the environmental assessment of
the various alternatives, the evaluation and
the recommendation. Anyone wishing to
review the Draft Report is invited to do so
at any of the above locations during normal
business hours. It would be appreciated if
written comments could be submitted be-
fore December 21 , 1984 Comments con-
cerning the Draft Report should be address-
ed to Stewart J. Watts, P Eng., Construc-
tion and Design Engineer, County of Oxford
at P O. Box 397, Woodstock, Ontario.
A notice advising of the filing of the "Final
Environmental Study Report" will be plac-
ed in this newspaper just prior to
construction
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Brandt warns county
to delay dump work
Oxford County should not proceed with
the Salford landfill site until the legal
dispute over the dump is settled, Environ-
ment Minister Andy Brandt warned last
Thursday.
"We don't need the situation any more
complicated than it is now," Mr. Brandt
said.
Woodstock Alderman Joe Pember is to
propose at Wednesday's county council
meeting that construction of the Salford
dump proceed, even though South-West
Oxford Township is taking the province to
court over cabinet's approval of the site.
Mr. Brandt said his advice is to remain
patient and that development does not
have to proceed on the dump during the
next short while to have it ready two years
from now. The county's major landfill site
at Holbrook is scheduled to close at the end
of June, 1986.
HERMAN/by Jim Unger
.,--A
"It's still wobbling."
Heads planning
committee
Norwich Township Councillor -at -large
Helen Smith was appointed chairman of
the Oxford County Planning Committee
beginning Dec. 1.
Because appointments for chairman are
for one-year periods, Councillor -at -large
Smith knew she would be taking over the
duties and has been preparing for it, she
said. "I'm looking forward to it. It is quite
a responsibility."
Oxford should avoid making moves
while the legal procedure continues, Mr.
Brandt said.
Oxford MPP Dick Treleaven said
neither Mr. Pember nor county council has
consulted him about the landfill problems.
In a related matter, Oxford warden
Charlie Tatham and other county officials
plan to go to Hamburg, New York on
Thursday to see how that community
handles its garbage.
Mr. Tatham said last week that Ham-
burg's mandatory system of recycling gar-
bage is reported to have a participation
rate of 98 per cent.
If garbage there isn't separated, it isn't
picked up, Mr. Tatham said.
County council has directed its public
works committee to examine recycling
possibilities.
Oxford to start work
on Salford landfill site
'despite legal hurdles
By Howard Burns
1 Woodstock Bureau
WOODSTOCK — Oxford County
council voted Wednesday night to
start construction of the controver-
sial Salford landfill site despite stiff
legal challenges.
By a 12-6 vote, council agreed it
was time to forge ahead with plans
to develop the landfill near the
farming community of Salford in
South-West Oxford Township.
The county already has been
1 awarded a certificate of approval to
build at Salford and contends the
legal wrangling really involves the
township and the province, not Ox-
ford.
The township is taking the prov-
Ince to court over cabinet's approv-
al of the site and in the meantime
EDDY — At his residence on
Saturday November 24.
1984, Edward P. Eddy of 560
Durham Crescent.
Woodstock, In his 851h year.
Beloved husband of the late
Dell W Murray (1 981). Father
of the late Robert (1932) and
the late Arthur (19811 Father
In-law of Mrs: Mary Eddy of
Woodstock. Loving grand -
rather of Bill land his wife Dorn
Ila), Gordon and his wife Deb-
bie), all of R R 3 Woodstock.
and Mrs Peter (Elizabeth)
retail Of Ottawa Also sufviv.
Ing are ten grant
grandchildren, brothers Alvin
and Bill, both of Brantford.
Russell of Scotland, Ontailo
and a slader Mrs. Lila Galoland
of Brantford Friends will be
received 2 - 4:30 and 7 9
p.m Monday at the M. D
(Mac) Smith Funeral Horne. 69
Wallington Street North,
Woodstock, where (tie tomcat
aervlce will be held 1,30 p in
Tuesday November 27 with In-
terment In the Congregational
Cemetery. Burford
the county is running out of place.;
to put its garbage with its last ma
jor landfill at Holbrook set to close
by the end of June in 1996.
Earlier attempts by the county w
speed up the legal process haven't
worked and an ongoing dispute be.
tween the township and the prov-
ince over the discovery procedure
is the stumbling block now.
In introducing his hotly debated
motion to begin construction. Wood
stock Councillor Joe Pember ar
gued the County has too much at
stake to turn back at this stage and
look elsewhere.
Ile said it took the United States
less time to put a man on the moon
than It has taken. Oxford to bur%
garbage in the ground.
Pember said his motion was in
tended to get the issue back in the
courts, likely in the form of art in-
junction against the county to stop
its work at the site.
By proceeding with construction
the county is almost certainly going
to find itself in court facing town-
ship lawyers seeking an injunction.
Pember said.
But at least one councillor. Inger-
soll Mayor Doug Harris, said he
had fears that the. only result of
moving equipment onto the site was
another court case, increased fric
tion and more delays.
"I think it's time we developed
the landfill site that we have been
given the right todo, " said Pember
"I'm representing 86,000 people -
that I think are entitled to have thiz,
issue resolved."
He also argued that the count%
and its taxpayers are entitled under
Canada's new constitution to a fair
andspeedy trial.
Woodstock Councillor Phil Poole,
who supported the motion, said part
luf the problem was the public's per
-
ieption of g landfill site as just an
other plure to dump ,carba Ke.
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Oxford volunteers honored.
with 34 bicentennial medals
TUESDAY_ DECEMBER 4. 1°£t-I
Gas lean in India
worst on record,
1,000 feared dead
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BHOPAL, India — As many as
1,000 people, mostly children, are
feared dead from the poisonous
gas leak at a U.S.-built pesticide
plant in Bhopal, doctors said to-
day, calling the incident the
worst such disaster on record.
Authorities said 600 bodies had
been found, and police teams
were searching for more in
Bhopal and nearby towns today
as relatives flocked to mass
burials and cremations in the
central Indian city of 895,000
people.
Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi told
reporters after a tour of the stricken city
that his government in future will not
allow production of "dangerous" material
in heavily populated areas. "There will be
an overall government policy change," he
said.
The doctors, working at Bhopal's
Hamedia Hospital, said the accident was
expected to cause severe long -run health
problems to the estimated 20,000
townspeople who are suffering from gas
inhalation.
Dr. Parveen Chaudhury said there was
a danger that the survivors may lose their
eyesight. Surviving women may not be
able to have children, he said.
Another doctor, S. K.Trivedi, said the
gas inhalation may also cause blood cir-
culation problems.
Authorities, meanwhile, ordered the
Union Carbide Corp. to pay compensation
to the victims.
SAYSCOMPANY
DANBURY, Conn. CAP) — Union Car-
bide Corp., which has halted shipment and
production of the poisonous pas that killed
as many as 1,000 people after a leak at an
Indian pesticide plant, says it has sent of-
ficials to India and has. begun discussing
compensation for victims-:
By early today. Indian officials said the
death toll had passed 900 with most of the
victims being children. Thousands of
others were injured in the leak of methyl
isocyanate in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh
state.
A doctor and a technical team sent Mon-
day to help investigate the leak was to
reach the plant today, Union Carbide of-
ficials said.
-We really don't know what happened,"
Jackson Browning. corporate director of
health, safety and environmental affairs,
said at a news conference Monday at com-
pany headquarters in Danbury.
Increasing
county rate
for mileage
Oxford County staff and council
members will be getting more money per
kilometre if a recommendation from the
administration and finance committee
gets county council approval.
The increase of one cent per kilometre,
retroactive to the start of this year, will
keep rates in line with union and non -union
county employees.
Treasurer Howard Day told the commit-
tee at its meeting Monday that settlements
with the Ontario Nurses Association and
Canadian Union of Public Employees rais-
cd mileage rates from 21 cents to 22 cents
per milometre, retroactive to January 1,
1984.
The committee agreed that to be fair,
rates should be the same for union and
non -union county employees.
THE FAMILY CIRCTiS,,
Foundation boosts
restoration grant
WOODSTOCK (Bureau) — Ox-
ford County Warden Charlie
Tatham received word Thursday
the Ontario Heritage Foundation
has agreed to allocate an additional
$60,000 for restoration of the 19th
century jail here.
That means the foundation has
pledged $140,000 toward the $1.8-
million expansion and restoration
project, which has been approved
in principle by county council.
Tatham was pleased because he
hadn't expected that much. From
the start, the county was hoping the
foundation would contribute about
$100,000. "I think it's an indication
of the importance of the structure."
The money will be used to reduce
the county's share of the cost.
Parking spots
Oxford County's public works commit-
tee has been asked to look at the parking
problem around the county courthouse
and report back to council early in the new
year.
Some councillors said the problem is not
with lack of parking but with lack of
management. Coun. Joe Pember said
parking closest to the courthouse should
not be reserved for staff but rather for
members of the public. He said staff
should park in the Graham Street lot
across from the courthouse.
Coun. Phil Poole suggested a gate be
placed at the entrance to the courthouse
lot to stop unauthorized vehicles from us-
ing it.
With the county jail renovation project
in the. works council wants to straighten
out the problem before even more cars
start using the area.
By Bil Keane
"I like our paper at home better. I know
where to find the comics."
around oxford
Handed plaque
Burnice McAllister, who has retired as
Oxford Count,y's weed inspector, was
�)resented with a plaque in appreciation of
is years of service at county council',
meeting Wednesday.
Hundreds of volunteers acrtmsthe pro-
vince, including 34 from Oxford County,
were honored on Sunday with the presenta-
tion of bicentennial medals and cer-
tificates-
More than 200 spectators -- family and
friends of the recipients — packed, the
supreme court room in the Oxford County
courthouse in Woodstock Sunday—rt ling
w as London South MPP Gordon Walker,
who is the province's justice secretary,
and Oxford MPP Dick Treleaven made the
presentations. " .
"There are hundreds of thousands of
them (volunteers) throughout this pro -
vine," Mr. Walker said. "Most of the time
they go about their work quietly. without
fanfare or thought of recognition or
reward."
But he said the work they do leaves its
mark on all of us. "We can see the results
of volunteerism wherever we look."
Mr. Walker told the crowd that the com-
munities across Ontario could not have
been built or function as well as they do to-
day without volunteers and their generous
pirit of giving and caring.
During this bicentennial year of the pro-
vince, "we pay tribute not only to dates but
to the experience that has molded the
character of Ontario. Community service
is a pillar of that strong and vibrant
character." he said.
On Sunday, in 30 ceremonies across the
province, 1,984 medals were presented to
people whose names were putforward by
their communities as those who best il-
lustrate the ideals of community
volunteerism and community service.
"Today's recipients are truly represen-
tative of the hundreds of thousands of
other volunteers who share our apprecia-
tion for their valuable service." Mr.
Walker said.
He said the bicentennial medal, a special
issue struck by the Royal Canadian Mint
using a layer of pure gold on a nickel base,
is a fitting symbol of the immensely
valuable work contributed by volunteers.
The following are the Oxford Count+
recipients of the bicentennial medal:
OSFORDCOUNTY
RECIPIENTS
Roy Beechey, Tilisonburg; Ed Bennett.
Woodstock; Helen Beynon, Ingersoll:
Kathleen E. Caffyn, RR 5. ,Ingersoll:
William Chesney, RR 2, Innerkip: Rev.
John Davies, Woodstock: Jean Davis, Ot-
terville; John Dingwall. Lakeside: Don
Engel, Woodstock; Bruce Gibson, Tillsore
burg; Linda Hammond, RR 1. Mount
Elgin; Shirley Hanlon; Tavistoek; George
Herron, Woodstock; Fred Hartley, Nor-
wich; J.C. Herbert, Ingersoll; John
liofstetter, RR 1, Plattsville; Helen
Hossack, Woodstock, (formerly Embro):
William Knowles, Woodstock; Dr. John
Lawson, Ingersoll: Carl Littlejohns, RR 1,
Innerkip; Dave MacKenzie, Woodstock:
Madge Montgomery, Tillsonburg; Charles
Munro, RR 1, Embro; Clarence Neeb,
Tavistock; Bert Newman, Tillsonburg:
Greg Peppier, Tillsonburg; Edna Pipe,
RR 2, Drumbo; Mary Richardson,
Woodstock, (formerly Oxford Centre),
Jean.Sedgwick, Woodstock; George Sim-
mons, Woodstock; Dora Sykes,
Brownsville; Hector VerhOeve. Tillson-
burg; William E. Wallace, RR 4, Inger-
soll; and Gordon Wiseman, RR 1.
W,xnist(wk
Forget the incinerator -
it's resource recovery
consultant tells council
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Some of Oxford Cuunty's garbage could
be. turned into fuel if. a resource recovery,
Plant . was established, a consultant told
county councillors Wednesday.
The county is paying Derek Wilson
about W.000 to study incineration, energy
from waste and resource recovery
systems to cut down on the amount of gar-
bage that has to be buried at landfill sites.
In his interim report Wilson advised the
county against building an energy from
waste incinerator, which could cost as
much as $14 million.
An energy from waste plant would be
capable of providing electric or steam
Power. Wilson said it would be a gamble to
build this type of plant because although
it's technically feasible the county lacks a
major steam consumer.
Earlier it had been suggested the Oxford
Regional Centre fORC1 might be in
terested in the steam for heating in winter
and electric power in the summer. But the
Ministry of Health will not commit to an
energy from waste project. The income to
be gained from electric power generation
would be relatively low anyway. Wilson
said.
SORTING WASTE
He said the county should consider a
resource recovery plant capable of
mechanically sorting solid waste and pro-
ducing a good grade of solid fuel from
refuse. The cost of this type of plant would
be between $6 and gs million, Wilson said.
The plant could be used to recover
marketable products like cardboard,
paper and iron. Separating equipment for
glass and aluminum is expected to be
designed in the near future, Wilson said.
The fuel from the refuse would be in the
form of pellets or small bricks and shipped
to users by truck or rail. The most suitable
user, Wilson said would be a coal burning
facility in Oxford, which uses a cement
k [In. Wilson said Canada Cement Lafarge,
located on Highway 2 west of Woodstock,
has agreed to co-operate if the county goes
ahead with the project.
`The system would be developed on pro-
ven equipment with great care being paid
to working conditions and esthetics,"
Wilson said. "A resource recovery plant is
3quite compatible with any plans that area
'_,municipahties make with respect to
source separation,"
'l1 Good transportation facilities would
have to be a major consideration in choos-
ing a site for the plant, Wilson said. He has
suggested the southern part of the county
would be better because major centres
like Tillsonburg and Woodstock are
fixated there.
403 contract
The granular base and hot mix paving
contract for Highway 403 from Oxford
t'ounty Road 14 easterly for 10.3
kilometres has been awarded.
The Ontario Ministry of Transportation
and Communications awarded the con-
tract to Cox Construction Ltd. of Guelph at
a cost of $2,927.243. It's the follow-up work
to a previous grading and structure pro
,lect and will complete this particular me -
lion of the highway,
Work is scheduled to begin in April. 1985.
with completion set for early fall
Next week the public works committee
will be asked to let the consultant proceed
further with preliminary work on a
resource recovery plant. That will include
investigating government grants, review-
ing the status of environmental approval
for such a plant and meeting with area
nwnicipa lit Ica to discuss the proposal -
Debentures
Burgess Graham Securities Limited has
been authorized to proceed with the sale of
debentures totalling more than $1.6
million on behalf of municipalities in Ox-
ford County.
County council approved the sale with a
bylaw Wednesday after being told the
debentures will carry an interest rate of
12.365 per cent. John Hughes of Burgess
Graham said the market is similar to what
it was last year when the county issued
debentures. He said an order has been
secured from a large insurance company
in the United States.
The sale will be dated Dec. 14.
Oxford's
dump plan
labelled
reckless
WOODSTOCK (Bureau) — Ox-
ford County's decision to proceed
with construction of the Salford
landfill site is a reckless and costly
move, a Toronto lawyer involved in
the case said Friday.
County council decided Nov. 28 to
start construction of the site despite
outstanding legal challenges by
South-West Oxford Township and a
group of Salford area ratepayers.
David Estrin, solicitor for the
township, said he is reviewing "po-
tential remedies" to counter Ox-
ford's move and warned that appro-
priate legal action will be taken
soon. lie wouldn't be specific.
"We're obviously not very
pleased. We think the county has
acted rather recklessly because
any money they spend on this could
well be illegally spent. It's a rather
poor investment to do it at this
time."
The township is taking the Ontar-
io government to court over cabi-
net's 1983 approval of the site and 29
property owners in the Salford area
have launched a separate lawsuit
against the county and the pruv-
lnce.
The cabinet ruling gave the coun-
ty permission to go ahead with the
Safford plan, overturning an earlier
joint board decision that was based
on a 60 day public hearing.
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OTTAWA .CP — Jusuee John Crosbie uurodueeti Ciinunal code amend-
ments in the Commons on Wednesrcu> to crack down on drunk driving and computer
crime and to abolish powerful sear, h warrants known as writs of assistance,
But he dropped sections of the massive old Liberal bill dealing
with prestitution, pornography, hate literature, contempt of court
and sentencing reform, at least until his next Criminal Code
amendment bill is ready in January or February.
Crosbie told a news conference he had hoped to have the first
''r series of amendments passed before Parlikment's Christmas
recess begins Fridav, but now concedes "it's a bit much" to
expect.
I would have liked to have had it passed before Christmas, but
1 think people drink not just at Christmas," he said.
- ` The drunk -driving provisions provides stiffer penalties for
JQHN drunk driving, including automatic bans on driving. The ban
C'JOHN' would last three months on a first conviction but courts would
have the power to impose a lifetime ban for repeat offenders.
The legislation would also create two new offences to punish those whokill or injure
others after drinking and driving — dangerous or impaired driving causing death or
causing bodily harm.
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City, county may be in pilot project
Computer awes councillors
By AIISON DOWNIE
of The Sawfinel-Review
City and county officials who travelled
to Queen's Park to get a first-hand look at
a new computer system that can
dramatically reduce the time it lake to
find information and prepare maps for
muncipalities were impressed by what
they saw.
"The. 21st century is here already,"
Warden Charlie Tatham said in an
interview.
The warden said he was very impressed
with what he and 19 other staff members
and politicians saw.
Oxford County and the City of
Woodstock have an opportunity to par-
THE FAMILY CIRCUS , By Bil Keane
"Grandma said she was gonna DRESS the
turkey. Did she forget?"
ticipate in a pilot project with the
Ministries of Health, Natural Resources
and Municipal Affairs and Housing for a
computerized land related information
system.
with the new system traditional drafting
tolls might possibly become obsolete.
They would be replaced by a computer
system that could store information which
would be readily available — not buried in
a file drawer, `Harden Tatham said. Map-
ping information is stored electronically
and can be produced on paper by
automatic plotting devices.
INCREDIBLE TIME SAVER
Elizabeth Ottaway, a county planner.
has estimated that a map that would nor-
mally take one or two people five or six
weeks to do can be date in about 20
minutes using the system.
The cost of introducing the system
would be $610,000. Of that, Oxfordand
Woodstock would be asked to contribute
S75,000 each, over a three-year period.
County officials are looking into the
ongoing costs required to keep it in opera-
tion, a question that will surely be asked
when county council is deciding whether
or not to take part in the pilot project -
More than 35 municipalities wanted to
take part but this area was chosen partly
because computers have alreadv been in-
troduced at the county's land registry of-
fice in Woodstock. The land registry
system will provide property information
to form the basic structure of the new in-
formation system. Mississauga and Cam-
bridge have also been asked to take part
-
-IL will take time to evolve." Warden
Tatham said. "First you have to put all the
information in the system. Once it's in
then we can build on it. But we have a
chance to get in on the cutting edge of this.
When you consider how much the province
will contribute it will be hard saying no, It
could benefit us down the road greatly-"
Frustration over garbage continues to plague county
p ILIfDM /gMNiE --
ef roe 5eA1101-6a+io.
Interesting and frustrating are the
words Warden Charlie Tatham uses to
-describe the type of year 1 %4 has been for
Oxford County.
Frustrating is
about the only word
that ooWd be used
to describe the
county ongoing
garbage problems, `:.!3
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"we have to con-
tinue to try to find a
method and means
of reducing our ...'�
prow good{ to
landfill sites,' the C HAKIJF-
Wardmmid. T.ATHAM
A complex lawsuit continued to stall the
county's plan to open a landfill site near
Salford. With all the other landfill sites in
the county set to close by 19M the county is
facing great pressure. south -West Oxford
Township is takingthe county and the pro-
vince to court over the decision to open the
Salford site.
Some basic work is being done in Safford
and although it hasn't happened yet South-
West Oxford Township is expected to get a
court injunction to stop work.
NO INCINERATOR
Advice from consultant Derek Wilson
was well taken and the county won't at-
tempt to build an incinerator. But some
sort of a recycling program looks promis•
ing. Warden Tatham and fellow coun
cillors visited Homburg, New York, about
a month ago to see a successfully
operating program. Inggersoll council has
since decided to inlrnduce a similar pro-
gram and other municipalities in the coun-
ty are anxiously waiting to see how it goes.
One of the most notable ac-
complishments of county council in 1904
was the decision to go ahead with the $1.9
million Oxford County jail renovation pro-
ject, which should be completed in 19M,
"It's going to be a nice looking cour-
thouse square when it's finished," Warden
Tatham said, "It will be paid for in 25
years and then the community will make
revenue off the building. We went from
one extreme to another because a few
years ago there was a resolution to tear
the fail down and turn it, into a parking
lot.'
Parking problems still exist in the
square but council plans to address those
problems early in IN5.
SOIL, MANAGEMENT
A concern of county councils in the past
has been soil erosion and Warden Tatham
said every year there is more and more
awareness in the community regarding
soil conservation.
"It was a difficult year because of rairs
so there was a fair amount of erosion," he
said. "The importance of soil manage-
ment became even more important."
The county's 1984 soil saver award went
to Max McKay.
Economically the county fared
reasonably well, the warden said. Welfare
rolls were down and some companies; like
Firestone and Kelsey Hayes, even expand-
ed their businesses.
The new extension of Highway 403
should benefit the area, he said, Oxford is
close to the 401 and other highways as well
as railways and airports which makes it a
good location for industries.
"We've also got a goat work force here
and that's desirable for industries."
Looking to the future, Warden Tatham
said he hopes the garbage issue can be
resolved in 1985 but he's not holding his
breath.
WORKABLE IDEAS
"We'd be happy to hear from anyone
who has good workable ideas," he said.
"We'll do everything we can to resolve the
issue but we know some people aren't go.
ing to be overjoyed no matter what we
decide."
In the coming year Oxford County has to
do everything possible to make sure
Tillsonburg has land available for in
dustrial development. As the hub of the
southern part of the county Tillsonburg
has had some problems with the tobacco
industry which is not as strong or vibrant
as it used to be. More people are trying to
find jots in the town itself, he said
"Oxford has to work together on in
dustrial development." he said. "We have
to if we want to compete agamist places
like Cambridge, Windsor and Toronto."
Going into the last year of his term be
said he has enjoyed fits work as head of
county council.
"In order to achieve you have to
persevere, it's not ahvays easy." he said
I've enjoyed working with the people
from around the county to try to ac-
complish goals and help build a better
community."
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