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8-Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, July 13, '1988 Good for what ails you on a hot day The Orono swimming pool at the Orono Park is just the recipe for those hot days and the kids from the local community was taking advantage advantage of the pool on Friday of last week. The wading pool was also crammed crammed with youngsters. parents. » They propose that the, parents, town and school board share in the planning and development of the community schools. Community schools contain larger recreational facilties and library services. Man gets six months for Nursing Home fraud The son of a former Newcastle pursing home owner has been sentenced to six months in jail for bilking the home of over $50,000. Stanley Wisemqn, 37 of Toronto, pleaded guilty in Whitby court to two counts of fraud over $1,000. Payroll cheques from the now defunct South Haven Nursing Home, were made out to Wiseman under fictitous names between January 1985 and March 1986 stated the prosecutor. During some of the time that Wiseman was receiving cheques, he was serving a sentence in Millhaven Penitentiary for other unrealted fraud crimes, said the prosecutor. Plans for new Plainvill school unveiled ^ Toronto architect, Marilyn Ypres, has referred to plans for a new $1.9 Plainville Public School, as like a "village square" where a large two-storey lunch room and library acts as the hub of the school. The school is being designed to house some 250 students which have bedn accommodated by two classrooms and ten portables for the past few years. A large gymnasium is also included included in the plans. Ypres recently completed completed plans for the Courtice School and one in Kingston. Oshawa looses Slo-pitch complex , The City of Oshawa has lost out on a private development of a Slo- pitch facility for the city. City council was shocked to learn last week that the representative of Slo-Pitch Enterprises Inc. could not raise the $7.5 million required for ' the Oshawa scheme. Incineration no panacea by Kate Sutherland and Jenny Fraser Since the early 1970s, more than 300 towns and cities across North American have killed two birds with one stona by building energy from waste plants--high tech monsters which devour mountains of unwanted unwanted garbage and churn out cheap energy. With the cost of dumping garbage garbage skyrocketing, and as many communities just plain run out of landfill sites, energy from waste schemes are gaining added appeal. But high capital costs, greater awareness of the environmental dangers in burning municipal refuse, and strong public support for alternative waste management strategies are forcing municipalities to look again. The refuse problem is a time bomb ticking away ominously in communities across Canada, as rising rising environmental standards and public opposition thwart new landfill landfill sites for the two kilograms of solid waste produced daily for every person in the country. But the landfill crisis municipalities now face-while a long time coming-were not as major major a factor a decade ago. Instead, the driving force behind the early enthusiasm for energy from waste (EFW) was its potential to substitute for fossil fuels. Energy-poor ' Ontario-anxious for_ home-grown .fuel-was the first ' province to bake the garbage-to- •gold scheme with a 1980 EFW program program designed to spawn an industry able to stand alone. But the industry industry did not blossom in Ontario, or elsewhere in Canada, even with federal grants for up to 20 perceht of capital.costs. The chief reason was economics : compared to falling energy costs, EFW was too expensive. "We used to expect EFW plants to recover two-thirds of their costs from energy sales," recalls Carmen Chisamore, 'a force behind the Ontario Ontario Minstry of Energy's EFW program, program, who remembers' when everyone agreed that oil was bound to hit $60-$70 a barrel by the 1 mid-1990s. - "But EFW is becoming once more a viable option as landfill prices soar. Increased dumping fees in the past several years have more than compensated for the decline in energy prices," he adds, noting that the typical EFW champion now touts waste reduction-not-energy- as its raison d'etre. Though burning garbage reduces its volume by up to 90%-greatly extending the life of existing landfill sites-federal government studies suggest the EFW makes economic sense only for larger municipalities able to bear thé capital costs, and only then if they suffer from high landfill costs. While for these municipalities the economics may seem attractive, other aspects of EFW make it less so. Concerns about the environmental environmental and health effects of EFW emissions-including acid gases and such toxic pollutants as lead, cadmium, cadmium, mercury, and dioxins-are mounting. Citizens' groups have opposed every plant that has been proposed, forcing lengthy reviews for project proposals in cities like Toronto, London and Brampton. The municipalities of Nanaimo, B.C.: Guelph, Halt on, Kingston and Peel, with EFW projects at various stages of development, can expect the same treatment. Environmentalists like Pollution Probe's Thomas Rahn are not impressed impressed with the state-of-the-art technology used to control pollution pollution in new EFW plants. "Emission standards are set in accordance with the best technology available, not by looking at effects on health and on the food chain," he says. "EFW plants duhip a whole range of pollutants into the air, and the ash from incinerators is so contaminated with heavy metals that it has to be classified as hazardous hazardous waste. Energy from waste plants just turn a waste managemnet problem into a hazardous hazardous ' waste problem and an air pollution problem." Pressure from environmental groups for greater caution on the EFW front--coupled with the near- universal citizens demand that governments "consider .all the alternatives" alternatives" in ■ managing - waste-has forced municipalities across the „ country back to the drawing board. The result has been renewed interest in innovative, environmentally sound, low-tech ways to reduce the size of the garbage mountain communities communities have to Contend with. EFW, no longer seen as a panacea, has become but one tool in the waste management kit bag- , one that is unlikely to be used much as pressure from citizens concerned about the environment grows in the future. Year-round RIDE program financed Port Hope has joined the fight to - get drunk drivers off the road. The Town has received a $25,000 grant from the province for the RIDE program,, Reduce Impaired Driving Everywhere). T{ie program is a two year pro- gratfi rather than only on holidays. From Around Region George Hees plans tp run again George Hees, M.P. for Northumberland, Northumberland, states president Tony Beauchamp, of the Northumberland Northumberland Propgressive Conservative Conservative Association, will be a candidate candidate in the next federal election expected this fall or early spring 1989. Beauchamp states that all indication indication leads to Hees being a candidate. candidate. Alderville Reserve set for a business boom Less than six months following a study of the Alderville First Nation economic potential a local businessman is off the mark with a development. Construction is nearing completion completion on a gas bar and variety store. Service will be on a twenty-four hour basis and will include a bait shop, video room along with overnight overnight camping. Joanne Crowe, co-ordinator of the three-part development plan has applauded the work to this date and points to other plans that could take place in the economic development of the reserve. Allan Lawrence states Canadians will decide the Free Trade issue Allan Lawrence states Canadians will get their chance to speak out on Free Trade when the country goes to the polls in the next federal election. election. Lawrence states that Free Trade will be the issue in the election election campaign. Lawrence will not be running in the election but states he would gladly run on the issue. Would expel tigers, pit bulls and snakes A ' by-law expelling Siberian Tigers, pit bull terriers and poisonous snakes has received two readings in Percy Township. If the by-law should pass anyone controverting controverting the by-law by keeping any of the above would be liable to a fine of $2,000. Parent group seek community schools , Two parent groups in Whitby have asked the Durham Board of Education to consider giving Whitby Whitby parents a hand in running community community schools. Two schools irtpar- ticular are being considered by the CARPENTER FOR HIRE ... ALL ASPECTS OF CARPENTRY Specializing in Industrial and Residential Renovations Reasonable Rates - Free Estimates GARIE TONY 1-579-5703 1-436-9212 EXCAVATING CONTRACTORS FRASER-MACK LIMITED ALL TYPES OF EXCAVATING Back-Filling and Grading ■ Trenching contact MIKE SAWYER Business Phone 416-683-4212 Home Phone 983-9837 TER-RICK CONTRACTING REPLACEMENT WINDOWS and DOORS SOLID VINYL*SIDING ORONO MOBILE 983-5724 434-0493 Authorized Dealer « . 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