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Children age 6 to 12 are welcome to attend, with children under six welcome if they are accompanied by an adult. Topics will include the wonders of nature and activiâ€" ties will include games, songs, stories and crafts. If you‘re an outdoor loving kid, Bronte Creek Provincial Park has a new program designed just for you. The Junior Naturalist program will offer sessions every Wednesday between July 14th and August 18th between 2 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. from the Visitor Centre. Nature Inte prete r Stuart Feth and Bronte mascot Betty the Bee show two turtles to Bradley and Connor Graham Callmg all young naturalists A Metroland Community Newspaper kts. _ Vol. 32 No. 81 "Canada s B. artmm@ /Vém;o@aef CCNA Beffer Newspapers Competition 1993 _ WE‘RE PROUD TO BE CANADIAN Bronte Creek is located north of the QEW between Oakville and Burlington. It is open daily between 8 a.m. and 10 p.m. Entrance fee is $8 per family; $1.25 per person ages 6 to 17 years, $2.50 per person age 18 years and over and half price for Ontario seniors and persons with disabilities. Children will learn about weather, geology, animal adaptions and food chains. Hikes and pond studies will also be included and the program is free once you have paid your park admission. The sulphur has already killed vegetation in the area. If left unchecked, it will contaminate the soil and effect microâ€"organisms and fish and eventually end up in the lake. If the sulphur dries to a powder, it becomes an airborne irritant. Even before the Ford and (See ‘Ford‘ page 5) Blast furnace byâ€"product blamed for sulphur contamination in creeks The _ Ministry _ of _ the Environment (MOE) sanctions the use of slag in place of gravel in roads, a practice employed in the construction of a perimeter road and parking lot at Ford. On Monday, however, a HRCA staff member onâ€"site for permit inspecâ€" tions discovered yellow leachate and a rotten egg smell in drainage ditches and the three waterways which traverse the property: Morrison, Wedgewood and Joshua Creeks. The source, said Stephen, was sulphurâ€"laden slag. "In retrospect it would have been far better that this material had never seen the light of day," said Stephen. "This gives us more ammunition that the government has to regulate (slag‘s) use more closely." On Monday, leachate from the blast furnace byâ€"product used in the construction of roads around Ford of Canada was discovered in three waterways near the plant. Following on the heels of a simiâ€" lar incident two weeks ago at the QEWâ€"Highway 403 project near Brant Street in Burlington, Monday‘s find has HRCA general manager Murray Stephen deeply concerned. recycled slag. By HOWARD MOZEL Oakville Beaver Staff HRCA seeks ban on recycled slag in road construction â€" he second instance of sulphur contamination in as many weeks has the Halton Region Conservation Authority (HRCA) pushing hard for a moratorium on Paper SUNDAY, JULY 10, 1994 Munn ‘‘s principal moves on to new challenges Canadian Publications Mail Productâ€"Agreement #435â€"201 SPECIAL SUPPLEMENTS Food City, Kmart, Canadian Tire, Biway, AP, No Frills, Aikenhead, Longo‘s 100% Government Guaranteed Strip Coupons Maturing in 2004 Mark Slipp (416) 359â€"4633 24 Pages 75 Cents (GST included) 10.53% *Rates subject to change Fond farewell Page 3 338â€"6550 24 Hour Sales Representatives BIG ON SERVICE