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The Acton F ee Press Wednesday March 21 Hydro favors overhead wires Almost half Erin twp for Kv transmission lines population aged 2059 Using many of the people participation techniques by Bruce Howlett a somewhat chastened group of officials from Ontario Hydro outlined intentions for a rightof way for a transmission from the Bruce generating station to about ISO people at Monday night The meeting was called by Hydro to get residents views on the location of routes within the study area which encompasses Erin and townships and parts of Western Ontario The route starts at the Bruce generating station on Lake Huron and goes to the Kitchener and Georgetown areas from there The Hydro men told the meeting that public opinion would not dictate where the power corridors would go that was Hydro decision and only it could bear the responsibility However It was the Intention of the Hydro study to determine a location for the lines which protects the environmental and property interests of local communities To achieve these goals Hydro hopes to get maximum public participation In both the study and the route to be followed The 3O0O4quare mile study area Is first studied by the forestry department for an environmental analysis and then the physical profile of the study area Is distributed to municipal officials Interested groups and individuals who will be asked to evaluate the environmental factors Based on this information and public participation alternative corridors will be marked out further discussed with communities until finally the best route Identified taking ell factors into consideration MRS RICK SYMMES inspects a map of the Jt hydro study area at Mondays meeting in resultant study by Bruce Howlett for the wuT be overhead and nol Mrs Symmes is a member of the underground as some suggested committee and actively associated at Monday meeting They told residents of the area that tney required a reactor station Art Moaner chairman of the Underground cables can be out underground wiring was both every five miles which took impractical and too costly more than an acre of Hydro officials said It was 30 another official claimed times as costly to go underground as it was to go overhead on a Kv line and 12 times more costly with a line They estimated It would cost times Most of the people In Erin from to years of age and 7 to 1 In the ten year span and township range in age from to years and over out of a total the age group has gained figures In the township official population of 4 two and a ball per cent going plan reveal Percentages of the various age from per cent of the total There are under five groups have changed greatest In population in to In under fl from Another Interesting statistic Is the acreage of census farms In over four per cent while They have declined from in to age group has risen from to acres In 1971 years of 435 teens from to 19 while lie between and The township has 292 residents Public health nurses should be in schools opinion underground wiring Is not free of environmental damage He estimated it would cost about six billion dollars to run the lines from Bruce to the east west corridor a figure which brought Rick Symmes of the Coalition of Concerned Citizens to his feet with the question Have you called for a quote Symmes later told the Free Press he thought hydro officials J were glossing things over too lightly in some instances where new techniques were being developed He believes underground Is more practical than Hydro admits and thinks current studies will bear his suppositions out The Hydro people figured that the controversial Pickering to corridor would likely Public health nurses should do be known in about five weeks their fair share in Halton County The survey being conducted on High Schools more that line by Bruce Inc is input than what Is currently the expected to be finished In April case Director of Education Jim Field questions Singleton told the County the high schools Hydro officials fielded Board of Education at a meeting attendants The interrupted Thursday night explained the boards went Into oily by a coffee break and it was Singleton indicated the public the health business about obvious the new citizen participation were being rigidly observed Among the Issues discussed were the leasing and purchasing of land by Hydro possible tax increases the devaluation of homes and other uses for the power corridors The biggest laugh of the evening was provided by one official who said a study concluded the hydro corridors had no effects on the economic values of homes A roar of derisive laughter swept the room before the official concluded the study was again under review words that partly mollified the crowd Hydro officials denied there would be any TV or radio reception difficulties near the high voltage lines but If there they said it would be corrected at Hydro expense Medical problems health nurses In the county spend only an hour or so per week in the schools and have no rapport with staff or students The board employs and a half nurses in director OPP report three collisions Coles Photc When confronted with author views from Mr The Ontario Provincial Police Hornby Saturday reported damage was done to a vehicle operated by Douglas Garrett of Willow St Acton when it left the road In slippery weather and collided with a tree on 25 Highway south of Acton early Saturday morning There were no injuries The same day two snowmobiles collided on the First Line Esquesing south of and Newman 22 of R R Acton received minor injuries Neither snowmobile was years ago when there was a real shortage of public health nurses That shortage of nurses has gone now and the county has a full complement Gel grant said the Board of Health gets a per capita grant to look alter the needs of the students in the health field He told the board that if the Board of Health saw fit to provide perhaps half time service In the schools the Board of Education could cons going half way and splitting the current cost of a year At Singletons suggestion the board agreed to open negotiations the Board of Health in an effort to provide better service by the Health Unit passenger In At a recent Board of Health Dale meeting members suggested they be wdllng to take over up meeting said there was also a of repair from six to eight days land problem with repairing lines he claimed lightning can break when they were underground service and contrary to popular underground wiring for a Kv line Underground Installations also Impractical because township council briefs At the regular meeting March 5 Erin township council Sixth line of Erin about the damaged in the collision Drivers possible illeffects of the lines on were John Newman 34 R people with circulatory and heart Acton and Glenna Connor 36 of conditions Hydro people said 4 Acton they would take the problem back Minor injuries were received to the director of medical by Tessia services Mr said it had been proven that the study area DANGEROUS Boys live more dangerously than girls The Industrial Ac cident Prevention Association reports that out of nearly child pedestrian deaths about 300 or per cent were boys Passed a motion to pay of the Grand River Can levy with remaining Received a letter from the Acton Fire Area regarding the possible acquisition of a 15 000 tank truck equipped with radio and portable catch basin to prevent instances where fires involve total loss because of water shortage Council agreed to a meeting to discuss the matter further Was informed of a Land Use Conference at the Waterloo Motor Inn March 21 Reeve Lloyd Lang will attend Dedded against moving the headstones from the cemetery on HYDRO officials wrote the property of Mrs Lena Hatch to build a cairn in the Graham cemetery Reeve Lang suggested that instead the land be deeded to the municipality who would then look after the care and upkeep as are most of the other small cemeteries in the township Received a letter from the Baptist Church asking council Inform them In the event that the township intends to sell the lot behind the church as they would like to purchase It for parking space It was decided to let the church have first chance to buy It If it goes up for sale Was informed the membership fee for the Guelph and Suburban Planning Board would be up 8200 from last year imonstrated effect on be havior and was damaging to cer tain health conditions One official admitted employees exposed to lines continuously are rotated to avoid contamination but the general public would not be exposed to that intensity Towers for the proposed corridor would stretch out at foot intervals or approximately five to the mile wires have a foot clearance between them and vegetation One point that brought astonishment was the estimated area required for transmission stations acres It was explained the sites of these would not be settled until the location of the corridors was decided and the Georgetown one could possibly be as tar north as HUlsburgh Hydro officials continually questions fromthTcrmvcTm insisted the corridor would make and called In Dr Young a it difference to agricultural local veterinarian who advised large sheets in a new pursu except in Instances the dog appeared to be rabid and technique evolved as part of where farms were cut up ordered It destroyed The public participation in piecemeal and then in many constable the dog deciding the route Of hydro cases they would purchase the As of Tuesday of this week transmission lines entire property Some individuals police had no definite word on H Coles Photo etner or not the Rabies is suspected A dog suspected of being rabid was shot by police In the area west of Campbenvffle one day last week and tests are being conducted by the provincial ministry of health to determine if the dog actually was suffering from the disease Police said the dog may have come in contact with some school children and If it Is proven to be rabid further action may have to be taken The dog appeared to be Injured and a resident called Milton on Tuesday afternoon of last week Const John Hicks of the thought the animal looked vehicle driven by of R R Hornby when It struck a hydro pole health services in the school collision occurred on Highway providing the Board of Education at the Sixth Line and would transfer the funds as well caused in damages as the responsibility Caroline Flower Garden Centre South Sidcaf Hiahw Cut Flowers Potted Plants Funeral Arrangements Corsages Etc OPEN DAYS PER WEEK Always a good supply of FRESH CUT FLOWERS WE WIRE Caroline Flower Garden Centre Acton ng Two Miles West of Acton South Side of Highway Phone 2980 doubts rabid GUARD solicits written support Discussed a registered letter to Mr and Mrs Mel Whitney which was unclaimed and returned to township office The letter 1972 and dog taxes Reeve Lang asked council if the letter should be given to the police to deliver adding that the police were supposed to go last year but they must have got nervous Was informed and Erin were designated as under- serviced for an additional physician at a Department of Health meeting on February meaning that a doctor who establishes practice in the area could apply to the ministry for financial support Learned of change meeting April IS over the Consumer Gas rate Met with propertyowners Bruce Ismond and George Sanders who wanted their whole concession designated a gravel area in the official plan After much discussion Reeve Lang said council would have to consult the planner as It seemed to him designating the under diacussionf side road north to Highway east of Town Line a gravel area would constitute a change in the Official Plan He also suggested getting a definition of the Niagara non Escarpment Area to see if that was affected Reeve Lang also commented that be was surprised at the lack of the written support of such groups as Women Institutes bunt dubs conservation author ities health authorities 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