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Wednesday, August 15, 2012 1937 - 2012 · Celebrating 75 Years Orono Weekly Times - 3 ORONO WEEKLY TIMES LOCAL NEWS LOCAL EVENTS OPINION Continued from pg 2 dust accumulates inside my house, like never before, because no house is air tight. The brick on my house, the screens, windows, outdoor furniture, my plants, my ornaments, my vehicle, my grass, my trees, everything--- is covered in this horrible filth. Inside my home with everything shut up, the consistent noise, the heat and humidity, the stale air and the confinement is constricting and upsetting to the point where I have to leave, to get any peace. I can't sit on my beautiful deck, my patio, walk on my land, play with or keep my pets outside, where they prefer to be, or invite anyone here to visit, only to subject them to this same, awful, distracting, humiliating, hampering, violating situation. I can't hang a load of laundry out and I don't have a dryer. There isn't a bird in sight. I must endure the eyes of hundreds of truck drivers, during the day who still occasionally jump out of their LOCAL SPORTS Keeping you in touch with everything local since 1937! 905-983-5301 trucks to urinate on the ground along with the site staff who mosey on over my way and also do so at will. Even were I to try to ignore the noise and the lack of privacy, the danger of breathing that dust is frightening. How dangerous is it? I have no privacy, unless I stay inside, away from the windows. I feel like a prisoner in my own home!!! Rural home owners beware!!! I have requested over and over and over for a water truck to run on the site road, to keep the dust down but even when it does rarely appear, it often passes through without spreading water, It only adds more noise, disruption and invasion. I have also, repeatedly complained about the truck drivers removing the tarps from their trucks, as soon as they enter the site but that continues, randomly, to this day. I have had to tolerate backhoe drivers, who run back and forth, grading the interior site road and even dumping bucket loads of water, from God knows where, who look into my living room window and who cause me to feel on display inside my house. The trucks drive directly toward my living room window, since my living room is in the back of my house and the interior site road faces it, on an angle. I can no longer be in my living room, during the day, during the week, without feeling uncomfortable exposed and imposed upon. And now, in order to contain a DOG........ a dog.......the exit gate at the fill site is being kept closed, so now ALL vehicles, hundreds of them, every week day must enter and exit on the driveway beside and in front of..........my home. A dog...... takes precedent. A dog!!! Someone needs to put a stop to this. I, nor anyone who represents me, has the power to prevent these permits being issued. There is no public input allowed, which makes the entire process biased against me. Why, after all of the time, (this is the third permit and each one has been issued for one year), and after the patience and the pleading and phone calling and emailing and picture taking that I have put into this, have I not been heard? If I did this to one of my neighbours do you think I'd get away with it? It seems to me that simply because I am one person, being subjected, for the most part, alone, to these violations of my rights that I do not count. A DOG..... gets more consideration and protection than I do. I wish every citizen reading this would make me count, make sure all rural residents are counted and considered and protected from future, similar experiences. I wish every person reading this would make a difference by phoning and writing to the Ganaraska Region Conservation Authority, to their Mayor, to their Councillors, to the Ministry of the Environment, to as many government agencies and political representatives in as many offices as possible, on and offline and demand an end to this assault. Otherwise, I guess the DOG gets to take precedence. Looking Back... Gleaned from past editions of the Orono Weekly Times 25 Years Ago... An Orono man, John Hendry, will represent Ontario and the Canada Transport Group in the Canadian Trucking Association National Rodeo scheduled to be held in Toronto on September 12th. Hendry earned the honour by finishing first among 135 competitors at the Ontario Truck Roadeo Association provincial competition held recently inKingston. Hendry is an employee of Can-Truck Transportation Ltd. In Oshawa who will now complete against representatives from other provinces. 50 Years Ago.... A fire alarm was received by the Orono Fire Department on Monday evening shortly after seven o'clock. The call was to the barn of Mr. C. Knox on Mill Street in the north of the village. Smoke was seen coming from the building and the call to the fire department was sent out. On arriving at the barn the firemen entered to find that a large compressor which operates a cold storage plant in the barn was over-heated and smoking. The barn was completely filled with the smoke. Other than the compressor, no damage was done. Mr. Knox stores meat for his minks at the plant in the barn. 75 Years Ago... Up until two years ago about every time Tom Cowan came out of his house to join the daily neighbour lawn talks on Park St., he would look up at the weather vane on his barn and say "the late Tom Waddell used to say when the wind blows from the southeast it may rain, but when the wind blows from the southwest it must rain", but last summer and this past six weeks have exploded that weather prophecy. At the lawn conference last Saturday we were all talking about the need for rain and Tom got to telling us about his uncle the late William Cowan that used to farm near Clarke church. He said, "you know the tenth of June is as late as any good farmer plants turnips but that many years ago his uncle William planted his turnips in the usual planting season and owing to the very dry time they didn't come up, so on the tenth of July he reworked the ground and planted them over again. His Uncle Willliam was a very loyal Orangeman and Tom says his uncle told him that the beating of the drums on the 12th of July always brought rain, anyway it rained that 12th and his uncle's turnips were up on the 13th and he harvested one of the best turnip crops ever grown in Clarke Township that fall. Believe it or not'. Topm did not go to see the fortune teller when she was here so he isn't superstitious but has suggested if we could get George Cowan and Charlie Brown to beat a couple of those 12th of July drums for a spell that Orono might get a good rain.