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ee ------ @\ > Peter Stubbins Peter Stubbins is taking an active role in Simcoe Waste Management Association the preservation of the environment in making a pitch for a waste-reduction Tiny Township. Stubbins, a_physio- therapist, is seen here at a recent North 30-year-old therapist fights for environment Tiny Township resident and political activist Peter Stubbins is somewhat of a local environmental crusader. The 30-year-old physical therapist has lived in Tiny for two years now, and in that time has run for municipal council and pioneered two _political- activist groups: the South Shore Waste Reduction Group and the Tiny Natural Heritage Foundation. Both groups have among their goals the protection of the natural environment. One, the Tiny Natural Heritage Foundation, ex- ists only to serve Tiny Township; the other, the South Shore Waste Reduc- tion Group, encourages recycling and other alter- native methods of waste disposal among com- munities on the south shore of Georgian Bay. This group is supported, financially by the North Simcoe Waste Manage- ment Association, the political council in charge of waste disposal. For Stubbins his full-time job, his involvement with the Green Party and his work in several communi- ty groups are all indica- tions of his concern for the protection of the 100,000 acres of land, two major river systems, 65 miles of shoreline, inland lakes, swamps, creeks and uni- que plant life in Tiny Township. "There is an overwhelm- ing need for protection of all these things in Tiny Township," said Stubbins, who lost his bid for a coun- cil seat in the last municipal election by "a wide margin."' His plat- form was based on en- vironmental issues. Lately, he was approach- ed to run as a provincial- election candidate by the Green Party, a party which has its roots in the Greenpeace environmental activist movement (although the party is strongest in Western Europe and especially the heavily industrialized country of West Germany.) Stubbins says he declined the offer because he would like to focus on municipal politics. "There is so much to do here in Tiny Township" without getting involved in the rest of the province's problems, he said. He felt he would be "spreading myself too thin" by tackl- ing another project. Although the two lobby groups he is involved with both advocate environmen- tal protection, they steer clear of any political affilia- tion. However, Stubbins and another member of the Page 12, Tuesday, August 11, 1987 group he helped form. South Shore group have appeared before the NSWMA and received $400 in funding to get that group off the ground. The groups also steer clear of advocating a cer- tain site for the next North Simcoe waste dump. That issue is burning fiercely now in political circles in this part of the county. But the Tiny Natural Heritage Foundation will "be asking questions and listening" only, says Stubbins. For instance, when Tiny Township delivers its first draft of a document pro- posing the next North Sim- coe waste dump be next to the current Pauze Landfill Site in Perkinsfield, Stub- bins says the group will avoid judgement. The South Shore group and the Tiny Heritage group are both small, says Stubbins. The former meets in the Midland Public Library and has about three members and the latter has about seven, although it is more loosely structured and meets ususally in Stubbins Thunder Beach home. Stubbins is hoping another two or three environmentally-conscious people will want to join the South Shore group, which, with Stubbins, has a therapist, a lawyer and a taxi- driver. NSAC shrugs at quittings Although the North Sim- coe Arts Council has been hampered by at least four resignations since it was formed in 1986, including two in the past 11 days and two successive resigna- tions of administrators, the council is now "moving along nicely" according to the new _ Executive Director. Helen Graham, who assumed the position more than a month after former- Administrator Sylvia McNeely resigned, said the "staff problems" of the past are over. "Everybody is now very happy," said Graham. "We have new people, we're rolling along, the at- mosphere is very positive." But former-administrator McNeely and the previous administrator (or project manager, as the position was then called), Carol Dimock, both of whom resigned, had left criticiz- ing the arts council and its top-level management. The arts council is fund- ed under the Community Futures program, under the wing of the federal Ministry of Employment and Immigration. It has a board of directors, con- sisting of local businesspeople and artists, and a commissioner, Kamran Khozan. The primary objective of the arts council program is to "increase the number of permanent jobs' in localities with chronically high unemployment," ac cording to a 1985 state- ment, while at the same time promoting arts in the community. Most of the people hired to work at the arts council were previously unemployed for a lengthy period of time. Eleven days ago the arts council's publicist, Bill Sinton. edd. its sad= ministrative assistant both resigned, citing conflicts with management. Commissioner Kamran Khozan said the resigna- tions are "insignificant," and in fact one of them has already been replaced, he added. Publicist Smith's former trainer, local reporter Mark Bourrie, has taken over the PR function, said Khozan. Smith and ex- administators McNeely and Dimock all said, among other things, that the training programs were not working. "There is no defined course of direction" said Dimock shortly after Reeve is after bands Port McNicoll Reeve John Moreau wants to bring back the big bands. Moreau said, at a coun- cil meeting last week, that he wants bands to play open-air concerts at the Paradise Point pavilion, near the village's waterfront. The shows would be Sunday nights from 7 to 8:30. "People could dance, or come and sing along," said Moreau. The reeve said he would try to organize at least one event, for the end of August. McNeely's resignation. Ex- publicist Smith, who put in his last day at the NSAC last Friday, echoed these statements. But newly-installed ex- ecutive director Graham says the problems are in the past and she is working to "rejuvenate the arts council." '"'Whatever went on Barrie Melanson, Orillia New coats from Port The volunteer firefighters of Port MeNicoll will be getting new jackets with help from the village council. The jackets the firefighters are using now are in bad shape, says the department. And the new ones, which will be usable in summer and winter, are more expensive than those purchased in the past. So the village approved a request at last Wednes- : day's regular meeting to help by paying half the cost of the jackets for the 14, firefighters. Police forces represented Marching with the Danish Police Band along King Street last Friday representatives of the Midland and area police forces. From left, RCMP Sergeant before - went on before," she told the Times. "I am starting fresh." Graham noted a number of new projects have been initiated or carried on since she took over in July. These include a film club, a planned "harvest tour' of crafts-people, information sessions, a newsletter for members of the arts coun- were detachment; ci children's ie Khozan added that he promised the new ad- ministrator, Helen Grah- am, that he would not in- terfere with the running of the arts council. 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