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a, ROR IGEN RTE NNR a = oo --E ---- No money for trash trip & says MPP The MPP for Simcoe East was unsuccessful in his attempts to have the Ministry of the Environ- ment subsidise the cost of hauling Huronia's garbage to Keele Valley. In an interview with the Penetanguishene Citizen, Al McLean says he did his best to convince Environ- ment Minister Jim Bradley that the provincial govern- ment has a moral respon- sibility to ease the tax burden for sending gar- bage 120 km away. McLean says The Big Haul is going to cost residents of North Simcoe at least $100 a year per household. "Well, I had a talk with Jim Bradley and he just told me that he didn't want to start financing garbage Escaped con found on street An escaped convict was picked up on a Midland street last Wednesday just after midnight. Midland police report the man was picked up on Elizabeth Street at 12:09 am. He was later discovered to have escaped from the minimum securi- ty Bath Institute near Kingston. William Richard Turner, 20, was arrested "near a motor vehicle" according to a police spokesman. The vehicle was identified as one stolen earlier from Toronto. Turner was brought to the Barrie jail. The stolen vehicle is still under investigation. 4 Spey g i io Le BéeEL Garage destroyed A garage at 714 Hugel Avenue in Midland, and its contents, including a car and a transportation. He thought it would set a dangerous precedent and _ that everyone would start demanding government subsidies. That way, peo- ple wouldn't want to build dumps for their garbage,"' McLean says. The MPP. shakes his head and says, '""'He may have a point there but I just don't know how the people here can afford to pay more taxes." ? As one of the Tories who survived September's Liberal onslaught, McLean is carrying a lot of weight for his party. "T want people to know that I've got plenty of work to do down there in Queen's Park. If you think, I'm not going to be busy then you're wrong." McLean is the provincial Conservative Tourism and Recreation Critic and Deputy Agriculture Critic; as well, he is the Chairman of Agencies and Boards Committee, a member of the Ombudsman's Com- mittee and also of the General Government Committee. "I'm meeting with dozens of groups on that Agencies and Boards Com- mittee, I hear from police commissions and the Li- quor Control Board - all kinds of people,' McLean notes. He has also proposed his first major piece of legisla- tion. It's called the Tourist Advisory Act. "Tourism will soon be one of the _ biggest employers in this pro- vince,' McLean explains "and we've got to be there with all the help we can give." * ea Pleased to meet you Guy and Kathy Johnstone took the time to say hello to George Czerny following his guest of honor speech to the Midland BIA last week. Czerny had heard of Guy Johnstone, and mentioned him during his speech to the 90 people assembled for the Gallery. BIA's annual meeting in the Budd Watson Midland is like Collingwood says that town's BIA chief The publisher of the Enterprise-Bulletin of Col- lingwood came to the an- nual meeting of the Midland BIA to share the benefits of having a Business Improvement Area. The Midland and Coll- ingwood BIAs have a lot in common, George Czerny said. The two groups have similar size budgets, and they live and work in very similar towns. Czerny was inspired during his address to suggest the two groups workshop, were destroyed by fire early last Friday afernoon. Minor fire damage occur- might some day join their forces on a common pro- ject or promotion. Czerny encouraged his listeners to not be modest. The members of the Midland BIA as an entity are a major employer and an economic force to be reckoned with in their community. 'If the downtown died, a lot would die" in the com- munity, he said. Czerny, who during his speech tore up some papers of statistics and threw them into the air, en- couraged the Midland BIA members to dare to be dif- ferent in promoting their group. As examples he described how skydivers landed on Collingwood's newly refurbished main street during the opening ceremony, and a _ wide- ranging coupon promotion. The publisher told the crowd Collingwood is alive and well. Any impression that Collingwood has been depressed since the closing red to the nearest corner of the house on the property, also owned by Richard Weatherill. of the famous shipyards is false, he said. The town's largest industry now employs 800 people, while the shipyard when it clos- ed employed 250. The economy used to hang on the health of the shipyard, but no longer. Eighty million dollars is being spent on development of the former shipyard. The second place to which Czerny _ takes visitors from overseas, after Collingwood, is Midland. "'I love to bring people from overseas here," for a cruise on the Miss Midland or a visit to Sainte-Marie Among the Hurons. ° "We have to tell people that profit is not a dirty word." What is wrong with the owner of Magna Inter- national, with a plant in Collingwood, making $2 million a year while his employees make $11 an hour? If he was making $4 million a year, that could mean twice as many jobs, Czerny said. Czerny left the 90 people in the Budd Watson Gallery with the suggestion that a high level of crazy enthusiasm for a person's community is needed. That enthusiasm should be shared, he said. 'Historic week' for francophones The executive director for French Language Education in Simcoe County says big changes are coming for fran- cophone students in Huronia. Denis Chartrand says next week may be an historic one. The public and separate French Language Educa- tion Committees are holding public meetings next week to discuss the direction of francophone schools. "We've realised that the Education Act doesn't go far enough in recognising the perceived rights of francophone education in this province,"' Chartrand says. The meetings are what the director calls "the first phase in a lengthy con- sultation process."' One of the options which Chartrand will have to look at is the creation of a distinct French Language School Board. "We want to find out what people want. If this is an option which they wish to consider then we are obliged to consider it as well," he says. Right now, Chartrand is looking at what conditions exist in other areas of the province. He is looking most close- ly at the Ottawa-Carleton where a French School Board area Language exists. "What we have to do is look and what the legislation will have to look like. The problem is, there's not legislation for that board in Ottawa- Carleton." see But Chartrand says there may not be one quaint solu- tion for Francophone education everywhere. It is necessary to '"'recognise local differences." "Some areas will work with one particular piece of legislation, others will not. For instance there has to be a balance between the Roman Catholic and non- Roman Catholic FLECs, for a fusion of the two groups to work properly," he said. Wednesday, November 25, 1987, Page 3a