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The Creemore

Echo

Friday, November 19, 2010 Vol. 10 No. 47

News and views in and around Creemore

Caledon Decision Excites CCC By Sara Hershoff The Clearview Community Coalition, a local volunteer group committed to the protection of the Niagara Escarpment is feeling optimistic after a November 12 decision by the OMB to reject a proposed quarry in Caledon. The CCC, a Party in the ongoing Walker Aggregate’s Duntroon Quarry Consolidated Hearing says that there are parallels between the two applications that give them hope that they too could see the Escarpment protected from further resource extraction. According to Neill Lanz, Vice President and representative for the CCC, the Walker Quarry application has many parallels to the denied Rockfort project in Caledon. Lanz says the greatest similarity between the two proposals is the reliance on an Adaptive Management Plan to mitigate environmental concerns and protect ground source water. The Caledon application was denied because the Board did not want to approve a quarry “dependant upon a complex, highly engineered adaptive management plan without making the execution of such an agreement a condition of approval.” The AMP for the proposed Rockfort

Echo Briefs Plane crash

A small plane crashed just south of the Edenvale Aerodrome last Friday killing both the pilot and a passenger. The deceased are Leroy Simpson, 48, from Brampton and Grzegorz Kardasv, 47, of Richmond Hill. Police are investigating the cause of the accident.

Break in

Sometime between 11 pm and 4:30 am this past Tuesday an unlocked car parked on Elizabeth Street West was broken into, and an ipod and wallet were taken. The wallet was subsequently found, and the owners of the vehicle urge people to keep their cars locked.

Quarry would cost an approximate $90 million dollars and would need to be implemented over 80 years in order to properly mitigate the project. This time and cost was a stated concern. Included in the refusal were words that the CCC feel could be applied to the Duntroon site. “Too much of what is essential to the character of this Province would be lost if aggregate extraction were to be permitted on lands like the subject property. Lands situated in a significant cultural landscape, surrounded by significant natural heritage features and functions, are not lands on which extraction should be permitted in the absence of demonstration of no negative impacts.” Lanz explains that there are many differences between the applications but is heartened by the victory of “David over the Goliath that is aggregate”. A decision on the Duntroon Quarry is still a ways away as the hearing, which is running about three weeks behind, continues at 49 Huron Street in Collingwood. Currently Niagara Escarpment Commission water experts Chris Neville and Daryl Cowell are being cross examined by Mary Bull, the lawyer for Walker.

Bazaar Weekend

Churches throughout the area are kicking off the holiday season with their annual Bazaars. This Saturday, St. Luke’s Anglican Church in Creemore, Centennial United and St. Patrick’s in Stayner and All Saints in Collingwood will be offering a variety of homemade and handcrafted items perfect for holiday giving. For more details see the Community Calendar.

Hugh Brewster at NCPS

The whole community is welcomed to Nottawasaga & Creemore Public School at noon today to hear Brewster read from his latest work.

John Taylor of Collwest stands in front of a mountain of corn most of which will be sold to the nearby ethanol plant.

a Banner Year for Growers By Craig Simpson “This was a once in a lifetime growing season,” declared local farmer David Millsap. “All the planets lined up perfectly, including the prices.” “The yields were big on everything. It was a great year to be a farmer,” said Jim Steed. The harvest of 2010 is mostly complete – there is still some corn to be combined – and it may go down as among the biggest and best in history. Milton McArthur knew back in July that something amazing was going on. There’s an old American saying well known to Canadian farmers, “corn should be knee high by the 4th

of July.” On July 10 Milt went out and measured his corn, and it was already ten feet high! By early August Paul Millsap said the ears in his corn fields were the biggest he had seen in his entire life. Although it is too early for official statistics, John Taylor, owner and operator of Collwest Grain and a farmer himself, figures that yields for corn and soybeans are up at least 25%, with other cash crops not far behind. This is a huge increase, even when comparing to the relatively poor results of 2009. Of course for better or worse, the (See “Weather” on page 3)

Inside the Echo

Cadets Christmas

Mexico captured on film

Project Santa Claus packs things up.

Bryan Davies shares his story.

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