Having Hope at HOME
written by David S. Craig directed by Rita Huschka
presented by... Dinner Theatre catered by Stone Crock
N0VEMBER 15-30, 2013 Fridays & Saturdays | 7:00pm Sunday | 5:00pm Thursdays | 8:00pm
All performances held at: 76 Howard Ave., Elmira For tickets call: Centre In The Square | 519-578-1570 | 1-800-265-8977 www.elmiratheatre.com
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COMMENT PAGE 8
A CHANCE TO BE KIND ... FOR ONE DAY, AT ANY RATE
Fire destroys barn near Goldstone
Green energy process still a sore spot in Woolwich STEVE KANNON
ELENA MAYSTRUK Black smoke could be seen billowing for several kilometres from a barn fire near Goldstone Monday that caused about $100,000 in damage. Thirty-six Mapleton Township firefighters responded to a property on Wellington Road 8 at 10:40 a.m. Upon their arrival, they found the beige brick structure near the back of the property engulfed in smoke. Flames shot through the roof and windows a few minutes later, said fire chief Rick Richardson. The metal roof eventually caved in, but crews easily prevented the fire from spreading as the flames gradually died down. “We just protected the shed and the cornfield, put some water on that to protect it from exposure – that’s all we did really,” he said. The barn held hay in a loft upstairs and a number of tires. Several turkeys inside the barn managed to escape into the surrounding fields unharmed. The fire started at the rear of the structure, a short-circuited heat lamp, used for the turkeys, is suspected as the cause. BARN | 2
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Smoke could be seen for kilometres from a barn fire on Wellington Road 8 (between Wellington Road 12 and Sideroad 17) on Monday afternoon. No one was hurt, but damage is estimated at $100,000. [ELENA MAYSTRUK / THE OBSERVER]
Still unhappy with its limited role in judging green-energy projects, Woolwich gave a lukewarm endorsement to a smallscale generator near the site of a biogas plant in Elmira. Councillors meeting this week were split over the approval process, with director of engineering and planning Dan Kennaley arguing the township needs more time to study such applications. Municipal support adds a point on the rating scale used by the province to award Feed-in Tariff (FiT) contracts for alternativeenergy projects, so the endorsement is a key asset, said Chuck Martin, president of Woolwich Bio-En, who spoke in favour of the application at Tuesday night’s meeting. The project calls for a 100-kilowatt generator on a neighbouring farm that would use energy from the biogas plant to create electricity to be sold back into the grid. The next intake period from the Ontario Power
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Authority (OPA) opens November 4, with applications evaluated based on the date stamp, a factor given that the province receives far more bids than it approves. Kennaley’s recommendation to council would have seen the issue deferred until the end of November, which he admitted could have a negative impact on the application to be submitted by Gary and Darlene Weber of 1189 Kenning Pl. Still, he argued in favour of taking more time to review the project before making a decision, reiterating a position he staked out with previous applications. In fact, last year council approved sending a letter to Queen’s Park expressing concerns over the short window of opportunity to review and comment on such projects. “The concern that I have is the proximity to part of the Kissing Bridge Trail,” he said of the latest application. “This needs to be investigated a little more thoroughly.”
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