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Earthquake shakes up Wheatley By Allison Siddall A 3.0 magnitude earthquake in the Wheatley area at 9:21 a.m. on Wed. Feb. 23 has caused plenty of excitement both locally and nationally, with the community making news reports across the country. The earthquake has been confirmed by Natural Resources Canada, with its epi-centre “14 kilometres northeast of Leamington, near Wheatley.” The Journal/Southpoint Sun received a phone call shortly before noon that day from Kim Grant, who lives on the 3rd Concession (Drovers Road), reporting her experience. “The whole house shook and at first we thought it was a truck hitting something,” said Grant. “We live by the cold storage and sometimes when the trucks are empty they thump going over the bridge, so we thought something had happened.” After realizing it wasn’t a truck on the bridge or an accident, Grant called the police to report the incident. C-K police came to her home and checked it out, and then later called her back to let her know that Natural Resources Canada had confirmed that it was indeed an earthquake. A friend of Grant’s, who lives on the Zion Sideroad, told her that the vibrations shook all the snow off the trees in her yard. Grant says that she and her daughter Laila heard a loud band that was very similar at about 3:30 p.m. the day before when they were waiting at the dentist’s office for an appointment. She also says that last summer there were two incidents where the family heard the exact same exploding sound when they were in their back yard enjoying their pool. She thought something had happened at Weil’s food processing plant, but when she called Weil’s she discovered that there was nothing going on at their property. Nothing has been confirmed regarding these other three incidents. Reports about Wednesday’s earthquake vary from feeling a little rumble or thinking the car was acting up, to other reports of the whole house shaking, hearing a loud explosion or sonic boom, or thinking that a truck had hit a house. And many residents didn’t know there was an earthquake until they heard it on the news. According to Earthquake Canada, earthquakes in this country are a naturally occurring shock or movement that occurs on or just below the earth crust. There are two main causes of earthquakes in Canada. One is tectonic activity, which is caused by the earth plates moving, and the second reason is faults or volcanic activity, which is caused by volcanic eruptions. Out of the two earthquake causes, tectonic activity is the most common. Tectonic earthquakes begin when there is movement in the earth’s tectonic plates. Most of the time these plates are slowly moving. Another earthquake, measuring 2.7, was confirmed as occurring early the next morning, Thursday, February 24 at 5:13 a.m. east of Wheatley on the Campbell Sideroad.
MP Dave Van Kesteren (left) and Leamington Mayor John Paterson (right) toured the construction site of the new Pollution Control Centre and received an update on the project from supervisor Micheal Lyddiet (centre).
Van Kesteren, Paterson tour pollution control centre project Jobs and economic growth continue to be created by Canada’s Economic Action Plan, announced Dave Van Kesteren, Member of Parliament for Chatham-Kent Essex. The MP was in Leamington February 24 to tour the construction site with Leamington Mayor John Paterson and celebrate the significant progress made on the upgrade of Leamington’s Pollution Control Centre. “Our government’s top priority is the economy, which is why we are continuing to implement Canada’s Economic Action Plan,” said MP Van Kesteren. “The construction on the Pollution Control Centre has created local jobs, economic growth, and will improve the lives of residents in the area so that Canadian families continue to prosper for years to come.” Locally, 50 jobs were created by construction at the facility with up to 200 spin-off jobs i.e. cement truck drivers and manufacturers of parts for the centre. The upgrades will see the plant transformed into a conventional activated sludge plant with the installation of modern, energy-efficient sys-
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tems in three phases: installation of a new grit treatment system; conversion of the old mechanical system into a modern ‘fine bubble diffuser’ system; and installation of new tanks to clarify the water. The third phase also includes the creation of a retention pond to hold excess water during wet weather. Canada’s Economic Plan continues to create jobs and economic growth with more than 26,000 job-creating projects underway or completed from coast to coast to coast. Since July 2009 Canada’s economy has created over 460,000 new jobs and the economy has grown for five straight quarters. “The economic recovery is still fragile,” said Van Kesteren. “That is why we must stay on track and continue to focus on the economy.” Canada’s Economic Action Plan provides close to $16 billion to modernize a broad range of infrastructure including roads, bridges, public transit, parks and water treatment facilities, and to support home ownership, help stimulate the housing sector and improve housing across Canada.