Addington Highlands Council –
Nov 17/008
By Jule Koch Brison
Denbigh Recreation gets Trillium grant
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Denbigh Recreation Committee hit the
jackpot on Monday night when council signed the acceptance forms for
a Trillium grant of $81,900.
The money will be used for the
upgrading of the ball diamond and rink building. A new indoor
washroom will be built and the building will be made handicapped
accessible. Councilor Janice Kerr said that with the exception of
building the washroom, all of the labour would be done by volunteers.
Reeve Henry Hogg said he expects that
the township will receive the Trillium money in about a month.
New Health & Safety Program - Council adopted a new
Contractor Health & Safety Program, which is designed to be an
appendix to the township’s current Health & Safety program.
Along with it, they also adopted an program, “Internal Procedures
for Hiring a Contractor”. The intent of the new program is to
transfer liability from the township to the contractor on contracts
with significant potential health and safety issues, such as bridge
construction.
Hydro leaves dangerous conditions behind - Mac and Shirley Wise of Little
Finch Lake Road sent a letter to council requesting that the township
fix a “dangerous” drop-off on their road, which was left by hydro
work crews clearing under lines.
Roads Supervisor Royce Rosenblath
commented that it was not only on that road, but that on every road
the hydro crews have done damage ad left behind dangerous conditions.
He said that they unloaded their machines anywhere on the roads,
damaging the shoulders, and also tree butts had been left sticking
out, and were partly covered by vegetation – creating a big hazard
for cars that might run into the ditch. He said that in Denbigh the
roads department had cleaned the mess up but that he didn’t know
who to contact at Hydro One about the problem.
He said that if the roads department
had damaged hydro poles they would have to pay plenty. He also
pointed out that on Saturday after a snowfall the power had gone out
for five hours – “so the [hydro crews’] work didn’t help
yet.”
He said the crews were obviously
putting lots of effort into the work, but he had “never seen
anything like this being done”. He asked council to send a letter
to Hyrdo One, asking the crews to clean up as they go along, to which
council agreed.
Free Dumping Request Denied - Frank Smith has asked council
to allow him to dispose of a truckload of garbage without charge. He
said that to help out cottagers he had let them throw their garbage
into his old dump truck. He also asked that council change the hours
at the Weslemkoon waste site from Tuesays to Sundays, saying that
Tuesdays don’t work for the cottagers.
Council declined to accept the garbage
unless the bags were tagged or the tipping fees paid.
The Weslemkoon site is presently
without its own waste attendant and is manned by Doug Clement from
the Kaladar waste disposal site.
Council will advertise for a new
attendant and for now will leave the hours as they are, but will
change to Sundays in January.
