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Mayor amazed Eldorado sale Gardening indoors by Van Belle F'ollbyving the announcement announcement Jby the federal govèrn then! last week that Eldorado N'ueie'ar Ltd. and its. subside .• uaries were to be sold to private interests Mayor Bill "Wyatt of Rort Hope registered shock that the sale was to tpke place without some form of input from the Town of Port Hope. , Mayor \\ yatt has been reported to have said that Port Hope could lose up to $160,000 in tax revenue when •the company is sold. At the 1 present time and with Eldorado Eldorado being a Crown corporation corporation the Town is paid a grant in lieu of taxes which go 1 directly to the Town and which are exempt from going towards education. Under this system the school board is provided a special ■ grant from the province. Mayor Wyatt has estimated that with the company being under private ownership and the Town losing its exemption from- the school board levy Town taxes could increase ten to twenty percent. He said the school board does not suffer in either case but the Town will. A delegation from the Town of Port Hope is to travel to Ottawa to discuss the matter with Allan Lawrence and members of the Treasury Board. Allan Lawrence has been reported to have said the privatization of Eldorado should be a shot in the arm for Port Hope. The Company is also satisfied with the decision decision and in fact has been working towards this end with reports on its dispussion with 1 the Federal government. / Allan Lawrence has said that under private ownership the decision of the new Hope Township plant would not have taken as long as it has. Decisions on 80 cases heard , during the course of a 14-week hearing on Durham Official plan are expected within two or three months from Ontario Municipal Board (OMB). The hearing was quickpaced, quickpaced, attributed to the excellent planning of Dr. Mofeed Michael, and the firm positions over adjournments by the twe OMB members, Cornell Ebers and Vernon Singer, who presided over the barings. It was pointed out that if adjournments had been allowed allowed the hearing could have gone on much longer. Some local politician^ held that the hearings could have gone for at least a year and a half. A similar hearing in the Ot- tawa-Carleton region extended extended 'over almost two years. Ebers has said that evidence evidence at the hearings were well presented and that in fact many new interesting ground-breaking arguments were heard. Ebers felt the most controversial controversial issue the Board heard came from the Village of Newcastle concerning the allowing of additional development development in the Village. This issue ran for a period of three of the fourteen weeks, Singer said there was little public input to the hearings and thought this was either a satisfaction with the Regional proposed plan or a lack of Knowledge of the plan. Toro 2 1 /2 H.P. 20" $329.95 Toro 5 H. P. 24" $699.95 Bolens5 H.P. 24" $699.95 Bolens6 H.P. 24" $729.95 Bolens H.P. 26" $799.95 TORO 524 5 hp. 24 in. clearing width. For snow up to 12 inches deep. Clears up to 1200 lbs. of snow o minute. Spring- action scraper blode. Drum auger. RQLPH DOMINION HARDWARE Last week we talked about transplanting and the right type of pot to use and I forgot two other types of pots that are commonly used. First the ceramic pot, which are mostly mostly glazed and will have no drainage hole, so you will have to be careful with the watering, since no moisture can escape except through the top. Drainage must be provided by placing at least an inch of gravel or stones on the bottom, to hold any excessive water, in the case of ceramic pots, it would be better if you place a clay pot inside the ceramic pot giving it room to breathe and also the proper drainage. The newest kind of pot is the foam pot, which can be used for all types of plants, but have several disadvantages. They are soft and brittle, and usually are dight making them easy to tip over, plus the fact that they are not cheap, will likely not to stay on the market too long. Soils are often referred to as dirt, but there, is 1 a remarkable difference, since dirt is what we sweep üp off the floor, and soil is the medium for growing plants. All indoor plants require a different type of soil than the soil in the garden. The soil in the garden seldom is loose enough for indoor plants and will likely have no plant nutrients for indoor plants, since plants outdoors are stronger. Also when you use your garden soil you are asking l or trouble, garden soil has been exposed to bacteria, insects and spores of fungi and the tender indoor plants will have no chance of survival: Potting soil can be bought easily at your local, florist, which is sterilized and will have the proper nutrients for plant, growth, then all you have to do is to add some of the other ingredients, such as peatmoss and sand, or you can buy the already mixe'd soil for a particular plant. To make a good porous soil, I always like to add my own materials, and will add them to the soil, mixing them Until I feel that I have got the right mix. By adding peatmoss you will increase the absorbsion of moisture, since peatmoss will hold ten times as much water as soil, then to make the soil nice' and loose add some perlite, until the mix is , nice and friable and is not. tacky. Take a handful of this mix and squeeze it and see whether it will stick together, and if the soil packs, more perlite is required.' Today in the commercial operations, most of the mediums mediums used have no soil in their mixes. Most of them are straight perlite, peatmoss (THIS MAY SEEM LIKE A j J small world till you J >CHASE YOUR HAT ON A 1 (WINDY DAY- ' Orono Towing I GENERAL REPAIRS j Phone 983-5249 Orono $ Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, October 1st, 1979-5 and sand, which fiieii is vailed m set less m i x or medium* 1 ' dra wback with this I y i;f mix is the fact the. 1 it ha- no nutrients for plant grow no s'* these must be added on a regular basis A good example example are the plants that are grown m Florida. They are shipped to Ontario and Will be hardened for 6-10wéeks in the greenhouse, then sold to the customer, and when you look at that Soil mix, you' will notice little round balls, lying on top of the soil. This is a slow release fertilizer,gradually fertilizer,gradually feeding the plant over a long period of time. Good soil is becoming a scarce commodity, commodity, since they don't make any more ... so in time this will become more and more harder to get and also will become costlier, so the day of the artificial mix is not too far off.. In the west coast where a lot of outdoor plants are grown in containers, they are utilizing the sawdust from your lumber yard and mixing it with peatmoss and sand and by adding the proper nutrients nutrients have achieved excellent excellent results, so in the Horticultural Horticultural industry and in growing plants in the hom'e, new challenges and opportunities opportunities are changing the way 'we used to do it, but these will never replace the basics. Until next Week, happy gardening. gardening. Charles Reid Orono's Licensed Auctioneer Valuator Specialize in Farm Furniture Sales Consult me for terms antidates Phone Orono 983-5914 . WORK WANTED D.& R. Custom Fencing and custom chain-sawing 983-5005 or 983-9627 Orono, Ont. Expects high incidence cancer in Port Hope ORONO, ONT. 983-5207 It has been reported that a Peterborough; Ontario surgeon, surgeon, Dr. Alan Levy, has stated that the number of cases he has dealt with from the Port Hope area suggests there is a high incidence of cancer among residents as a result of years of experience to .radio-active wastes. Dr. Levy, a chest surgeon in Peterborough does see many patiepts from the Port Hope area. He said, "I think there's an extremely high incidence of cancer of the lung and other cancers". Radiation was discovered throughout the Town of Port Hope in private residents and public buildings in 1975. Most Of the radio-active material appears to have been trucked to sites in the Town over a period dating back to 1950 from Eldorado Nuclear Limited. Limited. Di 1 . G. Harrison, a general practitioner in Peterborough, also said there was reason for concern about. the possible link of cancer in the Town of Port Hope and the use of radioactive landfill. He said they did not. know if the incidence of cancer is higher than in the rest of the province. "This is what we need to be looking at", he said. Federal Health Minister, David Crosbie, has now promised an investigation of the possible link between cancer and the radioactive landfill material.. Dr. Levÿ also said his impressions are also shared by his colleagues at the Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto. Both Peterborough Peterborough Doctors say that an in-depth study is needed to settle the question once and for all. Rod Henrickson of the Atomic Energy Control Board and co-ordinator of the cleanup cleanup project in Port Hope has said that some 105,000 tons of radioactive material has been shipped to Chalk River disposal disposal site. Some 200,000 tons still remain in Port Hope but most of this is located in uninhabited areas. He said a present ongoing study will decide what is to be done in the future. The study is expected to be completed . within three months. He said it may be the material will remain in Port Hope and be monitored. Eldorado Nuclear is one of the larger employment firms in Port Hope and is often referred to by local politicians politicians as an excellent corporate corporate citizen. It does appear however th^at citizens are beginning to question health and air pollution. Air pollution pollution from the plant, on the Lake shore was only recently questioned and modifications have been made and inspect- 1 , ions are now an ongoing oase as to the dir pollution. A citizens committee has been formed through which complaints complaints may be made relating to possible radio active pollutants. pollutants. Ontario Enviforvnental Assessment Board NOTICEOF Public Hearing Extension of Existing Waste ' Disposa I Site Reg i ona I Mu n i ci pa I i ty of Du r ham Town of Newcastle The Ontario Ministry of the Environment has received an application by the Regional Municipality Municipality of Durham for approval of a proposed extension of the existing waste disposal site for landfilling located oh Lot io. Concession IX, in the Geographic Township of Darlington in the Town of Newcastle. •The Environmental Asséssment Board will conduct a public hearing to obtain information and to hear the views of the public so that it can make recommendations in respect of the proposed extension of the existing .waste disposal site. Written and oral submissions may be made to the Board at the hearing. The Board will not consider any submissions regarding the proposal after the hearing has been closed. The hearing will be held on October 10, 1979, at 10:30 o'clock in the morning, local time, in the Municipal Office, Hampton, Ontario, Plans of the proposed extension will be 'available for examination and inspection during normal business hours in the office of the .Clerk of the Regional Municipality of Durham, 605 Rossland Road East, Whitby, Ontario, in the office of the Clerk Of the Town of Newcastle, 40 Temperance Street, Bowmanville, Ontario, and in the office of ■ the Environmental Assessment Board, 5th Floor, 1 St. Clair ^venue West, Toronto, Ontario, M4V 1K7. t STATUTORY REFERENCES The Environmental Protection Act, 1971, (S.ti. 1971, Chapter 86, as amended). T.M: Murphy, i , , , , Secrétary, , Environmental Assessment Board. Dated at Toronto this 6th «• day ol September, 1979. >•••••••••••• • eeeewee's mm