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" Sd 245059 Durham is no closer to solving its garbage woes than it was a couple of years ago, says an angry and frustrated Regional chairman Gary Herrema. . ' "Its a real mess. The (provincial) government is taking away 'our 'options and we (Region) don't khow whe's in ¢hatge," he told the Citizen in ah interview last week. Durham now takes most of its trash to the Brock West landfill in Pickering, which is owned by "Metro Toronto. * Herrema said Brock West has 18 months capacity left, at best, before it is filled, and then Durham will have to truck its tsash to the site at Keele Valley. But Durham will have 10 -bfild a transfer station at a cost of betw 36.and $10 million to accommodate larg- er trucks to haul the trash to Keele Valley. And there will have to be hearings and possible re-zonings on the land for that transfer station, said Herrema. And the $6-S10 « million doesn't address the cost of operating that transfer station. : Cs y But the prqvince is inthe process of trying Lf] landfill for Durham only garbage, and if that haps, A Proud Voice For Scugog v 'Garbage issue a réal mess ~ Herrema costly transfer station won't be needed. He said the garbage sifuauon 'is im such a niess, tha Regional officials are now looking at the possibility of shipping trash to landfills or incinerators south of the hor- der. ¥ "One option we Have is to go south with it," he stated. © And froma cost point of view, it looks attractive, Some landfills in the States are charging $30 per tonne tipping AE Region now pays $150/tonne to Metro, but gets Please see FINDING, page 3 Vol. 1, No. 4 Tuesday, July 16, 1991 24 pages' Chamber president Circ. 9,000 worn out but happy Somebody called Peggy Finch it 7,30 Monday morning "Can you believe it?" the presi- dent of the Scugog Chamber of Commerce said with a grimace. Like all the hardworking Chamber members who made Festival Days Country 91 such a success, Peggy was a little tired Monday moming. Tired, but happy. There might have been a few minor glitches (thére were no bathtub race finals and the ping- pong balls never did flow out of the dump truck), but overall, the Chamber had to be satisfied with the way things went. The weather was almost perfect and the Festival Tent was packed - for every event. What's more, cost-wise, from previous years, Mrs. Finch believes Festival Days will be fine financially "We're still tallying things up, but we are in the black," she said, later Monday morning. Secanside this edition of the Scugog Citizen for photos, stories from this busy, busy weekend. Wasn't that a party? Yes indeed, young Walley Dawn Gerber of Greenbank looks a | because, : o mori. has fm oo ning for because events were scaled down, L . : - : . pi : IN "Unbelievable!" That word was sald many times over on Saturday when the ' up and down Hwy. 7A and on the Regional Rd. 67 cut-off to Caesdrea. Ross Balley belongings of the late Wilfred ¥ine were auctioned off. Thousands of people and Harvey Graham managed and sold a wondrous quantity of gizmos, gadgets descended on the property b Black and Ne rking their cars and antiques, from rusty old cars to mobile homes. More photos, Inside. N 10% RECYCLED NEWSPRINT [@ PLE WSPAPER