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"ihere is no problem mix- ing buxboard with news- paper or magazines set out Householders are also asked to ilatten down the boxboard to make it easier to handle. To keep the ma- terial from becoming wet, the county is asking that the flattened boxboard be It is Imperative that plas- tlc liners be removed from inside boxes before they are recycled. she said. Mrs. little said the big- gest challenge will be to educate the public about how to dispose of The county has pegged --_------ opening a new store in the amount afboxboard to February is the month of Brighton, to be known as betxrllectedinthe mstyear St. Valentine's Day, when "Second Helpings Third at160tormes. we think of love and spe- Edition," Joining those Mrs. Little said the big- vial friends. already operating in gest challenge will be to . pr appropriate that it Colborne and Port Hope. To publicize the changeover, the county has blazed 35,000 Northum- berland homes with Dyan: spelling out how to dispose pf the maria]: ' County recycling co- ordinator Mary Little says the reason for adding bdx- board is to cut down on the volume of waste going to county dumps. "riorb%rdhaecornes the 13th Item recycled in Northumberland. These and other types of boxboard are now oiBcially part of Northumberl'and‘s blue box program. The money generated fromthesaleoftxaxboardto , T oronto-based Paper Boardtndustries Var Teuse "r2D1vrza1agmal at best. The county expects (a receive $2? per tonne, Mrs. [Jule _ imesh the idea of throw- ing out those empty cereal antAdeterge?t boxes. " By an! Eekhnf Boxboard now goes into blue boxes Colborne O” Chronicle Child molesters: part II in our series - see page 5 - _'.iitj,'j'j,se Febmmy is month to 1aelp Big Sisters Northumberland Big Sisters celebrates Big Sisters Month with Winterfest, a special tyold- weather-fun day at Presqu'ile Park. Here in Colborne, Big Sisters is also celebrating by moving its successful Second Helpings store Into a larg- er shopfront [the former Stedmans store) in down- town Colborne. How appropriate that it is also Big Sisters Month, a great time to celebrate the special bond of friend. ship that exists between Big and Little Sisters in 60 Big Sisters agencies across the peovince. A IRA/Eileen Aryyn's Thalia that Binds - Castleton school principal David King shows he can get into the spirit of St. Valentine's Day as much as his students can. Grade A pupil Stefanie Jones admires the principals man-decked tie, Photo by Eileen Argyrls 15, M Barb Keenan, executive director of Northumber- land Big Sisters. says that l 1 out of the total 68 Big- and-Little Sister matches in the county exist in the Colborne area. More Big Sisters are always needed. and more Little Sisters are always welcome. Pinch of recession Like almost everyone else these days, the Big Sisters are feeling the pinch of the recession. said Ms. Keenan. . F .. A ' "The board of directors is working on a strategic plan for the organization. We must look at our fun- And, the organization ls Spe!eing a 119w store In Giving the slip to February blahs - see page z- y Newsl Big Sisters programs have grown by 18 per cent over the past two years, she explained. while avail, able funds have grown by only four per cent in the same tithe period. Big Sisters Is a United Way agency and. while the organization's funding from the United Way has remained stable, other sources have not kept pace with demand, draising efforts which are not meeting the demands of the service." Bingos, the Second Helplngs shops - major sources of revenue on which the organization depends fl are making less as the public has less available money to spend. "We was G iGirit our strengths." said Ms. Keenan. They decided the local organization was very good at setting up their SeEond Helpings stores. They have even been asked to help six other Big Sisters agencies across the province to get similar shops going in their areas. "We are going to clean up and sprff-up our stores, we are looking at new angles, like our designer- labels boutiques. and we are expanding our opera- tions." The new shop in Colborne is more than three ttmes larger than the present location. Store manager Janet Taft said she and her volunteers hope to have the new store open and fully operational by Feb. 21-22. He was speaking during a session entitled “Consoli- dations and Uniiications," chaired by Hamilton Town- ship Reeve Charlotte Clay- Ireland. "We no longer have the resources -- the time and money - to walk through what was often a long and fruitless exercise," Rick Temporaie told the Rural Ontario Municipalities As- sociation conference in Toronto last week. In the absence of firm local support. the provin- cial government has no plans to get involved in any new restructuring at- tempts. says a chief nego- tiator with the municipal affairs ministry's bounda- ries branch. By Kathy Blair Big Sisters are women See Big Sisters, Page 2 Province won't force restructuring Put your own house in order 00:1. rp 1 Td, l... '1BFii'i'C'ri:"s' , _Jtyc3fi'PFl M lit 0X 4 2 C)A'iiTLliTDN r C3NTAf'4 I cr Stonemdn, Riissiett' -e Legion Atom stars _ - see page JO - The government will im- pigment restructurings, amalgamauons or annexa- tions over the wishes of a local municipality or group of municipalities only if there is a clear. overriding provincial interest, Mr. Temporale added. That might involve a serious en- vironmental issue or an economic opportunity that might otherwise be lost. “a... “w, ___ __ - _ But In most such cases, the problems are local in nature. There's no sense tying up legislature ume to deal with such issues, he On the other hand, if municipalities consent to a particular solution. it can be passed into law simply through an order-1n- council. Restructuring was Intro- duced by the Liberals In 1987 with a report called Toward an Ideal County. A year later the local study began and Is still incomplete. . The province's new hands-off stance doesn't mean it no longer believes In restructuring. Northumberland County and some other Ontario municipalities have. been Involved in restructuring studies for several years at the instigatior1 of the province. Indeed, small munici- palities should realize that the financial good times governments once enjoyed are not likely to return for some time, he warned. Lmg-term savings can re- sult from amalgamauons. he suggested., "You balk. we walk," Mr. Temporale said, summing up the province's new position. nts+3 See County, Page 2 o 1/21. 1/975 NON l NO