Locals to consider priorities in Springwater Township
ELMVALE – With the municipal election just a few weeks away, it’s time to think about what the priorities should be in Springwater Township. After all, the people who are elected October 25 will be in control for four years.
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Solid Waste and Recycling Magazine
An exciting, inaugural Canadian Waste Sector Symposium will be taking place in Toronto from November 1 to 3, 2010 at the Westin Bristol Place Toronto Airport Hotel, in conjunction with the Canadian Waste & Recycling Expo (being held at the International Centre from November 3 to 4, 2010).
This two-and-a-half day event, sponsored by the Ontario Waste Management Association (OWMA), will include options for three tours (Composting & Organics Processing; MRF’s and Transfer Stations; Electronics Recycling, Collection and Processing), and sessions covering a variety of topics — Hazardous Waste Management, Organic Waste Management, EPR & Waste Sector Servicing, Green Energy, Waste Disposal & Transfer, Waste Management General Issues, and Waste Audits and Servicing.
OWMA is also pleased to announce a special keynote dinner speaker — Gordon McGuinty.
An entrepreneur, Gordon McGuinty was responsible for the Rail Cycle North consortium, which included some of North America’s largest rail and waste corporations and was awarded the largest waste management contract in Canada.
For 14 years, McGuinty was the force behind the Adams Mine landfill project as a solution to Ontario’s garbage disposal crisis. Today, when he is not speaking to interested audiences, he divides his time between his residence in the mountains of Alberta and his office in Ontario.
McGuinty will soon be starting a regular blog for Solid Waste & Recycling magazine’s website.
For more information on the symposium, visit www.owma.org

Stephen Ogden and Rev. David Black of Ebenezer United Church are the featured speakers at an Eco Forum being held at Trinty United Church in Shelburne.
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Saturday August 21
9:30-Native Water Ceremonies
Games and activities for children (including pony rides and petting zoo
10-Opening Remarks
10:30 Outside-CD music from stage
Inside James Gordon Talk
Outside Introduction-Patrick Brealey & Band
12:30 Inside -100 mile Luncheon
Simcoe County Environmental Award Presentation followed by keynote speaker Robert Sandford
Outside Eve Goldberg
2 outside Mashall Dane
3pm inside Showing Film by Kevin McMahon
Outside Jory Nash
9pm to 1am- 97.7 the Beach Party(50’s & 60’s theme), with Daryl MacLean, fundraising dance in the Elmvale Arena hosted by the North Simcoe Jr. Farmers. Tickets are just $10 and are available at 97.7 the Beach 705-422-0970 or at the door, from any Jr Farmer and area businesses. This is an all age event. Liquor License in enclosed area.

AWARE is coming to Tiny and needs your support and help to ensure that those elected this fall are committed to protecting the water and the environment and will conduct the public’s business in public and not behind closed doors. Meeting: Thurs. Aug. 19th 2010, 2 – 4 pm, Wyevale United Church, in Wyevale, off County Rd. 6, north of Jug City.

By Krystyn Tully and Joanna Bull, Waterkeeper.ca Weekly
The Ontario government introduced the Clean Water Act in 2006. The Act divides the province into forty Source Protection Areas, mainly based on conservation authority boundaries, and creates an administrative apparatus meant to identify and address threats to drinking water supplies (“source water”).
As a charity that seeks to protect clean, natural drinking water supplies throughout our watershed, Lake Ontario Waterkeeper often relies on legal tools and remedies to protect or promote clean water. You’d think that we would care a whole lot about the Clean Water Act. But we don’t, really.
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Bayshore Broadcasting & Elmvale Foundation Present:
Elmvale Water Festival & Environmental Show
Saturday, August 21st at the Elmvale fairgrounds
It’s coming up fast… the 100 mile diet luncheon, and the all ages ‘Beach Party’ Dance with Daryl MacLean, is Saturday August 21st… so get your tickets NOW!

Tickets ($36 each for the luncheon, $10 each for the dance) available at: 97.7 the Beach, 1383 Mosley Street, Unit 1, Wasaga Beach (Monday to Friday 8:30am-4pm)
(705) 422-0970

Here’s more info about this amazing event!…
Drink for FREE all day! 13,500 litres of cold, pure spring water provided… Receive a FREE, non-toxic, dishwasher safe, reusable water bottle courtesy of Container Corp. of Canada!
Public education and celebration of water
Environmental tradeshow
World renowned speakers and authors
2010 film: WATERLIFE an exploration of the Great Lakes
Music from the area’s emerging artists on the outdoor stage
100 mile diet luncheon: $36 tickets available Mon.-Fri. 8:30am to 4pm, at 97.7 the Beach, 1383 Mosley Street, Unit 1, Wasaga Beach (705) 422-0970
1st annual Simcoe County Environmental Award, presented at the 100 mile diet luncheon by Bayshore Broadcasting
Farmer’s market
Silent Auction
North Simcoe Jr. Farmer’s fundraising dance, an all ages ‘Beach Party’ with Daryl MacLean: $10 tickets available Mon.-Fri. 8:30am to 4pm, at 97.7 the Beach, 1383 Mosley Street, Unit 1, Wasaga Beach (705) 422-0970, or from any Jr. Farmer and area businesses
Children’s Activities and Water Education Centre
SIGG Aluminum water bottles will be available
Electricity provided by Bullfrog Power, generated by solar and wind energy. Local food served on biodegradable plates, with biodegradable cutlery.
www.elmvale.org

From Gordon Edwards Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility
During the early decades of the nuclear age, people were told (and are still being told) that all nuclear waste will undergo “disposal” — a word with no scientific definition, for humans have never successfully “disposed” of anything.
But in recent years, the nuclear industry has significantly altered its previous doctrine. The new buzz-word is “recycling”. The industry, it seems, wants some of the “good vibes” associated with Environmentalism’s “3 Rs” — Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle.
But recycling is a deceptive word to use, for the nuclear industry wants to gradually disseminate brand new highly dangerous waste materials — radioactive species which never existed before — into general circulation, as invisible contaminants.
These wastes, previously intended for permanent storage, are now intended to be shipped across lakes, oceans, and continents so that the companies who created them can lower their storage costs. They want to reduce the volume of wasteby spreading it around, and “decontaminating” it as they go.
But decontaminating is by no means perfect. Radioactivity has to go somewhere — into the air, into the water, into the soil . . . and increasingly, into ordinary items of commerce.
Thus everyone on earth will soon be receiving their own personalallotment of radioactive plutonium, cesium-137, cobalt-60, iron-55, nickel-63, and many other radioactive waste materialsin their household purchases — a gift from the nuclear industry.
The following text deals with a radioactive metal “recycling”facility in Northern England (Cumbria) that was licensed inFebruary 2008 against the wishes of many local inhabitants.
The plant is operated by Studsvik of Sweden.
Bruce Power’s current plan to ship 16 radioactive steam generators,each the size of a school bus, through the Great Lakes, along the St. Lawrence River, and across the Atlantic Ocean to Sweden, is for the express purpose of having Studsvik, there, make 90 percent of the contaminated metal available for “unrestricted use”.
Gordon Edwards on Nuclear Waste

A commentary by Grant Robertson
It is now abundantly clear that the Harper government was never committed to working for the best interests of farmers, small business owners, communities and much of rural and small town Canada, and worse, that this government disrespects us and see us as little more than a quaint relic of the past. Those are strong words I know, but how else do you explain the comments from this government around the closing of Canada’s prison farms? Despite almost 50 years of verifiable success of the program the Harper government, in its increasingly strident ideological way, is closing down these farms and planning to spend billions on new super-prisons. These farms have provided practical work experience, but even more importantly they have helped to instil a much missing work ethic in inmates that has made a vast difference in their lives.
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To: Friends of the Elmvale Water Festival
Dear Friends,
The 2010 Elmvale Water Festival is just two weeks away, and I hope to see you there on SATURDAY AUGUST 21, 2010. Our event this year will be bigger and better than ever.
BAYSHORE BROADCASTING
This year, the Elmvale Water Festival is being presented by Bayshore Broadcasting: they have not only jumped on board to help organize the event, but they have added an environmental trade show, awards banquet, and 100 mile luncheon diet to the mix this year. I have seen the menu for the 100 mile luncheon and it sounds delicious !
ACTIVITIES
With leading speakers and filmmakers, games and activities for children (including pony rides and petting zoo), great music and excellent food, it will be a fun way to spend a summer Saturday, meet old friends and make new ones. Of course there will be all you can drink for free, all day, pure spring water which we give away for free in non-toxic, dishwasher-safe, reusable polypropylene Enviroclear Smart Bottle. A new Elmvale Water Festival SIGG bottle will be available too ! We are also very excited about a very special item in our Silent Auction: a numbered, limited edition print of THE LORAX by Dr. Suess.
Opening the 2010 Elmvale Water Festival will be a Native Water Ceremony, a moving experience you will not want to miss, so come early.
SPEAKERS AND FILMS
We are honoured that our keynote speaker would travel all the way from Canmore, Alberta, to join us for our event: Robert Sandford will be talking about the impacts of climate change on western North America, and signing copies of his latest book “Restoring the Flow. Confronting the Worlds Water Woes”. Bob Sandford is the Canadian Chair of the United Nations International Decade “Water for Life”, a national partnership initiative that aims to advance long-term water quality and availability issues in response to climate change in this country and abroad.
Also, Kevin McMahon will be presenting his award-winning documentary “Waterlife” about the Great Lakes. Kevin is the director of the film which just won the Special Jury Prize at the 2009 Hot Docs film festival.
James Gordon of Wellington Water Watchers will be speaking on “Sustainability of Municipal Water Supplies: The Story of the Wellington Water Watchers”
THANKS TO VOLUNTEERS, OLD AND NEW
With three successful Elmvale Water Festivals behind us, this is a chance for me to thank each of you who have helped us in the past.
If you have not yet rolled up your sleeves to help run our event, you have a new chance to do so, as we are still looking for volunteers to help. Please contact Mike Powell at mike@elmvale.org for details or to join the team.
If you have not yet attended an Elmvale Water Festival, more information can be found at our web site www.elmvale.org. Please be sure to pass along this invitation to friends and family, and help us to get out the word our event. The groundwater in Elmvale which emanates from its artesian springs is fantastic: come out and help us celebrate !
The Elmvale Water Festival is hosted by the Elmvale Foundation, a federally registered charity for environmental education.
As a growing event which has drawn several thousand visitors to the area during the past three years, I very much hope that you will join us in the fun.
Thanks very much, and hope to see you in Elmvale on SATURDAY AUGUST 21, 2010.
Best regards
William Shotyk,
President