CHARLEVOIX COUNTY PRESS Vol

EAST JORDAN PUBLIC LIBRARY PO BOX G VAST JOR'JAM MI 49727 CHARLEVOIX COUNTY PRESS Vol. 103, No. 44 January 5,1983 25 cents Boyne City rejects county waste plan Voting to table approval of the Solid The concern underlying the DNR's solve the problem of financing that the Waste Committee's plan until mandat mandating county plans for solid waste communities face if they accept the ed by the state or until funds are disposal is, as Sullivan said, to prevent plan, Larry Sullivan explained it was available to implement it, Boyne City contamination of groundwater. Once it left vague in spots on purpose to allow commissioners, in effect, added their is contaminated the costs of decon flexibility. veto to the countywide plan. Four other tamination are nearly astronomical. ft" a community were mandated to communities in the county have tabled Levengood said pollution comes not finance any of their measures with it. Ten have approved. just from big industry. Small town taxes and then a court decision like the The solid waste plan itself was not businesses have waste chemicals, and, decision won by Delta County came the problem, commissioners agreed; it he said, "the majority of priority along, "we in effect, exclude the was the price tag required by pollutants are generated from house community from receiving funds." procedures outlined by the Depart holds." Commissioner Bill Grimm asked, ment of Natural Resources. Cfty man Levengood noted that Charlevoix, "for the record," he said, "What ager Tim Clifton has pointed out that Petoskey, Traverse City, and other guarantee is there that if the invest the total cost of either closing a landfill neighboring cities are having water ment (to make a licensed landfill) were operation or getting it licensed would contamination problems. "And Boyne made by, say, a private dealer, that run into the hundreds of thousands of City soils are no less sandy," he said. there wouldn't be another demand dollars, if done in exact compliance to Councilwoman Thelma Behling com made in, say, seven years?" the state's Public Act 641. mented that the federal government Sullivan answered, "There is a "Public Act 641 will change," said doesn't hesitate about creating and provision in 641 for five or seven years Dennis Jason, Jason represented the burying nuclear wastes. to accommodate new standards." committee at the commissioners' meet She noted that Boyne City has 160 The county's plan calls for closure of ing Tuesday, Jan. 4. He added, "Every acres and has barely used 10. The point landfills not licensed by the DNR by act is updated." was that some sort of cooperation 1984. Jason said, "I think implementa Meantime, if the committee doesn't might have resulted in a portion of the tion would be a two or three year get % approval out of the 19 com county arranging to continue the use of process." munities in the county, county planner the landfill. As it stands, the county And if Boyne City didn't comply? Larry Sullivan said, they will either try plan calls for one licensed landfill. Sullivan answered that he didn't know to "make changes in the plan, or turn None had been license-able by the when the DNR would exact compli it over to the DNR, which can do as it DNR until Ironton's privately operated ance..."Could be a week," he said. sees fit." fill was approved late in 1982. Nearly all the other counties in As to the chances of getting appro The plan then asks communities like Michigan are going through the same val, Larry Levengood, County Health Boyne City to transfer their waste to effort, with county committees trying to Department sanitarian said, "We want the central landfill with packer trucks. draw up plans that satisfy both their everyone to review it. Don't consider The central landfill is much more communities and the DNR. Out of 10 in things final." cost efficient, according to the data the northern Michigan, Sullivan said, most The committee has until June before committee used. are at the same stage as Charlevoix the plan is due for submission to the Asked why the solid waste com County is. DNR. mittee did not make some effort to Vendors ask market to run two days The harvest of 1982 brings this more than those of last year, she said. The income from the market is from .report on the farmers' market in Boyne Vendors and customers both have the fees charged by the center for the City. Leanna Hardy, director of the requested the market again for next use of a stall where the farmers and Yes, there is snow up here in the North contrary to popular of the beauty In snowfalls that frequently hit the area in the Senior Citizen Center, said the market year. They would like it to be open on home gardeners displayed their beliefs of city dwellers. This picture was taken just after last winter time. Of course we are expecting a lot more snow to netted the center J258.20. Wednesdays as well as Saturdays. produce. week's snowfall back in the woods on Horton Creek. While fall around the area so that the snowmobllers and cross The summer of 1982 was the third Last summer they had 45 vendors, The market was open for 13 weeks. toe picture isn't exactly a news picture, we thought it looked country skiers will have plenty of It to partake hi their year the seniors had sponsored the Hardy said, and much more help from The last week was free for the vendors, nice enough anyway that we wanted to use It to show some favorite sports. project, and the returns were $63.60 the seniors in running it than ever Hardy said, in appreciation for their before. support. Sheriff's department went after drunk drivers over week-end For driver protection on New Year's OUIL arrests were made on New Year's three days in jail for a first offense, five four classes as a means of cutting down the sheriff commented. He thought the "Emmet and Charlevoix are among Eve, the sheriffs office had four cars Eve. days for a second. The jail sentence can Tin repeaters out on the road. weather might have helped to hold it those with the highest per capita rate out patrolling the county, double the The sheriff said the district court go to a year in certain circumstances. Howell said if a driver refuses the down. of drunk drivers in the state," he usual number. Sheriff George Lasater pursues the policy with which he is in In addition, there are fines and court breathalizer test, then, according to the His department will have a grant explained. The federal government said one each was in the general area complete accord, that "all drunk costs, probation possible for a year, state's Implied Consent law, the driver from the Office of Highway Safety, funding is specifically directed to such of Charlevoix, Boyne City, and East drivers arrested in Charlevoix County and, as of March 1982, follow-up automatically loses his or her driver's Lasater said. His application for areas. are guaranteed time in jail." Jordan, and the fourth stayed with the counselling for those suffering with a license for 90 days. She added that $38,000, earmarked for reduction of According to Howell, in April Mich high concentrations of traffic. According to Laurie Howell, district drinking problem. OUIL applies to operation of snowmo drunk driving in the county, has been igan will have an all-new law on drunk Lasater had public radio warnings court probation officer, if convicted of Alcohol highway safety classes are biles, boats, motorcycles, and trucks, approved, he said, although he doesn't driving. It will be more severe, she out that drunk driving convictions operating under the influence of liquor also part of the procedures. These cost as well as cars. know yet exactly what amount will be said. would result in jail sentences, and two (OUIL), the driver gets a sentence of $75 and consist of two interviews and This New Year's was not a bad one, awarded. 1982; a year in review Continued from last week JUNE session of a firearm during a felony, stored on Beaver Island. South Arm waters. Area school districts took care of Top O'Michigan Rural Electric Co. East Jordan is looking at the possi said arresting officer Randy Howard. Three candidates are running for Two of the rafts, racing down the their housekeeping chores Monday as customers will have an opportunity to bility of producing its own electricity. Twenty dollars was stolen. mayor in East Jordan. Boyne River for Fourth of July festivi they held their annual organizational participate in the advisory vote on City superintendent Mike Dionne has The Day of the Eagle will be iatur- They are Cal Gotts, Bill Merwin and ties, were assembled and crewed by meetings. whether Northern Michigan Electric prepared a "Notice of Intent" to the day, June 12, in East Jordan. Al Joseph. Present mayor Archie Nem- women. They were among the approx In Boyne City, president George Cooperative Inc. should merge with state department of commerce stating Indians from all over North Michigan ecek is not running again. imately 20 competitors. Shiotelis was elected by his fellow Wolverine Electric Cooperative. the city would like to conduct a will gather at the East Jordan High The county solid waste planning It was probably the biggest crowd board members to another term. Mark One of the leading critics of aspects feasibUity study of producing electri School soccer field from 1 to 5 p.m.

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