Tillsonburg Council put concerns for citizen’s safety ahead of a business interest.  A service station on Broadway wanted to put in a propane filling station, and was requesting a reduction in the required distance between the tank and nearby homes.  Local citizens came to council to voice their concerns about possible catastrophic problems if something were to happen.  Council sided with the citizens so the propane filling station will not be built.

Council has approved a zoning change that will allow a daycare to move into a building on King Street South of Third.  The one major concern for the daycare is the adjacent CP rail line. The railway will be consulted about train schedules, the number of trains and fencing of the area.

The Town of Tillsonburg Council has added bylaw enforcement responsibilities to a couple of employees.  This will allow more people to monitor bylaw infractions and issue the appropriate tickets.  It also helps cover off for the regular bylaw enforcement officers when it comes to time off for vacations or sickness or other duties.

Tillsonburg Council has been told that the local hospital will be losing funding for Complex Care Beds in town because there is a greater need for those beds in Grey Bruce.  Mayor John Lessif understands that the South West Local Health Integration Network only has so much money to spread in an area that stretches from Lake Erie to Tobermory and from Oxford County to west of London.  But he is miffed that the funding for the needed beds is coming from smaller jurisdictions because Council was told that the city of London is not giving up any CCC beds. Lessif says one of the problems is the lack of representation on the LHIN from Oxford County.  LHIN is actually looking for two volunteers for the board from the County.

As a result of the City of Woodstock taking the County to the Ontario Municipal Board over extending waste water services to the county works yard on the 11^th line, Oxford is scaling back the project.

Because of the question around waste water, the County will not proceed with the construction of the vehicle wash bays that were to be added to the building.  Construction will proceed on adding shop space, office space, an employee lunchroom and more storage space for long term storage for county records.  If the OMB sides with Woodstock and does not allow the County to connect to the waste water system, then work could be carried out to increase the capacity of the septic system.  If the Woodstock appeal is turned down, no expansion of the septic system would be necessary.

Walker Environmental has not given the County a firm answer on whether an epidemiologist study and report will be part of the final terms of reference around the proposed landfill in Centreville. Oxford  County, Ingersoll and Southwest Oxford Councils all passed a similar bylaw requesting that Walker use the epidemiologist to look at the possible long term health effects from living near a dump,  While Walker did not specifically say they would bring the scientist on board, they did say that they were exploring options to resolve the long term health concerns before the final terms of reference are submitted to the Environment Ministry.

Woodstock would still like the County to take the old Thomas Bus property off their hands.  The City thinks that the County could use the site for their works yard.  In return, the County would close the works yard on the 11^th line.  A concern around the condition of the soil on the site would not be a factor in this deal.  The site soil is contaminated, and for many purposes would have to be cleaned up, which both the City and County say is a very expensive proposition.  But, because of the fact there are similar industrial uses for the land, soil remediation would not be necessary.  Council decided to receive the report as information, which in political terms means that the County is not interested in the land.

Oxford County is supporting Norwich Township when it comes to setting some rules and regulations around the proposed ProWind turbine complex on Gunn’s Hill Road.  One of the biggest concerns raised by Norwich Mayor Don Doan is the amount of cement that will be poured into the ground to support the turbine towers.  The turbines are free standing structures with no guide wires to support them, so the base will to go deep into the ground.  Both Norwich and the County want assurances that once the life span of the towers is exhausted, that all of the cement be removed.  Both levels of government also want numerous controls on roads and traffic around the site, full site decommissioning, emergency servicing and other issues to be clarified and dealt with before construction begins.

Industries, commercial and institutions that make a concerted effort to reduce the amount of water consumed and waste water put into the system will see those efforts rewarded.  County Council has approved  staff recommendation that will provide businesses with extra incentives to conserve water and lower the amount of waste water.  Those bonuses will be on top of the savings that come from lower regular charges.

Staff of the Southwestern Ontario Local Integrated Health Network got a rough ride at Ingersoll Council over a report that will be presented to the LIN Board of Directors the end of the month.  The reduction calls for a more than 50% reduction in the number of Complex Continuing Care Beds at Alexandra Hospital.  Complex Care beds are used in a hospital to service patients whose care needs are beyond those that could be received in a long term care facility or in the home.  The report says the move is to try and get as many seniors back into their homes as possible, but that moves will be accompanied by bed closures to save money in the system.  There are currently 63 complex care beds among the three hospitals in Oxford County, 14 of them in Ingersoll.  The LIN report originally suggested removing all of the beds from Alexandra Hospital, but the recommendation will be to keep 5.  There will be a similar reduction in Tillsonburg but all of the complex care beds in Woodstock will stay.   Ingersoll Councilors were most upset on two fronts…the fact that Alexandra Hospital is losing any beds at all and the fact that they are receiving this information so late in the process which will make working on changes difficult if not impossible.

A bylaw controlling clothing donation bylaws will be coming back to Ingersoll Council.  Deputy Mayor Fred Freeman has asked the clerk to generate a new bylaw and send it to committee before it comes back to council for approval.  Mayor Ted Comiskey says most people think they are donating their used clothing to a charity, but in reality the clothes are being sold for private profit.  The other problem is that the bins are being dropped on vacant property without the consent of the owners.  Zorra Township has a bylaw controlling clothing bins and it seems to have the problem under control.

Ingersoll Town Council is supporting an Oxford County Council motion requesting that an epidemiologist be added to the Environmental Review around the proposed landfill in the Carmeuse quarry in Centreville.  The epidemiologist would study possible long term health effects that could arise living near a dump.  Walker Environmental the company proposing the dump is drafting their terms of reference for the Environmental Assessment Process.  The final terms of reference will be approved by the Ministry of the Environment and will be subject to a peer review from a committee hired by the County and three municipalities.

Ingersoll Mayor Ted Comiskey feels stricter controls have to be placed on the large item pickup or the amount of trash will continue to grow.  Comiskey was commenting after a staff report that said public works in the town picked up 16,000 more kilograms of trash this year than last.  The Mayor says many items that were left out for large item pickup should have been recycled or placed for regular pick up.  Comiskey says the situation will be reviewed by staff.

Tonight  Partly cloudy. 30 percent chance of showers early this evening with risk of a thunderstorm. Wind west 20 km/h becoming light this evening. Low 15.

Monday  Increasing cloudiness. 60 percent chance of showers late in the afternoon with risk of a thunderstorm. Wind becoming west 20 km/h in the afternoon. High 24. UV index 7 or high.

Monday night  Cloudy. 60 percent chance of showers early in the evening. Becoming partly cloudy after midnight. Risk of a thunderstorm early in the evening. Wind northwest 20 km/h becoming light near midnight. Low 11.

Tuesday  A mix of sun and cloud with 30 percent chance of showers. High 22.

Wednesday  Sunny. Low 10. High 25.

Thursday  Sunny. Low 13. High 26.

Friday  Sunny. Low 15. High 28.

Saturday  A mix of sun and cloud with 30 percent chance of showers. Low 19. High 26.

A 38 year old man from Bright is facing numerous charges including impaired operation of a motor vehicle causing death after an accident last night in Plattsville killed one man and seriously injured his passenger. 

According to the OPP, just before 10 last (Saturday) night, a pick up truck was in collision with another vehicle. The driver was pronounced dead at the scene and the female passenger was airlifted to hospital in London with critical injuries. She is reported in stable condition. 

The victims' names have not been released.

Jeffrey De La Penotiere faces 3 charges and is in custody pending a bail hearing. (bd)

NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION

Championship Final
Miami 104 San Antonio 114
(San Antonio leads series 3-2)

BASEBALL
Intercounty League
Brantford Red Sox at London Majors (PPD)
Guelph 10 Hamilton 11
Burlington 6 Toronto 4
Barrie 11 Kitchener 5

American League

Chien-Ming Wang won for the first time in more than a year, Colby Rasmus homered for a third straight game, and the visiting Toronto Blue Jays completed a four-game of sweep by beating the Texas Rangers 7-2 on Sunday for their fifth straight victory.
 Texas has dropped six straight for the first time since April, 2010.
Wang (1-0) allowed seven hits in seven shutout innings to win for the first time since last June 12 with Washington.
Adam Lind hit a three-run homer, and J.P. Arencibia added a two-run shot for Toronto. The Blue Jays outscored the Rangers 24-4 to sweep a four-game series at Texas for the first time.
Derek Holland (5-4) allowed four runs and 10 hits in six innings for the Rangers, who have only scored eight runs in their slide.

Boston 3 Baltimore 6
Kansas City 5 Tampa Bay 3
Chicago White Sox 4 Houston 5
Detroit 5 Minnesota 2
Toronto 7 Texas 2
N.Y. Yankees 6 L.A. Angels 5
Seattle 2 Oakland 10

National League
Chicago Cubs 3 N.Y. Mets 4
Milwaukee 1 Cincinnati 5
St. Louis 2 Miami 7
L.A. Dodgers 3 Pittsburgh 6
Arizona 1 San Diego 4
Philadelphia 2 Colorado 5
San Francisco 0 Atlanta 3

Interleague
Washington 0 Cleveland 2 

Kim Kardashian has given birth to a girl in Los Angeles.  The daughter was reportedly delivered about a month early by C-section.
It's the first child for the 32-year-old reality T-V star, whose divorce from N-B-A player Kris Humphries was finalized only 10-days ago.
They separated after only 72 days of marriage in 2011.
The father of Kardashian's baby is rapper Kanye West.

Firefighters in Colorado are making progress against the most destructive wildfire in that state's history.
They say the blaze near Colorado Springs is 55 per cent contained.
Since it started five days ago, the fire has killed two people, destroyed almost 500 homes, and charred more than 60 square kilometres.