Fifty years ago this week — in 1975 — Cochrane Town Council was feeling the pressure from the Ministry of the Environment over the town dump. It’s the topic of our weekly history feature.
A ministry representative was at the February 24th meeting, telling council it had to start moving towards a new landfill, because the existing one was affecting the watercourse.
Mayor Maurice Hotte said the biggest stumbling block was money. “It’s just more than we can afford,” he remarked.
But the mayor promised that once the snow was gone, the municipality would start looking at alternatives, including the use of gulleys to dump garbage into.
All that was reported in the Northland Post.
In that same paper, the Empire Theatre was advertising the classic movie, Gone with the Wind, “in new screen splendor.”
Thank you, as always, to the Cochrane Public Library for the use of its archives for our history feature every week.
