Saturday, April 07, 2007

 

Environmental group's financial records sought

BY Robert Wang
The Canton Repository

BOLIVAR - Stark County Health Commissioner Bill Franks wants Club 3000's financial records.

He wants to know how much money the environmental activist group has received since 2002. He wants to know the names of all the people who gave the group money. And if anyone made a noncash donation, he'd like to know about that, too.

But Franks, who is set to recommend whether to shut down the Countywide Recycling and Disposal Facility, won't say why he wants this information. Nor will he say whether this inquiry has anything to do with his investigation of Countywide, which has had a chronic odor problem, apparently due to chemical reactions involving aluminum waste. Club 3000 has sought to curtail Countywide's operations since it opened in 1991 in Pike Township....Read more.