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County of Huron
Culvert Rehabilitations (2)
SEALED BIDS, on forms supplied by the Contract Administrator, in the envelopes provided, will be received at
the County of Huron, Public Works Department, 1 Court House Square, Goderich, ON N7A 1M2 until:
3:00 p.m., local time Wednesday, April 27, 2011
County Road 25 Culvert Rehabilitation (25 - 16.5) – Contract No.: 2011-001
The existing structure is a 3.49 m x 2.56 m concrete box culvert. The rehabilitation includes extending the cul-
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County Road 25 Culvert Rehabilitation (25 - 31.2) – Contract No.: 2011-001
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HURON COUNTY
HOUSING
CORPORATION
Reference #:
S.F.T.(HS) 2011-8
Bids are invited to supply all labour,
material and equipment necessary for
Door Hardware Replacement at 400
Alexander Street, Brussels.
A mandatory site meeting will be held
Wednesday, April 13, 2011, at 9:00 a.m.
at 50 Market Street, Seaforth.
Bids will be received for the above until
11:00 a.m. local time Wednesday, April
20, 2011,by the Huron County
Housing Corporation, 77722D London
Road, Clinton, ON N0M 1L0, 519-482-
8505, from whom specifications and
details may be obtained.
THE LOWEST OR ANY TENDER
NOT NECESSARILY ACCEPTED
NOW BOOKING – TWO-BEDROOM
cottage with bunkhouse at Point
Clark, includes fully-equipped
kitchen, gas barbecue, fire pit,
horseshoe pit and much more, close
to lighthouse and beach. To find out
more or to book your holiday call
519-523-4799 after 6:00 p.m. tfn
VENDORS WANTED FOR BLYTH
Area Farmers’ Market. Earn up to
$500 a week selling your vegetables,
fruit, home baking, preserves or
crafts, Saturday afternoons, June 25
to September 3. Indications of
interest needed by April 30 to ensure
there will be a market this year. For
more information call Keith at 519-
523-4792 (days) or 519-523-9636.
06-12
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I HAVE A FEMALE ST. BERNARD
that wants pups. Do you have a male
St. Bernard that could help? Call
Brian 519-887-6964. 14-1
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Wanted
The hard work of the Ontario
Agricultural Sustainability Coalition
(OASC) has finally produced
positive results. As many people
know, the 2011 provincial budget
was announced this week and
farmers received the eagerly
anticipated news that new types of
Business Risk Management
programming are coming for many
Ontario Farmers.
Presenting solutions that will
cover the programming gaps found
in existing programs like Agri-
Stability has been the ongoing work
of the OASC. The coalition, made
up of a wide variety of agricultural
organizations, including the
Christian Farmers Federation of
Ontario (CFFO), has been
concerned about the resiliency of the
provincial agricultural sector and
has worked tirelessly towards
solutions.
Our provincial government
recognized that volatility in
commodity markets is an issue for
farmers in managing business risks.
The 2011 budget announced the
extension of the current pilot Risk
Management Program for grain and
oilseed farmers. Furthermore, the
government will also implement a
new Risk Management Program for
the cattle, hog, sheep and veal
sectors. Fruit and vegetable growers
will be getting a new Self-Directed
Risk Management Program.
These new risk management
programs represent an innovative
approach in providing bankable,
stable and predictable support for
Ontario’s farmers while responding
to market trends in the long-
term.
However, the job for CFFO and
OASC isn’t done yet. The federal
government still isn’t on board with
regionally flexible business risk
management programming. Moving
forward, the efforts of OASC will
need to focus on convincing
the federal government that
regionally specific programming
is a necessity due to the sheer
diversity of agriculture across
Canada,
The CFFO would like to thank
Carol Mitchell, the Minister of
Agriculture, and the staff at
OMAFRA for their hard work and
support in making these new
programs a reality. It took courage
and leadership on the part of our
province to move ahead alone in
supporting Ontario’s farmers.
Continued from page 12
way partnership, on a voluntary
basis Ontario farmers would repay
premiums representing 30 per cent
of the long-term cost of the
insurance program with the federal
and provincial governments
contributing the remainder in
accordance with the traditional
60/40 (federal/provincial) split. In
the absence of federal government
participation, it is envisioned both te
premiums and the program benefits
would be scaled back accordingly.
Ontario Pork and the Ontario
Cattlemen’s Association look
forward to working closely with the
Minister on both the program design
and an implementation plan that
ensures Ontario farmers get the
immediate support they require in
2011 from this insurance-based
program. They will also continue to
support their fellow members of the
Ontario Agricultural Sustainability
Coalition (OASC).
Local businesses are seizing an
opportunity to recreate themselves
and their online presence with
Stacked Design & Development, a
home-grown development firm that
is working with several businesses
in North Huron and Perth.
With three former Central Huron
Secondary School graduates
forming the core of the business, the
company has grown out of big city
experiences and small town values.
They’ve shown what they’re
capable of with previous work for
the Taste of Huron culinary festival,
Facile Perth and Quit2Win and are
currently working with the Blyth
Inn, OMB Construction and The
Old Mill to refresh their online
presence.
Tyler From and Ian McFarlan,
two of the company’s three core
members say that when they
graduated they went to Toronto to
find their fortunes.
The trio found themselves drawn
back to Huron County, however,
and are happy for the oppoortunity
to start their own company here.
The company began as a part-time
endeavor for From, McFarlan and
James Wheeler in June of 2010 and
offers web, brand, mobile
application and graphic design as its
major services.
On May 10, the three were
discussing the option of being their
own boss and trying to run their
own firm, and they decided to take
the plunge.
The three have overlapping skill
sets that allow them to work well
together.
From has experience in
marketing, print and web design,
while McFarlan has design
experience and has also learned
programming. Wheeler is the
programming back bone of the
company, creating web-based
programs for websites and mobile
applications for Blackberry and
Apple’s mobile platforms Google’s
Android operating system.
“I’ve worked in print design,
brand development and front-end
web design,” From explained.
“[McFarlan] has worked in web
design, and facilitates my designs.
[Wheeler] does most of the
programming.”
“[Wheeler] is amazing,”
McFarlan added. “He writes the
programs and makes the
development happen.”
McFarlan stated that the name
came from the idea of their
overlapping skill sets.
“The three of us together makes a
stacked team,” he said.
Their experience before the
company formed plays a strong part
in their ability to create websites
and brand images, however, what
really makes their work stand out,
according to From, is the
relationships that existed before the
experiences.
“We’re three best friends working
together,” he said. “The
communication is just amazing,
sometimes we don’t even need to
say a word before we know exactly
what needs to be done.”
The friendship makes the long
days, sometimes 18 hours or more,
seem less like work and more like a
passion according to McFarlan.
The three worked in Toronto for
various companies before decided
to strike out on their own.
From explained that the three of
them had similar experiences in
their lines of work. They all felt that
they were working for the bottom
line and wanted to have a more
personal line of business.
“I love helping people, and we
want that to be the core of our
business,” he said. “We don’t want
to focus on making money, we want
to help people, and that’s part of
being in Huron County.”
From and McFarlan agreed that
Huron County has special attributes
that bring people here.
“I love being here and
reconnecting with people,” From
said. “There’s something about
being here. It’s the people and the
area, it’s just beautiful.”
“It’s a hidden gem,” McFarlan
said. “We’re passionate about the
area and our work.”
From stated that Huron County is
a different world from Toronto, and
it’s one that the members of the
company want to be part of. He also
said that, in Toronto, he found that
the movement was to a more
transparent way of business, and
that already existed in Huron
County.
“Things are becoming more
transparent, and we feel that is how
things are already done here.” He
said. “We like that, we want to talk
to people like they are people. We
want our customers to talk to us like
we’re neighbours, not like we’re in
some ivory tower of technology.”
From said that, from the contracts
the company has already found,
they’ve realized that their product is
going to be unique.
“We’ve already seen people who
have been misled, or people who
think they can’t afford or get what
they want,” he said. “We love being
able to tell them we can do that.”
McFarlan agreed, stated that there
seems to be misconceptions about
technology in rural areas.
“The conception is that the
technology isn’t there, or people
don’t know how to use it,” he said.
“But the opposite should be true.
Huron County is so spread out, and
there’s such a market for this kind of
technology that it’s a great place for
this kind of business.”
What originally started as a part-
time side job has quickly blossomed
into full-time work for the three, so
much to the point that they’ve
brought in some other former
classmates and friends for contract
work.
The group currently uses a virtual
office space to work together from
home but will be moving into a
physical office space in the future.
For more information, visit
www.stackeddesign.ca
CHSS students
start firm in Huron
By Denny Scott
The Citizen
RMP is welcomed
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