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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1981-07-29, Page 9MUSIC AL COMED/ PRESENT THIS COUPON AT THE GATE AND SAVE $1.00 OFF REGULAR, ADMISSION TO NIMRSLAY, THIS SATURDAY & presents SUNDAY., "We did a course on that this year in biology, and it just interested me," she continued. "I wanted to see what I could do." Learning, and the need to LOVE OR MONEY, July 30, 31 0/41E QUIET IN THE LAND, August 1. tso -r-A 16) kfu FIRE ON ICE, Opening August '4, 5. THE TOMORROW BOX, July 29, 30 at 2 p.m. Rush Seats on sale at 7 p.m. or reserve at 523.9300 or 5234225 Adult Entertainment Shows 7 & 9:15 p.ni. • 'Special Performance GENE HACKMAN Matinee CHRISTOPHER REEVE SuPERM CAPITOL THEATRE Now Air Conditioned 291— 3070 Listowel SEAFORTH JUNIOR FARMERS arbecIle 0,06 -co ttoce Seaforth Community Centre SATURDAY, AUG., 15 1981 Barbecue 5-8 p.m. Pork Chops & Corn on the Cob Bar Opens at 3 p.m. Listen to FM96 for details D A Y B R iirteillg 9,1 CM, Tickets available at the Door Tickets S7:00 per person Advance tickets by Phone only Rob McdretlOt :2624339 or Pete Mattetie 527-1890 Proceeds' to Arena l and & Community Betterment Licence Periding THE BRUSSELS POST, ow 29, 1901 .A9 Learning from experience tO .s IS r, n BY HERB SHOVELLER "1 don't think we could have gotten any better girl," says Lorraine Cook, "She's concerned and she can follow the routine, Lots of things she just watched and then learned." Like Mrs. Cook, Shirley Shobbrook is also pleased with her summer guest. "Martha earns her keep. We're going to try to keep her here for choring in the winter." Guests, actually, may be the wrong description of the two visitors. Mrs. Cook and Mrs. Shobbrook are referring to employees at their farms, but even employees may be the wrong description. Good friends who happen to work for you may be the best way to put it. At the farm of Eldon and Lorraine Cook, the friend is Heather Speakman, a 16- year-old high school student from Toronto who is working this summer in a rural set- ting as a junior agricultualist. The Cook farm is northwest of Blyth. Martha Robertson is the junior agriculturalist at the Shobbrook farm, east of Blyth, also a 16-year-old high school student, is from Cam bridge. The aim of the junior agriculuralist program, which falls under the head- . • ing of Experience 81 and is funded through the Ontario Youth Secretariat, is to ac- quaint young people from an urban background witftrural life. In the province, 189 sttid- ents in seven different reg- ions have left the city for the farm this summer. Of the $18 each summer employee earns in a (lay, $6 is paid by, the host farmer, $6 is contri- buted by Ministry of Agricul- ture and Food (OMAF) and $6 is the daily credit for room and board. The take,home pay of $12 a day:won't ,make them millionaires, but, really, if a student were in it for the money he'd be missing the real point of the exercise. That's because what most of them get is a valuable: practical learning experience in their nine-week stay on the farm, and for that there is a price which can't be calculat- ed. DESIRE TO LEARN At least in the cases of Heather and Martha, know- ledge was their intent when they signed up for the pro- ject. "I wanted to see what the farming life was like, be- cause I had no idea," Heath- er explained list week at an interview at the. Cook farm. "I might Wave a career in agriculture when I get out of s school," and she is currently ! I considering environmental science. J.E. LONGSTAF17: .0IPTOMETRIST- SEA FORTH 5274240 Monday to Priday 9-5:30 Saturday 9.12:00 FREE PARKING ON PREMISES Closed Wednesdays By AppoIntment satisfy her own curiousity, was Martha's reason as well. "It's because I always want- SUMMER STUDENT —Martha Robertson (left) is spending the summer working as a junior agriculturalist at the farm of Charles and Shirley Shobbrook near Blyth. (Photo by Shoveller) BRING A BLANKET OR LAWN CHAIR TO THE LION'S PARK. TICKETS AVAILABLE AT: BLYTH SUMMER THEATRE, MUNICIPAL OFFICE, BLYTH MEAT MARKET NEXT STOP: WINGHAM, AUG. 6 & at ao 8 P.m. With the assistarted Of THE TOURIN'GO'EFIGEOFTHE CfiNAoA ed to live on a farm, and to see what it was like," she said, "and I've always loved animals, so I was interested in farming." Experience, then, really, is the key to the summer pro- gram, and the two junior agriculturalists are learning, both by doing and by watch- ing practically all there is to know on the farm. Well, not quite everything. "We taught(Heather) every- thing there is to know about farming except chewing tob- acco," said Mr. Cook. "She won't chew tobacco." Spitoon shooters' pastime aside, though Heather has had, a hand in much of the summer activity on the Cook farm. Her duties include chores, cleaning out the mangers, painting the hutch- es for the Brown Swiss calves Eldon raises and helping with the baling. Of the baling, Heather said, "I like that a lot, be cause everybody worked hard together. It was a group effort, and it felt good when it was done." For her, too, a life style Please turn to page 10 COUNCIL and THE ONTAillOMINISTRY OR CULTURE ANOREOREATION ,4VE, UP to ritKOrr USING OLD WINTAIuC f1CKET'S