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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1990-04-11, Page 1Jodee Medd off to Canada Science Fair Serving Brussels, Blyth, Auburn, Belgrave, Ethel, Londesborough, Walton and surrounding townships. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 1990.50 CENTS Riddell senses ‘quiet despair’ ► on farm Jack Riddell says he senses a kind of quiet despair on the farm that has him worried. The former Ontario Agriculture Minister told the Members of Parliament Dinner of the Huron County Federation of Agriculture Saturday that farmers are usually loud in expressing their concerns but right now you don’t hear those complaints. “It doesn’t give me a very good message,’’ Mr. Riddell said. He said there seems to be a sense of helplessness and hope­ lessness on the farmers. Canadian governments must be prepared to give the kind of support to our farmers that the U.S. and European Common Mar­ ket countries do, he said. If not “then our industry is going to fall through the cracks’’. He said he would be supporting a private members bill put forward by a New Democratic Party mem­ ber that calls for an interest rate reduction program similar to the Ontario Family Farm Interest Re­ duction program put in place while he was in office. He said he thinks David Ramsay, current Agriculture minister has a similar kind of program in the planning stage. ~ Liquor permits explained The do’s and don’ts of special occasion liquor permits were ex­ plained to about 40 representatives of local sponsoring groups by Lorna J. Rankin, Supervisor, Education and Communications Licence and Permit Branch of the Liquor Licen­ cing Board of Ontario at a meeting in Blyth Thursday night. The representatives from groups in Blyth, Brussels and surrounding areas, learned they are responsible for policing events to make sure minors aren’t served and that those who are served don't over-indulge. She warned that the permit holder for an event is responsible for making sure people leave the event in shape so they can drive and nott endanger themselves or others. There is also an obligation to protect people from entering the Continued on Page 27 JuWECTICIllE OM WXOW JACKET WASPS MAIN EXPT BY USA BOONSTOPPEL “To Bee or not to Bee” was the project done by Jodee Medd of Blyth who found out she was to ‘be’ the winner of the grade 7 biological division, Huron County Science Fair competition to go on to the Canadian competition. Jodee was the finalist in the grade seven, biological division of the competition in Clinton on Saturday and was presented with a book of wildlife paintings and the challenge of competing in the Canada-wide Science fair competi­ tion to be held from May 13 - 20 in Windsor. Jodee, a student at Blyth Public School, did her project on the effects of a commercial fruit tree insecticide on yellow jacket wasps. She got the idea after watching a neighbour use a fruit spray on his apple tree. “I saw my neighbour spraying the tree with Malathion and I wanted to see if it would really affect the wasps,” said Jodee. She started in September by collecting bees from the tree in the early morning hours when the bees were still drowsy and filled four aquariums with 25 bees each. Then, she doused apple pieces with different percentages of the mala­ thion to determine how potent the spray needed to be to kill the bees. She discovered that a solution strength of 33.3 percent (diluted with water) would kill the bees. Jodee’s conclusion from the pro­ ject was that the insecticide would greatly harm the yellow jacket wasps and recommends that users should dilute the spray enough to only keep away the bees, not kill them. Jodee’s project will be going against hundreds of other projects by Canadian students in Windsor where she will be required to answer judge’s questions on the two solid days of judging and engage in science workshops, tours and social activities the other three days. Other students to compete at the Canadian competition are Sedric Puddy and Duncan Mowbray of Brookside who won the grade 8 biological division; Bryan Currie of Goderich who won the grade seven physical division and David Thiel of Zurich who won the grade eight physical division. Colouring contest winners Jodee Medd’s experiment on the affects of fruit tree insecticide on yellow jacket wasps impressed the judges at the Huron County Science Fair in Clinton so much, they chose her as the winner in the grade seven biological division to go on to the Canadian Science Fair com pet it ion in Windsor from May 13 to 20. named The two grand prize winners ot the colouring contest sponsored by area merchants in The Citizen have been chosen. Winners of three-foot high chocolate rabbits are Nicole Foxton of Brussels and Sherri Robinson. More than 700 entries were made at sponsoring merchants in the area. Each store chose winners in the children 4 - 8 and children 9 - 12 categories. All the winners from all the stores were eligible for the grand prizes as well as winning prizes of $2 for first and one dollar for second at the store level. The grand prize winners were drawn after the judges gave up trying to choose between the 120 winning entries sent along from the stores.