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Fuel crisis may change
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Brussels Bulls continue
winning ways
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A lasting Gift
Musical brings
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VOL. 6 NO. 47 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1990.50 CENTS
Elementary
teachers
get 6.1%
raise
The Huron County Board of
Education and its 420 elementary
teachers represented by the Huron
Women Teachers’ Association and
the Ontario Public School Teach
ers’ Federation ratified a collective
agreement for the 1990/91 and
1991/92 school years. It was after
considerable discussion during a
closed session on Monday night
that the trustees accepted the
recommendation. Only Norman
Picked and Norm Wilson voted
against.
Superintendent of Personnel
Gino Giannandrea explained tea
chers would receive an increase in
salary by 6.1 per cent for the first
year and a further five per cent
increase in 1991/92. In addition he
said a cost of living protecter clause
has been added for the second year
should the consumer price index
from April 1991 to April 1992
exceed five per cent. As of January
1, 1991 the minimum and maxi
mum teachers’ salaries will be
$23,966 and $59,161 respectively.
Mr. Giannandrea said that there
have been some benefit enhance
ments added to the contract as
well. The agreement calls for
increases in the Board share of
costs for the vision and dental care
plans. Teachers guaranteed pre
paration time will increase from
120 to 140 minutes over the life of
the agreement.
Mr. Giannandrea agreed that
with the country in recession and
the boards already facing budget
difficulties, the contract was a hard
one to settle, but he believes in the
long run it will be worth it. “In
most of the other counties teachers
are agreeing to increases in the six
plus per cent range. That’s what
we feel we have to pay to keep good
teachers.’’
Spokespersons representing the
teachers are “happy and relieved
with the agreement.’’
OPSTF President Howard Mor
ton said, “That’s the only thing you
can say. Look at Lambton County
where the teachers are in the 25th
day of a strike. This is three months
past the fact.’’
“When you start into a new year
without reaching an agreement it is
scary,” added HWTA President
Lillian Hallam. “We’re glad it’s
done.”
Final act
With recent dry sunny weather north Huron farmers have been able to get off nearly all their corn and
soybeans and are into the last act of the cropping season, plowing. The good fall weather helped
farmers recover from a rainy September and early October that threatened their ability to harvest
crops.
Recycling Week marked by local success
Since the idea of recycling
caught and took shape in munici
palities throughout the area about
two years ago, the success of each
program has been reportedly
phenomenal.
Donna White, Clerk of Brussels,
who was the driving force behind
the initiation of recycling in the
village, said that the people should
be congratulated for their efforts.
There have been few problems,
just minor ones, like not cleaning
recyclables or using the blue bags
for regular garbage, she said, but
for the most part everyone has
caught on to the idea.
Now Donna said the village is
beginning to look at a composting
program for 1991 if the budget
allows.
Morris Township recently made
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Local farmers
succeed
Royally
Bodmin Ltd. of RR 5, Brussels,
has been named the Premier
Exhibitor of market hogs at the
Royal Agricultural Winter Fair in
Toronto for the fourth year in a
row.
The prestigious award was pre
sented to George Procter, general
manager of the company’s Swine
Division, during an intermission at
the Royal horse show on Friday
evening. Mr. Procter has accepted
the same award each year since
1987, a remarkable feat in the
five-year history of the Shur-Gain
National Market Hog Classic at the
Royal.
The title is the result of Bodmin
Ltd. hogs winning the highest total
number of points in the four classes
of the National Classic, which
began with the Carcass Competi
tion on Nov. 9 and wound up with
the Single, Pair and Group-of-three
market hogs classes last Thursday.
Bodmin Ltd. took the Champion
ship with its group of three barrows
and the Reserve Championship
with its pair of gilts, as well as
placing 4th in the single hog class
and third in the carcass class for a
total of 17 points out of a possible
20. In addition, one of the Bodmin
animals set a competition record
with an average daily gain (ADG)
of three lbs. per day, weighing in at
300 lbs. on the final day of the
show.
Bob Robinson of Vista Villa
Farms Ltd. at RR 4, Walton, won
the championship in the carcass
class and placed fifth with a pair of
market hogs in the same competi
tion.
In dairy competition, Paul and
Lorraine Franken’s Jersey cow
Gusta MC Micky was first in the
three year old class and won
honourable mention in a class of 53
for the senior champion. The
Auburn-area couple’s cow had
earlier won first in the three-year-
old class and reserve champion at
the World Dairy Expo at Madison,
Wisconsin.
There were 289 head of cattle in
the Jersey competition at the Royal
this year, the largest number since
1963.
Another Auburn-area Jersey
breeder Fred Armstrong and his
family placed well taking first in
class in the junior champion with a
heifer shown by John Armstrong
and taking third in the junior
yearling class. The junior yearling
was sold in the Sale of Stars to a
Guelph-area farm.
The Armstrong family had re
turned from Louisville Kentucky
just in time for the Royal. In
Kentucky their Royal Junior Cham
pion had also been first in the
Junior Show. Lori Armstrong had
also shown a heifer that placed
fourth in Kentucky.
In the Brown Swiss category
Eldon and Lorraine Cook of Bel
grave placed second for the Breed
er’s Herd and second for Progeny
of Dam. The awards were an
accumulation of their herd’s show
ing which included a fourth in the
calf class, ninth in summer year
ling, fifth in three-year-old dry
cow, second in three-year-old and
three-year-old futurity, fifth in
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