HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1988-07-27, Page 8PAGE 8. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 1988.
The tantalizing aroma of barbecued pork chops was bringing
customers in off the street on July 13 as some of Brussels' best chefs
took turns at the outdoor grill. Cooking at the annual St. John's
Anglican Church pork barbecue were [from left] Bush Whittard, Gord
Cowman, Danny Pearson and Clarence McCutcheon.
CKNX, CBC to part company
for more variety, more cost
One of the biggest changes in
local television viewing since the
coming of CKNX 33 years ago will
happen September 4 when CKNX
and CFPL television cease to
broadcast CBC programming.
The move means new freedom
for the two stations to broadcast
what they want, when they want,
but for those outside areas with
cable television it means anyone
who wants to continue to receive
such CBC programming as The
National and The Journal or
Hockey Night in Canada, will have
to purchase a new UHF antenna.
Local viewers will still be able to
receive CBC programming over
new repeater stations located
throughout southwestern Ontario
broadcasting the signal of CBLT
Toronto over a UHF frequency.
One of the repeaters will be
channel 45 located at Formosa.
A spokesman for the cable
television operations in Blyth and
Women Today elects '88- '89 Board
Women Today President Mag
gie Crane described herself as
“delighted’ ’ with the Huron Coun
ty women’s organization’s new
board of directors at a July 21 board
meeting.
Ms. Crane is serving her first
year as the organization’s presi
dent. A teacher, she is the former
program co-ordinator of Women
Today’s Women Being Well pro
ject.
“This past year if you had told
me I’d be the president of Women
Today, I would have said, “Not
Me! But... here I am,’’ she said.
“It is exciting, exhilarating, and
overwhelming, but I wouldn’t
change it for anything.’’
The new board is composed of 10
womenfromaroundthe county,
including a number first-time
board members. Crane will be
assisted in her new role by Past
President Beth Fulton of the
Belgrave area, Shelley Hartman, a
freelance bookkeeper, will con
tinue her role as treasurer.
Other continuing board mem
bers include Jean Schoebl, a nurse
who is active in the Midwifery
Support Group; Carol Casey, a
single mother and post co-ordina
tor of Women Today’s Kids Today
project; and Fran McQuail, who
operates a farm with her husband
south of Lucknow.
New members include Beth
Ross, chief librarian with the
Huron County Public Library
system; Nancy Brown-Brunton, a
social worker who is currently
caring for her seven-month old
son; Brigette Wolf, who runs her
own glass works business; and
Mary Sehl, co-orindator of the
Huron County Community Child
Abuse Co-ordinating Committee.
The Women Today board ex
pects to be busy with a number of
projects including the $45,000
Health Outreach project announc
ed earlier this year. The two-year
project funded by the Ministry of
Health’s Health Promotion Branch
will offer educational opportuni
ties on health issues beginning this
fall. It will continue Women
Today’s successful facilitator
training program which encour
ages women to start self-help
groups as a way to promote their
own health and that of others.
The organization has also receiv
ed a grant from the Ministry of
Community and Social Services to
maintain its library and working
centre and to continue its support
of ongoing self-help groups.
Amongthegroupsitsupports is
“People First’’, a self-help, self
advocacy group organized by and
for people with mental handicaps.
Ministry of Community and
Social Services funding has also
been provided for “KidsToday”, a
children’s resource centre located
at the Women Today office in
Clinton. The resource centre will
offer non-sexist consciousness-
raising books and toys for children.
Board member Carol Casey, who
co-ordinated the project, said the
organization is “investigating the
setting up of a toy-lending library
and drop-in for mothers and their
children.
“What the Kids Today project
becomes will depend on the needs
and input of the membership,’’ she
added.
Board president Crane said
“We hope to open up to (Huron
County women) our vision of
Women Today and to invite (them)
to enter into the flow in a more
active and exciting way.’’
She described her involvement
with Women Today as “a time of
learning, excitement, frustration,
and friendship. The support and
bonding that happens when a
group of women come together
with a common goal is something
hard to find and is to
cherished.”
CFFO seeks gov't $$$
to aid drought victims
be
Brussels said that the CKNX and
CFPL signals will remain in their
currentplacesandthe newCBC
signal will be added as soon as it is
available.
For those outside the areas
served by cable, however, a UHF
antenna will be necessary, Irvin
Bowes of Bowes Electronics Shop
in Blyth said Monday. With other
UHF channels such as channels 18,
31 arid 35 already coming into the
area, he said, his company has
already installed more than 100
UHF antennas. One antenna will
accept all signals from channel 14
through 83.
The cost of adding the new
antennatoa current system can
range from $ 100 to $300 depending
on quality. Those getting a totally
new system can get combination
antennas at some saving.
More movies and more local
news will be the big gains for local
viewers when CKNX television
goes independent of the CBC.
On the news side, the station
promises50percent more news
each day. The big addition will be a
new magazine-format show that
will feature Maria Hayes and Don
Fraser each weeknight at 5:30
“Insight Magazine” will have
news headlines and locally-pro
duced features including a health,
fitness and nutrition segment with
Pat Jamieson, an entertainment
review for the area with Lisa
Brandt, a country music weekly
countdown with Dave Curzon, a
weekly feature on area high
schools with Sylvia Derer and news
on job opportunities. It will also
have Hollywood trivia with a daily
quiz and prizes to be won.
The current Insight News Hours
will continue at 6 p.m. with local
news plus news through CBS,
CNN, ISN and a new Queen’s Park
Bureau in Toronto.
The Insight Late Edition at 11
p.m. will be expanded to a
one-hour package from the current
half-hour.
In addition the station will
continue its Agri-news and Noon
Report each weekday at 12:30 p.m.
it will also continue to have
half-hour news packages at six and
11 p.m. on weekends.
A new weekly half-hour farm
show, “The Family Farmer’’
hosted by Murray Gaunt and Andy
Williams will also be seen Saturday
nights at 6:30 p. m. and be repeated
on Sundays at noon.
Movies are the other big addi
tion. CKNX will now show 20
movies a week with an afternoon
movie each weekday, a prime-time
movies at 8 p.m. and a movie at
midnight. Saturday will see movies
at 8 p.m. and midnight while
Sunday will see a matinee at 1 p.m.
and a midnight movie.
New series on CKNX will include
LA Law and Knots Landing. The
station will also feature CFL
Football Sundays at 4 p.m.
The Christian Farmers Federa
tion of Ontario has concluded that
this summer’s drought in south
western Ontario is so massive that
Ontario’s crop insurance program
does not adequately cover the
losses suffered by family farmers.
In a resolution, the Federation’s
Provincial Board describes the
drought as a massive and unusual
weather stress circumstance, an
act of God, that is not covered
under existing federal-provincial
crop insurance programs.
It asks the government to set up a
producer advisory committee to
determine where crop insurance is
not sufficient to cover specific
commodities, and says that until
improvements are made in the crop
insurance program, the govern- 'announced for the 4-H Club Press
ment should be prepared to
introduce ad hoc programs.
“We’re recommending that
both levels of government consider
an ad hoc program to aid drought-
stricken farmers,” Bill Jongejan,
CFFO President, said in an
interview. “At the same time, we
are very concerned about compro
mising the integrity of the crop
insurance program. We are not yet
ready to make specific recommen
dations on how an ad hoc program
would work.”
In the past, CFFO has proposed
a special, low-cost premium cover
ing “major diasters” under the
existing crop insurance program.
“The crop insurance program
needs a special premium built into
it for just this kind of unusual
disaster,” Jongejan said. “Until
that’sinplace, adhocprograms
are necessary.”
The CFF Provincial Board also
asked all its members to urge their
churches to organize prayer meet
ings and appeal for rain.
Calling all
4-H Press
Reporters!
A new competition has been
Reporters, with prizes to be
awarded at the County 4-H Awards
Night in the fall.
Club Reporters are asked to
submit a book containing at least
five of their own press reports, or
more if possible, to the Clinton
OMAF office for judging, where
they will be judged on the qualities
ofa good press report as outlined in
the 4-H News Reporter Record
Book.
All entries must be received by
October 7, 1988. Entries can be
mailed to the Clinton OMAF
Office, Box 159, Clinton, N0M 1L0.
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