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Students, elected offIciali and Environ-
ment Ontario staff planted about 10,000
cattails here this week to treat part of that
community's sewage effluent. •
"The artificial marsh, is a new approach
which could be used in other parts of Ontario
essetitiarto any watercourse for.the life Of
-fish and other, aquatic life,
Listowel's experimental marsh will be fed
sewage. effluent from .thee commtinity4
lagoons, Nutrients will be removed by the
cattails before the effluent, reaches the
With the cattails removing much Of the
nutrients from the effluent, water courses
will bp kept free from an.excessive build-up
of aquatic plants and algae which cause
large• daily, variations in life-sustaining
dissolved oxygen levels. Dissolved oxygen is
to treat seiiiaTie—effliIent With building
expensive .:treatment plants," said Dr.
Parrott.
If the marsh works as :expected, it will
mean the end of a problem for. Listowel.
Other forms of sewage treatment were far
too expensive' for tho:,sonirnunity to install
finther cominqr.p*, Aittca7„..„ '5,c):171;4J
elopment without new. facilities would
threaten the short, shallow Maitland River
which receives the town's sewage effluent,
t?. Environment Ontario scientific staff came
up with the comm. novel idea of using the on
cattail to treat part of Listoivel's Sewage
effluent. in October construction on the
marsh began and early this week twoten-ton
truckS delivered the hardy aquatic plants; to
Listowel from a natural marsh in Bradford.
Cattails use the nutrients found in sewage
effluent in much the same way lawns use
nutrients from- manure and other fertilizers.
nearby; AN r^"!4'2244'r,;Z".7,,1 . • :‘:
Ontario study,- eat a s;‘;iiirla so beisraga
' for their ability to remove heavy-metals from
the effluent. HeaVy metals. are'another
Pollutant found in sewage effluent.
The community's experimental marsh will
use about 2,5 acres of land. Total planning
and construction of• the marsh was 8280,000,
funded by the Provincial Lottery Corpora-
tion, the Ontario Ministry_ of the riviron-
went and the Town of Listowel.
Canada's EmpiQyrnent Tax Credit Program
has beemoktended.
Consulting engineers on the project were
Gore and Storrie Limited arid the' construc-
tion was done by C. A. McDowell Limited.
Plowing 1Vla~tch yet
fvr`..-04Ord .CouOy
Organizers are gearing up
for the, 1980 International
PloWing, Match and Farm
Machinery ;Show, September
30 to October 4, near Wood-
stock.
"The local people are en-
thusiastic and are working
hard to prepare for the
sevent," says Art Peppin,
director of the agricUltufal--
and horticultural societies
branch 'of the Ontario Min-
istry of Agriculture and
Food. "It looks like it's going
to be a great match.".
The 1980 Plowing' March
will be offiCially opened by
Ontario Lieutenant-Governor
John Black Aird. Premier
William Davis and GoVernor-
General Edward Schreyer
are expected to attend.
More than 150,000 people
are expected to' visit this year
compared to 120,000 last
year.
"Oxford County has al-
ways been strong agricultur-
ally, and I'm sure that's
going to be reflected in the
attendance and the general
atmosphere here," says Mn;
Peppin.
Despite the large crowds
anticipated, organizers don't
expect parking and traffic'
problems.
"There are plenty of ac-
cess roads near the plowing
match site," says Mr. Pep-
pin. "And we have a traffic
control —committee working
'with the Ontario Provincial
- Police to make sure every-
thing goes smoothly as far as
parking is concerned."
- A new feature of this
year's plowing competition is
the Ontario Championship
class which will be held on
Saturday, October' 4. The top
eight contestants from the
week's competitions will par-
ticipate. The winners of this
class will represent Ontario
in the Canadian Plowing
Competition in 1981.
The 400 hectare (1000
acre) site for the plowing
match is lobated 3. kilometres
north of Syood stock on High-
way 94 -. The site is more
compact this year, and "Ten-
ted City", the tented display
area, it slightly than
last year:
The 1980 Geddes
Reunion will long be •
remembered by those
present on August 24th, •
1-980 at Purple Grove
Community Centre.
As usual, family
members came from
Walkerton, Teeswater,
Tiverton, Kincardine,
Kinloss and Ripley areas.
This year some Geddes
families had heard of this
Reunion and came from
Hamilton, California and
even the Jack Geddes
family who were home on
furlough from Teipei,
Taiwan.
All those who- had been
meeting over the years
traced their ancestry to
Enniskillen, Ireland but
knew their people had
bethi in Scotland at one
tithe, so now the puzzle is
to find out how these
Scottish Geddes folks fit
into the family tree.
Young and old enjoyed
the games and contests
under the leadership of
Salt and 'Clara Geddes,
Lois and Harold Holland.
A card was signed to send
to Wilfred Taylor who
usually enjoyed these
reunions but is ill in
hospital. Henry Arnold
t4e 131r4e":1101' eldest
-member present. Lunch
arrangements were ' in
charge of Della Geddes
and jean McPherson and
as usual, lunchtime was
happy tine of sharing
good food and also family
news.
The business meeting
was in charge of Elson
Arnold as chairman and
Fbr. More information,
write 'to the Agricultural and
Horticultural' Societies
Branch, Ontario Ministry of
Agriculture and Food, Legis-
lative Buildings, Toronto,
Ontario MTh, 1A9.
Gladys Arnold as
secret ar y-tr easurer. Sam
Geddes will be Chairman
next year and Doug
Lamont vice-chairman.
The Reunion will be held
as usual at Purple Grove
on the fourth Sunday of
August in 1981. Donald
Geddes, Tracy Lamont,
Mary Alice Geddes will
look after recreation.
During the past year,
Hazel. Geddes Peel. of
Moose Jaw- had seen a
News copy of the 1979
Geddes •Reunion. Mrs.
Peel's family came from
Sutherlandshire,
Scotland where the _
Geddes family went when
driven from Glasgow
area. Alexander Geddes,
1782-1878 came to Embro,
Ont. with 2 sons - William
and Robert. William had
10 children and Robert 4
children, so many _who
live in Ontario and
Western Can. may •be
descended from this
family. Lots of' mystery
in a family tree.
According to the
Guinness Book of
Records, the only man to
be struck by lightning
five times and 'live
through ,it is _Roy C.
Sullivan, a park ranger in
Virginia. Between 1942
and 1973, Roy has been
zapped on the head, had
his hair set on fire, his
eyebrows burned off, his
shoe knocked off, had the
electricity go .through
both legs and has been
knocked 10 feet out of his
car.
Because the International
Plowing Match and Farm
Machinery Show is a popular
annual event, organizers re-
cominend making accommo-
dation reservations in ad-
vance.
eddes farifily
holds reunion