HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1987-03-18, Page 53Page 13*
Lucknow veterinarian heads CLAVA magazine
By Alan Rivett
The village of Lucknow is liable to be
recognizable to veterinarians in the far-
thest reaches of the planet. It has the
distinction of being the unlikely place
where a magazine on the profession is
printed twice yearly and sent around the
world.
The man behind the magazine called
Commonwealth Veterinary Association
Newsmagazine (CwVA) is Brock Cleland,
a retired veterinarian in Lucknow. The
magazine, which is compiled on a com-
puter out of a basement room in his
Lucknow home, is sent to approximately
40 Commonwealth nations to veterinary
schools, and animal health organizations
with over 60,000 veterinarians world-wide
having access to newsmagazine.
Since July of 146, Mr. Cleland has taken
on the voluntary editorship of the specialty
newsmagazine and so far two editions of
the magazine have rolled off the presses
and have been sent out to veterinarians.
Mr. Cleland says he was offered the
duties of the editor by Chief Executive Of-
ficer of the CwVA Prof. Jim Archibald of
Guelph, based on his experience in foreign
counties as Mr. Cleland has been involved
in veterinary projects in St. Vincente,
Grenada Trinidad and Tobago, all in the
Caribbean, Guyana in South America, and
Morocco in North Africa.
"It's a volunteer job. There was not a
whole lot of .candidates., The fact that I did
have experience overseas helped. It's kind
of interesting and potentially useful," says
Mr. Cleland.
Since taking over the newsmagazine in
July, Mr. Cleland has worked in tandem
with the Lucknow Sentinel and Signal -Star
Publishing where the typesetting, pro-
ofreading, lay-up and printing are done for
the magazine. He credits Sentinel General
Manager Pat Livingston for handling most
of the chores of putting the material
together.
Mr. Cleland says the purpose of the
magazine is to create an interest and
awareness of the developing areas of the
world with the chief aim of the
newsmagazine, as printed on the front
page of every issue, is "to strengthen the
links of friendship and co-operation by
knowing each other better."
While the magazine is not scientific in
nature, it is a vehicle to show veterinaries
all over the world the role that the CwVA
does play in bringing about a general
awareness of the problems in these areas.
"These developing areas have so many
shortages, the salaries are poor, the pro-
per drugs are not there, and the
veterinarians have so many problems in
these countries," said Mr. Cleland.
Mr. Cleland says there is very little
original material included in the
magazine, as the information for the
magazine is culled from various sources
such as individual veterinary association
newsletters, journals and reports from
veterinarians in the commonwealth coun-
ties. "The magazine consists of things
pertinent (to veterinarians) and have
value that hopefully someone else is in-
terested in," he said.
The magazine is arranged into six
regions of the commonwealth including,
Caribbean -Canada, United Kingdom -
Europe, Australasia, Asia, East, South
Central Africa and West Africa.
As for feedback from veterinary circles
about the locally -produced magazine, Mr.
Cleland says it has been well accepted with
U
the magazine expanding from 32 pages in
the July issue to 48 pages in the January
edition. He says work has already begun
on the July, 1987 issue.
"It seems to have been reasonably well
received, with a certain amount of in-
terested created by the magazine," he
said.
The Commonwealth Veterinary Associa-
tion, which financially supports the
magazine, is involved primarily in
assisting veterinarians and animal health
workers with production problems in the
developing areas of the Commonwealth,
says'Mr. Cleland.
Anyone interested in more information
about the CwVa Newsmagazine should
contact the chief 'executive officer, Prof.
Jim Archibald at 35 Linwood Place,
Guelph, N1G 2V9.
CFA questions role of Farm Debt Review Board
Interest was high and questions
numerous following the panel discussion
on the role and operation of the Farm Debt
Review Board, during the annual meeting
of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture
held March 4 at the. Hotel Plaza de la
Chaudiere in Hull, Quebec.
Speaking on behalf of the Farm Debt
Review Board in Ontario, Board Chairman
George McLaughlin said "This mediation
process works. Our board members who
are all farmers, sit down with the appli-
cant, sympathize with the applicant and
have faced similar farm problems". He
continued "In Ontario, the panels must
visit the farm before any arrangements
between the farmer and the creditors can
be negotiated."
In answer to questions from CFA
delegates, Mr. McLaughlin said that negotiation and it established a pattern for
where a "stay in proceedings has run out
of time because of the initial backlog of
cases, it has been possible , in almost all
cases, to continue discussions between the
farmer and the creditors involved as long
as progress towards a settlement is being
made. We have a gentlemen's agreement
that the creditor will not take further ac-
tion." With specific reference to extending
the stay beyond 120 days the chairman
said that in eight cases a further stay has
been granted because of the extenuating
circumstances and the short time that the
panel had actually worked on the par-
ticular case.
McLaughlin stressed in his opening
remarks to this national farm lobby group
that the Federal Debt Review Act had the
flexibility to allow for varying conditions
between provinces, it has the rules for
the ' panels to follow. He said `.`there is
basically a lot of misunderstanding about
our role and what we can do, and can't do
for farmers".
In answer to further enquiries following
the meeting that related to the legislated
mandate of the Boards, McLaughlin said
that creditors wishing to foreclose on any
farm assets must now give 15 days written
notice to farmers and advise them of their
rights under the legislation. He pointed out
that "the legislation allows for a stay of
proceedings which may be extended at
30 -day intervals for a period up to 120
days."
During this time period, he said "the
board assigns a fieldman to the case, sets
up the three member panel and acts as an
impartial third party to aid in the
negotiated settlement between the farmer
and creditor. We cannot force a settle-
ment," he stressed, "on either party."
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