The Lucknow Sentinel, 1978-04-05, Page 49Teachers. vote.............
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Weary said she hoped the board and its
teachers could begin tb rekindle the mutual trust
that was lost as a result of the strike. SheI said
that she hoped the parties could begin to work
together towards a better education system
despite the fact that some of the terms of the
1978-79 contract were unsettled.
Weary sai,d_she couldn't look at the settlement
from a win or loss angle. She said both sides
could believe they had won but that it really
didn't matter. She said all that matters is that
the'county will have education again.
Lions host.....
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Second prize in the girls' division went to
Brenda Herman of Palmerston, who spoke on
Individuality and in the boys' division, Tim.
Morrison of Wingham. took second place with his
topic, Outdoors Canada. The fifth speaker was
Janice Elliott, Ripley.
Chairman for the program was Howard
Henderson of Owen Sound. Lucknow Lions
president, Joe Agnew, presented the winners
with plaques and the runners up with prizes.
Judges for the competition were Mrs. Mabel
Wheeler, teacher at Lucknow Central Public,
Charles Liddle, teacher at Brookside Public .and
Sharon Dietz, editor of the Lucknow Sentinel.
Mary Luanne and Tom proceeded to the
District Level competition in Arthur Secondary
School on Saturday evening but neither of the
local speakers placed in the competition.
Only first placewinners were announced. In
the English boys competition, Paul Coates of-
Owen
fOwen Sound placed first and in the English girls
competition, Carol Bunting of Hanover placed
first. In the French boys division, Douglas
Cameron of Port Elgin won first and in the
French girls category, Catherine McGinnis of
Owen Sound, placed first.
Dixie Cameron..
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evening 'was Tony Johnstone.
The committee in charge of the..evening were
Kinsmen Bob. Ritchie and Tom Andrew; Lions
Walter Arnold, Art Helm and Joe Agnew; Legion
members Angus MacDonald and Irvine Eedy.
Lucknow Sentinel, Wedne&day, April 12, 1978—Page 17
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CFF looks at farrnirtg
BY RHEA HAMILTON
"The trend today is to turn
away from the family farm
enterprise and swing towards
industrialization of agriculture,"
stated Albert van Donkersgoed,
executive director for the Christ-
ian Farmers' Federation, (CFF) at
a meeting March 21 in Blyth.
"The trend in society today
does not recognize the family
farm and even fewer are interest-
ed in being stewarts of the quality
of products let alone concern for
the future generations." Said Mr.
van Donkersgoed, `I see us
moving down the road to corpor-
ate enterprise with an elite
managing and not knowing the
soil or the -climate."
Mr. van Donkersgoed pointed
out to the 20 people gathered
there that industry is very
different from agriculture.
"Agriculture is and has been
primary to life and industry has
been secondary, we have existed
without industry. The ideal of
industry is to eliminate the living
factor including the human fact-
or."
Farming is an enterprise and
consists of four factors that
determine its makeup; manpow-
er, management, resources, and
finances.
The manpower is drawn from
the family as opposed to unions
for industries. Where industries
suffer from walkouts, lockouts,
confrontation and lack of product-
ivity farmers enjoy working for
themselves.
Management on a family farm
is knowing where you fit, as
opposed to having unknowing
outsiders calling the shots.
In industry, resources are input
costs from another source but .in
farming,:•.,§ ou need land, rain,
sun, ad 'technology.
"These . resources are God
given . and basic in the creation,
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the food industry," pointed out
Mr. van Donkersgoed.
Financing on the family as
opposed to shareholders for an
industry where their chief con-
cern is profitability.
"Years ago with a piece of land
and a strong back you could make
a go of it," said Mr, van Donkers-
goed. "The financial situation
now is crucial as to 4whether a
young farmer can start up or even
stay going."
"The encouragement toward
industrialization is seen in our
governments who have set up tax
benefits for investments in mach-
inery. This encouragement of
industry reduces" the role of the
family enterprise." ,
"In the CFF there is a strong
concern that the a marketing
boards are slow to recognize the
trends. The higher the quotas the
more control the financial insitu-
tions have over our farms," Mr.
van Donkersgoed pointed out.
The CFF is outspoken against
high quotas.
"There are many individual
things structured into society that
set our regulations and goals so
that we encourage --the develop-
ment of -corporations. Thus our
control is turned over to the
enterprise structure and thus
reduces the family role again."
"Will the next generation be
able to reclaim that control?"
questioned Mr. van Donkers-
goed. "Remember if you don't
have the finances, you don't have
the resources."
"we have a responsibility to
see beyond for someone else and
for next generations:"
future
Jt is too tempting, once recog-
nizing the loss of family control,
to argue - why doesn't the
government do something, or the
credit agencies, or the universit-
ies professors who keep telling us -
to do that or this, or the general
farm leadership? We know what
is going on better than others.
Are we up to giving the family
farm a future chance?"
The meeting closed with a
question period which ranged
from the loss of farmers and the
irresponsible expectations of pe-
ople believing that the farms
should expand for efficiency
reasons.
"We should not let comumer
associations brow beat us \with
words on efficiency," commented
Mr. van Donkersgoed, "I have
yet to see any member expand his
enterprise in order to be efficient.
Lodge
wins bonspiel
Lucknow's Old Light Lodge
won the Annual North Huron
District Curling Bonspiel for
the second year in a row, on
Saturday at the\ Wingham '-
Curling Rink.
The Lucknow rink com-
posed of Jack Scott, Doug
Martyn, Bill Scott, Jim
Stewart, placed first over
fifteen other rinks.
Second place winners were
from Wroxeter.
Next year Wroxeter will be
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