HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1983-08-24, Page 2Lucknow Sentinel, Wednesday, August 24, 1963 --Page 2
Paul Hastings, with Brenda
and Agnes Van OHeh
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Aggies do it all
One summer they're working as a busboy
in a city restaurant or babysitting all day
long, and the next they're slugging bales,
milking cows, and doing chores.
While it seems most young people move
from the country to the city once they start
looking for jobs, these city -bred workers are
reversing the trend, and have got jobs in the
country.
They are Junior Agriculturalists, or Junior
Aggies for short, and this year there are four
students being hosted in the Lucknow area.
Lori Bennett, 18, working on the farm of
Marinus Miltenburg at R. 7, Lucknow, found
out about the program at school and applied
for it because she wanted some farm
experience. For years now, Lori has wanted
to be a Veterinarian. But she comes from
Toronto, and has never been able to get the
farm experience she knows will be helpful
for her to get into vet school, and later on
when she starts working.
She was ecstatic, then, when she found
out she was accepted as a Junior Aggie. And
now, as the nine week program is drawing to
a close, she says she has really liked the
experience.
Paul Hastings has been living on the farm
()floe Van Osch, R. 3, Lucknow, for the past
nine weeks. It is also his first experience
with farm life, and he has also enjoyed the
summer,
Paul is from Kitchener, He has been
working part-time as a busboy in a rest-
aurant, but he says this is `totally different,
"You don't have to worry about being dirty
on a farm," he says. More seriously he adds,
"The work is harder, but a little more
enjoyable and a lot more interesting,"
Paul also heard of the program through
school, and applied for it along with a couple
of other Experience '83 programs, spon-
sored by the Ontario government. He was
happy to get this job, though he says he was
a little wary, because he had no idea what it
wet Id be like. "1 was wondering what did 1
get myself into?"
ilu' after a week or so of getting used to
livin, with strangers, the hard work and the
long hours, both Paul and Lori felt right at
home on their hosts' farm, and felt as if they
were :r .e of the family,
Both students have been working on dairy
farms, and that means getting up early in
the morning to start chores, and to help with
the milking, Neither seemed to mind,
though. Lori has extensive babysitting ex-
perience, and she's used to getting up early
because with children you have to work long
hours. And Paul? "I'm usually the first one
up," he says.
He's also one of the first ones to bed. He's
been invited to go nut with the Van Osch
sons, aged 15 and 17, but he says, "I'm
usually too tired to go out at night." He does
not see how they can sometimes come home
well past midnight and still get up at 6.30 to
go out to the barn.
The Van Osch family have had Junior
Agriculturalists before, and Joe Van Osch
says they have always worked out really
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