The Lucknow Sentinel, 1998-07-22, Page 2Page 2 •- Lucknow Sentinel, Wdnesday, July 24 1998
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by. rat Livin tan
The five new s arehoid
ars• of . Helm ' Welding
0983) Ltd. are • not
strangers to the business.
they have purchased. Their •
years of employment at• the
large agrt-manufacturing
business totalclose to 6Q•
Grant Helm, in sales
and purchasing, hasbeen.
with the business, for. 19
1/2 years; 4iin Cranston,'
the production .anagen
has 18 years with the coin -
piny; followed by Jim
Geddes, in charge of the
manufacturing of plane-
tary mixers 'with eight
years. Kevin dark, their
electronic .scates expert,
ow the business
has been there for seven
years; and Jeff Planimie,,
working with the computer
aided design of parts and
equipment, has six years
experience. -
"aeing able to buy this
business•was a great'
opportunity and chal-
lenge,"
hat-lenge, . said Cranston.
'A simply overwhelm
log . opportiunityy added
(Jarrow.
Clark .too called- it a
great -opportunity, saying
they ani to 'maintain the
same good relationship
with: their employees.".
"Business will run as
usual for The foreseeable
future," said Henn.
"Everything is running
smooth," said Gammie,
"Why change a good
thing?"". .
All of the new partners
were happy that the busies
ness was staying :in.
Lucknow. With 4.7
employees, Herm Welding
Ltd. is a major employer in
this area manufacturing
LUCK/NOW products
snowblowers, mixer feed -
ors. and grain buggies.
Geddes was happy to
have. the opportunity to
purchase the business. '"We
want to keep it running as'
well as Art did," •said
Geddes: Products mann-
factured by Helm Welding
••
are currently sold world-
wide, but they hope in tha.
future to expand 'into that
market .even m •re and get
into a new a d different
area of the indu try.
for the fiv new ,part-
ners it's business as usual,
but they were feeling
ecstatic last Wednesday
after the official announce-
went had been made lay-
ing to rest the many
rumors circulating in the
area.
They look forward to. a
bright future continuing
the tradition of Art ,Seim,
whoremains as president
of .the company, and was
the • man who started the
whole ball rolling 30 years
ago.
the new Awnmers of Helm Welding ,(1993) Ltd.
are dim .Cranston, Grant Heim, Kevin Clark, Jim-. •;
•
Geddes and Jeff ,,Gainmie. (Livingston lhoto)
•
St. Flelen's AtI
earrung how
to keop .a dean
environmen
President Muriel: Moffat opened last week's meeting
of the St. Helen's Wornen's Institute. Rollcail was to
name a way you help keep the environment clean. This
was answered by 12 members.:
The topic was on a cleaner Canada and was 'taken,
by Norma Raynor!, She enlightened the members 'on
many things pertaining to the environment.
Muriel gave two readings "Early Settlers and They
Survived" and '"Treasured. Moments." (submitted by
Elaine Errington)
Rural areas
ozone levels
from page 1
spry role when. dealing
with air quality warnings
and said the Ministry .of
Environment has been
providing them with
updates for about. three
years, now. '.
Seeger said it's hard for
people in this area to real-
ize the warnings are seri-
ous because they don.'t see
visible s�i:gns of starve;.
But Dobrin -said the
brown colored 'smog that.
appears over some cities is
the result of other pollu-
tants in thea alr•_in'addition
to the ozone
-They were traditionally
called'stnog advi'siaries. . '
"When you 'obit'ina
city on: those, types o;f
days; you can see•:.a brown
haze" Dobrin said,
While ozone isused'as ;a
gond indicator Of smog, he
said the brows color is•
ihere'.beeause it's a Whole .
chemical' soup of1oll:ti-
. tants," .
Ta .help .reduee -the.
ozone levels, appeals'were
trade by:M
thy:Ministry of
Environment .'a•rid flay,
can reduce
too
municipalities last week
for people to reduce the
use of their cars, gas pow-
ered equipment like lawn
mowers and oil based
paintsthat all contrihute to
the creation of ground
level ozone.
Go for Green, a national
environmental 'organiza•
-
tion; reports the use of a '.
power mower for,one hour
releases the same amount,
.
of pollution as 'driving a:
car for 563 kilornetres.
While in rural areas it
'can be difficult to avoid.,
using cars since -there is
little public transportation,'
Seeger said people, can
still` keep from using their' °_
lawnnio.wers, chainsaws
and weed eaters, when air
quality advisories are
issued.
"We're°•all contributing.
• Even: if we're contributing
andit's flowing to.: the,
cities, it's''a problem," he
said•
The a ivisc ries 'are
issued jointly between the
Ministry of Environment
and Environment Canada...:
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