HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1998-12-09, Page 730 days before cash an s come
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by Mike *Pilule*
• Sun Media Newspapers
KITCHENER - Ontario's
Minister of Agriculture
plans to provide the
•province's
hard -bit pig farmers with a
New Year's pnesent„ in. the
forra of cash advances to
help them weather low.
• prices that have them
ing millions of dollars a.
week. . •
"The gOvernment of
Ontario will be them to
support you, will be there
to help you as quickly as
possible," Noble
Villeneuve told a gather-
ing of more than
1,000 farmers and their
supporters on the lawn at
•Queen's Park last Tuesday
afternoon,
While he didn't say
much more than in a5fief
speech, he did tell
reporters that the province
wants to get cash grants
into fanners' hands within
30 to 40 days, "There is
urgency, aild we under-
stand- that," he said.
Villeneuve wouldn't get
into details about how
much money will be forth-
coming, or how it will be
administered, saying be
Calling all former.
Pelham students
• Pear editor.
This is an invitation to
all former studentr staff
and, support staff of
Pelham (District) High
School, Fenwick, Ontario
to gather for our fourth
reunion. We would like
everyone to join with each
other and one rnore to
relive the memorable
times we bad at Pelham
• High.
• 1999 commemorates
the 25th anniversary of the
school's closure, but we
Another
year, new
challenges
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To
editor
know its life is in our
memories. The reunion
will take place on
Saturday, Sept. 18, 1999 at
the Royal Canadian
Legion, Hwy #20,
Fonthiil
For more information
please send a SASE to:
Pelham Reunion '99, 13oi
346, Fonthill, Ontari Q.
LOS 1E0 or fax (905).892-
, 1597 or eh:rail: swar-
den@vmodne.corn
•'• After you 'read this,
please tell another
* "Pelham High'' person and°
•spread the word!
• .•Pelham Reunion
• Comniittee
• Jim ads,
• . "We have Written our•
own role. We have been •.
, '• •• engaged in the business of
• education, and we have
•:• been involved. That's one
reason, for our success,'" • „
• "1 feel goad about the
• education situation in
13.111.0Wacer.4,1140;2, Said• ,
after his acclamation.
"'Another • year, new
• challenges, lei's:get, on
••-• with it." ; • : •
Yenssen predieted full
• amalgamation; ineluding
• the, • move to a single . •
•• adrninistratixe. c;entre and
combining all depart -
:merits, could take -three
years. She identified staff •
• i0 -servicing as one issue
for the coming year.
• "The greatest challenge
is finding the time and the
• financial resources to
inservice our teacher& and
• ••give them the epportunitY,::
to fully embrace the new
(ministry) initiatives such
as the now curriculum,"
Yerissen said.
She said•the province's
, „
decision to'eliminate five
• professional deVelopment
and chronic delays in
• .Mleasing 'new ourricaluM
adds up,•totnistration and,
• InOtale, problems forboard - •
• staff,: ••• • • • .•
needs to see details of a -
proposed federal-provin-
•cial farm disaster income
program first.
Federal Agriculture
Minister Lyle Van Chef
was to present 4 plan to
the Liberal cabinet in
Ottawa later this week,
and is expected to
announce a multi-year
bailout package by mid-
December.
Vague as Villeneuve's
promise was, it provided
hope for some.
•"We're relieved" said
Liz Samis, a Drayton -area
hog farmer who chaired
the rally. "That will help
Pay the bills," as well as
help to keep bankers and
feed companies from cut-
ting off credit early in the
new year—
A steep drop in prices
for live hogs across North
America has resulted in
farmers losing more than
$60 for every pig they
send to market, • • •
For farmers like Barry
Heinmiller of Palmerston,
those kisses mean his fam-
ily has to defer e'en basic
spending. •
"We just cah't afford to
go to the dentist right
now,' said Heinmiller,
chairman • of the
Wellington County Pork
Producers Asseciation.
"That's the kind of (eco-
nomic) spin-off*" thet
results from huge farm
losses. •
Hein/Miler didn't take
any, corrifOrt . in
Villeneuve's coinmitmeht.
fi Right now, it's Jost
talk," he said, -"We've got
to see it. Are they just say-
eniae1L Wdnesday, Decem -T. 9 1998 - Pae 7
.ing this to make as go
home happy?,' he asked,
looking around at hurl -
*Os of colleagues. InaanY
ofwhom were attending
their first ever political
rally. •
Others .questioned
. whether the Conservative
government will want to.
spend the .estimated $6•
million to $8 'million a
week it would take to even
allow the farmers to break •
even for any Jength of
time.
Jack Wilkinson, president
ofthe Canadian •
Federation of Agriculture,
blamed politicians for nq
acting sooner to. set
national program to pm
tet farm incomes. While
• the U.S.. and Europeans
have .increased subsidies
totheir producers,
Canadian governments
have 'slashed: seppon, he
said. • .
"The reason this rally is
:taking place is beeauseof
the failure of the provtn-
eial and federal govern -
menta• to• act last July."
• A sizable number of the
people who gathered out-
• side the•legisiature work
in related industries Which.
rely on .4 healthy hog
industry for their own .
...livelihood,Farm equip -
men ( dealers, feed mills
and even. a.,..southwOtern
Ontariecredit union: are:-
••seirl.to be at :risk frOrn.-a:
..crisis.' that some observers
fear emild drive hall the;
• provinces 6,200 pig..farm-
ers out ofthe business
within three years, - • • . • •.
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