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Wednesday, Vareh 1."EaSter Seal thair-
manolOhnde'Bruyn, fortheLueknOw-and
District Lions1Club is •tonfidehrthat with
generous community support .agal' -this
year,sthe elub-willreach itsgoal 42;2, ;
Is our toile "that the people '
Lucknow and area will think of the
children we serve and continue to give
generously,", said Mr. de Bruyn. "As long
as there are children in our area and
acrasstheprovince whosuffer the anguish
of a -physical -disability, Easter Seals and
the Lucknow Lions Club will be there
ensurathatquality services and pro-
grams are maintained."
• Each year -more -than 7,000 children
benefit from the provision of vital -equip-
ment :and services such as wheelchairs,
braces, arlificiallimbs, theopportunity to
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4xperience, a tau -Virg -holiday at sone of.
five Easter -Seals -minim, and much more.
'The Society employs 38 'Easter Seal
Nurses ..:who are specially trained in
rehabilitation.and public health miming.
From 23 .district offices throughout the
province, these nurses provide direct
assistance and •support to disabled
childrenand their families.
The Easter Seal Society also sponsors
•northern diagnostic clinics and provides
grants to The Easter Seal Research In-
stitute, The Easter Seal Communications
Institute and children'streatment centres
across the province. ,
The Easter Seal Society of Ontario is the
oldest andlargest organization of its kind
in North .America, serving children up to
the.age of 19.whose activity isrestricted by
a physical handicap resulting from acci-
dent, disease, congenital defect, birth in-
jury or amputation.
•B.S.T The farmer vs Agri -business
The verbal war presently -raging over
the hormone Bovine Somatotropin (BST )
is shaping up as a classic confrontation
between the :farmer and the agricultural
establishment. Farmers, it would appear
f' .11'11'1i.f
licensing of BST for use in dairy tattle.
They believe that ..using_the hormone will
•destroy mBk's image .as "nature's most
nearly -perfect fond." This worry is well
founded. in British Columbia, when it
becamepublic that a certain dairy weans-
ingmillefrom a BSTtest herd, therewas a
spontaneous boycott of 'productsfrom that
facility. It seems that in the consmner
vocabulary the words "hormone" and
4132ffir , when mixed, produce -"poison".
The deeper fear for people who make
their living on.dairyfarms is what this new
'drug -will to to the cows. Even minor side
effects would have huge implications,
because inthis business, unlike beef, pork
dr poultry, longevity is a major concern.
The suggestion that we can .artificially
raise the level of a certain hormone over a
long period of time, -without side effects,
•strikes the man who -milks cows ramming
and night as sheer madness. The -r-esear-
chers :have been tightlipped about this
side of their:work pnblicizingthe produc,
tionincreasesuchievedbutsayinguothing
aboutthe healthafthe cow. Whilerumom-s
of horror stories abound, -the first Teal
evidence has leaked out almost.by acci-
dent. -Ixperiments conduCted .at the
University Of Guelphimbeetrattleshowed
that the livers, kidneys and lungs of BST
.treated ;treated mettle were All con-
siderably _larger than normal. An
MALAY. beef specialist -is 'quoted in the
Ontario Farmer as saying cattle
llidn't look normal -when .they -came off
test." Along -with abnormal growth af in-
• ternalorgans;thetreated-cattleladiarger
beads, =feet end ,tails. The brzinstof -these
animals, however, were zetually smaller
thanfnomml."This.last revelation is mak-
ing some of Jos -wonder if those ;still :ad-
vocating theme ,of BST liaven't secretly
beeninjecting 'themselves!
The vantroversy 'raises ,some profound
-questions. ?What las happened to the
OW /1‘ DISTRICT
. LIONS 'CLUB
Dabber
Bingo
lucknow -.Community Centre
'Sundy, .Iti4rch 5189
(arld7fvery Sunday 'Night)
TotentiallAtize;-.Board:
Jackpot an :54 -Cans
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tiall.apeos:at6.130.pon.
ilittgo-starts,:at 715 11011.
credibility of our system for screening and
licensing newproducts? Obviously, a large
majority of people, in this rase dairy
farmers end consumers do not -trust :the
reguipting agencies to- protect us from
rodocts-that-wc-Almet-meed,
Thevildespread sentiment, based on a long
list of thingsthat were "proven safe" and
are now banned, is -that the powerful com-
panies who stand to make millions from
the sale of new products will get them
pushed through one .way or another.
The second question hinges on. the out-
come of the first. "Who should decide .on
whether or not to introduce new
technology? If BST is going to profoundly
affect the dairy industry, then .sbouldn't
the farmer have something to say? Ap-
parently not, say the,experts, 'PST is
corning and 30% of you -will have to leave."
That kind of arrogance, based on the
muddle-headed warship, of efficiency,
needs to be challenged:Dairy farmers.can
do all of agriculture a greatfavour by.stan-
ding up right now saying, "Well decide
what's best for our own -future!"
Respectfully Submitted,
•..Bruce County -Federation
of Agriculture,
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The Port Albert -411 "Working 4vith
Wool" club met on 'Donna Hayden's
• February 21, -with eightmembers present.
The •election of Officers resulted as
follows: president, Tricia Brown; vice
president,Sheilallackett; secretary, Con-
nie Nicholson; news reporters, Jennifer
Tigertand JennifertBlack.
Club leadersnre DonnallaydentudBev
Weaver.
-Time wasspentiookingat assortedknit-
ted ,garments,and learning. how to caston,
imit and purl.
'This learning laperience resulted,in a
few tangles, assorted varieties ofknitting
and frayed nerves.
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