The Lucknow Sentinel, 1989-11-01, Page 1Fill up for CCF.
This Saturday, November 4, area
garages will donate .03 per litre of gas
area motorists purchase, towards the
Lucknow Kinsmen's project, "Pump
your Money into C.F.
Supporting dealers include Chisholm
Fuels, Lucknow Service Centre, Mont-
gomery Motors, Bud Hamilton Fuels
and C.E. MacTavish Ltd.
Tom Andrew, chairman of the
Kinsmen's Cystic Fibrosis campaign,
said that it is thanks to the generous
support of people such as the area
dealers and the public that resear-
chers are able to continue their search
for a cure, which they feel is less than
two years away.
This Saturday, please fill up your
car, and Pump Your Money Into C.F.
Mynarski bomber to land
It was announced last week that the
Mynarski Lancaster bomber, .a feature
near the Goderich airport for many
years, before being rebuilt and launch-
ed last year, will land at Goderich
during the airport's offficial opening of
the new runway early next August.
The Canadian Warplanes Heritage
Museum confirmed the visit in a letter
to Goderich council early in October.
Firefighters busy
Lucknow and District Fire Depart-
ment was kept busy over a seven day
period answering calls to fires getting
out of control. It may be fall, but the
fields and bushes are very dry and
caution should be taken when fires are
set to burn garbage or stumps.
On October 23 the. department
answered a call to Dungannon where a
garbage fire was out of control and
threatening area ;:buildings.
On October ` .28 the firefighters
responded to a call in West Wawanosh
to a bush fire.
Sunday morning a call was
answered in the Shepperton area
where a cornfield had caught on fire.
The fire was out by the time the local
department arrived.
Sunday afternoon, the alarm went
again and the department responded
to a bush fire east of Dungannon.
At 2:30 a.m. Monday morning, a call
was received to a West Wawanosh pro-
perty where the swamp had caught on
fire from smoldering tree stumps.
Poppy canvass
Members of Lucknow Branch 309 of
the Royal Canadian Legion will con-
duct their door-to-door poppy canvass
this Saturday, starting at 1 p.m.
This is something new for the Bran-
ch. President Henry Clark said that it
will eliminate disturbing people during
evening hours as well as put Branch
members on the main street during
business hours, when people are in
town.
What are the
students doing?
Tracy Steer, daughter of Peter and
Elaine Steer of Lucknow, is in her se-
cond year of the Recreation Leader-
ship course at Fanshawe College in
London.
Last week, Tracy returned from a
week long trip to San Antonio, Texas
where she ;participated in the National
Recreation and Parks Association Con-
ference. The four day conference in
:which approximately 4000 recreation
professionals from across North
America attended, consisted of hun-
dreds of workshops pertaining to the
field of recreation. Tracy participated
in such workshops as Successful Fun-
draising, Family Recreation, Com -
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Trick or treaters were out in full force last night in the vil-
lage. These first time trickster witches appear slightly appre-
hensive as they patiently wait to see if they will get a treat,
or if it will be necessary to play a trick. While they know
what a treat is, it is doubtful if the little darlings would know
anything about tricks. But then, we didn't cheek it out with
their mom who might tell us differently. Please do not adjust
your glasses - you are not seeing double. The little witches
are twins, Leslie (left) and Lisa Conley. (Pat Livingston
photo)
Huron pork producers say "no" to $2 levy
By David Emslle
LONDESBORO - The Huron County
Pork Producers' Association (HCPPA)
will lodge a formal complaint against the
Ontario Pork Producers' Marketing
Board (OPPMB) regarding their recent
decision to implement a $2 per hog levy
on all hogs sold in Ontario.
The levy situation arose in early
September when the United States put a
permanent duty of 3.6 cents per pound of
pork sold from Canada into the USA.
However, when 'this rate is reviewed, in
12 to 18 months, it is .expected an addi-
tional seven cents could be added to the
duty.
In a letter to the pork producers, the
chairman of the OPPMB, Dave
McDonald, stated, "The packers are very
aware that they might have to pay an
extra duty in 18 months and that it could
amount to :a,great deal of money. On an
annual basis, we expect that about 400
million pounds of pork could be sold in-
to the States. At seven cents per pound,
this comes to $28 million. Those Canadian
packers that are selling pork into the
USA assure us that it jot is not possible
for them to set that much money aside
in reserve for a future duty payment; the
pork business is not that profitable.
"Canadian packers will have to stop
selling pork into the States if they have
to come up with the extra seven cents a
pound duty. They will simply unload the
extra pork in Canada at whatever price
it takes to get rid of it. The result will be
a severe price drop, not only on the
amount that was sold into the States, but
on all pork sold in Canada. Naturally, the
hog price would drop as well!"
Word of this extra duty, which would
be collected retroactively, was received
just prior to the semi :annual meeting of
the OPPMB. At that meeting, it was sug-
gested that each hog producer would be
eharged a fee of $2 per hog. This money
would go into a special fund, ad-
-ministered by the Canadian Pork Council,
to help pay the duties on pork. In his let-
ter to the producers, Mr. McDonald sug-
gested, "'Phis will encourage„ the export
companies to continue to sell pork to
their US. export customers as they have
in the past. Since they will still have to
pay some of the duty, they will he en-
couraged to seek new markets where
there is no duty at all. The result should
be that the severe price drop that is
threatening will be prevented. We
sincerely believe that this action must be
taken at this time..."
The producers, however, voted against
the motion to pay the $2 fee at the semi-
annual meeting, and were therefore upset
when the fee was put in place by the
marketing board.
In an effort to discover how the pro-
ducers would like the Huron County
directors to proceed on this issue, a
meeting of the HCPPA was held at
Hullett Central School on October 19. Ap-
proximately 250 people attended the
meeting, with 171 voting on the issue. The
vote revealed that 73 per cent of the pro-
ducers from Huron County were against
paying the $2 fee.
Chris Hills, vice-president of the Huron
County association, stated that the vote,
"...gave us a fairly strong indication of
where we should go." He added he was
very pleased with the vote, as he wasn't
sure exactly which way it would go. With
the results of the vote, the HCPPA will
now lodge a formal complaint with the
OPPMB, and at the same time notify the
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