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The Rural Voice, 1978-09, Page 12Huron County Health Unit and Jim McCaul, Goderich. Roughly 250 portable washrooms will be on the site and they are aptly called. "Johnny on the Spots." Inspectors on the site will check these facilities for cleanliness and they are disinfected daily With the ,basics taken care of there are the caterers to consider. The last thing anyone would want is a case of food poisoning. Inspectors are available to speak to any groups catering at the match but all are advisedto avoid serving hazardous foods that cannot be heated or refrigerated properly. "A majority of them (caterers) are old hands or repeat operators and have been with the event for a number of years and are good with complying with the regulations," Mr. Harrison says. "They know what is expected of them." Every caterer must comply with the same regulations as any restaurant. r Rest Areas At a previous meeting the health unit authorities suggested that rest areas be designated for mothers and children and older people who may need some place to sit down after walking great distances. As Mr. Harrison says, "You consider the parent who carries around' a 30 pound child and they can get pretty tired." But the plowing match committees have limited space and noted that people could sit at the tents where caterers were serving or maybe exhibitors could have something to offer. "It would be something to consider for other years," says Mr. Harrison. "Maybe a county ,could sponsor a rest area." Another first for this year is the area allotted at the match to campers and trailers. The area is located south of the tent city. For a fee exhibitors, workers and people planning to stay more than one day can camp near the site and hopefully avoid the 's frustration of not finding a place to stay over night and traffic 1 snarls. In Shifts Local health authorities will be on duty at the match all day every day until it closes in the evening, operating in two shifts. 1 The seven inspectors and two students will work out of a trailer C as an office on the site. Any complaints about unsanitary conditions, food, water, garbage can be directed to them. The first inspectors will be on the job protecting the public two weeks before the first day when the water pipes are laid. As a final summary Ed Harrison said that "there will be complete coverage by the Huron County Health Unit in all areas. We will be working closely with the committee which has been cooperating one hundred per cent." t6 Hotels booked since Christmas By Debbie Ranney There are obviously not enough hotels or motels in Huron County within a 30 mile radius of the International Plowing Match to accomodate the overflow of visitors expected. That's why the billeting committee for the Match is doing its best to find private homes for the out-of-towners. On the committee are Don and Vi McKay and Don and Yvonne Carter from Wingham, Walter and Jean Willits from Turnberry, Murray and Joyce Vincent from East Wawanosh and Bert and Isabelle Garniss from Morris. George Underwood is the committee chairman. Most of the hotels and motels within a 30 mile radius were booked by about Christmastime and major companies have chosen to find accommodations as far away as Stratford, Kitchener, London, Port Elgin and Southampton. Meanwhile the billeting committee has tried to get PG.13 THE RURAL VOICE/SEPTEMBER 1978 representatives from the smaller companies set up in private home, Mr. Underwood said. These companies are given a list of which homes will offer room and board or just a room and then it's up to them to call and arrange the accommodations themselves. 10 Mile Radius Mr. Underwood says the committee is trying to keep the private homes -within a ten mile radius of the plowing match site. As those run out, he said there is a possibility they will go outside that radius. He added that they have had offers from as far away as Exeter. If accommodation is needed for four or five people who need to be close together. Mr. Underwood said they will try to get two homes within close proximity of each other. Mr. Underwood said that on press day at the plowing match there will be a desk and phone set up where people who haven't made any accommodation arrangements can then do so. There will also be someone at the match site about a week or ten days before it opens, working on housing arrangements. Contestants • The Queen of The Furrow contestants are also going to be installed in private homes on one street in Wingham and will be within about one block of each other. It is impossible at this point to tell how many people have made arrangements for accommodation. But the prospective visitors to the Match do come from all over. The committee has had callers from Owen Sound, Quebec. Michigan. Florida and Kingston. At the moment the committee has a list of about 100 private • homes in which they can put visitors. Mr. Underwood pointed out as a comparison that when the plowing match was held near Kingston last year there were about 1500 hotel or motel rooms available. See us at the Int. 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