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Couple has earned
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wrong then they’re wrong and
they’ll let them knew.
Yet the couple has earned
admiration and respect from the
people of Wingham and from their
employees. Joanne Marks who
manages the Sunrise Dairy Store
located across the street from the
plant said, “Ask any of the girls
who work in this store and they’ll
tell you she is one great lady. She is
the best boss you could ever have.”
She is affectionately referred to as
Mommy, by her employees, who
she calls her family.
The Baileys have received many
awards from local groups thanking
them for their support and com
munity work to help out the youth
of Wingham. “The young are
what’s important. They are the
future,’’ Mrs. Bailey comments.
The couple has two sons who
work in the plant with them and
one just completing a college
course in Business Marketing and
Management. He too will be enter
ing the family business and Mrs.
Bailey hopes that the couple’s four
grandsons will also join the com
pany in time.
The Baileys’ three daughters are
all married and living away from
Wingham and there are also four
granddaughters but Mrs. Bailey
does not want to see any of them
follow in her footsteps. “The work
is heavy and I don’t want them to
have to do anything like that. It’s
not fair to them,’’ she explains.
“Like everyone I want better for
my children than 1 had for myself.”
The hours at the Dairy are long
and hard with the family working
14 to 20 hour days seven days a
week. There is no social life,
everything has been built around
the business. But it is challenging
and rewarding for them knowing
that they are doing a job that not
everyone could or would do.
Mrs. Bailey’s responsibilities in
clude working in the dairy, shifts at
the store, ordering, book work and
answering the important phone
calls. She is also currently trying to
find a location for their new store in
Clinton. In addition to the one they
own in Wingham they also have
one in Seaforth.
The backbone of the entire
Sunrise Dairy operation though,
according to Mrs. Bailey is her
husband Renus. She says that he
possesses a positive outlook on
everything and never gets discour
aged. If something goes wrong he
is quick to reassure her that all will
be well and the problem will be
remedied. “He’s the reason we’ve
always managed to see it through
and overcome the obstacles that
meet us,” she remarks.
Pat Bailey is well liked by her employees but people as high up as Ontario Agriculture Minister Jack Riddell say
she is “no shrinking violet” when it comes to battling to give her small dairy an even break.
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PARTS VALUE
OF THE MONTH
Doin' the chores
BY ANNE CAMPBELL
Ef I’m siftin’ with a book
Snug beside the kitchen stove,
Maw kin raise me with a look
From the spell in which I’m wove.
Know it’s time to face the cold,
An’ I’m slammin’ o’ the doors
‘Fore I hear her, as of old,
“Son, it’s time to do the chores!”
Hear it when I’m fast asleep
Underneath the comforters.
Wisht forever I could keep
Shut o’ them blamed words o’ hers,
There’s the milkin’ to be done;
Calves to feed and sech-like bores;
Wood to split! It ain’t no fun -
Five o’clock, an time for chores!
Kinda like sometimes to stand
By the willows’ droopin’ boughs
Lookin’ off across the land
At the medders an’ the cows,
Love the horses, love the soil,
Love the north wind when it roars,
Even like to plow an’ toil,
But I hate to do the chores!
Seems when we are out all day
Workin’ in the summertime
At the plantin’ or the hay,
An’ we’re full o’ sweat an’ grime;
When we’ve driv’ the hoses home,
An’ we set and talk o’ wars,
Haint no peace ‘neath heaven’s
dome
‘Cause I gotto do the chores!
But the winter’s worser yet.
Taint no fun to set a spell,
Cause I somehow can’t forget
I must bed the horses well.
I must give ‘em oats an’ hay;
I must fix them two-by-fours -
Oh, I love the farm, but say!
How I hate to do the chores!
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