HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1989-04-26, Page 19THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 1989. PAGE 19.
A cheque for >1, VW was given to the Brussels and District Minor Hockey and
Ringette Association by the Brussels branch of the Royal Canadian Legion.
Legion President Ross Bennett, left, presents Bob Thomas, President of
Minor Sports with the cheque.
Cty. gets more planning control
Has our mind-set slipped century?
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an idealistic vision that we could
build understanding between En
glish and French speaking citizens
by making either feel at home in
the other’s section of the country
but the “realists” have taken over
and seem bent on turning us back
into two islands of misunderstand
ing.
In a country that dreamed of
being a model of how people of all
colours and all creeds could live in
harmony side by side, we see more
racial violence and discrimination
than we could have thought poss
ible north of the 49th parallel.
Worst of all, we seem to have
lost the will to try to improve
things. We seem to have fallen
back on the belief that greed, self
interest and distrust are the basic
motivators of all human activity
and you can’t change that so we
might as well make sure we’re on
the winning side apd make the best
of it. It’s a time for survival of the
fittest.
There have been great advances
in my lifetime. Through years of
struggle and even loss of life blacks
in the U.S. have been given more
or less equal rights with whites.
Women have more freedom today
than before. The children of the
poor can get an education and a
hope to escape the poverty cycle
much easier than families of 50
years ago. People don’t have to
have plenty of money to get proper
medical care.
Yet I wonder if any of these
things would have happened if the
mind-set of today had been in place
in the 1950’s, ‘60’s and ‘70’s.
It’s ironic that most of the social
progress made in the first three-
quarters of this century was made
in righting the kind of wrongs that
grew up in the later years of the
last century when rampant indus
trialized capitalism used the theor
ies of Darwin to justify working
children in mines and cotton mills
and sending people to prison for
their debts. We mav have a kinder,
Huron County will get the final
power of final approval for some
planning functions beginning May
1, Jack Riddell, M.P.P. for Huron
and Minister of Agriculture an
nounced Friday.
The new powers relate to plans
for subdivisions and condominiums
and to road closures. In the past
after the county’s approval had
been given to such plans they still
had to go on to the province for
approval. There were seldom
changes to the proposal, Gary
Davidson, Director of Planning and
Development said Tuesday, but the
Giant farms, food firms dominate
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supermarkets and the food manu
facturers that are calling the shots
more and more, not the individual
farmers.
Last summer I spent some time
in the San Joaquin Valley in
gentler country in that at least the
punishment for those unfortunate
enough not to be among society’s
winners is not as harsh as a century
ago, even if the mind-set is the
same.
4-H Swine
Club organizes
The organizational meeting of
the North Huron 4H Swine Club
was held April 17 at the home of
leader Cathy Douglas, RR 1, Clif
ford.
Assistant leader Ron Douglas
welcomed the six members to the
club. After a brief introduction to
the club, the election of the
executive was held with the results
as follows: president, Hazel Rae;
vice-president, Ron Klingenberg;
secretary, Christian Feldskon;
press reporter, Amy Thomas.
The next meeting will be held on
Tuesday, May 2, at 8 p.m. at the
home of Dave Winkel. New mem
bers are welcome to attend.
additional approval could take
many months.
The delegation of authority,
which falls under Section 4 of the
1983 Planning Act, began in the
mid-1970’s, and Huron is the
second county to formally request
and receive delegation of a number
of Ministerial approval authorities.
The county had requested the
power of approval about 18 months
ago, Dr. Davidson said.
This new approach will make the
system more efficient by:
•speeding up the development
approval process:
California. While I was there I saw
part of the operation of a company
called Salyer-American which runs
no less than 67,000 acres. It started
out as a family farm and still is to a
certain extent but it is run with a
planning and efficiency that would
be totally beyond a vast majority of
the small 100-200 acre spreads
either there or in southern Ontario.
It has also learned to respond to
changing demand. When its major
crop, which was cotton, turned out
to have limited opportunities as far
as value added was concerned it
decided to switch into fresh fruit
and vegetables. Today it produces
no less than $300 million worth of
fresh food a year, much of it under
its own brand name.
Beef, chicken and pork farmers
are all finding that there is little
room for the little operation. Beef
production is increasingly domin
ated by three packaging firms who
literally control the market and
thereby call the shots. The pork
farmers are in somewhat the same
shape. A large outfit uses a
combination of the right diet and
genetic engineering to make sure
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•increasing the public’s accessi
bility to the decision-making
authority;
•making Council more account
able and responsive to local needs;
•increasing local conditions to be
reflected in planning decisions;
•lessening the administrative
workload; and
•helping the public maintain
direct contact with one planner
from the beginning to the end of a
project. The new approval powers
are still subject to appeal to the
Ontario Municipal Board, Dr.
Davidson said.
that the large number of pigs which
it produces are not only low in fat
but much cheaper to produce than
any small farmer can hope to
achieve. Even the grain farmers
are discovering that they are not
immune. Last year’s drought forc
ed large livestock operations to lock
in adequate supplies of corn as a
guarantee against shortages and
high prices. Just wait and see what
will happen if there is another
summer like the last one.
The Catholic bishops may or may
not have religion on their side. I
think that you can understand that
their proposals are tantamount to
just prolonging a losing battle. I
recall with a certain amount of
nostalgia the family farm 1 worked
on shortly after coming to Canada
but enough economic history has
made its presence felt for me not to
realize that even the small family is
not immune from radical change.
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