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2 THE RURAL VOICE
Feedback
No help for this
disaster
The Rural Voice is a great farm
magazine. I enjoy reading it. This little
magazine is filled with important
topics/issues of the times and these are
tough times for us cattle farmers
especially. It could not come at a worse
time after El Nino (weather) and the
June 11, 2002 flood here.
Here in Rainy River District beef
cattle production is the most suitable to
our long winters. short summers and
frost. Hay and pasture feed grain grows
abundantly.
1 emigrated to Canada from central
Europe at age 10 in 1931 to this very
farmstead. Seventy-three years ago, we
cleared the land by hand -power, sweat
and tears because it was hard work.
The land gave the family a fair
living and kept us together. We had
communities and activities. Now in
modern times we have ghost farms and
towns and government bureaucrats.
1 lost everything in the 2002 flood.
Water seven feet deep covered our
farm. Water was four feet above the
floor in our house. It never happened
before. This Pine River area with three
branches was an ocean of seven -foot
deep water. Our family paddled a boat
3.5 miles to high ground. Can you
picture farm machinery under that
water for one week? Cattle drowned. A
winter's supply of 200 large round
baled hay was lost as was grain in the
storage bin.
Our anger is about the Disaster
Relief Organization. The Ontario
government declared this a disaster
area. Nobody came to check out the
damage. A realtor and one insurance
adjustor came to measure up the house.
The rest was none of their business they
said.
We waited three months and
grumbled — yes, for good reason.
Fourteen families were hit hard. I had