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36 THE RURAL VOICE
old cow stalls are still being used for
the heifers and it isn't an efficient use
of space, Bruce says.
Though some good has come of
this ill wind, memories of the April
20 storm at still painful. Eleanor, for
instance, was home at the time the
storm hit and told Cathy Laird, in an
article in The Rural Voice last July
about watching through the window
as the driving shed disappeared.
Moments later that window blew in,
imbedding glass even in the ceiling.
She was heading for the basement
stairs which were in the woodshed
but before she could get there a 140 -
year -old stone wall in the woodshed
was laid flat by the winds and the
roof disappeared.
Still, there are good memories
of the aftermath of the storm,
Bruce says. "One of the most
gratifying things was that
within seven days you wouldn't have
known anything happened here," he
says. The Saturday following the
storm, 1100 volunteers registered
with the local municipality (so they
could be covered by Workers
Compensation). Four farmsteads
which had been badly damaged and
had debris strewn across a wide area
were cleaned up on that one
Saturday. One worker came from
Orangeville, determined to help
others in the way he had been helped
after a tornado devastated that area in
the early 1980s. A soup kitchen was
set up in Williamsford and delivered
food to volunteers for a week.
Friends of the Saunders worked four
or five days on their behalf.
These memories, good and bad,
will no doubt come flooding back for
the Saunders on April 20. At least
they know now that some good can
come from such a tragedy.0
The barn on the farm where Bruce
and Brian both have houses, has
been converted from the dairy barn
10 the heifer barn.