The Rural Voice, 1998-11, Page 54People
Jim Faught gets new stewardship post
Jim Fought, who did pioneering
work with the Grey County Forest
Stewardship Network, has been
appointed Provincial Stewardship
Co-ordinator. Faught took up his
new position, based in Peterborough,
on September 28.
Faught will oversee the work of the
38 co-ordinators under the Private
Land Resource Stewardship, funded
by the Ministry of Natural
Resources. With his background as a
trained forester with MNR, Faught
had been a perfect fit for the Grey
County Network's decision to focus
its stewardship efforts on forestry.
Grey has 380,000 acres of woodland
(out of 1.1 million total acres).
No successor has been named in
the Owen Sound office but
candidates are being considered and
the vacancy is expected to be filled
by mid-November.
Faught is the second of the
Stewardship Co-ordinators working
out of the Owen Sound MNR to
change positions this year. Kazia
Milian left the post as co-ordinator
with the Bruce County Resource
Network earlier this year to take a
Jim Faught
Heads Stewardship program
position as a forester with MNR in
Aurora.
Taking her place since April has
been Craig Todd. Todd has worked
in Bruce County for over several
years with the MNR, previously with
the pits and quarries program.°
Kelly Daynard OCA communications manager
Kelly Daynard of Wellington farm and has been active in the
County has been named Wellington County 4-H program as a
communications manager for the member and leader. She has also been
Ontario Cattlemen's Association. a member of both the Waterloo and
Daynard comes from a cash crop Wellington Junior Farmers'
Associations and has served as chair of
the Wilmot Agricultural Society's
education commiuee.
She graduated from Wilfrid Laurier
University in 1992 with a Bachelor's
Degree in Honours English and for the
last seven years has been working as a
reporter/photographer for the New
Ilamburg Independent newspaper.
As communications manager,
Daynard will serve as editor of OCA's
Ontario Beef magazine, published five
times annually. She will also promote
the organization at agri-food and
educational events and will work with
the producer communications and
consumer education committees.°
Calder, Steckle named
to ag committee
Three western Ontario MPs have
been named to the Standing
Committee on Agriculture and
Agrifood for the 36th Parliament.
Murray Calder, MP for Dufferin-
Peel-Wellington-Grey was named
Liberal vice-chairman of the
committee. Paul Steckle of Huron -
Bruce was also reappointed to the
committee. Rose Marie Ur of
Lambton-Kent-Middlesex was also
appointed to the committee.
Steckle was also named to the
Standing Committee on Fisheries and
Oceans.0
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Bruce McCall dies
in car accident
Bruce McCall, businessman,
conservation advocate and story-
teller died suddenly in a car accident
in Brussels, October 11.
McCall, 77, was best known in the
farming community as owner and
operator of Brussels Stockyards from
1970 until 1987 but he was also a
familiar speaker at farm meetings,
displaying a pleasure for telling
humorous stories. Unwilling to leave
the business life completely behind,
he opened a used car sales business
in Brussels after his "retirement".
He served on the Maitland Valley
Conservation Authority for more
than 20 years, including a term from
1987 to 1991 as chairman. He
spearheaded efforts to operate the
Wawanosh Education Centre near
Belgrave and helped found the
Maitland Conservation Foundation.
Besides his wife, Doris, he is
survived by four children including
son Ross, who helped him operate
the Stockyards and is still active in
the cattle business.°
Farm safety promoter
Ian Clarke dies suddenly
The cause of farm safety lost a
strong voice when Jan Clarke of
Lucknow died suddenly in early
October.
Clarke, who operated a sheep farm
near Langside with his wife Sheila,
was the originator of the idea for the
yellow "Caution Go Slowly" signs
now used in farm laneways, said
Linda Freiberger, secretary of the
Bruce County Farm Safety Assoc-
iation. The idea, she said, came after
he was nearly hit in his own
driveway by a salesman. The sign
was adopted by the Ontario Farm
Safety Association and is used today
all over the province.
Over the past winter Clarke spoke
to school classes in the Lucknow
area, showing videos, overheads and
teaching about poison look-alikes.
He arranged equipment for a wrap-up
session in May. At the time of his
death he was planning similar
sessions this winter.0