HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1979-06-13, Page 8Per il—lonclinew Sentinel, Wednesday, June 13, 1979
Learn to make meetings interesting
' BY RHEA HAMILTON
For interesting meetings
the Huron Federation of
Agriculture may have other
groups beat out. Members
learned Thursday night in
Clintonthat they already
have many of the qualities
that make interesting meet-
ings better.
Guest speaker, Mark Wal-
dren, of the University of
Guelph spoke on how to
make meetings more effec-
tive, informative and inter-
esting.
HFA President Merle
Gunby and secretary -treas-
urer Carol Finch conducted
the business and Mr. Wald -
ren later referred back to a
lot of what happened to
illustrate points he made.
Breaking into groups,
members were asked to
make lists their key problems
in attending and running
meetings.
The problems later sum-
marized included discourag-
ing irrelevant discussion,
getting better attendance out
to meetings and getting com-
mittments. necessary to con-
duct interesting meetings.
Most important, Mr. Wal-
dren pointed out, is to keep a
sense of humour. Relax and
enjoy the meeting and make
the best of it he said.
Accompanying Mr. Wal-
dren was a collegue from
Dublin, Ireland, Father Liam
Carey. Father Carey is direc,r
tor of the department of adult
extension service at St. Pat-
rick's College which is part of
the. National University of
Ireland.
The fieldman's report in-
dicated that membership in
Huron County is falling.
Fieldman Bill Crawford re-
ported to members that in
general most of the farmers
he talks to are satisfied with
OFA but are unaware of their
own pi rwincial directors in
the area and are unable to
express their concerns. Com-
pared to the provincial mem-
bership which is down one
per cent, Huron is down two
per cent.
Norman Alexander report-
ed that there is a wave of
concern from a number of
farmers about disposal and
spreading of animal waste.
Mr. Alexander wanted to
know if the federation is
looking into this matter. The
ministry of the environment
at present keeps check of
operations by aerial surveil-
ance but are slow to act on
matters, he said.
"There is a growing trend
for people downstream to
speak out," said Mr. Alex-
ander. It was' suggested by
Tony McQuail that the mat-
ter be brought before farm-
ers by an article in Rural
Voice on the problem.
The matter was left to the
F of. A's soil and erosion
committee to check into
further.
The president of Huron F
of A has been helping
Wingham high school' stud-
ents with a planning project.
Mr. Gunby was asked to
judge plans drawn up by
students participating in a
two week project under the
dtgetion of Wendy Fisher, of
the Huron County planning
department.
Ton); McQuail reported on
a phone call from someone
interested, in a followup of
the brief Huron farmers
presented to the Porter com-
mission on the proposed
Hydro corridor. "Our sub-
mission did catch someone
else's eyes," said Mr. Mc -
Quail who is waiting for more
information.
In other business, mem-
bers were reminded about
the Agricrew program. Fern
Cole, co-ordinator for the
program, wrote that the pilot
program still has help avail-
able for farmers in Huron -
Perth. Crews of boys and
girls 14 years and up will
work on farms doing every-
thing from painting and
mending fences to haying
and harvesting.
Help is on a first come,
first served basis and starts
June 25th.
A request for funds from
the Salvation Army was filed.
The annual meeting is set for
October 19 in the Brussels
arena. Tony M'cQuail -re-
quested input from members
concerning several regional
meetings as opposed to one.
An invitation has been
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extended to the staff at the
offices of the OFA in Toronto
to visit for a weekend on
some of the farms in the
.area. The invitation was
extended when it was learn-
ed that some of the staff have
never been on a farm and yet
do so much work for the
farming community.
Bev Brown received a
letter from the staff in
Toronto asking if some of the
people might bring their
children. :The members ag-
reed it would be a gond idea
to include the younger
people. A list was passed for
volunteer hosts to sign and
indicate what accommoda-
tions they had.
Miss Brown noticed while
attending Centralia College
graduation exercises recently
that that there was no award
given by the largest farm
organization in the county,
the Huron F of A.
The matter 'is to be looked
into further.
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