The Lucknow Sentinel, 1979-07-11, Page 1•
I SEE . . .
By The Sentine
French -English
exchange
Annie Cote, right is a Quebec
student on an English -French ex-
change in Ontario. She is visiting with
Joanne Bregtnan, left who will return
to Chicoutimi with Annie for an
exchangevisit in Quebec. The girls
-have discovered that immersion in the
• language through such exchange
visits is the only way to learn to speak •
a language, They have also learned a
language barrier does not prevent a
friendship's development.
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Celebration
/The O'Loughlin '^ McCann family
• descendants gathered in Kingsbridge
for a Celebration of the Ancestors on
the weekend, of June 23 - 24. This year
• marks the 100th anniversary of the
•death of Bridget Kitson, wife of Brian
.and John McCann whose wife was
Ann Donnelly. •A tree planting, a
family dinner, a tour Of the St.
Augustine and Kingsbridge commun-
• ities by trim to see the farms where the
• ancestors pioneered and a program of
• entertainment provided by the mem-
bers of the family descendants marked
the weekend reunion.
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Looking. Back ,
In this week's LookingBack
•Through The Sentinel colpmn,
grandson of a Lucknow man is
•attacked •by a gunman outside his
place of employment in Minneapolis; a
barn raising is described and there -is
more than one coincidence in two
births at Wingham and Distriet Hos-
pital.
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Con*ider prope.oy trespass legis lation
BY ALICE OMB
The land use committee of the Huron
County Federation of Agriculture has
recommended that Attorney General Roy
McMurtry consider some changes to the
proposed legislation on trespassing on
privately -owned land.
The government is, proposing to replace.
the Petty Trespass Act with two new pieces
of legislation - the Occupiers' Liability Act
and the Trespass to Property Act.
The attorney general recently requested
public reaction to the proposed legislation.
Gordon Hill of Vanra, chairman of the
land use committee, said his committee
recognizes the proposals outlined in the
new acts are area definite improvement to the
current situation existing under the Petty
Trespass Act.
Under the proposed legislation, the
maximum .fines for trespassing would be
increased from $100 to $-1,000. Also,
landowners would be asked to mark their
property with signs or • some type of
coloured marker to indicate if trespassing
is forbidden on their property.
Mr. Hill said his committee recom-
mended that the 'only cause for landowner
liability in the event of an injury to
someone trespassing on the property
should be when an act has been done by
the landowner with "deliberate intent to
cause harm ,,to someone coming on the
The
land," He sid the land use committee also
recommended that rather than putting
signs or markers on the property vvarnipg
people to keep off the land, there should be
a positive entry system of signs so.
landowners can indicate when they Would
welcome people using their land for
recreational uses.
Mr. Hill said his committee also recom-
mended to the minister that there
•shouldn't be a limit te the damages award
a judge could assess on the conviction of a
trespasser and that the damages awarded
should be equal to the full amount of
damages .incurred,
Finally, the local committee recommend -
pd there be a mandatory fine for tres-
Passing upon conviction of. trespassers.
The committee's recommendations were
forwarded both to the Ontario Federation
of Agriculture and to Attorney General
McMurtry.. ••
• • GUEST SPEAKER '
The guest speaker at Thursday's federa-
tion meeting, held at Huron Centennial •
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won township man
m. ac aident
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the swather and the _door of his truck.
Mr. Irwin is survived by his wife, the
former Jean Treleaven and four sons,
• Richard at home; Glenn of Kitchener and
James and Kevin,,both at home. He is also
• survived by his parents: Mr; and Mrs.
Clarence Irwin of Kinloss Township and a
•brother, Grant of Clinton. ,
The funeral was held on Monday from
the MacKenzie and McCreath Funeral
• Home with Rev. Doug, Kaufman of
• Lucknow Unitea Church officiating. Burial
• followed in Greenhill Cemetery.
A Huron Township man was killed early
Friday evening when he was pinned
between his pickup truck and a farm
swather. Harvey Johnstone Irwin, 50, of
concession 1, Huron TownthiP, Was pro.
nounced dead at the scene.
There were no witnesses to the accident
• which occurred in Mr. Irwin's yard abouf.
7.10 p.m. Friday, July 6. It appeared Mr.
Iwin was standing outside his truck when
the truck , went in motion. Mr. Irwin
attempted to stop the vehicle and. when the
truck collided with a farm swather. parked
in the yard, Mr. Irwin was pinned betWeen
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Farmer from Ghana
Learns Canadian farming methods
• Wilfred Ntiamoah wants to farm. He is
' in Canada for six months to learn ail he can
about Canadian farming methods. A native
• of Ghana; Wilfred was raised on a farm
where the methods are 'still very primitive.
He learned some scientific methods in
school and he hopes to combine the two to
make his farm productive.
Wilfred is sponsored during his trip to
Canada by the Ontario Feddation of
Agriculture as part of their Agri -skills
Abroad progratn. It is a means for the
federation to share Canadian Methods with
other farmers in less developed countries.
While he is in Canada, Wilfred will
receive; intensive on ' the job training,
working on several types of farms. He is
presently working on the farm of Tony and
Fran McQuail, Meeting Place Farm, West
• Wawanosh, which is his host farm.
The Federation is arranging for Wilfred
to work on several farms and to spend
some time at the .Univesity , of Guelph
he can meet with farm •specialists
and researchers. '•
-...• Wilfred plans to, make pOilltry his
speciafization on his 40 acre farm in Ghana.
• He hopes to take back an incubator which
Wffl speeiatize
i•n. po try
Wilfred Nllanioah of Ghana is working on
the farm .6f Tony. McQiudi,ieft to learn
about Canadian farming methods; Spon-
sored •by the Ontario Federation of
Agriculture through its • Agri -Skills Ab-
road program; 'Wilfred will be working on
several farmS and will spend some time at
the University of Guelph Agriculture
College during his six months hi Canada.
Wilfred wants to stiecialise hi poultry
farming and hopes to take back to Ghana
an incubator .which will allow him to
supply his Own day-old chicks for his
poultry farm. [Sentinel Staff Photo]
will raise between 250 - 500 chicks. Day old
chicks are expensive in Ghana and the
• source is unreliable. If Wilfred has his own
incubator he can raise his chicks cheaper
• and he will always have a source of chicks.
• He . can sell the surplus as well. An
incubator will help to make his poultry
farming more viable. • •
As well as poultry; Wilfred raises pigs;
goats and syleep and his crops include corn,
beans, tomatoes and onions
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Much of the farming it Ghana is ,done by
illiterates and their children who have
received an education do opt want to come
• back to the farm. They live in the city and
persue careers in business, commerce and
industry: <
Farming methods are very primitive as a
• result and Wilfred wants to learn all he can
froin the highly •developed farming meth-
ods in Canatja, Ghana farmers lick educa;
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