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40,000 farmers march The North Huron
on Parliament Hill
BY KEITH ROULSTON
More than 250 Huron County
farmers were among the estimated
40,000 people who stood knee
deep in snow on Parliament Hill
Friday to demand the Canadian
government keep its word in
promising to protect supply-man
agement marketing boards in the
ongoing GATT trade negotiations.
Five busloads of Huron residents
travelled all night under snowy
road conditions to arrive in Ottawa
in time for what was described as
the largest rally in the history of the
capital. They were joined by farm
ers from as far away as British
Columbia, the prairies and the east
coast, and by a number of busloads
of dairy farmers from New York
State who had travelled north to
express their support for Canada's
fight to preserve supply manage
ment against demands from their
own country that Canada give up
its control of imports in order to
gain wider support to reduced trade
barriers for other products and a
reduction of export subsidies that
are undermining world prices for
grains and oilseeds. Alice Eagan, a
spokesperson for the American
group, told the crowd "over 75 per
cent of American dairy farmers
favour the Canadian system of sup
ply management. It's a system we
would love to have."
Finance Minister and Deputy
Prime Minister Don Mazankowski,
backed up by more than a dozen
cabinet ministers and back
benchers, represented the govern
ment, pledging the government
would stand by its pledge to fight
hard to preserve marketing boards
under supply management. "I am
here as a former minister of agri
culture who helped design the fed
eral government position with
respect to the clarification and
strengthening of article 11 which
still forms the basic position that
we are taking to the GATT," he
said to loud cheers. He said the fed
eral government, with the support
of the provincial ministers of agri
culture, still supports its balanced
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Vol. 8 No. 8 Wednesday, February 26, 1992 60 cents
Last chance
to nominate Some audition
good citizens
Friday is the final date for nomi
nations for the Citizen of the Year
awards for the Blyth and Brussels
communities.
The deadline for the awards had
already been extended once from
Feb. 15 to Feb. 28 in order to allow
more nominations. So far only four
people have been nominated from
the Brussels area and five in the
Blyth area (including Auburn and
Londesboro nominations).
The awards are designed as a
small reward for the people who
give so much of themselves to their
communities. One winner will be
chosen from each community by a
panel of judges from each commu
nity, based on nominations
received from the public. The win
ner in each community will receive
a plaque. This is the seventh year
the awards have been given out.
Last year's winners were Elizabeth
Graber in Brussels and Dr. Richard
Street in Blyth.
Nominations forms may be left at
either the Blyth or Brussels offices
of The Citizen until Friday's clos
ing time.
Cast members of The Audition, presented by Aylmer High
School take part in a crazy, comic theatre audition as part
of the Crossroads Theatre Festival sponsored by the Blyth
Festival on the weekend. Over three nights, 10 schools
from Huron county and as far away as London and
Cambridge took part in the festival which also included
workshops in acting, playwrighting and technical subjects
and a career day with information from fine arts programs.
Madill vandals to pay damages
Three young men, one of whom
can't be named under the Young
Offenders' Act, were ordered to
make restitution and placed on 12
months probation, after pleading
guilty to the November 19 break-in
at F.E. Madill Secondary School.
In presenting the case to Judge
R.G.E. Hunter, Crown Attorney
Robert Morris stated that seven fire
extinguishers had been released
through the hall, cafeteria and gym
nasium. Also a two-inch fire hose
was left running causing damage to
the carpeting in the school. Costs
for clean-up and damages came to
$4,295.28.
Police later arrested Rod Adams,
Kevin Epp, Daniel Fitch, all of
Wingham, Edward Hoffarth of
Waterloo and a young offender for
the break-in. Mr. Morris told Judge
Hunter that Mr. Adams, who was
held in custody until a sentence
hearing in January, had apparently
been the instigator.
David Lang, attorney for Mr.
HCBE restricts supply teacher use
A warning that there would be
"tough justice" in the Huron Coun
ty Board of Education (HCBE) sys
tem was first heard at the February
meeting. Earlier last week, the
gavel began to fall.
In an effort to cut costs where
possible, HCBE administration
issued a memo to the county's five
secondary school principals,
restricting the use of supply teach
ers for most reasons outside of ill
ness.
Hoffarth, said the 19-year-old had
moved from his parents' Mt.. Forest
home last summer to live with his
aunt in Waterloo.
Employed by his uncle in con-
In the past, supply teachers have
been hired to replace teachers who
were absent due to field trips and
school sporting events.
Though the precise impact this
decision will have is not known,
Director of Education Bob Allan
did say that in the 1990-91 school
term, the total cost of supply teach
ers, for all reasons, including ill
ness was in excess of $827,000.
"Even with the illness factor in
there, there is no question that it is
struction, he first met Mr. Adams
during a job in Wingham. He later
returned to Kitchener to complete
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a big budgetary area," he said.
It is not the board's intention, Mr.
Allan said, to have sports and field
trips cut, rather that the schools
find ways to cover classes with
existing personnel. For example he
suggests sessions in the library,
classes coming together or the
Vice-Principal or a prep-time
teacher taking classes when the
regular teacher is away with a team
or group of students.
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