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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1984-02-08, Page 19 9 9 '9 5 5 9 • 41I ,dint ti I •F ' 2D pages The Ice county. ork, Producers. a orkin oimprove the pork indu. roughs' "r i pal ` marketing system,. for anada., Their proposal is based on two, inctples:, (1) The domestic rrlarlet' should\ shard.; by '.producers through a quota stemo ith pricesrrdetermined by , a cost of ®duction o"who;* 2) 'Park., for -',,export ouluced;with nor restrictions and: ice e exp Accord oducer used- suit iehk, ` ars era The`_s th C sy s, W th a re 'ye ° av e Y iaitever t Yv ould `bring. sin. ssociial onic o' It e Bruce Ct inty,t Pork on, lour pork prices are 4,1as the rindicetion technique ace � e past five:. whe 14 `viu- lel s is, F uc�s Change Otis agree- Pry Pad every';provtnce be soppy management system'can be imi le vented, is simply not necessary ani >r Ite, mucX publicized satabilization ; plant w tf is i er"; ,gets ;off the ground; briir g `liimited benefltts : o; ,producers.". T'he, pork "price ,,cycles, says the associa Akin, wilt continue to haveLLmore downs than.; Ops, Only !a Major, change in marketing. t r; strategyk cans effectively deal *ith d problems sot of price collapse. Bruce County Pork Producers have presW' ye ted pol9) to, - taternent on supply manage - tar* councilman on , the otuncil and the director of •ang.. board.: Tho outline leludedin letters sent '.on�: r.. A fo Saturd Finla�ysQ9 main • retie ;sigh " years" a, a•' is ; .t9r w t•r ^'Y5 r Be % ti Nelson nd, :Elizabeth Aisne; Mrs. Frank Graham of- Belleville, three. -brothers, two sisters and two. grandchildren. - cknow: businessman ';died 9ollsi!rig :a short illness. Roy rates a business on .Luccknow',s ars. ':beforeore his 0 Tone oldest nr hf on fecoid ' hat tem atu 'the mer, at date-' " `m neterolo`�gist, ' as the re" li+aol�tisndy,vut ti l i nail n the e n w n . none � .�► e� .. g, *28-2822.. �ian� versary of.:the, r ryelu remember ,dipped to on Harold .Greet tl hq accurate th your guess, Snowmobile rely Approximately 200 snowmobiles particip- ated in' ties St. Helens annual poker rally held on Mite, weekend. One of the more successful rallies in the area, 435 poker hands were/purchased with the winner being Gary. Rodgers of R. 5, Goderich. Cash inners and prize winners in the lucky draws appear in today's Sentinel on page 16. e era ,arc :. rovmce of teneoutage feedback 4; Membersof the' Bruce Association hi also.eser ,.nted h� t -. p e ,proposals to the county associations, In allot the northern cnUntles of &ookek the .,province except Perth and intend to the pioneers:_ present the. plata4o southernsonetiff 8 c th and Janine, Patethe bush Ali idente are reviving a method of walling *alio the snow used y. Ick opened our country. From the left are Jeff Weaver, Chris eats=eq joy obis country hikes en: thoanow shoes through • [Photo by Sharon •Dletsl 'd s � nF.;M�;C� 8� e� b�i ac ciiuin :ria..' wa J;: Yee e . t . web. .he presented his annual' report to Bruce County Council , at 1,,lheir January meeting. An. eremely iild' winter cut dawn the ogsump on•of salt, there + *,11#le plowing. to do, winter con of 'expenses were:.town. and 'money saved was used -o construction projects....'= Lucknow a corrugated ateel:'culve,t Was inse°°sited through the concrete . culvert on , County ROM .1 (;Ross Street). The balance of, they . Opening above the • steels - culvert . was blocked 'with sand bags and the ends backfilled ; ° in the usual manner. Not removing the concrete culvert was a considerable saving with the cost amounting to $10,090.93, said Yundt in his report. Bruce , County Road 1 was completely reconstructed in late August from Ludgard Street to the Railway .Crossing in Lucknow. As the . railway line was closed in early September; the railway enbankment was removed and the grade' lowered. 'It. will . be paved in 1984. The cost of the project was $73,000. The major construction project of the year • 'y ray„ S •troley7: F 74'� �k) +; r iya.s (yNi�One 4 • etween co�ncessions4and 6 w roc h tries=? utlt ° in. 1972, wase completely reconstructed. In the southerly two: kilometers, two large multi plate culvertshad to be. installed. The cost to date, . excluding; land purchases, is $360,000 and it is to be hard surfaced in 1984. Total , ' eapendituiles for the roads depart- ment in 1983 amounted to $3,653,069437 said Yundt. As the. -road crews had little to do during the winter, grey insulated and painted the garages, repaired the offices and work areas in addition tocutting 'and removing the usual number of dead trees,•on the roadsides. A`hot July and August meant the depart- ment was able to easily complete all projects on the 1983 program. Road sections com- pletely reconstructed totalled a record nine and one-half miles, the largest amount of road construction since the development road days in the mid. 60s. The program of upgrading the shoulders and roadsides' continued with all the guide posts and cable on . Road 3 between Paisley and Highway 21 being removed and 1400,1P!m elpeatedifta `k�iilge` P air liktogwas quite successful, saidYutrdt. Per ears the' y county built bridges and then ignored them. Since commencing thorough annual ins1ections, it is evidentthat a program of regular maintenance along with .rehabilitation as required, is well worthwhile, commented the engineer. To protect the county's Investment in bridges, "itis an absolut4 necessity," said. Yundt. This. year initiated a program of roadside contouring at locations. prone to • snow drifting. Funds were available and the fall was fairly dry. Arrangements were made with abutting property owners and the top soil was removed on a SO to 60' strip next to the "road allowance. Grades were lowered -and the field sloped to the roadside ditch; then topsoil was replaced. - This was done on the west side of the road at three locations , . north of Tara, also on , s` �`•,: County Road 3, 1''/9 miles south of Dunkeld 't' and one-third of a mile north of 'the Eden ' • Grove Corner. These improvements will reduce plowing requirements and improve visibility during snow storms, Yundt told council. continue in 1984. kleotape "Aging in a Rural Environment" premieres . After more than two years in the works, he videotape, "Aging in a Rural Environ- eat" premiered last week to participants at he Wingharn Day Centre, . for the Horfie- ' ound and' other interested . citizens. - Several day centre regulars and ' local _ . eniors were interviewed by a team of re- ;` earchers from the University of Guelph for the video. " TOO reaction among those' who iewed ' it last Wednesday was favorable, ith th 'st seniors saying it 'is a, good reflection. of their way of life. Lir, Anne Martin -Matthews of the Geron- tology Research Centre at the University of Guelph attended the day centre last Tuesday to show the video and present the findings of the study. Unlike their city counterparts, the rural elderly display a fierce sense of independ- eflce, said Dr. Martin -Matthews. It is their , independence they strive to hang onto, Nether that means trying to remain in their own homes as long as .possible or not accepting any "charity" froin others willing to help. ' She explained there are two generations of rural elderly: the recently retired who provide their own transportation and who are active; . and those in the 80' and over category, many of whom %annot .live --alone any longer. It is the transition from *de- pendence to dependency which causes the most hardship for seniors. ' Another problem facing the rural elderly is transportation. Seniors have a difficult time'`doing even simple things like going shopping if they have, no vehicles and their. independent streak makes them teary to ask anyone. .• George Taylor, a Wingham area senior who appears on the videotape,, called the transportation system in and amend the small towns of Southwestern Ontario atrocious because there is no satisfactory method of transportation between the small towns and the largercentres like London, Kitchener or 'Toronto. . Loneliness ,affects' a high proportion of rural elderly as well. Janet Reid, "a Wingham health nurse, said she often saw cases of extreme loneliness and depression among the seniors she visited. But places ' like the day centre go a long way 'in fighting loneliness among the rural elderly. One reasonfor this feeling of aloneness is that family contacts are infrequent for some seniors as children leave the rural commun- ity to 'work in the cities: But there are advantages to growing old in a small town setting too, because people usually do look out for their elderly neighbours and will check 'on them ' period- ically. They ' also offer 'them' rides to the doctor' or to do their shopping. The elderly are not without humor either. John McMurchy, 97 of Lucknow; displayed AY an easy style,of wit on the videotape that would have ade George Burns proud. With the growing needs and numbers' of seniors in the rural environment, new services to seniors have sprung up which were nonexistent even 10 years ago. The video praises the development of such thingsas the seniors' day centre for the homebound and homemakers groups. These services allow seniors to remain in their own homes , longer and remain independent longer. It also provides social contact without the worry of transportation. Dr. Anthony. Fuller, head of the univer.- sity's now disbanded Rural. Develpiment Outreach Program, said the findings of that group so impressed the federal , government that it .gave' the university the funds needed to establish , its new Gerontology Research Centre. Tuna to page 40