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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1984-02-15, Page 1single copy 35c Published in Lucknow, bntario, Wednesday, February 15, 1984 411111111111111111111I Lords win trophy The LalleSVille Lords Broomball Team travelled to Windsor on the weekend to compete in the Kent Essex• Broomball Tournament. -The team played three games and received a bye into 'the finals. Lanesville met the Bruce County Chargers in the final game for the 13 Champion.. ship. In an exciting game where the team gave their all, they lost 1 - 0 in three minutes overtime. The LanesviIle team received the B Runnerup Trophy and prize money. Firemen saire bam • Lucknow Fire Department assisted by the Ripley Fire Departtnent and neighbours' were able to save a barn on the farm of Hary and Pat Livingston froin being destroyed • by fire February 8. The fire' in the soutWeast end of the farrowing barn is believed to have originated in the silo unloade'r cable. Lucknow Firemen answered the call about *2 p.m. and remained on the scene until 9 pan. Local tractor puller e competing in Louis. e The 1984 National Farm Machinery Show. and Cham- pionship Tractor Pull has invited Art Helm of Lucknow, Ontario to participate in the 9,000 pound Modified Traders- •au.s at tile National Farm Machinery Show, Louisville Kentucky, February 15 to 18. events Championship Tractor Pull is one of the premier in the United States. Participants in this Andrew Cleland was one lucky fellow tela Valenthm's Day as PreS0§-41011 are Se1edidviduI1y,basd oneach!!sveeibeirte, _ -Present- eittb tOeVInes. diir el -outstanding— -fieff0Miapee'llittrillirthe Mit40014.0004, 010 • ItiOntiagedifili Or' 20 pages year. ' • caini.v,id which haul chosen the dleiiiii•Beliti • • sweethearts are from the left, Adolfo Andrew, Lod Porter, Jennifer roreef end ,Tble 'swung_ Ali, canard win be betld gehltiblOireibitietheaveleeS* Arent • (Photo by Sharon Mar] The entry in the above class is an acknowledgement of • the exceptional pulls he has achieved throughout the year. • No matter ltpar the' puller finishes in the 1984 champion- ship traeftind14-he is considered one of the finest pullers Must consider cost of immersion program . in the country. As a member of that special group, he will be demonstrating the best that tractor pulling has to offer. Area man receives auctioneer's diploma Cletus Dalton, R. R. #3, Goderich, Ontario, has just returned from Kansas City, Missouri, where he successfully completed the course in Auctioneering and Auction Sales Management at Missouri Auction School. He received his diploma and the honorary title of Colonel along with men and women auctioneers from throughout the United States and Canada. The concentrated two week course is conducted by Missouri Auction School at the world's largest auction training center in the Kansas City Stockyards. 'His training included lectures and workshops -featuring prominent auctioneers from throughout Ame '6a. He participated in selling num rous public auctions in Kansas City and nearby communities in Missouri and Kansas. Subjects covered included antique auctions, livestock, furniture, business liquidations, real estate, rare coin, auto, machinery, general merchandise, all types of ,estate auctions, and the rapid fire chant of the tobacco auctioneer. By Stephanie Levesque The Huron County Board of Edu- cation wants to know tile cost of French Immersion before setting up such a program. • A group of interested parents from Goderich told the board of its interest in setting up a French immersion program in the county for September of this year at the board's February 6 meeting. Nicola Sully of Goderich spoke for the group which is interested in an early totai immersion program at the kindergarten and Grade 1 levels if started this September. • The Goderich woman said a tneeting was being held , at Victoria Public School in Goderich that evening to inform any Huron county resident interested in such a pro- gram for their children. "We would best be able to make a formal presentation following our information meeting at. which time we would have concrete numbers and suggestions for implementing this program. If all were in agree- ment, we could make this presenta- tion to the duaition committee at their meeting on February 13 in order to facilitate "a* study of this subject," said Sully hoping for a 'positive recommendation from board at its March meeting. However, Trustee John Jewitt of Londesboro said before any commit- tee studies the possibility of a French Immersion program in the county, the board should know all costs associated with such a program. ' Exeter Trustee Clarence McDon- ald 'agreed with Jewitt but pointed out that if the Goderich group is to be heard at the next education donimit- tee, there isn't enough time to prepare any costs. "I am all for French instruction," said Jewitt indicating he is not against a French program, but he said consideration has to be given to what is currently being taught in Huron County. Now French instruc- tion starts in Grade 3 for 20 minutes a day. . Trustees started to question what kind of costs Jewitt wanted, noting there are different degrees of French Immersion program. Bob Allan, director of education, agreed, the question of French • mersion is a complex one and sug- gested. that adininistration could present general cost figures at the board's March meeting. Trustee Tony McQuail of Ashfield Township commented on the time frame suggested by the group. He said it is "unrealistic" for the French Immersion • group to expect the program to be in place in Huron for this September. • Both *Quail and board chairman Eugene Payne said the future of a French Immersion program depends on the number of people wishing this type of program for their children. It is expected these numbers will be determined at the public meeting. The board will have the general costs of a French Immersion pro- gram presented to them at the March 5 meeting. Information from • the Goderich public meeting will_also be available and the board will decide which direction to take. Bruce pork producers request supply management model , The Bruce County Pork Producers Assoc- iation put forth a resolution regarding supply management at their- annual meeting held in Walkerton February 7. The resolution requests that a supply management model be presented to pork producers in 1984. The resolution will be debated on the floor of the annual meeting of the Ontario Pork Producers Marketing Board in Toronto in March. According to Ian Clarke of Kinloss township. 'a director of the Bruce County, Pork Producers Association, many farmers believe supply management might work in the pork industry but do not know how it will Work, In a letter to the councilmen of the Ontario Pork Producers Marketing Board, the Bruce County Pork Producers Association outlined their position, which 'states that stabilization payments should be paid to producers to help offset the losses of the last half year and the anticipated losses of this winter. Stabilization cannot be used as a long term solution because of its inability to solve the heart of the problem, over production, says the letter. Even if the government did demonstrate,a willingness to foot the.bill of making up the difference between cost of production and the, American market price, which to this point they have not, producers would be unwise to put the future of their industry direttly into the hands of govern- • ment programmers, warns the Bruce County Pork .,Producers Association. According to their position, pork, for domestic consumption should be priced reasonably using a cost of production formula. This market would be shared by producers through a quota, system - supply Management - with closed borders. Pork for export would be produced unrestricted and the price would be whatever it brought on the export Market. In summary, the letter says present tech- nology and marketing practise ensures over groduction, which in turn ensures low prices most of the time and ultimately ensures the consolidation of the industry into a few corporate hands. The letter goes on to 'say government subsidies, new methods of husbandry and increased efficiencies, while desirable in themselves,, have not solved the problems of the industry. Dairymen, poultry prodncers, tobacco growers and others have set up systems, which have provided reasonable incomes while avoiding the surpluses that have been the bane of their counterparts in Europe and USA, necessitating expensive surplus re- moval plans by their governments. Both federal and provincial governments have a policy of encouraging orderly marketing systems, the letter concludes.