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'.r.titedin Lucknow,.tario, Wednesday, August 1, 198.4 .
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A small craft safety show was held at Lucknow Swimming Pool July 27 sponsored 'by the
,Red Cross when the- hazards of drinking whileboating,' overcrowding •a boat and general
, water safety rules were demonstrated. Area youngsters watched the _demonstration which
also involved the Lucknow swimming poOl staff. (Photo by Sharon Dietz)
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CLINTON-,-Bruce McDonald a 30 -:Year
old insurance broker from : Mildmay will
take the Huron -Bruce Liberals to the polls in.
the September 4 federal election. •
McDonald earned the Liberal nod. on July,
26 in Clinton when more than 650ppeople fill -
.ed the high . school auditorium to pick their
candidate:
The voters chose McDonald over. Heather
! Redick of Zurich on the first ballot.
A life long resident 'of the ,riding,
McDonald- was born in Brussels and raised
`on a( farm in Grey Township. His family has
a history of involvement in community"and •
civic affairs and .. his , great -great-
grandfather was the first reeve of Grey
Township..b
The young Liberal candidate was
educated at Walton Public School, Seaforth
High School and earned a Bachelor•. of
Business Administration from Wilfrid
Laurier University, Waterloo. . • •
He was the.owner and president of D.B.
McDonald:Insurance Brokers in Formosa
and Mildmay : in 1981 and is now a partner
with Craig, McDonald, Reddon . Insurance
Brokers, in Formosa, Mildmay and Walker-
ton.
McDonald has been involved in Liberal
party politics for the past 12 years.: He is
tai.' election campaign
Canadians are troubled by the issues fac-
ing
ac-ing them and they are looking tothe leaders •
of the three federal parties to see how they
will .• approach the most important policy
' issues , tinder debate in ; this election:
unemployment, the deficit, prime interest .
rates, technological change in • the
workplace, ' women's issues, trade, tax.
reform, patronage. .: ..
The Sentinel talked to people in the
Lucknow area about this election campaign, "
how they see the leaders, about .the issues
and what they hope to learn es the campaign
continues We have printed their initial
responses to•the campaign and the leaders
and will continue to bring you. -their
responses as. the campaign unfolds to elec-
tion day September 4.
Among • those who• are participating are
Harvey Houston, a retired farmer and well
• known senior resident •of Lucknow;. Joan
.Black, . an . elementary school teacher , and
Anne Hamilton, a university student who
will vote for the first time'in this election.
Harvey Houston, senior citizen •
I have mixed feelings about the election:
campaign. I don't know who I'mgoing to.
,vote for. • As far as I'm concerned there was
too ;much jangling'. back and forth in the
television .debate and nobody's coming up
with anything concrete:. no facts and
• figures.
There's too.nany hangers on and it would
be good for:a':turnover.: to get rid of a:'lot of.
• past ; president of the Liberal . Association :.
and past -campaign chairman in 1979 and 80.
He , was a delegate to the June '84 Leader-,
ship Convention In Ottawa and currently
serves as vice president of the Western On-
tario North
n-tario:North Liberal Association.
McDonald told the' Liberalaudience,
. "What you .see is what you get." He said he
offers no• illusions but offers, "youth, eri-
thusiasm and vitality." '
He said that. the Liberal party is one of
"reform . and renewal....our party has
emerged renewed, revitalized.;.:"
The -Liberal. candidate :emphasized that
government must be open to the people and
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Angela Kroschel of Australia, left, is one of
r7 young people touring Canada and the
Jn ited States on. a rural youth exchange.
he was hosted by West Huron Junior
armer Audrey Ritchie 'during her stay in
his area. The Australians are in Canada on
he return exchange which was initiated
when Canadian Junior .Fanners visited
Australia and New Zealand last summery
Several West Huron club members 111-
hiding Audrey were in Australia last year.
Photo by Sharon Dietz)
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dead woodPrime Ministers should only
serve two terms • •
There's.too much patronage. If Mulroney
'could get.. rid of the dead wood :I might vote •
for him. But he had .the lead in the polls,
following his electionto the leadership and
. he has lost the lead trying to get the. Quebec
vote: I thought he -was the worst,,choice:for
leader or the,"three, Clark, 'Crosbie and
Mulroney. - .. •
John Turner did have an option where'the
patronage issue was concerned, He could
have told Trudeau toa his. own appoint -
rents, which would 'have delayed the.call
foran election and the Queen could have
made her visit, which.wouldn't have been•so
bad, Turner has never yet turned up his nose
at Bryce Maokasey and we all know what he
is. (Former cabinet minister, Mackasey: has
been appointed ambassador to Portugal
during .the recent patronage, appointments ,
made by Turner), • •
I Jike Ed Broadbent, leader of the NDP,
but for :some reasonpeople don't trust him;
not even. labour. : He made the biggest.
mistake of his life when he joined' with . the
Liberals to •defeat the Clark government in
19719. I've'lost faith in himever since. ,
There hasn't a program proposed yet
in this campaign .thatwill put any of the
unemployed youth around Lucknow to work. •
'hese grants they keep spreading around
are a joke. .There's .a lot ofmoney spread
around but°itdoesn't put anyone to work. •
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proposed that he ..would, hold' two public
meetings a year and have: two constituency.
.offices
"The residents of Huron -Bruce
MP's salaries," he noted: Pay the
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McDonald stressed the needfor
enterprise and said that.thefree
backbone of the
economy is based' on agriculture and, small
business. He said heis committed to .the.
preservation of the family farm. Family
farms; he noted, have beena '
ssociated with
•bankuptcy;and foreclosure and government
policies must be developed to.help:farmers.
Innovative tax policies areneeded, along. .
Turn topage4•
unior Farmershost Australians on exchange
Angela Kroschel is. one of 37 young people
touring. Canada and the United States on a•
rural youth exchange. Several area junior
farmers toured Australia and New Zealand
last summer and the Australians are return
Mg the visit. •
•Angela's hastfamily m Lucknowis Berna-
dean,and Leonard Ritchie whose daughter,
Audrey took the tour to Australia last 'sum-
mer. Angela arrived in the Lucknow area on
July 18 and stayed a week with Audrey's
family.
--- While here she enjoyed a . tour of the
Pioneer Museum in C�oderich, ..a' day at
Fishermen's Cove. and the beach and the
Junior Farmer summer games in Hanover.
The Australians arrived in San,,Francisco
July 1 and took two doubledecker buses up
the Pacific coastline to Vancouver. From
there they travelled to Banff, Calgary where
they took in the Stampede; Moose Jaw
where they,toured a farm and on to Ontario
where they arrived in Collingwood.
The 37 young people were billeted with
junior farmer hosts in Bruce, Grey, Perth
and Huron' Counties. From here they go on
•to Niagara Falls and then to New York City.
• Angela will fry to Singapore on July 26 to
visit with a cousin before going home and
several of the tour i iembers are staying in
America for another month to travel the
eastern seaboard states to Florida. before
flying home.
The Australians were surprised at the ir-
rigation used on prairie farms' when they..
' stopped in Saskatchewan. At home the
Australian• farmer hopes for rain and if it
-doesn't come, they don't harvest a crop that
year.
In the.Barossa Valley where Angelalives,,
farming includes sheep grazing, . grain
crops, dairy farming and grape' growing.
The valley is traditionally a wine producing
area with its vinelands. ,
• Most of the area however, is hot and dry
as there is only one major river system in all
south Australia. She finds our summers lush
and green iki. comparison . to the 'Australian
summer, which is too hot and dryfor
vegetation to ' survive. The crops were
planted just before they left Which is the
beginning of their winter months and the
start of the growing season.
Rural youth clubs in Australia are similar
Canada.Members enjoyprograms
in
to the junior farmer organizations
. , A. g s which •
are cultural,. ,agricultural and social in
orientation, including toursof industry,
theatre dates, stock judging
demonstrations, guest speakers and various
social events. .
The name is misleading since there 'are
two rural youth clubs, in the city of Adelaide,
which is about an hour's drive from
Angela's home in Angaston, South
Australia. The rural youth organization
presents the opportunity for young people to
have:funand learn at time, Angela
• explains. •
Customs and lifestyles are similar in.
Canada and Australia, she says, reflecting
our common west European heritage. The
summers are muCh hotter -and drier in South
Australia she notes, "relating . their . ex-
periences with fire storms during last sum-
mer's hot dry Weather, .
Ironically, it snowed the day after their
tour left which is uncommon and there had
been a dust storm only two weeks previous.
The snow was dight and melted before day's
end:
.. Angela has found the tour an excellent op-
portunity to meet new friends, renew the ac-
quaintances she made when the Canadian
junior farmers' visited her country a year
ago and visit a country She may never have
seen because ordinarilythe cost is pro-
hibitive. The rural youth charter tour made
the rates reasonable and
permittedjtier to
take advantage of the opportunity to come
to Canada
The trip hasn't been without its thrilling --
moments. She describes the feeling when
they went white water rafting on the Thompr'
son River in British Columbia. She says it
was a comfort to their bruises to visit the
sulphur springs at Banff.
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