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Jim Prior is kept busy updating the web site for the
International Plowing Match 99 being hosted by Huron
County. The site offers information on activities, areas,
contest and plans to help committee members keep
abreast of things and to introduce potential visitors to the
area and inform them about the IPM.
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THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1998. PAGE 15.
Brusselite creates IPM web page
By Bonnie Gropp
Citizen staff
It may still be over a year away,
but the International Plowing
Match 99 is on-line.
Jim Prior of JP Computer Ser-
vices has been working on the web
page since last December. He was
first contacted about the project last
June, then in September he and a
few others interested in the idea
met with the committee to discuss
it.
Prior attended the IPM near Bar-
rie last September to take pictures
and gather brochures. From this he
did a mock-up of the web site,
which he was invited by IPM 99
Chair Graeme Craig, to present at
the October meeting.
The committee was pleased with
his presentation and in December
he started working on the project. It
was up and running in earnest by
Christmas, but it wasn't until the
end of January that it was finally
posted.
The name ipm99.on.ca was cho-
sen, Prior said, because they want-
ed something easily recognizable.
Prior's intention is for the site to
be a data base of information that is
going to build as the date of the
match gets closer.
Interested people can already get
some facts about the area and
places of interest, the names, phone
and e-mail numbers of committee
members, contests and ticket infor-
mation.
The event, which will be held in
September of 1999 on a farm near
Dashwood, will have available 100
acres for camping with 1000 sites,
Continued from page 14
the ice storm in Quebec which
hampered attempts to send Ontario
pigs to Quebec packers. The daily
hog auction was shut down when
the strike began because there were
too few bidders, and Ontario Pork
tried to arrange block sales but
prices suffered.
Schlegel said he hoped the price
would soon rise from the current
lows. "I know what it's like to send
hogs out the door with $20 or $30
bills taped to their backs," Schlegel
said.
Jerry Klingenberg, in his zone
Continued from page 14
garden. The garden members are
encouraged to feel they are partners
with the farmers and help them
with some of the planning.
This winter meeting was
designed to combine food, fun and
planting. After a potluck lunch the
children went sledding while
parents discussed garden plans for
1998. Ways to improve car
pooling were discussed so that
members at a distance could take
turns on vegetable pickup days. It
was decided to have pickups on
Tuesdays and Saturdays.
Members wanted to continue
having the winter vegetables and
half of which arc serviced. Infor-
mation on this is also posted on the
web site. There is also a survey for
accommodations which will then
be produced in brochure form.
A ghost page has been estab-
lished for committee members as "a
source of information and commu-
nication," said Prior. "With future
plans and the minutes of meetings,
it has been really useful for them to
keep abreast of what's going on."
Prior also is able to keep track of
who's visiting the web sites. "We
have had 176 hits to this point and
expect many more." He can also
tell if people are browsing by just
once or making return visits.
Many of the hits have been from
North America, he said, though
there has been one from Australia.
Another survey is helping to col-
lect information as to what the pop-
ular day is for visitors to attend the
match.
Prior is also throwing in some
fun ideas, like puzzles and games,
for visitors to the web site. He wel-
comes contributors as well.
"Anything people want to submit
I will certainly consider and give
them full credit."
His e-mail address is
jameprio@huron.net
With information coming from
the current 35 committees and
through his own research, Prior
said the project keeps him very
busy. "The schedule of events will
grow as more things are finalized.
These people have some pretty
incredible ideas. I like to keep it
current so people will come in and
then come back again to see what's
new."
director's report, estimated the
strike at Canada Packers had affect-
ed the price four to five per cent,
but even without it, the high
slaughter in the U.S. would have
depressed prices. He said it will
take several weeks once the Canada
Packers strike is settled before it
can handle its normal flow of hogs
again.
The Huron County Pork Produc-
ers presented their producer of the
year award to Jack and Marg Kroes
of Clinton and their retailer of the
year award to Steve and Tanis
Denomme of Steve's Meat Market
in Bayfield.
using cold storage at the farm. One
family indicated that they figured
the winter storage vegetables were
saving them about $10 a week on
their winter grocery bill.
It is hoped that garden
membership will expand to 45
families for 1998. The garden is a
great way for people who don't
have the time, the place or the
experience to garden for
themselves to enjoy the fresh from
the garden taste of local organic
produce.
Following the meeting children
and parents went for a horse drawn
nleigh ride around the farm and
visited the livestock in the barn.
Ice storm impacts
pork producers
Gardeners discuss plans
for upcoming season