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Home My WebLink AboutThe Huron Expositor, 1994-09-14, Page 3Local Neighbours helping neighbours Continued from page 2 didn't do that job properly. A team always started a wagon gently," recalled the threshers. What have we lost with the disappearance of custom threshing in local farming culture? Sociability, answered the trio. After the era of custom threshing it narrowed down the numbers of neighbours you neighboured with, said Frank Bruxer. Farmers today are more self-sufficient and independent. "You don't have to depend on your neighbour quite so much," said Bruxer. "If you had to put a roof on a barn you'd call on the neighbours," recalled Rowland. Aside from the work there was the exchange of ideas and information. "You knew who had seedgrain next spring. And so and so has some nice red clover. You passed the word around...who had good horses. Or somebody else built a silo," said the trio. Travelling to other farms also gave the threshers a chance to see how various farm operations were set up and to maybe discover a different or more efficient way of doing things. Today combines have taken the place of threshers. "Custom work pretty well terminated in '53," said Kale, who continued doing thresh- ing work for five or six neighbours for an additional five years. "The crop yields increased tremendously in the '50s," said Kale. "The season was short and there just wasn't time for a threshing rig to get around anymore," said Bruxer. When custom threshing faded from the farming scene Kale and Rowland both went into construction. Bruxer went into motor mechanics in the following years. Kale eventually traded the 3250 Bell thresher in for a new tractor. The thresher was new in 1936 and was run continually till about 1955. Originally it was on steel DAVID EMSLIE PHOTO MAKING ROPE - By turning the crank and receiving a little help from Martin Hendriks, Gregory Woldnik, 5, of Seaforth was able to make his own rope at the 33rd annual reunion of the Huron Pioneer Thresher and Hobby Association. Hendriks, of Lucknow, had his homemade rope -making machine at the reunion in Blyth over the weekend and gave children the opportunity to make their own piece of rope. wheels but Kale eventually put rubber wheels on the 3250. He did keep track of the thresher for some of its future. The 3250 ended up at McGavin's Farm Equipment in Walton. It was sold for parts and scrap. The tractor went to McGavin's too. "It was sold and traded back again to McGavin's but then we lost it. Neil (McGavin) doesn't know where it went," said Kale. One mark custom threshers Tom Kale, Lou Rowland and Frank Bruxer left was their names and the Commissioners, disagreed on hiring The former manager of the Tuckersmith Municipal Telephone System may have been given a job which some commissioners never wanted advertised. Alar Korgemets was hired on May 2 but left the company a few months later. A delegation to Tuckersmith Township Council, which included three former telephone commis- sioners, said the company may not have acted correctly by dealing with staff complaints without Korgemets present. I'm not saying if he was the right man or the wrong mah, I'm saying the way in which it was handled was dreadfully wrong," said Dave Brock, former chairperson of the telephone com- mission, at the Sept. 6 council meeting. The phone company opened itself to the possibility of a wrongful dismissal lawsuit when the phone manager left, according to Brock. He said Korgemets waived claims against the township after leaving the company. The former phone manager was unavailable for com- ment. - Prior to Korgemets' hiring some commissioners on the phone system had wanted to promotc an employee from within without advertising the position, said Brock. In a close vote the commission decided to advertise the position and received roughly 80 applica- tions. The phone system then Bayfield to celebrate heritage Bayfield residents will be celebrating their past with a Founders' Day Heritage Happen- ing on Saturday, October 1. Residents and shopkeepers in period costumes will welcome visitors to the Bayfield of the past with a parade with pipers, old-fashioned children's races and activitie.. in Clan Gregor Square, pie -!raking and pie -eat- ing contests, period fare in their fine restaurants, street performers and the "Press Gang" and their cannon, and an exhibit of histori- cal photographs at the Old Town Hall mounted by the Bayfield Historical Society. The antique car show will generate consider- able interest and add to the atmosphere, as will the Huron Society of Artists' Studio Tour. A descendant of Admiral Bayfield, founder of the village, will lead the parade. Saturday afternoon, there will be a Fiddling Jamboree and an evening show and dance in the Arena will feature the champion- ship fiddler team of Graham and Eleanor Townsend (advance tickets available: 519-565-2307). -13y TIiCittacK—Kay Choristers at the charming Old Town Hall will be presented by Bayfield LACAC. Some telephone commis- sioners may not have wanted to advertise the job given to Alar Korgemets, former man- ager of the Tuckersmith Tele- phone System. The experi- enced telecommunications executive was recommended by a management consultant. decided to bring in an outside man- agement consultant to assist in the hiring process. According to Brock, a list of candidates was eventually narrowed down to two choices. One was a local person. The other was Alar Korgemets. Brock told; council that, according . to the management consultant, the phone system did not have in its own ranks someone with the knowl- edge to deal with the impending changes to phone technology. "You do not have the depth...ori your staff for what's coming down," the consultant reputedly said. Some staff of the phone system criticized the decision before Korgemets ever arrived, according to Brock. A meeting was held with the staff and the commissioners without Korgemets present. "Staff were calling the shots," Brock told council. The management consultant offered to return to help mediate the situation free of charge but his services were declined by the com- mission, according to Brock. Ross McBeath, current chairperson of the telephone com- mission, was unavailable for com- ment on the discussion. 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