The Huron Expositor, 1996-08-07, Page 3News and Views
Local
farmers
help
flood
victims
BY MICHELE GREENE
SSP News Staff
Huron and Perth county
dairy farmers are joining
dairy farmers across Canada
to help victims of the floods
in the Saguenay region of
Quebec.
The Canadian Dairy
Commission is donating
$100,000 worth of dairy
products to the St. Vincent
de Paul Society, one of the
key relief organizations.
Sharon Wietzel, the
Huron -Perth director on the
Ontario Dairy Farmers
board, explained all dairy
farmers are members of the
commission, which controls
industrial milk. It is intended
for products such as cheese,
yogurt and milk powder..
Dairy farmers produce
milk for fluid use, such as
milk for drinking and milk
industrial use. Almost four
dollars from each farmer's
industrial milk is being
donated to the effort. There
!are 30,000 dairy, farmers in
:Canada..
Weitzel said sending the
milk products in storage at
the commission was the
quickest way to get food to
the flood victims.
The initiative ' was
approved unanymously by
all nine provinces during a
meeting of the Canadian
Supply Management
Committee on July 24 and
25.
Weitzel said. the dairy
farmers' organization was
considering the idea before
Claude Rivard, president of
the Federation des produc-
teurs de lait du Quebec and
the president of the Dairy
Farmers of Canada, made the
suggestion.
"Everyone was thinking
the same thing," said
Weitzel.
PHOTO BY DAVID SCOTT
FIRE ON FRIDAY AFTERNOON - Seaforth firefighters managed to save a little more than
half the pigs in a St. Columban area fire Friday afternoon. The property on Conc. 2 is
owned by Tom Schoonderwoerd, but is rented by Gary Van Loon. The barn -was saved
but one end was badly burned. The alarm sounded at about 1 p.m. and firefighters were
on the scene for about four hours.
Goderich mine expands
With a deft snip, Huron
MPP Helen Johns officially
cut the ribbon to commission
the Sifto Salt Mine shiploader
project at the North pier
Wednesday, July 24.
The commissioning of the
shiploader marked the launch
of the initial phase of a
progressive and ambitious
expansion plan that will
improve annual production
capacity at the Goderich mine
to 6,5 million tons from four
tons.
The computerized loading
arm, a co-operative venture
with Algoma Central Marine,
will reduce loading time in
Goderich and optimize
surface storage of salt. The
August 19-21
Raccoon rabies bait to be
dropped in Tuckersmith
SCOTT HILGENDORFF
SSP News Staff
They're hoping some
"masked bandits" will take the
bait in Huron County.
. The Ministry of Natural
Resources will be flying over
pans of Huron County, drop-
ping 85,000 raccoon baits
between Aug. 19 and 21.
Areas for the drop include the
townships of Grey. Morris,
East Wawanosh, Stanley and
parts of Tuckersmith and
Goderich.
The baits are being used to
sec whether or not raccoons
will cat them. The August
drop will he compared to
another in the fall to sec what
time of year more of the baits
arc eaten.
The work is an effort to
combat the potential threat of
a raccoon rabies that is
spreading through parts of the
United States bordering
Ontario.
"Unfortunately, at this
moment we don't have a vac-
cine for raccoons," said Dr.
Charlie Maclnnes of the
Rabies Research Unit in the
Toronto arca.
There is a vaccine being
tested in thc States but Dr.
Maclnnes said the cost to pur-
chase it is too high. Instead,
he said a vaccine is in devel-
opment in Canada that would
be available for a third of the
cost.
The baits being dropped in
this arca will contain the tradi-
tional fox vaccine.To help
them in their raccoon
research, the baits also contain
tetracycline which allows
researchers to know whether
or not a raccoon has eaten the
bait.
Arca trappers, who have
hccn working with the rabies
vaccine program with foxes
since 1975, will send the
heads of raccoons caught in
their traps to the research unit.
Dr. Maclnnes said a sliver is
taken from the raccoon's tooth
and is examined under an
ultraviolet Tight. If the raccoon
has eaten the bait, the tetracy-
cline shows up as a bright
green line in the tooth sliver.
Because of their long histo-
ry with trappers in the Huron
County arca, Mr. Maclnnes
said it's the hest region to
research. the raccoon baits.
Trappers, working with the
rabies research unit, catch
other animals in their traps.
When they catch a fox, they
will continue to send thc
whole carcass along with the
heads of any raccoons they
happen to catch.
The bait packets contain tal-
low, microhond, icing sugar
and vanilla essence. They arc
marked "do not cat" and peo-
ple arc asked not to touch the
baits if they find them.
The researchers will be fly-
ing out of Stratford for the
August drops and for a second
phase of the program in
September to test whether or
not more raccoons cat the bait
in thc fall.
joint venture is a unique
project that Algoma Central
Marine president, Wayne
Smithy says will create
efficiencies for both the
carrier and producer.
"This is a new dawn and an
opportunity for growth, "
Smith told a delegation of
dignitaries and salt 'company
officials at dockside
ceremonies. "This
partnership was conceived
jointly with Sifto to increase
efficiency in unloading and
Loading vessels. It will
position both of us for
excellent growth."
There will be further
investments made
underground to support the
increased -level of production
Mine manager Rowland
Howe said, adding that the
expansion program is
designed to take advantage of
a market that has fewer
players and more product
demand.
"The shiploader project is
the first phase of expansion
and we will match market
demand step by step, " he
said. "There is more demand
for the product and there has
production
been a shift in the market
with fewer players. We're
getting positioned to exploit
the market."
' The computerized arm will
CONTINUED on page 5
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