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Home My WebLink AboutHuron Expositor, 1999-05-26, Page 1May 26, 1999 51 C ocal weather Wednesday --Cloudy. scattered showers nigh 11 Thursday—Chanceof showers: mix of sun, .+� cloud High 19 Low 6 Friday--5unny High 23 - • low 9 Saturday -=sunny 24 Low 10. From Environment Canada In brief Teachers reaching agreement A tentative agreement . was reached early last Saturday morning ' between the elementary teachers and the Avon Maitland District School Board. "It was a long and involved • " mediation session but it's good to have it settled: it will allow the end of the school year to continue uninternipted." . said Dorris Potter, president of the Avon Maitland Local of the Elementary. Teachers' . Federation Organization. .She said both the union and the:. board are working on the final • w.ording: of the agreement this week:. . The board could have • voted to • ratify • the:. agreement at Tuesday.. night's board meeting. The teachers will have an • information meeting at . Mitchell 'Community Centre tonight and will vote on the deal Friday -in the schools. • - The exact terms of the agreement are confidential until ratified. EMA clean-up still not done Clerk Treasurer lack • McLachlan told council he is trying to contact the owners of the Mail) Street property where the former EMA building collapsed'this• winter to arrange for them to clean up the property. Coun. Paul Menary had asked at council's May 11 meeting what was going on with the site. 'An earlier report from McLachlansaid the owners indicated the rubble would have been cleaned up at the end of April. . "i am pressuring him to clean • up," 'said McLachlan.. " Deputy Reeve William Teall -asked, if the• town could clean it up for him. • McLachlan said he is willing to order it cleaned up, which means the town could do the work and place the costs . on the owner's tax bill. But McLachlan said he'd like to try'to work it out between them first. if he can. find out what this is on • Pop.$ New agriculture representattve at OMAFRA Page 12 Students learn about form safety Pop. 111 Local candidates square off at first all -candidates meeting By Carl Stavros Clinton 'Jews -Record -Stott The -focal .pace of the Ontario electron hit high gear last Wednesday as .all -four candidates faced off for the •first time and began jockeying for_ • support form the members of••the Huron County Federation of Agriculture- r HCFA t. Each• candidate. Ross Lamont i Liberal i. Tone McQuail•4NDPI: Linda Freiburger (Family Coalition Party; and .Helen :Johns ;PCF had three minutes in. which to introduce • themselves and their respective platforms"to the audience. at. the all candidates meeting hosted by the HCFA.: which was open to.the-public, Liberal candidate: Ross Lamont opened the meeting with his addre„ to HCFA members. Lamont stated • that he has several concerns regarding rural living that need to :b_ e looked at immediately: "There are., problems in the system. Lamont said in reference:to the downk)ading of responsibilities to the • municipalities. forced amalgamation. education. health care as well as -environmental. issues. He pointed out :that major infrastructure Maintenance. such as roads: is being passed down, to the '.rnianicipal governments. already financially burdened. he fears they will have difficult keeping up such. lame -scale projects On the issue of schools:he emphasized that quality. education is very important and that se must.. Enure that .rural -schook remain ttte e. Freihur-•er • She c ntt:- FCP:wtll programs r " violence. 3, .1 . rit2hts of the the FCP h open.•• Lamont then speciticall} addressed issues ofimportance in the -agricultural industry itself.: Having . been raised.on•a dairy far in •Saugeen Township. Lamont. expressed .bis understanding of the issues facing farmers. He highlighted the -necessity . of working with commodity groups: to ensurethat the products from .HuronCounty are marketable all ()ver the -world. Linda Freiburger followed Lamont • and informed the.audiertce that the Family Coalition `Party• (FCP; heliev.es that -.Ontario:s ,arcCess economically and socia!'. begins - With the family unit. - "\\ hen the amity is pro-sperou,. system of concept. •F-_° each child ., ^e amount" ',:f education. - .The mone:. rating that the lard• Frieh.e7,z h \\ attends a tradtn, •r,i! r . school. the. par-2- -that ar = -that 'm„^e is 7 Freihur_er stared. See CANDIDATES Page 2 Youngirls `Dre 'fted' to Disneyg Sunshine Foundation takes two from Seaforth on -one -day adventure to DisneyWorld By Scott Hilgendorff dad of tun activities. The . xposrtor editor organization fulfills. the - dreams of childrenwho have Two Seaforth • girls. life-threatening illnesses or dreamlifted ib t'isneyWorld severe physical disabilities: and .back. within a day. had'..Carrie. has spina bifada .the time of their lives: while Lindsay has cystic •Frompolice escorts and fibrosis. Both were plane flights to.adsenturou% recommended: to - the ,theme 'park rides . and ' Sunshine, Foundation •bv the auto'graphs. u ith • 11'ike) -organizations that have douse. the .t"'" l l -..ear -old ' • looked after their treatment '.girls could hardly contain ,and are .now part of more • themselves when they got than t._'00 Canadian children home at the end of the dal. , who have gone on Dreamlifts ' 'They w ere flying." . said or have been helped in other ' Kathy McNichol, one of the .w:avy hs. the foundation. The gills' mothers: pot of the .organization has been behind - - plane• -ride to Florida and --such dream: as-. reunited back but, of their emotions children with distant and -energy .when they returned. "l.t vs as one of the best days of mlife:" said id Came Deighton. "It was cool._" said Lindsay :McNichol: Carrie is •the daughter of Michelle and Dave Deightoh ansi Lindsay is the daughter of • Lam and Kathy s1sNichol Both girl, Ike in Seaforth but go to ditterent Schools and each didn't know ,the other was taking the trip .on \lav It until they humped into each other at the London airport. • • The trip was part of a Dreamlift program offered by . the Sunshine foundation of Canada About LSU children take pan in each Dreamlift. heading to places like relatives. arranging visits with celebrities. or providing •computers or musical • instruments to meet a child's dreams. for Carrie•and Lindsay. it Was a Dreamlift that saw them .leave. the London airport•at 7 a.m. and in line for their first rides at Disneyworld just a few -hours later. • "We got escorted to the Magic Kingdom by police on motorcycles." said.Lindsay. While the two girls did not tour the park together. each was linked in small .groups with .buddies including Sunshine Foundation s olunteers from the London area and members of the Orange County Sheriff's Disney World. or the Vyrst De tnment in Florida. Edmonton Mall ti► spend a ^"d the special freatrttent� Carrie Deighton and Lindsay didn't end there: Being part of the Dreamlift saw the twin moving .to the front of every ride to.epsure they were able to enjoy as much of -the park as possible in' the day% worth of time they had.: "If we'd have had to wait in line. we'd have only got. on two rides." said Lindsay. Her buddy. a police ofticer whose husband was a 'Manager at the part:. took Scor.:: igendcrf, =��r McNichol were taken on a one -day Lindsay back -stage in one area where she was able to, collect 'O autographs from Disney characters like Tigger and Mickey M1ou»e. With her partner. Carrie tracked down Gooty. Pluto and one ot the character. from The Lion Kidg. One of their favourite odes . was . Splash Mountain Lindsay also rode Space Mountain and said it was one - trip to Disneyvvortd other "ta•N ounce. -Carrie -had heard her grandfather joke -that Space \Mountain, a roller coasterin the dark. almost tape him a heart attack it ass .�� ,car. She derided not to try th one. "When we went on ride,. real scary ones. there a ere scenes with aniritar. f h•: were. all autont.ir - i See BOTH Page '0 Crops offto great start this season as rain falls Previous dry conditions still a'threat as ground water table remains low and of little help to growing crops Sy Scott Hllgsndorff Expositor Ediior • Crops are doing exceptionally well this spring but unless rain keeps coming, there could be consequences because of a water table that remains low after last year's drought -like conditions. "We've had an exceptionally dry and sunny spring," said Soil and Crop Advisor Brian Hall of the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs and last week's rains came just in time for emerging crops. But much more rain is going to be needed later this summer because there is no ground moisture for crops to draw on as they grow. Instead. they will.have to rely on whatever rain falls this summer. "We're going to have to rely on timely rainfall to get the crops to harvest," said Hall. About a half-inch to an inch of rain fell last week in the Seaforth area. "That's not too bad," said Hall. He said corn was already emerging in excellent condition and the moisture will help keep it going. • Soyabean crops had just been planted in fields with variable moisture conditions. The current rainfall will help those crops develop evenly. The dryness was a concern for some farmers with winter wheat, one of the first crops w grow in the spring. "The rain brought some relief to the wheat crop which was under some stress from the dryness." -said Hall. The crop is about two weeks aheadof normal because of the warm, dry spring and farmers are expected to begin harvesting in a few days. "The winter wheat came through probably better than I have ever seen it," said Nick Whyte, a McKillop Township fainter. "There was no winter • kill and everybody's wheat looks great." He said the rains cattle just in time to wash away . rine of the mildew that w as starting to form on the wheat and gave`it the moisture it need. just in time. And because of the rain, he said the corn crop is looking good. Soyabeans • are just emerging and he said it's too'. early to tell how they are doing. - `There is a concern with the water table level," said Whyte, • Last year's drought -like conditions had farmers concerned but this year. the Sam RAIN, Pass$ Your community newspaper since 1860