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Home My WebLink AboutHuron Expositor, 2000-01-26, Page 6II -THE HURON EXPOSITOR, January 211, 2000 News - Fall fairs threatened by grant cuts doing.- he said of the changes the . provincial government is making. The provincial..gOvernment is also looking at changes to Bill 66 which all agricultural societies fall under. Bill 66 currently states any agricultural societies who own buildings and land are exempt from .paying commercial and property tax to local municipalities. • The government may revoke that section of the bill. Fifty-one per cent of agricultural societies in Ontario own their own land and facilities including Seaforth. Floyd said until the society knows more. it is difficult to predict how. the Iocal society - will be affected.. • District 8 held an emergency . meeting in Seaforth last week to outline the anticipated changes with Fry as one of the speakers. "It was to give out information, Said Young. A 10 -page questionnaire was distributed to societies to help describe their situations and needs whose data Young said will .take special meetings to.prepare so it can be given to OAAS as it prepares to meet 'with OMAFRA to talk about the situation. Huron Bruce MPP Helen Johns said no final decisions have been made on what will be cut from OMAFRA's budget. It's pan of a reorganizing the province is doing with OMAFRA to save $5.2 million from its annual budget. a topic Deputy Sy Scott Hilgondorff Expositor Editor ' Area agricultural societies arc worried pending grant cuts will hurt local fall fairs. • "It's going to hurt the fairs and it's going to hurt the little communities." said Verna . Young. secretary for District 8 Agricultural Society which represents 15 societies and fairs in Huron and4Perth Counties. • The provincial government and Ontario Ministry of 'Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs plan to cut about $500.000 from the • $1.2 million in annual grants. Agricultural societies are worried it -could spell disaster. for their fall fairs. "1 "dont - think .the politicians realize the • magnitudeof cutting our grants." said Bev Fry..a board • member of the Ontario Association' of Agricultural • Societies (OAAS). ...The provincial average for • agriZtiltural society grants is.. $4,034. Without that money. Fry said many agricultural societies won't he able to continue. ."There is no way lag societies] can absorb the loss. We are ju.st volunteers who promote agriculture and .hetterinent ofcommunity living.- said Fry. • -At this point. we have not got -a full. understanding of it." said Jim Floyd, Seaforth Agricultural Society president. who is waiting for more information to come -forward at a -provincial convention next month. • -We're still trying to understand what they're OFABNICLAGIVD CANADA 5 LARLEsT tAs,,,0N Fae,C CISTR u505 HOME DEC DAYS! so20 OHOURENTIRE STOCK OF ere Palcin PRICE °F F HOME DEC FABRICS, UPHOL5TEI HARDWARE, NOTIONS 8. *sewing Club Members save on additional 10°0 ell all 20°. Oft items. ...And FaSilkii Freilly HUGE grim OF FASHION FABRICS UP TO OOFF OUR REGULAR PRICE! 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Frank Ingratta brought up briefly at a -recent meeting in Seaforth with the agricultural community. It was held to explain the changes taking place with the announced closure of provincial OMAFRA offices including the one in Clinton.- "I obviously wouldn't be in favour of cutting agricultural horticultural societies' budgets," said Johns. Horticultural societies face losing a percentage of their $1,000 grants. "I think it is good for the government to review. .its grants. That way, we can make sure the groups are still providing the proper services to the community," said Johns. For fall fairs, the grants'are a major contribution toward the prize money given out. -Young said the grant each society is given is based on a percentage of the prize money given out at the fair. She said losing that money will threaten some of the. - fairs. • By losing the grant. Floyd doesn't.expect to see the • Seaforth fair threatened. He did not know the amount of Seafdrth's grant and OMAFRA's Clinton office won't release that McMaster Siemon ilk INSURANCE -IL BROKERS INC. *AUTO •• •TRAVEL •COMMERCIAL •UFE it1:3URANCE BROKERS: Bill Siemon . Vicki Siemon Anette McTaggart Ken Hutchison Paul Wettlaufer 68 Ontario Rd. 348-9150 Mitchell 1-800-561-0183 information to the public but Floyd said the fair -is supported by other activitis the society hosts throughout the year from its' tractor • elimination dray, to its farm toy. doll and craft'shim at Christmas. Proceeds from these es ents are able io -Sipport the t air and Floyd said if the) *lose the grants. expansion.. ithin some of these-el:61i. could generate enough fund, to make up for the loss of the 'grant money. '• • ."It isn't going to hurt our • fall fair to any great extent." said FloOl'of • just the potential -grant los,. 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