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Stolen
farm
equipment
recovered
A 22 -year-old
Morris-Turnberry man
and a 19 -year-old
Dufferin County man
have been charged
after Huron and Grey
County OPP teamed
up and recovered
$100,000 worth of
stolen farm
equipment.
Equipment
recovered included a
hay rake from
McGavin's in Walton, a
$30,000 baler from
Brindley's in
Dungannon, a $40,000
farm tractor from
Belfast Road in
Ashfield Colborne
Wawanosh, a New
Holland Hay Bine
from Lucknow, an ATV
from Lucknow Line in
Ashfield Colborne
Wawanosh, and two
ATVs from St.
Michaels Road in
Morris.
The Morris
Turnberry man faces
four counts of
possession over $5,000
and five counts of
possession under
5,000.
Tunes at Twlllght.. Close
to 100 music lovers
gathered at Victoria Park
Thursday to hear old-time
music pg. 32
Susan Hundertmark photo
Strippi of layers upon layers of Victorian undergarments, Sherry McCall and
Lorraine Dietz have some fun modelling - and discarding - some of the intimate
apparel of the 1890s during Madame Susannah's Wardrobe, a vintage fashion show
held to raise money for the Van Egmond Foundation Saturday at Egmondville United
Church.
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Crops will begin to suffer
if dry weather continues
Aaron ack 1 i n
Crops will start to suffer if recent
dry weather continues, according to
OMAFRA crops specialist Peter
Johnson.
"Up until this point, crops have had
an excellent start," he said. "We're just
starting to slip the clutch now, if you
will." -•
He said last Tuesday's
thunderstorms weren't terribly
helpful.
"It was very, very spotty, just like
thunderstorms always are," he said,
noting that the storms would have left
"anywhere from two drops to two
inches" across the entire southwestern
Ontario area.
"I was at a site this morning," he
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Investment
funding dries
up for HBDC,
despite recent
announcement
Susan Hundertmark
GMiMrBEIMMD
While Conservative Perth -Wellington
MP Gary Schellenberger came to Seaforth
Monday to present the operating funds for
the 14 -year-old Huron Business
Development Corporation (HBDC),
Liberal Huron -Bruce MP Paul Steckle
wanted to know where the federal money
is to allow the HBDC to continue offering
loans to Huron County's small businesses.
The HBDC is seeing economic growth at
a rapid pace in Huron County this year
and after lending out $900,000 already
since January, the investment fund is
empty with six months more to go in
2007.
Giving loans to small businesses that
are turned down by traditional sources is
one of the main roles of the HBDC.
A request for more federal funding for
loans was denied and both Steckle and
HBDC board president Pam Stanley
asked Schellenberger to go back to the
federal government and lobby for those
funds.
"I'd like to ask how these people (HBDC
staff) are supposed to lend money when
they don't know where it's coming from,"
said Steckle, adding that the $287,500 in
operating funds is not new money.
"What message are we giving to the
community when we've got no money for
loans?" he said. "It's like paying the wages
of an office full of real estate agents when
there's no real estate to sell."
Steckle said a federal presentation of
the HBDC's operating grant makes the
public believe it has plenty of money to
lend.
Stanley said the HBDC, which has won
21 awards during the past 14 years, is "a
jewel in the crown" of Community
Futures and spent $1.4 million last year
investing in "some of the riskier
businesses that really need our help."
"We're very serious in our need for
See HBDC, Page 2