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HomeMy WebLinkAboutLakeshore Advance, 2013-10-23, Page 21youth emomentsca For Obituaries call: 1-877—Iso-5054 Fax: 1-866-485-8461 e mall: obituaries ayourllfemoments.ce All other moments call: 1-888-786-7821 Fax: 1-866-757-0227 e-mail: milestones.sun*yourlitemoments.ca Obituaries In Memoriam Thanks Births Celebrations More Obituaries Obituaries Obituaries Obituaries PULLEN, Agnes Eileen (Freeman) - Peacefully at Marshall Gowland Manor in Sarnia on September 21, 2013, Agnes Eileen Pullen passed away in her 92nd year. Beloved wife of the late Bert Pullen (2011). Loving mother of Bert Jr. of Ottawa, and Jaynie Martin of Sarnia. Cherished grandmother of Jessica Wolfe, Cody Martin, and great grandmother of Bryce, Myles, and Theo. Predeceased by sisters Dorothy McCallcum, Vera Nicolson, and Helen Lanyon. Eileen was a very kind and loving person and will be missed by all who knew her. Special thanks to the staff at North Lambton Lodge who took great care of her for years following her stroke and to all the staff at Marshall Gowland Manor. A Memorial Service for Eileen will be held at the OILPIN FUNERAL CHAPEL, 123 King Street East In Forest on Saturday, October 26, 2013 at 11:OOam. Interment at St. Thomas Cemetery with Rev. Dr. Christine O'Reilly officiating. Memorial donations to the Heart and Stroke Foundation gratefully acknowledged. Share a condolence at www.gilpinfuneralchapel.com • THOMPSON, Irene Louisa (Crow) - Peacefully at Strathroy Middlesex General Hospital on October 7"', 2013 at the age of 91 years. Beloved wife of the late Joseph Thompson and loving mother of Carole Brockwell of West Sussex, England. A funeral service for Rena will be held at the Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish, 321 Ontario Street South in Grand Bend on Friday, October 25, 2013 at 11:30 am. Share a condolence at www.gllpinfuneralchapei.com GILPIN 1104111A1 (HA►Il -W..Irad ..." Wednesday, October 23, 2013 • Lakeshore Advance 21 Ministry has asked feds for assessment as local crops damaged by rainfall QMI Agency After a spring and summer of constant rain, local fanners could be getting some financial help. Sun Media has learned that the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food has asked the federal government to start an AgriRecov- ery assessment request for areas in Chatham -Kent, due to heavy rainfall and flooded fields this area received. The assessment is now being completed. Dresden -area farmer Phil Shaw said Chatham -Kent was hit with a lot drain. "Definitely for the soybean crop, one of the most damaging I have ever seen," Shaw said. Ile said different areas of Chatham -Kent received varying amounts of rain, with the heaviest hit area was the triangle area from Dresden to Wallacehurg to Chatham, with some areas reveiv- ing 50 inches of rain over a short period from May 30 to July 1. "It just came at the very worst time for small soybeans," Shaw said, noting soybean yields were impacted severely. Soybeans were at a critical stage when the rain hit in May and lune, Some farmers replanted a couple times. "For even the crops that gut up, it stunted a lot of soybeans and caused a lot of damage at that time and the crop never did recover from that;" Shaw said, noting yields have been really impacted. "It's going to have quite an eco- nomic impact on this local omit:" Shaw said it appears that the ruin didn't affect corn yields in the area, but he said the rain did impact sugar beet and tomato crops. AgriRecovery is a framework where federal and provincial gov ernments work together on a case- by-case basis to assess disasters, such as weather or disease, affect- ing Canadian farmers and respond with targeted, disaster -specific programming when assistance is needed lxryond existing programs such as AgriStahility, Agri1uvest and Agribnsurance. Agri Recovery emergency aid money is cost -shored on a 60/40 basis xvitll the affected province. The uinl of Agrifecovery is to provide affected farmers with assistance to help them take action to mitigate the impacts of the cis caster and/or resume business operations as quickly its possible following a disaster event. Ministry of Agriculture and Food's 'Tanya Marissen said no date has Iran confirmed on when fanners will hear if they will he sticcessful in getting Agri Recovery assistance. I'arinl'rs across ('aililda have tapped into Agri Recovery in the past, including apple growers in Ontario All a tornado in 2009. / kc►'i(l.g(rur;hesururr(ulia.ru Big -city exodus, wind -whipped anger Jane Sims, Debora Van Brenk QMi Agency STRATHROY - First, they took Southwestern Ontario. Next stop, Toronto? And will all that wind -whipped anger, built up over the rapid growth of unwanted industrial wind turbines in Ontario, (lo any good? Those are the big questions left dangling after frustrated anti -wind turbine activists shut down part of Hwy. 402 over the weekend, with a slow-motion protest rally that crawled along a 30 -kin stretch of one of the busiest regional highways. The next step could be a similar protest along the nation's busiest super -highway, the 401, ending at Queen's Park in the mega -city. "I think it's time to up the ante," Dave Griffiths, a leader of the anti - turbine coalition Wind Concerns Ontario, said Sunday. 1 think the next movement will be to (drive to) Queen's Park with a mass protest that makes this one look small," said Griffiths, who doubles as head of Bluewater Against Turbines. The coalition will begin plan- ning its next move Monday. The options could include the Hwy. 401 protest, Griffiths said. Fired -up farmers in about 150 vehicles shut down one-third of . 402.west of Stathroy. Angry at the runaway growth of industrial wind turbines, many of thein built in Southwestern Ontario, turbine opponents have waged battle with the liberal gov- ernment and the province on political, legal and social media fronts. But still the big wind farms are sprouting, the province not giving up the control it took away from communities over when, tur- bines can be built, but saying new ones won't go where they are unwanted. The pickup trucks and farm machinery, even a manure spreader, crawled with a police escort from Forest to Strathroy. "Premier Wynne, you will learn we are a tough crowd," activist Esther Wrightman warned. "We will not he bullied and terrorized any more?' Dozens Of Ontario cornmtini- ties, including many in the South west, have joined an anti -turbine movement, as "unwilling hosts" for the high -rise -sized power gen- erators the province has pushed, paying hefty taxpayer subsidies to producers. But some observers say anti - wind activists are in for a tough fight if they expect the minority government to hack down now. Rural Affairs Minister teff Leal couldn't be reached, but I lealth Minister Deb Matthews said the government has moved to give rural areas more voice. "We're not going to undo the existing contracts, but going for. ward we're going to make sure the community has a much louder voice," the London North Centre MPP said. Energy Minister Bob ('hiarelli echoed that in an mail, adding: "neither the Pt.'s or the NDP have committed to canceling any exist- ing; ... project." But two area politicians sug- gested no one should hold their breath waiting for change. MPP Ernie Ilurdenian (PC l)xtont):'Ihe megion's nulking'Ilay, and a former agriculture minister, I lardeman said the Liberals are "really doing exactly wiwt they did when Kathleen Wynne first became leader, which was paying no attention to what rural Ontario has to say and it doesn't seem to have changed at all" I le saki the government nonce promises it hasn't kept, such its "making sure they're (wind tur- bines) not being built anywhere they didn't have a willing host" Sarnia Nlayor Mike Bradley: "If they really witiu to send a message the Wynne government is differ- ent, and they're willing to re -think this idea of l(x•al control (over wind farms), it would go a long way to repairing the relations) tip .. " Rural Ontario has gone "the megaphone route because they just don't think the government will move politi- cally," he said. With f ihs by ( Yuan Akira?'