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Hatchery manager completing term as first woman president of OHA
UUy Yvonne Reynolds
October 1988 is an important an-
niversary for Cathy M1cKirilcy:. It
marks the completion of her 12 -
month term as the first woman to
• -ever serve as president of the Onta-
rio Hatchery Association, which
represents the broiler, l'ghom -and
turkey industries in the province.
The attractive, articulate, aggres-
sive and ambitious 35 -year-old can
Zook. back on an impressive list -Of
• accomplishements. She is secretary
treasurer of both McKinley Hatch -
cry Ltd. in St Marys and ,McKinley
Farms Ltd. Zurich, business manag-
er of the hatchery, the first woman
to be elected as a director of the
Ontario Hatchery Association and
. the first female to serve on the As-
sociation's executive.
. As .tar as she is concerned, her
gender is unimportant.
"1 want people to respect me not•
because- I am doing a good - job as a
woman, but. because 1 am doing a
good job", she asserted:
Cathy has inherited the venture -
'some spirit and confidence in one's
own -abilities that impelled `her
grandfather, Elgin McKinley, to be-
gin a hatchery business that has
grown in &O years into one of the
largest Leghorn hatcheries in Onta-
rio.
The senior McKinley started out
with a home -built incubator in the
upstairs bedroom of his farm in Zu-
rich, ignoring the ridicule he initial-
ly received for his interest in the
egg business, .then considered. .
"women's work". in 19.28 he pat-
ented a design to prevent down and
dust from the hatching chicks from
circulating and contaminating the
incubator. - By the time McKinley
died in 1980, his airllow principle
Blanshard reeve
dies at Kirkton
KIRKTON - Ron Denham, 64,
reeve of Blanshard Township since
1981, died at his Kirkton area home
September 2. • .
Denham had served 17 year on
township council, serving his first
terra in 1971=2 under Reeve Homer
�1eKay and alongside councillors
Jas. Bryan, Gordon Jonhson and
Donald Simpson. •
A cash crop farmer at R.R.1,
Kirkton, he was deputy reeve of the
-township from 1975 to 1981 and in
1986 was chosen as warden of Perth
County. -
Denharn's corhntunity involve-
ment included membership in the
Kirkton United Church where he
• taught Sunday school for several
sears and was active on many com-
mittees.
He was a member of the \%'ood-
ham branch of the Loyal Orange
Lodge, the Kirkton-Woodham
Farmers Club and the Perth Plow-
men's Association acid y. as active
. on the hoard of the Kirkton-
\\-,K)dham community centre.
Ronald Fletcher Denham was the
. son of the late William Denham and
the late Anna Switzer.. Ile leaves
his wife, the former Doris Skinner,
and nine children:
Cheryl and husband, Randy Meyer
of Waterloo, Darlene and husband
. Doug !larding of R.R.1 Gorrie, Bill
and wife Agnes Denham of R.R.1,
St. Mars, Brenda Denham of Lon-
don, Brian and wife Donna Denham
of 1'etrolia, Lynda Dcnhafn of Lon-
. don; Valerie and husband Barry Hal-
ey of Springford, Wayne and wife
Nancy Denham of Seaforth, and
Nlarlync Denham at home;
Also surviving arc four sisters,
Nies. Irene Doupe of St. Marys,
Mrs. Elaine Vance of Union, Mrs.
sse ran Abrahams of California, and
Nits. 1.avona 11cKellar of Port Car-
ling.
There are 14 grandchildren.
Ile was predeceased by two broth-
ers and two sisters. -
Burial was at the Kirkton-
Woodham cemetery. Rev. Bill
Jones officiated.
•
term when Ken Fenwick resigned,.
was in world-wide use.
McKinley's hatching business ex-
panded. first into the trout parlour,
then into its °w_n huil.ling,' and
eventually into barns housing breed-
er hens, pullets, and feed and equip-
ment. In 1978 McKinley Hatcher-
ies bought a modern hatchery at St.
Marys with the proviso the Hy -Line
franchise be continued along with
the M:Kinlcy's own !land N birds.'
Hatchery management is Cathy's
second card - or third, if you want
to he technical. After graduating
from Ryerson's journalism school
in 1975, "Cathy returned to her
haeme territory and tic as employed cis
a bar tender while li —lancing as a
writer -photographer. She was soon
hired as a fulltintc journalist, first
"Free trade has
potential to destroy
many existing jobs"
with the Independent News and the
Zurich Citizen, then on to Exeter
when Times -Advocate owner 111'
Ecdy bought the two papers.
In 1977.Cathy left the long hours,
andmodest salary_ of a weekly paper
to begin learning the hatchery busi-
ness under the tutelage of her uncle
Berne. McKinley. Berne's move to
control of the Truro, Nova Scotia
hatchery coincided with purchase of
the Si. Marys facility, and Calli',
stepped up to the position of gener-
al manager of the Ontario hatchery.
Cathy learned about bookkeeping
by reading a grade 12 textbook. Shc
learned about computers through the
trial and error of setting up a system
for the \lcKinley companies. How-
ever, she realized her need of more
expertise in the areas of finance and
administration. She -applied for ad-
mittance to the renowned A113A'pro-
gram at the University, of Western
Ontario, hardly daring.to hope she
would be accepted into what is re -
puled to teethe business course with
the strictest entrance requirements of
any university in Canada, and -even
more. stringent criteria for.graduat-
ing.
Cathy had been out of school -tor
some -time, ,tinit confesses site had
been only a 13 .student at Ryerson,
balancing study - with "having a
good tithe". Despite her misgiv-
(ngs, she was accepted. . •
At first Cathy thought she could
continue to work part of the time at
the hatchery, but soon discovered
she had to become :t full-time stu-
cunt. thy elaborated.
$he describes the next two years Cathy brought her innate talents,
as ''the. toughest thing I've ever'polished byf I d
done,. bar none. If 1'd .known, i
might not have tried". • Now th .t
she has her MBA, she also describes
the experience as the most reward-
ing of her life. Graduates become
part of an informal networking sys-
tem, establishing "instant -rapport"
with each other.
"The contacts are unbelievable,
not just Casual. These are the peo-
ple 1 shared blood, sweat and tears -
w lth. Iau.'hed and cried with". ('a -
Cathy McKinley
Marys.
In her office at McKinley Hatcheries in St.
Fine forweeds increased
Usborne reeve Gerald Prout in-
formed council of -the changes in the
weed control act which increase the
fines for noxious weeds on farm
properties. Before the amend.inents,
$50 was imposed -for a first offence,
.and subsequent offences carried lines
of between $50 and -S100. Fines arc
increasing to between $500 .and
S 1,000 for a first offence. - . -
An Usbome bylaw designates pro-
, so millet and vclveticaf as noxious
weeds.
Proutadviscd councillors titan per-
sons wishing to volunteer for the
position of chairman or co-chairman
of the steering committee planning
the township's sesquicentennial cele-
brations should. contact clerk Sandra
Strang.
Council accepted the investigation
. report on the Gardiner municipal
drain .prepared by A.J. De Vos.of Conservation Authorities Class
Spriet Associates, and recommend- Environmental Assessment rather
ed that the the engineer's recon- than conduct an individual EA for
mcndations be carried out. The each project-.
costs of the clean-out• will be Prost also promised to forward to
charged to general township drain council a copy c` the ABC.\'s re-
-costs.. • • i. spon�tci a publication titled "A
Copies of the report, along with Review of the Conservation Au -
copies of the drainage act flow thoritics' Program" published by
chart and copies of council's mo- the ministry of natural resources.
lions concerning. the drain will be - Council approv cd.a severance ap-
sent to Ray Nic('urdy and to- Mr. plication froth Sidney Ross Tufts,
John Den Otter, ow net of the land provided the property at part of lot
where the repairs will be made.. 8, southeast boundary concession,
ARCA mzumee r 'font Prout at • is rezoned to :\G3 to accommodate
tended the session to discuss new a proposed structure to house a
regulations governing enyironmen- poultry-porce.sing operation.
- tal assessment on water manage- A request from the Huron Real
ment projects. Council accepted Estate Board for a copy of 1.;shonta
'his reconunendation that -the town- township's assessment roll was
ship follow the Association of bunted down.
Two councillors won't
ZURiC1.1 - During the regular
September meeting of Zurich coun-
cil, councillors Ray McKinnon and
Paul Morrison stated their intention
to leave municipal politics when
their terms are up this November,
Neither plans to run again. - •
-McKinnon said he. has served for
three terms, and is stepping down
because he believes "in a small
community 'all should take their
turn".
Morrison said he had enjoyed his
time in office, but is "not political-
ly motivated"
Reeve Bobfisher has not made a
final decision yet, but Said he will
probably run. again, as he would
like to see the finish of some -pro-
jects started while he has bccn
reeve. -
Councillor Herb Turkhcim is also'
still undecided.
Councillor Keith Semple, who
was appointed to finish out the
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Continued from front page
"The hottoin line is that we are
looking: vers well at this time,"
acr-cc.1 Whiteford. •
the rrcrc.ni. n centre is planning
to transfer all it, hookccprng 10 the
ideas cuniputcr'.\ stem purchased by
the ton. but recreation director
t.�nnc harluh,tr noted secretary Jo-
.\nnc I:icId' tits not het had the
benefit r l ,i training session to fa-
miliarise hcrsc11 with the ss stem.
Sowith Huron District High
S. hoot . pl,rn, ' to operate the ir
hoekes team orae more this year
c,rn go ahead cs ith the arena. sup-
port. -
Farquhar nowt! last )car the team
reamed some tree tee tune during
their season of 31) hours practice
and 12 of game time.. She added
that the season of high school
ho . kcv generated about S.300 of rev-
enue lir the"They can star) at our old agree-
ment. Just so long as they are aware
it can change," said.\Vhiteford.
The high school games.are Friday
afternoons; a time which is rarely
booked. Practices arc usually early
mornings.
Tom Humphreys has returned to
the , rec board to represent Exeter
council to replace. Phyllis Johnson,
who left on the first of August.
was the only member of council to
state that his name will definitely
be on the ballot in the November
election. •
Members of council attended.a
three-hour drainage- tribunal hear-
ing on the Zurich drain on Sep-
tember 7. They were told not to
expect a decision for at least three
weeks.
"It was .just a rehash of the last
two years", McKinnon summar-
ized.
In other business, works super-
intendent Dennis'Regier was au-
thorized to order a' 53(X) rebuilt
flashing light that is Nigger and
brighter than the one now in use.
Building permits with a total
value of S411,(XX) were issued in
the three-month period from June
to August.
Developer Mario Sirotic was
sent a copy of the village bylaw
and a bit eisss g -cutting on his
■
run again
property to date.
• The amended zoning bylaw was
given third and final reading.
A report from the rec board
shows that the number of -members
at large has been increased from
three to lour. -,The hoard and tttc
bingo cc rnntittce will hold their
meetings t the surae time, the first
Tuesday i each month." Reports
on hingo p °tits and expenses will
be suhmittcc to the'�rec hoard on a
regular basis. Clerk N1aurccrt Regi-
er was milk eked. his -co-sign all
cheques cc ith on Bcauchantp-on
behalf of the 1LFC Association
(The Minor Alt .lies, Lions Club,
Figure Skating c h and the ('hani-
haer of Commerce
Rcgicr will write letter to the
insurance company out ' ing these
changes, which were made ) assure
the company that the villa . e is
kept aware of the activities of
should be based solely on merit.
"You'll never legislate equality,
Dema education and : and the new laws discriminate
:enhanced by practical experience, to against men", she noted. Her ad -
the Ontario Hatchery Association. -vice to women is '•Go out and fight
She was first elected as a rcpresent<a- because you believe • in yourself.
five and head of the 'sub -committee N'ho cares what a rias makes? ;f
on eggs in 1981, the first woman to `ou arc wii
ling.to work for $2,000
hold a position on tttc hoard. In her' less, don't complain. r f you aren't,
progression through the various ex- go in and tell them. 1f'a secretary ecutive positions to the- top job, wants the same pay as a janitor, let
Cathy has never been challenged in her go and get a janitor's- job. if
an election; ;111 pests were by aceta
nation. she is told she can't have that job
because she's a woman, take the
- Cathy's journalism skills have company to court."
been put to good use in her desire to Caehy has also had occasion tar
keep members of the Ontario- apply the lessons - learned in. the-
Hatchery
heHatchery Asociation cognizant of • two-hour_UWO lecture dealing v.-itli
what is happening' in other areas a hazard faced by most females. in
that may affect them. She has tak- business - being propositioned.
en her notebook to meetings on • The first,lew times it happened,
. GATT, labour unions, Workers' she was hurt and angry, especially
Compensation, farm safety, market- if she had thought .she had esta-
ing boards and free trade, then sent htished a good business relationship
summaries of what she learned out - with the person. A reale colleague
to her membership • helped her put the issue into per -
The OHA has taken no stand -on spective: Pointing out that any
-free trade, as some members are for man who. didn't try when dealing
it, and some opposed.with a good-looking young woman
"We want the government to clay- 'like herself was "a few bricks short
.ify its position early so we.can plan . of a .load", he advised her not to
what to do:..if free trade comes in, connect too much importance to
there are things the government can
do to protect supply management",
Cathy said.
• She went on to say that- in her -
personal- opinion, free trade has
-great overall potential but, con-
versely, hes the -potential -to de-
stroy many existing jobs in the leg-
-horn industry.
"In my heart, i know I can go out
and get a job tomorrow, but a lot of
people in this industry can't go out
and market. themselves. J don't-
know
on'tknow where they would be ab-
sorbed", she observed._
Cathy's belief in herself is part of
the -secret of her success. She
quotes Charlotte \\'hitton's dictum
that "Whateverwonicn do they
must do twice as well as men to be
-thought half so good...luckily, it's
not difficult".- She is adamantly
against the hiring of women be-
cause of gender, convinced this
docs not redress years of discrimina-
tion,. and only fuels male resent-
ment.
Cathy maintains she would fight
to the death for a woman's right to
any job, and fight tooth and nail. if
refusal was based on. gender, but
meintains hirings and promotions
"Go out and
fight because you
believe in yourself"
such incidents, but to Jorge! them,
go on, and develop relationships
built on respect.
Most of Cathy's experiences have
bccn positive. She is especially
pleased with the comments of a fel-
low OHA director who told her re-
cently " f wish you wouldn't do as
well; you make it harder for us."
Sonic or the older men in the OHA
are not only asking Cathy's opinion
but using it, making her feel proud..
Cathy is enjoying her time on the
011A board. She credits the efforts
of the executive working together as
a team for the increased activity on
a wide variety of fronts in the past •
few years. She has one more re-
sponsibility, making arrangements
to host the annual convention in
October, before moving on to the
position.of past president. But you
can rest assured the hatchery Indus •
try in particular, and the business
world in genera!, have not heard the ,
last of Catherine McKinley.
Cyclist hit in Hensall
EXETLR - Lxctcr O1'l' inye.stt-
gaited six motor vehicle accidents
last week, including one incident in
Icnsall iiiolying a cyclist.
Saturday evening. a vehicle driven
by ('lin_-tori Lovely struck cyclist
\\'arse Ingram of Ilensal1. -Ingrani
esc;eyed with minor injuries.
(iary,\\'ilsun was hauling a horse
trailer on 1luron Road 5 also on
Saturday evening, but lost control
iif his vehicle causing the trailer to
overturn. The trailer was reported
to have been heavily -damaged.
Last Monday just 'after midnight,
Michelle Mitchell of RR2 Zurich
was �1rn ung on 1Iigh ay 4 north of
Exeter w hen she struck an;t kilte l a
deer. Her vehicle sustained only
IILht.dantagc'.
I:.serer O1'P laid 49 charges under
the Highway •Iral1ic Act List week,
right Criminal Code charges, one
charge under the Narcotics Control
Act, and three charges of impaired
driving.
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Rest: '1 guess seeing my friends again .who live out
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"1 guess it's not bad being busy again."
Worst: "Science, because it's boring basically." -
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