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Times-Advocate, 1982-07-28, Page 2+•tam° Ttm•s-Advocake, July 28,1982 St.pli.n stiffens dump site regulations Stephen township council has taken steps to enforce stricter regulations at the landfill site on Concession 14. Effective August 1, the landfill site will be open two days a week, Tuesday and Friday and the last Saturday in each month from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. inclusive. Each person using the site will be required to sign a log book and the licence number will be recorded. Farm vehicles will only be required +fi FUTURE FIREMEN - Jason Hardie of the future in Saturday's Fun Barrie and Jeff and Joel Pincombe parade in Granton. Day says misleading firemen photo. Task force report intrusion The Grocery Products Manufacturers of Canada's (GPMC) task force report on food policy "is an unsolicited intrusion into farmers' business", said Ralph Barrie, president of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture (OFA). "The task force's report is a gross distortion of fact," Barrie said. For example, the report says that the income of farmers, in constant dollars, "has shown a significant, steady increase in farm cash receipts and total gross in- come. Their income has im- proved in the last 10 years relative to that of the • in- dustrial worker." "This is misleading," Bar- rie said. "The report should be looking at net farm in- come. Net income has declin- ed to half of the 1974Ieve1. In real dollars, it's the same as it was in 1971. In the same period, industrial wages have doubled." The recommendations made by the GPMC are most- ly rhetoric, Barrie said. One suggestion is that the Na- tional Farm Products Marketing Council (NFPMC), the federal ad- visory body which has jurisdiction ' over some marketing boards, should have more power. "The power of the council is already far-reaching," Barrie said. "It has powers under the Inquiries Act, and it can ad- vise the minister of agriculture on the pricing practises of national marketing boards. The GPMC is talking through its hat. It just wants a seat on the NFPMC, and it doesn't deserve it." Barrie said, the GPMC pro- posal that each partner in the food system should have representation on NFPMC- controlled supply manage- ment marketing boards is "ridiculous." "Are we going to have every Tom, Dick and Harry on the board? Every machinery dealer, all the veterinarians, the fast food yy 4/44 Mr. and Mrs.'R.A. Orr, Ex- eter and Mr. and Mrs. James Orr, Parkhill attended the funeral of Melvin Orr at Chesley, Sunday. companies? It just isn't prac- tical. Besides, how many farmers are invited to sit on the boards of food corporations?" Barrie did agree with the suggestion in the report that to sign the log book. Council stresses that only property owners and tenants of Stephen township are per- mitted to use the site. Landfill site charges will remain the same for in- dustrial and commercial users. The tight regulations come as the result of a recent explo- sion at the dump site when Crediton fireman Robert Martin suffered severe burns. Martin is still a patient in Vic- toria Hospital, London. The contract for construc- tion work in the Faulder, Muller, Nagel municipal drain has been let to Robinson Farm Drainage for $9,024.57. It was the lowest of two bids received. Drain commissioner Ken Pickering has been instructed to proceed with repair of a portion of the Adams municipal drain at Lot 17, Concession 14. Clerk Wilmar Wein was in- structed to apply for a $1,000 provincial grant for auto ex- tracating equipment for the Huron Park fire department. One tile drain loan applica- tion in the amount of $10,800 was approved. Permission was given to the Stephen Op- timist Club to hold a bingo on Sunday August 8. In answer to the Bell Canada application for rate increases council has responded by suggesting the federal government restraints of six and five per- cent be applied in this instance. Assistance -is being sought some kind of income assurance scheme is necessary. "The OFA is pushing a market risk in- surance program, which is similar. We're sure it can be successful," Barrie said. from the Ontario Ministry of Transportation and Com- munications for repair of a paved portion of the township road from Highway 83 to the MTC garage. One member of the township's road department will be attending a road grader operators course this fall sponsored by the Ontario Good Roads Assn iation. Too late for assessments Contrary to earlier reports, it's too late for owners of homes with urea for- maldehyde foam insulation to appeal their assessments for the current year. Lynn Peck, Lucknow, a spokesperson for the Huron chapter of HUFFI (Homeowners with Urea For- maldehyde Foam Insulation) advised the T -A this week that only those home owners who appealed will have their assessments reduced by the 75 percent granted by the assessment review hearings in Goderich earlier this month., She said it had been in- dicated that other hotne owners could be added to the list to get the reduced assessments, but she said this had been a misunderstanding and only those who filed ap- peals are getting the reductions. However, she noted that the organization is attempting to get all owners of homes with the insulation included in the reduced assessments but as yet there has been no indica- tion of any success in that regard. Home owners, of course, are eligible to appeal their assessments next year even if they were not on the list for 1982 assessment appeals. She said there appears to be a large number of residents in the Exeter area unaware of the Huron organization and she said they could get infor- . mation about the group by calling her at 528-3308. "There are a lot of things changing almost daily," she Beef protection • project starts The Ontario Beef Cattle Financial Protection pro- gram gets under way August 1. By that date, all buyers of slaughter and feeder cattle are required to be licensed as livestock dealers, says an of- ficial at the Ministry of Agriculture and Food. Also on August 1, all parties to sales of cattle are each re- commented in reference to quired to begin paying 20 . the insulation material that cents a head into a fund to has now been banned in compensate producers and Canada. a other sellers in cases where Some, d the changes per- = Buyers default on payments. taln to the grants available to "We have received a large those home owners wishing to number of licence applica- have the material removed tions," says Dr. George from their abodes. Fleming, director of the Ministry's livestock. inspec- tion branch. "Except for pro- ducers who buy from other producers in the normal course of their farming opera- tions, all those who buy cattle in the province must have a licence by August 1." Those required to have a licence include country dealers, community sale operators, commission firms, meat packers and slaughterhouse operators. The compensation fund will receive an initial grant of $25,000 from the Ministry of Agriculture and Food. Payments of 20 cents a head by all parties to a transaction are expected to generate ap- proximately $1 million in the fund by the end of the first year. Producers or other sellers. of beef cattle would be com- pensated for 90 percent of the amount owing in the case of a payment default. Every effort has been made to provide prospective licenses with a licence ap- plication, Dr. Fleming said. However, anyone still requir- ing an application form should contact their local OMAF county office or the livestock inspection branch, Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food, Legislative Buildings, Toron- to, Ontario. M7A 1B3. PITCHING PRESIDENT - Kirkton-Woodham Optimist Club president Lloyd Fletcher shows his horeshoe pit- ching prowess at Frog 'n Loggin' Days, Sunday. T -A photo. BEETLE MEDICINE — Molly McClure is shown with a jug containing a mixture of sugar and cider vinegar photo which lures the pesky picnic beetle. Relief in store from the beetle Have your picnics this sum- mer been marred with an in- vasion of the raspberry or corn bug or picnic beetle? If so, relief is available. Crediton area resident Dave McClure has cut the population of the pesky bugs considerably and made eating outside again possible. Take a plastic vinegar jug,. cut a two inch square hole in the side about half way and pour in a solution made up of a half cup of white sugar and a cup of cider vinegar. If placed 30 or so feet from the EXPO me out to the ball Wednesday night. Expo muscle. — Derek Hardy of Lucan sang "Take game" at the Kirkton Garden Party, Above, MC Gerald Paul checks the STEPHEN NURSERY SCHOOL GRADS --- The Stephen Neighbourhood Nursery - School Tuesday graduates are shown above. Back, left, Natasha Fick, Jeflnifer Fick, Tracy Glen, Jenny Parker and Nicholas Parsons. Centre, Avril Prost, Aaron Prost, Martens,David Timmy Morgan, Foster, Bowerman Jaime Paisa,IsaacJaques and JennifertReaburn Andy Greenway By ANNE WALPER Visitors at the English's recently were Sanford Reid, Ailsa Craig, Mrs. Jean Brodie and Ann Brodie, Exeter, Mrs Gladys McLinchey, Parkhill, Pamela and husband, Detroit Michigan, Mr. and MrA. -Stuart 'Bullock and Heather and Mr. and Mrs. Milian Smirle, Morewood. Congratulations to Roger and Janice Dougall on the birth of a daughter. Grand- parents are Graham and An- na Eagleson, and to Mr. and Mrs. Eric Bullock on the birth of a daughter. Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Bullock. Lisle Woodburn has been a patient in St. Joseph's hospital. Robbie Steeper is a patient in Strathroy Hospital. Brent Larmer is still in St. Joseph's Hospital. Shirley and Carl Peterson Woodstock, were Thursday evening visitors with their cousins Evelyn and Manuel Curls. picnic table or screen doors, the sweet solution will attract the bugs in droves. They climb over each other trying to get at it. A number of other Crediton residents tried the experi- ment over the weekend and were pleasantly surprised with the results. McClure got the idea from a copy of the Troy-Bilt Owners News. The same method was used by fruit growers on Colorado's western slopes more than 100 years ago. 7ad1,-1114 Cheese Specials Quebec visitors in Woodham By MISS. JEAN COPELAND Mrs. Kate Carriotte and Mrs. Wilfred Remieux of Capreol spent a few days with Mr. and Mrs. Fred Parkinson. Mr. and Mrs. John Barley and family of Richmond Quebec returned home on the weekend after visitng with his mother Mrs. John Barley Sr. and Arthur. Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Copeland entertained on Sun- day with dinner at The Barn Reaurent London to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary. Present for the occasion were Cynthia, Ellen and Deanna, Mr. and Mrs. George Wheeler, Mr. and Mrs. John Rodd, Pamela and Calvin, Mr. and Mrs. David Wheeler, Steven, Bobby and Craig, Mrs. John Butters, Paul Brine and Jean Copeland. Mr. and Mrs. Norris Webb, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Johnson and Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Copeland were guests at the Hern-Hodgert wedding in Thames Road United Church and the reception which Maple Leaf Mozzarella Ib2.49 Havarti "Butter" Cheese x..2.99 l?aIerj and CheeseJz/ouie Exeter•Zurich-Seaforth r .0011 0.61 followed in the Kirkton- Woodham Centre. Jltunun1u111u111111uuuunuulul= ADAMS Heath* & CM11ng • Heating Systems of All Types INSTALLED, MODERNIZED E and MAINTAINED • • General Sheet I Metal Work • Air Conditioning` • Humidifiers =• Ventilation 235-2187 3 133 Huron St., Ea+t, Exeter E 5unnunulwulllluuuuluuunnnrr- Ontario's number 1 Dealership, Froyne Chevrolet Oldsmobile is proud to an- nounce that Jim Guenther has established himself as a top salesman. 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