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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1985-08-14, Page 28Page 16A Times -Advocate, August 14, 1985 THE MACLEAN'S CHAT — Shown chatting during the Wednesday Liberal barbecue at the farm of On- tario Agriculture Minister Jack Riddell are Kim and Ian MacLean of Exeter and Mr. and Mrs. Andy MacLean of Seaforth. T -A photo At farm meeting Told knowledge is power By Stephanie Levesque A cut in production along with a price increase for farmers appears to be the simplest way to achieve pari- ty pricing, but there are some pitfalls. Area farmers heard about the pit- falls and different views on parity pricing at an information meeting in Stratford last week. The meeting was .� onsored by the Perth County Yederation of Agriculture. The suggestions offered by Gertie Blake, a Brupe County farmer who along with her husband has produc- ed a report on parity pricing, receiv- ed the most favorable response from the farmers. The Blake report suggests that a 100 -head sow to weaner producer be cut back to 80 head - a 20 percent reduction. Along with this cut. the report recommends a 17 percent per pound price increase. "That would double the return and farmers would be better off," Mrs. Blake said. • There was hearty applause for her suggestions. Panelist George Brinkman, an agricultural economist from the University of Guelph. asked how many farmers would be willing to cut their production. Some said they would, but others admitted that there would be farmers who would pick up the slack in production to get a greater share of the market. "Are you farmers willing to cut back? Others will expand and you • can't tell me it won't happen," said Prof. Brinkman. Three of the four panel members agreed that parity pricing would be politically feasible. Only Paul Verke- ly, vice-president of the Perth Federaton of Agriculture didn't think it would be. . "Everything's politically feasible," commented Prof. Brinkman. Claude Giroux of the Concerned Farmers of Essex County said that to him, parity pricing is concept that means a balance. He exemplified this balance by two sets. of statistics. In 1949-50. an auto worker could buy a good line car for 1,200 hours of labour. In 1985, it still takes the auto worker 1.200 hours oT labour to pur- chase a good line car. "The auto worker has maintained a balance," said Mr. Giroux. In agriculture. in 1949-950 it took a Mary's Musings Do you know what is 'the hardest part of having a baby? Not the labor and delivery. Not getting up in the middle of the night. No, not all that ex- tra laundry, and not having to make the formula every day. The hardest part of having a baby in coming up with just the right name for the little creature. The baby's • name has • to be something totally different. but ,not weird. Finding something different but not weird is a monumental task. Most of our friends had babies before we did. so many names were already taken. Also. many family names were used up by cousins. Being the youngest in you families, or the last among your friends to have babies certainly increases the difficulty in coming up with just the right name. You start making lists of names for the baby as soon as you find out you're pregnant. Of course, there has to be two lists -- ane for boys and one for girls. 1t would certainly make things a lot simpler if you knew what gender you were dealing with -- then you'd only have to keep one list. That's an on-going debate -- would you like to know your baby's • sex before it is born'' I would. Then you would have the right colour clothes ready. the right wall paper up. and just the right name picked out When 1 went in for an ultra -sound ex- amination. 1 asked the technician if she would tell me the sex of my baby. Well. the technician was having a bad day. The air conditioning had broken down and her machinery was over -heating. And she wasn't in the mood for stupid questions. No. she replied firmly. she couldn't tell me what sex my baby- is. And even if she could. she wouldn't f winced as her tirade continued. By Mary Alderson "It's not important to know the sex of the baby. it's just important to have a healthy baby." she stressed. "You're right. you're absolutely right," 1 replied. And 1 continued making two lists of names. We went 'through books of names. We checked out the meanings of names in a dictionary. We even turn- ed to our Biblical Concordance to find •out who some of the people were in the Bible. And we kept adding to our list. When I found out that it was possi- ble 1 might be havyikai Christmas baby, we added sone appropriate names. If the wee one arrived December 25, we had Holly. Nowell. or Nicholas ready. We scratched a lot of names off the list. too. I rejected anything that didn't go with our last name. 1 didn't think that anything ending with an "uh" sound went with Alderson. For example. Maria Alderson gives you an "uh-uh" in the middle. People might think the poor girl stammered. And since Alderson has three syllables. we didn't want to give the child a long first name. When she finally arrived. we decid- ed on Chelsey -- different but not weird. or at least we thought so. Of course, once you pick a name. you have to decide how to spell it -- we chose Chelsey over Chelsea. so that people wouldn't try to pronounce the "a" at the end. So officially, she became Chelsey Kae Alderson. But seven months later. 1 wonder why we 4orried about a name so much. Because most of the time. Victor and 1 call her Pumpkin ( or actually Punkin). Or she gets call- ed Turtle. or Turkey of Lil Stinker. Most fittingly, she is known around the neighbourhood as ('hubby Cheeks. farmer1,400 bushel&of corn to buy a combine. In 1983, it took 29,900 bushels of corn to buy a combine, which means no balance was held, he said. -"Parity does not guarantee suc- cess, it doesn't guarantee profit and it does not guarantee a market;" said Mr. Giroux. But, he added, it gives farmers a fair price. The moderator for the evening, CFPL-TV London's Ross Daly. noted that "knowledge is power" and said the 75 farmer in attendance could only benefit by learning more about pari- ty pricing. If you're looking for carpet or vinyl for a small area or an entire house • • Save Time • Save Money • See us First Do it yourself or have our installer Ed Allen do it for ou Shipka fi champ at By MRS. HUGH MORENZ Congratulations to Willis Devar- dine on winning first place in in termediate class old time fiddling. al Lumberjack days, held at Hosanquel- ThedordCommunity Centre. on Civic holiday Monday. Earlier thhis year Willis won firsts in the old time fiddle contest at Strat- ford and Renfrew. Personals Cpl. Cindy Goiter. of Trenton, spent the Civic holiday weekend with her parents, Willis and Ella Desjardine and little Michelle Mabel. Hugh and 1 called at Hopper Hockey Funeral Home. Exeter, last Thursday evening, to pay respects to our cousin. Mrs. Stella Ruth Bawden. of London: who passed away nn August 6. Local girl marries Jane, daughter of Ross and Evelyn Pickering. and Dale. son of Robert and Marian Kerslake. of Exeter. were Varna couple celebrates 25 years By MARY CHESSEIL Bill and Joyce Dowson's farm was the scene of a happy celebration of their 25th wedding anniversary on Sunday when many relatives and friends gathered to congratulate them. Five of the Varna Singers, a group Bill and Joyce belong to, sang the story of their courtship and marriage. Their family presented a fashion show, with Bonnie narrating while Brenda modelled her mother's wed- ding dress, going -away dress and negligee set, with John portraying his father. Then Bonnie became the model to show how Joyce looked in succeeding years -- no pillows need- ed for this act. The happy husband's waistline was expanding, too. John Jewitt entertained with a medlay of numbers on the bagpipes, and Abbie Craig entertained in the driving shed. Guests were served barbecued beef and a buffet of delicious dishes. The weather was beautiful On Saturday evening, about :10 of their friends treated Bill and Joyce to dinnerat Hessenland,then spent the remainder of the evening at Allan and Marjorie Hayter's home. At Lake Side There was a good attendance at Varna-Goshen's annual Lakeside church service on Sunday. Shirley Hill taped piano accompaniment for the hymn singing, and Rev. Wilena Brown's meditation was titled "On a Rose". A barbershop quartet from Seaforth, the Rural Roads, compris- ed of Brian and Barry Vincent. Dave Campbell and Gordon Miller of Staf- fa, sang "How Great Thow Art" and "I Believe" during the worship ser- vice, and entertained during the lat- ter part of the lunch hour. They belong to the Seaforth Har- mony Kings who sponsor an annual Spring Show featuring local choruses and guest quartets. Scott Kirton played "Amazing Grace" while the offering was being received. ddler is Thedford married Saturday, August 10 at Zion United Church in Crediton. Maid of honor was 'Perri Dobson. bridesmaids were two of Jane's sisters, Nancy Regier and Susan Guenther; and Jayne Hendrick. Best man was Jeff Romphf and ushers were Randy Regier, Terry La- ing and Cotten Cameron. A dinner and reception followed at - the South Huron Rec Centre in Exeter.. Personals Ken and Ortha Baker. recently returned from a holiday in the west. where they visited their daughter.. Nancy in Edmonton, and also with daughter Donna and son-in-law. Mike Yarrow. in Winnipeg. Manitoba. Harold and Lucille Vincent, Mike and Michelle, along with Karen Rum - ball, Dashwood and Claude Dykstra of Grand Bend, spent a few days holidaying and fishing, first at Owen Sound area, and then on to Boat lake near Wiarton, last week over Civic holiday. PORK SLICERS -- Bernard and Marion Benn were two of the many volunteers at Wednesday's barbecue at the farm of Ontario Agriculture Minister Jack Riddell. Area artist shows paintings at Playhouse Huron Country Playhouse is pleas- ed to present a special showing of watercolour paintings by Puck Merkies of Grand Bend. The pain- tings featured in this display running at the Playhouse from August 12-17. are beautiful landscapes, forest scenes. floral abstracts and many other nature studies. Her works being exhibited include "Fragments and Fragrances", "Rock Formations" and "Wild F lowerinft Crabapple." Puck Merkies was born in the Netherlands. studied al the Beal Art School in London and obtained a degree in Visual Art from the Unver- sity of Western Ontario in London. Her academic qualifications in Holland were High School and Teacher's College and several teaching and administrative posi- tions. She also studies watercolour painting with Carl Schaefer and with John Bennett as well as studyng Chinese brushpainting with Professor 1. Hsuing Ju at Lexington, Virginia. Puck has taught various art courses at Fanshawe College, London: Com- munity Services in London and Mid- dlesex County and at art workshops throughout Ontario. She recently was a guest teacher at the Southampton Art School this summer. Her work has been widely exhibited in Ontario and the Eastern United States in several solo and group art shows. Her work can also be seen in commercial galleries in Bayfield (The House Gallery ). London ( Hang Ups ) and Stratford (Canadian Arts 1; and in Public Gallaries in Toronto. London. Sarnia. Blyth. ()wen Sound and in the Netherlands. "1 spend most of my summers out- side painting". says Puck. "I've liv- ed in Grand Bend for over 11 years and before that 1 lived in London for 17 years. i've had invitations to teach all over southern Ontario, giving classes in Parkhill, Glencoe. Strathroy, Grand Bend, Southamp- ton. London and many other places." Puck Merkies' watercolour pain- tings are on display at Huron Coun- try Playhouse until August 17th and may be visited throughout the day and during performances intermis- sions. Admission is free. F'or further information call 238-8451. Lots of races and games were ar- ranged by the Goshen people for all age groups. Next Sunday's service is in Goshen church. Please note the time - 10:30 a.m. Personals Ralph and Mona Stephenson's new home on their farm north of their pre- sent residence is under construction. Bill and Carol will be moving into their house. Work is progressing well on Bill By MRS. ROBERT LAING Church services resumed Sunday morning after a month of holidays. Miss Agnes Hislop, returned mis- sionary from India, spent a few days with Mr. and Mrs. Tom Scott. Mr. and Mrs. John Jefferson. Sault Ste. Marie, spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Laing. They. along with Mr. and Mrs. Robert La- ing, attended a reception and dinner celebrating the Golden Wedding an- niversary of their uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Jefferson, Goderich on Sunday afternoon. Tom Laing holidayed for a few days last week with his sister. Mrs. Alex Zimmer, Stratford. Katharine Hulley became the bride of Robert Fischer in a pretty wedding in Cromarty Presbyerian Church Saturday. Many from this communi- ty attended the reception which followed in Mitchell Community Cetnre. Dowson's new barns to replace the ones destroyed by fire. Craig McAsh spent last week at Lucan's Shamrock Hockey School. The boys stayed in the Boy Scout Hall. Patricia holidayed with her cousins at Mt. Brydges. Charles and Bernice Reid and Jim and Kate Keys visited Cullen Gardens and the Miniature Village at Whitby on Sunday of the holiday weekend. They were treated to a good musical program. too. On Monday they slop- ped at the Pickering Mall. .Dave Kalbfleisch, who received his B.A. a year-ago from Western ltnive►•- sity, has now completed his ('.A. Credit Hours Requirement in a course at Wilfrid Laurier in Waterloo. On September :3 he begins work with the Clarkson Gordon accounting firm in London. • Collect books On Saturday, Margaret and Ivan McClymont hosted the third annual gathering of G.A.- Renty look collec- tors. This is an opportunity for them to meet and trade books by the famous British author. The after noon was spent in the library examining the Me('Iy mon( collection as well as the interesting books and material brought by the visitors. - After supper a discussion on tient). and his work was led by former tl.S Consular and long time Henry collec• tor, Harland Eastman of Springvale. Maine. Also attending was Waller Fates from Royal Oak. Michigan. Tom and Wilma Greenlees. London: Ian and Wendy Thompson. Milton: Sandra Sloman and Doug Booth Waterloo. AT PLAYHOUSE -- The Star-Spangled girl (I to r) Derek Boyes, Arlene Mazerolle and Randy Hughson is the story of two room -mates who fall in love with the same girl. Playing until August 17 at Huron Coun- try Playhouse. Photo by Brian Richman Star Spangled Girl coming to Playhouse How do you know when you are in All three ol the lead characters are love'. Your heart plays leap frog in warmly human and totally' engaging your chest. you find yourself acting in. their earnest and comic pursuit of like an viralional dope and you can't the smell of love. The Neil Simon forget the - smell of your love - it dialogue. so full ol life -and laughs. so lingers in your memory. to haunt your witty and warm is embraced fully by every thought. each of these actors and actresses. Falling in love with the smell of This production is a thoroughly en- andther person may sound a little ioyable experience. bizaare but that's the whacky kind of comedy that works so well in Neil Simon's "Star Spangled Girl" playing at Huron Country Playhouse until August 17. The plot is the very simple love triangle - boy falls in love with girl. girl falls in love with boy's roommate. roommate doesn't love girl. etc. The humour that it; created from this complicated love triangle is what moves the play along at a fast -clip pace. Underground magazine writer Norman Cornell ( played by Randy Hughson) falls so hopelessly in love with the new neighbour from Arkan- sas that his behavior becomes almost absurd. He can't write a word and spends his time in frantic pursuit 01 his beloved Sophie ltauschmeyer (Arlene Mazerrole). itis wild antics. which he believes to be tokens of love. are so hilariously unreal. the au 'dience is won over by laughter Sophie, the Star-Spangled Girl, is so upset by this outrageious behavior she break's out in hives. Arlene Mazerrole plays her part with just the right mix of earnest paroe•hraI patriotism and olympic swimmer toughness to he believable. yet re main vulnerable. The publisher -editor of Fallout Magazine. which holds to the slogan as "a remedy for a sick society". has the job of dealing with creditors and landladies collecting rent. Derek Boyes as Andy plays the level-headed straight -man with class and sophistication. 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