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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1985-10-02, Page 174 At (east two others retiring Times -Advocate, October 2, 1985 Page 5A SS trustee #hrowi in towel due to federations Listowel area, Louis Maloney from Hibbert and Logan, Michael Moriar- ty from Clinton, Goderich and Bayfield area, Tim McDonnell from Ellice Township and Michael Ryan from the Exeter area. Powerful teacher federations have made at least one trustee throw in the towel. St. Marys and Mitchell area trustee Ernie Vanderschott announced last week he would not seek re-election in this fall's municipal election. He has served five years on the Huron -Perth Catholic separate school board. Vanderschott pondered carefully over his words saying his years on the valary negotiating committee have proven to him that the federations are powerful. A power that he says has been given to them by the government. "School boards, they have very lit- tle negotiating power. All the teachers' salaries should be negotiated with the provincial govern- ment," he said. "If salaries were negotiated across the whole province, something would be done much more quickly:" • An 11 -year veteran of the school board, Bill Kinahan of RR 2, Lucknow also announced he is stepping down. Serving the municipalities of Blyth, Ashfield, and East and West Ray Van Vliet of RR 7, St. Marys, indicated he won't rye seeking re- Although absent from the meeting Wawanosh, Kinahan said he will miss represents Downie and North and election. when the announcements were made, sitting on the board. South Easthope Townships. He too, "In all fairness to the board, I can't the other Stratford trustee John put enough time into it," said Van Devlin, will also seek re-election. Vliet. Current board chairman Ron Mar- cy of Stratford said he will be runn- ing again. A secondary school teacher �I� ■ ■ ■ore bean fa a 1' 1 t 1 esin the city, Marcy anticipates no pro- blems in his position with regard to extending funding to Catholic secon- dary schools. A Catholic high school is being established in Perth for September 1986. Hensall takes over The Hensall District Co-operative Inc. nearly doubled its storage space recently by leasing the four elevators owned by the Ontario Bean Growers Co-operative which went into receivership Aug. 22. "We leased the facilities from the receiver until we're done with them or until they're sold", Hensall Co-op's manager, Earl Wagner said. Corn and soybeans will be receiv- ed at the Bean Co-op's plants in At- wood, Seaforth and Rannock. Only beans will be received at the London plant, under the management of Hen- sall Co-op. As of last Friday, Wagner said Hen- sall Co-op was also planning to honor BEST SHOWMAN — Berry MacNaughton-receives the senior dairy showmanship prize from Gary Van Steeg at the Ilderton Fair, Sat • the Bean Co-op's growers' contracts, but was waiting for further informa- tion on them. Wagner said Hensall Co-op which is independent of United Co-operatives of Ontario, had tried to take over the Bean Co-op as a going concern but "it wasn't feasible". Hensall has one elevator in Hensall with 1.4 million bushels storage and retail facilities in Zurich, Seaforth and Brucefiekl. Leasing the Bean Co- op's facilities gives them another 1.2 million bushels of storage. Wagner said the move has added 15 new peo- ple to the Co-op staff. It has retained "a large number of the operation's people" from the Bean Growers Co- op. All the management and marketing will be done from the Hen- sall office. The receiver, Kingsmount Manage- ment Services Ltd., of Arva, is still working on disposing of the Ontario Bean Growers Co-op's inventories, according to Frank Shellenbach. The Receiver has not yet sold the elevators, but Shellenbach said he was "quite confident that we will get a proposal which is going to be to the benefit of the agriclutural industry". Earlier in the month, Shellenbach has said he was confident that all creditors would likely end up with one hundred cents on the dollar. "Things have changed somewhat since," he said. He made the former statement (regarding settlement) when the company had a proposal for purchase. That proposal has since been aborted. But he said he's "very hopeful" and "its our desire" that all creditors will get full payment. One year in power and the Mulroney government is being accus- ed of inaction, not doing enough, not keeping promises. Nobody can say that of the Peter- son government in Ontario, especial- ly about Jack Riddell, minister of agiculture and food. In fact, inform- ed farm writers across the province are suggesting that Riddell has been too soon off the mark, that he may be making costly errors by doing. too much. As the fourth minister of agriculture this year, he has done more in a few months than Dennis Timbrell, Phil Andrews and Ross Stevenson did in four years. Those accusing Riddell of moving too fast may be forgetting that Jack has been his party's agriculture critic for a long time and that he is a farmer himself. He is well aware that farmers have had too much talk and precious little action from Queen's Park since the days of Bill Stewart. Riddell is no neophyte politician in a new portfolio. 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I met him once some years ago and he struck me as being honest and capable. So far, in the few short weeks that he has been Ontario's agminister; he has told the federal government to take action on farm in- come stabilization or Ontario will do it without the feds. He has put a $50 -million interest -reduction pro- gram into place for debt -ridden farmers. Ile has been quoted as saying he wants action on the problems of soil erosion and soil degradation. He wants to introduce legislation - not just guidelines which were not follow- ed anyway - on foodland use. Farmers, so used to hearing good intentions, can be excused for sitting back and waiting for action. But Rid- dell says his government has rejected a philosophy of endless talk that gives the appearance of progress: "The will exists to tackle these ( farm) pro- blems instead of trying to ignore them to death," he says. "1 can say with determination - and with justification - that we are truly entering into a new era in the Ontario agriculture and food sector." Those are strong words with more than just a little hope behind them for Ontario's farmers. For too long, farmers have felt ignored or they have been handed a carrot -on -a -stick whereby they got loo little too late from their senior governments. i quite admired Dennis Timbrell when he -first took over as agminister in Ontario. Ile was young and ar- ticulate. lie was not a farmer although he seemed to grasp farm problems quickly and was accurate in his assessment of those problems. But Timhrell's caution and inaction. his blunders when he did take action - his proposal for a beef marketing agen- cy. for example, which was scrapped - caused the entire farm sector to lose faith in him. Middlesex match set The Middlesex County Plowing Match is planned for Saturday, Oc- tober 12, starting at 10 a.m., at Flet- cher Farms, RR 4 Komoka, located just west of Middlesex County Road No. 16 between Komoka and Popular Hill. Competitors will compete in clases for horses, garden tractors, antique equipment and various other tractor classes in several age groups. In addition. contestants will be tak- ing part in the "Queen of the Furrow" competition, horseshoe pitching and log sawing events. The match is held in conjunction with the Middlesex Soil and Crop Association who will be providing crop and equipment demonstrations. The day provides an opportunity to participate in a number of com- petitive events as well as to see agricultural exhibits and watch demonstrations of past and present farm practises. Dennis was criticized for lack of ac- tion. Jack may get criticism for run- ning too fast too soon. 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