Times-Advocate, 1986-10-01, Page 3STORYTIME — Nancy Kraemer used puppets to illustrate tales token from books during Storytime at
the Exeter library on Saturday afternoon. She had been at Kirkton library in the morning, and will visit
Hensall and Zurich libraries on October 18.
Lucan and Biddulph
fight change of riding
The village of Lucan and township
of Biddulph are combining their ef-
forts in opposing a proposed federal
electoral boundary change that would
eliminate them from their present
London -Middlesex riding and send
One collision
is investigated
Damage was set at $2,300 in the on-
ly collision investigated this week by
the Exeter police department.
It occurred on Tuesday at the in-
tersection of Highways 4 and 83 and
involved vehicles driven by Wendy
Merner, Hensall, and Michel Ribini,
London.
The Merner vehicle was in the pro-
cess of making a left turn and collid-
ed with Rubini, who was northbound
on Highway 4.
During the week, the department
officers laid seven charges under the
Highway Traffic Act, two under the
Criminal Code and issued two park-
ing tickets.
them into Lambton-Middlesex.
Councils of the two municipalities
met last night, Tuesday to draft a
resolution to the federal electoral
boundaries commission for Ontario
protesting the relocation of Lucan and
Biddulph.
Lucan reeve Norm Steeper who is
also a Middlesex finance committee
member says he will be asking the
county to endorse the resolution at its
October 14 meeting.
The proposed changes, part of a
massive redrawing of -Ontario's elec-
• toral map were unveiled by the com-
mission in August. Only seven ridings
in the province were left as they are.
The ultimate plan country -wide is
to increase the House of Commons
from 282 to 295 seats. Ontario would
gain four new Federal ridings for a
total of 99 while British Columbia
would add four seats and Alberta five.
While taking Lucan and Biddulph
out of London -Middlesex, the com-
mission proposes to add to it a section
of London southeast of Adelaide
Street and the Thames River. That
area is now part of the London East
riding.
MP Terry
Clifford serves the
MAKING MUSIC — Storyteller Nancy Kraemer showed one young
man in her audience how to play a washboard during storytime at
the Exeter Library on Saturday afternoon. She had been at the Kirkton
Iilyory in the morning, and will be at Hensall and Zurich on October
18.
Crop losses mount
Continued from front page
Hall reiterated a comment made
two weeks ago that the weather is put-
ting all crop harvesting behind
schedule and the deadline for planting
winter wheat is nearing. He said
wheat should be planted before Oc-
tober 10 to 15 and said it is ques-
tionable now whether some farmers
will be able to follow through on plans
to plant it.
Ironically, he noted that the delay
in getting corn silage in has created
a situation where the corn may be too
dry for that purpose and it will have
'to be harvested as grain corn.
Hall also expressed concern over
the soybean crop, questioning
whether varieties that are now ready
for harvest will stand up to the wet
field conditions.
Erb said he had heard of reports
that some soybeans were rotting tiff
at the ground level and t•onve plants
were bent down into the wet ground.
Everyone agreed that any white
beans that were pulled prior to the
onslought of the wet weather earlier
this month will be a write-off.
Canadian Canners Limited in Ex-
eter have also been plagued by the
wet conditions in their attempt to
harvest sweet corn and manager Joe
Rider said this week that it will be
"touch and go" whether the remain-
ing 10 percent of the crop is taken off
the fields.
Some corn was picked on Sunday,
but harvesting was halted after the
rain on Monday morning. The
periodic shut -downs affect close to 300
1
employees.
He noted that the only positive thing
was that the quality of the pack was
excellent.
It may be small consolation, but
farmers in other areas are experien-
cing the same problems.
Erb reported that parts of
Michigan's white bean crop have had
almost twice as much rain as their
_ Huron counterparts. Franlenmuth
had 16' inches of rainfall up to late
last week.
Alex Scott of the Ausable Bayfield
Conservation Authority said their
gauges have recorded 10.28 inches of
rain in the Exeter area from
September 1 to noon on Monday,
while it has been 7.84 inches in the
Springbank gauge south of Parkhill.
Vegetable growers in the Holland
Marsh area north 4f Toronat have
also been flooded out and Soudant
predicts that the price of potatoes will
increase substantially this year.
Ironically, the wet weather woes
come at a time that Ontario-ikgpar
ing up for Agri -Food Week. The mot-
to this year is "Buy the food your
neighbor grows".
Area farmers hope they'll have that
food to sell!
Statistics coming from the Huron
OMAF office note that the county
stands first in production of white
beans, silage corn and rutabagas,
three crops that are in some jeopar-
dy. The value of those three crops in
1983 was around $14 million. The 1981
value of soybeans va011,305,000 and
for grain corn it wa $71,392,000.
London -Middlesex riding and Sid
Fraleigh is the MP for Lambton-
Middlesex.
Reeve Steeper told the T -A this
week, "Our centre of interest is Lon-
don and not Sarnia. Our people work
there, they shop there. Commuter
buses go to London everyday and not
to Sarnia."
Steeper continued, "We may be on
the fringe of the London -Middlesex
riding, but, it's only 14 miles to Lon-
don. To Sarnia it's about 60 miles. We
would like to continue our links with
London -Middlesex."
MP Terry Clifford has told Steeper
that he has no problem with trying to
keep the two northern Middlesex
municipalities in his riding:
Reeve Wilson Hodgins of Biddulph
says his council is in favour of the pro-
test and will co-operate with Lucan in
making the presentation.
Lucan and Biddulph will also make
representations at a public hearing
the commission is holding in London
do December 10 and 11.
Politicians
join in fun
A Liberal provincial cabinet
minister and 'a federal Tory back-
bencher joined forces Sunday to
dispose of two of the accessories that
keep Premier David Peterson looking
natty.
After a vocal rendition of The Auc-
tioneer, Agriculture Minister Jack
Riddell - himself a former auctioneer
- pumped the bidding up to $46 for a
red tie and pocket puff belonging to
the premier at the annual Ciderfest at
the Van Egmond House in Egmond-
ville. The MPP for Huron -Middlesex
was aided by federal MP Murray Car-
diff (Huron -Bruce).
Proceeds from the auction of the
small number of items donated by
well-known people went to the Van
Egmond Foundation, for which the
anndal cider festival is a major fund-
raiser.
Skies that had been wet and cloudy
• much of the weekend cleared for the
12th annual afternoon event, which in-
cluded highland dancing, demonstra-
tions of making cider, rope and
candles, and carding, dyeing and
spinning wool.
Van Egmond House, south of
Seaforth, dates to around 1846 and
was built by Constant Louis Van Eg
mond who was a prominent
businessman, magistrate and public
figure of the time.
Fact finder
is appointed
The Education Relations Commis-
sion has appointed Eric Runacres of
Coldwater to act as Fact Finder in the
negotiations between the elementary
teachers and the trustees of the Huron
County Board of Education.
Runacres will meet with the parties
and write a report setting out which
matters have been agreed upon and
which matters remain in dispute. The
report may also contain recommen-
dations for settlements.
A graduate of the University of
Toronto, 1947, Runacres retired as the
Director of the Hastings County
Board of Education in 1979. In the in-
tervening years, he held positionsj of
elementary teacher, secondary
teacher, principal and inspector
before his appointment as Director in
1969. Since retirement, he has been in-
volved in ,studies at the Ontario In-
\ stitute for Studies in Education, and
has been providing a consulting ser-
vice to education and business. His
field of specialization is Human Rela-
tions and their applications to effec-
tive management.
This appointment is made under
Section 14 of thl* School Boards and
Teachers Collective Negotiations Act,
Revised Statues of Onhrio, 1980.
mos -Advocate, October 1. 1986
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