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Home My WebLink AboutTimes-Advocate, 1988-04-20, Page 36DEERE SEASONI. Nothing Runs vJOHa OE ERE) Like a Deere See us at the London Home and Garden Show.... April 20 - 24 Cash Discounts Up to $200 if you 'hurry Spring is here. And so is our terrific lineup of John Deere lawn and garden equipment. Choose from riding mowers to lawn and garden tractors - complete with manufacturer's cash dis- counts of up to $200.00. Times -Advocate, April 20, 1988 Page 15A otJitI$*:. mow' by0.4. 1.°4•,....pp..cvua Op Poo 7(011.. EWM. E13 j NW* QM NIP K7'J big -city newspapers that it is enough to make old country boys like me puke. Neighborhood schools disap- peared a quarter of a century ago in the country. Maybe it's time they disappeared in the city, too. I am getting sick, sore and tired of the myopia shown so often by city dwellers, especially city writ- ers. They -- the city people -- get all the favors from senior govern- ments such as grants for sewers, grants for water systems, grants for art centres and every other so-called municipal necessity. But when my septic bed flares up or my water pump fails, I sure can't get a grant from the province to fix things up. These guys and gals in the city should wake up and smell the cof- fee that's brewing in the country. One of these days, we'll all fill our manure spreaders to overflow- ing and tour the parking lots and fancy lobbies of every big -city newspaper in the country. Then, the editorial writer will smell something brewing. About time, too. STOP Let Cook's help you stop this area's toughest problem weeds Whatever weed control problems you face— broadleaf. grassy. both; whatever spray program you prefer—PPI. pre -emerge., post, spot—Cook s has the products and professionals to help you protect your fields ... and your profits. 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Lucan 229-8986 262-2410 527-1540 293-3170 227-4283 The ignorance and parochialism displayed by big -city newspapers in this province is appalling. I have just read an editorial in the big daily newspaper that comes to our rural home. A suggestion made by a member of the school board was ridiculed in the paper. The board member said downtown core schools in the cities were losing students yet schools in the subur- ban areas were overcrowded. He wisely suggested the board should consider bussing students from the suburbs to the city core. But that's a no -to to this ivory - towered editor. It isn't fair, he/she said, to bus students from the sub- urbs to the city core. It would, to quote this asinine city -dweller, place an "unfair burden on the chil- dren and parents living in the hin- terland. "Why should children outside core areas be permanently inconven- ienced because the residents near a downtown school want to keep it open?" the writer asks. "Why should parents in the suburbs be de- nied the opportunity of having their neighbourhood school? The school board is not in the business of opening or closing buildings. It is in the business of educating chil- dren." Well, why in hell shouldn't chil- dren be bussed from the suburban areas to the city core if this will save adding millions of dollars to already high education costs in all municipalities? There is nothing unfair about it. Where was this silly writer more than° 25 years ago when all school sections in this province became township school boards. Where was he/she when, just a few years later, township and town and city school boards became county school boards? What happened to neighborhood schools then, joker? What happened when Grade 1 students were forced to stand in the cold every winter at 7:45 a.m. to catch a school bus to the new, composite schools perhaps 10 or 20 miles away? Thcy simple did it, that's what. Thcy accepted it with little or no fanfare because it was supposed to provide better schooling. Their parents reluctantly allowed it to happen and school sec- tions became a thing of the past. In our case, we Lived less than a mile from the town school where our two older children went. But later, when the town school became crowded, our youngest was shipped five miles away to a country school which was over in enrol- ment. And I'm positive her educa- tion did not suffer. Are the little tots from the city too sheltered to take a bus to school? This kind of ignorance of the country scene is so prevalent in Honey insured Agriculture Minister John Wise has affirmed that honey producers will continue to receive federal support under crop insurance legis- lation. Federal contributions toward honey insurance programs were brought into question late last year when the Standing Joint Commit- tee on Regulations and Other Stat- utory Instruments said honey could not be covered under the current wording of the Crop Insurance Act because it was not a "crop" in the usual meaning of the word. "After a careful review by law- yers from the Department of Jus- tice, we have confirmed that the current wording of the Act provides. for the inclusion of honey," Mr. Wise said. "While lawyers came to the same conclusion in 1985 when honey was first included under the Act, this further review should -clear up any misunderstanding there may be about honey's stat- us.,, The federal government is fully supportive of the Canadian honey industry," Mr. Wise said. "Crop insurance is just one indication of this support." Honey producers will receive about $3.5 million this year under the 1987 extension to the Special Canadian Grains Program. In addi- tion, they received $8.7 million in the 1987-88 crop year under the Advance Payments for Crops Pro- gram, which provides interest-free advances to allow producers to market their product in an orderly fashion. CHAPARAL FENCING R.R. 1, Lucan Ontario NOM 2J0 ALL TYPES FREE ESTIMATES industrial Ponce* Chain Link A Patio Farm Poncaa Phone Bob Hardy 227-4160 _I 1 •