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Home My WebLink AboutTimes Advocate, 1989-09-13, Page 30Page 30 Times -Advocate, September 13, 1989 Self -serve - Rob McGregor, Kip - pen (left) and Kevin Dutot, Brucefield; help themselves to sausages at the Brucefield Vol- unteer Firemen's breakfast. Up before breakfast - Andy Cantelon watches as dad Wayne fills his plate at the Brucefield Volunteer Firemen's breakfast. HENSALL CO-OP Discuss agricultural issues GULEPH - Agricultural issues and leadership were the main topics at the recent Board of Federated Women's Institutes of Ontario (FWIO)t held 24-26 August at Guelph. A visit by Rita Burak, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Food, gave her a chance to listen to the concerns of the Women's Institutes as well as find out more about the general organization of the Wom- en's Institute. Some of these con- cerns included the environment and rural child care. The report given by Joan Law, FWIO Resolutions Committee Chairman, on the Canadian Crop Drought Assistance Program stressed the importance of crop in- surance program as the best method to help farmers rather than ad hoc programs such as drought relief, Joan Law, representing FWIO was the only women representative, when the Ontario Commodity Groups and OMAF staff had their recent meeting in Guelph to explain the Drought Relief Program. The implication for Canada and Ontario's Agricultural system in the Uruguay Round of the GATT nego- tiations was reported on by Hilde Morden, FWIO Program Co- ordinator, who attended a recent conference at University of Guelph to discuss the issues. As a result of Janet Parsons, WI member from Cache Bay and Cana- dian Farmer of the Year, and Char- lotte Johnson, Past President FWIO attending the Hands Across the Bor- der Conference of Ontario and New York Women, at Senneca Falls, New York, that FWIO has decided to establish an Agricultural Adviso- ry Committee to look at agricultu- ral issues from a Women's Institute point of view. Leadership Training has always been part of the Women's Institut. program and this meeting was no exception. There is a workshop ten- tatively scheduled for January 1990 titled "Forms, Facts and Figures" with the purpose of developing ad- ministrative skills for farm wom- en's organizations. This is phase 2 of a plan by FWIO; this year they trained people in the skills of put- ting on workshops. After phase two these two groups of people will get together and put on smaller work- shopsthroughout Ontario. An Associated Country Women of the World (ACWW), Mini Con- ference is to be held at Carleton University, Ottawa in June 1990. This conference is to educate the WI members and ACWW members about the aims, goals and work of ACWW. The theme of the Confer- ence will be Women and the Envi- ronment - the Challenge is Now. There will be such workshops as The International Place, Fad Diets and their implication on agricul- ture, Reproductive Technology and Natural Resources. Surgery - A necessity or Your Choice, a series of workshops held recently in the Guelph Area by WI members Irene Mauer and Pat Sal- ter, in co-operation with the Na- tional Council of Jewish Women of Canada, gave the participants an opportunity to learn and make deci- sions about their own health con- cerns. It is hoped that more WI leaders will be trained in this course in the near future. With the commitment to rural youth and higher education, FWIO have been revamping their scholar- ship program. This year the re- , gional scholarships will be worth $275 each and the county and area scholarships $250 each. It is hoped that more rural youth make use of these scholarships, as they are not just for girls. Plans for the Centennial Celebra- tion of FWIO are on going with a special Centennial Celebration Fund established. Already In place are plans for a Centennial stamp, a special rose, Centennial Logo and a commemorative plate. There will be more plans announced later. It is from the establishment of one WI branch in Stoney Creek in 1897 that Women's Institutes have spread throughout the world. O ▪ EM rime Stoppers Crime Stoppers of Huron County and the Exeter OPP are asking for your assistance in bringing the per- son or persons who committed this crime to justice. - Thoughtless activity such as this could cause a serious situation to become even worse. On June 1, 1989 an unknown cul- prit shot a hole in a white Bell Tele- phone box that was mounted on a telephone pole on the 20-21 sid- eroad of Stephen Township, near lot 5. This type of activity could cause telephone--• failure and people would be unable to call emergency services such as the fire depart- ment, ambulance, or police until the damage is repaired. If you have information about this or any other crime, call Crime Stoppers of Huron County at 1- 800-265-1777 and you could re- ceive a reward of up to $1,000. Remember, crime doesn't pay, Crime Stoppers does. Deliver Your Quality WHITE BEANS .TO YOUR NEAREST HENSALL CO-OP RECEIVING ELEVATOR Now 5 locations to receive white beans Help increase the market share of the only Farmer -Owned Comprehensive White Bean. Dealer in the industry! Regular readers of this column are aware we lived in the country for a hundred years. Well, 35 years. When we sold our horses and the big house in the country, we inoved into the city. I have said before that the things we missed most in city life were watching the horses gam- bol in the field and drinking in the sunsets. One other thing missing was pointed out poignantly the other day and that is the friendliness and brotherly love so apparent in the country but so lacking in the city. We have lived on the outskirts of a city now for nine months. We do not yet know who lives beside us. We know them by sight and nod when we pass but we know not their names or anything about them. When we first moved to the coun- try, our nearest neighbor was hun- dreds of yards away but we 'met •►�••+ ...hwn the lady of the house brought us warm muffins the day ww,....,yrr.,..r. r.,.». f».. +r tr.. O. 10..70 Firefighters got there about 10 a.m. and the blaze was under con- trol by noon but the friends and neighbors worked for another eight hours. They pulled bales of hay and straw from the building and saved the walls and the superstructure from burning. Damage was restrict- ed to Tess than $100,000 in a barn that could easily have been demo- lished at a loss of $300,000. What is even more important, those same friends, neighbors and church groups were right there to rebuild that barn. It's called a barn raising and is still a big part of the life and times of the country where we lived. Community efforts like this are not part of the city. Tales are told regularly about people being at- tacked while city slickers ignore it. Just recently in the city where we live, an elderly man was knocked down and his wallet stolen while several people on the street ignored •• = x:we moved into the house. They are his pleas and his plight. II = still friends. Our country road—bmaddaylight. ' It is not all bad, though. In the area where the man was mugged, the same thing happened to an older woman. But two other women, de- termined not to let this guy get away with it, chased him and tackled him and held him down un- til help came. That kind of action takes guts. Those women placed their own lives in danger to help another. -In the country, though, the idea of being neighborly is born in peo- ple. Not to practice it brands you as a maverick, an outsider, perhaps even a seditionist. So we do miss more than just the horses and the sunsets. We miss t' ' pco1,1 I,0 changed over the years and became a settlement area. We knew everyone on the road. Not so now in the city. What brought the coldness of the city home to me was a story in the pa- per about a barn fire recently in the area where we lived. The fire chief in charge of the operation called it "probably the best community ef- fort ever." About 45 volunteer firefighters from four rural fire brigades fought the blaze. But another 120 neigh- bors, volunteers and church groups within a 30 -kilometre radius (that's aho it-IBS-hclped pull hay and straw out of the burning barn throughout the day. AT THE BIGGEST OUTDOOR FARM. 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