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Times -Advocate, May 1, 1991
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Scholarship open to 4-H membe►i
c evement n t v em a ers o t e 'uronda e u e were honoured Monday night. Back row: Jody
Hodgert (left), Derek Etherington, Brian Parsons, Sarah McAllister, Lori Kernick, Rebecca Miller and
Jackie Morgan. Front Row: Amy Cassell (left), Becky Case, Erin Parker, Aimee Bayer and Rebekah Prout.
Elimville 441 - Winners at Monday's Achievement Night were: back row; Elizabeth Kerslake (left), John
Miners, Trevor Skiriner, Ryan Felton and leader Nancy Smith. Front row; Elaine Jacques (left), Tracy Tay-
lor, Marcy Swance, and Starr Hovius.
Laurel Campbell, director of pub-
lic relations for the Ontario Federa-
tion
ederation of Agriculture, is quite correct
in her suggestion that farmers and
farm organizations should make
more use of weekly newspapers.
Campbell told the third annual
meeting of the Ontario Farm Wom-
en's Network that community
newspapers are so short of cash,
staff and time that the leaders of
farm organization who do a good
job of preparing reports can get
them in local papers.
She ought to know. She was edi-
tor of a weekly farm publication in
my old home town of Lindsay,
Ont., in the heart of Ops Township
in Victoria County. Ops was the
goddess of the harvest, wasn't she?
Wife of Saturn in Roman mytholo-
BYI was a reporter, an editor and the
owner of a weekly newsaper in my
younger days and I agree whole-
heartedly with laurel about weekly
papers. They are happy to get mate-
rial from farmers.
Unfortunately, much of what
comes to community papers is bad-
ly written It comes in the form of
minutes of a meeting rather than as
an interesting, well-written news
item. And because weekly newspa-
pers are short of staff, too much of
what they get is filed in the round,
green bucket underneath the editor's
desk. If the OFA wants to do some-
thing great for farmers, they should
sponsor a one or two-day seminar
or workshop on how to write good
news stories.
They might teach fanners the. way
to write a good news story and get
even more of them printed.
They may even get printed in the
odd daily newspaper, too, an area
where farm news is usually missing
unless it is a story detrimental to
farmer.
Getting farm news in a weekly
paper is like preaching to the con-
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verted. Most community newspa-
pers cover rural areas like the dew.
It is the daily papers, especially the
big suburban dailies, that sorely ne-
glect agriculture. Often, when a
farm story does get into a daily pa-
per, it is written by some unin- ,
formed yahoo who doesn't know a
hereford from a holstein. Conse-
quently, if there is anything techni-
cal about the story, it gets garbled
to the point of misunderstanding
and`agnculture does not need mis-
understanding these days.
The big metropolitan daily paper
couldn't care Tess about agriculture.
They will find and follow a story
as long as they can play up the
sensational aspect, something that
may make somebody look bad, es-
pecially the farmer.
At one time, daily papers had
farm writers on their payroll.
Those writers were specialists with
either a background in agriculture
or with considerable farm knowl-
edge. Not so today. Many daily pa-
pers have neglected agriculture and
no longer have writers who know
or care about farming.
There are some notable excep-
tions, of course, such as in Kitch-
ener and Stratford. But Hamilton,
Windsor and London, for instance,
do not have farm writers per se --
writers who do nothing else but
write about agriculture -- on staff.
At one time, they all did and that
is why agriculture gets so little
prominence in so many daily
newspapers these days: The farm
writers get seconded to all kids of
other jobs on newspapers and can-
not specialize.
The fact that the faun population
is dwindling has considerable bear-
ing on these decisions. Sixty years
ago, farmers made up 32 percent of
the population. They now make up
3.7 percent.
Notice to Property Owners to
DESTROY WEEDS
Notice is hereby given to all persons In possession of land in ac-
cordance with the Weed Control Act, 1988, Section 3, 16 and
23, that unless noxious weeds growing on their lands within the
Municipal Lds of the Township of McGINtvray ere destroyed by
date of June 3, 1991, and throughout the season, the Munici-
palities may enter upon the said land and have the weeds de-
3troyed, charging the costs against the land In taxes, as set out
.in the Act.
The co-operation of all citizens le earnestly solicited.
Weed Inspector
Staley Scot,
Clett
McGilMay
All the more reasons why farm
ers must become much more vo-
cal, much more front and centre to
get themselves in the news.
They must blow their own horns
and not wait for the media to do it
for them.
COTPAM, ONTARIO • Funk
Seeds is announcing that again in
1991 they are offering a $1,000
Funk Seeds Scholarship Award to
441 members.
The company say they look for-
ward to receiving many applica-
tions from 4-1-1 members who meet
the following guidelines:
1. Entering the first year of any
Undergraduate Degree Program of
A. John Hughes, C.D.
Denture Therapist
Box 839
37 Green Acres,
Grand Bend, Ontario
(519) 238.5300
409 Baker St. (Rear)
London, Ontario
(519) 439-9386
the Ontario Agricultural College at
the University of Guelph.
2. An active member of a 4-H
Club in Ontario.
3. Has achieved a minimum aver-
age of 75 percent in their final aca-
demic year.
Applicants will be judged on
their leadership qualities, as dem-
onstrated by their participation in
4-H and community activities.
Ontario 4.0 Club Members way
obtain amlications from the alto
of their County or D. strict Agricul-
tural Representative. ApplicatigMs
are also available from Funk Seed*,
CIBA-Geigy Canada Ltd., RR 3,
Comm, Ontario, NOR 1130. (1-
800-265-1302).
To be considered, applications
must be received by September 14,
1991.
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