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#3 Granton 411
GRANTON - The Granton Green-
ery 4H club gathered at Jean and Su-
san Bryan's house but Monday and
with their leader Margaret Bryan
took a trip to Armitage's Green-
house at Ballymote. Here they saw
Aloe plants, geraniums and more
and were shown some very small
seeds.
After the tour, the vice president
Angela Dayman and president Tra-
cy Reeves presented the lady with a
Friend of 4H certificate and each of
the girls could choose a plant to
take home.
01 Granton 411
The second and third meetings of
the #1 Granton 411 club were held
on Thursday, April 23 and April 30
at the home of leader Deanna Beat -
son and were opened with the 4H
pledge.
The roll call for the second meet-
ing required each member to show
her fa ric and pattern and identify
the fibre content and care instruc-
Winners of the ninth annual Lions fishing derby received their awards Saturday. afternoon.
From left are category B winner Chris Murch, Lion Bob Dinney, youngest fisherman who caught
a trout Tyler Pfaff, Mike Sicilia who caught the largest fish, and Angelo Sicilia who won catego-
ry A. There were about 150 anglers registered for the derby.
On the clock at Saturday's Lions Fishing Derby were these five who .seemed
more fun going after the "shiners" than the big trout. From left are John Gregus,
ny, Michael Beaver, Leslie Vincent, and an unidentified angler.
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"Those stupid fanners between
Stratford and Tavistock," said a
pot-bellied toper at the next table.
"They have protested to the point
where we have lost a beautiful
trail."
He continued to berate the land
owners abutting the abandoned rail
line in question.
It all began when CN put a price
tag of 57,500 on the land. Several
groups were interested in buying it
such as hikers and environmental-
ists. A service club offered to
create and maintain a multi -use rec-
reational trail if the county of Penh
bought the land.
However, land owners along the
route .had other plans and most of
them acne -farmers. They wanted to
'boy -the land and add it to their
holdings.
'I'he:drinker in the bar was not a
farmer. I was about to open my
mouth when a -tip sitting right be-
side the complainer got into the dis-
cussion.
Itsaunded like a good idea, origi-
ritilly, aataake a nature trail out of
the land but, he said, he was a farm-
er. and he certainly sympathized
with them.
"I live beside a conservation
area," he said, " and I know what
the public can do. I spend a couple
of hours every week during the
summer months picking up beer
cans, pop cans, bottles and all kinds
of trash from my land. This is the
junk that gets thrown across the
fence. I would hate to see what's
left on the other side. Those park
rangers must have a helluva job
cleaningup after those campers."
That is exactly what the farmers
along the route feared. Not only
that, they also feared that farm
gates would be opened and left
open, that fences would be knocked
down which would allow farm ani-
mals to roam along the trail.
Although the entire concept has
been settled amicably, some rancor
obviously exists within some peo-
plc. I happen to believe that the
farmers wereright. I have sten too
many farm fences broken and even
a few farm animals shot by stupid
city folks who thoughtlessly roam
agricultural lands.
Regular readers of this deathless
prose are aware that I raised and
trained western horses at one time
in our little bit of land in the coun-
try. We once sold a beautiful buck-
skin marc to a young lady who
loved horses. She boarded the horse
near her home city.
About two months after the sale,
we got a tearful telephone call from
her. Some yahoo from town had left
a gate open and three horses, includ-
ing hers, wandered onto the railway
right-of-way.
The horses lost the argument with
the train.
I think the service club and other
other interested groups backed right
off trail development when they
found the farmers were not im-
pressed with the idea. They simply
did not want a farm -urban confron-
tation to develop.
Seems to me everyone concerned
acted with dignity and consideration
even though some of the trail -
hungry advocates were disappoint-
ed.
Too bad so many other such con-
frontations couldn't be settled the
same way.
1 Next, possible club nares 'Were
discussed and the unanim s choice
was "The So N Sews". Grey was
the colour chosen for the book cov-
ers. Then the members quicldy
lined in the required blanks in their
books and began working on their
sewing projects.
By the end of the meeting, every-
one had finished pinning their pat-
tern pieces to the fabric and some
had their fabric cut out.
Roth meetings were closed with
the 4H motto and Charlotte and An-
gela Mcllhargey provided a snack
after the third meeting.
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