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10 Years kin
September 7, 1983 - Provin-
cial secretary for Justice Gord
Walker announced this week
that the 21 year-old Bluewater
Centre for developmentally
handicapped, south of Goderich
will be converted into a new fa-
cility for young offenders.
Olive Andrew of Exeter cele-
brates her 100th birthday on
September 2 and is one of the
most cheerful and cheering resi-
dents at the Bluewater Rest
Home.
Huron county council opposes
a resolution from the city of To-
ronto calling for extension of
Daylight Savings Time from the
first Sunday in March to the
first Sunday in November.
In announcing Ontario's long-
awaited Beginning Farmer As-
sistance Program, Ag Minister
Dennis Timbrell said it will help
bring as many as 1,000 new
people into fanning each year.
September 12, l Pierre, a
1,085 pound steer bred and
raised by Whitney Coates and
Son, R.R. 1, Centralia was the
grand champion market steer
over all breeds at the Canadian
National.Exhibition and sold for
$2 a pound to Dominion Stores.
Ontario Development Corpo-
ration will provide a 5250,000
forgivable loan to Dashwood In-
dustries Limited in support of
their construction of a 200;000
square foot addition to its Cen-
tralia plant.
Salary negotiations at South
Huron District High School
have been completed and ac-
cepted. There will be a 5100 in-
crease at maximum levels of all
categories. Teacher salaries
range from $6,400 to $12,500.
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September 9. 1943 - At Exet-
er council, complaints were
again received regarding the
starling nuisance at the south
end of the village.
Canadian Canners have taken
over the cuanip waxing plant of
Seth''Ktiaer. and :are . getting it
ready for the -season. Winer will
remain as manager.
Newly elected Exeter Lions
president S.B. Taylor reports
that 1,975 pounds of potatoes
with a gross value of $60.86
have been harvested from one
Victory Gardens plot and over
10 tons of waxed beans valued
at 5500 on theVan Camp prop-
erty. The club still -has about
four acres of sugar beets to gar-
ner let.
A total of 10.516 ration
books was issued last week with
2,838 in Exeter.
Ground has been broken by
the Exeter branch of Canadian
Canners for the erection of a
new dehydration plant for the
processing of fruits and vegeta-
bles.
Ago
September 8, 1893 - Mr. F.
Kibler is building a new addi-
tion to his shoe shop in Zitich.
Two young men from Hay
township were fined 57.50 each
for shooting ducks beore the
proper hour had arrived.
At the Exeter markets, wheat
was 58 cents a bushel, eggs
were 18 cents a dozen and pota-
toes sold for 45 cents a bushel.
Times -Advocate, September 8,1993
Kenpal thrives with grassroots approach
By Catherine O'Brien
T -A staff
CENTRALIA - Simply stated,
Kenpal Industries produce farm
products that are like one -a -day vi-
tamins for livestock.
But the business side of produc-
ing this mix isn't so simple. It's a
competitive industry with a limited
number of customers and some
pretty big companies vying for
their business.
Kenpal Industries is a success
story of a small Canadian indepen-
dent company making its way
based on hard work, determination
and employee knowledge.
When Ken Palen began his feed
mix company 10 years ago there
were only three people on staff and
a few commissioned sales people
who worked hard to see his dream
come true.
He wanted to produce a product
that would benefit the animal first,
then the consumer and in doing so
hopefully make himself a bit of a
profit.
Today the business employs 25
people, including two nutritionists,
and serves eight percent of dairy
producers and 10 percent of swine
producers in Southwestern Ontario.
That's big business for an inde-
pendent in the market place, Palen
explained. "We're not a giant player
compared to the larger companies,
but were feeding a lot of livestock.
"We have a good group of people
working with the customers," he
said. "They keep in regular contact
with producers to see how things
are going for them.
"That's the grass mots approach
and it's tough for the bigger compa-
nies to maintain such personal con-
tact with their clients."
Palen started in the business in
1976. Before long he was working
on his own vitamin mix for herds.
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Above, production
workers Eugene
Glanville, front,
and Paul Masse
fill bags with
vitamin:znineral
premiktrtitheY
Centralia plant.
At left, Ken Palen
displays some of
the products man-
ufactured at his
11,000 sq. ft.
warehouse.
1994 rent control guidelines now set
TORONTO - The rent control
guideline for 1994 will be 3.2 per-
cent,.ibe lowest guideline in the
history-' rent regulation in Onta-
rio.
The guideline is the amount by
which a landlord can increase the
rent once each year without making
an application under the Rent Con-
trol Act. Most tenants in Ontario re-
ceive a rent increase each year at er
below the guideline.
The 32 percent guideline for
1994 is a reduction from the 4.9
percent guideline for 1993, and is
the lowest guideline since rent reg-
ulation began in 1975. Previously,
the lowest guideline was 4.0 per-
cent in 1986.
Under the Rent Control Act, the
guideline is calculated each year
using a formula which includes a
component to cover the cost of in-
flation in operating a rental build-
ing, and a constant component of 2
percent to cover the cost of capital
repairs to the building.
In calculating the 1994 guideline,
the inflation component is 1.2 per-
cent and the repairs component is 2
percent.
The Rent Control Act allows a
landlord to apply for up to an addi-
tional 3 percent rent increase to
cover the cost of necessary major
repairs or veryhigh increases in
property taxes or utilities. The land-
lord must justify the costs at a rent
control hearing.
The 3.2 percent guideline takes
effect kir rent increases which oc-
cur between January 1, 1994 and
December 31, 1994.
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In 1983, he decided to buy the
present day Centralia location,
which is the head office, as well as
some equipment and start manufac-
turing his own feed mix under the
name Kenpal.
He started the business during the
first major recession and has weath-
ered it and Canada's present eco-
nomic slump quite well.
"That's one advantage of being a
small business," he said. "We have
the flexibility to adapt to new situa-
tions quite easily and with relative-
ly little additional cost."
Kenpal can also boast a Triple A
rating with Agriculture Canada for
quality control. The company has
held this rating since it was intro-
duced two years ago.
Within the next year Palen said
there will be even tougher quality
standards to meet. "Although these
programs are costly for us to put in
place, it chat' ;es us to work
smarter."
Palen has a number of philoso-
phies to sum up his success.
He sees commitment to goals
quite important. "You have to stay
focused on what you want and
eventually you will get there."
Employee teamwork and under-
standing of the product is also im-
portant. "Everybody here under-
stands the business and understand
the need to satisfy the customer,"
he said. "They work hard and have
sound knowledge of the products."
Surviving in the '90s, Palen said,
means networking with other inde-
pendent companies in both Canada
and the United States. His company
has been working with a research
firm in Ohio since the early '80s.
"That's the only way to keep cur-
rent with technology and research."
Products in the future will be re-
search driven, he said. "It's not like
10 years ago when the farm was the
seeing for research.
"Our strength in the future will be
having a well -researched product
before it goes to the farm for distri-
bution."
Over the next five years, Palen
sees many challenges in the indus-
try as the market shrinks. He said
there will be fewer farmers in the
industry, but those who stay will
have a larger herds.
The challenge is to have those
few farmers as clients.
"People with the right philoso-
phies, employees and concepts are
the people that will grow and sur-
vive," he said.
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