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Times -Advocate, January 14, 1998
Page 5 •
EBA looks into the future
It was a good year but next year
By Chantal! Van Rimy
T -A Reporter
EXETER - The Exeter Business
Association agreed a lot has been
accomplished in
terms of promoting
the town in the
past year.
"We're seen as
an aggressive, • on-
going, forward -
thinking town,"
said promotion committee chair
John Wuerth.
"We're just getting started here.
In terms of beautification we're
just scratching the surface," he
said, adding Exeter has had a great
influence on other areas across the
province.
"A lot of things we initiated are
"We're se
aggres
going,
thinkin
things being used across the prov-
ince. Wt hear positive things every
day in the stores."
Although optimism was great,
there is still concern Exeter needs to
continually improve to
keep up with its com-
petitors.
One issue that needs
to be addressed are
store hours, said ad-
ministration chair Kar-
en Pfaff.
"Statistics say you lose up to 50
per cent of business if stores close
at 5 p.m. on weekdays and close on -
Sundays," she said.
The EBA be-
lieves the town is
going to go
through a lot of
change in the next
decade and it
needs to cope with
what lies ahead.
Some changes
mentioned include
more convenient
en as an
sive, on-
forward -
g town."
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"I'Jn not sure if Exeter is ready
for this," he explained; referring to
the music festival.
While the Rodeo has potential
he's not sure if it will still be suc-
cessful in many years from now.
"We need to expand .and put
more into it or forget it," he said.
Bogart suggested holding next
year's Santa Claus Parade at night,
"like they do in Lucan, because it
creates a nice night scene."
Last year there were five events
the EBA promoted. Bogart sug-.
gested the EBA only deal with
three this year and try to get the
majority of businesses
involved in the activ-
ities.
"We might be trying to
spread ourselves too thin
with the money we
have," Bogart said.
Pfaff:said a Neighbor-
hood Watch program
might come to Exeter in
the near future called
COP (Citizens On Pa -
"Statistics say
you lose up to 50
per cent of busi-
ness if stores close
at 5 p.m. on week-
days and close on
Sundays."
store hours, more specialty stores or
bringing entertainment into the
town. .
Promotions chair Ron Bogart
gave a recap of the past year saying
overall, most events were success-
ful.
While events such as Christmas in
July. the open house in November
and the Santa Claus Parade are all
keepers, the music festival and the
rodeo need a lot of work or there is
no. use continuing them, Bogart
said.
trol).
COP has people from the com-
munity volunteer .their time by
driving around the town for a few
hours to to keep an eye- on the
town. The volunteers would he
grouped into two and would carry
with them a flashlight, a cell
phone, a log and binoculars, all of -
which arc to be donated.
"We need about 60 people to run
it well," she said, adding that 30
would be the minimum number.
Over $1,000 raised for Town and Country
Ellison Travel raised $1,203 for Town and Country Homemakers at their annual Christ-
mas party through a silent auction. Prizes included a trip for two to Las Vegas, a getaway
to Toronto, a dinner party and a croquet party. Pictured from left are Carolyn Gilfillan from
Ellison Travel, Ann Morris with Town and Country Homemakers and Norma Cockwill and
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Winnipeg -based Canadian
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needy people in poorer countries
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Kraemer estimates that the field of
soybeans in Southern Ontario will
yield $12,000, for a total of
$60,000, with government support.
Once it's converted to a commodity
that hungry people require such as
wheat, corn or rice, the food is
shipped to developing countries.
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such as the Mennonite Central
Committee handles the distribution.
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sized project such as Kraemer's
will feed approximately 2,600 peo-
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For a Canadian Foodgrains Bank
project to work, the whole commu-
nity has to pitch in: Farmers donate
their time and equipment, city folk
donate money and manual labor,
young people help pick rocks and
industry donates seed, fertilizer and
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"This is a grass roots movement
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Cyanamid donated enough
PURSUIT to control weeds on 800
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Foodgrains Bank. The herbicide
ensured that the yield from the crop
would not be reduced by competi-
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vesting the soybeans easier as
growers weren't slowed down by
weeds that can get caught up in the
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"We're happy to help in such a
worthy cause," says McDougall.
It's a worthy cause that is catch-
ing on. In 1993 there were 35 pro-
jects in Ontario. This past summer
there were 120 sites growing food
destined for developing countries.
That translates to as much as
$800,000 worth of food.
As well as benefiting the devel-
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benefit in -getting town dwellers out
on the farrtt. His country church,
Thamesview United near Fullerton,
partnered. with Main Street United
in Mitchell. a town .church. The
country church supplied the farmers,
and their expertise.- The town
church' supplied the money for eve-
rything that wasn't donated. -
"it's a real education fur the city
folk," says Kraemer who sass' a lot
of than come out on _harvest day.
"They get to seca lot of the differ-
ent machinery at work."
The Canadian Foodgrains Flank
helps farmers, urban people and
companies such as Cyanamid chan-
nel their talents for. a very worthy
cause - filling the hungry bellies
with food grown, in Ontario soil.
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