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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1983-08-31, Page 22i Page 22 August 31, 1983 Hard work brings sweet awards Picking cucumbers get kids out of pickle You can always tell a Vannestes had grown Bickle by its crunch, actor- cucumbers on contract. They ding to the ad men. How it got began picking July 24, and there is another story. Grow- were going to continue until ing cucumbers that will even- the grading station in Dublin tually end up in a Bicks pickle closed down just before jar is dirty, prickly work, Labour Day. hard on the back and the seat, "There's no way young peo- but well worth the effort. A ple could make that money day's picking can return hun- anywhere else", mother dreds of dollars. Simone Vanneste explained, Before the recent hail adding that summer jobs are storm destroyed their two- hard to find these days. acre cucumber patch and The capricious storm that shattered some dreams, the forced the Vannestes into ear- Vanneste family at RR 2 Kip- ly summer rete ',ment barely pen were counting on a return touched the Hoggarth of about $4,000 for their cucumbers three miles nor - labours. David 19, had his theast: Teenagers Greg, Paul share earmarked for tuition and Janet are growing the for his first year in the green vegetables for the se - agricultural business cond year, after hearing management course at Cen- about the lucrative venture tralia College, 15 -year-old from a friend. Diane's was for a trip to The three are taking about England, and young Darcy 12, a ton a day off their approx- was banking his for future imately one -and -one-half acre use. plot. This was the fourth year the "We're getting double what IT'S WORTH THE DRIVEI EI'" LER (ll1(� ill furniture 345-2250 Main St., Dublin OPEN ALL DAY WEDNESDAY FRIDAY NIGHT TILL 9 P.M. • Closed Mondays GecBack9oom 0 UNISEX HAIRSTYLINGS Is pleased to have GAIL O'BRIEN join our staff for back to school styling 423 Main St., Exeter Ont. 235-0451 we did last year. This year we got started earlier, and the cucumbers seem better" Greg said. The Hoggarths are picking more than their assigned quota this year, a happy change from their first at- tempt when they only reach- ed the half -way' mark. Nineteen -year-old Greg works full time at picking. His 18 -year-old brother and 16 -year-old sister have part- time jobs besides, Paul at a convenience store and Janet at a pharmacy. The two boys will use part of their money for incidental expenses in September when Greg begins his first year at the University of Waterloo, and Paul leaves for Mohawk College. Janet is heading to England to visit her grand- mother next year. Picking cucumbers is also a family project for the Jacobs at RR 1 Zurich, who have been growing potential pickles for eight years. John, Mary and their three children spend every other day going over their entire two -and -one-half acre cucumber plot west of Hillsgreen. Three ride the picker which inches along between the rows at about one-quarter mile per our, and the other two pick by hand. The children are paid a set rate per pound by their father, and 12 -year-old Hubert is sure he does better going along under his own motor power than he would on the picker. On a good row on a good day, he can fill his 30 -pound pail six times in an hour. (On a bad day, he ad- mits, be might need an hour to fill once.) The Jacobs take 3,000 pounds of cucumbers to Dublin each time. Though some growers go over half their acreage every day, the Jacobs prefer devoting a whole day to picking everything, then spending the next day doing something else. While Mary 'catches up on her housework, the children have a change in- stead of a rest hoeing weeds in an asparagus field near Grand Bend owned by John Elder. Right now everyone's money is going into the bank, but talk dills driver's licence next year and maybe his own car brings a glint to the eyes of 15 -year-old Peter. His mother is counting on a trip to Holland in the fall. Cathy, 15, and brother Hubert aren't sure what they will do with their shares, but John knows where his will go. Farm ex- penses, he said with a smile. For anyone interested in growing cucumbers, the first step is obtaining a contract from Norm and Clara Kramers at RR 4 Seaforth, Cans of seed are -supplied by the Kramers. Each $10 can will sow from one-half to one acre, and the cost of the seed comes off the fist cheque. Cucumbers require a warm planting soil, and some growers think they do best if sown at night to take ad - LAKESIDE SUMMER RESORT Sat., Sept. 3 music by The Beechwood Orchestra Sun., Sept. 4 Campers Dance Music by Labrinyth $1.00 per person 349.2710 Dancing on brand new Lakeside, Ont. hardwood floor CAMPING Moke your seasonal reservation now Monthly, weekly or daily comparable prices on beautiful clean Sunovo lake 7hanh YOU Als Esso wishes to thank all our patrons for their continuing support through the first five years of business in our Kirkton location. 11 and Shirley, Bonnie and Gerald Cooke HANDPICKED — Hubert Jacobs prefers supplying his own transportation. along the rows in his family's cucumber patch. vatage of the extra moisture of the dew. The seeds are planted in finely worked ground using a double-spaced corn planter to allow 60 inches between rows. A combination spray against blight and beetles is applied a week after the plants emerge, and again after every rain. The Kramers are available and willing to give novice y YI By Jock Riddell MPP In the wake of the accident in Pickering's Number One reactor, which spewed 900 litres of heavy water a minute into a containment room, Liberal Leader David Peter- son has called for the reconstitution of the Select Committee on Hydro Affairs, citing the following circumstances. On August 1st, radioactive water poured from a gaping hole in a ruptured pressure tube at Pickering, on the fringe of Canada's most populous area, 'and subse- quent incidents eventually shut down three of the sta- tion's five reactors. alerting us to technical difficulties, and the costly - potentia,iy frightful - consequences of 'Hydro's growing dependence on nuclear power. The "loss of coolant" ( similar to the U.S. Three Mile Island inci- dent) was the first within a CANDU reactor. Hydro of- ficials had assured us that the zirconium alloy tubes would always leak before rupturing, permitting repairs to avoid a major accident. This rupture overshadowed two other significant Picker- ing accidents: a heat ex- changer malfunction sending 6.8 litres of tritium -laden water into Lake Ontario, and an operator error, causing Hours:• Mon.- Sat. 10 - 5:30 Sun. 12 - 5:30 Men's and Ladies - all sixes (Sweaters not exactly as illustrated) FUTURE PICKLES — Darcy Vanneste (left) sister Diane and brother David bog some of the cucumbers they have picked. A hailstorm destroyed their cucumber patch the day after this picture was taken. :7- /roan Fresh oar (Well �O 41014 French Bread 1o0f69 4 Bran or Blueberry Muffins 6/1.09 Cheeses fresh off the block Mild or spired Dutch Gouda 16.2.99 Maple Leof processed Cheese slices Ib. 2.69 • In OW dell( I(tu' (Irtnut' over 40 kinds fresh d,r(!k _ /ri.ttic/- 11i4 U_�afrerl� C% nn./ / ifee.te - �7ottJe 443 Main St., Exeter 235-0332 PICKERS IN A PICK-UP — Janet, Poul and Greg Hoggarth load their truck with bags of cucumbers to be delivered to the grading station in Dublin. growers any needed advice. L -Ider the contract, the grower promises to deliver the cucumbers to the grading station in Dublin the same day as they are picked. The vegetables are rated accor- ding to size and condition. Grade ones, up to one inch in diameter, pay $452 per ton, up to one -and -one-quarter inch $325.25, up to one -and -five- eighths $186.65, two inch are worth $78.95 per ton, over two inch $50.20, and nubs and crooks, if suitable, are also classed as grade fives. Growers keep the cucumbers ,:oming until the end of August, when the grading station closes for another year. The season may be short, but it is sweet. c9ach a jgollingi Hydro, nuclear power automatic shutdown. We are assured that radioactive discharge can be safely contained, but only a full explanation of the acci- dent will reveal the implica- tions of the rupture for the safety of the CANDU design. The extent of Hydro's nuclear commitment must be scrutinized. For example, this series of accidents will cost Hydro customers at least $15 milion for replacement fuels: repair and down -the -line expenses could run the figure beyond $1 billion. Pickering is a recent troublespot. Accidents elsewhere have caused shut- downs and costly repairs: Bruce 2 shut down twice in 1982 - over $7.5 million was spent on replacement energy provision along during the 75 day period; Bruce 4 was shut down in March '83 for repairs to leaky pressure tubes and the primary heat transfer pump; a hydrogen leak shut down Bruce 1 for 19 days in April '33; earlier this year, Pickering 1 and 3 were shut down for planned repairs. Down times mean millions of dollars in extra costs, and the serious unexpected rupture raises the spectre of system- wide shutdowns and repairs, costing billions of dollars. There are no older full- scale commercial heavy water reactors on which to judge the future performance of Hydro's CANDU reactors. The oldest are the four at Pickering A - only 12 years old. Hydro arbitrarily ex- panded their projected lifetimes from 30 to 40 years for borrowing purposes, but no one knows when the reac- tors might become embrittl- ed or wear out. Hydro travels unchartered waters in the hope that On- tario's energy future does not run aground. Moreover. it would be folly to view the Pickering shutdown from the narrow perspective of costs. Planners within Hydro have embraced nuclear power as a child does a new toy, arbitrarily picking nuclear power as the force of the future, placing all its eggs in the nuclear basket. llydro's Chairman has forecast that 66 percent of our electrical energy will be from nuclear generation by 1990. Fossil fuel thermal plants are placed in mothballs as nuclear con- struction continues apace. Nuclear energy surpassed water power and coal as the largest power generator in Ontario in 1981. Non-nuclear installations worth billions of dollars have been - or will be - mothballed. Some ex- amples: the Lennox oil -fired station near Kingston, which cost $489 million to build, mothballed in 1980 and 1982: the Weslevville oil -fired sta- tion cancelled midway through contruction, at an ultimate cost of $460 million; two 300 -megawatt coal-fired units at Lakeview to be mothballed April 1,1984; six R.L. Hearn coal-fired units shut down, with remaining two operating part-time until closure in 1985: Windsor's coal-fired J. Clark Keith Sta- tion to be mothballed by year end, after receiving $23 minion in renovations; Atikokan and Thunder Bay coal-fired units tentatively scheduled for mothballing. Mothballing Lennox will prove terribly expensive. $60. million has already been paid not to take delivery of unneed- ed heavy oil, and Hydro is locked into a 15 -year contract with Petrosar, to buy 7.3 million barrels of oil annual- ly, at a cost likely to exceed $900 million. Add to this, costly miscalculations which have ominously deepened Hydro's nuclear financial commit- ment: a 40 -year contract to pay twice the world price for uranium, at an additional ex- pense of $1.5 Killion; $69 million spent on Bruce's heavy water plant C before it was discovered to be uncessary; $396 million spent on heavy water plant D before construction . was halted: mothballing costs run to $15 million, and an over -supply of heavy water will lead to the mothballing of one of Hydro's two remaining plants. Mothballing, implying that plants can be used in the future, may be a misnomer, since federal studies show deterioration can prevent heavy water plants from be- ing recommissioned. THE HURON CENTRE FOR CHILDREN & YOUTH is plefssed to invite you to hear Dr. Edward M. Waring PSYCHIATRIST AT VICTORIA HOSPITAL LONDON, ONTARIO spooking on MARITAL INTIMACY FAMILY FUNCTIONING At the Annual Meeting of the Centra WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 7, 1983 7:30 p.m., at th• Huron Contra 140 Huron Strout, Clinton, Ontario The Huron Centre for Children & Youth hes provided counselling service for hundreds of families since Its in- corporation es a Children's Mental Health Centre In 1tt77. The Centro Is governed by bard of Directors elected et the Annual Meeting of the Corporation. A special TJhanh to all who supported the Crediton Summerfest A & H Foodmart Andy's Variety Beechwood Bowers Cleaning Service C.F.P.L. TV, Jim Swan C.J.B.K, Crediton Lions Club Crediton Show Pitch Team Crediton United Church Soul Survivors Crediton Village Trustees Club Albatross Country Flowers Evelyn Pickering Fairmount Amusements Glanville Auto Wreckers Heywood's Country Restaurant I.G.A. Huron Park A & K Service Centre Ban -Weld Saw & Blade BX 93 Vic Folliott Centralia Agricultural School Crediton Firemen's Assoc. Crediton & District Social Club Crediton Parks Board Crediton United Church Crediton United Church Women Crediton Women's Institute Consolidated Sign Doreen Browning Earl Lippert Trucking General Truck and Trailer Hayter's Turkey Farm Harvey Rotz Hensall Hotel Judges Ken and Louise Hayter Lightfoot Farms Marnick Upholstery McCann Redi Mix Miller's Auto Parts Postmaster, John Stewart Roeszler Trucking Signs by Mel Stanhome Products (Irene Finkbeiner) Stephen Printing Stephen Township Town Line Collison Volunteers and bake & craft sale donators Zehrs Jack Riddell Grant Sterling Huron Middlesex Cadet Corps Parade Participants Linda Finkbeiner MacDonald Sanitation McStephen Auto Wreckers Molson Canadian Quality Produce Russell Fuels Ltd. Sloght Plumbing & Heating Stephen Central School Susan's Greenhouse & Nursery Tuckey Beverages Murray Cardiff Alan Wolper Stephen Community Centre and anyone who helped in anyway. Thank you again. Credlton Summerfest Committee Hi, VINCENTS are your new Steiger dealer. Come in and find out what Steiger Four -Wheel Pride can do for your farm. From 225 to 470 horsepower, Caterpil- lar or Cummins engines, auto- matic transmission or. standard, Steiger has It all. And you can have it all, too, so let's get acquainted. Talk to KEN, JERRY, PETER or MARLEN NOW. Watch for our upcoming STE/C£!p LATER IN SEPTEMBER