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"Concerned at the loss of
retail sales activity to dis-
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a group of business people,
whose expertise lies in farm
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have decided to fight the
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Farm Fleet Incorporated, a
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with an established network
of dealers is located in prime
agricultural areas throughout
Ontario.
Farm Fleet's strategy is to
provide its associate dealers
with quality products at com-
petitive prices. This will allow
a farmer customer to go to a
local dealer, a person who
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youth readers
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By United Church
Times -Advocate, May 30, 1984 Pogo S
Strong stand against ordination of gays
The London Conference of
the United Church of Canada
took a strong stand Saturday
against the ordination of gays
and lesbians who want to
come out of the closet.
About 77 percent of clergy
and lay delegates attending
an annual meeting in St.
Thomas voted to reject a na-
tional church committee
report which recommends
that ordination should be
opened to self -declared
homosexuals as early as next
year.
The proposal by the na-
tional division of ministry,
education and personnel was
defeated after backroom lob-
bying and procedural wrangl-
ing had killed an earlier vote
which had taken a softer
position.
About 263 persons rejected
the division's recommenda-
tions and 79 supported them
just a few hours after the con-
ference had decided to en-
dorse the report for further
study in congregations and
courts of the church.
The reversal drove a few in-
dividuals to tears and had
others breathing a sigh of
relief.
"It was an alliance of like-
minded people and the work
of the Holy Spirit," said Rev.
Kenn Lowe of how the even-
tual outcome came to be.
"This is a clear indication
that the United Church in
Southwestern Ontario is
faithful to its heritage, tradi-
tions and scripture."
Lowe, whose 305 -member
Kent County postoral charge
has served notice it will leave
the United Church if
homosexuals are ordained
openly, said he is now more
hopeful about what will hap-
pen in August when the
church's general council
makes the final decision at
the national level.
_ "A lot will depend on
whether those chosen as
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simply called Gerry Smith
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of tunes that have been stan-
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such as Beaux of Oak Hill,
Ragtime Annie, Mittons
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Gerry and Linda tour the
fiddle and stepdance circuit in
Ontario each summer while
Wayne plays in the popular,
dance band of Jim Medd and
Mainstay. These three are
frequent back up musicians
for Ed Gyurhi of Woodstock
the seven time Canadian Fid-
dle Champion.
The contest circuit starts
June 15 and 16 with Hensall
and the family will be doing
the the Canadian Square
Dance and Stepdance cham-
pionships. in Dundalk for the
fifth straight year.
Linda, on June 22 and 23 in
addition to playing piano for
her dad is kept busy accom=
panying other fiddlers at the
.contests and last year at
Shelburne was the pianist for
Chuck Joyce when he wonthe
Canadian Fiddle Champion-
ship which was heard coast to
coast on the C.B.C.
She also plays the fiddle
and recently won a contest in
Burford in the 18 and under
class.
The Smith family have
been hired to perform in such
places as Fergus, Dundalk,
Drayton, Stratford, Watford,
Mitchell, and are going to
contests in Alberta, B.C. and
Manitoba in July.
Gerry says that one of the
highlights of his career was
being flown to Moncton, New
Brunswick in 1980 along with
seven other musicians and
dancers to perform at the Air
Canada Silver Broom Curling
Championships and the other
was winning the Novelty
Canadian Fiddle Champion-
ship at Shelburne in 1973.
On the latest album Gerry
plays fiddle while Wayne
plays bass and drums and
Linda does the piano
accompaniment.
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general council represen-
tatives are a true reflection of
the they represent," he
sal .
Meanwhile in Toronto, the
United Church of Canada's
largest conference says the
church needs more time
before it can decide the ques-
tion of ordaining
homosexuals.
In a show of hapds Satur-
day, the majority of delegates
at the church's Toronto Con-
ference agreed general coun-
cil, the church's highest body,
should be asked to defer a
decision until 1986 on ordina-
tion for homosexuals.
Delegates said assistance
should be given to local con-
gregations to further study
the report.
While voting to defer a deci-
sion on the report, delegates
also, in secret ballot, narrow-
ly defeated. a motion calling
on general council to rule sex-
ual orientation should not be
a criterion m determining
whether a persbn should be
ordained.
But delegates voted not to
send this motion to general
council, apparently to add
weight to the first motion.
London Conference will
send 19 ministers and 19
laymen to general council
along with its decision against
homosexual ordination and a
number of petitions from
presbyteries and congrega-
tions which also oppose the
radical idea.
Rev. Norman Gibson of
Stratford, who takes over to-
day as conference president,
said London's general council
commissioners will caucus
before leaving for the national
meeting in Morden, Man.
"We'll be discussing the
major agenda items, in-
cluding the question of
whether homosexuals should
be ordained," he said. "We
will be voting according to in -
SMITH FAMILY ALBUM — The Gerry Smith family in-
cluding son Wayne and daughter Linda have released
a second fiddle album.
dividual conscience, but I
would say that those people
who have been chosen to
represent conference are an
accurate reflection of the
position we have taken."
Rev. Carmen Holbrough of
Ingersoll, who finished his
year as conference president
on the weekend, had some
delegates bewildered Satur-
day when he ruled the softer
position out of order and
reopened the matter for a
stronger decision in the
evening.
"Some people were confus-
ed," said Rev. Peter Scott of
Woodstock in an interview.
"Many people thought con-
ference had expressed its will
in the morning vote."
Holbrough, who admitted
"a lot of people" had ap-
proached him with advice
after the first ballot, said the
later vote was a better indica-
tion of the mood of .the con-
ference as recorded in a non-
binding poll of delegates Fri-
day. About 75 percent of
respondents to that poll re-
jected the recommendations
in the 27 -page national report,
called Sexual Orientation and
Eligibility for the Order of
Ministry.
The London Conference
covers the counties of Oxford,
Elgin, Middlesex, Kent,
Lambton, Essex, Huron -
Perth and Algoma.
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31st
ANNUAL
MEETING
p.m. on • 6
June 11; 1984
In the board room at South Huron Hospital
Rev. Roger . McCombe
Chairman, Board of Directors -
Alexandra Hospital, Ingersoll, Ontario
Topics "Dumbness, Dints & Donkeys"
Matters to be brought before mgmbership
I
receive the auditor's report
» receive the nominating committee and other pertinent reports.
- amend hospital's Administrative and Medical Staff Bylaws.
Everyone Welcome - Refreshments served
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