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Home My WebLink AboutTimes Advocate, 1984-07-11, Page 14• Pape 14 Times -Advocate, July 11, 1984 Scholarship offer repeated by Funks Funk Seeds, a division of Ciba-Geigy Canada Ltd., AiIsa Craig, is again offering a $500 scholarship award to Ontario 4-H club members. The firm will accept ap- plications from 4-H members who ..meet the following guidelines: 1. Is entering the first year �111uuuuuunouuuuuuonuunUa� ADAMS Heating 1 Cooling ie 23. • Heating Systems i • of all types E INSTALLED, MODERN(ZED and MAINTAINED - • General Shoat Metal Work • Air Conditioning • Humidifiers 235-2187 133 Huron St. East, Exeter mnnnnuunnuununnnnnuunulr • Ventilation of the Agricultural Degree Program at the University of Guelph, 2. Is a member of an On- tario 4-J1 club, 3. Has achieved a minimum of 66 percent in Grade 13 studies. Applicants will be judged on their leadership qualities, as demonstrated by their par- ticipation in 4-H, Junior Farmer and community activities. 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CONSERVATION EXPERTS — Taking a break during o busy Conservation Day held at the Exeter -area Bert Visscher form are (left) Ray Hogan, v/chairman of Huron soil and water conservation district, chairman Bruce Shillinglaw, past president Don Lobb, Robert Trout, Conservation Agronomist, Bryan Howard, general manager of the Maitland Volley Conservation Authority, Norman Alexander, founder of the Foodlond Stewardship Cen- tre and Tom Prout, manager of the Ausable-Bayfield Conservation Authority. 'ane foot in the furrow' byJ Loners art appqueied by Bob Trolte, Eld,le Rd Elm.,, On, N30 2C 7 Do not the unbelievers see that the skies and the earth were born a solid mass, and that we clave them asunder, and that by means of water we give life to everything? - The Koran Water: it give life to everything. Canadians are fortunate to have plenty of water. Thousands of un -named lakes glisten in the northern On- tario sunlight alone. A flight over the Great Lakes would be enough' to convince the most pessimistic person that Canada does not have to worry about water. Those lakes hold almost one-fifth of the world's fresh water. Canada is fortunate. But acid rain may be killing wildlife. Even the massive amount of water in the Great Lakes is becoming polluted. Canada's water problems look insignificant when com- pared with those semi -arid central and southwestern states across the 49th parallel. Premier Bill Davis took a strong stand a couple of weeks ago at the conference on water with representatives from the U.S. The Yanks have grandiose plans to divert more water from the Great Lakes The proposals regarding diversion of Water include a $26 billion plan to pipe 62,000 gallons a second --yup, that's right: per second -- from. the Great Lakes into the Missouri River. Clare Westcott, executive Middlesex 4-H youth on exchange Fifteen Middlesex 4-11 members have been selected to participate in an Open House Canada exchange with 4-11 members from Vulcan County in Southern Alberta. Each Middlesex delegate is twinned with a specific member of the Alberta group. During the exchange, each participant is hosted by his or her twin's family. The Ontario group travels to Alberta July 10 to July 19. In return, the Albertans will be hosted here from July 24 to August 2. Participating in this ex- change from the north part of Middlesex County are: Vivian Ladell, RR 2 Ilderton; Daryl Bycraft, RR 3 Denfield; Ruth Campbell. RR 1 Ilderton; Helen Marshall, RR 4 Den- field; Lisa Ladell, RR 1 Ilder- ton; Sharon Twynstra, RR 1 Ailsa Craig and Isabel Haklander, RR 3 Denfield. Bill Zwambag, RR 4 Glen- coe, president of the Mid- dlesex 4-11 Club leaders' Association, will accompany the Middlesex group ‘N a.OY A COur•ey TNA.$ eeeN IM •u$,NEle Ovt• 17 •IAlle NEED A BARN CLEANER REPLACEMENT CHAIN ? CHECK BADGER'S PRICE AGAINST THE LESSER QUALITY BRANDS 0. 4`+ 99.4% f'•%ea apC l�Q11 4r TIME ONLY TOP OF THE LINE DURA JORCIP CHAIN WITH HEAT TREATED STIEL FORGINGS. LARGE DIAMETER PINS. 1 1 A' AIDE BARS, AND REPLACEABLE PADDLES AND WEAR HEELS. edger Avon Bank Farm Equip. Ltd. RR 3, Granton Ontario 519 225--22,50.7 \\. CONTACT YOUR SADDER DIALIR NOW. FLAT 4 director of the Ontario premier's office and a man who loves the water and boats, has already warned that the United States will be leaning heavily on Canada to sell water before the turn of the century. Underground water sources are drying up in the U.S. mid -west. At the same time, water consumption increases con- stantly. Taking water out of the lakes through pipelines already in use is major issue. This consumption of water could lower some of the levels in the Great Lakes by as much as a foot within 40 years. Think of the problems that could cause, in par- ticular, the economic pro- blems. Lake boats are grounded. That hits a lot of pocketbooks. Canada's water resources are still the envy of the world, mind you. But there are limits. It seems to me that Canada's much -maligned na- tional energy policy, although important, should take second place to a national water policy. Use of oil has been reduced. Why not a water conservation policy? We have so many lakes within the boundaries of this nation, we haven't even counted them. This earth has an estimated 1.3 billion cubic kilometres of water but only about 2.5 percent of that astronomical amount is fresh. And most of that freshwater is tied up in glaciers,polar icecaps or is underground. In a series of stories in January written by Michael Keating in the Globe and Mail, statistics revealed that only about one one - hundredths of one percent of the fresh water in the world is available to sustain life. That is an astounding figure. And the Great Lakes contain about 18 percent of that one one -hundredths percent of one percent. Yet, we blithely go on polluting that source of water and will be fighting our mighty neighbor to the south on water diversions and water rights in a few years - A stupid scenario? Canada has less than one percent of the world's popula- tion but about 18 percent of the fresh water on the planet's surface. Frightening thought, what? We could end up being the world leaders by default simply because we live in a land blessed by God with plenty of fresh water. Even though it is polluted. 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