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BOWLING CHAMPS — Winners in the inter -town mens' bowling tournament, held at the Town and Country lanes, Sunday,
are: (from left) 'Roger Bennewier, second high five; Ken Johnson, third; Kevin Rumig, fourth; Bob Atkinson, tournament
winner; Art Burt, second; and Sid Simping, first high five. The 28 bowlers involved won about $654 in cash and prizes.
Pullen to speak at
Zurich F of A meet
The Huron County
Federation of Agriculture's
monthly meeting will be held
Thursday May 7, at 8:30 p.m.
at St. Boniface School,
Zurich.
Speaker for the evening is
Don Pullen, Huron County
Agricultural Representative
for OMAF. In the fall of 1980
he toured for one week each
in France, Holland and
Scotland visiting many
different farming com-
munities, including grape
harvesting areas in France.
He will show slides of his trip
and talk about farming in
those areas.
He was also one of two
Canadian delegates to the
Organization for Economic
Co-operation and
Development Conference
(OECE) which is held every
three years. In 1980 when he
attended while in Europe it
was held in Brussels.
The theme for the year
was "Agricultural advisory
services for the '80's and the
Years to Come in the light of
Changing Economic Con-
ditions." The OECE is a well
known organization
throughout Europe but isn't
very widely heard of in
Canada.
FIRST WITH LOCAL NEWS
LEAGUE CHAMPS — In the South Huron Hockey League
were the Zurich Buckeyes. John Graham (left) accepts the
trophy from Louis Mitchell at the league banquet, Friday.
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Riddell back as Agriculture critic
The re -appointment of
Jack Riddell as Agriculture
Critic for .the Ontario
Liberal Caucus was an-
nounced at Queen's Park
last week by Opposition
Liberal , Leader Stuart
Smith. Riddell was recently
elected to a . fourth • con-
secutive term as MPP for
the riding of Huron -
Middlesex.
In making the appoint-..
ment Smith called Riddell,
"one of the most effective
mere3bers 41 oig_Citicus, and
a stinging debater in the
Legislature. He's also one of
the most knowledgeable peo-
ple in Ontario in the field of
agriculture and food."
A farmer by trade, Riddell
has served as. the Liberal's
Agriculture spokesman
since 1977. Partly through
his hard work and pressure,
Students to be hired as
board plans for summer
Summer school will be
held again at St. Patrick's
School in Dublin this
summer according to a report
from the ministry of educa-
tion which has approved the
request for the school by the
Huron -Perth County
Catholic school board.
An Experience '81 project,
the continuation of the
summer school will allow
for the hiring of up to six
students who attend secon-
dary - school or university.
These six will act as teacher
assistants at the school
where there will be a prin-
cipal and three full time
teachers for each of the two
three-week sessions. One of
the sessions will be for
students from Huron County
and the other for those from
Perth County.
Another Experience '81
project was also approved
by the ministry. This one
will provide a
media/resource program
that will occur in the five
Stratford schools -- St.
Michael's, St. Joseph's, St.
, Ambrose, Immaculate
Conception and St. Aloysius.
This will allow for the hiring
of upto six students plus one
proect leader and they will
assume resposibilities for
the development of vertical
and picture files in the
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various schools.
A selection committee
made up of board ad-
ministrative staff and a
representative from the
ministry, will select the
students when all the
applications are in by mid
May for the media resource
project. The students will
find application forms to fill
out at their secondary
schools, through the
guidance officers.
The media facilities in the
five Stratford schools will be
updated in the media
resource project, such as
re -arranging of the card
catalogue systems to
provide easier access to
pupils; carrying out a book
inventory-- checking the
car catalogue with the
books on the shelf; to
develop an. A.V. software
card catalogue systeln
which will provide easier
access to films, tapes and
records for pupils and
teachers; the development
of picture files within the
schools according to
specified needs of individual
schools; compilation of pro-
ject folders from material
gathered from magazines
such as National
Geographic, Owl.
There folders would be
used as research material
for student projects; the
recording of tapes of
primary books which in turn,
would be used in teacher
developed lessons and
centre -activities.
Skills learned by the
students working on this
project would be: to develop
proficiencyin typing and fil-
ing skills; the development
of organizational skills; also
research skills such as work-
ing from system curriculum
guidelines to find relative
material; also responsibility
toward time -management;
co-operative planning in
order to best meet the
needs of school objectives;
and finally to provide the op-
portunity to better assess
the possible futures for
themselves in such fields of
endeavours as library
technician, clerical typist
and junior management
possibilities.
It took "a drawing of
straws" as chairman Ronald
Murray called it, to settle
who will travel to Alberta
and Saskatchewan to attend
two upcoming conventions.
To out -of -province conven-
tions the board's policy
bylaw allows only three
trustees to attend.
Four indicated they wish-
ed to attend the 1981
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the Government agreed to
set up a Royal Commission
Inquiry into Food Prices in
1978.
"Thal Commission
became a whitewash, unfor-
tunately," says .Riddell.
"There are still some very
bad practices of discounting
going on in the food industry,
and our farmers are the real
victims.
We'll just have ,to put
more pressure on the
Government to realize that
when you hurt the farmers,
you hurt consumers too."
"The refusal of the
Minister of Agriculture and
Food, to participate in an
emergency debate on the
financial crisis facing
Ontario's farming com-
munity clearly shows that
the Ontario Govermnent has
a total lack of concern
regarding this most serious
problem," claims Huron -
Middlesex MPP Jack Rid-
dell.
"To simply state that high
interest rates are a federal
responsibility ignores the
fact that Ontario is one of the
few Provinces in the country
not to have instituted an
extensive and well used set
of low interest programs for
its farmers," he added.
The facts of farming life
are extremely chilling. In
1980, farm bankruptcies
increased 91 percent over the
previous year and, for the
first three months of this
year, bankruptcies in-
creased 77 percent over the
same period last year.
The Ontario Federation of
Agriculture estimates that
for every farm bankruptcy
recorded in Ontario, there
JUMP FOR IT — Zurich's Tanya Forrester (rear) looks on as
teammate lois Goldsmith tries to get the ball away from an
Usborne player. The girls competed in a basketball tourna-
/fient at Exeter Public School, Friday.
are at least 10 other farmers
who decide to get off the land
while they still have some
equity left in the business.
The Liberal agriculture
critic said that as farmers
are leaving the land in
frustration or are forced off
by bankruptcy, all 'too often
that land is being sold to
foreigh investors who have
no intention within . the
foreseeable future of coming
to this country to farm the
land or to developers who
will seek other ways than
farming of making a profit
off the land.
"This can only have a
negative effect on the
provincial economy, con-
sidering that the farm
community not only provides
us with food for domestic
consumption but also
provides employment for
thousands of people," he
warned.
"I firmly believe that this
Government must introduce
an immediate emergency
interest program to prevent
further farm bankruptcies.
The farming industry in
Ontario needs assistance
now and if the Minister of
Agriculture is not prepared
to accept the responsibility
for initiating such a
program, I will have no other
choice than to call for his
resignation."
No injuries as
car smashes
Zurich window
No injuries were reported
in any of the four accidents
investigated this week by the
Exeter OPP.
Two of the accidents oc-
curred on Tuesday, the first
involving vehicles driven by
Ricky Davies, Leamington,
and Beverly Genttner, Ex-
eter. They collided at the en-
trance to Norwood Village
just south of Exeter and
damage was listed at $1,200
by Constable Bob Whiteford.
Vehicles operated by
Gregory Ducharme, RR 3
Brussels, and Robert Young,
Grand Bend, were involved
in the other Tuesday colli-
sion on Highway 4 south of
Hensall.
Constable Wayne Charlton
investigated and listed total
damage at $900.
The other two collisions
were reported on Wednesday
the first involving vehicles
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