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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1981-09-10, Page 1Night school gasses to start at SHDHS A large ' number of night class courses are again being offered this fall at South Huron District High School. A major change has been made in night school credit courses. These credit courses will begin during the week of September 21 and will conclude during the week of December 14. Principal J.L. Wooden said he hoped the new system to commit more time over a shorter period ending before Christmas would appeal to more people. The credit classes will meet two evenings each week and day students must contact Mr. Wooden if they wish to enroll in an evening credit class. New credit courses, being offered for the first time in the evening are Introduction to Computer Program, Welding and grade 12 Consumer Education. Mr. Wooden said this course would not be taught during the day. There are a total of 18 courses being offered with credits being available. Each runs for 25 sessions. The non-credit courses begin during the . week of October 5 and are mostly 10 weeks in length with one session per week. C.P.R.,' the basic cardiac life support program will be taught for four Tuesday nights by Jim Hoffman of Hoffman's Ambulance in Dashwood. Five sessions are available on How Government works with the emphasis at the municipal level. These' go Wednesdaynights and IFR ground school lessons for DOT exams are being of- fered on 10 Tuesdays. Pat Quigley . and Helen Cameron are organizing a Survival Skills for Women program. This program is -an Outgrowth from the recent conference at Centralia College. A number of guest speakers will be lecturing on a. variety of subjects in- cluding self awareness, persohal growth, asser- tiveness, public speaking, leadership," lobbying, women in politics, education and the law, minor repairs, male- female relationships, shared parenting, single parenting and women and the work- force. Gary Bean will be presenting a 10 week session on How to invest in Canadian securities and Jeff Carroll will be in charge of the photography course. An advertisement' appears in this. issue of the T -A outlining the complete night school program at SHDHS. Principal Wooden said the school has the largest night class enrollment in the county. No. 36 FIRST WITH LOCAL NEWS SEPTEMBER 10, 1981 Price per Copy 25 Cents Bean losses from rains may total5O% The" recent wet weather may cause the loss of up to 50 percent of the early bean crop and 10 to 20 percent of later beans. The associate ag rep for Huron County, Stan Pa- quette, who set these figures, stated that many bean plants have pods touching the ground which have sprouted and become unmarketable. Paquette added that some hay which had been cut but not harvested has been lost and other crops such as silage corn, onions, rutabagas and potatoes have had delayed harvests due to wet field" conditions. Larry Shapton, sales manager of the Hensall District Co -Op, agreed that the very damp conditions were serious. He said there was con- siderable sprouting in a lot of the early beans which were ripe and discoloration will also cause losses or downgrading of beans. He estimated the possible losses on early beans at about 20 to 25 percent. Later beans, he added will survive the wet weather a lot better and though some may have grade losses due to dis- coloration, most are still harvestable. Shapton said it would be hard to know the full effect until the crop was harvested. Loss would be limited If the rains stopped right way and farmers had a two week dry spell he added. Grower Bob Down, RR 1, out into the fields" he said "there's some beans out there yet". Though some bean plants have been blackened, only the lower pods have been sprouting. He said a sample brought in had blackened pods and some lower sprouting, but the beans were as "white as pearls." Some growers he added were talking about clipping the plants off level to bypass the sprouted pods. He said he thought the 50 percent loss was a high es- timate but added only time and the weather will tell. The rains will have a bad "effect oT y1eId and quality, said farmer Harry Dougall, RR 3, Exeter. Beans which.were just get- ting ripe before the rains started will be hardest hit, with crops having up to 75 Bob Down said that his percent more rejected beans plans for third cut hay were than usual. shelved because of the wet He said the 10 to 20 per- weather. cent loss estimate for late beans could be low, but that would nqt be known for sure until the farmers can begin harvesting. Phil Durand, RR 1, Zurich said he was "quite sure we'll lose some beans" and added that he agreed with a 50 per- cent loss estimate on early beans. The rains have really hurt the beans he said, but there was still a fair stand of beans. Farmers reported some sprouting and greening of red kidney bean plants, but like later beans, the plants ripening later in the season have not been as severely affected. Eric Kints, manager of Huron Produce Ltd., said the rain hasn't affected the quality of rutabagas this year. but h_a_s_de_layed the harvest. Rutabagas are better able to stand the rain he said, but will rot in the fields if left too long in the wet. "Could be bang -on today, and wrong tomorrow," said Bill Strong of trying to se- cond guess weather and crop conditions. The operations manager of the Hensall branch of Cook's Mills said it was "too early to determine how severe the loss is." BEAN SPROUTS — These sprouting plants are typical of many found in area white bean fields due to the recent heavy T -A photo rains. Hensall agreed that quite a bit depends on this week's weather. Low humidity and winds would dry out the fields and crops. Though some of his early beans, with pods touching the ground have had splitting and sprouting problems, he had not yet pulled any of the plants. "Any beans that were pull- ed are pretty well shot," Down said. The crop will be "fairly badly damaged unless the weather straightens around," Down said, adding that the bean crop was already hurt by dry con- ditions earlier in the season. Lloyd Whitesell, assistant manager of W.G. Thompson mills, Hensall branch, was more optimistic about the beans. Though he agreed it's "hard to tell until we can get Interest up on back taxes Two bylaws to set the in- terest rate charged on tax arrears at 241/4 percent were passed by Hay Township council at their September meeting. The first bylaw sets the new rate on tax arrears effective from September 2. The second sets the new in- terest rate on overdue current taxes and takes effect October 1, 1961. ' Rates on both tax arrears and overdue current taxes were increased from 15 per- cent per year. Council voted to accept the tender of Lavis Contracting Co. Ltd. for repaving of con- cession, road 12 and 13 and repairs and paving of Helen and part of Phillip Streets in Dashwood. The $15,962.10 tender price is subject to the approval of the police village as they will assume half -the cost. Council also accepted a $755 tender from Goderich Insulation Ltd., for insula- tion and vents to be installed in the township office building. Hay plans changes to its employee benefits. Coun- cillors moved to pay in full premiums to an employee dental plan and a Mutual Life group insurance plan. Long term disability premiums will be paid by eligible employees, but the township will guarantee full wages for the first six months of disability afterwhich the long term disability payments will take over. In other business: Council accepted two tile drain applications for $8,500 and $4,200. Council authorized the engineering firm of B.M. Ross and Associates to make application to the ministry of the environment for a grant on phase 1 of a propos- ed waterworks project along highway 21 in Hay Township. The council has no objec- tion to a construction of a water main across conces- sion road 12 and 13 at the Messner subdivision. All costs of the construction and any necessary restoration are to be paid by the developer. Council reviewed site plans for two proposed wayside pits at lot 24 conces- sion 13, and at the east quarter of lot 5, concession 6 and west three-quarters of lot 5, concession 5. The coun- cil had no objections to the site plans and will notify the ministry of natural resources of this. BRUCEFIELD FIRE — A Tuesday afternoon D'Arcy Rathwell, RR 1, Brucefield. blaze destroyed this barn on the property of