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By Shelley McPhee
Adam Protter expected a summer of
hard work, but he wasn't planning on
having to buy practically a whole new
wardrobe.
Granted, working on a farm can be
hard on your 'clothes but Adam didn't
know that after three weeks on the job
on the Harvey Stewart farm at RR 1,
Clinton that his pant size would change
from a 36 inch waist to 32 inches.
Adam, a 16 -year-old from Toronto is
getting his first opportunity to work on
a farm this year through the Ontario
Junior ,Agriculturalist Program. The
program has approximately 300 urban
young people between the ages of 16
and 17 spending nine weeks on a
variety of farms, learning the rural
way of life. Close to 50 young people are
situated in Southwestern Ontario, with
20 in Huron County alone.
Adam was one of 140 applicants in
this part of Ontario who was successful
in getting the job and although the worjc
may have affected .Adam physically,
this has not deterred his interest or
enthusiasm.
Adam's host, 23 -year-old Harvey
Stewart, has introduced his city friend
to haying, feeding cows, calves and
pigs, cleaning stables along with a
number of odd jobs.
When Adam was asked what his
favourite job on the farm was he
quickly replied with a grin, "reading."
"Actually I don't mind doing the
chores, you get used to it but I don't like
cleaning out the stables. I don't think
anyone could ever like haying," he
said.
"My friends think this is pretty hard
work, but they all have cushy jobs,"
Adam explains.
"I go home now and tell them how
many bales I put in and explain to them
what else I do," Adam said.
Like other junior agriculturalists
Adam is given every other weekend off
to return home. As well, the host far-
mer pays his young employee $5 a day
By Wilma Oke
Tuckersmith Township council has
been notified by the ministry of tran-
sportation and communications that it
would not approve a request for an
additional entranceway to Vanastra by
opening up 7th avenue to Highway 4.
At a meeting Tuesday night council
learned from the ministry's letter that
a similar entranceway at Vanastra was
closed because 'it was a traffic hazard
as it _was located below the brow of a
hill.
The letter indicated an entranceway
at a street farther north might be
possible but all costs of opening up the
street to the highway, the entrance
construction, the widening of the high-
way by a turning lane would all have to
be paid by the municipality of the
township of Tuckersmith or by a
developer wanting the entranceway.
Council was disappointed that the
province would not pay the costs, which
they estimated might be in the neigh-
bourhood of $200,000. Reeve` Ervin
Sillery said council at this time was not
ready to assume the cost.
Council had requested the entrance
on behalf of property owners in
Vanastra.
Councilis having the pump on No. 2
well in Egmondville checked to see if it
can be repaired or if a new pump. will
be needed. To be checked too, is
whether the well is good enough to take
a bigger pump. The present pump with
a capacity to pump 35 gallons a minute
is now only able to pump 12 gallons a
minute, according to road superin-
tendent Allan Nicholson who manages
the Egmondville system.
In his report to council, Mr.
Nicholson reported 16 township road
signs have been damaged in the past
two weeks.
Council members expressed concern
about the dumping of concrete at
several locations on township road
allowances. They said it was new
cement apparently left over from
various construction jobs on farms in
the neighbourhood.
Requests for building permits were
approved as follows : Peter Colyer,
concession 8, Huron Road Survey,
driving shed; Rich Burdge, lot 30,
concession 1, London road survey,
Brucefield house addition; Warden
Haney, lot 4 con. 3, HRS, shed; Hank
Dorssers, lot 2, conc. 6 HRS, pig barn
and liquid manure tank; Emerson
Coleman, lot 23, conc. 2 HRS, shed.
A demolition permit was granted to
Ausab'le-Bayfield Conservation
Authority to demolish a barn on part lot
41, con. 1, LRS.
Council approved three tile drainage
loans amounting to $22,900.
Passed for payment were the
following accounts: Vanastra Day
Care, $4,103.73; Vanastra Recreation
Association, $6,157,14; ' general,
$27,414.05; and roads, $12,281.08, for a
total of $49,956.00.'
Council received a letter from the
Huron Health Unit to clean up the
debris resulting from the partially
demolished former Egmondville
church shed now owned by a Seaforth
resident as the owner has ignored
requests to clean up the site considered
to be a health hazard. The owner will be
billed for the cleaning up work.
The Keppic property in Vanastra is
being cleaned up by the township when
the owner ignored requests to do it
himself, as it, too, is a health hazard.
To date, bulldozer and trucking
charges amount to $1,340 and the work
is not completed.
Council set the fees to be paid for the
municipal elections to be held in
November --the deputy returning of-
ficer will receive $40 up from $35 for the
last election, but the poll clerks will
receive the same, $30.
Council will hold a ratepayers'
meeting following the nominating
meeting for which a date has not been
set. Council contributed $25 toward the
Vanastra Fair to be held August 26.
Council was notified by the County of
Huron that it had appointed Joe Gib-
son, of RR 2, Seaforth, as assistant
weed inspector for the county.
Councillor Frank Falconer attended
a steering committee' meeting of the
Clinton Arena recreation association
formed to canvass the surrounding
area of Clinton to raise funds for a new
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in cash and supplies room and board
worth $5 a day. The Ministry of
Agriculture and Food provides an
additional $6 a day for the junior
agriculturalist's wages.
"1 go back to Toronto on my free
weekends. I couldn't stay here or I'd
end up doing chores," he laughed.
Adam, who has just ,finished Grade
10, is interested in agriculture and
when he learned of the summer
program applied for it. Like all other
applicants for the program, Adam had
never spent much time on a farm other
than a passing visit.
"I'd like to go into agriculture but not
farming itself, so I thought I'd try this
for a summer and see what it was
like," he said. "I really wanted to try
this and I talked to my parents about it
for the last year."
Adam has not only learned how to
bale hay or clean pens, but has learned
how to appreciate rural life a little
more.
"City people sometimes have the
wrong impression Of farmers. They
scream at the farmers for doing
everything w rong. They complain
about the price of meat and think that
farmers are behind it all."
Harvey added, "Adam was amazed
at the price gap between the farmer
and the middleman in beef prices."
"Someone's getting all the money in
the middle," Adam went on.
"I've always liked the country. When
I went back td Toronto I got off the bus
and smelled the air, I never rea'l'ized it
had such a nasty smell," Adam said
amazingly.
He went on, "There's so much noise
in the city, you don't realize it when
you're there, but this quiet is almost
deafening."
" The rural people have also amazed
Adam.
"In the city you can't go to the
neighbours and ask if you can borrow
their jack or they'll take a gun to you,"
he joked.
"Everyone knows everything around
here. When someone meets a person
they give a family history like, you live
on the old place that used to be owned
by such and such," Adam laughed.
"They spent half -an -hour just talking
about that," he said shaking his head in
amazement.
Adam has been surprised at many
things he's learned about agriculture
and farm life and Harvey admitted that
it was a 1itatle d Q
his new $urrQtln+ Rigs
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summer and rn9st'`;i
learning more abbe
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Adam Protter, a Toronto youth is quickly learning the ways and workings of
farm life during his summer stay with Harvey Stewart, right, of RR 1 Clinton...
Adam is one of 50 urban young'people who are employed through the Junior
Agriculturalist Prograxn. The program gives young people from the city a
chance to learn more about the rural way of life in Ontario. (News -Record
photo)
stuckin middle
What better time to buy a bathing
suit, in the summer right? With this
in mind I set out on a search through
various shops to buy a new suit.
Little did I realize that my search
would turn into an impossible
mission.
Do yo1d,.l pow_that yol.,can't buy,
bathing suit, or ,for that matter an
other nice summer clothes iri
summer? By the time July and
August roll around, all the summer
discards and clothes that don't sell
are strung out on half-price racks
and keep sidewalk sales booming.
Fall and winter clothes fill the
racks inside the stores. But as a
clothes lover, especially nice woolly
sweaters and tweed skirts I was
easily lured to the new fall arrivals
instead.
So I picked out a wool cardigan
and put it on, only to realize that I
was sweltering in it even under the
air conditioning. The scratchy
material pricked at my bare arms
and the bulky sweater just didn't
look right with my shorts and
sneakers.
"Of course this doesn't look or feel
right, it's the k•niddle .of summer:
How can I be trying Winter ctgthes
oil", Trealized.
While I was watching television
the other night, an advertisement
for a new an upcoming program was
aired.
"Looks good," I thought to myself,
"Wonder when it's starting."
"Coming this fall," the com-
mercial concluded.
I then began thinking.
What's so big about this fall and
especially this winter. I doubt if it
will be any different than last and if
most people are like me they'd just
as soon forget the zero temperatures
and the fury of the great white
wonder.
Winter clothes, fall programs and
advertising for snow tires, and
getting your house insulated, for
example, are starting to prepare us
for the months ahead.
Soon the clincher will come,
snowmobile advertisements. They
always get to you ; seeing those
machines roaring across the snow,
giving you that unwanted reminder
of winter when it's only the middle of
September.
Why do they have 'to do this? In
this area, we're lucky if we get three
months of sunny, warm weather and
personally I want to enjoy them to
their utmost.
Fdon't want to get ready for winter
in July. When October comes, I'll
think about it. I just want to put my
bathing suit on and enjoy the sun and
heat in comfort without thinking
about the dreary months ahead.
There's two things" that easily give away Mr. and Mrs. Bill Bottema's born
nationality, their strong accents and their Iove for windmills. Although the
couple has been in Canada for the past 26 years they still remain fond of the
machines commonly seen in Holland. The Bottema',s Orange Street home is
filled with a variety of mills, from Mrs. Bottema's needlecrafted pictures to
Mr. Bottema's carpentry skills that he uses to build models of mills such as the
one on their side lawn. (News -Record photo)
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"Huron County's always been high for
liquor.”
However, Chief Westlake responded,
"I think it's a problem wherever kids
are. It's not unique to this area. Maybe
more kids have gone back from drugs
to liquor now."
Not only does the drinking itself,
especially by minors, cause problems,
but police are also concerned about the
consequences.
"They're (drinking drivers and
passengers) a danger on the road,"
Chief Westlake commented," It can
lead to all kinds of things."
Constable Wilson, added, "Impaired
drivers on highways kill more people
than any other cause, other than
natural ones."
"If it wasn't for alcohol, many of us
policemen wouldn't have a job.
Alcohol's not only involved in traffic
problems, but also in the criminal end
such as quarrels and marital
disputes," Constable Wilson admitted.
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