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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1978-08-03, Page 3CLINTON NEWS -R QR 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 Turn to page 2 �'iP.uwulies if .w. mr.o 6t°.f�' °81"9k1'D4'x1K1K5k�'(�Gyg�Y'�l 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 But Adam;sayP'� summer and rn9st'`;i learning more abbe to parts, their w a: 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) • from page 1 "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. 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