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BY JACK RIDDELL,
In this country, We are
heavily dependent upon
fereign oil suppliers.
HeWeyer, prices are
rising and there is con,
siderable uncertainty
about security of future
supplies. There .has, as,
you know, been much
discussion about possible
alternatives. Earlier this
year, the Ontario Liberal
Party released a study
which we had com-
missioned on fuel alcohol,
Recently about 200
economists, engineers,
scientists, researchers
and farmers attended the
Canadian National Power
Alcohol Conference in
Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Generally it was
agreed at the Conference
that power ard'ohol could
be of tremendous im-
ottings
portance • in helping to
solve this country's
futUre fuel problems.
Although there were
obviously divergent
opinions on the viability
of alcohol as a vehicle
fuel, speakers indicated
that research activity on
many fronts is well un-
derway throughout North
America. Because this is
such a new industry in
North America, technical
breakthroughs are e,x-
pected to overcome
current problems very
soon. For Example, work
is well advanced in the
United States to produce
enzymes which will
produce Ethanol from
wood and municipal solid
waste. Also, research is
continuing to modify
diesel tractor engines to
use -alcohol:
Agriculture was one of
ront
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ueen's Park. akohol could power
the industries selected as
being particularly
suitable for. the USO of
alcohol -fuel , speciftcally
ethanol. This can be
readily produced by the
agriculture industry, and
is Similar . to the spirit
made by commercial
distilleries from grain. In
fact, any crop containing
starch or sugar can be
used to produce fuel.
Corn can be used, as can
potatoes (especially culls
which are, of course,
relatively inexpensive),
grains and Jerusalem
artichoke.
Many questions have
been raised in connection
with various alternatives
to petroledm for tran-
sportation purposes. Just
hew effective are they?
Will they prove to be
rice ---eompetitive? Are
there problems about
Fall project features food
• from page 1
Nutsactedout Happiness Is A Walk In
The Woods and the Zurich 3 Pam-
pered Campers and Taylor's Corners
Eager Exercisers each put on their
versions of Oh No! We Forgot the Can
Opener.
The Happy Hikers from Clinton 1
put on Camp Champ, the Blyth Crazy
Cooks acted out Operation Campfire
and the Goderich 2 Fitness Freaks
performed Let's Get Fit.
Each 4-11 club member received a
teaspoon and certificate of
achievement and special aw4rds
were presented to nine girls.
For completing 12 clubs Anne
Talbot from the Bayfield group,
Cathy VanDorp from • Clinton 2 and
Sandra Regele from McKillop 2
received one of the highest awards in
4-11, Provincial Honors.
County Honors, for the completion
of . six ,clubs were given to. Diana
Shobbrook of Londesboro, Wilma
Veenstra of Clinton 2, Sherri Chuter
from the Parr Line club, Margiffise_
from Clinton 3, Lori Hayter fridm the
Parr Line and Allison Postill from the
Holmesville Nature Nuts.
Next year I think I'll just sit.
For two whole weeks I'll
hibernate in the darkness of my
apartment, where I'll rest my
posterior and look at the walls. ,
It seems to be the only answer.
For I've come to the conclusion
that entertaining, exciting and
enthusiastic vacations are sheer
torture. .
My remegy' to the problem is
simple and logical (in my mind). If
I sit and do nothing, absolutely
nothing for 14 days, 336. hours I'll
become so bored and depressed
that returning to work will be
Utopia.
Vacations aren't fair. They're
like 'taking a nibble out of Black
Forest Cake, then watching while
the delightful dessert is taken away
before you have a chance to devour
it. •
Vacations mean mad scrambles
to save money, pack bags, clean
-out the frig and catch flights. They
'mean basking in the sun for one
day and spending the rest of the
holiday covered in Noxzema to cool
the painpf a lobster red body.
Vacations mean renewing
acquaintances with old friends and
family and then suddenly having to
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say goodbye again. 'They mean .jet
lag, over extended charge cards
and nil bank balances.
Vacations meanreturning to a
musty smelling house, wilted
plants, a mail box full of unpaid
bills and six loads of wash.
Worst of all they _mean coming
back to work where a desk piled
high with papers wait to greet you.
They say that vacations are
meant to rejuvenate the spiritzand
mind. But whoever the "they” are
that make the claim obviously
don't take many holidays away
from home.
Thank goodness vacations only
come once a year. But it's the
planning and preparing for months
ahead that makes holidays wor-
thwhile and give a person some
, incentive to plod on at work.
Now, let's see next year I
think I'll vacation in February. The
weather will be lousy so I won't be
able to go anywhere. Hockey will
still be on television, sol.won't.be
able to spend my nights in front of
the boob tube. I'll be in the midst of
my annual February Blahs so 111
feel really depressed.
Ya' that sounds like a good
miserable vacation to me.
large-scale an d
economical production
and distribution.
The general view is
that fuel alcohol is
probably one of a number
of possible alternatives.
Others include propane,
compressed natural gas,
electricity and hydrogen.
,
Incidentally, the
Provincial Government
hasannounded the
establishment of a policy
committee to study the
role of energy in
agriculture in Ontario to
the year 2000 and beyond.
?resented to the
Conference was an 85 -
page report prepared by
R.D. Hayes and O.E.
Timbers of the
Engineering Research
Institute in Ottawa. -It
suggested that alcohol
has significant regional
employment, en-
vironmental and energy
impacts. A production
potential of 60 million
litres by 1990 was en.
visaged, using forest
wastes and Municipal
solid., wastes in Canada.
Agriculture wastes could,
it seems, supply between
541 and 918 million litres
of alcohol by 1990.
The report also stated
For completing six projects these girls received
their county honors last Monday night at the Clinton
area 4-H Achievement Night at Clinton Public
School. Left to right, back row are, Wilma Veenstra
of Clinton 2. Margie Wise of Clinton 3, Lori Hayter
New 4H project.. •
Shelley McPhee
Entertaining's meant to be fun, not
frustrating.
The Huron County fall homemaking
4-H project, Food For Friends, will -
show easy preparation and
organization of food for entertaining
with friends.
Huron home economist Loralee
Marshall is enthused about the fall
project and especially eager to try the
mouth-watering recipes club mem-
bers will prepare.
"The foods are, fun dishes," she
explained and will include parfy fOOds
such as tacos, cabbage rolls, pizza,
crepes, chicken cacciatore, stir -fried
pork and tasty snacks.
Along with learning how to en-
tertain a group of people, one of the
main focus' of the project will be
energy conservation. Members will
use several different- appliances to
make the recipes and then compare
the ease of preparation and energy
saving qualities of these different
appliances.
Mrs, Marshall explained that she is
presently looking for volunteers
-leaders far the_.. project. The
requirements for forming a club are
of Parr Line, and Sherri Chuter of Parr Line. Front
row, Allison Posthill of Holmesville and Diana
Shobbrook of Londesboro. (James Fitzgerald
photo)
that there are two adult leaders and a
minimun of foldyoung people.
Membership age is 12 to 26 as of
September 1,1980.
Leader workshops will begin on
August 21 in several locations
throughout the county and more in-
formation on these can be obtained by
telephoning the agriculture office in
Clinton at 482-3428 or Zenith 7-2800.
With the completion of the fall
project, the winter course will get
underway.
The course will prepare 4-11 girls for
spring as they learn how to create the
sew the newst fashions for the season.
Ready....Get Set...Sew will teaoh the
basics of sewing and focus on making
a vest or skirt.
While making the garmet, club
members will learn about pattern
buyingm alterations to make patterns
fit' and several sewing techniques
including seams, darts, facings,
binding edges with bias tape, zippers
and waistbands.
Each member will concentrate on
five different techniques as samples
or to be included in their gramet. Care
and operation of machine
is also included.
Is fitness Important?
Ask any body.
uture cars
*atthere is a long list of
concerns that should be
examined carefully
before Canada, at any
scale, rushes into local or
national alcohol fuel,
programs.”
Inebnied in those
concerns are financing;
market demand for
alcohol; the impact of
alsohol blends a.s. a fossil -
fuel extender; the
ecological effect • of
harvesting drop residues;
land use; and seed
licensing of specially
developed crops to
produce ethanol.
The report suggests
that Canadians "have a
great -advantage of being
able to learn from both
the successes and pitfalls
of the gasohol and farm -
scale ethanol production
programs in the U.S. and
o eruntilot"
o••••••••i woon,s,
It also suggests that
small-scale farm
operations- have special
opportunities such as
using part of the field
residues as Process_
energy, using culls or
eliminating the drying
charges by feeding wet or
dry spent mash directly,
to livestock.
There are, however,
both advantages and
problems to using alcohol
blends with gasoline,
such as water tolerance,
and blends with diesel
fuel don't„work unless
special emulsification
techniques or separate
dual fuel injection
systems are used. There
are special alcohol
engines in other coun-
tries, but se far not in
_
A farmer could modify
his farm equipment so
that straight alcohol, with
perhaps up to 20 per cent
water, could be used, but
would be doing so with a
certain amount of risk at
this time. Opportunities,
other than mobile use, do;
however, exist for the
- farmer In the meantime.
The Province of
Manitoba has recently
dropped provincial road
tax on gasohol that
contains alcohol made
from farm crops In
Manitoba. This incentive
was enough to prompt
Mohawk Oil to take over
a distillery atIVlinnedosa,
which is located near
Brandon, to prodnee
alcohol to be blended With
gasoline. The distillery
was apparently built by
Gooderhams and was on
the verge of bankruptcy.
Mohawk Oil has 12 gas
stations in Manitoba and
output from the distillery
at IVIinnedosa will be
sufficient for four
stations. The
representative from
Mohawk at the Con-
ference—s'---that—th
company, which has
stations in Northern
Ontario, is considering
making gasohol available
to the outlets in this
province depending on
tax measures finally
adopted by our provincial
government. In
Manitoba, the gasohol is
to be sold for the same
price as unleaded
gasoline,
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Heavy objects placed
on the rear seat or back
window shelf of your car
can become dangerous
missiles in the event of a
collision er sudden
braking, warns the
Ontario Safety League. A
sudden stop sends these
itoms—flying-Lan d..
cupants may be struck a
sever&blow,- or the driver
startled into making a
false mOve. Remember,
heavy or sharp -edged
articles should be placed
in the trunk, not the
window -ledge or back
seat.
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We now have the best
selection of guns and
ammunition in the
area, Why drive to
Kitchener or London
when we have the
selection you need
right hetie in Clinton.
FilLYour Freezer with garden -Fresh
Frozen Produce and SAVE at these low
bulk prices. PLACE YOUR ORDER NOW!
ASPARAGUS
SPEARS 12 - 2 lbs
-GREEN BEANS
Reg. Cut 6 - 5 lbs.
French Style 12. 2 lbs.
YELLOW WAX
BEANS 6 5 lbs. 514.
BABY LIMA
BEANS 6 - 5 lbs.
BROCCOLI SPEARS
12 2 lbs . $21r
CARROTS
600 MI.
FASTEETH
DENTURE
BRUSSEL SPROUTS
.. 6 5 lbs.
4ORN
KERNELS 6 - 5 lbs $14,
$12:°
.MIXED VEGETABLES
(Peas, Corn, beans, carrots) 13:5
PEAS 6 - 5 Ibs. '12r
PEAS & CARROTS
6 - 5 lbs .
PEAS 30
SPINACH 12
SQUASH
Diced 6 5 lbs.
TURNIPS
Diced 6. 5 lbs
Diced 6. 5 lbs
• Sliced 6 5 lbs
Baby whole 20
.0;0
.100
.15lo
CAULIFLOWER 12.2 lbs 517?5'
sms
12:5
3 lbs. 1 Eltd
, $12t°
'9.
Dealers for
IVORY
SOAP'
PERSONAL SIZE
and we have over twenty-five different
kinds of
TIDE
DETERGENT
This Ifear's.Crop
RASPBERRIES 28 $25P
STRAWBERRIES'aams.
. RHUBARB 6.5 lbs.
BLUEBERRIES 6 - 5 lbs,
BLUEBERRIES 30 lbs. $30.
$23!5 APPLES s lbs
$23.
PEACHES 30 lbs.
Place Your Order Now - Phone or drop hi to
SHOP THE TRIANGLE STORE IN YOUR TOWN,
^THE SQUARE MAIN CORNER
GODERICH CLINTON & SEAFORTH
.tara. t
MITCHELL'S
FAMILY MARKET
482-9951 LONDESBORO
OPEN : NION,SAY. $ Clan. * p.m. FRIDAY NIGHTS TILL 9 p.m.
523-4478
7 Albert St., Clinton 482-9766
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