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Goderich
Municipal
Day Nursery
moves
to former
Queen
Elizabeth.
School,
-z
SEPTEMBER 2,5, °1 97 5
SECOND SECTION
You can bet these children wouldn't touch a dlsff at home, btit.when you are at nursery school
washing dishes with a few friends it can be entertaining. (staff photo)
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A.brushes k .r g and
budding artists have ample opportunity and equipment youngsters found the paints and to their liking and
to persue their 'careers in the art world at the Goderich babbled in some (staff abstract work. fphoto)
Municipal Day Nursery which opened last week. These two
cation stimulates
The nqw location of the day, nursery now provides space and
activity for fhe more than. 55 children who have enrolled in the
program. These three young ladies spend a quiet creative
moment with some building blocks. (staff photo)
What's•°the fun in going down a slide unless you can find a new way to do it. Youngsters at-
tending the day nursery have found the new facilities at the former Queen Elizabeth School to
their liking. (staff photo)
Phot�s by Dave Sykes
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Some of"the fun of having more than one room to play in at the day nursery is that you can play
hide and go seek with some of your little friends. These youngsters thought they found the ideal
hiding spot behind the piano. (staff photo)
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The. Goderich Municipal Day Nursery has three full time
-employees as well as some volunteer help to look after the
Bean prices rise: as rain _falls
children attending. With the new facilities and equipment the
little boys and girls don't need much help finding things to do. t,
et weather, dampens hopes for beans
BY JEFFSEDDON
The Ontario' Rean Producers
° Marketing Board -is depending
very highly on the bean crops in
Huron, Perth 'and Middlesex
,Q Counties to prevent what
marketing hoard manager
'Chuck Broadwell terms a
..potentially disastrous b
situation in bean production fn
19.•5.
The dependence of 'the nor-
thern county producers, of
which Huron is, by far • the
largest- st('n,t+ from an ex-
tremely pot, growing. and
harves4 - season in Southern
Ontario( -The southern counties,
anibton. Kent and J Igin were
"' drenched wcith heavy. rains
throtigh.out August , and the
beginning of . Srt->Rte.r)iher that
drastically reduced • the
quantity and quality of the
be;ins gro\vh in those regions,
Mr. Broadwell said that the
original estimate of the bean
crop had been reduced from 1.8
million hags to 1.5 million tw'o,
weeks ago but steady rains
Huron, Perth and Middles'
have caused the markeh(.,
t3n'trd"tn wondef: what the final
figure of production will he. He
said that each day the weather
twins foul the figure goes down
some and the , chances of
est tung rhe yropbi,come lci;s, t
\hout (:),000 act 0,, of Huron
County sail is used to produce
beans and this combined with
the production in 'Perth and
Mic1dles x accounts for andut
'=1 percent of this year's ex•
petted yields. The total area
used for; bean p,cduction in
Southern Ontario' amounts -to
about 1615,000 acres and of that',
about 30 percent of the crops
have been harvested.
Mike Millet-. agricultural
representattive from the Clinton
office Of the provincial ministry
of agriculture• regards the
outlook 00 the bean crop as
dismal if the weather do('sn'1
dry up He said that the
producers au(' set to go iilto
their fields and harvest th`e
t
crops hut si°ad�' daily rain's
have.prevented them frons.
dOing stl 4 '
Mr, Miller explaitnd that cis
the -rain continues t.he,pod5 that
house the bean in the field
becomes thinnCr •and, thinner
and • could possibly ^hreak•
dumping ,he leans onto the
ground. ill(' said that thin -pods
colmbined with some field rot
(Gold reduce the quantity•and
quality of the crnp,.adding that
without dry weather none of the
beans couId he harvested
i'he agrtell! toral'
repres(°ntatl\'(` sal(1' that about
tht'0c days of \',11•(,1 110n\
weather were needed to dry the
beans enough . to harvest to
prevent kernel damage. He
said, that other grains could he
harvested wet, and dried in bins')'
' but if beans are wet when they
are combined they'turn to n)ush
• and can't be ,used for human
consumption. -
Quite a few farms in Hurofi
rely on the bean production for
about half of their income, ..
according. to Mr." Miller. He
said that with no harvest the
incomes would suffer despite
the fact that a great many
. producers have their' crops
insured. The insurance, he.fel-t
Would only cover the producers
costs in planting the crop
Roth I\lr Miller and Mr.
i;roadwel1 agree that not only
the lo' ns ha\,v been affected by
Ole wet weather They ex •
'flamed that -bean producers
are n(1\\ ' fac•tng the task of
laking 1"(Dc'rops off their fields
simultaneously if thte. weather
irtlpro\ es corn crops are ready
to come Off and if the weather
dries up to alloy' the farrners to
taste their heavy machinery
into corp fields 'then it will
probably he .1i'.y enough to
allow them to harvest the
beans
Mr. Miller explained that
Torn does 'not have to be dry to
he harvested. He said that the
kernels could suffer damage
:Intl Mill he used since i1 will
prohuh'ly .hc crushed for c•on-
suml)t,r'r(n the added that
anyone planning on putting in
wink•►' •w'he.att has t0 .get
working on tike crop and if they
are ,scorking on beans they will •
be delayed.
Mr. Broadwell .said that even
if the crop is almost ruined it
will prohahly be worth the
pr.odtrcet•'s time to harvest it.
Ile said that the other major
bean producing area in com-
petition with Ontario rarmers•
have been suffering from
\ceather.
Michr,gan farmers have had
their expected yields cut from
six and a half million hags to
ahout four million hags. He
added that already the price of
beans has iii4en affected by the
poor 'crisp yiel fis and has hecn
,rising ,as the rain has be('n
falling. •B
The. Sky Harbor . weather
office in Goderich outlined the
reasons the bran producers
have been 'kept off their fields.
A spokesman at the station said
that the average rainfall in
1luron for September is ''.90
inches and that already that
figure has been surpassed and
3.4 inoses of water ties fallen.
The big difference between
this September and the slime
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