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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1983-03-16, Page 2i APPLIANCE REPAIRS,;': PAGE 2 CUNTON NEWS -RECORD WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16 New challen es f Y STEPHANIE LEVESQUE The 1983 4- club year was kicked off at a gathering of club leaders in Clanton March 9. Agricultural represen- tative Don Pullen said the 1983 4-1-1 agricultural club year presents new challenges, programs and dimensions. He rioted there is currently a financial management club being conducted across the county marking the first club of `its kind. Various new clubs were started last year and Mr. Pullen added that the Huron branch of the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food is prepared to offer any new 4-H club that would be appropriate in the communi- ty. Always looking for new 4- H club members, Mr. Pullen said conullunacation is ti,a name of the game. Contact with potential chub members is encouraged and club leaders heard from Shona 1 -tae of R.R. 1 Clifford who was a recipient of a 1 2 4-11 club membership award for recruiting new members. Miss Rae said she put up posters announcing the date of her club's organizational meeting, asked a friend to join and offered rides to meetings. The guest speaker for the evening, Dr. Doug Pletsch of the University of Guelph, praised the club leaders for the amount of time they spend with youth in the 4-H projects. "Working with young peo- ple is the greatest challenge, but the greatest reward as well," commented Dr. Pletsch. Across Hw-on County, 34 4- H agricultural clubs will be holding their organizational Are you over 60 or turning 71 before ecember 31, 1983 11 you aro, end with to Heine o lifetime income from you, R.R.S.P Call. ARNOLD STINNISSEN 117 Goderech Street East Seafotth Ret. 527-0410 We have other 5 year investments at very competitive rates immoommmommianne ammui CiltAtiniattnims To Robbie Crick(,® Goderich JosDoMash, Varna Jeffrey Oestreoklielor, waaieerten Tr4 Elliott, Clinton R tbboe M®�I1 yr C'aintoaa Michael k ostro, Caa�,to� Sal til sn, a Mazer, Londeshoro Ter su 1, nes, CTM n Rade Cooled Clinton ��tf0i4 fit s cRoyr Calnton rpm Koostro, Caonton Trey r Trewort t gaaratorn Oro March 16 March 16 arch 19 larch 17 March 17 MMI arch 17 March 9* March 19 March 20 Mares 21 Make Pa ler the You can make almost anything you want to out of papier mache — piggy banks, masks, trays, boxes — use your imagination and go wild! Papier mache is made out of mushy newspaper that sticks together — the recipe for it is below. To make papier mache you need: ® newspaper ripped into strips ® Ia cup starch ® 1 cups water ® I cup flour ® 1 big pot Directions: Mix the starch, water, and flour in a big pot. Make a basic form by shaping tin foil over an object. Piece by piece dip the strips of newspaper into the pot and cover the form you want until there are three layers of paper. Let your creation dry for a day and then paint it — you may need to do several coats as the print on the paper night show through. Some ideas of things to make: l.Piggy bank — shape lin foil over a can in the form of a pig and then cover with newspaper. Make a slit in the top for money to go through. 2.Tray --- turn a real tray upside down. cover with wax paper, and then stick on strips of newspaper. when the paper is dry — about a day — lift off the papier mache try, trim the rough edges, and paint. Distributed by Canada Wide Feature Service Limited (c) 19'2:3 McKay Foes -field 4 meetings over the next mon- th. There will .,.• calf, swine, horse, crops, goat, tractor, sodbusters, poultry, veterinary, dairy manage- ment, gun safety, sheep, ra:e bit and conservation clubs throughout the county. Numerous activities will be held throughout the year, including a careers prograrn at Central Huron Secondary School m Clinton on Friday, June 17, an educational bus trip m July, judging com- petitions, achievements days with the year culminating on Nov. 25 at the annual•; awards night at CHSS. At the close of the meeting, the leaders picked up the material they will require for their projects and headed out to start another 4-H year. County okays health budget Huron County council approved the 1983 Huron Health Unit budget totaling $974,084 at its March 3 session. The county's share of $240,965 represents an in- crease of eight per cent over 1'-.3!2 county costs. Clerk - treasurer William Hanly added that after deducting $28,350 (the total cost for the new health educator position approved last fall) the in- crease is actually 5.07 per cent. The province will chip in $722,897 while other revenue pays the rest of the Health Unit budget. This budget is subject to Ministry of Health approval. The largest expenditure is salaries and wages budgeted at $684,854. The second largest expense is employee benefits budgeted at $193,274. The home care budget of $521,134 and the family planning budget of $52,375 were also approved by county council. Both these dep:: rtments are fully funded by the Ministry of Health. IOOF ear party held ll� The Clinton Od .l; ellows and I• ebek..,i,s held a card )s . rty in 11.O.O.F. ; lall on arch 3rd. Prizes were awarded as follows: las:ies' hi„'It, Jean McEwairi; ladies low, Ber- nice nchardson; gents' Il,gh, Cliff Ashton; gents' low, Harold Wise; lone han;t!:;, Pearl Cummings; lucky draws, Erma Crich and Mary Gri.;. The ne „ c .+, ,ti party will be held on Mid rch 17 at 8 p.m. an Btii Robinson owns and operates a maple syrup business Ill St. Au:_ ,stimme. Mr. Robi:eaou x ys , e biggest problem wi n ha:; pipeline system of ga_':rering syrup is t t:::t cicdpnniaks and s;t;:.irrels often chew the lines,(Rod Hilts pbotei ) se loa 1 y Stephanie Levesque It could be a trend or a fluke, that the social services department clos tl more cases than it opened in February, said ad- ministrator Jo MacKin- non. Speaking at council's March 3 meeting, Mr. MacKinnon said in another month he would know if the number of assist.:+nce cases is actually going down. In January, the general assistance caseload was at 3it':, up considerably from 167 in January of 1'r e2. Mr. MacKinnon indicated the gap between the nivanber of cases opened and those closed narrowed in January as were opened and sin, cases were closed. This news could mean a ir< tter financial position at the end of the year for the social servic,-, department. At the end of January, costs had increased 49 ;t ,r cent over the same time period in 1"ti 2. January's ex nditures stand at, $106,356 which exceeded the estimated by $12,774. The 1982 cost for the month of January was $71,959. e m j!e s p is running y "t.od Hilts The early spring weather we're ex- periencing thus far in 1983 has been a blessing to most of us. This has been the mildest winter on record and with the record setting warm temperature comes the first sign of spring - maple syrup. Down a secluded backroad less than a mile outside of the small village of St. Augustine hes a 45 acre maple syrup farm that has been producing syrup since Feb. 8 of this year. Owner and operator of the syrup farm, Bill Robinson, says that this year's crop is one of the earliest that he can remember since he first started his operation eight years ago. "We don't usually get this big of a volume so early. Last year we didn't get anything until the middle of March," said Mr. Robinson. Last year his farm produced 1,500 gallons of maple syrup, which is con- sidered to be a good crop. Anywhere tween 1,000 and 1,400 gallons is an average crop. Although Mr. Robinson's operation is producing well early, the crop is in danger of becoming short-lived unless the weather man co-operates. "We need frost and colder weather in order to keep the sap running. Three or four days of cold weather wouldn't do any harm. This is a very unpredictable business, we're totally at the mercy of the weather," he stressed. If the weather doesn't turn cold soon Mr. Robinson will end up with only half the crop he had last year. The season normally runs for 4-6 weeks. Mr. Robinson's syrup farm is a large scale operation with 3,800 tapped trees. Thn 1-,6v.r in,.n1,,o,1 in h nnPrgtirlrl IS lunged because of a pipe -line vacuum system that es hooked unto each tree. Over 12 mules of a rubber -like tube run over his 45 acre farm. The sap es pumped gat of the trees and into a vacuum bun whete tilos( of the water is filtered out of the sap "If it wasn't for the pipe system I'd never be able to produce as much as 1 do. I couldn't hire enough people to haul 3,800 buckets out of the bush. With this system I hayed an increased yield of sap with very little labor involved," Mr. Robinson said. Mr. Robinson mentioned that he hires a few people at the beginning of the season to help him tap the trees. The syrup business provides about half of Mr. Robinson's income. The other half comes from his work as an electrican and a custom hay baler. At 34 years of age, Mr. Robinson feels that he has reached a point in his life were he ha:, to make money. "1 enjoy working at it (syrup business) but if it didn't turn a profit I wouldn't be doing it," said Mr. Robinson. According to Mr. Robinson the market for selling maple syrup is best in the summer. He sells about one-third of his crop in the spring. He said he has to keep his prices low because of the large number of competitors. "There's more competition in this area then in a lot of other syrup selling areas. In a 10 mile radius from me there's about six syrup farms in operation and that's about 18,000 taps," said Mr. Robinson. If syrup producers like Mr. Robinson don't get co-operation from the weatherman in a hurry, it could be a disastrous spring with little profit and little syrup on the market. Separaie Board surplus By Stephanie Levesque The Huron -Perth Separate School Board ended the year in the black. Trustees were pleased when superinten- dent of business and finance Jack Lane presented the 1982 financial statement at the board's Feb. 28 meeting. "As chairman, I'm pleased to see us in the black for a change, although I have never seen us in the red that much," com- mented board chairman Ron Murray. He praised both administration and last year's board members for bringing the ex- penses in under budget. Of the board's $6,783,402 budget, only $6,746,465 was actually spent in 1982 leav- • Mg a surplus of $36,937. The board's ordinary expenditure, which includes the general operation of the schools and salaries, was underspent by Germ f; I $70,765 from the original budget figure of $5,681,61•. The reserve of $30,600 set aside for special education was also underspent by $19,300. The only overspending was in the area of extraordinary expenditure, which includes transportation and such things as capital projects. This category is 111 per cent funded by the province and was overspent by $53,128. The end result of the surplus is that $45,011 more than was needed was col- lected in local taxation. This figure represents about 1.5 mills which may be applied to the 1983 mill rate. "All in all we ended the year very well," said Mr. Lane noting that when the budget was being discussed a year ago no surplus was expected. s to visit The first visit to Exeter by a German industrialist will be within two weeks, Reeve ill Mickle told council Mon- day. He said he had a'phone call from the expected visitor, one of several contacts made _I vi during last year's industrial promotion trip to Germany by Mickle and Mayor Bruce Shaw. 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