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By Wendy Somerville
Another summer season is now over and
Clinton and area tourist booths have had
their doors closed since September 5.
Susan Jefferson was employed throughout
the summer at the Clinton booth.
For a six week period from June 20 to Ju-
ly 31, 1983 a number of visitors came to the
booths operated by the Southwestern On-
tario Travel Association (SWOTA I.
Clinton had a total of 765 visitors to its
booth. Goderich had the highest in the area
with a total of 3,959 visitors and Stratford
came in a close second with 3,572. Forest
had only 36 visitors making it the lowest
visited booth in the area.
In total, 20,963 visitors stopped in at
SWOTA's 15 booths across Southwestern
Ontario. Last summer, in this same six
week period, they had a total of 17,549
visitors. The additional 3,414 visitors
represents an increase of 19.5 percent over
last summer.
Some interesting facts about tourism in
Ontario are highlighted through the
Municipal Awareness film, Tourism: An
Opportunity to Discover.
In 1981, tourism was Ontario's second
largest industry, second only to the
automobile industry in terms of export
dollars. Also, in the last five years, the
growth of tourism spending has been im-
pressive. In 1981, tourists spent about 8.7
billion dollars in Ontario, and this leads to
the projection that by the year 2,000,
tourism will be the province's largest
single Income generator, the largest
employer and the largest direct taxation
producer.
A total of 12 per cent of southwestern On-
tario's total employment, results from the
tourism industry. Employment is created
in many industries including public
transportation, accommodation, food and
beverage, amusement and recreation,
retail sales and service stations.
Stratford had a total of 903,000 visitors
this year and tourists spent a total of
$42,600,000. Because of tourists, Stratford
was able to employ 1,500 people during the
tourist season. A total of $269,000 was
received through municipal tax revenue
from tourism. Municipal expenditures on
tourism were $97,000.
Grand Bend had 457,000 visitors this
year. It is estimated that tourists spent
$11,000,000 in Grand Bend and employed
1,100 people. One hundred thousand dollars
was received through municipal tax
revenue from tourism. Municipal expen-
ditures on tourism were a total of $75,000.
In Goderich they had a total of 115,000
visitors. Tourists in Goderich spent
$4,300,000. Two hundred and fifty people
were employed through tourism this year.
Goderich received $432,000 in Municipal
tax revenue from tourism. Municipal ex-
penditures on taxation were $38,000.
All above statistics were measured in
person years of employment and accom-
modation and restaurants only.
Huron Federation elects
new regional directors
There are some new faces
among the regional directors
elected at the September 8
regional meeting of the
Huron County Federation of
Agriculture.
Directors and delegates
for the Ontario Federation of
Agriculture's annual
meeting were chosen for the
remaining regions.
Hans Rasmussen was
named director of Huron
north east region with the
delegates being Murray
Crawford, Bob Harrison and
Eric Prescott. ' Mr.
Rasmussen replaces former
director Gerry Fortune who
resigned from the position
after six years.
Paul Klopp remains as
the director of the Huron
south region. The delegates
from that region are Garry
Baker, Greg Love, and Hugh
Rundle.
The Huron east central
region has a new director,
Bert Saunders, replacing
John Nesbitt who has retired
after three years. The
delegates are John Nesbitt,
Doug Garniss and Ralph
DeWeerd with Carol Finch
as an alternate.
Jim McIntosh remains as
a regional director for Huron
West Central. The delegates
are Uwe Wisch, Stan
Mcllwain and Ivan
McClymont with alternates
Larry Sturdy and Brenda
McIntosh.
The director for Huron
north west is Barry Mason,
replacing Merle Gunby who
served as director for six
years.
Delegates for Huron north
west are Don Dow, Tony
McQuail and Walter Elliott
with Les Caldwell as
alternate.
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BY STEPHANIE
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It's up to farmers to think
about and find a solution to
the criticism levelled at
them by the animal welfare
movement. ''7
Dr. Frank Hurnik, a
professor in the animal and
poultry department at the
University of Guelph, gave
the above advice and
eclipsed the history of the
movement which started in
the 1960s in Great Britain, at
the Huron County
Federation of Agriculture's
September 8 meeting in
Londesboro.
The university professor
advises farmers to take
steps to face the issue and
develop rationales to answer
the movement's criticism.
A slide presentation
developed by an American
animal welfare movement
and shown by Dr. Hurnik
depicted what it considers to
be abuse of farm animals.
Considered cruel treat-
ment .of animals_ by the
movement is the restraining
of calves used for veal; large
numbers of poultry, swin
and cattle in one room;
poultry penned in small
cages; debeaking of poultry,
and castration of cattle
without anesthesia.
Now, those involved in the
animal welfare movement
are more factual than they
were 20 years ago, said Dr.
Hurnik.
"You can't dismiss them
as not being familiar with
real life," added the
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The movement is having
its effects, added the
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increasing number of people
becoming vegetarians.
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CLINTON NEWS -RECORD, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1983—PAGE 3
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By 1tTod Hilts
Blyth Council received a complaint from
Dick and Phyllis Street concerning smoke
coming from the Blyth-Hullett landfill site.
Mrs. Street told council that on one
occasion the smoke was so bad "it gave us
a sore throat and we couldn't sleep."
The Streets, who live on Gypsy Lane, are
approximately three-quarters of a mile
from the dump site. According to Mrs.
Street, the odors and smoke are extremely
strong on Thursday and Saturday nights.
The Streets complained to the Ministry
of the Environment about the smoke and
they are investigating.
On May 24, Blyth Council had received a
slap on the wrist from the Ministry of the
Enviornment when waste was found
smoldering at the site. William Page,
district officer for the ministry said that no
burning of domestic wastes should be
allowed to occur.
According to Clerk Larry Walsh, the
dump can burn paper and wood products
but other garbage must be segregated and
not burned. Mrs. Street claimed she could
smell plastic materials burning at the
dump. She was also upset that when the
dump is lit at night, the smell lingers in the
air until morning.
"I don't see why we have to put up with
it. We came here to get away from the
pollution and we get more here than our
laints
children get in the city," said Mrs. Street.
Landfill site operater Joe Mahon told
council the only time he could burn the
paper and wood materials was at 4 p.m. on
Saturday when the dump was dosed. He
said higher winds during the day and the
danger of people getting hit by debris from
the fire was a risk he didn't want to take.
Dr. and Mrs. Street asked council if they
could install an incinerator at the site to
rectify the problem.
"An incinerator would cost $2 million
dollars," said Mr. Mahon.
Mr. Mahon told the two person
delegation that if he didn't burn "the site
would be closed within a year" because of
the lack of space.
He went on to explain the only other
burning done on the site was to kill some
rats.
"I counted 20 large rats in the hole and I
scorched them rather than have them run
loose," said Mr. Mahon.
Councillor William Howson agreed that
the dump was a problem and sympathized
with the situation.
"In the future the dump will be our
second biggest expenditure next to
education," said Mr. Howson.
The council came up with no immediate
solution to the problem at hand and will
investigate the problem further.
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