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HomeMy WebLinkAboutWingham Advance-Times, 1980-09-17, Page 13• i • ol The Wingh es, S.op.. 17 D 2 "THAT'S WHAT 1 WANT," says eight-year-old Alison to her mother, Nadine Foulds, while pointing to marshmallow and coconut squares. The two were shop- ping at the Wingham Armouries during the plant and bake sale sponsored by the stroke unit. Volunteer workers in the photo are Alice Moore and Sarah De Zeeuw. MRS. LEWIS STONEHOUSE :Belgrave Personal Notes Mrs. Harry McGuire returned home last Tuesday after visiting for a few weeks with her daughters and sons- in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Cantelon of Tweed and Mr.' and Mrs. Norman Hill,, Willowdale. Mrs. Helen. Jagger of Worcestershire, England, and Miss Laura Philips of Auburn visited last Wed- nesday with their cousins, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Stonehouse and Mrs. Harry McGuire. Mr. and Mrs. Brian MacKay, Christopher and David of Cambridge visited with Brian's grandmother, Mrs. Harry McGuire, {{ on Sunday. On Monday morning they left for Taber, Alberta, where they now will be making their home. Mrs. Victor Haines of RR 4, Wingham, who was the teacher at S.S. No. 9 (Currie's) at the time of the first fair (1920), was pre- sented with a bouquet of red roses by some of her former pupils at the Fair on Satur- day. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Taylor, Mrs. Bob Gordon and Robert, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Taylor, Trisha and Sherry, Mr. and Mrs. John Thompson and Mrs. Ruth Coyne of Winddor attended the baptism of Taylor Jacob, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Mali, in the . ockn.:w United Church on Sunday, Sept. 14, All were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Gordon for dinner following, the service. Mrs. Ruth Coyne of Windsor spent a few days with Mr. and Mrs. Ross Robinson, Mr. and Mrs., Lawrence Taylor and other Robinson relatives. She at- tended the fair and rode, on a float that was entered by S.S. No. 7 East Wawanosh. Mr. and Mrs. Ron Nicholson and Sherri of Alliston spent the weekend with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Garner Nicholson. Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Vincent of Oakville visited among relatives during the weekend 'and attended the Belgrave School Fair on tlaii';daY, . ; a Mrs. Leonard James, Mrs. Norman Coultes, Mrs. Ross Higgins and Mrs'. James Hunter ' attended the 75th anniversary of the Women's Institute at a dinner held in Clinton on Wednesday, September 10. The guest speaker was Mrs. Clarence Diamond, F.W.I.O. presi- dent from New Hamburg. Several descendants of, Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Corbett, one of the first families to settle in the Bel - grave area, returned on September 13 to attend the 60th 'anniversary of the Bel - grave, Blyth and Brussels School Fair. Members of the -Corbett family attending were Bob and Olive McKee (Corbett) from Toronto, Len and Doris Ristou (Corbett) from Kit- chener, Royetta Suffidy (Corbett) of Campbellford and M. A. Babcock (Corbett) and Douglas Corbett from Toronto. THE HOCKEY MOTHERS last week donated $4,000 to the Wingham Minor Hockey Association to use in its minor hockey program. Joan Pletch, president of the Mothers' Auxiliary, presented the cheque to Brian Cameron, president of the minor hockey association. The donation comes from proceeds of the food booth at the arena and represents many hours of volunteer work by the heckey mothers, Mr. Cameron explained. He added that contributions like this keep down the cost of hockey registration and k p the program open to all Interested youngsters. Mrs. Melvin Taylor of Brussels spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Cook and attended the school fair on Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. America Arruda, Marie and Michelle of Toronto spent the weekend with her mother, Mrs. Cliff Logan. Mrs. Eileen Canning of Stratford spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Norman Coupes and attended the. Belgrave Fair. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard James were in Toronto on Sunday. Mrs. James will spend the weekend with her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Roger Pearson. What's new at •Huronview? Alvin McLeod, • Sarah Carter, Morgan Dalton, Bert Columbe, John McTaggart, Gladys Stanlake, Margaret McQueen, Cliff Mitchell and Andy Doig attended the Blyth reunion. 'Somebody's Praying For You' was the anthem sung by the Huronview Choir during the Sunday morning service. Doctor Toll's Band from Seaforth played on the front lawn Sunday afternoon for the residents enjoyment. The fall programs had a good start Monday afternoon when Marie Flynn, Lorne 1 -1 Sta. nl_._. TT'll.-.- , a W JV11 and Sta. IUIJek1, together with Jim Ruddock, provided some toe -tapping Old Tyme Music. ' Tuesday morning Mr. Archibald was here to do woodworking with the resi- dents. Mary Ross, Polly Wiltse, Josephine Cunning- ham, Margaret Murray, Margaret Mitchell, Grace Peck, Ella Elder, Elsie Henderson and Phyllis Con- nell helped the Clinton Women's Institute celebrate its 75th anniversary at the Christian' Reformed Church hall. The horticulture society brought beautiful corsages and bouquets of fresh flowers to Huronview Tues- day evening. Ruth Bond was the emcee for the evening program. Entertainment consisted of George, Barry and Bonnie Turner singing and playing their ukuleles. The Clinton Clickers: Sheri Preszcator, Wendy Watson and Shiela Cook, did some tap dancing. There was also a guitar solo by Mike Powell and duets by Kris and Kathy MacDonald. Special Care men took a van ride to Goderich , on Thursday afternoon, They enjoyed the ride around Goderich. The Anglicans held their communion on Tuesday afternoon and there was a good turnout of members. Caravan Clothes will be coming to Huronview again Oct. 7 and all the residents will have the opportunity to go down to the auditorium that day and do their shopping, Sympathy is expressed to the family of Ruth Muteh • Farmers •in onii . by .extension:in the ri world hold their epee future in their own' bands, ; .speaker tnl.d a s'atherand; the HurorCOunty Ft4, tion of AgriculffireTast It is up to themto t+ initiative by working er to make things hai Les Emery, chairman Q the Ontario Federation of Agriculture's (OFA) energy committee and himself a farmer from Northumber- land County, said compost and ethyl alcohol are the keys to an independent fu - tare for farmers. Compost,' made from urban and rural wastes, could replace expensive chemical fertilizers which are slowly sterilizing the land, he declared. And ethyl alcohol, distilled from high - sugar crops, could supple- • ment or replace gasoline and diesel fuel at a fraction of the cost. Last year the farming community in Ontario spent between one.and five billion dollars for fuel and fertilizer, Mr. Emery reported. The bill for farmers right across Canada came to $15 billion, He blamed high input cost= for playing a major role in driving ' farmers out of business, reporting •that between 1971 and 1979 the number of farmers in Ontario dropped. by almost half to 75,000 from 138,000. "We've got to Change our system," he declared, reporting that the average return on investment for all farmers, including the big farms, is only three per cent. "This kind of business is no • good." The solution, he claimed, lies in farmers reducing their input costs and freeing themselves from the grip of the multi -national cor- porations by forming cooperatives to produce their own fertilizer and fuel from readily available wastes and crops. He is a member of a dooperative j in' his "home county which is attempting to do just that. About 30 farmers have banded together to set up a com- posting plant which pro- cesses garbage into a highly fertile dry compost, which can be applied through a seed drill or by means of a manure spreader. Tests of the end product have yielded uniformly good results, he said. One test plot produced "the first 12 -foot corn ever grown in our county". The compostnot only puts back the macronutrients — nitrogen, phosphorus and potash — but also 42 trace minerals and -metals needed by plants, he_ claimed, and it puts them back in a form which prevents their being tcacuCu away. Normally when a farmer applies 100 pounds per acre of nitrogen he's putting on 25 pounds for the plants, "and the other 75 per cent you're throwing away," he said. It just leaches out into the groundwater and ' drains away. He said that until recently ered to find fthis kind of now groups ,,l across the re started /s happening elr farms. Lidy area in have found devoid of any tdl, and have orate a single 'r any soil reported. As a the soil has ipacted that it tnes as much plow a furrow land plowed for you're doing is ear wer1 bacteria,.<: coliseum become 'horse coin com the.fi: '4 ruining thing that's the basis of your livelihood," he told the. farmers "You're killing your soil. He said` it takes 15 to 20 years to deplete the organic Matter - -,M,othe soil, "and that's the end of it unless you change your ways". The plant built by the farmers tiges municipal solid waste, •raw manure and other waste products, which are emulsified in water and then put into a compost bed. It has the capacity to produce about 100 tons per day of compost at a, fraction,.. of the cost of other fer tilizers, Mr. Emery repor- ted. A side benefit is that there's no need for any more landfill sites in the county, he added. Some have been closed and eventually all will close, with all the waste coming to the plant. He said they may even dig up some old landfills and process the garbage. "That stuff's valuable{" All the paper and other organic material is ' com- posted, while glass and metal is sorted out for recycling. He challenged other farmers to get together and set up their own plants. "This thing is proven, it's not mor resign somet We're sop mg. All the w -how ss OVeljiable and fir : acing help to 'go along' ithit." UEL FROM PLANTS On the topic of alternatives o petroleum-based fuels, " Mr. Emery said his OFA committee has concluded that no possible fuel can be found which would compete with ethyl alcohol. Methyl alcohol, processed from wood, won't do, he sai'd., It is less efficient and there aren't enough trees to produce it in the amounts needed. "There's only one answer to where the fuel can come from: It has to come off the farms. "Whether the farmers or the multi -nationals do it, it will be done." - He brushed aside the moral objection that in a starving world food crops shouldn't be used to . oduel fuel. "`If the public wob'tpay you for corn for food, why shouldn't you sea it ter alcohol?" ' However he went on to' claim it's not necessary to divert any foodstuffs for making fuel._ Aleohol can b€ produced from plant such as the Jerusalem artichtke, often considered a`weedand able . to grow ' nyM here up to the Arctic", he said. Sugar beets are also good, while corn and other starchy crops are less efficient. Pulp from the processed plants can be used. for animal feed, while crop wastes and wastes. from processing plants can also be used for fuel production. He said the same group which put up the fertilizer plant is gearing up for alcohol production with a still which would produce 1,000 gallons a day. There's no problem getting rid of the alcohol because whatever arrners demand a a Challenging Agriculture Minister Lorne Henderson to either put up or get;:out, the Huron County Federation of Agriculture (HFA) last week passed a resolution demandingaction to curb the growing problem of absentee land ownership. The resolution, passed unanimouy by about 100 federation,i►iembers, calls on its Reef* body, the On- tario .. dare ..of Agri- culture (OVAL to demand Mr. Henderson's resignation unless he takes immediate action to, "stop the , callous destruction of our rural ni't We the .oil Cpl., but. to gasaboL peri ported - The g' , is also ready to ter upsI l 1.. machinery husirrcisp convert , moues f •- alcohol. .: If fainter work together a share burdens ef Project*. *POIX; these they an . wpr better, Mr.Eiftery frig nrteetinB. By wort cooperatively the each individual are $low, and the .end . thein mereeolnt l own destinies. fu other eer4. business' Tony, Me the ' Huron feder energy committee salt fir committee, • was ..Araby disappointed with the response to its energy questionnaire.. He laid the. committee- plans to Void -abr- energy seminar this 'winterif'• sufficient utterest is howti and invitedfarmers to, sign up after the Meetings s�ntee• owners areas". It will be brought before the OFA for ratification at its annual convention in November. The resolution was in- troduced by John Van Beers, outgoing OFA director representing . East-Central Huron. He told 'the meeting , that a buyer ,.recently ap- peared in McKillop Town- ship looking for about 800 acres of land. He doesn't want any farm buildings; so they will either be severed or left to fall down, Mr. Van Beers ex- plained. The result will be the destruction of about eight farms. "What will happen when you get three or four blocks like that in your township?" Doug Fortune, a member. from Turnberry Township, suggested the resolution might be premature and proposed it be postponed until the federation can assemble more ammunition on the extent and seriousness of the problem posed by absentee ownership. However others felt it was important to get the federation's concern out in the open right away. If it Agriculture minister responds Contacted at Queen's Park Tuesday, Agriculture Minister Lorne Henderson said he is aware of thee`,' federation's resolution but is not prepared to take the kind of action the farmers are demanding. Nor does he expect to resign over the issue. Eventually legislation might be considered to' curb foreign . investment in On- tario farm land, if it is found in pre Beni a civninican threat, he said, but that is two years down the road. And he said his govern- ment has no intention of taking any action to restrict speculation in farm land by Canadian investors. "We as a government don't feel we should interfere in the lives of individuals if it's not. necessary:" The minister said he is aware of "one or two bad situations" in Huron,County, but feels that over the province as a whole foreign ownership of land is relatively insignificant — one-half of one per cent of farm land, according to one survey. He pointed to the new registration bill' passed by Parliament earlier this year as an example of wflat the government is doing. The legislation, which he said he' hopes to proclaim by Dec. 1, would require all foreign purchases of Ontario farm land, or purchases in which there is a 25 per cent or greater foreign interest, to be • registered with the ministry. In addition it gives •non - Canadians currently owning farm land in the province two years to register their holdings with the ministry. This will give the govern- ment a handle on the situation, Mr. Henderson explained. He said he already has promised to consider legislation •,to restrict.foreign purchases of farm land if it is found to be needed. The government is con- cerned that- persons outside "Canada should not be allowed to gain control over agricultural production, he said. "My concern is with people outside Canada owning large blocks of land, who don't have to answer to the laws of Canada." waits too long, the buying will continue and the problem will be much more difficult to solve, Tony McQuail reminded mem- bers. Les Emery, an OFA member from North- umberland Township and guest speaker at the eeting,, noted there could e a provincial election in the ,near future and suggested "there was never a better time to make your ideas known". The federation is con- cerned about the increase in large blocks of farm land. under absentee ownership, leading to a decrease in the Belmore Misses Jan and Lori McKague entered their ponies in the Mildmay Fair_ on Saturday. They placed first, second, fourth, fifth and sixth in various com- petitions. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Douglas and Mr. and Mrs. Jim Renwick spent the weekend at Fenelon Falls. Mrs. Clark Renwick is currently a • patient in Wingham and District Hospital. The. Squirts defeated Walton 11-9 and the Midget Boys dumped Teeswater 22- 2. The Midget Girls downed Atwood 22-21 but were defeated 9-8 in the last game of the Tri -County ficial series. rural' fi'opulation • • and deterioration in Auality of rural life. One Ashfield TowrtSliip. farmer. noted that 'Since absentee landlords, bought all the land around him he no: longer has any neighbors; if he gets stuck in the field or runs into trouble, there's no. one around to help. The federation also points out that competition,- from land speculators, whether foreign or Canadian, drives up the price of land to a point where young farmers are finding it impossible to.get a start. There is fear' this will force agriculture back to a feudal society, with tenant farmers working the land for a few, large landowners. The HFA currently is working with the • Rural Development Outreach Project of the University of Guelph on. a study' of ab- sentee land ownership in the county. Therapy top Y a.40. e. Vi40- i j Sys pa -tents Enterostomal therapy, a health field specializing in the complete physical and emotional rehabilitation of ostomy patients, is available in Huron County. In November, 1978, enter- ostomal therapy became' an added professional service provided by the Huron County Home Cad Pro- gram. The enterostomal ther- apist in the county is a regis- tered nurse, employed by the Victorian Order of Nurses, and travels " throughout Huron County to see ostomy patients where needed and when requested by the at- tending medical doctor. BIG 'ATTRACTION—The Brussels Legion Pipe Band was a big at- traction during and after the parade for the doth Belgrave, Blyth and Brussels School Falr.Saturday afternoon. After proudly march- ing through the village streets a small group from the band gather- ed in the arena to entertain visitors who were looking over the many displays of fruits, vegetables, flowers, knitting and art work. Check doors to -attics, make sure the fit is snug ... a LOOSE door is a HEAT LOSS. �,�