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Citizens News, February 23, 1977
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A United Church Women life
membership was presented to
Mrs, Robt. Stirling at the
February meeting of the Varna
U.C.W. Helen Taylor made the
presentation, and Margaret
Hunt, on behalf of the members,
gave her the book "Love Gift" in
recognition of her devoted ser-
vice as president for the
preceding 15 months.
Some New Year's thoughts
from Elaine Townshend's column
Odds 'n Ends were read by
Margaret Hunt. The hymn
"Come Let Us Sing of a Won-
derful Love" was sung, and
Helen Taylor led in prayer.
Scripture was from 1 Corinthians
13. Barbara Consitt read "How to
Listen to a Sermon" -and "Take
Time".
Nora Heard gave a report on
the Annual Meeting of Huron -
Perth Presbyterial, which was
attended by several of our
members. A fifty -dollar donation
was made to the Resource Centre
in Mitchell. The annual pancake
supper is scheduled for Tuesday,
February 22.
Several of the ladies tried their
hand at decorating a Valentine
cake after a demonstration of
cake decorating by Mrs. Helen
Hoggart. She gave many helpful
tips on baking and preparing a
cake for icing, and displayed
some of the pans and tools, etc,
she uses.
' For lunch after the meeting, we
had the Valentine cake and ice
cream,
4-H Club
The new 4-H Club is "Clothes
for Leisure". Any girls in this
area who are interested in joining
should phone Kate Keys at 262-
5362 or Joyce Dowson at 482-9854
right away.
BARN BURNING NO LOSS — This barn fire may Zook like a disaster,
but the truth of the matter is the fire in the barn was set by its owners.
The barn, located on No. 21 highway at St. Josephs,was not safe to use
so the easiest way to get rid of it seemed to be to burn it.
Takes one match
to eliminate barn
It only took one match to burn
his mother's barn down ac-
cording to David Pergel of St,
Joseph's. Mr. Pergel made the
comment as he watched the last
remains of the barn burn slowly
to ashes.
The reason the match was
thrown into the barn in the first
place was to eliminate a
dangerous structure says Mr.
Pergel.
"You can't burn a standing
barn so we had to knock the
upstairs down, but the building
had to go. It wasn't safe."
Once the upstairs of the
building has been destroyed, the
fire was set from the basement of
the structure.
"It only took one match to start
this building burning, it really
went up in a hurry," commented
Mr. Pergel, adding "You have to
make sure you pick a day when
the wind isn't too strong and is
blowing away from other
buildings before you light a barn.
Otherwise you could have it get
out of control,"
Is there a secret to getting a
barn to burn smoothly? Accor-
ding to Mr. Pergel, there is.
"Just use lots of gasoline," he
grinned, "and then throw in a
match and get the heck away
from there."
BOWLING SCORES
ZURICH LADIES BOWLING LEAGUE
Total Points
84
126
47
131
55
The Angels, Theresa Stark, 594
Starlites, Pauline Miller, 566
Roxy Rollers, Marie Bedard, 479
Packers, Marg Clarke, 655
Red Gables, Linda Fisher, 541
Town & Country Six, Hilda Vanderhoeck, 529
Ups & Downs, Ila O'Rourke, 550
Alley-Oops, Mary LaPorte, 528
Happy Gang, Sherrie Stade, 496
Road Runners, Barb Cooper, 584
Little Rascals, Patsy Denomme, 669
Strikers, Bernice Boogemans, 494
High Single, Mary LaPorte
High Triple, Helen Faber and Mary LaPorte .
High Average, Sandra Dickert
65
115
28
110
24
51
311
767
205
SR. MIXED BOWLING LEAGUE
Total Points
Hi -Hopes, C, Geiger, 667 42
Newcomers, 0. Baker, 558 50
Whippoorwills, E, Horner, 690 104
Hawkeyes, J. Cleave, 536 43
89
Varieties, R. Hamilton, 604
Ramblers, L. Jacobe, 667
High Single, C. Geiger
High Triple, A. Gascho
53
332
738
ENJOY PANCAKES — More than 1,000 persons
breakfast Sunday morning at the Pineridge Chalet.
Kelly Dobson and Sandra Dixon.
Stanley man at conference
from far and near enjoyed the pancake and sausage
Shown above are Hensall area residents Audrey Dixon,
T -A photo
Discuss land use problems.
Ontario's urgent land use
problems were attacked this
week at a seminar sponsored by
the Rural Learning Association
at Geneva Park, Orillia.
Participants from farm
organizations, co-operatives, the
Consumers Association of
Canada, Indian bands, several
universities, municipal councils
and the provincial government
share their concerns and iden-
tified ways to promote more
effective land use in the province.
Clarence Rau, RR 2, Zurich,
attended this meeting
representing Stanley Township.
The preservation of prime
agricultural land was identified
as the first essential. Govern-
ment announcement of a freeze
on 3,000 acres of prime fruitland
in the Niagara peninsula was
received by delegates as "a step
in the right direction." The new
planning guidelines were also
viewed as a positive tool for
putting Ontario's most valuable
natural resource to its best use.
Dr. E.G. Pleva of the depart-
ment of geography,University of
Western Ontario, had already
warned seminar participants
that the disappearance of good
agricultural land in Ontario was
reaching crisis proportions. Good
local planning, and a broad
provincial land use plan, are
needed to keep a proper balance
between the demands for growth
and the need to protect people's
rights.
Delegates challenged the
government and the opposition
parties for more leadership in the
land use problemn a free-
wheeling session with Bob Eaton,
Middlesex, parliamentary
assistant to the minister of
agriculture, and the agriculture
critics of the opposition parties,
Donald C. MacDonald (NDP -
East York), and Jack Riddell
(Lib - Huron -Middlesex). Eaton
said the government had con-
fidence in local planning boards,
and was strongly committed to
land use policies that enabled the
agricultural community to
survive.
MacDonald criticized the
government for not going far
enough to protect prime
foodlands. He said such lands
should be reserved for
agricultural use, with decisions
made at the local level within a
policy framework created by the
province.
Riddell said the Liberals op-
pose a blanket land freeze policy,
but want urban and industrial
growth steered away from class 1
and 2 farmland. The party also
advocates a pool to compensate
farmers for keeping farmland in
production in areas of urban
sprawl where developers offer
thousands of dollars an acre
more than the agricultural value
of the land.
Spokesmen for Ontario's three
farm organizations also
discussed their land use policies.
Bill Benson of the Ontario
Federation of Agriculture said
that delegates to the OFA annual
Family workers
told of nutrition
The Family Care Workers held
their February 17 meeting at the
Board Rooms in Clinton Hospital
with a good attendance. The
guest speaker for the evening
was Mrs. Kenneth Devereaux on
nutrition. Mrs. Devereaux is a
nutritionist at St. Joseph's
Hospital, London.
We welcome new Family Care
Workers.
A social half hour was enjoyed
by all.
AT CONFERENCE
Barry Miller, RR 3, Exeter and
Albert Van Dyken, RR 1, Exeter
represented Huron 4-H leaders at
the Annual Provincial 4-1-1
Leaders' Conference being held
at the Sheraton Centre, Toronto
on February 11 and 12.
meeting had not abandoned their
land use policy—to preserve
farmlands —but decided their
emphasis should be on saving the
farmer. When agriculture
provides a decent return, you can
keep farm families on their land,
and keep the land producing food
for everyone, he emphasized.
Elbert van Donkersgoed of the
Christian Farmers Federation
criticized the agriculture code of
practice, which he said was
basically designed to make it
possible for urban people to move
into agricultural areas. He said
there were important decisions to
be made on the land to be
preserved, and who should bear
the cost. His own members, he
commented, were dedicated
farmers, and if they were
squeezed out of farms in one
area, they were likely to relocate
in another, even though farming
costs might be higher.
Joe Casey of the National
Farmers Union told the meeting
that preservation of the family
farm unit was his organization's
prime concern, and development
should be public planned for the
good of the whole community.
A graphic description of how
land use planning can be im-
plemented at the local level was
provided by Gary Davidson,
director of planning for Huron
County. In six years, Huron has
developed a county -wide plan for
land use and organized
development of its agricultural,
commercial and recreational
resources. The right of local
municipalities to retain their
independent control must be
respected, he warned.
Doug Hoffman, director of the
centre for resources development
at the University of Guelph,
described the land bank set up in
British Columbia and other
measures taken in Prince
Edward Island, Alberta and
Saskatchewan as examples of the
growing concern for the
preservation of land for its best
use.
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