The Lucknow Sentinel, 2013-11-06, Page 15JACQUIE TAYLOR KINCARDINE NEWS FREELANCE
Christmas Tour of Homes!
The Ripley Christmas Tour of Homes was held on Sun. Nov.
4, 2013, with numerous homes decorated to the brim with
Christmas decorations and giftware supplied and sponsored by
local businesses.
Seven-year-old Andy Lush of Ripley enjoys one of the many
elves on display.
Jana Folmer
of Folmer's
Landscaping shows
of her decorating
talents with this
deer sculpture.
Evelyn MacTavish reminds everyone
who toured her home to Believe in
Santa or else!
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011ie Watson greeted Christmas enthusiasts
at this festive century old home that was
part of the Ripley Christmas Tour of Homes.
Sonya Watson warmly greeted Tour
goers into her home.
Lots for new Bruce County Federation of Agriculture president to tackle
Don Crosby
Special to QMI Agency
The new president of the Bruce
County Federation of Agriculture
has inherited some issues to tackle
during his first year in office.
"I don't think the SPCA file we
can consider closed yet... wind
energy continues to be a hot -but-
ton topic that, like it or not, we're
going to have to deal with at some
point," said Patrick Jilesen after his
acclamation as president during
the federation's annual general
meeting Friday.
Jilesen replaces outgoing presi-
dent John Gillespie. Other mem-
bers of the new executive selected
at Friday's meeting include Kris-
tian Sol, first vice president and
Heather Frook, second vice
president.
"We have some members that
have wind turbines and we have
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president of the Bruce County
Federation of Agriculture
some that don't and we have to
find a middle ground somewhere
that's going to work for everybody
and also works for our neighbours
that are not OFA (Ontario Federa-
tion of Agriculture) members as
well," said Jilesen, who mused that
while green energy is an important
part of the energy mix in Ontario,
it isn't very popular in rural
Ontario.
"We need to come to find a
common ground with some of our
urban neighbours on the green
energy policy; wind energy is part
of that, but there are other sources
of energy we need to get to our
area. We need to get the natural
gas to this county."
Natural gas would be a big boost
to the farming economy. It's esti-
mated that using low cost natural
gas would represent a saving of up
$1,000 a year per household.
"It'll bring down our heating
costs for our homes as well as
heating our farm structures, our
barns, our chicken facilities, our
swine facilities. We have to look
forward to good energy policies,"
Jilesen said.
Jilesen welcomes the latest free
trade agreement that Canada has
initiated with the European
Union.
"I'm confident it's going work
well for Bruce County farmers. I
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can see that we grow beef, chicken, pork,
any product very well. We do a great job
and we can compete on an international
market as long as the playing fields are
level. And I hope that's what we can
achieve with CETA:'
Jilesen, a sheep farmer in Saugeen
Shores, thinks the jury is still out on the
effect of neonicotinoids on bees and other
pollinators.
"There's a lot of science that needs to
happen before we decide what's happen-
ing with bees. I need to see science. I need
to see good science and continued sci-
ence and I think that's what Health Can-
ada is looking at," he said.
Neonicotinoids — a class of pesticide
similar to nicotine that act on the nervous
system that are lathered on the seeds of
corn and soybeans — have been linked by
some to the death of millions of bees
Seed companies are now offering farm-
ers a choice of seed with or without
neonicotinoids.
"Farmers can decide among them-
selves what they want to do. I'm never in
the business of telling farmers what to do,
I don't like that. They should be able to
choose for themselves and this is another
way they can do that," Jilesen said.
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