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The Huron Expositor, 1975-08-14, Page 11Your Texaco man. He's outstanding in his field. Your Texaco man knows farming and farm equipment. He knows how important it is for your equipment to do-the job. r- He also ---''knows that he 'has the right fuels and lubricants to keep your wheels turning. Your Texaco man. He may not be a lamer;' but whep it c4rie§ .to keeping your farm equipment on the job,, he's an expert. ROBERT DINSMORE Seaforth 527-1224 Farm Services. We have a large stock of Cement Both Portland and Masonary Steel Roofing Galvinized in stock . Coloured available on order Fencing Supplies Chain link, Page wire, Monova Barbed wire, staples, and nails Fr by name! SEAFORTH FARMERS CGOP We culfomerc Walton boy draw cabal..1.par. by Bob Trona, 90 Sox Z$1. Elmira 4, Rarely, these days, does any member of the ,clergy step on governmental pinkiei. Religion and politics have been set aside by some organizations as taboo for discussion. Some of the meetings of such organizations must be extremely dull because those two topics mean a great deal to a great many people. That's why it was refreshing the other day to read that a bishop of the Anglican Church in Canada, Rey. David Ragg, forcibly pointed out that the current land-use policy of the government is next to useless. Governments, he said, give only lit) service to land use. The current policy of the government is "when we want it, we take it." The province was singled out as a major culprit. Ontario is taking prime farmland out of production fOl. new townsites and for more hydro generating stations and transmission corridors. He strongly objected to building more hydro stations if they are needed only to serve U.S. customers, a point this column has suggeSted for manybionths. He said agricultural land should not be lost just to build super highways to get trucks from Port Huron, Michigan, to Buffalo, N Y. Thos?-ire beautiful words. Most farm writers in this province along with the major farm organizations have been saying the same thing for years. HoW comforting to have the backing of the bishop. He spoke to delegates at an Ontario region meeting of the National FArmers Union in Guelph last month. The NFU, although slightly overshadowed of" late by the Ontario Federation of Agriculture, is, still alive and well. When delegates hear strong words from the clergy it should make them all the more determined to fight unnecessary land grabs. ti Bishop Ragg repeated what has been said in this corner and what every citizen of the world should have engraved on memory boards: "Every successful nation is based on a sound agricultural life — God help us if we forget that," he said. . • "Our children could face a very real problem of starvation right here in Canada which was once considered as one of the best and glorious food producers of the world." It should be mentioned that the proVincial government has taken steps taht will help in-the-preservation of Class 1 and 2 farmland. The recently-formed Environmental Hearing Board is an example. Lattended a couple of days of hearings held by the board recently in Hillsburgh, Ontario Hydro had to give genuinely spbstantial reasons by a certain route for power lines was chosen. No more land grabs will be made if this board does its job well. From where I sat,• board members were truly conscientious in listening to all. the people concerned. • Other measures by the province are evident too, such as Agriculture Minister Bill Stewart's revelation some months ago that more acres of land are in farm production now in the area around Pickering than before the land was acquired for a new airport. The land is leased back to farmers in the area at nominal rates. • These are positive steps. But they are just steps. Great strides must be taken in the near future to ensure that enough prime land is left in Ontario' to beed the gtowing population. The great land mass that is Canada appears, on the surface, to be,,, large enough to feed the entire world. But it isn't. Less than six per cent of Canada is suitable for agriculture. Arable'4and is just the same as natural gas and oil fields. It is a natural resource and shdflid be treated the same way. Once it is buried under tons of asphalt, super highways, shopping plazas and ticky-tacky subdivisions, it is lost forever. It cannot be reclaimed. I don't know how applicable the figures are but the Ontario Federation of Agriculture said a couple of years ago that arable land in Ontario is disappearing at the rate of 26 - or was it 32? — acres every hour of every day throughout every year. Disappearing under the hammer of developers and urban sprawl " and highway expansion and power corridors and you name it. As many of you know, our little horse farm used to be almost a mile out of town. Not any more. Door-to-door mail delivery is now only a couple of h ,µndred feet away. that's how insidious the disappearance of farm land is. You don't notice it until it's gone. .Hibbert circulates revised zoning bylaw way no. 8 to the C.N.R. Tracks.. Hibbert Township council asked clerk Charles Friend at last Thursday's council, meeting to send copies 'of the revised zoning by-law to all those who appealed at the council's June 23 hearing. If residents still oppose the revised by-law, they can appeal to the Ontario Municipal Board, who will then send a representative to 4,, hear appeals. Township Clerk Charles Friend said their zoning by-law is similar to the by-laws for Fullarton, Logan and Hibbert since they are members of the Mitchell and District Planning Board. Discrepancies, he said would occur due to geographical differ- ences, such as the location of a ayailer , park in one area and not in !another, or gravel pits in one township. "Hibbert's first zoning by-law was enacted in 1972, but council felt certain changes were neces- sary so last year a revised by-law was circulated. Council heard about 13 appeals. The revision in the new by-law being circulated includes changes resulting from PULSIFER MUSIC Summer Hours Open Tue. & Thurs. 4-9 Sat. 9-12:30 . or by, appointment Phone 527-0053 their June hearing. The few by-law mainly.-changes property designations that were incorrectly zoned. In the 1974 by-livv, council restricted a manure lagoon from being built within 600 feet of homes. A case came up, when the location of a lagoon destroyed a man's farm because 4. the animals reaction to the odor. Mr. Friend said the stipulation results from past experience. The most recent amendment prevents in turn houses from locating within 600 feet of a manure lagoon. Some residents appealed to council-to get the size of the lots and houses reduced from 1,100 feet floor space, and 15,000 square "foCit Council didn't change, that, Clerk Friend said because a house lot must be large enough for a septic tank system. Following a delegation totheir. July meeting, requesting an increase in the amount to be loaned by the township for Tile Drainage Contruct the council agreed, to increase the amount to $15,000 per hundred acres. A letter of application was received from the Trustees of the Village of Dublin, requesting applications be made to the County for permission to build a sidewalk from north of the Post Office to south of the Bridge, west side of County Road No. 10. After permission is received, Ministry of Transport and Communications subsidey • should help defray the cost. Subject to the approval of the Ministry of Communications and the Council' of the Township of Fullarton, it was decided to black top the section ,pf the Hibbert Fullarton Boundiry from High- Achievement days set The Home Economics Branch of the Ontario Ministry of Agri- culture and Food is holding 4H Garden Club Achievement Days in Huron County. The' girls are participating in the current garden project, entitl- ecf "Use of Vegetables". During the summer months, each club , member planted and cared for a home garden. With the variety of vegetables grown, each girl has practised ways of preparing and serving garden • produce to her family. Jane Pengilley, Home Econom- ist for Huron County, will be conducting the following Achieve- ment Days throughout the County Belgrave Area Achievement Day; East Wawanosh Public School, Belgrave, August 19. , Clinton Area Achievement Day, L, Central Huron Secondary School, August 20. Seaforth Area Achiev- ement Day, Seaforth High School, August 22, All friends and' relatives • are invited to attend the afternoon _ programme which begins at j :15 p.m. The girls will be presenting exhibits, demonstrations and skits related to gardening: Correspondent • Mrs. Mary McCall Walton Squirt boys held a draw at Walton Ball Park on June 29th *during the game between Brussels and Walton. • • Draws Were made by Paul Humphries, home plate umpire, Bill Smith, Base umpire, and Bob Thomas, Brussels coach. • Winners were: Frank Stretton, Brussels, $25; Mildred Traviss, Walton, $15. and Marie Coutts, Walton, $10. All members and coaches sold tickets, Danny Achilles won the prize for selling the most tickets of 30 books. The money will be used.to buy new ball pants for the boys. They are most gratified to all who bought tickets and attended their games. W.1. Notes Conveners Mrs. Jan Van Vliet Jr and Mrs. Graeme Craig will be in charge of the program for the Walton Women's Institute on Wednesday, August 20th at 8:15 p.m. Slides will be shown of the bus trip taken to the Elmira Area in June.Anyone -that took this trip and are interested in seeing the pictures are most welcome. This is the Resolutions meeting and the roll call is to be answered by your telephone number backwards and there will be a "telephone debate':. Personals Several ladies of the Brussels Horticultural Society met at the home of the president, Mrs. Phyllis Dunk, when plans were made for the annual turkey . supper in Brussels on Friday, August 22 following the flower show. An invitation was read from Myth Horticulture to attend their flower show on August 26. Weekend guests with Mrs. Phyllis Dunk were Mr. and Mrs. Alf Wood and Wendy • and Mr. and Mrs. David Dunk, Allan and Darlene 'of Corunna. Allan and Darlene remained with their grandmother for •a week's holidays. Mrs. Maud Leeming, Mr. James Clark, Keith and On, and Mr. William Bennett were Sunday supper guests with Mrs. Kathleen Danby in,' Brussels. Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Lundy of Hamilton spent the Civic Holiday weekend at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Allan McCall. Mr. and Mrs. Don Harris, John and Mark of Kingston spent a few days at his father's home in the village, also, visited the father in Wingham Hospital. John Leeming arrived home from Calgary, Alberta, where he will spend a holiday at the home of his parents, W.J.Leeming and- family in McKillop Twp. and visit his mother, Ethel Leeming in Seaforth Community Hospital. 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