The Huron Expositor, 1981-01-08, Page 3fanvilles/ have Mend Western'
ss isel • exaggerated- "A great
'peeple, all and all"„ is hesr-they
their,neighbours,‘ there are lots of -
on 1 aktlyj1195)n the area and the -
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we'dloVete seesoMe of them. You.maY get a
feW•iturprises yeuself,jUst as 1. did.
110Still 'think that bisette figurine is ugly.
but !no longer get any urges to pitch it out!
SuSan Dunlop
'Project Minager
*Van' Egitiond Foundation
Contest warners
Confirtned from page I ,
- The second place winner-was, Kathy Roth.
11 of RA. 3.-Kiepere and the third place
winner Was Sandra O'Reilly, 10. or R.R. 2
Dublin. Thejudgehad the difficult task of
selecting the winning entries from „the •
hundreds of'entries * dropped in -at the
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RaVIEWING THOR YEAJ:!-,-Gail and Alex Glanville, who were-visiting
at Orville Storey's hOme last week, review" the diary--they've kept of their
year its Saskatchewan when' crops Were. planted and harvested.;--and how a
different climate affects their crops. (Photo by Gibb)
The Glaneilles fart it, livided into three' morning'and continue as late as 2 a.m. and , stay on the farm often build their home on
the family farmsite as well. Farm sever,
separate sections, protides about 2100 to sometimes all night, without having to
2200 hearithitSepeig)tear. 'far less than the worry aboig . extra moisture on the crop. exist in th Melfort area.
ances aren't an issue- they simply don'
farm. machinery" town according to Met
Glanville, and merchants appreciate tbe
farm trade, •The actinide is "if the farmer
' hese good year, theft everybody has a good
year," Glenvilles have diScovered, • •
The Glanvilles also leareed-agileultural
fairs in the province are held entirely with
,ft.farmer-.1n-inind,---*--:Siskatehescatt-- '''
they're summer events so they won't •
interfere with the harvest: •
The two strongest farm organizations it/
the province are the Federation of.
Agriculture. Midi the *Ilona] Farmers'
Union. whiehlhaS roots in, the West le-
addition tUfdeedly iteigitbourS who have
tWidedlota Of helpful advice farm
poctices; the can also draw on
,the staff at a government research `station
in"Melfort for additional information on -
cropping practices, ,
Glanvilles have also discovered .there'a'
ng shortfIV Of `fOrn, news On local. radio
• stations, and lots of l3 aimed at
the agriculturem.ar t. The province also,
has tougher laws regulating against• the
absentee ownership- of farmland and
programs to help yoUngers farmers per-
.tha§e or lease _
Alex Glaieelle said most farMers_hihge
seem to have attended either college or
university. The families seem smaller
there than here in,,Qetario, and sons who
Sa_ cloud-mi.:the horizon, „
tonal' debate and energy standoff
WINTER ,ORYING.,VVInters- in. SaskatcheWan, althOu9h. 'cold; ;ste, dry
enough, brOps like the barley in this picture grown by Ate* Glanville's: •
utdoors to clry. — neighbours at Melfort, Sask., are often left
between; the Western 'premiers and the
federal government. That's a subjects fire
Glanvilles have _found, as transplanted
Easterners, is sometimes best avoided! ,
But in addition ea enjoying the fact
Saskatchewan-apprediates its farmers, the
Glanvilles have also found 'the school
Gail Glanville said the p'upil-teaeher
ration is Iewer, and the curriculum seems
to concentrate heavily on Canadian topics.
- In Grade, 3 for example. students 'have a
thoronskintrOdnction tommiticipal politics
and the way Melfoh ounce operates, In
Grades 4 and pro- nciaLgoveeeme*1
_,studi60. "ha ,Q1arlx childrerrattendein
area ech&J'for rural• stedents until Grade'
7. when theijimitaphi school-cetinbines-air-
iiihan-rura1zipie ,
BY; ALICE OMB
Even in the dirty Tbirttea, when dust and
droughttforeed Many Saskatchewan Tann-
ers -Off their land, •it still -rained eround
Melfori, hi the centre of-the province. That
fact was a teat relief to. Alex and Gait
GlanviBe, who sold their Walton area farm
laSt spritig.tind took up040 nerei er -cash
crop land outside Melfort. -
The Glanvilles and-their three children'
spent the :Christmas holidays visiting
reiatiyee-trid, friends in the area and
answering the ineVitablii qnestioe- did they •
regiel their decisiofi head ,west. ThO
answer, according to. Alex, Glanville, , an
em hktio no. - —
en they first talke4of headilig westi a.
move the couple Wanted*, make while
their. children were Stilt,dyoung, they
eUnsidered settling.in.Alberta's Pea
filver ,•COuntrY; They' they beard about the
'Mellen, area fro ma, neighbour 'and wire
tempted by their future farm's rich, black
topsoil, lack of stones and fewer weeds
than found on many Saskatchewan farms.. '
The land was also Ideated in an area where
- the locals assured them the ,rains always
fell at the right time of year for crops:-
When the Glanvilles farmed at R.R. 4
Walton; their'main crops tvere-com, beans
and some rapeseed-Ai"* Glanville was one
of the first local tamers to, plant the
traditionally Westeritchip. This spting, lie'
planted 160 acres of -;rape on his
Saskatchewan farm', as-well as barley, rye:
flax, and spring wheat.
Alex said he'd finished spring seeding
by May 7 and the harvest by October 7. But
some of his neighbours, anticipating a dry
spring, and eummer, started sowing in
April. Still, Melfort area residents weren't
overly concerned about the drought
conditions which plagued the south- as Gail
Glailvilley pointed- out, "a lot of them have
soinuch faith we'll get rain-in megort, they
never worried:"
Ai, newcomers,'the Glanvilles didn't
have quite the Same fat eh. Their farm
received one-quarter inch of rain of May
23rd and not another drop until a month
later, fortunately at• a time when the barley
crop most needed -the Mei-Stare. The
Glanvilles also discovered another advan-
tage to farming in their area- windstorms
are, far lesS frenuentlind"larmers seldom
` get nailed out- which means crop insurance
, rates are lower than in other parts of the
province. -3„
2600 units. on thew Walton farm-
FARM PRACTICES
The move West hasmeant the Glitrivilles
have had to alter some of • the'farming
practices they followed on theiti4Walton
area farm:Since the climate is cold lad dry
over the winter months. Melfort farmers.
put many of their spaays'on-the land in the
fall- including' the chemical teNoritiel Wild
oats', the weed causing the greatest
nuisance for cash.croppers. TheGlanville's
neighbours also-' put on their liquid ,
fertilizer in the fall- Alex said the ground,is
so cold .the gas from the liquid fertilizer
doesn't *ape. Since-the • Saekatchewan-
winters ere very dry, . sonic of the
Glanville's neighbenrs leave, their harvest,
like barley for example, piled outside so
This, Alex lanville said. "elves a lot more ,4e. h• the
CATERPILLARS
When the' Granvilles moved West this
summer. they hada quick introduction to
one of the less pleasant ; phenomenons
plaguing Saskatchewan farmers- catered-
larS," Fortunately; the yard around their
farmsite had been sprayed. so they weren't
invaded -as badly as some. but the
caterpillars; who deseend-kineo a-Aube:Mr -,
black earpet,. ded- tflip trees and bushes of
all their, leaves as they moved across the
couetry. Gail Glanville said they were so
bad in Prince Albert, 'the city north of
Melfort, that ceepi the city's school had to '
be closed for a few days.
le the time they've been iiiSaskatcliew-
an the Glanvilles have dise9 erect - "mask-,
atchewen is far more a farmer's_province\
than Ontario," Alex said:
Melfort,, for' example, a pev Ll yr-ereated;
"official." city of Oikridents.'ish "big
r*,
The --' Glabvilles 'also- apPiteiate the
a dental-plan that seovers their children up
to grade b. 'Dentists visit the schools so
Saskatchewan yhtingsters are aSsUred of
provincesAtedical insurance program and',
-
For anYO 41-e, eoeteniplating a move
similar to the :\ evilles. Gail has orieselid
, piece ,*,4dviee Siece the Farm Credit
Corporation is a federal orgapization. -they
discovered they could have tansferred the
Farm Credit morgage on 'r Walton farm
tot heir new fade- whieh would haye meant -
a coosiderable savings in interest rates.
Jcids, aft initially,,missing Old friends,
have for ed tiew bonsl fletweencilaniing -
and harVestiiig their crops. -and entertain-
ing over 50 friends "'and- relatives 'whet_
dropped into .their Melfort,area farm this
summer, -the Glanvilles• just didn't have'
suite--to -get--homesick.-Or to regret their
move West..
too.
they can dry and store' the crop in grain •
-bins at a more leisurely pace. •
The Glanvilles' also discovered there's
far less'dew in central Saskatchewan- they.
i can start combining-It-9- a.m. :3ti,Jite •
hours of harvesting." C011 stit
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snow
Fot the first in about 12 beputtinglogether the paper
years I've got --gimething in you'ie reading today folks.
common -:with Pierre-Elliott An4-,althottgh-the-gratitude
titideau. Hes snow bound of all of us country dwellers
in an exclusive jet set- ski goes out to; them, their
resod in Austria and I'm reaction; once they've pulled
storm stayed in an equally off producing the parer, •will
exclusive green farm house probably be to immediately
in4AcKillop township.., seek new homes beyond the
He sliould instead be retie)) of the town snowplow.,
meeting with the Chancellot Perhaps we could have a
Of • Austria. I • should be medal struck inbonour of the
Meeting with my , colleagues Jinuaty ith brigade but I'm
at. the Huron Eatpositer who afraid 'they'd say, ""Nice; but
thought they might put a it doestet pay the nervous
newspaper :out today.. breakdown bills."
And- the parallels don't To get back to Pierre, a six .4 there. The Chanceller Nation- tour looked good
Liner& hoped to meet ie him compared with staying
nd, another 'in Canada to listen
and foremoSt, coming_dOvvn
from holiday height.s-to the
bleitt -cioys of Jieutty.
• 1 mean, what do we look
forward• to pow?' If it's not
;Algeria and South America, -
as is the -case with• Trudeau,
it's at least a little suspended.,
reality of the sort that's only
possible when the lane is
blocked and yOu can't see' the'
road.
Trudeau and -I both.
deserve it, right? ,
At our place we certainly-
erred in, not being ready,for
the isolation that the first big
storm of 1981 has brought.
We've got teteegga and one
bae_ofinilk,..Myfriendeiate_
yLks_ having much the _name
problem in the kiStrian
Alps, tinderitind. Oh,' he
wasn't starving, he told an
enquiring reporter' but ,
"We're not getting any
shipments, of fresfi"•fish ,or
avocados." •
.13ockycirci',bettuly, -Photo;
sticifiet'
.. Clarence McDonald. Donald McDonald, • inflation, they, would e earning $400 per
Month. In cOnsiderati n of the number of Joan Van-Dee Broeck, Dorothy Wallace and,
meetings attended by the 'board chairman. Marion. Zinn ',voted in favor of, retaining the
.Mulvey suggested s -allowance be in- Mt structure-
creased to $500 per month. • ' Trustees Frei* Falconer. Harry' liayter,
Trustee Bert Morin also favored' an ' Eugene Frayne, Bert Morin. Murray
1119wanei itiefe-asein _number of =MAY.-a, Y.-AA-Peck, and Dennis Rau voted
meetings att8nded by steesi Some against the motion. .
trustees, he maintained, w re underpaid.
. "For five eears we Set e example here
with no increase. The last example was for
the intent of thepris.s to pick up -and aid and
abet but they, buried' it," he said. "'the aim
was not achieved.te are not overpaid.,
there are voices oh t board and mitlibber
stampers."
Vice-chairmanbiorin wanted the trustee's
allowance raised to $350 monthly while the
vice-chairinan and chairman would recieve
S409and $525 respectively
-Trustee Jean Adams told, the beird it
could set a' good example by keeping the
same allowance but Morin. countered that
nobody ''seems:to care if the board sets a
good example:
Dorothy Wallace told -trustees:they were
familiar with the pay scale wheel* mode
their decision tantri. •
"If they de't think the pay was adequate
they didnq intim." she said. "Where
IS air senate of public servicer',This is not
tinieto tai
have.to
and here
alit nickels and dimek;*There are and plunge once more into the pits. 'One
have to debate . letting $3000 b
giftr the'board-peethig -orS300 -dot- liocause he could 'understand his
• goiag6thnevi that when raufor the job but prose and there was none of this. symbolism
siso istottiutof and junk th.,,elottd the reading, '
• The motion., to retain the 'allowance Another: telline that Fraier hay,.
atructuie with theeleeptiott of the cheitmatt -tematkgbie. insight Ante human character''
Wasitiais In ,and repeats 'it eighi'lithes.
oat - 3. &o ft, Oh. veil. 198r4 one la eray:.tvl.grg-glil:
,flaYs ' hod.' • ,says Hugh Garhais cau d . conifers
The Scaforth flortieu ltu rat ' Theregtilar Meeting ofthe . Society invites theimblic to HoSP_Ita w
attend its monthly rting." field Tuesdiq..Jenuaty -13th
Guest speaker will be Marvin ' severe weather prevail there
Resources. speak The January meeting of
and' care of planting e
for %lid breaks._
TV New members are , welcotne.
S wit w o will be in '
nUtri ; witt,ortte._ ..tottotry .... • .bfr •
soaries*.ouse trustees-4We 'Congratitlations le* .all the winners.
here if they don't want too" ' Altlyokti h toPlrrize winners-aren't' eligible
Trustee egenel6eyne said the bickering for next year's competition. all others- are
over illioWances wai not anyone invited to try again. . -
and thatrepubliemustle made aware that •• „January fa4.8.- 7,4-Th„ ....kafairn- in the Board ROOM of the
edecatio cods Will continue tot. 'now, .porniti Nblie-School auditorium. hospital at $ p.m. Should"
MI the Pul!lic it Will eeet Moreon Year Ibr So. All these things cheer. me up on a bat! Sniith. MiniStry of Natural will be •no. Meeting.- "Truatees must change their a 'hide and Continued from Page 2- , -
educe * n, ' he said. "Weretilklait-Perinles dity. And then I read a fete Students' essays,: ... ,
arou d
imp-o
should,
noble-
snow
abodes. .
The noble exceptions will whole lot of people, me first
phonlog_somplaints about ‘unemPloy-
revealed that • those ment
ant -people that -1'.-A" quiet day., here at heme is
e meeting with a feW equally attractive tome when
eptions, tweigh_tt_against our office'
d in their rural which is presently a con.
•atruction site, and full of a
St9timerVM-Seaforth
the editor.
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the Seeforth Women's Insd:
tt40..,-Tuesday January 1-3th:
pats: at the tome- Of
Mrs. L. Lawson', Roll call to
be "Give a meapi of continu-
ing ,Education after school-
years.** 4uneK.:Icits,.._;,4,..
Hum. fiche Campbell , -and „,
Mrs. MacLean.
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I m.suit will! join me in extendin,g,Lleepratilig4oiainin,serding Meats to VititOtS La Leche League in Huron
'COM- - ling 1
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Cbunty , meeting January „', 1.; • • • • • • c II. even to nvo Involve everyone--institutions during the halide sea No
Soiltri$ GrldMich. The „.•feature r0,e Oniegi. a. 4x4 snots - , time on day, btt for the little extras so ' disc Asiob topic will be P Pk" 8 mobile rally and a cross ' warmly addedin. 11 e serving Special n'• All their new 45•"41foti'te Always * BOVIltliey
day 'gh II f • - mclude a snow sculptufing „only for thefactihey gave-tip that- personal the ficatt,
*is* ted;
Y . • t extra pity. • at Mile Pieties it was #tr 'vat dance $altur-- . 2 _ done fro
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