Clinton News-Record, 1974-09-05, Page 114-H judge Bob McNeil, right, of RR 6, Goderich congratulates Paul Gibbings who took first
prize in the calf showmanship class at the Bayfield Fair last Saturday. On the left is Brian
Trewartha, of RR 4, Clinton, who placed second in the event. (News-Record photo)
CLINTON. NEWS,RECORP, THURSDAY, ,,sgpfrEmllEg. 5, 19747,11
Herm Holmes was honored last week on his retirement after 18 years from Bendix Home
Systems Ltd., Hensall. He was presented with money and a trip to Acapulco for he and his
wife. Making the presentation are Mr. E. R. Brunsdon, general manager and Charles Tunks.
For many years Mr. Holmes serviced mobile homes all over Canada. Recently he had been a
quality control inspector. (Exeter T-A photo)
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Environment Ontario
goes local.
6 new regional offices to serve
individual communities betier.
In a province the size of ours, it
can take two days just to drive from
one endlo the other.
It's that big, it's that spread out.
And looking after the environment
for such a vast area is one of the
most complex tasks that the Ontario
Government has.
For years, we've been working
from Toronto, working at long dis-
tances from many cf you. Doug McTovith
That's all changed now. The Min-
istry of the Environment has
come to you.
t-)vironmental matters
are now being looked after
in six Regional Offices through-
out the province. There are
also 23 district offices to help
keep a closer'eye on environ-
mental services—air, land and water
Each region has a Director, someone whose
only job IS to care for the environmental needs
of that specific "piece" of Ontario. The Regional
Office for Southwestern Ontario, which encom-
passes the counties of Grey, Bruce,
Huron, Perth, Oxford, Middlesex,
Elgin, Lambton, Kent and Essex is
in London. The Director in charge
is Mr. D. A. McTavish. District offices
are already established in Owen
Sound, Sarnia and Windsor.
Doug McTavish is a profes-
sional engineer who has had many
years experience working In
environmental management. He's
familiarizing himself with the
environmental needs of
the Southwestern
Region—as part of
Ontario's new
policy to place
environmental
control
Closer to
the source.
The New Ontario Ministry of the Environment
Ministers
The Hon, William G. Newman
Deputy i\Ainister,
Ontario Everett Biggs
Regional Office.
985 Adelaide Street S.
London, Ontario
Tel. (519)681-3600
District offices.
Owen Sound,
Sarnia,
Windsor.
Part-time farmers
ICY 11011„1,1O toop.
The summer is gone and. the
rest of the travellers have
returned home to get ready for
school or to finish up the fall
crop. .
Len and . Marie Lobb joined
the stampede, to the West and
WO two weeks off to travel as
far as Vanco'uver Island. They
had good weather and like all
the rest had a .wonderful time,
Steve Thompson and Cord
Lobb have returned from their
jaunt West also.
• Jim 'and Shirley Commerford
and girls were up to the Don
Forbes farm for the holiday
.weekend.
Alf and Marie Plummer and.
family of Oshawa recently
spent some time at Don Lobbs.
Their son stayed on the farm
and Stephen Lobb went to his
grandparent's home in Toronto
for a week. The new Metro Zoo
is well worth seeing according
to. Stephen. Mr. and Mrs. Allen
brought him home and, are
staying for a few days.
Gerald and Shirley Tebbutt
and family of St. Catharines
were guests at the Irvine Teb-
butt home over the Labor Day
holiday.
Wayne Tebbutt has returned
to "good old Ontario" having
spent the summer working and
sight-seeing in Alberta. Before
leaving for home he took time
to go to the West Coast.
The W,R. Lob]) family picnic
was held at Don and Alison
Lobbs, farm this year. There
was a good turn out as 83 per-
sons were able to be there.
Recent visitors at the Laurie
Biggin home were their
daughter Dawn, her husband
Bill and their family.
Congratulations to Robin
and Phyllis Thompson on their
25th Wedding Anniversary.
Guy Duke of Calgary spent
the weekend with the Bill
Lobbs.
Mrs. Jerry Lobb of Edmonton,
Alberta.
Following the sports, a
delicious supper was enjoyed by
everyone. After supper a short
business meeting was conduc-
ted by the president, Margaret
Crich, and a new slate of of-
ficers was elected for 1975.
They are as follows:
president, Leonard Lobb; vice-
pres., David Pugh; sec.-treas.,
Marie Lobb; sports committee,
Jeannette and Irvin Martin,
and Ron Lobb; table commit-
tee, Joy Docking, Grace Pym
and Murray and Roba Lobb.
A hearty vote of thanks was
extended to Don and Alison for
the use of their home and for
their hospitality which added
greatly to making another suc-
cessful reunion,
for now they don't make
enough to be able to give up
their city jobs. He found that
almost a third of them--31.9 per
cent -- are small scale "hobby
and miscellaneous" farmers;
6.4 per cent were hobby farmers
on a large scale; 21.3 per cent
were "persistence" far-
mers...former full-timers who
are virtually on their way out
of agriculture; 12.8 per cent
were "sporadic" part-timers
and 2.1 per' cent were cases he
couldn't neatly categorize.
He found the "aspiring" full-
time farmers are strongly at-
tached to farming;; those who
are just hanging on--the "per-
sistence" group -- have a low
attachment. Those in the
"sporadic" group tend to like
it, but they also tend to have
little success at it... so they
move in and out as the
pressures dictate. The hobby
farmers tend to be highly
educated dilettantes...doctors
and bininess executives and so
forth— though he found a
couple who were caretakers in
large buildings in the Kit-
chener-Waterloo community.
Many of the hobby farmers
were born on farms and like to
get back to farm life, at least
part-time.
On the other hand, most of
the people who 'ate °,aetually
living in the rural areas are not
farmers at all; in Waterloo
county these "ex-urbanites"
outnumber the farmers two-to-
one. They don't, incidentally,
live in old farmhouses; they're
more likely to buy just a small
acreage and put up a ranch-
style bungalow on it.
Mage found the part-timers
are more prosperous than the
full-timers because of their off-
the-farm income. On the other
hand, their net return for the
amount of time they do spend
on farm work is much lower
than the full-timers.
He says it's difficult to tell
from driving through the coun-
try who is farming part-time
and who is full-time. Typically,
the part-timer has a smaller
farm, and specializes in only
one product. Dairy farming is
less popular among them, par-
tly perhaps because it takes
more time, On the other hand,
more than half the hogs raised
441 GIRLS
The Auburn No, 3, 4-H Club
girls have started their Fall
Program on "The Club Girl
Entertains", Two meetings
were held last week, The
leaders are Mrs. June Robinson
and Miss Joyce Chamney. They
girls elected Judy Robinson as
president, Faye Hildebrand as
vice-president and Jane Thom-
pson as treasurer.
Meeting I was held at the
home of Joyce Chamney, The
girls studied hospitality and
sharing their home with
friends. Each 4-H girl then
made a flower arrangement. A
delicious lunch was served by
Mrs, Robinson and Joyce
Chamney.
Meeting 2 was held at the
home of Mrs. Robinson. The 4-
H girls decided on a club name,
The Super SerNiers, The girls
studied table service and man-
ners with the girls demon-
strating. A dainty lunch was
served by Debbie Jefferson and
Jane and Ellen Thompson.
Anyone in the Auburn
district wanting to take the fall
project, The Club Girl Enter-
tains should contact Wanda
Plaetzer or Margaret Franken
by September 7.
COMMUNITY NEWS
Mrs. Edna Greisenon and
Mr. Vere Bokinger of Detroit
and Mr. and Mrs. Archie
Robinson of Clinton visited one
day last week with Mr. and
Mrs. Maitland Allen.
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth
McDougall spent a few days
recently in Sudbury with their
son, Allan McDougall and Mrs,
McDougall,
Mr, and Mrs. Gordon Gross,
Anita and Bryan visited on the
weekend with Mr. and Mrs.
Nick Seraphim and family at
Sheffield,
Mr, and Mrs, Andrew Kirk-
connell and their grand-
daughter, Miss Maryanne
Blake of Brussels visited last
week with Mr. and Mrs, John
Snelling and Mr. and Mrs,
Harold Brown and family at
Port Colborne and also visited
Fort Erie, Fort Robinson,
Welland and Niagara Falls,
Mrs. Edgar Deer and Sandra
and Mrs. Aubrey McNichol and
Debbie of Blyth spent the
weekend with Mrs. Phyllis
Plunkett and boys in Toronto,
Kim Daer returned home after
vacationing for two weeks with
her aunt.
Congratult,tions to Mr, and
Mrs. John Stadelrnann of Blyth
on the birth of their daughter,
Rhonda Darlene on August 30
in Wingham hospital,
Mr, and Mrs, Emerson
Rodger, Mr. and Mrs, William
Helesic, Patti and Paul of
Goderich and Mr._ and Mrs.
Keith Rodger, Lisa and Robbie
returned last weekend from a
two week vacation in the
Maritimes and also visited Mr.
and Mrs. Ralph Rodger and
fad-illy at Ottawa.
Little Miss Christine
Stade!mann is visiting this
week with her grandmother,
Mrs. Eleanor Bradnock and
her uncle Mr. George Collins.
Mr, John McNeil of Welland
spent the weekend with Mr.
and Mrs. Thomas Johnston,
Miss Laura Phillips and Robert
Phillips. To be a part-time farmer! To
come home from a day in the
shop or office and spend a few
minutes feeding the chickens
and patting Bossie affec-
tionately on the rump; then to
sit on the front porch and
watch the sun sink slowly
behind the distant hills as the
crickets sing and the breeze
wafts gently across the green
pastures and fields of grain. To
be a part-time farmer...paradise
on earth!
That's not exactly the way it
is says Julius Mage who has
just earned a Ph.D. degree at
the University of Waterloo and
whose doctoral thesis consisted
of examining the part-time far-
mers of Waterloo county.
He tried to find out who the
part-timers are, how many of
them there are, why they farm
that way and what they do
when they aren't farming. He
found that many of them--25.5
per cent-- in fact are what he
calls "aspiring" farmers. Most
of these are young people who
hope to get into farming on a
full-time basis some day; but
studied
in Waterloo county are on the
farms of part-timers.
Mage says part-time farmers
nonetheless form an important
part of the agricultural
economy in Ontario. More than
35 per cent of Ontario farmers
were part-timers in 1966; they
operated more than 25 per cent
of the farm area, and sold 21.2
per cent of the agricultural
products. Since then the per-
centages have increased, and
the trend is expected to con-
tinue, In addition, he notes
more and more wives of full-
time farmers are going to work
in the cities.
Now that he's a faculty mem-
ber at the University of Guelph,
Mage is continuing his studies;
he has students working with
him on similar projects in
Rainy River, Dufferin county,
around Bancroft and in Huron
county.
A very pleasant afternoon
was spent at the home of Don
and Alison Lobb of RR 2, Clin-
ton, on Sunday, Sept. 1st when
75 members of the Bert Lobb
family and 8 visitors gathered
for their 16th annual family
reunion.
The afternoon was spent
visiting and participating in
various kinds of sports.
The sports committee con-
sisting of Dick and Carol Lobb,
Ernie Lobb and Gordon Lobb
conducted a lively program of
sports and kept everyone well •
entertained. They presented
gifts to the three babies born
this year, who were Laurie
Lobb, Julie Pugh and Richard
Pullman. A gift was also
presented to the couple coming
the longest distance, Mr.. and