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The Brussels Post, 1975-07-30, Page 3As of August 1st the Ontario Govern, ment magi pay for many of the PRESCRIPTION DRUGS for qualified residents of the Province. L MORE CLEANING UP- This lady and small boy got ambitious this week and worked with shovels and garbage bags, -cleaning up the sidewalk and street in a residentai I area of Brussels. (Photo by Langiois) it NEW GATES AT THE COMMUNITY CENTRE- The Brussels recreation committee has replaced the brick pillars at the park at a cost of $500. The old pillars had been vandalized so badly that it was impossible to match the brick and new pillars were installed. Wayne Lowe of the recreation committee said they hope tc, plant cedar bushes and a small hedge around the entrance. (Photo-by Langlois) Use Post Classified ATTENTION SENIOR CITIZENS Please bring your Ontario Drug Benefit Eligibil ity Card to us the first time you have a prescript- ion to be filled in the month the card is issued. It would also be helpful to let us know in advance if your card is on file with us should you need more medication that month. If you are using the Drug Benefit Plan for the first time, please don't hesitate to come in to ask us about any details that may puz2ieSKou. KEATINGS PHARMACY Met, Hoover .Phme g. Senforih '521-4990 1 l' THE BRUSSELS 'POSti, JULY JO. 1575 \gingham Memorial Shop QUALITY 'SERVICE CHAVIMANSIIIP Open Evety Weekday Your Guarantee for OVek 3S Yeats of CEMETERY LETTERING • *INGH fax IA AM JOHN MAILICIt eon tour Argues agaihst power plant Ontario bean growers, dealers a nd users seem to be closing ranks and joining together to fight a proposed hydro plant in Huron County. To this end, the Ontario Bean Producers' Marketing Board OBPMB, held a "bean tour" last uesday to educate members of the media on the importance of he Huron County bean crop. The tour began in its London ffice, where everyone got a pamphlet of information as well as a button stating "Be A Bean Booster." Besides the media personel, director: of the OBPMB, five representatives from the four major canners, representatives on the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food, and Dr. Robert Holmes, MP, Lambton- Kent and MPP Jack Riddell, from Huron attended the' tour. More than a year ago, Ontario Hydro published a report that proposed a long-range . power plant be located in the Blake area. As of yet, it isn't certain whether the plant will be nuclear r fossil fuel, but either way, OBPMB feels this spells disaster o county bean crops. The OBPMB with the support f the Ontario Bean Dealers Association submitted a brief to he Ontario cabinet when it sat in London. In the brief, it claimed it had he support of 3,500 white and yellow bean producer's in Ontario White beans are highly suscept- ible to air pollution which could be caused by the power plant as well as by the surrounding urbanization which would accom- pany the building of the plant. The group had a tour of ,the W. G. Thompson and Sons peration in Hensall. As John azlitt, a director of the OBPMB, id "this was to show the kind of money invested in the bean ndustry. As he put it, the plant is orth 'millions of millionS'." SEAFORTH BEANS BEST Evelyn Simmons, sales mana- er for the Ontario Bean Growers o.op said the Seaforth area has e healthiest and best' yielding can plants in the County • and yen while others are having a ad season, they still manage to reduce a crop, She said the Seaforth plant will e expanding this year, with. four eve silos going up, and the Cation of perhaps about three ew jobs. Huron County produces about per cent of theprovince's bean OP, exports about 75 per cent nd Don Pullen, Huron County griculture representative said per cent of the' land is suitable r the most well managed opping .sjstems. FUTURE OF HURON The OBPMB seems to have ken a bite of a real issue, the . ure of Huron County. The ydro plants represent the trend Urbanize and industrialize A fluty which has been tradition., ly agrictiltural. The Ontario beast production is orth about $2 million and the al acreage has more than. Oled in the last teri years. Peter Hanntht, an executive member of the Ontario Federa- tion of Agriculture, and a soybean grower from the Guelph area was guest speaker. Mr. Hannam said: "We :now face the unique and unsettling prospect that one energy supplier Ontario Hydro, is planning the future of the province, A projected need for power, results in building more plants, which in turn causes industrial- ization, and a further need for more power. The effect will be loss of productive farmland. "It is mere- ly a queStion of whether we want to come close to self-sufficiency in food production in Ontario or rely on foreign food sources," he said. LESS CHOICE Mr. Hannam said agriculture has less location choices than other industries and he suggested smaller power plants be built within cities or up north. He said the James Bay project in Northern Quebec is being built to supply power to United States, why can't Ontario hook into that system? MPP Jack Riddell said he has taken a stand against any nuclear power plant in Huron County. He said if people invite indust- ry into the county to the detriment of agriculture, they will be making a big mistake. Mr. Riddell predicted that the location of a power plant could be used as "red-herring" this com- ing election, but he said he didn't think power important, if people - don't. have enough food. Mr. Hazbitt said during the tour a power plant could mean to many , people, more jobs and higher wages, but then it could competitively price the farmer out of business by increasing land prices and wages. Jack Sant, a representative from Libby, McNeill and Libby of Canada said:. "Progress will occur, but not at the expense of prime agricultural land." Larry Inglis, representative from Canadian Canner Ltd, said his,company was concerned about the threat to the bean crops as they are a large buyer of beans. The OBPMB is preparing to - fight the power plant on the issue of protecting prime agricultural land when it submits its brief at the Porter Commission this fall. As Mr. Hannam said: "Hydros plans thieaten the viability of agriculture in Ontario because there are no feasbile alternatives to producing food on good soil in a good climate." "We cannot, encourage the destruction of good farm land and we cannot sacrifice important segments of our industry such as sugar beets or white beans to short-sighted planners," he said, Fog , The U.S. \ estimates that every year about 1,000 persons are killed and 60,000 injured in fog-related highway accidents. Slowing driven and using extra caution are two musts when 'driving in fog, states the OntaricI Safety League.