Times-Advocate, 1980-02-06, Page 14PICKING A GOOD CARD — The second annual Bunnirama and poker rally held at the Pineridge Chalet Sunday attracted
many participants from far and near. Watching Chris Holt of Windsor cut the cards at a checkpoint were Kevin Sax, Wind-
sor, Sean Holt, Windsor, Susan Mousseau, Hensall, Sharon. Sa'x, Windsor, Peter Sax, Windsor, Mark Sax, Windsor, and
checkpoint person Maurice Wyatt of London T-A photo
In Goderich
To open adolescent group home
Full of love
As announced earlier in the
season by 'Artistic Director'
William Hutt, Irma La
Douce, "la poule de Paris",
will transform the Grand
Stage _into the Best Little
House in London.
Irma La Doude...boisterous,
big-hearted, natty, naughty,
funny, sad, full of love, full of
music, aunique musical, the
smash hit of two continents,
seen for the first time in the
London area, opens on the
Grand Stage February 13.
Directed by JACK
ROBERTS with Musical
Direction by Berthold
Carrieree and dance num-
bers choreographed by
Walter Burgess, the, talented
company of actors dancers
are: Jim Betts, Frank
Blanch, Jay Brazeau, Robert
Godin, Henry Gomez,
Larry Herbert Wally
Michaels, Robert
McClure, Doug McQueen,
Jeffrey Prentice, Jeff
Skinner and...introducing a
very special "Irma" to
London audiences, JUDY
MARSHAK.
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Ontario •
Ministry of
Agriculture
and Food•
huron farm
and
home news
Come and meet •
GRAEME
CRAIG
Your Liberal Candidate
in
HURON BRUCE
and
HON. ALASTAIR GILLESPIE
BEEF-on am•BUN
Wednesday, Feb. 13, 1980
5:00-8:00p.M.
Exeter Legion Hall
Bring the family,
Published by the Official Agent ter Graerrie Craig, Walton, Ontario.
proper use of
chemotherapeutic agents,
drug residues and with-
drawal period, feed ad-
ditives, internal and external
parasites, how to start
feeder pigs, the reproductive
process and reproductive
problems, and a discussion
period.
It is important to con-
tact Don Pullen by February
11th so that firm plans may
be finalized for the noon
meal,
If you anticipate difficulty
leaving home on February
14th, bring your"Valentine"
with you.
Don Pullen,
,Agricul tural Representative.
Farm photos
What does your farm look
like from the air? There's an
easy way to find out that
most people don't know
about. Every couple of
years, aerial photos are
taken of sections of the
province. These black and
white photos show a lot of
detail and are available in
several sizes and
enlargements.
What are the advantages
of having your own air
photo? The most popular use
is simply the satisfaction of
looking over your farm and
,seeing things from a dif-
ferent viewpoint. Distances
between buildings and sizes
of fields can be scaled off the
prints. Recently-completed
drainage works show up
fairly well making the photo
a good record of tile
locations. Some farmers
trace their fields on a plastic
overlay and keep records of
cropping practices over the
years.
The good part about this
story is the price. A 40 in, by
40 in. print with a scale of 208
feet to the inch costs just
under $10.00. The same area
in a 10 in, by 10 in. print costs
about $2.50. This covers an
area of about 21/4 square
miles. Photos of Huron
County were last taken in
1978. These are available
from the Ministry of Natural
Resources in Toronto.
Information on how to order
it available at the Ministry
of Agriculture and Food in
Clinton and Ministry of
Natural Resources in
Wingham.
Ron Fleming,
Agricultural Engineer.
' PERFECT WEATHER — Mother Nature cooperated with Grand Bend for their winter frolic.
Skating on the old river bed are Janet Allister, Nicol Gill and Nancy Gill. TA photo
Comments criticized
-to the editor in this.
newspaper. He admitted .the,
word •'inquiry" was
probably too harsh.
Boyle said that when coup-
cil appoints boards, they can
crack the whip when they
deal with the finances of the
various grotips.
"Let them manage or dis-
band them and run,as a coma
mittee of council,. " he -
suggested.
The School Show, Ted
Johns' hilarious leek at the
school system and the 1978
Huron County teachers
strike will return to.
Memorial Hall, Blyth
February 25. and 26 before
departing for a three-week
tour of southwestern Ontario
that will end, up in a four-
week run in Toronto.
The Same Show was first
Performed at the 1978 Blyth
Summer Festival and prov-
ed the hit of the season.
Johns' virtuoso performance
was so popular that the show
was brought back for
another week in September
1978- Johns, a former school
teacher himself, wrote the
show after doing a lot of
research into not only the
facts of the situation but
peoples' feelings about the
strike and the school system
in general, The facts and
feelings are portrayed in six
characters. Johns plays
them all and creates an
evening of 'outstanding
entertainment,
There's Mrs. Heartwright
the old-time school teacher
recalling the days of the one-
room school. there's Bill
MacDonald the young
English teacher agonizing
CORRECTION
In the report of the PUC
meeting last week it was
•stated that 1978 hydro
revenue increased by $116,-
892 and in 1979 by $128,613.
The actual figures are that
hydro revenue for 1979 in-
creased' by $116,892 (over
'1978) and that the cost of
power charged by Ontario
Hydro to the PUC increased
by $128,613 in 1979.
LLOYD HEARD
In Victoria Hospital,
London Sunday January 27,
1980, Lloyd Nelson Heard, in
his 58th year. He is survived
by his wife Nora Margaret
(Parker) Heard, two sons
Edward Nelson Heard,
Terrence Christopher Heard
both at home RR 1 Varna,
and a daughter Anne Marie
Heard of London. His
parents Mr. and Mrs. Nelson
Heard predeceased him,.
Funeral services where held
from the Westlake Funeral
Home, Zurich January 30
with Rev. Wilena Brown
officiating. Burial in the
Bayfield cemetery.
Pallbearers were Don
Wallace, Lynn Waller, Dick
Steep, Ralph Stephenson,
Grant Webster, and Alvin
Keep. Flower bearers were
Ray Scott, Donald Heard,
Larry Heard and Randy
Keys.
MARK de BOER
Suddenly as the result of
an automobile accident, on
Saturday, February 2, 1980,
Mark William deBoer of
Lucan in his 17th year.
Beloved son of Arend and
Mary Anecita deBoer of
Lucan. Dear brother of
Suzanne, David, Tracey and
Lisa, all at home. Dear
grandson of Mrs. Tjitske
deBoer of Beachburg, and
Mrs. Capherine Culhane of
Renfrew. Funeral service
was held Monday from the C.
Haskett and Son Funeral
Home, Lucan and St.
Patrick's Church, Biddulph
with Rev, Father J. Finn
officiating. Interment St.
Patrick's Cemetery.
HAROLD SHEPHERD
Harold Wren Shepherd
passed away Tuesday.
February 5 at Sunnyside
Medical Centre in Toronto.
Beloved husband, of Mildred
(Smillie) Shepherd and
father of Mrs. Bill
(Margaret) Ingram and
John Shepherd. Resting at
the Murray E. Newbigging
Funeral Home. 733 Mt. Plea-
sant Road at Eglinton in
Toronto after 2 p.m.
Wednesday.
over the current state of
education and there's ROX.,
anne Dupuis, a mother of
high school students who's
had enough of the strike,
calls Premier William Davis
for action and reminds him,
"We pay your bills. Bill."
The play won praise not
only from audiences but
from critics near• and far.
Jim Fitzgerald in the Clinton
News-Record said:
"Underneath all the comedy
and tragedy that Johns puts
wholeheartedly in his play is
a distinct theme, that
somewhere along the line
our educational system, like
our society, has become an
assembly line, fraught with
hostility, polarization and an
almost total lack of com-
munication."
Jamie Portman of
Southern News. writing in
the Montreal Gazette said
the School Show would be
popular anywhere not only
"because of Johns' dexterity
in tickling our funny bones at
one moment and treading on
some of our more sensitive
prejudices the next moment,
but because his two-hour
entertainment touches on
concerns that extend far
beyond the borders of Hur6n
County."
Taking the show far
beyond the boundaries of
Huron County is the Blyth
Summer Festival's first
major tour throughout the
province.
Tickets for the Blyth per-
formance are $5 for adults,
$4 for senior citizens and $3
for children and are
available now by mail.
Reservations may be made
by calling 523-9300 or 523-
9636.
STEVEN THIEL
Steven Hubert Thiel, in-
fant on of Hubert and Mary
Thiel, RR 1, Zurich,
Saturday, February 2nd
1980. Brother of Michael,
Grandson of Mr. and Mrs.
Stewart Thiel, RR 2 Zurich,
and Mr. and Mrs. Edwin.
Kennedy of St. Marys.
Funeral service was held
Monday from the Westlake
Funeral Home, Zurich with
interment St. Peter's
Lutheran Cemetery.
ROLAND GOWER
Roland Robert Matthew
Gower, RR 2, Brussels
passed away January 31,
1980 at Wingham District
Hospital in his 59th year. He
was the son of the late Albert,
Gower and the former Annie
Jones of Exeter. Surviving
are his wife, the former
Elizabeth Brewer; a
daughter Mrs. Brian
(Barbara) Hallman, RR 5,
Wingham and sons Carl and
Herman, Centralia; Tom
Melbourne and Nelson,
Woodstock. Also survived by
a sister Mrs. Henry (Mary)
Brindley, Goderich and a
brother Ted of British
Columbia and 11 grand-
children. Predeceased by a
half-brother Earl McGee of
London. Funeral service was
held Saturday at the Watts
Funeral Home, Brussels
with interment Brussels
Cemetery.
DAVID BAKER
At. St. Joseph's Hospital,
London, on Sunday,
February 3, 1980, David
Edgar Baker of RR 3, Lucan,
in his 37th year. Beloved
husband of Lynda (Stire) of
RR 3, Lucan. Dear father of
Mark and Matthew, both at
home. Beloved son of Janet
and Edgar Baker of RR 1,
Granton and dear brother of
Paul Baker of London.
Friends may call at the
Hopper Hockey Funeral
Home, William Street,
Exeter, after 3 p.m. Monday.
Funeral service will be held
on Wednesday, February 6,
1980 at 2 p.m. with Pastor
Paul Schott officiating.
Interment in Exeter
Cemetery.
WILLIAM ANDERSON
Passed away suddenly at
South Huron Hospital,
Exeter, on Wednesday,
January 30, 1980, William
Francis Anderson of Huron
Park, in his 60th year.
Beloved husband of Violet
Jane Anderson. Dear father
of Rita (Mrs. Richard
Blatchford) of Clandeboye,
Bill of London, Maureen
Randall of Toronto, and
Philip of Exeter. Also sur-
vived by four grandchildren.
The funeral was held Friday
from the R.C. Dinney
Funeral Home with Rev.
James Forsythe officiating.
Interment Exeter Cemetery.
A group home for young
adolescents will open in
Goderich to serve the needs
of children in the county who
present excessive demands
for foster families.
According to John Penn,
director of Family and
Children's Services for
Huron County, the new
program will match' a need
which has developed in the
county.
"These children are too
emotionally or behavioural-
ly upset to be placed in a
foster family," says Penn,
"and there is evidence they
do better in a group home
arrangement."
Group home care operates
well with teenagers, accor-
ding to Penn.
The program will use the
house formerly used by the
county's Children's Aid
Society Teenage Living Ex-
perience (CASTLE)
program which was ter-
minated at the end of
November.
The home will accom-
modate children who require
more than the average fami-
ly situation can give them'.
Abused children do well in
group homes says Penn.
They don't trust foster
parents will not abuse them.
In a group home they have
the opportunity to see other
children who are living in
the home and have not been
abused. The children who,
have lived there for a time
act as role models for the
newcomers. Group homes
also work well for the delin-
quent child.
Skilled group home
parents will live in the
home. Family and
Children's Services (FCS) is
looking for a married couple
with child care training or
previous experience as
group home parents. The
home will accommodate up
to six children ranging in
ages from 10 to 15 years.
The program will be fund-
ed on the basis that one of
the parents will work
fulltime in the group home
and the other will have a job
outside the home, PCS will
pay the group home parents
on a scale of $12,000 a year
plus accommodation.
Penn said the program
will cost $40,000 and the pro-
ject will be funded by deflec-
ting the cost of supporting
two children in institutions
and the CASTLE operating
budget. The program will
have $20,000 from the
CASTLE budget and the $24,-
000 saved when the two
children who are now in-
stitutionalized are placed in
the group home.
More money will be saved
down the road says Penn
when the children who would
be placed in institutions for
the lack of a group home can
be placed in the new
program.
The average length of stay
in the group home for the
child will be six months to a
year. The child's parents
will be actively involved in
the program and will con-
tribute financially to the
program. Parents will par-
ticipate in family counsell-
ing sessions focusing on re-
integrating the child in his
family.
The focus of a program for
the child. who will remain in
the care of FCS over the long
term, will be normalization
of the child so he can move
into a traditional foster
family.
The average foster family
in the county cares for ode to
three children.
There are four group
homes in the county which
are foster arrangements,
where a family has con-
sented to take more than
three children under a
special arragement with
FCS. The new home in
Goderich will be the first
group home initiated as ,a
program by FCS with
professional child care
workers living in the home,
New resources must be
developed for children in the
county every year says
Penn. Last year a foster
group home was arranged
and this year the county
group home is being started.
The new project is still
subject to the approval of
the Ministry of Community
and Social Services and the
location of group home
parents will determine the
opening date of the home.
Penn is looking forward to
opening the home April 1.
The CASTLE program
which was cancelled, served
older teenage girls, who liv-
ed with a single social
worker who worked outside
the home. She acted as a role
model for the girls living at
the home who were focusing
on becoming independent.
The program operated for
four years and on an average
three to four teenagers were
living at the home.
The girls were either
wards of FCS or teenagers
from the community who
had left home. The program
was initiated through the
Children's Aid Society which
approached county council
who purchased the house.
The agency then rented the
house from the county and
the agency and the county
shared the funding of the
program.
The program was ter-
minated in favour of the new
program which there is a
greater need for in the coun-
ty at this time. Penn said he
supposes it is inevitable in a
small community like
Goderich that people would
not understand the CASTLE
program and there has been
talk about promiscuous
behaviour at the home. He
said he has heard vague
comments about the
Election on
Heritage Day
Pierre Berton, Chairman
of the Board of the Heritage
Canada foundation, says it's
highly significant that the
government has chosen
February 18 — National
Heritage Day--as election
Day. "After all," says
Berton, snap elections are
becoming almost as much a
part of our heritage as the
historic buildings our
foundation is trying to
pressure." He suggests
that when people go to the
polls, they rembember the
double significance of
February 18.
CASTLE program but he has
never had a complaint of-
ficially.
He said CASTLE was ter-
minated to make way for a
program which will serve a
wider range of problems in
the county,
There was only one resi-
dent at the home when
CASTLE was cancelled in
November and she has been
placed in another home in
FCS care.
The property committee
of county council toured the
house recently and county
council approved $2,000 in its
Disease kisses to the pork
industry are serious and
widespread. Some conditions
result in a high mortality
rate while others are
reflected in lowered rate of
gain and feed efficiency.
Respiratory diseases alone
have been estimated to cost
North American pork
producers over 200 million
dollars annually. Although
presently somewhat
stabilized, hemophilus
pneumonia outbreaks have
been very costly with losses
in some herds ranging up to
as high as 50 percent during
the past two years.
Enteric diseases of baby
pigs are common. Mortality
rates from birth to weaning
can be 20 - 25 percent - in
many cases, due to health
problems.
At the same time, it has
been stated by many people
that pork producers have a
complacent attitude to
disease. This "we have to
learn to live with it"
philosophy is not one, that
should be commended or
encouraged in the light of
managerial practices that
are known and available to
the industry.
Traditionally, in times of
lower pork prices, some
producers are often more
reluctant to engage the
services of their
veterinarian. However, it is
clearly evident that it makes
great economic sense to use
the expertise of our highly-
qualified veterinarians in
swine health matters at all
times.
On Thursday, February
14th, a Swine Health
Improvement Workshop for
farrow to finish operations
Will be held at the Lon-
desboro Hall from 10e00
a .m . until 3:30 p.m.
Registration fee of $7.00 will
cover cost of hot pork dinner
and hall rental.
Dr. Peter Oliver and Dr.
John Martin, Swine Diseases
Consultants, Veterinary
Services Branch, Ontario
Ministry of Agriculture and
Food, Guelph, will conduct
the workshop session.
Subjects include the disease
process - environmental
influences, discussion of
common diseases of pigs and
their prevention, disinfection
and sanitation, principles of
disease immunity,
points, raised by Careeron
and said his concerns. did not
centre around the dedication
of board members. "We
have a beautiful bunch of
citizens who want to. get in-
volved," he added, but said
if a group of citizens was not
answerable to. someone "it
Just doesn't work".
Campbell said other
opinions h,e had on the sub-
ject were detailed in a letter.
Mr. Editor:
With the goyernment
opening the budgetary
process to public scrutiny we
find that the huge deficit
facing the people of Canada
can be. charged directly to
the Liberal and Conservative
parties, as over the years
and ever since Con-
federation, they are the only
parties to have held office in
Ottawa,
The budget that brought
the defeat of the last
Parliament was nothing but
an attempt to saddle the
ordinary, little taxpayer,
through legislation, with
supplying the revenue to
cover the tax deferments
given a number of large
Corporations,
In 1979 out of some $1.2
billion in taxes, Imperial Oil
had an accumulated deferral
of $577 million, Bell-Canada
$993 million and Inco $417
million. Add to this deferrals
to private pension plans and
you find that this totals some
$20 billion dollars at the end
of 1979.
I would hope that the
electorate will realize that
Only one minor injury was
reported in the four ac-
cidents investigated by the
Exeter OPP this week. Two
of those collisions involved
parked vehicles,
On Tuesday, vehicles
driven by Kenneth Mason,
Huron Park, and Richard
Brintnell, RR 3 Parkhill,
collided on the Crediton
Road at the intersection of
County Road 2.
Damage was estimated at
$3,000 by Constable Wally
Tomasik.
The injury occurred on
Friday . in a collision in-
volving vehicles driven by
David Stilson, RR 2 Lucan,
and Barbara Sauder, Huron
Park. They collided on
Canada Ave, in Huron Park
and the injury was sustained
Page 14 Timee,Acieecate, February 64. 1910
Popular .school play
will make .a return
property budget for
maintenance and repaits to
the house in its 1980 budget.
The livingroom will be
redecorated and plaster will
be repaired and wallpaper-
ing done in three bedrooms.
The county will continue to
rent the house to FCS for the
group home program. John
Tinney, reeve of Hay
Township and vice-chairman
of the property committee
told council Thursday, he did
not want to see the house fall
into disrepair while a new
use for the house is being in-
itiated.
Councillor Jay Campbell
came in for some mild
criticism this week for com-
ments made about the board
of management of the. South
Huron, Rec Centre and his
call for an inquiry into the
relationship between the
board and cooncil.
The criticism came from
two council appointed to
the board. Councillor Don
Cameron and Mayor Derry
Boyle.
Cameron said that the
various citizen committees
in Exeter were "filled with
excellent, dedicated people"
and contended it should be a
policy of council to be sup-
portive of these committees,
He noted that some
members of the board feel
they are being criticised and
"this is a quick way to dis-
courage people".
"If we are not supportive,
it's the quickest way to dry
up citizen involvement," he
claimed, adding that council
couldn't afford to pay people
to serve on citizens' com-
mittees and even if they did,
probably wouldn't attract
the calibre of people now
serving in the various
capacities.
"Well spoken. Don," com-
mented the Mayor, who
later said he didn't know
what Campbell was reaching
for in his recent questioning
of the board's actions.
Campbell said he would
most heartily agree with the
OLGA BOND
In Mason Villa Hospital on
Thursday, January 31, 1980,
Olga Victoria (Gommer)
Bond of Lucan. Beloved wife
of the late Harry Bond and
dear mother of (Pat) Mrs.
Jack Henson of London,
Ernie Bond of Pheonix,
Arizona, Sally Appleton of
London, (Marjorie) Mrs.
Franklin Purington of Moose
Jaw Saskatchewan, (Jean)
Mrs. benis Porter of North
Bay, (Gladys) Mrs. Ronald
Treend of South Delta,
British Columbia, Harry
Bond of Lucan and David
predeceased. Also survived
by 35 grandchildren, in her
73rd year. Funeral service
was held Saturday from the
C. Haskett and Son Funeral
Horne, Lucan with interment
St. James Cemetery,
Clandeboye.
If you're a poor bridge player
everyone hates you and never
asks you back. But if you're a
poor poker player and lose a
lot of money then everyone
loves you and you always get
asked back.
both the Liberals and Con-
servatives have thought this
good business in view of the
fact that those companies
and corporations have
contributed over $22 million
dollars to their campaign
funds between 1974 and 1977.
It has been standard
procedure for both old
parties to try to frighten the
electorate with such words
as "Communism" or
"Socialism" or any other
"ism" they think necessary
to hang on to office, and then
ask them to tighten their
belts, pay another 18 cents
for gasoline, and additional
costs for all other coin-
modoties.
The above is easy to ac-
complish when they use an
electoral system that allows
85 percent of the electorate
to elect the Government with
65 percent opposing their
election.
Think seriously before .
casting your ballot on
February 18th. Your fate is
in your hands------
Don't Blow it this time.
Sincerely,
Osborne Fansher ,
by the Huron Park woman.
Constable Tomasik set
total damage at $1,400.
The accidents, involving
parked cars were reported
on Saturday. The first was a'
hit and run. Damage of $100
was sustained by a vehicle
owned by Barbara Overall,
Huron Park, when it was'
struck by an unknown vehi-
cle while parked on St.
Lawrence Ave. in Huron
Park. Constable Jack
Straughan is investigating.
In the other collision, a
vehicle driven by William
Insley, Huron Park, collided
'with a parked vehicle owned
by Lucio Nirta, RR 8
Parkhill, on Algonquin Drive
in Huron Park. Constable
Frank Giffin investigated
and listed damage at $600.
One minor injury