The Lucknow Sentinel, 1980-11-19, Page 11•
• Mrs, Earl Hayes of the
6th concession, Kinloss
township, in thei101Yrood
area called on Monday of
last week. She would like
to hear from anyone who'
remembers anything
about • her 'great grand-
father Rev, John Scott of
Gorrie. He was a close
friend or-the late Rev.
'C. N. MacKenzie, w
married her parents at
the manse in' Ripley in
1927. So if anyone has any
recollections abeut the
late Rev, Scott a
Presbyterian minister
give 1\4_ r! Hayes a phone
call
Top prised cow
Ripley drover Allan.
Coiling shipped a
• priced ,cow for Clarence
Cerson and both men
received mention on the
last Friday evening
kl CKN X radio
report from the Ontario
*from pimp
directed' the wreath
Those placing wreaths
• _at the x Cenotaph. 'were
Cameron 1VlacAuleyi Bill •
Tranter,-- Mike Snobelen,
Ron Nicholson, Lloyd
• 'Worthington; Mrs,
Margaret Reid, Mrs.
Grace Peet, and. Sandy
MacCharles on behalf of
the Province of Ontario,
the .Village of Ripley, the
township ,ef Huron, the
Ripley and District Lions,
the Ripley • Royal Bank,
the Reids Corner
Women's Institute, the
Ripley Women's Institute
and the Purple Grove
Women's Institute
respectively. • NeXt the
boYs and - girls
rePresenting the
Adventurers, Scouts,
Cubs, Guides, Brownies,
and Beavers, in turn as
called,. pinned red pop
pies on the white cross at
the base of the cenotaph.
Then Mrs Nadine
Danforth and Lloyd
Wylds, the presidents of
the Auxiliary and the
-Legion respectively
placed wreaths. This was
followed by the Last Post,
the two minute silence
arid Reveille. -
The L-ord'171:Hrayer,
closed the ceremony.
Marshal Russ Stanley
reformed the, parade
• which then marched back
to the Legion Hall. The
hall never looked or felt
better inside as it offered
. protection from: the cold
- outside. Here' the
Auxiliary, served lunch.
After ' an informal "get
'together" • another
Remembrance Day in.
Ripley passed. into
history: There has been a
long line of these since •
November 11, 1919 also a
snowy, disagreeable day
outside here.
Kincardine and Mrs, Levi moved to their nqw home.
Good:in Winghant, and shop just east et
With winter coming,' Oipley,
folks from 'Ripley are Big banquet
going south.lWr, and Mrs. The Ripley Moen
marked with a bright red Walter 'Forster of Ripley Legion and Auxiliary stake. Last Thursday
morning village foreman lsatrsetet Wleefet koP, NTuoevsedmaYbe°rf, hiaeslitt thSeairtuarnndauyal biann qtuheet.
Donnie Peterbaugh wired 11th, for their winter Legion hall The Ripley
them to the hydrants so home in Pinellis, Park in Women's Institute didthe
that ftramen --'ciitefifirg for theVinquet„
;on Thursday of last TwO meetings
week Mr. and Mrs, Don Two important: nights
MacTavish of Ripley' left are Coming up next week
VisIted home • for their winter, home in for the Ripley
Jean MacDonald of the Tamarc,. Florida and on Agritultural Sodiety, On
,Pinecrest.Manor Nursing Tuesday of this Week Monday evening at eight
Home in LucknOw visited (yesterday) former it is the last monthly
;_on. .the .we'ekend.with her resident . of Malcolm meeting ,f_-.r 1980 at this
sister. Noreen MacDonald :street -tithe the - okiwrea----itia4-6
at their home on Malcelm Elsie Fbrrester who of this year's fair will be.
Street in Ripley. .moved 'recently 'io• shown in the high school
Patients. OshaWa is ,going to cafeteria. On Friday
Three Ripley ladies are 'Montego Bay, jamaiea, evening November 28 in
,patients. in hOspital this for a vacation. the Huron Township hall
past week. They are Mrs. . Moved next door to the-school it
Effie Sutherland and • :Oraen and Doris Rock will be the annual 4-H
MiSs Gertie KidneY in and Ronnie have recently, club achievenient night:
Livestock yards
Toronto.
Red fire stakes
Right now each fire
hydrant' in Ripley is
their location even if they
are •. buried ' under .the
snowbanks.
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,
. , wish to thank all the ratepayers of Kinloss
Township fOr the great support shown to me
during the Municipal, Election.,
I will continue to serve you to the best of my
ability.
Buy land, advised will Rogers, the
great American humorist, because
they are not making it any more.
This advice :is being followed in
many areas of this country but it is
• being followed by what many con-
sider 'to be, the ..wrong people.
Foreigners, that is. Absentee lan-
dlords, that is. '
When • loCal 'agricultural
organizations began sounding
warnings a few years ago, I did not
pay much attention, especially when
a survey indicated that ownership of
farmland by foreign buyers or
complies was less than one per
cent.
But the hue and, cry cannot be
ignored any longer.
Huron County farmers have Called
for the resignation of Agminister
Lorne Henderson because he has
done nothing, they say, to halt the
sale of land to outside interests.
These farmers feel so.strongly about
it that they figure many small towns
could disappear in rural Ontario if
the trend to foreign, ownership
continues,
Through talks with various in-
dividuals, certain buying patterns of
foreign investors begin to emerge.
They appear to be interested in
large, concentrated blocks of land,
most of it without buildings. •
Foreign buyers are interested in
parcels of land-1,000 acres or more.
The problem has seemed acute in
Prince Edward Island where•
legislation was passed some time
ago to prevent anyone off the island
from buying up 'too much land.
Latest. reports indicate, though, that
the law .has so many loopholes
virtually no sales have been stopped.
But the idea of preventing
"Foreign" ownership was sparked
by the same fears as those ex-
pressed by many farm organizations
in Ontario.
But that ain't all. In a recent
report, University of ,Manitoba
agricultural economist Daryl Kraft
revealed that in 1978, eight per cent
of arable land -- that's 1,838,000
acres -- is owned by people or cor-
porations -that do not live on it or
_farm it themselves', .
About a third of the land is in the
hands of foreigners, predominantly
West :German, AuStrain and Italian
interests, Despite legislation to limit
such purchases, about 4Q foreigners
will buy Manitoba farmland this
year, The legislation ,is called the
Manitoba Land Protectfilu Act,'
tHioie lino, Fi.16 aet.
passed in 1976. It was passed to
restrict 'both' non-farming in-
dividuals and corporations to
• ownership of no more than 160 acres
of farmland, As in• P.E.I., critics
,. • doubt the legislation has . had any
appreciable effect.
They point to the fact that the law
provides for.fines of up to $15,000 and
orders to sell holdings but no
violator has ever been charged. The
legislation was passed under NDP
leadership. The • Conservatives
dropped the restriction against
Canadian absentee ownership but
prohibited 'ownership of more than
20 acres by foreigners. -
Every law has some loopholes and
it is believed that out-of-country
people with money are cir-
cumventing the law by setting up
Canadian companies with Canadian
directors. • •
All farmers in all areas of the
country are aware that demand for
land by foreign investors simply
drives up 'the cost of land for those
who are seriously engaged in far-
ming. It then prevents many from
expanding simply because the price
of land is toe, bloody high to make
fanning viable.
When this happens, too many
young people are discouraged from
getting - into the profession. Too
• many older farmers simply sell out
when the selling 'is good and that
land goes , to investors who do not
give a tinker's damn whether it ever
gets farmed again.
They're interested , in making a
buck because;, as, said at the_first of
this epistle, they don't.'make land
any more, It can't do anything but go
up in value.
I do not'think the threat has
reached disastrous 'proportions in
this country yet. But it is certainly
the time to, pass legislation in every
province which will prevent any
more profligate uses of arable land.
And it should be legislation. with
teeth, without loopholes that smart
buyers can circumvent.
Now is the time to 'do it. Let us not
wait until, it is too late and then -
appoint 'a Royal commission to in-
vestigate when the •damage has been
done.
Look. what happened to daily
newspapers in Canada. it has been
going on for decades, The bavey
report warned about'the con-
centration of power 10 years ago and
nothing was done,
Now, .it's too late.
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