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The Citizen, 1987-08-26, Page 1Inside Serving Brussels, Blyth, Auburn, Belgrave, Ethel, Londesborough, Walton and surrounding townships. Four vie for Brussels Fair Queen. See page 2. Blyth loses prominent busi­ ness. See page 3. ■ ■ . '• ■ ' Auburn team undefeated. See Page 22. Opera star visits Blyth Festival. See page 23. Bilingualism issue at debate. See page 24.VOL. 3 NO. 34 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26 1987.40 CENTS More than 200 Huron county voters packed into Hullett Central School in Londesboro [left] and Nico Peters, Progressive Conservatives prepare their answers. Topics from free Monday night to hear the three candidates debate issues of interest to local voters. Here Paul trade to farm subsidies to bilingualism stirred lively debate. Klopp [centre] NDP candidate, answers a question while Jack Riddell, Liberal candidate, 200attend Londesboro all-candidates meeting If the September 10 provincial election is, as some have said, an election for people to sleep through, Huron county voters at least, seem wide awake. More than 200 people crowded Candidates split on development While Jack Riddell and Nico Peters supported more industry for Huron County at an all-candidates meeting for the Sept. 10 provincial election, Paul Klopp said that the Homemakers wins county contract for homecare The Huron County Board of Health has decided to continue to purchase home care services for the county’s elderly, handicapped or disabled adults from Wing­ ham’s Town and Country Home­ makers exclusively until the matter comes up for review again, despite applications from two London­ based firms to provide similar services. Grant Stirling of RR 2, Bayfield, chairman of both the county Board of Health and the independent committee making the recommen­ dation, said Monday that the decision had been based on several factors, including the fact that the Wingham non-profit organization had pioneered the service in the county and had been providing excellent care since 1978, as well as into Hullett Central School in Londesboro Monday night to hear the three candidates answer ques­ tions in an all candidates debate organized by the Huron County Federation of Agriculture. As might be expected since the government must get farming back on the tracks and the rest will look after itself. Mr. Klopp, the NDP candidate from Zurich told the 200 people in the fact that all Town and Country employees are Huron County residents. He added that using a non-profit organization to provide care would also directly save local ratepayers money, since the federal govern­ ment picks up half the cost of such care, whereas the province would be responsible for the entire cost of a privately run service. Both London companies that submitted proposals are privately owned. However, Mr. Stirling said that if in the future the county should require more servicethan Town and Country can provide, the committee’s next choice would be Para-Med Health Services. Quali­ ty Care Nursing Services Ltd. was the third organization which sub- Continued on page 24 HFA sponsored the meeting and all three candidates (Paul Klopp for the NDP, Nico Peters for the Progressive Conservatives and Jack Riddell for the Liberals) are farmers, most of the questions Londesboro Monday night that if he had to support his farm by working in an off-farm job, he was taking work from someone in Zurich or Exeter. If farming was healthy, he said, he and many other farmers would be staying home on the farm and freeing up jobs for many more urban people. He said he didn’t want to subsidize industry to come to Huron County so that he could have a place to work harder if hogs go down to 63 cents a pound again. Make farming profitable and the economy of the county will be healthy, he said. Mr. Riddell, the Liberal candi­ date had argued that Huron does need more industry but that it must be industry that is compatible with farming. He pointed out that pollution had driven the white bean industry out of Essex and Kent and northward into Huron, Middlesex and Perth and we didn’t want it to happen here. Mr. Peters for the Progressive Conservatives said that Huron does need more industry because Continued on page 11 were on farm topics but in the more than two hour meeting everything from free trade to bilingualism to midwifery came up for discussion. Mr. Peters organization seemed most in evidence with an enthusi­ astic group of placard-waving young Conservatives occupying the front seats in the auditorium. All three party organizations hand­ ed out campaign literature at the door. Angela Nethery to compete at CNE for Dairy Princess Angela Nethery, Huron County Dairy Princess will compete for the OntarioDairy Princesscrownat the Canadian National Exhibition on Saturday, August 29, the final day of the four-day competition. Angela, from RR 4, Brussels, is one of 44 contestants vying for the crown. Ontario’s 32nd Dairy Prin­ cess will be crowned on Sept. 2 at 6:30 p.m. at the main ring of the CNE Coliseum. Doing the crown­ ing will be Gordon Miller, Parlia­ mentary Assistant to the Ontario Minister of Agriculture and Food. John Core, vice-chairman of the Ontario Milk Marketing Board will also take part. The crowning follows a week of preliminary and semi-final com­ petitions at the CNE for the 44 contestants, who have each served as Dairy Princess in their county/' Although a few questions were handled from the floor, most questions were submitted in writ­ ing to the chairman, Brenda McIntosh, acting president of the Federation who then gave the candidates the chance to speak to the question. The question period followed a five minute opening speech from each candidate and each candidate had another short closing speech. district over the past year. The preliminaries will be held daily August 26 through 29 at 6:00 p.m. in the Small Judging Ring, Coli­ seum East Annex, with semi-finals held August 31 and September 1 at 6:00 p.m. in the Main Ring of the Coliseum. The public is invited to attend all events. Each night of the preliminaries, there will be free draws for baskets of dairy pro­ ducts. The contestants, ranging in age from 17 to 25, are judged on their public speaking ability, knowledge of the dairy industry, personality and poise. The Ontario Dairy Princess serves as a full time employee of The Ontario Milk Marketing Board during her one-year reign, under­ taking public relations duties on behalf of Ontario’s dairy farmers.