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The Lucknow Sentinel, 1985-02-06, Page 1single copy 35c Published in Lucknow, Ontario, Wednesday, February 6, 1985 20 pages Lucknow agricultural society reports successful fall f The Lucknow District Agricultural Society managed a budget of $25,123.38 in thepast year according to the society's secretary -treasurer, Ross Errington, who tabled his report at the annual dinner meeting January 29. Included in expenditures were expens- es of $7,158 as prize money awarded at the fall fair, $1,350 to stage the fall fair parade and $609.40 to print the fall fair books. As the .financial report shows, Erring- ton told the meeting, the society must hold fund raising events to raise money to support the.. fair the operation of the society is not a nickle and dime affair when you consider the amount of money going through the society's books in a year. Carol Rintoul of St. Helens received the trophy for the most points earned in the 1984 judging season in the Lucknow beef club sponsored by the society and Don Alton of Ashfield Township received the Blake Alton Memorial Trophy for the field crop division at the fall fair. Don and. Ruth Bell received the society's service diploma for their out- standing contribution to the society. Don has served as a director since 1974 and served as society president for two years. Ruth is currently serving her second year as president of the ladies' division of the society and has been active in two dramas staged by the society. Plans for .1985 include assisting with the Lucknow Tractor Pull and the society's Walter Ostanek dance in July and the Craft Festival the civic holiday weekend in August. In September the society plans to mark the 20th anniversary of the Miss Mid- western Ontario pageant at the fall fair. To honour this occasion the Carlton Show Band will entertain the night of the pageant. The society also sponsors 4-H clubs including the Lucknow beef club, the Lucknow dairy club and co-operates in the sponsorship of the Huron county goat and poultry clubs. In 1985 the society will offer a new 4-H field crop club. The ladies' division sponsored a,special Bicentennial project for 4-H groups last year and offers two new sections in the fall fair judging categories for the 1985 fall fair, current events scrap book and an interesting person from the Lucknow area. Special guests at the dinner meeting included Lindell Cross, Miss Lucknow Fall Fair and runner upin the Miss Midwestern Ontario pageant; who enter- tained with two friends who accompanied her singing, on piano; Kim McArthur and on guitar, Sandra Firth. Guests also included the district 10 president for Ontario Agricultural Societ- ies, Burton Hodgins and his counterpart for the ladies' . division of the Ontario Agricultural. Societies, Bessie Farrell; reeve Barry Johnston who brought greet- ings from Kinloss Township, Bruce Raynard of West Wawanosh Township council and Grant Tartish of Ashfield Township council. During the :business portion of . the annual meeting, Ian Clarke, Don Bell, Bruce Skillen and Norris Messenger agreed to stand as directors and Lloyd Moffat and Gerry Wilbur will stand as associate directors. . Bruce Skillen succeeds Ian Clarke as president, Leo Murray is first vice-pres- ident and Norm Bolt is second vice-pres- ident. The ladies' executive includes Ruth Bell, president; Dale Skillen, first vice-president; Hazel Hackett, second vice-president and Elaine Errington, sec- retary -treasurer. Ken Mewhinney and Barry Elliott were appointed leaders of the4-H calf club and Ken de Boer is the new leader of the field crop club. Don and Ruth Bell received the Luclmow Agricultural Society service diploma for their outstandhig contribution to the society at its annual -dinner meeting January 29. The presentation `was made by the society's secretary -treasurer, Rosa Errington: [Photo by Sharon Dietz) Timbrell's announcement shocks Ontario. cattlemen Local, cattlemen werenhoocked last- week by agriculture minister' Dennis Timbrell's announcement that a proposal for 'a beef marketing agency is to be shelved and a vote by cattlemen on the proposal sched- uled for April is to be cancelled. Timbrell, in his statement, said two recommendations by the Beef Marekting Agency Commission which studied the oposal would be implemented, the improved market information services and improved inspection services to sales barns and packing plants but the remainder of the commission's recommendations would be shelved. A member of the three-man commission which held public meetings across the province before making its report to Timbrell last August, Murray Gaunt, farm director at CKNX Wingham and a former Liberal MPP, said Monday he is disap- pointed Timbrell took the action without holding a plebescite. He said following the leadership conven- tion on the weekend, Timbrell was "bruised and beaten" after losing his bid for the leadership of the party and he decided to salvage what he could before a new minister of agriculture`is appointed by the premier -elect Frank' Miller. Gaunt is making the conjecture that Timbrell will leave the agricultural portfolio when he enters the Miller cabinet. Gaunt said the commission's recom- mendations that a marketing agency separate from the Ontario Cattlemen's Association be imposed on the beef industry; private treaty negotiations be- tween producers and packers be prohibited Turn to page 4• Self helpgroups to focus on women's well being No French immersion in Huron schools By Sharon Dietz Women Today, a grassroots women's. organization in Huron County, has receiv- ed a contribution of $58,345 from Health and Welfare Canada to fund a training program for self help group facilitators. The purpose of the project, Women Being Well, is to promote the health of Huron County women by training women to organize self help groups, which will focus on women's heaalth and well being. The program will provide the facilitators with training on group dynamics, popular education techniques and preventative health. Women Today wants to encourage a number of self help groups in the county to form on a wide variety of concerns that local women will identify. The organization believes the best way to do this is to train. women to run self help groups and support them in establishing the groups they wish to form. Self help groups are already organized in other areas of the province, says Fran McQuail, a Women Today board member, and groups can form for a variety of reasons with the focus being ;women's health and well being. A self help group could be a social group for isolated older women or for young mothers, she says. The groups will evolve as women identify their needs. ' Isolation, lack of work opportunities, stereotype roles, family violence, work, small children, marital relationships, lack of day care and financial problems are several of the concerns local women may identify in forming self help groups. The idea of self help groups came about following a workshop entitled Communica- ting with your Doctor, held by Women Today last year. The response to the .work- shop was excellent, especially from older women, despite the poor weather condi- tions the night of the workshop. The con- cern at the workshop demonstrated a need for all women to have alternative ways of achieving well being. Women today has worked from a self help and networking perspective because it recognizes adult women have the ability to identify and work on solutions to their own problems when given the forum to do so. Self help groups are such a forum. The objective of the training program is tb train six women, working in pairs, to be facilitators to conduct self help groups for women in Huron County. The program will provide training for facilitators in group dynamics, community organization skills, an awareness of the body and its functions, rhythms, needs and symptoms of illness; stress factors in women's lives and the' co -relation between stress and illness as well as appropriate 'responses to dealing with stress; lifestyle changes which could be made to improve women's . health; social, political and environmental factors that influence health and non-medical options, alternatives and supports avail- able in the county. The program will be developed through co-operation with Conestoga College of Applied Arts and Technology. The facili- tators will take their training through the spring and summer months with the goal of supervising and supporting the establish- ment of self help groups in the fall. Women Today will hire a full time project co-ordinator to design, co-ordinate and promote the training program and a ' receptionist bookkeeper to provide the clerical support to the project. The issues of stress, selflessness and low self esteem manifest in a wide variety of illnesses. Women Today believes self help groups are an effective way of supporting women in making healthy lifestyle deci- sions and adjusting to chronic illness. Huron County Board of Education, closed the door on French Immersion at their February meeting when they decided to leave the Core French program as it will be ,at theend of this year and chose not to consider criteria for implementation of a " voluntary late immersion program in grades 7 and 8. Only a handful of ratepayers attended the meeting to hear the verdict including parents from the group, Concerned Parents for a Better Basic Education and others from a group which asked the board /to consider a French Immersion program for Huron County schools a year ago. The only reaction from the audience came when Clinton area trustee Frank Falconer finished •a prepared statement to the board. "To all board members, it is your decision which way you vote, but remem- ber one thing, who won the war beteveen Wolfe and Montcalm?" said Falconer. He was applauded by some of those in attendance at the meeting.