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RIBBON
AWARD
1984
Land stewardship
- Soil erosion and the estimated millions of dollars it
causes farmers each year in lost productivity is a major
concern addressed in the special farm edition accompany-
ing your Sentinel this week
Some area fanners are employing soil conservation
practices on their farms and are finding: it is economically
feasible to control erosion. In fad productivity has
increased.
• Farm land stewardship is a question of ethics and how
faithfully stewardship is practised depends on the values
of -society. In our society to'own property is an inalienable
right. But does that' right permit the fanner to do whatever
he wants with the land?
When a factory dumps harmful waste and chemicals into
a river, the public out ay forces a dean up. But when a
fanner allows soil laden with large amounts of nitrogen
and phosphorus -to erode into the ditth and ultimately the
river, little is said.
History provides many lessons about the taihire of land
stewardship. One North American example isthe dirty
thirties dust bowl in Oklahoma. Exploitation of the soil
combined with drought and high winds- caused the
destruction of the soil and vast migrations of people.
Land stewardship requires a fundamental agreement on
the value -of land. Vast amounts of money are spent to
preserve our heritage of old buildings, but little is done to
prevent our true heritage, the soil, from washing into the
lakes. Failing industrial projects which threaten the loss of
thousands of jobs are bailed out by the government, but
the erosion of our land which inevitably will cost much
more than jobs, goes virtually unnoticed.
The Ontario Institute of Agrologists published "Agriad-
ture and the Environment" in 1981, a report which
estimated the equivalent of 6,000 hectares of top soil to a
depth of 15 centimetres is being eroded annually by water
from Ontario - farm land. Ontario has a considerable
amount of land but only seven per cent is fit for agriculture
and this seven per cent is already under intense
competition from urban and rural interests.
The Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food has
recognized the problems of soil erosion and has appointed
advisors to assist fanners in developing programs to
control erosion on their farms. But a commitment is
required from both rural and urban residents if the
problems of soil erosion are to be corrected.
Fbr the most part it willbe the farmer's responsibility as
the steward of the land to care for the land in such a way
that it can be passed on to the next generation:
Urban people have a responsibility, to educate them-
selves about farm problems and to ork with the farm
community to find solutions. Unfortunately they are
isolated from the problem and find it difficult to under-
stand. Their food comes from the grocery store and until
One member of a household has to give up his -her job to
stand in line to buy food, as people do in Poland, urban
people are not likely to get too excited about the effect of
soil erosion and our ability to feed ourselves.
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Ji .vin' into '85 The Iud®ow Skating Club presented their annual carnival at-Iudmow Arena Saturday evening
when over 100 children skated to music of yesterday and today. Top photo left, Roxanne Broer,
Tracy Steer and Jenny.Domm in Cyndi Wiper's "The Girls Just Wanna Have Pim"; bottom photo, left, "The wedding" with brides
Shelley Johnston, . Krista Culbert, Kerrie Sidilen, Trad Curran, Michelle MacGillivray and Jenny Brown; above photo, right,
Snowmen Jason Walden and Cameron Moffat. Photo at bottom, "The Girls Just Wanna Have Flux" by Cyndi luuper„ from the left,
Jenny Doman, Chris Cover, Dana Humphrey, Jill Campbell, Janine Hehn and Candy Helder. (Photos by Sharon Dietz)
Rebecca Barclay, for that was the name of
the woman who came to stay. at the minister's
house, was a long time before she` would
recount her terrible ordeal in the bush, Her
Hind was too full of the thoughts of the tragic
death of her brother, Andrew. Time however,
heals all wounds, and one night, she told
Duncan and Mary MacLeod the following
sto
My father was devoted to the Lord," she
said proudly. "So it was only natural that my
brother and I should be given biblical narnes.
He trained Andrew from an early age to
become a disciple ,of Christ."
MacLeod was quick to see the significance
of her brother's name and could not help but
quote from the Bible a portion • of that
beautiful story:
"Jesus, walking by the Sea of -Galilee saw
two men, Simon called Peter and Andrew his
brother, casting a net into the sea for they
were fishers. And He sayeth unto them,
"Follow me, and I will make you fishers of
men."
Andrew and Rebeixa Barclay dime to
Canada specifically as missionaries to the
Indians. They left Toronto in the early fall
with a wagon and team and travelled up -the
sixth line to Mono Mills. Heading West
towards Lake Huron they were surprised and
nota little frightened by the denseness of the
bush. When the trail would no longer allow a
wagon access, they camped for the night and
contemplated returning to lbronto and going
by sea as far .as Godeaidr.
During the hours of darkness, the horses
were scared by predators and fled in panic.
from the campsite. Although the young
couple searched diligently they did not find
their animals again. They stayed by the
wagon for several days, hopeing somebody
would cross their path. When supplies had
almost run out they packed what was left and
started to walk, as they thought, _in the
direction back towards Mono Mills. They
became hopelessly lost, and. as' absolute
greenhorns in the new land, probably
travelled in dries.
On the way, Andrew's foot became lodged
between two rods and in falling, his leg was
twisted and snapped below the knee. In
desperation, Rebecca left what food she had
with her brother and struck off into the bush
alone to find help.
REDTREES
by Don Campbell
She walked day and night, without food and
in spite of the fact that she had wrenched her
ankle and was in oonsiderable pain. The
strange cries of the animals in the bush
frightened her, and her dothing was ripped
and tom by the love bushes and thorns.
Rebecca only remembered her last con-
scious moments as stumbling forward
exhausted through endless trees, swamp,
over rocky hillsides and through narrow.
'weeks. At what paint in time she merafully
surrendered to oblivion, she could not
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