The Lucknow Sentinel, 1987-07-22, Page 3International exchange
Thanks to the Ontario Junior Farmers
Association, this area of the province has
acted as host to a number of visitors from
around the world recently. In Lucknow,
the cultural exchange has allowed Audrey
Ritchie and Anne Alton to take two visitors
into their homes. Audrey has been enter-
taining Caroline MacColl from Scotland
while Anne has hosted Philip Depiazzi of
Australia.
The two visitors are part of a thirteen
member delegation from the United
Kingdom and Australia who will spend a
total of three months in Canada. Caroline
spent a week here in the village while
Philip has been with the Altons for almost
seven weeks.
"After applying for this exchange, we
had to go through a number of inter-
views," says Caroline about how she came
to travel to Canada. "While I don't live on
a farm back in Scotland, I belong to a
group called the Scottish Association of
Young Farmers. It was through this club
that I was able to apply for the exchange
program."
Caroline explains that the Scottish
Association of Young Farmers is a group
that promotes non -farmers as well and is
open to anyone interested in the country-
side.
Caroline is from Chirnside in the County
of Berwickshire where she works as a
bank officer. She has joined three other
Scots in their trip across the province of
Ontario and will head to Kent County at the
end of this week.
G'day Mate
With an accent thick enough to cut with a
knife, Philip the Aussie tells us he comes
from a large dairy and beef operation in
Dardanup in Western Australia. He arriv-
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ed at Anne Altons hobby farm on the first
of June and will join his fellow travellers in
their visit to Kent next week.
During his stay in Lucknow, Philip says
he has seen a number of similarities as
well as a number of differences in the far-
ming operations of the two countries.
"I suppose any differences are due to
climate," says Philip. "For example, our
winter is our growing season. Here, of
course, you grow only in summer because
of snow in the winter. We can't grow in
summer because of the heavy rains."
Philp adds that he hopes to get to Alberta
before flying back the the 'Land Down
Under' at the end of August.
While in Southwestern Ontario, the
delegates will be treated to a tour of CKNX
Radio as well as trips to Goderich,
Bayfield, Grand Bend and a play at Blyth.
A number of farm tours have also been ar-
ranged and the members have taken in the
Sales Barns at Kitchener as well as the
Pioneer Sports World.
The exchange program is not one un-
familiar to Audrey and Anne. Audrey
travelled to Australia and New Zealand in
1984 and to Indiana in 1985 through the
Huron County Junior Farmer Program.
Anne was to Michigan on an exchange in
1985 and both have plans of applying for
the International Exchange Program next
year.
The purpose of such an exchange pro-
gram is one of fellowship, understanding
and cultural enhancement on the part of
all involved. It has been the pleasure of
Lucknow to host youths from around the
world as we know our youths would be
treated overseas.
Enjoy your stay Caroline and Philip and
be sure to come back anytime.
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The Village of Lucknow and surrounding area has been host to an international Ex-
change Program recently. Caroline MacColl of Scotland (left) and Philip Depiazzi of
Australia (center) have been staying with Audrey Ritchie and Anne Alton. The two
are part of a thirteen member delegation from the United Kingdom and Australia on a
farm tour of Southwestern Ontario. The group will be in Canada until the end of
August.
The Parish community is sorry to see
one of its life long parishioners, Cletus
Dalton and his wife Mary Louise and
children Jennifer, Kathy, Ray and John,
leave the area to take up residence in Lon-
don. Jennifer, for several years, did a most
commendable job of reporting the news
from Kingsbridge and Kintail. A special
word of thanks for her dedication and ef-
forts. We wish the Dalton family God's
blessings and good luck in their new home
and endeavours.
The community was most saddened to
receive the news recently of the death of
former parishioner Dennis O'Neill, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Jim O'Neill of Goderich.
Dennis was laid to rest down east where he
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had been living. A memorial mass was
held for him at St. Joseph's on Saturday.
It should be reported that along with
many parishioners from Kingsbridge who
travelled by bus for the pilgrimage to the
shrine of Our, Lady of the Rosary in St.
Mary's on Monday, July 13, were
parishioners from St. Peter's in Goderich,
St. Augustine and St. Anthony's of Kincar-
dine along with Father Ed and Brother
Carl of Kinsbridge and Father Frank Den-
tinger of St. Augustine. The bus was filled
to capacity.
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