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BRUSSELS
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LIVESTOCK
Division of Gamble & Rogers Ltd.
REGULAR SALES
Tuesday .900 a.m.
Finished Cattle & Cows
Thursdays 10:00 a.m.
Drop Calves, Veal Sheep,
Goats & Lambs
Frjdays
10 00 aim. Stockers
1:00 p.m, .- Pigs
SPECIAL PALES
T . ur:.sclay March 21 tic 28 --1X40 p.m.
Easter Lamb & Goat Sale
Saturday April fth -10tQ0 a.m.
Stockers in lieu of Good Friday
BRUSSELS 887-6461
Remai
by Luci
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by Pst•gston .,
Thirty years ago, when Art
.Helm embarked upon his husi.
iifess venture in Ashfield
ownship, the young hon may
have bad a drearn.Who knows
what went through Helufs mind,
as he did welding repairs for
-
nei hborinfarmers and built
snowblowers. The quiet -spoken.
entrepreneur isn't prone to shar-
ing
l.ring
his personal thoughts, and:
particularly not with a reporter.
Did he ever think that,inn
three decades he would :be
where he is today - owner and
president of Helm Welding
(19.83.) Limited employing p45
employ ees. and manufacturing
farm equipment that is marketed
nationally' and internationally?
Equipment that bears the re�gis-
tered trade name LUCK/NOW...
From those early days in the
mid r60s, expansion. has been
owth enjoyed
'i -business
pad of Helm's life. Soon :after
harrying. Barbara, they built a
new facility at the edge of
Lucknow where business cen-
trod around building snowplow
ers,,gravity boxes and wagons.;
died they were known as A
Helie Welding' . aehtno.
Variations in the business name
took place over the years, but it
was still the same man making
the decisions -and watchingtheir
1
business grow.
In 1974 a new linewas added
bulk feed storage tanks. The
snowblower part- of the business
was growing and necessitate a
further expansion, Now i a
building double its original size,
Helm realized he neededmoth.
er product to fill in tome pro-
duction. time. Enter the mixer.
feeder wagons. At that time "all
the mixers coming into the local
area were manufactured in the
mid -west USA, °Ilelm said.
HlCelin had great faith in the
quality of the product, but the
mixer feeder wagons were
'slow to take off"- he says. ...
Only two or three -sold the first
year and about the same for the
next five years. Mostof those
went within 100 miles of:.hereg °,,
Telin says.. °
B the' increase
gid, s. 'r
,. � Q .A nn � ea
in nuxer.feeder sales and snow-
blowers. resulted in another
expansion of the business locate
p
ed just south of Lucknow. This
was when the grain buggy was
introduced to the production
lineP
As elm's .business had
grown, .small welding repairs to
farms equipment were `getting
less and less, "Every year we
had less` time to do these small
jobs." Gone were those early
days. •turn to page 25A
Employees of Helm Welding (1983) -Limited . standing in front of one of their mixer
feeders. This one' was destined for. California. Helm., is front row centre, black jacket.
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LIVESTOCK FARMERS
We are now paying
for older & injured covers
Average price:
$200 - $500
for old odws & recently
injured livestock.
RILEY
LIVESTOCK
482-7815
1.800-265-5175
before 7:00 a.m.