The Lucknow Sentinel, 1983-10-12, Page 4news
Lucknow Sentinel, Wednesday, October 12, 1483—Page 4
Boys sent to China to learn native customs...
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Abrupt Tutu
In 045, at the age of stir, his life took an
abrupt turn. Harry deckled that his two
sons, hobby and eddy, should be educated
in the language and customs of their native
cultur y, which, to him, meant China. He
took he two boys back across half the world
to th small mountain village hi the Hopei
prti ce of China, where he had gtown up.
their mother didn't t$-companythem. bob
vaguely recalls a tug-of-war between his
parents which his mother lost, and he has
neithe seen not heard of her since. He spent
time, latet in his life, seatching for het. "it
was taboo in those days to marry an
outsider," he says, which he feels accounts
tot why nobody evet acknowledged meeting
hf�r of knowing het whereabouts when lie
searched and questioned people in China-
town.His father would never say anything
about her.
(tarry only stayed in the mountain village
long enough to settle the boys with a female
relative. three days after they arrived, their
father returned to Canada. bobby and Eddy
didn't see him again for si* years.
"We were a little frightened, at first, but
when we left that village, everyone could
sing You Ate My Sunshine and don't pence
Me lti, in English, without understanding a
word." He doesn't recall much in the way of
prejudice against them, despite their Occid-
ental,blood, but if there was a fight the racial
remarks would come out proving that there
is do real hone for those of mined blood.
In 1950, Harty sent a runner to fetch the
boys from the village and deliver them to an
uncle in 1' o'vloon. "The Communists
were closing the borders, and if we hadn't
gotten out then, we might have been there
for a long time," says bob. They stayed in
Kowloon a year before travelling, alone,
bark to Canada. They met their father again
at union Station. "He was late," recalls
bob.
1-larry had moved to the village of Otter-
ville, near tlllsonbur , where he owned a
restaurant. He put the boys in school. ''I
couldn't remembet any English so 1 was put
back in Grade pour. being so far behind, and
being Chinese, 1 found 1 couldn't get any
respect unless 1 fought for it. I got as far as
the second year of high school before I was
est pelled."
He moved away from his father at the age
of 15 and began drifting around the
tilisonburg area, holding odd jobs. then he
met Grant Mountain, the barber in Otter-
viile, and his wife, Doreen. "They kind of
adopted tae, 1 guess. 1 remember 1 was
working iii a canning factory at the time.
When September rolled around they wanted
me to go back to school. When 1 refused,
Grant threatened to kick me out. He said, '1
don't raise bums.' So we made a deal, and 1
went to Shaw business College."
It was Doreen Mountain who arranged the
interview at fratikel Steel in Toronto that
started gob's career.
Having overcome a drastically interrupted
childhood and - education, and, in his
mid -thirties, the break up of his first
marriage (he . has two children, Serena, 15,
and Darryl, 11) he went on . to become
general manager at Peel. He is now
remarried to Doreen, a woman of Jap-
anese -Canadian descent, who is a nurse.
"It's a beautiful world," claims bob,
despite the ttials of his past. "1f 1 can make
it in this wotld, doing what 1 most want to
da, it would be like living a fantasy."
Task force looks at the crisis facing area farmers.
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Wm, Mef nail commented that a farmer
would not ettpand it he could make a decent
living on .100 aetes and have time to invest in
his eommunity, instead of three of four
fatmets owning all the land thete would be
mote Witten, fanning smallet faints *hick
means, there would be mote people to
suppott the businesses and schools in the
community,
if you have 11 farmers buying tractors -to
faun 1,000 aetes you have mote ball
beatings, mote tires and more going on in
the eeonomy -and more people who own and
eonttol things *hie* immediately effort
them, suggest McQuail, fever people ate
pushed off the land and (breed to seek
etttplooyymeat in the uttan areas which cannot
provide employment Pot them, this is crucial
to a viable democtacy.
,Clatence Ackert, second vice-ptesidetit of
the Bruce County Cattlemen's Association,
told the task fotee agtieulture in the province
has been beaten down to a state of despait.
Ackert suggested that if a stabilisation
progratti is implemented, t7intatio (Graters
will still be at a disadvantage because
fattnets its other provinces have teceived
assistance Pot two yeats. Mete is a
ttemendous shortfall in Ontario and fatmets
here must be paid a lump sum to catch up,
bringing the fatmets to a competitive +posi-
tion with fatmets in other ptovinces, Aeitett
said.
on one important point. the pto tarn fot
beginning farmers should be applicable to
fatmetg who have started in the industty in
the past three to five yeats. the iltuee
County fedetation • Agticultute pointed
out that the beginni tmet Ptogtam is
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five years too late and at this time, the
ptiotity should be to help e*isting fatmets,
to keel's theta viable.
the Hutton fedetation of Agticultute said
in its brief that fatting is not only an
oreupation but a way of life. If this is the life
you choose and you ate willing to tooth the
tong bouts necessaty, there is an impetus to
move now of you might not get the cliatiee.
Ovet ptoduetion and low commodity ptiees
may mean new fattnets ate not necessary
now but we should addtess the long tette
health of the industty, said the Huron
federation.
Manyof the otganitations told the task
fotee tey deplote the atistetity measutes
affecting the e*rtension offices of the ()Maria
Ministty of Agtictitttite and food actoss the
ptowittce. the ptovincial budget coveting the
direct dpetating ettpenses for (MAP county
offices has been slashed $3.1 milliofi
compared with the ptevious fiscal year. As a
result these offices are unable to maintain
the established level Of service to farmers.
this comes at a time when the best
available teehnotogy is tequited to revitalize
the aegtieultural industty, commented the
brief prepared by Otey County Federation of
Agticultute.
the Hilton Potlt Ptodueets told the task
force they suppott the so-called fetgusan
Hill up to the point *trete the courts
can otdet lendets to forgive loans. This
would not only be an injustice to Ietidets, but
it would also tend to sevetely curtail the
confidence of feed companies, machinery
companies and farmer lenders to invest in
agriculture.
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