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The Rural Voice, 1981-09, Page 11in Huron the job for eight years and for twenty years has farmed in Stanley Township.. He enjoys travelling throughout the county, meeting the farmers and talking to them first hand. ELAINE PYM Agricrew Co-ordinator Elaine Pym is the summer assistant acting as the Agri - crew co-ordinator out of the Clinton office. She has lived on a beef farm all of her life and has completed one year of the agricultural degree program at the University of Guelph. Her main job re- sponsibilities are hiring crew members to work on different farms, setting the work con- tracts with farmers and promoting the Agricrew program. She has had lots of applications from students looking for summer work and has many crews out in the field. BRUCE LOBB Pesticides Control Officer Licencing and registration of custom sprayers falls under the jurisdiction of Bruce Lobb, Pesticides Control Officer, who works for the Ministry of the En- vironment from the Clinton OMAF office. For fifteen years he has worked with farmers, advising them on the safe application of pest- icides and he investigates pesticide misuse and mis- application. RON QUIPP Environmental Officer The other member of the 43 LORALEE MARSHALL AND JANE MUEGGE Home Economists Loralee Marshall with a B.A. from Guelph and Jane Muegge with a B.A. from Ryerson serve as community resource people in their role as home economists. They supervise and conduct the homemaking club program and are responsible for community educational programs in home management and living skills. They are both available for consumer consultation. Feel free to contact them if you have a consumer type problem. Ministry of the Environment is Ron Quipp, Environmental Officer in charge of industrial abatement. Originally employed with the Ontario Research Foundation (71-74) and the Ministry of the Environment, Sault St. Marie (74-80), he is now connected with the London office, but works out of Clinton. The main thrust of his work deals with pollution programs and complaints coming from industrial and agricultural sources. H. GERRITS BARN EQUIPMENT LTD. Manufacturers -- Dealers Specializing in Complete Hog and Dairy Equipment THE NEW GENERATION SILO UNLOADER! THE POW-R-TRAC 2 R. R. 5, Clinton 519-482-7296 "Practical confining systems for Tess" THE RURAL VOICE/SEPTEMBER 1981 PG. 9