The Rural Voice, 1982-11, Page 21Robb: footloose
You won't take the country out of Cliff
Robb, even though he's leaving this part
of it.
He retires as farm editor of CKNX
radio and television at Wingham on
November 1. Robb, 59, has decided the
commuting from Uxbridge every weekend
is a bit much so has decided to freelance
or find something else. It won't be in the
big city.
In between stints at CKNX, Robb spent
10 years as a producer in the agricultural
resources department of CBC radio at
Toronto. It was during this time that he
suffered a stroke and developed serious
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hip problems, handicaps he has managed
to overcome. But it wasn't only his
personal problems that soured him on the
city. "I just about went nuts," he says.
"Life was fleeting by. We're on this earth
too short a time to put up with that
nonsense. So 1 left."
Robb has been married to his wife
Sylvia for 34 years. He has two children;
David, 32, and Daphne, 28. Robb's father
was a writer, but he was raised on a farm
in eastern Ontario and says that's where
he got his love for the land. He spent four
years with the RCAF, three of them
overseas. When he returned he went into
Holsteins for 10 years, after which he
found costs prohibitive. So he got out of
it. He dreamt up an idea for a
farm -oriented radio show. One Kingston
radio station didn't buy it, but CKLX in
that city did. And he was in the
broadcasting business. He stayed there
for seven years, before moving to CHLX
at Peterborough for nine months. He
came to Wingham in the spring of 1963,
and left three years later for the CBC and
Toronto. When CKNX station manager
Ross Hamilton asked him to cover the
plowing match in Frontenac County in
1977 he returned to the Wingham station
expecting to stay only a couple of years,
which stretched into five. He has been
doing five radio shows and two television
shows per day.
You can't beat rural people for ability,
morality and decency, he says. "I'm not
happy, working with any other sector of
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