The Citizen, 1989-02-01, Page 1VOL. 5 NO. 5 WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 1, 1989.45 CENTS
If the iambs are here, can spring be far behind? In an annual rite of spring,
youngsters [from left] Valerie Moore, 3, Jared Cardiff, 6, and Andrea
Cardiff, 3, frolic with the cuddly newborn creatures in the Allan Cardiff barn
on Morris Township’s fourth line. The unseasonably warm January weather
has made lambing easy on many local farms, but doesn't bode as well for
pasture and winter wheat unprotected by snow. The weatherman says colder
weather will return for Thursday and Friday, with snow flurries a possibility.
Morris farm family wins Alexander award
A Morris Township farm family
won the Norman Alexander Con
servation Award at the annual
awards banquet of the Huron
County Soil and Crop Improvement
Association held in Seaforth Friday
night.
Peter and Brian Oldridge, RR 2,
Blyth won the award for their
dedication to conservation prac
tices on their 1061 acre farm. The
award is named after the late
Citizen wins 4 awards in Ontario Community Newspaper contest
The Citizen has won four more
awards in the Ontario Community
Newspaper Association’s annual
newspaper competition.
Two of the four awards were for
photographs by Citizen reporter
photographer Toby Rainey. She
took second place in the best spot
news category with a photo of the
Tactical aird Rescue Unit at a
Norman Alexander of Londesboro
who pioneered conservation work
in the county up until his death last
year. Also nominated for the award
was Henry Hohnstein of Howick
township.
The Oldridge family was praised
for its work with conservation
tillage, no-till planting of soybeans
into corn stubble, the use of buffer
strips along open drains, the use of
red clover as a cover crop, crop
rotation principles, the use of
stand-off in Walton last June. She
also took second place in the best
feature photo, black and white
category for a picture of young
Megan Lee and her pet pigs on a
leash in the August 31, 1988
Citizen.
The front page with the picture
of the Tru team and another with a
photo of skaters Peter MacDonald
and Kerrie Shepherd helped win
windbreaks and the retention of
wetland areas. They have also
made a big reduction in the use of
synthetic chemcials on their farm,
replacing them with chemicals
from natural sources.
The Association also handed out
three booster awards for those who
had helped promote the work of soil
and crop improvement. Murray
Adams, of Clinton received his
award for the conservation farm he
second prize in the front page
category for tabloid newspapers
under 4500 circulation across the
province.
A feature story by Citizen editor
Keith Roulston on a day in the life
of Agriculture Minister Jack Rid
dell won third prize in the best
feature writing category for news
papers of all sizes across the
province.
operates north of Clinton and the
many tours he has given on the
farm. Milton J. Dietz of Seaforth
was honoured for his long commit
ment including his sponsoring of
four pesticide safety courses this
year including the first to be held to
to spouses. Keith Roulston was
honoured for his coverage of Soil
and Crop Improvement activities.
A project award was given to
Laurence Taylor of Londesboro for
his fungicide trials on wheat.
In addition, Betty McCall, Wal
ton correspondent for The Citizen
won the Champion Correspondent
Award for the province. She had
been nominated by the Huron
Expositor in Seaforth for which she
also writes.
The awards will be presented at
the annual convention of the OCNA
in Toronto, March 2 to 5.
Henschel
remanded
to March 22
Former Brussels Stockyards
owner Klaus Henschel and his
wife, Kristin, made a brief appear
ance in Wingham District Provin
cial Court on January 25 to face a
number of charges laid against
them in connection with their
disappearance and the subsequent
bankruptcy of the business last
October.
But Judge R.G.E. Hunter grant
ed a request for adjournment by
duty counsel Alan Mill, acting on
behalf of Mr. and Mrs. Henschel’s
laywers, who said that new charges
against the Henschels were pend
ing. Charged jointly, the pair face
10 counts of theft over $1,000 and
nine counts of fraud over $1,000.
They will appear in Wingham
Court on March 22 to enter a plea.
The Henschels disappeared in
October after mysterious dealings
with western cattle ordered under
the Brussels Stockyards name but
sold through other facilities across
the province came to light. An
investigation headed by Constable
Al Hunter of the Wingham Detach
ment of the Ontario Provincial
Police found the Henschels in
Germany. They later decided to
return to Canada, surrendering
themselves to the OPP in London
on November 30. They later ap
peared at a bail hearing in God
erich and were released on a $5,000
bond each.
Operation of the Brussels Stock-
yards was suspended by the Mini
stry of Agriculture’s Livestock Fin
ancial Protection Branch following
the Henschel’s disappearance; the
branch later appointed Dunwoody
Limited to act as the trustee in
receivership on behalf of close to
100 western and local livestock
producers who had lost more than
$785,000.
In the best interests of all those
involved, Dunwoody later arranged
with Bruce and Ross McCall, who
had sold Brussels Stockyards to
Mr. Henschel in May, 1987, to
operate the facility on an interim
basis.
In November the bankrupt facili
ty was offered for sale and was
purchased by Gordon Brindley of
Dungannon, who operates it as
Brussels Livestock Inc. Claims
entered by cattlemen are being
investigated and paid by the Live
stock Protection Branch, while
other creditors await disposition of
assets by Dunwoody Limited.
Pair charged
with Legion fire
still ‘on hold’
The appearances of three local
men originally scheduled to appear
at the January 25 session of
Wingham District Provincial Court
have been set over to March 22,
pending the availability of the
investigating officers in the cases.
Leonard Gordon Cowie and Ro
bert Martin Killick, both formerly
of Brussels and jointly charged
with arson in connection with the
fire which gutted the Brussels
Legion last June, will appear at the
March session for a preliminary
inquiry into the matter.
In addition, Mr. Cowie alone will
face trial on the same date on one
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