The Rural Voice, 1990-03, Page 52NEWS
SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT CHOOSES EXECUTIVE
The Huron Soil and Water Conserva-
tion District elected a new executive at
its recent annual meeting in Exeter:
(front row, from left) Russel Kernighan
of Colborne Township, vice-chairman,
and Jack Kroes of R. R. 2, Clinton, newly
elected chairman; (back row) secretary
Tom Prout of the Ausable-Bayfield
Conservation Authority and past chair-
man Rick Coghlin of Atwood. The
Huron Soil and Water Conservation
District covers a large area of Huron
and Perth counties and encourages bet-
ter soil and water conservation, particu-
larly by farmers.
OMR APPLIES FOR TRACKAGE RIGHTS TO HAUL FREIGHT
by Alice Gibb
The Ontario Midwestern Railway
(OMR) is expanding its plans for rail-
way service to southwestern Ontario.
The directors of the OMR originally
planned to haul freight from Missis-
sauga to Owen Sound, from Stratford to
Owen Sound via Hanover and Listowel,
and from Stratford to Goderich.
Now they are also negotiating to
offer freight service on the line running
from London to Stratford and Kitch-
cner-Waterloo and on to Georgetown.
They are also negotiating for the
rights to use shorter branch lines to
Elmira, Cambridge, and one running
from St. Marys to the Lucan area.
The directors have applied to the
National Transportation Agency for
trackage rights. Only two other railroad
companies have ever made similar ap-
plications to the national agency, says
OMR director Peter Swire of Stoney
Creek.
The four original OMR partners,
who have been joined by Jim Ewing of
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Wiarton, are also meeting with officials
from both Canadian National and Cana-
dian Pacific railways to discuss access
for the OMR to abandoned lines owned
by CN and CP.
Jim Ewing worked 32 years for the
Quebec North Shore and Labrador Rail-
road. And if negotiations with an
American railroad are successful, the
OMR will be buying the management
skills of the successful U.S. regional
railroad company.
Peter Swire says the five partners sill
hope to have the OMR in operation by
this summer. When fully operating, the
new railway will have 43 people on
staff. Freight trains will operate with
two-man crews, and the directors plan to
start operations with 8 locomotives and
50 covered hopper cars.
The other partners in the OMR are
Peter Bowers and John Harrison of
Owen Sound and Hamilton lawyer
William Kosar.0
CANADIAN AGRA ANNOUNCES CONTRACT
Canadian Agra (CA) announced last
month that an agreement had been
signed with Miracle Feeds/Miratrade
International to market all of the alfalfa
cubes produced at CA's $15 million
cubing facility being constructed at the
Bruce Energy Centre near Kincardine.
The plant will begin operation in
May of 1990 and, by 1991, will have an
annual production capacity of 60,000 to
90,000 tonnes of alfalfa cubes.
Locally grown alfalfa will be proc-
essed using steam heat supplied by
Ontario Hydro's Bruce Nuclear Power
Development.
Miracle Feeds/Miratrade Interna-
tional is a division of Ogilvie Mills Ltd.
of London, Ontario.0