The Rural Voice, 1992-05, Page 6"Promote Your
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Pack Your Bags
For
Centralia
College's
COMPUTER
CAMP
Are you interested in computers? Would you like to learn more about
agriculture today? Then sign up for Centralia College's overnight
"Computer Camp."
Campers will participate in:
• computer workshops
• agriculture seminar
• games and activities
• public speaking
• life skills
• barbecue (Saturday evening)
When: Friday, June 19 (6 p.m.) to Saturday, June 20/92 (7 p.m.)
Where: Centralia College, Huron Hall
Cost: $60.00 + GST = $64.20 - includes:
• overnight accommodation
• meals and snacks for campers
• one guest ticket for Saturday barbecue
• supplies and computer materials
To register or for more information, contact: Continuing Education
Centralia College
Huron Park, Ontario NOM 1Y0
(519) 228-6691, Ext. 285
Ministry of
Agriculture
and Food
ONTARIO
CENTRALIA
COLLEGE
Huron Park, Ontario NOM 1Y0
(519) 228-6691
2 THE RURAL VOICE
FEEDBACK
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MEETING THE
HAVE-NOTS
I very much enjoyed Merle
Gunby's article about farming in
Grenada (The Rural Voice, April
1992). And, it brought back to mind
an unusual farming scene that I was
privileged to view in 1986. I had
travelled to Peru with friends and we
were driving down a highway. I had
dozed off and then awoke with a start
which soon became an uneasy
feeling. My friend Marie was quite
concerned and wondered if I were ill.
I said I didn't know but something
was not quite right — then it dawned
on me that the field that I was view-
ing was moving in sort of a rhythmic
fashion. In my half -asleep state it
took a great deal of mental concentra-
tion to figure out what was wrong
with that field. Finally, it occurred to
me — it wasn't the field that was
moving but hundred and hundreds of
very large straw hats as farm people
were rhythmically swinging hoes in
the cornfield. The hats they wore
were so large that they almost
touched each other, in effect (when
viewed from a certain angle) hiding
the bodies of their wearers so that it
appeared that a whole field of hats
were moving on their own. It was a
most startling and enlightening scene.
While I know fora fact that my
parents worked far too hard on their
Canadian farm, I believe that these
poor Peruvians had an even harder
job.
Too, as we drove further into the
Peruvian countryside I was further
startled to see a grove of trees which
literally teemed with people. Appa-
rently, this grove of trees was their
home and had been at that time, for
two years. Whatever shelter they had