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The Rural Voice, 1996-06, Page 67People Farm leaders named CKNX advisers Several rural leaders have been appointed to an advisory committee for CKNX Radio. The committee includes: (front row, left to right) Jayne Miltenburg, R.R.7, Lucknow; Bev Fry, RR.1, Ripley, Bill French, R.R.2, Mitchell; Dave Linton, RR.2, Blyth; Doug Taylor, R.R.4 Grand Valley; (back row) Murray Gaunt, CKNX Farm Editor; Victor Roland, R.R.1, Gorrie; Gary Dauphin, Walton; Jack Cumming, R.R.2, Dobbington; Ken Furlong, R.R.4, Durham and Jack Gillespie, CKNX Radio general manager. A number of prominent farm leaders from around western Ontario have been named to a Farm Advisory Board to assist CKNX Farm Editor Murray Gaunt in staying on top of developing issues. Appointments to the board include: Terry Boland, Guelph; Jack Cumming, R.R.2, Dobbington; Gary Dauphin, Walton; Bob Down, R.R.1, Hensall; Bill French, R.R. 2, Mitchell; Bev Fry, R.R.1, Ripley; Ken Furlong, R.R.4, Durham; Dave Linton, R.R.2, Blyth; Victor Roland, R.R.1, Gorrie; and Doug Taylor, R.R.4, Grand Valley.0 Huron, Perth OMAFRA offices get new Field Services Manager Dan Carlow took up his new duties May 13 as Field Services Manager for the OMAFRA field offices in Clinton and Stratford. Carlow replaces Jim O'Toole who retired from the Ministry on February 29. Carlow has served in several positions within OMAFRA over the past 12 years, the most recent being Field Services Manager for the Niagara offices of Vineland and Fenwick. Prior to that he was Ag Rep for Niagara South. Carlow brings a strong agricultural background to the position. He graduated from the University of Guelph in 1984 with a B.Sc. in Agriculture. He was raised on a dairy and cash crop farm in Peterborough County which is currently operated by his brother. The position of Field Service Manager is responsible for the management and co-ordination of human, financial and physical resources of the field offices and provides leadership to ensure effective program delivery in Huron and Perth Counties. Carlow will be based at the Clinton office.° Grey land -use activist dies Former OFA regional director from Grey County and land -use activist Clayton Schwegler died April 25 at Centre Grey General Hospital in Markdale following a long illness. Born June 14, 1929 in Toronto, Schwegler was a descendent of an early Walkerton settler and maintained an interest in the Grey - Bruce area. In 1954 he graduated from the University of Toronto as an electrical engineer and worked for several Toronto -area companies. But his ties to Grey -Bruce led him to buy an Artemesia Township farm and he moved there in 1974. He raised Aberdeen Angus cattle and was active in breed associations. He joined the Artemesia Township Federation of Agriculture and eventually served as an OFA director. He played an important role in the mid-1980s in the organization of the Grey Association for Development and Growth, a landowners' rights group. He also had a keen interest in history and served as chair of the Grey -Bruce Genealogical Society, a director of the Artemesia historical committee on split rail country and a director of Black Pioneer Cemetery.0 Small family wins big at awards Tim and Rosa Small of Naturally Pigs at Goderich took home two big awards for the second year in a row at the Canadian Swine Breeders Annual Meeting in early April. The Smalls' Naturally Princess 3308E received the award for the highest indexing York gilt registered on home test in 1995 in Ontario. Their boar Naturally Turk 3702E was the highest indexing registered York boar on home test in Ontario in 1995. The Smalls have operated Naturally Pigs since 1989 supplying purebred and hybrid breeding stock to customers in Ontario and around the world and are partners in Swine Genetics Ontario Inc.O