Huron Expositor, 2002-02-06, Page 5Fiddling around
Mondays throughout
February. fiddlers and
country musicians will be
gathering in the afternoon at
St. Columban Parish to
perform for anyone who'd
like to come out and enjoy
the entertainment. Residents
from Maplewood Manor in
Seaforth joined the group on
Feb. 5 for the first of the
weekly gatherings.
Scott Hilgendorff photos
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Bruce Eisler, Jim Delaney and Lou Rowland were among the fiddlers who joined the fun.
More than a dozen musicians turned out to perform.
Marg Beuermann and Maxine Marks two -Step to one of the
. fiddle tunes played Monday afternoon at St. Columban Parish
Hall.
Tom Melody (left) on guitar, helpd organize the weekly event.
Seedling support offered by Stewardship Council
Assistance with
seedlingcosts will be offering
this spring through the Huron
Stewardship Council and
Ausable Bayfield
Conservation Authority as
they try to help landowners
interested in planting trees or
shrubs that will create or
enhance natural corridors.
Natural corridor projects
could include linkages
between existing woodlots or
establishment or
enhancement
of wildlife corridors, stream
bank vegetation and
windbreaks/ shelterbelts.
Healthy landscapes need to
have linkages to allow for
genetic material to exchange
and adapt. In other words,
plants and animals need to
move around to survive;
even more so when changes.
in land use and climate put
stress on native habitats,
making adaptation very
critical. When you look at
The landscape of southern
Ontario, it is generally a
patchwork of isolated forest
"islands."
Linkages between theses
"islands" are of critical
importance in allowing plant
and animal movement
throughout the area.
Linkages provide other
benefits, including wind
protection for crops or
farmsteads, reduction of soil
erosion and enhancement of
water quality.
Currently, prices for
appropriate nursery stock
have risen as the province no
longer subsidizes tree
seedling production and farm
incomes are typically down.
To help landowners make
the long term commitment to
the future of tree planting
and corridor establishment,
the Huron Stewardship
Council and Ausable
Bayfield Conservation
Authority have developed a
partnership to subsidize the
cost of nursery stock for a
limited number of sites in
2001.
The subsidy is at a rate of
30 cents per seedling to a
maximum of $300 per site
for qualifying projects.
The project has received
funding support from the
Canada Millennium
Partnership Fund and Ontario
Stewardship.
This program is open to
landowners in all of Huron
County and those portions of
Perth, Middlesex and
Lambton Counties included
in the Ausable Bayfield
Conservation Authority
watershed.
Since funding is limited at
this point, there will be a
review of applications and
selection of sites based on
how the various projects fit
Snowmobile dealers sold out
last month as season booms
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adding that it's hard to judge
how much more.
Both local snowmobile
dealers say they were sold out
of new snowmobiles about a
month ago but still have a
handful of used snowmobiles
for sale.
"It's been an excellent
season. We're normally
lowering our prices this time
of year to get rid of them but
we didn't have to do that this
year," says Paul Brooksbank,
of Vincent Farm Equipment.
Brooksbank says Vincent's
sold more snowmobiles than
anticipated and had to go to
other dealers to fill demand.
"It's been some time since
we had this good a year," he
says.
Susan Van Dorp, part-owner
of Middegaal Pools and
Sports, says snowmobile sales
are the best they've been in
three years and she's seeing a
lot of new people getting into
snowmobiling for the first
time.
"We were pretty happy to
see the snow this year. It's nice
when it comes early because it
makes people keen." she says.
Siegner predicts that the
snowmobiling season could
easily last into March but adds
that the local snowmobiling
club could end up in the red
this year since fees paid by
trail members may not go far
enough to pay for the
grooming if the season
continues much longer.
"There's a nice base all
packed down and the snow
keeps coming at the right
times," he says.
Long-time snowmobiler
Dorothy Williamson, of
Seaforth, says she's put more
miles on her machine this
winter than she has during the
past three years.
"This year is the best it's
been for six years. It's just
excellent in the whole area,"
she says.
She and her husband Ron,
who have been snowmobiling
for 20 years, have been out on •
their snowmobiles every
weekend since December,
recently taking a 10 -hour trip
up to Listowel, over the New
Hamburg and back to
Seaforth.
"We haven't been able to do
that in recent years. We've had
to trailer to northern Ontario
last year. past year's season
was only three weeks long
mood S fatth," she says.
Williamson says she and her
husband are still planning
more weekend trips and hope
to be snowmobiling into
March.
"We were getting a little
depressed the other day with
the rain but now it's snowing
again," she says.
Siegner says the 13-W
Trailblazers won't know until
the end of the season if the
number of trail passes this
year surpassed last year's
number and says it's hard to
know how many people are
using the trails.
"The trail system is so vast
and you can go so far before
running out of snow that
there's not as much traffic out
there but that's probably
because other years,
snowmobilers were confined
to such a small area before
running out of snow," he says.
Siegner says he knows of
some snowmobilers who
travelled from Strathroy to
Algonquin Park on their snow
machines without needing to
use trailers at all.
"The trails are excellent
across the province. You can
go anywhere you want to go
in the province, except Maybe
the fibrottto area," he says.
the goals of the program.
Applications will be
accepted up to Feb. 28 or
possibly beyond, depending
on interest and available
funding. The funding applies
to appropriate native shrubs
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