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Editorial
Complicated
CAI S could
leave farmers
uninsured
One should wonder if a handful of the
country's top mad mathematicians csme
together and diabolically concocted the farm -
income assistance scheme known as the
Canadian Agricultural Income Stabilization
Program (CAIS).
Officials for the Ontario Ministry of
Agriculture and Food, which is currently
hosting a series of well attended information
meetings on the plan, even acknowledge the
three -tiered assistance program leaves some
questions unanswered.
Nonetheless, with the April 30 registration
deadline looming like an ominous thunder
cloud over the bay, farmers have little choice
but to grin and bear with it since there are few
other options to enjoy. '
One of the problems with CAIS is that it is
most certainly not, despite the government's
Iromises to the contrary, user-friendly.
ndeed, one could well argue that unless a
person holds a degree in accounting or a
doctorate in math or sciences, there will be a
lot of hair pulling and nail biting before
deadline day which, not to thoughtfully,
coincides with the beginnning of the planting
season.
Worse yet is the perception that perhaps
the caseload for CAIS will be much larger
than the powers that be anticipated, meaning
there could be hundreds, if not thousands, of
farmers left uninsured because of something
as simple as a missed form or haphazardly
completed material.
Another thing farmers are learning is unless
they were signed up with the now defunct Net
Income Stabilization Account (NISA) or file
income taxes as farmers rather than
corporations, it could be nearly impossible to
supply the government with the parameters
necessary to qualify for the program.
Last, but not (east and in no way
surprisingly, CAIS does not help manyfarmer
who are in the supply-managemenline of
things. Specifically, contract hog farmers, who
once did not require the protection of
programs like NISA because income was all
but guaranteed, find themselves alone and
having to field whatever the contractor throws
their way.
In other words, CAIS has a lot of room for
improvement but, unfortunately for farmers,
there is only a two-month window left to apply
for the convoluted pickings that are up for
grabs. Clinton News -Record
Opinion
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How tendering saves snowplowing costs
in Huron County puzzles reader
To the Editor,
I am writing this letter to
you to give your readers
something to think about. 1
am responding to the article
in your paper on Feb. 14/04.
This article was called
"Huron East will explore
contracting road
maintenance to cut 2004
budget." In it there were
two things that I would like
to talk about.
The first was a statement
made by Coun. Joe Steftler
that Huron County can't
compete with contractors
when it comes to snow
removal. I am having a little
problem understanding that
comment because I too
work for the county.
At a meeting earlier this
year, figures were brought
forward concerning the
2003 snow removal costs of
the county's; four patrol
yards with three (Auburn,
Wroexter and Zurich) being
county -operated plows and
one (Wingham) using hired
trucks. Theses figures had
Wingham costing
approximately $6,000 per
kilometre of road plowed
and the three yards with
county -operated plows
costing from $2,700 to
$3,600 per kilometre of road
plowed.
Given those figures, 1 am
still very puzzled why the
Wroxeter patrol was
tendered out this year and
the Zurich patrol is
scheduled to be tendered out
by 2006.
I will admit that I am
prejudiced on this issue
being an employee.
My second issue is to
respond to the over -used
term "government has to be
run like a business" which
was inferred to in the
article. When I think about
the jobs that the roads
department do across the
county, there is one thing
that catches my attention.
This is the fact that this is a
service to the travelling
public that is not a business.
All of the services
provided lead right back to
one single purpose and that
is the safety of the travelling
public. Everything from
stop signs to grading and
snow plowing roads is done
to make the roads that the
public travels on as safe as
possible.
This is where the public
comes in to demand a
certain level of safe
standards on the roads in
this country. For this reason,
I find it very unnerving
when people refer back to
the old cliche of running
things like a business when
every day the paper has a
story about companies
cutting corners to save the
one thing that businesses are
there for - the profit.
1 will close this letter
hoping that it has opened an
eye or two or at the very
least prompted a little
discussion.
The last thing was for this
letter to be taken seriously is
that it must be signed, and I
am prepared to do that
knowing that I will most
likely be reprimanded or
possibly even laid off or
fired.
Roger T. Cunningham
RR 1
Auburn
Time marches on, but women still
excluded from local Brotherhood Night
When you're a feminist and uncomfortable silence on the
trying to create more inclusive other end of the phone.
language that acknowledges the "That will be a problem," I
existence of women, you're often was told when I asked what
met with the criticism that time I should arrive to cover
you're nit-picking. the story for the newspaper.
C'mon, you're told. Mankind, "Oh?" I responded.
brotherly love, history - those "Well, it's Brotherhood
words might sound like they Night," I was informed.
only refer to male persons but females are included. No need "So?" I said, still in the dark about the exclusive way the
to change the language - just use your imagination and stop word was being used.
being so literal. "Well, you're a woman and it's Brotherhood Night. It's not
Imagine my surprise, then, when the organizers of Sisterhood Night."
Brotherhood Night, held last Thursday at the local Legion, In 2004, I was being banned from a public meeting, from
were not using the word in that all-inclusive way. doing my job as a journalist, because of my gender. You
When, as editor of the Huron Expositor, I phoned to could have knocked me over my copy of the Ontario Human
enquire about the interesting speaker they had lined up to Rights Code.
share his very dramatic and newsworthy experience at
Ground Zero in New York City, I was met with an
Susan Hundertmark
See STORY, PageS
Town hall loses its chimney, business
loses window during high winds of 1904
MARCH 7, 1879
John M.- Gibson has
exchanged his house and lot
on John Street with Samuel
Kennedy for his house and
five acres of land on North
Main Street. Mr. Gibson
gave Mr. Kennedy $675
difference between the
properties.
R. McDonald, of Hullett,
and John Henry, this season
cut 19 and a quarter cords of
hardwood in eight and a half
hours on the farm of Chas.
McDonald in Hullett.
A ewe belonging to Geo.
Sproat, of the second of
Tuckersmith, gave birth to
four lambs this week all of
which arc alive and doing
well.
W m. Wallace, of
McKillop, has sold his farm
to John Leckie, of Brussels.
Isaac Bolton, living on the
eighth concession, met with a
painful accident when he was
splitting firewood, the axe by
some means glanced
inflicting a dangerous gash
on his right foot.
Chas. Tough, of the
Bronson Line, has sold his
two-year-old gelding to Mr.
Hoppie, of Zurich, for the
sum of $120.
The skating tournament
held in the new Dominion
skating rink was very
successful. About eight
contestants entered for
gentlemen's class and two
for the ladies.
MARCH 11, 1904
A large plate glass window
in the front of R. Willis and
Sons store was blown in by
the wind on Saturday night.
During the high wind
Monday afternoon one of the
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tall chimneys on the Town
Hall blew down breaking off
close to the roof.
Mrs. J. R. Brine has
disposed of her residence and
property in Harpurhey to a
gentleman in Wingham. Mrs.
Brine intends purchasing a
residence in Seaforth.
Messrs. Calder and Scarlett
have purchased the cheese
and butter factory. The
output of the factory in butter
last year was $8,200.
Wm. Sinclair, of
Tuckersmith, has rented his
farm on the 11th concession
of Tuckersmith, to his
nephew Robt. Lavander, of
Whitley.
MARCH 8, 1929
Mr. and Mrs. Wilber
Keyes, of Stanley, moved
this week to the farm they
purchased on the Mill Road
in Tuckersmith.
Miss Rose McQuaid, of
Beechwood, is recuperating
from an attack of flu received
while in training at St.
Michael's Hospital in
Toronto.
Chas. Dolmage, of
Winthrop, treated his friends
to a euchre party and dance
on Wednesday evening.
Wm. M. Doig, of Kippen,
marked his 70th birthday. Mr.
Doig is a well known lawyer.
One of the worst blizzards
of the winter visited Manley
Tuesday morning, damaging
windmills, doors and roofs of
buildings.
Miss Mona Sills left on
Monday to train for a nurse
in St. Josephs Hospital in
London.
Death removed a widely
known and deservedly
esteemed resident in the
person of Chas. Wright at the
age of 84 years.
MARCH 12, 1954
M. R. Savage was elected
president of the Seaforth
Chamber of Commerce when
members held their annual
dinner meeting in St. Thomas
Church Hall. Other officers
are Vice President Bruce
Gahan, Secretary Eric
Meliner, Treasurer Mervyn
Nott. The program involved
an address by former Warden
Harvey Johnson. He was
introduced by E. C. Boswell.
Fireman were called to the
home of Mrs. Jean Fortune,
of Tuckersmith, early
Saturday morning when a
stove pipe caught fire.
John J. McGavin, of
McKillop, celebrated his
89th birthday. Quite active he
spends several days each
week at the office of Gordan
McGavin in Walton where
his old friends often call.
Geo. Goettler's grocery
store in Dublin was broken
into early Saturday morning.
MARCH 8, 1979
Stalemate is the only word
which can describe the
negotiations between
Seaforth council and the fire
area board over who pays the
cost for the maintenance of
Seaforth's fire, hydrants. FAB
members were still divided at
their meeting last week, over
the response to Seaforth
council's demand that the
hoard pay the entire hydrant
maintenance costs of $5,400
per year.
It has been a week of
changes in Seaforth's Main
Street. The sale of the
Wright -Taylor garage
building has been
announced. A newly
established firm
McLaughlin -Chevrolet
Oldsmobile Ltd. occupies the
building and has acquired the
Chev Olds agency. Sale of
Seaforth Meat Market to
Roth's Food Market was
announced by Bill Laverty
who established the business
12 years ago. Don Hamilton
Real estate and Insurance
Ltd., of Listowel, is opening
a new branch in Seaforth in
the premises recently vacated
by Robert L. Plumsteel
Interiors. Scotts Flowers, of
Mitchell, have opened a
branch shop on Gouinlock
directly behind the Toronto
Dominon Bank.
The effects of declining
enrolment were felt in Huron
County for the first time
Monday when the board of
education reduced its
teaching staff by 11 for the
1978-79 school year.
At an inquest into the
death of Donald Gordon
Howard, 36, of the Royal
Apartments, 1 Main Street in
Seaforth, the jury found he
died Dec. 12, 1978 of carbon
monoxide poisoning and that
the fire was caused by
careless smoking. The jury
recommended the apartment
tenants should be responsible
for installing smoke detectors
in their units while landlords
should install them or similar
fire devices, in apartment
building hallways for the
safety of all tenants.
by bavid Lac
Holy Smokes!
You could've
been killed! Are
you ever lucky!
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