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Times-Advocate, 1988-11-30, Page 34Page 18A Times -Advocate, November 30, 1988 0 1 s lit • Presentations - Hensel! and District Co Operative board member Peter Boersma presented retiring employees Pat Volland and Howard Finkbeiner with wall clocks at the Co-Op's 51st annual banquet and.meetrng held on the • Hensel! Community Centre. Beginning and retiring - Barry Taylor. (centre) president of the board of directors of Hensal! District Coopera- tive, welcomed newly elected directors•Martin Van Racy (left) and BM Gibson. and said farewell to Bill De Jong and Glen Thiel, whose third three-year terms have expired. at•the Co-Op's annual- meeting and banquet. Delegates - Brenda and Scott Consitt- (lett) were the Hensal! Co Op nominees attending the UCO Young Couples Camp at Geneva park this. summer, ~Tracy Hayter was the Hensel! representative at the Youth Camp. Good Year for HensaU Co -Op } !ENS, LL - Hensali Co -Op man- ager Ear! Wagner combined praise for the present with restrained opti- riiism file the future in his address to the. 250 people attending the local cocrperauve's 5I st annual banquet and meeting in the ftcnsall Com- munity Centre on. November 25. A record 2.5 million bushels of grain zinc! -beans were marketed in the fiscal year ending July 31, 1988. Over 380;000 cwt. of white beans were Nagged. Successful bids on Ford Aid shipments, of con add- ed to the one- million bag total handled at the facility. One- contract•• .of 320,000 110 -pound bags of cern to Mozambique kept a crew Work- ing for six weeks to fill 300 rail cars. Increased grain/fertilizer storage and handling lacilities accounted for the major portion of the year's $1,657,000 capital expenditure for additions. The year ended with a net profit -of S837,000. Combined -sales and service revenue reached a record Middlesex Bd of Ed holds drug workshop HYDE PARK - The \ir(kik sex• digrsi i `r:'•'- t a:a__��•►tth FCon onsu1tan1. are part of the H (' ealth and uidance County Board of Education has ad- overview ,11 illicit drug,. the extent showed that ! tore is a retic y to rath- -zJ—.- dressed the Minister of Education's I �rm=a - of tfac; rr(thlrna in ('aria fa and Mid- tensive ht.:alth curriculum in place Future considerations for the \lid - recently announced Drug Initiatives 11 (' by providing a workshop for princi- . pals and vice principals of the coun- ty's elementary and secondary schools: The workshop opened with a dnig awareness inlorntation session h` John Hubbell, a limber RCMP drug Now Taking Orders Christmas Fantasy Ginger Bread Houses A gift of joy, a labour of love. Cail 238-8861 e esrx otrnty meth(xf\ of use. Eden- • including drug and alcohol education til-ication, handling, detection, para- from grade 5 to grade 10. phcrnatia. and signs and symptoms In addition, Decision for Living of drug use.. programs promoting the develop - Follow ing •the information: scs ment of decision-making skills, as - Sion. the group reviewed Education scrtive behaviour and saying "no" Minister Chris War(i•s rnitiativcs for drug education, 'These initiatives in, elude focusing programs on.dccision making skills 'and assertive behavi— our to encourage students to say "no" tar drugs. presenting informa- tion on tobacco and drug use and abuse beginning in grade 4. inte- grating drug •education across the curriculum, providing teacher inscr- vicc programs. and developing a drug education policy in each hoard of education. A review of the Middlesex Board's present' programs by Karen Bum - stead, the Board's Physical and MoN Er•ur 1519)235 2420 041164 (SIM 462 9147 band 66+4 St it 236 0114 monad I St 9126?2••9 Gaiser Kneale Insurance GIC RATES 1 0 1/2% 1 YR 5 YRS. CALL TODAY FOR THE HiGHEST RATE AVA I Rates subject to verification • G.I.C.'s may be registered as R.R.6.P.'s' 1,'2% Books, Books, Books Hardcovers, Paper iacP 5 Novels, Cookbooks, Humor Books Autobiographies Dictionaries Historical Books Calendars, etc. ailinTeS 424 Main. Street 235-1331 dlesex Board include formation of a drug education policy, response to the draft of a new physical and health education curriculum for grades 7 to 12, and more inscrvice training for leachers. .� Sincere 'Thank, you To Biddulph Township voters who supported me at the polls. My wife Pat, son Fred III and daughter Patty join me in extending all best wishes for Christmas and the New Year. Fred Dobbs Jr. A major Canadian first from STANDARD TRUST! ANNOUNCING ABSOLUTELY NO SERVICE CHARGES FOR ANY CUSTOMER WHO MAINTAINS A BALANCE OF $250014THE7R P pSuvAL ACCOUNT. Tired of paying bank service charges? Come to Standard Trust and receive all these services FREE: • Free Chequing and Withdrawals • Free Personalized Cheques • Free Transfers between Acu1[;nts • Free Payment of tocat Utility 8I11s • Free 1<<•Ilers Cheques • Free Money Orders • Free Cheque Certifications • Free Direr t Deposit of Pension or utvestment Interest Cheques Remernber you get ail this pll, ,m daily rate of Interest STANDARD 4.Si.,1114TRUST 386 Main St. S., Exeter NOM 1S0 235-1060 S43,793,000. The outlook for 1988-89 is not as rosy_ The summer's- drought and • the wet harvest season have reduced the volume of corn and white beans by 40 percent. • The Co -Op will also fact in= creased. competition. Cargill, al- ready the world's largest agri- business, leas -recently Nought Ma- ple Leaf Mills' grain elevators and farm supply facilities; amounting. 10.23 cot -miry elevators as well as the grain elevators in Sarnia and Midland. The. giant company is in .the process of negotiating the purr chase of Cyanamid's 20 fertilizer lo- cations. Closer fo home, Cook's assets in Hcnsall, Kirkton, Centralia and Waltonwhich hate been controlled by the Gerald.l3ronfman family for the last 20 years, are up for sale. •• Wagner said a change of ownership will have a direct influence on the Hcnsall Co -Op, which was not al- lowed to tent hi 1 Another maior competitor, W.G. Thompson, has embarked on an ag- gressive expansion program, and now has 11 locations, Wagner said. Wagner -ended his speech with an appeal for continued support. from Co -Op members and local farmers: 71f we allow these large companies to. divide and conquer • our agri- business, any short-term gain, re- ceived by farmers will end with domination by national or interna- tional corn pan k's. We .can't under- estiMate the strengths of these large - coriipanies. I IOWever. we also can't underestiniate the strength of tarni- ers workink.togethc r." Reliririg employees 1locc and Fink- hcincr and Pat Volland were present- ed with imposing Wall (locks hy. di- rector Peter Bo<rsrn a. Glen Thiel and 13i11 De Jong Stepped down after ticrving nine years on the board. Bill Gibson; . Clinton and Martin .Van Raay, Dashwood; were elected to fill the -vacancies. o°Ene ACCOUNTANT -MIMIC NOR I?IS, 11011! •"1'I I, 'I':11.1,0IZ I'iNi)I R & 1It•NFILLY Auditing; Accounting. 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