Times-Advocate, 1985-02-13, Page 11Corn away
to Africa
Corn grown in Huron County is now
un the first leg of its long journey to
Africa, thanks to the generosity of the
tdensall and District Co -Op.
Employees of the Hensall Branch
spent many hours last week
elevating, cleaning, bagging, tagging
and loading hundreds of 50 -kilogram
bags of number two corn onto boxcars
pulled up on the tracks beside the Co-•
Op elevators.
Fifteen cars, each packed with 1,125
bags, are heading by rail from Hen-
sall to Quebec City. The grain, part of
a 2,150 -tonne shipment destined for
famine relief, will be transferred to
a waiting ship scheduled to leave the
Quebec port in mid-February and
travel by sea to Mozambique and
Kenya.
The Co -Op also looked after grade
certificates, export forms and other
necessary documentation for the corn
shipped from the Hensall mill.
The huge amount of corn was pur-
chased by the Canadian Foodgrains
Bank, a charitable organization com-
posed of seven mainstream Christian
denominations built around the Men-
nonite Central Committee, an agen-
cy which has acquired a solid, world-
wide reputation for its national and in-
ternational aid programs over the
years.
Donations of money and grain to
the Foodgrains Bank are being mat-
ched three -to -one by the federal
government.
Acting on behalf of the more than
2,000 members of the local Co -Op (the
majority of whom are farmers),
manager Earl Wagner offered the Co-
Op's manpower and facilities to pro-
cess the corn. Wagner puts a dollar
figure of approximately $12,000 on the
Co-Op's contribution.
Donations of grain or money for
famine relief may still be -arranged
at the Co -Op, Wagner said. tie adued
response this year has been good, and
pointed out that a farmer's donation
of 50 bushels of corn, when matched
by an additional 150 by the Canadian
International Development Agency,
grows into $660 worth of food sent to
the starving thousands in Africa.
HURON TRACTOR LUNCH — Dorothy long and Jannie Verbeek offer lunch to Steve Ferguson at the
recent Open House at Huron Tractor. T -A photo
Let us suppose that you live in
Mississauga or any other suburban
area in Ontario.
You have a reasonably good home.
You have spent years -- and mucho
dinero -- fixing the place to your
satisfaction. You have neighbors who
have done the same thing. They are
all justifiably proud of their homes.
Now, for some inexplicable reason,
the provincial government or one of
its many boards or commissions
decides that all farmers in your part
of the province can no longer dump
manure in their own fields. The law
GRAIN FOR AFRICA -- Mark Regier bags some of the 16,875 50 -kg
sacks of corn processed at the Hensall Co -Op and sent on their way
to Mozambique and Kenya. The Co -Op donated the use of its facilities
and the many man-hours required for the job.
Unbelievable crowd
at Huron Tractor
"Unbelievable."
That was the comment of Iluron
Tractor founding partner Jack Van
Busse) following the firm's annual
Open House Monday and Tuesday
and a special 2.5th anniversary recep-
tion, Monday night.
Van Russel said more than 1,100
were in attendance Monday and Tues -
(lav afternoon to see the local John
Deere facility and its faun machinery
merchandise.
Monday's weather the best this
area has enjoyed in a number of
months helped to swell the crowds ac-
cording to Van Busse)
The Monday night reception to
celebrate 25 years of Iluron Tractor
business in Exeter included music for
dancing supplied by Leo Bol and his
hand.
In conclusion Van Busse) said he
would like to thank his staff for the ex-
cellent job they (did in being goodwill
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Mount Carmel
Income Tax Centre
Income Tax Accounting
for farmers
Vince Ryan B.A.
RR 3, Dashwood
ambassadors for the company.
Door prize winners were .Jacobus
Verberg. RR 1 Auburn: Ken Van
Wonderers. RR 1 Varna: MarionCon-
sitt, RR 1 Zurich: Mary Jane Van.
Kasteren. RR 2 Lucan: Harold
Kerslake, HR 3, Exner: Wayne Hern,
RH 1, Woodham and John A. Damen.
RR 3 Luca n.
Clandeboye
Sunday service at St. ,)acnes
Anglican Church was conducted by
Hazel Cunningham assisted by 1)ave
Goddard. Barbara Carter and Louise
O'Neil in the absence of Rev. Bruce
Pocock who is on the sick list.
Fourteen tables were in play al the
euchre party on Tuesday evening at
Sl. .lames Church Prizes went to
ladies high. Mary Scott . men's high.
Earl Morgan: lone hands Grace Dix-
on and Otto Darling. low scores.
Louise O'Neil and Wilmer Scott. Next
party will be February 19.
1'isitors Sunday with Mrs_ Jean
Hodgins and family were Mrs. Marie
Hodgins, London: Mrs. Irene
McLean, Springbank, Peter. Laura
and .Jeffrey MacLean. of 12 Conces-
sion Lobo. Murray and lva Hodgins
and Pam Smith, Lucan. 1t was Jef-
fery Maclean's first birthday party.
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P.O. Box 339,
Hensall, Ontario
NOM 1X0
Dear Farmer,
We would like to invite you to our
GROWER INFORMATION MEETING
to be held on
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21st, 1985
For more information please contact us at
262- 2527
says that all manure generated in the
surrounding farms must be dumped
in your backyard.
Better still, let's make it hog
manure. The government says hog
manure must be placed in your
backyard. The cattle droppings and
chicken manure will be placed
somewhere else. Hog manure, if you
know anything about farming, can be
a little less pleasant than other far-
myard odors.
I am sure you would not cotton to
the idea, at all, would you?
All your years of hard work have
gone down the drain. Your property
values disappear. Your once -
beautiful home will deteriorate. It will
become a slum neighborhood because
nobody wants a backyard full of bad -
smelling pig dung.
You will fight hard and vigorously
to prevent such a travesty of justice.
You will scream and raht and rave
and write letters -an
s an u ch class-action suits.
Does this story sound far-fetched?
Think about it for a moment and
you will see the logic behind the ef-
forts of the Ontario Waste Manag-
ment Corporation when it proposes
toxic waste sites within the Golden
Horseshoe. More than 85 per cent of
all the toxic wastes generated in On-
tario comes from industries in the
Golden Horshoe which stretches from
Oshawa around Lake Ontario to
Niagara Falls.
The cities and towns in that area get
all the benefits from these industries,
the jobs and the development. Why
shouldn't they be forced to cope with
the minuses instead of just the
pluses?
Local and provincial politicians
made some loose -mouthed promises
during the provincial leadership cam-
paign about where the proposed pro-
vincial toxic waste plant should -- or
should not -- be located. Frank Miller
suggested in the heat of the Leadership
campaign that Niagara should be
crossed off the list as one of the pro-
posed sites.
Well, he may be right but you can
bet your new tractor that farmers do
not want a toxic waste disposal plant
in their back forty no more than ur-
banites want a manure pile in the
backyard:
Donald Chant, chairman of the cor-.
poration, is between a rock and a hard
place. He's going to be damned if he
does and damned jt_
1
a -- e plant will be the
latest in the state of the art. It will be
as modern and efficient as technology
can make it. It will be as attractive
as possible and will not detract from
the surrounding area. All kinds of
built-in safeguards are proposed.
- But the residents of the area ate
fighting like a wounded warthog to
prevent the plant from being
constructed.
if it is not built in the area around
the lake, it would make just as much
sense if farmers were told to dump all
their manure in the backyards of
every subdivision in Mississauga.
Times -Advocate, February 13, 1985 Page 11
Enrol your child for Kindergarten
1985 - 86
Please phone or contact your Public School between
February 18 8 March 1
1. Exeter P.S.
2. Hensall P.S.
' 3. Huron Centennial P.S.
4. J.A.D. McCurdy P.S.
5. Stephen -Central P.S.
6. Usborne Central P.S.
7. Zurich P.S.
235-2630
262-2833
482-3330
228-6321
234-6302
235-0331
236-4942
Further information re registration, visitation, health
clinic etc. will be provided by each school.
Proof of date of birth and O.H.I.P. number requested
at registration.
HURON COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION
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ENLARGEMENT
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