Times-Advocate, 1988-05-04, Page 48Page 12A
Varna
Times -Advocate, May 11, 1988
UCW study farm crisis
By JOAN BEIERIING
VA1 A - "Crisis on the Farm"
from the study book "Creation in
Crisis" was the topic chosen by
Margaret Hayter, Eleanor McAsh
and Margaret Dowson for Varna
U.C.W.'s program on May 5.
Scripture was from Genesis 41, the
prophecy of seven years of plenty
followed by the seven years of fa-
mine, and Acts 2 , the sharing of
everything by the believers.
Marg told of the work being done
by Rcv. Neil Lackic of Milverton
and Rcv. Wilena Brown's research
into rural ministry as reported in
Mandate magazine. Eleanor read
how farmers often blame them-
selves in their frustration, and how
ministers must be sensitive to and
aware of trouble in rural families
who may not admit they arc in
trouble.
The filmstrip "The Family Farm
is Our Link to the Land" was
shown. It featured a Wheatly family
that is struggling to stay on the
farm, and who feel their boys will
oc unable to farm. The stress of fre-
quent calls from the bank added to
their suffering and insecurity, espe-
cially for the older son who was of-
ten the one in the house when the
calls came.
The problems in Africa were fea-
tured too. The narrator clairned that
greed is the source of rural troubles,
especially the greed of large corpo-
rations. The Heinz Company for
example have irnportcd beans for
canning from a country where the
local residents were lacking protein
in their diets. Not only have large
Tornado seminar
COLDSTREAM - The County
of Middlesex, in conjunction with
Emergency Planning Ontario,
Ministry of the Solicitor General
and the Atmospheric Environment
Service of Environment Canada,
will be presenting a special work-
shop for municipal and emergency
officials of the County on tornado
awareness and emergency prepared-
ness on Thursday May 19,1988.
Dubbed "Project Tornado" by the
Federal and Provincial agencies
concerned, this one -day workshop
is designed to increase awareness of
the hazards involved in tornado sea-
son in Southwestern Ontario and
of the measures necessary to cope
with a tornado emergency.
The workshop will be held at thc
Coldstream Community Centre in
Lobo Township, located on a
County Road 16 just east of Poplar
Hill in the Village of Coldstream.
invitations have gone out of over
150 municipal and emergency offi-
cials to attend.
The program will be opened by
County Warden Richard Bolton at
9:45 a.m. and will conclude at 3
p.m. Included in the program is a
15 -minute video tape developed by
Environment Canada that dramati-
cally depicts. the events leading up
to, and the consequences of, a ma-
jor tornado. Case studies follow in
which participants will assess the
situation and suggest plans to man-
age the cmcrgcncy.
GB council briefs
companies taken the land, they arc
destroying it with heavy machinery
and chemicals. The governments of
most countries have not interceded
to protect thc farmers from these
corporations.
Margaret read "My Grandparents
Homestead Here". The value of new -
ordinands and their enthusiasm, and
the difficulty in keeping them in ru-
ral communities, was read by El-
eanor. She concluded with an amus-
ing essay -- "A Child's View of
Retirement is a Mobile Horne
Park".
Joan Bcierling presided for the
business and reported two bedrooms
in the manse have been papered and
painted. The bale will be packed
this Wednesday, May 11.
Our members are .nvited to
Brucefield on Tuesday afternoon,
June 7. Mary Moffat will speak on
her trip out East.
Campsite Experience is on Tues-
day June 14 at Bimini Camp near
Stratford. Marion Jackson Tyler is
the speaker.
A nutritionist from Huron Coun-
ty Health Unit will speak at the
June meeting.
A plant exchange was held, fol-
lowed by lunch and a social time.
Cancer Society canvass
There was a generous response
from the people of Varna and the
surrounding arca to the Cancer So-
ciety Campaign this year. The to-
tal was 5588.50, up from last year
by over 580.00.
Those who canvassed were Ruth
Johnston, Helen Taylor, Doris
Wilson, Mona Stephenson, Marjo-
rie' Consitt, Elaine Stephenson,
and Ruby Lafaive. Most of these
women have been doing it for sev-
eral years and Captain Mary Ches
sell appreciates your cheerful will-
ingness to help with the campaign.
Card party
Varna Orange Lodge card party
held Friday May 6 had nine tables
in play. High ladies hand went to
GRAND BEND - Rick Powell
approached Grand Bend council
Tuesday night to complain that no
action was being taken regarding
parkins violations in front of the
Mac's Milk and Mr. Mugs donut
shop on Highway 21.
Earlier in the year, council
passed a bylaw to stop truckers
from parking in the arca. Powell,
who owns an establishment near
the area in question, claimed that
OPP were not enforcing the by-
law.
"People arc leaving our premises
and almost getting dinged," Powell
told council, adding that the situa-
tion has been worse than ever.
Ile cited as an example, two bus-
es which were parked in the arca
"for a minute" from 9:15 p.m. un-
til 9:45 p.m. one night last week.
No ticket was issued.
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informed that the village wants
docks which run under the bridge
on Highway 21 removed, dock
owner Joe Nader came before coun-
cil in hopes of proving that he
rightfully owned the water lot under
the bridge. The surveys Nader pro-
duced for his defence backfired on
him however, when council noted
that the water lot he thought he pur-
chased several years ago, was in
fact, not the water lot he owns.
Nader persisted, bringing up sev-
eral other issues but council dis-
missed the situation, promising to
refer the issues to the village solici-
tor. Council suggested Nader do the
same.
• • * •
John Russell, a member of coun-'
cil for I3osanquet township, came
before Grand Bcnd council Tuesday
night to invite members to a semi-
nar dealing with waste recycling.
Russell hopes to bring all munici-
pal bodies in the arca into a system
of recycling.
Russell noted that in order to get
government grants for the project,
they would 'have to put forth a feasi-
bility study. The study must include
all potential partners.
Grand Bcnd council members
showed great interest in the project.
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FiNCHER'S
MOONLIGHT
MADNESS
Marg McClymont and low hand
went to Flossie Talbot. High
man's hand went to Walter Pepper
and Pearl Eyre took the prize for
low man's hand.
Door prizes were won by Mrs.
Ernie Brown, May Pepper, Eve-
lynn Flynn and Mary Broadfoot.
Next card party will be held Fri-
day May 20 at the Stanley Com-
plex at 8 p.m. Everyone welcome!
Ladies please bring lunch.
Personals
Laura Keys had her niece and her
niece's husband, Mr. and Mrs.
Roderick Gorril of Monetville visit
her on Monday and they all en-
joyed their lunch together.
Corning events
For all you baseball fans, now
that ball is underway, the Varna
Agricos are having their first game
Wednesday, May 11 at 7 p.m. in
Varna against Vanastra. Come on
out and cheer then on!
Sunday, May 15 there will be
regular services at the churches.
Guest speaker will be Mr. Scott
Cocks who is entering his third
year at Emmanuel Bible College in
September.
Youth Group meets Wednesday
May 18 at the Varna Ball Park at 7
p.m. for a game of baseball.
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