Times Advocate, 1989-05-17, Page 121
Page 12 Times -Advocate, May 17, 1989
Ready for Flowers of Hqpe Campaign - Shown above are the offi-
cials, captains and canvassers who will be busy in the next
couple of weeks selling Flowers of Hope seeds for the South Hu-
ron Association for the Mentally Handicapped. Back, left, .presi-
dent Richard Hucal, executive director John Gray, Bill Gibson, Vel-
ma • o . inson, Dorothy Dietrich, Arlene Wood -Hall, Ann Klungei,
chairperson Harry Klungel, Cobie Amsing, Jeene Amsing and Alarg
Love. Front, Roberta Walker, Marie Nethercott, Marilyn Steinmann,
Clarice Hern, Wilma Smeekens, Annie Weernink, Gerda Postma, An-
gelina Backx, Wilma Reinink, Hermon Reinink and Mary Jacobs.
Dinner begins 'Flowers- of Hope Campaign'
By Roberta Walker
DASHWOOD - Community Liv-
ing - South Huron (formerly South
Huron District Association for the
Mentally Handicapped) began 'its
annual fund-raising campaign
"Flower of Hope" with a dinner for
all the arca team captains at ARC
Industries, Dashwood, last Wednes-
day evening. The Chairman for
Flowers of Hope for 1989 is Harry
Klungel of Exeter, a member of the
Association Board. Chairman of
the Board Richard l local and Execu-
tive Director John Gray were also
in attendance.
Flowers of Hope here in South
Huron is the most successful annu-
al door-to-door canvass of all the as-
sociations in Ontario and the goal
for 1989 is S21,000.
Thereare about 20 team captains
for the area, but they still need
some for Seaforth, Hay "Township
and Huron Park. Federal.and pro-
vincial funding have only alloted a
four percent increase in the total
budget- for the Association, wh ch
supports 50 clients working at
ARC in Dashwood and about 30 in
residential nrogr uis like group
Leisa Heimpel
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Welcomes
Leisa Heimpel
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homes and supported apartments.
With the spectre of federal and
provincial deficits hanging over
everyone's heads, individual fund-
raising is of growing importance to
the viability of local associations.
Equipment, home support programs
for children, and Supported Indepen-
dent Livintt Programs for the handi-
capped adults are increasingly. more
difficult to fund under shrinking
budgets and escalating costs.
Canvassing materials, kits and
information were handed out to
team captains to organize for the
May Campaign.. John Gray out-
lined the ad campaign planned and
announced that the Captain's Tea
will be June 6 by which time all
donations are to be handed in.
Meanwhile a great deal of work
remains to be done. Join in a wor-
thy cause - become a canvasser for
Flowers of Hope. Help shore up
the shrinking Government dollar,
and give the handicapped a hand.
Interested? Call 237-3667.
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iurr�w' b,Oa',
The Ontario Cattlemen's Associa-
tion got somewhat testy during the
weeks leading up to the beef mar-
keting vote.
The cattlemen have been dead
against any kind of organized mar-
keting of'beef since Charles Drury
-wore diapers. During the debates
around our part of the province, the
cattlemen charged the members of
the Farm,Products Marketing Board
with being communists. Can you
imagine, suggesting that those ul-
tra -conservative members of the
board are communists?
If those members - who oversee
marketing board legislation in On-
tario - are communists, then I will
cat four yards - oops, metres - of
uncooked spaghetti with a wooden
spoon in your feedlot at noon to-
morrow.
If those board members are com-
munists, then the cattlemen are fas-
cists.
The cattlemen were so incensed
about the vote and the role played
by Farm and Country magazine that
they resigned membership from the
all-inclusive farm organization, the
Ontario Federation of Agriculture.
That seems to me to be like
shooting yourself in the foot.
The Federation fights for all farm-
ers across this province and the Fed-
eration took a neutral stance on the
VOW which. was precipitated by the
Ontario Beef Producers for Change.
In spite of the neutral stance, cattle-
men - or many of them - blamed
the Federation because the magazine
is owned by Agricultural Publish-
ing Co. which is a subsidiary of the
Federation but is independent of the
Federation.
Freedom of the press, it seems to
me, is more important than thc On-
tario Cattlemen's Association or the
Federation of Agriculture.
To be fair, the cattlemen dropped
out of thc Federation ostensibly
• over membership money.
Last year the Federation asked the
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cattlemen's association to pay a
membership fee of S12,000 and a
fee of S26,000 for 1989. The previ-
ous fee to the OCA was a paltry
S832. The increase in membership
was asked because the cattlemen be-
gan collecting a non-refundable
checkoff and the federation figured
the new fee structure would be on a
par with the Ontario Pork Producers
Marketing Board which pays
S26,000. -
No way, said the cattlemen. They
offered 510,000 with a promise of
perhaps S15,000 next year. The
Federation said the compromise was
too great and the cattlemen's associ-
ation was suspended as a Federation
member.
I'm surprised it didn't happen
years ago. The cattlemen have been
opposed to orderly marketing for 20
years, preferring to be individualists
and market on their own. Beef pro-
ducers, in my humble opinion, arc
the lowest on the agricultural eco-
nomic totem pole. Other major
members of the farming sector such
as dairy producers, chicken, turkey
and egg producers - even pork pro-
ducers have been healthier, eco-
nomically in the last 10 or 15- years
than the cattlemen simply because
the beef raisers arc diametrically op-
posed to any kind of marketing
board.
Some years ago, i spoke to an an-
nual meeting of a county cattle-
men's association. I am a great sup-
porter of orderly marketing and I
said so. The applause at the end of
the talk was not even polite and
they haven't liked me since.
They arc fiercely independent.
They feel they arc in a North Amer-
ican market and that if they support
any type of a marketing board, they
will lose their American sales.
Could be but the pork producers
still seem to do okay.
I liked Brigid Pyke's commcnt
when the OCA was suspended.
Pyke is the Wolfe island farmcr
who is president of the Federation
Stuart - Ducharme - Christine
Ducharme, daughter of Ray and
Grace Ducharme, RR1 Dash-
wood, and Scott Stewart, son
of Mac and Ruby Stewart, For-
est, were married in Immaculate
Heart of Mary Church, Grand
Bend on April 14, 1989 with Fa-
ther Paul Beck officiating. At-
tending the bride were matron
of honour Brenda Gaiser, brides-
maids Karen Chelladurai; and
Mary -Ellen McBride, all sisters
of the bride. Best man was Bill
Wells, and ushers were Simon
VanRiel and Rick Vanos, all
friends of the groom. After a
honeymoon trip to the Southern
States the couple are residing
at RR1, Forest. Thank you to
everyone who made our day a
special one to remember.
Bart DeVries Photography
of Agriculture.
"There's bound to be differences
of opinion. They (the cattlemen)
should not be members if they
think there will be no differences of
opinion."
In other words - and I should not
put these words in Brigid's mouth:
"If you don't play my game with
my rules, then I'll take my bowling
balls and go home."
Goodbye, guys. And when are
you going to change your chauvin-
istic name from Ontario Cattle-
men's Association to reflect the fact
that you do have a few members, I
believe, who are not men?
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