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10 Years Ago
August 3, 1983 - With two ex-
tremes in weather in the past
week, area firemen were busy.
Due to extremely dry condi-
tions, five area wheat fields
caught fire and then with heavy
storms coming in lightning
caused fires to destroy a hog
barn on the Tuckersmith town-
ship farm of Jim McIntosh and
the Thames Valley Produce and
Supply building on Highway 83.
Fireman • Bill Smith was one
who jumped out of bed at 3.30
a.m. to go to the Thames Valley
Produce fire and when he re-
turned found his car had been
stolen from the fire hall parking
lot. It was recovered the next
day near Kippen.
Carrie Sweeney of Zurich was
named Dashwood Friedsburg
Days Queen. Two weeks earlier
she won a similar title at the Zu-
rich Fall Fair.
Due to an error in the area
code appearing in a provincial
parks guide, many callers want-
ing Pinery Provincial Park have
been getting an unsuspecting
telephone subscriber in Victor-
ville, California. The U.S. area
code is 61
July 25, 1968 - For the third
time in the past two years, Dash-
wood Industries Limited presi-
dent Maurice Klumpp has an-
nounced an expansion program
for the firm's Centralia location,
which itself was only erected in
1965. The addition of 174,000
square feet is larger than the
present building.
'Honourable C.S. MacNaugh-
ton was sworn in Monday as
Ontario's Treasurer and Minister
of Revenue. Over the weekend
he became an unofficial tax col-
lector. Exeter businessman Mur-
ray Greene asked MacNaughton
to take his Ontario sales tax re-
ceipts to Toronto because of the
mail strike.
The week-old postal strike has
inconvenienced most area resi-
dents and feelings are somewhat
hostile to not dnly the postal
walkout but strikes in general.
50 Years Ago
July 29, 1943 - Huron county
Agricultural Representative
James Shearer has withdrawn
his resignation and will continue
his present duties. He changed
his mind after geuing a request
from the Huron Agricultural
War Commiuee. Shearer said a
suggestion from Conservative
candidate Dr. R.H. Taylor that
an attempt had been made to
use his office for political cam-
paign purposes " had no founda-
tion at all."
W.C.F. Oestreicher of Credi-
ton, a prominent farmer and
Shorthorn breeder has been
named the C.C.F. candidate in
the next provincial election for
the riding of Huron.
An Australian student pilot
from No. 9 Service Training
Flying School at Centralia was
killed late Sunday when a twin -
engine Anson bomber crashed
in an orchard on the farm of
Garfield Hill, west of Crediton.
Owing to the fact a great deal
of damage to livestock and
poultry has occurred in Usborne
this year, ratepayers are remind-
ed that the township will pay
the bounty to anyone who kills
a dog found destroying live-
stock or fowl and also anyone
may shoot a stray dog after sun-
set.
1001ears Ago
July 29, 1893 - Much excite-
ment was caused by a runaway
team on Exeter's Main street,
Thursday morning. Mr. John
Dew and his wife of Usborne
had driven into town and
stopped to do business at the
grist mill when the horses took
fright and started to run. They
ran down Main street and col-
lided with a buggy belonging to
Mr. Boyle.
Dan Davis shipped a carload
of cattle to Montreal on Mon-
day and William Balkwill
shipped a load on Thursday.
The house occupied by Mrs.
White on Main street has been
moved 12 or 15 feet nearer
Weekes' marble works owing to
the close proximity of the new
mill.
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Times -Advocate, July 28,1993
Page 5
Students play an important role at ARCA PUBLICATIONS
By Erin Lobb
T•A Staff
EXETER - If you're looking for
eight bright, enthusiastic, and envi-
ronmentally concerned young peo-
ple, look no further than the Ausa-
ble Bayfield Conservation
Authority (ABCA).
These individuals are the summer
employces who have been working
to plan, develop and implement
some of the various aspects of the
ABCA from press releases to eval-
uating septic systems. These stu-
dents have become a vital part of
maintaining the quality and excel-
lence of the watershed, which spans
from Clinton to Parkhill.
Says John Schwindt, extension
services manager, who was hired
out of university in the Experience
Program 15 years ago, "these aren't
Mickey Mouse jobs, the students
handle responsibilities that are im-
portant to the ABCA."
The ABCA hires the students un-
der two different programs, the Ex-
perience program, which is more of
a training program for workplace
experience and the Environmental
Youth Corps. program, which is a
project based program that gives
the students a project to work on
throughout the summer.
The ABCA has been hiring stu-
dents for the past 20 or more years,
and will continue to do so.
For Matt Moxham, who works as
the erosion control assistant, ero-
sion control is a matter that weighs
heavily on his mind. Shoreline
mapping and planning is the pri-
mary focus of Moxham's job,
which means he is out explaining
the management plan to cottagers.
Occasionally however he does
don his work boots to help imple-
ment the management plans that
will help reduce the amount of ero-
sion to beaches. With his sights set
on environmental or coastal engi-
neering, Moxham's experience will
holrsfully help him to obtain an-
other job upon his completion of
university.
In his second year at Carleton
University, Rob Passmore finds his
job as a resource technician and
cartographers a great opportunity to
learn hands on about a career he
would like to pursue. By utilizing
"AUTO CAD" and "SPANS" Pass-
more's job requires him to update
old maps by modifying them ac-
cording to the existing vegetation
and environmentally sensitive are-
as.
The maps Passmore makes will
be used for guides and brochures,
and to leam where new plantation
plots arc. "Every day I team some-
thing new," says Passmore, who
found his placement through he En-
vironmental Youth Corps. program,
"some of the maps are very old and
updating them requires a lot of
work."
Waiting patiently for the comple-
tion of Passmore's maps is Pam
Gackstetter, communications assist-
ant, who's job entails the compila-
tion of new brochures listing the
trails, their history and the species
that can be found there for each
ABCA area.
Gackstetter also creates the week-
ly news releases the ABCA distrib-
utes, this requires her to prepare in-
formation and do interviews.
When all that isn't enough, Pam
also works on the monthly newslet-
ter for the partners of the ABCA,
called Watershed Highlights.
"I had never done any desktop
publishing until I started here," said
Gackstetter, "and, it was definitely
a surprise to see how much respon-
sibility 1 would have."
Responsibility seems to be a key
element to the job, as each student
works relatively independently.
However, Paul Becker, who works
on the septic program can tell you
that not everyone is responsible
when it comes to their septic sys-
tem.
By running dye tests in toilets to
ensure sewage isn't running in to
rivers and streams, Becker ap-
proves systerbs or recommends
they be repaired. Survey equip-
ment is nothing new to Becker who
uses it to ensure systems have the
proper slope. "Playing around in
sewage is not the most glamorous
job, but someone has to do it," says
Becker, who has also set up a data
base system to make old files more
retrievable by making searches eas-
ier.
Vanda Cardiff and Tanya Raimer
are two others who are helping to
create septi- system awareness. As
CURB (Clean Up Rural Beaches)
program advocates they work as a
team by distributing information
about CURB grants, which are
available for septic system repairs.
"If people are having problem with
their systems we let them know
about the grants. However, many
people have no idea about them at
all."
Cardiff and Raimer spent much
of their first week just getting to
know about septic systems, and
were surprised to find that poor
septic systems are the largest
source of contaminants in Lake Hu-
ron according to ABCA surveys.
The other aspect of their work is
the gathering of information in the
form of surveys that will later be -
If your cottaging this
summer you might see
Tanya Raimer, left and
Vanda Cardiff, right, as
they travel throughout the
area informing cottag rs
about the CURB program
grants. Both girls are
summer employees of
the ABCA.
come statistical data for AICA re-
search. Said Reimer, "A lot of peo-
ple have no idea where things go
when they flush their toilet."
Keeping up the esthetics around
the park is a job in itself, as Mainte-
nance person Mike Axtmann
knows. This third year geography
and geology student looks after
trails and facilities by cutting grass,
repairing boardwalks, and picking
up litter, among other things.
Axtmann also does water sam-
pling, which involves taking the
samples from the river and trans-
porting them to a lab in London.
Says Axtmann, "I enjoy working in
the outdoors, and would like to
continue working for a conserva-
tion authority."
If you are interested in applying
for the EYC or Experience pro-
grams next summer, application
forms and a list of potential em-
ployers can be picked up from any
Canada Manpower office. To ap-
ply for a job with the ABCA con-
tact John Schwindt at 235-2610.
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