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Times -Advocate, February 11, 1984
foot in the
"The present effectiveness
'of the Ontario Federation of
. Agriculture towards changing
governtdent policy in
agriculture is comparable to
s cup of sand in the Sahara.
"I feel a strong allegiance
to the organization but
deplore the lack of action
while persecution of the
agricultural sector escalates.
Anti -racket squads break-
ing into homes when the hus-
band is away to seize records
is, I suppose, commendable?
How about the children who
stood around, wide-eyed and
frightened, while an army of
men rampaged through their
home?
"The scars hat these ac-
tions have left on the in-
dividuals involved and the
children who watched will be
puckered, ugly and fester for
a long time.
"Desperate situations re-
quire • desperate measures.
The festering will eventually
erupt and may God help those
•who are caught in the.
spray..."
A letter from an anarchist?
A letter from a Communist?
Nope. It is a letter from one
of the most sensible articulate
and attractive women in
Canada. It was written by
Gisele Ireland whose hus-
band, Brian, is a provincial
director of the OFA. Gisele
has been member of the
federation for 15 years.
She is not a young radical
out to overthrow the govern-
mentand knock down prison
walls. She is a hard-working
farm wife, genuinely concern-
ed about the agricultural pro-
blems across Canada. She did
Loup. M. spot.,
not exaggerate in her letter.
The events she described
were true. They happened in
Ontario-ars-ario a few weeks
ago.
She is the author of the
book, The Farmer Takes A
Wife, a study by. concerned
farm women, a delightful yet
poignant and even sad ac-
count of just how tough it is on
the farm • when production
costsskyrocket and commodi-
ty prices drop.
She wrote her letter in
answer to a column I wrote
deploring the methods used
by the militant Canadian
Farmers for Survival
Association. I said I did not
believe in scare tactics, in
blocking farm lanes with
tractors and guns, in penny
auctions and the spiriting
away of livestock and
machinery from a farm
where foreclosure was
imminent.
What Gisele is saying,
though, is that farmers are
simply fighting fire with fire.
Her description of what has
happened on some farms
sounds not much different
than what some farmers are
doing in retaliation, to pre-
vent goon squads from taking
action.
And she is concerned about
the effectiveness of the
federation when it refuses to
resort to such tactics. When
Ralph Barrie was re -elected
president last fall, he said he
did not believe in militancy.
He ran on that platform.
I agreed with Ralph. I'm a
lover, not a fighter. But there
are those, such as (,isele, who
are wondering what can be
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done. They have seen how ef-
fective the militant tactics
have been and shake their
heads.
As an officer in, and a ,
charter member of the Con-
cerned Farm Women, a
group of women who have
combined their thoughts,
ideas and energy In an effort
to improve the farming com-
munity and the attitudes
toward it, she is dedicated to
the cause of agriculture in
Canada.
I listened to a presentation
by one of the members of
CFW a few weeks ago and it
was impressive and profes-
sional. But she was preaching
to the converted, to a group of
farmers.
The Concerned Farm
Women -- and every other
agricultural organizaiton in
Canada -- must get their
message across to the un-
converted, to the millions of
people who have no idea what
is happening to agricult' re.
They have a tough task
ahead of them and maybe
. militant action is the only way
to do it.
Footnote: Ralph Barrie has
since resigned as president of
the OFA to become a member
of ,a government committee
formed to study and make
recommendations on how to
improve the marketing of red
meats. Will the next president
be more militant?
Winter carnival
St. Boniface School held its
winter carnival on Tuesday.
Student__ council-- organizers -
Marg Hartman, Cathy Hart-
man, Mary -Jo Meidinger and
Janice Ducharme planned
this year's event which in-
cluded a deer hunt, backward
races, dodgeball, volleyball,
gathering nuts, tug of war,
fire brigade and an obstacle
course race. •
Team captains were Jim
Masse, Tammy Lesperance,
Allan Oesch, Rosemary
Regier, Dwayne Overholt,
Roxanne Overholt, Dale
Ducharme and Janet Mowat.
Everyone got to participate
in 'each activity. with a
change to the next event
every five minutes. After a
mid-afternoon break for
chocolate milk and cookies.
the afternoon finished with
broomball and hockey.
Introduce
Katimavik
Salut!
My name is Paul Thomson.
I was imported all the way
from Kitchener. I joined
Katimavik to get the oppor-
tunity to see Canada and
learn French.
I really enjoyed the first
trimester in North Van-
couver, and so far I'm enjoy-
ing Exeter.
After Katimavik I plan to
go back to college and take
accounting.
i really enjoy sports
especially hockey so if you
need an extra player please
contact me. During the time
I'll be in Exeter I will be the
"floater" which means I will
be working at all of the work
sites.
i hope to see you in the
neighbourhood. "Go Hawks
go".
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Students and unemployed targeted
Katimavik launches recruiting drive
More
n 1,500 Y�8 Pe
o-
ple in Ontario - three times as
many as ever before - have
an opportunity this year to
participate in Katimavik,
Canada's unique volunteer
youth program.
Katimavik has launched a
major participant recruit-
ment drive across Ontario.
Ten recruitment officers, all
young people with previous
Katimavik experience, will
blitz more than 700 high
schools, post secondary in-
stitutions, community cen-
tr'ee,youth employments centres
apresentationsoups
about Katimavik. "The
'recruitment focus is on the
personal approach. We
want
young people to really unders-
tand the Katimavik progragl
and, hope to motivate them to
apply,' says Elaine Sigler,
the Participant Recruitment
Supervisor.
The recruitment officers'
message, and the theme for
this year's campaign is sim-
ple: Katimavik, is a unique
tontunity to learn, to work,
Through Katimavik, Young
people have the opportunity to
do invaluable community ser-
vice work, to travel across
Canada, learn a second
language and, in the course of
this nine-month exPerience,
discover much more about
themselves, Canada and
Canadians.
Any 17 to 21 -year-old young
adult who is a Canadian
citizen or landed immigrant,
can apply to the p,Fogram.
Participants are selected to
represent a cross-section of
the Canadian population, and
range from high school
graduates to university
students taking a break from
their studies to young people
who cannot find work.
According to Ms. Sigler,
this year's recruitment drive
should prompt more than
10,000 inquiries from in-
terested Ontario youth, of
which 1,500 will be selected to
participate in the 1984
Katimavik program. This
MAKING SNOWBALLS — St. Boniface students joined heartily in the snowball relay during their winter car-
nival. They hit the student holding the hulu hoop as often as they did the proper target.
Rapevictims get help
from Status of Women
This isn't a story abou
something nice happening t
somebody.
It's the story of a group o
Perth County women and
their attempt to assist victims
of the henious crime of sexual
assault against women.
The recently formed Perth
County Status of Women Ac-
tion Committee is in the pro-
cess of educating themselves
and other women across the
county about sexual assault
which in the Criminal Code of
Canada, includes rape.
And it is a crime that takes
place in Perth County. A
survey of local police depart-
ments shows there were 11
reported sexual assaults in
Perth last year.
The majority of the
reported assaults took place
in the City of Stratford. Of 10
cases reported in Stratford,.
three were cleared as un-
founded. Four were cleared
"otherwise" which in legal
talk could mean no charges
were laid, one is still being in-
vestigated and two incidents
led• to charges.
The remaining case in the
county is still being
investigated.
Stratford statistics show
that in previous years the
number of sexual offences, a
combinaton of sexual assault
and other sex offences, was
higher.
in 1982, 16 sexual offences
were reported which ended in
five charges. in 1981, 24 sex-
ual offences were reported
and ended in seven charges.
Statistics show that one in
every five Canadian women is
sexually -assaulted in her
lifetime. Nationwide, a
woman is sexually assaulted
every six minutes.
What happens to a woman
in Perth County when she is
sexually assaulted? 1
There are no support ser- i
vices in Perth County, says
Louise Gibson of the action u
committee. The victim has to
wrangle over the question of w
phoning the police, and if she t
does, the police usually sug; W
gest she go to a hospital. • a
In the hospital. a doctor has $
to go through a medical kit
with the victim. This testing c
can take anywhere from 1,2 in
hours to three hours, says S
Mrs. Gibson. Clothes have to a
remain behind as evidence 27
t and unless a victim knows
o this, she may have to leave in
a hospital gown.
t Then a trip to the police sta-
tion is required.
This is where the Perth
County Status of Women Ac-
tion Committee hopes to help
Perth County women.
They would like to raise
funds to equip each hospital in
the county (there are three -
Listowel Memorial Hospital,
St. Marys Memorial Hospital
and Stratford General
Hospital) with track suits
which can be worn home by
the victim.
The committee would like
to train enough volunteers to
accompany victims to the
hospital to explain why cer-
tain medical procedures are
done. ie, clipping of finger-
nails for evidence, and to in-
form the victims of their legal
rights. •
The committee's ultimate
goal is to establish a rape
crisis centre in the county, but
that takes time and money.
Mrs. Gibson, who is
publicist for the action com-
mittee, says the first step is to
educate Perth women. The
committee will hold informa-
tion meetings throughout the
county in March. These
meetings will also be used to
gain new members.
The first meeting is
scheduled for Monday, March
5 in Stratford:Other meetings
will be on Tut sday, March 6
in St. Marys and Wednesday.
March 7 in Listowel. The loca-
tions of the meetings have not
yet been determined.
Mrs. Gibson says the com-
mittee hopes to have a film
and a guest speaker for each
of the three nights.
The Stratford woman
stresses that the action com-
mittee is working with the
egal and medical profession
n its attempt to get out the
message of assistance to sex -
al assault victims.
Membership fees for
omen interested in joining
he Perth County Status of
omen Action Committee
re $5 for those employed and
2 for those 'unemployed.
For further information
ontact Cathy Monks -Leeson
St. Marys at 284-2108 or two
tratford women, Linda Page
t 273-2257 or Mrs. Gibson at
1-8975.
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•
They say if you really want
to test the strength of a mar-
riage, a husband and wife
should wallpaper together.
Well, the same holds true for
any major building project -
and if a couple is trying to
work together, a minor pro-
ject quickly becomes a
major.
_ When you're young and in
love, you just don't think of
such things. Before we were
married, we were sure we
could work together on any
undertaking, and we naively
thought we could build a
bookcase together.
This wasn't just any book
case -- I guess it could best be
described as a wall unit. Vic-
tor knew I'd be moving in
with a huge collection of
University English texts, and
of course, I had assured that
I had to have all my books on
hand -- I just couldn't part
with one of them. (Actually,
I must now admit that'll has
been a few months since I've
pulled the collected poems of
Wordsworth, or Milton's
Paradise Lost, off the shelf.
OK, OK, so it's been a few
years.)
In any case, poor Victor
feared that I would be filling
every nook and cranny of his
house with thick, boring
books, so the best way to
alleviate the situation was to
build a giant bookcase just for
me. But he didn't stop at that
-- In the bookcase plans, he
also included space for the
television, stereo equipment
and record albums.
The plans also called for
fancy trim and louvered
doors and it had to be stained
to match the wooden walls in
our living room. As you can
tell, the simple bookcase
became a major project, even
before the first nail was
pounded.
Construction began in the
middle of the living room
floor. We set aside a weekend
to do the job. It wasn't long
before the saws weren't saw-
ing right, the nails weren't
pounding right, and the trim
wasn't staying on right.
Then friends came to visit
At
TUG OF WAR — St. Boniface students give their all during a tug of war that was
port of the school's winter carnival.
Mary's
musings
By Mary Alderson
with their two-year-old tod-
dler. He soon found that a
bookcase flat on the floor
makes an excellent climbing
toy, and he kept busy
scrambling up and over each
shelf. It would have been
alright, except that he was
wearing fuzzy blue sleepers.
When it came time to sand,
stain and polish the wood, we
kept wondering where the.
blue fuzz was coming from.
Blue fuzz in a paint brush can
certainly impede progress.
By this time, some of the
fun had worn off -- and when
we were ready to stand the
bookcase up, all of the fun had
eroded. The project had
spread over several
weekends but eventually it
was in place. Now Victor pro-
udly shows it off to visitors,
and tells them, "It took a lot
of swearing to get that up."
The bookcase episode was
just enough to convince us
that we don't need to work
side by side -- when we
painted the house, he did the
back while I did the front. A
marriage has enough ac-
cidental and unexpected tests
of strength -- one doesn't need
to go hunting for trials.
Last year, our record col-
lection out -grew its place on
the bookcase shelf. Victor, in
his wisdom, decided to build
a new bookcase just to hold
our record collection. And,
bless his heart, he waited un-
til I went on a business trip to
Manitoba to start the project.
The new record album
bookcase would be a smaller,
matching version of the large
bookcase. He described the
plans over the telephone to
me, and told me about pur-
chasingthe lumber.
I called home the next night
to see how plans were pro-
gressing. It was midnight in
Manitoba and 1:00 a.m. in On-
tario. Now, when no one
answers the phone at home at
1:00 a.m. on a week night --
well, that might be just
enough to test a marriage.
Just as i was about to hang
up, he answered. He was
down in the basement,
building the new bookcase,
and thoroughly enjoying
himself. I was thousands of
miles away.
I arrived home two days
later to find the bookcase
built, trimmed and stained to
match the rest. There are
three shelves to hold the
records which are all neatly
filed in alphabetical order by
musician. And Victor is still
miling -- I think there's a
;son in all this somewhere.
help
your
VHeart
Fund
campaign is the largest ever honorarium.
undertaken by Katimavik and "The most important thing
was made pOettible by the ad- for potential participants is
ditlonal funding announced - that they be committed to
last spring by the Secretary of
State. In 1Kt3, only 500 Ontario
participants could take in the
program.
Thus year's campaign will
concentrate on two target
groups: the young
unemployed, and students.
"Katimavik exposes young
people to many different
practical work and life situa-
tions, and thus helps them
focus on career options they
want to pursue after comple-
tion of the nine-month pro-
-gram," explains Ms. Sigler.
"Through their volunteer
work, participants are expos-
ed to a variety of work skills,
such as carpentry, foresty
management, teaching and
working with the handicap-
ped. More importantly, par-
ticipants leave the program
with a solid understanding of
the value of work."
Nationally, there will be
5,000 young people working in
more than 400 communities
.across Canada in 1984. Each
of these young people will
spend three months in three
different Canadian com-
munities, working on non-
profit projects which directly
benefit the host communety.
All room, board and
transportation are paid for by
Katimavik and participants
receive a dollar a day for
pocket money. On successful
completion of the program,
participants receive a 51.000
Exeter Minor Hockey
working and learning and
that they be ready for an in-
tensive experience in living,"
says Ms. Sigler.
Those interested in learning
more about Katimavik can
obtain information at their
high school counselling office,
at Canada Employment Cen-
tres, or form the regional of-
fice at 146 Front Street West,
Suite 680, Toronto, (416)
593-4525. •
Proclamation
February
is
Heart Months
The community is
encouraged to sup-
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for Heart Research.
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