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Progropled
Severances in
ruraI areas for dip f
ry�
mom
Educational prosrams for
create headaches for farmers lildairyum will be
the y
next week. Them is no cbwp for
The practice of allowing will try to ad up a meeting with a March of Dimes and the $31 attending the sessions, w%& are
tleverances in agricultural areas representative of the en- membership fee in the Good sponsored by the mtnutr.v of
May be fine for'the urban dweller vironment ministry to discuss the Roads association was paid. agriculture and food.
looking for a spot is the country, , matter sometime within the next A number of bylaws were The first meeting will be held m
the Howi:ck 11--iNY
Centre
but It can create huge headaches two months. passed at the meeting, OOe Jan. 16, with the second set for
for farmers, East Wawanosh In other business at the allowing the township to borrow
council was told at its meeting meeting council agreed to up to $250,000 for working capital the Clinton Lqone Hall on Jan.
last week. guarantee its grader operator, during the year. A municipality 1.8. The subject matter for both
G. R. Jaretzke, a farmer in the John McClinchey, a 40 -hour work is allowed to borrow up to 70 per meetings is identical so farmers
township, attended the meeting week with time -and -a -half for cent of its anticipated tax may choose which to attend- Both
of a problem he has run into in overtime and one and a half days revenue for this purpose- meetings run from 10 am. to 3
trying to expand his pig per month sick leave, which can p.m.
Operation. accumulate for two years. Mr. Another bylaw gave Road Topics to be covered during the
He wants to build an addition McClinchey attended the council Superintendent Clarence Hanna dons include use of
Onto his barn and so, far has meeting to discuss his conditions the authority to have the load nlilkmg equipment and n
obtained two building permitd of employment. He is the limits on bridges in the township control programs to mi.-.--..
frog the township, but can't get township's only fulltime em- calculated. A letter form the milk quality and cow care; use of
the necessary approval from the ployee besides Clerk -treasurer ministry of transportation and ProstaOuxb" in dairy cows;
ministry of the environment WinonaThompson. communications informed balancing high moisture corn
because the proposed expansion Council approved payment of council the ministry wants Programs for dairy cows; use of
would be too close to a trailer and the $2,660 Blyth fire, levy for ,lm bridges rated under 18 tons feed additives and preservatives
a house on nearby severed lots. and approved its annual grant to Poste with signs telling the load and a summery of the county
East Wawanosh Township the Wingham Recreation and limit. feed analysis and feed for -
issues building permits for barns Community Centres Board. The A third bylaw prohibits parking mulation program for 1978.
or manure -handling systems Fant, which amounts to 1$255 this vehicles along township toads
subject to the approval of the Year, is made in lieu of a sur- during the winter and declares
environment ministry. charge for East Wawanosh that the township and its
MrJaretzke asked councilresidents using Wingham snowplow operators are not '
why it allows such severances in recreational facilities. responsible for damage to
agricultural areas, noting they A building permit for a sow vehicles left along roads or to Stove Res.
only make problems for farmers. barn was issued to Ralph mailboxes. It also makes in -
He said he feels it's all right to Campbell, subject to the ap- dividual ratepayers responsible c a V S ie ffre
build an additional house for a proval of the ministry of the for accidents or damage to the
environment. snowplow caused by snow thrown O'e'�� Pipes caused stone
retired farmer, but it shouldn't
be severed. OWe it's sold to A $25 donation was made to the on the roads. afire in a Bluevaie bwumse Mon -
outsiders they can stop you day morning, Wingham Fire
changing or expanding your Chief Dave Crothers said
Tuesday
Operation, he warned. MRS. LEWIS STONEHOUSE i I' firemen ;..,, 61-thala[II1
Although one councillor
suggested Mr. Jaretzke should to 9th a.m. 1+Lonaey and rushed
Bel('] rave Personal Notes C the h° y ''`ti Hugh
just go ahead and build, he is still 7 Campbell,. but by the time they
hoping to get the matter resolved i I arrived she had extinguished the
with the ministry. Council said it Intended for last week and Mrs. John Roberts and blaze.
Dianne Scott, Kim McIntosh, Alison. Mrs, Campbell used a small
Winter sto Eric Cook, Paul Cook, Joanne Mr. and Mrs. William fire extinguisher to put out the
and Karen Coultes and Susan Stevenson and Lissa spent the fire, Mr. Crothecs said.
Cardiff of Brussels, members of Christmas holidays with her Damage was limited to one
The following poem titled the Belgrave Hi -C, attended Toe parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leigh upstairs bedroom.
"Winter Storms" was written Alpha at the Prince Hotel, Wilcox of Lakeland, Florida. It was the only fire reported to
many years ago by Michael Toronto during the Christmas Steven and Scott Stevenson the fire department in the seven
Foran, a former resident of this holidays. spent the holidays with Mr. and day plod coag at Tuesday
area who was at that time living Mr. and Mrs. William Gow Mrs. David Miller of noon.
in Toronto. It was sent in by spent last Saturday with Mr. and Whitecharch.
Elwell Webster and captures the Mrs. Jack Ladd and family of Mr. -and Mrs. Gordon Campbell
wild side of winter so well we Goderich." and Heather of Kitchener visited
have decided for once to suspend Mrs. Jack Ladd of Goderich on Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.
our policy of not publishing and Wayne of New Westminster, John Campbell. W,YW meeting
poetry. B.C., visited last Friday with Mr. Mr. and Mrs. George Johnston, at Dunbar home
1—i. en STORMS and Mrs. William Gow. - Tara and Erin of Ilderton ; Ross
These lurid tales of snowdrifts in Mr. and Mrs. William Gow Yuill, Beth Bunker and Cameron BELGRAVE — 71he WMS Jan -
the stormbound hinterland spent Christmas day with Mr. Vuill of Elmira; Mrs. Helen uary meeting was held at the
Are sources of amusement to the and Mrs. Leonard Brindley and McBurney of Wingham and Mrs. home of Mrs. Joe Dunbar on
men who understand. family, of Dungannon. Laura Johnston were New Year's Tuesday, January 2. Mrs._Dun-
Wildblizzards are reported in the This community extends visitors with Mr. and Mrs. bar pie'sided and opened with a
.press and radio, sympathy to Mrs. Harry Clarence Yuill. call to worship.
But after all, they're nothing to McGuire and her family in the v Mrs. Victor Youngblut read
the storms of long ago. passing of her husband. Mr. and Mrs. Don Campbell scripture and a three-part
To hear these tales of recent Mr. and Mrs. John Evans of and Lisa of London and Mr. and reading was given by Mrs.
gales old-timers would have Sarnia visited with Nora Van Mrs. Ronald Campbell, Steven Youngblut, Mrs. Gamer Nichol -
laughed, Camp of Brookhaven Nursing and Geoffrey of London visited son and Mrs. Ivy Cloakey. Mrs.
For what is now a hurricane was Home on Saturday. during the Christmas holidays Mac Scott led in prayer. Mrs.
then a gentle draft. Greg Cantelon and fiancee with their mother, Mrs. Olive Jack McBurney took the topic
On various occasions in the Lynn Vanderwoort of Toronto, Campbell, and with other and read a story on Ruth.
Pleasant month just past and Dr. and Mrs. Andrew Mac -relatives. Mrs. Nicholson read two
The papers said that never had Rae of Winnipeg attended the Mr. and Mrs. Jack Van Camp poems, `°Let Us Seek God's Guid-
there been so wild a blast. funeral of their grandfather, and family spent Christmas week ante" and "In Times Like
For twenty hours every day the Harry McGuire, on Thursday and with her paretns, Mr. and Mrs. These". The secretary's report
news announcers talked spent a couple days with their Louis Hayes of Elyria, Ohio. was given by Mrs. McBurney
Of country roads impassable, grandmother, Mrs. McGuire. During that week Mr. and Mrs. who also gave the yearly report.
provincial highways blocked; Clayton Bosman of Fort Hayes celebrated their 50th The treasurer's report was given
How numbers six and eight were Chimo, Quebec and Debbie wedding anniversary. by Mrs. Youngblut. The program
closed, the same with number Wilson of Fredericton, New New Year's day guests with committee, Mrs. McBurney and
four, Brunswick have been visiting Mr. and Mrs. Lewis -Stonehouse Mrs. Dunbar, was nominated to
A hundred stranded motorists with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. were Mr. and Mrs.. Charles make out the 19M programs.
were sleeping in a store, Gordon Bosman. Johnston of Blyth, Mr. and Mrs. The roll call was answered with
With suffering indescribable Howard Roberts and his friend, Edward Daer, Terry and a verse from the church calen-
while raging blizzards blow Wong Hong Eie of Singapore, Patricia of RR 5, Wingham, Mr. dar. Five sick and shut-in visits
At Arthur, Wingham, Durham— who are attending McMaster and Mrs. Don Craig, Debbie and were recorded. Mrs. Dunbar
all submerged beneath the University, Hamilton returned to Douglas of Blyth, Mrs. Irlma closed the meeting with prayer
snow. school Tuesday after spending Edgar, Wingham and Murray and lunch was served by the
They wore out seven dictionaries the Christmas holidays with Rev. Edgar of Listowel: hostess:
telling us the story
How snowplows all were
snowbound in the wilds of
Tobermory. " o&
Employing all the adjectives the,
microphones could carry
They flew in planes above the \\ n
road from Bradford into
Barrie. ,
The way they moaned of
mammoth drifts from Guelph`
to Collingwood
Their broadcasts must have been,
from scripts conceived in
Hollywood. \
Let young announcers rant and
rave, I laugh them all to scorn,
They never lived in Wawanosh,
the place where I was born.—
Where fifty-seven inches was an
average fall of snow
.And normal winter temperature
was forty=two below.
I must not mention, lest you think
that I exaggerate,
The twenty feet of snow that fell
in eighteen ninety-eight.'
We lived and laughed through
wilder storms, we worked in
�I
deeper snow
Without these blaring bulletins
from press and radio.
We never cursed the winter wind,
we laughed at it instead,
0.1
And no one suffered, no one died, \\
the children all were fed. r., k , I
Around a roaring hearthfire in a
kitchen snug and warm
We smoked our pipes and did in
fact enjoy the howling stor`fh
We fed the stock, we did the
chores, and milked eleven
cows,
We broke the roads without the
aid of motordriven plows
Alas for all the brave old days
that ne'er will come again,
When winter alarms were really
storms — and men were really LOTS OF ACCIDENTS—Last week's lengthy snowstorm was accompanied by many
men. collisions in the area, like this fender -bender on Wingham's main street.
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