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County plowing
match site chosen
The Huron County Plowmen's
Association (HCPA) has decided
this year's county plowing match
will be held at Steve Thompson's
farm on Stone School Line just
outside of Clinton.
The match, which will be held
Aug. 23-24, will mark a return to the
traditional two-day schedule after
last year's match was shortened to
one day due to the proximity in both
time and distance to the
International Plowing Match (IPM)
held in Walton, according to HCPA
President Margaret Vincent.
"With the IPM being in the county
and so close timewise, we had a one -
day event," she said. "Now, we're
going back to having Junior Day on
Thursday and Friday being the main
plowing match."
Thompson's farm will have
sufficient wheat stubble for the
match, Vincent said, and fit the
criteria of being in Huron County
Warden Jim Ginn's home
municipality in the second year of
his two-year term in the position.
Vincent explained that, as an
organization, the HCPA likes to
move the match throughout the
county to highlight all of Huron.
Previously, the match would be held
in the Huron County Warden's home
municipality every year, but, with
the advent of a two-year Warden
term, the HCPA decided that the
Warden's home municipality would
host the second year of the term.
After having decided on Central
Huron, members of the HCPA began
looking for land that would meet the
needs of the match, including
facilities for on-site events and
enough wheat stubble for all the
plowing.
The association is looking forward
to building on the momentum
created by having the IPM in Huron
last year, and the slogan, "Thanks
for the Memories", refers in part to
the IPM and in part to all the
plowing matches over the years,
Vincent said.
Talented
Shayna Hunking, left, and Elianne Kruegar sang a duet as
part of the The Village Cafe Talent Show last Friday evening
at the Londesborough Community Hall. (Quinn Talbot photo)
Surrogacy company
reaches worldwide
Continued from page 11
Heinrich helps to file the necessary
paperwork and get the process
rolling.
She says the most rewarding thing
for her has been seeing hundreds of
children born thanks to people
finding one another on the website.
All of those children coming into the
world, she said, is the best reward
there is.
What has been challenging,
however, has been managing
expectations and demand, Rhoads -
Heinrich says.
Surrogacy has seen a boom in the
last three years, she says, and there
are always more potential parents
than there are surrogates (would-be
parents outnumber surrogates
approximately 10-1 on the website),
so it makes it difficult when not
everyone can find what they're
looking for through the service.
Rhoads -Heinrich says that some
surrogates are very selective
regarding parents they want to
match with, which sometimes leaves
others matchless. That decision,
Rhoads -Heinrich says, is up to the
surrogates, so while she feels for
parents who have a hard time
finding a match, she can't do much
to help in that scenario.
While the company has worked
with parents all over the world —
from countries like Israel, Germany,
England, Australia and the United
States — many of the families
Rhoads -Heinrich helps are from
Huron County, which has been very
rewarding to have that kind of
impact in her home community.
She said that while some of the
people closest to her had a hard time
understanding her call to surrogacy
when she was in her early 20s, many
have come around in the years since.
Another of her biggest challenges,
she said, has been a lack of
knowledge around what surrogacy
actually is and the service it
provides to parents who, for one
reason or another, have not been
able to or have chosen not to
conceive on their own.
In addition to providing a way for
surrogates and prospective parents
to connect, her website is full of
resources and information on
surrogacy, all run out of her home
just five minutes from Blyth.
For more information, visit the
company's website at surrogacy.ca.
Jamming for moms everywhere
The Wingham Legion hosted an Old Tyme Jamboree in honour of Mother's Day on Sunday.
The event featured tunes, dancing and dinner. (Quinn Talbot photo)
Huron, Perth health units merge
The Perth District Health Unit and
the Huron County Health Unit are
proceeding with amalgamation, after
the Ministry of Health and Long -
Term Care approved a funding
request for amalgamation support.
"This is a significant undertaking
and represents an opportunity to
better serve our communities
together," says Dr. Miriam Klassen,
Perth County Medical Officer of
Health. "It is full steam ahead with
the approval of both boards and the
ministry, and with a plan and
funding in place."
"The ultimate goal is to improve
the delivery of service in both Huron
and Perth," says Tyler Hessel, Huron
County Board of Health Chair.
A transition team, consisting of
staff and board members from both
boards of health, will now lead the
work of amalgamation. The
transition has a completion date of
January 1, 2020. The two boards will
remain operational until a new
amalgamated board is appointed.
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