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The Huron Expositor, 1987-09-16, Page 3To bee or not to The process of how honey finds its.. way I from a flower into a Sar le an' Interesting • one, but not nearly so fascinating as are the bees actually responsible for the delivery of the honey,; Just abput everybody haa;; seen bees in ac- . tion on the tube during a National ' Geographic special or something; .But it is another scene altogether when you are stan- ding not 10 feet from a. hive full of angry bees,• But this is a Scene Carl Kramers of Dublin and his son Todd undergo willingly and on a daily basis.. Mr, Kramers owns an apiary or bee�arm�n Duh1ip _ The Kramers have to be very selective:of the day they go to"collect hopey from their bees, Bees are moody 'animals and if you disturb them too much it will affect their honey production; Some things that make'. . these insects, mad, or aggressive to pick a ' .more accurate word, are weather -when it rains they can't gather honey; hive move- ment; er when they are collecting pollen from alfalfa, The • last one is kind of • in- teresting:.When the bees stick their snout in- to an alfalfa flower, part of the flower • comes down and knocks the bee on its head, ' Enough to make anybody mad, • So it is usually good weather when the . Kramers set off to have a look at how their bees are doing, Since gathering honey in- volves an obviously generous amount of . stirring up for the hive, the Kramers make sure every square inch of their bodies are •covered, and protected -from the stingers. The Krarriers have their, hives organized into boxes. There.are five hetes making up .each hive with the bottom two boxes being • the brood where theueen bee is located. The queen bee is kept from the other boxes so she cannot lay eggs there. The other boxes are reserved for the worker bees who manufacture the comb and bring home the. • .pollen, • Inside each of the boxes are nine wooden frames the bees use to make their honey • comb In and' store their honey, The bees could maks their own entire honey combs, and in earlier years the beekeepers used to let them do just that, but the.woodenframes make it easier to handle the honeycombs when extraction time comes. The honeycomb itself is made out of wax.. The bees have a system of labor division, and some "bees are allocated as pollen col- lectors, and others are wax collectors. To get the honey out of the wax honey --.comb-the.honey must be in a liquid state, In ' the fall this is often not the case as the col- der weather hardens the honey. Bees also make the honey harder by fanning it with their, wings, so it sometimes has to be heated 1n a heating room to soften it up, The honeycombs are then put into the ex- tractor which is a large tank with a spinning frame that spins the honeycombs rapidly, causing the honey to fly out of the combs and into the extractor tank. From the ex- tractor the honey is pumped into tanks and then into barrels. The honey sits in the bar • - i'els until any wax in,the honey rises to the top of the barrel and -can be removed. The hopey is then pumped into a ,heater and heated to 150 d g ees t-'ktill'any�+east in the honey an egra> Matiofl FFom here- - the honey s put into a bottling tank that keeps.it warm and easy to handle during bottling. . To gather their honey the Kramers have bees In 300 hives on many farms in the Huron area. This many bees provides them with about three barrels of honey per day. In an average year the hives produce about 150 pounds of honey per hive every year. This year has been a very good year for the Kramers because of the warmer weather, _. and-theyliave"managed to -average -about 180 to 200 pounds from each •hive. This is their first year in operation and they hope to . start expanding next year. ee S no issue 1 1 • i 4 SMOKE TREATMENT -.Todd. Kramers of Dublin gives his bees a dose of smoke before he manhandles their hive. The smoke tends to slow the bees down. Unfortunately, this time the smoker went out. Corbett photo. BUSY BEES.- This hive's brood, Is where KRAMER'S APIARY of Dublin has 1500 the queen bee lays eggs al a'rate Of 2d00 bolts Just like this one full of bees and day, and wherei the bed larvae are. mdrer"impr3nantly their`' honey. Corbett Corbett photo. photo, "Around 1,200 hives would be nice," said Todd Kramers. That's going to mean an awful lot of honey. One problem with expansion Is they can only put 20 hives maximum at any one loca- tion. The reason for this is there has to be enough food for all the bees, and bees can only fly a maximum of two miles to gather their honey.-Sothe•Kramers have to spread their hives out to accomodate their bees with enough food. The Kramers will do pollenation for farmers. Canola farmers can get 30 per cent more oil if they have bees on their property, and farmers of other crops can get similar results by having bees around because of the increase in pollenation. Todd Kramers, who will be taking over running the apiary, finds working with the bees enjoyable in spite of the odd sting: "It's interesting work," he said. "You learn something new about bees every day." • Director to report .on department's feasibility Huron County's planning and •develop- ment director, Gary Davidson, has been asked to prepare a report on the feasibility of a separate economic development depart- ment for the county. On the recommendation of its manage- ment committee, Huron County Council agreed at its regular September session to re re the report, The `to a Davidsonask Mr. prepare action stems from a meeting earlier this summer between eounty council's manage- ment committee and a committee of mayors of the five towns in the county. The mayors, in the brief presented at that meeting, suggested the county would be bet- ter served If a separate economic develop- ment department were established. Mr.. Davidson's report will first be presented to the management committee to consider prior to making a recommendation to county council. Exeter Reeve Bill Mickle asked for coup- cil's assurance that the full report would be made available to all members of council before they are asked to take any action on a management committee recommendation. Tuckersmith Township Reeve Bob Bell, ac- ting as chairman of the management com- mittee, said the report would likely go to the managementcornmittee,•but each member of council would receive minutes of the meeting at which it will be discussed. Mr. Miekle argues successfully that the minutes of that meeting would merely pre- sent a synopsis of the report, but the docu- ment is of such importance that the entire report should be reviewed by each member of council. Council also approved another manage- ment committee recommendation that Warden Brian McBurney and Mr. Davidson Exeter Town Coun- cil a meeting with E x t to discuss the possibility of the town's withdrawal from the county's planning and • Poll results of Huron riding Huron Riding Klopp Peters Riddell Clinton 210 380 870 Goderich • 626 871 1701 Clbderlch Twp. 168 ' 290 635 Tuckersmith 206 307 759 Bayfield 65 124 252 Stanley 78 224 449 Hay TWp. 129 148 685 ' Zurich 60 75 327 Hensali . 81 135 333 Stephen 294 370 1324 Exeter 214 504 1128 Usborne 85 292 780 Turnberry 80 199 382 Wingham 148 509 675 Howick , / 169 306 711 Ashfield' 132 185 , 422 ., West Wawanosh 82 113 298 East Wawanosh 62 138 254 Blyth 65 148 232 Morris Twp. 90 215 398 Brussels 73 203 239 Grey Twp. 109 '9 - 174 190 441 472 Hulled Twp 95 191 519 McKillop Twp, 51. 130 400 Seaforth 150 211 672 ADVANCE: 141 292 780 TOTAL; 3,842 6,725 16,099 THE HURON EXPOSITOR, SEPTEMBER 1h, 1987 --- 3A • A local girl, Amber Halfpenny; was play- ing with a friend in Brucefield on Saturday when she saw some balloons. The six-year- old went and got the balloons and found there was a note attached to them. The note said the balloons were sent by a 10 -year-old Local girl boy, Billy Bennet, from Taylor, Michigan, Amber wrote a letter to Billy Bennet to let him know his balloon had been found and finds balloon theread: letter'was.mailed on Monday. The letter Hi Billy: . ' I'm Amber. I'm six -years -old, 'I live in Seaforth, Ontario. I found your balloons in a farmer's field in Brucefield while I was visiting friends, By Amber, Amber will be waiting for Billy's reply. Town to hold Wheelbarrow Day They say what one man discards is another man's treasure, If so the streets of Seaforth will soon be crawling with another man's treasure. • Saturday, September 28 will be Wheelbar- ' row Day in Seaforth, Wheelbarrow Day is a downtown sale and promotion" being spon- sored by " the Business Improvement Association, The idea is anyone who has a shed or closet full of stuff they would love to get rid of can throw it all into a wheelbar- row, 'take it downtown, and sell it on the street. Local merchants will be having a sidewalk sale with reduced prices en fall items during the event. But more than just a sale, Wheelha rrnsv development function. "Phis possibility was also addressed at the meeting between the mayors group and the management committee. Exeter has threatened to withdraw from that county function as a result of a running dispute between the town and Hay Township; over the townsliip's attempt to zone a strip of property to a ccommodate an n agri- industrial mall, The dispute has gone all the way to the OMB with county plartners'sup- porting the township's position. In another matter relating to the manage- ment committee's meeting with the mayors, Bayfield Reeve Dave Johnston expressed his displeasure resulting from some press accounts which stated the mayors wanted more equal urban -rural distribution on county council. He suggested the mayors were using inac• curate figures in suggesting the rural vote on council far outweighed that of urban reeves. "I have always been of the opinion that I am an urban reeve," he said. "So, by my calculation, the mayors either can't add or subtract.". Taking into account the votes of the villages reeves in addition to those of the reeves of the five towns, the urban represen- tation by vote is close to two per cent of the rural representation, Mr. Johnston said. "It's not as distorted as the mayors have presented it." Day features action and events as well. For action there will be various events and competitions on Main Street, such as timed wheelbarrow obstacle races. For events there will be sales such as the anti- que sale and flea market at Cordite hall. Ken Cardno will be selling off several anti- ques of his own, but anyone with an antique or anything else they would like to put on sale is welcome, and has only to contact Mr. Cardno to arrange it. It is hoped Wheelbarrow Day will draw large crowds into downtown Seaforth for this year's fall harvest promotion and sale which' is being•sponsored by the BIA, HPRCSSB ratifies contract ' The Huron Perth County Roman Catholic Separate School Board met Monday, September 14 and ratified an agreement with teachers for a contract. for 1987-88. The contract settlement was reached on July 10 and teachers gave their approval on September 4. The new contract gives teachers a 3,5 per cent increase as of September 1, a further 1.5 per cent salary increase starting January 1, and a further 1 per cent starting April 1, 1988, for an annualized rate of 4.75 per cent. Salary rates range from a rninimum of $19,370 in level D with no teaching experience to a maximum of $50,515 In thetop category with 12 years ex- perience, Under the new contract the average annual salary increases from $38,862 to $39,112. As part of the teacher -board collective agreement the trustees have inserted as ap- pendix "E", a Letter of Intent confirming a comrnilttee will be organized to.prepare a comparability report regarding a number of items the teachers wished to research and study in more depth. These items are Wenn-• Ing time, the . ratio of teachers to pupils, class sizes and principal administration time. The committee is limited .to making PUC --workers reach tentative agreeement The Seaforth Public Utilities Commissiee (PUC) met again last Wednesday night, and discussed the forthcoming working agree- ment between the commision and the PUC outside employees. A tentative settlement has been negotiated and the union is draf- ting up an agreement which will likely be available sometime this week for the com- mission to review and, If they agree with it, sign. _ . _ _ _ __ In other business, the new six inch water - main on Ord Street, which extends from Market Street to Huron Street, was almost completed. The installation was expected to be completed later during the week. The main was installed to upgrade servicing and to accomodate new uunui ngs m the Ord Street area. • Work on the pumphouse roof was com- pleted on Wednesday. The work was started on Tuesday by Gord Dale Roofing, and the commission was pleased with thejob done, ' The commission was also made aware they will be over budget in their water heaters. The commission generally allots for about 20 water heaters in their budget, but are now up to 28, The reason for this is two apartment buildings that had to be ser- viced in Seaforth.Correspondence was received from US. Waterworks commen- ding the commission on work safety. The number of accidents in the Seaforth water works is well below the average. Revenues growing Campaign revenues for the Heart and Stroke Foundations of Ontario are growing in Huron County. Stan Connelly, president of Huron County Chapter, announced final figures for the year ending June 30, 1987' show an increase of $7,400 over last year with a total collected of $56,825. In addition, $32,000 was raised in Huron County schools through the Jump Rope For Heart program. During National Fitness Week, the first ever "Dance For Heart" was held at the Seaforth Community Centre, organized by Drusilla Leitch,Participants worked With six area fitness instructors and raised $2,310 Turn to page 16A • Residents invi mementos in One hundred and fifty years ago, on December 7, 1837, Colonel Anthony Van Eg- mond was involved in an event that changed Ontario (then Upper Canada). The Rebellion in Upper Canada, spirited by the rebel uprising at Montgomery's Tavern in York (Toronto) triggered a series of events leading to major political, economic and social reforms in the Province. For his par- ticipation, and suspected leadership as se- cond in command under William Lyon MacKenzie, Col. Van Egmond was im- prisoned and died. Thinking back to those events and the days of 1837, it is difficult to imagine what it must have been like. It is unfortunate there was not a "time capsule" from that period, full of mementos. With that in mind the'Van ted to place time capsule Egmond Foundation has decided to seal its own "time capsule" on the grounds of the Van Egmond douse at this years Ciderfest, It will be opened on the 200th anniversary of the. year Rebellion in Upper Canada in the 2037. Seaforth residents are invited to bring some article (it shouldn't be too large) which would be symbolic of life in Seaforth, or in Canada in 1987. It could be a photograph, a cassette tape, a story, a loon dollen, or anything else they might deem ap- propriate. The articles, will be placed in a 40 gallon container, which will then be piaced in a concrete sleeve, sealed and buried. For further information Contact Betty Cardno of the Van Egmond Foundation or Tom Lennon, Mainstreet Coordinator. • recommendations to the negotiations com- mittees that will be appointed for contracts in 1988-89. The purpose of the committee is only to do a study and make. recommendations. It has no power to affect the existing contract and its recommendations may or may not be taken into account in the next round of. negotiations: SCHOOL ENROLMENT ' Catholic schools went back in session on September 8 and enrolment was up over last year. The total number of students atten- ding Catholic schools in Huron and Perth counties is 3,005. Last year there -were 2,972 , students enrolled. Of the 3,005 students, 1,611 are from Perth •county'anti 1,394 are from Huron. NEW PROGRAM A new visual arts curriculum was the theme of a presentation made to the board by Sam Alberico, principal of St. Aloysius school, , The new " curriculum has been developed over the past two years and focuses on the process of creating art rather than the product. The new curriculum pro- vides teachers with everything they need to teach visual arts and is more user friendly, than the older arts curriculum. The general objective of the curriculum is to make visual arts recognizable as an im- portant subject when it .comes to funding, . teaching attitudes and time. The program is currently developed only for Grade 1 to 6, but Grade 7 and 8 will follow shortly. • - The board carded ,a motion that , the. „ Visual Arts ' Curried= lie effective September 14, 1987. RUNNING FOR CANCER - Stephen Vandenhengel of St. James Separate School participated in his school's `ferry Fox run on Monday, He said it was a tough run, but that a good runner can make it. Corbett photo. '