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Seaforth
Legion
Branch 156
The Service Officer
will be at
BRANCH 156
SEAFORTH
TUES., MARCH 13
3:30 P.M.
Anyone wishing an interview
please call Cleave Coombs.
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Betty Cardno
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no told the crowd on Saturday evening.
"We didn't have the heart to tell Mom
that everyone thought that Home Care was
a building centre."
Nonetheless, when a need for Communi-
ty Homemakers wan evident in the coun-
ty, Mrs. Cardno played an important role
m founding the agency which would later
come to be known as the Town and Coun-
try Homemakers. This was 1977, while she
was serving her term as Mayor.
Over the following years, Mrs. Cardno
nurtured the growth of the Health Care
Unit with the introduction of diversified
programs. The Chronic Home Care pro-
gram was implemented .under her direction
. in 1983, and the following year the School
Health Support Services were introduced.
. Finally, in 1986, the Integrated Homemak-
ing Program was established in the Coun-
ty health care unit.
"Betty has done well to read the spaces
between the lines," remarked Dr. Peter
Salsbury, the Master of Ceremonies for the
evening. Added another co-worker, Karen
Lennon, "Wherever Betty has seen a need,
she's been the first one there."
Along with her committments to the
Health Care Unit, the Town, her staff and
her patients, Betty Cardno is the Chairman
of the Van Egmond Foundation, has had a
seat on the Seaforth Community Hospital
Board and is presently on the Board of the
Huron County Centre for the Homebound.
She has devoted time to the Country
Singles organization and the Huron Coun-
ty Housing Authority, is active in PC
politics, and "..spends her spare time in
the conservation of heritage buildings."
"I've never known another woman who
could talk on the phone, read the news,
watch football, knit and smoke a cigarette
all at the same time," joked co-worker and
long-time friend Alice Green of the Perth
County Home Care unit.
When asked if she would like to reply to
her "roasters" at the end of the evening,
Mrs. Cardno quickly took to the
microphone.
"1 got conned into coming here tonight,"
she laughed, "so 1 think that you should
take everything that was said about me
accordingly. I don't think that you can
believe everything."
What can be believed is the respect and
admiration that her friends and colleagues
hold for' this woman who has put so much
back into the community.
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CLQ sale
CUSTOM CARDNO CARTOON - Sheila Lancaster, a Huron County Health Unit col-
league, presented Betty Cardno with a framed cartoon at her retirement gala. The
caption on the cartoon, depicting Mrs. Cardno, Brian Mulroney and an empty piggy
bank, reads "But Brian, there's no dollars left...HOW am I supposed to meet the
needs of the community?" Elliott photo.
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we will object and make our concerns
known."
Reeve Robinson's concerns were echoed
to a degree by the three grain mills
located in Hensall.
"Right now we are very much concern-
ed," commentej1,Dale Good, Manager of
W.G. Thompson:t. d Sons Eimited.y "We
have 'two brandies and 'Mitchell)
that will be affected by the sale."
"At this point we are opposed, primari-
ly because we can't be guaranteed that
whoever buys the line will be financially
sound. It could end up closed down in
three or four years."
Mr. Good noted that while W.G. Thomp-
son is not totally reliant on the rail lines,
there are times when it uses them quite a
bit.
"It depends on the market condition," he
said. "Last year we didn't use it (the rail
line) all that much, but there are times
when we use 40-50 cars/year. I'm surpris-
ed that they (CN) are selling this track, it
is used quite a bit."
He noted however, that without the rail
lines it would be difficult for Hensall's
three grain mills to remain competitive.
"It would be difficult for trucks to com-
pete with the shipping costs of rail," he
said, adding that Canadians are already
losing a competitive edge to the United
States because of Free Trade.
"We help keep local farmers in competi-
tion by selling grain, and if we're not com-
petitive here, we'll have a hard time sell-
ing. The sale of the lines could have a
very, very prominent effect on our ability
to be competitive at selling grains, and it's
our duty to let them know (CN) we're not
happy about their decision. Public opinion
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Elliott photo.
plays a very important role in these
decisisons, and I don't thank we as a com-
pany are interested in getting into the rail
business."
The Hensall District Co-op is perhaps the
biggest user of the Goderich/Exeter Sub-
division, with the exception of Sifto Salt,
and is also concerned about CN's decision
to sell the line - although not as much so
as are others.
"We are somewhat concerned about the
decision, but generally we feel it's a good
venture and will work out in the long run.
We feel there's enough business on the line
that somebody could run it as good, if not
better, as it is being run now. We're op-
timistic there'll be a railway here in 10
years," commented Earl Wagner.
"Of course if noboby offers anything, CN
will probably close the line, but we're op-
timistic somebody will run the rail."
Mr. Wagner noted that the Co-op was a
little surprised at the decision by CN to
sell the line, especially since the total ton-
nage seemed high.
"I'm surprised they'd feel the line was
not worth keeping, but...CN's cost are pro-
bably so high for operating, that they felt
someone else could run it cheaper," he
said.
"I guess it didn't come as a complete
shock, and CN has not said the line will be
closed down or abandoned. But I think it
is being used as an example for other
lines. Short line railways are operating in
the United States quite a bit, and fairly
successfully too. They're also in use out
west," he noted.
Although use of the rail line varies from
year to year, Mr. Wagner estimated the
Co-op accounted for approximately five to
10 per cent - or 30 to 60,000 tons, of the
550,000 tons CN estimated travelled the line
over a year. He suspected the Co-op was
the second or third largest user on the line
behind Sifto Salt, and noted Co-op usage of
the rail line has increased over the last
two or three years, in particular in the last
year with the addition of the domes.
As to whether or not the Co-op itself was
interested in running the rail line, Mr.
Wagner said he thought the Co-op had
enough on its hands at this time.
Cooks was perhaps the least concerned
of the three Hensall grain mills about the
proposed sale of the CN line, but only
because it is not as reliant on the rail lines
as the other mills.
"If the rail lines were eliminated we'd
miss them to a degree, but we don't rely
on them that extensively," commented
Brian Beattie, spokesperson for the
company.
Mr. Beattie said that 'Cooks has Certain
commoditieg that, it ships -nut by rail; -but
added that the rail line was not the com-
pany's usual method of shipping.
"We use the rail on maybe eight or 10
occasions a year. It depends on who our
customers are. A lot of our goods go out
by truck, so this is not a major concern to
us," he said.
"It may restrict our shipping to some
degree, but it will not put us out of
business. Certainly rail freight is more
economical in 'some cases, and it may
mean we're not as competitive as some
others who have rail service, but it's not
that major a portion of our business that
if it wasn't available, we couldn't survive,"
he said.
"We'll be following this with interest."
On the home front, the Town of Seaforth,
and businesses here, are only mildly in-
terested in this recent decision by CN Rail.
"Certainly we'll be wanting to ensure
that the crossings are maintained, but it
won't really affect businesses in town,"
commented Deputy -Clerk Michelle Huard.
"We used the rails fairly heavily up to
a year ago, when the business we had was
ended by the free trade deal - and I don't
foresee that business starting up again,"
commented Dan Pearce of Topnotch
Feeds.
"We hope we can find a business use for
it (the rail) in the future, it's nice to have
it there for reserve, but we don't have
much that is likely to come on stream in
the near future. I just hope they keep the
lines going enough to satisfy our needs."
Other Seaforth businesses, such as the
Creamery and Hoffineyer's Mill, indicated
they are not using the rails at this time,
but Hoffineyer's did admit its Sebringville
location did use the line on occasion to
bring in siding.
CN has maintained ScotlaMcLeod Inc. of
Toronto as its advisor to manage the bid
process. That process is expected to take
several months.
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