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Georgetown Herald (Georgetown, ON), December 28, 1988, p. 20

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Pale YEAH END REVIEW Wednesday Decembers 1MB Water restrictions invoked Halloa residents were asked tba Region to restrict the use of tbeit water Two weeks ago Halloo askeo residents to voluntarily watering their lawns bouses watering tbeli gardens on even calendar days and oddn house watering on odd days If dry weather remains and reservoirs can keep lug Fast enough Halloo may enact mandatory water restrictions said Manager of Water Plant Operations VlnceSuJfolclta Willow Park residents may have found themselves a new home About acre of land just east of ihe comer of the Sixth Line and Slderoad may be where the 30 families living In the trailer park will call home Trailer park community association chairman Roger Ferryman said the land own by Hank and Bill is prime location those firms achieving at least SO per cent on time delivery with no more than two defects In Items delivered over a month period Main Street Jewelry store owner at gunpoint Friday and demanded worth of jewels Ha ion police say Store owner Gale Dodokln said a man and woman claiming to be browsing waited until the store emptied and then ap proached the counter pulling out an Inch revolver The walkway between and Dawson Crescents will not be dosed Town council decided July is that in creased lighting and a garbage can Is the best way to halt vandalism and social behavior that were reported problems in the walkway Two suspects held a Georgetown Canada In Georgetown has become the Blue Ribbon con tractor In North America designated by the United States Army s com muni cations electronics command CO MSEC The award is given to Developers of the subdlri won in Glen Williams will have to take a second look at storm water drainage before they start lo build he houses Council wants Meagan Developments who are building a subdivision on east side of Sideroad between the Eighth Line and the Ninth Line in Glen Williams The summer 1988 was one the humidity Some found getting hottest on record and sent people into the swim of things was the way scurrying to find relief from the ex Farmers ravaged by drought by DONNA Herald Staff Without irrigation equipment and with critical time for cash crops Hills farmer are to Log money In the worst drought since Com Producers vice president Frank Anthony said but week From an Ontario perspective ihe loss of money com alone is million for each day it rain For all crops combined the loss Is 0 million said Mr An himself a farmer with acres of cash crops In corn and hoy Grain com led to livestock ana us In the manufacture of faen products is reaching a crucial period according to Mr An Stalks thai normally reach a six foot height arc measuring under the height of a melerslick If we don get rain for two or three weeks it may virtually wipe out grain corn said Norm farmer and- president of he Federation of Agriculture Despite crop insurance you do a whole years work for nothing be said and sucrose the sugar found In sodas has almost doublet since last year A bushel of grab corn la telling or to up from last years a bushel price Right DOW If want lo buy com you pay a high price if you can get but the people who own the corn the farmers are not rushing out to sell it said Murray a farmer south of And Ihe scenario for is not much brighter Hay I elds nor molly providing food for locil cattle and hoy or export may not yield a second culling In season which usual produces three cuttings growths hay Our second cutting is go to be very poor It could be as bad is per cent of the normal yield said lirownridge Ho Hon Hills gram crops jrc also suffer Oats bark inter wheat used or flour are affected said Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and toad Representative Phyllis Its very jo lion There has been no since May IS she sold Were setting to the stage where It may be loo late to save the crops Most farmers have no Irrigation equipment water Ihe crops Because It has never been necessary We ve never hod to lr rigal Mr And irrigation is costly and therefore out of the question for farmers said Frank Anthony He added that his farm soil Is dry for wo to three eel below the surface We need two or three Inches rain over a 14hour period to get real benefit- of conditions the ground so hard thai a fast rain just runs off he said And the drought is not just porting on Hills It s been described by Frank Anthony as a continental problem The scary part of this drought is that it extends from Calgary to Ottawa and as far south as Georgia What usually Is a regional problem is happening alt North America he said Mr Anthony farm recently shipped bates of hay to troubled American farmers Normally export volumes to other countries would be much higher he said Saskatchewan farmers arc calling this drought the worst since the Dust the mid 30 said Bill Mr Anthony added that drought will have long range impact on farmers right into the winter of and will probably affect con next year he said Agricultural representative Phyllis MacMaster agreed The lack of moisture will severely affect yield and revenue down Ihe road She added thai Ihe sol Is caked and cracked and thai sunshine and Serving You Since 1979 HANDYS AUTO 8730752 Serving You Since 1979 The Village of was con- film for an upcoming TV mini verted to 1950s Waco Texas for a series The shots will be used for the day as film crew moved in to shoot credits of the pnJUucUon Major Minor Repairs SPECIALIZING IN JAPANESE CARS 21 Mill St Georgetown 8771687 Serving You Since 1981 Sinclair Ave Serving You Since NORTH HALTON STOVES 38 Stewarttown Rd STEWARTTQWN

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