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Page THE HERAU Wednesday April 198 Georgetown Little Theatres latest production Dr and Mr Hyde gets underway soon Seated are Robert McCarrol Jekyll and Rosaline Pat Standing left to right are Ashley Windsor as Poole the Butler MaryJane Walzak as Hilda and Smith as Charlotte The play opens April 21 and continues April 22 and April 2829 at the John Elliott Theatre Herald photo Ah the taste of success Georgetown Vintners held their annual wine competition Saturday bringing in unbiased provincial tasters Steve Cunningham and Ellen Kraeckas The grand champion of the wine and beer competition Is Christensen who won In four of categories Other winners included Ray Shier who took five categories Gllson who took two categories and local vintners president Peter who won for the best afterdinner wine Herald photo Questions and answers on drought assistance The Canadian Crop Drought Assistance Program CCDAP is delivering assistance to farmers who suffered significant crop losses as a result of the 1988 drought About 000 farmers in drought affected areas have received personalized CCDAP ap plications Farmers are filling out and returning these applications Processing of cheques for in payments has begun In terim payments began being mail the week of March 20 The following are responses to the most frequently asked tions by farmers Some farmers did not receive their application until the first week of March Others still have not received theirs Why A There are three reasons First applications to fanners in Ontario and Saskatchewan were sent out two weeks after Manitoba and Ontario due to a problem in the printing and mailing process Second farmers whose names and addresses were not in the pro gram data bank did not automatically receive an applies and were asked to call the toll free line to obtain one Finally some farmers outside designated drought areas who did not receive an application and wanted to apply for assistance were also asked to call the toll free number for an application It is possible that some additional areas may be designated as drought zones when final provin cial crop insurance data is available Application forms will automatically be distributed to producers in those areas Comple tion of an application form does not necessarily mean that a producer is eligible for drought assistance Are all farmers expected meet the March 15 deadline for returning applications A No The March 15 date is in tended for those farmers who automatically received and are eligible for an in terim payment However the pro gram administration will commodate late applications Nobody will be left out of the pro gram because they didnt receive applications on time On March 3 drought areas went defined Some with significant crop losses arent in- eluded to these drought areas mean they wont get from the provincial crop insurance A No The drought areas define on March 8 are preliminary anc re being used for the interim pay ment were defined on the base of data supplied by provincial crop Insurance agen cies There may be adjustments made to the drought zone areas once complete data is available Once drought areas are finalized what happens to fanners who think they should be eligible for assistance but find they are not in a designated drought area A Producer Review Committees are being established in each pro vince They will consider these situations Once final drought areas have been defined pro ducers who feel they should be eligible for drought assistance but are not should approach their regional municipality or county The or county can a Producer Review Committee to consider their situation How have interim payment rates been established A Interim payment rates are flat acreage payments to farmers In severe and moderate drought areas in the prairies and in severe areas in Ontario and certain crops These areas were designated using preliminary provincial crop in data Interim payment rates were set as high as possible without a risk of overpayment How will final payments be calculated A Final payments July will be crop specific acreage payments based on a formula which takes in to account crop losses from drought farmgate prices and the value that crop insurance payments would have provided Farmers who received interim payments will have these payments deducted from tbeir final payment Q The application says that a farmer must consent to release of farm records for 1989 and the previous six years and up to two years after the deadline date Why is this necessary A This is included in the applica tion so that random audits can be done It does not mean the records of all applicants will be checked Random audits are stan dard procedure in special assistance programs administered by the federal government This in formation will be kept in the strictest confidence When producers opt to have their five year average seeded acreage compared tovtheir seeded acreage the administration may need to review then records for that period in order to verify imseeded acreage claims The ad ministration may have to review farm records as far back as six Agreement to release farm records two years after the deadline provides the CCDAP ad ministration with time to do ran dom audits This means releasing information on and the six previous years only This does not apply to 19D0 and DID YOU KNOW The Halton Hills Herald is distributed to over 141 homes in Georgetown Acton and surrounding areas When it comes to Halton Hills weve got it covered Our weekly service checks ensure that your newspaper is delivered properly and on THE HERALD Home Newspaper of Halton Hills Established 1866 HOURS Monday to Friday 830500 DEADLINES RWK Business Office 8772201 ClMSllled 8778822 LlLL