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vfrww.durhamregion.com THE CANADIAN STATESMAN, NOVEMBER 27, 2002 PAGE 5 'As a farmer, I'm pleased people want to see what we do' jô' AS from page 1 j the fair, like this year's Beyond the ' - Farm Gate. The exhibit featured an automobile with air bags and plastic bumpers - manufactured with refined canola and - soybean oils and the fuel to run it contained contained a corn product, ethanol. A component component of com was also used in place of road salt as a de-icing agent. Mr. Rickard says there's a concerted concerted effort to educate children and adults about agriculture. About half the people people who visit the fair arc from the Greater Toronto Area, Mr. Rickard says. "These people probably have very little exposure to agriculture at all. Some people don't know potatoes grow in the ground." He recalls watching a child at a field crops exhibit who looked closely at a demonstration of wheat being ground into flour and sorted. The child then asked her father where wheat r comes from and her dad said he didn't know. "I really enjoy seeing the number of people who view the education displays," displays," Mr. Rickard says. "As a farmer, I'm pleased people want to sec what we do." His tenure was also rewarding because because of the excitement the young participants participants consistently exhibit. Mr. Rickard watched the junior 4H participants participants in the dairy show and says it's pleasing, "To see them walking around totally exhausted but they still have that little smile on their face." He also saw a young woman on a pony waving a ribbon to her mom, saying, "I won, I won." "This is the World Series to them. It's exciting to me we're creating (that) environment." Mr. Rickard will continue to be involved involved in the fair and says there has al- Blackout delays start of Grey Cup parties | BLACKOUT from page 1 •switched to other lines by Veridian. "'Most Hydro One customers also had 1: their power returned in about the -same time frame. " But Oshawa PUC Networks customers customers weren't so lucky, says Don '■ Pitman, the community relations officer. officer. There, a major feeder line was affected and it was "one of those rare • cases" where it wasn't possible to -switch customers over in the interim ' until the work was completed. Power wasn't restored to all customers in 1 the area of Wilson Road to Harmony Road from Rossland Road up to 'Taunton Road until about 10:30 1 p.m., he says. This is the second time in a month Oshawa PUC Networks' ' customers have been affected by a Hydro One equipment problem, he notes. Kim McLennan, spokesman for Hydro One, says the incident is being investigated but the explosion, and subsequent fire, is believed to have been caused by deterioration in the transformer following lightning damage that had gone undetected. ready been a meeting for next year. and soybeans. They plant 1,000 acres Back on the farm, he's hoping to of crops every year. They also have wrap up his fall chores within the next pasture cattle and an apple orchard, two weeks. The Rickards have scaled back The brothers grow feed corn, their operations slightly because wheat, oats, barley, hay, white beans they're getting too old to climb silos. says Mr. Rickard's wife Gail. Mr. and Mrs. Rickard have two children, Alan, 25, and Karen, 20. They're both involved involved in agriculture but it isn't clear if the next generation will keep history history alive and take over the farm. "It's probably more important to me they do what they're comfortable with in their lives," Mr. Rickard says. "If it's the farm, that's great. They all have, by osmosis, some understanding of what the farm is." 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