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< J 1 re Art Drysdale, agriculture reporter with CFRB radio in Toron- to was guest speaker at the Blackstock Fair's annual meeting last Thursday evening. With him is Fair Board president Linda McLaughlin. ¢ 'Man flicks his Bic and is rescued from snow A local snowmobiler flicked his Bic and may have saved his life. The 32 year old Port Perry man was snowmobiling across Lake Scugog Sunday night at 8:45 p.m., just 200 metres north of Port Perry boat launch, when his machine hit a drift and flipped over. The machine was barely damag- ed, Durham Police say, but the man suffered leg and back injuries. Unable to walk for help, or get back on his machine, he flicked his lighter, hoping someone would see the tiny flame. Turned out it was another snowmobiler who spotted the light, 17 year old Stephen Cochrane of Kent Estates. "I was coming onto the lake when it caught my eye," Steve said. "I saw a light flicker and at first it looked like kids fooling around." He decided to investigate anyways, and realized the light belonged to a man who needed help. He drove his machine back home and went to a neighbour, who hap- pens to be a volunteer firefighter, who in turn called an ambulance while Steve went back to stay with the injured man until help arrived. ""'He seemed to be in a lot of pain, moaning and stuff," Steve recalled. "He said he felt like his leg was on fire. Later, he complained abou getting really cold." : Although Steve had never en- countered a similar situation before, he didn't panic. 'But I was worried that something might happen to him" he said. An ambulance arrived soon after and it was Steve who helped the at- tendants drive back to their van with his snowmobile. The man was taken to Communi- ty Memorial Hospital, treated and later released. Trailer hearing postponed A preliminary hearing for a Port Perry-based trailer company, charged with 30 counts of fraud, was postponed Wednesday, when one of the accused failed to appear. . The postponement caused 42 witnesses, subpoenaed for the hear- ing, to be sent home prematurely. A court official said the missing accused was under the assumption he didn't have to appear until the se- cond day of the hearing. As a result, the preliminary hear- ing could not proceed yesterday, he said. The hearing for North Brock Motor Sales Ltd. and five company officials was rescheduled for February 5, in Oshawa provincial court. The company has offices in Man- chester, Whitby and Orono. Five of its officials are accused of short- changing customers who left their trailers and mobile homes on con- signment with the company. Det. Sam Hawrychuk, of Durham Regional Police, said people com- plained that they received less money than what the trailers actual- ly sold for, apart from the commis- sion paid for handling the consignment. Hawrychuk said some used trailers were also misrepresented as being new. The company and officials were charged with fraud at the conclusion of a four-month investigation last summer. Ron Turcotte, 19, and Nancy Keith, 38, both of Cannington, each face eight counts of fraud; John Threader, 51, of R.R.2 Orono, faces five counts of fraud; Gordon Haight, 25. of R.R.2 Orono and Norman Waller, 49, of Kingston, each face three counts of fraud. The annual meeting of the Blackstock Fair Board took place on Thursday evening at the Recreation Centre. Following Grace by Dale VanCamp everyone enjoyed the delicious pot luck dinner. President Linda McLaughlin welcomed all those present and in her remarks thanked all the direc- tors and other members of the com- munity who worked so hard to make our 1985 Blackstock Fair a success even if the weather did not co- operate. She thanked Bob Swain and Jim Byers who had recently head- 'ed up a committee that has built four new bleachers for our society. She pointed out that this year's Tractor Pull will be July 4 and 5 and the Fair will be Friday evening August 22 and Sat. August 23. Rolly Coy, vice president, in- troduced the head table and guest speaker Art Drysdale noted hor- ticulturist and farm broadcaster on C.F.R.B. Art in his address spoke on { PORT PERRY STAR -- Tuesday, February 4, 1986 -- 17 Doom and gloom aspect is too familiar in farming different aspects and effects of his Sunday morning farm broadcast. He pointed out a fact that is too well known here of the 'Doon and Gloom' aspect of the farming industry. Ur- ban consumers need information continually to better educate them. This is one of the aims of his pro- gramme and he suggested that local fairs can do much in this field as well. 3 Vice-president, Dave Petrie, thanked Art for coming to Blackstock and giving us his in- teresting address. Joyce Kelly in her treasurer's report showed receipts totalled $34,183.32 and expenses of $31,990.66. The meeting agreed that the socie- ty survived a bad fair day, weather- wise well but hopes that better weather is ahead. Heads of all the committees reported on the activities. Four ladies presented a skit telling of some of the situations that can but hopefully will not happen. 'Lawrence McLaughlin was presented with the newly improved Hall Trophy winner of the Fie Crop and with & unit of Funks Seed Corn by Jack Green. The Hall: Trophy was originially donated by descendent of the first settlers of Cartwright for the best potatoes grown in Cartwright and was won in 1934 by Newton Taylor. The Officers for the coming year will be Past-President-Ken Crawford; President - Linda McLaughlin; 1st Vice-President - Rolly Coy; 2nd Vice-David Petrie; Lady Director - Rika Wygerde; Vice-Lady Director - Katie Visser. Neil Bailey and Gordon Paisley were appointed auditors and Joyce Kelly as Secretary-Treasurer. The upcoming. Q0.A.A.S. Conven- tion on Feb. 19 and 20 was discuss- ed. The evening concluded with a presentation of slides of the past several Blackstock Fairs. Marketing Board chairman Kenneth McKinnon re-elected Ata special meeting of the On- tario. Milk Marketing ' Board, January 10, Kenneth G. McKinnon was re-elected Chairman and J. Grant Smith was re-elected .Vice- Chairman. Mr. McKinnon vas first appointed to the Board by the Minister of Agriculture when the Board was formed in 1965. He has subsequent- ly been elected to serve on the Board by dairy farmers in the counties of Grey, Bruce and Huron. He was first elected Chairman in 1977 and has held that position since that time. - Mr. Smith has been Vice- Chairman of the Board since 1977, having served since 1968 as an elected member representing the counties of Elgin, Oxford and Norfolk. The Ontario Milk Marketing Board reported marketings of 2.340 Lillion litres of milk for the fiscal year which ended October 31, 1985. The figure, released with the presentation of the Board's Annual Report at it's 20th Annual Meeting in "Toronto on January 8 and 9, represents a decrease of 1.2 per cent over the previous year. For this milk, the Annual Report indicated that the Board billed pro- cessors $1.087 billion, and paid transporters $45.4 million for haulage. The Board retained $3.7 million for the administration of the marketing system, and $13.3 million for market expansion efforts. Inad- dition, the Board collected from pro- ducers on behalf of the Federal Government $87.8 million.in levies to cover the costs of exporting surplus products, and $0.7 million was collected for the Ontario Dairy Herd Improvement Corporation in support of milk recording pro- grams. The $936.1 million balance was paid to slightly more than 10,400 licenced dairy farms in Ontario which support some 18,000 farm families. The Ontario Milk Marketing board is a non-profit dairy farmer organization which represents all milk producers in Ontario and is totally financed by them. Ninety attend day of Learning and Sharing in Oshawa 'About ninety presidents, vice- ~ presidents and unit leaders belong- ing to United Church Women groups gathered at Centennial United Church, Oshawa on January 13, 1986, for a day of "Learning and Sharing." They represent U.C.W. in the area bounded by Pickering, Port Perry and Newtonville. Chairperson, Betty Turcotte, Bowmanville warmly welcomed the executive personnel to the annual - January Workshop to share objec- tives, concerns and practises of the U.C.W. organization. Greetings were spoken by the Reverend Ray Edwards, who is minister of Centen- nial Church and Chairman of Oshawa Presbytery United Church of Canada, and by Centennial Physiotherapist helped wi learn to relax and enjoy by Penny Kutlik Wouldn't it be great to "learn to relax and enjoy life."' This was the motto for our first meeting of 1986 and Tina Demmers, Physio: therapist at Port Perry Communi- ty Hospital, gave us all a head start on achieving a more relaxed lifestyle with an informative talk on stress management. We learned how stress effects our bodies and some methods to change our lifestyles in order to more effective- ly cope with stress. Tina distributed information concerning relaxation and breathing exercises and our guest, Linda Korbak, helped demonstrate how to relax while reclining. -- Keep a look out for next month's report as we will be giving times and dates for our Decor Planning Workshops. Lilo Czilok and Penny Kutlik attended the Leadership Workshop in Uxbridge which was sponsored by the Department of Agriculture and they will be passing on the skills they acquired there. Home Environment Planning} Mak- ing Balloon and Roman Shades and Candle Wicking will be covered and anyone interested in attending our workshops is certainly welcome. Our next regular meeting takes place at the Scugog Island Com- munity hall at 8:00 p.m. on Wednes- day, February 19, 1986. Please come and join us! Church U.C.W. President, Joan McFarlane. - ; Spoken presentations and skits provided information regarding such subjects as keeping the ar- chives, thank-offering, the Oshawa Presbyterial U.C.W. unique bursary «granny gift," annual meeting delegates, and corresponding 'members. Jean LeGrand and Bev Holmes of Centennial Church led refreshing intervals of "singing. Audrey Martin, Bowmanville pro- vided a good book display. Marilyn Schamerhorn, Bowman- ville gave an hour-long presentation on the issue of pornography from a Christian point of view. Six specific concerns regarding pornography and its social impact on our com- munity were shown to warrant ap- propriate government assessment and action. A detailed definition of the word pornography, and up- dating and strengthening of existing laws is necessary to protect our society. Individuals are urged to in- form the Federal Minister of Justice, Mr. John Crosbie and Pro- vincial Attorney-General, Mr. lan Scott, of their concerns and to re- qurst appropriate action. The interest and enthusiasm shown by participants in the day's information and activity is indica- tion of a great béginning to a pro- ductive 'year for United Church Women in 1986.