Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 16, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba Arms my is Shi my Bah he Winnipeg free Peid january 1990 Page 2 Julian provincial debating banners seek common ground by Bill Redekop Winnipeg free press Oak Bluff Farmers hate to bring together two Farmers on opposite sides of an Issue and they almost invariably walk away in Complete agreement on something so when Keg of Mroz of left else wants Grain transportation subsidies paid to the rail Herb Martens of to snort who insists the subsidy must be paid to producers the outcome was they agreed fertilizer Ltd com Bine prices Are too that they like to have Back the 10 Price of wheat and cars in 1952 were a helluva lot better than the things you buy the discussion was part of yester Days first meeting into whether the Grain transportation subsidy should be paid to Prairie in the next two 10 More meetings Are scheduled for Rural about 100 producers turned out Here to go Over a study by Eloitte Raskins and Sells that says paying the subsidy to Farmers will increase food Paud and toc Essi in Manitoba sex production by 25 and per crease commercial trucking of but lower Grain prices and close 140 Grain elevators and More than so Kilometres of rail line in five to 10 the meeting demonstrated farm ers Are still badly split of the Farmers were divided into six smaller groups to discuss a presentation made by study author Brian that when the Moderator interrupted the digression Between Mroz and Martens and forced them to discuss their concerns surround big the subsidy for livestock operator Martens in in hogs and Bacon and murals painted As Bright future by Maureen Houston Winnipeg free press Boissevain and Morton arts Council is looking at creating the Prairies largest outdoor Art gallery to help give the local Economy a the 12member group Hopes the concept will do for this Community of what it did for where huge murals on the outside of buildings turned a dying Economy into a tourism As the next generation moves off the were not going to have the same numbers to keep the Community Council member Brian Clark fanning is very important to our economic but just As Farmers have to look at communities have to As Clarks came up with the mural idea after visiting a town of on Vancouver Island that was threatened with extinction after its Sawmill Karl Shutz of who has initiated similar projects in Australia and the United was hired by the Boissevain group As project he said there Are Many parallels Between Boissevain and where he launched the mural idea after visiting Roma Nia and seeing murals on monasteries in a on Industry when that Indus try there Are no alternatives the town literally he said in a Telephone interview from his Home in there Are so Many places All Over the Maureen free press Boissevain councillor Brian Clark with a picture of what murals would look like on local world with the same but people seem to just want to walk away without putting up a Boissevain organizers Hope to attract some of the annual visitors to the International peace 25 Kilometres South of but the project will not come if the provincial and Federal governments agree to share the group will commis Sion four paintings each summer until 30 Are completed total expenditure of More than that worries Many local there planning to put a lot of Money into something that there not sure is going to resident Marilee Kempthorne others Are More its utter Tom an other who going to stand there in the and look at a mural How Are we going to get people into town with this although Clark claims about 75 per cent of residents support the Robinson thinks the reverse is closer to the if you go into the Coffee you wont find one in 10 that Are for he Council Vic president Ron Kehler said most objectors dont understand the Long Range Impact the murals could have on the areas eggs it is imperative Ottawa pay the subsidy to banners to lower feed we need the livestock and we need the processing spinoff More livestock he if we stand still too youll see what happens to the livestock sector see my livestock operation being shut its cheaper to transport one Pound of pork than it is three pounds of he a straight Grain fears freight rates will escalate if the subsidy is paid to Farmers and Cut into his already slim mar right the Only reason i farm is because my sons want to believe Ive tried to talk them out of he Mroz also contends there is a greater risk of losing the subsidy if it is paid to if they Start to pay then they can take it away from both agreed Ottawa is indulging in Wishful thinking when it says paying the subsidy to producers will encourage banners to Mroz said he cant afford to Start keeping i would have to get another line of and that Martens said he had to give up producing grains because it meant not spending enough time on his live Stock to say Farmers should diversify is Nice in but it int Pratti he the split among Farmers is apparent in talk with other in uneasy about said Mur Ray who farms near but i think were going to be forced into it by the Grain on the other Glen Penner of Morris said he cant he said he would expand his cattle As he would be Able to afford to feed his animals up to Slaughter instead of shipping the calves to Alberta As he does in the i think there will be More demand for red he neither the provincial government nor the Liberal opposition have taken a position on the Liberal agriculture critic Laurie who attended the was sceptical about the perceived benefits of paying to the biggest concern is whether the projections for in creased processing and livestock production will it seems to me weve already lost our livestock Industry to interest in free Loans growing by Randy Turner interest continues to Rise in inter est free loan programs offered in Rural communities trying the flow of Christmas shopping Dol Lars into the big in where the program was first developed in the number of residents who took out interest free Loans of up to almost doubled last two Altona Banks approved 290 Loans totalling about under the chamber of com Merce spokesman Dwight Brown under the All the Money must be spent in Altona and the loan must be repaid within six we consider it a phenomenal said the Cham Bers retail merchants who noted the promotion received nationwide attention last Christ Brown said Small communities from across facing similar economic have contacted the Altona business group to get More information on the a number of other Manitoba communities followed Altona Lead last with mixed in a Community of about residents in Southwest Ern 70 residents received Christmas shopping Loans totalling More than Boissevain credit Union manager Ron Kehler Kehler said big ticket such As stoves and were purchased largely using the interest free although some businesses Benefit Ted from the program More than Kehler said that the promotion was a the Money is going to be twisting around this Community for quite some he the multiple daily Deal yesterdays results Are 7 of 6 of Ace of clubs and 9 of a match of All four playing cards on one selection wins times the a match of three playing cards wins 30 times the Wager and a match of two playing cards wins three times the or effect is very Dauphin Plains credit Union Branch manager Dan Martin said the program exceeded All expectations in a Community that con stantly loses Christmas shopping dollars to cities in Manitoba and More than 150 Dauphin residents withdrew about in Loans last we Felt wed be Lucky if we did 100 Martin we had an excellent response for the first Large items including everything from farm implements to Christmas presents were Pur chased with the he Only in Selkirk was the number of loan applications lower than expect cambrian credit Union manager Don Phillips reported that 100 Loans totalling were approved in the about 20 Kilometres North of we were hoping for Phil lips we ordered enough Che ques for 300 but were Happy with what we prices 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