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2 oi t o eenn e togne . o en 1 Nt ament ce e oi e n ons m m maaarenainti® * farm situati -â€"â€"-â€"â€"â€"â€"_’__â€"_“_ B s estimated 16 or more RCMP and fYTGOfd Wainman provincial police officers descend % ?n the northwest Oxford County > 7 arm with a trustee in bankruptcy LAI\ESIDE â€" Sherry Rounds to seize equipment. By midâ€"afterâ€" s j was only 11 in Octpber, 1982, when noon she saw her mother Sharon, | abanker and receivers moved onto 44, and brothers Steve, 24, and ._} thgz family farm just east of here to Glenn, 22, hauled off in handcuffs I | serize her parents‘ crops. But the by RCMP officers and taken to the | action ground to a halt when.farm _ Woodstock OPP detachment. & | survwalgsts aqd members of the By nightfall, her mother and ' 6 | media, including national televiâ€". brother Glenn had been released |__sion, appeared. without charges being laid. Steve 4 On Wednesday, nearly four years â€"Rounds was released later after beâ€" later, she saw cars loaded with an ing charged with obstructing jusâ€" â€" on es tice and is to appear in Woodstock provincial court Oct. 7. Husband and father Clarence Rounds, 48, and another brother Keith, 19, who lives at home, reâ€" mained at the farm Wednesday. Elâ€" dest son Ken, 25, lives in Alberta. At age 15, Sherry Rounds said she‘s bitter about both incidents | _ but is better able to understand . than when she was 11. | "When they came before, yeah I F 3 | _ was here. I was scared because I * |__didn‘t know what they were doing to us. I didn‘t know what was hapâ€" / pening to us. I thought we wouldn‘t be living here ... it seares you, < 7 yeah," she recalled. f s "I‘m still scared, but I hope we can do something about it now ... We‘rte a strong family, and we‘ll make it ... I‘m pretty sure we‘ll make it." At times police seemed to outâ€" number farm friends who came to stand by the Rounds. RCMP Serâ€" geant Walter Somers of London said he thought a count of 16 policeâ€" men was high, "but I wouldn‘t tell you if I knew." Farmers came and went over the sometimes tense 10 hours, which | ended when a harvesting combine, f the last of a handful of pieces of equipment to be seized, was reâ€" moved from the farm as the sun R went down. At any one time about 30 farmers and 16 or more police 1 ( roamed the farmyard. Embro farmers John Langlois, secretary of the Catholic Rural Life Conference, and Albert Rutherâ€" a ford, a provincial director fo the Ontario Federation of Agriculture, were there. "If anybody has any conscience, â€" . they know there is something imâ€" moral going on," Langlois said of the general deterioration in the Onâ€" * , tario farm economy. N Rutherford lamented the timing of the seizure of harvest equipâ€" . ment, right before Clarence Rounds could begin harvesting his weatherâ€"sensitive bean crop. "I‘m here as moral support for all farmers who are in trouble. This isn‘t a new situation," Rutherford said, but creditor tactics have changed. "They‘re now in here with the Mounties to do their dirty work for them." Before Sharon Rounds was reâ€" ®@ See Page A2, Col. 2 ; ; //;f ‘ 7