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f ill ict d (Continued From Page 1) Brl'gm Middleton, a St. l , the property's 1aneway, but Mary 3 busmessman who is i said "we're giving up". on the Farm Debt Review _ "Legally we can not do Board panel, Was on the scene ', anything, morall they are as a sapporter of the family. dead wrong," said'Bonne- He sa1 the events show the 3 Allan Slater, a neighbour need for. more teeth in the and member of the Rural Life debt rev1ew process. Committee of the United Middleton said that, while Church, said it was the fami- debt review has made great ; ly's decision. process In bringing lenders [ Slater said the grou were and farmers together, there is '"; prepared to walk onto the pro- Still room for Improvement. “2,! perty even though half-dozen The. Farm Debt Ry.riew OPP officers stood guard at Board IS there .to negotiate. the end of the laneway. The problem b.ei.ng with peo- "There is a purpose in us ple ike Mun1c1pal Savmgs going to jail because we and Loan IS they snub their know if we don't fight today nose at the rest of the world," we fight tomorroi...it's not he sa1d. . . just something that's being Middleton said he believes done for you, but for all of the trust company was the ex- us," said Slater. ception to the rule, and that Slater said there were two even unsecured creditors, choices: to either go home or most major banks and farm join together and walk on to credit had displayed a will- the property and get dragged lngness. to come to the off. bargaining table. , He said the network of farm T e financial difficulties organizations and individuals have been hard on the entire repared to stand ready at family including the couples' Farmers defence would have children. to wage a 24-hour response as Bonne recalled the day the lending institutions and 0139 came to remove olice begin using irregular machinery and how his grand- hours to avoid confronta- children reacted. _ tions. "They said, 'eo1t1ti1, (Grand- Although the DeBoers were father), they 're ta hi your _ able to renegotiate with lawn mower don't let t em'. I CIBC, which enabled them to had a gun. loaded, but there ;' buy back one farm, Municipal was py wife and children. I [ Savings and Loan has refused lilrt,t, stop them, hUt it i to talk with them or agree to wasn t eh easy decision," [ any kind of an arrangement. BryPeyaid. . He said they are still not Monica said the family's free even with the reposses- stand was not just for sion of the property since the themselves, but for every trust company have refused farmer .g.oing. through the to give the DeBoers their per- same crisis. "We cou d have sonal releases. walked off and let things go, "They are forcing us into but it was important to make bankruptcy. It was a point. People have got to something we never wanted start to listen," she said. to consider before, but they "We were not into the farm are leaving us with no alter- survival before and we still do native," stressed%teve. V not advocate violence, but if _ -", '. we have to get arrested to FDRB No Help change these jn,tyfierent at- The DeBoers' attempts to titudes, so be It go through the Farm Debt Steve said the support and Review process were A1nsuc- help provided by neighbours ce.s,sful alth.ough. it did pro- an friends after the first, vide an initial 30-day foreclosures was overwhelm- 1 f ", breathing space. ing. He said fellow farmers ar- 0 Steve sa1d, the trust com- rived with machinery and of- _.aid' pany wouldn t respond to the fers of assistance so the oard 8 request to sit down at DeBoers' could plant crop in the bargaihing table. 1986.