Concord Monitor from Concord, New Hampshire • 18

SUNDAY MOMTOR Jura 20 1993 08 i Litchfield Organic farm loses license Markin filctoryj Pesticide from nearly crops strayed day and wifi have ft tested at the state's fab to see if ft kideed is Salmon Portland Chase Uttloton Factory to add 100 jobs Company gets our parts contract Earlier this year Hitchiner purchased a former casket factory next door in anticipation of additional work In this house was bom Salmon Chase US Senator from Ohio (1849-1855) Governor of Ohio (1855-1859) a founder of the Republican Party and leader in the antf- slavery movement Alter serving as Secretary of the Treasiay in Cabinet he was appointed Chief Justice of the United States The Chase Manhattan Bank in New York was named In his honor Affected vegetables types of peppers four tae of tomato es the first crop of cabbage coOards and fade Ruuttila said Spice plants affected were purple basil sage cosmos and lemon licorice mint The greenhouse located at 110 Charles Bancroft Highway home is next to land on which Carapbefi gram pumpkins Not reusing the plants were tainted with the hertriade Ruuttila planted them at the farm located about a mile away across the read from Griffin Memorial School Meanwhile Ruuttila claims that he his wife and two boys are experiencing health problems from the herbicide including sore throats diarrhea and stomach cramps thought I had a fertilization problem 1 thought I had Ruuttila said of I the color of his plants' to lighten turning some white Last week though Ruuttila said be learned otherwise when an organic farm inspector from the state's Department of Agriculture came for a routine inspection saw herbicide damage in the he said Ruuttila believes the herbicide also known as riomasone is re-poosBrie because of information tne organic farm inspector allowed him in a Cooperative Extension Servicei Several types of organic vegetables and flowering plants were contaminated The cost to the fanner is about $21500 ThoToteWpli LITCHFIELD Part of the largest certified organic farm wifi lose Ha certification on some crops its manager said due to an errant herbicide from another fanner's pumpkin patch Eero Ruuttila manager of the Neaenkeag Cooperative Farm claims that the herbicide which neighboring farmer David Campbell said he sprayed last month drifted into arid around neenhouse contaminating several types of tries spices and flow The state's Division Control part of the New lent of Agriculture Is the Is formal complaint Ruuttila said that under state law pesticides must not drift off one property onto another Mark Thompson a pesticide inspector with tne division took a sample from the greenhouse Mon Command can legally be used as an herbicide fat New Hampshire if ft is applied according to its Instructions used aS the precautions we It possBBy drifted Campbell said Monday wss a very calm dear day but the vapor can (htiL- Campbell said there is insurance coverage that should cover Ruuttila's damages Ruuttila estimates that the her-trickle affected between UN and 7000 of his plants causing him a loss of approximately $21500 He said about two acres of crepe were affected Now he laid he will puU them up and try to find organic plants from grewtra elsewhere to try to salvage aome of Ms business Many of the craps are listed to be deitared to buyers within a certain time frame according to Ruuttila Also some are being grown under grants Some of the vegetables grown go to food banka in Massachusetts The farm owned fay the Monad-nock Community Land Treat has 47 acres about 20 to 25 of which wifi be actively farmed thio year MTwt ft Is: A state historic marker Whom ft fa In Comtah on NH 12-A about two miles north of tho aaremont-Comish town fine When ft was erected 1971 Swanzoy Teachers district fight over computers They were part of 3-year grant By TERRY BAKER ThtCourtw LITTLETON New business for Hitchiner Manufacturing will mean about 100 new Jobs for the company's local facility over the next year a a aid last week In anticipation of a contract with Callaway Golf to produce cast golf dub heads the Littleton plant nao added about ISO employees since mid-January bringing total employment here to about 400 said Nate Carmen pcnound manager A new contract with the CM Powertrain Division of General Motors Corp to cask rocker arms for the engines of 1995 Oidsmo-biles Pontiacs and Buicks will create additional Job the spring of next year will be in hill production said Carmen of the GM Line everything goes the way we want it to we could add another The employees hired since January are currently training on Ben Hogan and Powerbilt gw dubs lines which will be moved back to production far Mexico when they begin production on the Callaway Gon contract on which the i ny has an agreement in been happy been able to said Carmen noting that other manufacturing operations have either shut down or had to lay off workers Carmen said the comp would begin modification of I the plant for the rocker arm production this (all Ember this year Hitchiner purchased the former casket fartoty next door in anticipation of the additional work He said they sure exactly how the casket factory will be used but "It definitely Is going to be used as part of our production hod to give the Apple computers back by the end of this summer Teachers in demen- schools have already returned computers Those at the high school have not And they want to On Tuesday a union representative asked the school bowd to intervene aid reverse the decision Nothing in the 1981 grant application stud the teachers would have to give the computers hock unless they left era-pipy Jerry Appel said School board members asked why a union representative had ap- Teachers have 44 home computers The Monadnock School District wants them back By ELIZABETH CROWLEY Kosno Sontlnsl SWANZEY Teachers hove them and the Monadnock Regional School District wants them: 44 home computers that the district paid $23000 for five years ago The computers were pal of a 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