In 1980, the Kings County Branch of the P.E.I. Wildlife Federation prepared a cookbook as a fundraiser. The preface stated the following: THE KINGS COUNTY BRANCH P.E.I. WILDLIFE FEDERATION In 1954 the Eastern Kings Branch of the P.E.I. Fish and Game Association was formed. The first President was C. Roy White. In 1977 we re-organized and became the Kings County Branch of the P.E.I. Wildlife Federation. Since its beginning in 1954 the Branch has been active in the protection of wildlife and the promotion of better Landowner-Hunter relations. The current association encourages those things and, in addition to that, is heavily involved in Firearm Safety and the promotion of Sportsmen (Hunters, Fishermen, Bird Watchers, etc.) whose aims are to protect our wildlife and their habitat. We wish to thank our advertisers for their generous support, and ask our members to show their appreciation by patronizing the business people whose advertisements appear here-in. Executive - 1980 President - Joseph E. Gillan Vice-President - Joseph Acorn Secretary - David Mullally Treasurer - C. Roy White Board of Directors Ronnie Campbell - Francis Stewart - Leonard MacDonald Jennie Dingwell - Donald Birt - Rollie Jenkins -Eddy Gauthier Foster Campbell - Connie Gallant - Allan Underhay - Ryk Veld Craig Jenkins - David Mullally - Steve Cheverie

By Heather MacLeod EAST BALTIC, P.E.I.- Just under 50 km from the publically funded Ark at Spry Point, is another experiment in energy alternatfves. It's a small, privately operated, water-powered sawmill, designed and built by Robert Dixon, a self-reliant, retired farmer here. It's a simple set-up, he says, "Water piped in from the pond flows through a turbine whose motion activates the shafts, pulleys, belts and machinery in the mill. Everything here is built out of scrap and our own ideas." A wide assortment of odds and ends makes up Dixon's mill. They range from a 100-year old turbine, now housed in a gutted steam boiler to a pulley mechanism from a bulldozer; an hydraulic pump from an old hoist; a blower off an ancient blueberry burner; parts of a shoe-shine machine; old boiler tubing and a wide variety of other odd thing's ingeniously assembled to run the mill. "We're not engineers, nor did we have sophisticated equipment or government assistance to build the sawmill, but there certainly were a lot of engineering feats involved," he says.

Robert Dixon and his hydro-powered sawmill

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