3 years after tragedy, family revives fishery.Byline: Paula J. Owen WESTMINSTER - Nearly three years after he closed up shop following the death of his oldest son, Eino W. Jarvenpaa Jr., 79, is back in the fish business and has added fruit and vegetable sales to his repertoire. Mr. Jarvenpaa restarted the fishery last week, receiving a delivery of 1,000 baby trout brought in Thursday on the truck of his son, Steven Jarvenpaa. For years, the Years, The the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109] See : Time family ran the only fishery in the area, rearing trout for the Fitchburg Sportsmen's Club, the Turnpike turnpike, road paid for partly or wholly by fees collected from travelers at tollgates. It derives its name from the hinged bar that prevented passage through such a gate until the toll was paid. See also road. Rod and Gun Club in Ashburnham and the Eight Point Sportsmen's Club in Hubbardston. Then in November 2005, lightning started a fire at the family's sawmill sawmill, installation or facility in which cut logs are sawed into standard-sized boards and timbers. The saws used in such an installation are generally of three types: the circular saw, which consists of a disk with teeth around its edge; the band saw, which . David Jarvenpaa, then 53, was working at the mill. Firefighters found his body curled curl v. curled, curl·ing, curls v.tr. 1. To twist (the hair, for example) into ringlets or coils. 2. up on the floor, Mr. Jarvenpaa said. The fire caused $500,000 in damage to the sawmill. Operations ceased, and the family discontinued dis·con·tin·ue v. dis·con·tin·ued, dis·con·tin·u·ing, dis·con·tin·ues v.tr. 1. To stop doing or providing (something); end or abandon: the fish hatchery hatchery a commercial establishment dedicated to the hatching of bird eggs to provide day old chicks and poults to the poultry industry. hatchery liquid the contents of unfertilized eggs. Used in petfood manufacture. , he said. Steven Jarvenpaa continued delivering fish from other hatcheries to clubs, and the Jarvenpaas continued raising animals. Though Eino Jarvenpaa has a new mill to set up, he said he just cannot do it. He has difficulty talking about the loss of his eldest child, who handled most of the operations there, he said. But he finally decided it was time to re-open the hatchery. When one drives by the Whitmanville Farm on South Ashburnham Road, three 16-foot-diameter shallow pools are visible, along with several other pools that look as though they are covered with large metal teepees. Mr. Jarvenpaa said those coverings protect the fish from predatory birds as the fish grow larger and start to come up to the water's surface for food. "Birds will just dive down out of the sky and stab them with their beaks for food if they aren't covered," he said. Right now the fish are small, just four to five inches long, he said. By the fall, they will have grown to 12 inches long, but many will be bought before they reach that size, he said. "When many of the fish hatcheries went out of Massachusetts, we started carrying the burden," he said. The family has been in the fish business for 20 years, starting with deliveries that Steven Jarvenpaa, now 50, made with his truck. It has an insulated in·su·late tr.v. in·su·lat·ed, in·su·lat·ing, in·su·lates 1. To cause to be in a detached or isolated position. See Synonyms at isolate. 2. tank with a water pump to re-circulate the water and keep it aerated aer·ate tr.v. aer·at·ed, aer·at·ing, aer·ates 1. To supply with air or expose to the circulation of air: aerate soil. 2. , he said. The family then started their own hatchery on the farm. But raising fish was just a portion of the goings-on at the Whitmanville Farm. Mr. Jarvenpaa and his wife, Alice, raised seven children, five of them girls, and used 480 acres to sustain the family. Eino Jarvenpaa, an only child, had been raised on the farm by his father, Eino W. Jarvenpaa Sr., and his mother, Tyyne, originally from Finland. The couple bought the farm and raised chickens and cows and grew potatoes and oats oats, cereal plants of the genus Avena of the family Gramineae (grass family). Most species are annuals of moist temperate regions. The early history of oats is obscure, but domestication is considered to be recent compared to that of the other , Mr. Jarvenpaa said. He said it was hard work. He remembers carrying 400 pounds of chicken feed, a bag on each shoulder and one on each hip, to feed the chickens. His father also ran a sawmill on the land, selling pallets and milled wood. When it was time for him to graduate from trade school in Worcester, young Eino had to choose between a career as a machinist in the city or working on the farm with his father. "They wanted me to go to work at Norton, but I didn't want to commute TO COMMUTE. To substitute one punishment in the place of another. For example, if a man be sentenced to be hung, the executive may, in some states, commute his punishment to that of imprisonment. ," he said. "Instead of traveling I chose to chop wood and be happy. I made some money and no one was on my back." He passed that work ethic work ethic n. A set of values based on the moral virtues of hard work and diligence. work ethic Noun a belief in the moral value of work on to his children, he said, who helped raise around 10,000 chickens on the farm and also ran the sawmill. "We learned how to work," Steven Jarvenpaa said. "We worked until the work was done. My father was fair to us. He worked here all his life and built up the place for future generations and taught us to do the same. It's a way of life and you plan for the future." He said his mother "tolerated quite a bit" from the kids over the years, too. Mrs. Jarvenpaa handles the finances and the kitchen on the farm. "Without her, a lot of this couldn't have taken place," Eino Jarvenpaa said. All seven of the Jarvenpaa children worked on the farm, Eino Jarvenpaa said, and many of his 12 grandchildren GRANDCHILDREN, domestic relations. The children of one's children. Sometimes these may claim bequests given in a will to children, though in general they can make no such claim. 6 Co. 16. until they were older. "The whole family is drawn together," he said. "Everybody pitches in." This season, the family, from a stand they just built, is also selling fruits and vegetables produced from their farm and other local farms. It is the first time the family has ran a farm stand, he said. "I saw the need for it," Mr. Jarvenpaa said. "You got to have your hands in everything." Mr. Jarvenpaa said he is not sure what will be next for the Whitmanville Farm, but knows the family will work together as a team. Steven Jarvenpaa said he does not plan on re-opening the sawmill. He said most of the mills are closing up in the area because the industry is "pretty rough." "I will do whatever it takes to make ends meet," he said. "Fisheries fisheries. From earliest times and in practically all countries, fisheries have been of industrial and commercial importance. In the large N Atlantic fishing grounds off Newfoundland and Labrador, for example, European and North American fishing fleets have long are a growing business and you can make a living at it." Whatever new directions the family decides to take, Eino Jarvenpaa has no regrets. "When you're a farmer and the chips are down, you can always look back and say, `I had a good life.' It`s been a very good life." ART: PHOTO CUTLINE: Eino W. Jarvenpaa Jr. gets ready to go up on a ladder to complete work on the family's new farm stand. PHOTOG pho·tog n. Informal A person who takes photographs, especially as a profession; a photographer. : PAULA J. OWEN |
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