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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 2017-09-07, Page 3Getting the grounds ready Labour Day weekend means many different things to many different people. For children and teens it signifies the last hurrah of the summer, for those going to college or university it's move -in week and for the Huron Pioneer Thresher and Hobby Association, the Labour Day weekend means the time has come to get the Blyth Campground ready for its annual reunion. Above, members of the association prepare the sawmill for operation on Monday. (Quinn Talbot photo) G2G, Greenway issue clarified By Denny Scott The Citizen The party responsible for the maintenance of the Greenway Trail, which had been questioned last month, was cleared up at a recent North Huron Council meeting. During a Blyth Business Improvement Area (BIA) meeting earlier this year, Councillor Bill Knott had voiced concerns about the lack of maintenance on the Greenway Trail, a portion of the G2G that runs through North Huron, specifically Blyth. During a North Huron Council meeting last month, however, it was revealed that the G2G group is not responsible for the trail, North Huron is. "My assumption was G2G was going to assume our lease on that property," Knott said at the North Huron meeting. "That's what I understood from the beginning " At the BIA meeting, Knott said he had concerns with how the G2G group had been maintaining the trail and the fact that a breached entryway to the trail had resulted in ATVs on the trail. During the council meeting, Knott asked Director of Recreation and Facilities Pat Newson to explain the relationship between North Huron and the G2G group. Newson said North Huron had signed a lease with a company that maintains the lands for the province and that lease remains in place until 2020. She said the lands are under the care of North Huron. "At the time we signed, there were a lot of questions regarding the trail," she said. According to Newson, the final plan from G2G is to have another organization hold the lease on the properties and then maintain it. Some leases were already in place when G2G started preparing the trail and the group will pursue those leases when they expire. "So we are still responsible for the maintenance of the trail," Knott affirmed. He asked what could be done to make sure that gates at either end of the Greenway trail, designed to keep • Silent Spaces Julian Mulcock's `Silent Spaces' art show opened on Friday, Sept. 1. Mulcock is shown above with Cartegna 2, an acrylic on canvas piece that is part of the show, which runs until Sept. 23. (Dennyscottphoto) motor vehicles off the trail, remain closed, saying he felt there is now more ATV traffic than foot traffic on the trail. Newson explained the gates are typically opened by snowmobilers during that season, but throughout the warmer seasons, North Huron staff have to keep the gates closed. She said she would ask staff to patrol the area and suggested that members of public contact North Huron if the gates have been tampered with. "There is no real 24/7 method of keeping it locked other than people reporting it," she said. Council also discussed a bridge that is on the section of the trail it maintains and staff stated they had no luck getting in touch with the local snowmobile club which has worked on the bridge in the past. NORTH HURON TOWNSHIP OF NORTH HURON BLYTH WARD HYDRANT FLUSHING NOTICE As part of regular system maintenance, Veolia Water Canada will be conducting a hydrant and main flushing program during the hours of 7 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. from Monday, September 11, 2017 to Friday, September 22, 2017. This procedure could result in the discolouration of your water. It is recommended that all customers check their water for rust prior to use each day as discolouration of laundry, etc. could occur. Running a cold water tap until the discolouration has cleared is advised. Thank you for your co-operation. P.O. Box 90, 274 Josephine Street, Wingham, Ontario NOG 2W0 Phone: 519-357-3550 Fax: 519-357-1110 www.northhuron.ca THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2017. PAGE 3. Welcome offered to Threshers campers From Marilyn's Desk By Marilyn Craig Call 523-9318 Happy birthday to Lauren McNichol who celebrates Sept. 10; Brett Glousher, Sept. 11 and Jean Nethery, Goderich, Sept. 12. Happy anniversary to Sheila and Paul Rintoul, Wingham who celebrate Sept. 11. Don't forget that everyone is invited to the worship service at the 100th International Plowing Match and Rural Expo on Sunday, Sept. 17 at 3 p.m. under the cover of the entertainment tent at the match site, located at 82823 North Line (County Road 12), Walton. Liturgist is Steve Hildebrand and featured will be a mass choir of 150 voices drawn from area churches. Come out and enjoy the music and fellowship. There will be no church service at Blyth United on Sunday, Sept. 10. You are invited to join the service at the Thresher Reunion at 9:30 a.m. in Shed 3. Welcome all the campers and visitors to Blyth Sept. 8, 9 and 10 as the Huron Pioneer Thresher and Hobby Association celebrates its 56th annual reunion. FROM BLYTH Bainton's Socks Bainton's Old Mill Downtown Blyth 519-523-4740 The Citizen See histories and historic photographs on the Huron History sectionof our website www.northhuron.on.ca He gives His beloved sleep! (Arthur Pink) "He gives His beloved sleep." Matthew 1:21 How often is it lost sight of, that the Lord cares for the bodies of His saints --as well as for their souls. Sleep is a Divine gift --but the nightly recurrence of it blinds us to the fact. Sleep is as imperative for our physical well -being --as is food and drink. Sleep is as much the gift of our heavenly Father, as is the other. When it so pleases Him, God withholds sleep --and then we have to say with the Psalmist, "You kept my eyes from closing" Psalm 77:4. But that is the exception rather than the rule --and deeply thankful should we be that it is so. Day by day the Lord feeds us --and night by night, "He gives His beloved sleep." We should perceive the gracious hand of God ministering in tenderness to all of our daily needs. He is mindful of our frailty --and tempers His dealings with us accordingly. He is aware when our energies are spent, and graciously renews our strength and mercifully refreshes our bodies with sleep. Alas, how little are we affected by the Lord's goodness and grace unto us. The unfailing recurrence of His temporal and spiritual mercies --incline us to take them for granted. So dull of understanding are we, so cold our hearts Godward--it is to be feared that most of the time we fail to realize whose loving hand it is, which is ministering to us. Is not this the very reason why we do not begin to really value our health- -until it is taken from us? It is not until we spend night after night tossing upon a bed of pain --that we perceive the worth of regular sleep with which we were formerly favoured. And such vile creatures are we, that when illness and insomnia come upon us, instead of improving the same by repenting of our former ingratitude --we murmur and complain at the hardness of our present lot, and wonder what we have done to deserve such treatment! O let those of us who are still blessed with good health and regular sleep- -not fail to daily return thanks for such privileges, and earnestly seek grace to use the strength from them to the glory of God! "Let us thank God for common mercies --for they prove to be uncommonly precious, when they are once taken away!" Charles Spurgeon A Grace Gem Submitted by: Immanuel United Reformed Church, Listowel, ON 519-291-1956