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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 2017-11-02, Page 1INSIDE THIS WEEK: AWARD - Pg. 9 Brussels resident wins Citizen of the Year Award PART II BISTRO - Pg. 10 Award-winning Blyth chef to open bistro in Goderich Publications Mail Agreement No. 40050141 Return Undeliverable Items to North Huron Publishing Company Inc., P.O. Box 152, BRUSSELS, ON NOG 1H0 BLmI - Pg. 18 Legion president, Lion named Citizen of the Year 4Citiz Volume 33 No. 43 n $1 .25 GST included Serving the communities of Blyth and Brussels and northern Huron County Thursday, November 2, 2017 Hull-oween It was Halloween on Tuesday at Hullett Central Public School and students took full advantage of the scary holiday. Students either dressed up as their favourite character, whether it was Harley Quinn from Suicide Squad or Doc Brown and Marty McFly from Back to the Future (see page six), or displayed their pride by wearing black and orange and did their best to inject a little horror into their school day. Here, from left, Brook Ohm, Landyn McNaughton, Caitlyn Bauer and Audrey Kreuger tried to work their scary charms on Citizen photographer Denny Scott. (DennyScottphoto) DeWit prevails in Win This Space comp. By Shawn Loughlin The Citizen Jackie DeWit and her business JD and Company are the winners of the Brussels Win this Space competition which took place at the Brussels Legion on Friday. The event featured the top three competitors from a field of 12. Huron East Economic Development Officer Jan Hawley explained that some had already decided to open their shops, feeling that the journey offered by the program prepared them to go it alone. DeWit won a $25,000 prize package including $9,000 for rent in a storefront on Brussels main street as well as educational opportunties and assistance from local businesses. The final three included Grace Scutella who was seeking to open a yoga studio, Penny Mulligan whose plans involved a second-hand, consignment fashion store focusing on clothes for teens and DeWit who was seeking a space to sell her all - natural products and refinished furniture and a place for other entrepreneurs to run programs. Scutella explained that, having moved to Brussels recently, she had gained a new target audience and was focusing on senior yoga which she found worked best as `chair yoga'. She explained that everyone could participate, even if the moves had to be done from a chair and said she had found success encouraging people to follow the yoga philosophy. Scutella said she was her own brand and led by example, sharing her story of being involved in three separate car accidents and saying she could have died in the most recent. She said yoga had helped her recover from her trials and she wanted to share it with the community now. Her business model included increasing from the two classes a day she teaches right now at the Brussels, Morris and Grey Community Centre, to five; being able to rent out her business space and offering health products, personal training, lectures, event training and nutritional advice. Mulligan's store, which she called Wild Child Exchange, would allow teens to trade in their own clothing on consignment and also buy clothes from the store. She explained that the need for such an establishment, especially in a place like Brussels that is a distance from larger shopping centres, came to her every time she went shopping with her children. "I would leave the mall, doing the math, and think we must have lost some bag somewhere," she said. "There would be three to four bags of clothes for $700 and that's 35 hours of work for me." That price was compounded by the fact that often parents would have to drive to Guelph, London, Continued on page 19 Brussels Cemetery adds new structure By Shawn Loughlin The Citizen The Brussels Cemetery is now home to a newly -installed columbarium, which was purchased at the International Plowing Match in late September. Doug Sholdice and the Brussels Cemetery Committee approved the purchase of the 64 -unit columbarium from Nelson Granite at the IPM. The company is based in Vermilion Bay, Ontario. Speaking with The Citizen, Sholdice said that while the concept of a columbarium at the cemetery made sense for space at the site, he also said it made sense in terms of changing trends as well. Sholdice said that many more people are wishing to be cremated than buried these days, putting structures like a columbarium in demand, while at the same time not occupying as much real estate at a cemetery. It's important, he said, to keep up with trends and offer people what they're looking for in end -of -life options, and a columbarium fits that bill. The columbarium was installed last week with the help of Canadian Crane Rentals and Dale Bachert at the back of the cemetery. The new columbarium is constructed from 100 per cent Ontario granite and has room for memorial plaques on its side for those who are perhaps buried somewhere else, but a family member wishes to memorialize them in Brussels as well. In addition, because the cemetery is a registered charity, Sholdice says the organization is currently accepting donations for the land around the columbarium in terms of landscaping and the installation of benches in order to spruce up the area. Clocks go back one hour Sunday, Nov. 5 at 2 a.m.