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Signs of Christmas abound in the Walton area
Pole position
The Brussels Legion Pipe Band started the annual Brussels Santa Claus Parade on Saturday
night, as is tradition. The parade lasted approximately 20 minutes and featured family,
business and community group floats spreading Christmas cheer. (Dennyscottphoto)
PEOPLE AROUND
WALTON
By Jo -Ann
McDonald
Call
887-6570
Christmas is right around the
corner and decorations are springing
up all over. The Santa Claus parade
was a great night in Brussels with
lots of floats and people out
watching. Real Christmas trees are
arriving at the retail stores and it is
nice to see the bright lights lighting
up the country side.
The weather let up a bit last week
for a day or so and the combines hit
the fields again, hoping to get more
fields of corn in the bin. The nice
weather of the weekend made a big
dent in the number of fields left to
go. There are still some fields of
corn out there and as the farmers are
busy drawing the corn to Walton, the
pile gets higher and higher at Parrish
& Heimbecker. Lots of farmers are
also busy spreading manure and
plowing, and a couple of farmers
took advantage of the "drier"
weather and some soybeans were
even combined. I see snow fence
going up around the community
anticipating that the snow will
arrive, but we are enjoying the nice
temperatures today (Monday, as I
write).
The Brussels ladies birthday
group met at JR's for the
November/December birthday party.
Celebrating special birthdays were
Audrey Cardiff and Betty Campbell,
each turning 85! It was also Nelva
Scott's birthday to celebrate.
Attending the dinner were Nora
Stephenson, Marci Bremner, Isabel
Wheeler, Merle Cousins, Marie,
Lois and Betty McCutcheon, Laura
Barbour, Bev Palmer, Betty Cardiff,
Jane Hall, Jean Davidson, Joan
Bernard and Dale Chesher. Happy
birthday ladies.
A very busy lady celebrating a
special birthday last week was
Edythe Warwick! It took a whole
week to celebrate the occasion of her
90th birthday. It started with her two
sons, Tom and Brian, taking her to
her favourite restaurant, the Swiss
Chalet in Stratford, for a birthday
supper on the Sunday before her
birthday. On her birthday, Nov. 22,
Sharon and the boys were on hand to
welcome many guests to their home
and to serve birthday cake for their
mother. Wilma Higgins stopped by
as did Leona Johnston. Four ladies
of the Bluevale quilting group
stopped by as did Bruce and Anna
Santa Claus and smiles
The annual Brussels Santa Claus Parade was held on
Saturday and, as usual, the Huron East Fire Department's
Brussels hall played an important part. Above, firefighter
Tyler Deitner waves as he marches in the parade. (Denny Scott
photo)
Hamilton with another cake. Later,
Murray and Sandra Pepper arrived
with an ice cream cake. Edythe
rested a couple of days, then some
nieces and family arrived on Sunday
for more celebrations. Edythe has
been busy and happy birthday to her!
Be prepared for next week when
the second deer hunt begins. I have
not seen many deer around this past
week but once the hunters hit the
bushes, I am sure they will be on the
move, so beware!
A familiar face around town for a
few days last week was Joanne
Knight Black. She was here for a
visit with dad Jack and to attend the
Knight Christmas held on Saturday.
She was the only member of her
family to come to Ontario this year
because she told me husband
Weldon had commitments in Saint
John, New Brunswick, Andrew is
working in Fort McMurray, Alberta
and Allison is in school at Red River
College in Winnipeg, Manitoba! The
family is stretched across Canada.
The countryside is changing again
with the erection of new buildings
and such. The shed on the Blake
farm is coming along nicely with the
siding being completed this week.
The addition on the Boekee house on
North Line is getting the roof
finished and the cement break wall
on the Godkin property is up. A new
silo is on the Wilma Farms property
and a steel grainery and a small shed
on the Baan property is almost done.
Work continues on the barn
renovations on the Hoonaard farm
on Walton Road and the expansion
of the Bachert Meats building on
Blyth Road continues. The Houston
house is progressing well and looks
really nice and a new house on
Newry Road is coming along. The
Doumas are all moved into their
house on Morris Road. Great. Lots
of changes!
The two McDonald brothers, Neil
and Rick, have made their annual
weekend trip to he Grey Cup again.
The pair travelled to Ottawa to go to
the game. The weather was cold and
snowy, the game close and the trip
good. The only drawback was that
neither the Hamilton Tigercats or the
B.0 Lions were playing. Next year
maybe?
Jim and Leona Armstrong
attended the retired teachers of
Mitchell District High School
Christmas party in Mitchell last
week. There were 48 attending
including the retired teachers and
secretaries and spouses. Jim retired
about 20 years ago and is one of the
"oldest" still attending. Jim was one
of my teachers when I went to
Mitchell High School and Jim
always jokes I was one of his best
students! He is being kind because
science was not my strong suit!
Celebrating birthdays this past
week included Donna McClure,
Linda Gingerich, Linda McDonald,
Mitchell McKee, Melody Hodgkins,
Craig Gillis, Jo -Ann McDonald,
Brad McKague, Brent McKague,
Nicholas Zwep, Lin Steffler and
Kaitlin Williamson.
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A Communit
Advent Service
Sunday, December 3, 2017
7:00 pm
Trinity Anglican Church, Blyth
Message by Sandra Bowman
Offering to the Primate's World Relief
and Development Fund
PARTICIPATING CHURCHES:
Please join us for refreshments
following the service.
Belgrave United Church
Blyth Christian Reformed Church
Blyth United Church
Huron Chapel EMC, Auburn
Living Water Christian Fellowship EMC, Blyth
Londesborough United Church
Trinity Anglican Church, Blyth