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Guiding light
Members of the Brussels Girl Guides were part of the village's annual Santa Claus parade, as
they are every year. The parade brought plenty of people to the village to see the floats and
then to the Brussels, Morris and Grey Community Centre. (Denny Scott photo)
Roulston to speak at museum
The Huron County Museum's
latest temporary exhibit, Hot off the
Press: Seen in the County Papers,
opened at the Museum in Goderich
on Nov. 21 and will be on display
until March, 2018. For almost 175
years, Huron County's local
newspapers have been an important
part of the social and political life of
our communities, and newspapers
from the past now serve as an
incredible historical resource.
Since Huron's historical
newspapers are now available to
search online from the comfort of
home (via www.huroncounty
museum. ca/digitized-new spapers/),
Museum staff wanted to take a
closer look at these papers' point -of -
view by peeking behind the
headlines to the stories of the local
editors, publishers, correspondents
and machine operators who have
made the news in Huron County
over the past centuries.
Says Sinead Cox, the Museum's
Curator of Engagement and
Dialogue, "There's a lot of
discussion happening now around
'fake news' and how we see stories
filtered through our personal
`bubbles' or 'echo chambers'.
What's fascinating is that every little
town and village used to have both a
conservative and a liberal paper
competing for your subscription.
Although the exhibit spotlights how
much our news sources and
publishing methods have changed,
concerns about misreporting and
perspective are nothing new."
Focusing on changing
technologies and journalism
techniques, the lives and political
leanings of the editors, and vintage
advertising, the exhibit highlights
selected artifacts and articles from
newspapers printed in communities
across the county: including
Clinton, Goderich, Seaforth, Exeter,
Wingham, Wroxeter, Brussels and
Zurich. The seasonal display also
features several interactives,
including news madlibs and an
opportunity to search the newspaper
collection.
On Saturday, Feb. 24 at 2 p.m. the
museum will welcome long-time
editor Keith Roulston as a special
guest speaker. Mr. Roulston will join
staff for a lively question -and -
answer session to discuss insights
from his long and varied career in
local news as an apprentice, writer,
editor and publisher: from using 'hot
type' with manual flatbed presses in
the 1970s, to digital publication and
everything in between. This rare
chance to hear the scoop on Huron's
newspaper history will be included
with regular museum admission and
free to Huron County Library
cardholders.
You can see Hot off the Press at
the Museum (110 North St.,
Goderich) until the end of March.
Check now.huroncountymuseum.ca
for the Museum's seasonal hours
and other upcoming programming
and events happening in conjunction
with the exhibit.
First of her kind
International Plowing Match Princess Brooklyn Hendriks of
Huron County has started making the rounds and one of
her first stops was Saturday night's Brussels Santa Claus
parade. She braved the cold and bundled up to greet
hundreds as part of the village's annual Christmas
tradition. (Denny Scott photo)
Huron East hopes
to upgrade website
By Shawn Loughlin
The Citizen
Huron East Council is looking for
some funds under the 2018/2019
seniors community grant to redesign
its website and improve its
communities for seniors.
Total project costs are anticipated
to be just under $100,000 and
Deputy -Clerk Caitlin Gillis has
suggested applying for a grant of
$79,200. The municipality, if the
grant is approved, will pay the rest.
Huron East first received a grant
from the fund this year in the
amount of $4,750. Now, for the
2018/2019 intake for the fund,
the criteria is aiming to fund
projects that help implement
the plan that was created with
that first grant.
"[The project aimed to] compile a
database of seniors -focused
community groups, programs,
volunteer opportunities, events and
activities," Gillis said in her report.
"A multi -format seniors -focused
communication plan was also
developed in order to effectively
communicate these resources to our
senior residents and visitors through
their preferred forms of
communication."
With the next intake of the grant,
Gillis said she hoped the
municipality could move to the
second phase of the project.
"Phase two of the Huron East
Seniors' Community Connection
consists of implementing the
communication plan with a
redesigned and accessible Huron
East website, the creation of a paper-
based community events calendar
displaying local events, activities,
services, programs and volunteer
opportunities, and the purchase and
placement of community bulletin
boards and benches in each
community within Huron East to
display the community calendar and
local organizations' events and
program flyers."
Gillis said that if the grant were to
be approved, the timeline would
begin in February, 2018 and a
completion date and website launch
in February or March of 2019.
Councillor Larry McGrath said he
was in support of the grant
application. He has been saying for a
while that the municipality's website
is confusing and in need of an
update and Gillis agreed.
The bulk of the funding would go
towards website design and the
development of a business directory
at $30,000, followed by the creation
of portable community signs for
each community in Huron East at
$10,500.
Other areas of the project would
be accessibility and training,
marketing and advertising, meeting
expenses, photography, benches and
administrative support, among
others.
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completed within three or four
weeks.
Council opted not to make a
decision on the spot, but to refer it to
the budget process later this year and
early next year. However, Treasurer
Terri Rau suggested that the issue
could be discussed further at
council's upcoming strategic
planning session, which was
planned for late November.
Deputy -Mayor Dave Jewitt
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