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80 years
To celebrate his 80th birthday, Brock Vodden, right, a local
historian and municipal council member, welcomed anyone
and everyone to sit down and have a chat with him about
anything that tickled their fancy on Dec. 29 at the Queens
Bakery in Blyth. Vodden is shown here with Ken Hunking
from Auburn, who got to know the birthday boy through the
Genealogical Society. (Denny Scott photo)
Festival shuffles
artistic directors
at close of year
Church hockey
Blyth once again played host to the annual Church Cup hockey tournament on Jan. 2 at the
Blyth and District Community Centre and did not disappoint as a host. The event was
eventually won by the Mitchell Muscle. (Vicky Bremner photo)
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including the Bishop family in
Bluevale and Blyth Farm Cheese,
were honoured at the Royal
Agricultural Winter Fair.
The cheese-making company was
also named manufacturer of the year
and Joost Van Dorp was named
junior manufacturer of the year
The Majestic Women’s Institute
celebrated its 75th anniversary with
a special meeting at Melville
Presbyterian Church in Brussels.
The Blyth Festival’s new Artistic
Director Gil Garratt announced the
2015 Festival season, which would
begin with Seeds, written by
Annabel Soutar.
The Canadian Centre for Rural
Creativity (formerly Blyth Public
School) held its first creative forum,
providing a glimpse into what
organizers hope the future of the
centre will be.
New councillors elected
throughout Huron County attended
their first meetings as
municipalities, and Huron County
Council, all held their inaugural
meetings of the 2014-2018 term.
With the new council in place in
Huron East, Mayor Bernie
MacLellan stated that he wanted to
revisit a community vibrancy fund
offered the previous year by St.
Columban Wind Energy, which
council had turned down at the time.
He said he felt the time was right
to revisit the issue.
Cohen Lammerant, a Grade 1
student at Hullett Central Public
School, donated all of his birthday
presents to the Huron County
Christmas Bureau, as his school was
in the middle of a drive to collect
items for the Christmas Bureau.
Renovations to Memorial Hall
proposed by Campaign 14/19 were
pushed from 2015 to 2016 due to a
number of factors. Those same
renovations, and the loss of seats
that would result, caused an uproar
at the Festival’s annual general
meeting.
Playwright and director Ted Johns
also raised a number of questions at
the meeting, many of which were
centred around the Board of
Directors’ choice to not renew the
contract of former Artistic Director
Marion de Vries.
Morris-Turnberry Mayor Paul
Gowing was named Huron County
Warden for the 2015-2016 term. It is
the first time in the amalgamated
municipality’s history that it has
produced a warden and the first time
since the 1970s that a warden has
hailed from Morris Township.
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2014 The Blyth Business Improvement
Area’s (BIA) first New Year’s Eve
dance went well according to Chair
Peter Gusso.
“I thought it went very well,”
Gusso said. “The band was pretty
good, the Lions helped us out with
the bar and the Legion Ladies
Executive really helped with the
food. It was kind of a joint effort for
New Year’s, and not just the work of
the Blyth BIA.”
Gusso said that, at the children’s
celebration, which ran from 7 to 9
p.m. on Dec. 31, he understood there
were approximately 40 children
present and, at 10 p.m., when the
adult celebration started, there were
40 to 50 present.
The New Year’s Eve event is one
that Gusso hopes the organization
will repeat.
“I plan on suggesting that it
happen again next year,” he said in
an interview with The Citizen
shortly after the celebration. “I
definitely think it should keep
going.”
The event, which was held in the
lower hall of the Blyth Memorial
Hall, featured music from the band
Mostly Sideways as well as the
chance for a New Year’s photograph
provided by Capture Photography
care of Sarah Caldwell.
Lions mark 70 years
BIA party a success says Gusso
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organization welcomed the Clinton
Lions Club to the event.
“Last year they had a Christmas
get-together at the Slots in Clinton
and invited us to join them,” he said.
“This year, they reciprocated and
joined us. We have welcomed other
Lions Clubs in the past such as
Londesborough and Auburn, but this
is the first time Clinton has come.”
With the anniversary of the dinner
now behind them, the Lions Club is
looking forward to its 70th
anniversary this year.
“March 27 is the 70th anniversary
of the club,” Stewart said. “This
year, however, rather than do
something as a group, we thought
we would do something to involve
the whole community that has
supported us throughout the past 70
years.”
Stewart said that a typical Lions
Club anniversary involves local
clubs sending representatives and
the group celebrating together,
however the Blyth Lions Club
wouldn’t exist without the support
of Blyth, so the group wanted to
give back to the community. To that
end, the club is considering a
celebration later in the year,
sometime in the the summer
months.
“We don’t have any details yet,
but we do want to involve the whole
community,” he said.
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