The Citizen, 2015-04-09, Page 6PAGE 6. THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 2015.
NH Food Share prepares for non-race race
‘Citizen’ congratulated for its CCNA awards
THE EDITOR,
The North Huron Community
Food Share presents…the race is
on….Oh sorry, you didn’t know
there was going to be a race? You’ve
heard of a five-kilometre race, a 10-
kilometre race, the Boston
Marathon, even The Amazing Race
on television. But how many people
have heard of a zero-kilometre “non-
race” race? That got your attention,
didn’t it?
The North Huron Community
Food Share is having a unique
fundraising event. It’s a “fabulous
footrace fundraiser for food”. You
don’t want to repeat that too often.
There is no actual race…just a
start/finish line – step across the line,
you’re done. Athletes can enjoy
themselves without the sweat. Non-
athletes can revel in their poor field
performance. It’s a race anybody can
enter, and better yet…finish.
We need participants that would
like to be part of a unique event. The
fundraising part? Like any other
event, you will need to get sponsors
to support you in this very gruelling
event. We hope each participant will
be able to raise a minimum of $25 in
sponsors.
We are very fortunate that we will
be hosting this event in conjunction
with Wingham’s Muskrat Festival.
The Muskrat Festival runs from June
12-14. We are holding our race on
Sunday afternoon at Riverside Park,
where all the festival events also take
place. We even have enlisted the
help of Lisa Thompson, our local
MPP as the “official starter”. Better
yet, the first 50 entrants will receive
(drum roll please) a lukewarm bottle
of water and a cheap white t-shirt,
emblazoned with our somewhat
cheezy logo. Who could ask for
more?
The event will go ahead “rain or
shine” on Sunday, June 14, at 1 p.m.
with registration from 11:30 a.m. -
12:45 p.m. before the event.
Concerned about a warm-up before
hand? Don’t want to pull any
muscles, do we? In fact, we have
spared no expense (really no
expense at all). Carol Phillips (that
name strikes fear into a lot of
people) will be doing warm-ups
prior to the race. Darn, I almost
forgot another interesting twist.
Costumes as well as teams are not
only welcomed, but encouraged. In
fact, there will be prizes for the top
three costumes, as well as the top
three fundraisers. An anonymous
donor is providing the shirts, water,
and prizes. All monies raised are to
help stock the food share through the
summer months, when donations
tend to fall off.
Interested? Please contact me at
519-357-4833 or gdkaster@bell.net
and I will be happy, yes, even
delighted to get a registration kit to
you.
The idea for this race may be all
fun, but the needs of our food bank
and clients are no joking matter!
As the need continues to grow, we
thank you for your generous
donations and ongoing support of
the North Huron Community Food
Share – so no one goes hungry!
Gord Kaster – Media Relations.
THE EDITOR,
Thanks to everyone who makes
our community paper great!
We subscribe to three weekly
newspapers in our home and we
know that The Citizen is the best by
far.
We are old school. We like people
in the pictures clearly identified, we
like to see pictures of events, we
read every editorial and all the news
on the local councils. We also read
the advertisements. These are the
people whose advertising dollars
help keep our paper in the
community. We also shop locally. It
only makes sense. The other two
papers we subscribe to are part of a
chain and we see the local content
challenged every week with
columnists from the city, articles on
Toronto issues and unrelated to our
community and layouts that are hard
to read.
Oops, this is about the good work
The Citizen does. We digress!
As we become ever more
connected to larger centres with our
myriad of devices, we seem to not
notice what we have around us.
When we were involved in local
politics in the 1980s, we were deep
into writing secondary plans for our
municipalities. We thought
protecting farmland, our number one
major asset, as the ultimate goal.
Fast forward to now and we see the
result of our careful planning. Farm
buildings are dismantled as larger
and larger farms are created and the
population base is reduced.
We see it in the creation of bigger
schools drawing from a bigger
catchment area. We see our
storefronts emptied. And we see the
farmland as an easy game for energy
developers to build massive wind
turbines with little thought to the
further ramifications of this random
planning.
Thanks to The Citizen we feel
better informed and better able to
understand our community. We are
encouraged to look farther for more
answers. And that is also part of the
weekly's mission, to inspire us to
look farther, to understand and to
better our communities.
So thanks to all the hard-working
staff who put this wonderful weekly
to bed each and every week. We
know how great you are and now a
lot more readers do. Congratulations
on your national Canadian
Community Newspaper Awards.
Rhea Hamilton Seeger and Klaus
Seeger, RR3, Auburn.
THE EDITOR,
Before Huron East Council
updates their official plan they
should remember they shall pass
bylaws and are responsible for
public property. They may pass
bylaws with the property owners’
permission on private lands.
The Ausable Bayfield and
Maitland Valley Conservation
Authorities have forwarded the
source water protection for
municipal wells to be approved in
the new plans. Source water
protection: doesn’t that give you a
nice warm fuzzy feeling?
After the Huron East and Huron
County plans have been approved,
the Ontario Government expects the
plans be law in three years.
The area for the Seaforth wells
manages to include all the Eckert
barns. In this area, you cannot spray
chemicals, spread fertilizer or
manure, have livestock or
underground fuel tanks.
The property rights of the
landowners are protected by the
crown letters patent. If Huron East
puts this area and rules into law, they
must fairly compensate the
landowners for their loss. Three
arbitrators must be appointed. Huron
East gets one, the landowners get
two. Huron East council doesn’t
know if they can support two arenas.
This now looks like pocket change.
Seaforth’s water rates may have to
increase!
But wait! Water doesn’t just flow
one way. If you complete the circle
Huron East now will also own two
fuel stations in Seaforth.
When you do the same in
Brussels, Huron East will own the
Brussels stockyards.
Have you still got that warm fuzzy
feeling?
Ray Storey.
Looking for local heroes
There are so many people out there who do
so much to improve their community.
Now you have a chance to say thanks.
Nominate that special person for the 30th
Annual Citizen Citizenship Awards.
Each year a committee chooses an outstanding citizen from each of the Blyth and area
and Brussels and area communities to receive an award for contribution to the
community. If you know someone you think should be honoured, please fill in the ballot
and send it in. You may attach a longer explanation of why you think your nominee
should win, if you like. If you have nominated someone before and he or she didn't win,
please feel free to try again.
I nominate
as Citizen of the year for
I feel she/he deserves this award because
Nomination Deadline April 30, 2015.
Name and phone number of nominator
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& area ❑Brussels
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