HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 2015-08-20, Page 7THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 2015. PAGE 7.
Auburn has a rich history for the baseball enthusiasts
I know there are Blue Jay fans in
Auburn who are as excited as I am
with the team’s recent successes on
the field. I was looking through the
Auburn history book recently and
saw that baseball was a large part of
the Auburn way of life going years
back. The book has a picture of a
village baseball team from around
1911. One of those on this early
team was a man born in 1894 who
had a very robust name, “Ralph
Warner Duncan Munro”. His father
was a school teacher in the area and
Ralph would also marry school
teacher, Mary E. Denstedt, who
taught locally.
In 1937, the Auburn team won a
silver trophy that was on display in
the Auburn Library at one time.
Eleven years later the Auburn
Athlete Association (AAA) was
formed at the village library with the
purpose of establishing a governing
body to oversee all Auburn sports. In
that same year the AAA sponsored
PeeWee hardball, Midget hardball
and Girls’ softball teams.
In 1950 the AAA went a step
further and bought seven acres of
land off the Wellington farm which
still serves as a baseball diamond for
the village today. The purchase of
the land seem to pay off two years
later in 1952 as the Auburn Midget
team won the Western Ontario
Athletic Association and the Ontario
Baseball Association championships
of the Midget D series.
The AAA and community were
happy to celebrate with a banquet in
honour of the team’s mighty
accomplishment. Each team member
was presented with a jacket and
crests to mark the occasion.
In other local news Bernice Gross
asked if I would mention that there
are donation boxes located at the
Auburn Post Office for anyone who
wishes to contribute towards a gift to
honour Martin Sturzenegger and
Ariel Kroesbergen and Julie Cowan
and Luke Gillingham on their
forthcoming marriages.
Long history of baseball in Auburn
In his research of baseball in Auburn, correspondent Mark Royall found that two teams had
performed very well in the early and mid- 20th century from the village. The 1952 Auburn
Midget team, above, won the Western Ontario Athletic Association (WOAA) and Ontario
Baseball Association Championships in the Midget D series while the Auburn 1911 Baseball
Team, featuring Ralph Munro in the front row on the furthest right, was the predecessor to
several successful teams and the Auburn Athlete Association. (Photos submitted)
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Eliminating supply management could help
THE EDITOR,
I would like to correct several
errors in the Publisher Keith
Roulston’s Aug. 13 editorial about
the collateral costs of eliminating
supply management.
Firstly, even though bovine
growth hormone (BST) can’t be sold
in Canada, there’s nothing to prevent
its use in Canada – Canadian dairy
farmers can import it for their own
use and don’t have to report to
anyone when they do. Therefore,
Canadian consumers could easily be
getting BST in their milk now and
not know it.
In addition, there is nothing to
restrict Canadian imports of dairy
products containing BST for use in
making cheese and yogurt. Now that
tariff-free imports of dairy products
into Canada are approaching
$1 billion annually, Canadian
consumers could easily be getting
BST in their cheese and yogurt and
not know it.
Furthermore, almost all mil in
U.S. grocery stores is labelled
“BST-free” and one large chain,
Kroger, has been BST-free
since 2008.
Therefore, the elimination of
supply management could easily
see fewer products containing BST
on Canada grocery shelves rather
than more, because instead of
importing one billion dollars of
dairy products from the U.S.
every year, these dairy products
would be produced in Canada
where it would be far-less likely that
they would contain BST.
Stephen Thompson, Clinton.
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Mites win Tri-County
League tournament
THE EDITOR,
Congratulations to the Brussels
Mite baseball team, which won the
A division of the Tri-County League
on Saturday in Holmesville. It was a
great team effort.
Paul, Faith and Ty Sebastian have
been great to take time from their
busy lives to coach the kids and
teach them how to play with great
sportsmanship.
Joe Ryan.
Truck stolen from
Blyth factory lot
Huron County Ontario Provincial
Police (OPP) officers are
investigating the overnight theft of a
work truck stolen from GL Hubbard
Ltd. in Blyth.
Sometime between 11:15 p.m. on
Aug. 11 and 6 a.m. on Aug. 12,
someone accessed the rutabaga plant
property located at 367 Dinsley
Street in Blyth and stole a red 2008
Ford F-150 pickup truck from the
front main parking lot.
The pickup truck had been left
insecure with the keys inside the
vehicle. Also stolen was a black,
plastic tool box containing several
long wrenches.
The pickup truck is valued at
approximately $4,000.
ACW MAN CHARGED
A Huron County resident is facing
criminal charges after police
executed a criminal code search
warrant on Aug. 11 at a farm
residence located on Gibson Drive.
Members from the Huron County
Ontario Provincial Police (OPP)
Property Crimes Unit executed the
search warrant acting on information
that a stolen vehicle was located on
the property.
Upon executing the warrant,
officers located two stolen vehicles
on the property. A 2006 SAAB 9A
that was stolen from London was
recovered along with a 1999 Nissan
Pathfinder that was stolen from
Waterloo.
As a result a 34-year-old male
from Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh
has been charged with Possession of
Property Obtained by Crime Over
$5,000 and Possession of Property
Obtained by Crime Under $5,000.
He has since been released from
custody and had a court appearance
scheduled for Aug. 17 at the Ontario
Court of Justice in Goderich.
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those who have most to gain by the
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