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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) NEWS FROM AUBURN By Mark Royall Call 519-441-2223 PEOPLE AROUND AUBURN Letters to the Editor 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. WM DINDBREAK AINTENANCE EMO FREE! Topics include: Benefits of windbreaks Maintaining a mature windbreak Pruning and thinning techniques Impact on crop yields For information: [T] 519-335-3557 [W] www.mvca.on.ca [E] edolmage@mvca.on.ca Rain date is Thurs. Sept. 10 Thursday August 27th 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. 41892 Summerhill Rd., Central Huron 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. You are entering the Independent Republic of Elm Tree Valley IN THE ROAD By Keith Roulston Enjoy a comic look at the rural/urban divide in the novel When a forgotten village finds itself in the path of a new super-highway it tries to attract attention to its plight by declaring itself an independent country. But things get out of hand when the town drunk organizes an army and those who have most to gain by the highway’s completion fight back. Enjoy In the Road FREE in 15 installments on our website www.northhuron.on.ca