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There were four tables of shoot in
play at the Community Centre on
Friday, Nov. 27. The winners were:
high pink card, Joanne MacDonald;
second high pink card, Muriel
Taylor; most shoots pink card, Betty
Thompson; high white card, Charlie
Shaw; second high white card, Ken
Spears and most shoots white card,
Frank Hammond.
The next shoot party is Friday,
Dec. 11 at 1:30 p.m. Everyone is
welcome.
On Sunday, Dec. 6 the Sacrament
of Holy Communion will be
celebrated at Knox United Church.
The Knox Choir and friends will
present a Christmas Cantata in the
church sanctuary on Sunday, Dec. 6
at 7 p.m. This will be followed with
refreshments. Everyone is welcome.
A free-will offering is to be used for
the music ministry of Knox.
Year-end is approaching. Please
plan to have your reports for the
annual report ready for submission
by the end of December.
A well-attended annual Campbell
Christmas was held on Sunday, Nov.
29 at the Belgrave Community
Centre. This year John and Gayle
Galbraith and Mike and Patty
Galbraith convened the event and
did an excellent job. It was a
beautiful sunny, not too cold day, but
all the snow had disappeared.
After welcoming everyone Nancy
Jardin said the grace and
remembered all those who were no
longer with us. The tables were all
decorated with real evergreen
arrangements which set the mood
for the Christmas theme.
A bountiful buffet dinner was
enjoyed by all. After dinner Santa
arrived to hand out treats to all the
good girls and boys. The afternoon
was spent visiting and looking at
photos as well as a Christmas card
exchange.
An enjoyable get-together was
brought to a close with hugs and
wishes for a happy holiday.
Christmas Cantata set Dec. 6
NEWS
FROM BELGRAVE
By Linda
Campbell
Call
357-2188
PEOPLE AROUND
BELGRAVE
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wasn’t necessarily comfortable with
the purchase because of the fact that
it flies in the face of some of the
township’s bylaws.
He asked how long the gasket and
leaking problem had been an issue
for.
Sparling said the leaking from the
water tank had first been noticed in
October while the gasket issue was
discovered during the vehicle’s last
annual safety and was to be repaired
during its next.
“The reason I’m asking is we have
procurement policies in place to be
cautious and transparent,” he said.
“By not doing this sooner, we’re
being put up against the wall to pick
an apparatus. We have agreements
out there for fire we need to
maintain. Why wasn’t this talked
about earlier?”
Sparling responded saying that the
report for the leak wasn’t received
until Nov. 1, and he anticipated the
engine problems being solved by a
minor replacement when the truck
was safetied this year.
“The catalyst for this is the water
tank,” he said. “It started at the end
of October. I would far rather wait a
year for this, but that’s not an
option.”
Seip was satisfied with the answer
and made a motion to purchase the
truck suggested. His motion was
amended to have Sparling obtain
quotes on the vehicle from other
companies and purchase whichever
worked best before being passed by
council.
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said. “We need to look at our
infrastructure and get land services
ready to go when a business
opportunity does present itself.
The core team arranged the
symposium which is part of its
mandate to consult with the top
employment sectors in its
community.
“We did find that manufacturing,
specifically metal manufacturing,
was a top sector with Wescast,”
Chambers said. “Construction came
to the top as well as did food and
drink establishments. That’s a result
of the arts and culture and tourism
presence in the community.”
Chambers said that was why there
were presentations from groups
such as 14/19 and the Huron County
Cultural Plan earlier in the day.
“Hearing what the challenges and
strengths are from the top sectors is
going to inform the goals that the
core team will come up with as a
committee,” she said. “We’re going
to take the information from the
symposium to a strategic planning
committee meeting on Dec. 2 to
finalize goals and actions to be put
into a strategic plan.”
That strategic plan will be one of
10 plans completed across the
county, nine from the lower tiers and
one from the county, which will be
put together to see if there are
synergies that can be recognized
through working with the county
and other municipalities.
Core team meeting
helps set future goals
Truck purchase concerns Seip #1 And We Still Try Harder
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A warm meal on a cold night
The Belgrave Community Centre was the place to be Saturday night after the Brussels Santa
Claus parade for a warm meal of chicken wings. Bruce Higgins was the man busy on the
arena floor, ensuring that wings were being cooked up at a brisk pace to ensure diners were
fed in a speedy manner. (Vicky Bremner photo)
Look what we found
The group behind Building Bridges to our Future at the
Maitland River Elementary School held a special Christmas
market at the school on Tuesday to help local families get a
head start on their Christmas shopping. Here, six-year-old
Aubreyanne Cameron and three-year-old Abygail Cameron
show off what they found at the market, perhaps as early
Christmas gifts for themselves. (Vicky Bremner photo)