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Steve Corbett, Huron Director
to the Ontario Plowmen’s
Association.
The group explained that Huron
County’s official bid for the match
will be made at the Ontario
Plowmen’s Association’s annual
meeting on March 2 in Stratford.
McGavin explained that the support
from local councils is viewed as
highly favourable when the site is
being considered.
“It means a lot to have the support
of council,” McGavin told
councillors.
The “donation” that was approved
by council has been made in
principle. If Huron County is not
successful in landing the
match, the funding will not be
approved.
Huron East’s Bernie MacLellan
called it a “no brainer” that Huron
County would support the bid of its
plowing association to host the
match.
McGavin told councillors that
while a final potential site has yet to
be considered, the four remaining
candidates are Walton, Vanastra,
Hensall and Brucefield. He said the
site will be selected by the end of the
year.
During her portion of the
presentation, Sparling told
councillors that the economic
infusion from the match would be
huge, including between 30,000 and
35,000 visitors to the county per
day. She said the ripple effect from
those people staying, eating and
shopping throughout the county
would mean millions for local
businesses.
She said that over the course of
the entire match, it’s likely that
100,000 people would have visited
the county, and if they are treated
well and like what they see, there is
a strong chance that they will make
their way back to Huron County in
the future.
The motion to support the Huron
County bid for the match was
supported by council.
Huron’s official bid for IPM set for March
Old man winter swung into
Southwestern Ontario on the
weekend. He first tempted us with a
very nice day on Saturday with mild
temperatures and then Sunday sent
driving winds and snow flurries to
the area. The road crews were busy
keeping the roads in shape, hydro
crews were busy restoring power to
some areas and many cancellations
of events were broadcast over the
radio. A typical stormy winter’s day.
It is days such as these that I enjoy.
I spend the day working at jobs that
are waiting patiently to be done.
Cleaning out and organizing shelves,
sorting through clothes, laundry, or
whatever is waiting to be done. Just
think what a week of stormy weather
would accomplish!
It didn’t take very long to
accomplish the tearing down of a
house in Walton last week. The
former Ralph and Viola Travis home
(in the 70s) has been occupied by
many different folks in the last 20
years, but has sat empty for about the
last six years. Fencing went up on
Wednesday and a high-hoe was
brought onto the property. There was
no activity at 9 a.m. on Friday
morning but by 2:45 p.m. the
building was down and the high-hoe
was sitting still. Done, just like that.
The clean-up still needs to be done
but the house is gone. This is a big
change to the Walton scenery.
We are pleased to hear that Stewart
Steiss is home from hospital. We
hope he is coming along with his
problems.
The Brussels birthday girls
gathered for the January birthday
party at JR’s last week. The ladies
celebrating birthdays in January
included Sandra Cable, Leona
Armstrong and Sarah Stephenson
(absent). It was a very full tablewhen all gathered for lunch. Helpingto celebrate were Audrey Cardiff,Jean Davidson, Alice Marks, Laura
Barbour, Bev Palmer, Marie
McCutcheon, Liz Coultes, Jane Hall,
Lois McCutcheon, Betty Campbell,
Rene Richmond, Nelva Scott, Cora
Alcock, Merle Cousins, Marg Work
and Isabel Wheeler. Happy birthday
ladies!
The Walton Hall hosted the Huron
Perth Middlesex Beef Breeders on
Tuesday evening for their annual
meeting. They enjoyed a soup and
sandwich meal before having their
meeting and listening to their guest
speaker. Helping for the Hall Board
were Judy Lee, Judy Emmrich and
Jo-Ann McDonald.
The Cranbrook Dart Club had
another exciting evening of play.
One team of three found themselves
“skunked” on their last game of the
night. We’ll just say it was team six
and they shall remain nameless,
except for the witnesses. There is
still evidence of some “hugging”
going on, as some great plays have
been executed at the right time. The
new players seem to be enjoying
themselves and are playing very
well. The high points this week were
by Evelyn Blake with 98 and George
Zwep with 120. Good Darts!
Happy birthday to Frances Shaw.
She celebrated a milestone birthday
at the Wingham Sportsmen Club.
She was joined by her family and
friends for an entertaining evening
on Jan. 12. Rumour has it, she
celebrated a birthday somewhere
between 65 and 75. Francis was still
recovering from her weekend of
celebrating when the Shaw meeting
of the minds gathered at Cinnamon
Jim’s on Tuesday morning!
Last week after the first real
snowfall, I mentioned about clearing
the snow away from the rural boxes.
This week I noticed that many
people piled their recycling boxes
around the mailbox blocking the
driving path. The recycling boxes
should be placed away from the
mailbox unless you are sure you will
have them removed before your
normal time for delivery. Remember
to have a clear travel path to and
from your mailbox and ensure the
safety of the mail carrier and
delivery of the mail.
As we know, words can have more
than one meaning today. I found itvery amusing this week when manyof the young men and women wereout and about in the cold weather
with no coat. It is obviously “cool”
to not wear a coat and I think they
were darn “cool” without one.Celebrating birthdays this pastweek include Heather Clarke,Frances Shaw, Harvey Shaw, Joan
Ritchie, Marni Knight, Janice
Carnochan, Connie Alcock, Valerie
Bachert, David Griffith, KendalCarnochan, Clint Emmrich, AngelaFraser, Nadine Ringgenberg, HenryGrobbink, Kaitlin Ritchie, Leona
Armstrong, Brandon McGavin and
Helen Williamson.
Rough winter days provide the chance to catch up
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Anita the archer aiming her arrows
Anita MacLeod, shown here throwing darts, was one of the Bluewater Dart League members
to face off at the Legion on Saturday. (Denny Scott photo)
NH reports increase in building
The Township of North Huron
building department is reporting
substantial growth in permit revenue
and construction value in the
municipality in 2012.
Chief Building Official Dave
Black reported 73 permits have been
issued to date this calendar year
representing a construction value of
$14.549 million, up from $4.781
million for 2011.
Revenue generated by permits in
2012 was $97,516.42. Income
obtained from building permits
allows the department to
operate without impacting the tax
base.
Construction values in the
municipality in 2012 include:
agricultural construction - $1.351
million, institutional construction -
$10.562 million, resident - $1.952
million, other - $0.684 million.
Black reports, “the issuance of
permits started slowly at the
beginning of the year, but a
consistent growth in the number of
permits has reflected the increase in
permit revenue and construction
value for the Township of North
Huron. The construction of the
Maitland River Elementary School
certainly is an added value that
reflects 72 per cent of the total
construction value and 30 percent of
the revenue for the construction year
of 2012. With many projects being
proposed for 2013 we are
expecting next year to
have a positive economic
development effect on the building
department.”