HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 2013-03-07, Page 16PAGE 16. THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 2013.Plowmen land IPM, consider Walton site
Welcome to March. The old
adage – “In like a lion and out like a
lamb” I guess will be reversed for
2013. The first day of March was a
nice day, as was the entire weekend.
We will just have to wait to see if
March goes out like a lion or if the
Groundhog Day prediction of an
early spring will have come into play
and have a beautiful end to March. I
don’t know if it is a sign of spring,
but there are skunks out and about
already. They are not use to traffic
yet, because the two I saw were dead
on the road.
Finally! The work at the corner of
North Line and Winthrop Road, the
former Winthrop Store, has been
completed.
It began with the demolition of the
store starting around the first of
December. Then the digging started.
They dug and removed soil, trucked
the soil, brought back some soil, put
in the soil, then dug more soil,
pumped water, dug some more soil,
trucked some more and brought
back more soil. Finally, at the end of
February, the work was completed.
The ground was levelled and a
lone pine tree, they had worked
around the entire time, stands on
the corner lot. The high hoe and
fencing are waiting to be taken away.
There will be a clear view to the
south from the corner at Winthrop
Road now.
Our condolences are extended to
the Kerr family on the loss of
Dolores Kerr. She will be sadly
missed by her children Kara, Cheryl
and Rob and their families. Our
sympathies to all.
Returning from a fabulous family
vacation are John, Karen, Holly and
Allison Braecker and Larry, Kathy,
Lindsay and Curtis McNichol. The
two families drove to Port Canaveral
in a motorhome, to board the cruise
ship, Carnival Dream. They had
been on the cruise ship for awhile
when the sisters, Karen and Kathy,
watched a familiar man approaching
them. They were surprised to learn
that their parents, Gary and Irene
Finlayson, had also booked on the
cruise to surprise them. The families
and especially the grandchildren,
were overjoyed to have them along.
The families had a great time, great
weather and enjoyed the food and
entertainment. They had four stops
including Cozumel, Belize, Roatan
and Costa Maya on the week’s
cruise. When they were at Cozumel,
the girls all went on a tour and
went swimming with the
dolphins and thought it was
wonderful. The boys went on a
four-wheeling tour instead. They
enjoyed the heat and of course, no
snow, and had a fantastic family
time.
Checking in on folks in hospital
include Margery Huether. At last
word, Margery is still in Victoria
Hospital in London. She is on the
slow mend but is coming along.
Phone calls are always appreciated
from her friends in the area.
Our congratulations, thoughts and
best wishes go to Jodi and Darryl
Houston as they cope with the early
arrival of their son. Emmett Ray
arrived on Saturday in a Windsor
Hospital and will be there for
awhile.
The Cranbrook dart club had 19
players on the boards and had many
good plays and scores. Three teams
were successful in winning five
games out of six. Team one
consisted of Gayle Speiran and
Steve Bowers. Team four was
Annette Lewington and Murray
Houston filling in for her two
missing players. Team five was
Karen Bowles and Brad Speiran.
George Zwep captured a bullseye to
get out in one game (50), which
doesn’t happen very often. He was
also the lucky winner of the mystery
draw. Capturing the high lady was
Gayle with 122 and Murray hitting
the great score of 160. Good going!
The club has one more month of
playing until spring is upon us.
Congratulations to the Huron
County Plowmen’s Association
committee for securing the hosting
of the 2017 International Plowing
match for Huron. There are four
sites being considered and one of the
sites is near Walton. It would really
be great for this area of Huron if
Walton is the successful area
selected.
Continued from page 7
closing. One thing that has always
remained the same, are the
barbershop “regulars” who stop in to
visit and chat from time to time.
One thing that Lowe wants to make
clear is that “everything you hear
from him in the barbershop is the
truth. Once people leave the shop is
where everyone gets it mixed up”.
Lowe jokingly adds “the barbershop
often gets blamed for
misinformation.”
He certainly does enjoy the
social aspect of his profession
as well as playing jokes on the
other business owners. Murray
and former business owner, Jim
Oldfield were often found
pulling pranks on one another
including Jim coming to visit
Murray in the barbershop and then
when he left he would lock the door
behind him so other customers
couldn’t come in.
Muzzy has customers who drive
from all over for a haircut, including
Walton, Seaforth, Dublin, Monkton,
Atwood, Wingham, Fordwich,
Gorrie, and Wroxeter. His
customers often say there’s nothing
like a good old-fashioned haircut.
Lowe is currently one of the only
barbers left in the area.
Lowe has two children, John Lowe
of Brussels and Nicole Noble and
husband Mike of Brussels. Muzzy
finally became a grandpa and
welcomed his first grandchild,
Beckett John in October 2012.
Grandpa Muzzy’s first words upon
hearing the news about Beckett was
“well there goes another free
haircut”.
On Thursday, March 14 Murray is
celebrating with cake and
fellowship. He thanks everyone for
their patronage over the years and
has enjoyed being a “local fixture”
on the main street.
Our get-well and fast-healing
wishes go to Hayden Flood, as he
has suffered a severely broken femur
bone in his leg. He was away
visiting with friends up north and
went tubing and suffered the
accident. He had surgery in Owen
Sound Hospital and is now home in
Walton recovering. Hayden is the
son of Calvin and Dianne Flood.
Congratulations to Warren and
Judy Beuerman on becoming
grandparents for the second time.
Daughter Melissa and husband J.C.
Beacom welcomed Meghan to their
family in February. Big brother
Daniel is very excited about his
sister.
Warren and Judy hosted their
family on Sunday for a birthday
breakfast. Celebrating together were
J.C. and Melissa, who share the
same birthday. Judy served a
bounteous breakfast for them and
they were joined by Mike and
grandmother, Norma Rose.
The Winthrop ladies gathered at
the Walton Inn to enjoy breakfast
together this week. They should
have been celebrating the March
birthday for a member, but she was
unable to attend, so they just enjoyed
breakfast. Ladies gathering included
Marlene Glanville, Carol Rennick
and Shawn, Brenda Bernard,
Jennifer Vellenga, Karen Braecker,
Judy Beuerman and Yolanda
Gubelman. They could have
celebrated Karen Braeckers 26th
wedding anniversary, which is on
Thursday.
Enjoying a great brother and son
bonding time away were Harry and
George Zwep and George’s son
Randy. They went to the southern
U.S. for a motorcycling tour. They
drove 1,700 kilometres or so to
Little Rock, Arkansas in less than 24
hours with the bikes in a trailer.
They left the truck/trailer unit there
and then headed west to Texas. They
spent two days and nights touring
the Texas countryside and made it to
about one hour southeast of Dallas.
The countryside was mostly flat and
they saw some farmers cultivating
and one farmer planting corn. They
thought they would have seen big
spreads or ranches but did not. They
kept a watch on the weather, so they
headed to where the good weather
was and only had little rain and good
temperatures between 10 and 20°C.
The speed limits in Texas went to 75
miles per hour, which the men felt
was just a little too fast for the bikes.
What amazed George was the
amount of abandoned buildings and
even machinery just left to fall down
or rust. A tractor and mower, doors
flying wide, and grass grown around
it, just left in the field. They headed
back towards the east and Louisiana
and then towards the north to
Arkansas. They saw hundreds of
thousands of acres of clear cutting of
pine trees and reforestation efforts to
replant others. They put about 2,000
kilometres on the bikes by the time
they returned to Little Rock.
They were glad they had not
stayed in the Little Rock area
because it had had severe rain, hail
and sleet storms while they were in
Texas.
Ken and Judy Shortreed have
returned from a once-in-a-lifetime
trip to Hawaii, New Zealand and
Australia. They were accompanied
by their eldest daughter Kendra
Wilts and her oldest daughter Emily.
The group spent most of February
visiting friends in the three places.
They met friends on the beautiful
island of Hawaii and then travelled
to New Zealand where their
youngest daughter Amy has been for
six months. She took them around
the northern island, where they
enjoyed excellent weather. Kendra
and Emily returned home to Canada
from New Zealand. Ken and Judy
spent time with Anne Shortreed in
Bendigo, Australia, where the
weather was hot and dry.
Ken had the opportunity to visit a
dairy farm at milking time. The herd
of 300 holstein cows are on grass
and outside all year long. When it is
milking time, the cattle have to cross
a major roadway and the traffic is
halted twice a day and that’s just
how it is. The 13-hour flight back to
Vancouver, British Columbia was a
long flight, especially for someone
as tall as Ken. They went to Victoria,
British Columbia to visit with Jean
Yanchus and her son Josh, formerly
of the Blyth area. Her son, Josh, is a
Lieutenant Commander, (second in
command) of the frigate battleship,
HMCS Calgary. They enjoyed
spending time there and had a tour
of the ship. They journeyed up
Vancouver Island to Campbell River.
They report that British Columbia
was really the best of all in their 22-
day vacation. Amy has about five
more months to be away and has
spent most of January and February
entertaining and touring family and
friends around New Zealand. She is
expected to return about mid-June.
Duff’s United reminds all that
breakfast will be served following
service on Sunday. The Lenten
project is a coin collection jar to be
donated to Scott and Colleen
Bromley for their son Jaxon, who
has been diagnosed with Kabuki
Syndrome.
Celebrating birthdays this past
week and to kick off the month of
March include Stacy (Linton)
Courtney, George Somers, Jeffrey
Huether, Holly Ryan, Adam and
Owen Ryan, Megan denDekker,
Kathy Ryan, Ava Sutcliffe, Sandra
Butler, Debra Fraser, Melissa
Glanville, Dean Hackwell, Ruthann
Hoegy, Andy Pethick, Nicole
Stevenson, Brian Wilbee and John
Braecker. Happy birthday to all.
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Lowe to celebrate
50 on March 14
Serving them up
Following the lead of the Blyth Lions Club last week, a snow
volleyball tournament was played in Ethel on Saturday with
several teams competing. The temperatures were chilly,
which called for snowmobile suits and warm sweaters, but
that didn’t deter the teams of players looking for a game.
Here the team Almost Sober takes on their opponent Deal
as the tournament action heats up. (Vicky Bremner photo)
Zweps travel to Arkansas
on lengthy motorcycle trip