The Citizen, 2013-04-18, Page 23THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 2013. PAGE 23.
The April showers will bring May
flowers and last week’s rain and
warmer temperatures on Wednesday,
will do just that. The grass is looking
cleaner and greener and green
sprouts of flowers pushing their way
out of the ground can be seen. That
was written before the great ice
storm of April 12.
The ice storm on Thursday
evening and Friday, created
problems for most everyone. You
don’t realize how dependant you are
on power until it’s gone. In the
country, you need power for
everything – water, toilets, etc. at
least in town, folks had water and
toilets. Flashlights, candles, pails of
water, bottled water, ready-to-eat
food or a barbecue with propane, all
good things to have on hand. When
driving through town, you could
hear generators purring at many
homes, some old ones and some
brand new from the store. I know of
some folks who went and stayed
with relatives or friends in other
towns that had power, but many just
struggled through. Thankfully, the
power returned on Saturday night, a
mere 44 hours later.
Hydro workers have spent hours
and hours in bad weather trying to
get hydro back to everyone. Thanks
to all the hard-working hydro
workers for doing a great job. My
brother works for hydro out of
Listowel and has only been home for
a few hours each day. A massive job
and a lot of work. Make sure you
thank a hydro worker when you see
one.
There is plenty of clean-up to do
after the storm as well. Tree
branches cracked like toothpicks
under the weight of the frozen ice.
Roadways, driveways, lawns and
sidewalks all littered with broken
branches. There were trees with
broken branches hanging down and
some trees split in half. Lots of work
for all.
The news around the area seems
very unimportant compared to the
havoc nature has dealt us this week,
but here we go.
Lunch time is a great time for
folks to gather and celebrate little
milestones in their lives.
Congratulations to Don and
Monique Baan who celebrated their
19th wedding anniversary over a
quiet lunch together on April 9.
Liz Coultes celebrated her
birthday enjoying lunch with
husband Jack and daughter Deb
Campbell on the same day.
Jack had a special event in his life
this past week as well. He joined his
son Kevin to travel to a hockey game
in Detroit. They went to see Detroit
play against Chicago. Unfortunately,
the game was not that great but the
celebration before the game was.
Jack has been a life-long fan of
Gordie Howe. Gordie was a long-
time player for Detroit and he was
celebrating his 85th birthday at a
reception before the game. A meet-
and-greet was held and if you
purchased Gord’s autobiography, he
would autograph it. Jack was thrilled
to get a book and meet Gordie
Howe. Liz recalls in early years
watching hockey on their very small
TV, Jack would point out Gordie
everytime he skated by. Truly, a
long-time fan and a lifetime dream
of meeting his idol came true. Jack is
a happy man!
Congratulations to Scott and
Leanne Somers on the birth of a
daughter this past weekend. They
have welcomed a little girl called
Katie. She is welcomed home by big
brother Ty.
The Walton Hall hosted the BW
Trailblazers for their final meeting
of the year. The 20 enjoyed a roast
beef dinner before they conducted
their annual meeting. Hall Board
members serving the meal included
Judy Lee and Jo-Ann with helper
Karen Hoegy.
The breakfast to be provided by
the 4-H Breakfast Club at Duff’s
United church had to be postponed
due to the power outage. The 4-H
crew will be on hand at Walton this
Sunday, April 21 instead.
Celebrating birthdays this past
week include Katheryn Emmrich,
Jack Ryan, Neil Williamson, Trevor
Sutcliffe, Mitch Blake, Theresa
Pryce, Donna Knight, Tom
Warwick, Murray Pepper, Jonathon
Tipple, Edgar Andrades, Deity Bos,
Sarah Alexander, Jacob Gulutzen
and Ben Terpstra. Happy birthday!
Celebrating a special birthday this
past week was Betty McDonald. She
celebrated her 98th birthday with an
afternoon tea. Many friends and
relatives arrived and she received
many lovely cards and flowers. Her
son Murray and his wife Ruth
entertained the guests. Happy
birthday Betty!
While several local fire
departments were kept busy with
emergency and fire calls related to
the power outage over the weekend,
firefighters in Brussels and Grey
found themselves helping out in the
community in a preventative
measure.
“Brussels and Grey didn’t have
any calls,” Huron East Fire Chief
and Community Emergency
Management Co-ordinator Mary
Bedard explained. “At the Brussels
station, we had firefighters keeping
the radios up and running and also
some guys running generators to
help homeowners with floodedbasements to get their sump-pumpsgoing.”The Grey Fire Department helped
out in a similar way, powering
submersible pumps, but they also
helped out by providing water to
households that needed it.
“We were naturally at the hall in
case anything went wrong,” Chief
Gary Boyer explained. “We also
went around to most of the
residences and made sure they had
sufficient water for flushing toilets
and drinking water and stuff like
that.”
Boyer said that a lot of people,
even some of those in Grey, didn’t
understand that when you live
outside of a municipal water system,there isn’t water pressure during apower outage. That means thattoilets couldn’t be flushed and water
would be hard to come by.
“That was what our role was,
making people safe in the house,” he
said. “We pretty much made our
rounds once or twice a day
throughout the area until the power
came back on for most on Saturday
night.”
Boyer said that, while it wasn’t
announced in any manner, the fire
hall was operating as a warming
centre.
“We have a generator there set up
to keep our paging system running,
it’s enough to keep the hall warm,
make coffee and power the pagersystem,” he said, adding that farmerswere using the fire hall as a waterstation and taking water back to the
farm to make sure their animals had
enough.
In their interaction with the
community, Boyer said that the fire
department’s actions were
appreciated.
“A lot of the folks were very
happy to see us,” he said. “Some
people who moved up from towns or
cities didn’t realize the limitations of
a well during a power outage,” he
said.
In the future, he said that
situations like this need to be looked
Fire departments chip in during outage
Plenty of clean-up left after storm: McDonald
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