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season. There will be pork, chicken,
beef and potatoes to enjoy for the
last supper.
A special presentation was made
on Friday evening at the supper. The
District C Commander, Comrade
Stew Taylor presented Comrade
Glenn Bridge with a Diamond
Jubilee Medal following supper.
Comrade Glenn has been an active
member of Branch 218 for most of
his life. He filled many chairs at the
Branch and served on many
committees. He continued his
Legion involvement by serving at
Zone Level, District Level and at
Provincial Level. Congratulations to
Comrade Glenn.
The Saturday afternoon euchre
had 11-and-a-half tables at play.
Winners were: first, Tom and Eileen
Sloan, 82; second, John Brown and
Catherine MacDonald, 73; third,
Marie Stewart and Eileen Sellers,
72; low, Frank and Betty Hulley, 45;
lone hands, Doris Muir and Grace
Corbett, six.
Saturday morning had some of the
ladies of the Branch making pies.
The pie fundraiser did really well
with the ladies making over 50 pies.
Thanks to Sandra, Judy, Deb, Greta
and Jo-Ann.
The Sunday night dance had a nice
crowd of just over 70 people
enjoying the evening. The music of
the Tri-Country Band was wonderful
as usual.
Bridge awarded for Branch work
What a difference a week makes.
The grass and wheatfields have
turned a luscious green and are
looking good. The warmer weather
has many out in shorts, cutting the
lawns, working in the flowerbeds
and farmers busy, busy, busy. By
Wednesday last week, a few farmers
were on the land cultivating. On
Thursday, a few more were out and
some were spraying. By the time
Friday arrived, cultivating, spraying,
planting corn, spreading manure,
seeding of fields and lots of other
jobs had already begun. Everyone
needs to be cautious of travelling the
roadways as the equipment today is
very large and takes up a fair bit of
the road. Slow down, maybe pull
over, but be patient. It is better to get
to your destination a little late and
arrive alive.
The townships were also busy
gravelling roads. Slow down on the
loose gravel.
There are many happy folks out
there who love the good weather.
Motorcycle enthusiasts are happy to
have their bikes back out on the
road. I can’t begin to count the
number of bikes that have passed our
place in the last few days.
Catching up with folks around the
area, we send out get-well wishes to
Kay Hesselwood. She has had
shoulder surgery and has also
suffered a fall. We hope she is
coming along and will soon be out
and about again.
We understand that Sarah
Stephenson is now a resident at
Braemar in Wingham. She had been
in hospital for a couple of weeks and
now is coming along and is settling
in. Anna Cunningham is having a
stay at Huronlea. She was under the
weather and is recuperating for a few
weeks under the wonderful care of
the Huronlea staff.
Our sympathies are extended to
Elizabeth McKercher on the passing
of her sister Millie Nixon. Our
condolences to the families.
Our sympathies to the Jacklin
family on the passing of Doris
Jacklin. Doris had been a resident at
Huronlea for the past year or so. Our
condolences to her daughter Gloria
and the Jacklin families.
Changes in the scenery in the
Walton area include the Graeme
Craig barn slowly coming down and
just down the road, a small building
going up on the Ron McCallum
farm. It’s a new roof for Steve Baan
and solar panels at the barn on Tim
Fritz’ farm. The Ron Janmaat house
was torn down on Sawmill Road. A
large crane was at the farm of Keith
Wilbee doing some work on the
dryer system. The shed at Dan
McNichol’s is having renovations
and many properties are still
cleaning up trees, branches and
limbs from the ice storm.
The work has begun on the
expansion of the Brussels Library.
The footings were poured last week
and the men are busy getting ready
for the construction stage.
Just in time for the long weekend,
the Farmers’ Market will open. The
tent went up last week and hopefully
the vendors are getting ready to
spend Friday afternoons in Brussels.
The market features produce,
flowers, plants, meat, baked goods,
entrepreneur products and more.
Drop by and support the market!
Celebrating birthdays this past
week include Justin Bernard, Andrea
Humphries, Eaden Linton, Joe Ryan,
Hollie Cook, Veronica Grobbink,
Emma Robinson, Pat Melady,
Armand Roth, Gerry Sullivan, Brian
Workman, Scott McNaughton, Doug
O’Neill, Adam Jarosz, Scott Baan,
Brandon Blake, Colin Humphries,
Kyle Stevenson, Brandon
Dalton, Jim Shortreed and Maddy
Bernard.
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Queen’s Diamond Jubilee
Comrade Glenn Bridge, left, of the Brussels Legion Branch was recognized with the Queen’s
Diamond Jubilee award for his involvement at the branch. The prestigious award was
presented by District C Commander Comrade Stew Taylor on May 3. (Photo submitted)
Owners of Tite Racing aim to offer more at racewayThe Walton Raceway and TiteRacing Entertainment are in atransitional period where currentowner Chris Lee has sold the latter to
his son Brett Lee and Brett’s
business partner Mark Perrin and
hopes to sell the former to them in
about three years.
Brett and Mark explained to The
Citizen that they are looking to
expand the business substantially,
taking the motocross and adding
ATV, truck, mudbog, poker run,
bicycle, mountain bicycle trails,
bicycle tracks and remote control
vehicle tracks as well as a summer
children’s camp.
“[The children’s camp] is one of
the big adds,” Mark said. “It will run
from July 21 to 26 and every day it
will have a different theme.”
Brett said that the themes will be
pretty varied as well. It won’t all be
focused on events that the track
hosts.
“One day we’ll do survival, thenext we’ll look at BMX bikes andmountain bikes, it will be like that,”he said. “The community feedback
we’ve received so far has been
great.”
The camp will be for eight- to 12-
year-old children and offers
opportunities that other camps just
can’t offer according to Brett.
“We’re going to teach the kids a
lot and those options aren’t available
around here,” he said.
One thing the duo is happy to
announce is that once again a
country music concert will be held
prior to the raceway’s big event, the
Walton TransCan. The event, which
runs Aug. 13 to 18 this year, was
kicked off last year by musician
Jason Blaine. While Brett and Mark
couldn’t say who is going to play
this year, they said it was another big
name country artist.
As far as the future goes, Mark
explained that he wanted to see thechildren’s camp grow if theopportunity is there.“We want to expand the camp,
maybe to two weeks next year, then
who knows beyond that,” he said.
“We want to expand the age groups
and get more children involved.”
Brett explained that his wife,
Melody, is involved heavily in the
camp and wants to see a lot of
female participation this year.
“There aren’t a lot of action sports
opportunities for young girls around
here,” he said. “There are, however,
lots of positive female role models
doing more than traditional sports
especially with the kind of events we
have at the track.
“The girls we have at the track are
doing a lot more than your average
stick and ball sports,” Mark added.
“There’s some real opportunities
there.”
One of the avenues that Brett and
Mark hope to capitalize on is thelack of places that off-road vehicleusers can legally travel.“When you think about ATVs or
similar vehicles, and you think about
where you can ride, it gets difficult,”
Brett said. “People are buying new
ATVs, side-by-sides and other
vehicles but they can’t ride them. We
want to address that problem.”
Chris also stated that national
corporations could be looked at for
similar use of the raceway, to which
Brett added they were looking at
offering the track as a place for
corporate training.
“We’ve spoken to bigger
organizations like Canadian Tire and
they’ve expressed interest in running
a trade show here to have training
and examples and everything,” he
said.
While they haven’t had extensive
interaction with Huron East, their
Warmer weather changes local landscape dramatically
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