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The Citizen, 2013-06-20, Page 4PAGE 4. THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 2013.Editorials Opinions Publisher: Keith RoulstonAssociate Publisher & Director of Sales: Ron Drillen Acting Editor: Shawn Loughlin • Reporter: Denny Scott Advertising Sales: Lori Patterson The CitizenP.O. Box 429, BLYTH, Ont. N0M 1H0 Ph. 519-523-4792 Fax 519-523-9140 P.O. Box 152, BRUSSELS, Ont. N0G 1H0 Phone 519-887-9114 E-mail info@northhuron.on.ca Website www.northhuron.on.ca Looking Back Through the Years CCNA Member Member of the Ontario Press Council The Citizen is published 50 times a year in Brussels, Ontario by North Huron Publishing Company Inc. Subscriptions are payable in advance at a rate of $36.00/year ($34.29 + $1.71 G.S.T.) in Canada; $130.00/year in U.S.A. and $205/year in other foreign countries. Advertising is accepted on the condition that in the event of a typographical error, only that portion of the advertisement will be credited. Advertising Deadlines: Mon. 2 p.m. - Brussels; Mon. 4 p.m. - Blyth. PUBLICATIONS MAIL AGREEMENT NO. 40050141 RETURN UNDELIVERABLE CANADIAN ADDRESSES TO CIRCULATION DEPT. PO BOX 152 BRUSSELS ON N0G 1H0 email: info@northhuron.on.ca June 22, 1961 The Llashmar Drive-In Theatre was set to show Psycho staring Anthony Perkins and Vera Mills on June 22-23. From June 24-26, there was a double feature of Pier 5 Havana with Cameron Mitchell and Allyson Hayes and Ten Seconds to Hell with Jeff Chandler and Jack Palance. The Naked Maja featuring Ava Gardiner and Anthony Franciso was in theatres from June 27-28, along with The Cage of Evil with Ron Foster. The Blyth and Brussels school girls softball teams had met three times in three weeks. In the first game, the Blyth team won over Brussels by a score of 15-6. In the second game, the Brussels team fought back and won by a score of 19-12. During the last game, it was a close call, but Blyth triumphed Brussels with a final score of 11-10. June 22, 1988 The First Blyth Brownie Pack spent a weekend at camp Keewaydin on June 10-12. The group made leis and grass skirts on Friday evening and on Saturday morning took an imaginary trip to Mexico. They were able to explore and find buried treasure. To finish off the day, they had a campfire where they smashed a pinata, sang songs and performed skits. Blyth Village Council brought in a budget that showed only a 1.5 per cent increase over the previous year’s budget. Council also established a $5,000 reserve fund for improvements to Blyth Union Cemetery. The Cookie War began at the Blyth Festival. The show is based on a true story where two huge companies battle over a cookie recipe from the Mennonite community. Paul Hogan reprised his role as “Crocodile” Dundee in “Crocodile” Dundee II at Goderich’s Park Theatre. June 22, 2006 Blyth Thunder’s U11 team went to Goderich on June 6 to play against Goderich II, with captains Kelsey Kerr and Jean Paul VanDorp. Goderich scored during the first minute of the game and then scored once from during the first half. VanDorp scored for Blyth so it was a 2-1 lead for Goderich at half- time. The final score was 3-1 for Goderich II. Queen Street in Blyth was packed on June 14 for the OPP’s 20th annual Torch Run. During a variety of events, Huron County contributed about $7,000 to the Special Olympics. The Canadian Red Cross Stratford/Huron-Perth has appointed two new volunteer chairpeople for the disaster management team. Summer Papple will chair the Huron County Volunteer meetings and Karen Sasni is the chairperson of the Stratford/Perth area. Both have been a part of disaster services for four years. North Huron Council denied a request from the Blyth Idea Group (BIG) asking for $2,000 for four pipe bands which had already been booked to play the Band Tattoo at Campvention 2006. The Blyth Farmers’s Market was set to open its third season after growing out of a successful one-day experiment in 2003. The Blyth Festival sponsored an opportunity to chat with talk show host Vicki Gabereau. People would be able to attend the talk and then be able to have brunch with her afterwards. It was reported that Huron and Perth Grade 10 students were performing above the provincial average. June 21, 2012 The Barons played against the Wingham Hitmen in a baseball game. After a two-out streak in the seventh inning, they were able to prevail victorious with a 6-5 win. The explosion of an electrical transformer required the attention of members of the Fire Department of North Huron (FDNH). The explosion occurred just west of Londesborough in the afternoon when grass fires caused plumes of white smoke to rise into the sky until the firemen were able to get everything under control. The Canadian Blood Services held a donor clinic in Blyth. John Elliott was the organizer of the Blyth blood donor clinic and said the previous year Blyth and the surrounding communities donated more blood than they needed to justify the clinic, but not by much. Elliott said that 78 units of blood were donated and the Canadian Blood Services sets a quota for continuing a clinic and Blyth was just at the quota. Blood is always in high demand, but Elliott hoped to encourage people to become involved through competition. He said that trophies would be handed out to the highest donating business and community (other that the host of Blyth), and last year worked to some degree. Twelve units came from Brussels and 12 from St. Helens that resulted in a tie for community involvement. The best business was the Blyth Centre for the Arts with five donations, Elliott said. We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Periodical Fund of the Department of Canadian Heritage. We are not responsible for unsolicited newsscripts or photographs. Contents of The Citizen are © Copyright A sad ending Dalton McGuinty quietly resigned as an MPP last week, and few, probably even in his own Liberal party, mourned the former premier’s departure. It’s a sad end to a career that started with such promise. Probably nobody since Brian Mulroney resigned as prime minister has had such low popular support at the end of a career that saw remarkable success at the polls. McGuinty did most of the damage to himself. Despite having accomplished much over his 23 years as an MPP and nearly 10 years as premier, there’s danger that McGuinty’s lasting legacy will be his opportunistic political decision to cancel two gas-fire electrical generating plants in the suburbs of Toronto. While he was just doing what the Progressive Conservatives and the NDP promised they would do if elected, and while he claims that he didn’t know the cost would soar to a current estimate of $585 million, as premier he should have been looking at the big picture, not short-term political gain. He did manage, in that September 2011 election, to keep the Liberals in power in a minority government, but he sold his soul in doing so. His reputation will be soiled even more by the fact staffers in his office wiped out e- mails that might have confirmed who knew what and when about the cost of those cancellations. This scandal, on top of the mismanagement of E-Health Ontario and the ORNGE air ambulance, are clouding the accomplishments of McGuinty’s premiership. It’s hard now to remember what a bitter, spiteful place Ontario had become when he took office in 2003. Mike Harris’s Common Sense Revolution had turned into vitriolic battles with those in the education and health care systems. Costly municipal amalgamations had been forced on municipalities. McGuinty, who liked to think of himself as the education premier, put the school system back on track, though he failed to end the deterioration of the rural school system that had started with Harris’s government. It’s in rural Ontario that McGuinty’s reputation has been most sullied. From continued school closings due to tight funding, to writing a sweetheart deal for wind turbine companies in the Green Energy Act that made it impossible for local citizens to oppose them, he created the perception that he had written off rural Ontario. In turn, rural Ontario wrote off his Liberals in the last election, giving nearly every riding to the Progressive Conservatives including those that had been represented by Liberal cabinet ministers. Will the comparison to Mulroney continue now that he’s gone? Mulroney’s unpopularity virtually annhilated the Progressive Conservative Party federally. The Ontario Liberals have been wiped out in rural Ontario. Part of McGuinty’s lasting legacy will be whether the Liberals can recover from his mistakes. –KR National or personal security? For most citizens the possibility that their government is monitoring e-mails and telephone calls doesn’t mean much on a personal level so they are not directly affected by revelations by whistle-blower Edward Snowden of efforts by U.S. and British security officials to intercept communications. The Snowden revelations have put him on the run as the U.S. and British governments seek to arrest him for revealing state secrets. He has been called a traitor and accused of spying for China, since he sought refuge in Hong Kong. The raging debate over Snowden’s actions and revelations shows just how hard it is to come up with a firm right versus wrong when it comes to national security. On one side, those who err on the side of public safety say that intercepting e-mails and telephone calls is a small price in the loss of civil rights to try to head off terrorist attacks. Others see the hand of Big Brother governments at work (indeed sales of George Orwell’s 1984 have surged since the scandal broke). Generally we don’t pay much attention to the fact governments may be spying on citizens, unless the citizens being spied on are ourselves. The danger, of course, is if we allow governments too much freedom to spy, it may be us they choose to spy on next. –KR & Letters Policy The Citizen welcomes letters to the editor. Letters must be signed and should include a daytime telephone number for the purpose of verification only. Letters that are not signed will not be printed. Submissions may be edited for length, clarity and content, using fair comment as our guideline. 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