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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 2013-06-27, Page 4PAGE 4. THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 2013.Editorials Opinions Publisher: Keith RoulstonAssociate Publisher & Director of Sales: Ron Drillen Acting Editor: Shawn Loughlin • Reporter: Denny ScottAdvertising 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 29, 1961 Rev. L. Lloyd Brown concluded a four-year ministry at the Brussels United Church. He preached sermons at both the morning and evening that Sunday for the last time in Brussels. At the evening service, friends from the two sister churches attended the church and took part in the goodbye service. Brown left Brussels for a new church in St. Thomas. Moncrieff Church held a ceremony celebrating its 50th anniversary. Over 450 guests were in attendance for the celebration with people travelling from as far away as Washington and Michigan. At Brownie’s Drive-In LDT in Clinton, a double feature of Timbuktu with Victor Mature and Yvonne De Carlo and The Invincible Invaders with John Agar and Jean Byron played on June 29 and 30. On July 1 only, Walking Target with Ron Foster and The Police Dog Story with Merry Anders was shown. June 29, 1988 The Blyth Festival production of Girls In The Gang won three Dora Mavor Moore Awards, the Canadian theatre world’s most coveted awards. The Mail Order Bride opened at the Blyth Festival, starring Donald Dow as Harold English and Carol Sinclair as Rachel Teeter. Jane Gardner was named the Festival’s new communications director. Gardner was hired after Philippa Borgal retired from the theatre world. Wendy Bachert of RR1, Walton took home three awards presented to graduating students from Seaforth Public School including one of the school’s top two academic awards. Bachert shared the J.W. Talbot Merit Award with Jason Beuttenmiller of Seaforth, who was also named the school’s valedictorian. June 29, 2006 Sandi Brooks of Goderich. and her sister Mary of Point Clark, won out over 19 other teams of two in a day of challenges throughout Huron County. Convincing people to eat a raw oyster granted them first place. The event was a fundraiser for the Huron United Way and raised about $14,000 through pledges and a corporate sponsorship from Scotiabank. The sisters won the first place prize of $1,500 at the last challenge at Wicked Willy’s in Goderich where the remaining two teams had to shuck oysters after fishing them out of a large tank and convince three people to eat them. The Goderich team of Tara Wright and Tanya Finnett finished second and Paul and Marina Handy of Clinton finished third. Competitors had to travel to all the corners of Huron County, stopping in Lucknow, Wingham, Brussels, Blyth, Londesborough, Seaforth, Clinton, Hensall, Zurich, Exeter, Kirkton, Crediton and Grand Bend. They had to rope and brand a calf, build a birdhouse, swim in Lake Huron, play paintball, sing on the Blyth Festival stage, and many other things as stated on the nearly 30 clues hidden throughout Huron and Grand Bend. The village of Blyth was set to hold the annual Bluewater Kennel Club’s all-breeds dog show and obedience trial once again. Over 100 breeds were to be shown at the fairgrounds during the event. Although the show typically runs mid-week, it still attracted a number of competitors from the United States. June 28, 2012 The Wingham Golf and Curling Club kicked off week with a interclub fun night. The 36 girls played a best ball scramble before enjoying a smoked pork chop buffet. The girls had members of Blackhorse, Maitland and Summerville courses take part in the evening. First place honours went the team of Heather Logan, Christa Thompson, Dianna Hawthorne and Linda Walker followed by Sandra Edgar, Luanna Kerr, Jan Dauphin and Pauline Pegg. The two-game winning streak came to an end as the Blyth Barons lost to the Sebringville Sting by a score of 7-5 in a Huron County Fastball League game played in Blyth. The Barons put a single runner across home plate in the third inning and added two more in the fourth and then a single runner again in the bottom of the fifth and seventh innings. The bases were loaded by the Barons in the fifth inning, but were unable to hit the players home. Mike Kerr, Shawn Bromley and Steve Cook each had a pair of singles for the Barons. Single base hits were taken out by Adam Cronin, Chris Stewart, Dana Doherty and Mike Bromley. James and Mary Hunter of Belgrave celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary. Wed on June 21, 1952 at the Troy United Church in Troy, Ontario, the two celebrated their 60th anniversary at their home in Belgrave. Their family came and gathered for the occasion all the way from British Columbia, Alberta and the Troy and Brantford areas. 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 Get involved in 2017 IPM The news that the Walton area’s Jack Ryan and his neighbouring farmers will host the 2017 International Plowing Match (IPM) is tremendous news for the area. Hosting the IPM is, for a rural area, the closest we’ll come to a large city being awarded the Olympic Games. Over a week, about 100,000 people can be expected to flood into the area to take part in competitions and visit the 100-acre tented city. While many who will be there for the duration will stay at on-site campground, there will be others who seek the comfort of nearby hotels and who will eat in restaurants in the area. Then there’s the lasting effect that the match can have. Counties hosting an IPM generally have beautification contests to encourage farm and homeowners and local businesses to put on their best face for the thousands of visitors coming to the area. Sprucing up can renew pride in the surrounding community, not to mention boost the economy as people improve their properties. The benefits of hosting an IPM are enjoyed by many, but it takes hard work on the part of the organizing committee to make it all possible. Jacquie Bishop of the Bluevale area has taken on the huge task of heading the committee. By the time the match is over, upward of 1,000 people will have volunteered their efforts for tasks large and small. In doing so, many will have made new friendships, through their shared experience, that will last a lifetime. Walton’s IPM is still four years away but there’s much to be done and time tends to fly by. With the match in our own backyard for the very first time, it’s to be hoped that many local residents will step forward and volunteer to help. There’s much to be gained, both for the volunteers and for their community. –KR The complicated energy issue Across much of rural southwestern Ontario, the news that the provincial government was rewriting its deal with Samsung to cut about $2 billion from its incentives will bring a reaction of “it’s about time!” Majority opinion in rural Ontario has consolidated around the belief that wind energy has been taken too far. Many feel it was a waste of money from the beginning. But not everybody believes what has become accepted truth in rural areas. Last week, about the time the Samsung announcement was being made, a group of doctors headed by Gideon Forman, executive director of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment, was publishing a commentary in the Toronto Star calling for the province to increase its 2030 goal for electrical generation from wind (10 per cent ) and solar (1.5 per cent). The doctors praise the Ontario government for its plan to close the last coal-fired electrical generating plant by 2014. Emissions from coal plants were responsible, they say, for over 300 deaths and 158,000 illnesses in 2010. While their criticism of coal-fired generating stations is expected, and even accepted by many people, their objections to the most usual alternatives are surprising. Electrical generation from nuclear plants, once a source of great suspicion, has become much praised by people who have come to detest industrial wind farms. But the doctors quote a recent Scientific American study that found “Nuclear power results in up to 25 times more carbon emissions than wind energy, when reactor construction and uranium refining and transport are considered.” Meanwhile, gas-fired generating stations, though cleaner than coal, still cause greenhouse gasses and air pollution, the doctors point out. The doctors, who include Dr. David Colby, Medical Officer of Health for Chatham-Kent and Dr. Rosana Pellizzari, Medical Officer of Health for Peterborough County-City, both areas with industrial wind farms, reject the claims of those who say there are effects on the health of nearby residents from wind turbines, quoting various studies that say there is no scientific evidence to support those claims. Doctors can be wrong too, but the opinions of these medical experts should at least be considered by those who reject renewable energy.–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. The Citizen reserves the right to refuse any letter on the basis of unfair bias, prejudice or inaccurate information. 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