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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 2013-07-11, Page 4PAGE 4. THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, JULY 11, 2013. Editorials Opinions Publisher: Keith Roulston Associate Publisher & Director of Sales: Ron Drillen Acting Editor: Shawn Loughlin • Reporter: Denny Scott Advertising Sales: Lori Patterson The Citizen P.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 July 13, 1961 North to Alaska featuring John Wayne and Stewart Grainger, was playing at the Llashmar Drive-In Theatre in Listowel on June 13 and 14. On June 15-17, Goliath and the Dragon featuring Mark Forest and Broderick Crawford was on the screen. Grey Township Council passed a bylaw to appoint Melvin Carnochan an inspector under the province’s tile drainage act. Council also authorized a grant to the Ethel Cemetery Board in the amount of $100. July 13, 1988 Two men in their 20s were jointly charged with one count of break, enter, and theft and one count of arson after a police investigation at the Brussels Legion after an early- morning fire. Police said the fire appeared to have begun in the Legion lounge after the drapes were lit with a cigarette lighter. Some items were lost or damaged beyond repair due to the flames. Trophies and awards won by the Brussels Legion Pipe Band and the Legion during their histories had been lost, along with the engraved names of those who have won them. Photographs of the band have been lost as well, some being irreplaceable. Other items like the Legion’s flag, framed letter from Queen Elizabeth, the Legion and the Ladies Auxiliary Charters, and other important pieces of memorabilia were also destroyed in the blaze. Damage was estimated to range from $150,000 to $200,000. Huron County conducted a feasibility study regarding the potential moving of the county office. The study would focus on moving the county office to the Huronview building, just south of Clinton, as opposed to Goderich, where the offices were located at the time. Councillor Elizabeth Graber submitted her resignation from Brussels Village Council and council was now on the look-out for a new councillor. Graber was forced to resign after Bill 106 came into effect. The bill stated that those who are not qualified as voters in a municipality could no longer sit on that municipality’s council. Graber resided just outside of the village’s boundaries in Morris Township. July 13, 2006 Local and county officials along with a large amount of local library users came out for the official opening of the new Blyth branch of the Huron County Library. Reeve Doug Layton said North Huron had been looking for a new location for the library for around six months after meeting with county librarian, Beth Ross a year ago. The old site in the north wing of Memorial Hall, did not meet current accessibility standards. Layton thanked Linda Stewart, who renovated the building to meet the library’s needs, as well as the library staff for moving the branch and setting it up in the new location. He also thanked the Blyth Lawn Bowling Club for making a donation to the library. Sarah Mann, a former summer student with The Citizen, was mourned at the Lucknow Community Centre after she was killed in a motor vehicle collision just outside of Clinton on July 4. It was announced at the service that Humber College, where Mann attended journalism school, would be creating an award in Mann’s honour to celebrate her life at the Etobicoke school. Grey Township celebrated its 150th anniversary with a celebration that brought people to the area from both near and far. July 12, 2012 Huron County Council officially voted to change its composition, reducing the number of councillors from 16 down to 15. The councillor who would lose his spot after the 2014 election was Tyler Hessel from Bluewater. With Brussels’ Homecoming celebration on the horizon, Huron East Council voted to subsidize the lion’s share of insurance costs for the event. Because of new regulations concerning liquor licensing and council having to declare events municipally significant, the policy would cost $1,600 for the weekend, of which council covered the majority. Londesborough athlete Lexi Aitken attended the Legion’s provincial track and field event and returned to Huron County with three gold medals and a new provincial record. Thanks to her performance, Aitken was scheduled to head to Prince Edward Island in mid-August for the Legion’s national championships. Determined to make the final day in the school’s history a memorable one, the student body of Blyth Public School took to the school’s field and performed a dance number for the cameras. The Auburn Horticultural Society was honoured with a $1,500 grant from the RBC Blue Water project. Douglas Barill and Christina Aria opened Painted Black Art Studio on Blyth’s main street. 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 Not wanted around here Last week two more area municipalities declared themselves “not a willing host” for industrial wind turbine developments, part of a growing trend across Ontario that, if Premier Kathleen Wynne is to be taken at her word, will virtually mean the end to more wind farms. Eventually. Wynne’s promise that municipalities that are not a willing host for wind projects would not be forced to accept them, applies to developments that are not yet approved. There are so many projects that have passed the approval stage but have not yet been built that the tension in rural areas of the province is bound to continue, which will make it hard for the premier to mend fences with rural residents before the next provincial election. Even if the declaration of municipalities that they are not willing to host more developments shuts down all wind developments beyond those already approved, Ontario will still have a surplus of electricity. The combination of the recession which reduced demand, greater conservation practices driven by higher electricity prices and time of use metering and increased generation capacity, has left Ontario in a position where it must export power often. “Ontario has become a net exporter of electricity,” Terry Young, vice- president at the Independent Electricity System Operator told CTV News last week. “We’re in a better situation today than we were six, seven or eight years ago when we were relying on our neighbours.” Until recently Ontario had been paying U.S. or Quebec utilities to take its excess electricity. But CTV reveals that now, instead, Bruce Power in being asked to shut down one of its reactors or to vent steam instead of putting it through the turbines that generate electricity. Either way, the company is paid not to generate the electricity it would normally put into the system. In total, CTV reported, $62 million was paid to the Bruce plant this year to suppress electricity production. Looking back, the people who wrote the rules for the Green Energy Act’s Feed In Tariff (FIT) underestimated how attractive their incentives would be to large windpower companies, just as they miscalculated that thousands of farmers and landowners would jump to install small solar panels under the MicroFIT program. If nothing else, communities that are now declaring themselves not willing hosts for future wind developments are bringing some control back to a program that might have seemed like a good idea in the first place, but got way out of control. –KR We feel their pain For people who live in small towns there’s a special closeness to the people of other towns like Quebec’s Lac-Mégantic where a runaway train filled with petroleum jumped the tracks, late Friday night, setting off a series of explosions and fires that wiped out the heart of the town. By the time you read this, the death toll is likely to have climbed substantially past the 13 who had been confirmed dead at press time, because dozens more people were unaccounted for, many of them who were celebrating the beginning of the weekend in a popular downtown bar mere feet from where the train exploded. The fire was so hot some people have suggested remains of some of those lost may never be discovered. If you live in a small town where people are so interconnected, it’s easier to understand the shock that hits a town like Lac-Mégantic where virtually everyone knew, or was related to, one or more of the dead or missing. One of the people interviewed most often on television was a pharmacist who lost his business but was more worried about the safety of his employees (he originally thought one employee had been killed but was relieved to learn later that she had survived). In a small town you can read the extent of the damage and imagine how a similar tragedy would affect your own community. If it happened here, what would be lost? How would your business or your community cope? Would you, in these days of rural decline, even try to rebuild. The hearts of all Canadians, and many people around the world, go out to the people of Lac-Mégantic, but rural residents can empathize even more than most. –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. As well, letters can only be printed as space allows. Please keep your letters brief and concise.