HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 2013-10-03, Page 23THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2013. PAGE 23. Ethel-area teen Tiffany Deitner
was named the Princess at the Huron
County Plowing Match in Mitchell
earlier this year in late summer.
Deitner, who was following in her
sister Morgan’s footprints when she
considered entering the contest, said
that she was excited for the
opportunity to work with the
Plowmen’s Association for the next
year as the princess and said that the
process for being selected was a
unique experience.
The selection process, which
includes an interview and a public
speech, was fun, Deitner said and
she had a great time participating.
“My speech was a tour of Huron
County and it rhymed and it went
through most of the towns in the
county giving a little bit of
information about them,” she said.
“For the interview, it was pretty
good and only took five minutes.Some of the questions were easierthan others, but I think I was able toanswer all the questions.”
She said that, aside from
explaining the duties of the princess
and what she would do if she won,
Deitner said she also had to answer
questions about plowing and who
the MP and MPP of Huron-Bruce
are.
She said she had help preparing
for both sections from her family.
“My family mostly helped me
prepare for the event,” she said. “My
dad and sister helped with my
speech and my mom tested me on
the MP, MPP and Agricultural
Minister postings and other things
like that so I was ready for the
interview.”
Aside from Morgan’s influence,
Deitner also said that organizer Ruth
Townsend and Brussels Fall Fair
Ambassador Kabrina Bishop both
encouraged her to participate.
“Kabrina had mentioned it to meand told me that I should getinvolved,” Deitner said. “Ruth calledand asked officially later on and I
said yes. My mom said she knew I
would do well all along and that I
would agree to do it.”
As far as suggestions for other
princess-hopefuls, Deitner said that
the most important things to prepare
for are the speech and the simple act
of talking in front of people. She
said that princesses need to be
prepared not only to talk in front of
the interview panel but also in front
of a group of people for the speech
competition.
She said that she couldn’t have
done it without the help from
her family and also thanked Ruth
and George Townsend for
sponsoring the event and putting it
all together.
“The Townsends were just great
throughout the whole thing,” she
said.
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proposal of an accessible addition to
the Branch.
The following event came as a
complete surprise to President Jo-
Ann. She was called from the room
by Comrade Glenn Bridge. Upon
returning to the room, the Zone
Commander Larry Bailey and
Deputy-Zone Commander Eric Ross
were positioned at the front of the
room. Members of Jo-Ann’s family,
Rick, LeeAnn, Kelly, Scott, Alicia
and Brea, were in attendance. Upon
being escorted to the front, Comrade
Eric proceeded to read the
recommendation for life
membership for Comrade Jo-Ann.
She was presented with her life
membership card, plaque, crest and
pin by Comrades Larry and Eric.
Comrade Jo-Ann gave her remarks
and thanks to all for the remarkable
honour.
The presentations then continued
with the only three Veterans of
Branch 218 in attendance. Comrade
Jo-Ann called Comrades Ross
Bennett, Charlie Procter and Cecil
Moore to the front. She presented
them with the Juno Beach memorial
pins for their service during World
War II. It was a pleasure to have
three such distinguished gentlemen
in attendance on such a special
night.
The two guests gave their remarks
at the conclusion of the
presentations and then the meeting
was adjourned.
The Poppy Chairman John Lowe
has announced that the Poppy
Campaign starts Oct. 25. The town
Poppy canvas will be held on
Saturday, Oct. 26 from 9 a.m. until
noon. All Comrades are asked to
help with the campaign. Comrades
can either canvas or can drive Cadet
volunteers to the surrounding
communities and around the village
of Brussels. Others can canvas at
area businesses that allow access to
the Legion. Please set aside the
morning of Oct. 26 to help the
Branch in their support of their
continuing efforts to perpetuate the
meaning of Remembrance, the
meaning of wearing a Poppy and the
support of veterans.
Remembrance Day services will
soon be here and the Poppy
Chairman is asking anyone who
wishes to place a wreath in memory
of family and loved ones, to contact
John Lowe. He can provide the
necessary information to interested
parties. Anyone who has in the past
placed a wreath and wishes to
discontinue are also asked to contact
John.
The Branch had a fish fry on
Saturday. A small crowd enjoyed the
dinner on the last beautiful Saturday
of September. Helping at the fryers
was Barrie Currie, Ron Schmidt in
setup, Murray Lowe, Jim Brown,
Sharon Robbins, Andy Overholt and
friend Jeremy Bloemberg. The
inside folks helping to feed the
nearly 100 included Deb Cann, Jo-
Ann McDonald, Sandra Josling and
Daisy Schmidt and Glenn Bridge at
the door.
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observes, “Unfortunately for
Darwinian theory, in every attempt
to push beyond the species level to a
new genus, without exception,
natural limits to biological change
have been empirically observed,
where further change in that
direction was either not possible, or
further change drastically impaired
the fitness of that organism to the
point where it could not survive to
reproduce.”
Look around; we do not see such
crossovers happening today, nor is
there convincing evidence of them in
the fossil record which has been
scoured since the 1800s. Durston
notes, “If the full diversity of organic
life is the product of slow,
cumulative changes involving tens
of thousands or millions of discrete
steps, the vast bulk of the fossil
record should consist of fossil forms
marking these tens of thousands or
millions of steps, with fossils falling
into clearly defined taxonomic
categories being the rare exception
rather than the norm. In actual fact,
the opposite is the case...”
Huge advances in information
science and understanding of
molecular composition and
functioning since Darwin’s time
have also pointed up the
improbability of development of
new species simply through random
variation combined with natural
selection. Durston has made a
statistical study of the complexity of
inter-dependencies in sub-molecular
hierarchical protein structuring. In
order to function, an average protein
needs to be made up of perhaps 300
amino acids, in a particular sequence
which causes the molecule to ‘fold’
into a certain three-dimensional
shape that’s necessary for it to carry
out its work, as a sort of biological
machine. Even the simplest
organism requires a few hundred
protein-coding genes. Nowadays
scientists can evaluate the amount of
information (expressed in ‘bits’)
required for such molecules to be
constructed. Computer simulations
can estimate the information that
might result from evolutionary
processes. Durston notes that to
“postulate 1030 bacteria, replicating
every 30 minutes for four-billion
years, with a mutation rate of 10-6
mutations per 1000 base pairs per
replication ... [is] not sufficient to
locate a single, average folding
protein.” So Darwin’s proposal is
shown to be woefully inadequate at
the sub-cellular level.
Renowned theoretical physicist
Steven Hawking admits, “The odds
against a universe like ours
emerging out of something like the
Big Bang are enormous. I think there
are clearly religious implications
whenever you start to discuss the
origins of the universe. There must
be religious overtones. But I think
most scientists prefer to shy away
from the religious side of it.”
Sorry, Mr. Darwin, but please
move over: your theory does not
satisfactorily explain the observable
evidence! Instead, Genesis 1:25 still
appears to hold.
Ross Nichol celebrated his 90th
birthday on Sept. 29 by visiting the
place where it all started: his
birthplace.
The celebration took place at
42312 Cranbrook Road near
Brussels, also known as the sixth
concession of Morris Township. It
was the homestead where Nichol
was born in 1923 to Lorne and
Margaret (Maggie) Nichol.
Nichol attended school at SS#4
Morris and then Brussels
Continuation school before
becoming a beef cattle farmer and
did that as well as driving a bus until
1989 when he ‘retired,’ if a farmer
can every really be called retired.
He married Della Thynne on Sept
4, 1948, giving himself an early 25th
birthday present, and was married to
her until her death in 1981.
He re-married on Sept. 11, 1982,
to Barbara (Barb) Warrington.
Nichol has five children,
Margaret, Hugh, Paul, Ron and Janet
as well as grandchildren.
Nichol is a proud member of the
Oddfellows, being a past district
grandmaster of Huron County and
enjoys vacationing away the winter
months in Florida.
Brussels veterans honoured
Nichol celebrates 90 years
Dow welcomes Dr. Durston
Ethel’s Deitner honoured as plowing match princess
Princess of the Furrow
Tiffany Deitner of RR1, Ethel has a lot to smile about after
she was named Princess of the Furrow at the Huron
County Plowing Match in September in Mitchell. (Photo
submitted)
A big day
Ross Nichol from the Brussels area celebrated an
important birthday on Sunday as he turned 90 and
approximately 100 family members and friends came out to
help him mark the occasion. (Vicky Bremner photo)
By Denny ScottThe Citizen
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