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Fair delivers despite midway setback says Noble
Council looks ahead
Running for special people
Hullett Central Public School students ran hard during the Terry Fox Run on Friday, Sept. 27.
Some of them ran for Terry Fox while others had special family members and friends in mind
for the fundraiser which helps support the fight against cancer. Shown here are, from left,
Chloe Elliott running for her great-grandma, Reid Button running for Kim Hunking and Jason
Eckert running for the man himself, Terry Fox. (Photo submitted)
The Brussels Fall Fair was a
unmitigated success according to
Brussels Agricultural Society
President Nicole Noble.
“It was excellent,” she said. “We
had two beautiful days of
weather which always help with
the crowds. Numbers were definitely
up for people who attended the
fair.”
Noble also said that entries in the
fair competition categories were up
and the parade entries had also
increased over last year.
The dog show, which is still one of
the newer attractions at the event,
was also a great success.
“It was a huge hit,” Noble said.
“We had so many dogs, we didn’t
know what to do with them.”
While most of the fair remained
the same, one big unplanned change
occurred when the company that
provides the midway rides and
attractions pulled out just five days
before the fair started. That change,
however, wasn’t anything that was
going to slow down the celebration
according to Noble.
“We were able to get three
different inflatables on Tuesday,”
she said. “People were shocked to
see them, but everyone loved them.”
The inflatables, which didn’t come
with a cost, allowed the funds that
would have gone to the midway to
be saved for future considerations.
Noble also said the inflatables and
their operators were incredibly well
received.
“It was good, just really good,
everyone had a lot of fun,” she said.
“The operators were a bit younger
too and they really got along well
with the kids.”
Students from both Maitland River
Elementary School and North
Woods Elementary School attended
the event. Noble said that North
Woods attendance was fantastic and
that their presence really “makes the
fair.” She also said it was great to see
students from Maitland River make
the trip for the event despite the fact
that the school itself isn’t officially
involved in the fair.
Noble said that the fair committee
would be meeting in the future to
decide if any changes would be
made in regards to the midway and
inflatables for next year and said
that, having just finished the event
late last month, the committee was
very happy with the way everything
had turned out.
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to the issue of potentially merging
the Brussels and Grey Fire
Departments into one fire hall.
Huron East Fire Chief Marty
Bedard, however, said that
logistically, in terms of response
times and service to the northern
portion of Grey Ward, a move like
that wouldn’t make sense.
When it came to efficiencies and
level of service, MacLellan said that
one of his pet peeves has been the
municipality losing money on
services that only a very small
percentage of the public uses.
Community centres and arenas, he
said, will always be money-losing
enterprises, but because such a large
percentage of the municipality uses
them, he sees community centres as
a worthwhile service to provide to
the public, despite the inevitable
loss. Daycare, on the other hand, is
something he’d like to see the
municipality bow out of.
“I don’t think it’s a service the
municipality can afford to offer,”
MacLellan said of daycare,
specifically in Vanastra.
The loss the municipality
experiences every year as a result of
the daycare, MacLellan said, isn’t
worth the hit to all taxpayers to
subsidize a service only used by a
handful of families, half of which
come from Central Huron.
Councillor Nathan Marshall, who
was instrumental in setting up the
level of service meeting, said he’d
like to see Huron East’s three
recreation boards abolished. He felt
the three recreation centres would
run smoother if they were headed up
by one board for all three centres.
Marshall’s concerns, in addition to
the level of streetlighting in
Brussels, were two issues that were
scheduled to be brought to council at
a future meeting.
Knight suggested that community
centres would be an important issues
to discuss further. Through his
research, Knight told councillors
that revenue at the three centres has
been dropping in the last 10 years,
which is a cause for concern.
At the conclusion of the meeting,
new Councillor Allison Dekroon
asked councillors if they felt they
had accomplished all they wanted to
with the meeting. MacLellan said
they had, but that the meeting was
the first in a series of steps in regards
to the municipality’s level of service.
He added that staff will prepare a
report detailing council’s
outstanding issues from the meeting
with a plan on how to tackle those
issues going forward.
There was also discussion about a
strategic planning session that could
take place as early as December. No
exact date has been set.
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