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Home My WebLink AboutThe Citizen, 2013-11-14, Page 18PAGE 18. THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2013. Continued from page 12 were away on a school trip, Ralph took a little more liberty roaming around the farm. He was spotted and confronted by a one of the Dutch guards who worked for the Germans. The guard who was look- ing for Ralph Lubbers, was ready to take him in but Ralph tried to con- vince him that he was Ralph Lubbers’ cousin visiting from Germany. He told the guard his papers were in the kitchen cupboard and he could show them to him. The guard let Ralph go get his papers but he just ran right through the kitchen, into a nearby bedroom and out the window to escape. On another occasion near the end of the war Ralph was captured. They didn’t shoot him because they needed labourers to build up defence lines from the impending Allied attack. It was January and very cold. Ralph and the other prisoners were using picks and shovels but the han- dles kept breaking as they tried to dig into the frozen ground. Ralph was a good worker and he had found favour with his captors. So a guard asked Ralph if he could ride a bike which Ralph assured him he could. The guard instructed him to take the broken picks down the road to the German depot and get handles put on them. Ralph got on his bike with the picks, rode down the road and when he should have turned right to the German depot he turned left and for the third time he escaped. When he got to a bridge he got off his bike and threw it in the canal and carefully walked home through the fields. In the spring of 1945, the Polish army came in to liberate the town where Ralph and his family lived. Within three hours of the Allies’ arrival Ralph was up on a tank directing them to where the enemy soldiers were hiding. After the war Ralph would join the Dutch army and went to Indonesia for three years to help keep the peace there. When he fin- ished his service there he moved to Canada because he could not get a house in Holland. “People were on a waiting list to get a home and my wife and I just weren’t old enough to qualify,” he said. So he moved to Canada. Ralph has gone back to Holland and has gone by to see the barn that became his home for those two years. The Dutch government honoured Ralph with a “V” pin that he wears on his Sunday suit jacket. As I listened to Ralph’s stories, they sounded like a modern day action movie on the big screen. However, Ralph’s experience was real and it wasn’t for the purpose of entertainment. Ralph and many oth- ers chose not to just give up but did what they could to fight for their country’s freedom. If you know of an Auburn story, please call or e-mail me at pastor- mark@huronchapel.org Columnist says Lubbers’ life resembles a ‘modern day action movie’ Central Huron Council supports residence severances Continued from page 14 Burns Line property, owned by Middegaal Farms Ltd., as long as conditions, including the removal of an empty hog barn, are met. Councillors were told during a Planning Advisory Committee meet- ing that the planning department is recommending approval of the application since all of the normal conditions are otherwise being met. *** A residence in Clinton is being severed from a neighbouring com- mercial property thanks to an appli- cation approved following a Planning Advisory Committee meet- ing. Planner Monica Walker-Bolton reported that the application, submit- ted by businessman Harvey Carter, is in order, with the exception of an existing shed that sits on the lot line. She says that issue will be addressed as the property owner has agreed to remove the shed. *** Councillors are endorsing an application seeking to sever a sur- plus residence from a property owned by Heinrich Farms Ltd. The application is being supported with the condition that an empty barn on the property is removed, along with other standard condi- tions. *** Councillors learned Bell Mobility is now planning to install commer- cial towers at a property near the Pine Lake campground after a plan to erect the towers in Holmesville was met with some concern last year. *** While Central Huron Council approved covering the cost of a $400 marker on an unmarked grave for a sailor lost in the Great Storm of 1913, Councillor Alex Westerhout wondered whether the purchase was something that would be supported by ratepayers. “It was a huge event,” says Mayor Jim Ginn. “It certainly happened along our shorelines.” Council chose to endorse the expenditure, which was requested by an all-volunteer committee that organized a two-day event commem- orating the centennial anniversary of the disaster that claimed the lives of more than 200 sailors. 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Huron East Council received the final report from the tribunal at the Nov. 5 council meeting. The report indicated that the appeal launched by the Middlesex-Lambton Wind Action Group Inc. was dismissed under Section 145.2.1(5) of the Environmental Protection Act. The group was appealing a Class 4 wind facility with 40 proposed tur- bines by Varna Wind Inc. that would be located in Bluewater and Huron East. “The tribunal finds that the appel- lant has failed to meet the onus of proving that engaging in the project in accordance with the REA [Renewable Energy Approval] will cause serious harm to human health. The appeal is dismissed and thedirector’s decision confirmed,” thereport read.***Council approved a bylaw thatconfirmed a heritage designation on the “Leckie Block” in Brussels, run- ning from 435 to 441 Turnberry Street. *** Huron East Council passed a motion to accept the Huron County roadside spraying program on a three-year trial basis. Councillors said the program would include two years of spraying for weeds and no spray in the third year as part of the ongoing three- year cycle. Doing some good Members of the Blyth United Church were out in full force, as were members of several other churches in the community, on Halloween night collecting for the North Huron Food Share. Rev. Gary Clark, left, Lissa Kolkman, centre, and Marlayna Kolkman, right, were out collect- ing on that rainy night. (Photo submitted) Tribunal dismisseswind turbine appealBy Shawn LoughlinThe Citizen Talk to us instead. TOLL-FREE 1-877-513-5333