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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 2013-11-28, Page 4PAGE 4. THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2013.Editorials Opinions Publisher: Keith Roulston Acting Editor: Shawn Loughlin • Reporter: Denny ScottAdvertising Sales: Lori Patterson & Sue Brindley 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 November 30, 1961 The Brussels Horticultural Society was set to meet on Dec. 4 at the Brussels Library. The meeting would feature Mr. C.R. Bristow of Lucknow as the guest speaker. The evening would also feature a demonstration on Christmas decorations and a film on floral arrangements. The Melville Guild held its monthly meeting with Leona Armstrong opening the meeting with a poem on peace. November 30, 1988 More than 300 elementary school teachers seeking an end to their 11- month contract dispute with the Huron County Board of Education staged a peaceful demonstration in Clinton in an attempt to get the board to resume negotiations. Those who lost money in the collapse of the Brussels Stockyards in October should eventually get most of it back, creditors of the stockyard were told at the first meeting of the creditors. Uwe Manski, a chartered accountant with Dunwoody Limited, told creditors that the payout on claims would likely be in the neighbourhood of 77 cents on the dollar. Gordon (Harry) Brindley of Dungannon stepped forward to purchase the stockyard from the receiver for the price of $465,000. Brindley’s bid was the highest of the three received. One of the other bids came locally from McCall Livestock, while the other bid came from a cattle company in western Canada. Arthur Bos of RR3, Blyth took home more than a handful of awards at the Huron County 4-H Awards, which were held in Seaforth on Nov. 24. Bos took home the majority of the night’s dairy awards. One of the awards Bos won was one of two Huron Holstein Club awards, which are given for having the top score for a dairy club member in the county. The inaugural meeting of Hullett Township Council was set to be held on Dec. 6 at 10 a.m. at the township municipal building. . November 30, 2006 The Brussels Branch 218 of the Royal Canadian Legion celebrated its 75th anniversary. The Branch was first organized on Aug. 31, 1931 and then received its charter on Nov. 2 of that year. The Branch’s first president was Fred Burchell in 1931. He was soon followed by William Stiles in 1933, Ross Knight in 1938 and Joe Kelly in 1940. Present for the anniversary celebration was Jack Frost of Port Elgin, the dominion president of the Royal Canadian Legion. Several members of the public were present for the Valuing Nature and Your Land meeting, which was held at the Brussels, Morris and Grey Community Centre. Over 100 people attended the meeting, which encouraged people to learn more about the concept of compensating farmers for environmental goods and services. Boyd Taylor, a local weather watcher for Environment Canada, said that 2006 had been a year of extremes. “After an early start to spring, a very dry and windy growing season, we faced a wet fall and lack of sunshine,” Taylor said in an interview with The Citizen. “That has been the biggest thing of note: no sun.” Taylor said that double-digit temperatures in late November were pleasant for some, but there would be consequences down the road. “Will we pay for it? I wouldn’t want to say. It just seems to be that we are in a year of extremes.” November 29, 2012 Gordon McGavin, father of Neil and grandfather of Brian and Jeff, was honoured with an induction into the Ontario Agricultural Hall of Fame, which is in Milton. A ceremony was held at the Huron County Museum in Goderich to honour McGavin, and other local inductees, including Russel Bolton. The ceremony included framed replicas of each inductee’s display at the actual hall of fame, which would be displayed at the Huron County Museum going forward. Not all of the inductees from Huron County were farmers. One of the inductees was Wilford “Doc” Cruikshank, who established CKNX, which eventually became known as the Ontario Farm Station thanks to its programming and free time slots that were given up to rural organizations. Morris-Turnberry councillors officially passed a restructuring bylaw that will abolish the municipality’s ward system and reduce the number of councillors as of the 2014 election. Ty Sebastian of Brussels and his Under-21 Canadian fastball team took fourth place at a prestigious fastball tournament in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Blyth’s Grant Sparling was honoured with the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal for his work in the community, serving his country as a soldier and then as an entrepreneur with his business Sparling’s Propane. Art Bolton from the Walton area was also honoured with the medal for his work as a farmer and in the community. 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 Two visions, one night Meetings on two projects which have the possibility of adding economic and cultural diversity to the area, and particularly to Blyth, took place on the same night in Blyth last week. Public consultation sessions drew a combined audience of nearly 150 for the 14/19 Project and the Guelph-to-Goderich (G2G) Rail Trail which both took place Thursday night. Aimed at renovating Blyth Memorial Community Hall and establishing a cultural centre to bring more artists to the area, 14/19 will have an impact most directly on Blyth, but with potential spinoffs that will add vitality to northern Huron if its ambitions can be achieved. The project builds on strengths the village has already established: Memorial Hall, built with great foresight by the community in 1920 as a memorial to those who served in World War I, and Blyth’s artistic reputation, mostly built on the 40-year success of the Blyth Festival and its parent organization, Blyth Centre for the Arts in using Memorial Hall. One can see, too, the influence of the success of the Emergency Services Training Centre as a model for bringing people to Blyth for training/education. Much of the success of 14/19 will depend on Blyth’s ability, demonstrated many times in the past, to come together to achieve a far- reaching vision. If the community pulls this off, the additional number of people coming to the village and the creative energy they will bring, can change the economy and the atmosphere of the village, giving it a new direction with the old model as a mercantile service centre in decline. Blyth can also be a big winner if the G2G Trail goes ahead but Walton and Auburn can also benefit if the vision of those behind the trail is successful. It’s hard to fathom, if you’re a typical Huron County-bred resident for whom getting a much-prized licence to drive meant you could finally give up walking or riding a bicycle, but there are thousands and thousands of people out there who like to hike and bike along trails. As the longest trail in Ontario, linking a growing urban area with the attraction of Lake Huron, this trail would become a destination for people from all over Ontario and Quebec, trail supporters say. Before this project can go forward, the first step must be to make sure the rights of landowners adjoining the trail are protected from trespassing or other intrusions. This is a problem that seems to have been solved along dozens of other raillines that were converted to trails, and indeed on sections of the former Guelph-to-Goderich CP Railline that have already been converted to trails. Communities must constantly reinvent themselves these days. Agriculture is one strong leg of the local economy but we’ve been losing others, with industries moving out and merchandising concentrating in fewer locations. These two projects are exciting possibilities to add new diversity to our communities. We must find new purposes for our towns and villages if they are to be more than places where people sleep between going elsewhere for work and shopping. –KR Which voters need help most? With both the Liberal and Conservative parties pledging to stand up for the middle class as the next federal election approaches, people who don’t even earn enough to rate among the middle class must wonder if they matter anymore. Much has been made in the last couple of years about the growing gap between the very rich, the fabled one per cent at the top, and the middle income earner. There’s much concern about the ability of people in the middle to meet their own aspirations to accumulate more. But nobody seems to talk anymore about the people who can only dream about having the goodies the middle class has which it doesn’t think is enough. These are people, a 2012 study by the Huron County Health Unit said, who often don’t have enough money left to eat properly after using their limited income to pay the rent, heat and hydro. Middle class members, with their purchasing power, have driven up housing costs, making it even worse for low-income earners. Middle class voters may be an attractive voting block, but their problems are small beside the poor that no politician seems to worry about. –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.