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Weather makes some people happy, frustrates others
The ever-changing weather is
making some people happy and oth-
ers not. Cold days and then warm
days, snow comes, snow goes. The
lack of snow for the avid snowmo-
bile enthusiast is not so good. I over-
heard one fellow saying that his
money for insurance and trail pass
hasn’t done him much good so far.
The next person is happy to not have
to wear snowboots and to not have to
shovel.
I can imagine the snowmobile
dealers and the snowblowing people
are not happy with the lack of work,
but the municipalities are very
pleased to be keeping the winter
road snow removal costs down. As
with every situation, you can’t make
everyone happy. Personally, I’m still
happy to still be wearing running
shoes, not shovelling and havingbare, dry roads for driving mostdays.Enjoying no snow on their holidaywas Jerry and Sandra Zwep andboys, Nic and Cole. They spent aweek in Florida exploring DisneyWorld. They stayed at the PortOrleans French Quarter Resort andhad great weather. Cool morningsand evenings, but the days were very
nice. They went to Animal
Kingdom, Magic Kingdom,
Hollywood Studio and Epcot Centre.
Nic reports that the family really
enjoyed the simulated car driving
experience at Epcot. He also reports
that the Space Mountain ride is real-
ly cool. They had a wonderful time
and a great family holiday.
A large group of young area folk
have returned from a very hot holi-
day. They went to Panama and
enjoyed over 30°C weather every-
day. They stayed at the Royal de
Cameron resort, about a two-hour
drive south of Panama City. It was a
large resort with food, drink and
pools available everywhere. There
were 10 a la carte restaurants and
three buffet areas and a bar at every
turn. The group saw the massive
ships in the canal as they drove to
and from their resort. They hadabout 15 in their group and many ofthem did a variety of activities.Some of them went on a fishingexcursion and report they caughtabout 10 hammerhead fish and somemackerel. Many of them went on asailboat cruise to Panama Island andenjoyed the beautiful waters andwent snorkeling. Others just enjoyedrelaxing at the pool or the beach.
Enjoying the weeks get away includ-
ed Scott and Alicia McDonald,
Barry and Sarah Young, Chris and
Erin Blake, Devin and Sara Blake,
Jason and Meagan Gemmell, Kevin
and Jess Carnochan, Brad Ribey,
Jason Hulley and Mark McNichol.
We are pleased to report that
Doreen Hackwell has returned to
Seaforth Hospital so her friends will
not have so far to go to drop by and
visit.
The Walton Hall had the Huron
Perth Middlesex Beef Breeders Co-
operative Club hold their annual
meeting in the hall last Thursday
evening. They enjoyed a soup and
sandwich meal before getting down
to their business. Helpers were Judy
Lee, Judy Emmrich and Jo-Ann
McDonald.
The Cranbrook darts had a smaller
group of players on hand on Jan. 11
for darts. There were 18 players who
took to the boards with two who
became the victors of the evening.
Evelyn Blake scored 95 and Ernie
Lewington, 160. The group had a lotof fun as usual and enjoyed the lightlunch following play.There were a couple area gentle-men, Ken Glanville and GordMitchell from Walton and a coupleof friends who travelled to the U.S.for a few days last week. They wentto York, Pennsylvania to attend theCabin Fever Model Steam TrainShow. They were away for five days.
They enjoyed sunshine and no snow
and had an awesome time
The Huron East Economic
Development committee held an
interesting afternoon meeting on
Sunday. Chris Lee was the guest
speaker for the workshop on market-
ing strategies. He was teaching about
20 business folk from the Seaforth
and Brussels Business Associations
about using today’s resources of
internet marketing. The “Yellow
Pages” have been a standard for
many years, but with technology and
the internet, Google, etc. businesses
have many more opportunities to
inform people as to where they are
and what they have to offer. It was a
very interesting and informative
afternoon for the business propri-
etors attending.
A correction to last week’s article
about the two men having a great
New Year’s. The two gentlemen
were Eric Ross and Barry O’Krafka.
A retyping error occurred and we are
sorry for the confusion.
We send congratulations out toKen Wilbee and Isabel Pearson whowere recently married. Ken will bemoving from Napanee to Listowel.Celebrating birthdays this pastweek include George Zwep, DonBaan, Jeff McGavin, GordonMitchell, Brenda Dalton, HollyMitchell, Doris Williamson, DianneHuether, Murray McCall, ValerieCollins, Brett Stevenson, Paulene
Gulutzen, Jacob Schmeltzer,
Heather Clarke, Joan Ritchie,
Marnie Knight and Clint Emmrich.
Happy birthday to all.
By Jo-AnnMcDonaldCall 887-6570PEOPLE AROUNDWALTON
NEWS
FROM WALTON
You’re on a slippery slope
Members of Brussels Public School Grade 4 class made
the best of what little snow they had last week before
Southwestern Ontario was hit by a snow streamer over the
weekend. Shown are students enjoying sliding down a hill
made slick by the friction of snow suits on snow. (Denny Scott
photo)
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animals.
The new bylaw states that pet
ownership will be limited to five ani-
mals per household, with a two-dog
limit in urban areas of Central Huron
and a three-dog limit in rural Central
Huron.
The intention behind bringing in
the new bylaw was to marry all three
former township animal control
bylaws from the former Town of
Clinton, Hullett Township and
Goderich Township and have the
municipality governed by one
sprawling animal control bylaw.
Westerhout also noted when the
issue was first brought up in
December that farms are exempt
from the bylaw.
New animal control
bylaw to merge old rules