HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 2012-02-23, Page 3THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2012. PAGE 3.
A comprehensive look at the existing assets of the Village of Blyth has
prompted community stakeholders to develop a plan that takes into
account all that the Village currently has to offer and position those
assets to share in the future growth of the Village.
In order to achieve a renewed vitality, the Township of North Huron, the
Huron Economic Development Partnership and the Blyth Idea Group in
consultation with Stantec Consulting Ltd. and other community
stakeholders have identified the following priorities:
• Slow down traffic on Queen Street
• Increase foot traffic on Village streets
• Encourage the 50,000 + annual visitors to the Village to stay a little
longer
• Provide patrons of the theatre and other community events with
safe, well lit and organized parking options
• Repurpose un-utilized or under-utilized space
Community input is being sought to address these issues in the
completion of a Downtown Blyth Streetscape Masterplan. In order to
achieve this, an informal OPEN HOUSE will be held to:
• View the draft plan
• Identify opportunities, needs and challenges
• Provide feedback and ideas that will be used for the completion of
the plan.
Ideas generated from this plan will give direction to future Queen Street
projects.
Thursday, March 1, 2012
7:00 pm
Blyth Art Gallery
423 Queen Street, Blyth
Please plan to attend and provide your input.
For further information, please contact Connie Goodall
519-357-1096 or cgoodall@northhuron.ca
Downtown Blyth Master Plan
OPEN HOUSE
Let me try to draw a picture of Biblical holiness
(J.C. Ryle, “Holiness, Its Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots”)
(continued from last week)
“Without holiness, no man shall see the Lord!”Hebrews 12:14
2. A holy man will endeavor to shun every known sin, and to keep every known
commandment. 3. A holy man will strive to be like our Lord Jesus Christ. 4. A holy man
will follow after meekness, patience, gentleness, patience, kind tempers, and
government of his tongue. 5. A holy man will follow after temperance and self-denial.
6. A holy man will follow after love and brotherly kindness. 7. A holy man will follow
after a spirit of mercy and benevolence towards others. 8. A holy man will follow after
purity of heart. 9. A holy man will follow after the fear of God. 10. A holy man will
follow after humility. 11. A holy man will follow after faithfulness in all the duties and
relations in life. 12. Last--but not least, a holy man will follow after spiritual-
mindedness.
The above is merely the “outline” of Ryle’s picture. If you desire to see the whole
picture drawn out--you will have to read the first several pages from his outstanding
chapter, “Holiness”.
A Grace Gem
Submitted by: Immanuel United Reformed Church,
Listowel, ON 519-291-1956
Blyth United holdsWorld Day of Prayer
Happy Birthday to Heidi Craig of
Atwood who celebrates, Feb. 24;
Sharon Bromley, Feb. 25; Elsie
Walsh, Feb. 26; Joann MacDonald
and Dana Weber, Feb. 28.
Happy birthday to all those who
will celebrate on Feb. 29. Your
birthday comes once in four years.
World Day of Prayer is being
celebrated at Blyth United Church
on Friday, March 9 at 7:30 p.m. All
the churches in Blyth join together
for this service. Everyone welcome.
Living Water Christian Fellowship
is hosting the movie Courageous at
Blyth Memorial Hall on Friday,
March 2. Show starts at 8:15 p.m.
doors open at 7:30 p.m. Free
ticketed event. Everyone welcome.
By Marilyn
Craig
Call
523-9318
From Marilyn’s Desk
Calling out winners
Charlie Shaw with the help of Blyth Public School student Ally Henry was calling numbers for
the Blyth Legion and Blyth Legion Ladies Auxiliary’s annual Valentine’s Day Bingo held on
Feb. 14 at Memorial Hall. (Denny Scott photo)
Science fair coming up at BPS
By Phaedra Scott
Students are gearing up for the
science fair. The senior science fair
will take place on April 4 and the
junior science fair will take place the
following day.
The ski trip is also very near, on
Tuesday, Feb. 28, Grades 1-8 will be
going to Chicopee. Grades 1-4 will
be tubing while 5-8 will be skiing. In
Grade 8 math, students are working
on integers and still wondering why
on earth subtracting a negative
would ever be the same as adding a
positive.
Basketball practice is well
underway and the teams are being
chosen. Reminder: high school
forms need to be handed in
immediately.
By Hunter Dale
The Grade 1/2 class had a very
busy, but productive week. Students
began the week thinking about 100
because they have now been at
school for 100 days. This gave them
a great opportunity to work with the
number 100.
In order to practice their counting
skills, they made necklaces to show
how to count to 100 by ones, by
fives and by tens. They learned
about unitizing numbers by using a
standard of 10. It is much easier to
count objects when they use a
constant set, like 10 frames or rows
of 10 (an array) or tallies rather than
counting randomly. Using a
hundreds chart, they calculated the
total ages of the students in their
classroom. The ages of all the Grade
1/2 students totalled 104 years. They
divided 100 into parts to find out
many tasks had to be completed by
each student to make 100. When
they worked together each student
had to cut six hearts, write six
words, make six links for a chain,
read six books and the teacher only
had to do four.
On Valentine’s Day, they used
their senses to explore a number of
activities. As part of their literacy
learning, they thought about the
steps involved to make a very
delicious tasting valentine – a heart-
shaped piece of bread covered with
red jam.
Identifying and talking about the
steps in a procedure, helps children
to sequence the steps of the
experience. This is known as a
pretelling. In order to do this,
children must first think backwards
in order to think forwards. They
talked about rewinding the events
Just like you would rewind a movie.
Opportunities to pretell concrete
experiences help children think
sequentially and empowers them to
apply this learning as they listen to
stories and become readers. The
ability to learn and demonstrate this
skill supports comprehension for
listening and reading.
Cutting hearts taught students
about symmetry. They found it is
easiest to represent symmetry by
cutting or painting when the paper is
folded. The most difficult way to
produce symmetry was by drawing
the entire figure. The Junior
Kindergarten students are starting a
The Township of North Huron will have 125 trees available on a
first-come, first-serve basis, limited to one (1) tree per urban
property and two (2) trees per rural property. Residents are
responsible for picking up trees from the Wingham Public Work
Shed, planting and maintenance of these trees. Trees available
include Sugar Maple, Native Red Maple, Red Oak, which are
bare root trees and Colorado Blue Spruce which are bagged.
Specify type of tree when placing order. Place your order early as
supplies are limited.
To order your free tree or for further information,
please call the Municipal Office,
at 519-357-3550 Ext. 21 by March 14, 2012.
TREE PLANTING
PROGRAM
for
RESIDENTS OF THE
TOWNSHIP OF NORTH HURON
NEWS
FROM BLYTH
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