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The entertainment from SportsDrive has gone. Yes the rooster hasflown the coop, with assistance ofcourse and the added promise of agood home. For a few of the rooster
farmers on that street, that is a very
good thing. For others, his visit and
distinct call of this pretty fellow was
a nice thing to see and hear. Over the
past few weeks, this cocky fellow
was very well fed with a variety of
very good feed and was able to
escape many attempts to corral. Sohe’s on to the next chapter of his lifewith memories of a good springrespite by the Maitland.Income tax time is drawing to a
close, so unless you’re the type that
enjoys the rush of pressure, it’s time
to gather the wee slips of paper and
get to work.
This is Volunteer Week. It’s the
time to stop and think about how
volunteers in your world make a
difference. Unless your life involvesvery few people and places,volunteers make your world a betterplace – flowers in the church or inthe village planters or flower beds,
gathered garbage from the roadsides,
assistance to your emergency call,
meetings attended for hospital and
healthcare governance, teachers and
coaches for games and sports,
friendly visitors, musical groups and
event planners for our enjoyment,
folks who offer refreshment at Soup
and More 2 and to the many
other groups who gather for a
purpose.
Yes we are blessed with volunteers
who find their interest, see a need,
do the deed and make ourcommunity a much better place.Thank you, your numbers andcontribution are astonishing whencompiled. Keep up your great
work.
Easter season is one of
celebration. It’s a time of renewal
and new growth. On our landscape
we see the daily changes, we can
view new green showing
everywhere, country fields coming
to life, bulbs showing their blooms
in glorious colour and the shrubs are
budding fast.
Enjoy these warming days of
spring.
Bye now, Betty G.W.
Baseball, hockey, both
Iain Donnelly didn’t let that pesky high stick rule get in his
way during a road hockey tournament on April 11 at St.
Anne’s Catholic Secondary School in Clinton. (Denny Scott
photo)
Brussels’ runaway rooster finally flies the coop
By Betty
Graber
Watson
Call
887-9231
A NOTE FROM BETTY
M-T taking part in land study
At the Branch
Speakers moving to provincials
By Jo-Ann McDonald
The week at the Brussels Legion
Branch started with the Lions. The
Brussels Lions Club met on Monday
evening and it was invite-a-guest
night. There were 40 Lions and their
guests in attendance to enjoy a
turkey dinner. Helpers for the
Branch included Jo-Ann McDonald,
Deb Caan, Judy Lee and Mary
Bradshaw. Mabel Glanville
helped in the morning with the set-
up.
The Friday night supper of turkey
dinner was enjoyed by a crowd of
55. This week will be ham and
scalloped potatoes.
The Friday night supper helper at
the Branch, Mary Bradshaw is
taking a break from helping at this
time. She has undergone a knee
replacement and is out of hospital
and recovering. All the Branch
wish her a full and speedy
recovery.
Comrades Deb Caan and Mabel
Glanville are pitching in as Friday
night supper helpers.
Comrade Deb Caan attended the
Spring Zone Convention President’s
meeting in Goderich on Saturday
morning and the seminar in the
afternoon. The convention
continued on Sunday with
Comrades Deb and Jo-Ann
McDonald representing the Branch
and John Lowe and Eric Ross
attending in their appointed
positions.
Comrade John Lowe in his
capacity as district youth chairman
attended the area public speaking at
Branch 11, East Toronto. He was
very pleased to have three out of the
four District C winners finish first at
area and will now advance on to
provincial competition.
The newsletters went out in the
mail this past week and we hope all
comrades received theirs.
The auction is only three
weeks away, so put your thinking
caps on.
at the Brussels Legion
Saturday, April 21st
4:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Children $6.00 (12 or under)
Adults $12.00
All proceeds go to Brussels PS
Grade 8 graduation
Morris-Turnberry councillors, at
the April 3 meeting, agreed to take
part in a comprehensive review into
the need for more commercially
zoned land.
Scott Tousaw, Huron County’s
planning director, and Carol
Leeming, the Huron County planner
assigned to Morris-Turnberry, told
council three graduate students from
the University of Guelph’s School of
Rural Planning and Development,
have been hired for the summer to
do a comprehensive review for
Central Huron, North Huron and
South Huron.
Tousaw urged Morris-Turnberry
to be involved because planning
issues don’t stop at municipal
borders. If North Huron’s study
showed a need for commercial land
it would likely involve Morris-
Turnberry land on the edges of
Wingham and Blyth.
The cost of the project will be
$2,000 but Tousaw said other
municipalities who commissioned
similar studies paid $8,000 to
$20,000. The students’ work will be
overseen by planning department
staff, he said.
“I think you’ll get good
information for $2,000, he said. “It
would take a lot longer for county
staff to [find time to] do the work.”
Economic development will be
taken into account in the study,
Tousaw said. He noted that while
there might be sufficient acreage set
aside for commercial development
in areas like Lower Town Wingham,
if some of this can’t be developed
because of flood plain or
environmental restrictions, there
might be a case under the provincial
policy statement to free up other
land for development.
Council left a decision on the
presentation until later in the
meeting at which time Councillor
Neil Warwick said he wasn’t
prepared to support a motion to
proceed because of lack of time to
consider the issue. He noted the
county planning department had
been discussing the issue with
the other municipalities since
January.
“Why did we only get [a proposal]
yesterday if they’ve been involved
for two months,” he wondered. “It’s
our planning department. They work
for us.”
Warwick also that the draft terms
of reference for the study did not
address the concerns of Morris-
Turnberry.
But Mayor Paul Gowing said the
terms of reference are still being
drafted, so if Morris-Turnberry is at
the table, it can affect what they will
be.
Deputy-Mayor Jason
Breckenridge reluctantly supported
the motion.
“Even though I’m opposed to
voting on anything just put in front
of us, I think we need to get
moving,” he said.
The motion carried with Warwick
opposed.
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