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discussing ways to recruit new
members for the Branch, how to
make new members feel welcome,
how to encourage new members to
become involved and how to
acquaint new members with the
committees and their
responsibilities.
It was an interesting afternoon with
many suggestions being brought
forward.
The Friday night suppers will
resume on Oct. 12 after a summer’s
break. The first menu will be the
ever-popular roast beef. Comrades
wishing to help once in awhile with
the meals are asked to contact Jo-
Ann McDonald.
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone
Legion ponders how to
increase membership
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Because He loves the little things,
I know He loves me, too.”
It’s true. He loves me. He loves
you.
There is so much going on in this
big world we call home but God
loved and cared for this lady in Red
Bay enough to send three pastors to
help her in overcoming loneliness
and fear 12 years ago back on that
October day.
God’s love can be found
in His smallest creations
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outstanding. The cost for small and
medium scale producers to engage
in the Environmental Compliance
Approval process is very
prohibitive. Even a nutrient
management strategy or plan comes
with development costs. The issue of
rain water that flows off the rooftops
of greenhouses being considered
“waste” needs to be addressed in a
common sense manner. Both of
these concerns need serious
consideration within this review.
It is encouraging to see that
progress is being made on waste and
wash water issues.
It is critical that realistic, cost-
effective solutions are developed on
these issues.
There is a careful balance that
needs to be maintained in order to
meet environmental concerns
without crippling the industry with
regulatory red tape. Agriculture and
food production is one of the
cornerstones of the Ontario
economy and the CFFO believes
that the right approach to
environmental policy is needed for
that to continue.
Waste water regulations
need to follow sense
Oct. 15 through 19 the stage atBlyth Memorial Hall will spring tolife with the childhood energy ofRobert Munsch as McGregor andFriends present A Bunch of Munsch.
The event, which serves as a
fundraiser for the Foundation for
Education in Huron-Perth and the
Blyth Festival, is a return to an
earlier time for Duncan McGregor.“We used to do shows like this inthe 1990s,” he said. “We even havedone Munsch before. Back then wedid shows like Peter and the Wolf
and Let’s Do Munsch and they
always did well.”
The performances are engineered
towards school-aged children, being
held as matinées, but they are opento the public. The five Munsch stories to befocused on are Angela’s Airplane,Stephanie’s Ponytail, Love You
Forever, Something Good and
Mortimer.
McGregor said that working with
the stories is an involved process
since any change to the story, evenfor the sake of live storytelling,needs to be approved by thepublisher and Munsch. This wasmade increasingly complicated by
the fact that the stories came from
two different publishing houses;
Annick Press and Firefly Books.
“We had everything okayed for
our shows,” he said. “Things may
have to be tweaked as we move
along, since we try to take a unique
approach to each story, but our
adaptations have been okayed.”
The uniqueness can be described
as a playfulness about the story,
according to McGregor, who said
that they have tried to really connect
with the audience by having fun.
“In Angela’s Airplane, for
example, the airplane is personified
and people can tell when it goes up
in the sky,” he said. “Something
Good takes place in Scrimgeour’s
Food Market. I’ve always loved the
‘Welcome to Scrimgeour’s’ sign that
they have so we’ve echoed that in the
play.”
A lot of the believability of the
stories will come from the fact that
McGregor has enlisted people who
know the roles well, either through
knowing the stories or through
their natural roles or acting
abilities.
“The father in all these stories is
Steve Cook from Blyth, he is
everything the father needs to be in
all the stories,” he said. “Cherilyn
Trick, a drama and arts teacher fromF.E. Madill [Secondary School inWingham] is helping while she is onmaternity leave. She is just thepersonification of all things
motherly and efficient.”
Eight young people are also on the
bill including Kathryn Peach from
the Blyth area and Stephen
Hildebrand and Ally Connelly who
theatre patrons might remember
from their roles in Doctor
Barnardo’s Children and The Best
Present of All. Connelly was also
featured in last year’s award-
winning outdoor play Narcisse.
Other actors include Caileigh
Russelo from Goderich, Larisa Shea
from St. Columban Elementary
School, Donovan Jeffrey and Isaac
and Nigel Van Aken from St.
Boniface Elementary School.
Professional assistance, aside from
Trick, Cook and McGregor, is
coming from Arlene Darnbrough, a
professional musician, composer
and sound effects artist who is a
music teacher in Goderich; Sherri
Milburn, a professional costume and
set designer who has experience at
the Blyth and Stratford Festivals as
well as London’s Grand Theatre and
Ross Barnett, a professional lighting
designer who has worked at the
Meadowvale Music Theatre in
Mississauga.
For tickets call the Blyth Festival
box office at 519-523-9300 or visit
www.blythfestival.com
Vodden questions Blyth report
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or too much red tape, but what is
proposed here is to stick in more red
tape,” he said. “Now, we have a
council member sitting on the BIA
who reports directly to council, with
this, there would be one more
person and one more level of red
tape to deal with.”
Barill said that red tape can mean
different things to different people.
He said that the problems with
governance and bureaucracy that
individuals are running into could
be from other levels of government
and they don’t know any better than
to just blame the municipality.
Councillor Archie MacGowan
said that when he first read the
document, he got defensive but, on a
second reading, he realized it
was indicative of underlying
problems.
“It’s about perceptions and
perceptions are important,” he said.
“We don’t do a good job of telling
the good stories.”
He said that through projects like
the Emergency Services Training
Centre and the upgrades to the Blyth
Campground, millions have been
spent upgrading and investing in
Blyth, but people may not realize
where that funding came from.
Councillor Brock Vodden,
however, had a different approach to
the issue, saying he completely
denied the validity of the report as it
stood.
“I’m concerned about the validity
of this report,” he said. “I was
involved with the project and I don’t
see how this report could come from
that survey. The reason I can’t figure
out what it means and how I should
feel about it is there are no statistics
in the report. The original project
was to deal with statistics
“This way we’re just told we’re
not doing anything,” he continued.
“I really feel that the process of
reporting this has gone astray and
it’s probably saved a lot of money in
doing it faster, but cheap is not
always the best way to go. I have
trouble giving any credibility at all
to this report.”
Later on in the meeting, Vodden
added that he “objected to the
unprofessional way” the
information was presented and that
those who put it together “got a bad
lead on how it was done.”
Bailey took down some notes
prior to the meeting and stated that
North Huron is responsible for the
fact that this report could be
presented at all since it was done
through the Blyth BIA.
“The forming of the BIA had to
be a motion from council, the
financing of the BIA had to be
approved by council and collecting
the BIA tax on Blyth businesses is
done by North Huron on behalf of
the BIA at no cost to the BIA,” he
said when talking about the feelings
of little to no support from council.
“Our development co-ordinator
[Connie Goodall] has been part of
the Blyth Idea Group and has helped
set the BIA up and spent tons of
time and effort to help develop these
projects. Council appointed
[Deputy-Reeve David Riach] to sit
on the BIA... how much closer to
council can you get? He is also from
the ward of Blyth.”
Council agreed that the document
was a good starting point, as had
been suggested by Smith earlier,
however both Vodden and
MacGowan agreed they would like
to see the base statistics the
anonymous survey was created from
to better determine how council
should look at improving their
relations with Blyth businesses
The report was developed in
conjuction with the BIA, North
Huron, Huron County and the
Ontario Ministry of Agriculture,
Food and Rural Affairs. Thirty-two
businesses were surveyed for
feedback.
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