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Grace Caldwell, left, and Mackenzie Wightman are two students from East Wawanosh Public
School who took part in the Jump Rope for Heart fundraiser held by the school on May 19.
The event is a fundraiser for the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario. (Shawn Loughlin photo)
Belgrave WI branchlooks to centennial
The Belgrave Women’s Institute
met on Tuesday, May 17 with 10
members and two visitors in attend-
ance. The meeting opened with the
Ode, the Mary Stewart Collect and a
reading by President Doreen Marks,
“The Next Best Thing”.
The minutes and treasurer’s
reports were given by Dorothy
Coultes. The District Annual
meeting will be on May 30 in
Dungannon Seniors’ Hall. Final
plans were discussed for the
Branch’s 100th Birthday party to be
held at the community centre on
June 7 with invited guests and local
branches attending.
The next regular meeting will be
on June 21 featuring a speaker on
Heart Health. Lunch was provided
by Wilma Higgins and Doreen
Marks.
The program was a trip to the
Belgrave Co-op Garden Centre,
where Laura Johnston displayed the
large selection of flowering baskets
and garden plants. She answered
many questions concerning the new
varieties and care of planters.
Everyone enjoyed the tour, in spite
of the wet weather and the
information provided by Laura.
On June 4 the Logan Hallahan
memorial barbecue and dance will
be held at the Belgrave Arena
featuring “The River Junction
Band”. All proceeds will go towards
pediatric equipment for the
Wingham and District Hospital. For
more information contact Janice
Hallahan 519-357-2426 or Emilie
Tenney at 519-357-3210.
NEWS
FROM BELGRAVE
By LindaCampbell
Call
357-2188
PEOPLE AROUNDBELGRAVE
Fire service in Morris-Turnberry running smoothly
Everyone involved agreed at the
May 17 meeting of Morris-
Turnberry that fire protection is
running smoothly in the munipality.
Fire Chiefs Marty Bedard of
Huron East, John Black of North
Huron, and Dale Edgar, deputy chief
of Howick Fire Department all
presented their annual reports for
2010 to council.
Jared Cayley, Morris-Turnberry’s
Community Fire Safety Officer,
praised the chiefs. “The chiefs have
been very patient with me as I’ve
learned my job,” he said. “Our
relationship has been cordial.”
Fire protection in Morris-
Turnberry is more complicated than
in most municipalities, pointed out
Mayor Paul Gowing. “From what I
understand we’re the only place in
Ontario working with all services
hired in with a fire safety officer,” he
said.
The reports showed that there had
been 43 calls into Morris-Turnberry
by North Huron firefighters, 11 calls
by the Brussels Fire Department,
and six by Howick.
A point of debate was the high
number of false alarms to the North
Huron department (23 per cent of all
calls).
Most of these came from one
business with a malfunctioning heat
detector, Cayley said. He thought the
problem had been solved.
When one councillor asked about
the possibility of a special charge for
an excessive number of false alarms,
the four fire officials were unani-
mous in this opposition. In Toronto,
Cayley said, people were taking
smoke alarms off line so they wouldn’t
send in a false alarm, but this was
endangering entire structures.
Chief Bedard said there should
only be charges for nuisance false
alarms, not malfunctioning
equipment.
“We encourage people to use a
false alarm as a training session,”
Chief Black said. “It’s an
opportunity for people to exercise
their emergency plans and see if
they’re working properly.”
Edgar thanked Cayley, Black,
Bedard and other area fire chiefs for
their co-operation as the Howick
department struck out on its own last
year.
Bedard reported the purchase of a
new tanker truck and rescue vehicle
for the Brussels station last year.
He also outlined the different
protective clothing each firefighter
must wear, with a cost of $2,000 for
each firefighter.
Bedard said the most serious fire
his Brussels station covered during
the year was involved a Cover-all-
type building in downtown Walton.
Black highlighted the increase in
training for the volunteer firefighters
in his department, with 52 weekly
training sessions and 104 individual
regular training sessions. The 39
firefighters averaged 81 per cent
attendance for these sessions, with
26 having over 80 per cent
attendance and four being present at
every training event.
He said the Emergency Services
Training Centre at Blyth has become
part of the North Huron department
in 2011 and will expand its activities
in order to support the cost of the
new building.
By Keith Roulston
The Citizen
By Johanna Blake
The first meeting of the North
Huron 4-H Sheep Club began on
May 10 at 7 p.m. at the Belgrave
Community Centre with the 4-H
pledge.
Members started by telling
everyone their name, where they
live and how long they’ve been in
the 4-H Sheep Club. The president
is Kabrina Bishop; vice-president,
Ashley Johnston; secretary, Chelsey
Terpstra and press reporter, Johanna
Blake.
Members discussed important
dates such as fairs, the Brussels
Elimination Draw and the Huron
County Judging competition, then
they played games organized by
senior member Margaret Vincent.
These games included 10 things you
would bring to a fair or for a road
trip, guiding a blindfolded person
through an obstacle course and
drawing a picture of a fair.
The club members were asked by
the leaders, “What would you like to
learn from this club” Finally, after a
thanks to the Vincent family for
paying for rental of the community
centre and making snacks, the
meeting ended with the 4-H motto,
“Learn To Do By Doing”.
NH 4-H Sheep
Club holds
first meeting