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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 2011-11-10, Page 4PAGE 4. THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2011.Editorials Opinions Publisher: Keith Roulston Acting Editor: Shawn Loughlin • Reporter: Denny ScottAdvertising Sales: Ken Warwick & Lori Patterson The CitizenP.O. Box 429, BLYTH, Ont. N0M 1H0 Phone 523-4792 FAX 523-9140 P.O. Box 152, BRUSSELS, Ont. N0G 1H0 Phone 887-9114 E-mail norhuron@scsinternet.com Website www.northhuron.on.ca Looking Back Through the Years CCNA Member Member of the Ontario Press Council The Citizen is published 50 times a year in Brussels, Ontario by North Huron Publishing Company Inc. Subscriptions are payable in advance at a rate of $34.00/year ($32.38 + $1.62 G.S.T.) in Canada; $115.00/year in U.S.A. and $205/year in other foreign countries. Advertising is accepted on the condition that in the event of a typographical error, only that portion of the advertisement will be credited. Advertising Deadlines: Monday, 2 p.m. - Brussels; Monday, 4 p.m. - Blyth. PUBLICATIONS MAIL AGREEMENT NO. 40050141 RETURN UNDELIVERABLE CANADIAN ADDRESSES TO CIRCULATION DEPT. PO BOX 152 BRUSSELS ON N0G 1H0 email: norhuron@scsinternet.com November 12, 1975 A decision at Morris Township Council meant that storm sewer changes would be coming to Belgrave in the near future. Council, at the Nov. 3 meeting, voted to have Morris Reeve William Elston and Councillor Sam Pletch work with Ken Dunn of B.M. Ross and Associates to have two catch basins installed in the area. In addition, council also passed a motion that the engineering firm would complete the village’s plan for storm sewers. Morris Township Council also voted to donate $200 to the Walton Hall Board for repairs to the hall. The donation request came from Donald Chilles. Theatre was set to return to Blyth out of its regular season with The West Show, a Theatre Passe Muraille production, coming to the Memorial Hall stage on Dec. 3. The show was produced by the group during a trip in the summer of 1975 to western Canada similar to the birth of The Farm Show. Several Farm Show alumni were back to participate in The West Show, including Miles Potter, Janet Amos, David Fox and Ann Anglin. The Blyth stop on the show’s tour was the only one scheduled for the area, with the closest additional shows being held in Guelph and Petrolia theatres. Farmers in Hullett Township had made the decision not to have their cattle sprayed for warble flies next spring. The decision was made at the Nov. 3 meeting of Hullett Township Council and the clerk was instructed to change the township’s policy. Hullett Township Council also accepted a tender from Radford’s Garage for a new tractor, loader and mower. The price of the new tractor and loader was $11,589.75 and the cost of the new mower was $367. East Wawanosh Township recreation, parks and community centre received a grant from the township council in the amount of $150 at the Nov. 4 council meeting. The board had been formed under a year earlier. The Wingham detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) was in the process of investigating 10 different traffic collisions just between the week of Nov. 3 and Nov. 9. As a result of the investigation, six people were charged under the Liquor Control Act. November 12, 1986 The annual Blyth Festival auction was held on Nov. 8 with auctioneers Richard and Bert Lobb taking the on-stage duties. The event raised nearly $9,000 for future capital expenses at the Blyth Festival. The Walton-area home of Mr. and Mrs. Murray Houston was damaged beyond repair due to a Nov. 8 fire that occurred on the 16th of Grey shortly before 10 a.m. By the time the family finally left their property four hours after the fire began, the house had been damaged beyond repair by fire, smoke, water and heat. Murray and Maxine Houston had been the third generation of the Houston family to occupy the home. In addition to the house, countless antique pieces of furniture that had been in the family for decades were lost in the fire. The Londesborough Lions continued working on their ‘Back the Biter’ fundraising campaign after just receiving the largest single donation to date. Radford’s Auto of Blyth and Brussels donated $1,423.76. The amount represented a 10 per cent cut of the company’s sales during the week of Nov. 3-8. Londesborough’s John and Brenda Radford had also donated box seats for eight to an upcoming Toronto Blue Jays game that had been won at the Blyth Festival auction. Huron County’s first female warden, Leona Armstrong of Grey, was honoured with a banquet held on Nov. 8 at the Brussels, Morris and Grey Community Centre. The evening was a departure from the usual holding of the banquet, which was often held in Goderich. November 11, 2004 Huron OPP officers were deployed to a residence on McDonald Line in Huron East after a report of some sort of chemical acid being thrown on a vehicle. The acid had caused a considerable amount of damage to the paint of the vehicle. Huron County Council took its first steps towards septic tank re- inspections at its November meeting. Council made a motion to move $250,000 to the 2005 budget to begin implementing the program. There was confusion, however, as to whether the program would go towards funding the inspection of septic systems or to include funding for homeowners whose systems needed repairs. “We’re not subsidizing repairs, just inspections,” said Goderich Mayor Deb Shewfelt. Members of the Blyth Legion and the Legion Ladies Auxiliary held their annual Remembrance Day church service on the Sunday prior to Remembrance Day at Huron Chapel Evangelical Missionary Church. John Roe took over Blyth’s barber shop. After nearly 50 years of cutting hair in Blyth, Lloyd Walsh retired, giving way for Roe to take on the duties of the shop. We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Periodical Fund (CPF) for our publishing activities. We are not responsible for unsolicited newsscripts or photographs. Contents of The Citizen are © Copyright I’ll make the rules, you pay You know you really have power when you can make the rules, but somebody else has to pick up the tab for the expenses involved. We’re getting a lesson about that at both the federal and provincial level. Federally, the government of Stephen Harper is determined to push through its belief that putting more people in jail, for longer periods of time, will cut crime. Whether you believe in their theory or not, they were elected and they get to implement their agenda. But a good deal of the impact of this tough-on-crime legislation will fall on provincial governments. The parliamentary budget office of the federal parliament estimates the government’s omnibus crime bill will cost the provinces $6-$10 billion over five years in added enforcement costs by police, extra court costs and the cost of housing more prisoners. Some experts are suggesting there will be unexpected consequences from minimum sentencing in that crown attorneys will not be able to plea-bargain and more accused will elect to go to trial, causing even more backlog in courts (run by the provinces) that are already jammed. But if the province can see the unfairness of the federal government making laws that the province has to pay to enforce, it’s just as guilty of foisting expenses onto municipalities. Recently Ashfield-Colborne- Wawanosh Reeve Ben Van Diepenbeek told Huron County Council that the Ontario Fire Marshal has a plan to force every rural fire department to have a full-time fire chief. If true, it’s another example of urban standards being imposed by the province on rural areas where it just doesn’t make economic sense. It’s rural taxpayers who have to pick up the cost for a service they wouldn’t choose for themselves. There’s a basic problem when governments that get to impose costly rules aren’t the ones that have to pick up the expenses involved. — KR Remembering to remember One of the side effects of Canada’s participation in the war in Afghanistan is a resurgence in interest in Remembrance Day. With no veterans of World War I still alive, and the number of World War II veterans shrinking every year, there have been fewer faces for younger people to associate with the sacrifices that volunteers made for their country in the past. But the participation of a young generation of soldiers in Afghanistan, and the unfortunate casualties that went with their mission, has made the cost of war very real again. The sacrifices of this younger generation has, in turn, renewed the interest in the soldiers, sailors and aviators who fought in prior wars. Poppies are everywhere these days. Attendance at Remembrance Day ceremonies has increased in many places. Once again people realize how important it is for us to remember the sacrifices of those who put themselves in danger for their country. — KR The message is getting lost More and more the real message of the Occupy Movement is getting lost in the controversy of the occupation of camps in cities across the country and around the world. Public debate has become focussed on the fact the protesters are breaking bylaws by camping in city parks, that they’re disrupting the lives of others, that they seem to be accomplishing little – that they should just go away. The issue they tried to highlight is not being talked about anymore. And it should be. The gulf between the highest paid people in society and the vast majority needs to be examined. The current economic crisis in Europe, for instance, is directly connected. As Amanda Lang, senior business correspondent for CBC News, explained the other night, U.S. financial institutions got in trouble to selling lucrative, but risky, investments, requiring governments (taxpayers) to bail them out or risk a far worse economic collapse. Governments had to borrow money, selling bonds to banks, and now of some of those governments may not be able to pay their debt, meaning more taxpayers’ money is needed to prop up the banks. Governments must cut back on services to ordinary people to afford the bailouts for bankers who made obscene amounts of money. These are issues that need to be discussed, not tents in parks. — KR & Letters Policy The Citizen welcomes letters to the editor. 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