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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 2010-01-28, Page 4PAGE 4. THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 2010.EditorialsOpinions Publisher, Keith Roulston Editor, Bonnie GroppAdvertising, Ken Warwick & Lori Patterson The CitizenP.O. Box 429,BLYTH, Ont.N0M 1H0Phone 523-4792 FAX 523-9140 P.O. Box 152,BRUSSELS, Ont.N0G 1H0Phone 887-9114 E-mail norhuron@scsinternet.comWebsite 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;$105.00/year in U.S.A.and $175/year in other foreign countries.Advertising is accepted on thecondition that in the event of a typographical error,only that portion of the advertisement will becredited.Advertising Deadlines: Monday, 2 p.m. - Brussels; Monday, 4 p.m. - Blyth.PUBLICATIONS MAIL AGREEMENT NO. 40050141PAP REGISTRATION NO. 09244 RETURN UNDELIVERABLE CANADIAN ADDRESSES TO CIRCULATION DEPT. PO BOX 152 BRUSSELS ON N0G 1H0 email: norhuron@scsinternet.com Jan. 28, 1948 The annual meeting of the Blyth Agricultural Society was held in the Orange Hall. At the end of the meeting, another meeting was held to promote a community park. Alex Alexander was appointed to the position of Huron County assessor, a post he was recommended for by the equalization committee. Alexander, a former reeve of Grey Twp. was charged with the task in hopes that the assessment might be completed by 1950. The federal government initiated an accounting program for the country’s farmers, issuing accounting books to each farmer across the country. These blank accounting books were designed to help farmers keep track of their business throughout the entire year and were forwarded to them free of charge. The East Wawanosh School Board held its inaugural meeting with Mr. Kinkead being nominated as the chair. The Belgrave School Fair Board held its annual meeting with the secretary reporting that over 2,000 entries had been received throughout all categories. This was a record for the fair at the time. Jan. 25, 1968 The Brussels Centennial Committee was rewarded for its efforts throughout the Centennial Reunion. Construction was to begin on a project of a change house or dressing rooms at the Brussels ball park as a result of the committee’s fundraising efforts. The first general meeting of the Brussels United Church Women was held with Mrs. Carl Hemingway presiding over the meeting. The Brussels Agricultural Society held its annual meeting and banquet at St. John’s Anglican Church, welcoming approximately 90 people to the event. Parents were urged to busy their sons with hockey throughout the winter in an advertisement for Brussels Minor Hockey that stated” Support Minor Hockey: Keep your boy out of hot water, put him on ice.” Admission to the Monday night euchre game cost just 50 cents. This was held at the Legion as well as the Gentlemen’s Club. A list of the 10 most “unwanted” drivers appeared, listing types of drivers who cause a hazard to other motorists as well as themselves. The list included the free- wheeling lane changer, the bumper chaser, the driver who rides his brakes, the high beam headlight driver and the stop sign jumper. Jan. 24, 1990 Plans for the proposed two-site Huronview Home for the Aged were moving along smoothly, said Tom Cunningham, a member of the Huronview board of management. The initial cost estimate for the project was $14 million, but figures were bumped up once the job began, saying they could go as high as $24 million. Nominations for Citizen of the Year lagged in 1990. With half of the nomination period already over, Citizen staff were disappointed with how few nominations they had received. Dairy producers were warned about challenges they were to face in the 1990s. Major hurdles were dealt with in the 1980s, but in the coming decade were problems with an industrial cap on milk prices, which was making it tough for local producers. Jan. 26, 2000 Re-structuring in North Huron had just been put on hold, however, North Huron council received an update on what work was being done to advance the task. One of the tasks was disbanding the police services board. Legal action being taken on behalf of Seaforth against the Avon Maitland District School Board was put on hold. The legal proceedings, taken after Seaforth District High School was threatened to be closed, had nearly $22,000 of backing funds. The dollars to fight the closure were collected by the Seaforth District High School Students Success Foundation. The Ontario Provincial Police were investigating a suspicious death in Egmondville as a body was found in a car there. By press time, a suspect was in custody after killing his wife as well. A new marketing plan was proposed for the Ontario Pork Producers. It was said that the new approach would “maintain an effective voice for all producers” at the annual Huron County Pork Producers Association’s annual meeting in Varna. The Seaforth District High School All Girls Marching Band planned on holding a string of shows throughout February, including a performance at Brussels Public School. Robin Williams played one of his many dramatic and critically- acclaimed roles in Bicentennial Man, while Jim Carrey, a former funnyman himself, branched out into drama with his portrayal of Andy Kaufman in Man On The Moon, a role he won a Golden Globe for, at the Park Theatre in Goderich. In Listowel, however, Toy Story 2 was playing alongside Oliver Stone’s Any Given Sunday and Deuce Bigalow Male Gigolo. We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Publications Assistance Program (PAP) toward our mailing costs. We are not responsible for unsolicited newsscripts or photographs. Contents of The Citizen are © Copyright Pay now or pay later Tough love may have new meaning when parents realize their attempts to make the lives of their children as easy and pleasurable as possible are putting the lives of our young people n danger. This week the annual report card on heart health, released by the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, declared young adults aged 20 to 39 years of age as Canada’s new “at risk” group. The age group that health officials have been worried about for some time as being inactive and overweight is entering young adulthood and exhibiting the health problems normally associated with people much older. It’s a generation parents may have killed with love: kids who were relieved of having to do household chores, who were given allowances so they didn’t have to earn money with tasks such as cutting the neighbour’s lawn, who got a ride to school because parents feared what might happen if they walked, who had the latest in video games to make them feel part of the crowd – games that kept them immobilized on the couch. They were a generation who, even if their parents did strive to give them a healthy diet at home, had spending money to buy junk food. The report card showed some three million people aged 20 to 34 consider themselves physically inactive, 2.5 million are overweight, two million smoke and 66,000 have Type 2 diabetes. And the frightening reality is that the generation behind this group, the children of today, may be in even worse condition. So if you’re a parent of children, if you really want to show your love, maybe you have to be a mean mom or a bad dad and make it harder for them to eat junk food, make them eat healthy food at home and get them off the couch to do tasks that will get them active or make them participate in healthy activities. If you don’t, you may make them happy now, but have them suffer years of ill health later. — KR Smarter than everyone else Nobody likes government — until we want it to do something for us. So the business community was happy to have the U.S. government provide billions to save banks and insurance companies from bankruptcy in 2008 and 2009, but as soon as the crisis was over, they wanted the government to go away and leave them alone. They whined when it was suggested it was obscene to hand out million-dollar bonuses to executives. They objected when government proposed new regulations. So last week when U.S. President Barack Obama announced plans to restrict the amount of risk banks can take, it was natural that the stock market went into shock. Despite the mess they made, business leaders still think they’re smarter than everyone else. But as Canadian regulations proved in the crisis, the right regulations can save the bankers from their own worst behaviour. — KR & EDITOR’S NOTE: — Newspapers are always looking for ways to help their readers understand how to properly prepare a letter to the editor. The following appeared in a recent edition of the Rocky Mountain House (AB) Mountaineer. One of the best read parts of any newspaper is the letter to the editor column and there are usually more than enough to make issues lively and interesting. Rules of writing letters are quite simple. Stick to these and we will be quite happy to print them, if not one week, then the next. • Address your writing to the editor. With "Open letters" to someone else, we always get the feeling of snooping in someone else's mail. • "Thank yous".Please use our card of thanks column in the classified section, or have your group budget for display advertising space, rather than using a letter to the editor. Letters are the place to express opinions and carry on debates. • Bad taste.This is a family newspaper. People can make their points without vulgar language. • Libelous material.To bad mouth someone in public is slander, to do so in print is libel. If we allowed someone's character to be unduly attacked, we are just as subject to a libel suit as the author of the letter. • Illegible and incoherent letters. Our typesetters are renowned for their ability to read bad handwriting. However, the most ideal situation is to have the letter typed and double spaced. Some letters ramble and make no sense, no matter how nimble our mental gymnastics. If we can't make heads or tails out of the letter, we won't make our readers try. If we can edit the letter to make it clear, we will. • Length.This is not the place for a textbook of personal opinion. We suggest that most people can get their point across in fewer than 750 words. Keep it short and to the point. It is in the best interest of the writer for the letter to be interesting and understandable to other readers. • Prose and poetry.We are a newspaper and not a literary magazine. There are places for short stories and poetry. The only time we will publish such material is if the item is, in itself, newsworthy. Winning a competition with a poem or story is a good reason. On occasion we will invite such material as we do annually for our Christmas edition. • Anonymous letters.If the writer doesn't believe the letter is worth signing, we can't believe it is worth reading. The opinion is more valid if the writer is willing to stand behind it. If a person does not want his name to appear, he must make a strong case to us in person. • Unsubstantiated facts.If you want to quote "facts" in the letter, tell us where they come from so readers can check on them. • End of Debate.After we feel all sides of a debate have been thoroughly aired and letters on the subject become repetitive, we will put an end to it. • Local Interest.Any topic is fair play, but letters should be of interest to the people of our community. EDITORIAL POLICIES