HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 2010-04-08, Page 1Want to see your favourite citizen
highlighted in The Citizen?
The time for nominations for
Citizen of the Year is drawing to a
close for Blyth and Brussels,
and there is no better time to try
and recognize someone who
makes a difference in your
community.
Whether it’s a volunteer-a-holic
who barely spends a moment not
helping someone, that incredible
coach of that local sports team, or
simply that individual who is always
holding open doors and helping
elderly folks cross the street,
everyone knows someone worthy of
this award.
All you have to do is fill out a
form, sit back, and hope your
nominee(s) is(are) chosen.
Past winners include selfless
individuals who are always helping,
people who constantly support their
town, and those who always offer
kindness.
Former Brussels Citizens are,
beginning in 1985, Cal Krauter,
Wayne Lowe, Jack Bryans, Ida
Evans, Bessie Johnston, Betty
Graber, George Langlois, Howard
Bernard, Joanne King, Frank
Thompson, Audrey Cardiff, Leona
Armstrong, Neil McGavin, Beth
Earl, Lyle and Alice Brothers, Nelva
and Spence Scott, Jo-Ann
McDonald, Kathy Bridge, Jeff and
Cathy Cardiff, Clara Blake, Phyllis
Mitchell, Doug McArter, Nora
Stephenson and Fran Bremner, and
Rene Richmond.
Previous Blyth winners are
Evalena Webster, Frank and Cenetta
Bainton, Winona McDougall,
Margaret Whyte, Simon Hallahan,
Dr. Richard Street, Bill and Maxine
Seers, Margaret Caldwell, Helen
Gowing, Don Scrimgeour, John
Stewart, Janet Amos, Betty Battye,
Robb Finch, Dave Cook, Brent
Scrimgeour and Doug Walker,
Murray Siertsema, Charlie Shaw,
Lavern Clark, Bev Blair and Thelma
Johnston, Steven Sparling, Don
“Barney” Stewart, Lois van Vliet,
Janice Henry, Joe Hallahan, and,
most recently, Brock and Janis
Vodden.
Former nominees must be
renominated to be considered. Their
previous nomination packages will
be included in their current
nomination package.
The deadline for entries in this
year’s Citizen of the Year judging is
Friday, April 30.
The Citizen of the Year
nomination form is on page 21.
Brussels resident Donna Bauer
has planned several fundraisers to
benefit juvenile diabetes research
and care this summer, a cause that
hit home with her several years ago.
The main fundraiser will take
place right in Bauer’s area at River’s
Edge Golf Course in Cranbrook on
May 8.
The family fun day, which is
scheduled for Mother’s Day
weekend, hopes to raise funds for
the Juvenile Diabetes Research
Fund. The day will include golf,
food and prizes and families are
encouraged to bring their children,
even if they have never golfed
before.
Bauer says that her family has
been walking in the annual diabetes
walk since her granddaughter was
diagnosed. However, this year, she
wanted to step it up and help as
much as she could. She said that
while Sydney lives in Kitchener,
where much of the provincial
Local Sunshine List topped by school board
Well, hello
These girls said hello to each other while the rest of Huron County said hello to spring, which
sprung in a hurry last week. Temperatures in the 20s flowed through the area and most of the
province and Ontarians were outdoors in strong numbers to take full advantage. Kennedy
Huether, top, was one of them, taking the time to curl down from the monkey bars to say hello
to her friend Ella Sawchuk while on recess from Blyth Public School on the last day of March.
(Aislinn Bremner photo)
Nominations now open
for Citizen of the Year
Those working in education and
health care make up the vast
majority of public servants from the
region included on the “Sunshine
List” of employees who made more
than $100,000 in 2009.
The Avon-Maitland District
School Board had 74 employees on
the list, with the top salary being that
of Charles Reid, director of
education, at $176,022.
The Huron-Perth Roman Cath-
olic School Board had 29 people
who earned more than $100,000 last
year, topped by Martha Dutrizac at
$171,427.
Huron-Perth Health Care Alliance
which operates the hospitals in
Clinton, Seaforth, Stratford and St.
Marys, had 27 entries on the list,
headed by Andrew Williams, chief
executive officer, who made
$304,912.
Listowel-Wingham Hospital
Alliance had six employees included
in the list, with CEO Margrét
Comack making $198,898.
In the municipal sector, only the
County of Huron had employees that
made the list. Medical Officer of
Health Dr. Nancy Cameron had the
highest salary at $210,580 followed
by Larry Adams, chief
administrative officer at $164,213.
No one on the payrolls of
Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh,
Central Huron, Huron East, Morris-
Turnberry or Township of North
Huron made enough money to be
included on the list.
Golf day for diabetes
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