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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 2010-05-20, Page 4PAGE 4. THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, MAY 20, 2010.EditorialsOpinions Publisher: Keith Roulston Acting Editor: Shawn Loughlin • Reporter: Denny ScottAdvertising Sales: 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 May 26, 1948 The flood lighting for the Blyth ball park continued to be an issue, with nearly $500 being needed from the community to reach the required amount of $1,500. The Blyth Lions Club had already contributed $300 to the project, while the Blyth Legion had contributed $100. It was expected that the work on the diamond would begin as soon as the equipment was procured by the community. The Blyth Men’s A softball team was said to have it tough, waiting to face their next opponent Centralia. Centralia defeated the team from Clinton Radar School the previous week by a score of 26-0. Centralia’s pitcher was credited with 21 strikeouts. “You can’t afford to miss this one,”The Blyth Standard proclaimed. On the other hand, however, the Blyth Legionettes dropped their first two games, being defeated by teams from Goderich and Walton. The Blyth squad was defeated 27-24 by Goderich and the score of the Walton game was “better not mentioned”The Blyth Standard warned. May 23, 1968 The Tri-County Intermediate Softball League announced its summer schedule, kicking off in Ethel, with the home team hosting the squad from Gorrie on May 22 and wrapping up on July 2 with Moncrieff travelling to Bluewater to play. Robert E. McKinley was named the Progressive Conservative candidate for the Huron County riding. He was elected in Clinton on May 15. McKinley, who had operated a chick hatchery in Zurich, represented Huron County for the previous three years. He was also the director of the Huron-Perth division of the poultry and egg marketing board. McKinley was set to face Maitland Edgar in the election, after he was nominated to represent the Huron County Liberal party in the upcoming election. McKinley defeated Edgar to win the riding in three years prior. Stuart Nichol, son of Eleanor and Frank Nichol, graduated with the Ontario Degree of Horticulture, graduating with distinction, having won the Canadian Nursery Trades Association Scholarship, which he won for having the highest mark in any section of the program. Nichol followed up his graduation with contract work with the Toronto Secondary School Board, teaching his specialty at the West Park Vocational School, which was under construction at the time. The East Huron District Women’s Institute elected its officers at the annual meeting, which was held in Fordwich, with Mrs. Lyle Murray of RR2, Clifford being elected president, taking over for Mrs. Frank Waters of RR3, Walton. May 23, 1990 Bessie Johnston of RR2, Bluevale was named Citizen of the Year for the Brussels area for being involved in several different community activities throughout the area. Johnston was best known to the community as the co-ordinator for the Brussels, Morris and Grey Community Centre’s catering group. Over the years, the group had catered hundreds of banquets and turned over hundreds of thousands of dollars to assist the centre in its operation. In 1989, the group turned over $12,000 to the centre. The Brussels Legion installed its executive board for 1990-1991, including the new president, Ross Bennett, Al Nichol, first vice- president and Frank Stretton, second vice-president. May 22, 2008 Chuck Reid was chosen to replace Geoff Williams as the education director for the Avon Maitland District School Board. Reid was operating as an associate director with the Hamilton Wentworth District School Board, when he was chosen for his new position. He was given more power, going from a number two position to a number one position, but the Avon Maitland District School Board housed far fewer students than Reid’s previous board, 19,000 students, compared to Hamilton Wentworth’s 50,000. Grade 5 students from Brussels Public School were busy painting yellow fish by many of the storm drains throughout the village to remind people that only rain water should be filtering through those drains. The initiative by the class capped off what was called Earth Month at Brussels Public School, a month that was full of activities that were aimed at cleaning up the village as well as raising awareness about environmental issues. Jan Hawley was named Huron East’s new economic development officer after leaving her position with the Goderich BIA. Publisher of The Citizen, Keith Roulston was one of two awarded in the 4th Line Theatre Company’s new play competition. The long-awaited fourth installment in the Indiana Jones saga,Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was playing at the Park Theatre in Goderich. 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 Let’s just talk Happy as we are at The Citizen to be the communications conduit for our area, it would really be better if local politicians sat down and talked to each other in person, instead of making statements which we report which the politicians in other municipalities then react to with their own statements. This week our front page has reaction by North Huron councillors who were responding to statements made by councillors from neighbouring municipalities over the fire protection issue. Look guys, can’t you all just get together and work this out in person? North Huron council apparently feels aggrieved and misunderstood by neighbours who objected to its move to break up the old Blyth District Fire Area Board, in which all municipalities shared, and replace it with a North Huron Fire Department that would answer only to North Huron council, but would provide service to neighbours at a price to be determined by North Huron. When the neighbouring municipalities objected to that price and looked for alternatives, the difficulties began for all concerned – most especially property owners in Hullett and West Wawanosh. Officials of the Ontario Fire Marshal’s office convinced North Huron to take over total control of the fire departments in Blyth and Wingham because they felt the joint fire area boards that had been running the departments created problems with clear lines of command. However, those jointly-run boards offered a regular consultation on fire protection issues across municipal boundaries. They offered a sense of ownership and participation to everyone involved. If, as the Fire Marshal’s office says, these boards aren’t the way to go, then there needs to be some replacement to provide regular opportunities for communication and consultation on shared services. — KR Down and dirty drug war There may be no bleeding bodies as in wars between drug gangs, but the drug war between the Ontario government and pharmacies is getting almost as dirty. The viciousness right now is coming mostly from the pharmacies, which have been targeting individual Liberal MPPs in their battle to make the government back away from its plan to stop generic drug companies from giving hundreds of millions of dollars as a payment for the druggists using their brand of drugs. Recently we at The Citizen received a press release from an agency acting for the pharmacies saying it had conducted a public opinion survey which showed local MPP Carol Mitchell could be defeated in the next provincial election over the issue. It’s the kind of political attack campaigns more usually seen south of the border. In ads, the pharmacies have accused the government of reducing front line health care with its plans. Though the future of small, independent pharmacies might be threatened by the government move, “front line” health care is hardly endangered. If your big chain drug store can’t stay open 24 hours a day is that really such a threat? Instead, the expensive campaign seems to undermine the pharmacies’ very claim of hardship. If they can afford to spend this much money, maybe they really don’t need any generic company kickbacks. — KR If not HST, where else? Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath has appointed herself as spokesperson for the little guy in arguing the harmonized sales tax is a hardship for the ordinary working family. As representative of a party that believes in more government spending, where else should the tax money come from? It’s one thing for a low tax party like the Progressive Conservatives to criticize the tax, but the NDP’s solution to everything is to spend more money. So where else to get the money? Oh yes, this is the NDP – its simple solution is always to tax big bad businesses. — KR & Letters Policy The Citizen welcomes letters to the editor. Letters must be signed and should include a daytime telephone number for the purpose of verification only. Letters that are not signed will not be printed. Submissions may be edited for length, clarity and content, using fair comment as our guideline. The Citizen reserves the right to refuse any letter on the basis of unfair bias, prejudice or inaccurate information. 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