HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 2010-07-22, Page 6PAGE 6. THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, JULY 22, 2010.Writer disappointed in actions of mayor
Nice work!
Natalie Hussey opened her exhibit at the Blyth Festival Art
Gallery on Friday, which featured Beautiful Clarity, with
which she is standing. Hussey says this is her first solo
show and that the Blyth Festival Art Gallery is a great venue
for it. (Jim Brown photo)
THE EDITOR,
The Accommodation Review
Committee (ARC) of the area
schools should be commended for a
job well done representing their
schools. Everyone supported and
showed that their schools were
important to each of their
communities. Unfortunately, the
Avon Maitland District School
Board (AMDSB) should also be
commended for their job in dividing
the area communities and setting in
place a series of events that may not
be able to be reversed. All these
events have come together and
divided a community that has
worked well together for years in
sports, religion, service groups and
other community organizations.
The closing of any school is going
to cause hard feelings.
Everyone loves their own school
in different ways and would fight to
save them. Forty-five years ago our
local communities went through the
same type of scenarios. Closing the
little one-room country schools was
no different, but everyone came
together and our larger schools
flourished.
Now they too are too small, and
here we go again.
Those in larger centres do not
understand rural Ontario. You have
to live in rural Ontario to know how
it works. We are family, friends and
co-workers. We wave to each other
on the street and acts of kindness are
done on a daily basis because we
take care of each other.
So, that is why the comments
made by the mayor of Huron East
following the vote on June 22 have
further divided our communities.
Words like that, with so much anger
and directed at the very people that
at one time voted for him and trusted
that he would make the right
decisions for Huron East, have not
helped the situation.
The mayor has stated that he
defended both of the Huron East
schools equally, however, actions
speak louder than words.
His comments were both insulting
to those people who have spent
many hours volunteering at Grey
Central Public School and degrading
to those who feel we have a great
school. The actions of some on
Facebook were very immature and
have made many people of Grey
Ward feel unwelcome in the town of
Brussels, the town we have also
called home, some for decades.
This decision was not made by the
people of Grey. Grey ARC members
fought and had the same opportunity
to showcase their school as Brussels
and the four other schools in this
ARC did. And for anyone who is not
sure about the ARC process and
wants to know what was said, every
ARC meeting and board meeting
can be found on the AMBDSB
website.
At the July 6 meeting of Huron
East Council, a delegation from
Grey asked that the mayor and
certain councillors apologize for
their inappropriate comments
directed at Grey Central Public
School. These not only affected the
school, but those who support it.
The delegation was told that the
mayor would only apologize to his
wife and the man upstairs. No
further apologies would be made.
The mayor had stated time and again
that we are all one community. What
would the mayor’s comments have
been had the vote closed Grey
instead? Would he had gotten up
from his chair and charged to the
front to speak out of turn to the
trustees as he did on the night of
June 22? Would he have used a
profanity-filled barrage to degrade
the Brussels school?
Correct, we all have the right to
our own opinions, but the
unprofessional manner shown by
those elected to represent our
communities is very disappointing.
We are asking council as a whole
to come together and address this
situation and put an end to the unjust
finger-pointing going on between
these communities. Mending of
these fences is going to have to start
with our council representatives
right down to parents of both
communities.
Calvin Semple and Dave Diehl
Grey Ward.
The Friday euchre at the
Cranbrook Hall had many good
laughs. It was hosted by Jean Dewar
and Delphine Dewar. There were
eight tables at play.
Winners were: share the wealth,
Marion Harrison and Florence
Holmes; high lady, Myrna Burnett;
low lady, Eileen Ament; lone hands,
Joyce Alexander; men’s high, Grace
Stewart; men’s low, Sharon
Freeman; lone hands, Allan Edgar;
tally winners, Marion Harrison,
Viola Adams, Keith Turnbull, Mary
Davidson, Isabelle Bremner,
Dorothy Martin, Shirley Verstoep,
Margaret Peebles, Joan Jacobs,
Marguerite Beirnes and Leona
McDonald.
The next euchre will be on Friday,
Aug. 6 at 8 p.m.
The Ethel euchre was held on
Monday, July 12 with seven tables in
play.
Winners were: share the wealth,
Joyce Alexander and Judy Hahn;
high; Isabelle Bremner and Neil
Hatt; lone hands, Dorothy Dilworth,
Grace Stewart, Helen Cullen and
Edna McLellan. There were many
tally winners.
The next euchre will be on July 26
at 8 p.m.
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