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Volume 26 No. 32SPORTS- Pg. 8Seaforth Country Classicreturns for third year SPECIAL - Pg. 20 CHAT and HEAT presentto Central Huron CouncilFALLFAIR- Pg. 2Morgan Deitner crownedBrussels AmbassadorPublications Mail Agreement No. 4005014 Return Undeliverable Items to North Huron Publishing Company Inc., P.O. Box 152, BRUSSELS, ON N0G 1H0INSIDE THIS WEEK:
With all the awards handed out
and the races complete, The Walton
Parts Canada TransCan event has
come to a close.
Chris Lee, owner of the track that
hosted record crowds over the
weekend, said that the weekend was
a big success.
“We had record attendance as of
Sunday,” he said. “It surprised me,
because of the way the weather
looked like it was going to go.”
Local riders who did well
included Cody Richmond of
Bluevale, who placed first in the
MX2 125 Junior B Races with 75 of
75 possible points and 10th in the
Super Mini races; Trevor Keys of
Seaforth, who placed 18th in the
MX2 125 Junior B races with 10 of
75 possible points; Tyler Listman of
Seaforth, who rode his Kawasaki to
13th place in the MX2 125
Intermediate finals; Damion
Donaldson of Lucknow, who placed
seventh in the 50 Pee Wee races; and
Walton’s Mitchell Godkin who
placed eighth in the Super Mini
races and sixth in the School Boy
races.
The King of Walton award was
given to Bobby Kiniry of New York,
who placed first in the MX1 overall.
Kiniry was presented his award on
Sunday, as well as the sword that he
holds until a new king is crowned,
Huron-Bruce MP Ben Lobb.
First place finishers for the
individual events were:
• MX1 250 Junior - Brandon
Spencer of Picton, Ontario
• MX2 125 Junior “A”, MX3 GP
Junior “A”, and School Boy -
Bradley Dool of Ashton, Ontario
• MX2 125 Intermediate -
Cole/Kyle Thompson
• MX3 GP Junior “B” - Craig
Moosberger of Port Burwell,
Ontario
• MX3 GP Intermediate - Nicky
Beatty of Wyoming, Ontario
• 50 Pee Wee (4-6) - Jeremy
McKie of Beloeil, Quebec
• 50 Pee Wee (7-8) - Nicholas
Cryer of Dunnville, Ontario
• 60 Pee Wee (7-9) - Christopher-
Jay Da Silva of St-Jean Sur
Richeliue, Quebec
• 60 Pee Wee (10-11) and 80 (7-
11) - Joey Crown of Metamora,
Michigan
• 80 (12-16) and Super Mini -
Michael Da Silva of St-Jean Sur
Richeliue, Quebec
• Youth (12-24) - Greg Durivage of
Waterville, Ohio
• 25+ - Josh Woods of Cairo,
Georgia
• Vet Junior - Jeff Van Niekerk of
Cambridge, Ontario
• Vet Master - Doug DeHaan of
Thorndale, Ontario
• 40+ - Matt Crown of Metamora,
Michigan
• Ladies - Taylor Miller of
Alabaster, Alabama.
With Huron East Mayor Joe Seili
declaring that he would not seek the
mayoral seat for a third term, Huron
East Council could face some
change in this fall’s election, but
several familiar faces have already
declared their intent to run again.
Brussels ward councillor David
Blaney, despite being involved in
recent controversy surrounding
comments he made regarding the
Brussels and Grey Central Public
Schools situation, says that there is
still plenty of work to be done and
filed his papers earlier this month.
Priorities going forward for
Brussels are the Brussels Library,
Brussels and Grey Central Public
Schools, the village’s infrastructure
and economic development
throughout the entire municipality.
It had gone through Blaney’s head
to not run, but he felt that council
was in the middle of too many
different projects for him to not
consider being a part of council once
again, he said.
However, he said, he knows that of
the priorities he has listed, some can
be controlled by council more than
others.
“The school is definitely an
important issue going forward,” he
said. “but it’s not as much in
council’s hands as I’d like it to be.”
In regards to the Brussels Library,
Blaney acknowledges that little
work has been done on the project in
the last year because of its potential
tie-in to a new school in Brussels.
During the Accommodation Review
Committee (ARC) process,
members of council discussed
proposing a new public school and
library near the Brussels, Morris and
Grey Community Centre, similar to
a project that had been undertaken in
nearby Howick. Howick’s library
saw a large spike in library usage
because of the new library’s nearby
location to the arena.
However, with the Avon Maitland
District School Board trustees voting
to close Brussels Public School,
those discussions were abruptly
halted and the issue has yet to be
raised since.
No matter what may happen with
the appeal of the aforementioned
decision that has been filed by
several concerned members of the
community, Blaney says the library
should be one of the Preliminary
items the new council tackles after
this fall’s election.
“Hopefully the library will be one
of the first things council deals with
in the new year,” he said. “There will
have to be a restart to the fundraising
process and some sort of public
meeting, I would think.”
Blaney said that if he is elected to
represent Brussels once again, it is
bound to be different, as Seili is the
only mayor he has served under.
Blaney says that he has always felt
that Huron East Council has
operated well within its five wards
after amalgamation. He said this was
an idea that began with Huron East’s
first mayor, Lynn Steffler and was
carried on by Seili.
Running in Seili’s impending
absence will be Deputy-Mayor
Bernie MacLellan, who, at press
time, is the only person to file papers
for the position of Huron East
Mayor. Seaforth ward Councillor
Joe Steffler has filed for MacLellan’s
current position of deputy mayor.
Other than Blaney, Steffler and
MacLellan, McKillop ward
Councillors Andy Flowers and Bill
Siemon have filed to run for another
term, while Seaforth Councillor Bob
Fisher and Tuckersmith Councillor
Les Falconer have both filed to run
for their current seats once again.
Blaney says that doesn’t surprise
him, as he thinks council could look
very similar in the fall. He says that
in Huron East specifically,
historically, candidates often wait
until just before the deadline to file
for the upcoming election.
He said that one term is just
enough to begin to understand how
municipal politics work, so the filing
by Fisher, Flowers, Falconer and
Siemon didn’t surprise him one bit.
“It’s more complicated than
people think,” he said. “It takes a
year or two of just watching how
things are done.”
Blaney, who had a background in
politics before running also added
that he had reported on Huron East
Council for one year for The Citizen,
prior to declaring his intent to run.
He says he felt it gave him a head
start on his way to filling the
position.
One facet of the job in which
people get very frustrated upon
becoming a municipal councillor,
Blaney says, is finding out where
council has decision-making power
and where council’s hands can be
tied by another government body.
“It can frustrate people in so many
instances with so many things that
directly affect a municipality’s
ratepayers that council often has no
say over,” he said. “Orders in certain
situations can come down the
pipeline and there’s nothing you can
do about it.”
Blaney cites something like the
decision made by the school board
trustees as a situation in which
council is “extremely restricted” in
what it can do to affect the outcome.
When it comes to the divide that is
said to be growing between the
Record attendance at 19th annual TransCan
Huron East Council to have new look
Start your engines
While the annual Walton TransCan has been called many things, small has never been one of them. Here, as a group of hopefuls
begin a race, just getting going off the starting line on August 12, the action was just beginning, readying the track for the
weekend action. This year the TransCan has only grown, setting an attendance record for the Sunday races as well as
expanding to include a tailgate party in Blyth last week. In its 19th year, the Walton TransCan is now bigger than ever. (Jim Brown
photo)
By Denny Scott
The Citizen
By Shawn Loughlin
The Citizen
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