HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 2009-11-19, Page 18PAGE 18. THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2009. Classified Advertisements Tenders Tenders
A 1976 Ford L800 Water Tanker
Fuel Truck converted to a Fire Dept. Tanker
Engine is 361 CID Gas
Air Brakes
5 Speed with a 2 Speed Differential
Tank size is approx. 1500 gallons
Can be viewed at the Seaforth Fire Station
31 Birch St. in Seaforth
Tenders to be received at the Huron East Fire Dept.
72 Main St. P.O. Box 610
Seaforth, ON N0K 1W0
Deadline for tenders will be
November 27, 2009 – 12:00 noon
Tenders must include name, address, phone number
And proposed purchase price.
Highest or any tender not necessarily will be accepted
For more information please contact
Huron East Fire Chief Marty Bedard
519-527-0160 or 1-888-868-7513
mbedard@huroneast.com
MUNICIPALITY OF
HURON EAST FIRE
DEPARTMENT
FOR SALE BY TENDER
It was a wonderful week of
weather again and lots of work got
done.
The calendar says only 39 days
until Christmas, but with the
temperatures so high and sun
shining brightly, it is hard to believe.
One family celebrated Christmas
this past weekend at Walton Hall.
The Andersons, which includes
Lloyd and Lillian Appleby, gathered
for a turkey dinner, a visit from
Santa, and an afternoon of visiting.
There were close to 40 enjoying the
day together.
Hall board members Jo-Ann, Judy
Lee and Barb Durrell served up a
turkey dinner for the group.
Returning from a trip to the east
cost and a visit with a couple of old
friends are Clarence and Rose Marie
Bishop, and their son-in-law
George, husband of Darlene of
Guelph.
They went and had a visit with
Ken Miller, formerly of Brussels,
who now lives in Hammond Plains,
Nova Scotia. They spent a few days
with Ken and caught up with his
busy life.
Ken’s daughter Jody and two
granddaughters keep him busy.
The Bishops also stopped for a
visit with Randy Johnston, who lives
at Woodstock, New Brunswick for a
few days visit.
They checked out PEI, taking the
ferry one way and the bridge back
from the island and it was only $42.
The worst part of the trip was the
drive through Montreal and the
insane traffic.
They had a great trip and as
always it is nice to be home.
Congratulations to Brian and
Dianne Huether on the birth of theirfirst grandchild. Daughter Sherri andhusband Jeff welcomed a daughter
last Thursday and little Brooke is
doing well.
Howard and Audrey Hackwell,
along with grandson Sebastian, have
an interesting story to tell. Sebastian
put a goldfish in the outdoor rain
barrel early in the summer and as it
happens, kind of forgot about the
little thing. Now it’s fall and Audrey
decided to empty the barrel and
what do you think was squiggling on
the ground, but the goldfish. They
figure it must have lived on
mosquitoes during the summer.
Well, not to be the one to kill the
goldfish, it now has a home inside
the Hackwell’s house and Sebastian
is quite pleased to come and visit the
goldfish.
Nov. 11 has been an important
date for the past 91 years. It was the
day that the First World War
Armistice was signed. A resident of
Brussels has his own reasons for
reveling in the importance of this
day.
For Henk Ten Pas, it is his
birthday. Armistice Day was being
celebrated when Henk was born at
11:36 a.m. in 1936. His mother quite
often told the story, that just five
minutes after her son was born, a
squadron of jets, in a V for victory
formation, flew overhead. She was
quite touched by the joy of the dual
celebration.
Henk lived on the edge of the
small town of Winterswyk in
Holland, just a few miles from the
border of Germany.
The Second World War began in
1939, when Henk was only a small
child. He remembers the many
stories told by his parents over the
years as well as what he remembers.
He tells the story of the Germans
coming to the house to get his father.
They would take his father across
the border to Germany to dig
trenches for a week at a time, then
would bring him back on the
weekends. Sometimes, if they heard
that the Germans were coming, they
would hide their father in a secret
passage under the house, and say hewas away on business, and hewouldn’t have to work that week.
The war was winding down, it was
May 1945 and Henk was nine years
old. The Germans were being
chased out of Holland by the Allied
Forces.
May 7, the day before Freedom
Day, the Germans came to the
TenPas home. The soldiers were
hungry and they asked if Henk’s
mother would make them some
food. She prepared potatoes and
fried eggs for them.
The morning of Freedom Day, the
soldiers came again to the house.
This time it was to warn the family
to hide the children in the corners,
away from the windows. The
Germans were going to plant
explosives in the tree-lined road and
blow up the trees to try and stop the
Allies from catching up. The
explosions blew out every piece of
glass of the windows in the house,
but the TenPas family was
unharmed.
The Allies were close behind and
entered the village of Winterswyk
and found the roads blocked by the
trees. They worked to clear the roads
of the trees and upon arriving at the
TenPas home, a Canadian crew was
hungry, Again, Mrs. TenPas was
asked to make fresh baked potatoes
and fresh fried eggs, from the few
hens they had. The soldiers gave
Henk’s father oranges, cigarettes,
coke and marmalade jam.
The war was over and the town
partied and danced in celebration.
Henk remembers that they were
good guys and he was happy to meet
the Canadian soldiers.
I would like to thank Henk for
sharing his story with me and now
with you. It is these stories that
remind us, that war has touched
many in our community, unknown to
us.
Celebrating birthdays this past
week include Danielle Ducharme,
Murray Henderson, Katie Roth,
Barry Hoegy, Tristan Rijkhoff, Pat
Gillis, Michael Grobbink, Blaine
Marks, Lynne Godkin, Kristi Dawn
Getting to know you
Emily Kerkhof of Brussels was among the approximately
100 Grade 10 students from F.E. Madill Secondary School
who took in the school’s Challenge Day on Monday.
Instructors were up from California, where Challenge Day
originated, to put the students through very private and very
public exercises to help them become more comfortable in
their own skin. Monday was the first of two seminars, with
the second one being held on Tuesday. (Shawn Loughlin photo)
By Jo-Ann
McDonald
Call
887-6570
PEOPLE AROUNDWALTON
On Nov. 16 and 17, the Grade 10s
of F.E. Madill Secondary School
were challenged in ways they never
expected.
Challenge Days are annual full
day events where Grade 10 students,
along with older teen volunteers and
adult facilitators from the school and
community, are asked to get real and
talk about the issues that surround
them and are part of their lives daily.
The Challenge Day organization
asks them to “imagine a school
where every child feels safe, loved
and celebrated, where bullying,
violence and other forms of
oppression are things of the past.”
Each year, Challenge Day offers
young people the hope of improving
the quality of their time in and out of
school, by taking them through a
series of experiences and
opportunities to be open and look
past their individual differences to
see what is really there.
In order for it to be successful
though, outside support is always
badly needed. The event is costly,
and dependent upon the financial
generosity of organizations,
businesses and individuals. This
year’s supporters are Wingham
Lions Club, the Avon Maitland
District School Board, Dean’s
ValuMart, Wingham Foodland, The
Knights of Columbus/North Huron
Wescast Community Complex, and
the students, staff and parents of F.E.
Madill.
Grade 10s take Challenge
The County of Huron Council
launched its community notification
system Nov. 17.
This Protective Response
Interactive Systems Management
(PRISM 911) is an interactive
municipal telephone notification
system that county staff have been
implementing since its purchase
from the City of Quinte West in
March.
The system is ready to call
residents within minutes of the
county being made aware of any
emergency such as: boil water
notifications, chemical and nuclear
disasters, information on lost
children or missing persons, and
other emergencies.
Warden Ken Oke says PRISM 911
will enhance public safety. “We’ll
be able to react quickly to any
emergencies by notifying the
general public about any action they
should take.”
Oke also says the system is cost
effective since it reduces the human
resources needed to reach
community members in an
emergency.
Approximately 8,000 telephone
records have been received and
entered to-date; which is 30 per cent
of the telephone numbers in
Huron County.
Every residential, commercial,
industrial and institutional telephone
number is needed. All citizens are
encouraged to go on-line and
complete the form if they have not
already done so.
Forms may be found at
www.huroncounty.ca or paper
forms are available in Goderich at 1
Court House Square and also all
County Library locations.
For more information visit
the county’s website
www.huroncounty.ca/prism.
PRISM launched Nov. 17