HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 2008-10-09, Page 9THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2008. PAGE 9.
Huron County council approved
two applications for funding from
the Huron Heritage initiative.
The Van Egmond Foundation
applied for $729.75 towards a
projected cost of $1,459.50 to repair
the stone gate posts.
Bayfield Town Hall Heritage
Society will be receiving $5,000
towards a projected $13,000
landscape revision to the building’s
entrance.
Two other projects have been
deferred until more information is
received. The Huron County
Historical Society requested $4,000
for the 2006 and 2007 Historical
Notes publication. This was half of
the projected cost.
Brian Jeffray for Thirty-Five West
Limited asked for $5,000 towards
the $16,050 facade work.
Asked why these two were
deferred, Bluewater councillor Jim
Fergusson, chair of the cultural
services and seniors committee,
explained that the committee needed
some questions cleared up. “We
weren’t clear whether the Historical
Society request falls under the
approved criteria,” he said. “Also,
the issue they requested this for was
2006 and 2007. We’re not clear on
whether this is a retroactive fund.”
With regards to the second
deferred request, Fergusson said the
issue is because it is a privately-
owned building. “There is a question
about a private building getting
public funding that will benefit the
owner when they sell.”
Happy Thanksgiving to all and we
hope a great family weekend is
ahead to enjoy.
We have just had a nice weekend
for weather and hopefully it will
warm up, dry up and stay nice so the
farmers can get back to harvest. I see
there are still white beans out there,
lots of soybeans yet, corn silage
started and even grain corn being
tried. There is probably lots of
wheat still wanting to be planted so
we hope the weather will straighten
around for awhile.
Home for a couple of days was
Pam Hackwell. Mother Audrey had
been under the weather and Pam
came home to see that she was
behaving. The good news is that
Audrey is feeling better and Pam had
a nice visit.
Returning from a trip to Las Vegas
are Jim and Linda McDonald. They
were away a week and had great
weather and a great time. They
enjoyed seeing a few shows
including the Blue Man Group, the
Jersey Boys and Danny Gans, a
comedian and impersonator. They
did the tour of the old part of Las
Vegas as well as a museum tour.
Swimming, a little gambling and
relaxing by the pool filled the week.
Marilyn McDonald has also
returned from a wonderful vacation.
She, along with her sister Barb
Tervit of Wingham, were off to Nova
Scotia to visit with their brother
Doug and wife Jeanie Newman.
They were also joined by sister Janie
from Ottawa.
They spent two weeks travelling
around the Dartmouth area seeing
the sites such as the Blue Nose II at
Lunenburg and Mahon Bay.
They were also in Prince Edward
Island which Marilyn says is
beautiful with pastoral green
farmland, clean white churches
nestled into the scenery and
everything neat and tidy.
In Cape Breton, the scenery was
trees, trees and more trees but lovely.
They were lucky to spend the two
weeks and have very little rain, even
though the storm, Ike, caused a great
deal of rain to fall on the western
side of Nova Scotia. They had a
great visit with their nephew and
great-nephew, who has since been
deployed to Somalia aboard a navy
vessel to help in the war against
pirates raiding food shipments.
They were also joined for dinner
one night by Marilyn’s son Bruce,
who was in Nova Scotia for an
insurance convention.
Margery Huether of Seaforth and
her sister, Nancy Holmes attended
the 100th year celebration of the
establishment of the Stratford
Teacher’s College/Normal School
on Sept. 13. It was the 50th
anniversary for the sisters who
attended there in 1958. They enjoyed
fond memories as their mother, Mrs.
Ruby Webster, attended in 1917.
An unfortunate accident on the
weekend shook up two local folks. A
motor-vehicle collision involving
Mandy Mitchell and her brother
Jamie happened in Seaforth.
Although not responsible for the
mishap, they luckily were not hurt
but shaken up badly. Their vehicle is
not so lucky.
The final weekend at Lees’
motocross track has been had for
2008. The Thames Valley Riders
used the track for one of their last
days of racing on Saturday, then the
final practice day for the Walton
track was held on Sunday. The track
will receive its final grooming for
the fall and then it will be put to rest
for the winter.
Celebrating birthdays this past
week include Matthew Shortreed,
Wayne Hartman, Pauline Bennett,
Paul Kirkby, Dianne McCallum,
Aafke Zwep, Kara Godkin and
Joyce Hartman.
Hearty start
The Grey firefighters were at the grill Sunday morning at Grey Central Public School cooking
breakfast. Bill Pearson handled the scrambled eggs, while Mike, centre and his dad Jim
Stephenson were on bacon and sausage duty. (Vicky Bremner photo)
County council approves
Huron heritage projects
The end of another era and anothernail in the coffin of small farmers.Effective as of Oct. 9, the egg depotfor Brussels and area will close.East Huron Produce started in1906. It was an egg grading station,
sold apples and killed and packaged
poultry.
Although over the years, the fruit
division ended and the killing plant
was moved to Dublin in 1955, the
grading station remained. In 1976,
Gord “Doc” Stephenson managed
the station that not only gradednearly 7,000 dozen local farmerseggs, but sold a little feed and hadthe bottle return business.In 1986, the East Huron ProduceEmporium was torn down and egg
grading came to a halt. Local
farmers were lucky though, that they
were able to continue to bring their
eggs to the Brussels’ depot at Bill
and Fran Bremner’s for pick up by
Metzger’s Eggs. In the mid 1990s,
the Bremners wanted to retire and a
new drop-off depot was needed.It was then that Rick and Jo-AnnMcDonald took over the depot attheir farm. It wasn’t very many yearswhen Metzgers sold out and GrayRidge Eggs Farms, a division of
L.H. Gray and Son Limited, took
over the egg depot.
In 2000, with the new managers,
new rules started and made it
difficult for the very small producer
to have a place to take their eggs.
The depot received over 3,000 dozen
eggs a week, but with the changes,small producers gradually let theirflocks go, until now just over 1,000dozen are received. Citing rising fuel costs as onereason, the decision to close the
depot was received by us on Sept.
30. Those producers, with their
small flocks of laying hens, will now
have to drive to Listowel or
Dashwood to deliver their eggs
themselves to Gray’s. This will only
cause more small producers to get
out of local egg production because
rising fuel costs also affect the little
guy. So, 102 years later, Brussels
will no longer have an egg depot and
a few less egg producers.
Era ends with egg depot closure
Seaforth
Chiropractic
Centre
Dr. Tom Devereaux is pleased to welcome
Dr. Kimberley Jamieson to the Seaforth Chiropractic
Centre. Dr. Jamieson received her Bachelor of Health
Sciences at the University of Western Ontario and
is a graduate of the Canadian Memorial Chiroprac-
tic College in Toronto. She brings with her 8 years
experience as a Registered Massage Therapist and 4
years as a Certified Active Release
Technique Provider. Dr. Jamieson looks forward to providing the
community with well-rounded chiropractic care.
Dr. Kimberley Jamieson
B.HSc., D.C.
519-527-1242
Chiropractic. Supporting you in all you do.
77 Main St., Box 1022, Seaforth ON N0K 1W0
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