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Home My WebLink AboutThe 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 Welcome! NEWS FROM WALTON By Jo-Ann McDonald Call 887-6570 PEOPLE AROUND WALTON By Bonnie Gropp The Citizen Take control of your arthritis Call the Arthritis Information Line at 1.800.321.1433 or visit our website at www.arthritis.ca to get the support and information you need. You can join the FREE Arthritis Registry to get updates on Society programs and events. 1 in 6 Canadians have arthritis Commit to a world without arthritis September is ArthritisAwarenessMonth That’s nearly 4.5 million people living with the pain and disability of arthritis