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Home My WebLink AboutThe Citizen, 1985-12-23, Page 9A Holly Jolly Christmas! WINGHAM SALES ARENA 357-1730 Cash, Cheques, 9-6 p.m.; Thurs. & Fri. till 9 p.m. ash, Cheques, Visa, Mastercard accepted. Just north of Wingham on Hwy. No.4 Season's Greetings and Best Wishes Throughout the Holidays from Maureen's Unisex Hairstyling and Barbering OPEN TU ESDAYTO SATURDAY 9-5 THU RSDAY 9-9 EAST DINSLEYST., BLYTH BY APPOINTMENT 523-4485 Maureen's Professional Hair Care For The Entire Family!!! THE CITIZEN, MONDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1985. PAGE 9. Illusive industry will challenge successors too Continued from Page 8 always been industry," he says. He can recall one individual, (back when he was working through the Chamber of Commerce) who came to town and got wined and dined but never had any intentions of settling in the village. With the dropping farm popula- tion and problems for those still on the farm the need for industry is bigger than ever but no easier to get. "I'd dearly love to see something ccme in like (Control- Tel) to employ, I don't know how many, 30 or so, but it would be good for the town." " I'm not enough for an indus- trial promoter, and anybody we've had here hasn't been, to manage to get industry to come here. I think we've got to have a little help. Tourism is all right but it's only for a few months. It won't generate the Prize for the reader spotting the farthest way, most unlikely news about The Citizen has to go to Doreen and Harve McCallum of Blyth who are wintering in Mesa Arizona. The McCallum's sent a clipping Whoops! We blew it. The Citizen has a working agreement with The Advance, the newspaper serving Zurich, Hen- sall and Grand Bend under which The Advance covers county council and we will be covering Huron County Board of Education and exchanging stories. Usually it works well but last week, an editor asleep at the switch failed to notice that a reference to "local" reeves was actually about reeves from the southern end of the county. It must have made some readers wonder if the geography of the county had been changed under some new government regulation. Local reeves were appointed chairmen of two committees: Tom Cunningham, Hallett Reeve, was named chairman of the Huron County Library Board and Jim Aitchison of West Wawanosh is chairman of the Huronview man- agement committee. Warden Leo- na Armstrong is chairman of the executive committee. finances the way it should." All people in places like Brussels can do is keep trying, he said. "One time ! heard a rubber plant was closing in Kitchener because it was too expensive. It got on the blower and I called him and he says, 'How far are you from 401. "I says about 50 miles' and just slams her goodbye." "1 think in order to develop not only Brussels and Blyth but all the way up north, we need a better highway, maybe a four-laner. He sees the old fair grounds as an excellent potential site for an industrial park. "It wouldn't be big enough for Toyota," he jokes, but would hold a lot of smaller industries. Doing business for the village councillors has changed a lot over the years, he says. The local councillors are a child of the last week from a Phoenix Gazette, where in a little synopsis of Canadian news, the story of the founding of The Citizen was given a couple of paragraphs. Anolher report from a Brussels- area reader is that a similar item appeared in a paper in Panama City, Florida. Joan Campbell, formerly of Blyth, returned from her Truro, N.S. home for the swearing in of her sister Leona Armstrong as first lady Warden of Huron County and brought with her a clipping from a Halifax newspaper complete with picture. People of our communities seem to know how to make news. 111111111MIME111111111111M aPPY oliday 'Tis the season to wish all 1' our friends our very best! Willis Knight, Builder Brussels province, he says. There are things you can and can't do. People suggest that the council should start a fund to attract industry but there are limits to what council can do. It can provide services to industrial land but it can't give tax breaks. Even if small industry is attract- ed, he says, it's a constant struggle to keep them going because they don't have the market or-the resources of the big competitors. Over the years he's been involved in politics, there have been gains and losses, he says. There has been progress with a nursing home and the senior citizens apartments, population has gone up from 800. And there have been changes in people. "I came to this town in 1948 and started a plumbing and sheet metal business. I had faith in myself I could do it. I didn't ask the town for anything, I didn't ask anybody. I just started working at it. But now they come in and they want so much. They want to be guaranteed of success. Where's the old free enterprise." But those are the kind of thoughts that made him decide to leave politics. A politician has to look to the future, he says, and he found it too easy to look back instead of ahead. Now he'll leave it to younger people to try to accomplish as much as he did and solve the problems he and his fellow councillors haven't been able to in all those years of service to the community. A cheerfilled "thank you" to all our wonderful friends! 611- Ken & Liz Ken's Men's and Boy's Wear Brussels NOTICE HULLETT TOWNSHIP MUNICIPAL OFFICE Christmas Holiday Hours CLOSED: December 25, 26 & 27,1985 January 1,1986 OPEN: December 30 & 31,1985 January 2,1986 Harry Lear, Clerk-Treasurer. 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