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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1986-01-01, Page 3ANNOUNCING the first annual CITIZEN'S CITIZEN AWARDS In an effortto give some small reward to those who contribute so much to our community, The Citizen issponsoring a Citizen of The Year award - one for the Brussels area and one for the Blyth area. Nominations Wanted We welcome your nomination for these citizenships awards. Please fill in the ballot with the name of your nominee, why you feel he or she should win the award and your own name and telephone number. (Names of all nominators will be kept confidential). Nominees can be from the villages themselves or the surrounding townships and can have made their contribution either directly (through local politics, club work, etc.) or in a more general way (eg. Long-term service to many organizations, work with the environment, or with farm organizations, etc.) Entries will be judged by an independent panel. I nominate as Citizen of the year for the (Check one) Blyth Brussels community. I feel he or she deserves this honour because: (use additional paper if needed). Nomination deadlineJanuary15,1986 Please print name and phone number of nominator THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1986. PAGE 3. Elston recalls school boards Citizet„ BLYTH NEWS Family and friends at John and Rita Blake's home Chistmas Day were: from Stratford - Lloyd and June McDowell and Rhea McNabb and son Alex; from Kitchener - Lori McDowell and friend; from Milverton - Bruce and Barb Crapper; from Ayton - Irvin and Gertie Blake, Charlene and Susie; from Wingham, Sheila and Gene Kruse and from Blytl. - Irvin and Betty Bowes, Vernon and Connie Bromley and family, Bodie and 011ie Craig and Kim, and Russell Wilson. Annie Blair spent Christmas Day at the home of her sister Nick Aitken and Bill in Wingham. Dr. Lavern Clark and family were with Joan's parents, Chuck and Hazel Dewar of Brampton for Christmas. On Christmas Eve, Archie and Edna Montgomery were guests at a birthday party for Archie's brother Lloyd and Ethel Montgomery. It was held at the home of Edna's niece Vera and Angus Falconer of Whitechurch. On Christmas Day, the Montgomery's were among the guests at Garth and Diane Walden's, Westfield. Norman and Helen Gowing spent Christmas Day with daughter Glenna and Ross Pannabecker, Terry and Krista, RR 1, Goderich. Daughter Kim and friend Michael Hinsche of Bramalea were also part of this family gathering. On Christmas Day Louis and Margaret Phelan were delighted to host in their home their entire family, numbering 18. To celebrate Christmas Day, Jim, Janice, Andrea, Michael and Shawn Henry joined 17 of Janice's family members at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Carroll in Goderich. Mrs. Mayme Crawford was with her son Bill and Joan and family in Holmesville for Christmas. Continued from page 1 ham at seven in the morning, another at 11, another at one and another about five or six at night. Later he helped take up the tracks of the old "butter and eggs special" after it had been closed in 1940. The same year he went on to help take up the railroad from Whitby for Port Perry. Those early days when he was on council the one-room school was still a dominant force in each township. Each school had its school board and each set its own mill rate and sent it in to the council and the council would put that mill rate on the tax roll. "People knew exactly what the education was costing in their school section. If one school section had a mill rate that was lower than the others, the trustees of the other schools would be questioned very thoroughly as to why their school was costing more to operate than the schools that were right along side of them. Going back still further he can remember going, with his father, to school meetings that always occurred on the last Friday of December. In the later 1930's and early 1940's there was keen competition for the job of supply- ing wood to the school because it was a source of good hard cash. Some people were even known to measure the blocks of wood supplied to see if they could find something wrong with them so they could have the contract with the supplier cancelled and others would get a chance. The county level of government has taken on many more responsi- bilities than in those early days. Today the county administers welfare instead of the township. In the old days the township would appoint a medical officer of health to be in charge of quarantines and other public health issues but today the county has a full-time medical officer of health. Town- ships supervised libraries in their communities at one time but now the county had a library system. Assessing was transferred first to the county and then taken over by theprovince. The county also has taken on a planning depart- ment something unknown in the 1950's in rural Ontario. "Unless we phone somebody to find out something, we really don't know what's going on." The supervision of the province has also become much more stringent. The Ministry of Trans- port and Communications admin- isters much more closely on how the township spends on road maintenance. The money being spent by the township is a huge sum compared to what was spent in 1952. Despite all the portions of the local council's work that has been hived off to the county and other levels of government, the workload for councillors today is heavier than ever. Council meetings in the 1950's started at 1 p.m. and were generally over at 4 or 4:30, he recalls. The four councillors would then play cards while the reeve signed the cheques and all would be off for home by 5 p.m. "And the business was done as well or better than it's done now," he says. By contrast, today council meet- ings start at 10 a.m. and often aren't finished until six. The work has become much more complicat- ed. Even the scope of the law within Continued on page 6 Stockyard report Continued from page 2 for $92.25 with his lot of 11 heifers averaging 1079 lbs. selling for $86.45. Sixteen heifers consigned by Earl Fitch of RR 1, Wroxeter, averaging 1129 lbs. sold for an overall price of $86.37 with sales to $88.85. Fifteen heifers consigned by Fred Marshall of Fergus averaging 1124 lbs. sold for an overall price of $85.71 with sales to $86.10. Eight heifers consigned by Schultz Bros. of RR 3, Blyth averaging 1032 lbs. sold for an overall price of $85.48. Eight heifers consigned by J. P. Connell & Sons of Palmerston averaging 1096 lbs. sold for an overall price of $83.50. Thirteen mixed heifers consign- ed by Elwood Fitch of RR 1, Wroxeter averaging 1099 lbs. sold for an overall price of $82.88. Fourteen hereford heifers consign- ed by Glen Johnston of RR 2, Bluevale averaging 957 lbs. sold for $81.85. Choice Cows sold from $48 to $52 with sales to $54. Good Cows were $44 to $48. Canners and Cutters were $40 to $44. Heavy bulls traded to a high of $64.50. Thirty to 40 - lb. pigs traded to a high of $1.26 per lb.; 40 to 50 - lb. pigs to a high of $1.18; 50 to 60 - lb. pigs to a high of $1.03; 60 to 70 - lb. pigs to a high of .99; 70 to 80 - lb. pigs to a high of .90; 80 to 90 - lb. pigs to a high of .84 per lb. MINIMMOMMO THE END IS COMING vat Free circulation of THE CITIZEN ends Dec. 30 Don't missasingle issue. SUBSCRIBETODAY Only $12.00 (Regularly $15.00)