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BRUSSELS NEWS
Relatives from Corning, Saskatchewan, Mr. and Mrs. George Smith
and Mr. Stuart Bryans from Mitchell visited recently with Jim Smith's.
Callender news
Callander residents
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Mrs. Lillian G. King celebrated her 90th birthday by receiving visitors
at the Brussels Presbyterian Church last week. Nineteen members of
her family gathered at the Golden Lantern Restaurant for a family
dinner. --Photo by Pat Langlois.
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PAGE 2. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1986.
Sunday, January 12, Rev.
Jamieson and his congregation
from Presbyterian church
in Brussels held the weekly church
service at Callander Nursing
home. Donald Dunbar played the
piano later in the afternoon.
Margaret McBrine spent the day
at her daughters and son-in-law's
Mr. and Mrs. Kenny Miller.
Bingo was played Monday after-
noon.
.lack Hamilton returned home
from the hospital.
Tuesday, Lynn Stasuik was
transferred to Fiddicks Nursing
Home in Petrolia where she will be
closer to her family. Card games
were played in the afternoon and
Mr. and Mrs. Purdy from the
Salvation Army visited the resi-
dents in the evening. Jalmar
Pietikainen returned from the
hospital on Wednesday.
Election results on Thursday
were Edna Pearson for President
and Bill Close, Vice President of
the Resident Council. Fred Thuell,
Donald Dunbar and Howard Smith
entertained with their old time
music Thursday evening.
Friday morning Ann Smith
played hymns at the piano and in
the afternoon, Jeannette Boynton
and Jean Evans led the discussion
group and brought in a lovely
lunch.
Eva Stewart remains in Wing-
ham hospital. Everyone is wishing
her well.
Rebekahs
meet
There was a good attendance at
the regular meeting of Morning
Star Rebekah Lodge.
The N. G. Barbara Watts was in
charge. After the opening of Lodge
the charter was draped in loving
memory of the late Sister Dorthea
Ritchie. The secretary had a lot of
correspondence which included
thank you notes and letters re -
charitable donations given and
gifts to sick and shut-ins at
Christmas. Kathy Morris sent a
picture of baby Patricia showing
how she had grown since her
operation in Toronto and thanking
the Lodges for their support at that
time.
Joan Bernard gave a report
about the community swimming
pool and a donation is to be given to
Lions Club for the pool Dates etc.
were set for a Valentine Dessert
Euchre to be held Feb. 10 at 1 p.m.
Admission will be $2. A St.
Patrick's Casserole supper and
euchre will be held on March 17 at 7
p.m. Admission to be $3. Several
members with January birthdays
were honoured by everyone sing-
ing Happy Birthday to them. After
closing of lodge, a delicious lunch
was served by the lunch commit-
tee.
Plaques given for conservation
Director of the Huron Soil and
Crop Improvement Association
were told J an. 10 to put forth a good
image, by Ken Knox, Ontario's
director of farm products manage-
ment.
Knox, speaking at the annual
awards banquet in Seaforth, said,
"Farmers need to be dynamic,
progressive and agressive in order
to tell the story to the 93.6 percent o
Ontario consumers not connected
with agriculture."
He continued, "We must have a
good story to tell. Don't let it rest
there. Continue to improve. Keep
getting new ideas, we don't need to
entertain the old boys' network."
Ontario's Minister of Agricul-
ture, Jack Riddell, spoke briefly,
and said, "It's not the time for
farmers to be discouraged. Sharp-
Members of the National Liberal
Task Force on Agriculture will
meet with Huron County farmers
in a session at Wingham, Thurs-
day, January 30 from 9:30 a.m. to
noon.
The session will be held at the
Wingham Legion Hall. Members
of the task force include Maurice
Foster, M.P. (Algoma), Chairman;
Charles Caccia, M.P. (Davenport);
Raymond Garneau, M.P. (Laval
des Rapides); Don Boudria M.P.
(Glengarry-Prescott-Russel); Len
Hopkins, M.P. (Renfrew-Nipiss-
ing-Pembroke) and Senator Dan
en your pencils. Good manage-
ment is a key factor. We know there
will be some financial failures
because of low commodity prices."
On the subject of free trade,
Riddell said, "I hope we can keep
agriculture away from it, at least
until we can find out what it really
entails."
He told attending farmers that
the deadline for application to the
recently listed OFFIRR program
was quickly approaching. Riddell
continued, 'I urge you to make use
of this program. The maximum
amount available is $14,000 per
farm family.
The Ausable Bayfield Conserva-
tion Authority joined with the soil
and crop in making special award
presentations.
Ausable Bayfield chairman,
Gordon Johnson, was in charge of
Hayes, (Alberta).
"Our Task Force held a series of
very successful meetings in the
four Western Provinces during
November", Mr. Foster said.
"The presentations made to the
Task Force by approximately 100
witnesses will help our caucus
members in the House of Com-
mons as well as contribute valuable
insight to our policy building
process." _
Anyone wishing to make a
presentation to the task force
should contact Bruce McDonald,
Box 280, Mildmay, Ont. NOG 2J0 or
call him at 367-2297.
handing out the trophies.
The individual conservation
plaque went to Stephen Township
farmer, Wayne Woods, while the
Claybird Gun Club took the group
award. Accepting the plaque were
Charles Dinney and Jody Mosurin-
john.
The Norman Alexander Conser-
vation Award given annually by the
Soil and Crop Association went to
Gordon Lobb.
Other nominees were David
Kilgour, Wayne Woods and Fred
and Ken Phillips.
Walter Mcllwain presented the
project award to Bev Hill of Hill and
Hill Farms. Another nominee was
Larry Ratz of Stephen Township.
Ontario Farm Conservation a-
wards were presented to Francis
Hogan, Ray Hogan, Lawrence
Hogan and Steven Howard by
director Wayne Cantelon.
President Jim Ross handed out
booster awards to Joe Gibson, Neil
McGavin, Pat Lynch, Bruce Shill-
inglaw, Norman Alexander and
Bruce Tile.
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