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The Citizen, 1986-07-30, Page 1Special community directory in this issue This week The Citizen offers a special bonus section to give you more information about living in this part of Huron County. Thebooklet“ACloser Look’ gives you information about every­ thing from how to get help for senior citizens to how toget the latest movie information; from the names and numbers of area farm equipment dealers, to the number to call to get road information when the snow storms hit next winter. The community directory is in handy booklet form so that it can be kept by the telephone all year long until the next directory is issued. Since this is our first venture into this field, there are bound to be errors or ommissions. If you see a mistake, please let us know so that we can correctitfor nextyear. If you think of a listing that would be a valuable addition to next year’s directory, let us know about that too. Brussels ball tournament this weekend The annual Brussels Invitational Men’s Softball Tournament will see 16 teams visit Brussels for the holiday weekend. Action will start Friday night at 7:30 and continue until the cham­ pionship game at 6:30 Monday night. The championship team will take home $700 and the runner up, $300. The consolation winner will also take home $300 while the consolation loser will still have $100 as consolation. Action starts Friday night with Belmore Midgets playing Sebring- ville. At 9 p.m. Teeswater will play Clifford. Saturday morning at9 a.m. Chiselhurst will play Mit­ chell. At 10:30, Kitchener Musi- tron will play Fullarton. At noon, Belmore Stingers will play Cam­ bridge Hostess. At3 p.m. Kitchen­ er Wingnuts play the home town BrusselsTigers. At4:30, Waterloo will play Bryanstown. Games will continue throughout the weekend. The excitement will be increased by prizes donated by local businesses for home runs hit. Employees of McGavin Farm Equipment Ltd. presented the McGavin family with a painting as part of the 50th anniversary celebration for the company at Brussels Friday night. Members of the family are: [left to right] Jeff, Cathy, Marie, Neil, Heather and Brian. Serving Brussels, Blyth, Auburn, Belgrave, Ethel, Londesborough, Walton and surrounding townships. VOL. 2 NO. 31 WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 1986.40 CENTS McGavins celebrate 50 years in business More than 200 people helped a Walton landmark company cele­ brate its 50th anniversary with a dinner at the Brussels. Morris and Grey Community Centre Friday night. Many more joined in for a dance later in the evening. Former employees, long-time customers, friends and neighbours heard stories from the 50 years of growth since Gordon McGavin first started selling farm equipment from his Walton-areafarmin 1936. The progress was illustrated by the stories of two book-keepers. Mrs. Frances Storey, the first book-keeper in 1951, told of the first location in Walton, at the main corner where the office was a converted chicken house at the back corner of the shop with a table, a desk and a radio to hear the company’s advertisements. Mary Lou Vincent, current book-keeper toldof the problems involved in looking after 16 full-time and three part-time employees, of keeping seven trucks on the road which go through 1000 gallons of fuel a month, of sendingout300to450 statements at the end of each month. Neil McGavin in his reminiscing talked of finding a phone bill for the entire year of 1946 that was $32. Today, Ms. Vincent said, the bill runs to $1,000 a month. Carl “Kelly” Dalton recalled his years working for the company dating from 1942 (as far as he could remember). Marie Hicknell, reeve of McKil- lop Township, where the company got its start and where the McGavin family still reside brought congratulations as did Doug Fraser, Reeve of Morris Huron-Bruce from Premier included Rev. township who said McGavin e ' us probably the largest industry in the township. Murray Cardiff, M.P. for Huron Bruce brought a framed letter of congratulations from Prime Mini­ ster Brian Mulroney and Murray Elston, Ontario Health Minister and M.P.P. for brought a letter David Peterson. Other speakers Bonnie Lamble of Duff's Church, Walton, Ross Hamilton, President of CKNX Wingham, long-time family friend Simon Hallahan and Bill Brown, president of the Ontario Retail Farm Equipment Dealers Association, of which Neil McGavin is a past president. The McGavin family was pre­ sented with a painting of their complex on behalf of the staff of the company by Bill Courts, long-time employee. A ham is a ham even when he’s all wet. Actors like Peter Smith from the Blyth Festival helped make the dunking tank a popular spot at the Country Fair held at Memorial Hall, Saturday. Here he dares anyone to dunk him... Holiday hours Monday, August 4 is the annual Civic Holiday and as a result, The Citizen reminds customers to act early to make sure their advertis­ ing and news appears in next week’s paper. Despite the holiday, our news and production staff will be working as usual on Monday. Advertising staff, however, will not be working on Monday. Therefore it’s recommended you have your advertising material to The Citizen by 5 p.m. Friday. Regular news and advertising deadlines of 2 p.m. Monday at Brussels or 4 p.m. at Blyth will still be in effect, however. .. .which got him wet but didn’t stop him from issuing a challenge to try it again.