HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 2007-12-06, Page 12It’s Huron County in pictures.Wayne Caldwell has culled from avast collection of photographs takenby local amateur photographers, aswell as some from his team, to
assemble the ultimate visual tribute
to Ontario’s west coast.
Huron County Ontario’s West
Coast is a book that Caldwell says is
80 per cent pictures and 20 per cent
text that celebrates the beauty of
Huron County.
Caldwell said the idea came to him
after noticing that nearly every
county that hopes to draw tourists
had a book like this, and Huron
didn’t.
“If you get up into the tourist areas
up north, in the Muskokas, or even
into Bruce County, you can often
find books that capture the imagery
of wherever you’re at. In Huron
County, we found that type of
resource didn’t exist, so from that
perspective, we thought that pulling
something like that together would
be a good thing to do,” he said.
Caldwell has been working with
the Huron Tourism Association to
bring this book together. One of the
things he is most proud of, is the
local contributions to the book,showcasing the people of HuronCounty as well as the landscape.“What we did, which I think was areally good use of thesephotographs, was thatthe Huron TourismAssociation sponsored
a photo competition a
few years back and they
gave us access to that
catalogue and along
with the information
from the various authors,
we incorporated the
photos,” he said. “So, in
the end, about 60 to 70 per
cent of the photographs we
used were taken from that
photo competition
catalogue. So, we’ve got real
community contribution to it
as well, which is a real
positive.
“We were able to use a lot of those
photographs, which I think, is kind
of novel, because this is a book
about not only celebrating the
county, but celebrating the people
that live in the county as well.”
The book, however, is not all
photographs, as Caldwell said, there
is still 20 per cent of the book that is
written word, something that he tried
to use to reflect the diversity of thecounty.“The book includesthemed
sections, different
aspects of the county that we
attempted to cover. One of the things
that we wanted to make sure that we
did was make sure it wasn’t only
pictures that would show tourists
what they wanted to see, but what
we thought was important in Huron
County as well,” he said.
“There is a section that deals with
the history of the county, one that
deals with agriculture, urban spaces,
natural spaces, and of course, theLake Huron shoreline. In it, you’llfind a fair amount of informationon each of the regions, althoughthere are a fair amount of picturesto make sure that people fromHuron County can look at andappreciate, or if they’re not,
they can look and take away
some in-depth knowledge
about the area.
“It comes from our belief
that we’re not only showing
people how fine of an area
that we live in, but also that
they have a good sense of
some of the background
and the history of the area
as well.”
Caldwell, who grew up
on a farm near Blyth, where his
family still farms today, is currently
a professor at the University of
Guelph. He has also worked
extensively with the Huron County
Planning Department. He is also the
author of The Urbanite’s Guide to
the Countryside, a guidebook to
Huron County that serves as areference guide with informationand pictures pertaining to the area.All of the royalties past the cost ofproduction of the book will go to theHuron Tourism Association as afundraiser.“I look at this book as a
community service. Obviously, with
a book of this nature, it’s not a
commercial venture, it’s about
getting the county’s story out there.
I’ve been a life-long resident of the
county, but for the most part, it’s
about saying. ‘There’s no place in
the world that I’d rather live.’And I
think for most of the people who live
here, many of them will say the
same, so it’s about celebrating and
sharing that,” he said.
Huron County Ontario’s West
Coast will be available soon for
purchase at The Citizen offices in
Blyth and Brussels, Fincher’s in
Goderich, directly from Caldwell’s
website, www.waynecaldwell.ca or
at the Huron Tourism Association’s
website, www.ontarioswestcoast.com.
PAGE 12. THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2007.New book highlights Ontario’s West Coast
Morris-Turnberry councillors
voted at their Nov. 20 meeting to
construct a Turnberry ward drain as
a mutual agreement drain, with the
municipality picking up part of the
expense.
Three landowners had agreed to
put in a private drain at an estimated
cost of $8,700 but wanted the
municipality to pay to lower a
nearby municipal culvert they
felt was preventing proper drain-
age.
Councillors spent time
discussing what their obligation was
in the issue before deciding the
agreement should be a “mutual”
agreement drain (one step up from a
private drain but with less expense
than a municipal drain).
The municipality will solve the
culvert issue as part of the
agreement.
***
Councillors also agreed to close
a street allowance and lane in
Lower Town in Turnberry Ward
and sell the land to adjacent
landowners.
***
The thorny issue of the different
levels of service offered by Blyth
and District Fire Area Board and the
Wingham Area Fire Board got
another round of discussion before
councillors passed the tiered
response agreement with the Blyth
department.
Blyth offers first response
medical service while Wingham
doesn’t. Councillor Lynn Hoy
pointed out that Wingham has an
ambulance station, meaning shorter
response times for medical
emergencies than Blyth and the
southern part of Morris ward.
***
Council passed a bylaw
authorizing an agreement with
Township of North Huron for the
sharing of services of chief building
official Dave Black until the end of
December.
Council also met with a
delegation from North Huron
council in a half-hour closed
session.
***
Council agreed to pay Ben
Cornell and Ward & Uptigrove a
total of $7,750 to conduct an
organizational review.
***
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snow removal from the Belgrave
pumphouse and Humphrey well was
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