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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 2007-12-13, Page 4PAGE 4. THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2007.Editorials Opinions Publisher, Keith Roulston Editor, Bonnie GroppAdvertising, Ken Warwick & Lori Patterson The CitizenP.O. Box 429,BLYTH, Ont.N0M 1H0Phone 523-4792 FAX 523-9140 P.O. Box 152,BRUSSELS, Ont.N0G 1H0 Phone 887-9114 FAX 887-9021 E-mail norhuron@scsinternet.com Website www.northhuron.on.ca Looking Back Through the Years Member of the Ontario Press Council The Citizen is published 50 times a year in Brussels,Ontario by North Huron Publishing Company Inc.Subscriptions are payable in advance at a rate of $32.00/year ($30.19 + $1.81 G.S.T.) in Canada;$95.00/year in U.S.A.and $175.00/year in other foreign countries.Advertising is accepted on the condition that in the event of a typographical error,only that portion of the advertisement will be credited. Advertising Deadlines: Monday, 2 p.m. - Brussels; Monday, 4 p.m. - Blyth. PUBLICATIONS MAIL AGREEMENT NO. 40050141 PAP REGISTRATION NO. 09244 RETURN UNDELIVERABLE CANADIAN ADDRESSES TO CIRCULATION DEPT. PO BOX 152 BRUSSELS ON N0G 1H0 email: norhuron@scsinternet.com Dec. 13, 1950 Brussels was hosting a Mysterious Shopper contest and giving away a free turkey. On the afternoon of the designated day, people were to be on the lookout for the ‘mysterious shopper’who would be on the streets at this time. The first one to approach them, and address them with these exact words: “Pardon me sir (or madam) are you the Mysterious Shopper for today?”, would win a turkey just in time for the approaching season. The Huron County bursaries were awarded to area students. These scholarships were awarded annually to Huron County students on the record of the previous year. This year’s recipients were: Margaret Colquhoun, Clinton; Alice A. Laidlaw, Wingham; J. Grant Mills, Woodham; Ronald C. Sills, Seaforth; and John Graham Wallace, Seaforth. All these students were currently attending the University of Western Ontario. Residents of Toronto were hoping for some eyesores to be removed in order to continue the beautification of the city. The ‘ugly, old fashioned’ overhead wiring towered above Toronto’s Bay Street, then the heart of the city’s financial district. Residents had requested that the city remove these unsightly pole and rewire the grid underground. Dec. 13, 1972 Farmers of Bruce County and the northeastern part of Huron County had organized a negotiation committee to fight for a better deal with regards to a proposed power line to provide power from Douglas Point to Seaforth. The farmers hoped talks could then be carried out on an even playing field. Dec. 14, 1988 Brussels council was debating the institution of a recycling program to be put in place in the village. Jim Anderson of Blyth made a presentation to council of his proposal, in seeking a contract to pick up and dispose of recyclable waste materials in Brussels. This system would be necessary once the a recycling bin would come into use at the Morris Twp. landfill site. Council was also waiting for a similar proposal from Leyser Enterprises Inc. of Stratford before they would make a decision. Beloved local figure skating pair Peter MacDonald, of Brussels, and Kerrie Shepperd, of Blyth, struck gold once again. The pair swept all three of their ice dance divisions to become the Junior overall gold medalists at the Western Ontario Figure Skating Sectional Championships, held in Brantford. The win would qualify the pair for for the Divisional Championships, which would give them a chance at the Canadian National Championships. Talented writer-composer team of Ray Storey and John Roby were hard at work on another sure-hit musical. After the success of the pair’s previous hits, the duo were working on a new musical, tentatively called The Dreamland, at the writer’s retreat at the Blyth Festival. Their previous works included the wildly successful The Girls in the Gang, which opened in Blyth in 1987 before going on to play the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, winning two prestigious Dora awards as the top musical in Toronto. Dec. 12 1990 A group of 60 teenagers from across the area hit the streets of Brussels to support the Christmas Bureau. The teens, from Brussels, Walton, Bluevale and Ethel, went carolling around Brussels. In exchange for their music, the group asked for toys, food, or clothing. These items would be donated to the Christmas Bureau to help those in need. A total of 29 large boxes of food and 25 bags of mittens, toys, and clothing were gathered, and all for an extremely good cause. The OPP had their work cut out for them as many incidents arose around the area. There was a robbery from a residence in Ashfield Twp., where such items as a door, saw, hammer, tape measure, and a number of knives were stolen. In another incident, there was a break- in at the Brussels Liquor Store. Over 35 large bottles of various rums, whiskeys and vodkas were stolen as well as five twenty-four cases of beer. The Blyth Festival was happy to announce that they had finished the 1989-1990 season in a surplus, recovering from a large deficit at the end of the previous 1988-1989 season. Despite higher ticket prices causing a small decrease in attendance, the season’s final revenue totalled $1,407,415, which was up from the previous season’s total of $991,103. This created a surplus for the festival of over $80,000, compared to the previous year’s debts of $118,937. The Festival had finally succeeded in finishing in a secure position, with all expansion projects paid for and with another season ahead to plan for, hoping for the same success. Playing at the Park Theatre in Goderich was the first of an ensuing series, Home Alone, starring Macaulay Culkin. Also playing was ‘Hey Dude, this is no cartoon!’, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, ‘Lean, green and on the screen.’ THE EDITOR, This is in response to the Dec. 6 Letter to the Editor. The content of Paul Anthony’s show at the Blyth Inn was very tasteful in my personal experiences with hypnotist shows. Paul performs hundreds of shows per year and his shows aren’t with the purpose of “sexualizing and demeaning women”. It is not good business, just like Carol Burns’ personal review. About the show yes, three women were left at the end of the show when it began with 12 men and women. Yes, there was a part of the 2.5 hour long show that included sexual content. This seemed acceptable considering it is an age of majority event on a Saturday night in a licensed establishment. The Blyth Inn is hosting three different types of shows this Christmas season and are very open about the content involved in each. I too question the type of entertainment and the values held by the person providing the entertainment. Paul Anthony answered these questions himself before his show was finished. First he was very gracious in thanking his participants and the crowd. Second, Paul ended the show with sending two of the women back into the crowd where they were to hug and kiss their husbands like “they first fell in love”. The final command for the evening was “they no longer could say or use the word hate”. Carol Burns believes these are the acts of a man who wished to centre out women so he could “demean” them in public. Dear Mrs. Burns, you can sit shoulder to shoulder with a person, see the same things, hear the same things, but like a hypnosis show, what people see and hear registers a little different on each person. A hypnosis show is only for entertainment value. What I read on Dec. 6 was a select information release with leading questions to an obvious negative conclusion at the end. But that’s just what I read and heard. Carol, next time someone says “look into my eyes,” turn and run. I would hope that in the future, editor Bonnie Gropp would stand by The Citizen’s letters policy. The comments made in the Dec. 6 paper were based on a so-called learning experience gained from a licensed establishment between the hours of 10 p.m. and 12:30 a.m. on a Saturday. In the future The Citizen should be wary of statements that lower its own image to those of chat room forums on-line and will be handled with the same degree of respect or lack thereof. Jason Rutledge. We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Publications Assistance Program (PAP) toward our mailing costs. We are not responsible for unsolicited newsscripts or photographs. Contents of The Citizen are © Copyright Cheap advice Winter is the time of the year when farmers are urged to get out to meetings to pick up the latest advice on what they should be doing to be profitable. Unfortunately there’s no guarantee if they follow that advice they will benefit in the long term. Recently Curtis Littlejohn, chair of Ontario Pork, the marketing agency for pork producers, said that the current crisis in his industry may drive up to half of the current producers out of business. Farmers are constantly being told they must be more efficient to survive. No part of farming has embraced this more than the hog industry over the past decade. Bankers, who were stingy with loaning to smaller farmers, were willing to make large loans to young farmers to build huge, expensive barns if they were part of a “loop” where they produced on contract for a larger organization. The entire pork sector whole- heartedly embraced the concept for producing for export markets. Now, thanks to factors beyond their control, these producers are in deep trouble. The demand for Canadian oil and minerals has sent the Canadian dollar soaring, leaving our pork (and beef) uncompetitive on international markets while producers’ input costs continue to soar. The dream of unlimited production has tempted both pork producers and beef producers to hang their hat on international markets. Beef producers have paid the price twice: first with the BSE closure of the border and now with the high dollar. Ironically, it’s often the farmers who listen to the advisors who are getting into the deepest trouble by expanding and exposing themselves to risk. They pay the price while the people who give the advice are unaffected. — KR Exporting our pollution This Christmas, millions of Canadians will buy gifts made in countries like China. Meanwhile the Canadian government, in talks to deal with reducing greenhouse gases, says Canada can’t commit until major polluters like China sign on too. It’s called the best of both worlds. We Canadians benefit from cheap imported goods from countries that are able to produce so cheaply because they don’t have to follow more stringent environmental guidelines. Then we turn around and lecture these countries. It’s another example of the murky ethics of the whole climate change debate. Countries on the way up, who began to grow because they produced cheaper goods, are now asked to live by the rules we’ve slowly adopted over generations. But in the long run, there’s one absolute. We’re killing out planet. If we don’t fix the problem, our grandchildren will suffer. — KR & Letter to the editor