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THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1990. PAGE 5.
term to retain the 17 current sites
in the county. Jim Hunter of
Belgrave was named President of
the Brussels Agricultural Society.
Community spirit
Thecommunityspiritof Brussels wasdemonstrated in January astherenovated Brussels Legion was
opened.
JANUARY
Gary Dauphin of Brussels, owner
of Dauphin Feed and Supply Ltd. of
Dungannon announced purchase of
Walton Feed Mill in Walton.
Former manager Frank Roth said
he would be concentrating on
running his Varna Feed Mill opera
tion.
Brussels Stockyard was back in
business under the new name
Brussels Livestock Inc. and a new
owner Gordon Brindley of Dun
gannon. The future of the business
had been in doubt since last
October when former owner Klaus
Henschel took off with the proceeds
of a sale plus money from the sale
of cattle that were never paid for
and departed for West Germany.
Another Brussels business
changed hands when Dave Boynton
announced he had sold Brussels
Agromart to Merle Hoegy effective
Dec. 15. Mr. Hoegy, whose brother
Maynard owned a similar business
in Brodhagen, and his wife Rhonda
purchased the former Sherritt resi
dence on main street.
The community spirit of Brussels
was demonstrated January 7 when
the renovated Brussels Legion Hall
was opened. About 200 people
were on hand for the opening,
marking the end of a long road back
begun in the previous July when
two men broke in to the building to
steel liquor and cigarettes and set
fire to the building.
Auburn got new business people
when Beryl and John Davies took
over the former Jo-Jo’s Variety and
turned it into Ye Olde Village
Store.
Local skaters won berths in the
Canadian National Figure Skating
Championships with their results at
the Central Canada Divisional
Championships. In the Junior
Dance Kerrie Shepherd of Blyth
and Peter MacDonald of Brussels
won second place. In the Senior
Pairs, Kevin Wheeler of Brussels
and Michelle Menzies of Cam
bridge took third. Maitland Valley
Conservation Authority and the
Ausable-Bayfield Conservation Au
thority announced they would joint
ly make donations to the Maitland
Foundation in honour of leading
conservationist Norman Alexander
who had died the previous October.
Fewer and larger waste disposal
sites were forecast for Huron
County by a spokesman for a
consulting firm carrying out a
Waste Management Master Plan
for the county. Les MacMillan of
Gore and Storrie Limited speaking
at a meeting in Blyth to review the
first stage of the report said it
would make little sense in the long
A Morris family was named the
winner of the Norman Alexander
Award for conservation work on
their farm, presented at the annual
meeting of the Huron County Soil
and Crop Improvement Associa
tion. Peter and Brian Oldridge won
for their conservation practices on
Two provincial cabinet ministers,
Huron’s Jack Riddell and Lily
Munro, Minister of Culture and
Communications were in Blyth to
announce a $900,000 grant to assist
Double retirement
Two retirements were marked in the Roberts family of Belgrave
as John retired as minister of Knox United Church and his wife
Kay retired as a teacher at Blyth Public School.
their 1061 acre farm in the town
ship.
The Citizen was named winner of
four awards from the Ontario
Newspaper Association in the ann
ual province-wide competition. The
paper won prizes for second place
jn both spot news and feature photo1
for pictures taken by Toby Rainey,
second place for best tabloid front
page in newspapers under 4500
circulation and third prize in fea
ture writing for a story by Keith
Roulston on a day in the life of a
cabinet minister.
Blyth Reeve Albert Wasson
opened The Classic, the restaurant
at the south edge of Blyth which
had been run for years by Kay
Hesselwood as the Triple K
Restaurant.
A Brampton man was sentenced
to 12 months in prison and his son
from Guelph got 90 days after
pleading guilty to cultivating a
Grey Township marijuana crop
with a street value of $162,000.
Huron County Council at the
February session reaffirmed its
intentions to build a new Huron-
view in three different sites: one on
the present Huronview site, one in
the north and one in the south.
Both East Wawanosh and West
Wawanosh were in the initial
stages of preparing histories to
mark the township’s 125th anniver
sary in 1992.
A group of Morris Township
farmers opposed to the possible
use of the abandoned CP Rail right
of way as a recreational trail met
and formed the Ground Hog’s Day
Committee to carry on their fight.
The annual meeting of the
Belbrave and Auburn branches of
the United Co-operatives of Ontario
showed the Auburn branch topped
$1 million in sales for the first time
while Belgrave did nearly $3 mil
lion in business.
A ruling from the National
Transportation Agency of Canada
said the CN must operate the rail
line from Listowel to Wingham
through Brussels for another 18
months because Premdor Inc. had
successfully demonstrated there
was a reasonable possibilty the line
could become profitable in that
time.
The Blyth Festival announced its
15th season to be started off with
the comedy “Perils of Perse
phone’’.
the expansion program of the Blyth
Festival.
A payout of 79 per cent of the
money owing to those left in the
lurch with the bankruptcy of Brus
sels Stockyards Limited was an
nounced by the bankruptcy trustee,
Dunwoody Limited.
Brussels village council announ
ced it would take part in a study to
develop an economic development
strategy. A new agreement was
signed between the Huron County
Board of Education and its elemen
tary school teachers bringing a five
per cent raise to the teachers.
County taxpayers got a shock
after the March meeting of County
council when they learned the
county portion of their tax bill
would increase 19.6 per cent to
cover such expense reserves to
waste management and for a new
Huronview.
Simon Hallahan was honoured
on his 90th birthday with a presen
tation from Jack Riddell, Minister
of Agriculture. Mr. Hallahan has
been a mainstay of many organiza
tions in the county, particularly 4H
work and the Huron Pioneer
Thresher and Hobby Association.
A Belgrave family was left
homeless after Wingham firemen
twice had to battle fire in their
house. Robert and Donna Wattam
would later rebuild after the com
munity rallied to their aid.
A decision to switch principals in
three Huron County high schools
had the students of all three
schools unhappy.
The Extended Service Office of
the Ontario Provincial Police in
Brussels opened. The ESOs are an
attempt to bring policing closer to
the people.
Blyth village councillors toured
Memorial Hall and other Blyth
Festival locations to hear about
plans for expansion and learned
that expansion of Memorial Hall
might provide room for a new
library for Blyth, replacing the
cramped quarters in the municipal
building.
APRIL
A large crowd of 250 persons
turned out to hear about the plans
for recycling in Brussels which
were to begin April 5.
More than 500 cattlemen turned
up at the Brussels, Morris and
Grey Community Centre to hear a
debate on the upcoming vote on the
Ontario Beef Marketing Commis
sion.
Murray Cardiff was named Par-
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