HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1990-07-04, Page 3THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, JULY 4, 1990. PAGE 3.
Blyth
People
Congratulations to John Ramir
ez, Nicole Middelkamp, and An
drew Perrie, who all obtained 1st
class Honours in Grade 2 Theory in
recent examinations with the Tor
onto Royal Conservatory of Music.
They are students of Shirley E.
Vincent ARTC.
Mr. and Mrs. John Hesselwood
attended the wedding of their son
Randall Todd McVittie and Helen
Sonya Tritchell in Toronto on June
29.
Quitting time
Marie Heffron (left) retired Friday after 35 years delivering the
mail to RR 3, Blyth customers. She plans to travel a little wider
in her retirement. Pat Brigham (right) will takeover the route as
well as delivering on routes one and two.
Marie Heffron retires
after 35 yrs delivering mail
Marie Heffron has been travell
ing 25 miles a day for the last 35
years delivering mail to the homes
along Blyth’s rural route 3 but now
that she’s retired, she plans to
travel longer distances.
Mrs. Heffron delivered the mail
for the last time on Friday before
retiring. “I’m just going to do what
Marie wants to do now,’’ she says
of her retirement. She recently sold
her house and plans to move into
an apartment giving her more
freedom to travel. This summer she
wants to visit some islands and in
the future she’ll travel “just any
where’’.
During her 35 years she worked
out of three different post offices in
Blyth, starting at Tasker’s then
moving to where Christmas and
Country is located today and finally
to the new post office building. In
the early days the rural delivery
people used to help sort all the
main in the post office, not just the
mail to her their own customers.
Christmas time used to bring a
lot more mail in the old days, she
says, from parcels to Christmas
cards. Today the biggest change is
the number of flyers to be deliver
ed.
Her most vivid experience in
volves mice that sometimes used to
build nests in the mail boxes. She
had an intense dislike of mice. One
day a mouse fell into a mail bag and
escaped into the car. “There was a
lot of squeaking in the car then,”
she says.
Pat Brigham delivers
all Blyth rural routes
Queen of the rural mail routes in
Blyth area from now on will be Pat
Brigham who will now deliver all
three mail routes out of Blyth.
Earlier this year Mrs. Brigham
had taken over routes one and two
on the retirement of Harvey Gar-
niss and now has taken over route
three with the retirement of Marie
Heffron. She says Canada Post
seems to be leaning toward one
person to handle all mail routes in
each post office as the same
situation exists in Seaforth where
one contractor has five routes.
Taking on three routes will mean
travelling 75 miles a day to deliver
mail, she says. She’ll do the routes
in order, route one first, then route
two and finally route three which
will mean customers on that route
may get their mail later than they
have been used to, she says.
Mrs. Brigham, who is also
librarian in Blyth, says she antici
pates no problem getting her mail
delivery done in time to continue
her afternoon work at the library
Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Antique cars
coming
Walking down the streets of
Blyth next Thursday evening could
be like taking a trip down memory
lane, as 35 members of the
Contemporary Historical Vehicle
Association arrive in town to attend
the theatre.
This is the 15th annual tour for
the Club, which consists of mem
bers from United States and
Canada and plans were made a
year ago to attend “Local Talent”
at Blyth Memorial Hall as part of
the tour.
So while the members of the club
are enjoying the play, their antique
automobiles from the 30’s, 40’s,
50’s and 60’s will line the streets of
Blyth for the viewing pleasure of
passers-by. *
Greg McClinchey
gets award
Forty-four Scouts were awarded
their Chief Scouts Award Certifi
cates and three Venturers were
awarded their Queen’s Venturer
Award Certificates at a special
ceremony held in Grace United
Church, Hanover on Sunday, June
24.
Greg McClinchey from the 1st
Blyth Scout troop received his
award at'this ceremony.
Jay Campbell, holder of Scout-
ing’s Silver Wolf Award, presented
the awards to these Scouts and
Venturers on behalf of the Chief
Scout of Canada, His Excellency,
Governor General, Raymon
Hnatyshyn. The award was inaug
urated in 1973 by His Excellency,
Governor General Roland Michen-
er, in his capacity as Chief Scout of
Canada.
Blyth says hiyher yrants unneeded
Blyth village councillors at their
June 13 meeting decided not to
support a resolution from neigh
bouring Morris township asking for
more provincial grants to recrea
tion.
Councillor Dave Lee expressed
the feelings of most councillors
when he said it was unfortunate not
to support a neighbour but he
couldn’t support the resolution
which calls on the province to
increase grants to municipalities
which have remained at $6,000 a
year since 1986 for municipalities
under 5,000 population.
“I’m not sure our situation
allows us to feel the same as they
do,” Reeve Albert Wasson said. “I
can’t speak for Morris but as far as
the grant system works, we’ve
been well taken care of.”
Councillor Steve Sparling said
that it was awkward to suggest, as
the Morris resolution does, that the
facilities were built with the help of
government grants and so now the
province has a responsibility to
give more grants to support them.
He said he wasn’t criticizing Morris
township but the economy can’t
support more government spen
ding. Reeve Wasson said it would
be great to be able to support
Morris but “on the other hand you
have to agree that at some point we
have to be more responsible” for
our own costs.
Councillor Sparling agreed that
Blyth was perhaps in a unique
position because it has received a
disproportionate amount of govern
ment grants for various projects.
The one councillor who went
against the flow was Councillor
Ken Brown who said he’d rather
see more money go to recreation
rather than some ridiculous, exotic
research programs. The govern
ment should look elsewhere for the
place to draw the line, he said.
Council voted to receive and file
the resolution with no action.
Giving selflessly theme
of Blyth United sermon
Greeters at Blyth United Church
on Sunday, July 1 were Kathy
McNichol and Fred Howson.
Ushers were Jack, Agnes and
Laurie Wharton and Jim Howson.
Scripture reading was from Cor
inthians II verses 1-15. The senior
choir anthem was “Gentle Shep
herd”. Flowers were in memory of
Alex Nethery by Jean Nethery and
family.
Rev. Ramirez’s sermon “The
Christian Spirit of Sharing and
Giving”. If faith and love in Christ
is to be true and sincere it must be
seen and manifested in action by
sharing and giving to others in
need. Christ is the supreme ex
ample of giving selflessly. Paul’s
aim was that no one will be in want
but that there might be equality.
God desires that others may benefit
out of our hard work.
The service was closed by sing
ing “All the way my Saviour leads
me”, benediction and choral re
sponse, “God Loves You”.
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