HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1990-10-24, Page 3Dishing it out
Forrest (Bush) Whittard of Brussels serves up some of the tempting, tender roast beef to Lenore
Davidson at Trinity Anglican Church’s annual Roast Beef supper in Blyth Memorial Hall on Thursday
night.
Vandals cost taxpayers money
Somewhere floating in Blyth
Brook is nearly $1,000 of materials
stolen from the Blyth village Public
Works department.
Public Works foreman John Rinn
told village council Oct. 10 that
someone had pried locks off a
storage shed on the old CP Rail
right of way and had taken 550 feet
of two-by-fours used in forming
sidewalks and other materials. The
wood was used to build a riverside
shanty. He had discovered the
shanty Thansgiving weekend and
ROSE ANN MACHAN
Rose Ann Machan graduated
Saturday, Oct. 20, 1990 at the
convocation exercises at Geor
gian College in Barrie. A gradu
ate of the Ophthalmic Dispenser
(Optical) program, Rose Ann
graduated on the dean’s list. She
is the daughter of Robert and
Theresa Machan of Blyth and is
currently working at Hakim
Optical in Guelph.
NOTICE - RESIDENTS
VILLAGE OF BLYTH
Bagged Leaf Pickup scheduled
for October 27th, 1990 in the
morning. Please have leaves
bagged, tied, and at the curb.
Village Work Force ask that
Residents not rake leaves out to
street and leave in piles due to
causing problems with water
back-up at catch basins.
Please consider your neighbours
and refrain from burning leaves.
Village of Blyth Council
the Ontario Provincial Police had
been called in but later the shanty
had been demolished and some of
the lumber was found floating in
the river.
Also missing are two garbage
cans and three street signs that
have been removed from posts
around town. Removal of the signs
could cause a serious accident, Mr.
Groups share
Blyth Village Council Oct. 10
approved an agreement between
the Blyth Centre for the Arts and
Blyth Masonic Lodge for renova
tion and cost sharing of the upper
floor of the village municipal
building.
The agreement, which will see
the two groups share the space and
the costs of renovating it will cost
the village nothing. The village did
apply for and receive a grant from
the Ministry of Energy to help with
the renovations.
The village negotiated a 20-year
lease with the Centre for the Arts in
1988 as part of the guarantees
required by the Festival before its
grant application for capital fund
ing for its $2 million expansion
program could be accepted by the
provincial and federal govern
ments. It was then necessary for
the Masonic Lodge to reach a
formal agreement with the Festival
on joint use of the building.
The agreement had originally
been reached between the two
groups in May. Total costs of
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Rinn said.
Councillor Steven Sparling said
that if the parents of the culprits
knew stolen property had been
used in the making of the shanty
they might take action to get it
returned.
Police said it was a case of break,
enter and theft, Mr. Rinn said and
those who took part could face
serious charges.
space
renovation, including donated la
bour by the Masons, will be nearly
$15,000. Besides the grant of
nearly $7,000, the Festival will
provide $5,000 in materials and the
Masons will supply $3,000 in
labour. The project will include a
meeting room and kitchen in the
east end of the space and office
space for the Festival at the west.
Our goof!
Oh what a little word can do!
Last week in the Blyth council
briefs the word “complaint” was
substituted for the word “compli
ment” somewhere along the line in
production, completely changing
the meaning of the news item. The
item should have said that Blyth
Village Council had received many
compliments on the new sidewalk
recently built under the Pride
grant. The Citizen regrets this
error.
THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY,
Blyth.
People
Melda McElroy and Evelyn Olde
of Clinton attended two social
functions held at the University of
Western Ontario in the afternoon of
Oct. 21.
They enjoyed a most delicious
three course brunch at Summer
ville House on Campus attended by
a very large number of Homecom
ing ’90 Reunion graduates of 1955
and earlier. The table seating plan
for the brunch was the year of
graduation Evelyn, Melda and
three others were the only ones to
sit at, table marked 1930. How
proud and thankful they were to be
able to attend and to enjoy to the
“n’th” degree what went on!
Following this celebration, they
were pleased to accept the invita
tion of the Alumni Association
together with President and Mrs.
George Pedersen, to be present at
the residence of the president for a
reception.
The ideal October weather condi
tions enticed the large crowd of
guests, after they had partaken of
refreshments and enjoyed perusing
the architecture of the spacious
rooms of this heritage home, to
enjoy a walk among the wide
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OCTOBER 24, 1990. PAGE 3.
variety of old and young trees on
the expanse of grounds.
The Olde name is not a new one
for many of today’s Blyth citizens.
Evelyn Olde’s husband, Brock
Olde, taught science to many a
Blyth high school student at Clin
ton District Secondary School.
Evelyn received a pot of magenta
“mums” in appreciation for at
tending the largest number of
U.W.O. grad reunions during her
60 years following graduation.
This year, four children of Robert
and Theresa Machan all graduated.
Mark from Kindergarten, Brian
from Grade 8, Debbie from Grade
12 and Rose Ann from Georgian
College.
Wray Bryant died on Thursday,
October 18 in Smith Falls. He was a
native of Blyth and later lived in
Goderich.
Verne (Scrimgeour) Dakin and
her husband Charles have moved
to Blyth from Goderich. The Dakins
purchased the Procter home on
King Street - “Glad to be back”.
There were 12 tables of players
at the Oct. 15 euchre party at Blyth
Memorial Hall.
High scores for the evening were
June Jacklin and Lilly Leatherland.
Eileen Haggitt and Hazel Reid had
the low scores. Alice Buchanan and
Jack McEwing had the most lone
hands. Clara Rinn won the special
prize. There is a euchre party every
Monday night at Memorial Hall at
8 p.m.