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The Citizen, 1988-04-20, Page 1Blyth team wins provincial OV crown See page 18 High school students take over Bd. of Ed. See page 5 Free Trade 'victory' may be hollow See page 14 Magician performs at Brussels Library See page 23 VOL. 4 NO. 16 serving Brussels, Blyth, Auburn, Belgrave, Ethel, Londesborough, Walton and surrounding townships. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1988.45 CENTS Local student wins science fair A Blyth student will lead a team of three Huron county science students going to the Canada- Wide Science Fair in Winnipeg next month. Tammi Medd, a grade eight student at Blyth Public School won the top grade 8 biological project at the Huron County Science Fair in Clinton Saturday for her project “Effect of insecticides on soil’’. She also won the conservation award from the Maitland Valley and Ausable Conservation Author­ ities. Joining her in the trip to Winnipeg will be Jason Venkites- waren of Robertson Memorial Public School in Goderich with his project on microwave ovensand Brian Hemmingway from God­ erich Township Public School in Holmesville with his project on “waste disposal alternatives. ’ ’ Both are grade 8 students. Two other Blyth P.S. students placed well at the county science fair. Jason Elliott had the top grade 7 life sciences project with his Continued on page 8 Province gives $485,000 for 10th line bridge Years of waiting for a new bridge on the 10th line of East Wawanosh will come to an end in the next few months when construction begins on a new SI ,162,000 bridge across the Maitland river. The work is expected to begin in the next couple of months, Winona Thompson, clerk-treasurer said Friday. The project will be helped by a $485,000 supplemental grant from the Ministry of Transport and Communications. The project will take place over two years with the understanding there will be anoth­ er supplemental grant next year, Mrs. Thompson said although there has been no written confir­ mation of either the grant or a Continued on page 18 Series on hold as Lions Head walks out The W.O.A.A. Grand Cham­ pionship is on hold at the present time. On Saturday night the Lions Head North Stars left the ice before the game started and refused to play. They were upset that a suspension given to Brussels’ The mysteries of spinning wool into yarn are explained to grade six and seven students at Brussels Public School Monday by local spinner Harriet Boon. Various crafts people showed pioneer crafts to the students to mark Education Week. Events from balloon releases to variety concerts mark Education Week, April 18-22 in schools across Huron county. player Brian Ten Pas had been lifted. The Brussels team was able to convince League officials that Brian wasn’t on the ice when the alleged infraction took place. The matter was eventually found out to be an error of the dfficial Scorer from Lions Head. The executive committee of the W.O.A.A. met in a lengthy meeting on Monday night to try to resolve the problem. By Tuesday morning the complete ramifica­ tions were still not known. The executive did award the third game of the series to Brussels because Lions Head left the ice. The fourth game was set for Lions Head with the fifth game at Brussels. However earlier Lions Head has said it would pull out of the series if Brussels was awarded the third game. At press time it was still not known if the game would go on or not. Blyth to vote on liquor store in fall Blyth voters will have the chance next fail to decide whether or not they want a liquor store in the village’s business community. At the regular session April 12, Blyth council voted three to one to approve an application by local businessman Rick Ay Is worth to seek approval for a liquor, beerand wineoutletat his business premise at the north end of the village, Blyth Distributors (formerly Wal­ lace Turkey Products). Councillors Bev Elliott, Lloyd Sippel and Bill Manning voted in support of the move, while council­ lor Bill Howson was opposed. Because a liquor retail outlet is the one issue of liquor licencing that has never been voted on locally, the matter must now go to thepeople, andwillappearas a referendum at next November’s municipal elections, according to clerk-treasurer Helen Grubb. Mr. Aylsworth later told The Citizen that an official with the Liquor Licencing Board of Ontario (LLBO) has already inspected the premises with a view toward installing the outlet, but had told him that the board cannot proceed at the location without the approval of the people. He added that the idea has already received a lot of positive feedback from the community, and noted that a retail liquor outlet in the village had been identified as a high-priority need in a recent survey conducted by the Blyth Business and Tourism Committee, the group charged with enhancing trade in the community and responsibleforthe high-profile visit by the county’s ‘ 'Opportunity Tour’’ of investors scheduled for next September. In a separate item of business, council also voted its unanimous support for Mr. Aylsworth's se­ cond application, to install a car wash at the south side of Blyth Distributors, pending approval from the county’s planning depart­ ment and from the Ministry of the Environment. Blyth’s building inspector Eu­ gene McAdam, who attended the council meeting in reference to the installation of the car wash, said he could see no reason why the facility should not be approved, assuming all criteria were met to planning department and MOE standards. He noted that both the water supply and the sewer capacity at the site had been approved for the former turkey evisceration plant at the location, and should be easily brought up to standard. “A car-wash of this type doesn’t useas much waterasone might think,’’ Mr. Aylsworth said. “We’Ilbeusinga metered spray.’’ He added that the coin-operated, covered facility, similar to the one at Brussels, could be in operation before summer. A local car-wash was another high-priority need in the commun­ ity identified by the Business and Tourism Committee’s survey.