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The Citizen, 1987-05-06, Page 1Chance for movie 'stardom'comes Thursday Forget about travelling to Holly­ wood tobe discovered, your chance to be in the movies comes tomorrow, Thursday, right on Blyth’s main street. Raymond International Ltd. and ducers of Blue City Slammers will hold auditions Thursday morning at 9:30 a.m. at the Blyth Inn for 10 minor parts in the movie which will be shooting in Blyth later this month and early next month. Shatalow ., pro-Producers are following: one girl about 15-16 years of age to look like a heavy-metal rocker; one boy 14-15 to play a skate-boarder; one woman in her late 40’s or early 50’s and one man about the same age to lay a husband and one man aged 50-60; one man to play an umpire and four women aged 20-30. The movie, adapted from Layne Coleman’s play Blue City which was originally produced at the Blvth Festival, is about the Blue Serving Brussels, Blyth, Auburn, Belgrave, Ethel, Londesborough, Walton and surrounding townships. VOL. 3 NO. 18 WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1987.40 CENTS Onto the pile goes another bag of garbage collected from the parks and Students in Blyth, Grey Central and Hullett Central schools will also roadsides of Brussels Friday by students of Brussels Public School. take part in the “Pitch-in” campaign in their communities. Stockyards sold by McCall family A business which has been built by a Brussels family over the past 17 years from an enterprise averaging $9 million in sales per year to one averaging more than $1.25 million in sales per week has been sold to a family from Ingersoll, with the takeover effec­ tive immediately. Father and son partners Bruce and Ross McCall of Brussels Stockyards announced last week that the facility, the third largest market for finished cattle in Ontario, had been sold to Klaus Henschell, a former farmer and businessman who sold his Ford dealership in Stratford last Novem­ ber and heard only a few weeks ago that the stockyards might be for sale “if the price was right.’’ Neither party to the deal would disclose the selling price of the business, but both verified the rumour that the down payment alone had been “in the neighbour­ hood of half a million dollars.’’ Continued on Dace 12 Frank and Cenetta Bainton Biyth's Citizens of the Year Franklin and Cenetta Bainton have been named the Citizens of the Year for the Blyth area by a committee of local citizens. The Baintons were among six people from the Blyth and Auburn areas nominated by readers of The Citizen earlier in the year. The committee chose them on the basis of their many years of long service to the community. Frank served as Reeve of Blyth from 1946-49. Cenetta served on the Blyth school board from 1954-56. Frank was a charter member of the Blyth Lions Club and served as president in 1948-49. In 1964 they opened the re tail arm of Bainton Limited, the business started by the Bainton family in 1894. This spring they turned the retail busines over to their grandchildren, Franklin, Jayne, Amanda and Richard Snell. (They continue to operate the tannery operation). Over the years the promotion of their business has helped make Blyth one of the most familiar names in southwestern Ontario. The couple have been generous in their support of community projects from the building of the Blyth and District Community Centre to the Blyth Festival. Cenetta was one of the first members of the Blyth Centre for the Arts board and served until 1982. She was named an honourary director by the board for her work. The couple sponsored the designing and making ot tne 1 Oth anniversary quilt of the Festival. They have also sponsored plays and workshops at the Festival. But it was many smaller, unpublicized acts of community assistance that brought praise from the committee. It was recalled thatfor many years the Bainton’s private swimming pool served as a sort of unofficial community pool for village youngsters. The family has quietly helped the underdog on many occasions. The Bainions are the second winners of the annual award presented by The Citizen. The first winner was Evalena Webster, tireless volunteer for many organizations in the community. City Slammers, a girls’ baseball team, during their Labour Day Baseball tournament. During the shooting the produ­ cers will also be looking for extras for crowd scenes. Teachers get 9.2% over 2 years Contract talks have ended and a settlement has been reached by The Huron County Board of Education and its 385 elementary school teachers, resulting in a pay increase for the teachers ofjust overninepercentoverthe next two years. A joint press release issued by the Board office in Clinton on Friday said that the agreement calls for a 3.4 per cent increase in grid salaries retroactive to Septem­ ber 1, 1986, followed by a 1.1 per cent increase retroactive to April 1, 1987. In addition to the April 1 increase, some cells on the grid will be adjusted to eliminate some existing inequities in salary struc­ ture. The grid will be increased by a further 4.8 per cent effective September 1,1987. As of that date, the minimum and maximum tea­ cher’s salaries in Huron County will be $19,120 and $50,100 respectively. Principals will get an additional $9,830 over their grid salary for the 1987-88 school year, and vice-principals will get an additional $5,150. The total cost increases to the Board of Education as a result of the settlement are approximately 4.1 per cent for the 1986-87 school year, and 4.48 per cent for the 1987-88 school year. The agreement also calls for joint investigations into the bene­ fits package, teacher preparation time, the retirement gratuity plan and an early retirement incentive plan. Negotiations in the dispute have been ongoing for more than a year, despite the appointment late last year of a provincial fact-finder to assists both sides in reaching an agreement, and the appointment of a provincial mediator early last February, when a news blackout was imposed on the talks. The board of education and its secondary school teachers reached a contract settlement last Decem­ ber, the first time in ten years that negotiations had ended in the same year in which they had begun. Brussels moves to muzzle dogs Brussels council moved Monday nightto takeaction toquiet barking dogs, if not through a full anti-noise by-law, at least through revisions to the dog by-law. The action was prompted by Councillor Malcolm Jacobs who, in giving the report of the Property Committee expressed his frustra- tionatthelackoflegalclout his committee had in answering citi­ zen’s complaints about noisy dogs. He said his committee had spoken to some people about their barking dogs but all committee members can really do is appeal to people’s better judgement to do something to quiet the dog. If the dog owner refused to act, ‘ ‘you can stand there and look like an idiot,’’ he said. Without some kind of legislation to back them up, he said, councillors’ hands are tied in Continued on page 10