HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1987-08-12, Page 28PAGE 28. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1987.
Premier drums up
support at annual
Riddell barbecue
Ontario Premier David Peterson
drummed up some Liberal support
at a campaign stop at the farm of
provincial Agriculture Minister
Jack Riddell near Exeter last week
by pounding out an impromptu
rendition of “This Land is your
Land” on the drums of a country
music group called the No Notes
Jug Band.
He later shook hands with some
of the 1,000 party supporters who
turned out August 5 for Mr.
Riddell’s fourth annual barbecue
at his farm on Highway 83 west of
Exeter. The $10 a head tickets for
the fund-raiser were sold out
weeks in advance, Mr. Riddell
said.
Mr. Peterson appeared relaxed
and confident despite the day’s
heavy schedule which had taken
him to Thunder Bay, Sault Ste.
Marie, Kitchener, Exeter and
finally Ottawa. There were no
major policy announcements.
Thepremierpraised Mr. Rid
dell, MPPfor the new riding of
Huron, for the work his ministry
has done in agriculture, noting that
the agriculture budget had increa
sed by 72 per cent over the past two
years.
“That's an enormous increase,
and is indicative of this govern
ment’s commitment to rural Ontar-
ioand to the family farm,’’ Mr.
Peterson said, adding that the
Agriculture Minister is a “dyna
mic, capable, reformist leader.”
Also attending the barbecue
were Health Minister Murray
Elston and Transport Minister Ed
Fulton. Mr. Riddell said that he
and Mr. Fulton had earlier in the
day toured roads in Huron County
that are “badly in need of repair,”
and had attended a meeting in
Blyth with several north county
communities pressing for repairs
to Highway 4 between Blyth and
Wingham.
Mr. Riddell said that he had
been assured by Mr. Fulton that
money was on the way for repairs,
but Mr. Peterson joked that the
needed money would “have to
come out of the agriculture mini
stry’s budget.”
Premier David Peterson was in the best of spirits when he got in the mood of the music at Jack Riddell’s
barbecue last week. He showed that drumming up votes isn’ t the only thing he’s good at when he sat down
to entertain the audience of 1,000 attending the fourth annual fundraising event.Brussels council
to pave Mill St.
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could be let for paving work on Mill
Street. The paving can’t be
completed until the sidewalks are
in on Mill St.
Councillors agreed to ask for
tenders for paving on Mill Street
from Turnberry to John St. as well
Stedmans
as for a sidewalk area on Alexander
St. from Flora to Catherine.
Tenders will also be asked for
paving the village’s half of the
parking lot between the BMG
Medical Centre and the village
office building. The medical centre
will pay for its portion of the lot.
Promotion committee
set up in Blyth
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village. He hoped that a committee
would be able to accomplish more
because promotion was its sole
goal.
Mr. Davidson said that small
towns can offer a lifestyle that is
attractive to many people.
Mr. Donaldson said that he
hosted “bed and breakfast’’
guests from the Blyth Festival at
his home and they all raved about
the village, how clean and well
organized it was, how clean Lions
Park is, but the one thing they
complained about was having to
drive 10 to 12 miles to find a liquor
store.
Don Scrimgeour agreed, saying
his staff gets more inquiries about
Mabel's Grill
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baselines to eaten foul balls, he
said, so why not get a shapely girl in
tight shorts to run out to the mound
and file the pitcher’s nails when
ever he thinks they’ve grown too
long during a game.
THURSDAY: Julia Flint was say
ing this morning she hopes the new
submarines the navy is ordering
can doabetter job of finding the
“enemy” than the present navy.
Here they were searching for a boat
supposedly filled with refugees off
our east coast and all the time it was
in the English Channel off Britain.
With detection abilities like that
the Russian navy could land in
Montreal before we knew they
were there.
FRIDAY: Hank says it’s obvious
location of a liquor store than any
other business.
Several years ago the Blyth
Board of Trade had sought a liquor
store for the village but had been
turned down because of the
proximity to stores in Clinton,
Wingham and Brussels. Mr.
Davidson said that some other
communities had also been turned
down at first but had continued to
fight until they got a store.
After the discussion Councillor
Elliott, chairman for the meeting
called for a vote from those present
if the village should proceed with
preparing for the Opportunity Tour
and there were no dissenters. The
committee was then named from
those who volunteered to serve.
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Larry Grossman isn’t trying to win
the vote of teenagers when he came
up with the proposal that students
not get a day off school for
teachers’ professional develop
ment days but instead have
“personal development days”.
Next to raising the drinking age,
Hank said, he couldn’t think of
anything that would make kids
swear off voting for the Tories for
life.
Tim said Grossman is thinking of
the short term. Keeping the kids in
school on PD days would win him a
lot of popularity with parents.
About this time of the summer, he
said, if Grossman could promise
kids would be kept in a school over
summer holidays too, he’d win a
landslide majority.
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