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VOL. 3 NO. 35 ,_________________\
Serving Brussels, Blyth, Auburn, Belgrave, Ethel,
Londesborough, Walton and surrounding townships.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1987.40 CENTS
Hundreds of volunteers work
to help their parties in the
election. See page 5.
More girls are needed for
Dairy Princess competition.
See page 8.
Walton team leads WOAA
playoff series. See page 11.
Brussels Legion gets letter
from the Queen. See page 20.
Bob Rae, leader of the New Democratic Party in Ontario was surrounded by reporters as he
talked to Paul Ryckman, company manager, [back to camera] during a visit to the
Sherlock-Manning piano factory in Clinton on Friday during a campaign visit to the riding.
Mr. Rae promised to take action to make sure agencies spending government money give a
fair chance to Canadian producers in the buying of things like pianos for schools. The Clinton
business, teetering on the edge of financial collapse, is the last piano manufacturer in
Canada.
Rae says NDP would aid faltering plan t
Bob Rae’s provincial election
campaign stopped in Clinton for a
tour of the financially troubled
Sherlock-Banning Piano Factory
Friday and he promised that if the
New Democrats form the next
government, he will put in place
policies to help such places.
Surrounded by a thundering
More gold for Wheeler
Brussel’s own world class figure
skating champion, Kevin Whee
ler, has won the gold medal in yet
another international event, plac-
Citizen open
Monday
Monday is Labour Day holiday
but the labour will continue at The
Citizen offices.
Brussels office will be open as
usual from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on
Monday to receive news and
advertising. The Blyth office will
be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Next week’s paper will include a
special supplement to mark the
26th anniversary of the Huron
Pioneer Thresher Reunion in Blyth
Sept. 11-13.
herd of reporters and camera men
following the NDP province-wide
campaign (and a handful of rather
intimidated local reporters) Mr.
Rae toured the century-old factory
which may soon be forced to close
despite having 1500 orders on the
books for new pianos. Sherlock
Manning, operated by Draper
ing first with his pairs partner,
Michelle Menzies of Preston, at a
competition in St. Gervais, France.
Skating officially in senior com
petition for the first time, the pair
placed first in both their compul
sory and free skate programs last
Tuesday and Wednesday at the
International Figure Skating Com
petition in St. Gervais, then went
on to skate at Obertsdorf, West
Germany, yesterday and today
(Wednesday).
At press time, no word was
available ontheir results in the
German competition.
Mr. Wheeler and Miss Menzies
qualifiedfor the competition by
winning the gold medal at the
Canadian Figure Skating Cham
pionships in Ottawa last February,
one of only two Canadian pairs to
Brothers and Reid Ltd. is short on
working capital, Paul Ryckman,
company president said.
It was revealed that the company
has received an offer to invest
$500,000 by a Toronto investor and
the Ontario Development Corpora
tion has given a loan guarantee for
the purchase of $400,000 worth of
qualify for the world event. The
couple passed their senior pairs
test in Preston only two weeks ago,
and will now compete in the senior
division at all events, after their
major successes as junior pairs
competitors over the past 18
months.
Last September, Mr. Wheeler
and Miss Menzies astounded
judges by placing second overall in
their first international competi
tion at St. Ibels, England, skating
in the senior division although they
were still technically juniors,
because their coach, the world-
famous Kerry Leitch of Preston,
wanted them to be noticed by
international judges, who nor
mally pay little attention to junior
competitors.
Kevin is the son of George and
Shirley Wheeler of RR 5, Brussels.
new production equipment but the
latter is contingent on the company
finding the required operating
funding. Mr. Rae said, he would
Angela Nethery
in semi-finals
Angela Nethery, 1986-87 Huron
County Dairy Princess, has been
selected as one of ten semi-finalists
vying for the title of Ontario Dairy
Princess at the Canadian National
Exhibition in Toronto.
MissNethery, ofRR 4, Brussels,
was chosen as one of the finalists
Saturday, which say competition
between 4H Dairy Princesses from
across the province whittled down
to 10 semi-finalists after four days
of activity, which included inter
views with a panel of judges, as
well as the presentation of an
impromptu speech, assigned to
each girl from a slate of six topics
from which each had been told to
prepare.
Five finalists were to be chosen
after further competition Monday
and Tuesday evenings, with
Ontario’s 32nd Dairy Princess to be
crowned tonight (Wednesday) at
Continued on page 9
fightforthe needed $400,000 to
keep Canada’s last piano manufac
turer in business.
Continued on page 10
ANGELA NETHERY