HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1989-01-04, Page 23THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1989. PAGE 23.
Looking back
Chief owes retires after 40 yrs. on Blyth
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Queen of the Furrow; Jeff McGavin
of RR4, Walton represented Ontario
at the Canadian National Plowing
Championships at Agassiz, B.C. and
brought home the Junior Reserve
Championship; Murray Townsend
of RR 3, Seaforth won three
Championships at the International
Plowing Match near Stratford;
AngelaNetheryof RR4, Brussels
was chosen Miss Brussels Fall Fair;
and the Belgrave School Fair
attracted 3,000 entries.
All four Blyth councillors announ
ced they would not seek re-election;
the Huron County Opportunity Tour
was declared a success by all
involved; the Christian Heritage
Party was formed in Huron-Bruce
with Ray Verburg as Riding Associa
tion president; Blyth Fire Chief Irvin
Bowes retired after 40 years of
service and Paul Josling was sworn
in as new Chief; Huron County’s
population was pegged at 55,589;
CKNX and the CBC part company;
the late Norman Garrett of Blyth left
a bequest of more than $60,000 to
establish a scholarship fund for
Blyth students; Kevin Wheeler and
Michelle Menzies were chosen to
compete at both Skate America and
Skate Russia; a Telephone Reassur
ance program was implemented by
Town and Country Homemakers;
the Blyth Festival season closes,
sends “Bordertown Cafe” off on
two-month Ontario tour.
Auburn’s Fred Peel took the
Senior Judging Championship at
Dungannon boy wins
Junior Citizen award
A 14-year-old Dungannon youth is
one of 12 recipients of Ontario Junior
Citizens of the Year awards announ
ced by the Ontario Community
Newspaper Association.
Brad Park, son of Bill and Marie
Park received the award for “show
ing courage and determination in
maintaining an active lifestyle,
despite an ongoing battle with
diabetes, and for volunteering to be
part of a University Hospital pilot
study to eliminate insulin injec
tions.” The grade 8 student at
Brookside Public School said he
“feels like a bit of a celebrity’’. He
was among 12 of 117 nominees to be
chosen for the award.
The award recipients and their
families will be the guests of
Canadian Airlines and the OCNA at
an awards ceremony at the Toronto
Hilton Hotel on Friday, March3. The
awards will be presented by Ontario
Lieutenant-Governor Lincoln Alex
ander and each recipient will receive
a$200cheque, a commemorative
plaque, a gold lapel pin and a family
portrait with the Lieutenant-Gover
nor.
Ontario’s other 1988 Junior Citi
zens include:
•Douglas Anderson, 9, of Lindsay
for his efforts despite his own
suffering, to brighten up the lives of
other young patients by successfully
campaigning to persuade a major
company to provide fun face masks
for doctors.
•Christine Barber, 16, of Cam
bridge for her enthusiasm and
helpfulness and her outstanding
volunteer activities with disabled
young people in her community.
•Colleen Beattie, 13, of Pefferlaw
who despite her own battle with
leukemia has continued to contri
bute her time and efforts to school
and community activities that bene
fit others.
•Naney Featherston, 18, of Hag-
ersville for her leadership and
contributions to the S.A.D.D. and
4-H groups and the Branchton Camp
for Men-tally Handicapped where
London’s Western Fair and quali
fied to go on to the Regina
Agribition; the Hallrice 4-H Dairy
Calf Club won the county-wide
Reach for the Top competition; the
Brussels Bantam Boys won the
WOAA Championship and the
Londesboro Bantam Girls won the
township league “B’’ Champion
ship. Belgrave was the scene of an
80th birthday celebration for Mrs.
Olive Bolt and for an 85th birthday
celebration for Mrs. Sarah Ander
son; Doug and Wilma Hemingway of
Brussels and Lloyd and Mary
Walden of Blyth all celebrated their
50th Wedding Anniversaries with
Open Houses for family and friends;
choice beef sold at $90 while weaners
dropped to a new low of 39 cents per
lb.
OCTOBER
A federal election is announced
for November 21, bringing a flurry of
political activity: Tony McQuail
acclaimed as the NDP candidate for
Huron-Bruce; Murray Cardiff ac
claimed as the PC candidate; Ken
Dunlop wins the Liberal bid; and
Tom Clark was a late starter as the
Christian Heritage Party candidate.
In municipal politics, all local
incumbent Reeves were acclaimed
while several interesting faces
began^o shape up for other council
positions; incumbent trustees Jim
Schneider, Al Craig and George
Collins were acclaimed in the Police
Village of Auburn.
MP Murray Cardiff announced a
$450,000 federal grant toward the
she was both counsellor and ‘special
Olympic’ coach.
•Tammilyn Leslie, 13, of Mill
grove for quick thinking and pre
sence of mind to promptly shut off a
machine when her sister became
trapped on a conveyor belt and for
helping breathe life into her un til
police arrived.
•Joey Philion, 15, of Cumberland
Beach for his heroism in saving the
lives of his family during a house fire
and for his superior courage and
strength infacingthe daily treat
ments he receives as a victim of third
degree burns to most of his body.
•Melissa Rogers, 9, of Sarnia for
her quick thinking in saving het
sister’s life by pulling her to the
surface after she had fallen into the
deep end of a friend’s pool.
Hannah Schoch, 17, of Scar
borough for her leadership through
service to fellow students with
special needs and her volunteer
support for the larger community.
•Ian Shire, 7, of Inverary for his
brave and prompt actions in saving
the life of a friend who had fallen into
deep water and was drowning.
•Lara Wakegijig. 10, of Wikwe-
mikong for her courage and strength
in dealing with the painful surgery to
correct her physical handicap and for
sharing her culture with other young
patients.
•Group Award: Andrea Drouin
[18], Nicky North [16], Michelle
Renaud [13] and Sayelle Plunkett
[18], of Guelph for the patience and
care they provide with horse-back
riding instruction for the mentally
and physically handicapped at the
Sunrise Equestrian Centre.
Some 155 million litres of water
normally flow over the Horseshoe
Falls at Niagara every minute, buton
the night of March 29, 1848, this
enormous cascade of water eased to
a trickle and then ceased altogether.
The cause of the event, it was"
discovered later, was an ice jam
which had formed near Buffalo. Will
Niagara ever run dry again?
Blyth Festival’s Capital Expansion
Program; the HCBE granted its 283
secondary school teachers a 4.6 per
cent raise; Lisa Boonstoppel of
Auburn was named Huron County
Dairy Princess; a community Benefit
Dance for the Brussels Legion raised
more than $10,000 toward the cost of
re-building; Cranbrook’ s Paul Engel
won the Canadian National Arm
wrestling Championship in his
weight class in Toronto, will advance
to World Championships in Holly
wood; and the Ethel Women’s
Institute raised more than $400
towards playground equipment for
the hamlet.
Country Garden Flowers opened
in Brussels; Brussels Public School
teacher Margery Huether establish
ed a perpetual music scholarship for
BPS students; Auburn’s Bob Arthur
was honoured on the occasion of his
retirement after 29 years of service
with the Huron County Roads Dept.;
Londesboro’s Melanie Knox excell
ed at the CHSS track meet; the Blyth
Inn Slo-pitch team won the league’s
“A’’ Division Championship, the
Londesboro Diamonds won the
Tri-County Midget Girls Champion
ship, and the Brussels Bullettes won
the Tri-county Intermediate Wo
men’s Championship. Both Ellen
Johnston of Auburn and Winona
McDougall of Seaforth celebrated
their 90th birthdays; choice beef
rose to $96.50 and weaner pigs rose
slightly to a monthly low of 46 cents.
NOVEMBER
Local and western livestock pro
ducers were left in the lurch when
Brussels Stockyards owner Klaus
Henschel disappeared, plunging the
yard into bankruptcy proceedings;
former owners Bruce and Ross
McCall obtained an interim licence
to operate the facility until it was sold
to Gordon Brindley of Dungannon
for the tendered price of $465,000, to
re-open in December.
Municipal elections saw Dave
Hastings, Greg Wilson, Bruce Hahn
and Mary Stretton elected to
Brussels council; Ken Brown, Dave
Medd, Dave Lee and Shirley Fyfe
elected to Blyth council; Rhea
Hamilton-Seeger elected Deputy
Mabel's
Grill
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togetmoreexercise, maybe even
take up joggin g. If these guys kept it
up they might make her run right out
of the restaurant, she said.
Billie Bean said he had changed
his resolution slightly from the one
he’d been making for the last seven
years. Always before Billie had
promised himself that he’d made his
first million before the year was
over. This year he’d given up on that.
“They say the first million is the
hardest so my resolution this year is
to make my second million instead,’’
he said. Billie figures too that maybe
it’s time to give up on lottery tickets
as his ticket to millions. “So far over
the last few years, I figure trying to
win a million has lost me about
$6,000,’’ he said.
Still, Billie said, he figured that to
make a million you’d have to come up
with some really good ideas and that
takestimetothink. Hefigured he
was just going to have to take more
time off work in order to do the
thinking.
Mabel said that if he took any more
time off work she might have to
charge him rent because he’d never
be able to drink enough coffee to pay
for the space he took up in her Grill.
She might be a millionaire before he
was, she said.
Hank said he’d made his resolu
tion. He was promising not to keep
complaining about the economic
problems of farmers and to find
something good to say about
farming... even if it took him a whole
year to find it.
Reeve in West Wawanosh; and
Graeme MacDonald elected Deputy
Reeve in Grey Twp.
Theresa Van Beek and her five
children escaped without injury
when a major fire destroyed their
Morris Twp. home; a second major
fire in Morris destroyed a pig barn
owned by Jack and Allan Cardiff
while neighbours saved most of the
stock. Many local exhibitors won in
livestock classes at Toronto’s Royal
Winter Fair, including Lucknow’s
Debbie Rintoul who took the Reserve
Grand Championship in the Queen’s
Guineas class when the first place
animal was disallowed because of
alleged illegal tampering; Arthur
BosoftheHallrice4-H Dairy Calf
Club won five major awards at the
Huron County 4-H Awards Night in
Clinton, while many other local
4-H’ers did well; the Blyth Festival’s
Dinner Auction raised $20,000
towards capital expansion.
Londesboro’s Norman Alexan
der, one of Ontario’s most respected
conservationists died in Clinton in
his 79th year; John and Janie
McEwingof RR 1, Blyth celebrated
their 50th Wedding Anniversary;
and Gilbert Beecroft of Belgrave and
Peggy Cudmore of Brussels each
celebrated their 80th birthday.
Stephen Betts purchased the M.L.
Watts Funeral Homes in Brussels
and Gorrie while Max and Barb
Watts leave on a well-deserved
holiday.
DECEMBER
A $250,000 fire destroyed the
Siebolt Siertsema family’s modern
dairy barn while friends and neigh
bours saved most of the cattle and
later launched a clean-up bee for the
stricken family; Brussels Stock
yard’s Klaus Henschel returned to
Canada to surrender to OPP and is
charged with fraud; the CPR
announced that it will close its line
through Walton, Blyth and Auburn
on January 1, with no chance of
appeal.
St. Mark’s Anglican Church in
Auburn closed its doors after 105
years of worship; Bayfield Reeve
Dave Johnston was elected Warden
of Huron County; the Brussels
Legion opened for business on
December 14 with an Official
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Vxation romances
Opening planned for January 7;
Junior Ice Dancers Peter MacDon
ald and Kerrie Shepherd took the
gold medal at the Western Ontario
Sectional Figure Skating Champion
ships in Brantford and will advance
to the Divisionals in January; Mr.
and Mrs. Jack McGee of Blyth
celebrated their 60th Wedding
Anniversary and Mr. and Mrs. Bert
Daer of Blyth celebrated 50 years of
marriage. Choice beef sold for up to
$97.25 to end the year, while pigs
recovered slightly to 69 cents per lb.
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Hi! My name is Brandon Brown and
I finally made it through my terrible
"2“s. I will turn 3, January 7, 1989
and Mom and Dad sure are glad.
Mom has a big party planned for me
and I can hardly wait. Lots of cake,
icecream and presents [I hope].
Well, I'll see all of you nice people
next year on my birthday. Bye!
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