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VOL. 5 NO. 21 WEDNESDAY, MAY 24, 1989. ' 45 CENTS
Ida Evans
Brussels
Citizen
of Year
Ida Evans has been chosen
Brussels’ Citizen of the Year by a
panel of Brussels area residents.
Mrs. Evans was nominated by no
less than four people in The
Citizen's annual contest. Her nomi
nators praised her long years of
service to many different organiza
tions. She has worked with the
Brussels, Morris and Grey catering
group with Meals on Wheels, with
the United Church Women, with
Majestic Women’s Institute, the
Brussels Horticultural Society and
at the Brussels Lawn Bowling Club.
She has been a canvasser for the
Cancer Society, Heart and Stroke
Foundation, diabetes and other
courses.
One nominator praised her for
her responsibility, loyalty, humour
and directness of speech and
decisiveness. “Number one I think
is her love of people, her sympathy
for those less fortunate, her toler
ance of those with an excess of
sophisticiation, her friendliness to
all. She has a special memory: it’s
short in remembering how great
she is, and long in remembering
kindness given to her."
With such fervent supporters it
was easy for the panel to name
Mrs. Evans citizen of the year. She
will be presented with a plaque
honouring her choice at a later
date.
Quiet holiday
weekend,
OPP say
The first holiday of this year’s
summer season was fairly unevent
ful, according to the Wingham OPP
detachment.
Despite a series of spot checks
throughout the weekend and hea
vier traffic conditions, the holiday
was described by a police spokes
person as “rather quiet’’.
Three hundred and forty-nine
vehicles underwent spotchecks be
ginning Friday at 6:00 p.m. and
lasting until midnight Monday. Of
these, only one driver was charged
for having over 80 milligrams of
alcohol in 100 milligrams of blood,
while twelve were charged under
the Liquor License Act for having
liquor in the car.
Police report only two minor
single vehicle accidents in the area
for the entire weekend.
Foster mother
Fran Cook of Blyth offers some TLC (tender, loving care) to this TLC (tiny little coon). This wee guy
and two of his siblings were orphaned after a farmer s dog killed the mother raccoon. Fran took them
in and is feeding them Enfalac and cream of wheat until they are ready to leave the nest (or plastic
swimming pool as it is in this case).
Henschels’
trial date
to be set
June 5
Klaus and Kirstin Henschel will
appear in Provincial Court in
Goderich June 5 for the setting of a
date for their preliminary trial on
charges connected with the coll
apse of Brussels Stockyards Limit
ed.
The couple appeared in Provin
cial Court in Wingham on Wednes
day and elected trial by judge or
jury on each of the 15 counts of
fraud and theft read out before
Judge R. G. E. Hunter. The
charges stem from the sale of cattle
ordered by the couple from western
Canadian cattle producers in the
name of Brussels Stockyards Limit
ed but allegedly sold through
Oxford Livestock Company owned
by the couple, through various
sales barns in southern Ontario.
The western cattlemen never re
ceived payment.
Other charges involve failure to
pay farmers throughout western
Ontario for cattle sold through the
Brussels stockyard on October 21,
and money taken from the accounts
of Brussels Stockyards Limited.
The couple disappeared in the
week following the Oct. 21 sale and
were eventually located in Ger
many. Quick action by authorities
stopped $795,346.37 in an account
of Swiss Bank Corporation (Cana
da) before it was transferred out of
the country. The money was later
recovered by the bankruptcy trus
tee for the company and paid out to
the creditors.
The couple returned to Canada
and surrendered to police in Lon
don in December and have been
free on a $5,000 bond each since
that time.
Greg taxes
up 11.7%
Grey Township Council held its
regular meeting on May 15 and
adopted its 1989 budget and passed
a by-law establishing the 1989 mill
rates. The 1989 budget for munici
pal purposes only increased by 3.8
per cent, which resulted in a 2.6
per cent increase in the mill rate for
municipal purposes.
However, the large mill rate
increases by the County of Huron
and the school boards has resulted
in a total mill rate for public school
supporters of 16.64 mills and
17.184 mills for separate school
supporters. This represents a 9.9
per cent increase for public school
supporters and 11.7 per cent
increase for separate school sup
porters.
Council endorsed a resolution
from the United Ground Hog’s Day
Committee which recommends that
the abandoned CPR lands be
returned to the farming community
for agricultural reclamation or re
forestation.
In other business Leona Arm
strong and Robin Dunbar were
appointed as the voting delegates
to the 1989 AMO Convention in
Toronto from August 20 to August
23.
The next regular meeting of
Council is scheduled for June 5 at 7
p.m.