HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1991-07-24, Page 11THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, JULY 24,1991. PAGE 11.
Belgrave Belgrave Woman visits family roots
Compiled by Mrs. Helen Stonehouse. Phone 887-9487
Belgrave busy with
summer holiday visitors
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Vincent of
Milton visited on Sunday, July 21
with his parents Mr. and Mrs.
Leslie Vincent. Carrie Ann, who
has spent three weeks with her
grandparents returned home to Mil
ton with her parents, Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Ross Anderson,
Belgrave recently returned from a
month spent travelling in England,
Scotland and Wales. While there
they spent several days visiting
with relatives in the Ettrick Valley,
Scotland, where Barbara's grand
mother was bom. They also visited
Hawick, Scotland where her grand
father Michie had lived before
coming to Canada.
Mr. and Mrs. Rob Roy, Christina
and Emily of Peterborough arc hav
ing a week's holiday with her par
ents Mr. and Mrs. Ross Anderson.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Logan,
Kevin and Trevor of Wyoming
attended the Currie family reunion
on Sunday, July 21. A pot luck din
ner was held in the Whitechurch
Hall. The afternoon was spent at
the McGee picnic grounds.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Logan and
family also called on his mother
Mrs. Dorothy Logan.
More calendar winners announced
Kinsmen Calendar Draw winners
for the past week were: July 14,
Jack McKenzie, Tiverton, $50; July
15, Jerry De Bruyn, Clifford, $50;
July 16, Mel Dickson, RR 4,
Visitors at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Jack Walker, Goderich, Mon
day, July 15 were: Mrs. Agnes
Walker, Maple Grove Lodge and
Mrs. Margaret Robinson, both of
Goderich; Mr. and Mrs. David
Walker and family, Woodstock;
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sproulc, Bay-
field and Mr. and Mrs. Lewis
Stonehouse, Belgrave. This was the
occasion of Mrs. Agnes Walker's
birthday.
Mrs. Irene Lamont returned
home on Wednesday, July 17 after
spending the past three weeks with
her cousin Mrs. Jean Love and Mrs.
Love of Oxford, England. While
there she visited several other rela
tives who she had never seen. She
saw the church “St. Michaels”
Goderich, $50; July 17, Irene Kar-
ley, Linwood, $50; July 18, Lila
McClinchey, RR 2, Auburn, $50;
July 19, Harold Jardin, RR 1, Bel
grave, $50; July 20, Jack Overholt,
Brussels, $100.
which her father Thomas Smith had
attended and the home “Yew Tree
Cottage” where he grew up with his
family in North Waltham, Hamp
shire, England.
The family of Clarence Yuill,
Belgrave gathered with him at the
Redwoods Restaurant, Clifford, last
Sunday, July 14 in the celebration
Blyth council refuses Hall bill
Expressing concern they hadn't
been consulted about the work,
Blyth councillors decided Wednes
day night they couldn't help pay a
bill for repairs to the heating and
air conditioning system at Blyth
Memorial Hall.
Council had received a letter
from Joel Harris, General Manager
of Blyth Centre for the Arts saying
an Exeter firm had been brought in
to inspect the system and solve
problems that plagued the system
all last winter leaving the building
too cold and causing problems with
air conditioning this summer. He
of his 75th birthday. He received
congratulations from the local
member of Parliament, Murray
Cardiff and from the Prime Minis
ter as well as a number of gifts.
The following evening, he and
his wife were supper guests at the
John McIntosh home in honour of
the same occasion.
asked council to consider paying
half the $4,260.40 bill for the work.
But councillors expressed con
cern they hadn't been consulted
before the repairs were done and
they wondered how this would
affect plans they thought they had
worked out with the Centre to con
tract a different company for regu
lar servicing cf the system. "It just
doesn’t float," Councillor Steve
Sparling said. "This is just a mess.
Four thousand bucks is a lot of
bucks. It just can't go on."
Council agreed not to pay half
the bill.