HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1991-12-18, Page 1News Farm news Sports Entertainment
County Council
chooses new
committees
See page 12
Dairy farmers urged
to fight critics
with facts
See page 14
Short-handed
Brussels Bulls
drop out of first
See page 15
41 artists show
work at Blyth's
community show
See page 23
CitizenTheNorthHuron Festival in black
despite season's loss
ing of the Blyth Centre for the Arts,
the parent body to the Festival, out
going President Carol Irwin said
that despite the shaky economy the
Festival remains in the black with a
The declining economic and
tourism situation and the effect of
the GST helped create a loss on the
1991 Bly th Festival but the theatre
remains in the black because of a
Strike up the band
net surplus of $3,635. The summer
season suffered a $29,359 loss but
the winter season's $16,919 surplus
helped offset that. The dividends
from the theatres "Investment in the
arts" fund brought in $5,658 to help
cut the deficit for the year to $6782.
Ticket sales for the year, for both
winter and summer were down by
nearly $20,000 from a year
ago.With shorter tours this year,
tour fees were down $160,000.
Fundraising was down because of
one large special grant that had
been received a year ago, but
almost 500 new members were
recruited in a membership cam
paign in January. Income from set
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Zurich Reeve
new Warden
Zurich Reeve Robert Fisher was
elected the new Warden of Huron
County at the inaugural meeting of
county council held Dec. 10 in
Goderich.
Reeve Fisher defeated Stephen
Township Reeve Tom Tomes by a
22-10 count to win the post as
head of county government for the
year. In his speech to Council Mr.
Fisher said he felt staff should be
asked to accept lower pay increases
and he commended councillors for
taking a zero per cent increase this
year.
Justice Francis Carter installed
the new warden and noted that this
is Huron's sesquicentennial and
said the current councillors could
take a look at the struggles over
come by the pioneers of this area
150 years ago. Tough decisions
still must be made just as in pioneer
The musicians get into the act as the Kindergarten
students of Walton Public School present their portion of
the school's annual Christmas pageant on Thursday,
December 12. There was a full house of parents,
grandparents and friends to see the special program.
Kindergartens performed 10 songs telling of the Symbols
of Christmas. Grade 1’s told of the "First Christmas Tree",
Grade 1/2 performed a "Mother Goose Christmas" and
Grade 2/3 did "How Many Miles To Bethlehem?"
Area people dig deep in food, toy drives
days, he said: just the decisions are
different today.
"One hundred and fifty years ago
there were 14,992 acres cleared in
the county, 3000 bushels was the
wheat yield and, I don't know if
tnis is progression of regression,
but there were three distilleries and
two breweries" Judge Carter said.
"We should ask ourselves if we are
People in north Huron have
pitched in to help Christmas happi
er for those hit hard by the current
economic crunch.
Food and toy drives in Blyth and
Brussels have resulted in several
truckloads of goods being sent to
the Huron County Christmas
Bureau and the Salvation Army.
Friday, Blyth Optimist Club
members were on hand at the Rad
ford Fuels gas bar in Blyth to load
Belgrave couple loses home
in early-morning fire
Despite the efforts of volunteers
from lhe Blyth and Wingham Fire
Departments, who battled a blaze
early Sunday morning, a Morris
Township couple is homeless.
Blyth Fire Chief Paul Josling
said, firefighters responded to the
home of Dan Hunter, North Half
Lot 2, Cone. 6 at 1:40 a.m. on
December 15.
The fire, which started in the
woodstove, was fed by the strong
winds lhe blew through lhe area on
the weekend. Chief Josling said
that even with the three tankers
drawing water, firefighters were
unable to get the inferno under
control.
It look until 8 a.m. for the fire to
be put out. The Hunter's home was
gutted, with only a few treasured
mementos, such as the family
photo albums, saved.
There was no estimate of damage
at press lime.
up donations left there in a food
drive.
More than 1500 items were left
at Radford's over the past few
weeks, some from people who left
lhe items for discounts on gas, but
many other items left by people
who just wanted to help. In addi
tion, more than $1400 in cash was
given by area businesses and indi
viduals.
The Optimists delivered the gifts
to lhe Huron County Christmas
Bureau in Clinton for distribution
to those who need it. The Optimists
also had their own donations, gath
ered at their Toy Sale Dec. 7 at
Blyth Memorial Hall.
Two van loads of donations were
gathered during lhe ecumenical
youth food drive in Brussels Sun
day, Dec. 8. The food was gathered
at Melville Presbyterian Church
after 33 young people and 10 adults
from lhe Anglican, Mennonite,
Presbyterian and Roman Catholic
Churches spend two and a half
hours visiting homes in the village,
singing carols and collecting non-
perishable food and toys. The
group munched on five pizzas
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less willing or unable to deal with
recession, unemployment, welfare
cutbacks and the constitution", he
said. "You members of the legisla
ture, members of parliament, have
been elected to lead, not to be led.
Show the voters where you are
going. Don't Waffle."
Citizen has one more
issue before Christmas
Because the next issue of The Citizen would be due out on Christmas
Day, there have had to be some changes in our publication and production
schedule.
Next week's issue of The Citizen, which will include Christmas stories
and Christmas Greeting advertisements, will be in local mail boxes Monday
morning, Dec. 23. To do that, it must be printed Saturday Dec. 21. That
means deadline for the issue will be 12 noon, Friday, Dec. 20.
This will be the last issue of The Citizen before the new year. The Citizen
offices will be closed from Friday night at 5 p.m. until Friday, January 3 at
9 a.m. The next issue of The Citizen will be January 8 with the same dead
lines as usual.