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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 Continued on page 22 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 Continued on page 3 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.