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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1993-01-20, Page 4Notice •/0 time and space dints The Citizen :to longer photo- q.A ii,draw wine ez's es ,p prize is valued t $1;00 or ovef;'As 11, Ifits of ptizeiitin ers will be inclided —only if space allows. his applies only to %profit organizationp Looking Back Through the Years From the files of the Blyth Standard, Brussels Post and The Citizen SIX YEARS AGO January 20, 1987 The Huron County Board of Edu- cation voted to give itself a four per cent increase in pay up from $4,800 annually. Blyth firefighters responded to three calls within 36 hours. The first was a stubborn chimney fire at the home of David Webster, just north of Blyth on Highway 4. The same day firefighters went to the west of town to battle a fire at the home of Don Hill on County Rd. 25. The most serious blaze was at the machinery workshops of Garniss Farms, northeast of Belgrave. Jeff and Julie Sanders, RR4, Brussels kept a pair of noble white swans alive throughout the winter by feeding them corn as the ice of the Maitland River closed in on them. Trapped in a snail patchof open water just below the Sanders' home on County Road16, the birds were believed to have come down- in the fall from Bruce McCall's small flock just above the Brussels dam. The Brussels Lions were begging everyone to think snow as a sudden thaw hit the weekend before Polar Daize. Brussels councillors voted a $100 raise to Reeve Gard Workman and to themselves. Reeve Workman's salary increased to $2,200,while councillors received $1,500 Council also voted a raise to Clerk-Treasurer Hugh Hanly from $19,500 to $25,000. Blyth Lions donated $200 to the Blyth Group Committee for leader- ship training, registration, etc. A Clydesdale gelding owned by Aubrey Toll, RR3, Blyth was shipped to California to take up permanent residence as a member of one of the world-famous Bud- weiser Beer eight-horse hitches sponsored by the Anheuser-Busch Brewery of St. Louis, Missiouri. Wayne Allin, RR1, Blyth was the horse's trainer. 12 YEARS AGO January 21, 1981 Gary Sottiaux, Londesboro hiked the 2,600 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail, from the Canadian border to Mexico. It took him just a little over four months. At Snell's Grocery Store in Blyth packages of Swiss Rolls were on sale for 79 cents. Bananas were 39 cents a pound and a TV dinner cost $1.19. Harve McDowell was the new president of the Blyth Horticultural Society. The 4-H Leaders elected their new executive. They were: Maurice Hallahan, RR1, Blyth; John Van Vliet, RR2, Brussels; Brian Old- field, RR4, Seaforth; Kenneth Mewhinney, RR1, Lucknow and Barry Miller, RR3, Exeter. 22 YEARS AGO January 21, 1971 Miss Linda Wilson, daughter of Mrs. Idella Wilson, Brussels, was crowned the Polar Daize Queen. Other contestants were: Gail Traviss, Stephanie Watts, Barbara Muilwyk, Sharon Marks and Nancy Knight. Mike's Farm Equipment of Moorefield and Brussels took top honours at the annual Jamesway dealer meeting held in Preston. They were presented with a certifi- cate for having done an outstanding job in the sale of silo unloaders and a plaque for being top Jamesway dealer in Ontario. Mrs. Alberta Smith was president of the Majestic WI. At Lowe's Red and White an 18 oz. jar of peanut butter was 57 cents, and a 2 pound box of Dares cookies cost 79 cents. Grey Township Reeve Charles Thomas welcomed new councillors Roy Williamson and Clifford Bray. The reeve's salary was set at $600, while the councillors would receive $500. VERIFIED CIRCULATION PAID PAGE 4. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1993. Serving Blyth, Brussels, Auburn, Belgrave, Ethel, Londesborough, Walton and the surrounding townships. A nation with a complex It was revealing, last week, to watch the media reaction when the Canadian Football League announced expansion to Sacramento, California and San Antonio, Texas. As reporters interviewed the new American owners there was a note of incredulity in their comments as they heard the owners say they liked the Canadian rules just fine and had no desire to change the way the game is played. It might even be, the Americans said, a more exciting game than the U.S.'s National Football League. Americans admitting something in Canada might be better than the good old U.S.A.? Surely they're just saying that to make us feel good while they work behind the scenes to change things. After all, haven't insecure Canadian football fans stayed away from CFL games in droves because they felt they were second class to the big-time NFL? Canadians are a strange lot to watch. Secretly we think we are better than the Americans: we're not as warlike, we care more about our fellow citizens, we have a better health system and so on. Except that we keep doubting ourselves too. They're the world leaders so are we fooling ourselves thinking we can do anything better? Are we really meant to be here at all, or should we just give in to the inevitable and dissolve the border. That kind of attitude seems particularly to pervade the current government in Ottawa. They go along with the trappings of support for things we have done differently in Canada, from support for the arts and culture and supply-managed marketing boards, but there's always the feeling they're insecure about them. After all, if they were such good ideas, wouldn't the Americans be doing them? Support for such unique Canadian ways of doing things will be in the balance in the next few weeks. GATT negotiations continue on farm "subsidies" and the government, while talking support for supply- management, seems hesitant in its support. Meanwhile Time-Warner, the U.S. media giant, is pushing the limits of a cultural policy that has helped nurture the Canadian magazine industry in the last 25 years. Time wants to publish "Canadian" editions of Sports Illustrated magazine that would be Canadian only in the advertising they contain. U.S. stories would be repackaged around Canadian ads, creating a product that amounts to "dumping" of a cultural product in Canada. How can Canadian magazines, that have to pay good money for their stories, hope to compete against magazines that already have their editorial content paid for in the U.S. market? Canadians, including our government, need the confidence to realize that just because we do something differently than the Americans doesn't mean they're right and we're wrong. Maybe, just maybe, we've been able to improve on what they've got.—KR Code of the West continues As George Bush hands over the reins of the world's largest military power to Bill Clinton this week, the world waits to see if the Texas president's "Old West" code of international justice, will be carried through by a president from the south. Bush's America, like Ronald Reagans before him and too many American presidents of history, is the kind of vigilante justice that says "we can't wait for the law to do something, we've got to clean up the town ourselves". In the dying days of his presidency, Bush has been throwing U.S. military might into action in all corners of the globe. Stung by Sadam Hussein's thumbing of his nose at the United Nations, the U.S. and its allies, Bush sent in bombers and cruise missiles to attack missile-sites and a supposed atomic-weapons plant in a suburb of Baghdad. More innocent civilians paid the price for Saddam's intransigence. In Somalia, meanwhile, the U.S. took it upon itself to make sure aid was getting through, rather than wait for the U.N. to get enough support. In cases like Somalia, the U.S. willingness to impose the new world order with itself as policeman may have a positive result. In Iraq, however, the U.S. is turning much of the Moslem world against the West because the Americans and their allies are shown quick to attack a Moslem nation that disobeys resolutions but does nothing when Israel breaks international law in expelling 400 Moslems because they are suspected (not convicted) of supporting extremist groups. If one nation in the world, like one citizen in a country, appoints itself as the enforcer of laws for the entire world, civilization suffers. If the U.S. wants a new world order, it should work through the United Nations. If the UN doesn't work faster, it should be reformed so it does. Let's hope Bill Clinton will rid the U.S. of its cowboy justice mythology. —KR Say cheese Photo by Lisa Boonstoppel-Pot C itizen The North Huron P.O. Box 429, P.O. Box 152, BLYTH, Ont. BRUSSELS, Ont. NOM 1H0 NOG 1H0 Phone 523-4792 Phone 887-9114 FAX 523-9140 FAX 887-9021 The Citizen is published weekly in Brussels, Ontario by North Huron Publishing Company Inc. Subscriptions are payable in advance at a rate of $20.50/year ($19.16 plus $1.34 G.S.T.) for local; $31.03/year ($29.00 plus $2.03 G.S.T.) for local letter carrier in Goderich, Hanover, Listowel, etc. and out-of-area (40 miles from Brussels); $60.00/year for U.S.A. and Foreign. 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