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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 2019-06-20, Page 2PAGE 2. THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 2019. Our popular Stops Along The Way is the premier visitor’s guide to Huron County. Our print version is distributed FREE at tourist information booths, town halls, retail outlets, accommodations, and restaurants throughout the county and beyond. Our tourism partners tell us that it is one of the most picked-up year-round! Do you have an event happening August 1 - October 1, 2019 which you would like added to our community event listings? Stops Along the Way is the go-to publication for information about the Huron County that the locals know. Take advantage of the year- round draw of ALL of our attractions - theatre, beaches, trails, and our blossoming food and beverage industry! Email deb@northhuron.on.ca and get your upcoming event in our Mid-Summer issue of Stops Along The Way or call 519-523-4792. Deadline for this issue is July 12th. Promote Your Mid-Summer Events “Make, Do, & Vend” Thursday evenings from 4-8 pm in July & August Part-Time Vendors Wanted! Are you a maker, baker, or producer? Fill out an application for this Summer’s market email: blythoutdoormarket@gmail.com Walton’s Rijkhoff’s quilt wins national accolade Walton’s Thea Rijkhoff’s Exotic Feathered Friends quilt won her first place at the Canadian Quilters’ Association National Juried Show in Ottawa last week. Her quilt, which includes nine different panels of painted birds, was made from a pattern she found online, which she then quilted and painted by hand. “I signed up for an online program and followed the videos and the patterns given,” she said. “One of my friends in [a quilting guild] saw it and said I should submit it to the show.” Rijkhoff said the win was a surprise because she didn’t think the work would be accepted. “I was amazed when it won a prize,” she said. “It was really a thrill. It was a really special and amazing experience.” While Rijkhoff couldn’t make the awards ceremony, she did travel to Ottawa and took in the show, connecting with many quilters and fans. “To see the beautiful quilts that were hanging there was really amazing,” she said. “It was really special to see my own quilt hanging there. I never would’ve expected that.” This isn’t her first submission to the contest, she said. She submitted a small wall-hanging several years ago. Rijkhoff belongs to two local quilters’ guilds, one in Kirkton and one in Teeswater, and has been quilting as a hobby since 2005. “I used to be a dairy farmer, but when we sold the cows, I had more free time so I started quilting,” she said. “I was always interested in doing it.” Rijkhoff said she saw her neighbour quilting once and was impressed by the practice, however, at the time, she worked on the farm and was raising her children. “I thought it would be wonderful, but to make a big quilt, between four kids and milking and farming, I just didn’t think it would work,” she said. “In 2005, we retired, sold the cows and the quota and I started to learn.” Rijkhoff said she is self-taught, having sought out video lessons on the internet. “If you want to learn, you can,” she said. “You can learn so much nowadays on YouTube and Facebook, so that’s what I did.” As for the motif of her quilt, which includes over a dozen birds, she said the potential colours of the piece and its ties to nature drew her in. “I like nature and the birds could be so nice and colourful,” she said. The piece represents an amalgamation of her two passions: quilting and painting, a combination she had never tried before. “It was kind of an experiment, but it worked out very nicely,” she said. Big winner Thea Rijkhoff claimed the top spot in the Quilts from Patterns/Books at the Canadian Quilters’ Association National Juried Show in Ottawa last week. Her colourful, avian-themed piece is called “Exotic Feathered Friends”. (Photo submitted) Students from the Grade 12 construction class at Central Huron Secondary School (CHSS) have made sure that Londesborough baseball players have a place to store their equipment when it’s not being used. The class built a new shed beside the Londesborough Baseball Diamond last Thursday, June 13, despite the bad weather that rolled in that day. “It’s for storing equipment between games and making sure everything teams need is right at the field,” student Haden Flood explained. The project has been planned for two months, Flood said, but it’s been on the class’ schedule since the beginning of the new semester in January, when a member of the community contacted CHSS. The most complicated part of the structure, Flood said, was the roof despite the fact that the rain let up just as the two parts of it were being lifted into place. “Once we got the rafters up, I think everything went fine,” he said. Students build shed for diamond By Denny Scott The Citizen Not rain, nor sleet, nor snow Central Huron Secondary School students were hard at work last week, despite the rain, building a shed at the Londesborough Baseball Diamond. From left: Mr. Zachar with his construction class, Jayden Adams, Haden Flood, Noah McIlroy, Connor Lovering, Lucas Townsend, Logan Baldwin and Spencer Cantelon. (Denny Scott photo) Drop by our office in Blyth or Brussels and check out our wonderful selection of books. 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