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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 2019-07-25, Page 4PAGE 4. THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, JULY 25, 2019. Editorials Opinions President: Keith Roulston • Publisher: Deb Sholdice Editor: Shawn Loughlin • Reporter: Denny Scott Advertising Sales: Brenda Nyveld • Heather Fraser The Citizen P.O. Box 429, BLYTH, Ont. N0M 1H0 Ph. 519-523-4792 Fax 519-523-9140 P.O. Box 152, BRUSSELS, Ont. N0G 1H0 Phone 519-887-9114 E-mail info@northhuron.on.ca Website www.huroncitizen.ca Looking Back Through the Years CCNA Member Member of the Ontario Press Council The Citizen is published 50 times a year in Brussels, Ontario by North Huron Publishing Company Inc. Subscriptions are payable in advance at a rate of $38.00/year ($36.19 + $1.81 G.S.T.) in Canada; $180.00/year in U.S.A. and $380/year in other foreign countries. Advertising is accepted on the condition that in the event of a typographical error, only that portion of the advertisement will be credited. Advertising Deadlines: Mon. 2 p.m. - Brussels; Mon. 4 p.m. - Blyth. PUBLICATIONS MAIL AGREEMENT NO. 40050141 RETURN UNDELIVERABLE CANADIAN ADDRESSES TO CIRCULATION DEPT. PO BOX 152 BRUSSELS ON N0G 1H0 email: info@northhuron.on.ca July 25, 1968 Edith Boyd, a 26-year-old RR2, Walton woman, lost one of her legs in a farm accident when she was believed to have fallen under a power mower. At a meeting of the Morris and East Wawanosh School Board, trustees thoroughly examined the new teacher’s salary schedule and approved it to be implemented in the coming year. July 25, 1973 Local children were being given the chance to check out some local theatre for free. The Blyth Little Theatre sponsored an appearance by the youth division of the Huron Country Playhouse in Grand Bend at Lions Park in Blyth. The play being performed that day was Shortshrift, written by Canadian writer Rex Deverell. Fire struck the RR1, Auburn farm of Ross Youngblut, destroying a main part of the Youngbluts’ barn just outside of Blyth. Harold Vodden of Blyth was profiled in The Blyth Standard. Though he spent most of his life as a baker and a hardware merchant, when he lost his sight, he took up chair-caning. After taking up the long-lost art after he lost his vision, Vodden became well-known for his chair- caning and could often be seen working on the streets of Blyth. July 26, 1995 While attendance wasn’t as large as organizers had hoped it would be, the A Taste of Country Food Fair in Blyth was deemed to be a success, bringing the best food and drink from around Huron County together in Blyth. Cathy and Larry Nethery made the decision to leave the world of dairy farming in favour of opening BJ’s Café on July 22 in Blyth. Nethery said that while her husband had been working on the farm and she had been working at the Bluewater Youth Centre, they both wanted something different. Brussels firefighters were called in to fight a pair of fires in the early morning hours of July 19 that were suspected to be arson. Brussels Fire Chief Murray McArter said the department was called out to extinguish a car fire at Maple Villa and while there, they noticed another fire within their sight. McArter said he thought the department had maybe been relayed the wrong location, but there were two fires that needed their attention. The firefighters first attended the Masons’ Wayside Chapel where a burning Bible was found and extinguished. They then moved onto to the car fire. A 1986 Pontiac Acadian that belonged to one of the Maple Villa residents was found to be up in flames. McArter said he found that the fire had begun when someone lit something and threw it in the front seat of the car. As a result, both fires were treated as suspicious. July 30, 2009 While there seemed to be no perfect location for the construction of a new shed at the Blyth campground for the Huron Pioneer Thresher and Hobby Association, a decision was made at the July 20 meeting of North Huron Council. Director of Facilities Pat Newson said that a site at the northwest edge of the parking lot behind the Blyth and District Community Centre had been chosen as the best option and endorsed by the association. There were a number of cons with the site, however, she said. Not only would the site be far from campsites in the southwest corner of the area, but it was a fair distance from water and sewer connections, which would increase the cost of building the shed by approximately $6,000. The shed would provide the site with additional showers for campers, washrooms and laundry facilities. Two Brussels athletes had just returned from the National Junior Track and Field Championships in Prince Edward Island. Ami Schimanski placed third in the country in the hammer throw, while Ben Procter finished eighth in the 800-metre run and 25th in the 400- metre run. Duff’s United Church in Walton welcomed a new minister with the arrival of Rev. Dr. Peter Kugba- Nyande. Kugba-Nyande and his wife Jinah made their way to Huron County by way of Sierra Leone, where they were born and grew up. Duff’s would be the third church Kugba-Nyande had worked for and it was his eighth year with the United Church. Mike Lorentz of Blyth had just returned from competing in the 2009 Collingwood Elvis Festival, one of the top events in the world for Elvis Presley impersonators. Lorentz made his way to the second round, meaning he was in the top 10 of over 30 participants. A six-day cycling tour of southwestern Ontario brought over 20 cyclists through Belgrave for a lunch stop on their Bikes for Bibles ride. The cyclists were making their way across southwestern Ontario to raise money to buy Bibles to be distributed at the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver. We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada. We are not responsible for unsolicited newsscripts or photographs. Contents of The Citizen are © Copyright A welcome return Word that Huron County’s library users will once again have access to the resources of all the libraries in southern Ontario through an inter- library loan program is good news for everyone who likes to read. The previous system of interlibrary loans fell victim to the provincial government’s attempts to balance its budget when it cut funding to the Southern Ontario Library Service (SOLS) by the equivalent of half that agency’s entire budget. To balance its budget, in turn, SOLS laid off the staff who delivered books between county and regional library systems. The new system using Canada Post may be more cumbersome but it keeps the loan program operating, at least. Library users owe thanks to those who found an affordable solution to the problem. — KR This is progress? Women have made great progress toward equality with men in recent years, including, apparently, the right to be just as stupid as men. That’s about the only conclusion one can draw from a research study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal on Monday, that looked at a total of 765,354 emergency room visits in Ontario due to alcohol use between 2003 and 2016. Researchers found that emergency department visits due to alcohol increased 86 per cent for women and 56 per cent for men. “The largest increase over this period was among women aged 25 to 29,” said Dr. Peter Tanuseputro, a family doctor and scientist at the Ottawa Hospital and the Bruyère Research Institute. “In this group we saw a 240 per cent increase in visits to the ER because of alcohol.” Some young people are not surprised, given an “Instagram culture” that glorifies excessive drinking and restaurants offering brunch menus that have fun with the idea of hangovers. But there’s nothing fun when excessive drinking, blacking out, and the need for detox leads to the emergency room visits, as well as more serious liver or pancreatic illnesses. Drunkeness also leaves women, in particular, more vulnerable to dangers like sexual assault. The “glories” of drinking to the point of drunkeness have been celebrated in teen movies and male youth culture for years now so it’s perhaps not surprising if young women want to try it out to see what all the fuss is about. Here’s hoping this is a short-lived phenomenon and women will prove they’re far above the equal of men by turning their back on the culture of excess drinking. — KR Have Americans no shame? Disturbing as U.S. President Donald Trump’s outrageously racist comments are, the most frightening thing about them is that he never seems to pay a price for them. When Trump recently raged against “the squad” of progressive Democratic congresswomen who happen to be women of colour, saying they hated America and should go “back” to fix the mess in the countries they came from, he was hit with a blast of criticism but that didn’t hurt him. In fact, a survey showed Trump’s support among Republicans rose five percentage points to 72 per cent, compared with a similar poll that ran the week before his Twitter storm of abuse against the women. No one should be surprised by now. Statements or revelations such as the audio tape released just prior to the 2016 presidential election in which he boasted of being able to get away with sexual assaults on women would have buried most candidates. Not Trump. The President made a half-hearted attempt to distance himself from the crowd at one of his rallies when he said he didn’t agree with them when they shouted “send her back!” after he criticized Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar. He claimed he had tried to shut the chants down by hurrying on with his speech, though news coverage shows he stood back and paused to let the chanters have the floor. But then catching this president in a lie has never seemed to touch his popularity. In last Saturday’s Globe and Mail, columnist Omar El Akkad writes that many progressive Americans like to make excuses for their country for electing such a crude opportunist. It was Russian interference that allowed him to win, or FBI director James Comey’s crucially-timed statement that he was investigating Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton’s personal e-mail account, casting suspicion on her just days before the election. People want to perpetuate the myth of American goodness. But what is being demonstrated, over and over, El Akkad argues, is that there is a significant portion of the American public that accepts Trump’s racist claims that refugees are rapists and murderers. America’s friends want to believe in the goodness of that country and the invitation on the Statue of Liberty: “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” Until his disgusting statements start costing Donald Trump support, however, we must wonder if America is living up to that promise. — KR &