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The Citizen, 2019-08-01, Page 4PAGE 4. THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 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 August 15, 1968 Four Sisters of the Congregation of the Holy Name of Jesus and Mary, St. Mary’s Academy of Windsor were in Brussels from July 23-31 to conduct the village’s annual Summer School of Religion for the children of the St. Ambrose Catholic Church. The theme for the 1968 camp was “The Family of God” and over 60 local children attended. D. J.A. Bozyk, a physician and surgeon now living in Wingham, was set to open a full-time practice at the Brussels Medical Clinic. Bozyk had been practising medicine in Canada for 12 years before announcing the move to Huron County with plans on moving to Brussels as soon as possible. The Brussels firefighters were sponsoring a special donkey baseball tournament to be held on Saturday, Aug. 24. An entire hay crop, 65 pigs and a manure spreader were lost in a barn fire that resulted in $23,000 in damages at the home farm of Stuart Cloakey of RR4, Brussels. Volunteer firefighters from Brussels were able to save a drive shed from the blaze. Fifty feet away from the barn, the shed ignited due to sparks from the fire, but members of the department were able to bring the fire under control with minimal damage. August 1, 1973 Rev. Ron Curl had just moved to the Westfield area ahead of serving as the minister at Westfield Fellowship Hour and the Huron Men’s Chapel in Auburn. Curl and his family made their way to Huron County from North Bay. He would be the first full-time minister for the two churches, which had been operating with guest speakers in recent months. Huron County Warden and East Wawanosh Reeve Roy Pattison was honoured with a dance and gala on July 27 at the Wingham Legion. At the event, Pattison was presented with a leather chair for his years of service. The presentation was made by Simon Hallahan, a long-time councillor in East Wawanosh who had spent many years working with Pattison. August 2, 1995 Long-time Brussels business owner Frank Thompson was named the winner of the 1995 Citizen of the Year Award, presented by North Huron Publishing. Thompson, who had just retired from Thompson’s Meat Market, was lauded for his generosity and selflessness by one nominator, while another said Thompson would give those in need the shirt off his back. In a case of criminals calling attention to themselves, a noise complaint in the Kitchener area resulted in the recovery of dozens of stolen leather jackets from Blyth. On July 27, Waterloo Regional Police officers were called to a noisy party, only to find 30 of the nearly 100 leather jackets that had been stolen from Bainton’s Old Mill in Blyth the day before. There was a sod-turning ceremony at Trinity Anglican Church in Blyth to mark the beginning of work on a new Sunday school and meeting room at the church. Rev. Ian Diamond was in attendance at the Blyth United Church service for the week. Diamond, an exchange minister from Australia, was set to begin at the church the next Sunday. The Blyth Festival Young Company was set to premiere its play for the year, Hee Hee: Tales from the White Diamond Mountain by M.J. Kang. Sixteen-year-old Francois Racine from Trois Rivers, Quebec spent four weeks in Auburn with the local Lions Club through an exchange. August 2, 2018 The Brussels Tigers fastball team won its annual tournament, topping the A-A Championship game with a win over the Linwood Chiefs by a score of 2-1. The Tigers were aided by star pitcher Ty Sebastian that game, who also did it with the bat as well, hitting a home run in the final game of the tournament. Local teams made a big impact in that tournament, as the Walton Brewers, from just a few minutes south of Brussels, claimed the B-A Championship with a 4-1 win over the Goderich Grizzlies. The deadline to register for the upcoming municipal election had passed and five were vying to be councillors in the Blyth Ward of North Huron. Ric McBurney, Kevin Falconer, David Onn, Terry Brake of East Wawanosh and Brad Carther of Wingham had all put their names forward. In East Wawanosh, Jordan Hodgins, Chris Palmer, John Brown, Alice McDowell and Anita van Hittersum were all hoping to earn one of the two councillor seats. In Brussels, Zoey Onn was taking on incumbents David Blaney and John Lowe, while Curtis McKinnon was taking a run at incumbents Alvin McLellan and Dianne Diehl in the Grey Ward of Huron East. Taylor Dietrich-Illsley, Amanda Morrison and Brittany Struthers were all contestants in the Brussels Fall Fair Ambassador competition, which would be held at the Brussels Legion later in August. 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 Vandalism an endless plague Generation after generation, vandalism seems to remain part of the dark side of human nature. The latest example is damage reported by the OPP to the Goderich to Auburn Rail Trail, part of the Guelph-to-Goderich (G2G) trail system. Police report that over the last year vandals have caused extensive damage to entry points to the trail, pushing aside large cement blocks that were meant to prevent vehicular traffic from using the trail and damaging posts. Four large gates have been stolen. The trail was created by volunteers for the use of hikers, runners and cyclists. The ATVs and other motorized vehicles, which are prohibited, badly damage the trail for its intended users. What’s worse, such trails only exist because of thousands of hours of volunteer labour and many donations of cash, materials and labour. The people doing the damage contributed nothing and have undone the efforts of people more caring than themselves. Here’s hoping the culprits have an attack of conscience and not only halt their destructive behaviour but make donations to repair the damage they caused. In the meantime, if others know who the vandals are, let’s hope they notify police. The volunteers, whose generous efforts made the trail possible, deserve that much, at least. — KR Poison policies we don’t need Maxime Bernier and his People’s Party of Canada are worried about some of the people who are creeping across the border into Canada. What’s most worrying is his importing of the sort of policies that are now dividing our neighbours to the south. Last week Bernier announced that if elected Prime Minister, he’d build fences at crossings in areas between official ports of entry along the border to the U.S. that are popular with migrants seeking asylum, such as a popular one in Quebec. It sounds like an appeal to draw the sort of support that carried Donald Trump to the U.S. presidency. Bernier has denounced “mass immigration” and “extreme multiculturalism”, saying that these policies would lead to “social conflicts and potentially (to) violence”. He also pledged to reduce the number of immigrants admitted to Canada each year to 100,000, or 150,000 at most, if the economy allows that many. Canada currently admits about 350,000 immigrants. He says Canadians agree with him, noting some polls suggest up to half of respondents think immigration levels are too high. With his party sitting at two per cent support just two months prior to this October’s federal election, Bernier is no doubt hoping that he can tap into the same kind of anxiety that won support for President Trump to our south. Here’s hoping he’s wrong. Do we have too much immigration? Certainly not if you’re an employer looking in vain for someone to fill the vacancies that are preventing your company from growing. As a story this week points out, Huron’s employers are trying to find ways to attract these immigrants who are reluctant to settle in areas away from large cities where there is already an existing population of people like them. If these employers can’t bring workers to our area, they may move their plants out of the country to find the required workers. While it can be momentarily uncomfortable to deal with people who don’t look like us or speak our language, it’s a minor aggravation compared to many real problems we face. We need to remember that somewhere in all our families’s histories were people who were new to this country, perhaps speaking a different language. Here’s hoping Bernier finds no success in trying to win support by playing on voters’ fears of people who look or sound differently than they do. Two per cent backing sounds like about the level of support he deserves – if that! — KR There’s a sickness abroad There seems to be some sort of virus in the world right now that causes people to elect leaders who actually endanger their country’s future and to accept policies that aren’t in their best interests. The latest example is the rise of Boris Johnson as Prime Minister of Great Britain. Johnson played a key role in getting Britain into a mess by spearheading the “leave” side in Britain’s referendum on its membership in the European Union. Now he takes the helm of his country, vowing to take Britain out of the EU by October, even if no agreement for an orderly withdrawal is reached. It’s a move economist say would be disastrous for Britain, yet many voters seem to want it. Britain’s mess follows the sad example of American voters electing Donald Trump as President. Elsewhere several European countries have elected leaders who seem to think democracy is a mistake. As we approach this October’s federal election let’s hope Canadian voters choose the best leader, and not succumb to the virus infecting other countries. — KR &