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New game, educational toy store opens doors
Brussels’ John Kolar wants to
encourage youth in and around his
village to grow up like he did: with
board games and toys that promote
learning.
Kolar opened Enchanted Minds at
450 Turnberry Street in Brussels
earlier this month, and he said the
goal is to put board games,
educational toys and puzzles in front
of the youth of the village, instead of
screens.
“There are a lot of kids who are on
video games or staring at phones or
computers,” he said. “I want to get
them off them and learning and
playing games with their families.”
Kolar, who worked on a dairy
farm before opening the store, says
board games have always been a big
part of family time for him and,
recently, when looking for a board
game to give as a gift, he discovered
he had to leave Huron County to get
it.
“I think that’s part of why people
don’t play board games as much
anymore,” he said. “When you have
to leave, and go to the city, that stops
people from trying.”
He decided to open his own store,
which will offer board games,
gaming paraphernalia and
educational toys ranging from flash
cards to brain teasers for all ages.
While he carries the classics, like
Monopoly and Uno, he also has
updated versions of those games, as
well as some reimaginings of
classics, like Blindfold Twister. He
said that, for people who are
interested, there are a lot of unique
games to try.
Aside from what he has in store,
Kolar is open to ordering what
people want, and also has a digital
storefront online at
www.enchantedminds.ca.
Kolar is also excited to start
reaching out to the community
through game nights, the first of
which is being co-hosted with Mitch
and Mama’s Café on Sept. 15.
For more information, contact
Enchanted Minds through the
company’s website or on
Facebook.
By Denny Scott
The Citizen
Enchanting minds
John Kolar wants kids to experience some of the joy that
board games and educational toys brought him as a child,
and hopes to pull them away from screens at the same
time. He recently opened Enchanted Minds on Brussels
main street to reach the goal. (Denny Scott photo)
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minor hockey organizations across
the country were required to
purchase half-ice board systems to
divide the ice surface into multiple
sections,” she said in her report.
Earlier this year, after the hockey
season had concluded, the [Blyth
Brussels Minor Hockey Association]
discussed the issue with staff, saying
that the half-ice board system, which
is stored in the southeast corner of
the arena, is difficult to move and
install due to the current ice gate
configurations.
“The volunteers involved in
erecting and dismantling the system
found this storage area to be difficult
to access and moving the various
components of the boards on/off the
ice to be very cumbersome,”
Luttenberger said.
Installing a radius gate in the
boards would mitigate the problem,
Luttenberger said, and the
Blyth/Brussels Minor Hockey
Association applied for funds
through the Blyth Memorial Living
Tree Fund to cover the estimated
$5,932.50 cost of the change.
The Blyth Memorial Living Tree
Fund was created to benefit the
Blyth and District Community
Centre and is managed by North
Huron. The funds in it are donated in
memory of people and from
donations given by facility user
groups.
Before the disbursement, the fund
had $6,752.36, meaning that after
the gate purchase, the balance for
the account is $819.86.
Council approved the
disbursement for the project.
Fund to pay for hockey gate
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in the future.
In a June interview with The
Citizen, Huron County Chief
Administrative Officer Meighan
Wark said it was helpful that the
government had given
municipalities and counties more
time to get their affairs in order.
However, she said then that the
county and its staff were operating
on the assumption that the cuts
would be implemented in 2020,
which has now come to pass.
At the time, Wark said that
managing provincial cuts at the
county level was established as the
county’s highest priority at a recent
strategic planning session of Huron
County Council. The discussion, she
said, entailed how the county would
manage some of the province’s
deeper cuts, whether the county
would seek to reduce services or run
at a deficit and dip into the county’s
reserve funds.
In June, Wark said that while she
didn’t want to speculate, one of the
top contenders to find potential
efficiencies would be to share
services with the lower-tier
municipalities and beyond. She said
that such a discussion had been
taking place in one form or another
for several years, so it made sense to
look at it closely ahead of 2020,
when she anticipated cuts would be
coming.
Look to The Citizen for further
information in future issues as to
how the cuts could affect Huron
County.
Managing cuts a priority: Wark
Ride with Me
The first-ever Ride with Me event to raise awareness for mental wellness was held on Friday
morning, leaving the Walton Raceway and making its way to Blyth Cowbell Brewing Company
before returning to Walton. The event was co-hosted by the Tanner Ward Foundation and the
Tanner Steffler Foundation. Ward began the foundation after his brother’s untimely death.
Ward, centre, was in Walton to lead the riders out for what he hopes will become an annual
event. (Shawn Loughlin photo)