The Citizen, 1994-03-30, Page 1Community _____1 Feature Sports
Kountry Kettle owners
bring 20 years experience
to new venture
Area girl returns home
after 4 months in
Costa Rica
Future of Blyth Minor
Ball bleak if volunteers
don’t come forward
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Blyth merchants,
Fest, join forces
Ln an outstanding example of co
operation, Blyth merchants and the
Blyth Festival have joined forces to
attend the Festival this year," she
said. "Along with new ticket deals
like our 'Adventure Pack', it means
offer shoppers in Blyth an
opportunity to save money on
tickets for the Blyth Festival.
Nearly two dozen Blyth
businesses have joined forces to
offer "theatre bucks" to their
patrons. The idea of local business
man Don Scrimgeour, the "theatre
bucks" plan was enthusiastically
adopted by the local business
community. It will allow shoppers
to redeem their cash register tapes
for reductions on the price of Blyth
Festival tickets. Each $100 worth
of purchases in Blyth will earn a $1
discount on the purchase of tickets
for the 1994 Blyth Festival season
which begins June 23.
Sales tapes from all participating
businesses for the period of the
promotion, April 11 to June 4, can
be pooled and taken to the Festival
box office before June 18 for
discounts on tickets.
Janet Amos, Blyth Festival
artistic director, praised the efforts
of the business community to help
promote attendance at the theatre.
"This program will make it even
more affordable for people to
HCBE develops
agreement with
Sep. School Bd.
By Janice Becker -
The Huron County Board of Edu
cation (HCBE) has agreed to devel
op an agreement which would
permit the sharing of space with the
Huron-Perth Roman Catholic Sec
ondary School Board (HPRCSSB),
at Central Huron Secondary
School, pending support from the
Ministry of Education and Train
ing.
The board agreed, at a closed
meeting on March 7, to present a
proposal to the HPRCSSB which
outlined their view of the plan.
The proposal stated that CHSS
would provide the Catholic sec
ondary school with exclusive use of
the two-storey Centennial Wing,
known as the Learning Resources
Centre and the adjacent second
floor east-west hallway which
includes eight classrooms above the
administration area of the school.
The use of shared areas such as
the cafeteria, physical education
facilities and the library may be
negotiated, the board resolved.
The agreement would be contin
gent on the success of negotiations
with HPRCSSB and the Ministry
with regards to financing for
improvements to CHSS and its
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Citizen closes
for holiday
To commemorate Good Fri
day, the offices of The Citizen
will be closed, April 1.
Business and deadlines will
remain as usual in both Blyth
and Brussels for the following
Monday.
Happy Easter!
that many people can afford to see
more plays."
The Ark’s afloat
Huron-Bruce MPP Paul Klopp, left, presented Tanya
Mawhinney and Jeff Heibein, one of The Ark directors, with
a cheque for $72,000 from the Ministry of Health. The
grant will enable The Ark to hire two full-time staff
members to run the youth facility and to provide them with
a basis to become self-sufficient. The presentation was
made on March 25, in front of a crowd of approximately 70
people who had gathered to celebrate the announcement.
Mr. Klopp also commended local groups such as the Lions,
the Legion, the Optimists, the Rebeccas, Majestic Wl,
surrounding communities and townships and the board of
volunteers for The Ark for supporting the project.
Brussels wants clerk’s office to stay put
By Bonnie Gropp
The message was clear — Brus
sels residents agree a new fire hall
is needed but, they don't want our
municipal office moved from the
downtown core.
A group of 40 Brussels ratepay
ers attended a public meeting at the
arena on Wednesday night, March
23 to discuss with council, the idea
of incorporating a new fire hall and
clerk's office, on village owned
property at the north edge of town.
The project is being considered
as part of the Canada-Ontario
Infrastructure Works Program.
Clerk-Treasurer Donna White
began the meeting with some back
ground information into the pro-
Kids’ shack burns
A faulty woodstove caused a fire
in Brussels late Friday afternoon.
Area residents notified the local
fire department at 5:30 p.m., March
25 after seeing the blaze back in a
field behind the sewage pumping
station at the north end of the vil
lage.
By the lime firefighters arrived a
shack, which had been used by area
youths as a clubhouse was fully
engulfed, Fire Chief Murray
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gram. She explained that an
allocation of $78,389 would come
from the provincial and federal
governments while Brussels share
would be $39,195. The purpose of
the funding is to create local jobs.
Council first gave consideration
to the building of a new fire hall
with the grant money as the present
building has deteriorated to the
point where it is no longer finan
cially feasible to repair it, Mrs.
White said. Some of the repairs
needed are a new roof and covering
the insulation.
Traffic congestion is becoming a
major concern also, Mrs. White
said.
Building on the present site
McArter said. Having been
informed that there had been young
people al the building, the firefight
ers walked back to make sure they
were all away from the building.
As the shack was located so far
off the road, and was not posing
any danger to any other property,
no attempt was made to extinguish
the fire, Chief McArter said. Fire
fighters remained at the scene until
they felt it was safe to leave.
would not eliminate this problem,
nor is their room for the necessary
expansion, she said.
The proposed site for the fire
hall, located on the east side of
Tumberry St. almost directly across
from the Mennonite Fellowship
Hall, will have available water and
sewer service. As well, it is visible
from the main street and would
allow several routes through town.
Mrs. White said that the estimat
ed cost, at $45 per square foot,
would come to $165,000. This fig
ure would take a couple of years to
pay off, she said, adding that that
would mean no extra money during
that time for such things as side
walks
Three designs, which had been
developed by the firefighters, were
on display al the meeting. One of
the designs had given consideration
to office space for the clerk. While
the fire hall was the priority issue,
it was noted that the process could
not proceed without deciding if the
clerk's office might be moved there
al some point in the future.
Councillor Dave Hastings said,
"We’ve got to think down the road.
It's good planning"
Not everyone agreed, however.
Wayne Todd, a local businessper
son said, "The traffic in the down
town core has decreased to the
point where it's affected the main
street." Mr. Todd cited several
businesses, which in the past had
brought people downtown. "Now
there's just the municipal office, the
liquor store and the post office.
You never know how long the post
office will be here and now you're
saying the municipal office is going
too."
Mr. Todd added, "We have nine
or 10 empty stores. That is a very
important point that council should
not overlook."
Seniors in attendance expressed
their concerns over the municipal
office being moved. "What about
the seniors who have problems
making it to where it is now?" one
said, while another woman noted
that it would be an inconvenience
for pedestrians in general.
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Early Easter Sun
day is the time to
g forward as we
clocks ahead one
ikend to welcome
Daylight Savings
Spring
w ahead