The Citizen, 1995-07-05, Page 1
The North Huron
itizen
Vol. 11 No.27
Wednesday, July 5, 1995
61c + 4c GST 65(4
WOW...what a show
Entering your first dog show can be a hair raising experience, as atested to by this shih tzu
who looks surprised and maybe a little anxious as he is prepared for the show. More than
400 dogs will compete each day from July 4 to 6 in the Buewater Kennel Club's All Breeds
Dog Show and Obedience Trials held in Blyth.
Natural gas comes to area
Community
Blyth Tourist Booth
operators ready
to offer information
See page 3
Education
The Citizen publishes an
8 page salute
to the Grade 8 graduates
See page 13
Entertainment
Playwright's life story
gets preview on
Blyth Festival stage
See page 31
Former clerk says
`I want my life back'
Union Gas is extending natural
gas service to Wingham and the
surrounding conuriunities of Blyth,
Brussels, Teeswater, Londesboro
and Belgrave. Construction is
already underway on the $11.8
million expansion project which
was approved by the Ontario
Energy Board on June 20.
By the end of this year,
approximately 3,000 homes and
500 businesses in the area will have
access to natural gas.
Area residents will be able to
obtain information about natural
gas from any one of four temporary
Union Gas offices that will be
opening in Wingham, Blyth,
Brussels and Teeswater within the
next few weeks.
The natural gas expansion project
involves a total of approximately
140 kilometres of piping, including
70 kilometres of steel mains and 70
kilometres of plastic piping, as well
as seven regulator stations. The
project will be built in three phases:
Clinton to Blyth will be completed
in August; Blyth to Wingham will
be finished in September; and
Wingham to Teeswater and
Highway 4 to Brussels will be
completed in October.
Most of the pipeline will be built
on existing road allowances.
Services to individual homes and
businesses will be installed once
the main lines have been
completed.
Union Gas Limited is an
integrated natural gas storage,
transmission and distribution utility
serving more than 700,000
residential, commercial and
industrial customers in over 200
communities in southwestern
Ontario.
By Janice Becker
In a follow up to the article on
the wrongful dismissal suit filed by
former Blyth clerk-treasurer Helen
Grubb, information has been
received that 10 individuals as well
as the village have been named in
the suit.
Reeve Mason Bailey, alleged to
be one of the people named in the
suit, says he has not yet been
served nor, to the best of his knowl-
edge, have any of the others sup-
posedly listed.
Asked what she hopes will be the
outcome of the suit, whether her
job is returned, she receives a set-
Though it is more than two
months away, planning is under-
way for the 1995 Terry Fox Run.
Sallianne Patch of the Ark in
Brussels, says those involved have
already determined the run will
cover the same course as last year
and will take place from 1 p.m.
until 5 p.m. on Sept. 17.
"This year's event will be more
youth driven," she says. "It is a
good community activity; one in
which youth can become involved."
Videos about dhe run have been
circulated in the schools and shown
in local banks to inform residents.
The Ark's summer recreation
Four sites in northern Huron
County will accept pesticide con-
tainers from farmers and commer-
cial applicators, for recycling.
Teeswater Co-op, Belgrave; Agre
Farms Ltd., Bluevale; Brussels
Agromart Ltd., Brussels and Hen-,
sail Londesboro are among
the 136 recycling centres which
have been set up to collect the
waste materials.
"Our target for this year is to col-
lect 450,000 containers, up over 30
per cent from last year's total of
315,000 collected," says Dave Lat-
ter, chair of-the Ontario Pesticide
Container Management Steering
Committee.
Those numbers amount to 80 per
cent of containers purchased this
A Belgrave woman was injured
in a triple vehicle accident on Hwy.
86 at Diagonal Rd., Wingham at
8:20 a.m. on June 27.
According to Sgt. King of the
Wingham OPP, Barbara Bennett
was travelling east on 86 when she
stopped to turn left onto Diagonal
Rd. Her vehicle was struck from
behind by another driven by
Edward Robinson of Wingham,
'dement or she loses, Grubb says
she just wants her life back the way
it was.
"I didn't relocate my family and
invest in a home to be insulted the
way I was. I just want my life
back."
Since the suit was filed more
than two weeks ago, Grubb says
she has not yet heard a response
from the village.
The council, PUC, clerk-treasurer
and village solicitor held a closed-
session meeting June 29.
A statement from the village,
regarding the closed-session meet-
ing, was given -at the July 4 meeting
of council.
program also includes an activity
where the childrens' legs are
strapped so they can understand
Fox's accomplishment, says Patch.
Brussels runners raised approxi-
mately $4,800 last year, their first
attempt at the eyent, and were
printed in the Fox Foundation
Flyer, telling of their wonderful
accomplishment.
The Fox Foundation is seeking
participants from other communi-
ties to organize a run to help raise
money for cancer research.
Anyone interested may call 1-
800-387-1200 for more information
or "you can come out and join the
Brussels run," says Patch.
year in the province, says Latter.
Organized by AGCare (Agricul-
tural Groups Concerned about
Resources and the Environment),
the Crop Protection Institute of
Canada, and the Ontario Ministries
of Agriculture, Food and Rural
Affairs and Environment and Ener-
gy, the program has grown from 6
sites and 34,000 containers to 125
sites and 315,000 containers in just
two years.
All jugs collected, which must be
clean, triple or jet-rinsed plastic and
metal agricultural and commercial
pesticide containers in sizes 20
litres or smaller, will be inspected
upon delivery to the recycling site.
Information may be obtained by
contacting the local collection cen-
tre.
causing it to spin around and col-
lide with a westbound vehicle driv-
en by Barb Fischer of Wroxeter.
All three were taken to Wingham
and District Hospital. Robinson and
Fischer, who both sustained only
minor injuries were treated and
released, Sgt. King said. Bennett
was hospitalized, but has since
been released, he said.
Robinson has been charged with
careless driving.
Terry Fox Foundation
seeks local organizers
AGCare sets up sites for
old pesticide containers
Belgrave woman injured