HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1995-11-01, Page 161 0+ 40'GST650 Vol. 11 No.43 Wednesday, Nov. 1, 1995
Two pickup trucks collided at the corner of Hwy 4 and County Road 15 in Londesboro
Monday afternoon, sending Thomas Gilbert, the driver of the red GMC, to Clinton Public
Hosptial by ambulance and later to London. The driver of the blue Ford, Matthew
Townsend, has been charged under the Highway Traffic Act. Townsend was also taken to
hospital. The Gilbert vehicle came to rest against Today's Variety, which sustained minor
damage to the brick facing. The Blyth and District Fire Department attended, assisting in the
removal of Gilbert from his vehicle.
Info night addresses importance
for early breast cancer detection
Feature
Ethel-area family
raises pets for those with
penchant for the exotic
See page 7
Community
Londesboro Lions Club
`Hallways' getting
started
See page 10
Sports
Brussels Bulls
lose to
Walkerton Blackhawks
See page 12
C The North Huron Pranksters set
itizen Devil's Night fire
By Bonnie Gropp
By Janice Becker
What disease strikes almost
exclusively women, particularly as
they age; can be deadly, claiming
over 15,000 lives in Canada each
year and yet is treatable with early
detection by women themselves?
Breast cancer.
For women in the Brussels area,
an information session concerning
the facts about breast cancer was
held at Huronlea on Oct. 24.
A dozen women, ranging in age
from 30 and up, gathered to hear
doctors, nurses and other workers
in the field of breast cancer speak
on prevention, examination, treat-
ment and recovery.
As indicated by all the speakers
at the seminar, breast self-examina-
tion (BSE) is the most important
factor in the early detection and the
increased rate of successful treat-
ment.
"Women must get to know their
normal self," says Nancy McKen-
zie, a primary nurse at the Cancer
Centre in London. We know how
we feel the best. We must familiar-
ize ourselves with our body."
To encourage all women to do a
BSE once a month, McKenzie sug-
gests giving oneself a treat after
each examination. "It is great. I
know I have at least 12 treats com-
ing each year."
Breast cancer is the number one
Continued on page 7
By Janice Becker
and Bonnie Gropp
For Jerry Lamport, a staff mem-
ber of Huron MP Paul Steckle's
constituency office, the trip to
Montreal for the unity rally on Oct.
27 was "quite a thing."
Lamport arrived on the first of 12
buses which left from London at
midnight on Oct. 27, for the long
ride to Quebec.
"I have never seen so many flags
waving," he says. "During the
speeches, the chanting and singing
of the crowd was almost deafen-
ing."
Lamport says, people were in
tears, including older men and
women. "There were youngsters,
university students, business people
who left work to take part, farmers,
and veterans. They arrived from
across the country, even Yel-
lowknife in the Yukon," he says.
He felt that the crowd was very
optimistic. "The camaraderie and
the amazing sense when a crowd of
over 100,000 sings the national
Dianne Bray said Sarah came to her
house because she had forgotten
her key. "She noticed that it was all
black inside. It's a good thing she
forgot that key because if she had
opened the door things would have
been a lot worse," said Bray.
Fire Chief Murray McArter said
that by the time the firefighters
arrived shortly after 12:15 p.m. the
whole house was blackened and the
sofa in the family room, where it is
believed an electrical malfunction
started the fire, was completely
burned. "The fire had been smol-
dering for some time before we
arrived," said McArter.
He estimated the damage at
$30,000.
At 3 a.m. the next morning, Brus-
sels firefighters responded to a
Wingham fire call in Morris Twp.
The Wingham department, along
with assistance from Gorrie and
Blyth were busy fighting a fire at a
turkey barn outside Bluevale.
The Morris fire, at a barn owned
by Mike Barretta, on Conc. 3 is
believed to have been started by a
heat lamp.
McArter said that by the time
Brussels firefighters arrived the
building was fully engulfed. A
Blyth tanker arrived to help save
the surrounding buildings.
According to Wingham Fire
Chief Harley Gaunt, Barretta, who
was on vacation at the time of the
fire, lost about seven small and six
adult pigs, a goat, several rabbits,
as well as a quantity of hay and
straw in the blaze. The horses and
cows were outside when the fire
started, Gaunt said.
The estimate of damage was
given as $40,000.
anthem will hopefully last as a
symbol of the feeling about Cana-
da," says Lamport.
"A lot of Quebecers are very
worried and they were pleased with
the show of support from the rally."
Heather Blake, of RR2, Blyth
one of several St. Michael's Sec-
ondary School students who trav-
elled to Montreal last Thursday
agrees. "It was awesome. The Non
people thought it was great that we
were there. They were very glad to
see the support."
There were no confrontations
with the Yes side, but banners were
visible.
Blake was particularly moved by
the "huge" Canadian flag she saw
displayed on the wall of a building.
"It was an awesome feeling."
As some of the first to arrive at
the rally, Blake and her friends
were interviewed by a Quebec sta-
tion, regarding their reasons for
making the trip. "We just told them
how much we wanted Canada to
stay together. We said we loved
Continued on page 18
While little trick or treaters were
eagerly awaiting the arrival of Hal-
loween, the 'children' in Brussels
had their fun on Monday night.
Pranksters couldn't let Devil's
Night pass without incident. At
9:38 p.m. volunteers from the Brus-
sels Fire Department were called to
the property of Jack Cardiff, just
north of Brussels. Thirty large bales
of straw piled in a field beside the
road had been set ablaze and a
backhoe was used to pull it apart so
it could be extinguished. Firefight-
ers were at the scene for one hour.
Fire Chief Murray McArter says,
the straw, which had been sold to
another party, but had not been
picked up, was estimated at $300.
In addition, the occurrence will
cost the taxpayers of Morris Twp.
$300 for the fire call.
Officers from the Wingham OPP
were called in to investigate. A
police spokesperson said a
flammable liquid was used to start
the fire. Also, while no suspects
have been named, a firefighter told
police he saw five youths walking
into Brussels from the north end of
town.
According to the spokesperson
the guilty persons would be facing
a charge of arson causing damage
to property.
In an unrelated event, a timely
arrival may have saved a Brussels
home from being completely rav-
aged by fire, Oct. 24.
The blaze was discovered in the
Turnberry St., home occupied by
Jill Boyer, when her youngest
daughter Sarah Seeds came home
from school for lunch. Neighbour
Unity Rally moves
local participants