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Vol. 12 No. 1
Wednesday, Jan. 3, 1996
8.1$4-4eGST 650
Surprise New Year's baby
Sheri and Michael McIntyre of RR1, Brucefield were surprised when their little girl decided to
arrive 11 days early, edging out several others vying for the title of New Year's baby. Not
only did the little girl become first in region, but she also arrived first in mid-western Ontario.
New Year's baby has local ties
In retrospect
The people, places and
events that made
headlines in 1995
Sports
Blyth, Brussels
PeeWee teams take
tourney championships
News
Blyth Festival
closes year-end
in the black
The North Huron
itize OPP RIDE program n nabs 1 drunk driver
Though she may have had long
odds on becoming the first baby
born in Huron County in 1996, a
beautiful little girl from Brucefeld
surprised everyone, crossing the
finish line first in mid-western
Ontario.
Born to Sheri and Michael McIn-
tyre of RR1, Brucefield, the baby
girl arrived 11 days early, Jan. 1, at
2 a.m., at Seaforth Community
Hospital.
Weighing in at 6 lbs. 10 oz., the
little girl is the third child for the
Mclntyres. They have twin two-
year-olds at home, Jesse and Cody.
The New Year's baby is the
granddaughter of George and Barb
Smyth of Dungannon, Judy Smyth
of RR7 Lucknow, Gerald and
Yvonne McIntyre of London and
Marion McIntyre of London.
She is also welcomed into the
family by uncles and aunts, Barry
and Janine Smyth of RR2 Auburn,
Carol Smyth, recently returned
from Africa and twin-sitter, and
Rick and Terry McIntyre of Lon-
don.
The first arrival of 1996 at Clin-
ton Public Hospital came just over
24 hours after the McIntyre baby.
Christopher Raymond, weighing
in at 8 lbs, 11 oz., was tiom to Ruth
Anne and Terry Laframbroise of
Clinton, at 2:06 a.m., Jan. 2.
Listowel Memorial Hospital
recorded its New Year's baby at
5:33 a.m. on Jan 2, when Bailey
William Chance Pines, son of
Joanne, of RR1 Gowanstown,
arrived.
Officers from the Wingham OPP
detachment will soon have com-
pleted another successful RIDE
program in the area.
Police report that as of Dec. 28, a
total of 899 vehicles were checked
in the program, which ends Jan. 4.
Of those checked, only one driver
was charged with impaired or over
80, while three drivers had their
Brussels village councillors Mon-
day expressed frustration with a
jurisdictional dispute that will see
its fire department go unpaid for
fighting a fire on the edge of the
village.
Councillors, at their first meeting
of the year on New Year's Day,
were reacting to a letter from Mor-
ris Township which warned the
township would refuse to pay the
Brussels department for any fires
fought in the township unless the
Brussels Department notified either
Wingham or Blyth departments that
they were responding.
The Wingham and Blyth depart-
ments have responsibility for the
main coverage in the township but
Brussels has first response for the
area closest to the village. In the
case in question, Brussels respond-
ed to a chimney fire in a Morris
Twp. house on the outskirts of the
village.
"We never thought about it until
we got back (to the fire hall) and
thought, 'Oh, oh, that was in Morris
Twp.,"' Fire Chief Murray McArter
told council.
Councillor Joe Seili, council's
representative to the fire depart-
ment, said it's easy to say the fire-
fighters should always remember to
notify the appropriate department
but you have to be at the fire hall
when a fire call has come in to
understand the situation. The first
concern of the firefighters is to get
to the scene, he said. "There could
be somebody in that building."
Chief McArtcr said that in this
case, if Brussels had called Wing-
ham, Morris would also have had
to pay for Wingham to come to the
fire.
In other business, councillors
approved a motion allowing the
Brussels department to join the
central dispatch system operated by
Seaforth Community Hospital. Set-
up cost for the system will be about
$2,500, McArter said, but the
monthly cost of $200 will be less
than the current fire phone rental
which costs $240 a month. It will
also mean there won't have to be
someone home to answer the fire
phones.
Most of thc local fire depart-
ments, except Wingham, use the
Seaforth dispatch, he explained.
Local people will still call the Brus-
license suspended for a 12 hour
period.
Police also laid eight other
charges.
Last year OPP in Wingham laid a
total of five impaired charges dur-
ing the annual campaign. A total of
1,603 vehicles were checked during
the campaign with nine 12-hour
license suspensions issued arid 13
liquor related charges laid.
sels' department's number but the
call will automatically be relayed to
the Seaforth dispatch which will
contact firefighters by radio.
Council also agreed to increase
the hourly rate for firefighters
fighting a fire from $10 to $17.
Chief McArter said the firefighters
felt it wasn't fair to ask people to
leave their jobs, at which they're
likely making considerably more
per hour, to to fight a fire for
$10 per hour. Grey Twp. firefight-
ers currently make $17 per hour, he
said, while Wingham pays $22 per
hour and also pays $100 each to
four firefighters each weekend to
stay home on call in case there is a
fire call.
Councillor Seili said the wage
increase will likely cost about $600
per year extra, depending on the
amount of fire calls there are.
It's also likely to cost the depart-
ment $500 to photocopy training
manuals for all its members. The
province gave the department two
of the huge manuals but it's the
responsibility of the local fire
department to get a copy for -each
firefighter. .
Chief McArter said he had dis-
cussed the problem with Myth
Chief Paul Josling and they are
investigating the cheapest photo-
copying source they can find to
reproduce the manuals.
Homecoming
Committee
needs theme
Plans for the 1997 Brussels
homecoming are we" underway but
the event still needs a theme,
Homecoming Committee Chair
Murray Cardiff told Brussels coun-
cil Monday at its first meeting of
the year.
"I'm very pleased. I think we
have a very enthusiastic group of
people," Cardiff said of his home-
coming committee. However, he
said, the committee needs a theme
and logo by later this month in
order to get on with preparations
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Brussels won't get paid
for fighting Morris fire