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Home My WebLink AboutThe Citizen, 1996-02-14, Page 2A good start Little Krista McKay of Brussels had some excellent help for her first time on the ice skating rink. The 21-month old, daughter of Trish and Dan, who was visiting her aunt Linda TenPas in Victoria B.C. recently, got some pretty professional advice from Karen Magnussen. Linda teaches skating with the former World Champion and Olympic Silver Medalist. • • .•• • . • . • • . di' • : •: di •• fil • •. di • • • Brussels, Morris & Grey Recreation & Brussels Optimist Club would like to thank everyone for making the Valentine's Dance & Draw a great success Winners were: $500. cash - Carrie Moore - Kenilworth T.V. - Judy Somers - Brussels C.D. Player - Jim Oldfield - Brussels Your Choice Meats Gift Cert. • • a - Mark Pennington - Brussels Brussels IGA Gift Certificate I - Rob Boneschansker - Wroxeter $50.00 Cash Prizes - George Langlois - Diane Huether • .411 • a • • I I . S • * • • • II • • • UP • • .• • • • • • 0_,•\,.* THE BRUSSELS HOMECOMING COMMITTEE is holding A PUBLIC MEETING on Thur'sday, February 22, 1996 at the BM & G Community Centre Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. to receive input from special interest groups and general public about the activities for Homecoming. Ideas for a theme, jingle and logo are needed. Please accept this as your invitation to attend. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT: MURRAY CARDIFF 887-6889 It's RRSP Time Make the most of your money. Invest in your community credit union NORTH HURON CREDIT UNION LIMITED 8 Alfred St., Wingham, Ontario (519) 357-2311 Call us for Competitive RRSP and Term Deposits Rates All funds reinvested in our local community and deposit insured to $60,000. PAGE 2. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1996 Brussels woman works with former Olympian Brussels People Bad news usually reaches newspapers but some wonderful thing happened to Jane Devries. Three close neighbours and friends visited with her on Thursday afternoon taking with them boxes with cake, candles, teacups and saucers and everything needed for a birthday party. A neighbour photographer even came in to take a picture. It was overwhelming and will never be forgotten. Archie Mann, Listowel was honoured by family members on the occasion of his 94th birthday at Listowel Memorial Hospital. Born in Grey Twp., son of William and Naomi Mann, Feb. 11, 1902, he farmed near Moncrieff for years. Mann has been a patient in hospital since fracturing his hip last Oct. 21. Throughout his life music was his main hobby. He played the bagpipes and violin at area events. He was a member of the CKNX Barn Dance which was broadcast on radio every Saturday night and travelled with the Ranch Boys Orchestra to various Southwestern Ontario locations. Besides being presented with a Pancake Supper at St. John's Anglican Church, Brussels Tuesday, Feb. 20 from 5 p.m. - 7 p.m. Adults - $6.00 Children 12 & under - $3.00 Pre-schoolers - Free Everyone Welcome By Bonnie Gropp When it comes to work, most of us would admit we feel confident that we do our job well, but when you have been hand-picked for your profession by someone with world-wide recognition, it is truly an accomplishment. Linda TenPas, daughter of Hank and Agnes TenPas of Brussels, has spent the past several months work- ing alongside former Olympic Sil- ver Medalist and World Figure Skating Champion Karen Mag- nussen in Vancouver B.C. TenPas, who spent her formative years skat- ing with the Brussels Figure Skat ing Club, was coached by Magnussen during her last year of skating at the North Shore Winter Club in Vancouver during the late 1980s. She also worked with her at the time, conducting a children's program called Champions Way. TenPas, who had returned to the Brussels area for a time, moved back to Vancouver in August 1995 . Now a skating teacher at the Van- couver Skating Club, with which she has just signed a 12-month con- tract, was one of two instructors selected by Magnussen to help with her Top Notch Skating Schooling at 8 Rinks in Burnaby, B.C., which is also the training and practice ice for the Vancouver Canucks. The program, designed by Mag- nussen, is geared to one-on one lessons. The program, which start- ed in October, is for skaters who are less competitive than the ones she teaches privately at the Van- couver rink. Accident in Grey Officers from the Wingham OPP investigated an accident on County Road 16 in Grey Twp. on Feb. 8 at 8:30 p.m. Milinko Milinkovic, 44, of Ethel was driving a 1986 KW commer- cial truck west on the county road. A 1993 Ford mini van, driven by Constanze Ruttan, 36, of RR1, Atwood, was southbound on Sideroad 34-35. Failing to yield she turned into the path of the Milinkovic truck, which hit the rear end of her car. Ruttan was taken to Listowel hospital by ambulance with minor injuries. She has been charged with failing to yield. "It's also an opportunity to be on the ice with Karen, which is a rare experience," says TenPas. A native of Vancouver, Mag- nussen was the Canadian women's champion in 1968. She withdrew from competition the following year because of injuries, but in 1970 came back to recapture the title, and hold it for the next three years. Magnussen on silver medals in the 1972 Sapporo Olympics and world championships. In 1973 she won the world championship in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia. She was the recipient of the Velma Springstead Trophy as Canada's outstanding female athlete in 1971-73 and was awarded the Order of Canada. Magnussen was also an adviser for the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics. TenPas is not the only member of her family to have had the rare opportunity of sharing the ice with this Canadian athlete. Her 21- month-old niece, Krista, had her first skating lesson during a visit to B.C. with her mom, Trish McKay, Linda's sister. "I'm not very pushy, am I?" jokes TenPas about attempts to get Krista started early. Mag- nussen also spent some time with the youngster. TenPas, who teaches every morn- ing at 6, then goes to her job with an import company, before getting back on the ice until 8:30 that evening, admits her schedule is a bit hectic, but wouldn't have missed it. "When I was in college in Toronto, I spent summers in Van- couver learning from Karen. For that reason we have a lot of the same teaching styles. She has helped me tremendously in what I want to do. It's been very exciting." Girl Guide cookie_A eye, Guides Arriving April- 1, 1996 The Brussels Girl Guides will be going door to door taking orders for chocolate & vanilla cookies from now until March 1. $3.00 a box If you missed a call please call Debbie Trollope 887-9940 Elaine Armstrong 887-6820 Janet Mitchell 887-6618 Thankyou for supporting the Girt Guufes decorated cake, Mann received musical tapes and two photo albums containing pictures of his music circle of friends from the past, as well as a number of birthday cards. As an added surprise his great nephew, Doug Mann, Winnipeg, Man. arrived at the hospital to add happiness to the event. 11 tables at euchre Eleven tables of cards were played at the Majestic Women's Institute euchre party on Feb. 6 in the Brussels library. Lucky prize winners were: high lady, Sarah Stephenson; low lady, Helen Dobson; high man, Mary Davidson; low man, Keith Turn- bull; lone hands, lady, Dorothy Dilworth, man, June Jacklin; lucky numbers, Jean Bridge, Jean Thedorf, Allen Edgar, Mary Hunter and Roberta Simpson. The next card party will beheld on March 5 at 8 p.m.