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Looking Back Through the Years
From the files of The Blyth Stan-
dard, The Brussels Post and The
North Huron Citizen
85 YEARS AGO
JUNE 15, 1911
Miss May J. Irvine, a missionary
at Shanghai, China, visited in Bel-
grave with her sister, Mrs. W. H.
Ferguson.
Road work was the order of the
day in Cranbrook.
George Baker had his barn
raised
William Zeigler attended C. 0.
G. High Court meeting in Toronto.
Rev. Fear of Blyth preached the
service at the Methodist Church in
Cranbrook.
James Bird took his traction
engine to the Brussels foundry to
have it overhauled before threshing
time.
A big garden party was planned
for the home of Chas. B. Forrest
Jr., west of Jamestown. The pro-
ceeds went to the Victoria Hall
Building Fund.
Wingham Band was expected to
entertain.
A football team was organized in
Ethel by the Young Men's Bible
Class. Members were: -C. Procter,
M. Slemmon, W. Wittington, P.
Stevenson, E. Stevenson, D. Ward-
law, A. Clark, I. Raynard, F.
Stevenson, C. Hansuld, A. Henry.
The residence of H. and Mrs.
McQuarrie, 4th Conc. of Grey
Twp., was the scene of a wedding
between their daughter, Stella
Gertrude and Leonard Wright of
Meifort, Sask. The Ceremony was
performed on a Wednesday morn-
ing with Rev. Dean Wright, the
groom's father officiating, assisted
by Rev. D. N. McCamus, cousin of
the bride.
Do you remember the snowstorm
of 1947?
Apparently it was a big one,
causing a lot of damage, and, we're
sure, some spectacular photo
opportunities.
While our request for pictures of
Brussels to be used in the history
book has had overwhelming
response, there are surprisingly
very few depicting floods and the
good old-fashioned blizzards we
Lightning took out telephones in
Morris Twp.
Charlie Bryans was home on
extended vacation from his position
in the Standard Bank, Picton due to
a broken leg. The Post states, "The
bank has increased his salary $150
per year, which is not bad medicine
to take."
An action was brought by James
Speir of Morris against Samuel
Walker to recover a claim of
$55.75 to which the defendent
counterclaimed in the sum of
$93.36. The plaintiff was eventual-
ly awarded $16.21.
experienced years ago. Most of our
children have heard the stories of
10 foot snowbanks and being
blocked in your home for days on
end, but a picture tells a thousands
words.
If anyone has any photographs of
weather events of the past, which
we might have for consideration in
the Brussels history book, please -
drop them in to either office of The
Citizen as soon as possible.
Searching for the past
PAGE 4. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19, 1996
Speed it up but keep it clean
The news Brenda Elliott, Ontario's Environment Minister announced
Monday will be of great relief to municipalities trying to find new
landfill sites. The red tape in approving new sites will be cut, she
promised, and it can take just
11 months to get approval for a
new site, not years.
Elliott cited the case of
Guelph which has been trying
to get a new landfill site for 13
years without success. Huron residents who have paid $1.4 million
since 1988 in a vain attempt to find an acceptable site, will also agree
changes are needed.
It remains to be seen if Elliott can speed up the process without
endangering the environment. While the old rules set up a cumbersome
system in which municipalities had to find the least objectionable site, it
did give people a chance to stop and think about what they were doing.
It can even be argued that in Huron, the long delays gave time for other
alternatives to develop. Perhaps a system that makes approval for
landfills too easy will make politicians turn from the real solution,
maximum recycling, to the easy solution: bury it.
Here's hoping Elliott can find a happy medium that takes all
necessary precautions without throwing caution to the winds. The last
thing the province needs is a return to the kind of mentality that says
once garbage is in the ground or burned up and in the air, the problem is
gone. We know by now, it isn't. In developing policies the Harris
government has, too often, looked for its models to the 1950s way of
doing things. We know now the 1950s was one of the most
environmentally destructive times in the history of the earth.
The new policy must also take into effect the rights of the people
living near proposed landfill sites. Finding the right approach between
steamrolling over the rights of the property owners and allowing the
system to be bogged down for years in protests and hearings may take
the wisdom of Solomon.
Elliott has been handed one of the most difficult political and ethical
challenges of her government's agenda. Let's hope she can find the right
solutions. — KR
Voters pick surprise alternative
That Sheila Copps was re-elected in her by-election, Monday, was
no surprise. That she took her lumps from some voters who wanted to
punish her and her government for backing down on its pledge to get
rid of the GST was no surprise. The surprise came in where voters
turned in their efforts to register their protests.
Listen to the news and read the commentary (especially from the
increasing number of right-wing columnists appearing in newspapers
and magazines) and you'd think the Reform Party was the party of the
future — the only alternative to the Liberal government. Yet Reform's
candidate was censured by voters just as badly as Copps. Her vote total
was cut from 23,000 in 1993 to 11,000; Reform from 6,000 to 3,000.
The two parties that are supposed to be dead, prospered by
comparison. The NDP, third in 1993, finished second, nearly tripling its
vote. The Progressive Conservatives increased their vote by half.
The results point to the reality that Reform faces a tough battle in
winning the support in Ontario it needs to form a government. Ontario
residents are leery of the hard-line policies many party supporters
espouse. While people may like some planks in the Reform platform,
they're afraid they don't know everything Reform stands for. Reform
leader Preston Manning didn't encourage confidence at the recent party
convention when he told his MPs to keep quiet about their opinions on
all but a few key topics such as the economy and Quebec. His theory
seemed to be to fool voters into supporting him on a few policies, then
spring the rest of the party's less popular beliefs on them after the
election.
At the same time, pundits underestimate the support that is still
around for the NDP and Conservatives. The Tories may have only two
seats, but they have strong riding associations all across Ontario. Just as
they jumped from third to first in Ontario, they can spring back
federally. In many ridings they, not Reform, are the logical party to turn
to when the Liberals fall into disfavour. Meanwhile, many Ontario
voters will turn increasingly to the NDP as right wing policies continue
to hurt their neighbours. Don't count either party out yet. — KR
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