HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1997-07-23, Page 41HOMECOMING ’97, WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 1997 PAGE 21.
Memories of Yesteryears
1936 Dodge brings Huntsville couple
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way back home. The trophy for the
oldest car, donated by Cornelius
Holzamer and family of Silver
Comers, was won by Russ Parsons
of Staffa in a 1929 Oldsmobile
Coupe. Keith Hensley of Kitchener
in a 1938 Packard Sedan won the
trophy donated by Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Bainton of Bainton's Old
Mill in Blyth for the Most
Appealing Automobile. Henry
Mero of Seaforth won the Best
Graffiti Car Trophy donated by
John Brown Motors in Gorrie for
his 1955 Crown Victoria Ford.
The Long Distance Trophy
donated by Carl’s Auto Body of
Brussels was won by Larry
Majruey of Huntsville who
travelled 180 miles in a 1936
Dodge Sedan. Nobody claimed the
trophy for the Best Brass Car for a
1915 or older model.
Besides trophies for the cars
there were also trophies for aircraft
and the winner of the Best Antique
aircraft Trophy which was donated
by the Maitland Valley Region of
Historical Automobile Society of
Canada and the Brussels Flying
Club was won by Frank Evans and
Tom Dietrich of Guelph for their
1943 Tiger Moth.
A $25 prize was also put up on
Saturday and Sunday by Jim
Armstrong and the Brussels Flying
Club for the best home built
aircraft. The Saturday winner was
Doug Leavens of King flying a
Sparrow Hawk and the Sunday
Winner was Frank Barr of
Shelburne in a Bede 4.
On Saturday afternoon the
national executive of the HASC
held their meeting in Clinton. On
Saturday evening after supper
about 35 cars went on a tour from
Brussels to Walton over to Blyth
where they toured Blyth and then
came back to the Brussels
fairgrounds where everybody
enjoyed a barbecue by Lavem and
Jan Felker, who cooked up about
250 hamburgers. A dance was held
upstairs at the Flea Market.
Also on Saturday, there were
about eight people there with
antique planes of various
descriptions who were served
Stricklers
shoot bear
From the September 1979 issue of
The Brussels Post.
Lome Strickler and his wife
Arlene of RR 2, Brussels and their
friends Clayton and Dawn Riley of
RR 4, Seaforth went hunting this
past weekend and they didn’t come
back empty-handed. With them,
they brought back a black bear
weighing 503 pounds.
Mr. Stickler said it was the
biggest bear that's ever been shot in
Temagami where they went for a
trip to celebrate the Rileys'
anniversary.
Mr. Stickler shot the bear which
was in a group of about nine others
at a range of about 150 yards.
The bear wasn't found until the
next morning as he had been
carrying on quite a bit when he got
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refreshments by Leona Armstrong.
On Sunday morning, Cornelius
and Veronica Holzamer, their
daughter Simone and Wayne and
Murray Lowe fed about 300 people
with 24 dozen eggs, ham, toast and
coffee.
Another tour on Sunday
afternoon headed by George Brown
of Gorrie went in the opposite
direction going from Brussels to
Morrisbank to Wingham and back
to Brussels.
First place prizes in the balloon
race, the potato race, and the 1950
cars slow race was Barry Spring of
Balm Beach - Brian Weller of RR
1, Norval, won the slow race for
the Model A class. Barb Watts won
second place in the balloon race.
A model air show with remote
control planes was put on by Carl
Graber, Howard Morion and Rudy
Mayer. Mr. Morton and some of
the boys in his public school rocket
club fired off rockets of various
descriptions.
Norman Beckham of Woodstock
in a Harvard aircraft, flew over the
fairgrounds and performed
aerobatics.
Although he is chairman Mr.
Watts said he had a lot of help from
a committee of about a dozen
people and he says the flea market
gels bigger every year. Attendance
was down a little this year and Mr.
Watts attributes that probably to the
number of Centennial events going
on this year.
Bird's eye view— Brussels has grown and changed over its
125-year history, changing the streetscapes and developing new
sporting centres. When the BMG pool project was completed in
1986, through the hard work of the Brussels Lions, a fly-by was
Congratulations
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BRUSSELS
on your 125th Anniversary
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arranged to take shots of the new facility. The pool and ball
diamond are at the centre of the photo which looks west across
Tumberry Street.
HAPPY 125TH
Birthday*
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BRUSSELS
On behalf of all the citizens & council
of Morris Township, we are pleased to
extend our best wishes for your
Homecoming.
MORRIS
TOWNSHIP
Proud to be your neighbours