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Victoria Park in Brussels was a busy spot this past weekend as 16 men's fastball teams
competed in the village's 27th annual invitation tournament. A popular event, fans lined the
bleachers from Friday night until Monday night to see some of the best vying for the
championship title. The honour went this year to the Monkton Muskrats.
Y2K seminar topic
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figure!
If just 1% more Canadians were physically
active, annual savings in health-care costs
could,be as much as 512,000,000.
Sharing a Healthier Future
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THE BRUSSELS
OPTIMIST
CLUB Serving the Brussels
Community for 25 Years
presents...
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with special guest "Silence"
Saturday, August 8, 1998
at
B.M. & G. Community Centre
Dancing from 9 p.m. - 1 a.m. -
Age of majority only
Tickets $10.00 per person
Tickets available from any Optimist member or at It's A Shear
Thing - Brussels, J.L. McCutcheon Motors - Brussels &
George of Brussels
NOTICE
The Brussels
Licence Office
will be closed
AUGUST 14T" AT 5 P.M.
The office will open
AUGUST 31ST AT 9:00 A.M.
For further info. call
887-6377
and how to protect yourself.
This seminar is absolutely free,
and will, hopefully, provide
answers to some questions and an
idea of what to do next.
Feel free to drop by these places
during regular hours as well to talk
about y2K or to learn about the
internet.
For more information contact
Shawn Clark at the Blyth
Municipal Office 523-4545 or
Brent Thomas at the Brussels
Library 887-6448.
MARK McINTYRE
Hearing Instrument Specialist
will be at
Brussels Medical Centre
373 Turnberry, Brussels
(enter at rear of building)
Wednesday, August 19
Call for your appointment 1-800-236-5514
We service and sell all makes of Hearing Aids.
We also have hearing aid batteries
and do hearing tests.
HEARING AID CLINIC
McINTYRE HEARING AID SERVICE
293 Huron Street, Stratford 271-9322
By Bonnie Gropp
Citizen staff
After hearing at their July 27
meeting that there had been no
response regarding their letter to
Ontario Hydro, Grey councillors
expressed hope that others may add
their support.
On July 13 council approved a
letter noting concerns over three
issues. The first was about Hydro's
decision to move the due date for
hydro customers to the third week
of the month, rather than leaving it
at month end.
Clerk-Treasurer Brad Knight said
the concern is primarily for the
senior citizens, who receive their
pension cheques at the end of the
month and have been using them to
pay their utilities. "I believe Hydro
was getting a lot of calls regarding
this from seniors, who probably do
find this inconvenient."
Reeve Robin Dunbar said that a
member of council had discussed
the issue with some seniors. "There
had been some general grum-
blings."
The second concern was with
respect to the inability to contact
either the central dispatch or the
local office in Clinton when the
township was left without power
for several hours, following a major
storm several weeks ago.
The Village of Blyth was also
without power for several hours
during the same storm and was
only able to inform the local office
after a village employee drove to
Twenty-eight ladies competed in
a lawn bowling tournament on the
Brussels green.
Mabel Wheeler sponsored the
tournament. Winners were: first,
Carol Carter and Edna Bell,
Seaforth, three wins, 45 plus one;
second, Shirley Schmidt and Janet
Rumig, Goderich, three wins, 41;
third, Audrey Hepburn and Eileen
Schneider, Strafford, two wins, 40;
fourth, Marjorie Solomon and Jane
The following students
participated in the Bronze
Medallion Exam held on July 24 at
the BMG Pool: Amy Ross, Amy
Douma, Brook Wheeler, Katie
Clark, and Nathan Garland.
These five students swam for one
Clinton to tell them.
"We are paying a service charge
for what seems to be less service,"
said Dunbar, adding that the rural
areas are particularly vulnerable.
"For us if there's no hydro, there's
no water.
Knight added, that it was his
understanding that the reason for
the delay was due to a computer
glitch. "Hopefully, they will see
that the problem is addressed," said
Knight.
Council's final concern is with
respect to Hydro's decision to
implement the minimum monthly
service charge.. Noting that while
everyone could appreciate the
"business" aspect of this, Knight
said council felt it burdened the
rural halls and churches.
"They maybe need to look at
some flexibility with regards to the
service charge for institutional,"
said Knight. "Small halls that
maybe only be rented eight to 10
times a year are really seeing a dif-
ference."
For example, he said, when Mon-
crieff Hall was being billed quarter-
ly for usage it paid $204 per year.
When Hydro put it to a minimum
service charge, regardless of use,
the annual figure almost doubled to
$387.
"Hydro is cost-cutting at the rural
customers' expense," said Dunbar.
"As council, our feeling was that
we needed to let them know how
we feel, and let the public know
we're working on their behalf.
Now, we can only suggest that oth-
ers may want to do the same."
Treleaven, Lucknow, two wins, 40;
fifth, Isabel Annis and Donna Rose,
Mitchell, two wins, 38; sixth, Lola
Rohfritsch and Selina Ducklow,
Mitchell, two wins, 35; seventh,
Gladys Cook and Sheila Long, two
wins, 34; eighth, Jean Bewley and
Mabel Wheeler, two wins, 33;
consolation, Marg Gruber and
Doris Cantelon, Clinton.
Drawmaster, Jim Coultes and
Mabel Wheeler presented the prizes
after the third game.
month every morning, practising
the skills which will further their
career in lifeguarding.
PAGE 2. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1998.
Grey council
writes Hydro
28 bowlers compete
in Ladies' tourney
Swimmers strive for bronze
On Jan. 1, 2000, the world,
electronically, may come to a halt.
Traffic lights, telephone lines, bank
machines, and anything else that
relies on microchip computer
systems will grind to a halt.
The reason? A little historical
oversight now known as the Year
2000 Compliance problem. This
crisis, commonly referred to as
Y2K, will affect every person who
relies, directly or indirectly, on
technology and computers.
The problem has its roots in the
days when the word "computer"
meant a two-ton pile of metal. In
those days, memory was so
precious that using four-digits for a
date seemed extravagant, and so the
two-digit date became status quo.
Programmers assumed that by
The Huron County Library
Summer Reading Program 1998 is
well underway, with over 300
children ages five to 12 in
attendance each week throughout
13 county branches.
The theme of this year's program
is "Reading Takes You Places",
and the children involved have
already had an opportunity to travel
into space, around the world and
across Canada this summer, with
more exciting adventures to look
forward to in following weeks.
This year's literacy co-ordinators,
Elisabeth Ball and Jackie Fisher,
acknowledge the Optimist Clubs of
Library reading program underway
Blyth and district and Wingham
and district, the Lions Clubs of
Brussels and Wingham, and
Wescast Industries for their
generous contributions to the
summer reading program.
the time this became a problem, all
computer software would be
updated. But humans are notorious
for putting things off, and the end
result is thatthere is no way that all
computer systems will be
compliant by the time Jan. 1, 2000
rolls around. And the problem will
affect everyone.
The Canadian government has
started an initiative through
Industry Canada called Can2K — a
project devoted to raising
awareness about the Year 2000
crisis. It's coming to Clinton Aug.
4, Wingham on Aug. 6, Blyth on
Aug. 10 and Brussels on Aug. 18.
These Can2K presentations will. be
at the libraries, except for Blyth
which will be at the municipal
office, at 7:30 p.m.
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