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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1998-12-09, Page 4Heads of cattle Photo by Bonnie Gropp Looking Back Through the Years From the files of the Blyth Standard, Brussels Post and North Huron Citizen Dec. 12, 1968 Neil Hemingway received thr6e awards at the annual Huron County 4-H awards night. He was presented with the C.S. McNaughton trophy for highest score in the county, the J.A. Anstett award for the highest score in 4-H beef clubs and his 4-H gate sign placed first in the county competition. In WOAA Midget hockey, Blyth defeated Brussels 7-2. Team mem- bers on the winning side were: H. German, G. Berry, C. Cowan, B. Langlois, G. Riley, R. Ament, D Shalliness, B. Mason, K. Radford, G. Riley, B MacDougall, W. Mac- Dougall, J. Johnston and J. Cameron. Playing for Brussels were: K. Bird, M. McDonald, D. Elliott, K. McLean, R. Bauer, R. Somers, M. Kellington, R. Pipe, M. Workman, K. Gowing, J. Brigham, D. Salm, R. LeDrew. George Bailie of Blyth was Past Master of North Huron Orange Lodge. Dec. 12, 1973 Professor Robert Stevenson, envi- ronmental biology, presented the Honourable John S. Martin Scholar- ship to Ralph Scott, RR3, Blyth. The scholarship was offered for extracurricular activities and aca- demic performance in poultry sci- ence courses during the fifth and sixth semesters. The Blyth Lions donated $10,000 to the swimming pool fund. Eleven girls received county hon- ours in Clinton for the 4-H achieve- ment. They were Judy Van Dongen, Kathy Burkholder, Jayne Leeming, Kim Watson, Dianne Dennis, Joyce Chamney, Yvonne Bean, Peggy Fisher, Kathy Madill, Mary Searle and Dianne McNichol. Mark Vincent volunteered to set up the public address system for the Double-Your-Money draws at Blyth Memorial Hall. When the time came for the biggest draw, Mark won the $15,000 prize. Dec. 10, 1997 THE EDITOR, Winter clothing, especially children's outerwear, is desperately needed now. If you have serviceable children's winter clothing that you would like to donate to a worthy cause please take it to your nearest used clothing store today. Most of these retail outlets are charities themselves and use the profits to support community projects. The cost of the clothing at these outlets is nominal and the provision of this service by these charities supports the working poor. Paul Carroll, newly appointed as director of education for the Avon Maitland District School Board said the future was exciting and frightening. The Blyth Midget Bulldogs were hot, adding two more wins to their season record. Donna Godkin, who had just returned from teaching in Korea, was guest speaker at Walton UCW. Wingham hospital received a donation of $4,000 from the Blue- water Shrine Club Fire Brigade, a unit of the Mocha Temple. As a Christmas service, our goal is to ensure that every child has new toys and clothes for Christmas. Providing used items has never been the purpose of the Huron County Christmas Bureau. Used clothing gifts are more efficiently distributed by these charities. At this time of year, your support of charities who are working on behalf of the needy in your community is sincerely appreciated. Yours truly, Karen Riddell Christmas Bureau Manager. Letter to the editor Writer urges people to support charities The North Huron itizen cl) c n Ate N A P.O. Box 429, P.O. Box 152, Publisher, Keith Roulston BLYTH, Ont. BRUSSELS, Ont. Editor, Bonnie Gropp NOM 1H0 NOG 1H0 Phone 523-4792 Phone 887-9114 Advertising Manager, FAX 523.9140 FAX 887-9021 Jeannette McNeil E-mail norhuron@scsinternet.com The Citizen is published 50 times a year in Brussels, Ontario by North Huron Publishing Company Inc. Subscriptions are payable in advance et a rate of $27.00/year ($25.24 + $1.76 G.S.T.) in Canada; $62.00/year in U.S.A. and $75.00/year in other foreign countries. Advertising is accepted on the condition that in the event of a typographical error, only that portion of the advertisement will be credited. Advertising Deadlines: Monday, 2 p.m. - Brussels; Monday, 4 p.m. - Blyth. We are not responsible for unsolicited newscripts or photographs. Contents of The Citizen are © Copyright. Publications Mail Registration No. 6968 Canadian Publication Mail Agreement No. 1374990 1/ ros° NINZI13111M Member Ontario Press Council E ditorial PAGE 4. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1998. Rallying together It was heartening at last week's rally of pork producers Toronto's Queen's Park to see so many non-farmers from north Huron in the crowd. These people realized that we arc in this mess together and sooner or later we're all going to pay if pork producers arc forced out of business by record low prices. Non-farmers are used to hearing about farm crises by now as prices cycle up and down. But as one speaker at the rally said "We're not talking a minor bump in the road here. We're talking about the price dropping off a cliff." Farmers across North America were encouraged to expand production to feed a hungry Asian market but just as that production reached its peak, Asia suffered a huge economic setback and stopped buying pork. That left a 10 per cent oversupply of pork worldwide and drove prices down to 60 per cent of the cost of production. Under such circumstances there is no such thing as an efficient scale of operation: the bigger the operation, the more money the owner is losing. Many farmers are losing thousands of dollars every week. It's estimated 42,000 jobs in Ontario depend on the pork industry: people who sell supplies to pork farmers, people who truck their pigs to market, people who work in processing plants. If pork production is lost those jobs will be lost. Since other governments are stepping in to help their pork producers, Ontario's pork industry could be the casualty of this disaster unless the provincial and federal governments act soon. Nowhere will that loss be felt as strongly as in Huron and Perth Counties, the largest areas of pork production in Ontario. As the feed dealers and building contractors attending last week's rally know, the prosperity of Huron County depends on agriculture remaining strong. We must stand together to urge help for pork producers or we will all pay the price down the road. Them that has, gets In the inverted world of politics in the 1990s it isn't the poor who need tax breaks, it's the rich, as the parliamentary heritage subcommittee showed again last week. Proving that power is more important than justice, the committee proposed that big time athletes and sports teams should get tax breaks, otherwise those teams and athletes would take their ball (and pucks) and go home to the U.S. The proposal to cut taxes for ballplayers and hockey players who make millions a year naturally caused outrage. How could millionaires be given a break when we needed more money for healthcare and pork, and wheat producers needed help to keep from losing their farms. But Dennis Mills, chair of the committee, had the answer. Without the revenue the hockey teams generate, he said, the government wouldn't have money to help pork producers or the health system. Of course it was ordinary people, including pork producers, who helped build the arenas where our young hockey players honed their skills to be able to earn the millions they now make. It was ordinary people whose taxes paid for most of the huge stadiums that the professional teams use. Mills and his committee seem to be subscribing to the old trickle- down theory: if the rich have so much money that their pockets can't hold it all, a few dollars will fall out for the rest of us. —KR Make your voice heard The Village of Blyth council should be congratulated for giving its citizens a voice in the debate on amalgamation. Blyth council will hold a public meeting on amalgamation Monday, Dec. 14 to see how people feel about the issue and what ideas they might have. Will anyone show up? Will anyone have ideas? There arc many people who say people don't care about amalgamation but in conversations with people in the area it seems there is a great deal of concern that amalgamation may not proceed in the most beneficial manner. People arc not making their voices heard, however, perhaps feeling the issue is just going to go ahead no matter what they feel. Blyth council has given people an opportunity to have a say. Speak now or don't complain about the outcome. — KR