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Each year a committee chooses an outstanding citizen from each of
the Blyth and area and Brussels and area communities to receive an
award for contribution to the community. If you know someone you
think should be honoured, please fill in the ballot and send it in. You
may attach a longer explanation of why you think your nominee
should win, if you like. If you have nominated someone before and
he or she didn't win, please feel free to try again.
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Nomination Deadline March 30, 2001.
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PAGE 20. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 2001.
Blyth's Bloom committee gets council support
By Bonnie Gropp
Citizen staff
Nancy Snell and Eleanor Babcock,
members of Blyth's Communities in
Blooms committee attended the
North Huron council meeting
Monday night to seek support.
Councillors were interested to hear
about the efforts of the committee
and what their achievements have
been.
Blyth received four blooms in
provincial level, then placed second
last year nationally for their division.
"We have identified areas we need
to work on to make us winners," said
Snell.
Blyth Councillor Murray Nesbitt
said it was an excellent project.
Deputy-Reeve Jeff Howson agreed
saying that the committee has a
"positive volunteer base that has
drawn the average householder into
(the project). It has brought commu-
nity spirit together."
Asked if the idea was something
that pull in the other municipalities
in North Huron, Snell said that once
a community wins nationally they
can pull in another municipality.
Blyth has also been asked to go to
Walkerton to help plant a commem-
orative garden.
Now trying to plan their budget to
get ready for this year's competition,
Snell and Babcock asked for coun-
cil's support to proceed.
Council approved the budget
amount of $6.500 in principle.
NH agrees to contract CB0 to Morris-Turnberry
By Bonnie Gropp
Citizen staff
North Huron Reeve Doug Layton
sees it as one more step to his cam-
paign wish of neighbours working
together.
His council was asked on Monday
night whether or not they might con-
sider contracting the services of their
chief building official Byron Ellis to
Morris-Turnberry.
With amalgamation of Huron
A new scientific tool that will help
ensure food products are free of bac-
teria like E. coli and Salmonella has
been patented in Canada.
The rotary thermocycler was
developed by researchers at
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada's
(AAFC) Food Research Program in
Guelph. Its uses include detecting
and counting bacteria, testing for
bacterial contaminants in water and
ounting microbes in soil.
Researchers are hoping the system
will allow for cell counts of specific
bacteria to be obtained routinely in
two hours, even if other bacteria are
present in the same sample. Current
methods of counting bacteria, such
as growing and testing cultures, are
A Brussels native and Conestoga
College Fine Arts student received a
special honour Monday morning
from the Canadian Space Agency.
A patch designed by Cynthia
DeWit to commemorate Canadian
astronaut Chris Hadfield's Apr. 19
mission aboard the space shuttle
Endeavour to the International Space
Station was chose in an national
competition.
DeWit's design tells the story of
this historic mission for Canada, said
Brian Tobin, minister of industry and
minister responsible for the
Canadian Space Agency, as is com-
memorates Hadfield's installation of
the next generation Canadarm and be
the first Canadian to walk in space.
Hadfield said that it was an "addi-
tional source for pride for him that
the winner of the contest was a youth
originating from rural Canada",
much like himself.
tion to council.
The idea would be that if Ellis was
needed in Morris-Turnberry, his time
would be paid by North Huron
which would then invoice Morris-
Tumberry.
Though Morris-Turnberry would
not be discussing the issue until their
slower and not all bacteria are easy
to culture for this purpose.
The rotary thermocycler is a spe-
cialized PCR (polymerase chain
reaction) machine that resembles a
multi-disc CD player. The CD-like
filters, on which bacteria have been
trapped, are processed through sev-
eral cycles of different temperatures
and reactive conditions. The reaction
products appear as spots on the fil-
ters. The number of spots is recorded
by an electronic camera, which gives
the cell count.
"This machine should be of great
use in situations that require rapid
enumeration of bacteria," says Greg
Poushinsky, director of AAFC's
Food Research Program. "In most
Hadfield presented DeWit with a
personal letter of congratulations, a
copy of the patch artwork, an auto-
graphed in-flight photo of the CSA
astronaut wearing her design, a cash
prize of $500 and an invitation to
attend the launch of his mission from
Cape Canaveral.
A student of the college's graphic
design program, DeWit is now in her
second year of study.
Healthy eating...
regular physical
activity
meeting on Tuesday night, North
Huron supported the proposal as
along as all parties were agreeable.
Layton said, "I'm pleased. This is
something I've pushed towards."
Ellis, however, asked for an option
that if he suddenly felt the arrange-
ment was not working that he could
leave Morris-Turnberry without it
reflecting on his position with North
Huron. Councillor Archie
MacGowan assured him his priority
was with North Huron.
areas, including agricultural and
microbial research, the food indus-
try, human and veterinary medicine
and environmental risk analysis,
there is a need for rapid and accurate
screening methc4s."
AAFC has filed an application for
an international patent for the rotary
thermocycler.
Research into its various applica-
tions is proceeding in collaboration
with other AAFC research centres in
Canada.
The Canadian Farm, an agricul-
tural program that airs on CTV affil-
iated stations across Canada, ran a
story on the rotary thermocycler Jan.
13 and 14.
municipalities, Morris-Turnberry
was left without a building official. ,
They approached North Huron Clerk
Administrator John Stewart through
a letter and he brought the informa- _
Brussels=area native's design
chosen for astronaut's mission
Canada breaking ground
in fight against bacteria