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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 2001-05-23, Page 4News Item: May 18, 2001 U.S. President Bush explained that his plan to increase massively all forms of controversial energy production was so that Americans would not have to "face a darker future"... PAGE 4. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 2001 Editorials Opinions Publisher, Keith Roulston Editor, Bonnie Gropp Advertising Manager, Jeannette McNeil The Citizen is published 50 times a year in. Brussels, Ontario by North Huron Publishing Company Inc. Subscriptions are payable in advance at a rate of $28.00/year ($26.16 + $1.84 G.S.T.) in Canada; $62.00/year in U.S.A. and $100/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 newsscripts or photographs. Contents of The Citizen are © Copyright We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Publications Assistance Program (PAP) toward our mailing costs Publications Mail Reg. No. 09244 Canadian Publication Mail Agreement No. 1374990 The Citizen P.O. Box 429, P.O. Box 152, BLYTH, Ont. BRUSSELS, Ont. NOM 1HQ NOG 1H0 Phone 523-4792 Phone 887-9114 FAX 523-9140 FAX 887-9021 E-mail norhuron@scsinternet.com Website www.northhuron.on.ca ocna +CNA 2itf. Member of the Ontario Press Council IliffilIZMI14 Some thins never change Two things nevenge, they tell us: death and taxes. Now can be added to the list of certainties the attitude of right wing political leaders like U.S. President George W. Bush that you don't have to let a little thing like the environment get in the way of having more and more. Bush has been playing on the fears of Americans that they will run out of energy. Instead of urging people to cut back, however, Bush has been promoting finding more oil and gas and building new electrical ,power plants at a record rate. What is it about people like Mr. Bush that they can easily understand there are limits on how many human resources government can use to build a better world, but they can't seem to see that there are limits as to how far we can push in the world's resources? You'd think that just as the liberal agenda has had to adapt to new fiscal realities, the right wing might admit that they must, even slightly, modify their philosophy of conspicuous consumption. But watching Bush in operation, it is almost like the past five decades never happened anu we're back in the 1950s. Global warming? Just a left-wing plot. Nuclear accidents like Chernobyl or Three Mile Island? Just a rumour — never happened. When the Arab oil embargo caused an energy crisis in the 1970s, society changed and adapted. We realized we really didn't need the big gas- guzzlers most people drove at the time. We got smaller, more efficient cars and didn't seem to really suffer all that badly. But years of rising incomes and changing fashions madefre sport utility vehicle the hottest vehicle on North American car lots. These trucks are even bigger than the cars of the 1950s and they swallow gas at double the rate of smaller, more efficient cars. Many attribute the current U.S. gasoline shortage to the extra demand these vehicles are putting on resources. But Bush seems determined not to prescribe the same cure we found in the 1970s. Instead, for him the solution is not reigning in demand but simply finding more supply. His philosophy is a little like the left -wing idea of the early 1990s that in times of recession, you increased expenditures rather than cutting back. Those ideas didn't live up to reality and neither do Bush's. — KR Against the againsts Looking Back Through the Years Should anyone really be surprised the Alliance party is currently tearing itself apart? The Alliance was formed as a party against things: against eastern domination of the national agenda, against the Progressive Conservative Party which many Albertans thought had drifted too far towards the Liberals. In a party made up of people who were angry at someone else, it was only a matter of time before they got angry with each other over their inability to achieve power.— KR Letters to the Editor THE EDITOR, Wind surfers, cottagers, and homeowners along the Lake Huron shoreline have turned against the farm community. They have mobilized activist groups to lobby government at all levels to stop livestock farming within 20 kilometres of the lake. Circulated propaganda touts the activism is focused on "ILO's." This term is the abbreviated jargon for intensive livestock operations. The catch is that most of the livestock farms in this area qualify as intensive. Can these people hear themselves? Some feel it is immoral to build barns so close to the lake. This issue needs some .perspective. The farmers are producing food. Who decided it was more ethical, moral, environmentally sane or sustainable to build communities so close to the lake? . And for what, well - for the important tasks of sport, and recreation. Do we need communities by the shore? But of course, how else would we hunt and fish to gather food to feed our families? It is so important to have homes by the lake we forego adequate sewage treatment. Sports and leisure enthusiasts do not mind swimming in the yellow septic slime along the shoreline. Bruce County will change the zoning of farmland along the shore this summer. Over time, farm families will be forced away from the shoreline to remain viable in a -global marketplace. It's not about the environment. It's about residential areas generating more taxes than farmland. When enough new 'homes and convenience stores arise, a sewage treatment system will be built. All the urban effluent will be pumped up hill and treated in a lagoon on expropriated farmland. Once every twenty years the sludge will be hauled out and spread on farmland, only to leach back to the lake. It really bothers me to hear an activist spew "we don't own the land, we are borrowing it from our children." Farm families live and die by that sentence. For centuries farmers have moved half way around the world to find good soil for their children. To hear it from someone carrying golf clubs- duting spring seeding is disrespectful of people pushed from their livelihood by politics and consumers suffering from aftluenza. Michael Hunter Certified Crop Advisor May 24, 1950 Brussels Public School needed a teacher for Grades 3, 4, and 5. Applicants were to contact the Brussels school board secretary- treasurer H. Bowler with their experience, qualification and expected salary. The Brussels Lions ClUb Boys and Girls Band was performing at the town hall. Admission was 35 cents and 20 cents. Proceeds would purchase new uniforms. The following infant baptisms were administered at Knox Presbyterian in Cranbrook by Rev. Charles H. MacDonald: David Ross Huether, son of Mr. and Mrs. Murray Huether; Lynda Dianne Parton, daughter of Mr. and Mr. Murray Parton of London; William Allan Perrie, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Perrie and Adele Fern Simpson, daughter of Ian McIver Simpson, the son of Rev. and Mrs. Alex J. Simpson. Everyone was invited to the dance at Winthrop Hall to the Harburns Orchestra. Admission was 50 cents. Everybody's Crazy, a three-act play was presented by Union United Church in the Brussels Town Hall. Admission was 40 cents and 25 cents. May 21, 1986 The Blyth Horticultural Society received $200 from the defunct local agricultural society. The Blyth, Belgrave, Brussels School Fair was given $500. A plan to redesign the western and southern part of Liot-i3 Park was approved by Blyth The major change was for a new entrance off Gypsy Lane at the south end of the park. The road would lead to a new parking area at the south side of- the picnic pavillion, giving more access to the pavillion for picnickers. At the same time, the roadway freed the north end of the park from traffic so it could be developed for others uses. The estimated cost was $5,000. Tom Hanrahan was named president of Brussels Home and School. Other executive members were vice-president Sue Gowing, treasurer Barb Mutter and membership secretary Judy Hahn. Past president was Jane McDonald. The 84th district annual East Huron Women's Institute was held in Ethel. Executive members were: Jean Mathers, director; Leona McDonald, president; Peggy Cudmore, past president; Margaret McMahon, secretary-treasurer, Ruth Harding, alternate federal representative; Frieda Klassen, first vice-president; Pam McLellan, auditor; Ruth Galbraith, Tweedsmuir curator, Marion Feldskov, PRO. C&M Ice Cream opened in Walton. Owners were Carol Gamble and Michelle Mercer. Steve Souch, a Central Huron Secondary School student won the Midget championship at the Huron Perth track and field meet. Dan McDougall finished third in the Midget Boys 400-metre race while Julie Howson placed first for the third consecutive year in the high jump. In preparation for its opening the Brussels EMA was accepting applications for meat manager, grocery manager. cashiers, deli clerks, produce clerks and grocery clerks. May 22, 1991 Veteran Canadian broadcaster Roy Bonisteel was to be the guest speaker at the Blyth Festival's 17th season gala opening. The- Huron-Bruce federal Progressive Conservatives selected delegates to the general meeting and policy conference. Senior delegates were Alf Ross, Joan Cardiff, Mary Procter, Tom Jasper, Barb Fisher and Denise Wilkens. Youth representatives were Yvonne Trapp, Charles Trapp and Brian Treble. Cutting the ribbon to open the new addition at Grey Central Public School were Principal Wayne Tessier, Student Council President Molly Morton, Grey Twp. Reeve Leona Armstrong, Trustee Don McDonald and Arnold Mathers of the Huron County Board of Education. Two Grade 9 Brussels girls drew first and second place winning posters in F.E. Madin Ontario Students Against Impaired Driving contest, Laurie Blake and Erica McDonald, respectively. May 22, 1996 Anita Little of Brussels won the right to play on the Canadian dart team -at a national contest in 'Burlington. She would compete in England in December. Senior students at Blyth Public School planted trees along the Blyth Brook as part of the village's Greenway project. Also on the agenda was the erection of duck boxes at the Hullett Wildlife Centre. Blyth Legion marked its 50th anniversary. New Blyth Pathfinders were Amanda Bailey, Rachael de Bber, Jamie Lewis and Jennifer Black.