HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 2002-06-05, Page 4Looking Back Through the Years
June 9, 1960
After years of planning and many
months of intensive discussions,
study, discouragements and
disagreements, plans were
completed by the school board for a
new public school to be built in
Brussels. It was expected that work
would begin in a few weeks.
Estimated cost was $123,000.
Seven dollars and 95 cents would
buy a muffler for your car at
MacLean Fina Service in Brus-
sels.
A 24-oz jar of two-fruit
marmalade was selling for 33 cents
at McCutcheon Grocery. A 48-oz tin
of Hawaiian Punch cost 35 cents.
Several ads reminded readers not
to forget to celebrate the Glorious
12th of July.
Debbie Reynolds and Glenn Ford
starred in The Gazebo playing at
Wingham Lyceum Theatre.
June 4, 1986
Dave Boynton resigned as
Brussels councillor.
Mr. and Mrs. Herb Stretton were
hosts to a foreign traveller when
Stephan Wrobel of West Germany
arrived in Brussels.
The new executive for the
Brussels Legion Ladies Auxiliary
was Isabel Janes, second vice-
president; Bonnie Brewer, president;
Verna Tunney, executive; Kitty
Rutledge, executive; Barb Graber,
secretary; Bernice McFarlance,
executive; Marg Taylor, treasurer;
Jayne Ross, first vice-president.
The new Legion executive was
Marg Bennett, treasurer; Eugen
Janes, second vice-president; Bob
Frazer, past president; Kathy
Burkholder, president; Forrest
Whittard, first vice-president;
Charlie Proctor, service officer;
Frank Rutledge, executive; Ross
Bennett, executive; Rev Carpentier,
chaplain; Eric Ross, secretary; Gord
Nichol, executive; Tam McFarlane,
executive.
The_ newest business in Brussels
was Radford Auto, Farm and
-Industrial Parts Ltd.
California honeydew melons were
99 cents at Zehrs. Romaine lettuce
sold for 89 cents, and a loaf of bread
was 79 cents.
Playschool graduates were Kevin
Mutter, Mike Cooper, Shawn Engel,
Kyle McDonald, Becky Rapson,
Craig Gillis, Michelle Mitchler,
Kendra Wilson, Ashley Gropp,
Matthew Snyder, Lorraine Blake,
Christine Yoon, Sarah Exel, Stephen
Oldfield, Ellen Workman and
Stephen Beyersbergen.
Junior level winners of Brussels
track and field were Jeremy
Albrecht, Stacey Hahn, Sheri
Huether- and Tim Machan.Atom
winners were Sharie Jacklin and
Gerald Devries, and Bantam win-
ners were Sean Morris and Lori
Willie.
Hullett Twp. reported a $13,000
surplus from the previous year.
The centennial committee donated
$6,000 to the Brussels Lions pool
project and $4,000 to the recreation
committee. The latter was for repairs
to the lights at the ball park.
June 7, 1989
Marie Hicknell, reeve of McKillop
Twp. announced she would take a
second run at the wardenship of
Huron County council. .
Idella Wilson and Margery
Huether were honoured with a tea on
their retirement as Brussels Public
School teachers. Seven members of
the Blyth Girl Guide company
received their all-round cords:
Maridale Bromley, Kim Ferguson,
Tina Burkholder, Jennifer Cucksey,
Laurel Campbell, Karen Bernard
and Erica Clark.
Track and field winners at
Brussels were Stephen Oldfield,
Matthew " Snyder, Georgina
Richards, Rachel VanderSterre, •
Cory Bragg, Scott Clarkson, Kara
Lee Pepper, Michelle Illman, Sherry
Therrien, Randy Beuermann, Chris
Burkholder, Angie Yoon, Stacy
Hahn, Brad Beuermann, Brett
Clarkson, Carla Johnston, Tricia
Duskocy.
Tanya Boonstoppel of Auburn
won the Clinton Fair Queen
competition, beating out six others
for the crown.
Peter Smith became associate
artistic director at Blyth Festival.
June 3, 1992
The management committee of the
Huron County Board of Education
reviewed special circumstances
regarding late requests for major
renovations to meet the needs of
handicapped pupils expected to be in
attendance at schools that fall,
including Brussels. Costs for BPS
included demolition, $1,000;
concrete, $5,572; asphalt, $12,204:
miscellaneious sitework, $400;
metals, $350; doors, frames, $500;
painting, $250; toilet partitions.
$2,127; and mechanical $1,600.
With general contractors fees and
GST, the estimated total was
$27,236.
Belgrave UCW celebrated 30
years. Fourteen presidents were in
attendance for the party: Marj
Coultes, Laura Johnston, Mary
Taylor, Kay Roberts, Wilma
Higgins, Edith Vincent, Dorothy
Logan, Alice Scott (charter
president), Louise Bosman, Mabel
Wheeler, Mary Hunter, Barbara
Anderson, Olive Bolt.
The Huron West District WI
executive was Jean Nethery,
secretary-treasurer; Marjorie
Anderson, second vice-president;
Betty Archambault,- first vice-
president: Wilma Higgins, district
president.
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Why are we anti-democratic?
The Huron-Perth Hospital Partnership seems to have become the latest
elected body to think politicians are just a nuisance, with a proposal to
reduce the number of representatives from the public.
The Partnership wants to reduce the number of meetings of board
members in order to be more efficient. That's in line with a general trend
at all levels of local government, promoted by the province, to get rid of
local politicians. There are fewer people representing you at your school
board, fewer people at county council and many fewer at amalgamated
municipal councils.
If politicians are the problem, not the solution to the problem, why not
go further? Surely it's wasteful to have three political parties in the
legislature and five in Parliament. Why not just have one party? Well, it
didn't work so well in Russia but hey. we can make it work here.
In fact, why have politicians at all? Four or five centuries ago we had
absolute monarchs— of course our ancestors spent a lot of time and many
lives creating a democratic system to limit that power but maybe they were
wrong. Surely our public servants are so wise today that we don't need the
checks and balances of having elected officials oversee them.
Or do we?— KR
No one is irreplaceable
So Paul Martin is gone as federal finance minister and fears that the
dollar and the stock market would plunge proved unfounded, Monday. It's
an object lesson that no one is irreplaceable, something that both Martin
and Prime Minister Jean Chrdtien should remember.
Chrdtien faces the possibility of becoming a tragic figure in Canadian
political history, too stubborn to leave when he has worn out his welcome.
A recent poll showed 68 per cent of Canadians feel Chrdtien should step
aside before the next election, and that was before Martin was removed
from the cabinet. A secret vote in his own caucus might find nearly as
many MPs wanted the prime minister to leave. Some, like Huron-Bruce
MP Paul Steckle, are open in their support of Martin with the local MP
saying it would be hard to get re-elected if the prime minister stays.
Yet it's that very talk that might make Chrdtien stay. He sees himself as
someone who never backed down from a fight and doesn't intend to start
now. But in staying too long, he could destroy his legacy.
Of course many would claim that Chrdtien owes his legacy to Martin
who brought raging deficits under control and built a string of government
surpluses to help nibble away at the national debt. The most visible
accomplishment of the government has been getting its finances in order.
Martin himself may be among those who feel Chrdtien has succeeded on
his coattails. But if Martin had defeated Chrdtien in the last leadership
contest, what kind of Canada would we see today? Part of the enmity
between the two began way back in the last leadership campaign when
Martin, who supported the Meech Lake Accord which would have given
the provinces more power, suggested Chrdtien didn't understand Quebec.
But Chrdtien, despite the fact one Quebec referendum was very nearly
lost, has been proven right in the long run. A majority of Canadians do not
want a federal government that has cut off its arms and legs in order to
satisfy the quest for more power by provincial governments in Quebec and
elsewhere. By standing fast, Chrdtien prevented that.
Martin feared nationalist passions would be stirred again by Chretien's
Clarity Act which forces a clear question in another sovereignty
referendum in Quebec but Chrdtien seemed to gauge the Quebec popular
mood and there was no backlash. Indeed sovereignty has less support now
than in decades.
So Chrdtien, despite the tendency of his enemies and the media to
portray him as a buffoon, has more on the ball than he gets credit for —
and maybe Martin doesn't have quite as much as people think.
Still, there comes a time for everyone to leave and surely the time for
Chretien's departure is close. It's tempting for him to see the disarray
among the opposition parties as an opportunity for another term, yet
nothing spurs voters to take a chance more than perceived arrogance in
leaders (ask Brian Mulroney and David Peterson). If Chretien's
stubbornness was to lead to the first Alliance government in history what
good will his stubbornness have done him, his party or the country? — KR
Letters to the Editor
THE EDITOR: Halpern's talk, entitled,
Women Today of Huron's annual Harvesting the History of Ontario
general meeting is being held on Farm Women and Their feminism,
Wednesday, June 12 at the Huron will offer insights into the work and
County Museum starting at 5:30 perspectives of Ontario farm
p.m. women. Everyone is welcome.
This year's guest speaker is For more information, contact
University of Western Ontario me at Women Today of Huron
Professor Monda Halpern, author at (519) 524-6767 or 1-888-547-
And on that farm he had a wife: 3478. Check out the website:
Ontario Farm Women and www.hurontelon.ca/-women
Feminism: 1900-1970 (2001). Pat Hanington