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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 2002-12-11, Page 4Looking Back Through the Years PAGE 4. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2002 Editorials & Opinions Publisher, Keith Roulston Editor, Bonnie Gropp Advertising, Alan Young, Cindy Smale 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 ($26.17 + $1.83 G.S.T.) in Canada; $80.00/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 nailing costs. Publications Mail Reg. No. 09244 Canadian Publication Mail Agreement No. 40050141 The Citizen P.O. Box 429, P.O. Box 152, BLYTH, Ont. • BRUSSELS, Ont. NOM 1 HO NOG I HO Phone 523-4792 Phone 887-9114 FAX 523-9140 FAX 887-9021 E-mail norhuron@scsinternet.com. Website www.northhuron.on.ca OCna CNA ,air, Member of the Ontario Press Council NINIESMN THE EDITOR, On behalf of the staff and students at Walton Little School, we would like to send a BIG thank you out to the community for supporting our One Stop Shop and Silent Auc- tion. To all the families and businesses who generously donated the items for our silent auction, we are most grateful. We were able to raise about $3,400 to be put towards outdoor play equipment. The students will be able to enjoy a new playhouse and some outdoor riding toys. The ongoing community support that the Walton Little School has received is truly amazing. It's true what they say, it takes a community to raise a child and we live in one of the best. The Walton Little School Parent Advisory Committee: Jacquie Waechter, president; Tracey Swart, vice-president; Nicole Stevenson, secretary; Marie Mitchell, treasurer. Dec. 15, 1960 Officers elected to the Brussels Legion were: Stewart Humphries, Ross Duncan, Ted Wilson, Herb Travis, Ray Bronson, Leonard Ward, C.L. Workman, Russel Hall, Ross Bennett. Winners at turkey bingo were Beth Pennington, Dorothy Elliott, Mrs. Lawrence Jacklin, D.A. Rann, Sylvester Fox, Douglas Lowe, Bev Riley, Jack McWhirter, Mary McCall, Tom Willis, Mrs. Ed Henderson, Joe Smith, Mrs. Mac Baeker, Murray Lowe, Cliff Bray, Bill Stephenson, Mrs. Stewart Humphries, Mrs. Albrecht, Mrs. Ray Bronson. The Melville WMS elected its officers. They were: Mrs. W.W. Smith, Miss Bessie Moses, Mrs. W.A. Williams, Mrs. W.L. Speir, Mrs. D.C. Matheson, Miss Nellie Jardine, Mrs. Daniel Huether, Mrs. John Gibson, Mrs. James Mair, Mrs. Harvey Dennis, Miss Millie McFarlane, Mrs. Wilfred Shortreed. Yul Brynner and Key Kendall were starring in Once More With Feeling playing at Wingham's Lyceum Theatre. At McCutcheon Grocery one pound of Maxwell House coffee was on sale for 73 cents. A 16-oz 'jar of Miracle Whip was 37 cents, while a 48-oz tin of apple juice was selling for 31 cents. Willis's offered Sheriff's marmalade for 29 cents a jar, while a one-pound, 12-oz package of cream of wheat cost 31 cents. Actress Debbie Reynolds and shoe magnate Harry Karl were married in a surprise ceremony. Serial killer Chester Weger was arrested after showing police how he killed three Chicago women. Another picture inside showed a group of mothers jeering outside the home of the Rev. Andrew Foreman, a Methodist minister in New Orleans, who had taken his daughter to the integrated school. Dec. 9, 1987 John Jewitt, a Londesboro-area farmer was named chair of the Huron County Board of Educatidn. Harriet Boon, RR2, Bluevale was named new Brussels Agricultural Society secretary. Londesboro Lions welcomed two new members, Hank Reinink and Bruce Vincent. Kim Rintoul of RR2, Lucknow was the overall grand champion in showmanship and the senior reserve champion showman in the all- Ontario 4-H beef showmanship competition at the Royal Winter Fair. She also won the senior reserve grand championship in Charolais showmanship. Debbie Rintoul won both the reserve grand championship in showmanship and the champion junior showman. She also won the reserve junior championship in the Angus competition and took first place in her weight division in the Queen's Guineas stake with her 4-H project calf. Dec. 13, 1989 A Blyth landmark came tumbling down as crews working for CP Rail demolished The Arch on the line at the north-east part of the village. The Arch carried the old CN Wingham- London line over the CP's Goderich Guelph line. Four members of the Auburn 4-H clubs received presentations at the achievement night: Karen Bakker, Ingeborg Van Eeden, Ruth Anne Bakker, Jenny Van Eeden. Ryan Vandenheuval of RR2, Auburn was awarded the trophy for the first prize jersey calf in the junior special at the Seaforth Fair. John Armstrong accepted the Premier Breeder certificate and the Young trophy went to Lorraine Franken for owning, with her husband, Paul, the jersey cow in Perth-Huron with the highest butterfat yield. Dec. 9, 1992 Brussels councillors gave support to a plan to create a drop-in centre for youth. Sallianne Patch outlined her plan for a non-profit centre to provide social and recreation opportunities for youth from the area. The Brussels Bulls organized a food drive. Four Huron 4-H members received recognition for completion of 12 clubs. They were Angela Terpstra, Shanda Mitchell, Amy Rush and Heather Robinson. Kevin Campschroer, RR1, Blyth received the Doug Kennedy Award for 4-H reserve sheep showman. An Ethiopian refugee was staying at the home of Annie and Siebolt Siertsema near Auburn, while she began to build a new life in Canada. Walton's Graeme Craig was unanimously elected for a second term as the vice-chair of the Huron County Board of Education. The chair Zurich trustee, Bea Dawson was also re-elected for another year. Dec. 10, 1997 Over $10,000 of marijuana was found at an East Wawanosh residence. The new Grey council was Reeve Robin Dunbar, Deputy-Reeve Alvin McLellan and Councillors Lyle Martin, Helen Cullen and Graeme MacDonald. In East Wawanosh it was. Reeve Don Schultz and Councillors Murray Scott, James Campbell, Judith Gaunt and Fred Meier Sr. Hullett's council was Reeve Bob Szusz, Deputy-Reeve Doug Hugill, Councillors Bruce Bergsma, Marg Anderson, John Van Beers. Risking life and limb Police spokesman Sr. Const. Don Shropshall said he was shocked by the fact that 11 people had already been charged in the first tw.) weeks of the Huron OPP's holiday RIDE program. The discouraging news seems to be part of a trend in which people just don't take the dangers of driving seriously enough. Until this year people seemed to be getting the message that drinking and driving don't mix, with only one person being charged last year in five weeks of RIDE road checks. It was the lowest number yet in a steady decline since the RIDE program began to make an impression on people. Designated drivers had become a common part of celebrations as people worried about being caught. This year's results seem to show all that good work has been forgotten. But it's not surprising, in a way. A recent Road Watch program presentation to Huron County council showed people are getting blasé about the dangers of the road. In the first nine months of the year Huron's already high accident total had increased 14 per cent over last year with 961 collisions (one for every 60 residents of the county). As Erica Arnett of the Road Watch Program told councillors: "People are treating driving like a secondary activity." From talking on cell phones to shaving while driving, people think time spent driving a vehicle is time wasted and that they can be more efficient if they do something else at the same time. Lack of respect for the dangers of driving is also seen in the fact people just keep driving faster and faster on Huron County roads, even under adverse weather and road conditions. We take driving for granted so much that we just can't imagine what can go wrong. But it's obvious from the statistics that driving is the most hazardous activity people in Huron County take part in on a regular basis. It's something you can't do when you've been drinking. It's something you can't do safely while you do something else. It's dangerous enough that you need to put the odds on your side by slowing down and giving yourself enough time to react to the unexpected: Mature adults shouldn't need RIDE checks or extra patrolling of the roads to make them behave sensibly. It seems, however, that we're going to have to pay more for more police to make us obey the rules if we want to be saved from our own worst instincts. — KR A short memory helps Polls show a large majority of Americans are willing to follow President George W. Bush wherever he goes when it comes to the "war on terror". How does a leader build that kind of support among his people? It helps when you can get people to focus on one issue and for that, a short memory helps. With the exception of the Vietnam War, waving the flag has always been a way of rallying Americans behind a cause. Patriotism tends to fog the sight and dull the memory of a people. It's easy to forget that Saddam Hussein, now the incarnation of evil, was once an ally of the U.S. when his neighbour, Iran was playing the role of the evil in the Middle East. After the overthrow of the pro-U.S. Shah of Iran, Americans were happy to have Hussein fighting Iran in the prolonged war from 1980-1988. During this period his crimes against his own people, his use of chemical weapons on those who opposed him, was well known, but western governments did nothing to stop him. Now, suddenly, his human rights violations require immediate interventions. George W. Bush wants a regime change in Iraq. Ten years ago following the Gulf War, his father called on the people of Iraq to rise up against Hussein, but when they did, he and the rest of our allies, stood back and let Hussein crush the Shia Muslims from southern Iraq and the Kurdish rebels from the north. Similarly in Afghanistan, the Mujahideen were supported by the west while they were fighting the Soviet Union. Later when many of the same people achieved power and became the Taliban, they were evil. It would be easier to rally behind governments in the quest to eradicate evil and promote good if only the definition of evil and good didn't keep shifting. Of course a bad memory conveniently helps us forget how easily we shift our own moral compass. — KR Letters to the Editor