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Founding member’s family donates bell to Reunion
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INMEMORY
From left: Gord Daer, Edgar Daer and Paul Josling returned to the Blyth fair
grounds with a bell donated by Maudie McBride for a new tower.
By Bonnie Gropp
Citizen staff
A piece of history will this year find a place
at the Huron Pioneer Thresher Reunion to
honour one of its founding members.
A bell tower has been constructed on the
newest structure built by the Association at
the Blyth fairgrounds, donated in memory of
George McBnde by his wife, Maudie.
The bell was originally on the Presbyterian
Church in Carlow, having been donated in
1872 by William Young and family. Its cost at
that time was $160. This was the church the
McBride family attended, and when the
church closed some years ago, he purchased it
and used it for storage. The bell was taken
down and kept there.
Paul Josling, second vice-president of the
Assocation, says that after McBride passed
away this winter, Maudie approached the
Association about the idea of a bell tower in
his memory. “They were interested and plans
went ahead,” Josling says.
Josling, who has been with the Association
for several years, brings professional expert
ise to the construction of the tower, being the
building inspector for several local munici
palities.
He, along with Edgar and Gordie Daer went
to pick up the 1,600 lb bell in Carlow. “It was
quite a job because we had to pull it down
from the church attic with a chain hoist,” says
Josling. It was then loaded onto a trailer and
transported to Blyth.
The bell will ring in the church service on
Sunday morning at this year’s reunion and
Maudie will be present for the dedication.
Josling says that a plaque will eventually be
placed by the building.
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