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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 2004-10-21, Page 4„.: IA. NESPOLON A WISE PHILOSOPHER ONCE SAID IT BEST, RALPH: THERE ARE TWO THEORIES TO ARGUING WITH A WOMAN --- AND NEITHER WORKS. PAGE 4. THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2004. Editorials Opinio n s Publisher, Keith Roulston Editor, Bonnie Gropp Advertising, Heather Armstrong & Capucine Onn The Citizen 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 $30.00/year ($28.04 + $1.96 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. PUBLICATIONS MAIL AGREEMENT NO. 40050141 PUBLICATIONS ASSISTANCE PROGRAM REGISTRATION NO. 09244 RETURN UNDELIVERABLE CANADIAN ADDRESSES TO CIRCULATION DEPT. PO BOX 152 BRUSSELS ON NOG 1H0 email: norhuron@scsinternet.com We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Publications Assistance Program (PAP) toward our mailing costs. Canada Member of the Ontario Press Council 1=2:1511111 We are not responsible for unsolicited newsscripts or photographs. Contents of The Citizen are 0 Copyright A9cna *TA :0:: P.O. Box 429, P.O. Box 152, BLYTH, Ont. BRUSSELS, Ont. NOM I HO NOG I HO Phone 523-4792 Phone 887-9114 FAX 523-9140 FAX 887-9021 E-mail norhuron@scsinternet.com Webslte www.northhuron.on.ca A deadly error Defence criticism hypocritical Saturday's death of a woman in a car crash at the corner of County Rds. 25 and 4 at the south edge of Blyth is only confirmation- of something local drivers have known for years: this is a dangerous, poorly designed intersection where more people are likely to die if steps aren't taken to change something. The crashes started at this corner just days after the road was opened several years ago following reconstruction and redesign of the junction under the provincial Ministry of Transportation. Some drivers on County Rd. 25 have driven right through the intersection without stopping. Others have stopped, then proceeded, right into the path of the speeding traffic on Hwy. 4. Each individual accident can be put down to a mistake by a driver, but the accumulated chaos over the years adds up to a design fault that makes driver errors more likely. Anyone using the corner, especially from the west side of County Rd. 4, can understand part of the problem. The angle of the intersection makes it nearly impossible to see traffic approaching from the south. A driver concentrates so hard on seeing in that direction that attention is lost on vehicles appearing suddenly over the hill coming out of Blyth. The county highways department has tried to help the situation by lowering the speed limit well to the south of the village to slow down approaching traffic but it hasn't been entirely successful. Meanwhile impatient drivers from the north are speeding up much too soon. Perhaps more enforcement of the existing speed limits would help but the long-term solution will only come with improvements at the corner itself. As long as the design remains dangerous, people will continue to make mistakes that will see them injured or killed at the corner. — KR The recent fire on a newly-commissioned submarine has been used to beat up on the federal government for its parsimony in defence spending. For the majority of Canadians, including the majority of media people, the wholesale condemnation is hypocritical to say the least. Let's face it, Canada has not been spending enough on defence, but signals have been coming from voters, ever since the purchase of new helicopters helped defeat the Progressive Conservatives in 1993, that people resent spending on defence. While many Canadians are happy to blame the government for not doing more, they also don't want to pay more taxes. Some on the political right would see defence spending increased at the expense of social programs but the majority of Canadians put social programs first. And no matter which way the government leans, the media will hammer them for not going the other way. The government should have spent more money on defence but all of us share the blame for not supporting that priority. — KR Looking Back Through the Years Letter to the editor THE EDITOR, Unbelievably, the holidays are just around the corner, and as we have for the past two years, we are again collecting books suitable for the young people at the Bluewater Youth Centre. Last year, thanks to your generosity, more than 300 used books and 100 new books were donated to the young people who spent the holidays incarcerated at Bluewater. Some young people at Bluewater are reading at Grade 6 level: others are at Grade 12, and most are somewhere in between, so any books on topics appropriate for teens at any reading level or fiction aimed at teens are just fine. Those Chicken Soup for the Soul books are popular, as are series books in which young people are the "stars" (really, some girls were telling me how much they liked Nancy Drew!). In fact, any books appropriate for young people aged 13-19, including Native teens and teens with diverse cultural backgrounds, would be wonderful - fiction or non-fiction. So, please browse through your shelves and pull out those gems - from The Hardy Boys to S.E Hinton and everyone in between - that you or your teens are done with, and let us take them to the unit libraries at Bluewater. By doing this, you enhance the selection of books available to the young people at Bluewater and encourage reading as a valuable pastime. And, if you would consider buying a new book for a teen, .we will wrap and deliver it in time for Christmas. -Please drop off books to Women Today of Huron at 45 West St. in Goderich until Wednesday, Dec. 15th. And, if you're in London, you can drop them off at the Sexual Assault Centre London ((519) 439- 0844), 379 Dundas Street, Unit #21 between 9 a.m. -12 p.m. and 1 p.m. - 5 p.m. Monday - Friday. Please remember to give them a call before you arrive. You may also leave books for me in London at the Human Services Division part-time staff office at Fanshawe College - D3024 - until Dec. 14. We plan to take the books out to Bluewater on Thursday, Dec. 18. It would be great if we could make these young people's Christmas a little less bleak by letting them know that there are people out here who are thinking of them at this time of year. For more information contact Women Today of Huron at (519) 524-6767 or 1-888-547-3478. Pam Hanington Women Today of Huron. Oct. 22, 1952 A Bluevale-area farmer was hospitalized after suffering a severe concussion and a broken leg when a cattle beast was thrown against him - after the animal had been hit by a gravel truck. The man was driving three cattle along the side of a road in Grey Twp. and as the truck was coming down the road, the three animals bolted in front of the truck. Melville Presbyterian Church celebrated its 83rd anniversary. Oct. 30, 1969 There were 87 players registered in the Brussels Minor Hockey Association The Royal Canadian Legion had its second break-in in less than one week. Cash and silver were taken, along with cigarettes and peanuts. Oct. 25, 1972 The new student council at Seaforth and District High School included Dianne Phillips, Bob Carnochan, Vicki Miller and Bruce McDonald. The Huron County Board of Education agreed to not permit the parking of a trailer on school property from a local business, for the purpose of giving musical instructions to students. There was an enthusiastic crowd in Wingham as Prime Minster Trudeau and area candidates took part in an open line TV show on CKNX TV. Arriving by helicopter, Trudeau was met by Huron Liberal candidate Charlie Thomas of Huron, Allen Ross of Wellington, Grey, Dufferin and Waterloo and Ross Wicher of Bruce. George Mutter of Brussels had parked his tanker truck along the edge of the road. It rolled north, crossing over to the east side of the roadway and struck the front of the a house owned by Ella McIntosh of Brussels. There were no injuries and total damages were estimated at $200. Mrs. D. Bartliff, president of the kuron - County Children's Aid Society, congratulated Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Dolmage of Seaforth, who were honoured for their 15 years of service as foster parents of the County's Children's Aid Society. Four Brodhagen area men, Fred Bennewies, Henry Diegel, Edward $cherbarth and Frank Eckmeter, caught the largest salmon which weighed 20 pounds. The men went on a London fishing bus tour for two days to Northern Michigan. Oct. 22, 1986 A full house of Huron County Progressive Conservatives turned out at the Brussels, Morris and Grey Community Centre to hear their party leader, Larry Grossman, riddle the policies of Ontario Agriculture Minister Jack Riddell with criticism. Grossman used 20 pages of a 25- page prepared text to castigate Riddell for his lack of action on the farmers' part. Despite assurances of safety from both Ontario Hydro and the Ministry of Environment, Blyth councillors were not too thrilled at the prospect of accepting three barrels of soil contaminated by a spill from a hydro transformer ir Hullett Twp. for their waste disposal site. Murray Cardiff, MP for Huron- Bruce was sworn in Oct. 15 as Parliamentary Secretary to the Solicitor General of Canada, by the Honourable James Kelleher. In the most massive one-day fundraising drive ever to be undertaken in the tiny hamlet of Londesborough, the Londesborough Lions Club planned to raise between $25,000 and $30,000 to finance the purchase of a specially-equipped van for one of their members. Pondering a rained-ruined bean field near Exeter, Federal Minister of Agriculture John Wise, contemplated what aid his government could offer Huron County farmers whose crops were devastated by six weeks of recorded rainfall. Four part-time winter workers were hired by West Wawanosh council at the rate of $6 per hour for the first 50 hours and at $7 per hour thereafter. Steven Howson of Howson & Howson Ltd. in Blyth vacuumed up a corn spill mess on Hwy 25 near the entrance to the elevator. Jim Hallahan presented the John T. Hallahan Memorial Award for belt setting with a traction engine to Carl and Darryl Searson of Watford at the Huron Pioneer Thresher Association dinner. Oct. 26, 1994 Volunteer firefighters from Blyth and Grey Twps., Cook's employees and paramedics from Seaforth carefully lifted a Seaforth man from a silo at Cook's Elevators in Walton where he had been trapped after his leg became entangled in an auger. He was taken by air ambulance to University Hospital in London. In the early morning - hours, thieves broke into the Grandview Restaurant taking $465 in lottery tickets, 45 packs of cigarettes and $30 in cash. Oct. 27, 1999- Area children could celebra-te Halloween all week with a visit to the Haunted House in Brussels. Deer population was up to about 7,000 and OPP warned drivers to be cautious. There was a good turnout to enjoy the delicious home-cooked roast beef dinner at Walton's Community Hall. There was a full house when dozens of WI members gathered for the fall rally in Brussels.