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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 2004-10-28, Page 4Publisher, 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/yeor 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. - Brusiels; 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 1HO email: norhuron@scsinternet.com We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Publications Assistance Program (PAP) towara our mailing costs. f 91A Member of the Ontario Press Council •giliffSIZEI We are not responsible for unsolicited newsscripts or photographs. Contents of The Citizen are 0 Copyright Canada" Aocna P.O. Box 429, BLYTH, Ont. NOM 1H0 Phone 523-4792 FAX 523-9140 P.O. Box 152, BRUSSELS, Ont. NOG 1H0 Phone 887-9114 FAX 887-9021 E-mail norhuronescsinternet.com Website WWW.northhuron.on.ca Looking Back Through the Years Oct. 29, 1952 Andrew Y. McLean, MP for Huron-Perth and a member of the Canadian delegation to the United Nations General Assembly in New York, was the unanimous choice of a large Liberal organiz- ation nomination meeting in Clinton. He was to carry the Liberal banner in the newly-created federal riding of Huron in the next election. He was the only name put forward for nomination. Victor Dinnin, district governor of the Lions Club. made an official visit to the Brussels Lions Club. Police arrested and charged five youths in Stratford in connection to the Pearson store robbery. They were involved in the break-in and thefts in four other counties. Brussels Motors garage was broken into and $135 was stolen from the till. The first burglary ever known to have occurred in Bluevale was committed when the general store owned by Burns Moffatt was broken into. Nov. 6, 1969 Halloween was relatively quiet in Brussels with no reports of serious damage. The Brussels Curling Club opened the season with a card party at the arena. The annual meeting of the Huron-Perth Jersey Club was held at the Cranbrook Community Centre. The Independent Order of Oddfellows number 149 Brussels conferred the second degree of two candidates, one from Brussels and the other from Goderich. Nov. 1, 1972 The dinner at the Legion Hall at which First World War veterans were guests of honour, was made possible through the co-operation of many people. Among those preparing the meal were Bertha Elliott, Verna Tunney, Ann Elliott, Elsie Shaw and Ellen Dobson. Huron voters voted in Conservative R.E. McKinley for his third term. Members from Masonic Lodges across the district gathered in Brussels to take part in marking the centennial of Brussels and Teeswater Lodges. The owner of the Brussels 5 cents to $1 store, Ned Rutledge handed over the business to new owner Roy Adams. Oct. 29, 1986 The Citizen celebrated its first anniversary as a community-owned newspaper with an open house in both the Brussels and Blyth of- fices. Brussels main street got another addition to its shopping variety with the opening of Young Clothing and Footware. The new store was operated by Young Yoon. Electors in West Wawanosh Twp. were expected to go to the polls to elect a new councillor to the seat left vacant when councillor Cecil Cranston was appointed reeve in September. Blyth Girl Guides and Brownies held a bake sale in front of the Blyth Library. Shirley Cooper, president of the Huron South Women's Institute, presented Bob Allen, director of Education for the Huron County Board of Education, with one of the Fair Family Farm Puppets at the Huron elementary school teachers PD day in Exeter. Six new Brownies were enrolled in the Brussels Brownie Pack, bringing the total to 20. \The Pack included Lesley Elliott, Anita Link, Sandy Rijkoff, Victoria Richards, Becky McLaughlin and Carol Ann Gamble. Bill Partridge, Huron County's chief librarian and chairman of the County and Regional Municipality Librarians of Ontario was in Blyth to present a certificate to librarian Pat Brigham who completed a library supervisor's course at the Kampenfelt Bay Staff Training Centre near Barrie. Students at area schools attended the regional cross-country meet at Hullett Central. Nov. 2, 1994 Wingham OPP were looking for anyone who might have information regarding some mischief at Brussels Public School. A broken window and floodlight were discovered at the school. A police spokesperson said the estimated damage was $150. Blyth councillors made a recommendation to their successors that they pursue grant funding to bring the sludge storage tank to Ministry guidelines. An open house was held at W-6 Quarter Horses near Brussels, which was owned by Brian Workman. Nov. 3, 1999 Bluth clerk-treasurer John Stewart presented a draft bylaw to Blyth councillors, proposing bag tags for users of the Blyth-Hullett landfill site. In a development that was clearly a shock to some, Acre T Farms of Brussels, used a public hearing before the provincial Environ- mental Assessment and Appeal Board to officially withdraw its appeal of order to correct manure leakage problems first detected at two Ashfield Twp. sites. Brussels Legion donated $500 to the Brussels Figure Skating Club. PAGE 4. THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2004. Editorial Opinions What about economic terrorism? If a country cancels peace treaties, refuses to sign an environmental pact the rest of the world agreed to, signs trade agreements but then ignores them as much as possible and even when caught cheating refuses to pay the penalties, what would you call it? If George W. Bush were dealing with such a country he might call it a rogue state but he can't very well term it that because he'd be describing his own country. For Canadians, it isn't the abrogation of the anti-missile defence treaty or the refusal to sign the Kyoto Accord that matter most, but U.S. contempt for the trade laws it has signed. Speaking to the Huron County Federation of Agriculture meeting in Brussels last week. Wendy Holm said the Canadian government is letting Canadian livestock producers down by not using provisions in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to force the border open for Canadian cattle and sheep. The U.S. should have opened the border to live trade of ruminant animals as soon as a panel declared in July 2003 that the U.S. was in no danger from Canadian livestock imports, she said. Instead, billions of dollars have been torn from the pockets of Canadian farmers as the U.S. finds reasons not to allow trade to resume. Meanwhile, encouraged by seeing the increase in beef prices resulting from the border closure. U.S. pork producers have launched a trade action accusing Canadian pork producers of dumping their pigs into the U.S. at less than the cost of production, resulting in a duty of live pigs. This isn't the first time this has happened as Canadian hog farmers were harassed many times in the past — every time winning their case. While Holm urged our government to show the courage to challenge the U.S. on the border closure, even winning a battle with the Americans doesn't ensure victory. The U.S 27.2 per cent duty has been soundly defeated before NAFTA panels and now, barring a surprise last-minute victory in a rare extraordinary challenge by the U.S. government, the U.S. will have to discontinue the duty. Under NAFTA law, the U.S. is required to pay back $3.6 billion in duties it has collected on Canadian lumber imports, plus interest. But a lawyer for the U.S. Coalition for Fair Lumber Imports claims the U.S. doesn't have to pay back the money, and the U.S. government has been sending signals it may not. The Canadian government, the province and the Canadian lumber industry, meanwhile, has spent $250 fighting the NAFTA challenge. In fact even as Canada was winning its case at NAFTA, our government was trying to negotiate a compromise agreement with the U.S. because the cost of fighting the battle was so high. Ontario's pork producers are feeling that now, as every pig they market carries a charge to help finance the legal challenge to the U.S. action. It's the kind of thing that may make our government fear to follow Holm's urging to fight back. Isn't using fear as a weapon, terrorism? If someone were to blow up the TD Centre in downtown Toronto it would be called terrorism, but isn't it just as much terrorism to destroy the incomes and livelihoods of Canadian farmers and loggers? Not, of course to the Americans who still carry the kind of "Manifest Destiny" mindset that says America is God's chosen land and anything it does is right. To the rest of us, however, who live in fear of the threat of the excursion of that economic power, it's changing our lives, just as the attacks on New York and Washington changed the lives of Americans. — KR So much for fear of debt When right-wing proponents were arguing for cuts in government spending in the days of the deficit, they used guilt as a weapon, worrying about the debt we were piling up for children and grandchildren. Now in the days of surplus, however, their story has changed. The federal government has used the surplus to pay down the debt but that's wrong, Conservatives say. We should be cutting taxes instead. So much for worrying about our grandchildren's burden of debt. — KR Letter to the editor THE EDITOR, worship the days of the week. I appreciate the opportunity I was I was quoted as saying, "Sunday is given to comment on the question of a day when Christians get together Sunday trick or treating in last to worship, but to me every day week's (Oct. 21) Citizen. should be worshipped so it doesn't In quoting me, the writer did matter what day it 11-lalloweenl falls capture my mixed feelings about on." Halloween: that it can be a fun For the sake of anyone who thinks chance for kids to dress up and meet I might be slipping into some kind their neighbours - but that I don't of weird pagan spirituality that like aspects of the day which glorify worships Mondays and Tuesdays, I iolence, destruction and dark would like to clarify that I want to spiritual powers. That holds true offer all my worship to God, whether it falls on a Sunday or a celebrating the grace of Jesus Christ Wednesday. every day of the week - including There was one misprint. however. Sunday. which suggests that I actually Brent Kipfer.