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Looking Back Through the Years
PAGE 4. THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2006.
Editorials
Opinions
THE EDITOR,
Dark rainy days gave way .to
glorious afternoon sunshine for the
Oct. 1 Huron County Federation of
Agriculture's Mystery Farm Hiker
Tour.
The event was a great success with
tour veterans and newcomers with
families and visiting guests
enthusiastically spreading out from
Auburn across the Passport area.
The Auburn Lions Club had its
excellent all-you-can-eat country
breakfast hours to accommodate our
tour and were rewarded with more
than the usual partakers. Just outside
the Auburn Hall, Bob Mullin, field
rep. for the Chicken Farmers of
Ontario staffed the Chicken Mobile,
a mini-model of a chicken barn.
Children were delighted with the
chicks; adults received excellent
information.
On the road trip
Rogers Botanical Garden and
Nursery, owned by James Roger,
displayed on-site beautiful
landscaping and ponds, trees and
innovative water techniques to the
appreciative guests.
The family-operated Robinson
Maple Products (Bill and Susanne
Robinson) provided a tour of their
extensive tapping/tubing system,
modern sugar camp, autumn woods
paths and the opportunity to
purchase that most Canadian of
edible products.
Heather Holme Holsteins, owned
and operated by Glen and Vanda
McNeil, allowed visitors to see a
dairy farm and learn about dairy
genetics. This farm exemplifies
Canadian genetic export influence
on milk production worldwide.
Dianne Foster and Kevin
Campbell, owners of Ravenswood
Stables, gave their many visitors a
chance to see their purebred
Saddlebred and Standardbred horses
(World and Canadian Class winners)
and view the riding lesson arena,
boarding stalls plus paddocks and
handsome grounds.
An astonishing sight was the
seemingly endless rows of five
million fluorescent lavender "Naked
Ladies" crocuses at Treasure Valley
Crocus, John Gaunt's combination
of field crops, beef operation and
flowers represent clever farm
diversity.
The Maitland Valley Fall Colour
Tour was included this year and the
Wawanosh Valley Conservation
offered wagon rides, river trail walk,
guided walks and cider under the
canopy of autumn glory.
An addition to our passport maps
this year, courtesy of Marilyn
Broadfoot, were marked sites and
short histories of area "Bridges Over
the Maitland"- Patterson, Forester's ,
the Bob Edgar and the controversial
Ball's Bridge.
Grab bags were given out to each
car on the tour, courtesy of local
commodity groups.
Contributors and "Tour-ists"
helped make the 2006 Mystery Tout
a splendid success. The host farms
provided exciting, interesting venues
both educational and informative
and reinforced the claim that Huron
County has something wonderful for
everyone!
The Huron Federation of
Agriculture.
Oct. 15, 1959
There was outrage in West
Germany after a new draft bill' was
passed for the country. Germans
were out in protest over this new law
that would require, in the event of a
war, the military service of men who
had already served in the Second
World War. Among signs waved in
anger was one which seemed to ring
true to any man who had served in
either world war: "Nie Wieder
(Never Again)".
A brand new cathedral was to be
built in Germany, replacing the once
magnificent place of worship that
existed before the Second World
War. Artists from all over the world,
including John Hutton of England,
were taking part in carving intricate
works of art onto glass. These
pieces would all be put together to
form a glass wall that was to be part
of the new Conventry Cathedral,
which was formerly rubble after
being smashed to the ground by
German bombs.
A 16-year-old was the popular
pick as the criminal behind a rash
killing of another New York teen.
Nestor Hernandez was the young
teen accused of homicide along with
three other teenagers from the area.
These youths were picked up after
police staged a city-wide crackdown
on juvenile crime.
Oct, 12, 1960
Miss America 1960-1962 was
crowned. The victorious contestant
was Nancy Anne Fleming.
Star baseball player for the
Boston Red Sox, Ted Williams, was
saying goodbye to fans for the last
time. On his last time at bat before
his retirement from the game he hit
his 421st homerun.
Among those bidding farewell to
the beloved player were Boston
mayor John Collins, Robert Tibolt of
the Chamber of Commerce, and TV
announcer Curt Gowdy, not to
mention the thousands of fans who
had watched his career unfold.
Houses were left in wrecks or
even on whole different lots after
being torn apart by Hurricane
Donna. Florida, as well as many
areas along the eastern seaboard
were left in disarray after being hit
by Hurricane Donna.
British prime minister Harold
MacMillan was the representative
selected to officially open the new
sessions of the United Nations
Assembly.
Oct. 10, 1973
The Huron County Federation of
Agriculture held its election of
officers at a meeting in Saltford
Valley Hall. Elected were: Doug
Fortune of Wingham, president;
Adrian Vos of Blyth, first vice-
president; Vince Austin of
Dungannon, second vice-president;
Jack Stafford of Wroxeter, director;
Orie Gingrich of Dungannon,
director; and Gordon Blanchard of
Walton, also a director.
Eight tenders were received by
Morris Twp. council for the job of
plowing the roads for the winter.
George Radford Construction
Limited and Ross Nicholson were
the ones chosen to have the
responsibility of keeping the roads
clean this winter.
Oct. 14, 1987
John Van Beers of Blyth and his
wife, Judy, were presented with a
very special award. The couple
received the Huron County
Federation of Agriculture's
Outstanding Contribution to
Agriculture award, after many years
of devoted service to the Federation,
as well as just simply helping out
friends.
Brussels council made plans to
buckle down on vandalism offenders
in the town. The fire department
volunteered as many as 10 people in
two trucks to parol the streets on
Halloween, the most popular night
for vandals to do their work.
Residents were advised to watch out
for their children as well as get rid of
any garbage that could be lit on fire
by pranksters. Also, all park
benches and planters from main
street were to be removed before the
big night.
Playing at the Park Theatre in
Goderich were Patrick Swayze and
Jennifer Grey in the popular Dirty
Dancing.
Oct. 10, 1990
A special treat was in store for
area children when well-known
children's entertainer Eric Nagler
made a visit to the Blyth Memorial
Hall. Nagler was familiar to
children and parents alike for his
work on Sesame Street as well as
Sharon, Lois and Bram's Elephant
Show.
A local disabled child from
Belgrave was one of the lucky
children to be granted her special
wish by the Sunshine Foundation of
Canada. The girl was one of 80
children from across the country
who were taken for a special
vacation to Disney World in Florida
as part of the foundation's efforts to
bring joy to children who are
terminally or seriously ill, or who
have serious physical disabilities.
The youth was born with a type of
bone disease that had caused her
skull to fuse together instead of
simply joining loosely. The nine-
year-old had so far undergone six
operations. There were still more to
come.
Playing at the Park Theatre in
Goderich was the Disney film Duck
Tales : The Movie - Treasure of the
Lost Lamp. Also playing was
Flatliners, starring Kevin Bacon and
Julia Roberts.
Spell it out
Huron County councillors plan to make a recommendation on the
future of historic Ball's Bridge at their Oct. 17 committee of the whole
meeting. Hopefully they'll come up with a clear offer to supporters of
keeping the bridge about what they can do to accomplish that goal.
Huron County warden Rob Morley told councillors at their Oct. 5
meeting that it was unfortunate that people thought council wanted to
demolish the 'bridge because council had never said that. Immediately
afterward several councillors said they didn't want to spend a penny of
county money in maintaining it. During the ongoing debate over several
months several have castigated the council of 20 years ago for not getting
rid of the bridge back then so they wouldn't be faced with this decision.
There's a legitimate argument 'fiat, since the bridge is not needed for
the county road system, road money should not be spent to maintain it.
There's also an argument that the bridge is part of the inventory of
tourism assets and as such deserves county funding.
Faced with noisy support for keeping the rare 121-year-old iron
bridge, many councillors have indicated they'd like to find a way of
keeping the bridge, but not at taxpayers' expense. So far, however,
councillors have gone 'round and 'round the issue without defining a path
to achieve this goal. This log-jam needs to be broken, whether it's by
forming a joint committee with the Friends of the Ball's Bridge to
explore alternative funding to preserve the bridge or coming up with a
council-initiated plan. The current situation is only creating ill-feeling
without moving toward a solution. — KR
Do as I say, not as I do
While it is indeed frightening to think an unstable dictator like North
Korean dictator Kim Jong-il may have nuclear weapons, it was a little
rich, this week, to hear U.S. President George W. Bush saying that Korea
had defied world opinion. This from a president who has asserted the
U.S. need not answer to international bodies such as the world court.
Even his fiercest critics cannot compare Bush to Jong-il, a leader
whose people needed international food aid because they were starving
but still found money for nuclear weapons. Still, Bush would have a
much stronger moral authority in condemning North Korean actions if
the U.S. didn't feel it had no duty but to itself. — KR
Letter to the editor