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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News Record, 2016-03-23, Page 5Wednesday, March 23, 2016 • News Record 5 www.clintonnewsrecord.com Blyth Centre for the Arts and Huron Arts & Heritage Network scholarship fund Special to the Clinton News Record Blyth Centre for the Arts and Huron Arts & Heritage Network (HAHN) are pleased to announce a new scholar- ship fund to support graduat- ing high school students from Huron County with their post- secondary school studies in the arts. The scholarship fund will provide up to $1,000 to a deserving young arts student, or can be divided into two $500 scholarships for two deserving arts students. "This scholarship will provide much needed support to young graduates as they venture on into their post -secondary edu- cation in the arts," said HAHN Board Chair Aaron Neeb, add- ing that the development of this scholarship fulfills a rec- ommendation in the Huron County Cultural Plan to estab- lish a scholarship fund for Huron County students pur- suing the arts. "The Blyth Centre for the Arts is pleased to offer this support to Huron County graduates as they pursue studies in the arts at the post -secondary level," said David Armstrong, President, Blyth Centre for the Arts. "Through 41 seasons, the Blyth Festival has been sig- nificantly enriched by the involvement of our talented young people and we see this as an opportunity to continue to encourage these young artists" In order to qualify for this scholarship fund, applicants must: * Be graduating from a Huron County secondary school hi June * Be attending a post-sec- ondaryinstitute enrolled in an arts program in September * Provide samples of your artistic work, whether it be in visual arts, theatre, music, writing, etc. * Show support from a teacher The deadline for submis- sions is April 8 by 5 p.m. All submissions will be reviewed by a jury made up of members of the Blyth Centre for the Arts and the Huron Arts & Heritage Network board members. The winner(s) of the scholarship will be recog- nized and awarded at the Huron County Cultural Awards scheduled to take place on May 6 at the White Carnation in Holmesville. The Scholarship Fund is a new addition to the Cultural Awards, which is an annual event held to recognize the exceptional achievements of Huron County residents, busi- nesses, and organizations in the following categories: Cul- tural Event/Organization, Individual Artist, Community Contribution, Heritage, and Innovation. Tickets for the awards are $20 each and can be purchased through the Blyth Festival box office at 519-523- 9300 or toll free at 1-877-862-5984. For full details about the scholarship or to download the application form, please visit www.creativehuron.ca. For more information, please contact Rick Sickinger, Cultural Development Officer, at rickinger@huroncounty.ca or call 519-482-5457 ext. 8. letters to the editor New industrial wind projects To The Editor; I have to comment on the Wynne government's latest disrespect to rural Ontario. At the time she was election- eering to be the premiere, she told us that under her watch turbine develop- ments would no longer be forced into communities that didn't want them. That prompted over 80 municipalities (including Central Huron) to pass motions declaring them- selves "unwilling hosts" to the brutally bad form of corporate wind development the govern- ment had rammed into rural Ontario to that point. Soon after taking office, a flurry of new wind approvals came out with many in areas that had already expressed opposition. Ms. Wynne and her trusty new Energy Min- ister defended the apparent lie by saying that these approvals were already in the works and didn't really count as "on their watch". Well last week the latest approvals came out under "their watch" and surprise ... 3 of the 5 wind contracts went to corporations planning to build in communities that had clearly voted against the wind developments. Dutton- Dunwich had even gone to the trouble of a referendum vote that went 84% against the wind project and still a contract was given to a large Chicago based developer. This from a pro- cess that we were told would be transparent and almost certainly require the support of local communities. Wrong again. Apparently commitments only need be kept to the GTA now. What is most bizarre about these approvals is that anyone who has been watching Ontario's grid knows it is retarded to add more wind to the system now. Windy nights and weekends are driving real costs thru the roof as we export the electricity to the US for little or nothing in return. At the same time rural Ontario's farms, homes and businesses are getting hit with the biggest portion of the electricity price increases. We are actually wasting our own hydro and nuclear assets, while we bleed money out of province to pay for a corporate owned wind tur- bine fleet. It is totally con- temptible if you are con- cemed with public assets, people's rights, the environ- ment or better use of our scant funds. To illustrate how badly we don't need these newwind projects, during the last full year of IESO data, we paid wind turbines not to produce an amount of electricity 4x greater than what these new wind approval will produce. This lack of fiscal, environ- mental or democratic sense was justified 6 years ago by the supposedly desperate need to replace Ontario's small amount of coal genera- tion. Here's a bulletin Kath- leen...we did that 2 years ago and hi fact our own refur- bished nuclear plants pro- vided 85% of that energy. So why do you continue to harm rural interests and the public good under this dirty green cloak? Robert Budd Goderich FROM THE ARCHIVES 15 years ago... • The boards of the Clinton and Gbderich hospitals have begun discussions which could result in the building of a new facility to replace both existing hospitals. Acting on the advice of a number of experts, explained Janice Cos- grove, vice president of Multi -Site Administration for the Huron -Perth Hospitals Partnership, the combined boards have agreed, in principle, to look at the option of building a new hospital to serve the people of central and west Huron County who are currently served by Clinton Public Hospital (CPH) and the Alexandra Marine and General Hospital (AMGH). Board members realized both hospitals are facing challenges in their current operation. Pointing out that it is the responsibility of hospital boards to ensure that the nec- essary services are provided to the community, she said, "I think they have done their job as governors to look at this issue...to ensure they maintain services." • There would be a $26 billion loss in Canada in the cattle, pork and sheep industries if foot and mouth disease were to spread across Canada, said Les Falconer, from the Huron County Beef Producers Association at a meeting with Huron -Bruce's MP and MPR. In 1952, when foot and mouth disease was in Canada, the price of beef dropped from 37 cents to 17 cents, said Falconer. Containing the disease in 1952 led to the slaughter of 1,500 cattle, 350 hogs and 350 sheep. Huron -Bruce MP Paul Steckle said the disease, which was first detected in Britain last month and has spread to France and Northern Ireland, shows why Canada needs to have its own sovereign and safe food supply. Steckle said, "Canada needs to develop a food pol- icy for Canada to become self-sustaining." 25 years ago... • Huron MPP Paul Klopp announced at the Huron County Federation of Agriculture's Memers of Pariliament Dinner, "We're finally going to get a new agricultural office in Huron County." The $1.6 million structure for the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food (OMAF) is slated to be built in Clinton, and it is to part of the Ontario Govern- ment's anti -recession program. "The construction of the new county office will bring much needed work to this area and is expected to result in 800 person weeks of work," said Mr. Klopp, Parliamentary Assistant to Agricul- ture and Food Minister Elmer Buchanan, in a press release. "Not only that, it will provide an up-to-date setting for local food producers to meet and gain access to the consulting services the ministry offers." • A "diverse" economic structure is responsible for an 8.3 percent mill rate increase in the Huron County tax levy, says county clerk -administrator. "We are very fortunate that our economy is diverse. We don't get the booms and we don't get the busts," Bellchamber told county council- ors at their regular meeting. "Some of our brother and sis- ter counties are facing increases of 50, 33 and 20 percent and figures in that range." Although some areas were trimmed, some departments were less flexible when it came to possible budget cuts. 35 years ago... • The future of the Kinburn Hall is uncertain at this time after fire last Tuesday heavily damaged the interior of the one-story former school house. The former SS Nol 3 Hullet School house, converted in 1966 to the Forester's Lodge Hall for Count Constatine and the Constance lodes, suf- fered an estimated $50,000 damage from the fire that was caused by a faulty oil furnace. Custodian Eric Anderson said he discovered the fire about 10:30 a.m. when he came to turn up the furnace for the St. Patrick's euchre party scheduled for Tuesday night. He said it started in the oil furnace and quickly filled the community hall, built in 1900, with smoke. Seaforth firemen fought the blaze for nearly five hours, facing blizzard conditions and a -35 C wind chill factor. With the help from the Clinton tanker truck, they successfully prevented the fire from burning the building down, but a polling station for Thursday's pro- vincial election had to be moved to the nearby farm of Tom Whyte, south of the hamlet. • Viewers of television in Clinton and Goderich hooked up to the Bluewater TV Cable network, instead of the regular Channel 9 Windsor, viewers were treated to a host of American stations, including Atlanta, Georgia; a New York City station; on from Chicago, and The Movie Channel, a station that shows nothing but recently made movies, 24 hours a day, with no commercials. Don Stinson, general manager of Bluewater Cable said in a recent interview that he is showing the other stations to illustrate to customers the variety of programming that is available on satellite. The signals are picked up from the satellite by a dish antennae at Holmesville and Mr. Stinson admitted that he was not quite following the letter of the law for his license. The stations that Bluewater is allowed to carry are regu- lated by the Canadian Radio and Television Corporation (CRTC) and so far, the CRTC has not told him to shut down his "dish". There is no agreement between the U.S. and Canada on using the stations, Mr. Stinson said. CLINTON NEWS RECORD - HOURS OF OPERATION MONDAY: 9:00-5:00 • TUESDAY: CLOSED • WEDNESDAY: 9:00-5:00 • THURSDAY: 9:00-5:00 • FRIDAY: 9:00-5:00 • SATURDAY & SUNDAY: CLOSED ADVERTISING DEADLINE: FRIDAY 2:00 P.M. ADVERTISING BOOKING DEADLINE: FRIDAY 1:30 P.M. www.clintonnewsrecord.com