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The Citizen, 2017-07-13, Page 7Donation The Jam Jar Pub and Eatery in Brussels has been hosting bike nights on Wednesday evenings for several months now. The evenings included sponsored door prizes and a special meal for bikers, a portion of which has been collected for local charities. In June, the $200 proceeds from the event went towards the Brussels Legion and its accessibility renovations. From left: Chris Bromley, Janice Bromley, Legion President Jamie Mitchell, Len Gervais and Lori Gautcher, members of the Wolfpack RC. The bike night season will wrap up on Sept. 23 with a special evening featuring a ride and live entertainment. (Photo submitted) Paid Advertisement THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, JULY 13, 2017. PAGE 7. Riverside Funeral Home open Continued from page 2 hopes to foster in the community. "We are happy to do traditional services, but we also want to make sure that people know that we can do what they want," she said. "That's what the services should be about: the family. It should represent the wishes of the person being mourned and provide an opportunity for the family to find closure. It's not about society or expectations, but about the people celebrating a life." Onn is also looking forward to providing information about new practices forward including natural burial services. She explained that the most environmentally friendly way to inter a loved one is natural burial which includes caskets that break down quickly, made of material like bamboo. While natural burials will be an option, so too are traditional burials or other options as well. Chisholm is a restoration mechanic and, in Toronto, worked on high rises. He now works for a custom woodworking shop in Atwood and has significant plans for returning the funeral home to its roots. "That was definitely part of the appeal of the home," he said. "I'm looking forward to restoring it to its original look." Chisholm said there is a long-term renovation plan for the site which includes beautification, window - replacement, stripping and re- painting the structure and working on the outside of the building. He also said his expertise in stained-glass windows will likely come into play throughout the home. The grounds proved appealing to Onn as well, who, before the official move -in date, was on-site with the Schimanskis' permission to start putting her green thumb to use. "I love gardening and I wanted to start working in the gardens outside," she said. "Frank and Jenny Schimanski have been absolutely wonderful in letting us do what we wanted to do." The gardens and back deck are also in for some work, according to the couple, who want to make the latter available for families to retreat to between services and the former possibly available for outdoor memorial services in the future. The end goal is to create a space that is welcoming not just for those mourning, but to create an atmosphere that welcomes people every day. "I want this to be a place people could drop in to," Onn said, "the kind of place they could come for a coffee to discuss things." Onn said she believes that education empowers people and her line of work is no exception to that rule. "If people have questions, or want to pre -arrange their service, we want them to feel comfortable coming in here," she said. "We want to change the way people feel about dealing with funerals and make it a little less shrouded in mystery." She said pre -planning a service is something people can and should do as soon as they start considering life insurance. The invitation to come in and chat is open to everyone, not just those seeking professional assistance. "We're easy-going people who want to help out where we can," Onn said. "We're excited this opportunity has come to fruition." For more information, contact Riverside Funeral Home at 519-887-6336 or visit www.riversidefuneralhome.ca See histories and historic photographs on the Huron History section of www.northhuron.on.ca ANNOUNCEMENT With perfect timing, a Festival of Wizardry might be coming to Blyth. The Magus, the Alchemist, and each type of Fool, long have known that, depending on the magic invoked, cities, towns and villages can be disfigured, transfigured or refigured. Wizard devotees, surely, would be intrigued to know that, allegedly, there exists convincing evidence that, in the vicinity of Blyth, the divination of necromancy, and the practice of Black Magic, have been, and still are, engaged in a mortal struggle. Has the struggle been in the muggle and magical worlds postulated by J.K. Rowling or in alternate, otherworldly domains" This, and other issues, following below, will be the focus of two websites, currently in development for an August, or earlier, debut. Nuthatch sentinels and wheat that never ripens declare that, two decades ago, magic, conjured in a previous century, lay in wait to be summoned the moment a new owner took possession of a modest property on the west side of Queen Street in Blyth, just one lot south of the Post Office. Barn Swallows, refusing to migrate, chatter, tirelessly, that an "outsized" community -centric project, seized by a parochial magic's enchantments of demonization, marginalization, exclusion and a rush to judgement, informed by loyalist -fueled whisper campaigns, was withered on the vine. Starlings are eager to tell how progress on the property's development was so skillfully impeded, right under muggle noses, that after structural and maintenence work was completed, only an adhoc facade could be installed on a portion of the building. Sparrows and thistles, languishing in the dark, attest that original, custom-built facades of superior quality with, literally, hundreds of sculptured and carved architectural components were put in storage along with completed mural designs and panels, relevant plans, drawings and windows - all depicting lovingly researched, designed and executed, historical themes and iconic rural symbols of Blyth and area. 'Auspex', carved into the side of the capital on the provisional facade's south column, is said to have announced the presence of an appropriate counter -magic, foreshadowing a 117 page Tome of Protest and Resistance with devastatingly prescient divinations. Some believe the divinations (all, but one, already realized with a canny accuracy) are the work of an interloper. Others suspect an alliance with local witchcraft. Is this the Tome alluded to in a Dec.15, 2016 letter to the Editor of The Citizen, in defence of Ted Johns? Gossip has it that a nervous fly on the wall overheard all of this evidence being offered to the 'Ministry of Appeals' which refused it as 'it was history and not allowed in an historic village' where the big idea was denying rights of citizenship to those born elsewhere. Gracefully weathered, collaborating farmers and faithful horses, imaged from a more innocent, kinder past, have, like the 'mere, designated denizen' owner of the property, patiently endured years of disbelief, in limbo, while ruthless, cynical practitioners of the Dark Arts, with their own 'brand' of elite, Blackish Magic, long have presented, over and over, that which they claim to be evidence. As if repetition of falsehoods will make them true. The 'mere, designated denizen' has, alternately, been coerced and then cruelly presented with offers calculated so that they could not be refused. They were refused. A sense of civic responsibility demanded it. The farmers and horses, quietly raising a cloud of dust, concurred. Adamant, non -attributed reports say that "so-called" Plantagenet partners associated with the property, exhibited an authentic generosity that can withstand the closest scrutiny in an age of deceit, when, recently, they presented to the owner a nearly completed work of bold conception, richly fertile potential, and many, many years in the making. Their's was an offer that could not be refused. A hardy rumour mill, long force-fed on calculated, wanton, whisper campaigns has generated fascinating and intriguing claims and speculations. Has this work, and recently obtained information, together, made it possible to end a silence imposed by circumstances of which squirrels with secrets are itching to tell? Is access to justice now an imaginable possibility for seeking redress of the numbing, deliberate, devastation inflicted on the property in question, the building on it and on the person and total wherewithal of the owner and others? Is a re -energizing of the never -abandoned pursuit of impeded, original goals of the 'mere, designated denizen' - originally planned for this property and the community - already underway? Does this work have significant contributions from globally renowned artists in many media, embracing the visual arts, music, literature, science and philosophy? Is it an original narrative work functioning as the fertile nexus of a creation of virtually limitless productive capacity as described often in communications to the municipality? Does it utilize unique features that are possibly a first in modern genealogy? Are these Plantagenet partners really descended from more than 50 ancient Royal Houses? Does the municipality really know about them and their leveraging potential through natural affinities to existing cultural attractions in Ontario and elsewhere? Is there really a youtube record of the municipality sabotaging an opportunity to publically meet and converse with these people? If so, what was the Plantagenet partners response to this? How did the 'Plantagenets' become partners in the original Blyth project of 1997? And, finally, was it because of the known, medieval, royal obsession with birds of prey? If not released here earlier, see the upcoming websites for a synopsis of J.K. Rowling's 'The Order of the Phoenix'. Remarkably, it parallels the struggle associated with this property, in this era, as is also encapsulated by John Ralston Saul's statement in The Unconscious Civilization - "If individuals do not occupy their legitimate position, then it will be occupied by a god or a king or a coalition of interest groups. If citizens do not exercise the powers confered by their legitimacy, others will do so." Although the remarkable, Pulitzer Prize winning Chris Hedges (youtube) decries reliance on Magic, perhaps the focused collective unconscious of 9,000 Magic afficianados can be enlisted to help transform our elites who, consciously, have created our age of deceit. To that end a real Phoenix has been invited to attend, during the Festival of Wizardry, at the modest property on the west side of Queen Street, in Blyth, just two lots north of Memorial Hall and The Blyth Centre for The Arts. Press releases in August will provide access information for the two websites currently being prepared to aid in a re -energized pursuit of egalitarian goals and accessible justice. © 2017 Usgirls Edging All rights reserved. TM Squirrels with Secrets