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NH staff to prepare snowmobile trail use document
By Denny Scott
The Citizen
After directing staff to produce a
bylaw authorizing the lease
extension for the Blyth Greenway
Trail lands, North Huron Council
directed staff to authorize a bylaw
enshrining a memorandum of
understanding for snowmobile trail
land use for the same lands.
The document will make sure that
those using snowmobiles on the trail
follow the rules set forth by the trail
organizations and that the trail
organizations are responsible first in
any kind of litigation regarding the
trails.
Deputy -Reeve James Campbell
said, during council's March 7
meeting, that he was aware of a
Monochromatic masters
The Royal Canadian Legion, through its representatives from the Blyth Legion Branch,
recognized several students at Hullett Central Public School last week for their performance
in the Legion's Remembrance Day Black and White poster contest. Above: back row, from left:
Blyth Legion President Ric McBurney, Emily Meilhausen (first place Junior), Blyth Legion
Youth Education Chairperson Donna Govier. Front row: Evie Reid (second place Junior),
Cassidy Shannon (third place Junior), Clara deBoer (second place Primary) and Audrey
Kruegar (first place Primary). Below, from left: Claire Scrimgeour (second place Intermediate)
McBurney, Jamie Pritchard (first place Intermediate) Govier and Jared Bergsma (third place
Intermediate).
situation where a snowmobiler went
off the trail and injured himself on
private property.
"He is suing the landowner, where
he was trespassing, for $1 million
and the landowner's legal bills are
near $100,000 with no resolution in
sight," he said. "I want to make
sure we don't have similar
situations."
Director of Recreation and
Facilities Pat Newson explained that
the snowmobile club's insurance
would be "first to respond" if
someone is on the trail and using it
legitimately and got hurt.
"It would be difficult for someone
who wasn't permitted to claim we've
been negligent in some way if they
weren't supposed to be there in the
first place," she said.
Councillor Bill Knott noted that
the document contained no
information about signage and that
concerned him.
"The local clubs didn't have
signage up this year," he said. "Can
we have an addendum to have
someone make sure the proper
signage is up?"
Newson said that her
understanding of the document was
that it was a standard agreement
across the province.
"Changes aren't permitted," she
said. "If it is to be different, our
lawyers will have to draft it and get
it approved."
After some discussion, it was
decided to send the document
without Knott's amendment and
seek other ways to make sure
that signage is erected for
snowmobile trails.
Confession good for
the whole: Clark
Continued from page 3
food for their family.
The children were asked to come
to the front for their story time. Rev.
Clark explained the scripture
reading to them. He then asked the
children if they knew what a
leprechaun was. Their answer was a
little Irish man. Rev. Clark told the
story of the four wishes. Darby
asked the leprechaun three wishes:
health, biggest crop of potatoes and
a pot of gold. The leprechaun said
granted and then he asked if Darby
wanted a fourth wish for all his
friends. The leprechaun laughed and
told Darby that the fourth wish
cancelled all the rest.
The moral of the story was that
Darby thought of himself first and
friends last.
The hymn, "Breathe on Me Breath
of God" was sung. The anthem the
choir sang was "The Old Rugged
Cross". The second scripture
reading was from the Gospel of John
13: 1-17, the story of Jesus telling
the disciples that one of them would
betray Him.
Rev. Clark's message to the
congregation was "Confession is
Good for the Whole". Lenten season
is a time for confessional prayer. To
confess we need to know what we
want. We often live in the past and
don't want to deal with the past. We
can't change the past but we have to
deal with it. We often wait too long
to deal with the past and we can't
move forward. We often ask why is
God is not listening to us. It is not
easy to admit we are wrong.
Joseph's brothers confessed that
they were wrong to have sold him
into slavery and Joseph forgives his
brothers.
In the story of the Last Supper
Jesus gives whoever betrayed Him a
Auctioneering event seeks county support
Huron County Council is
considering a donation to the
Canadian Livestock Auctioneering
Championships, which this year will
be held at Brussels Livestock.
Kevin McArter, Brussels native
and last year's reserve champion at
the event, spoke to council at its
March 9 committee of the whole
meeting, asking for $5,000 to help
bolster the event through advertising
and equipment rentals, such as tents.
McArter, the auctioneer at
Brussels Livestock, says he has been
attending the event since 2004, when
it was held in Kitchener. It was at
that event that he was named rookie
auctioneer champion and he hasn't
looked back.
The event, he said, will attract
auctioneers from all over the country
to Brussels. He expects it will be a
true economic boon to the
community, as between 500 and
1,000 people are expected to
descend on Huron County for the
event.
The event will be held May 12-14.
The auctioneering championship
will be held on Saturday, May 13
with numerous events being held
throughout the county over the
course of the weekend.
McArter will be participating in
his home barn of Brussels Livestock
with hopes of improving upon last
year's reserve champion title and
moving up to grand champion.
Established in 1964, the Livestock
Markets Association of Canada is a
registered non-profit organization
dedicated to promoting the selling of
livestock by public auction. It also
serves as a united voice to the
federal and provincial governments
on issues affecting auction markets
throughout Canada.
Council made a motion directing
staff to prepare a report on the grant
request.
Farm event shows careers
Continued from page 11
important step in raising aware-
ness about the employment
opportunities in our industry."
Ontario Agri -Food Education Inc.
(OAFE) is a not-for-profit
organization providing reliable and
balanced resources to Ontario
schools on agriculture, food
production, environmental
sustainability and related topics.
OAFE was created in 1991 with the
mission of building awareness and
understanding of the importance of
an agriculture and food system.
This year OAFE celebrates 25 years
of delivering education
programming about food, farming
and agriculture. Watch for more
anniversary celebrations in 2016.
chance to confess. Not one of His
Disciples say they are sorry for what
is happening to Him. Jesus leaves
the upper room alone. Now is the
time to pray and confess and be
ready for Easter. The next hymn,
"Jesus Christ is Waiting" was sung
followed by the receiving of the
offering, the offertory response,
"Grant Us God", the offertory
prayer, prayer of confession of the
people and silent prayers. The last
hymn, "Forth in Your Name" was
followed by the benediction and the
singing of "Go Now In Peace".
Everyone was invited for coffee and
treats before going home.
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