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BLYTH SOCCER & BASEBALL
REGISTRATION
February 26 & March 5
7 pm - 9 pm
Blyth Legion
For more information call:
For Soccer ~ Dianne Siertsema 519-523-4705
or email - blythbrook@hurontel.on.ca
For Baseball ~ Todd MacDonald 519-523-4942
Sports
The Brussels Curling Club
completed the second draw of the
season last Monday evening. There
were eight teams in the
January/February draw all hoping to
be the top winners of the five-game
draw.
Winners were: first, skipped by
Mike Alexander with Ruth Bauer,
Reg Vinnicombe and Jack Pipe, 52;
second, Jo-Ann McDonald with
Katherine Thomet, Brian Warwick
and Bob Alexander, 43; third, Steve
Knight, Mary Bernard, Ken
Penfound and Rose Kellington;
fourth, Darryl Uhler, Don Chesher,
Dona Knight and Jeff Sanders; fifth,
Carman Bernard, Jeff Cardiff,
Debbie Campbell and Sarah
Alexander; sixth, Murray Hoover,
Amanda White, Karen Uhler and
Norm Dobson; seventh, George
Zwep, Martin Thomet, Jennie
Schimanski and Rose DeBoer and
eighth, Orval Bauer, MaryAnn
Thompson, Gary Pipe and Doug
Bremner.
The draw finished with a potluck
social of snacks and goodies and a
social time. The next draw will begin
with 10 teams taking the ice. Steve
Knight addressed the curlers as to
the upcoming 50th celebration of the
club. The date of April 11 will have
a dinner and dance at the Brussels
Legion and current curlers, former
curlers and friends of curlers will all
be invited to attend.
Watch for more details and the
availability of tickets.
Brussels Curling
Club to celebrate
50th anniversary
Big day
Family Day was a busy day at the Blyth and District Community Centre. Visitors could get a
hot breakfast courtesy of the BIA, enjoy some free-skating or experience some broomball, as
demonstrated by Rob, left, and Marlayna Kolkman. (Jasmine deBoer photo)
MT grant budget to fund medical, community centres
During a special budget meeting,
Morris-Turnberry Council decided
which organizations and events
would and would not be be receiving
grants in the 2015 budget.
The meeting was held on Feb. 10
and also featured a presentation by
Huron East representatives Mayor
Bernie MacLellan and Chief
Administrative Officer/Clerk-
Administrator Brad Knight
requesting $22,000 for the Brussels
Medical Dental Centre. Council
approved that $22,000, which will
be used for renovations.
The draft budget, which will be
publically released in March,
originally had $200 being donated to
Maitland River Elementary School,
however Councillor John Smuck felt
that grant wasn’t appropriate any
longer.
“That donation was set up through
the Latimer Fund, which is for
education, and they used it for food
last year,” he said. “In my opinion,
we should take it out if it isn’t being
used for education because that’s
what it was set up as.”
Council agreed and later decided
to take the $200 and apply it to the
Huron Perth Agriculture and Water
Festival.
While council was unhappy with
the way The Latimer Fund was used
at Maitland River Elementary
School, moneys from the fund will
still be used for educational awards
at F.E. Madill Secondary School.
Despite some debate, council
decided to continue to support the
Huron Manufacturing Association
gala event. However it was pointed
out that the money wasn’t being used
to further industrial development,
but recognize those who are already
succeeding in the sector.
“I’m not so sure the manufacturing
association shouldn’t be more on
their own,” Mayor Paul Gowing
said. “We’ve helped to start up the
group as an association, but I’m not
sure what direction we should go for
that.”
Gowing said that if money should
be granted anywhere, it should be for
economic development to increase
the amount of industry in Huron
County, rather than recognizing
those already here.
Councillor Jim Nelemans said that
asking the organization to focus
more on growing the industrial
sector in Huron County, however,
could be a waste of time.
“If I’m making buggy whips and
you ask me to try to get more
manufacturers in Huron, I don’t
think I’m going to be interested,” he
said. “I don’t want to pay money to
have more people come in and
compete with me in making buggy
whips or have them come in and take
my workforce.”
Despite the concerns, council left
$700 in the budget to buy a table to
the association’s annual awards gala.
Council also debated their
contribution to the Wingham and
District Professional Recruitment
board, set at $7,500 for 2015. The
grant is the third-highest expenditure
on the budget after the
aforementioned grant of $22,000 to
Huron East and a $15,000
contribution to the Alice Munro
Labour Market Partnership study.
Recently-elected councillor
Sharen Zinn asked how many
doctors had actually been recruited
and was told by several council
members that there are currently five
doctors that the board deals with,
however not all of them were
recruited by the board.
Zinn was told that it is difficult to
determine how many doctors and
medical personnel have been
attracted through the board’s
activities since many of the recruited
medical professionals decide to
leave shortly after.
“There is a lot of money going into
this recruitment thing,” Zinn said.
“They want to keep these people, but
this board just isn’t bringing people
in.”
Nelemans said that the board was
a necessary evil because, if there
wasn’t one, Wingham and the
surrounding area would have next to
no chance of recruiting physicians.
Administrator Clerk-Treasurer
Nancy Michie explained that the
board is actually required by law, so
there isn’t anything council can do
about the cost, though they could
talk about the amount.
Gowing said it was a tricky
situation.
“As a lower-tier government,
health care is not our mandate, but,
as Jim said, if you want to be in the
ballpark for physicians, this is
something we have to do,” he said.
“What is more important than our
healthcare? I wouldn’t be sitting
here today if it weren’t for that
healthcare.”
Zinn said she didn’t disagree, but
felt that the $7,500 would be
betterspent with the HealthKick
Huron program in Seaforth.
Council, however, felt the grant
was fine as presented.
Grants still in the budget include
the following:
• $500 for The Elementary School
Fair in Belgrave.
• $500 for the Howick-Turnberry
Fair.
• $500 for the Brussels
Agricultural Society for the Brussels
Fall Fair.
• $125 for the Huron County
Plowmen’s Association
• $75 for a Remembrance Day
wreath at the Wingham Legion.
• $65 for a Remembrance Day
wreath at the Brussels Legion.
• $750 for F.E. Madill Secondary
School.
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