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PUBLIC NOTICE
2015 Municipality of Central Huron Budget
Upcoming Budget meetings are as follows:
Thursday, March 4, 2015 General Government, Facilities,
Recreation, Protective Services,
Cemetery & Economic Development
Tuesday March 10, 2015 Review of Consolidated 2015 Budget
Budget meetings begin at 5:00 p.m. and will be held in the Council
Chamber, 23 Albert, Clinton, Ontario unless otherwise notified.
Please check the municipal website for further details and
postings as they become available.www.centralhuron.com
Brenda MacIsaac, Clerk
Municipality of Central Huron
Greeting worshippers at Blyth
United Church on the first Sunday of
Lent, Feb. 22 was Tom Cronin.
Ushering were Hope Button and
Tom Cronin. Floyd Herman was
music director and Rick Elliott ran
the new power point system. Cheryl
Cronin welcomed everyone to
church on this first Sunday of Lent.
She drew everyone’s attention to the
announcements printed in the
bulletin. Special mention was that
the ladies are only making meat pies
in March and April. Cheryl also
reminded people that there was a
lunch after the service with the
annual meeting to follow. The
church is also looking for a part-time
custodian. For more information or
to apply, e-mail: densely@tcc.on.ca
or hand deliver with attention to
Lavern Clark. Cheryl invited
everyone to greet one another. Rev.
Gary Clark asked Kelly, Taylor, Bo
and Lauren Wharton to come to the
front and assist him with the Lent
experience. He asked the children to
paint the blue on the picture (water)
that will develop during the Lenten
season. Rev. Clark then painted the
blue part of a rainbow on the picture.
He asked the children to stay at the
front for their story time.
Rev. Clark explained the story on
Jonah going to Nineveh and telling
the people that God was angry with
them even though he didn’t want to
do this. After the people decided to
turn things around Jonah went
outside the city and was angry. God
made a plant grow to give Jonah
shade but the plant died. Jonah was
sad again.
The centring music, “My Love
Colours Outside the Lines” was
sung. The prayer of approach was
said responsively with the sign
language in the response. The first
verse of the new music “Me Alone”
was sung while the children went
downstairs for their time of
fellowship. Floyd Herman gave a
short history of the anthem,
“Holy, Holy, Holy” that the choir
sang.
The story of Jesus calming the
waters is in all the gospels. When the
disciples awaken Jesus and He calms
the storm, Jesus asks the disciples
where their faith was.
Raising children from toddlers to
teenagers can be difficult and we
look for help from others. Our faith
can be that helper. Just like Jesus
tells the disciples to go out and tell
their story, we too must tell our story
and show our faith. Often if we
remember the “5, 4, 3, 2, 1”
sequence, that is, look around and
see five things, hear five things and
feel five things and then repeat the
four, three, two and one by the time
we got the one we will have calmed
down. If we can remember what
made us so angry, we can redeem
ourselves. By finding a way to
redeem ourselves we find calm in
our lives.
The hymn, “Will Your Anchor
Hold” was sung followed by the
receiving of the offering, the
offertory response “For Food in a
World”, the offertory prayer, the
prayers for the people, silent prayers
and the singing of the Lord’s Prayer.
the last hymn, “Jesus Bids Us Shine”
was sung as a blessing for the lunch
downstairs.
Following the singing of the
“Three Fold Amen” everyone was
invited for a lunch of pizza, salad
and dessert prepared by Deb and
Fred Hakkers, and to stay for the
annual meeting.
Clark explains Jonah’s story
By Marilyn
Craig
Call
523-9318
From Marilyn’s Desk
Bringing the noise
The Blyth Lions Club’s annual Snow Volleyball Tournament
was held at Blyth Lions Park on Saturday. The event serves
as a fundraiser for the organization and a memorial for
Blake Hesselwood and John Bokhout who perished in a
housefire. Shown doing her best underhand serve is
Walton’s Sarah Williamson. (Photo submitted)
Happy birthday to Elsie Walsh
who celebrates Feb. 26; Joann
MacDonald, Feb. 28; Dana Weber,
Feb. 28.
Happy anniversary to Gaye and
Merv Datema and Sheron and
John Stadelmann who celebrate
March 3.
I hope everyone is trying to stay
warm this winter as Mother Nature
seems to be giving us
sub-zero weather in most of the
country.
When the sun is shining it looks
nice, but step out the door and you
will need all the winter apparel you
can find to stay warm. Spring
will come, but maybe not soon
enough.
It will even be good to have
temperatures above zero instead of
-24°C feeling like -30°C.
Revive me!
(Octavius Winslow)
“My soul cleaves to the dust; revive me according to Your Word.” Psalm 119:25
“Revive me,Lord — quicken Your work in my soul, and strengthen that which
You have wrought in me. The love which congeals, the faith which trembles, the
hope which fluctuates, the joy which droops — inspire with new life, new energy,
new power! It is of little importance what others think of me; Lord, You now that
my soul cleaves to the dust. There is in my heart more of earth than of heaven;
more of self than of Christ; more of the creature than of God. You know me in
secret — how my grace wanes, how my affections chill, how seldom my closet is
visited, how much my Bible is neglected, how insipid to my taste are the means of
grace, and how irksome and vapid are all spiritual duties and privileges. Lord, stir
up Yourself to the revivifying of my soul; quicken, oh, revive me!”
A Grace Gem
Submitted by: Immanuel United Reformed Church,
Listowel, ON 519-291-1956
Spring coming soon
‘Citizen’ seeks chilling stories
We’ve all heard the jokes, whether
they pertain to the heat or the cold.
“It was so cold....” Now if only we
had a live studio audience to scream
back “how cold was it?”
The Citizen is now asking its
readers to help finish that sentence,
but in a joke-free manner.
With the recent cold snap and
much of southwestern Ontario
seeing record-breaking temperatures
(and not the good kind), we want to
see your real pictures and hear your
true stories illustrating just how cold
it’s been in our corner of Huron
County.
E-mail a picture or a story, or
bring it in to either our Blyth or
Brussels office, that helps tell the
world just how cold it’s been and
The Citizen, as well as Blyth’s Part II
Bistro, has just the thing to help you
beat the cold.
The author/photographer of the
winning submission will win one
free litre of Chef Peter Gusso’s
award-winning soup that is pre-
made and packaged to be taken
home for the whole family.
Let’s go from one extreme to the
other. Show or tell us just how cold
it got for you and we’ll be happy to
provide a winter warm-up in the
form of award-winning soup,
created and sourced locally.
Submissions can be e-mailed to
editor@northhuron.on.ca. The
deadline for submissions is 5 p.m.
on Friday, March 6.
The new Blyth well seems on its
way to becoming operational, but
Chief Operator Don Nicholson
reported that there are some issues to
address before it becomes part of the
Blyth water system.
“The well has been drilled and
tested and there is lots of water,”
Nicholson said during the Feb. 17
North Huron Council meeting.
“There are some positives and some
negatives.”
In his report to council, Nicholson
reported that sodium and fluoride
levels are well below the required
limits, however there is a slightly
higher iron content than allowed
and, despite empirical evidence to
the contrary, there is the odour and
unpalatable taste of hydrogen
sulphide which is often described as
smelling like rotten eggs.
“That will need to be addressed
through the treatment,” Nicholson
stated in the report. “Further work
will be engaged by means of
installing a small pump in the new
well and pumping at a low rate for a
one-month period to verify [the
compound] remains at lower rates
and to gather samples to run
bench tests for several treatability
aspects.”
Nicholson stated these tests will
lead to the information council will
need to determine what kind of
treatment is required for the water,
which will require a short-term
capital investment as well as the
long-term operating costs. Council
can then decide to continue with the
well located beside the Blyth and
District Community Centre or
proceed to another site.
Council will be receiving an Update on the Central
Huron Feasibility Study at their Regular Council Meeting
Monday, March 2, 2015 7:00 p.m.
Council Chamber, 23 Albert Street, Clinton, ON
The Agenda for this meeting will be posted on the municipal website
Friday, February 27, 2015
www.centralhuron.com
NOTICE
New Blyth well system
progressiong; Nicholson
See histories and
historic photographs
on the Huron History
section of our website
www.northhuron.on.ca