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Belgrave Summer
Festival this August
The Belgrave Community Centre
Board wanted a unique celebration
to highlight how great the village is
and members may have found it
with the first of what is hoped to be
an annual event: the Belgrave
Summer Festival.
Hosted on the Civic Holiday,
Saturday, Aug. 1, at the Belgrave
Community Centre, the event will
feature fun for all ages according to
organizer Trish MacQueen.
“Belgrave was looking for
something that was uniquely for
them,” she said. “I proposed this two
years ago because there would be
something for everyone and now
we’re getting down to making it
happen.”
Under direction of the Belgrave
Community Centre Board,
MacQueen has been setting up the
event, looking for sponsors and
doing everything she can to make it
an annual event.
So far the event will feature the
following activities:
• Beverage garden
• Chainsaw carving competition,
demonstration and auction
• A vintage car show
• Food vendors
• A Remote Control (RC)
demonstration
• Vendors’ booths
• Artist showcase and sale
• A farmers’ market
• Live stage performances
• A children’s area
• A battle of the bands
• A dinner and dance with live and
DJ music
The final plans for the above
activities are yet to be confirmed,
however MacQueen said all the
events should offer a fun time.
Tickets for the dinner and dance
are $25 for individuals, $40 for
couples and $10 for only the dance.
Tickets are available at the Belgrave
Summer Festival’s headquarters at
20 Brandon Street in Belgrave,
which is open Monday to Thursday,
9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The battle of the bands will be
more of a talent show according to
MacQueen with each band being
given a chance to play three songs
and one group being awarded the
people’s choice award.
She said that anyone looking to
participate in the events can find
applications in hard copy at the
headquarters or local merchants
such as the Queens Bakery in Blyth,
Cinnamon Jim’s in Brussels, Stella’s
Burger Bar in Clinton, Fresh Start
Bakery in Wingham and Watson’s
Home Hardware Building Centre in
Gorrie.
Applications for the car show are
available at Bushell’s Auto Sales,
Leslie Motors and Thunder Road
Racing in Wingham or Pentastic
Motors in Gorrie.
Digital applications are also
available on the events website at
trishmacqueen.com/festival.html
Currently, MacQueen is seeking
sponsors and setting up the activities
and both she and the centre board
hope to make the event an annual
occurrence.
For more information, contact
MacQueen at 226-339-8346 or Jon
VanCamp at 519-357-8259.
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A group of past students and community members celebrated the history of S.S. #13, also
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Alex Blair, left, and John McDowell, right. (Jim Brown photo)
North Huron Council continues to
defer requests to donate money or
waive rental fees made by
organizations outside of the
municipality pending the proposal
of a policy to guide councillors.
At council’s June 2 meeting, a
request from the Wingham Golf and
Curling Club, which is actually in
Morris-Turnberry, was submitted to
have the municipality aid in the
replacement of the club’s brine
chiller which keeps the ice surface
cold.
The piece of equipment would
cost approximately $40,000
according to information from the
club.
Councillor Bill Knott said he felt
the request would have to be
deferred.
“We haven’t come up with the
policy yet,” he said. “This is an
independent, non-municipal service
outside of our borders so we have to
put this aside until we make the
policy.”
Councillor Trevor Seip, however,
felt that the township’s policy
wouldn’t cover this issue.
“I think, when we talked about
this policy, this falls outside of what
we’ve directed staff to come up,” he
said. “We’ve deferred requests
for use of our services or
buildings.”
Reeve Neil Vincent explained that
while that was true so far, the policy
was broader than waiving fees for
facilities.
“We need some kind of policy for
out-of-municipality donations,” he
said. “I looked at that as being part
of the same policy so we would be
able to judge requests like this by the
policy.”
Chief Administrative Officer
Sharon Chambers agreed and said
that the forthcoming policy would
incorporate donations such as this.
“We didn’t have time to have the
policy ready for this evening, but it
would deal with this kind of
request,” she said. “The policy will
make it easy for council to assess
requests like this if we have a
standard policy.”
The request was deferred.
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