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Midgets win OMHAs
Layoffs avoidedwith agreement
Let down your hair
Rapunzel, right, as portrayed by Lindsay Eitzen of Big Kids Entertainment Inc., was guided by
the narration of Hullett Central Public School’s Mr. Caldwell, left, during a modern retelling of
her own story that focused on the importance of being one’s self. (Denny Scott photo)
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happened. It hadn’t had time to sink
in yet.
“It was amazing,” he said. “It was
just fantastic.”
The fun wasn’t over with the final
buzzer either as the team was asked
to come home through Clinton.
“I thought that was a bit out of the
way, but we went,” he said.
As the team entered Blyth, a
police cruiser, with lights on, pulled
in front of the vehicle.
“You could hear a pin drop on the
bus, no one could believe what was
happening,” Ten Pas said.
It turns out, however, that the
police cruiser being there was no
accident as Ten Pas’ wife Melinda
had set it up.
The team enjoyed a police escort
to Brussels where they were loaded
on to fire trucks.
“We were hooting and hollering
all through the town,” Ten Pas said.
“It was just fantastic. It was a real
highlight for the boys.”
Despite the championship, the
Blyth Brussels Midget Rep squad
still had one game left this week
against Shallow Lake as part of the
Western Ontario Athletics
Association group playoffs on
Tuesday. A final score was
unavailable at press time.
The future for the players is up in
the air a bit, as some of them have
been asked to join junior clubs. The
rest will hopefully continue playing
in Blyth Brussels next year, however,
according to Ten Pas.
“Some of the kids that don’t want
to go to that junior level will
hopefully be able to play next year,”
he said. “Hopefully we’ll have a
juvenile team for them next year. We
were lacking the players to have one
this year. It’s unfortunate because
it’s good hockey.”
Ten Pas said that, while the Midget
team went all the way this year, the
association has had other
opportunities.
“We had lots of teams make the
finals, but they just couldn’t clinch
it,” he said. “We finally did.”
He said that some of that may have
to do with the players being
comfortable where they are and
having a larger pool of talent to draw
from thanks to amalgamation.
“The purpose of amalgamation is
to get the kids into the proper
categories,” he explained. “Having
the best players for all the levels of
hockey from both centres not only
helped us win but helped put all the
Morris-Turnberry councillors
found themselves held over a barrel
regarding a contract with local
telecommunications company
Hurontel, having to choose between
supporting an agreement they were
unfamiliar with or having the
telecommunications company’s
employees laid off while they
considered it.
The company wishes to run fibre
optic cable, a modern
telecommunication connection
method, through Lower Town in the
municipality, however they didn’t
give council much time to consider
the agreement that would allow them
to do that.
“We received notification a few
weeks ago about a fibre optics cable
that will be placed in Lower Town
and East of Wingham on Amberley
Road,” Chief Administrative Officer
Nancy Michie said. “They need an
agreement, and we have agreements
for all the other cable services we
have running in the area.
Michie explained that the
municipality had submitted an
agreement to Hurontel, but that they
weren’t happy with it, so they’re
using another agreement that had
less “legal jargon.”
“This is the one that they are
interested in passing,” Michie
explained, showing the document.
The catch, however, was that the
agreement, which was only received
just prior to the meeting, would need
to be passed that night according to
Michie.
“I explained that council hasn’t
had time to read it,” she said.
“However, if it’s not approved, the
workers will be laid off for two
weeks until we can approve it. That
isn’t our responsibility, but that’s
what they said.”
Morris-Turnberry Director of
Public Works Gary Pipe explained
that Hurontel plans to get fibre optic
cable to every house in Wingham
and Lower Town. He also said he has
no problem with the existingagreement.“There are some things I think weshould tweak, but this isn’t a
company that’s about to leave,” he
said. “It’s Hurontel, they’re already
here. Also, with the weather the way
it is, it may not be as quick a start as
they think it’s going to be.”
Deputy-Mayor Jason
Breckenridge, however, wasn’t
happy with the situation despite
Pipe’s assurances.
“We sent our conditions when, last
week?” He asked, being told that
was correct. “They weren’t happy
with ours, and now it’s the eleventh
hour and they want us to work with
them? I don’t like it.”
Breckenridge was also curious as
to whether the township’s lawyers
had seen the agreement, which they
hadn’t, and whether the agreement
was similar to other ones they had
with other telecommunication
companies, to which he was told it is
similar, but, again, had less of the
“legal jargon.”
Pipe said that the only major
concern they would have is
maintaining the “corridor” through
Lower Town, that being County
Road 4.
“We have to make sure the
infrastructure is put back or repaired,
or we’ll do the work and send them
a bill,” he said.
Mayor Paul Gowing said his most
pressing concern was whether
municipal staff was satisfied or not,
to which staff answered they could
work with the document.
The agreement was approved in
principle, which should allow
Hurontel to start its work, and any
major changes will be brought back
by councilors and staff to the April 2
meeting.
Gowing said that the project was
an important step forward for the
municipality.
“The idea of having fibre optic
communications in our rural
communities is an important one,”
he said. “This is what we need to be
doing.”
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