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Letters to the Editor
Blyth Buskerfest set for July 14
THE EDITOR,
We are happy to announce a
special event that will be happening
Saturday, July 14 in downtown
Blyth called the Blyth Buskerfest!
This event will feature street
performers, musicians, art and food
vendors, etc. This is coming up
quickly and we are in need of
support and volunteers to make this
event a success that will help us
draw more out of towners to our
great town and businesses not just
this year but hopefully on a yearly
basis.
This is happening during
Campvention which as you all may
known brings about 1,000 campers
into our town so we anticipate a
large showing for the festival. The
proposal is to close two of our town
block roads for this to be a street
event so there will be a heavy
concentration of attendees
surrounding the downtown core and
businesses.
This is going to be a fun and very
family-oriented event.
We hope as many as possible can
assist so that eases the load on the
others. Many hands make light
work.
We will welcome any questions
and thoughts/ideas from you all of
how this can be hugely successful
Buskerfest! Thanks so much
everyone.
Lianne and the Buskerfest
Committee
Camp group to host open house
THE EDITOR,
Family Campers and RVers are
returning to Blyth Community
Centre and campgrounds from
Friday, July 13 to Friday, July 20 for
the organization’s annual
campvention.
We extend an invitation to the
citizens of the surrounding
communities to visit the grounds for
our open house on Sunday, July 15.
The open house hours are from 2
p.m. to 4 p.m.
This is your opportunity to see
what activities are happening and
planned for the week we are in your
locale.
A special invitation is extended to
any campers who may wish to learn
more about family camping and
Family Campers and RVers, who we
are, what we do and what we
promote.
Refreshments will be served and
a tour of the grounds will be
supplied.
Remember the time and date, 2
p.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday, July 15 at
the Blyth Community Centre. See
you there.
Bill and Marg Henderson,
Chairs, Open House
2012 Campvention Committee.
Huron County horseshoes
Abi’s Awesome Angels hosted a horseshoe tournament at
Brussels Transport over the weekend to help raise the
$10,000 they need ($2,000 per competitor) to participate in
the Weekend to End Women’s Cancers. Shown testing his
luck is Trevor McArter, right and a teammate. (Jim Brown photo)
Gravity’s got nothing on her
Kathryn Chalmers was one member of the Blyth Public
School’s track and field team who simply didn’t want to stay
on the ground during the local track and field competition
held at Central Huron Secondary School in Clinton on June
7. (Denny Scott photo)
Glitch causes opt-out extensionThe deadline for Morris-
Turnberry residents to notify the
Bluewater Recycling Association
(BRA) about options for automated
waste collection has been extended
to June 22 after a glitch in
notification.
Nancy Michie, administrator
clerk-treasurer, told councillors at
their June 5 meeting that BRA had
missed part of Bluevale and
Turnberry Ward in its original
mailing.
She presented a draft of a second
flyer, with a change of date, which
would go to all residents of the
municipality. The original flyer,
with the date changed, would go to
those who didn’t receive it earlier.
Councillor Neil Warwick
questioned the need to send out a
second flyer, but Gordon Folkard,
who had earlier sent a letter to
council opposing automated
collection, spoke up from the
visitors’ gallery saying the flyer
answered some of his questions
about the program.
“I think it’s important to get the
information out to the people,” saidMayor Paul Gowing.Warwick then argued if the flyerwas going to be mailed it firstneeded to be translated into plain
language that everyone could
understand. Council then spent
several minutes going over the flyer
suggesting wording changes.
Councillors agreed that people
should know the cost of taking waste
to the landfill site before they had to
choose whether to opt out ofcurbside garbage collection, whichis an option for rural residents.Gary Pipe, director of publicworks, said North Perth and North
Huron both have a minimum $10
tipping fee for taking garbage to the
landfill.
Councillors passed a motion to
adopt that minimum tipping
fee and include the amount in the
flyer.
M-T donates to fair
After some discussion, at their
June 5 meeting, Morris-Turnberry
Council voted to provide a grant of
$500 for the Elementary School Fair
in Belgrave.
The donation is the same as that
previously given to the Belgrave,
Blyth and Brussels School Fair but
council had removed the item from
the budget last spring when it
seemed the fair might be
discontinued because of the closure
of the three schools.
Councillor Neil Warwick opposed
the donation because it is not in the
budget. “I figured we’d be rid of
this,” he said. “This is a chance to
get out of this stuff that was started
40 years ago.”
He noted that council is already
giving money to the Brussels Fall
Fair and the Howick-Turnberry Fall
Fair but with the closure of the
Brussels and Turnberry schools
there will no longer be participation
from students from those schools.
But Councillor John Smuck
argued in favour of the grant, noting
that a new group of volunteers is
working to continue the fair.
“We can sit around and not give
them anything or you can help get it
going,” he said.
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The tender of Johnson Brothers to
provide and spread gravel for Clyde
Line between Moncrieff Road and
Walton Road was accepted for
$146,432.40. It was the cheapest of
four tenders.
Only one tender was received for
Clyde Line culvert extensions and
repair. The contract was awarded to
VanDriel Excavating Inc. for
$89,956.51.
***
Council accepted the request of
John and Ivonne Albers to add 2.02
hectares to the Mustard Drain that
had not previously been included in
the assessment for the drain.
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Councillors were informed that a
public meeting to discuss the draft
Source Water Protection Plan of the
Ausable Bayfield Maitland Vallery
Source Water Protection committee
will be held June 19 at the Hot Stove
Lounge of the North Huron Wescast
Community Complex with an open
house format from 11:30 a.m. to
1:30 p.m.
By Keith RoulstonThe Citizen
By Keith Roulston
The Citizen