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The Citizen, 2009-11-26, Page 4PAGE 4. THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009.Editorials Opinions Publisher, Keith Roulston Editor, Bonnie GroppAdvertising, Ken Warwick & Lori Patterson The CitizenP.O. Box 429,BLYTH, Ont. N0M 1H0 Phone 523-4792 FAX 523-9140 P.O. Box 152,BRUSSELS, Ont. N0G 1H0 Phone 887-9114 E-mail norhuron@scsinternet.com Website www.northhuron.on.ca Looking Back Through the Years CCNA Member Member of the Ontario Press Council The Citizen is published 50 times a year in Brussels,Ontario by North Huron Publishing Company Inc.Subscriptions are payable in advance at a rate of $34.00/year ($32.38 + $1.62 G.S.T.) in Canada; $105.00/year in U.S.A.and $175/year in other foreign countries.Advertising is accepted on the condition that in the event of a typographical error,only that portion of the advertisement will be credited. Advertising Deadlines: Monday, 2 p.m. - Brussels; Monday, 4 p.m. - Blyth. PUBLICATIONS MAIL AGREEMENT NO. 40050141 PAP REGISTRATION NO. 09244 RETURN UNDELIVERABLE CANADIAN ADDRESSES TO CIRCULATION DEPT. PO BOX 152 BRUSSELS ON N0G 1H0 email: norhuron@scsinternet.com Letter to the editor Nov. 26, 1965 Wilbur Turnbull and son added to their array of honours as breeders of championship swine when, in the judging of Yorkshire pig classes at the Royal Winter Fair in Toronto they captured top prize for junior, senior and grand champion sows. A further study of the CNR rail service on the Brussels line was concluded and representatives were going to revisit the community to present their proposed action. A report on the history of the Brussels Library listed the librarians through the years: 1880, Mrs. Crozier; 1881, Mrs G.E. Cowper; 1885-1887, Miss Ross; 1888-1898, Miss Dolly Shaw; 1998-1908, Miss McNaughton; 1908-1916, Mrs. Jessie Kerr; 1917-1941, Mrs. Lowry; 1941-1946, Mrs. Ballantyne; 1946-1958, Mrs. W.S. Scott; 1958-1959, Mrs. H. Kerney; 1959-1961, Mrs. Clarence Smith; 1962-1964, Mrs. William Speir and 1965, Mrs. Clare Long. The salaries of the staff in the Morris School area were posted. The principals of Blyth and Brussels received $5,000, while teachers were paid between $1,900 to $4,000. A night at the Lord Elgin Hotel in Ottawa ranged from $7.50-$9.25 for single to $10-$12.30 for doubles per night. A new General Motors Envoy Epic was selling for $1,799 at McCutcheon Motors Ltd. in Brussels. Adrienne Poy Clarkson was the new co-host of CBC-TV’s popular daily public affairs show, Take 30. Born in Hong Kong, Clarkson grew up in Ottawa and lectured in English and French at Victoria College in Toronto before assuming the co-host chair. The weekend feature at Wingham’s Lyceum Theatre was Billie, starring Patty Duke, Kim Backus and Warren Berlinger. The Rolling Stones were also featured in a special short subject. Nov. 25, 1981 Harold Ferguson of the Blyth Inn decided to clip off his beard for charity. In co-operation with the Blyth Lions Ferguson allowed patrons at the Inn to clip for a fee. Ferguson matched the funds raised up to $50. Blyth was hosting an old- fashioned Christmas with lights at Memorial Hall, free skating and Christmas trees on sale for $8 through the Blyth Leo Club. Children’s bikes were on sale at Blyth Hardware from $49.95 to $129.95. Specials at Blyth Meat Market included a tin of sockeye salmon for $1.89, Schneiders summer sausage, $3.19 a pound and old-fashioned ham, $3.69 a pound. Smurfs were selling at Zehrs for $6.99, while the Star Wars Millennium Falcon was $39.77 Other toy features were: Strawberry Shortcake and friends, $6.49; Darth Vader collector’s case, $12.88; Little Sweetums, $2.77; Cookie Monster bean bag toy, $4.59 and super stunt dirt bike, $21.88. Playing at the Park Theatre in Goderich was Burt Reynolds in Paternity. Jack Riley, a resident of Callander Nursing Home in Brussels celebrated his 99th birthday. The smash hit Maggie and Pierre enjoyed a two-day return to Blyth Festival. Nov. 26, 1986 A 20-year-old Walton-area woman was crowned Huron County Queen of the Furrow in a ceremony at Walton marking the official end of the plowing season. The contest had been deferred several times as record-breaking rainfall spoiled any chance of holding a county match. Sandra Hunt, RR4, Walton, emerged the winner with Denise Nethery of RR4, Brussels a close second. Recycling week in Ontario wound up in Brussels with a paper drive by Brussels Mennonite Fellowship. Fred Thuell, a veteran of the First World War attended the Remembrance Day service held in Walton. Eight new Guides were enrolled in Blyth: Kimberley Ferguson, Jackie Caldwell, Pauline Stewart, Erica Clark, Kerry Hallahan, Jennifer Cucksey, Laurel Campbell and Tina Burkholder. A Citizen contest challenged readers to guess the total weight of participating businesspeople in Brussels to win a trip for two to Las Vegas or Nashville. The Brussels Bulls player of the week was Doug Shaw. Movies at local theatres were Peggy Sue Got Married and Crocodile Dundee. Nov. 27 1996 Fire gutted a vacant home just west of Blyth off County Road 25. New Brownies at Blyth were Amber Tait, Jenna Rinn, Ashley Cartwright, Heather Schmidt, Brittney Peters, Kendall Whitfield, Emily Wood, Chelsea Carter-Brown, Erin Moore, Ashlee Cook, Laura Kelly, Aislinn Purcell, Brit Cook, Nicole Frazer, Angela Frazer, Laura Baarda and Hallie Hulzebos. Silver shone brightly for Kathy Hunt and her daughter Cayli when they speed skated their way to second place in their respective divisions at the Marion Hanje Memorial Fall Classic in Cambridge. It was 101 Dalmations playing at The Park. THE EDITOR, Christmas is around the corner, and the Huron County Christmas Bureau is asking for your help. The Christmas Bureau’s goal is to ensure that all children and their families in Huron County have gifts of new clothing, new toys and food for Christmas. Economic hardships struck many families this year due to the downturn in the economy, and have made it very difficult for many parents to provide food and clothing for their children throughout the year, let alone at Christmas. Without the support of our community, the bureau would not be able to achieve its goal. In the Wingham area, many local businesses, churches and schools already have actions in place to support the Christmas Bureau by having drop boxes for new toys and clothing, angel trees with gift tags and food collection events. Look for drop boxes or gift trees as you go about preparing for your Christmas activities. Remember to treat canned food items gently so that tins do not get dented, as damaged canned items cannot be given to our receiving families. Financial gifts are also welcome as they make it possible for the Bureau to buy food vouchers and new clothing in sizes where donations are lacking. Volunteers carry out the task of running The Huron County Bureau. These volunteers spend many hours managing and organizing and carrying out bureau activities so that needy families in our community experience some Christmas cheer. Gifts of new toys and new clothing and food will be gratefully received at Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church Hall on Carling Terrace during the week of Dec. 7-11. Volunteers are needed during this week to help collect donations, sort toys and clothing and food items. The confidential distribution of gifts to families takes place during the week of Dec. 4-17. This week, volunteers are also needed to help carry gifts for the receiving families. Please help ensure that there will be Christmas gifts for every child and family in our community. If you know of a family in need of Christmas help, please have them call the Christmas Bureau at 519-524- 7356 between Dec. 1 and 11. If you would like more information about the Christmas Bureau or would like to volunteer, please contact Susan Hotchkiss, 519-357-2262 or Eileen George, 519-357-3451. Eileen George Susan Hotchkiss. We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Publications Assistance Program (PAP) toward our mailing costs. We are not responsible for unsolicited newsscripts or photographs. Contents of The Citizen are © Copyright A goof that goes on costing With the flick of a pen last week the boundaries for fire coverage in the former Morris Twp. between the North Huron Fire Department and the Huron East Fire Department were changed. Too bad it wasn’t as easy to change municipal boundaries. The criteria the government of Mike Harris set down for the municipal amalgamations it strong-armed on rural Ontario is getting awfully costly. Last week, for instance, the Ontario Municipal Board had to rule on an appeal of North Huron and Loblaw Properties Limited against Morris-Turnberry’s zoning of land on the edge of Wingham as open for highway commercial development, including “big box” type stores like grocery stores. If the Harris government’s criteria had been a community-based solution instead of sticking to rigid, pre-existing municipal boundaries, the land in dispute would have been part of a Wingham-centred municipality and there’d have been no room to argue. Instead thousands of dollars in legal fees have been paid out by taxpayers on both sides to fight the issue out. If common-sense had been used by the supposedly Common Sense Revolution, the map dividing fire coverage among Brussels, Blyth and Wingham fire stations looks like it would have made a pretty wise dividing point among the three communities. There would be a lot fewer issues for dispute if municipal boundaries were on either side of some rural concession road than, as they are now, on the edge of a town like Wingham, Blyth or Brussels where natural communities of interest are arbitrarily split. Unfortunately nobody seems interested in fixing the mistakes of the past. The Liberal government has made it impossible for amalgamated municipalities to de-amalgamate, even though it promised to allow it to happen. So the past screw-up must go on costing taxpayers money for years to come. Oh well, at least the lawyers are getting rich. — KR You want to be a bully? Unhappy with the message delivered to a parliamentary committee last week by Richard Colvin, a senior Canadian diplomat, the government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper went into attack mode, trying to diminish Colvin’s credibility. When Colvin said he’d sent many memos, while he was in Afghanistan, about evidence he turned up that prisoners were being tortured when they were turned over to Afghan authorities by Canadian troops, the government said he was a dupe for the Taliban. You are represented by your government, so when your government is a bully, as it is now, you are being a bully. When your government commits a war crime, as this would be, your country – and you – are committing a war crime. Is this the image of Canada that Canadians want on the international stage? — KR &