Loading...
The Citizen, 2008-07-24, Page 4PAGE 4. THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, JULY 24, 2008.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 FAX 887-9021 E-mail norhuron@scsinternet.com Website www.northhuron.on.ca Looking Back Through the Years 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 $32.00/year ($30.48 + $1.52 G.S.T.) in Canada;$101.00/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 OFA Commentary July 25, 1962 Visitors to the Seattle World’s Fair were able to witness contacts with the revolutionary Transit 4-A satellite as it passed deep in space. The large tracking machine on display at the fair recorded the satellite’s messages and reproduced them for the crowd, both audibly and visibly. Other Transit space vehicles, similar to the model displayed, were to be launched to provide a world navigational aid system for the future. ‘Frogman’ Fred Baldasare was helped ashore in Dover, England, after swimming across the English Channel underwater. He breathed from oxygen bottles during his swim which started in France, where he bid farewell to his new fiancée Frederika van Bernhardt. Karen Hantze Susman, a 19-year- old from San Antonio, Texas, was named the champion of the Wimbledon Cup. She defeated opponent Vera Sukova, of Czechoslovakia, in the women’s singles tennis finals to claim her prize. A Jewish boy kidnapped from Israel was found and returned to his family. This reunion resolved a bizarre series of events which surrounded the whole ordeal. In 1957, the Schuhmachers emigrated from Russia to Israel, and the five- year-old Yossele and his sister were sent to live with grandparents. Two years later, after establishing themselves, the Schuhmachers sent for their children, but only the sister returned, as Yossele had disappeared. An intensive search, which lasted three years and several countries, ignited conflict between Israel’s secular majority and its devoted Orthodox population. Finally, U.S. immigration agents were tipped off, and found the boy in Brooklyn, New York, where he had been residing for three months prior. How he arrived there or why he stayed was still uncertain and even Yossele himself would not disclose, even though the authorities continued to push to get answers. For the time being, he was returned to the custody of his parents as investigation continued into the strange affair. July 22, 1981 Howie Morenz’s Fire On Ice would be the production to kick off the Blyth Summer Festival season. The play told the story of Howie, how he began playing hockey on the ponds and rivers of Mitchell, and how his primitive beginnings in the sport taught him the real values of the game and of life. The art of china painting was making its way to Blyth. Tillsonburg native Evelyn Gagnon was holding a demonstration at the Blyth Saga of some of the work she’d been doing over her eight-year career in the field. Morris Twp. was preparing for its big celebrations in honour of its anniversary as a community. In honour of the event, The Brussels Post was compiling a visual history of the area to be printed in the paper. Anyone wishing to publish their congratulations to the community were welcomed and encouraged to do so before it was too late. July 25, 1990 The Brussels Bulls hockey team had chosen a new coaching staff to lead the team in the 1990-91 OHA Junior ‘C’ season. Team president Steve Coulter announced that Scott Pettigrew of Wingham would be coaching the team. Assistant coaches were Tim Fritz and Hugh Hanley. Fritz happened to be a former Bulls star player. A severe car accident occurring in Grey Twp. resulted in the hospitalization of all four passengers of the vehicle. Two of the passengers were sent to London’s Victoria Hospital, and one remained in critical condition. The other two were sent to Wingham hospital, where one had been released, and the other in satisfactory condition. Three other persons were involved in the incident, but could not be named under the Young Offenders Act, and were all treated and released. The cause of the accident was the driver losing control after passing another vehicle on County Road 16. No estimates on damages were yet known. A very unique collection of art was on display af the Time and Places gallery in Bayfield. Artist Simeonie Killiktee, a Canadian Inuit living on Baffin Island, was showing his carvings done in a traditional Inuit style. Now sixteen, Simeonie was only eight years old when he began carving, and already his work had been featured in Washington, D.C. July 26, 1995 Arson was suspected in two fires set in Brussels. Enroute to tend to a car fire, firefighters noticed a fire at the Masonic Chapel on Mill Street. A burning Bible was found inside, and after extinguishing the flames, the firefighters made their way to the car fire, which was also extinguished. It appeared that something was thrown on the front seat to set the fire. Damages were estimated at $2,000, and a thorough investigation was being held in the matter. though some local youth were already held suspect. Playing at the Park Theatre in Goderich was the space-age thriller, Apollo 13. By Don McCabe, Vice-President, Ontario Federation of Agriculture Now that carbon dioxide has been designated a toxic substance under Canadian law, the ability of agriculture to sequester carbon in the soil is taking on a dramatic new level of importance within the nation. This became obvious at a meeting I attended recently in Calgary of the Industry Provincial Offset Group – a body of large corporations, provincial governments, and suppliers faced with the need to locate ways of offsetting their carbon emissions. Officials of these large corporations can face legal action under the Environmental Protection Act if they fail to find offsets for their carbon emissions after Jan. 1, 2010. Canadian agriculture is known to be responsible for about 10 per cent of the greenhouse gas going into the atmosphere, but we also know we can provide 20 per cent of the solutions for the greenhouse gas problem, if the rules are right. Agriculture can provide solutions in a variety of ways apart from sequestering carbon dioxide in the soil. We are able to take biogases and turn them into electricity; with precision farming techniques now available to farmers, we can appropriately place the amount of nitrogen fertilizer needed for crops and thus reduce the level of nitrous oxide entering the atmosphere. By using no-tillage cultivation practices, farmers are able to boost the capacity of the soil to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. OFA’s Science and Technology Committee presented a document dealing with agriculture’s role in managing carbon credits. Included in the list of principles – emission removal credits belong to the individual or entity that created them, and carbon sequestered in soil belongs to the landowner. That paper will return to the OFA board meeting in August for further consideration. Agriculture needs the co-operation of all levels of governments to give us the right rules and incentives to do what has to be done. It’s encouraging to see Ontario add its support to the Western Climate Initiative. This is a United States based regional carbon credit trading pact which has attracted the support of British Columbia, Manitoba, Quebec and seven American states. Premier McGuinty, when he announced Ontario’s involvement in the group said: “We all have a part to play in the fight against climate change.” OFA and its national partner, the Canadian Federation of Agriculture, want to work with our governments and industry partners to plan for optimum success in managing greenhouse gases and climate change. 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 We must live by the rules The arrest of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic for war crimes committed during the civil war there is a step forward for the concept of international justice holding leaders to account for crimes against humanity. If we want this concept to endure, however, we must all be willing to live with it. Karadzic will face trial with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, a United Nations court based in The Hague, Switzerland for his crimes of ethnic cleansing in Bosnia, the attempt to drive out non-Serbian families, leaving the country to Serbs. One of the charges is for the massacre of thousands of Bosnian men and boys at Srebrenica. The only way we can hope for a more civilized world in the long run is if leaders can be held to account for such crimes against humanity within their own countries. This is a precedent that the victorious allies established with the Nuremberg trials of Nazi leaders following World War II. Many of the same governments were in favour of the tribunal for trying leaders from the former Yugoslavia. And yet some of these governments don’t want to be subjected to international law and courts themselves. The United States, particularly under the presidency of George W. Bush, has refused to agree that Americans should be liable for breaking international law. The current government has not only tried to get around international law, but even the U.S. constitution by holding prisoners of war and terror suspects at its Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba. There it has tortured people, against international law, in the name of national security. Two successive Canadian governments have refused to stand up for the international law on child soldiers and seek the release of Canadian citizen Omar Kadhr who was 15 years old when he was captured in Afghanistan and taken to Guantanamo Bay to be held ever since. If we want international laws for others, we must be willing to live with the consequences for our own country. — KR Let’s hope it’s catching One of the positives of the U.S. presidential election is the engagement of young people in the campaign of Barack Obama. Young people down there have been a big part of Obama’s successful campaign to secure his candidacy for the Democratic Party. They continue to work to win November’s presidential election. Probably not since John F. Kennedy mobilized a generation has there been this kind of excitement about a leader on the part of young people. Canadians seem to follow American trends. Shortly after Kennedy, our youth, too, got excited over Pierre Trudeau. Here’s hoping this current trend spreads and young Canadians get engaged. — KR &