The Citizen, 1985-10-30, Page 1Serving Brussels, Blyth, Auburn, Be{grave, Ethel,
Londesborough, Walton and surrounding townships. -
VOL. 1 NO. 2 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1985
Mr. and Mrs. Dan McInnes, growers of this huge pumpkin, don't have to
worry. Even if neighbours Jim Lawrie and young Chris Stewart, age 6, had
ideas of carting it off to make a huge jack-o'-lantern, they wouldn't be able.
The 135-pound pumpkin will be a jack-o'-lantern come Thursday night but
only to decorate the Blyth home of Mr. and Mrs. McInnes.
Elston steps down after 18 years
as Morris township reeve
Huron County Warden Paul Steckle presents a copy of the Huron County Historical Atlas to
Agriculture Minister Jack Riddell on behalf of Premier David Peterson at a ceremony unveiling
the Atlas Oct. 23 in Goderich. Looking pleased to have the book finally delivered (in
background) is Grant Stirling, chairman of the atlas steering committee and warden when the
project was started nearly two years ago.
Three Hullett
residents
seek one seat
First the shortage, now the
abundance of candidates for Hul-
lett township council and township
voters will be going to the polls to
choose one councillor from a field
of three.
When nominations first closed
Oct. 21, only two names had been
nominated for the three available
positions on council. As a result,
the two, Ron Gross and Harvey
Stewart were acclaimed and nomi-
nations were reopened for the third
position for one day only on Oct. 23.
When nominations closed three
candidates had stepped forward:
Douglas Bell, Hugh F. Flynn and
Victor Stackhouse.
Citizen's
shareholders
elect board
Two Brussels and three Blyth-
area residents were named to the
board of The Citizen when the first
shareholders mzeting was held
Oet. 22 at the Blyth office.
Max Demaray and Barbara
Brown of Brussels and Mason
Bailey of Blyth were named to the
board along with Keith and Jill
Roulston editor and production
and office manager of The Citizen.
At a subsequent board meeting
the Roulstons were named presi-
dent and secretary-treasurer re-
spectively.
Mr. RoulstOn reported to the
meeting that the first issue had
been late going to press largely
because of the large volume of
advertising to be handled, mean-
ing a 32-page paper. He said that
start-up costs so far had been less
than budgeted but some pieces of
machinery were still needed.
The shareholders approved the
setting up of an editorial advisory
board to serve the Brussels area
and another for the Blyth area. The
board will give advice on how the
paper can best serve the needs of
the communities. Appointments
will be made at the next meeting of
the board of directors.
About 25 of the shareholders
were on hand for the meeting and
some of the work that goes into the
production of a newspaper was
demonstrated.
Saturday will see the completion
of more than a year and a half of
building when the new emergency
wing of the Wingham and District
Hospital is opened by Health
Minister Murray Elston.
The ceremony, at 2 p.m., will see
the opening of an addition that cost
$2 million and includes a new
$300,000 radiology unit. Among
the benefits of the new building
will be improved privacy for
patients being treated in the
emergency area with private
examining rooms. There will be a
new major trauma room for
accident victims. There's also a
day care area for the benefit of
patients undergoing day-surgery.
After 33 years on council, the last
18 of them as Reeve of Morris
Township, William Elston is not
seeking re-election.
Mr. Elston's name had been
entered in nominations last week
but he withdrew it before the
qualifying period ended Tuesday.
He will be succeeded by Doug
Fraser, R.R. #2, Blyth who is
presently serving as a councillor.
Also retiring as Deputy-Reeve
Tom Miller who became a councill-
or the same year Mr. Elston
became reeve. He is succeeded by
Clem McLellan who is also current-
ly a councillor.
The addition is designed to
improve work-flow throughout the
emergency area.
Construction began in April,
1984 and required demolition of
part of the hospital building and
relocation of services in the area.
The fundraising campaign
which began in Oct. 1984 has met
its goal of $400,000. In addition,
the province of Ontario has
provided $250,000, the County of
Huron $93,000 and the County of
Bruce, $10,000. The hospital was
able to pay the remaining costs out
to its own resources, built up over
the years.
Tours of the new facilities will be
offered to those attending the
opening ceremony.
Wawanosh
race more
interesting
than soap
opera
West Wawanosh township resi-
dents are being treated to an
election campaign that rivals the
television soap operas for cliff-
hangers.
When last we left the election
scene three people had been
nominated for three council posi-
tions and two of them had also been
nominated to run for other posi-
tions. When the qualifying period
had ended, only one council
position was filled that being the
long-distance candidate, Rhea
Hamilton-Seeger who had planned
a year in advance to have her
papers filed even though she would
be in New Zealand when nomina-
tion time rolled around. She gets
one position by acclamation.
The other nominees, Kathryn
Todd and Joe Hickey will be
competing for two other positions.
Mrs. Todd withdrew her name
from the council competition to run
for reeve against incumbent Jim
Aitchison. Mr. Hickey did not
withdraw his name but since, when
nominations are filed for two
positions they apply only for the
more senior position, his name will
be in election against another
incumbent councillor Bruce Ray-
nard for the post of deputy reeve.
With the loss of two nominations
for council, nominations had to be
reopened on Wednesday, Oct. 23
and when they had closed there
were three names in contention.
The surprise of the group is Gordon
H. Brindley, the incumbent deputy
reeve who had said he was getting
out of municipal politics but is now
back running as a councillor. Other ,
candidates are Cecil Cranston and
Harold Menary.
Stay tuned to the latest episode
in two weeks.
Like to draw?
Have you a sense of humour? Do
you like to draw?
The Citizen is looking for an
editorial page cartoonist to bright-
en Wednesday mornings for our
readers. If you would like to give it a
try, bring in or send in two samples
of your work.
We'll pay a small honorarium for
each cartoon used.
Robert Grasby, who also became
a councillor 18 years ago, remains
on council by acclamation. Ac-
claimed -to the two vacancies on
council were Howard Morton of
Belgrave and Robert Elliott.
Mr. Elston also served, during
his years as Warden of Huron
County, only the second Morris
township reeve to hold that
position.
Wingham Hospital opens
$2 million addition Saturday