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Carmen Klaus top French speaker
Carmen Klaus (left) of Brussels was a surprised champion
when she brought home the District 60 (covering most of
Ontario) trophy from the Toastmasters I nternational speaking
contest in Markham on the weekend. She won for her speech in
French on “The Children--Our Future.” Helping her hold her
hardware from various levels of competition is Allan
Dettweiler, presidentof theMaitland MotivatorsToastmasters
Club in Brussels.
Brussels
People
By Bonnie Gropp
Phone 887-9114 or 523-4792
Curtis Graber, Nicki Gropp and
Kelly Overholt travelled to Boston
last week to participate with the
F.E. Madill concert band at the
New England Music Festival on
Saturday.
While in Boston members of the
group had the opportunity to take a
walking tour along the Freedom
Trail. They also visited Plymouth
Thursday and went, Friday, to
Salem to see the Witch Museum.
They returned to Boston and saw
the New England Aquarium and
the Boston Computer Museum
later that afternoon.
Saturday morning began early,
(Nicki says they were up at 5 a.m.
to get ready for the competition).
The band played to International
Marking Standards and received a
Bronze Medal at the awards pre
Conservation Foundation event
benefits conservation education
A total of S10,50G was raised at
the Maitland Conservation Founda
tion fundraising dinner and auction
held at the Brussels, Morris and
Grey Community Centre on April
21. Nearly 250 people attended.
The money raised will be used to
further improvements being made
to the Wawanosh Nature Centre, a
conservation education facility lo
cated in East Wawanosh Township.
“We were thrilled by the support
we received for this year’s event”,
said Vince Judge, Conservation
Foundation Chairman. “The Foun
dation would like to thank the
members of the community who
made donations to guarantee the
dinner’s success”.
The Maitland Conservation
Foundation is a charitable, non
profit organization that raises
funds for projects being under
sentation on Saturday night, a first
for our area. Mr. Matthews, the
music teacher was very happy with
ihe students’ performance.
P.S. Nicki said Sam wasn’t at
Cheers so she didn’t go in.
Rev. Carolyn McAvoy approach
ed the other ministers in Brussels
about a mixed slo-pitch league.
Games will be played on Friday
evenings and players must be 16
years of age.
If you haven’t already signed let
your minister know and I’m sure
there will be no problem getting
your name added to the list.
Carolyn says they want it to be a
family time and get people out with
the church to have fun.
Barbara Brown recently returned
home. Time was spent in George
town with her sister while attend
ing to the funeral arrangements for
her mother. She then visited Dan
ville, Virginia and stayed overnight
on the return in Livonia, Mich, with
daughter Christine and her hus
band Monty Botosan.
Mr. and Mrs. Ken Fife, Burling
ton were weekend visitors with
Mrs. Edna Pearson, Ethel and Mr.
Hugh Pearson and Mr. and Mrs.
Ralph Pearson of Brussels.
taken by the Maitland Valley
Conservation Authority (MVCA).
The Wawanosh Nature Centre is
an outdoor education facility oper
ated by the MVCA. A total of over
5,000 students visit the centre
annually from schools in Huron,
Perth, Wellington and Bruce Coun
ties. The Centre gives students the
opportunity to learn about the
natural environment and the need
to manage soil and water re
sources. It is located on 400 acres of
land along the Maitland River on
concession 6-7 of East Wawanosh
Township.
This is the second fundraising
dinner held by the Maitland Con
servation Foundation. “With the
success of this event, I would
expect the Foundation will plan for
another dinner in 1991” said
Judge.
The Maitland Motivators Toast
masters Club isn’t even officially
formed yet but already it has a
champion speaker in its midst.
Carmen Klaus of Brussels re
turned from Markham on the
weekend with a huge trophy for
winning the French-speaking divi
sion of the District 60 of Toast
masters speaking contest. District
60 takes in most of Ontario.
Speaking on “The Children - Our
Future” Ms. Klaus first won at
Belgrave man gets fine of $750
A Belgrave-area man was found
guilty of dangerous driving in
provincial court in Wingham Wed
nesday after the court heard evi
dence of an incident that sounded
like something out of a movie
car-chase.
Judge R.G.E. Hunter found
Darryl Dunbar of RR 1, Belgrave
guilty of the criminal charge of
dangerous driving after an incident
that took place on June 25, 1989.
Mr. Dunbar was fined $750.
In the case, which began at the
Feb. 28 sitting of court, the judge
was told of a domestic dispute that
carried over into a traffic mishap.
Rick Sallows, a resident of Brussels
who was living in Wingham at the
time of the incident, testified he
had arrived at the home of his
former wife Wendy Sallows who
lived with Mr. Dunbar north of
Belgrave. He was late returning his
son from a weekend visitation and a
dispute errupted with his wife.
After some argument at the door
she shut the door in his face.
Hearing his son crying inside he hit
the door in anger, then finally left
to go back to his car. He said he
noticed Darryl Dunbar pass a large
window in the house, heading for
the door.
Mr. Sallows said he left the
house, turned south on Highway 4
and then east on County Road 16
and had travelled for about five
minutes when he saw a vehicle
coming up behind him. The car
crashed into the back of his car and
threw him forward in the collision.
Mr. Sallows said he pulled the
car off to the side of the road and
got out. The car that had hit him
did a power turn and Mr. Sallows
said he recognized Mr. Dunbar as
they came face to face as the car
turned, even though it was nearly
dark at the time.
After the car sped away, Mr.
Sallows carried on to Brussels to
take his passenger, Bonnie Steph
enson and her daughter home.
After they arrived he phoned his
former wife to say what had
happened and later called the
Wingham O.P.P. detachment.
Mrs. Stephenson, who suffered a
neck injury in the crash, corrobor
ated Mr. Sallows’ testimony. Con
stable Dennis Thompson of the
Wingham O.P.P. testified that he
had received the complaint from
the couple at 10:45 on the night in
question. He discovered damage to
the Sallows vehicle, the bumper
damaged and the trunk lid sprung.
On June 30 he had interviewed
Mr. Dunbar at the Wingham
detachment and on July 7 had
the home club level in Elmira (with
the Elmira Club which is sponsor
ing the Brussels club), then won
the area level at Kitchener and the
divisional level at Hamilton.
It all came as something of a
surprise for the champion. She says
she entered the contest strictly
by accident. She joined the newly-
formed Toastmasters Club in Brus
sels because she wanted to improve
workshops she gives. In her second
week she was asked by club
taken photos of the 1978 Ford LTD
registered to Mr. Dunbar. There
was no new damage to the front of
the car.
He found two distinctive dents in
the rear of the Sallows car that
“were consistent” with two bum
per pads on the front of the Dunbar
car.
In his defence, Mr. Dunbar said
he had gone to bed, about 9:45
been awaked by Mrs. Sallows
crying and asking him to come and
he heard her son crying. He said he
heard someone kicking at the door.
He said as he came downstairs he
saw Mr. Sallows through a window,
leaving in his car.
Because Mrs. Sallows was upset,
he decided he wanted to talk to
Rick Sallows but when he went
outside, he said he couldn’t see
Mr. Sallows and so turned north
toward Wingham where he thought
Mr. Sallows would have gone. He
drove four or five miles north on
Highway 4 but couldn’t find Mr.
Sallows so turned around and went
home, sitting alone in the vehicle
for some time before going into the
house. He claimed he did not drive
the LTD that night but took a Ford
Thunderbird which was par-ked
behind the LTD, blocking it. He
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Dorothy Zurbrigg
president Allan Dettweiler if she
would like to enter in the French
section of the public speaking
contest. “Inside of 10 weeks I
ended up with the trophy”.
Greater things may yet be to
come. All the winners in French
and English at all the District levels
in Canada were videotaped and one
speaker in French and one in
English will be chosen to speak in
Ottawa on Canada Day celebra
tions.
said there is only one set of keys for
the LTD, carried by Mrs. Sallows.
Mrs. Sallows corroborated Mr.
Dunbar’s testimony.
Judge Hunter prevented an at-
temp by defence attorney Heather
Ross to give evidence of a re-enact
ment of the incident by members of
her staff which, she said, would
have proved it couldn’t happen the
way Mr. Sallows said it did. Judge
Hunter said he had no way of
knowing if the conditions were
exactly the same for the re-enact
ment as for the original incident.
In her summation, Mrs. Ross
argued that Mr. Sallows was
inconsistent in his testimony, that
he misidentified the car that hit his
vehicle (originally calling it beige in
his statement to police when it was
light yellow) and that he should
have stayed at the scene of the
crash and phoned police from a
nearby farm house.
Crown Attorney Jamie Grant
said not many people would stay at
the scene when someone had just
tried to run them over. He said as
the car turned, it would have
brought the driver close enough to
Mr. Sallows to be identified. The
dents on the Sallows car that nearly
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