The Citizen, 1991-02-06, Page 3THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1991. PAGE 3.
Rutabaga Festival needs leader
Retiring
Frank Bainton, left, presents Charlie Shaw with a retirement
gift at a special dinner held in his honour in Blyth on Friday
evening. Mr. Shaw is retiring from Bainton Ltd. after 30
years of employment.
Big bridal show
scheduled for
Blyth will host the annual bridal
show of the Wingham and District
Community Living Association
April 24, Blyth council was told at
its January 22 meeting.
Chris Gerster and Luanne Taylor
of the Association revealed their
plans to village council when they
appeared to ask for a grant to help
offset the $130 rental fee for Blyth
Memorial Hall theatre and down
stairs hall. Six fashion shops will
take part in the show April 24 and
there will be 20 booths showing
bridal supplies. The event will be
the main fundraising event for the
Association of the year, the women
said.
The bridal show, Ms. Gerster
Blyth
said, was started by the Associa
tion to publicize the Bells and Bows
bridal boutique at the Jack Reavie
Enterprises workshop in Wingham
and has grown since then.
The Association very seldom
goes to the villages surrounding
Wingham to ask for fees for service
so helping offset the rent for
Memorial Hall would help the
group, she said.
Councillor Dave Lee said he had
no problem with helping the group
but there was always the fear that
giving a facility rent-free would set
a precedent and have other groups
asking for free rent.
Council agreed to charge the rent
but to give a one-time grant of $130
to the group.
Blyth.
People
Jane Giousher and Don Buchan
an had the high scores at the
weekly Monday night euchre party
at Blyth Memorial Hall January 28.
Lottie McLellan and Mary Holland
had the low scores. June Jacklin
No injuries in
There were no injuries after a
two car accident occurred at the
corner of Queen and Dinsley
Streets in Blyth at noon Wednes
day, January 30.
Wingham O.P.P. say that Dr.
Richard Street, 70, of Gypsy Lane
in Blyth was travelling east on
Dinsley when he came to a stop at
the intersection. Wilma Vincent,
44, of RR 1, Londesboro was
northbound on Queen and had
slowed to make a left turn, when
the Street vehicle entered the
intersection and struck her 1986
Olds.
Dr. Street has been charged with
and Ted Mills had the most lone
hands. Those at the lucky table
were Lillian Appleby, Irma Crich,
Mary Holland and Mel Jacklin.
There were six tables in play at
the Lost Heir card party Wednes
day, January 30. Gene Snell and
Shane Snell had the high scores
while Margaret Nesbit and Charlie
Smith had the low scores. Harvey
Sillib won the special prize.
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Longman
and family, Bradley and Jason
visited at the home of his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Longman re
cently.
Blyth crash
failure to yield. His 1986 Dodge
sustained light damage, while the
Vincent car was listed as moderate
damage.
Correction
In the report of the court case of
Cheryl Beane in last week’s Citizen
it was stated Ms. Beane would be
going to another part of the
province with her boyfriend. In
actuality she will be going to Brant
County to work on her father’s
1,000 acre cash crop farm there.
Despite the tremendous success
of last year’s first annual Rutabaga
Festival in Blyth, history may not
repeat itself if the committee can
not find a leader to pull it all
together.
Jane Gardner, who served on the
committee last year said that a
meeting Wednesday night (today)
has been planned to bring together
all the people who were involved
last year. “John Elliott did such a
good job as our chairman, but it
was only for a one year term. We
need someone to lead the commit
tee, yet not be saddled with all the
work.”
Ms. Gardner says many groups
have expressed interest in putting
Hall Board
members
feel unneeded
The monthly meeting of the
Memorial Hall Board was held in
the council chambers on Monday
night, January 28 at 8 p.m. with
nine members present.
Minutes of the last meeting were
presented and adopted business
from the minutes consisted of
prices and information on a new
fridge which is on the wish list for
Memorial Hall as the two present
fridges are old and using a lot of
energy. Another item was the heat
problem in the hall. During Janu
ary several meetings were cancell
ed and cards were played wearing
overcoats. The heat is all controlled
by computer from the main Festival
office. The trouble has been reme
died and hope things are back to
normal.
A letter was received from the
Blyth Legion Ladies Auxiliary stat
ing that their members would no
longer be attending as they felt
nothing was being accomplished. It
is the feeling of several groups on
hall board that the hall board is just
a puppet of the village Council and
Festival Board without any input
from hall board. It is a problem of
the hall board having enough
voting members attend the meet
ings to form a quorum as there are
only ten groups included in the hall
board and three of them do not
attend or don’t have a voting
member on the board.
It is a sure sign of spring when
landscaping is being discussed for
around the hall and a more detailed
report will be present at the next
meeting. Bills and accounts were
circulated to members and discuss
ed. Then a motion was made and
adopted passing them on to council
for payment. Motion was made to
adjourn with the next meeting to be
held February 25 at 8 p.m.
it together. “The Optimists want to
become involved and the Lions are
scheduling their dance around that
weekend. There are lots of other
organizations that can put together
activities for kids. We know it can
happen, we just need strong
leadership. We have the money in
the bank and we have lots of
volunteers.”
Without someone coming for
ward to fill the position of chair
man, the committee will be making
the decision to try and continue or
just do special events linked to the
Rutabaga name. “That’s the point
where we stand now,” said Ms.
Gardner. “We’re all positive about
it; we believe it can happen. We
just need someone to guide it all,
pull it all together.”
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