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The Citizen, 1991-06-12, Page 1Good footing Belgrave arena addition gets started See page 12 Off the bottle County wants deposit on wine, whisky bottles See page 20 Hot tickets Tickets selling quickly at Blyth Festival See page 23 17th Blyth Festival opens Thursday night Blyth Festival’s l'/lh season opens Thursday night with the pre­ mier of Ted Johns’ latesf play The Two Brothers. Serving Brussels, Blyth, Auburn, Belgrave, Ethel, Londesborough, Walton and surrounding townships. VOL. 7 NO. 23 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12,1991.60 CENTS The ceremonies will also see the opening of the Contemporary Folk Art Exhibition at the Festival’s newly-named Bainton Art Gallery. The opening, taking place at 5:30 p.m. will also see the release of a 64-pagc limited edition book, Folk Art Treasures of Huron County, edited by Blylh-area resident Bev Walker and published by Gunby- field Publishing of Goderich. The book contains photographs of vari­ ous works from 45 artists from Huron County. The book and the exhibition, along with the exhibi­ tion Heritage Folk Art at the Huron County Museum, are part of a cele­ bration of Huron County's 150th anniversary. The annual opening night dinner will feature guest speaker Roy Bonistcel. The author, and former host of CBC TV's Man A/ive,will be one of many high-profile guests at the dinner which begins at 6 p.m. Mr. Bonisteel was host of Man Alive for 22 years and was watched by 1.5 million Canadians weekly. He circled the globe doing inter­ views with world leaders for the program. He won many broadcast­ ing awards including the Gordon Sinclair Awards for "Excellence in Broadcast Journalism" and an award as "Best Television Host in Canada". North Huron Development meeting held Dozens of north Huron residents attended the first meeting of the Community Development North area in Wingham Wednesday night. Interested people and representa­ tives from municipal governments in northern Huron were invited to the meeting by the Huron County Planning Department to help start the process of shaping the future of the area. Dr. Gary Davidson, director of Planning and Development for the county explained that people n the towns, villages and township are going to have to co-operate to develop in the future. "The goal is to look at how the community will develop in the future," he said. There are great changes happening in the social structure of the county from things such at the Free Trade Agreement and changes in health care to make it community-based. There is a need to restructure community economies. Often it takes a crisis to get people to take part in thinking about the future of their communi­ ties, he said. "Il's important that the community prepares for change." Historically communities have turned to the federal and provincial governments for help when they're in trouble but now the senior gov­ ernments are in trouble themselves. "Maybe we can't help them but I hope we can help ourselves." He noted that a study showed that virtually all the new jobs creat­ ed in Huron since 1981 have been in the service sector and most of these are being filled by women. There is a general increase in the number of women in the labour force which has repercussions for things like day care. There is a need for transportation for seniors. The number of farmers continues to decline meaning towns that have thrived on serving farmers must find other ways to strengthen their economies. Many farmers have found it necessary to find off-farm employment. He said that the economic devel­ opment area being set up will mesh Continued on page 19. Inferno Blyth's Deputy Fire-Chief Jim Howson, left, passes a piercing nozzle to Chief Paul Josling as firefighters from Blyth and Wingham battled a barn blaze at the farm of Morris Building Inspector Leo Sanders, just a few miles from Belgrave, last Thursday afternoon. Over 400 pigs, valued at between $50-$60,000 were lost in the fire. The estimate of damage to the barn was $35,000, caused primarily by high temperatures Chief Josling estimated that at some points in the structure temperatures got as high as 1000 degrees. Today he lives with his wife Jane on a farm in the Bay of Quinte area of Eastern Ontario where his family has lived for seven generations. He is vice-president and General Man­ ager of a new FM radio station in the area. The opening night production of The Two Brothers marks the return of Ted Johns to the Blyth stage, both as writer and performer, for the first time since 1985. The com­ edy involves two brothers, Vincent, who went into politics and Gus flunked out of school and their father, Fred who runs the family furniture factory as well as Dr. Tory. Starring in the show are Mr. Johns himself, as well as Kevin Bundy and David Fraser as the brothers, John Jarvis as Fred, and Wendy Noel as the brothers' moth­ er. Peter Smith, the Festival's new artistic director, directs the opening night production. 400 pigs lost in Morris tup. barn fire Volunteer firefighters from Blyth and Wingham were called to a bam fire at the residence of Leo Sanders, Lot 8, North Half of Cone. 6 in Morris township shortly after noon on Thursday, June 6. Blyth Fire Chief Paul Josling said that by the lime the firemen arrived on the scene, 96 sows, four gills, four boars, and about 300 weiner pigs had already perished from the intense smoke and heat. Only 16 sows were saved. The loss of livestock is estimated at between $50 and $60,000. Mr. Sanders had been welding on some panelling in the bam, when it caught fire. He first tried to use the fire extinguisher to put out the blaze, but discovered it wasn't working. By the time he attempted to pul it out with water, the fire was too far gone, Mr. Josling said. When the firemen arrived there was little fire but a great deal of heal and smoke. Mr. Josling esti­ mated the damage to the building, caused primarily by the heat, to be $35,000.