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The Citizen, 1991-08-21, Page 3I THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21,1991. PAGE 3. Regulations cause sign headaches Marking 90 Charlie Smith of Blyth was joined by his daughter Margery and 150 friends, neighbours and relatives Saturday night in Blyth to mark his 90th birthday. The former Westfield area resident moved to Blyth when he retired from the farm in 1976. Blyth’s Charlie Smith marks 90th birthday A long-time East Wawanosh res­ ident now living in Blyth was hon­ oured Saturday evening by friends, relatives and neighbours to mark his 90th birthday. Charlie Smith was bom Aug. 19, 1901 in Grey Township, the son of Oliver and Mary Smith. He attend­ ed school at S.S. No. 3, Grey town- Blyth People On Saturday afternoon Lloyd and Mary Walden enjoyed a visit from Jeff Wittich and his friend Aileen Martin of Kitchener. In the evening they attended Charlie Smith’s 90th birthday celebration at Blyth Unit­ ed church. In last week's column about Charlie Smith's visit to Sault Ste. ship. He married Evelyn McDowell on Sept. 30, 1933. She predeceased him in 1989. Mr. Smith farmed in East Wawanosh township for 50 years before retiring to Blyth in 1976. He is a member of Blyth United Church. Mr. Smith has three children: Gordon of Mississauga, Lyle of Sault Ste. Marie and Margery of Heidelberg. Saturday night's gathering of 150 friends and relatives was enter­ tained by the music of Larry and Nancy Jean Lahn of Hanover and various local musicians under the direction of master of ceremonies Clifford Coultes. Special guest at the event was Murray Cardiff, M.P.P. for Huron-Bruce and Char­ lie’s nephew. Three grandchildren were among the celebrants: Sari Smith, Mississauga and Paula and Peter Smith, Sault Ste. Marie. Refreshments were provided by the United Church Women. Signs telling visitors which ser­ vice clubs operate in Blyth may soon be posted at the north, east and west entrances of the village but visitors arriving from the south will have to suffer without that information. Council accepted quotes for the north, east and west signs but decided not to go ahead with the sign at the southern edge of the vil­ lage until an exemption can be worked out with the Ministry of Transportation (MTO). For a time restrictions imposed by the MTO threatened to shut down the whole project. The MTO requires 1000 feet between bill­ boards outside the village limits. Because of the other billboards already in place, councillors esti­ mated that the closest they could Committee urged to get businesses involved Continued from page 1. when the Festival first began in 1990. Somehow, he said, it's need­ ed to get the downtown and busi­ ness community involved again. "That's where it started and I think that's the way it should con­ tinue," said Councillor Dave Lee. Councillor Lee also suggested ways should be found to get people to stay longer and spend money that would help pay for the costs of the parade. There are many free events now but perhaps there should be other events for which there will be a charge, he said. Bev Elliott of the committee said that what is really needed is a busi­ ness improvement area (BIA) group similar to those in other com­ munities. "Other communities would love to have what we've got," she said. "We shouldn't let it slip away." Blyth is a tourist town, she said and will probably never have much more industry than it has now so what tourists it has it must work to keep. Reeve Wasson said he didn't want people to look at council's decision as a lack of interest or lack of support but he didn't feel it was council's business to get into heavy financial support of such events. erect the sign would be at Radford's pond, more than two kilometres from the village entrance. Similar restrictions make it virtually impos­ sible to find a location for the sign within the village limits in the south end. The county has no such tough restrictions so the cast and west signs on Cty. Rd. 25 are no problem and there is a suitable location at the north for the sign. The best the MTO would allow was a smaller brown sign at the south edge of town, which wouldn't have matched the burgundy used on the entrance signs and on the service club signs at the other entrances to the village. "I have a problem with the whole project without the ability to match (the colours)," Councillor Steven Sparling said. He said that he'd rather hold off completely than to go ahead with one brown and three burgundy signs. Councillor Dave Lee felt the restrictions were silly. "They don't have enough miles of road in Ontario to put up with all their reg­ ulations," he said. "We're ticked off to put it polite­ ly," Reeve Albert Wasson said. Still, the Reeve said, he didn't want to jeopardize the whole pro­ ject just because of problems with one of four signs involved. Sup­ pose, he said, council held off on all signs until it could gel agree­ ment from MTO and in the mean­ time the county changed its regulations. Councillor Sparling agreed and made a motion to erect the three other signs and leave any sign at the south end until council could try to work out a belter deal with MTO. Don’t make the vacation permanent. You can lose a lot more than your licence drinking and driving.©Ministry of the Attorney Ontario General OFFICER FRIENDLY Your Loca' H Community Oriented P OLICING -COMMITTEE­ TIP OF THE WEEK Us» the buddy system when going for a walk or a swim THIS ADVERTISEMENT IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY: Howson & Howson Ltd., Blyth Be there! Hey Kids! Don't Miss It VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL with the Blyth Christian Puppeteers Aug. 26 to 30th 10 a.m. to noon at BLYTH CHURCH OF GOD For more information call 523-4590 Marie it was incorrectly said he was attending the 50th anniversary of Lyle and Arlene Smith. He actu­ ally attended the anniversary of Arlene's parents. While cleaning recently, Harvey Sillib of Blyth came across a June 1, 1966 edition of the Blyth Stan­ dard. In the news 25 years ago was the planning for the school reunion of former Blyth Public and Blyth Continuation School students planned for July 30 through Aug. 1. Letters of those planning to attend were printed in the paper and included people such as former teacher Fred Sloman; Wilmer A. Bell, D. M. Jenkins, Garth McK- night, Mrs. Allan Burwell (nee Emma Taman), Grant R. Laundy, Dora (Laundy) Ney, Lillie M. Carr, Ruth (Vincent) McDiarmid, Jean E. Babb and Ray Dobbyn. Other news in the paper told of Slewart Toll and his family of Windsor leaving for two years to help upgrade teacher education in Kenya and that Brock Vodden, for­ merly of Blyth and currently of Antikokan had been appointed Superviser of Language Arts in North Ontario for the Education Division of Indian Affairs Branch, a job that would include travelling by water, air and land. another money savings idea.... Donna Govier says with any fuel purchase of 25 litres or more you can book a Hand Car Wash for only $5 r FARMAND n L INDUSTRIAL '1 PARTS 99 HANDWASH ■ & RINSE ONLY Appointments may be necessary - please book yours today!! RADFORD FUELS BLYTH 523-4851 MasterCard