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The Citizen, 1998-05-27, Page 4Spring beauty Photo by Bev Brown Looking Back Through the Years From the files of the Blyth Standard, Brussels Post and North Huron Citizen May 30, 1968 Ray Hemingway received the CIL trophy for the highest score in the swine section at the Huron Cty. Livestock Judging Competition. Tommy Hunter was to tour Ontario, the Prairies and Western Canada in the summer *itivmem- hers of his troupe before returning to Toronto for the third season of The Tommy Hunter Show. Oldfield Pro Hardware announced a renovation sale and celebration. There were free bal- loons, matches, flyswatters, and a draw for prizes on all purchases over $5. There was also some bar- gains on Eveready flashlight batter- ies, just two for 47 cents and a five-string corn broom for only 99 cents. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, starring Clint Eastwood, was the feature film playing at Brownie's Drive-In. Also playing was Hell's Angels on Wheels, starring Adam Roarke, and Jack Nicholson. Letters L THE EDITOR, Your family breathes in over May 30, 1973 The second issue•of Village Squire, a new magazine published by The Blyth Standard rolled off , the presses earlier in the week:- The magazine was aimed at urban dwellers in Huron and Bruce Counties. The first production at the Blyth Little Theatre, Mystery at Green Fingers, was performed at Blyth Public School. Members of the cast included Clare Vincent, Joan Campbell, Hugh McClure, Jo Cronin, Mary McClure, Gwen Pat- terson, Margie Phelan, Phyllis Street and Jim Spivey. McGee Pontiac, Buick, and GMC dealer featured a Mercury Meteor, 1973, with two door hard- top, V8 automatic, power steering, and more for only $4,395. They also had a 1973 Ford Galaxie 500, with four-door pillared hardtop, V8, automatic, power steering, and more for only $3,895. 4,000 chemicals when someone lights up in your home. The research has shown tha t second- hand smoke contains more tar, nicotine (the addictive drug) and carbon monoxide (also found in car exhaust) than the smoke inhaled directly by a smoker. Often people are frustrated about what they can do to protect themselves and their children from these effects. May 7.13, 1997 Dianne Cunningham, minister responsib. ; for women's issues, ,helped launch a CD-„om on the of harassment at Central -'Huron Secondary School (CHSS). The CD was created by four former CHSS students; Erin Maaskant, Matt Maaskant, Jason Bell and Robert Kemp, and teacher Steve Oliver. They produced the CD to deal with sexual harassment, sexu- al assault and violence in schools. Spring temperatures three to five degrees below average delayed the planting of corn and soybeans. The cool weather also caused difficul- ties for farmers wanting to put cat- tle into the fields as there was little hay available. The Brussels Mite boys and girls played their first game of the year against Belgrave. Brussels came out ahead with a 14-10 victory. An exciting season opener saw the Brussels II U-10's squaring off with the Brussels I team to tie 1-1. Children will be less likely to get asthma, ear infections, bronchitis and pneumonia if their families step outside to smoke. Family members will be less,likely to have headaches, itchy eyes, sore throats, nausea, or increased heart rate or blood pressure. Come to our display at the Hensall Community Yard Sale on Continued on page 6 E ditorial PAGE 4. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1998. C itizen ZPA P.O. Box 429, P.O. Box 152, BLYTH, Ont. BRUSSELS, Ont. NOM 1H0 NOG 1l-10 Phone 523-4792 Phone 887-9114 FAX 523-9140 FAX 887-9021 E-mail norhuron@huron.net Publisher, Keith Roulston Editor, Bonnie Gropp Advertising Manager, Jeannette McNeil raw The Citizen Is published weekly in Brussels, Ontario by North Huron Publishing Company Inc. Subscriptions are payable in advance at a rate of $27.00/year ($25.24 + $1.76 G.S.T.) in Canada; $62.00/year In U.S.A. and $75.00/year in other foreign countries. Advertising is accepted on the condition that in the event of a typographical error, only that portion of the advertisement will be credited. Advertising Deadlines: Monday, 2 p.m. - Brussels; Monday, 4 p.m. - Blyth. We are not responsible for unsolicited newscripts or photographs. Contents of The Citizen are Copyright. Publications Mail Registration No. 6968 The North Huron Why so big? When it comes to restructuring talks in Huron County it seems people can have two choices: big, or bigger. Most of the proposals that have come forward from any direction in the restructuring talks have been for large municipalities to replace the current 26 townships, towns and villages. Options range from a single- tier system that would see the whole county with only one government, down to large regional municipalities that would group up to 10 municipalities together. The thinking of the municipal politicians trying to cope with the issue seems to be driven by what happened in Kent County where, unable to agree on a plan of their own, some municipalities called in a provincial commission which ignored all their proposals and imposed a single government on the whole county. It means the urban problems of Chatham are being dealt with by the same council that has to look after municipal drains in the countryside. Worried about this, Huron County politicians seem to aim at being big enough to please the province without being a single-tier government. But to the north of us is a different model. In Bruce County restructuring has been going on in a serious way since long before Huron County decided they couldn't ignore the issue any longer. Here, however, the new units are much smaller. In many cases three or four municipalities are joining together in a way that tries, as close as possible, to recognize existing communities. -In Bruce they seem to realize that governments should fit the realities of people's lives and conform as close as possible to the sense of common purpose that a community brings. In Huron we seem obsessed with political structures that have nothing to do with organic things like communities. We want to draw lines on a map and carve up the county without any recognition of community lines. Our goal seems to be to please the government rather than look at the real needs of the people. If three or four municipalities were to join into a single unit we'd reduce the number of governments in Huron by 60 per cent, yet still give people a sense they owned their local government. Wouldn't that be a realistic goal? — KR Helping or, hurting The Canadian government is enduring some bad publicity since India exploded two nuclear weapons, probably using nuclear knowledge and plutonium gained by operating CANDU reactors obtained from Canada. The government's dilemma shows how difficillt it can be to help other countries and yet not do damage. Many critics claim the Canadian government has made it possible for countries to start nuclear weapons programs by selling electricity- producing nuclear reactors to Countries like India and Pakistan and, just this week, Romania. The waste product of this peaceful process is the raw material needed for nuclear weapons, they say, and have made it possible for countries like India to get the bomb. Even though Canada had agreements with India not to use the plutonium for bombs, India copied what they learned from operating the Canadian-designed reactors, built their own reactors, and used the plutonium for the first two nuclear explosions. Now Pakistan may follow suit. Of course the plutonium itself won't explode. It takes the political and military bosses to make the bombs. Arguing that, however, is a little like gun dealers in the U.S. who claim that the weapons they sell don't kill people, people kill people. There is a difference in this case, however. While the Canadian government may be mercenary in trying to make money by selling the CANDU reactors (and bidding against other countries that also want to sell reactors), the atomic power plants at least help the people of the countries where they are built to raise themselves up toward a first- world lifestyle. Indeed if countries like Canada refused to share their technology with poor couatries there would be accusations we were trying to hold down Tliird Wyk! countries. These countries don't the kind of water power resource Canada has used to create electricity. Most don't have oil or coal which the U.S. or England used to create their industrial might. They need to find some way of getting power if they are to com- pete. SUCF are thC complications of living in our modern world. — KR