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The Citizen, 1998-07-29, Page 4E ditorial I Waiting in the wings Photo by Les Cook Looking Back Through the Years July 28,1948 Mr. Lloyd Turvey of Blyth was the top rider at the Port Elgin Horse Races. He won seven firsts, a second and a third in nine heats. Several piano students of A. E. Cook passed their mid-summer examinations of the Royal Conser- vatory of Music. Shirley Robert- son, Marguerite Hall, Mary Morin, Ronald Philp, Mildred Cook, Ann Moritz, Lorne McKenzie, Eileen Elliott, Rhea Hall, Betty Kempton, Barbara Ann Wilson, Loraine Hamilton, Kenneth McAllister, Evelyn MacTavish, Joanne Hod- gins, Jim Hackett, Gwendolyn McKay, Donald J. MacDonald, Evelyn Cook, Paige Phillips, and Glenda Mcllwain all passed their practical exams. The fourth annual Blyth Lion's Club Frolic was considered to be one of the best held in the club's history. It brought over $1400 in proceeds to the club. August 1, 1973 There were about 50 youngsters gathered at Lion's Park to watch a free theatrical production called Shortshrift. Plans to have a wildlife park in East Wawanosh were discussed. The 400-acre property that the plans were based on was being considered mainly as a forestry and wildlife management area with a 100 acre area of it being used for a model beef demonstration farm. At Cook's Superior Food Market, a 13 oz. package of Post Sugar Crisp cereal cost 54 cents, Thomp- son seedless grapes cost 89 cents for a two pound bag, a 24 oz. bottle of Sunlight Liquid Detergent cost 43 cents and Wittich's sandwich bread cost 89 cents for three loaves. It was estimated in the ."Agricul- tural Tidbits" that the price for a dozen eggs would jump to $1 by the end of the year. and North Huron Citizen August 1,1990 A temporary retail postal office was opened at the Tea Room in Walton. The move was made because of the retirement of the postmaster Marj Humphries. The Ontario elections were set for Sept. 6. Blyth Councillor Ken Brown resigned. The sixth annual quilt show opened at the Huron County Muse- um in Goderich. At the Park Theatre in Goderich, Problem Child was playing for the second week. A display featuring the history of telephones was being shown at the Blyth Festival until Sept. 15. The display was loaned to them by the Huron County Museum. Three local youths, Maridale Bromley, Ben Thomson and Erin Roulston, were cast members of a Blyth Festival production called Firefly. From the files of the Blyth Standard, Brussels Post Letters THE EDITOR, More great prizes are yet to be won in the Take Heart Huron Project. Wendy Currie and family of Seaforth won the gas BBQ and tank. Kim Reid and family of Londesboro won the combination CO monitor and smoke detector. Marina Reed and family of Wingham won the cooler set. To date 97 families have entered their smoke-free homes in the contest. Twenty of these homes have recently become smoke -free! Congratulations to all of the families who have entered the contest, you may be one of our next winners. Remember that your whole family wins when your home becomes smoke-free! The next early bird draw will take place soon! To be eligible, call 482-3416 or 1-800-265-5184 to receive your smoke-free home kit and contest entry form. If you have received your kit, return your completed entry form today! Tricia Wilkerson Huron County Health Unit. THE EDITOR, I am writing in regards to the beer gardens in Brussels during the ball tournament held on the weekend of July 25. If people are so concerned about minors drinking, maybe they Continued on page 6 PAGE 4. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 1998. C The North Huron itizen *CNA P.O. Box 429, BLYTH, Ont. NOM 1H0 Phone 523-4792 FAX 523-9140 P.O. Box 152, BRUSSELS, Ont. NOG 1H0 Phone 987-9114 FAX 887-9021 Publisher, Keith Roulston Editor, Bonnie Gropp Advertising Manager, Jeannette McNeil z MIL7117/1 E-ma II norhuron@scsinternet.com 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 era © Copyright. Publications Mall Registration No. 6968 Taking it for granted Familiarity breeds, if not contempt, at least complacency. After 23 years of having the Blyth Festival in their midst, local residents perhaps don't recognize what an important place the summer theatre holds in the Canadian theatre community. As a birthplace of many scripts that have gone on to fame across Canada and around the world, and as a theatre where quality is always foremost on the agenda, the Festival is one of the most highly respected theatres in Canada. Take the production of Thirteen Hands opening at the Festival this week. It is performed by a high-powered cast that people would travel hundreds of miles to see at places like the Stratford or Shaw Festivals. The four actresses between them have many years experience on the top stages in the country. Goldie Semple has been a headliner at Stratford and Shaw. Michelle Fisk and Jane Siddell are veterans of Stratford and other top theatres across Canada. Sharon Bakker recently won the best actress award for the past season in Edmonton. They were drawn to Blyth by the opportunity to work with each other and to perform a work created by Pulitzer-prize winning author Carol Shields. In turn other top professionals are attracted by the chance to work with such stellar professionals. Set and costume designer for Thirteen Hands is Shawn Kerwin who has designed for Stratford and other top theatres. Victoria Wallace, who is designing set and costumes for the next show, Jobs! Jobs! Jobs!, just finished designing the costumes for the multi-million dollar Celtic extravaganza Needfire at the Princess of Wales Theatre in Toronto. Seeing these top professionals walking the streets of the village every day can make people a little blase after awhile. It gives local people however, the privilege of not only seeing, but meeting and befriending some of the top theatre professionals in the country.— KR Landmark day for gambling Monday was a landmark day for gambling in North America. Here in Ontario 6,000 invited guests including many celebrities, celebrated the opening of the glitzy $628 million casino in Windsor. In the U.S., millions lined up to buy a ticket on the Powerball lottery which promises a $250 million prize in this week's draw. That's big money in both cases. It means a lot of people have got to waste their money in order to pay for this kind of extravagance. And interviews with the people lined up to buy lottery tickets in the U.S. shows just how pathetic some of this losing will be. Unemployed people had taken their last $400 out of the bank to "invest" in lottery tickets. People an welfare had scraped together money to buy tickets in the hope they could turn their lives around. Their chances of winning? Something like one in 80 million. You can't legislate against stupidity of course, but when governments are behind the lotteries and the gambling casinos they can hardly just throw up their hands and say "What can you do?". Yes, people should know better but the government-sponsored lotteries are advertising on the basis of dreams and greed. They are dangling ideas of quick wealth in front of people who are often worried about even having a job tomorrow. Isn't there something sick with this kind of government tactic? And for some people, those with gambling problems, all these lotteries and casinos are like waving a drink under the nose of a recovering alcoholic or blowing cigarette smoke in the face of smoker who's trying to give up the habit. It's downright cruel. — KR The inquisition returns It's hard to know what is more repulsive — the reputation U.S. President Bill Clinton has for extramarital affairs or the attempts by Special Prosecutor Kenneth Starr to find something, anything, to pin on him. Starr's use of secret grand jury proceedings, where witnesses aren't even allowed the use of legal advice, turns the U.S. judicial system, a model for the world, into something recalling the days of the inquisition. Few Americans but the most rabid Clinton-haters even care if Starr finds something. This will go down as one of the saddest moments in the history of U.S. justice. — KR