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Looking Back Through the Years
Roy and Marie Krauter, former
•-Kitchener residents, moved to
Lohdesboro to open a new business
they called The Trading Centre. The
Krauters had been collecting
merchandise and sold everything
from old to new.
July 17, 1991
Brussels hosted the second
meeting of the North Huron
Community Development Area.
The Huron-Perth Roman Catholic
Separate School Board and its
elementary teachers reached a one-
year contract settlement that
included a salary and benefit
increase of six per cent. Salary rates
in the contract ranged from a
minimum of $26,355 in level D with
no experience to $62,835 in the top
category with 12 years of
experience. Under the new contract
the average salary increased from
$46,380 in 1990/91 to $49,825
including changes brought under the
pay equity plan.
Sylvain Laurent of Burgundy,
France spent an exchange holiday
with the family of Bev and Alex
Blair
The Blyth Festival continued to
gather photographs and memories
for a collection to be displayed as a
history in memory of Evalena
Webster, a volunteer, who had
passed away the previous year.
Seven local students were among
the Ontario Scholars at Central
Huron Secondary School: Theresa
Knox, Leona Cunningham, Anita
Gross, Jennifer Roulston, Kim
Medd, Cathy McDonald and Jane
Whitmore.
The Brussels Mosquitoes took the
B. championship in a soccer
tournament in Kincardine. Team
members were: Terry Nichol, Corey
Newman, Cory Campbell, Brett
Fischer. Scott Clarkson, Derek
Gravelstock, Jessie Hutchins, Ryan
Smith, Trevor•Wilson, Scott Somers,
Adam Carr, Conrad Wernham, Chad
McCallum, Coach Gary Martin,
Clint Fischer, Jamie Thomas and
Andrew Straeton.
Stewart Toll, a former resident of
Auburn, and his London-based
education management consulting
firm, had been doing a complete
overhaul of the Bermuda school
system.
Several local businesspeople took
part in a course from the Federal
Business Dvelopment Bank to help
them upgrade business skills. Taking
the course offered through the Huron
Industrial Training Advisory
Committee were Brenda Radford,
Michelle and Mervin Lichty, Brian
McGavin, Fred Looker, Bruce and
Steve Howson and Steve Sparling.
July 17, 1996
Area students were Ontario
Scholars: Todd Shaddick, Erica
Clark, Joseph Johns, Lindsay
Anderson, Paula Allen, Marcy
McCall, Julie Glauser.
Blyth hosted the Taste of Country
Food Fair.
Bob Cunningham Was presented
with a Senior of the Year award from
Grey Twp. Reeve Leona Armstrong
for his contribution as chair of the
Grey 140th birthday celebration
committee.
Four Blyth Cubs moved up to
Scouts: Adam Jackson, David Kelly.
Jesse Hakkers and Nathaniel Peel.
Brussels Legion Army Cadet
Corps held its annual review
performing training demonstrations
and participating in a march past and
inspection. Awards to outstanding
cadets went to Warrant Officer Mike
Copper, Dave Dietz. Sgt. Derek
Hunt and Willie Adams.
relocation. It had taken an option on
64 acres on the outskirts of Blyth.
The plant, which made flares and
other signals use for search and
rescue operation, would have cost
$400,000 and employed 80 people.
The fourth annual Hullett Days
featured a children's tractor pull,
pork barbecue and variety show.
Jack Armstrong was also presented
with a citizenship award.
R. Harkness Victorian Millwork,
near Listowel rented the township
works garage and hall in Morris to
do custom wood products.
The Red Cross Small Craft Safety
Team visited the BMG pool and all
swimmers were given a chance to
participate in a demonstration.
Plans for the new Huron County
Pioneer Museum were unveiled at a
public meeting in Holmesville.
Crops in the area experienced dry
weather and although there were a
few showers during the previous
weekend to help, a good rain was
needed.
The Auburn Huron Chapel
celebrated its 14th anniversary.
Jason Lee, a 12-year-old Blyth boy
was the youngest actor on the Blyth
Festival stage that season. He played
the role of Sandy Purves, the
youngest in a family spanning four
generations in Another Season's
Promise.
The Country Arts exhibition
Contined on Ii)Qe4) ogenedat the Blyth art gallery.
1991. Tourists are not allowed to
bring those animals into the country;
and any dog can be declared illegal if
it is proven to have been trained to
be aggressive. Sweden has similarly
tough laws. In Britain, the import
and breeding of dangerous dogs is
illegal. In France, a law that took
effect in January 1999 requires
dangerous dogs to be sterilized. Italy
is planning to introduce a similar
law.
In Canada, animal control is
largely a municipal responsibility;
bylaws can deal with dangerous
dogs. Import of animals, medical
costs of treating bite injuries and
collection of national injury data are
federal matters.
There is no reliable information on
the canine population of Canada,
how many Canadians are being
killed and seriously injured by dogs
(and the circumstances), or whether
particular breeds cause a
disproportionate number of deaths
and serious injuries.
Based on the European
experience, a reliable database must
be established detailing the number
of those dogs, the laws in place, if
any, affecting their breeding and
ownership, and the number of
persons killed or injured by 'them.
rCtgly theh can it be determined if
more or new laws are required to
control the ownership and breeding
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Editorials
Opinio
What's the hurry?
Huron OPP last week revealed the number of accidents they'd
investigated this summer has increased almost 10 per cent from last
summer. Many of the crashes, they said, were caused by excess speed.
This shouldn't be news to anyone who has travelled local highways
recently. Many drivers seem obsessed with speed. Though Huron County's
highways have a 90 km speed limit, faster than most in the province, this
isn't fast enough for a majority of drivers. While speed alone can increase
the risk of a simple mistake becoming a tragedy, the obsession with speed
is also leading to even more dangerous habits. Some drivers are so
distressed at being behind a "slower" driver that they pass on hills.
Here in the snowbelt we're used to the tragic results of poor driving
conditions in winter, but there have been almost as many sickening crashes
on the dry roads of summer as there were on the ice and snow of winter.
Yes time seems shorter these days Fut is the time that can be saved by
high speed travel possibly worth the potential of losing the rest of your
life? People have become so fixated on saving time that they try to have
phone conversations, fix their makeup or write notes, all the while driving
at speeds that far exceed the speed limit. Most of the time they get away
with it, which makes them think it's perfectly safe to keep on doing it. The
consequences of being wrong just once, however, can be deadly for the
driver, his/her passengers and other drivers on the road.
Police are right when they say speed kills. Is the few minutes saved
worth risking your life and the lives of others? — KR
The problem of democracy
One of the most interesting aspects of the Reform Party and its child The
Alliance, has been its rethinking of how democracy should function. Now,
however, the party seems to be caught in a trap of its own making.
Dissatisfied with the way politicians didn't seem to listen to their
constituents once elected, the Reform Party was formed with the principle
that MPs were to represent the people of their riding, not just vote
according to their own consciences. From a constituent's point of view,
there's an attraction to this. The problem for the MP, however, is how is
(s)he allowed to use intelligence plus knowledge picked up in Ottawa, to
vote the way the constituents back home think they should.
The debate over this philosophy is currently tearing the Alliance Party
apart. Leader Stockwell Day says he was voted in by the grassroots of the
party and will stay until the grassroots vote him out, next spring at the
earliest. Elected MPs, closer to the situation, say something must be done
now. Whose party is it, the MPs or the members? The debate is interesting,
but it could kill the party.— KR
Letters to the Editor
THE EDITOR,
The vicious attack on July 10 by a
rottweiler that left a five-year-old
girl from the London, Ontario area in
intensive care raises serious safety
concerns and issues. The injured
child, attacked at her grandparents'
home, received 39 cuts and a large
area of flesh was torn from the
buttock.
Aggressive dogs are a growing
safety concern in many
communities. Vicious dogs owned
by drug dealers, criminal groups, and
violent or irresponsible individuals
pose a threat to public safety. An
aggressive dog can endanger life by
blocking emergency responders
from a fire, medical emergency or
other urgent situations.
European countries have started to
enact laws to control dangerous
dogs. Similarly, Canada must
analyze the extent and nature of the
problem in this country, and put into
place measures to prevent deaths and
injuries from dog attacks.
After a six-year-old Hamburg boy
was bitten to death by a pit bull in his
schoolyard, Germany's states
tightened laws governing the
keeping of animals (this was the
third dog attack death in six months
in that country). Hamburg, a city-
state, enacted the toughest laws,
outlawing three of \ \ The \ hink
dangerous breeds.
Denmark outlawed three breeds in
July 16, 1986
Support was strong among
Brussels-area residents for the
possible location of a new industry
in the village. Astra Pyrotechnics
Canada Ltd. held a demonstration at
the farm of Frank Rutledge. The
company, located in Guelph was
looking at Brussels as one of a
number of possible sites for