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Parades going ahead

By Denny Scott The Citizen

Witchy women The annual Wingham Festival of Lanterns went ahead on Friday night, with businesses decorating their storefronts and staying open late to greet spooky customers and hand out candy to young trick-or-

treaters. In addition, the Wickedly Merry Witches of Wingham were also called upon for a performance that entertained and entranced those who braved the cold that night. (John Stephenson photo)

Wingham Ironmen cling to third place

By Denny Scott The Citizen The Wingham Ironmen held on to third place in the North Pollock

Division over the weekend with a 6-3 win over the Mount Forest Patriots.

The Ironmen hosted the Patriots on Oct. 29 and, despite a nearly

identical number of shots on net with Wingham taking 24, compared to Mount Forest’s 23, the Ironmen doubled their opponent’s goal total.

Mount Forest jumped to an early

NH to scrap non-resident fees

By Denny Scott The Citizen When North Huron Township Council next considers its draft fees bylaw, it will be without the tumultuous non-resident user fees, after council voted to remove them on Monday night.

While the vote to scrap the fees, which staff claim hurt not only the municipality's bottom line but also endangered programming, did pass with five votes to eliminate the fees and two votes against, there was some question as to whether it being paired with another change, doubling the cost to rent the Wingham Town Hall Theatre, was necessary.

When discussing the entire bylaw, Councillor Paul Heffer first suggested that the rental cost for the theatre, which is $106 daily for private rentals, is low when compared to renting a pavilion at a municipal park at $75. After some discussion, he suggested a motion that would see the bylaw brought back for approval at council’s next meeting with that cost doubled.

“With the work that’s involved [in the theatre] compared to the pavilion, I feel [renters] are getting a… good building for that amount,” he said before suggesting a motion to double the price.

Councillor Chris Palmer then proposed an amendment to Heffer’s motion, saying that council should

direct staff to remove the nonresident user fees from the daycare and recreation facilities.

After minimal debate on Heffer’s original motion, Councillor Kevin Falconer suggested the two items should be dealt with separately.

Deputy-Reeve Trevor Seip said that may be the case, but councillors would have to vote and decide whether they wanted to go ahead with it or not.

The vote to bring the bylaw back to council next meeting with a doubled theatre rental price and no non-resident user fees for recreational or daycare services passed with all but Falconer and Reeve Bernie Bailey voting in favour.

lead in the game, scoring back-toback goals. Christopher Prucha struck for the Patriots first, assisted

by Owen Goetz. Malcolm Skeete put the Patriots ahead by two with his first goal of the season, assisted

by Hayden Coulter and Matthew Weiler.

With just under 15 seconds left in the period, Evan Visser of the Ironmen responded with a marker assisted by Matt Tolton and Kyle Stanbury, cutting the Patriots’ lead in half.

Wingham opened the scoring in the second with Stanbury marking his 12th of the season, assisted by Nate Bloemberg. Mount Forest claimed the lead with a third goal, scored by Darcy Winkler, assisted

by Prucha and Calan Tanzi-Foshay, however that would be the last goal for the team.

Wingham then scored three more goals in the second period. The first was earned by Josh Pham, assisted

by Trevor Donaldson. Stanbury then netted his 13th of the season in Continued on page 3

North Huron Township Council gave the go-ahead for five different community events during its Monday night meeting, including Remembrance Day events and Santa Claus parades in both Blyth and Wingham.

Council approved, with little discussion, Remembrance Day services to be held in the two communities. The services will be hosted by the Blyth and Wingham branches of the Royal Canadian Legion on Sept. 11. Council then passed motions supporting both the Wingham Lions Club and Blyth Community Betterment Group’s Santa Claus parades to be held in each group’s communities on Nov. 27 and Dec. 11, respectively.

While there was no debate about supporting the events, Councillor Kevin Falconer suggested that, since council members couldn’t hand out free recreational passes due to COVID-19, council support a free skate at the local arenas.

Falconer was informed that the municipality already hosts free skates on Sundays, though they aren’t currently going ahead due to COVID-19. Staff suggested a free swim at the North Huron Wescast Community Complex in Wingham, however Falconer said that wouldn’t really apply to people at the Blyth parade and withdrew his suggestion.

Councillor Anita van Hittersum, however, felt the swim was a great idea and made a motion for staff to set up a free swim during the traditional winter holidays at the complex.

Reeve Bernie Bailey suggested that, in lieu of giving away passes or candy at the parades due to COVID-19 restrictions, council and staff find “fun” costumes to wear for the parades.

Council also voted to support the Blyth Community Betterment Committee’s Rutabaga Festival and Homecoming celebration, set for next year.

According to a report from Recreation and Marketing Assistant Denise Lockie, the event is set for Father’s Day weekend: June 17-19.

“Over the winter months, the committee will be developing an activity plan, which will be presented to council in April [of] 2022,” she reported. “The activity plan will consist of a schedule of events that will be held over the duration of the weekend. The purpose of the event is to celebrate Continued on page 15

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Community transmission ongoing in Huron, Perth

By Denny Scott The Citizen

Huron Perth Public Health Medical Officer of Health Dr. Miriam Klassen says that community transmission is continuing in Huron and Perth Counties, and higher positivity percentage and incidence rates back that up.

Over the past week, as of Monday, the incidence rate, or number of cases in Huron and Perth Counties per 100,000 people, had climbed from 14.3 per cent to 25.8 per cent, with both values falling in the “Yellow” band of the former colour-coded provincial reopening system. Positivity per cent, or the percentage of tests resulting in a COVID-19 positive result, climbed from 0.86 per cent (a yellow value) to 2.68 per cent over the week (a red value).

During a teleconference last Wednesday, Klassen said that there are new cases locally and throughout Ontario and they continue to primarily occur in individuals who are unvaccinated or partially vaccinated. She said that, until vaccination goals are hit by all demographics, individuals are still at risk.

Klassen said those ages 18-39 continue to see the lowest vaccination coverage, with approximately one-third of that demographic not fully vaccinated.

She said that is a concern as “long COVID” conditions continue to be an issue, where people are fighting symptoms of the disease for as long as a year after infection.

“There is still much to learn about the condition,” she said.

Klassen also spoke about the recent decision to make vaccines mandatory for everyone over the age of 12 visiting local community centres and recreation facilities, but not employees who monitor them.

She said it’s similar to restaurants where the patrons need to be vaccinated but the staff don’t have to be.

“We’re moving into employment and the rights around having a job

and having a way to pay your bills,” she said. “That’s different from having the right to dine in a restaurant or play a sport.”

She said HPPH has tried to point out the risk staff and employers take on by being unvaccinated, saying it could lead to staffing shortages. She suggested municipalities could put unvaccinated employees on lowerrisk tasks.

As for local statistics, 34 new cases have been reported in Huron and Perth Counties over the past week, bringing the cumulative total to 2,340.

The vast majority of those new cases have been reported in Perth County, where 21 new cases have been reported in Perth East, bringing the cumulative total for the municipality to 265. Three cases have been reported in Stratford, for a cumulative total of 529, while two cases have been reported in St. Marys for a cumulative total of 61.

North Perth saw one new case, bringing its cumulative total to 500.

Other municipalities in Perth County stayed at their cumulative case counts, including West Perth (94) and Perth South (73).

In Huron County, two new cases each have been reported in Huron East and Bluewater, bringing their cumulative totals to 169 and 65, respectively. One new case each was reported in South Huron (172 cumulative cases), North Huron (88) and Ashfield-ColborneWawanosh (ACW) (45). Other municipalities in Huron County remained at their cumulative case counts, including Central Huron (106 cumulative cases), MorrisTurnberry (78), Howick (53) and Goderich (42).

There are 33 active cases across the two counties, with 20 of those being in Perth East. There are three active cases each in Stratford and Huron East. There are two active cases each in St. Marys and Bluewater and one active case in ACW. Acquisition continues to be driven by household contacts in Huron and Perth Counties with 30.6 per cent of cases being tied to that

kind of exposure. Outbreak-related exposures are responsible for 23.7 per cent of cases, while close contact exposure is responsible for 19.2 per cent of cases. Just over one per cent of cases are tied to travel exposure. Unknown vectors are responsible for 25.2 per cent of cases.

School outbreaks continue with Milverton Public School completely closed due to 10 confirmed cases. The result of the closure is 13 classes have been sent home. Huron Christian School in Clinton is still in an active outbreak with seven students identified as COVID-19 positive.

As of Oct. 31, Central Huron Secondary School reported a single case that resulted in no exposures or class closures. Upper Thames Elementary School, on Oct. 27, reported a single case with no exposures or closures. On Oct. 26, Sprucedale Public School sent one class home due to a single confirmed exposure.

COVID-19 VACCINATION Huron and Perth County hit another vaccination milestone last week with 85 per cent of eligible residents, or 108,678 individuals, being at least partially vaccinated.

Fully-vaccinated individuals account for 81.6 per cent of eligible vaccine recipients.

Community demographic increases are as follows: • 12-17: 7,790 (82.4 per cent) to 7,834 (82.9) • 18-24: 8,410 (72.1) to 8,471 (72.6) • 25-29: 6,630 (71.4) to 6,679 (71.9) • 30-39: 12,967 (73.5) to 13,068 (74) • 40-49: 12,975 (80.8) to 13,000 (80.9) • 50-59: 16,814 (86.4) to 16,844 (86.6) • 60-69: 20,250 (94.1) to 20,279 (94.2) • 70-79: 14,432 (99.7) to 14,439 (99.7) • 80+: 8,060 (97.5) to 8,064 (97.5) Fully-vaccinated statistics are as follows:

• 12-17: 7,281 (77) to 7.397 (78.3) • 18-24: 7,743 (66.4) to 7,878 (67.5) • 25-29: 6,086 (65.5) to 6,179 (66.5) • 30-39: 12,076 (68.4) to 12,252 (69.4) • 40-49: 12,372 (77) to 12,479 (77.7) • 50-59: 16,222 (83.4) to 16,301 (83.8) • 60-69: 19,743 (91.7) to 19,808 (92) • 70-79: 14,105 (97.4) to 14,123 (97.5) • 80+: 7,855 (95) to 7.871 (95.2) For more information, visit hpph.ca INFLUENZA VACCINATION During Dr. Klassen’s teleconference, she strongly encouraged everyone to get their influenza vaccination as soon as possible, noting that, with the isolation that accompanied COVID-19 through the last traditional flu season, natural immunities may be lower than normal.

As of last week, flu shots were available for seniors and others at risk from complications with the virus. Later this month, the vaccine will be more widely available, she said, with vaccine clinics set for Nov. 15 and 22 for families with children between six months and two years old who do not have a family doctor or nurse practitioner.

The clinics will be held at the HPPH West Gore office in Stratford and the Jacob Memorial Building in Clinton, respectively, and run from 3 to 6 p.m. Appointments are necessary.

Influenza vaccines will be available to the public at large through primary care providers and pharmacies soon, Klassen said.

During the question-and-answer period as part of the teleconference, Klassen said HPPH is expecting a more severe flu season due to looser restrictions around COVID19, saying nothing is possible to predict, but given the population at large wasn’t exposed to influenza since before the pandemic, there may be less natural immunity that normal.

“While not as severe as COVID19, influenza is still serious and adds stress to the healthcare system,” she said. “We can’t know for sure what the season will look like.”

She encouraged everyone to take all precautionary measures, especially since the symptoms for COVID-19 and influenza are so similar.

For more information, visit hpph.ca.

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Home Cooking for the Holidays Do your friends come to you for cooking advice and ask (or beg) you for your delicious recipes?

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Send in recipes for your favourite holiday meals, desserts, appetizers, sides or cocktails, and be featured in The Citizen’s upcoming special section on December 2, Home Cooking for the Holidays. This section will feature tons of delicious recipes from talented readers like yourself, just in time for holiday entertaining!

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‘Strong to the finich, ’cause I eats me spinach’ Steve and Patti Nixon were finalists in The Citizen’s Halloween costume contest with their Popeye and Olive Oyl costumes. To find out who edged them out by a single vote, check out page 23 of this week’s issue. (Submitted photo)

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Ironmen take on Goderich Flyers this Friday

Keeping pace The Wingham Ironmen were victorious on Friday night over the Mount Forest Patriots by a score of 6-3, which meant the locals were able to hold on to their third-place position in the North Pollock Division of the league. The Ironmen next take on the Goderich Flyers at home on Friday night, followed by a road game in Hanover on Sunday to take on the first-place Barons. (John Stephenson photo)

NH nears sale of airport

By Denny Scott The Citizen North Huron Township Council is one motion approval away from officially signing the sale documents for the Richard W. LeVan Airport.

During council’s Monday night meeting, council gave first and second reading to a bylaw that would approve the sale of the lands, described as Part of Lots 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14 Concession 1,

Geographic Township of Morris to Summer and Tyler Papple, who own Papple Aviation. The third reading has not been scheduled yet.

As part of the agreement, the Papples agree to operate the grounds as a “viable airport” for 15 years, purchase or lease hangars from the current lessees, agree to support continuation of ORNGE (air ambulance) services at the site and provide unhindered access to the easement at the west section of the property.

Continued from page 1 an unassisted effort. Jonah Burley scored the last goal of the period, a power-play marker, assisted by Tolton and Stanbury.

Late in the third period, Trevor Klee scored an unassisted goal.

Joshua Peters stopped 18 of 24 shots as goaltender for the Patriots, while Garrett Golley stopped 20 of 23 for the Ironmen.

The three stars of the game, all Wingham players, were, in order, Stanbury for his two goals and two assists and Pham and Visser for their individual goals.

The Ironmen served four penalties totalling eight minutes, while the Patriots served three penalties totalling six minutes.

Wingham’s Pham served the only penalty of the first period, a twominute minor for hooking.

The second period saw Wingham’s Dana Smith assessed a two-minute holding penalty. Mount Forest’s Reid Caswell then served a two-minute high sticking penalty.

Wingham’s Donaldson was assessed a two-minute holding penalty, followed by Mount Forest’s Tanzi-Foshay receiving a two-minute boarding minor.

In the third, Aaron McGuirk was called for cross-checking and served a two-minute penalty. The final penalty of the game was assessed to Wingham’s Jacob Rauser, who was called for interference.

The win gives the Ironmen 14 points, trailing the Mitchell Hawks, who also have 14 points, and the

Hanover Barons, who have 15. All three teams have seven wins, while Hanover has one loss and one tie, Mitchell has two losses and the Ironmen have three.

Stanbury remains the top pointearner in the league with 22 points.

In 10 games, he has earned 13 goals and nine assists, averaging 2.20 points per game. He’s tailed by Samuel Vachon of the Stayner Siskins, who has 21 points on nine goals and 14 assists and Marc Bottero of the Schomberg Cougars, who has 10 goals and 10 assists for 20 points.

The Ironmen will host Goderich on Friday night in Wingham with puck drop set for 8 p.m. On Sunday, Wingham will travel to Hanover to take on the first-place Barons.

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As part of the motion to approve the sale of the 77-acre property, council also directed staff to declare the surrounding agricultural and woodlot lands, approximately 371 acres, as surplus and start the process to sell them.

While council was all for the sale of the airport, the means of disposing of the agricultural land proved to be a controversial point for Councillor Chris Palmer.

During the public feedback Continued on page 11

The eyes of your heart!

James Smith, “Food for the Soul” “He has opened my eyes!” John 9:3When Jesus opened my eyes...

I saw what a vile sinner I was; I saw what fearful danger I was in; and I saw what a glorious Saviour He was!

When I first saw His beauty—I thought I would never take my eyes off Him! When I first tasted that He was gracious—I imagined I would never lose the relish!

When I first felt Him to be precious to my soul—it appeared to me that I would never value anything else!

Blessed Jesus, you have opened my eyes—or they would have been forever closed to my danger, Your loveliness, and Your salvation!

Battling in the corners The U15 C Huron Heat took on the Stratford Aces on Sunday at the Central Huron Community Complex. Unfortunately, the home ice advantage wasn’t enough to lift the Heat past the Aces, as the locals fell to the Aces by a score of 3-0. (John Stephenson photo)

“I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know... the hope to which He has called you, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints, and His incomparably great power for us who believe!

Ephesians 1:18-19 A Grace Gem Submitted by: Immanuel United Reformed Church, Listowel, ON 519-492-1359

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With great power...

As journalists, we often forget the influence the printed word we distribute has on readers. Sometimes it takes reading an article from another source to remind us that the media can sway public opinion.

Last week, two news articles highlighted how important it is to frame a story for the readers. The first was when Wall Street Journal reporters objected publicly to its own opinion page’s printing of a letter to the editor from Donald Trump that yet again touted false claims about a rigged election, without any fact-checking of the claims, which have been debunked by numerous courts. “I think it’s very disappointing that our opinion section continues to publish misinformation that our news side works so hard to debunk,” one of the reporters said. “They should hold themselves to the same standards we do.”

The second item was a seemingly straightforward news story in the London Free Press featuring interviews with three workers from the London Health Sciences Centre who had been terminated for failing to comply with company policy. The article was about their decision not to get the COVID-19 vaccine and their reaction to being fired over it. It listed all the reasons that they weren’t getting the shot. Only one introductory sentence included the disclaimer stating, “the safety and effectiveness of [vaccines] are widely agreed upon by experts”. The remainder of the article did not include any fact checking or editorial comment regarding the safety of vaccines, which resulted in the story leaning towards sympathy for the fired employees, whether that was the intention of the reporter or not.

Both sides of any story need to be included in good journalism, but the facts and truth must be the take away for the reader. – DS

Playing the victim Before the Kyle Rittenhouse murder trial began last week in Wisconsin, Judge Bruce Schroeder issued a ruling on the use of the word “victim” when referring to the several people Rittenhouse shot and killed (this is not up for debate, Rittenhouse has pled not guilty and says the shootings were in self defence) on Aug. 25 in Kenosha during widespread protests and riots. Schroeder said “victim” and “alleged victim” are “loaded” terms, while he will allow the three people Rittenhouse shot to be referred to as “arsonists”, “looters” or “rioters” by the defence. This decision has led many to openly wonder if the promise of a “fair and impartial” trial in the U.S. is a thing of the past.

While Schroeder’s decision raises all kinds of legal questions, the real issue appears to be one of race. Rittenhouse is a white teenager who crossed state lines with an assault rifle to join a Kenosha-based militia group amid the ongoing protests after the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man shot while entering his car. The terminology, many argue, is already tipping the scales in Rittenhouse’s favour.

Things are far from perfect in the U.S. (and many other countries) in regards to race relations, but the courts need to be a place of equality and fairness for all. Some may argue that’s never been the case, but nevertheless, those in power need to strive to be better. – SL

Outside of the box Last week there was a buzz coming out of London as local golf courses were proposed as temporary homes for the community’s homeless population. The two courses, which go unused in the winter, would be set up to house people struggling to put a roof over their head as a means of addressing several concerns that other housing projects had raised during previous years.

While the idea seems good at first glance, and denotes a genuine attempt to think outside the box, it wasn’t long until people started pointing out some problems. First was the fact that, of the two courses proposed, one needed to be available by March 1, which means those relying on it then, when it can still very much be the depths of winter, will find themselves out in the cold. The other course, called River Road Golf Course, is now shuttered and will host the service until March 31.

There was also the observation that the plan was addressing the symptom, but not the underlying causes of homelessness. However, sometimes addressing the symptoms is all that’s possible - just ask doctors watching over COVID-19 patients on respirators.

Later in the week, however, experts began saying that removing these people from downtown London and moving them to the fringes of the community would take them away from their friends, family, medical facilities and support systems and could be fatal.

While there was some agreement that the homeless supports provided last year were less than private for those utilizing them, moving people to more isolated spots wouldn’t be beneficial to all involved.

In the end, the plan may not be perfect, but there shouldn’t be any illwill towards its creators. Regardless of the detractors, the proposed plan, whether implemented or not, shows a desire to help and a willingness to think outside the box, which should be valued, not diminished. – JDS

Looking Back Through the Years November 5, 1964 The Brussels Creamery was once again the target of thieves, with a break-in and attempted robbery reported at the facility.

Police said that the thieves broke the glass of a rear window to gain access to the building, but fled when they attempted to enter the main office and triggered the alarm.

However, before they left, they gained entry into the personal office of owner R.B. Cousins, causing considerable damage.

While some dangerous pranks were tried on Halloween in Brussels, for the most part, police said the night was free of the extensive damage that had plagued past Halloweens in the village.

Police reported damage at the community park, as well as roadblocks and fires on many of the streets.

The Brussels Fire Department was also called upon to extinguish a tire fire on the main street and a barricade caused considerable damage to a vehicle, but the driver was not injured.

The Brussels Hi-T Club held its regular dance on Oct. 30, welcoming Bobby Lynn and the Beaumonts from London to provide the music for the night. Over 130 young people were in attendance.

November 6, 1974 John Broadfoot of Brucefield was elected as the new president of the Huron-Middlesex Liberal Association at a meeting held in Blyth in late October.

Charles Thomas of Brussels was elected as the executive vicepresident. Other vice-presidents included Dave McClure (Crediton), Paul Steckle (Zurich), Wilson Hodgins (Lucan), John Rutherford (Lucknow), Don Kay (Clinton), Graeme Craig (Walton), Bill Keel

(Wingham) and Howard Aitken (Goderich).

Seventy delegates attended the annual fall conference of the Lake Huron zone of the Ontario Municipal Recreation Association and decided to research the need for cost-sharing agreements between central municipalities and their neighbouring townships.

November 6, 1996 Despite being a highly popular and successful program offered by the Huron County Board of Education, Junior Kindergarten was being considered for elimination in 1997.

Trustees received a suggestion at their Nov. 4 meeting that Junior Kindergarten not be offered in the following school year because it would not be able to be offered at no cost to Huron County ratepayers. This came after the Elementary School Teachers’ Federation had filed a grievance against the staffing formula. Willi Laurie, the president of the Huron Women Teachers’ Federation, said the grievance had been filed locally, adding that the staffing formula was contravening the rules in seven of the board schools, consisting of nine classes.

Consultant Tina Heathers was the guest speaker for the Blyth Business Association’s fall banquet where she spoke about the importance of customer service.

Heathers ran Future by Design in Kippen, a business based in their home, and she told those assembled how important it was to have a customer service mission statement.

November 3, 2011 The Blyth Lions Club was in the midst of planning a fundraiser to aid resident Jim Johnston in the

wake of Johnston breaking his leg badly in the Goderich tornado.

The event was set for Dec. 3 at the Blyth and District Community Centre and Steve Howson, event organizer and Blyth Lions Club member, said it would give everyone a chance to come out and support Johnston, who was unable to work while his injury healed.

Huron Chapel in Auburn welcomed Pastor Mark Royall to the community as its new senior pastor. Royall, who moved to Blyth with his wife Glenda and one of their three daughters Carly, said it felt like a homecoming for them.

Royall grew up in Owen Sound, but then pastored in Blue Mountain and British Columbia before he was able to make his way back to southern Ontario.

The Blyth Festival announced its 2012 season, which was set to focus heavily on the farming community.

Calgary-based playwright Ken Cameron, known to Festival audiences for 2008’s Harvest, was working on The Fred Eaglesmith Project, which would be a musical based on the songs of Canadian musician Fred Eaglesmith telling the story of a struggling farmer who needed to decide whether to keep the family farm or make way for a new highway.

David S. Craig’s Having Hope at Home would follow, with The Lonely Diner: Al Capone in Euphemia Township by Beverley Cooper and a new play by Clem Martini and Cheryl Foggo rounding out the season.

The Young Company project for the season would be a revisitation of The Farm Show, the seminal Paul Thompson creation from the early 1970s that helped spawn the Canadian theatre movement.

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Other Views

All veterans made sacrifices

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ike most veterans, my father never talked much about his World War II experiences, creating great disappointment for a young boy whose head was full of television and movie depictions of courageous American and British military heroics and who was hungry to know his father’s stories.

Through his file of service records, which was obtained by one of my daughters, I knew the bare facts: he enlisted with the 98th Battery, Royal Canadian Artillery in Port Elgin in July, 1940. He shipped out to England, arriving there on Aug. 14, 1941, staying until he was transferred to the Italian campaign in November, 1943. He was transferred back to France, Belgium and Holland in February, 1945.

This summer, after reading The D-Day Dodgers – the Canadians in Italy, 1943-1945,

by Daniel D. Dancocks, I was able to piece together a little more of my father’s story. The 98th Battery was assigned to the 4th Anti-Tank Regiment, which according to Dancocks’ book, was one of the units in the Fifth Canadian Armoured Division that was sent to Italy in late 1943 to strengthen the First Canadian Infantry Division, which had been fighting since the invasion of Sicily in July and the subsequent invasion of mainland Italy.

Luckily, the Fifth Canadians Armoured Division arrived too late to be part of the infamous, deadly battle of Ortona at Christmas, 1943. Later, the six infantry regiments that were part of the Division would pierce the Germans’ “Hitler Line”, be part of the costly Liri offensive, break the Gothic Line and take part in many difficult crossings of rivers in northern Italy. I remember my mother talking about a wartime poem called “One More Line of Hills” about allied soldiers in

Keith Roulston From the cluttered desk Italy and how they would fight an uphill battle to dislodge the Germans from high ground, then get to the top of the hills or mountains and see “one more line of hills” ahead of them. And there was always another mountain range to be conquered, until they got to the plains of northern Italy where it was one river after another, instead.

In his record, Dad is listed as a driver of artillery tractors and large trucks. Dancocks explains one of the difficulties of fighting in Italy was getting enough shells delivered to the artillery units that backed the infantry attacks.

The infantry would scale a hill or cross a river and defeat the Germans who had built strong defences, but then they’d be vulnerable to a German counterattack if they couldn’t get artillery and tank support. But the Germans blew up bridges as they retreated, which meant the Canadian engineers had to install temporary Bailey bridges before vehicles could follow the infantry. Having so few crossing points also caused traffic jams, slowing supplying ammunition to the artillery guns. As well, because the Germans often occupied the high ground, they had a good view of the truck convoys and could have their own artillery shell them.

One of the things reading The D-Day Dodgers did was to confirm the reputation of Canadian soldiers as among the best soldiers in the world. With access to the diaries of German generals, Dancocks quotes how much they

admired their Canadian opponents. In fact, Allied generals used this respect to mislead the Germans, who figured if the Canadians had been shifted to a new part of the front, something must be up. So sometimes, Canadians were moved just to throw off the German intelligence.

When my father enlisted in 1940, he was 23, married and with a two-year-old daughter.

When he arrived home in September of 1945, he was nearly 29, and his daughter, now seven, didn’t recognize him. He was now ready to start building a life for himself and his family.

It was that realization that really struck me when I thought, recently, about the sacrifice my father and his fellow veterans made. In my years from the time I was 23 to 28, my wife and I added two more children to the one daughter we already had, bought a business and expanded it, bought a house and traded it for the house we’ve now lived in for 46 years, and helped with the creation of the Blyth Festival.

My father struggled for years to make his dream of being a farmer come true in the 1950s. Canadian farmers had worked miracles to feed the people of Britain during World War II, but suddenly they had surpluses of food, which depressed prices. Only farmers who were well capitalized could stay solvent, and if you had started with nothing after returning from the war, the odds were against you.

Eventually Dad gave in and took a factory job.

I’m embarrassed to admit that, as a smart-ass kid, I often thought of him as something of a failure, little recognizing the hole he’d been put in by his sacrifice for his country and the preservation of democracy.

So this Remembrance Day, let’s remember that it wasn’t only those who died or were physically injured who made great sacrifices.

Fallout from the nuclear family model

S

ince I first saw mention of it last week, the expectation for people to be “married” or part of a “single family” to be able to live in Toronto condominiums has blown up, with one incident seeming to explode into numerous concerns from various stakeholders.

This column started as some of my previous ones have over the past couple years: as an issue I brought forward to our editorial board.

The board, which consists of Publisher Deb Sholdice, Editor Shawn Loughlin and myself, decide what we write about on the facing page and, unlike what I write here, which reflects my own opinion, the editorials are supposed to be represent the stance of all three of us, as well as the newspaper itself, with some personal flair thrown in.

Last week, one of the half-dozen issues I brought up was the story of Michael Cowan and his girlfriend, who live in a Toronto condominium.

Cowan, who moved into his condo last year, invited his partner of six months to live with him. Everything seemed to be going fine until the condo board said the two would need a marriage licence to share the space. It’s a rule of the Metropolitan Toronto Standard Condominium Corporation’s, and it isn’t the only company to have such bylaws.

Experts say the rules exist to prevent “disruptive” or “short-term” renters that could denigrate the experience of living in the buildings. However, many agree they are, at best, antiquated rules and, at worst, discriminatory.

Cowan has pointed out, in an interview with CTV News, that the ruling isn’t just because it lets a corporation define what a family is.

Unfortunately for Cowan and his partner, the condo board stood firm, even after Cowan’s building manager tried to mediate the

Denny Scott Denny’s Den situation. Since then, Cowan’s partner’s key fob has been disabled, effectively preventing access to the building.

The story broke on Tuesday, and after that, more and more people came forward saying that the rules prevent all manner of family types from being permitted to live together, including the LGBTQ2S+ community.

Roncesvalles condominium owner Paula Boutis was surprised to find a similar rule and, last year, filed a human rights complaint over it, saying it was morally offensive. She’s seen no movement on the complaint, however, saying she doesn’t even know if the Human Rights Tribunal will even consider it. Her lawyer pointed out that these kinds of issues take as long as a year and a half to normally address, however, due to COVID-19, it could take two to three years.

While there is a Condo Appeals Tribunal to handle similar issues, it’s limited in scope and can’t handle discrimination issues.

While some condominium companies have different wording, or have ignored it to allow people to live together, many have exactly the same wording and adhere to it, including one condominium company that put up signs saying that a situation in which two cousins want to be roommates doesn’t fit the bill when it comes to what’s allowed.

While there are rules, specifically in Ontario’s Human Rights Code, that say this kind of discrimination isn’t allowed, the

Ministry of Government and Consumer Affairs hasn’t said it will pursue having the rules changed.

The whole thing is a horribly outdated situation, however, given that it’s mostly in downtown Toronto and the GTA’s boroughs and surrounding communities, why would I care so much about it?

Well, with a four-storey building being proposed in Wingham (that’s the height of five typical storeys, apparently), condos may not be far off for our small towns and villages.

However the major problem, as far as I’m concerned, is that people shouldn’t be allowed to prejudge people, because I’ve been there, specifically about 11 years ago when I was looking to move into Blyth.

I know I’ve talked about this before but, at the time, there just weren’t places for rent for a young couple like my then-girlfriend, nowwife and myself. We looked at apartments and were told they were looking for more “senior” renters. Fortunately, we found a house we could buy, but that’s not a reality for many young couples in the area with prices the way they are.

With the overvaluing of housing (which could be upwards of 91 per cent according to one recent report by Moody’s Analytics), rental units are needed now more than ever, and they’re needed by people of all ages, races, creeds and family situations, and rules that allow corporations to pass judgment on people’s personal lives, unless their activities can be empirically observed to impact other renters, need to be done away with.

Final Thought The most worthwhile thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

– Robert Baden‐Powell

Shawn Loughlin Shawn’s Sense

At my advanced age

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uring a recent bike ride, a friend asked if I had been keeping up with the World Series. The answer was a definitive no. With games starting just before 9 p.m. every night, I just don’t have the stamina or the will to tack another three or four hours onto my day at that time of night.

So, no. I’ve barely kept up with the epic battle between the Houston Astros and the Atlanta Braves. It would be easy to attribute that to our daughter and her early mornings, but really, it started happening much earlier.

It’s funny because there was a time in my life that I’d do anything for baseball. I’d watch every pitch of the World Series, no matter which teams were playing. I think back to those early road trips I took shortly after moving to Huron County – all centred around baseball with insane itineraries – there’s no way I’d be able to keep these days.

The first time I went to the U.S. on one of these baseball trips, it was essentially two trips sandwiched together. I went for a week with Jess, came back to Ontario, dropped Jess off, picked up my friend Scott and went right back south of the border. Even just typing that gives me flashbacks of hours on the road, trying to stay awake and gassing up in dark corners of Maryland, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts.

On the first day, Jess and I set out from my family’s old home in Pickering, starting with the five-and-a-half-hour drive to Cooperstown to go to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum; a nice way to kick off the trip.

We then proceeded through the Catskill Mountains on our way to New Jersey to stay with my cousin Mike and his family. That first trip, though, we really didn’t spend much time with them. It’s a regret of mine, but we pretty much treated his place like a hotel, returning late at night and leaving early in the morning.

The next day we started making day trips.

Jess and I would take the train into New York City to see the Yankees, then drive down to Washington D.C. to see the Nationals, taking in all of the sights along the way. On the way home, we squeezed in a Boston Red Sox game at Fenway Park, making it all the way back to Pickering very early the following morning.

My dad took the car to the mechanic early that morning for an oil change (we had put over 5,000 kilometres on it just over the past few days) and then I was off again with Scott to New Jersey and back to Mike’s. Scott and I went to Philadelphia, Baltimore and New York (to see the Mets), again swinging through Boston on our way back to Canada.

The timing of the two trips was great. I was able to visit old Yankee Stadium and Shea Stadium in their final years, only to return the next year with my sister when we saw games at the new Yankee Stadium and Citi Field.

Those all-encompassing road trips are now a thing of the past, but it was almost 10 years ago now that Jess and I really dove back in when the Detroit Tigers were in the World Series. Fulfilling a boyhood dream, I was able to see a World Series game live and in-person in 2012 (though the Tigers would be swept by the San Francisco Giants).

We got lucky buying tickets for games with their dates yet to be determined, as two of the three playoff games were on weekends, allowing us to get a hotel and stay the night.

One was a weeknight, though, and the game went well past midnight, meaning Jess and I got home not long before the sun came up.

I’ll always love baseball. It was really my first passion, but these days, I just can’t justify staying up past 10 p.m., let alone traversing the east coast in search of games to watch.

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Halloween a time celebrate the earth’s bounty A NOTE FROM BETTY

By Betty Graber Watson Call 887-9231

Halloween has passed for another year; a time for imagination and fun.

Looking at the history of the Celts from hundreds of years ago and reviewing the religious life and the dependence on the land, one can see that a celebration was in order.

The new year started in November, the crops were in and several gods needed to be acknowledged. Oh yes, a celebration was in order.

With Scotch and Irish suggestions, the party time has changed over the years. So the decades determine the way the party happens and age and stage suggest the costumes. So

when lions and carpenters and even Marshall (a dog) arrive at the door, we are reminded why Halloween happens. Time to celebrate bounty and history is a start. The fun, and smiles on the parents and wee kids faces is good for the soul. Dress up pictures from Edmonton, Barrie and Listowel showed in living colour that the fun continues there as well.

I hope you had a happy Halloween.

Langley, British Columbia was the place last week for MaryAnn Thompson. After a delay due to the

pandemic, she got to finally see and have a good visit with daughter Kali. MaryAnn got the tour of the area and watched the work life of an arborist for her city. The spectacular scenery was appreciated with several hikes, as well as tasting the life Langley has to offer. In the meantime mother Joan Bernard was visiting her sister in Vernon, also being a tourist and seeing the wonders of that area of British Columbia. It’s always good to see family in their surroundings, it is so much easier to relate to their conversations when you have the key points of the conversation. Of course, they had a good time.

The pandemic lunches continue here with the “Js” as in Joan Jacobs and Jean Davidson. The pandemic is far from over and we still like each other, so this is our way of remaining hopeful as the restrictions continue, we keep eating together. A drive this week to see Ball’s Bridge moved us to play left, right or straight at some intersections. Since we often don’t know where we are, it’s fun to finally see a familiar road or building. Coming into a village or town from a different way makes you take note. Hitting Holyrood or Teeswater from a strange road is

also enlightening. Harriston from the west was new for us. So what the pandemic has done for us is get us onto many, many new and pretty roads. Now, if we could just remember where a few of them are.

If the pandemic continues, we may see them again.

Take care. Be safe. Be kind.

Bye now, Betty G.W.

NEWS FROM BRUSSELS

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Finalists The Noble bunch, including, from left, Kendry the dinosaur, Jacoby the wild cowboy and Beckett the red Power Ranger, were among the finalists for The Citizen’s Halloween costume contest. To find out who the winners are, turn to page 23. (Photo submitted)

At the Branch

Reviewing the Branch’s history

By Jo-Ann McDonald Happy anniversary to the Brussels Legion Branch! The 90th anniversary of the Brussels Legion was Nov. 2. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, celebrations for the event will be at a later date when many guests can be invited.

Over the past weeks, I have related the history of the Branch since its formation in 1931. We continue with the history during the past 11 years. Beginning in 2010, the president was John Lowe, followed by Deb Cann, Jo-Ann McDonald and Jamie Mitchell, serving multiple terms.

Highlights during the years have been many. The Branch received provincial honours twice for the PRO scrapbooks. The Branch celebrated its 80th anniversary in 2011 and had a large gathering of members for initiation, presentations, honours and awards.

The Branch has had the honour of hosting the Zone Convention in 2013 for the 13 Branches in the

zone and the Veterans Dinner in 2018 for the Veterans across the zone.

In 2013 and 2014, the work in earnest began towards the Branch becoming accessible.

A membership of 150 worked very hard to raise funds for the building fund. The Branch has served over 200 fish fry dinners around the area, hosted dances, elimination draws, silent auctions, casino trips, pub nights, Valentine parties, St. Patrick’s parties, Christmas draws, bingos, craft sales and have catered to birthday parties, anniversary parties, Christmas parties, agricultural group annual meetings, information sessions, Mother’s Day meals, wing nights, Ambassador events, Valentine’s luncheons, Lions Club meals and hosting the ballpark food booth. Hours of volunteering were logged to raise the monies needed. Grants were applied for and in 2015 a ceremonial dig with veterans Ross Bennett, Charlie Procter and Cecil

Moore took place. One year later a grand opening was held in September of 2016 and the addition was complete.

The Branch has honoured nine members of the Branch with life memberships, including Glenn Bridge, Marg Bennett, Ross Bennett, Eric Ross, Jo-Ann McDonald, Cecil Moore, George Adams, Forrest Whittard and Charlie Procter.

Other major events for the Branch have included hosting five dinners over five days for the International Plowing Match hosted at Walton in 2017. The group of members and community volunteers fed 630 folks over the five days. The beginning of the Branch’s newest major fundraiser, Catch the Ace, began in 2018. We have had several licences and have been able to donate over $38,500 to many community causes.

Another highlight during November of 2019 was the 100th Continued on page 16

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THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2021. PAGE 7.

‘Blyth Friday’ set for Nov. 26

By Denny Scott The Citizen

‘If she doesn’t scare you...’

Isla deBoer of Blyth was among the top three finishers for the Under-12 category of The Citizen’s Halloween costume contest this year. To find out who brought home the hardware, take a look at page 23. (Photo submitted)

To encourage locals to shop close to home on the infamous Black Friday instead of looking to online sales, local businesses are taking part in “Blyth” Friday on Nov. 26, which will see shops within the village remain open until 10 p.m.

The event, which was first held last year, is being organized by Jennifer Triemstra-Johnston and Chris Johnston, owners of Pick a Posie and Fashion Arts and Creative Textiles Studio (FACTS).

“In an effort to encourage people to shop local, several of the shops in the Village of Blyth will stay open until 10 p.m. on Nov. 26,” Triemstra-Johnston said in a letter to local businesses. “This date is traditionally known as Black Friday, a huge online shopping event, but we are calling it Blyth Friday. The concept is to suggest people shop local at a special social event, rather than spending the evening staring at screens and buying online.”

In an interview with The Citizen, Triemstra-Johnston said last year’s event was put together shortly before Black Friday, which became a major shopping day for people in the United States in the early 2000s, then became a worldwide online event in the past decade.

“We want to encourage people to keep their money here and support local,” she said.

Last year’s event saw a “real energy” on Blyth’s main street, she said, and this year she is hoping to enrich that with the addition of carolers and buskers.

The event is also expanding, she said, as it was set to end at 8 p.m. last year. However, there were still plenty of shoppers on the main street enjoying the ability to connect after a long year of COVID-19 restrictions. With a 10 p.m. closing time, TriemstraJohnston hopes local businesses can capitalize on even more traffic.

The event will go forward, rain or shine, she said, though the entertainment may be moved indoors if needed.

Aside from local storefronts, Triemstra-Johnston said she is looking for local vendors to set up throughout the community, saying that businesses that aren’t on main street could then take advantage of the event.

While the COVID-19 restrictions are lifting, Triemstra-Johnston said that’s not the end of the story for small businesses, as they have to

not only manage to get back on their feet now that they can welcome more customers, but also make up for the revenue lost over the course of the pandemic.

“Small businesses need to recover from the past two years,” she said.

“I don’t think anyone is out of the pandemic or in the clear yet, and some are still really struggling, so shopping local is important.”

Triemstra-Johnston said she hopes the event becomes an annual one to encourage people to shop at home.

Businesses or vendors who want to take place can contact TriemstraJohnston at info@pickaposie.ca.

She said there is a $25 participation fee to cover advertising, signs and marketing projects for the event.

Double the smiles Jack Bromley donned his cultivar costume to take part in The Citizen’s Halloween costume contest this year.

The winners are listed on page 23 of this week’s issue of the newspaper. (Photo submitted)

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Halloween decorations a treat From Marilyn’s Desk

By Marilyn Craig Call 523-9318

Happy anniversary to Renske and Edgar Daer, who will celebrate on Nov. 4.

Happy birthday to Matthew Abell-Rinn, who will celebrate Nov. 5; Keyonia Pawitch, Nov. 6; Jeff Nesbitt, Nov. 8 and Gary Clark (former minister of Blyth and Brussels United Churches), Nov. 10. Happy birthday everyone, hope you enjoy your day.

Congratulations to all those who

decorated the outside of their homes for Thanksgiving or Halloween. I took a drive around town this past week and enjoyed all the festivities. I am looking forward to seeing the Christmas decorations coming out.

Monday, when I wrote this column, was the first day of November. This weekend, the time changes back to standard time, the darkness comes earlier, the days become shorter and the nights are longer. The weather people have been forecasting snow, but I hope they are wrong, the longer we go without snow the shorter the winter will be. This all seems to be doom and gloom, we will have to think of happier thoughts like Christmas, and the sun shining brightly.

Stay safe and have a good week.

Give someone a call to let them know you are thinking of them.

Blyth Legion Branch 420 Thursday, November 11, 2021

Remembrance Day Nov. 11/21

NEWS FROM BLYTH

Service will be held in front of the BLYTH MEMORIAL HALL at 10:45 a.m.

YOUR ATTENDANCE SHALL BE REMEMBERED

PAGE 8. THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2021.

Final baseball tournament of the season held PEOPLE AROUND WALTON

By Jo-Ann McDonald Call 887-6570

A day doesn’t seem to go by that we don’t have rain. We had Wednesday and Thursday last week with no rain and on Thursday the farmers were going full throttle to get crops off. Lots of fields of soybeans were taken off, and as you can imagine, the moisture was a bit high. Fields of corn also disappeared quite quickly. There wasn’t much done on Saturday or Sunday it seemed and Millstone in Walton didn’t open. There is already a pile of corn growing in the yard at Walton. Sunday was a good day with even a little

sunshine, but a cool wind with only a few farmers working. Come on good weather, we need a couple of weeks to get things done.

We send our get-well wishes to Tom Williamson, who suffered an unfortunate fall and has a serious injury. He fell off a ladder and has a shattered elbow and broken shoulder. He was air-lifted to a London hospital and was in surgery for about seven hours to repair the injury. We send Tom our hopes for a full recovery.

We send our get-well wishes to Doug Riley. He suffered a fall and has injured his hip. We hope he comes along and heals quickly.

We hope Neil Mitchell is on the mend since suffering a heart issue.

He was in hospital and had some surgery, and is home again and will have to take it easy. Here’s hoping for a full recovery.

The final ball tournament at the Walton Park was held on Saturday with a full roster of teams. They celebrated Halloween with some

great team costumes. The weather held for them, with no rain and they had a great day. I spent a little time on Sunday doing hopefully the last clean-up around the park. We will soon close it down for winter.

The workers were busy this week constructing the new dog park beside Richmond Square.

Hopefully it will be treated with respect by all using it and that they clean up after their dogs. When going to the grocery store last week, someone had tied their dog to the post, it did its thing on the sidewalk, and they walked away. Stop and scoop is the rule!

Thanks for all the great comments on my reflections of main street in Walton and in Brussels over the last 44 years. Many changes, that is for sure, and many businesses have come and gone. Maybe once the pandemic has passed and the economy improves, some of our empty storefronts will have a new business or maybe a space shared by a couple of businesses. Many

years ago, we were on a trip to North Carolina and in a small town, there was a very large building.

Within that building were five different outlets: a small variety, a lunch counter, a floral shop, a small home accents store and children’s clothing store. They all ran independently, but shared rent, utilities, insurance, etc. It was an idea that seemed to work for them and with the size of some of our older buildings in town, it could also work here. Just planting a seed for an entrepreneur to think about.

We celebrated Halloween on Saturday with Kelly and Adam and family. We had Dr. Mario, a hot dog and a miniature Elsa arrive to have lunch with us. Treat bags were next and then they were off to see Auntie Lee and family. They had stopped to see Uncle Scott and family before coming to our place. A nice visit with them for a couple of hours.

We had our youngest grandson, Logan, for a sleepover on Saturday night and when mom, LeeAnn, came and picked him up, she brought his costume. Our little Blue Jay was all smiles in his outfit – so cute. His favorite snacks and a book were his Halloween treat!

Our sympathies are extended to the Williamson and Gregory families on the passing of Dianne Williamson Gregory. She will be missed by her husband Dennis and her children Brandy, Morgan and Bryce and their families. She will be missed by her parents Ken and Anne Williamson and siblings Cathy, Jeff and Carol and families.

A lovely, hard-working and loving mother to her family, she will be

missed by many. Our condolences to all.

It was Halloween on Sunday evening and the trick-or-treaters had some amazing costumes. We had a skeleton, the Green Lantern, a pirate, a fisherman, a hunter, a Spiderman and Lightning McQueen, to name them. A small number of seven trick-or-treaters.

Celebrating birthdays this past week were Brent Alexander and MacKenzie McGavin. Halloween babies are Janine Knight and Davis Steffler. November begins with Judy Lee, followed by Marvin Bachert, Peggy Humphries, Garret Mader, Johnny Ryan, Kevin Coleman, Allison Black, Bruce Blake, Connie Cook, Alexis Terpstra, Lila Olson and Darryl Hoegy. Happy birthday to all.

NEWS FROM WALTON

ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION - BRANCH 420 BLYTH Spooky, scary skeleton North Woods Elementary School held special Halloween activities last week, including some crawly crafts, shown off by, from left, Jessica Huffman, Alex White and Levi Kuepfer. The trio also modeled some terrifying threads they wore to school. (Photo submitted)

Influenza vaccination encouraged Huron Perth Public Health (HPPH) encourages all residents six months of age and older to get their influenza vaccine (“flu shot”) this fall. Ontario’s Universal Influenza Immunization Program was launched on Nov. 1, which means the vaccine will now be widely available in Huron and Perth Counties. “The influenza virus can cause severe respiratory illness.

Getting the vaccine is the best way to protect yourself and your loved ones from getting influenza,” says Lorna Askes, Public Health Nurse.

Similar to previous years, this year’s influenza immunizations will be available through several providers. Residents can get their influenza immunization at: • Primary care provider’s office (family doctor or nurse practitioner): for those ages six months and older. Contact your primary care provider’s office for information on how to get the vaccine.

• Pharmacies: for those ages two

and older. Contact your local pharmacy for more information.

• Huron Perth Public Health Clinics: for families with children six months to less than two years of age who do not have a family doctor or nurse practitioner. The Health Unit is offering two clinics in November: Monday, Nov. 15, 36 p.m., Huron Perth Public Health, 653 West Gore St., Stratford and Monday, Nov. 22, 3-6 p.m., Jacob Memorial Building, 77722D London Rd., Clinton.

An appointment is needed.

Book your appointment online at www.hpph.ca/flu or by calling HPPH’s booking line at 1-833-7532098.

The National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) now recommends that COVID-19 vaccines may be given at the same time as, or any time before or after, other vaccines including live, non-live, adjuvanted, and non-adjuvanted vaccines. This means you do not have to worry about timing between

your influenza vaccine and your COVID-19 vaccination or other childhood immunizations.

The influenza vaccine does not protect against other viruses, such as norovirus (the ‘stomach flu’), or coronavirus, but it does protect against severe illness from the influenza virus.

It is important to get your influenza vaccine and continue to follow public health measures to protect yourself and those around you, especially at this time of year as gatherings move indoors with cooler weather.

To help stop the spread of influenza in the community, HPPH advises all residents to continue to: • Maintain physical distance • Wash hands with soap or use alcohol-based hand sanitizer, thoroughly and often • Cough or sneeze into your sleeve • Keep surfaces and items disinfected • Stay home if you are sick • Get the influenza vaccine.

The Poppy Campaign money collected in 2020 was $5,246.00 THE FOLLOWING IS A REPORT OF THE POPPY ACCOUNT

POPPY ACCOUNT Bank Balance Sept. 30/20 $9,620.16 Collected in 2020 Campaign 5,246.00 Total $14,866.16 EXPENDITURES Poppy Supplies $858.58 Printing & Advertising 427.29 Posters, Poems & Essay Contest Prizes 780.00 Total $2,065.87 TOTAL RECEIPTS TOTAL EXPENDITURES BANK BALANCE SEPT. 30/20

$14,866.16 2,065.87 $12,800.29

A special thanks goes out to the Legion and Ladies Auxiliary members and any others who have assisted in making this one of the best poppy campaigns ever.

Poppy Week will go from October 29th to November 11th.

Poppy Chairperson Donna Govier would like to thank all who made the 2020 Campaign a success, final calculations indicate gross receipts approaching $5,246.00 earmarked for service to veterans and their families. A special thanks to all the businesses and organizations for their continuing support.

Yours truly, Poppy Campaign Chairperson Donna Govier

THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2021. PAGE 9.

Memorial bouquet remembers those who’ve died

Further to my comments recently regarding interesting career choices, I came across some others

in recent days I thought you might like to hear about. These choices are not by folks we know, but are unusual and intriguing.

This first one also connects to another comment that was bandied around during the federal election campaign - clean water for Indigenous peoples/reserves. A non-Indigenous charity based in Creemore, Water First, offers an internship program with a mandate to address water issues in Indigenous communities. Across Canada 13.5 per cent of First

Nations communities are under a boil water advisory and in Ontario that number rises to 40 per cent.

The internship program offers inperson workshops and hands-on training, resulting in certification to be water treatment plant operators.

They are encouraging Native people, who know firsthand the water difficulties on reserves, to get this education so they can work in their own communities. A new batch of interns from eight First Nations communities in the Georgian Bay area have just started

Helping out Kendall Strome of the Salvation Army, left, was at Hullett Central Public School last Friday to pick up the large collection of coats, hats and mittens that students at the school had gathered as a fundraiser. From left: Strome, Cole Mason, Carter Howson, Ryan Beauchamp, Sadie Baxter and Makenzie Smith. (Denny Scott photo)

their education in this career.

I think, also, I heard recently that supplies are now on their way to Northern Ontario to finally deal with the decades-old tainted water issue on a reserve. One cannot imagine how dealing each day with poor water would impact so many aspects of daily life.

Jason Gully, a geology professor at the University of South Florida, teaches undergraduates about the physics of groundwater. Recently he joined Will Gadd, a Canadian adventure athlete, to study moulins, or giant vertical caves, in the Greenland ice sheet. This study, of course, is a result of the concern over climate change.

The melting of Greenland’s ice sheet could result in an unprecedented rise in the world’s sea level. It would take an adventurer, for sure, to want to crawl around under the ice for this study but how interesting a career!

Magali Furieri is training under her father to be a master plasterer.

No, not the kind that used to plaster houses before the invention of gyprock. Her father is a thirdgeneration architectural craftsman and heritage plaster consultant, an ancient craft. This father-daughter duo restores historic decorative plaster, such as that found in old theatres, houses and heritage buildings, like Toronto’s Massey Hall. Painstaking, but rewarding work and not on a usual list of career choices.

Saturday morning, the Londesborough community learned of the passing of a former resident, Joanne Lyon. Joanne moved from the village a few years ago to Goderich Place following the death of her husband, Bert. However, a fall some weeks ago proved too much for her to overcome. Please keep her family in your thoughts and prayers.

November 1 is All Saints Day.

NEWS FROM LONDESBORO Did you ever wonder how such a pagan ritual as Halloween on Oct. 31 came to be? Of course Halloween is a contraction of 'hallowed eve'.

On All Saints Sunday Licensed Lay Worship Leader Sue Barnett led the morning worship at Londesborough United Church. She explained that anyone who has lived and gone to heaven is considered a saint. They have lived a good life in God who has helped them through the good and bad times of life.Their example make it easier for us to have faith. Along with their life examples, we have their memories to sustain us.

Board chair Kittie MacGregor made a memorial bouquet on the communion table by adding a carnation for each of those in the Londesborough faith community who left us in the past year as Susan said their names; a touching way to remember them and recall a memory of each.

Be sure to wear a poppy for Remembrance Day.

North Huron Council donates $2,000 to Food Share

By Denny Scott The Citizen

During a North Huron Township Council meeting late last month, council decided to donate $2,000 to the North Huron Community Food Share to aid with the food bank’s rising costs.

In a letter to North Huron council, Food Share Board Chair Marilyn King said the organization is requesting funding from local councils, including Huron East, Morris-Turnberry, South Bruce,

Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh and North Huron, to help with increased costs.

“The continuing pandemic has increased client numbers, required new COVID-19 protocols and forced our Food Share to appeal to Food Banks Canada and Feed Ontario for additional skids of food to keep shelves stocked,” King said in her letter.

As a result of increased use and the increased food to accommodate it, the Food Share has expanded its storage and refrigerated space,

Getting up close With the high-scoring 6-3 affair between the victorious Wingham Ironmen and the Mount Forest Patriots, there was likely a number of skirmishes in front of the net like the one above. (John Stephenson photo)

resulting in excess heat generation and the need for an air conditioning unit, King said.

She said those needs, alongside the growing rent and electricity costs, resulted in the request.

Councillor Paul Heffer said a donation is sorely needed by the group due to the heavy use of the facility.

Deputy-Reeve Trevor Seip asked if there was any money left in

council’s discretionary contingency budget, and was told it hadn’t been touched yet.

“For council contingency, you haven't spent any of it, but in the community partnership found we still have [$2,725],” said Director of Finance Donna White, adding $2,225 had been spent.

While Seip wanted to push the issue until council’s budget meeting, when he was reminded

council was reviewing year-to-date expenditures a few days after the meeting, he suggested council go ahead and donate $2,000 to the Food Share.

Councillor Chris Palmer agreed with moving ahead quickly, saying that he feels it's North Huron’s duty to help and council should do it as soon as possible if necessary.

As a result, council decided to donate $2,000 to the Food Share.

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Coastal Coffee a labour of love for Gingeriches

Putting in the work The Gingerich family has come a long way to get to where they are now, which is now an old church near Kintail - a far cry from selling coffee out the back of the family’s old Volkswagen Westfalia. (Lisa Boonstoppel-Pot photo)

By Lisa Boonstoppel-Pot The Rural Voice

There’s a good vibe going on at Coastal Coffee near Kintail. It’s a kind of hippy, West Coast, vibe that owners Ben and Bri Gingerich are trying to cultivate.

There are two Volkswagen vans outside the former Presbyterian church, now home to the Gingerich family of five. Ducks, chickens and Guinea hens wander through the heirloom vegetable and flower gardens. There are little outbuildings here and there in a random formation. Plus, people are driving and cycling in and setting themselves down on picnic tables and chairs to enjoy their cups of fresh brewed, fresh roasted, Coastal Coffee.

“We are seeing more people come to the café than we ever dreamed,” says Ben. “We have become known as a culinary experience destination.”

More than that, he believes Coastal Coffee has created a homebased business by maximizing Huron County business grants, renovating existing architecture, creating value-added products and promoting organic markets while capitalizing on the Ontario’s West Coast theme. He says it is is an important example of a business

model that can be successful in rural Ontario.

Much of Ben’s belief system was formed growing up on his parents’ organic mixed farm which became known for Gingerich Eggs. He headed to British Columbia for university and while there, fell in love with both his wife Bri and the specialty coffee that seemed to be available everywhere.

The couple made their way to Huron County and missed the coffee scene so, as a hobby, Ben started roasting his own coffee in their home. At the time, Ben worked at the Bluewater Detention Centre and Bri managed a salon. When Bluewater closed, Ben was “forced” into following an interest he had already developed and scaled the coffee roasting business into a commercial operation, supplying restaurants and retail businesses.

During this time, they travelled to countries like Colombia and Costa Rica to search for premium, fairtrade coffee. Ben said they looked for coffee beans that were sustainably produced, sweet, wellprocessed and with a good body.

“People artificially sweeten their coffee to make it enjoyable but our coffees do not need sugar,” explains Ben. Ben and Bri started selling coffee and brew out of the back of their

Volkswagen Westfalia at local farmer’s markets. They opened a roastery in Zurich in 2014 and a few years later, decided to sell their property and search for a unique home to house Coastal Coffee and their three children: Avery, Maeva and Boden.

This was a critical time, because the family was asking a lot of one place. It had to be a home for the five of them with a small acreage (because they didn’t want to waste time mowing) but large enough for a garden and roastery. The place needed a good septic system, a paved road and had to be close to a highway so they could build a destination culinary experience.

Plus, they wanted the location and/or building to be unique.

Not expecting a lengthy search, they set up home in an Airstream camper and started looking for their dream home. Two years later, they were still looking. When the Presbyterian church came on the market, the family fell in love with it on sight. It was listed on a Friday and offers were already coming in over the weekend. Determined to have it, the Gingerich family wrote a letter explaining their intention for the church, offered over asking price and were the lucky bidders.

Then the work began. The existing septic and heating systems had to be

replaced. The church had knob and tube writing and scanty insulation.

Plus, since it was a church, it had to be redesigned to create a living space. Before any of that could happen, the property had to be rezoned from a community facility to residential with a home-based business, which required both an environmental and an archeological assessment. Setbacks were laid out because of the church’s proximity to a naturalized area, wind turbines and intensive agriculture. Consultations with municipal staff, engineers, architects, builders and plumbers took months. The Gingerich family did not have a building permit in hand until November of that year.

Once work began, Ben and Bri wanted the renovations to align with their health-focused, organic lifestyle. Natural products were chosen, including sheep wool for attic insulation and hemp batts for wall insulation. The walls were made with natural lime plaster instead of drywall (except in the commercial space, where drywall was a requirement) and they also chose densified concrete to reduce chemical use.

All the while, they rode the balance between functionality and honouring the church’s heritage features, such as the stained glass windows and interior lights. “This is a building that was open to the public for over 100 years,” says Ben. “We wanted to be considerate of the affinity the community has for the building.”

The actual roastery was set up in a shipping container beside the church. Termed a small-batch roastery, the actual roaster was imported from Turkey and roasts five kilograms of beans per batch in a 12-minute roast profile. Small batch production means there is more control over the roasting process, explains Ben. He prefers light and medium roasts so that people can really taste the bean when drinking the coffee. Dark roasting can create a “roast” taste that overpowers the bean taste.

By the summer of 2020, the couple was selling coffee at their home/business, creating kitchen gardens, adding chickens and homeschooling their three children.

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restaurants, cafés and retailers while selling direct from the business and opening the café on Fridays and Saturdays. Light pastries and coffeerelated gifts are also available for sale and they get about 300 people per week over eight hours in the summer months. They are especially excited about a new product called the Traveller, which is an ecofriendly solution to plastic coffee pods. Ben is hoping to market these in grocery stores across Canada.

With the stress of renovations largely behind them and a year’s experience at the new location, the family can pinpoint what they really enjoy about the business and their location. “It’s important for us to support the farmers where the coffee comes from,” says Bri. Obviously, the coffee beans are imported, so the Gingeriches travel regularly to Colombia and Nicaragua to meet the farmers who grow beans for their roastery. One of their favourite farms is owned by Chalos and called Chalos Coffee.

“This church was a community building for so long. If people can meet here and have coffee with a friend, then it is still a community space and that’s important to us,” says Bri. Last year, the family kept a campfire going during their open hours and people would come in their snowsuits to have a coffee outside during the pandemic.

The Gingerich family makes a good living selling coffee. Should anyone want to establish their own specialty coffee business, Ben says it takes time and, while the café turns a profit, selling the roasted beans wholesale is the most profitable part of the business.

Looking to the future, the couple wants to grow the business to a “sweet spot” where revenue supports their lifestyle. They hope the Traveller pods will really take off and they are excited about their social media presence.

“We also chose this location for quality of life for our family so our goal is to keep that balance, and not open the café full time,” adds Bri. Still, it’s meeting and having fun with their customers that reminds them how this all got started in the first place: wanting to create a West Coast vibe in Huron County by serving excellent coffee.

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Agricultural land sale process concerns Palmer Continued from page 3 portion of the meeting, Rob Warwick, the tenant who currently

rents the agricultural land, said the decision would have a significant impact on his operations and that he

has been caught off guard by discussions around the airport. That said, he wanted to be part of the

Getting creative Seven-year-old Soryan Patterson, left, and three-year-old Kinsley Patterson were among those young people who flocked to the Wild Goose Studio in Blyth for Rita Rutabaga’s party at Little Rita’s House of Hope. The event included face-painting and plenty of art. (John Stephenson photo)

solution for North Huron and not part of the problem.

Palmer, however, felt that the council was going about selling the property incorrectly, saying that any farmer who purchases the land will want to work on it immediately.

Staff said the process would likely take months and, with a renewal period ending in August, it could be managed, however Palmer felt that North Huron would end up breaking its agreement with Warwick, which would cause the municipality to “kiss future agreements away”.

Councillor Kevin Falconer felt that council shouldn’t tell staff how to do their job, just what needed to be done, but Palmer still wasn’t satisfied, questioning the credentials of Director of Public Works and Facilities Jamie McCarthy by asking her if she was a farmer.

McCarthy said she wasn’t, but that she was working on behalf of the ratepayers of the municipality, as that was her priority.

Deputy-Reeve Trevor Seip felt the issue wasn’t being communicated properly, saying that declaring it surplus and investigating the sale was just the start of a long process, though he agreed with McCarthy, saying council’s focus should be on what’s best for North Huron ratepayers. He said he would want to be amicable

with the current lessee but that the priority is the township’s ratepayers.

After a minor change to the motion to reflect the lease renewal time of August of 2022, council received the report and gave staff direction. Later in the meeting, council read the bylaw that makes the sale official for the first and second time with the third reading coming at a future council meeting.

No price amount was discussed during the meeting for either the airport, the farmland or the woodlot, however staff suggested putting the funds from the sale of the airport directly into reserves for future projects.

Reeve Bernie Bailey said the pending sale of all of the lands would allow council to acquire developable lots in North Huron for residential, industrial and commercial development, which would help create more opportunities like the residential building boom in Blyth, the Hutton Heights development in East Wawanosh and the proposed multistorey building going up at the former Wingham trailer park. He went on to say that, despite entering the last year of the current term, he and his fellow council members were just getting started in making a difference for the municipality and that the next council would be well situated to carry on that work.

M-T public works dealing with multiple tree issues

By Denny Scott The Citizen As part of routine road patrols, Morris-Turnberry Public Works staff spent the last month cutting and cleaning up numerous downed trees throughout the municipality.

During council’s Oct. 19 meeting, Director of Public Works Mike Alcock said staff were kept busy with the number of storms that passed through the area that had knocked over or damaged trees.

“I don’t really see any end to it with the dying ash trees and the maple trees getting older,” Alcock said. “Tree clean-up is requiring more and more work.” *** The construction of the Smuck Bridge on Abraham Line is on schedule, Alcock said, though the construction site

may not look busy this month.

Alcock informed council that contractors would not be on the site this month, but would return in November to prepare the abutments for girders to be placed.

“They’re waiting for the girders to be cast before they can [proceed],” Alcock said. *** Morris-Turnberry’s first fall yard waste occurred earlier this month, with the final pick-up scheduled early next month. Alcock said the first pick-up went ahead as planned on Oct. 12. *** After an overturned truck and spill closed it earlier this year, C Line Road has been restored to allow through traffic, Alcock said.

The road was closed because a salt truck rolled over, necessitating clean-up.

Alcock said the road is open but will close again soon as it is a nowinter-maintenance road, and then will re-open in the spring. *** Huron County staff continue to work on County Road 4, a portion of which in Morris-Turnberry remained closed to the public. As Alcock predicted at an earlier council meeting, Morris-Turnberry staff have been fielding complaints about the closure.

When he initially spoke on the issue, Alcock said the long detour, which could add up to five kilometres to the approximate 10kilometre trip between Belgrave and Wingham, would likely generate negative feedback.

Councillor Jamie McCallum asked if there was a dollar amount attributed to the extra wear and tear on Morris-Turnberry

roads caused by the detour.

Alcock said it wasn’t significant, but some extra grading and gravel will be needed.

“Certainly there’s a dollar figure, but it isn’t very high,” Alcock said, adding that the official detour is in North Huron, so he didn’t anticipate the county would pay for any work. ***

When asked about filling a staff position at the Morris-Turnberry landfill, Alcock said he was close to offering the position.

While he couldn’t discuss the issue in depth at the council meeting, he could say he had interviewed the last candidate the day of the meeting and said there was someone in mind to fill the position.

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Sept. 19 will be a day that the community, as well as those attached to former CFB Clinton, won’t soon forget. The day included a fly-over, the unveiling of a special historical plaque, parades and the sharing of stories from the former base turned Huron East community.

The effort of honouring the site and its importance to Canadian military history began between the above organizations and the late Jan Hawley, Huron East’s Economic Development Officer. The emcee for the event, Retired Lieutenant Colonel Tony Charters of the Canadian Forces Communications and Electronics Association, said the site was the home of RADAR (radio detection and ranging) in Canada and that it should be recognized, remembered and honoured.

As part of the celebration, Canadian Forces Communications and Electronics Association President Retired Major General John Leech Local branches of the Royal Canadian Legion were part of a special ceremony honouring gave an overview of the history of the CFB Clinton earlier this year, including the Clinton and Brussels pipe bands. (File photo) base, from its creation as a Royal Air

Big day

Force training station in 1941. From there, it became a Royal Canadian Air Force base in 1943 and remained in operation until 1971 when it was closed as part of the unification of the armed services in the country.

The keynote speaker for the event earlier this year was Retired Brigadier General Michel Charron, who trained at the base early in his career.

Sunday, Sept. 19 was not only the day chosen to honour what CFB Clinton was to the military and the country, but also the 81st anniversary of the Battle of Britain Day, marking the Royal Air Force’s victory over the German Luftwaffe, Charters said.

He said he was honoured to be at the event and it, alongside other initiatives at the CFB, showed the solid relationship of the base and the surrounding communities.

Charron explained that the plaque marked a milestone in the history of the RCAF, but at first spoke more to the history of the people at the base than the base itself.

He came to the base near the end of its life cycle, and said he remembered that the base offered great living quarters, but that many of his friends were newly married and lived off the base, and that the communities respected them.

Charron spoke to the realities of life on the base, as well as giving an Continued on page 14

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Sept. 19 will be a day that the community, as well as those attached to former CFB Clinton, won’t soon forget. The day included a fly-over, the unveiling of a special historical plaque, parades and the sharing of stories from the former base turned Huron East community.

The effort of honouring the site and its importance to Canadian military history began between the above organizations and the late Jan Hawley, Huron East’s Economic Development Officer. The emcee for the event, Retired Lieutenant Colonel Tony Charters of the Canadian Forces Communications and Electronics Association, said the site was the home of RADAR (radio detection and ranging) in Canada and that it should be recognized, remembered and honoured.

As part of the celebration, Canadian Forces Communications and Electronics Association President Retired Major General John Leech Local branches of the Royal Canadian Legion were part of a special ceremony honouring gave an overview of the history of the CFB Clinton earlier this year, including the Clinton and Brussels pipe bands. (File photo) base, from its creation as a Royal Air

Big day

Force training station in 1941. From there, it became a Royal Canadian Air Force base in 1943 and remained in operation until 1971 when it was closed as part of the unification of the armed services in the country.

The keynote speaker for the event earlier this year was Retired Brigadier General Michel Charron, who trained at the base early in his career.

Sunday, Sept. 19 was not only the day chosen to honour what CFB Clinton was to the military and the country, but also the 81st anniversary of the Battle of Britain Day, marking the Royal Air Force’s victory over the German Luftwaffe, Charters said.

He said he was honoured to be at the event and it, alongside other initiatives at the CFB, showed the solid relationship of the base and the surrounding communities.

Charron explained that the plaque marked a milestone in the history of the RCAF, but at first spoke more to the history of the people at the base than the base itself.

He came to the base near the end of its life cycle, and said he remembered that the base offered great living quarters, but that many of his friends were newly married and lived off the base, and that the communities respected them.

Charron spoke to the realities of life on the base, as well as giving an Continued on page 14

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Unveiling The Canadian Forces Communications and Electronics Association, alongside other stakeholders, unveiled a historical plaque at the former Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Clinton, Vanastra, during a special event on Sept. 19. The plaque details the history of the site from its inception as a Royal Air Force training base in 1941 to its closure in 1971.

Representing the association in the unveiling are, from left, Chief Warrant Officer Gilles Philibert, Major-General John Leech (Retired), and Colonel Eric Charron alongside Huron East Mayor Bernie MacLellan. (File photo)

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Please observe a moment of silence at 11:00 am for our fallen heroes.

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REMEMBRANCE DAY 2021 Plaque unveiling marked by fly-over

Look waaay up The Canadian Harvard Association was able to attend the unveiling of a historical plaque honouring the history of Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Clinton on Sept. 19. (File photo)

Continued from page 13 overview of how the base came to be there and how important it was to the World War II effort.

He said it was impressive how the “tiny village of Clinton”, with a

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The work of the graduates of the base was instrumental, he said, in the organizations that followed through to modernity.

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the inscription of the plaque, which was still under cover, two Harvard aircraft, from the Canadian Harvard Association, did a flyby of the site, passing over three times. The plaque was then unveiled and the assembled speakers and dignitaries took a tour of the former air base.

The inscription on the plaque, in both English and French, reads as follows: Royal Canadian Air Force Station Clinton The RCAF took over Station Clinton from the Royal Air Force in 1943 and created No. 5 Radio School to train officers, technicians and operators on Radio Detection and Ranging (RADAR) systems.

Over 7,000 Canadian and Allied service personnel passed through the school during [World War 2]. In 1945, Station Clinton became home to No. 1 Radar and Communications School and remained the primary radar and communications training site until it closed in 1971.

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Gateway, university aim to combat vaccine hesitancy

By Shawn Loughlin The Citizen The University of Waterloo and the Gateway Centre for Excellence in Rural Health are working together on a program called Reaching Rural in an attempt to improve vaccine confidence in the region.

Dr. Feng Chang from the University of Waterloo, who has worked extensively with the

Goderich-based Gateway Centre, is leading the research, working with some of his pharmacy students at the university.

The process began with the recruitment of vaccinated community volunteers to lead online sessions aimed at unvaccinated community members.

Student Daniel Stuckless said the sessions, scheduled for Nov. 10, 13 and 16, with more possible to come, will be free-form, with participants

able to ask questions and hear from fellow rural residents, instead of public officials.

Stuckless said the sessions will be very loosely formatted, with some topics to be raised if conversation stalls, but that the sessions are really about providing a nonjudgmental forum for unvaccinated community members to ask questions. Stuckless will be on hand to facilitate the forums, but will have very limited involvement,

leaving it to the community volunteers to handle everything.

The project began before Stuckless’s time as a co-op student with the program, he said, adding that Dr. Chang has enjoyed a positive working relationship with the Gateway Centre for many years.

Stuckless said the drive behind the project is to identify areas with higher-than-average levels of vaccine hesitancy and take a different approach.

The issue of COVID-19 vaccinations is a divisive one, he said, and certain approaches to dispelling misinformation have proven more successful than others, which is why the forums have been created. He said many people distrust public officials or doctors, so hearing facts from a fellow member of the rural community and

having the ability to ask questions in that kind of environment may make people more comfortable.

Stuckless said he is very happy with the response to the call for volunteers and hopes the sessions will attract many members of the community. If they do, more will be held through the winter, he said.

The program is funded through the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and the Encouraging Vaccine Confidence Grant.

The sessions are free, but you have to register through Eventbrite.com.

Search for “Reaching Rural: Vaccination Perspectives from Huron-Perth and Grey-Bruce” to find the events and register. Current sessions are set for 7 p.m. on Nov. 10 and 1 p.m. on Nov. 13 and Nov. 16.

M-T supports bin

By Denny Scott The Citizen After a presentation by Angela Irvine with Diabetes Canada, Morris-Turnberry Council has approved the placement of a donation bin for the national organization at its landfill.

During council’s Oct. 19 meeting, Irvine requested council consider the move, which would both help the organization and reduce the amount of refuse going into landfills.

The bins allow for donations of clothing and household items, Irvine said, and in the information she provided with her request, Diabetes Canada states that the program diverts over 100 million pounds of clothing from landfill, saving on energy and reducing carbon footprints and emissions.

“All you have to do is let me have

a spot to put it,” Irvine said.

Mayor Jamie Heffer said that, if all it requires is a location, it’s a bonus to the community.

Deputy-Mayor Sharen Zinn asked if there were already such bins in Belgrave, and was told by Irvine there are, but they are maintained by different organizations.

Councillor Jim Nelemans asked how often it would be emptied and Irvine said as often as necessary.

Until a schedule can be figured out, she said it would likely be once or twice a week.

When asked if he saw any issues with it, Director of Public Works Mike Alcock said he didn’t, and said he was certain he could work with Irvine to make pick-up times convenient for everyone involved.

Council was in favour of the plan, passing a motion to allow the placement of the bin.

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The Blyth Brussels U11 Rep Crusaders hosted the Huron-Bruce Blizzard over the weekend. The squads faced off in Blyth, but the home ice advantage wasn’t enough for the Crusaders, who ended up on the wrong side of a 5-3 decision. (John Stephenson photo)

NH supports parades, events Continued from page 1 Blyth’s community spirit and increase commerce in the community. All North Huron policies and procedures, as well as COVID-19 requirements, will be followed for this event.”

Council approved motions agreeing to allow the Remembrance Day ceremonies to go ahead, to support the Wingham Lions Club and Blyth Community Betterment Group in preparing for the parades and supporting the efforts of the Blyth Community Betterment Group to pursue the Homecoming and Blyth Rutabaga Festival next year.

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Brussels Legion marking 90-year anniversary

Continued from page 6 anniversary of the signing of the World War I Armistice. The Bells of Peace initiative included researching the names and graves of many local veterans by members of the Branch. The Grade 5/6 students of North Woods Elementary School placed flags and poppies at each grave. The Branch held a commemorative service at the going down of the sun, 4:59 pm., on Nov. 11 and read the names of 172 service men and women who served from our area. The bell was rung 100 times by relatives of servicemen during the solemn ceremony. Bells across the village were also rung by churches, the firehall and individuals in a show of support, unity and remembrance.

Congratulations to the Brussels Legion on celebrating 90 years as a

valued service club in the community. One can become a member of the Royal Canadian Legion by joining Brussels Branch 218. The Branch has a membership of under 100 and will be glad to welcome new members to the Legion family. Call today or drop in and look around and ask about joining the Branch.

The week at the Branch began with the Brussels Lions Club holding its meeting. Members enjoyed a meal of meat loaf and dressing. The Lion members were dressed to celebrate Halloween and there were some wonderful costumes. Following the business, they enjoyed a few Halloween games to have an entertaining end to the night. Branch workers included Jo-Ann McDonald, Judy Lee, Deb Ross,

Marni Knight and Mabel Glanville.

Tuesday evening, the Brussels Cadet Corp met with a small group.

They are looking for new members ages 12-18 to join the Corp.

Everyone must be fully-vaccinated to attend. Drop in any Tuesday evening to ask about it, if you are vaccinated.

While the Cadets met upstairs, the Branch held its meeting downstairs. It was the annual visitation meeting by the Zone Commander Dennis Schmidt and Deputy Zone Commander Jon Corbett. President Jamie Mitchell opened the meeting with the business of the Branch.

Remembrance Day is almost upon us and the Poppy Committee has been busy. Poppy boxes went out Friday Oct. 29, the first day of the campaign. Comrades Sandra

Brown, Kathy Burkholder and Deb Ross were out front of the Branch with Remembrance Day poppies, signs, pins etc on Oct. 30 and will be there again on Nov. 7 from 10 a.m. to noon. Mail-outs will also be made. Lake Affect Media will livestream the service on Nov. 11.

Premier Doug Ford made an announcement, since our meeting, to announce the lifting of restrictions for outdoor gatherings.

The Branch plans for the livestream are still in effect and we encourage people to watch it from home.

There will be no parade, no church service or lunch at the Branch for the public. People who do attend are asked to respect physical distancing. Please take a moment at 11 a.m. to observe a moment of silence in memory and respect of our servicemen of the past and present who served their country or who are serving their country. We will remember them.

The entertainment committee reported on the upcoming events planned. Jelly Bean Blue will be at the Branch on Nov. 19 and the Christmas Meat draw is set for Dec. 18. A Dolly Parton/ Neil Diamond tribute band is booked for March.

Watch for details in the new year.

The Ace Draw was held Friday evening with Deb Ross, Kathy Burkholder and Nanci Ducharme.

The lucky weekly winner was Keith

McLean and he won $230 and he chose envelope number 32. The four of diamonds was revealed and the jackpot will grow to $4,300.

The meal of the evening was sausage and sauerkraut and was enjoyed by a nice crowd. Following the draw, the karaoke evening with Stubby D began with lots of folks exercising their vocal cords and getting up to sing. Next week, pulled pork is on the menu for a light supper available from 5-7 p.m.

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The guest speaker at Knox United Church, Belgrave on Sunday, Oct. 31 was Murray Scanlon, United Church Licensed Lay Worship Leader.

For Nov. 7, Bruce Whitmore is the guest speaker. Everyone is welcome.

Sympathy is extended to Glenn Raynard and Donna Raynard and family and Mae and Brock in the loss of their sister, Rev. Marion Elizabeth Raynard, who passed away on Oct. 7 at the Hospice of Niagara Region in St. Catharines.

Our fall weather has been very wet, with very little sunshine. It has been difficult to clean up the garden, rake leaves and do outside work. The farmers find it difficult to get their beans and corn off.

Hoping it dries up soon so they can get back on the land.

The Ontario government has opened up more things but you must have proof of vaccination at some places. The restaurants have had their capacity numbers raised but you still need to wear a mask.

Anyone who hasn’t been vaccinated should do so soon.

Everyone needs to do their part to stop the spread of COVID-19. Wear a mask, keep your distance and whenever possible, wash your hands and sanitize.

Hoping that everyone had a safe and enjoyable Halloween. There weren’t many children out due to the cold, wet, windy and unpredictable weather.

This morning we managed to get hail mixed with the rain.

Don’t forget to set your clocks back one hour Sunday morning, Nov. 7 or before going to bed Saturday night.

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Over 2,300 cattle, 830 lambs and goats sold at sales Total receipts for Brussels Livestock for the week ending Oct. 29 were 2,309 cattle and 832 lambs and goats.

On Tuesday, fed steers and heifers sold steady. Choice steers and heifers sold $155 to $162.50. Second-cut cattle sold $145 to $154. Aged and medium-fed steers and heifers sold

$125 to $145. Cows sold steady.

On Thursday, holstein veal sold steady. Beef veal sold stronger.

Lambs, sheep and goats all sold steady.

On Friday, calves and yearlings sold steady.

Matthew Bros. Farms of Durham, consigned 10 head. Five charolais steers averaged 1,545 lbs. and sold

for an average price of $162.

There were 250 cows on offer.

Beef sold $68 to $85 with sales to $87; good holstein cows, $62 to $71 with sales to $72.50; medium holstein cows, $52 to $61; plain cows, $50 to $58.

There were 185 head of veal on offer. Beef veal sold $170 to $220 with sales to $232; good holsteins,

$140 to $164; SL heavy holsteins, $122 to $145; heavy holsteins, $117 to $134; medium holsteins, $125 to $139.

Reuben S. Martin of Wallenstein, consigned six head. One blue steer weighing 945 lbs. sold for a price of $232.

Murray Burkhart of Wallenstein, consigned four head.

One black heifer weighed 885 lbs. and sold for a price of $219.

Lambs 50 - 64 lbs. sold $267.50 to $372.50; 65 - 79 lbs., $271.50 to $297.50; 80 - 94 lbs., $256.50 to $290; 95 - 109 lbs., $253 to $268; 110 lbs. and over, $213.50 to $240.

Sheep sold $150 to $275.

Goats: billies sold $150 to $400; nannies, $100 to $250; kids: meat, $275 to $350; dairy, $200 to $280.

Jordan Reuber of Mildmay, consigned 37 head. Seven lambs averaged 96 lbs. and sold for an average price of $268.

Kolgie Ltd. of Monkton, consigned 27 head. Nine lambs averaged 97 lbs. and sold for an average price of $265.

Sue Stoecki of Kincardine, consigned six head. Two kid goats averaged 63 lbs. and sold for an average price of $350.

Top quality stocker steers under 400 lbs. sold $250 to $283; 400 499 lbs., $225.50 to $259; 500 - 599 lbs., $218 to $231; 600 - 699 lbs., $214 to $226; 700 - 799 lbs., $195 to $208; 800 - 899 lbs., $182 to $203; 900 - 999 lbs., $194 to $202; 1,000 lbs. and up, $173 to $196.50.

Top quality stocker heifers, 400 499 lbs. sold $184 to $205; 500 599 lbs., $199 to $206; 600 - 699 lbs., $169 to $219; 700 - 799 lbs.,

$160 to $175; 800 - 899 lbs., $176 to $186.50; 900 lbs. and over, $156 to $170.75.

Allan Aitchison of New Liskeard, consigned 55 head. Nineteen charolais heifers averaged 807 lbs. and sold for an average price of $186.75.

Craig Simpson of Glencoe, consigned 15 head. Fifteen charolais heifers averaged 949 lbs. and sold for an average price of $170.75.

Murray Shiell of Wingham, consigned 65 head. Sixteen charolais steers averaged 969 lbs. and sold for an average price of $202.

Samuel H. Weber of Clifford, consigned 34 head. Six charolais steers averaged 1,012 lbs. and sold for an average price of $190.50.

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Spreading Halloween joy Huronlea and Huronview Homes for the Aged, in Brussels and Clinton respectively, held special trick-or-treat window visit events on Sunday for residents and their families.

Here, the McDonald family, including Landry as a witch and Memphis as Super Mario, make their way up to the home to see some loved ones. (John Stephenson photo)

OFA focuses on connection

By Hugh Simpson, Director Ontario Federation of Agriculture It’s been almost two years since COVID-19 changed the world as we know it. As farmers, we are familiar with volatile markets, unpredictability and vulnerability to extreme weather. The pandemic however, disrupted all facets of farming, from labour to supply and for many barred access to traditional market streams.

Many farm businesses showcased their resiliency and perseverance as they made the pivot to direct marketing and farm gate sales.

Those who made the leap did more than survive, they thrived, as Ontarians were eager to support local growers and producers throughout the food value chain. It provided an opportunity to reinforce the importance of buying and supporting local businesses, connecting with our consumer base and promoting products that are available all year-round.

It seems ironic, but as our customers become further removed

from the farm, their interest continues to peak as to where their food comes from, how it’s grown or produced and by whom. The pandemic motivated and escalated a “support local” boom, which opened great opportunities for our sector to engage and inform Ontarians about modern agriculture. It is a movement the Ontario Federation of Agriculture (OFA) wants to foster for generations to come.

This year, the Virtual Annual General Meeting (AGM) is slated for Monday, Nov. 22 with a 9 a.m. start with a theme of “Connecting with Ontarians”. The theme highlights the importance of relationship building with customers, increasing public connection to the food value chain and bridging the gap between Ontarians and farmers. Whether you produce or purchase, we are all connected through our shared values of family, community, local, small business, environment and food security. Everyone has a reason for the decisions they make.

Through a suite of new campaigns, events and initiatives, the OFA is working with partners to better connect Ontarians with the farm and food sector – from fieldto-fork. As a farmer and OFA director, I understand the public branding dynamic and its ability to cultivate sustainable and profitable farms. For me, the goal is to increase public loyalty, understanding and empathy for the agriculture sector.

It has been my personal view, shared by many, that the general public has the greatest impact on the farm sector and, more specifically, our OFA members.

Our farmers produce the highest quality food, fibre and fuel for the province, the country and the world. It’s important that we share our story and continue to garner public support through the creation of an emotional, authentic and personal connection.

Keynote speaker Terry O’Reilly, Canadian broadcaster and host of the award-winning radio show Continued on page 19

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Coming events Help wanted In memoriam SUE’S FAMOUS FISH FRY – Eat In and Take Out, Friday, Nov. 12, noon to 7 p.m., Wingham Columbus Centre. Grilled or battered white fish or chicken fingers. Take Out: $16 (fish, fries or baked potato and a dinner roll), half price for kids! Add $1.50 for caesar or garden salad. Eat in: $18, a buffet of fries, baked potato, garden and caesar salad, dinner roll and coffee or tea. Add $2 for a butter tart or $4 for cheesecake. HST is included in all prices. Call 519-357-1270 to order your fish and to reserve a pickup time. Pay by e-transfer, credit card, debit or cash.

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BRUSSELS 5Rs THRIFT STORE 30th Annual meeting, Tuesday, November 9, 2021 at Brussels United Church, 7 p.m. Business Meeting, 6:30 p.m. meal provided.

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COVID-19 protocols in place.

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Proof of vaccine required. For more information contact the Agricultural Society at 519-527-1321.

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Take control of your arthritis 1 in 6 Canadians have arthritis

PETER JOHN KELLY Nov. 12, 1945 - Nov. 6, 2006 “Some people come into our lives and leave their marks on our hearts, and we are never the same.”

Fifteen years have passed since you left us for your eternal home.

We are still missing you and love you more than ever. – Your family.

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Administrative Assistant

A full job description and competitive wage and benefit information is available at www.morristurnberry.ca/government/employment. Please submit a cover letter and résumé no later than 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, November 25, 2021, in PDF format by email to: Trevor Hallam, CAO/Clerk Municipality of Morris-Turnberry 41342 Morris Road P.O. Box 310 Brussels, ON N0G 1H0 thallam@morristurnberry.ca

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WALSH. The family of the late Elsie Walsh would like to express our appreciation for all the cards, flowers and expressions of sympathy shown following her passing. Also thank you to Falconer Funeral Home for their help and support and lastly thanks to the staff at Huronview for looking after Elsie for the past six years. – The Walsh family.

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Local youths land support through summer program

Hard at work Goderich’s Anna Lang, who runs Open Heart Studio in Goderich, was one of six successful Summer Company program recipients this year. (Photo submitted) The County of Huron, in partnership with the Province of Ontario, recognizes the importance of inspiring and assisting young people to choose entrepreneurship as a career.

For this reason, the County of Huron and the Province of Ontario have invested in providing training,

mentorship and funds to local students and aspiring entrepreneurs through the Summer Company program.

“Investing in Huron County’s youth is invaluable,” said Huron County Warden Glen McNeil.

“These talented and adventurous young people are the leaders of

tomorrow and I am thrilled that the County of Huron is able to support their entrepreneurial spirit in this way. Congratulations to each of the Summer Company’s six recipients!”

The Summer Company program, administered by the County of Huron, aims to equip students with the tools they need to succeed, as they learn how to run a business, receive mentorship and training, and develop skills that are highly valued in all workplaces. Students between the ages of 15 and 29 who are returning to school in the fall can apply to receive up to $3,000 in start-up funding and business coaching to run their own summer business.

Successful recipients from this year’s Summer Company program are: Anna Lang, Open Heart Studio (Goderich); Neil Haas, Ontario’s West Coast Honey (Clinton); Ty Livingston, Autostar Car Detailing (Clinton); Caleb Kroll, Sharpe’s Creek Produce Market (Auburn); Claire Mitchell, Huron County Horse Trailers (Walton) and Axeton Wright, Axeton’s Car Care (Londesborough).

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Obituaries

JOANNE PEARL (EASOM) LYON Joanne Pearl Lyon (Easom), 85, passed away peacefully on Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021 with her family by her side.

Joanne was born Oct. 17, 1936 in Clinton Public Hospital to Roy and Grace Easom. She married Albert (Bert) Lyon, the love of her life, in June, 1957, who preceded her in death in February 2018.

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Joanne is survived by her sister Marlene Baer and her husband, Ron, Saltford; three children and their spouses, Wayne and Jane Lyon, Clinton; Kathy and Ron Moes, Merritt, British Columbia; Cheryl and Calvin Bakelaar, Auburn; eight grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren and her many nephews and nieces. All of

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A gait aid for your loved one?

By Marguerite Oberle Thomas Nobody ever said caregiving is easy. It is especially not easy when your loved one has dementia and you worry about them falling, but are uncertain as to what is to be expected and when to take action.

Research has shown that people with dementia can learn new skills like exercises or using a mobility aid through repetition and practice, which is frequent training with positive feedback. November is the sixth national Fall Prevention Month and this year we are featuring gait aids.

There are changes in balance and walking that occur from the underlying disease process of dementia that make people more unsteady. Balance and gait deficits are common and present early in the disease.

How might a caregiver first notice that their loved one is having

problems with balance and walking? People with dementia tend to walk slower, take shorter steps and will have difficulty recovering their balance when unsteady. People with cognitive impairment and dementia also have problems multi-tasking, such as walking and talking at the same time. Thinking, balance and walking problems are common and progressive in dementia, leading to impaired mobility, falls and fallrelated injuries. The mechanisms for the increased risk of falls in people with dementia are not fully understood, yet balance and walking problems and leg weakness are prominent risk factors. The severity of the dementia also increases risk as the changes in the brain directly affect a person’s ability to control movement.

A common treatment option for

balance and walking problems is the use of a gait aid, such as a fourwheeled walker, as it increases stability for the person. The good news is that many people with dementia can be assessed and trained to use gait aids (e.g., cane or walker) effectively, especially early in the disease process.

While it can increase mobility, the use of gait aids by people with dementia can also result in an increased risk of falls. The reasons for this increased risk are due to increased demands on the brain to use the gait aid or to multi-task. It can be difficult to use the aid and do another task, such as carrying something. The person’s hands may not be available to reach for support when there is loss of balance.

People may start use of the aid late in the disease and thus may have more trouble learning how to use it

correctly and may lack insight on safety (e.g., forget to put on the brakes). Since many people obtain mobility aids without consultation with health care professionals, there can be unsafe use and maintenance of equipment. There is a learning curve to using the aid safely.

Healthcare professionals with special training in the assessment, prescription and training in use of gait aids include physical and occupational therapists.

The therapists will meet with people individually to take a history to understand the problems someone is experiencing and perform a physical assessment for balance, walking and leg strength to determine which areas are causing problems. The therapists will then determine the most appropriate gait aid for the level of physical activity and home situation, which will also include training on the aid’s use. As balance, walking and leg strength problems are progressive, it is good to have re-evaluations if you notice a change in function or if a person is experiencing falls.

Additionally, seeing a healthcare professional will determine the type

of aid, whether it is sized appropriately and that the best training is offered.

Therapists will work to avoid errors and minimize inaccurate performance during the learning process. This helps to reduce frustration and it increases participation of the person with dementia. Therapists will provide training over a period of time and also encourage exercises, which help to keep muscles strong.

If you notice your loved one is no longer walking with the same skill or if your loved one seems to stumble more or has actual falls, please have him or her professionally assessed. People with dementia can and do learn to use mobility aids effectively.

Professionals also help with ongoing assessment of your loved one and with the ongoing maintenance of the aid.

Marguerite Oberle Thomas, RN., BScN., is the Consultant Liaison for the Fall Prevention Community of Practice sponsored by Parachute.

She is also a senior devoted to preventing injuries and a former caregiver.

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From the Minister’s Study

Cleanse your soul completely; it’s the only way

By Rev. Charmila Ireland Melville Presbyterian Church, Brussels Psalm 51: “Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your unfailing love; according to Your great compassion blot out my transgressions. Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me.

Against You, You only, have I sinned and done what is evil in Your sight; so You are right in Your verdict and justified when You judge.”

In June of this year, I spent some time camping at MacGregor Point Provincial Park. Sadly, I thought that the showers weren’t open and I would have to bathe in Lake Huron.

Which was still, even at the end of June, quite chilly, to put it mildly. I went for a swim on Saturday and my fingertips were an interesting shade of blue by the time I was done! So when it came to Tuesday, my third day in a row without a proper shower, and I’d acquired a number of layers of bug spray, sun screen and dirt, you can probably imagine my joy when I learned that the showers were indeed open! And the water was warm! And the pressure was good! Oh, man, did that shower feel good.

I’m sure at some point in your life you’ve been in the same position.

I’m sure all of you at one time or another have spent a long day in the field, barnyard, workshop, garage or garden and gotten back to the house longing for the moment you finally get to wash the day’s accumulated grime away. It’s one of life’s joys. Psalm 51 is about having that feeling in our soul.

That moment is one of confession, of knowing that our sins are being washed away. Circling down the drain, gone for good. All the grime and dirt of life, gone.

Washed and whiter than snow.

What a powerful feeling.

The introductory superscription of Psalm 51 reads, “A Psalm of David. When the prophet Nathan came to him after David had committed adultery with Bathsheba.” It’s one of the most descriptive prefaces to any of the Psalms Many of these superscriptions were added later than the original writing of the Psalms – most aren’t in the original texts. So is this inscription accurate? I don’t know.

But this Psalm might very well have been written by David in direct response to Nathan helping him realize the depth and depravity

of his sin, the thick layer of dirtiness that had built up on him, the lust, cheating, abuse of power, murder. But I don’t want us to get hung up on that for one simple reason: because it can easily be used by us to distance ourselves from this Psalm, from confession, from sin and from the need for repentance.

It’s easy to think about what David did, then read this Psalm and think “Ya, it’s a good thing he repented. He really messed up.” Sin is uncomfortable. Knowing that we’re sinners... not a lot of fun. It’s a lot easier to look at David’s giant sin and think that we don’t have anything to worry about. We didn’t do anything that bad.

The reality is that this Psalm could be read with passion and accuracy by any of us. As it says in verse 5, “Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me.” This isn’t exclusive to David. It’s a tough part of Christian faith: the knowledge that we’re sinners and live in a fallen world. For we have all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. Some might think this to be hyperbole; an excessive guilt trip.

Surely we’re good enough, aren’t we? We don’t really need to feel bad or repent. We give to charity, or we acknowledge that little thing we did wrong, but it wasn’t really a big deal. We minimize and avoid. We think true repentance is for other people; for murderers and abusers and adulterers and addicts – not for us. It’s for churches that ran residential schools – not for us here in small town Ontario. They need

repentance. We only need to say we’re sorry every now and then. No big deal.

This sort of thinking might be somewhat akin to taking spot baths when you’re filthy. Sure, they might help a bit – might make you feel a little better. But they’re not really doing all that much in the grand scheme of things. They’re not really getting you clean.

We all need a good scrubbing, a cleansing, a renewal, a spot bath is not enough.

We all need the kind of repentance the author of Psalm 51 is giving: complete surrender. No putting our sin off. No forgetting it.

Really acknowledging it and not trying to minimize it. Verse 3 says “For I know my transgressions and my sin is always before me.” This is part of the role of the Holy Spirit – convicting us. Showing us where we are going wrong so that we can change course. Letting us know that what we’re doing isn’t good, not so that we can be overcome with shame or guilt, but so that we can go to God to be made right. David did this. When Nathan confronted him about his sin, he accepted the judgment and realized the depth of his sins.

Psalm 51 also shows us the gravity of sin and repentance.

There’s no argument that it’s not really a big deal and God shouldn’t really be mad. He’s realizing that God would be and is right to judge us harshly. Verse 4 says, “[I have] done what is evil in Your sight, so that You are proved right when You speak and justified when You judge.” But the Psalmist also

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want so desperately to be in the presence of God? In verse 11 he begs, “Do not cast me from Your presence or take Your Holy Spirit from me.” It is often our nature, when we have wronged someone, to avoid them, to turn away. It can be very hard to face someone when we know that we have hurt them.

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realizes that our God is a forgiving God, knowing that true repentance leads to true cleanliness. Verse 7 says “Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me and I will be whiter than snow.”

Knowing that there is hope and renewal – that with God, a new beginning can be had – the Psalmist goes on to say, “Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me from Your presence or take Your Holy Spirit from me.”

This is a Psalm for us, for all of us. Not just the Davids among us, but every single one of us.

One question that I had about this Psalm was why David, who has clearly grievously sinned, would

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Go to God for that hug: Ireland Continued from page 21 he wronged so seriously? How does he have the courage and desire to do that? Wouldn’t you think he might be too ashamed to show his face?

I think it’s because David knows that God is the only One who can forgive him. After all, the One who is wronged is the One who has the power to forgive.

Picture it: if I go and slap my husband in the face, it doesn’t do any good to go and apologize to my friend Samantha and have her say “no, that’s okay, I forgive you.” I won’t feel better and know that things are good again. I can only be forgiven by the one who I have wronged. As tough as it might be to face my husband after doing something so awful to him, I would have to go to him and apologize and repent and hope for his forgiveness.

I would have to also go to God and apologize and beg for God’s forgiveness for veering so drastically from the love God commands. Only then would things have the potential to be made right.

That’s why David is begging God not to cast him from God’s presence, not to take God’s Spirit away and to forgive and cleanse him. God is the only one with the power to do that. Ducking and hiding wouldn’t do any good.

Consider another scenario: maybe one day you go to a friend for advice, they give it, you ignore it and do what you wanted to do all along anyways. Everything goes to pieces. Your plan falls apart.

You’re hurt. You’re betrayed. You could have avoided all of this if you’d just listened to your friend in the first place. Everything is

awful and painful and ruined.

You go back to your friend and tell them about how badly you messed up, how awful things are right now. They reach out and take you by the shoulders, look you in the eye – is that compassion you see there? – they sigh deeply and say, “I told you so.”

That is, to put it mildly, not exactly what you needed right then.

It doesn’t help in any way whatsoever. You feel even worse than you did before.

Now, picture it going a different way. You tell your friend how much you messed up and they reach out and take you by the shoulders – and they pull you into a hug and tell you that they love you and it will be alright. The sweetest words, the sweetest hug in the world. Exactly what you were searching for.

Exactly what you needed.

The most amazing news is that God is not the type to hear our repentance and say, “well, I told you so.” God is the One who hears our cries, sees our brokenness and pulls us into a hug.

It’s right there at the start of Psalm 51, the very first thing David says: “Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your unfailing love; according to Your great compassion blot out my transgressions.”

The Hebrew word that is usually translated as “unfailing love” is the word hesed. I like what Rev. Scott Hoezee has to say about hesed and forgiveness: “hesed is finally all about the ineffable desire God has to forgive. Grace is the oxygen of heaven–there’s always more of it than there is of sin. Psalm 51 banks on this hyper-abundant grace, but not cheaply. God is not some

ineffectual figure who is too much of a wimp to generate any anger.

The fierce rightness of God’s judgment, the utter dread with which the psalmist faces the possibility of being cast out of the light, makes it clear that God’s penchant for grace is not being invoked in a manipulative way. But that is because a genuine awareness of God’s grace emerges only from a knowledge of sin’s seriousness.

Here is a central wonder of the faith: the more soberly serious we are about sin and the reality of God’s judgment, the more joyfully exuberant we are about the shining splendour of grace and the way it drenches our lives with monsoons of forgiveness. We stand constantly under Jesus’ cross as the most stunning reminder of just how fierce God’s judgment on sin is.

And yet we find joy emerging from the darkness, even because of the darkness!”

God’s unfailing love is so amazing it’s difficult to comprehend. It’s so incredible that it led to Jesus dying on the cross for a broken and sinful people. God loves us so much that God was determined to provide a way for us to come back to Himself. A way for us to be truly forgiven and cleansed.

Sin is serious and God was very serious about giving us a way to be made new.

This is why David went to God. This is why we go to God. Not to self-flagellate or manipulate or hear “I told you so” and not to get permission to keep doing what we want to do anyways. We go to God, imperfections and all, because God is the One who has the power to forgive, the desire to forgive and the power to create in us a clean heart that will lead in God’s ways.

And so, like David, we go to be with the One who can make us clean; who can forgive us, who wants to forgive us. We go to God for that hug; that knowledge that our sins are forgiven, washed away, completely and forever. Not because our sins weren’t a serious thing, but because God is serious about loving us. We come to God with a broken and contrite heart, knowing that God’s love is unfailing. There is no place else where we can be made clean. There is no place else and no one else who can love us this much, always and forever. We are restored to the joy of God’s salvation and given a willing spirit to sustain us. Thanks be to God.

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