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The
THIS WEEK
Citizen
Huron County’s most trusted independent news source Volume 40 No. 44
Friday, November 1, 2024
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S. Bruce narrowly votes for Ont. DGR By Shawn Loughlin The Citizen
Wake-up call In the early-morning hours of Monday, Oct. 28, the Fire Department of North Huron responded to a report of a fully-engulfed house fire in Sarah Street in Londesborough. Shortly after arriving, the department called in mutual aid from the Brussels and Seaforth stations of the Huron East Fire Department and the
Central Huron Fire Department. The two occupants of the home, which was a complete loss after the fire, were able to get out of the house safely and no injuries were reported. As of right now, a cause for the fire has yet to be determined and a dollar value on the loss is not yet know, according to North Huron Fire Chief Chad Kregar. (Shawn Loughlin photo)
Options available as postal strike looms By Shawn Loughlin The Citizen As of Sunday, Nov. 3, the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) will be in a legal strike position, but North Huron Publishing is working to ensure you can still get your hands on copies of The Citizen. This deadline comes after nearly a year of negotiations and, if a new deal is not reached by Sunday, the union will be in a position to strike - a move supported by 95.8 per cent of urban employees and 95.5 per cent of rural workers. If the flow of mail is halted and the company is unable to deliver The Citizen to its readers in its traditional fashion, several steps are being taken to ensure that your favourite community newspaper can still get to you.
Every Thursday morning during a potential strike, The Citizen team will be posting the week’s e-dition on the home page of its website at huroncitizen.ca. This will be the easiest way for readers to access the week’s issue from their homes if they’re computer savvy enough to do so. For those looking to pick up a hard copy of the newspaper, several pick-up locations have been established across northern Huron County. These locations will be stocked with copies of the week’s Citizen and there will be no labelling or tracking systems in place. The newspaper will simply be there for anyone who wants it to pick it up at no cost. Here are the locations: • Blyth: The Citizen office at 405 Queen Street and Blyth Food Market • Brussels: Brussels Foodland
• Wingham: Fogal’s Your Independent Grocer • Seaforth: Seaforth Foodland • Goderich: Fincher’s on The Square • Belgrave: Belgrave Variety • Auburn: Auburn Esso • Lucknow: Circle K. A pick-up site in Clinton has yet to be confirmed, but the team at North Huron Publishing is working on it, so, by the time you read this, give the office a call and we hope to have an answer for you by then. In addition, North Huron Publishing will be delivering copies of the paper to Huronlea/Highland Apartments, Huronview, Maitland Manor, Goderich Place, Harbour Hills, Seaforth Long-Term Care and Maplewood Manor. If you have any questions about how to get a copy of the newspaper in the event of a postal strike,
please call the office at 519-5234792 or send us an e-mail at info@northhuron.on.ca. We appreciate your patience and support if this situation comes to pass and thank you for your ongoing co-operation.
By a narrow margin, the residents of the Municipality of South Bruce have voted in favour of willingly hosting the deep geological repository being proposed by the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO). A slight majority, 51.2 per cent, or 1,604 people who cast a vote, voted in favour of the site, while 1,526 people, or 48.8 per cent, voted against it. The vote required a simple majority to pass. While 3,130 people had their vote counted, eight people declined their ballot. As a result, 3,138 people voted, representing 69.3 per cent of the 4,525 electors in South Bruce. Voter turnout had to exceed the 50 per cent mark in order to be binding. The results reported on Monday night by Simply Voting Inc. are technically unofficial at this point. The next step after the positive vote by South Bruce residents will be South Bruce Council officially voting to declare the municipality a willing host, which is expected to come at the council’s first meeting this month. However, the fate of the decision ultimately rests with the Saugeen Ojibway Nation (SON). The SON has veto power over the project and it cannot move ahead with the community’s approval. The SON has yet to schedule a community vote on the proposal. The vote was much closer than many predicted. The only other candidate left in the game now, the Township of Ignace, earlier this summer, voted in favour of the project to the tune of over 77 per cent support of electors. If First Nations approval is obtained for both sites, the NWMO expects to choose between the two sites by the end of the year.
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