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Volume 40 No. 45
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Broomball tourney in Blyth this wknd.
Tunes for a cause On Friday night, Trinity Anglican Church in Blyth hosted a special concert to benefit the Huron Residential Hospice near Clinton with Velvet and Ivory. However, it was Jellybean Blue - the local trio of Cappy Onn, Chris Johnston and Kevin Carney - who warmed up the audience ahead of a great night of music and fundraising, all for a great cause. (John Stephenson photo)
This weekend, it’s all about broomball at the Blyth and District and Brussels, Morris and Grey Community Centres, as dozens of broomball games will be played as part of Blyth Junior Broomball’s annual tournament in the region. Action begins with four U12 games on Friday night. First, Blyth Silver plays Palmerston, followed by the Mildmay Hawks taking on the Mildmay Falcons, Keady playing the Mildmay Moose and the Blyth Bullets playing Seaforth. Next, the Blyth U14 Boys will play Mildmay, followed by games between the Young Guns and Terminators and Twisted Sisters and Typhoons in U20 Girls action and then the Moose and Seaforth and the Renegades and the Flyers in the U20 Boys division. On Saturday, the Blyth U14 Girls will open play with a game against Mildmay, followed by Seaforth playing Palmerston in the U14 Boys division, Keady playing Palmerston in U9 action, the U12 Blyth Silver team playing the Mildmay Hawks, the U12 Blyth Bullets playing the Mildmay Moose, Palmerston taking on the Mildmay Falcons and Seaforth playing Keady, also in the U12 division. Keady will play the Mildmay Farmers in U9 action as the morning turns to afternoon, followed by a game between the
U14 Girls Mildmay and Palmerston teams. U12 action continues between Blyth Silver and the Mildmay Falcons, Palmerston and the Mildmay Hawks and the Blyth Bullets and Keady. The Blyth U16 Boys will then play Seaforth, followed by a game between Blyth’s U14 Girls and Palmerston. The Blyth U16 Girls will play Seaforth and Palmerston will play Kilsyth, also in the U16 Girls division. The Twisted Sisters will play the Young Guns in U20 Girls action, followed by a U12 game between Seaforth and the Mildmay Moose. The Typhoons and Terminators will play in U20 Girls action, followed by U16 Girls games between Blyth and Kilsyth and Seaforth and Palmerston and U20 Girls games between the Twisted Sisters and Terminators and the Typhoons and the Young Guns. On Saturday night, at the Brussels, Morris and Grey Community Centre, the U14 Blyth Boys will play Palmerston and the U14 Boys Seaforth and Mildmay teams will face off. The U9 Mildmay Roosters will play Seaforth, followed by a U20 Boys game between the Mildmay Moose and the Flyers. Blyth and Seaforth and Palmerston and Mildmay will then Continued on page 2
Stewart, Fritz, Dodds named Citizens of the Year By Shawn Loughlin The Citizen Linda Stewart, Dan Fritz and Don Dodds are the winners of the 2024 Citizen of the Year Awards for their hard work, dedication and tireless efforts to improve their communities. Linda Stewart is being honoured as the Blyth Citizen of the Year, while Dan Fritz has been named the Brussels Citizen of the Year and Don Dodds is the third-ever Huron County Citizen of the Year. When contacted by The Citizen to inform her of her win, Stewart said that her supportive team is who should be recognized for their
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efforts and that she is merely working with them to make the community better. She has, over the years, worked hard as a member of Blyth Community Betterment, the group that has spearheaded popular events like the recently-resurrected Rutabaga Festival, New Year’s Eve fireworks and the Santa Claus parade. Furthermore, she volunteers extensively with the Blyth Lions Club, despite not being a member, though her husband Don “Barney” Stewart is. In fact, Barney won the award in 2005 and this makes Barney and Linda the only husband and wife, in the history of the award, to win independently of one
another (several couples have won together in the same year). Stewart also volunteers with the Blyth Festival and the Blyth Kids Club and spent many years helping with the Blyth Minor Hockey Association when her children were young. In Brussels, Fritz, who is only in his twenties, is being recognized for his extensive work in recreation in Brussels and beyond. First, Fritz has been involved with Lucknow’s Music in the Fields, a tremendously successful event, for a number of years. He has been a member of the Brussels Optimist Club for a number of years, remaining very
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active as a volunteer, the club’s treasurer and part of the organizing team that runs the spring auction, the men’s harvest stag and the recreational hockey tournament. He served, alongside Mike Thomas, as co-chair of Brussels’ 150th Homecoming in 2022, which was another tremendous success, while also serving as a divisional chair for the Inspiring our Futures campaign that raised millions of dollars to renovate and expand the Brussels, Morris and Grey Community Centre. He had served as a member of the Brussels Recreation Board before it was dissolved and with the Blyth Brussels Hockey Association on its
executive, while also dedicating his time as a trainer and assistant coach behind the bench. Following in the footsteps of Karen Webster and the late Wayne Clausius, Don Dodds will be honoured for his Huron Countywide work. For generations, Dodds and his family were based in the Seaforth area, but he now lives in Goderich. Dodds has been volunteering with Huron County 4-H for more than 65 years, predominantly serving with the Swine and Sodbusters Clubs, but also leading other clubs over the years. In 2006, he won the 4-H Ontario Continued on page 2