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Volume 38 No. 42

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R2R ’22 opens in Brussels

By Denny Scott The Citizen

Two decades of art The Huron County Art Show and Sale returned for the first time since 2019 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, opening on Sunday at the Huron County Museum. Over 30 pieces were submitted to the show this year, with a

select few triumphing and being purchased by the county, becoming part of the Huron County Art Bank. The show is now open at the museum during regular hours and will remain up until December. See page 19 for the story. (Denny Scott photo)

The fourth Rural Talks to Rural Conference started on Monday morning with several special guest speakers, including one woman whose work has had a profound impact on Huron County.

Dr. Baretta Casey, the former Director of the Center of Excellence in Rural Health in Hazard, Kentucky, helped to form the Gateway Centre for Excellence in Rural Health in Seaforth. Casey shared her story, as did Ron Thomas, a Six Nations advanced care paramedic, and Mary Doyle, CEO of Rural on Purpose, before those in attendance took a break.

The bi-annual event, run by the Canadian Centre for Rural Creativity, was emceed by Peter Smith of the centre. Smith welcomed Huron-Bruce MPP and Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs Lisa Thompson, Huron County Warden Glen McNeil and Huron East Mayor Bernie MacLellan to provide comments for the opening ceremony.

Thomas was the first guest speaker. He is of the Seneca Nation and the Bear Clan and said he was really able to reconnect with his culture after being diagnosed with complex post-traumatic stress Continued on page 2

Trustee, M-T candidates tangle ahead of election

BY CORY BILYEA LOCAL JOURNALISM INITIATIVE REPORTER, THE WINGHAM ADVANCE TIMES The Bluevale Community Hall was filled to capacity for the Morris-Turnberry all-candidates meeting on Oct. 13, despite the short notice.

Christine Marshall of the Wingham Community Connectors, who hosted and moderated the meeting, welcomed residents of Morris-Turnberry to the hall, thanking them for the wonderful and surprising turnout.

“This is phenomenal,” Marshall said. “Last week, Friday afternoon, four concerned citizens in this municipality sat down around a farmer’s table and decided that we needed to hear from our candidates.

We were so disappointed that nothing else had been done.”

Word of mouth is a powerful tool in small communities, and Marshall thanked everyone who stepped up to help get the word out.

“And obviously, it worked,” she said. “This crowd is just a testament to you as voters who want to know who you’re voting for, instead of just a name on a piece of paper. So, thank you, thank you so much for coming in.”

The candidates lined the front of the auditorium, sitting under their names pinned to the wall behind them, in alphabetical order; the same way they will appear on the ballot, to create a visual for voters to remember the faces while they vote.

Mayor Jamie Heffer has been acclaimed. The rest of the candidates were in attendance: Kevin Freiburger, Jamie McCallum, Dale McFarlan, Chris Michie, Jodi Snell and Sharen Zinn introduced themselves and answered questions from the audience, which were collected from individuals seated in the gallery.

This all-candidates meeting included the Avon-Maitland

District School Board (AMDSB) trustee contenders Ray Berg, Patricia Elaine Smith and Michel Starenky.

Each candidate in both groups was given two minutes for a brief introduction speech where they had the opportunity to provide background information on themselves and what they would bring to the table if elected.

AMDSB trustee introductions and Q & A The questions were geared to each group separately, with the school board trustees going first.

Starenky went first, a decision made by the drawing of cards before the beginning of the meeting.

Starenky told the audience about his history as an educational specialist at Vanier College in Montreal.

“My main function was to integrate teachers and students into the new technologies. Not an easy task as college teachers proved to

be an independent lot,” said Starenky.

“From the chalkboard to the smartphone, from the typewriter to the computer, from the projector to the TV screen, to the internet, it was a never-ending task to keep up with the ever-changing innovations in technology.”

He talked about the constant talks, meetings, workshops and budgets where “persuasion and tact were necessary and occasionally not always successful.”

“We all know that education is a difficult endeavour; it is in the news constantly. Everyone has an opinion, either privately around the kitchen table or publicly at PTA meetings and so forth,” said Starenky. “But I believe that it is with your school trustee and the committee that local education issues can be raised and resolved.

“I also believe it is with your school trustee and the teachers that we can continue to drive toward excellence for all our students. It is

with your school trustee at the Ministry of Education that we can maintain the integrity of the educational system.

“I think there will be trying times that have to be resolved in the education of our children.

Therefore, we have to prepare our kids not only for our core education, but to provide them with the skills and the confidence they [need to] deal with the everchanging economic world. I believe that I have the qualifications and experience to be an effective trustee during these times.”

Ray Berg kept his introduction speech short, introducing himself as a local, retired butcher shop owner who was in construction for “quite a while”.

“My concerns are with the education system; it seems to be getting a little liberal. I believe children are the responsibility of the parents, not the government. I believe as a trustee, we’re supposed Continued on page 3

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ACW to introduce monthly evening public meetings

By Denny Scott The Citizen Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh Township Council will be going ahead with evening public meetings for specific planning issues as a pilot project.

During council’s Tuesday morning meeting, it approved the

change, which will see public meetings held independent of council meetings. Public meetings will be held at 7 p.m. on the second Tuesday of each month, while council meetings remain at 9 a.m. on the first and third Tuesdays of the month.

The change will cost the municipality $23,400 per year, but

could increase public feedback, according to staff.

Council was divided on the idea, with Councillor Jennifer Miltenburg suggesting it be done as a pilot project, while Mayor Glen McNeil said he already had people reaching out and saying 7 p.m. isn’t good as it “cuts into family time.”

McNeil said it was impossible to appease everyone.

Councillor Bill Vanstone said he wants to give leeway to the new council, and let it decide if the practice should be kept.

Councillor Gloria Fisher said she would prefer a system through which people could request an evening meeting, which staff had

Casey, Thomas among first R2R speakers

Rural stories The Rural Talks to Rural (R2R) conference took place at the Brussels Four Winds Barn this week. The bi-annual event offers an opportunity for rural stakeholders from across the country and across the border to talk about challenges, opportunities and solutions for rural communities. The opening ceremonies featured guest speakers like Dr. Baretta Casey, right, the former Director and founder of the Center of Excellence in Rural Health in Hazard, Kentucky, who helped to start the Gateway Centre of Excellence in Rural Health in Seaforth and Ron Thomas, left, a Six Nations advanced care paramedic. (Denny

dream, leading to her becoming one of the few solo health providers in her area. She then discussed how she realized that health needed to be more than the doctor’s office and connected with other stakeholders to look at what keeping people healthy looks like in different areas, focusing on rural communities.Those meetings would eventually lead to the creation of the Center of Excellence in Rural Health, which would enrich people’s lives through specialized health care tailored to their needs, or, as Casey put it, focusing on equity in health care instead of equality.

In an interview with The Citizen before she took to the stage, Casey said she was excited to take part and excited to be face-to-face with both the people she had worked with on the Gateway Centre and new attendees. She said she was “amazed and very happy” to be remembered, and looked forward to discussing the differing paths their two centres had taken. She said she wasn’t quite sure what to talk about until Smith told her to just tell her own story and let people know how these things had come to pass.

The event carried on throughout the week including special events, performances and guest speakers.

For more coverage, see next week’s issue of The Citizen.

previously said wouldn’t work due to time constraints in the planning process. Fisher also said it was rare that council had a big contingent of supporters or detractors show up for a meeting, so doing it every month might not be worthwhile.

Clerk Florence Witherspoon said it was impossible to tell which issues could be controversial enough to draw a crowd. She did say, however, that certain public meetings may still need to be held during the day, if they had shorter appeal periods. The proposed amendment to the procedural bylaw covered that.

McNeil said that, regardless of the decision made by council, residents can still send comments by e-mail, which will be given the same weight as in-person remarks.

Councillor Wayne Forster asked if council could just make the decision as necessary, however, Witherspoon said it would be very formulaic. Severance applications, for example, are done through the county, so council wasn’t actually holding public meetings on them and they would still be handled through regular council meetings.

Other planning issues, however, would be part of the new meetings.

Councillor Anita Snobelen said she would like to see it done as a pilot project, but asked what kind of measures would be used to judge its effectiveness.

Witherspoon said a number of factors could be considered, however, McNeil said attendance shouldn’t be one of them, since people could participate remotely.

Miltenburg said that, when council moved to morning meetings, the municipality decided to track attendance and complaints and, after a year, there were no official complaints and attendance hadn’t changed, or had improved, so it could be done the same way.

Council adopted the change by bylaw.

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Continued from page 1 stress disorder in 2017. After opening with a thanks-giving address, Thomas explained that such an address helped him in his recovery, allowing him to continue to work as a paramedic. He is now part of a pilot project that uses his own culture and his connection to it to help other people similar to him in recovery.

Doyle was next to speak, and ran the group through mental exercises to help prepare them for future

events. A trained futurist from the Institute for the Future, she said that everyone needs to know that new creations can’t happen as long as people feel that change can’t happen. Through her activities, she helped to make people realize that, not only could change occur, it has to and the attendees need to feel empowered to make those changes.

Dr. Casey was the third speaker, and was excited to get back to Canada after helping with the creation of the Gateway Centre in

Seaforth. Casey recounted her history, growing up in the Appalachian Mountains in rural Kentucky and shared how she created the Center of Excellence in Rural Health in Hazard, reclaiming land that had only been made available due to strip mining. She explained how, after initially being discouraged from trying to become a doctor, she became a trained imaging technician and was soon told by other doctors she needed to go back to school and chase her

Municipality of Central Huron Election Reminder The Municipality of Central Huron is reminding all residents that they must be on the Voters’ List to vote in the 2022 Municipal and School Board Elections.

All Eligible voters will receive a Voter Information Letter in the mail via Canada Post which will include the following: • Instructions on how to vote using the internet or telephone • Unique PIN allowing each voter to vote once • Dates and hours of voting • Contact information for assistance with voting or other inquiries Once you receive your Voter Information Letter, you will be able to vote 24 hours a day from the beginning of Voting (October 11 at 9AM) until Election Day (October 24 at 8PM).

If you need to be added to the Voters’ List, please contact the Clerk’s Office as soon as possible. You will be required to provide a piece of identification and proof of residence prior to being added to the list. Staff can be reached by visiting Town Hall or at the following information:

Local and rural The Canadian Centre for Rural Creativity hosted the Rural Talks to Rural conference this week in Brussels. The centre’s Executive/Creative Director Peter Smith opened the event alongside local politicians. From left: Smith, Huron East Mayor Bernie MacLellan, Huron County Warden Glen McNeil and Huron-Bruce MPP and Ontario Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs Lisa Thompson. (Denny Scott photo)

Telephone: 519-482-3997 Email: vote@centralhuron.com Check out our Elections webpage for up-to-date Election information: www.centralhuron.ca/vote

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School trustee candidates introduce platforms we follow the science on this, and if something arises and it’s necessary, then we try to adjust according to what is presented before us,” she said. “I think there are solid arguments why some children should not be masked. And we need to pay attention to that and address the issue on an individual basis to ensure that everyone has their best interests met.”

Q&A session with municipal council candidates The first question to the candidates was regarding the future of community events like parades.

All of the candidates agreed that the pandemic slowed down these types of gatherings over the last couple of years. Financially, the current council had no choice but to choose between public works projects like road grading and these events. However, most noted that they would attend any planned events by volunteer groups, saying they would “get their faces

Education’s future The Morris-Turnberry All-Candidates meeting hosted by the Wingham Community Connectors featured an opportunity for Avon-Maitland District School Board trustees to present their platforms. From left are trustee candidates Ray Berg, Patricia Elaine Smith and Michel Starenky. (Cory Bilyea photo) Continued from page 1 to direct the education system somehow. I don’t know a whole lot about it.

“I believe that there’s values that can be taught, children should be taught the three R’s,” added Berg.

“Teaching children character, like integrity, morality, that kind of thing. Because we want to build a better community, we want to build a better government, a better country.”

Patricia Elaine Smith stood up next, delivering her introduction as to why she would make a great school board trustee as a mom of two school-aged children who, along with her husband, farm together alongside a “menagerie of animals that my youngest calls her funny farm.”

“I am running for school board trustee because of a passion for children and education, and as a parent, I know the value of having your voice heard. While I am aware that the ultimate decisions for schools come from the province. I strongly believe that having solid representation on the board allows for local voices to become part of the conversation that impacts change.

“I am a PhD candidate in anthropology from McMaster University, both my PhD and Master’s research focused on children. I have also taught within the university setting for a decade. I have extensive experience volunteering within the community, but within the schools themselves.”

“Through many years of volunteering, I have learned to listen, to think, and to act. These qualities are essential. It’s on us to represent the community.

“As a school board trustee, I realize I’m only one vote on the board. However, you have my word, that I will represent you and our students and our area in an adequate, equitable and fair manner seeking solutions to questions that arise.”

The trustee candidates were asked three questions.

The first question was about integrating students with violent tendencies or different learning abilities into the same classroom as other students on a full-time basis, and what they would do to ensure

their education needs were met.

Berg answered first, saying he is “old fashioned”.

“I would say that they have the right to education,” he said. “But it might be good to spend some time working on a farm. Discipline is good, but how do you put teeth into it?”

Smith said what she believes and what can actually happen are separate things.

“The school boards can only do so much. I believe that we need to assess what is going on through the child; there are different ways that you can incorporate children into schools, despite their different needs. And that the focus, I believe, fundamentally, bottom line is on the child, what is best for them, how you can make it work for the students as a whole as well,” she said.

Starenky said this was “a question that won’t be answered.”

“Why do we have these tough questions? The fact is, is that one could stream kids and still have the same education. But if you stream only the ones with disabilities or other problems, then they will be considered either one, not part of the society, right? But at the same time, you have to consider the ones who have the capability and also the wherewithal. It’s a question that won’t be answered,” he said. “So, I would agree to a streaming situation, bring in the qualified teachers that are available out there and slowly move the kids along.

And then, some of them could be integrated.

The ones with psychological problems, after a while, they can be integrated. That can be done, but that takes a lot of energy.”

The second question asked candidates how they see their role as a trustee.

Smith answered first, saying the role of a trustee is to listen to the community, teachers and children and “then try to shape the policies that impact our local situation.”

“The trustee can engage with the parents and the community and the children and learn what they see is best to further the children’s education, because in the end, that’s what we want. We want the kids to come out of school with the solid education and the ability to function in the world at large,” she said.

Starenky said, “You have to throw in the politics. The thing is, is that years ago, the school boards had more power than they ever had.

So, what happens, the government pulls everything and they set the standards, right? And how do you fight their standards? We could disagree as much as we want.”

He continued on about the politics of the job, finishing up by saying, “I’m sorry, I’m joking, because I worked at the college and my god, working with the administrators and the teachers and everybody else, it’s like, I was, one of the reasons I quit was the fact that at a certain point, you’re too tired. But I’m willing, don’t get me wrong, to get involved in this battle for the children.”

Berg sees a trustee as someone who encourages students of all abilities to do the best they can.

“I’ve had several businesses; I’ve apprenticed different kids and I’ve apprenticed kids that were handicapped. They can learn to cut meat, and they can learn to hammer nails, the physical part of it, if they felt good about themselves, and I would, as a trustee encourage that kind of thing,” said Berg. “If we’re doing something different than what government’s advocating, so what, long as it works… we can stand up to the government.”

The last question for the trustee candidates was about how they felt about masking in schools.

“I never believed in COVID,” he said. “I didn’t get vaccinated, right, because I don’t believe in it. I did all the statistics, and somehow, we were conned, this is my opinion, right?... The fact is, I don’t believe in the masking. The fact is, is if you believe in yourself, if you believe that all young kids and we have a what do you call that immune system? That should work. Yes, people have died. My brother died of an asthma attack. My father died at 96. What can we do about that?

But to mask, it just proves that we don’t care about our kids.”

Berg also stated he is against masking.

“You need to take a stand. I don’t trust the government,” he said.

Smith said she didn’t have an opinion one way or the other.

“I understand why masking is important. I understand why some people choose not to mask. I think

out there in the community.”

Candidates were then asked their thoughts on protecting agricultural land, especially as the province is encouraging development for new housing.

Candidates agreed that MorrisTurnberry did not have a lot of room to expand, and growth would more likely come from private landowners who choose to build additional homes on their property.

In those cases, council would not have much say in the matter.

They also agreed that generating more tax money requires more people to move to the area and purchase homes.

The subject of tiny homes came up, and candidates agreed that as long as they fit into the official town plan and zoning bylaws, additional homes and/or tiny homes would not be an issue.

The night’s big question was about the ongoing relationship Continued on page 11

Be thankful in all circumstances “Be thankful in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you who belong to Christ Jesus.” 1 Thessalonians 5:18 I have heard of a holy old woman in a cottage, who had nothing but a piece of bread and a little water; and lifting up her hands in thanks, she said, “What! all this, and Christ too?”

Some years ago an old black woman was put up at auction at a slave-market.

She was distressed lest she might be sold to a cruel master. A godly man bought her and set her free at once. But she would not leave him who had set her free—and insisted upon going into his household and working for him.

Now when she could do what she pleased—she would not go anywhere but to him. She would say: “He saved me! He saved me!”

This is how we ought to feel toward Him who died for us and set us free.

“Thanks be to God for His undescribable gift!” 2 Corinthians 9:15 For Christ who came from Heaven above, For the cross and His redeeming love, For His mighty power to seek and save, For His glorious triumph o’er the grave.

For the lovely mansions in the sky, For his blessed coming bye and bye— I give Thee humble thanks.

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Relegated... but to where?

Ye (the artist formerly known as Kanye West) has put in a bid to purchase social media site Parler, after being banned from Twitter and Instagram for anti-Semitic posts.

This follows Donald Trump starting Truth Social when he similarly found himself banned from mainstream social media sites after Twitter found repeated instances of Trump using the platform to incite violence, especially after the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on The Capitol.

While it’s difficult to see blatant racism, lies, hatred and other offensive behaviour, driving the offenders to these unregulated sites risks creating an extreme echo chamber for their followers. These new, often far right-wing, platforms offer no fact-checking or controls to inhibit incitement to violence creating an environment where Trump or “Ye” can control their followers to an almost cult-like degree.

If there can be no universal regulatory body that holds internet users accountable, at least the natural discourse between differing points of view can offer some measure of balance. If they are allowed to remain on “mainstream” social media like Twitter and Facebook (hopefully, with warning labels as we have seen in the past), they are more likely to be challenged with reality and facts by other users and it could dissuade their followers from being completely brainwashed. – DS

Getting to know you As the voting window for the municipal election begins to close, the hope is that voters everywhere will have done their homework and voted for the representatives who best represent their views. And that all depends on who you are and what you care about. Young parents may care more about youth opportunity and recreation infrastructure than a business owner who cares more about tourism and support.

Some in Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh, for example, will ask what candidates think about a proposed gravel pit, while in Wingham, all some people want to know is a candidate’s stance on the Howson Dam and Morris-Turnberry residents may be concerned about relations with their neighbours.

Over the weekend, Stratford-Perth Pride issued a release claiming that St. Marys Council candidate Barry Charles Brebner sent the group a “homophobic and transphobic” e-mail in response to its request that all candidates in this month’s election take the group’s “Vote with Pride” pledge. The group chose not to repeat the candidate’s words, though he said the group was free to share his words far and wide.

AJ Adams, president of Stratford-Perth Pride urged all voters to “take the time to learn where your candidates stand on this important issue.” And while Adams’ comments pertain to this specific issue, they are far more universal and could be applied to any issue.

Here at The Citizen, we produced our election guide two weeks ago.

Profiling over 40 candidates across five municipalities demands that you keep it broad, allowing those candidates to identify the issues they see as important. From there, your job as a voter begins. Read up, do research, ask questions and attend meetings. If you want to know how a specific candidate would vote on a specific issue, ask them. That’s what Stratford-Perth Pride did and they got their answer.

This is a crucial exercise and a necessary part of the democratic process. Ask questions now to avoid being surprised later. – SL

Cash or charge?

Thanks to a successful lawsuit (successful in that it generated a settlement), Canadians could soon see an upcharge any time they use a credit card to pay a bill instead of cash, cheque or using the debit system.

Reports indicate the charge may be as much as one to three per cent of the total bill which may seem like a small amount, but one per cent of a $150 grocery bill, 52 times a year, equals half a week’s groceries, and that’s just one regular expense families face.

With cellular phone company Telus applying to the Canadian Radio and Television Commission (CRTC) to be allowed to apply the charge on its bills, other companies, that don’t need to seek such permissions, either already have started applying the charge or will soon.

The major problem here is that businesses have already been both paying and charging for the cost of using credit cards. The cost of using credit has been a problem for years, but businesses have found ways to make it happen, usually by raising prices. Unlike, say, utilities, most businesses don’t offer up an itemized bill showing what percentage of the bill goes to actual products and what goes to keeping the lights on, paying the staff wages and, yes, paying for the right to use credit cards at the establishment in question.

The reality is that allowing companies to implement a charge to cover an expense they’ve already internalized (and likely passed on to the customer) is just allowing them to double-dip on the same cost. Now, if Telus and its peers decided instead to offer a discount to people not using credit cards, that would be a different situation entirely. – JDS

Looking Back Through the Years October 21, 1965 Jack Thynne, known to many as The Kansas Farmer, was set to present his farewell concert at the Brussels Legion on Friday, Oct. 22.

The event was expected to be full.

“By their attendance at his farewell performance, [fans] will express their thanks, and pay tribute to the man who has given them so many hours of entertainment through the past years,” read The Brussels Post.

The Brussels 4-H Sleeping Garments Club elected its officers for the term, naming Norma Mair president and Rosemary Blake as the vice-president.

October 22, 1975 While the majority of Ontario residents woke to find that the Canadian Union of Postal Workers was on strike, shutting down the postal system, those in smaller centres like Blyth were able to keep the mail moving.

The smaller offices, run by administrative personnel, would remain open throughout the strike, keeping mail flowing to smaller city centres like Blyth.

The future of the Blyth Summer Festival was bright, thanks to a Local Initiatives Program grant that would allow for general upgrades to Memorial Hall to go ahead, such as refinishing the floors, seats and other woodwork, installing a lighting control booth, improving the balcony and improving the stage.

October 22, 1997 The Blyth Business Association’s annual fall banquet was set to provide a chance to look at both the problems and the opportunities facing the village’s downtown businesses. The meeting would include a strategic planning session

and another workshop, led by Citizen founder Keith Roulston, in an attempt to draw some creative ideas from association members.

The Blyth arena was a busy spot the previous Saturday, thanks to nearly 80 skaters taking part in the community’s annual Skate-a-Thon, which raised about $2,300 to benefit Blyth Minor Hockey and the Blyth Figure and Power Skating Clubs.

The top earner in the seven-andunder age bracket was Devin Jenkins, who raised $151, while Dickey Gregg topped the eight-andunder list by raising $218.

While returning councillors Mary Stretton, Joe Seili and Greg Wilson, alongside newcomer Mike Thomas were all acclaimed to Brussels Village Council seats, there was a race for reeve between incumbent Gord Workman and Councillor Ralph Watson.

In Hullett Township, incumbent Reeve Tom Cunningham was challenged by Deputy-Reeve Robert Szusz and Ken Hulley.

Councillor Doug Hugill was acclaimed to the deputy-reeve position, but incumbent councillors Bruce Bergsma and David Armstrong would battle with Karl McNaughton, John Van Beers and Marg Anderson for three council seats.

October 25, 2012 Huron-Bruce MPP Lisa Thompson said she was frustrated by the resignation of Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty.

Not only did she call it a “cheap, selfish way to avoid future scandal”, but she also felt that the prorogation of the provincial caucus would affect hundreds of initiatives being presented through the province.

The Wingham Ironmen won two of the three games they played over the weekend, vaulting them into second place in the Western Junior C Hockey League, tied with the Kincardine Bulldogs and the Mitchell Hawks.

With usage on the rise at the North Huron Food Share, members of the executive were busy looking for more volunteers to help with the increased workload.

The Huron County Federation of Agriculture elected its new board at its annual general meeting, held on Oct. 18. Carol Leeming was elected as the president, succeeding Marinus Bakker. Joan Vincent would serve as the first vicepresident and Adam Garniss was chosen as the second vicepresident.

Also at the meeting, Joe Vermunt was awarded the Huron County Federation of Agriculture’s Most Outstanding Contribution to Agriculture Award. He was honoured due to his work with the Huron Soil and Crop Improvement Association, serving as president of the Ontario Tug of War Association and as a director with the Ontario Federation of Agriculture, representing Zone 7 (Huron-Perth).

Citizen reporter Denny Scott was put in handcuffs and shipped to the Huron East municipal office in Seaforth as part of a Crime Stoppers fundraiser that required him to solicit donations in order to buy back his freedom. Const. Jamie Stanley came to Blyth to make the arrest, citing Scott’s “negative disposition” as the reason for his brush with the law.

Scott was one of the first to be released, raising over $750 for the organization and earning his freedom.

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Other Views

Up is now down, black is white

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t’s a stressful time to live in, where even certainties, like black being black and up being up, seem up for debate.

Last week in Ottawa, for instance, eight months after anti-COVID-19 vaccine mandate protesters gridlocked parts of downtown Ottawa, a public inquiry opened its hearings as it probes the federal government's unprecedented use of emergency powers to clear the capital – a hearing that’s expected to last six weeks. It will examine the government’s declaration of the Emergencies Act to clear protesters who had shut down the capital for weeks with their noisy occupation.

For the majority of Canadians, the question is probably why the government didn’t act sooner, not whether declaring the never-beforeused act made sense.

Meanwhile, Danielle Smith, the recent winner of the leadership of the United Conservative Party, and therefore Premier of Alberta, (even though she has no seat in the provincial legislature), in her first news conference took a shot at COVID-19 mandates requiring people to be vaccinated in order to do some activities.

Throughout her leadership campaign Smith took up the cause of the unvaccinated. In that, she joined federal Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre who pointedly met with vaccine opponents throughout their protests.

While these critics make it seem like the whole concern about COVID-19 was overblown, Dr. Andre Picard, who writes regularly about health issues in The Globe and Mail recently gave the opposite view. People who remain unvaccinated for the disease, he wrote, are seven times as likely to be hospitalized, and eight times as likely to die.

Such statistics are likely to be disbelieved by the anti-vaccine crowd, who will maintain their

Keith Roulston From the cluttered desk own views no matter what opposing proof might be offered.

Meanwhile, south of the border, the whole “was Donald Trump cheated?” debate goes on.

No matter how much proof is offered, no matter how many former aides of Donald Trump or White House aides testify that he knew he had lost the 2020 presidential vote, polls still show 70 per cent of Republicans think he won the election. After all, he says it day after day after day! His sycophants, whether they believe it or not, know that courting his favour appears good for their own electoral success.

Meanwhile, a Connecticut jury decided last week that eight plaintiffs should be paid $965 million compensatory damages by Infowars founder Alex Jones for his claims that the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook elementary school never happened. In real life, the Sandy Hook shooting killed 20 first graders and six educators in Newtown, Connecticut.

Yet during his broadcast last week, Jones claimed the trial was “all made up” and asked his audience to send him money to help pay the judgement, claiming he has no money – even though an earlier estimate was that he had a net worth of $250 million.

Meanwhile, despite ample TV and newspaper coverage at the time, the parents of the children killed, who had already suffered the pain, beyond what most of us could have

fathomed, of seeing their young children killed, also were forced to deal with abuse heaped on them by Jones’s devotees. Some of these swore that these people were faking the entire shooting. One parent heard people threaten to dig up the body of his dead child to prove he had not been shot!

Speaking of not believing your eyes, of course, a famous example was the people who denied the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on New York City. Television pictures showed the two airliners, under the command of suicidal Muslim rebels, crashing into both Twin Towers in New York but there were still people who claimed it was really a hoax on the public.

But then, a few years ago, I read in National Geographic magazine of annual meetings of the Flat Earth Society. Despite it being more than 50 years since humans first walked on the moon, despite the experience of dozens of people who have circled the earth on the space shuttle and taken photos of the spherical world out the window, there are still several thousand people who believe it is all a con job and the earth is really flat. National Geographic wrote that they actually come together in conventions every year.

Extreme as they are, the people who believe the world is flat make it understandable that some people will believe almost anything, no matter what proof you provide in an attempt to change their mind. It’s just easier to believe that the COVID-19 pandemic is a hoax or Donald Trump actually won the last election.

Just how far people are willing to go is shown by those who think the Sandy Hook massacre was actually a massive con job by the anti-gun activists.

Still, it’s a hard lesson for those of us who like to think the truth will make you free.

From a pile of blankets in Denny’s Den

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ast Friday, I sat in my den wrapped in every blanket in the house because that seemed to be the only way to fight off the preternatural chill that had set into my bones. I was fighting off some kind of cold/flu that someone had been kind enough to bring home with them and share with the family.

(How do I know? Well, I wasn’t the first person to battle it.) As I sat, sipping lukewarm water, I reflected on what a difference a couple of years can make when it comes to self-care and maturity.

Last Friday was my first day of work after putting the newspaper together the previous Wednesday. After that, I was feeling run down, so, after lunch, I decided to have a nap. I slept for three hours until an alarm woke me to go get my daughter off the bus. After that, I spent the rest of Wednesday and most of Thursday in bed trying to get healthy, which was a new experience for me.

Sure, if I’ve fallen ill on a weekend or a holiday, I’d take my time in getting better and get better acquainted with a pillow while some old television sitcom was on in the background. However, any other time, even if I was were only able to manage sitting up with some sort of blanket tying me to my chair, I’d keep on working.

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic and its associated lockdowns, all but the most savage illnesses would keep me from working. I may have worked from home, but to actually stay in bed for most of a day and focus on being healthy? Well, that just wasn’t something I was programmed to do.

Sometime during that pandemic, however, I started to realize (and I even wrote a time or two here) that it’s in my own best interest to give my body time to heal, just like it’s in everybody else’s best interest for me to limit my outside exposure.

Denny Scott Denny’s Den And yes - as someone pointed out to me, not everyone has the option to stay home when they’re sick. They might not be able to afford it or they may be a business owner whose business just doesn’t run without them. My revelation certainly isn’t a one-size fits all solution.

But it should be, shouldn’t it? I mean, this may look a little left-leaning, and not following the centralism that I claim to follow, but shouldn’t the government be making it so people can afford to not come to work sick and spread diseases?

Before anyone starts calling me a Pinko Lefty or a Communist or a Socialist (I was never sure how that last one is supposed to be an insult), I’m suggesting this based on a purely fiscal evaluation (see, centrist).

Let’s take a look at something as simple as influenza (which I may have had) and something as complicated as COVID-19, since the latter is the hot topic of our times (which I did not, according to the tests, have).

According to the Canadian Institute for Health, it costs the Ontario health care system $23,000 for an average hospitalization based on COVID-19, four times more than $5,000, the average cost for hospitalization due to influenza.

As a matter of fact, it cost the country nearly $1 billion in health care costs to take care of people with COVID-19 as of September of last year (so that number has likely gone up).

That is, of course, completely ignoring the cost in human lives that COVID-19 cost the country and the world.

Would some kind of universal, guaranteed sick day benefit stop COVID-19 or the flu in its tracks? No. But it could have helped, and it could still help prevent people from spreading other viruses.

Did you know that in Canada, every year, there are 12,200 hospitalizations due to influenza? It might not sound like much compared to COVID-19, but that means we’re spending, as taxpayers, an average of $61 million annually to treat the flu in hospitals (and that doesn’t take into account how much we spend on free flu shots).

Ontario’s average daily individual income is around $144 a day, meaning that, if we could stop, say, 90 per cent of hospitalizations by taking the stigma out of taking a sick day, we could provide over 200,000 people a few sick days a year for when the flu does hit. Sure, that may not seem like much compared to the near 15 million people in Ontario, but it could certainly help the one third of Ontario residents who are considered vulnerable workers. That’s just from the flu. Imagine if we were able to stop the spread of COVID-19 earlier on, before we even required a lockdown or vaccine mandates.

Just a little something to think about.

Final Thought Carry out a random act of kindness with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.

– Diana, Princess of Wales

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Victimizing victims

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ust recently, one of the world’s foremost dirtbags, Alex Jones, received his comeuppance after years of outright lies through Infowars, his website that’s famed for pushing fake news and conspiracy theories.

Denying the facts and insisting that the Sandy Hook school shooting, which killed 26 people (20 of them under the age of eight), didn’t happen has now cost him just under $1 billion.

This lawsuit, awarding damages to the families of the victims of the shooting, comes after another that cost Jones tens of millions of dollars and there are still more lawsuits to come. It would be nice to think that this landmark case will deter people from using a tragedy to further some perverse point they’re trying to make, but it’s highly unlikely.

It’s hard not to put yourself in the mind of a parent whose child has been murdered by a crazed gunman and try to imagine the rage they must feel towards someone like Jones or his supporters. Getting through easily one of the most tragic events that can happen to a family is hard enough, but then to have someone try to further a political agenda or ideology by dragging you through the mud all over again would just be too much to bear.

Rapper Kanye West just did as much. He’s making news thanks to his wildly irresponsible views, straight-up anti-semitism and buddying up with controversial media personality Candace Owens. The pair (both Black) were recently pictured wearing “White Lives Matter” shirts and Kanye just recently dragged the late George Floyd into one of his many public rantings. He said the man, killed by police in Minnesota in 2020, was on fentanyl and died as a result of drug use, rather than police violence. The Floyd family is considering legal action against West.

I’m not sure if West is running for president again, trying to sell albums or just engaging in general instigation, but what Floyd and his family have to do with any of it is anyone’s guess, aside from the political flashpoint aspect of it all. If it will appeal to certain groups, West will do it, rather than leaving a dead man to rest and a family to mourn.

Here in Ontario, the No More Lockdowns movement’s suspendered superhero Randy Hillier found himself in hot water for a similar transgression last year. The former MPP shared a post on social media that linked the recent deaths of 11 Ontarians to vaccination against COVID-19. Not only was the post false and information irresponsible to share, but, like Jones and Sandy Hook, the families stood up to Hillier and shared the truth about the death of their loved ones.

Hillier eventually apologized, but the damage was done and his point made. He and other politicians like Maxime Bernier and Derek Sloan have tried to build themselves back up into someone to vote for with stunts like Hillier’s. They have a political point to make and have shown, in some cases, that they don’t care whose throat they have to step on or whose life they have to denigrate to do it.

I’ve written about this before, when those against vaccination tried to make health issues suffered by Canadian musician Justin Bieber and his wife Hailey into vaccine side effects stories. When people cross over into a certain level of ignorance, they’ll do anything to make their point. To them, everything looks the way they want it to - the way that makes them right.

It’s nasty business and there are real victims and because of opportunists and heartless fame hounds, the victims are victimized all over again. It’s tragic and it’s soulless, but, sadly, it’s also unlikely to be going anywhere.

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Fall here, winter is coming soon A NOTE FROM BETTY

By Betty Graber Watson Call 887-9231

Spooky sightings While temperatures may have some people thinking of winter, Halloween is still on the horizon and dastardly decorations and spooky sights can be seen popping up through the area, like this jousting match outside of Brussels. (Denny Scott photo)

Well, the chill of autumn is here, along with the damp and bonehitting chill that comes with the season. The issue is often, what to wear? Is it winter yet? Bring out the mitts and hat? Is it still fall for sweaters and jackets? We have choices for a few weeks until the white stuff arrives for the season.

On the sign outside a local school, it reads, “Thanksgiving Gratitude Blessed’. As I drove to my errand, I admired the countryside, the farms and the buildings, the crops and the changing colours of the trees. The sign seemed to say

it all very succinctly.

For friends of 5Rs, you may wish to mark your calendar for the annual meeting on Nov. 9. Details will come next month.

Did you ever wonder what would happen if, during one week, all volunteers decided to stay home?

Very few people would get through that week uninterrupted. Schools, churches, sports, flower beds, riverbanks, service clubs, camps to name a very few, run on the enthusiasm of volunteers. Take time to thank those who do this work for you and consider helping out where you can.

Municipal election time is here.

Vote by phone or on-line. Be sure to support the people who have your best interest at heart. Just vote!

Take care of yourself. Keep your mask handy for close encounters with unknown folks, of course, keep washing your hands, and flush the bugs to the sewage system. Stay well.

Bye now, Betty G.W.

At the Branch

Progressive euchre game to start Nov. 3

By Jo-Ann McDonald The week at the Brussels Legion Branch began with the Cadets meeting, as usual, on Tuesday evening. House Chairman Deb Ross, with the help of the Senior Cadets, managed to get a bit of housekeeping done. An area off the side of the old Cadet office received a good cleaning and a lot of junk was loaded on the trailer and sent off to the dump on Wednesday.

Great job Deb and Cadets!

Wednesday evening was the meeting for the Lions. They met on this night because of the Thanksgiving Holiday Monday.

There were over 40 Lions and guests who enjoyed a dinner of roast pork. Comrades Jo-Ann, Judy, Marni and Kathy fed the group.

Thursday evening was the meeting of the entertainment group.

They discussed many ideas and

have some exciting events planned over the coming weeks. The first event will be the karaoke evening with Stubby D on the last Friday night of October. A new event will be a progressive euchre evening on Friday, Nov. 3. You must bring your own partner and watch for more details to come.

Friday evening was beef pot pie and salad for pub grub and was enjoyed by a nice few. The Catch the Ace draw was conducted by Deb, Kathy and Nanci. The lucky weekly winner was Donna Black, winning $158. She chose to look in envelope number 18 and the two of spades was revealed. The estimated jackpot for the next draw on Oct. 21 could be $2,500.

Get your tickets today at Brussels Pharmacy, Brussels Variety, McDonald Lumber and the Brussels Legion. The pub grub for

this Friday will be chicken burgers.

The district convention for our Branch and area, was held in Guelph on Sunday. Members of Branch 218 attending included President Jamie Mitchell, Eric and Deb Ross and John Lowe. It was a great convention with the 50 Legion Branches of the district being very generous to the many Legion-supported programs: the District C Hospital Fund received $14,500; the Homeless Vets: Leave the Streets Behind Fund received $13,100; the Service Dog Programs, $3,500; the Parkwood Hospital Comfort Fund, $1,000; Operational Stress Injury Fund, $500 and the Youth Education Fund, $1,100. The Charitable Foundation Fund received $13,500, the Bursary Fund received $11,300 and the Track and Field Program, $500.

A total of $58,700 was donated to these programs, even after a couple of difficult years for the Branches due to COVID-19. Congratulations to the Royal Canadian Legions across our District for their generous support of the many programs that support many causes.

District C was also commended for being the highest contributor to the Military Service Recognition Book and the highest amount of bursary applications. Brussels Branch 218 was awarded a certificate for the highest submissions for the Military Service Recognition Book.

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Sawchuk named top Cadet at national camp proud and thrilled for him, knowing all of the hard work and organization that is prided by

the Air Cadets and exhibited

by Oliver over the course of the four weeks.

Oliver & Company Blyth’s Oliver Sawchuk, centre, and his tent mates were named Charlie Company at a recent Air Cadet camp in Ottawa. The camp focused on drill and ceremonial instruction and, when it was all said and done, it was Sawchuk who was named the top Cadet from his camp. His big takeaway, however, has been the friends he made at the camp who hailed from all over the country. (Photo submitted)

By Shawn Loughlin The Citizen Blyth’s Oliver Sawchuk was recently named the top Air Cadet at a special nation-wide camp, held in the Ottawa area.

The four-week course consisted of one week online and three weeks at a camp near Ottawa. It focused on the drill and ceremonial instructor aspects of the Air Cadets.

Sawchuk, who locally is a member of the Wingham Air Cadets, applied to be part of the class months ago and was chosen from among many applicants from all over the country.

Sawchuk said that, while some of the days the members were relegated to staying in their tents for most of the day, due to the weather, much of the program was about getting up very early and marching in formation, learning all along the way.

He says he was happy to take part

in the camp, as it is very widely desired from cadets all over the country. So, his application didn’t guarantee that he’d be part of the four-week course.

In Sawchuk’s specific camp, he said, there were about 50 other cadets. There were two other camps, one for all three of the Cadet elements, and Sawchuk was chosen as the best cadet of his camp, an honour that truly surprised him when it was announced at the event’s final parade. The award honoured Sawchuk for his drill, dress, conduct, teamwork and overall training performance over the course of the four weeks.

He says he was surprised when his name arose as the top Cadet at the end of the camp, as there were so many others there. He said he met people from all around the Toronto area, as well as from the east coast from provinces like New

Brunswick, Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island, many of whom are now good friends.

Sawchuk says he got involved with the local Air Cadets four years ago. His interest was first piqued because of his uncle’s involvement with military planes and he just always thought it was interesting.

The Air Cadet season runs from September to June and he meets weekly with his club, based in Wingham.

Sawchuk says he’s not sure if his passion for the Air Cadets will be a factor in deciding what he wants to do for the rest of his life, which he hasn’t quite decided yet, but he says it’s definitely a possibility.

Sawchuk’s mother Julie said she and her husband Theo were both very proud of Oliver for earning this honour. Julie said she was the “crying parent” in the crowd when the announcement was made.

She says they were both very

McMichael, Little tops in euchre From Marilyn’s Desk

By Marilyn Craig Call 523-9318

Happy birthday to Cliff Snell who will celebrate Oct. 22; Kennan MacDonald, Oct. 23; Carsen Lee, Oct. 24; John Nesbit and Chad Haggitt, Oct. 25 and Catherine Howson, Oct. 27.

Happy birthday everyone, hope you have a good day to celebrate.

Mac and Brenda Brooks will celebrate their 58th wedding anniversary on Oct. 24.

Congratulations.

If you would like to smile on Mondays, come out to Trinity Anglican Church and join in the fun with your friends and neighbours from 10-11:30 a.m. with coffee and fellowship.

Results of Oct. 17 euchre are as follows: first, Pauline McMichael, 81 and Grant Little, 79; second, Brenda Brooks, 78 and Gord Haggitt, 71; lone hands, Virginia Caesar and Mac Brooks, both with

four; share the wealth, Sharon Freeman and Nancy Turner.

Congratulations to all the winners.

Tuesday was another rainy day.

We have had a few of these kinds of days this last little while. When water starts to show up on the fields, I think we have had enough.

These rainy days are spoiling the beautiful colours of the leaves. I have never seen so many colours in the leaves. The reds, yellows, oranges and burgundy with shades of green still show through all the colours.

BLYTH UNITED CHURCH Student Minister Alex Jebson was in charge of the 19th Sunday after Pentecost Service at Blyth United Church on Sunday, Oct. 16. A time of reflection was followed by the Territorial Acknowledgement and the lighting of the Christ candle and the candles of Care on the altar.

The children were asked to come to the front for their story time.

Alex had a pile of books and he asked the children if they knew what books they were. One answered, “The Bibles”. Alex told the children that many of these books read a little differently than some of the others. The first book he showed them was written in Greek. Bible number two was the King James version, followed by a Bible that people studied from, a

Bible that was written in modern language, a really old Bible that has been passed on from generation to generation, a Bible with pictures helping tell the stories, and a Bible written for kids from which he read them a short story.

The last hymn, “How Firm a Foundation”, was followed by the benediction and the commissioning and the closing response, “Go to the World.”

Head of the class Oliver Sawchuk of Blyth, right, was named the top Cadet at a recent Air Cadet camp in Ottawa. Jack Christie from the Air League of Canada, left, was on hand to present the award, which came as a surprise to Sawchuk and filled his parents with pride. (Photo submitted)

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4-H winners celebrates at 159th Brussels Fall Fair

Double duty Hayden Jamieson, shown above with Ambassador Deanna Haanstra, claimed the Breeding Ewe top award as well as Reserve Senior Showmanship Champion in the 4-H Sheep Show at the Brussels Fall Fair last month. (Photo submitted) Names are in order of finish.

4-H BEEF CLUB Novice: Tyler Boven, Ty Hoggart, Beverly Mitchell.

Junior: Kayley Long, Ty Somers.

Intermediate: Jacob Long, Kortney Hoggart, Sam McArter.

Senior: Alex Coultes, Dakota Coultes, Troy Coultes.

Grand Champion Showman: Alex Coultes.

Reserve Champion Showman: Dakota Coultes.

Market Steer: Nick McArter, Kortney Hoggart, Lukas Greidanus.

Market Heifer: Gabby Johnston, Dakota Coultes, Sam McArter.

2022 Calf: Beverly Mitchell, Emerson Smith.

Yearling Heifer: Alex Coultes, Ty Hoggart, Troy Coultes.

Grand Champion Calf: Alex Coultes.

Reserve Champion Calf: second, Beverly Mitchell.

Top Novice: Ty Hoggart.

Top Angus: Gabby Johnston.

Top Simmental: Alex Coultes.

Top Hereford: Kortney Hoggart.

Top Charolais: Ty Hoggart.

Top Crossbred: Lukas Greidanus.

SHEEP SHOW Costume Class: Lauren Riegling.

Market Lamb: Gabby Johnston, Allie Riegling, Jack Riegling, Lauren Riegling, Landon Hallahan, Kayley Hallahan, Collin Hallahan, Ayden Hallahan.

Breeding Ewe: Hayden Jamieson, Rory Jamieson, Will Nesbitt, Jacob Long, Kayley Long.

Junior Showmanship: Will Nesbitt, Rory Jamieson, Lauren Riegling.

Senior Showmanship: Gabby Johnston, Hayden Jamieson, Allie Riegling, Jacob Long, Kayley Hallahan, Kayley Long, Collin Hallahan, Landon Hallahan, Jack Riegling, Ayden Hallahan.

COMMERCIAL GRAIN 1/4 bushel red wheat: Don Baan, Gord Mitchell, Martin Thornet.

6 cobs husking corn: Gord Mitchell, Mary Procter.

10 stocks soybeans: Gord Mitchell, Murray Hastings, Bruce Higgins.

FORAGE CROPS 6 stalks ensilage corn: Gord Mitchell.

FIELD CROP COMPETITION Grain corn: Matt Shortreed, Betty Cardiff, Paul Johnston, Bruce Higgins, Scott Cardiff, Don Baan, Don Fischer, eighth, tied - Gord Mitchell and Mark Swart, ninth - Jeff Cardiff.

White beans: Paul Johnston, Mark Swart, Don Fischer.

Winter wheat: Don Fischer, Martin

Thornet, Paul Johnston, Don Baan, Gord Mitchell, Matt Shortreed, Jeff Cardiff, Scott Cardiff, Neil Mitchell, Michael Albers.

Soybeans: Don Baan, Betty Cardiff, Jeff Cardiff, Scott Cardiff, Matt Shortreed, Gord Mitchell, Mark Swart, Murray Hastings, Paul Johnston, Bruce Higgins.

Highest points in 3 categories Field Crop Competition: Don Baan and Matt Shortreed, tied first.

EGGS 1 doz. brown eggs: Sophia Blake, Emmett Blake, Dwayne VanRavenswaay.

FRUIT 5 crab apples: John Lowe, Sophia Burkholder, Lynda Bramhill.

5 wild apples: Sophia Burkholder.

5 homegrown apples: Marj Martin, Jeff Cardiff, Mary Ann Thompson.

5 homegrown pears: Sandra Machan, Marj Martin, Lynda Bramhill.

6 homegrown plums: Lynda Bramhill.

1 ripe muskmelon/canteloupe: Lynda Bramhill.

1 ripe watermelon: Lynda Bramhill.

Fruit display: David Perrie, Mary Procter, Lynda Bramhill.

VEGETABLES & ROOTS 5 pickling beets: Sandra Machan, Sophia Burkholder, Marj Martin.

5 round beets (turnip): Sandra Machan, Marj Martin.

5 long beets (cylindrical): Sandra Machan.

5 short carrots: Sandra Machan, Marj Martin, Emily Burkholder.

5 long carrots: Cindy Van Nes, Marj Martin, Sandra Machan.

3 pickling cucumbers: Marj Martin.

3 table cucumbers: Crystal Blake.

5 garlic bulbs: Sandra Machan, Zoellyn Onn. 5 leeks: Cindy Van Nes. 5 Spanish onions: Sandra Machan.

5 onions, from sets: Sandra Machan, Marj Martin, Cindy Van Nes. 3 sweet green peppers: Marj Martin.

3 sweet red peppers: Crystal Blake.

3 hot peppers: Barbara Cadotte, Zoellyn Onn, Thom Chisholm.

1 field pumpkin: Monique Baan, Emmett Blake.

2 acorn or pepper squash: Marj Martin.

2 butternut squash: Marj Martin, Sandra Machan.

2 buttercup squash: David Perrie, Marj Martin.

2 miniature sunflower heads: Sandra Machan.

5 large red tomatoes: Marj Martin, Sophia Blake, Dwayne VanRavenswaay.

5 large green tomatoes: Sophia

Burkholder, Marj Martin, Sandra Machan.

7 ripe cherry-type tomatoes: Thom Chisholm, Jeff Cardiff, Monique Baan.

12 white potatoes: Marj Martin, Cindy Van Nes, Sandra Machan.

12 red potatoes: Marj Martin, Sandra Machan.

Most points in classes 1-33: Marj Martin.

Vegetable display: Sandra Machan, Lynda Bramhill.

Gourd collection: Monique Baan, Sophia Blake, Lynda Bramhill.

Herb collection: Linda Garland, Lynda Bramhill.

1 largest beet by weight: Lynda Bramhill.

Largest sunflower: Kayleen Wright, Rhonda McArter, Zoellyn Onn. Tallest sunflower: Mary Ann Thompson, Zoellyn Onn. Heaviest zucchini: Mary Ann Thompson, Willem Van Nes. Longest carrot: Lynda Bramhill.

Weirdest misshapen vegetable: Lynda Bramhill, Maddy Deitner.

Heaviest jack-o-lantern-type pumpkin: Charles Van Nes. PRESERVES Strawberry jam, freezer: Mary Ann Thompson, John Lowe.

Strawberry jam, cooked: second Mary Procter, third - Monique Baan.

Raspberry jam, cooked: second Sandra Machan.

Peach jam, cooked: Sandra Machan, Linda Garland, Kathy Bridge.

Any mixed fruit jam: Linda Garland, John Lowe.

Any jam, not listed, named: Sandra Machan, Linda Garland, Averly Hanko.

Any jelly, not listed, named: John Lowe, Monique Baan, Sandra Machan.

Red or green pepper jelly, sweet: Linda Garland, Sandra Machan, Averly Hanko.

Canned peaches: Averly Hanko, Yvonne Dettweiler, Kathy Bridge.

Canned pears: Mary Procter, John Lowe.

Applesauce: Mary Ann Thompson, Marj Martin, Monique Baan.

Cranberry sauce: Monique Baan.

Maple syrup: Bev Craddock.

Fruit salsa: Averly Hanko.

Bread & Butter Pickles: Yvonne Dettweiler, Mary Ann Thompson, Emily Burkholder.

Nine day pickles: Sandra Machan.

Icicle pickles: Mary Ann Thompson, Sandra Machan.

Dill pickles: Sandra Machan, Sophia Burkholder, Averly Hanko.

Pickled beets: Yvonne Dettweiler, Kathy Bridge, Monique Baan.

Pickled beets: Marj Martin, Mary Ann Thompson, Ulrike Hahnewald.

Pickled eggs: Mary Ann Thompson, Sandra Machan, Emily Burkholder.

Any pickled vegetable, not listed, named: Averly Hanko, Emily Burkholder, Sophia Burkholder and Crystal Blake, tied third.

Cucumber relish: Marj Martin, Monique Baan, Mary Procter.

Any other relish, named: Yvonne Dettweiler.

Canned tomatoes: Monique Baan, Marj Martin, Mary Procter.

Stewed tomatoes: Yvonne Dettweiler, Mary Ann Thompson.

Tomato juice: Sophia Burkholder, Yvonne Dettweiler.

Chili sauce: Marj Martin, Sandra Machan, John Lowe.

Salsa, mild: Sophia Burkholder, Mary Procter, Yvonne Dettweiler.

Salsa, mild: Marj Martin, Crystal Blake, Sandra Machan.

Salsa, hot: Gail Jaycock, Averly Hanko, Yvonne Dettweiler.

Bernardin jam/jelly award: Monique Baan, Averly Hanko.

Bernardin snap lid/Mason jar craft award: Bev Craddock, Monique Baan, Mary Procter.

Bernardin gift pack competition: Bev Craddock, Kathy Bridge, Mary Procter.

Bernard best of show award: John Lowe.

Jeanette Harris Memorial, grape jelly award: John Lowe.

Junior, applesauce: Sophia Burkholder, Emily Burkholder.

Instant pot special: Monique Baan.

Hot dog relish: Mary Ann Thompson.

OAAS honey competition: Dianne Diehl.

CULINARY ARTS BREAD Loaf of white bread: Mary Ann

Thompson, Audrey Cardiff, Averly Hanko.

Loaf of bread, not white: Peggy Aitchison, Audrey Cardiff, Joan Bernard.

Dinner rolls made with yeast: Audrey Cardiff, Averly Hanko.

Tea biscuits: Peggy Aitchison, Linda Garland, John Lowe.

6 scones, any shape, size: Linda Garland.

Banana 1/2 loaf: Peggy Aitchison, Sophia Burkholder, Bev Craddock.

Zucchini bread - 1/2 loaf: Averly Hanko, Bev Craddock, Jennifer Smith.

Pumpkin bread, 1/2 loaf: Bev Craddock, Kimberly Ross.

5 banana muffins: second - Kathy Bridge.

Blueberry muffins: Averly Hanko, Jennifer Smith and Peggy Aitchison, tied second.

Unbaked squares: Peggy Aitchison.

5 pieces of Skor bar candy: John Lowe.

5 shortbread cookies: Linda Garland, John Lowe.

5 chocolate chip cookies: Jennifer Smith, Mary Ann Thompson, Linda Garland.

Oatmeal cookies: Linda Garland, Audrey Cardiff, Emily Burkholder.

Gingersnaps: Linda Garland, second.

6 pieces of peanut brittle: Alvin McLellan.

6 pieces of maple cream fudge: Kathy Bridge, Bev Craddock.

6 pieces of chocolate fudge: Linda Garland, Bev Craddock, Kathy Bridge.

Cherry pie: Jennie Schimanski, Kathy Bridge.

Dutch apple pie: Mary Ann Thompson, Peggy Aitchison, Iris DeVries.

Pecan pie: Audrey Cardiff, Kathy Bridge.

Bumbleberry/Jumbleberry pie: Jennie Schimanski.

Rhubarb pie: Peggy Aitchison, Jennie Schimanski, Averly Hanko.

Most points in classes 26-33: Jennie Schimanski.

CULINARY ARTS SPECIALS OASS butter tarts competition: Mary Ann Thompson, Rhonda McArter, Joan Bernard.

Betty Cardiff special - 5 cupcakes: John Lowe.

Marg Bennett Memorial - chocolate cake: Audrey Cardiff.

Men’s Special - iced brownies: Jeff Cardiff.

Kathy Bridge special - 5 lemon squares: Jennifer Smith.

Jo-Ann McDonald special - peach pie: Mary Ann Thompson, Peggy Aitchison.

Bev Palmer special - blueberry pie: Kathy Bridge, Averly Hanko.

Catherine Campbell Memorial apple pie: Mary Ann Thompson, Joan Bernard, Kathy Bridge.

Betty McCutcheon special - lemon meringue pie: Peggy Aitchison, Kathy Bridge, Audrey Cardiff.

Jim Lee special - 4 cinnamon buns: Mary Ann Thompson, Kathy Bridge.

Joan Bernard special - loaf of any bread, bread machine: second - Joan Bernard.

Most points in section K: Peggy Aitchison.

QUILTS Quilt, single or twin-size, hand quilted: Dianne Kuntz.

Quilt, reversible, hand quilted: Mary Vair.

Quilt, queen-size, hand quilted: Mary Vair.

Quilt, preprinted design, hand quilted: Mary Vair.

Quilt, pieced, hand quilted: Linda Kieffer, Mary Vair, Dianne Kuntz.

Quilt by group or organization, hand quilted: Dianne Kuntz.

Quilt, long arm quilted: Marj Martin, Linda Kieffer, Bonnie Johnston.

Wall hanging, (not long arm) machine quilted: Linda Kieffer, Marj Martin.

Quilt top (not quilted): Susan Hendsbee, Dianne Kuntz, Joan Bernard.

NEEDLEWORK No sew fleece blanket: Bonnie Johnston, Kathy Bridge.

Crib quilt, tied: Bonnie Johnston.

Crib quilt, hand quilted: Bonnie Johnston, Kathy Bridge, Marj Martin.

Crib quilt, machine quilted: Linda Kieffer.

Hand-made casserole carrier: Marj Martin, Kathy Bridge.

Two placemats, machine quilted: Marj Martin, Mary Douma.

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Seasonal crafts, baking achievements highlighted Fall Fair Special - Twist and Sprout: Marie McCutcheon.

Most points in specials NS1-NS8: Lorna Collins.

Most points in section N: Lorna Collins.

HOBBY CRAFTS SPECIALS Group Theme Display - Twist & Sprout: Walton Womens Institute, Brussels United Church, Majestic Women’s Institute, all tied first.

4-H display: Belgrave Brussels 4-H, Grey Lifestyles 4-H, tied first.

Seniors Special “Ladies & Men”, small article: Mary Vair.

Seniors Special “Ladies & Men”, large article: Mary Vair, Kathy Bridge.

HOBBY CRAFTS MISCELLANEOUS Hand-made jewellery: Lynda Bramhill, Sarah Tahalheimer, Gail Jaycock.

Article of needlepoint: Lynda Bramhill.

Handmade baby gift: Marj Martin, Kathy Bridge, Lorna Collins.

Purchased hand towel with crocheted or knit top: Lynda Bramhill, Kathy Bridge, Lorna Collins.

Knitted toque: Bonnie Johnston, Kathy Bridge.

Home-made pet apparel: Marj Martin, Gail Jaycock, Kathy Bridge.

Any article using leftover yarn: Lore Chuipka, Brittany Thyssen, Kaleigh McCallum.

Any type of sign made of wood, small: Bev Craddock.

Any type of sign made of wood, large: Bev Craddock.

All-occasion wreath or swag: Lorna Collins.

Purchased fabric or straw sun hat, decorated: Marie McCutcheon, Lynda Bramhill.

Novelty outdoor decoration: Lorna Collins, Lynda Bramhill.

Potholders: Marj Martin, Susan Hendsbee, tied third - Linda Kieffer and Lorna Collins.

Hand-made bridal shower gift: Susan Hendsbee, Marj Martin, tied third - Lorna Collins and Lynda Bramhill.

One stained glass article: Thom Chisholm.

One bazaar item to sell for less than $5: Kathy Bridge, Susan Hendsbee, Lorna Collins.

Recycled item: Mary Vair, Marj Martin, Joan Bernard.

Any hobby, not already listed, small: Marj Martin, Mary Vair, tied

Taking it in With the ongoing renovations at the Brussels, Morris and Grey Community Centre, the Brussels Fall Fair moved to the village’s downtown, with exhibits shown on both floors of the Brussels Four Winds Barn, shown above, as well as the Brussels Branch of the Huron County Library. (Denny Scott photo) Continued from page 8 Hand-quilted wall hanging: Kathy Bridge, Bonnie Johnston, Mary Vair.

Microwave dish or bowl potholder: Bonnie Johnston, Kathy Bridge, Lorna Collins.

Cushion, using pre-printed panel: Susan Hendsbee, Bonnie Johnston.

Toss cushion, pre-printed panel: Susan Hendsbee, Linda Kieffer, Bonnie Johnston.

Table runner or topper: Marj Martin, Susan Hendsbee, Mary Douma.

Fabric shopping or tote bag: Susan Hendsbee, Mary Douma, Marj Martin.

Half apron without bib: Marj Martin, Lorna Collins, Bonnie Johnston.

Bib apron: Bonnie Johnston, Kathy Bridge.

Fabric-made purse: Susan Hendsbee, Marj Martin.

Recycle something new from used denim: Joan Bernard, Marj Martin.

Pajama pants: Kathy Bridge, Marj Martin.

1 pieced quilt block: Mary Douma, Bonnie Johnston.

Decorated tea towel or hand towel: Susan Hendsbee, Lorna Collins.

KNITTING Afghan, knit: Kathy Bridge.

Baby cocoon, knit or crocheted: Kathy Bridge.

Stuffed toy, knit: Ronja Hahnewalt, Tien Hahnewalt.

Kitchen towel, all knit: Kathy Bridge.

Adult slippers, knit: Lore Chuipka.

Child’s knitted slippers: second, Kathy Bridge.

Texting gloves or mitts, knit: Kathy Bridge.

Adult pullover sweater, knit: Bonnie Johnston.

Handmade dishcloth, knit: Kathy Bridge.

Hand-knit scarf: Kathy Bridge.

Infinity scarf, knit or crocheted: Bev Craddock, Kathy Bridge.

CROCHETING Knee-lap cover, knit or crocheted: Bonnie Johnston.

Afghan, crocheted, joined strips or squares: Sally Stevens.

Afghan, crocheted, one piece: Marj Martin, Dianne Kuntz.

Baby afghan, crocheted: Bonnie Johnston, Kathy Bridge, Brittany Thyssen.

Baby shawl, crocheted: Bonnie Johnston.

Handmade dishcloth, crocheted: Bev Craddock, Kathy Bridge.

Hand crocheted scarf: Bev Craddock, Kathy Bridge.

SPECIALS Most points in classes 1-11: Mary Vair.

Most points in classes 12-30: Bonnie Johnston.

Most points in classes 31-45: Kathy Bridge.

Most points in classes 46-51: Bev Craddock.

People’s Choice award: Mary Vair, Linda Kieffer, Mary Vair.

PLANTS & FLOWERS SPECIMENS Hostas 4" wide: Sophia Burkholder, Marie McCutcheon, Lorna Collins.

Hostas 3" wide: Cathy Workman, Marie McCutcheon, Marj Martin.

Cosmos: Mary Ann Thompson.

Marigolds: John Lowe.

Black-eyed Susan: Crystal Blake, Cathy Workman, Zoellyn Onn. Ornamental grass: Cathy Cardiff, Lorna Collins, Marie McCutcheon,.

Sunflowers, not yellow: Cathy Workman.

Sunflowers, miniature, yellow: Cathy Workman, Mary Douma, Cindy Van Nes. Cone flower: Marj Martin.

Calendula: Marie McCutcheon.

Dahlias, 3 blooms, pompom: John Lowe, Cathy Cardiff, Mary Douma.

Dahlias, 1 bloom, medium:Marj Martin, Lorna Collins, Mary Douma.

Dahlias, 1 bloom, large: Zoellyn Onn, Thom Chisholm, Cathy Cardiff.

Sedum, 3 stems, pink: Marj Martin, Rhonda McArter, Lynda Bramhill.

Sedum, 3 stems, not pink: Cathy Workman.

Hydrangea: Aleah Smith, Zoellyn Onn, Marj Martin.

Any perennial not listed: John Lowe, Cathy Workman.

Rose, 1 bloom, any colour: Aleah Smith, Marj Martin.

Rose, 1 bloom, bi-colour: Marj Martin, Aleah Smith, Lorna Collins.

Rose, 1 bloom, any colour, floating: Marj Martin, Aleah Smith, Lorna Collins.

Any other perennial not listed: Cathy Cardiff, Marj Martin, Marie McCutcheon.

Most points in classes 1-22: Marj Martin.

POTTED PLANTS House plant grown for foliage: John Lowe, Lore Chuipka, Marie McCutcheon.

African Violet in bloom: Zoellyn Onn, Lore Chuipka.

Orchid: Joan Bernard, Marj Martin.

House plant in bloom, not listed: Lore Chuipka, Lorna Collins, Sophia Burkholder.

Coleus: Lorna Collins.

HANGING BASKETS Most points in classes 23-35: Lorna Collins.

ARRANGEMENTS Born to be wild: Marie McCutcheon.

Itsy Bitsy: Marie McCutcheon, Lynda Bramhill, Lorna Collins.

One of a kind: Cathy Cardiff, Lorna Collins, Marie McCutcheon.

Sweet 16: Cathy Workman, Marie McCutcheon, Lorna Collins.

Days of Wine & Roses: Lorna Collins,

Lynda Bramhill.

A to Z: Cathy Cardiff, Lorna Collins.

Fall Fantasy: Cathy Workman, Marie McCutcheon, Lorna Collins.

Most points in classes 36-42: Marie McCutcheon.

DESIGNS Quilt square in 8" cake pan: Lorna Collins.

Food for thought: Lorna Collins, Lynda Bramhill.

Forever Young: Marie McCutcheon, Lorna Collins.

Sunday Dinner: Cathy Workman, Lorna Collins, Marie McCutcheon.

Nature’s Best: Marie McCutcheon, Linda Garland, Lorna Collins.

Miniature fairy garden: Kim Yuzwa.

Nosegay: Lynda Bramhill.

I’m a Little Teapot: Lorna Collins, Marie McCutcheon, Lynda Bramhill.

third - Kaleigh McCallum and Susan Hendsbee.

Any hobby, not already listed, large: tied first - Susan Hendsbee and Mary Vair.

CHRISTMAS Christmas wreath or swag: Sarah Tahalheimer, Lorna Collins, Lynda Bramhill.

Handmade Christmas card or gift tag: Susan Hendsbee, Lorna Collins, Lynda Bramhill.

Handmade Christmas decoration: Lorna Collins, Lynda Bramhill, Sarah Tahalheimer.

Christmas centrepiece: Marj Martin, Lorna Collins, Lynda Bramhill.

Handmade Christmas tree ornament, small: Sarah Tahalheimer, Gail Jaycock, Lynda Bramhill.

Decorative handmade Christmas gift bag: Susan Hendsbee.

Luminary from punched tin can: second, Lorna Collins.

Christmas wall hanging for child’s room: Joan Bernard, Lynda Bramhill.

Christmas table runner: Bonnie Johnston, Susan Hendsbee, Marj Martin.

Christmas placemats: Marj Martin, Mary Douma, Lorna Collins.

Most points in classes 1-32: tied first, Marj Martin and Lorna Collins.

INTERMEDIATE Craft of your choice: Adel Fischer, Emily Burkholder, Kaleigh McCallum.

Decorated picture frame: Sophia Burkholder, Bridget McCallum, Emily Burkholder.

Make an Inukshuk: Emily Burkholder, Sophia Burkholder.

Fresh flowers in 1L milk carton: third - Sophia Burkholder.

Craft your grandmother would make: Kaleigh McCallum, Sarah Van Nes, tied third - Emily Burkholder and Sophia Burkholder.

Most points in intermediate classes 1-11: tied first, Sophia Burkholder and Emily Burkholder.

Any item made from building blocks, small: Carter Kellington, Sam Haag, Conner Kellington.

Any item from building blocks, large: Carter Kellington, Sam Haag, Cooper Dewit.

Lego - not kit, ages 12-18: Laura Van Nes, Tien Hahnewald, William Van Nes. Lego kit, small, ages 6-11: Ryker Dewit, Conner Kellington, Cooper Dewit.

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Green thumbs and crafters win big at Fall Fair

Big winners As is tradition, the 4-H Beef Club show at the Brussels Fall Fair brought out some of the best cattle around. The winners of the Grand Champion Calf, Alex Coultes, and Reserve Champion, Beverly Mitchell are shown above being presented their awards by Little Ambassador Paislee Ribey and Ambassador Deanna Haanstra. From left: Ribey, Mitchell, Coultes and Haanstra. (Denny Scott photo) Continued from page 9 OAAS Youth Chocolate Chip competition: Sophia Burkholder, Emily Burkholder.

ART Design a postcard - 2022 fair theme: Brittany Thyssen.

Any art using charcoal, pencil or pen: second, Emily Burkholder; third, Adel Fischer.

Artist’s choice: Kaleigh McCallum, Sophia Burkholder, Celeste Well.

Twist & Sprout: Emily Burkholder.

PHOTOGRAPHY Junior - Twist & Sprout - 2 photos: Emily Burkholder.

Theme of Fair - “Twist & Sprout”: Gail Jaycock, Brittany Thyssen, Emily Burkholder.

Up close: Gail Jaycock, Olivia McArter, Jennifer Smith.

Shadows: Joan Perrie, Mary Vair.

At the Beach: Joan Perrie, Brittany Thyssen, Emily Burkholder.

Weather: Mary Vair, Jennifer Smith, Mary Procter.

Dramatic sky:Joan Perrie, Olivia McArter, Brittany Thyssen.

Old abandoned building: Jennifer Smith.

Object of architectural interest: Emily Burkholder, Mary Procter, Adel Fischer.

Person playing a musical instrument: Mary Vair, Brittany Thyssen.

A single flower: Brittany Thyssen, Jennifer Smith, Sophia Burkholder.

Picture of a bird: Sophia Burkholder, Gail Jaycock, Sophia Burkholder.

Animals/pets: Brittany Thyssen, Sophia Burkholder, Jennifer Smith.

Insects: Joan Perrie.

Old bridge: Joan Perrie.

Black and white: Kimberly Ross, Joan Perrie, Benetta Van Nes. Laneway, roadway, path or trail: Gail Jaycock, Kimberly Ross, Sophia Burkholder.

Farm scenes: Mary Procter.

Portrait: Jennifer Smith, Kimberly Ross, Mary Procter.

My favourite photo:Gail Jaycock, Jennifer Smith, Joan Perrie.

Masked photo of someone having fun: Kimberly Ross.

Best fall display: Jennifer Smith, ART Adult colouring page - by hand: Mary Vair, Adel Fischer.

Design a cover for the 2023 Fair Book: Adel Fischer.

PHOTOGRAPHY Judge’s pick - best overall entry from all categories in section P: Mary Procter.

Holidays: Jennifer Smith.

Wayne Lowe Memorial - 2 photos of Brussels: Mary Procter.

Any motor sport: Jennifer Smith.

Most points in sections A&P: Joan Perrie.

JUNIOR BAKING A decorated ice cream cone: Lucas Hoskins.

Flower made from gum drops or candies: Harper Terpstra.

Large decorated cookie, using fair theme: Allison Van Nes, Sarah Van Nes, tied third - Sophia Burkholder and Emily Burkholder.

FLOWERS Arrangement of weeds: Danika White, Kayden Wright.

Arrangement of fresh flowers: Graysen Wright.

Arrangement of fresh flowers in coffee mug: Kayleen Wright.

Fresh arrangement with colourful flowers in recycled container: Aleah Smith, Sophia Burkholder, Emily Burkholder.

Rose with foliage in bud vase: Danika White, Alexander White, Aleah Smith.

Marigolds: Danika White.

Zinnias: Kayden Wright, Graysen Wright.

Sedum: Danika White, Alexander White.

Mums: Emily Burkholder, Sophia Burkholder.

Sunflowers: Aleah Smith, Alexander White, tied third - Sarah Van Nes, Graysen Wright.

Homegrown flowers: Kayleen Wright, Sophia Burkholder, Aleah Smith.

FRUITS & VEGETABLES Make a plant out of seeds: Graysen Wright.

Make a twisted tree out of natural materials: tied first, Alice Jorritsma and Harper Terpstra.

Make a twisted design using continuous curly peelings from fruit/vegetables: Sophia Burkholder, Emily Burkholder.

Onions: Kayleen Wright, Elsy Jorritsma, Sophia Burkholder.

Garden carrots: Sophia Burkholder, Saleena Jorritsma, Emily Burkholder.

Red potatoes: tied first - Lucas Hoskins and Kayden Wright.

White or yellow potatoes: Lucas Hoskins, Graysen Wright.

Carrot with most legs: Emily Burkholder.

Twisted fruit or vegetable: Kayden Wright, Allison Van Nes. Vegetables suited for pizza toppings: Alice Jorritsma, Graysen

Wright, tied third - Emily Burkholder and Sophia Burkholder.

Basket of variety fruits/vegetables: Kayleen Wright.

Longest zucchini: Rayna Terpstra, tied second - Alice Jorritsma and Aleah Smith.

ARTS AND CRAFTS Happy face using paper plate: Kayden Wright, Nathan Haag, Camilla Campbell.

Colour picture of a pet: Ava Ferguson, Renzie Ribey, Aila Goudy.

Print 1-10 on lined paper: Elsy Jorritsma, tied second - Camilla Campbell and Flynn Ribey.

Flower out of Playdough on small paper plate: Camilla Campbell, Reid Cronin, Aila Goudy.

Bumblebee or butterfly using coffee filter: Avery MacLeod, Graysen Wright, Ellie Wilson.

Print “Twist & Sprout” in pencil on lined paper: Henley Terpstra, Tucker Wilson, Ellie Wilson.

4 different leaves on construction paper: Chelsea MacLeod, Avery MacLeod, Tucker Wilson.

Fall wreath using natural materials on large paper plate: Saleena Jorritsma, Tucker Wilson, Henley Terpstra.

Decorative paper fan: Kayleen Wright, Blake Haanstra.

Create a piece of string art: Adel Fischer, Lillian Terpstra, Sarah Van Nes. Cursive writing, list of 3 ways to stop bullying: Sarah Van Nes, Sophia Burkholder, tied third - Allison Van Nes, Adel Fischer.

Picture of favourite thing at Brussels Fair: tied first - Sophia Burkholder and Emily Burkholder, Adel Fischer, tied third - Allison Van Nes and Sarah Van Nes. Make a wearable craft: Bridget McCallum, Sarah Van Nes, Allison Van Nes. JUNIOR SPECIALS Decorated pumpkin - any animal or pet: Nathan Haag.

Decorated pumpkin - Beanie Boos or Beanie Baby theme: Leah Haag, Henley Terpstra.

Decorated pumpkin - a movie character: Harper Terpstra.

Decorated pumpkin transportation: tied first - Allison Van Nes and Sarah Van Nes. Twisting caterpillar from Playdough: Eric Kellington, Alexander White, Iris Pipe.

Create flower garden using cotton balls/string: Henley Terpstra, Ellie Wilson, tied third - Brynlee Armstrong and Tucker Wilson.

Sponge painting on paper plate to represent a planted field: Kayleen Wright.

Make a fairy wand: Danika White,

Alexander White, tied third - Eric Kellington and Iris Pipe.

Dress up teddy bear like a fairy: tied first - Leah Haag and Henley Terpstra.

Make head dress for a fairy: Isla Fischer, Kayleen Wright.

Make a fairy door: Bridget McCallum, Emily Burkholder, Sophia Burkholder.

Finger painting cut into a shape: Henley Terpstra.

Bouquet of flowers using pipe cleaners: Isla Fischer, Adalyn Campbell, Jordyn Laffin.

Half and half - cut out picture, cut in half, draw the other half: Alison Van Nes, Sarah Van Nes, Adel Fischer.

Queen Anne’s lace dyed using food colouring: Henley Terpstra, Lillian Terpstra.

One or more succulents in a pot: Sophia Burkholder, tied second Harper Terpstra and Emily Burkholder; Lillian Terpstra.

Draw picture of farm animal: tied first - Iris Pipe and Eric Kellington.

Decorate a box to hold treasures: tied first - Allison Van Nes and Sarah Van Nes; Bridget McCallum, Adel Fischer.

Safety poster - ATV or snowmobile safety: Adel Fischer, Lillian Terpstra.

JUNIOR AWARDS Highest points in Junior Section: Sophia Burkholder.

Optimist Best All Around participation: Sophia Burkholder.

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Council, staff surprised conference had to be moved

By Denny Scott The Citizen As the fourth Rural Talks to Rural conference was held in Brussels

this week, North Huron Council was left wondering why it wasn’t held in its traditional home at Blyth Memorial Hall.

During North Huron Council’s

Monday night meeting, Councillor Kevin Falconer said that the conference, a multi-day event which brings visitors and presenters to the area from across the country

Barn, which is hosting the event, was a great space for the worthwhile event, but he was still concerned that the conference wasn’t allowed to be held at a North Huron facility. (Memorial Hall, while operated by the Blyth Festival, belongs to North Huron.)

During recent Blyth Business Improvement Area meetings, Blyth Festival General Manager Rachael King had said the facility was open to selected renters, however the conference wasn’t discussed.

Chief Administrative Officer Dwayne Evans said he was surprised to learn of the conference not being able to be held in Blyth himself and said staff will follow up on the issue and get back to council.

and across the border, was being held in Brussels because Memorial Hall in Blyth, the venue that had previously served as a central location for the conference, wasn’t available.

Falconer said he was wondering why the event couldn’t be held in Blyth, saying that local businesses had lost out on the economic spinoff for the event.

“How much influence does the municipality have on the operations of that facility?” Falconer asked.

“Why are other municipalities allowed to host, or put on these performances or gatherings and we missed out on one we normally do have that brings many people to town.”

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Cross-border solution is ‘close’ says Zinn Continued from page 3 issues over cross-border agreement negotiations with North Huron.

Candidates were asked how they hope to “improve relationships with neighbouring municipalities” regarding shared services.

Sharen Zinn, current deputymayor, said she has spent a lot of time over the past four years on this agreement, as have staff and other council members.

“We are so very close to this. And if you want to know what’s happening, it’s all on our website, and go on our website and read about every meeting that we’ve had,” she said. “Shared services are great, but it’s got to work for both sides, it cannot be one-sided.”

Kevin Freiburger, also seeking re-election as councillor, suggested the results of the election on both sides of the border may factor into negotiations.

“Sometimes it’s hard to have rational discussions with some people,” he said. “I know we can do well with shared services; we just recently signed a contract agreement with two other municipalities. And it was a nice, short agreement. There’s ways to do it, it’s just a matter of having good rational discussions and finding something that works for both sides, and having people that are willing to have those discussions and are able to have those discussions.”

Dale McFarlan agreed with both previous speakers.

Jodi Snell suggested leaving the past in the past and “start on finding new solutions, starting new conversations and not taking or going in with a negative approach to this discussion.

“I think it can work out and I think there are solutions, and my biggest thing is as long as the solutions are beneficial to both the ratepayers… that is one of the most important things, it’s the ratepayers here [who] are going to benefit from whatever the final agreement is,” she said.

Jamie McCallum, who is seeking re-election, said it “takes two parties to tango.”

“If the person on the other side doesn’t want anything to do with you or everything you say to them, they shut down, are you going to get anywhere? Honest question,” he said. “I’m in favour of speaking to them in person instead of through communication. I would like to add that we have worked in agreements with South Bruce, Huron East and Central Huron on different things other than services, and we’ve got great working conditions with all of them. North Huron, I’m all for working with them. I think the first thing the council should do is organize a get-together between the two municipalities and get stuff ironed out and say, ‘Hey, let’s refresh the page.’”

Chris Michie said the previous speakers have “said what I was going to say.”

“Like Kevin said, I think we just need fresh eyes on both sides. Start fresh again. And we go to the table, they come to the table and like everybody else said, respect each other, listen to each other and make it fair for both sides,” he said.

The candidates were asked about the current hospital emergency room closures, and all agreed that there was not much they, as a council, could do as the province and the hospital boards run hospitals. However, they did say they could write letters of support for initiatives and try to make the community attractive to entice new doctors and nurses.

The candidates made closing remarks, thanking the people for showing up in such great numbers and asking for support for their campaigns.

Marshall finished the evening by thanking the volunteers, the candidates, and the audience for coming out to the event.

“I did want to thank all those people who put this together so quickly. It makes me feel so much better about going to exercise my right to vote down,” she said

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Sports Ironmen lose two over weekend, remain in fifth

Short-lived The jubilation felt by the Wingham Ironmen above after scoring a goal against the Kincardine Bulldogs last Friday night would be short-lived, as they would eventually lose the game by a score of 3-2 in overtime. The team’s bad luck continued over the weekend, as the Ironmen lost to Mount Forest by a score of 7-3 on the road Saturday night. (John Stephenson photo)

By Shawn Loughlin The Citizen The Wingham Ironmen have just concluded a winless weekend, dropping contests to Kincardine on Friday and Mount Forest on

Saturday. The pair of losses have kept the Ironmen in fifth place in the North Pollock Division of the Provincial Junior Hockey League with a record of three wins, four losses and one overtime loss.

On Saturday night, the Ironmen

Clinton Radars to take hiatus in ’22

By Denny Scott The Citizen The Clinton Radars are taking a one-year hiatus from the Western Ontario Athletics Association Senior Hockey League with Manager/Treasurer Brian Wightman saying that decision is due to a number of issues.

The announcement was made late last month and Wightman spoke to The Citizen about the decision recently, saying it was a difficult decision to make.

“It was a combination of factors,” he said. “We didn’t have as many returning players as we’d like to see and we were a bit short on bench staff, trainers and equipment people. It was really a collection of issues.”

Wightman said the club, which had made it to the AA Championship Final last year, falling to the Seaforth Centenaires in five games, would be holding meetings later this year to help plan for a return in the 2023-2024 season.

He said there could have been some exhaustion among the players and volunteers as, for six seasons, the team has progressed through the postseason, including winning the championship in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019.

Wightman said he didn’t believe COVID-19 cancellations, including the 2020-2021 season and the brief

hiatus in the 2021-2022 season, played a part in the decision, and that he hopes the hiatus doesn’t last longer than one season.

He said the aforementioned meetings would focus on retooling and getting new volunteers and executives in place, as well as looking at recruiting new players.

“We are just going to try to get back on track and move forward,” he said.

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travelled to Mount Forest for a contest with the Patriots and fell by a score of 7-3. The Patriots outshot Wingham 36-29.

Mount Forest scored the first two goals of the game in the second half of the first period. Riley Torrie scored his third of the year, assisted

by Jordan Leitch and Logan Mills, at the 11:13 mark, followed by Bryan Richardson scoring his fourth of the season at 15:37 with an assist from Cameron Voisin.

The Ironmen scored before the period closed out, with Matt Tolton finding the back of the net for the fifth time this season for a power play goal at 16:46 of the first period, assisted by Kyle Stanbury.

Mount Forest’s Richardson opened the scoring just over a minute into the second period with his fifth of the season and second of the game, assisted by Matthew Weiler and Ben Tenhag. Wingham’s

Tolton scored another power play goal at 6:35 of the second period, assisted by Stanbury and Coleson Fischer, but for the rest of the period it was all Mount Forest.

Elijah Brahaney scored at 10:21 on the power play for the Patriots, assisted by Caleb Cribbin and Austin Griffin, followed by Richardson completing his hat trick at 12:29 of the second period, also on the power play, assisted by Brahaney and Cribbin.

The Mount Forest onslaught continued, with Jared Rowe scoring his first goal of the season, assisted

by Mills, followed by Mills scoring a goal of his own, his fourth of the season, on the power play at 15:06 of the second period, assisted by Tenhag and Riley Torrie.

Going into the third period with Mount Forest leading by five goals, Stanbury of Wingham scored the only goal of the period, an unassisted marker for his third of the year.

The Ironmen served five penalties totalling 12 minutes, while the Patriots were assessed eight penalties for a total of 16 minutes.

Wingham goaltenders Garrett Golley and Will Crump divided their time nearly evenly. Golley played just over 33 minutes with 14 saves on 20 shots, while Crump played over 26 minutes and stopped 15 of 15 shots. For the Patriots, Vance Meter played all 60 minutes, stopping 26 of 29 shots.

On Friday night, the Ironmen played the last in a five-game home stand, losing to the Kincardine Bulldogs in overtime. The Bulldogs had 23 shots on goal, while the Ironmen could only muster 11, all in the first and second periods.

Wingham scored the first two goals of the game, nearly closing out the second period up by a score of 2-0. Jonah Burley scored his second of the season at 16:06 of the first, assisted by Stanbury and then, in the second, Noah Wettlaufer scored his second of the season, assisted by Nate Bloemberg, at 12:15 of the second period.

However, Brennan Long of Kincardine scored his first goal of the season at 14:46 of the second period, assisted by Carter Servais

and Nolan MacKinnon, to cut the Ironmen’s lead in half.

In the third period, Gavin Downs pulled the Bulldogs to an even score with the Ironmen courtesy of his fourth goal of the season, assisted by Cooper Schneider and Liam Colhoun.

It took only a minute and 10 seconds to end the game in favour of the Bulldogs, however, with Austin Waite scoring his second of the year and ending the game.

Garrett Golley played all 61:10 of the game in net for the Ironmen, stopping 20 of 23 shots, while Carter Garvie tended goal for the Bulldogs, stopping nine of 11 shots over 61:10.

The Ironmen were sent to the penalty box eight times, serving 16 minutes, in addition to a game misconduct for Jonah Burley before the third period began. The Bulldogs served five penalties for a total of 10 minutes in the box.

The Ironmen are now on the road for the rest of the month, playing their next four games away from Wingham. They take on Hanover on Oct. 21, Walkerton on Oct. 22, Kincardine on Oct. 29 and Goderich on Oct. 30. The Ironmen then return to Wingham for their first three games of November, taking on Mitchell on Nov. 4, Hanover on Nov. 6 and Walkerton on Nov. 11.

In the league’s North Pollock Division, the Mount Forest Patriots sit atop the standings, undefeated with a record of 8-0. In second place, the Hanover Barons have registered six wins, two overtime losses and a tie, while the Mitchell Hawks sit in third place with a record of six wins, one loss and one overtime loss.

The Kincardine Bulldogs are in fourth place with four wins, five losses and one overtime loss, followed by the Ironmen in fifth place with three wins, four losses and one overtime loss.

The Walkerton Capitals are in sixth place with two wins, five losses and a tie and the Goderich Flyers are in last place in the division, still searching for their first win of the season with a record of no wins and nine losses.

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Veal sells strong, lambs sell higher at sale Total receipts for Brussels Livestock for the week ending Oct. 14 were 1,975 cattle and 519 lambs and goats.

On Tuesday, fed steers and heifers sold at steady prices. Choice steers and heifers sold $178 to $185.

Second-cut cattle sold $170 to $178.

Aged and medium-fed steers and heifers sold $140 to $165. Holstein steers and heifers sold $129 to $154.

Cows sold steady.

On Thursday, veal sold on a strong, active trade at steady prices.

Lambs sold higher. Sheep and goats sold steady.

On Friday, calves sold on a

stronger market. Yearling heifers sold $3 to $5 higher and yearling steers sold steady.

Matthew Bros. Farms of Durham, consigned 10 head. Six bwf steers averaged 1,525 lbs. and sold for an average price of $185.

There were 175 cows on offer.

Beef sold $98 to $128.50; good holstein cows, $100 to $138; medium holstein cows, $80 to $90.

Bulls sold $133 to $160.

There were 125 head of veal on offer. Beef veal sold $195 to $230; good holsteins, $195 to $219; SL heavy holsteins, $190 to $210; heavy holsteins, $155 to $199;

medium holsteins, $185 to $194; plain holsteins, $175 to $184; bob calves, $210 to $225.

Jim Maw of Forest, consigned three head. One black heifer weighed 820 lbs. and sold for an average price of $230.

Grant Bergsma of Londesborough, consigned three head. One holstein steer weighed 745 lbs. and sold for a price of $219.

Lambs 50 - 64 lbs. sold $345.50 to $355; 65 - 79 lbs., $239 to $377.50; 80 - 94 lbs., $255 to $296; 95 - 109 lbs., $231 to $250; 110 lbs. and over, $215 to $235.

Sheep sold $100 to $250.

Goats: billies sold $150 to $400; nannies, $100 to $250; kids: $350 to $430.

Fear Family Farms of Brussels, consigned five head. Two lambs averaged 80 lbs. and sold for an average price of $350.

Top quality stocker steers under 400 lbs. sold $285.50 to $350; 400 499 lbs., $258 to $376; 500 - 599 lbs., $284 to $320; 600 - 699 lbs., $238 to $281; 700 - 799 lbs., $237 to $269; 800 - 899 lbs., $233 to $252; 900 - 999 lbs., $237.50 to $251.25; 1,000 lbs. and over, $227 to $241.50.

Erb says no precedent for UW concerns

By Denny Scott The Citizen

After receiving an update from the United Way Perth-Huron and St. Paul’s Trinity Anglican Church’s Rev. JoAnn Todd, North Huron Reeve Bernie Bailey congratulated all on the creation of a program to help the community’s vulnerable sectors.

The Northern Huron Connection Centre project had drawn concerns from some neighbours, who had addressed council during an earlier meeting this month, feeling that there could be safety issues from the clients of the centre. The centre would provide services like a cooling/warming location, food, showers, clothes, laundry facilities, phone and WiFi opportunities, emotional support and social connections to its clients, as well as helping them connect with other services.

During North Huron Council’s Monday night meeting, Director of the United Way Perth-Huron Ryan Erb addressed council, explaining

that there hadn’t been any security concerns in other locations, but that doesn’t mean it couldn’t happen.

Erb explained that Lisa Harper, the United Way Perth Huron’s Manager of Community Development for Northern Huron, had, during a recent Wingham Business Improvement Area meeting, talked about where the centre might be located, referencing the church. Erb went on to say that the official announcement was actually made on Oct. 17, just before council’s meeting.

After the issue was first brought to council earlier this month, Erb said that residents had been consulted, and that, at a meeting at the church, there were approximately 40 people in attendance. He said he responded to the concerns from those in attendance and those brought to council earlier this month, but there were still outstanding questions and concerns. Erb said he is committed to an open dialogue with the neighbours, but said that many of the concerns are

Garland to lead service PEOPLE AROUND BELGRAVE

By Linda Campbell Call 357-2188

Susan Barnett, Licensed Lay Worship Leader, was the guest speaker at Knox United Church on Sunday, Oct. 16. Elwin Garland will be the guest speaker on Sunday, Oct. 23.

This week, we had rain every day.

The weatherman also mentioned that we could possibly have snow in some areas. We don’t want snow yet. There is still outside work to be done. When you are out for a drive take note of the beautiful coloured leaves that Mother Nature has supplied.

With this wet weather the farmers haven’t been able to complete their harvesting of corn and soybeans.

On Friday, we will see sunshine

again so maybe the farmers will be out then.

Sympathy is extended to the families of Owen Curtis, who passed away on Oct. 7.

Sympathy is also extended to Warren and Evelyn Rich in the loss of their sister-in-law, Sheila Rich, who passed away on Oct. 3.

speculative until the site opens.

The official announcement, he said, included representatives from the Ontario Provincial Police in attendance as well as representatives from Choices for Change, who will be running the facility, but little participation otherwise.

Finally, he said that many neighbours are supportive of the initiative, and that he understands the concerns that others have. He noted those concerns hadn’t been a problem at other sites.

“There are no major issues at other centres, and no police involvement,” he said, adding that police have mentioned, anecdotally, that it seems to be reducing major concerns in and around the community.

Bailey congratulated everyone involved and thanked them for their efforts.

Councillor Chris Palmer asked how many clients the site would likely service. Erb said that the Listowel centre is likely the best comparator and it has eight to 12 people visit each of the three days it’s open per week. He also said that, while some of the clients could be unsheltered, or experiencing homelessness, those are not the only people who use the site. As an example, he said a single mother could be visiting to do her laundry and save money.

“There’s a spectrum and we anticipate helping people across the spectrum,” he said.

Deputy-Reeve Trevor Seip said

he had heard significant concern about the issue, but said that always accompanies changes. He said the onus was on council, as municipal leaders, to get the positive information about the centre out to the public and correct misconceptions that are out there, especially regarding the centre’s involvement in solving homelessness.

“This isn’t about housing, it’s about helping,” he said. “It’s about helping people who need help the most.”

He went on to say usage of the site isn’t mandatory and it will only give people a chance to try and find help with their problems.

After discussing other aspects of the site and its programs, other council members applauded the efforts of the group.

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Top quality stocker heifers, 500 599 lbs. sold $248 to $266; 600 699 lbs., $217 to $241; 700 - 799 lbs., $220.50 to $233; 800 - 899 lbs., $215 to $225.50; 900 lbs. and over, $206 to $246.

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Card of thanks Thank You! The Belgrave Community Centre Board would like to extend their sincere appreciation to the community members and local businesses who made a donation towards our Silent Auction for our 2nd Annual Vendors Market on October 16th. It is because of the generosity of our community that we are able to maintain our facility for all to enjoy. With past restrictions and guidelines in place it has brought some new challenges to everyone. We would also like to thank anyone that came to support the local vendors and/or made a donation to help make this event such a success.

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COOK. In loving memory of Debbie Cook who left us October 20, 2020.

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With each year that passes, it becomes easier they say, We wish that we could say that’s true, but we miss you more each day.

You were always busy working hard to care for everyone you loved, We are hoping that it carries on from your place so high above.

So be at peace my darling, we will be okay down here, We love you and we miss you with every passing year.

– Love from Steve, Michelle, Darcey and families.

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HE council approves scholarships for R2R

By Shawn Loughlin The Citizen

Breakfast for a cause Over the weekend Felix, left, and Eli Archer went to Londesborough for breakfast at the Londesborough Lions Hall. The meal was a fundraiser to support local families that have come to Canada from Ukraine. (Denny Scott photo)

Milestones, graduations marked PEOPLE AROUND WALTON

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Congratulations to Susan Alexander for graduating with her Bachelor of Education in Adult Education with Distinction from Brock University. She actually graduated in 2020 but because of COVID-19, convocation was just held. Her family attended her special day and to support her in her achievement.

Congratulations Susan.

An accident at the corner of Moncrieff and McDonald Line resulted in damage to two vehicles.

Luckily, neither driver was hurt badly. We wish Martin Boettcher a full recovery from his injuries and

hope the other person is doing well.

Just a reminder that stop means stop.

The fall weather brings outside clean-up and that even goes for the cemetery. Many of the floral arrangements are being taken off the headstones to be put away by the families. Our cemetery is always beautifully kept and the floral arrangements complement the beauty of the area. The winter winds are very hard on the saddles, so taking them in for the winter is best.

It was party time on the weekend for a couple of 60-year-olds. Jim McDonald was joined by four couples to help him celebrate. They had dinner at the Blyth Inn and then some more socializing at the McDonald home followed. Friends Terry and Jan Elligsen, Brad and Christine Knight, Mike and Pat Parr and a couple from Durham enjoyed a great night with the birthday boy Jim and wife Linda.

Congratulations and happy birthday Jim and welcome as a

Tours Eat Local Huron hosted its October Farm Crawl on Saturday, featuring farms in the Zurich, Hensall and Bayfield areas. Above, a group takes a wagon tour of Trick’s Creek Farm near Clinton. (John Stephenson photo)

NEWS FROM WALTON member of the over-60 club!

Another person who will join the over-60 club is Donna Prior.

Although Donna’s birthday is not until December, to manage a complete surprise for a party, her family planned a party for this past weekend. They held it at the Brussels Legion and about 40 of their close friends gathered and when they brought Donna in (under false pretenses) it was a surprise.

The crowd was appropriately dressed in semi-formal attire and they had a great time dancing to the music of Adam Cousins and friend and ate delicious snacks and hors d’oeuvres created by a good friend, who is a chef. It was a great night, great surprise and happy birthday Donna!

We have our nephew Mike Warwick here from Calgary for about 10 days. His focus for being here is to visit his daughter Sydney, who attends the University of Windsor. She is on a soccer scholarship. While Mike is here, he will be able to see her play four games. He will be between Windsor and Walton over the 10 days.

Celebrating birthdays this past week were Lisa Glanville, Jim McDonald, Owen Taylor, Randy Fraser, Sarah Grobbink, Jessica Kelso, Helen McLachlan, Travis Wilts, Chase Grobbink, Harper Lee, Bryan Kelso and Ron McCallum.

Happy birthday to all.

Huron East Council voted to provide a one-time, $2,500 contribution towards youth scholarships at the Rural Talks to Rural conference, which was held in Brussels this week.

The contribution has been funded from the economic development program expense budget. In his report to council, presented at council’s Oct. 4 meeting, which was held virtually, Chief Administrative Officer Brad McRoberts noted that, for the first time, the conference was being held in Huron East.

Peter Smith, executive and creative director of the Canadian Centre for Rural Creativity, the host of the conference, was due to attend the meeting as a delegation.

However, connection issues meant he wasn’t there at 7 p.m., when the meeting started, and had to move on to another commitment by the time he would have been able to connect.

Council approved the contribution, with several councillors speaking very highly of the conference in past years when it had been held in Blyth. *** Huron East Council has passed a hybrid meeting policy, moving ahead with in-person meetings, but allowing for the accommodation for electronic participation upon request.

Clerk Jessica Rudy presented council with a report on the issue at its Oct. 4 meeting, noting that Council Chambers is not equipped to handle a high number of electronic participants. These limitations, she said, are mainly due to the lack of video capability within Council Chambers.

The policy, Rudy said in her report, will be used to

accommodate participants in the event of poor health or inclement weather. Notice for electronic participation needs to be made at least two hours before the beginning of the meeting and requests will be granted at the discretion of the mayor.

Rudy noted that the policy will be reviewed in the future, in the event that Council Chambers is upgraded with more “fulsome technology” to allow for a “seamless approach” to hybrid meetings that works for all participants.

In previous meetings, McRoberts has said that technology upgrades for Council Chambers will be presented as part of the 2023 budget for council’s consideration, but that nothing had yet been made final.

Council approved Rudy’s recommended policy. *** Huron East Council has requested a staff report on potentially converting all of its rural yield signs to stop signs.

The issue, discussed at council’s Oct. 4 meeting, which was held virtually, came up after Councillor Dianne Diehl blew the whistle on a handful of troublesome intersections in the Grey Ward.

Public Works Manager Barry Mills said he was happy to produce a report, but that he was likely to treat such an undertaking as a budget item, to be discussed in the coming months and perhaps implemented next year sometime.

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The journey of Robert Weir Glimpses of the Past with Karen Webster It’s a long way from a small Huron County farm to being the federal Minister of Agriculture, but that was the journey that Robert Weir took.

He was born on Feb. 5, 1882 in Turnberry Township to Robert and Jane Weir as the second youngest of seven children. After attending Powell’s school, he enrolled in the Clinton Model School. This was a hybrid institution that instructed future teachers in the best teaching practices, while working with the children that attended that school.

Robert’s first teaching positions were at Harlock, in 1900, and Constance (Kinburn) schools, both in Hullett Township. After that, he taught for four years at Marmora, near Peterborough. All this time he was saving money for a university education. He graduated from the University of Toronto in 1911 with a degree in mathematics and used his education in a career as an actuary with the Confederation Life Insurance Company in Toronto.

Unfortunately, his health became a concern, as it did several other times in his life, and he was advised to move west. In 1912, he went to Saskatchewan to take a position as a mathematics teacher at the Regina Collegiate Institute. It was while there, in 1915, that he enlisted in the

195th Overseas Battalion. By 1916, he had been promoted to the rank of major. October, 1917 saw him serving at Passchendaele, where he suffered many shrapnel wounds.

While recovering in hospital, he organized the Correspondence Department of the Khaki College that allowed disabled veterans the opportunity for education.

Upon his return to Saskatchewan, he petitioned Premier Martin to create an immigration office in London, England for the province with Weir himself in charge. The premier instead made Weir the school inspector for a district west of Saskatoon, where there were many non-English-speaking immigrants with whose education the premier was concerned.

Weir continued with this job that involved extensive travel for two years until doctors recommended that he find a less stressful occupation. His next venture was to purchase a quarter-section of farmland between Melfort and Prince Albert. Here, his hard work and scientific mind helped grow his farm to include purebred herds of Hereford cattle, Percheron horses, Shropshire sheep, Berkshire swine and a flock of registered Plymouth Rock poultry. Many were the prizes

that his livestock was awarded at fairs and expositions.

All of his experiences and successes led him to be singled out by delegations urging him to run for election as a representative of the Conservative Party, even though he had no political experience. In May of 1930, R.B. Bennett’s Conservative Party won the federal election and the prime minister asked Robert Weir to become the Minister of Agriculture, a post which he hesitated to take, as he had no political experience.

Once he accepted, he assumed the role of a “farmer speaking to farmers” and stated that he considered that his farm now had boundaries that extended across the whole of Canada.

This was a very difficult time for Canada, especially the prairie provinces. Not only were they feeling the effects of the Great Depression with great rates of unemployment, but also there were historic low prices for wheat. Wheat was the main product of the prairie provinces, earning them the title of the bread basket of Canada. Robert, with his background in mixed farming, at first advocated diversifying the farming practices by increasing the numbers of livestock

raised there in order that the number two grain produced could be fed to the livestock. Measures proposed by Minister Weir included importation of cattle from eastern Canada, reduction in freight rates and relief payments. He also advocated for farmers to benefit more from the Dominion Experimental Farms Services (DEFS) by learning about the latest methods, such as soil testing.

Robert Weir’s policies were heavily criticized especially by the Liberals. Coupled with such resistance was the occurrence of a severe drought in the Palliser Triangle, a huge swath of land that encompassed parts of southern Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.

The soil in these lands had historically been protected and preserved by native plants. Once these lands were cultivated year after year, there was little retention of moisture in the soil. When drought coupled with windstorms occurred in successive years, the fragile soil literally blew away.

Farmers had not heeded the advice to practise summer fallowing or to create dugouts to retain precipitation. All of these factors created a very difficult era for Robert Weir to be the Minister of Agriculture.

By April of 1935, Weir was concentrating his efforts on getting the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Act through Parliament. This plan would infuse $4.75 million into strategies to alleviate severe soil erosion and to

develop surface water resources for the southern prairies. The Dominion Experimental Farms were to be reorganized to better serve the farming community. However, in October of that year, the Conservatives were defeated in the federal election and Robert Weir lost his seat to the Liberal candidate.

James Gardiner, former Saskatchewan Premier, became the new federal Minister of Agriculture and soon after took credit for Weir’s Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Act. Robert Weir returned to his beloved “Hereford Park Farm”.

Unfortunately, his time there was short as he died in a freak accident in March of 1939 when he and his wife’s step-father were transporting a load of bags of barley by horse and sleigh. The sleigh toppled when it hit a snowdrift and Robert Weir, aged 58, was crushed under the sacks of barley. Medical help was summoned but he died of internal injuries before it arrived. Left to mourn were his wife, Dorathy, whom he had married in 1922 and their two children, Dorathy, born 1928, and Robert Bennett, born 1934.

Robert Weir was born on a farm and grew up to be a teacher.

Throughout his life, these two factors led him on a remarkable journey that never strayed too far away from these influences.

To learn more of the political career of this remarkable Huron County native, refer to the work of Gregory P. Marchildon and Carl Anderson online at https://www.researchgate.net.

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DARREN TANNER Darren Tanner of Bluevale, passed away suddenly on Friday, Oct. 14, 2022. He was 43.

Darren was the devoted partner of Rebecca Buchanan and the loving dad of Hunter and Baylee. He was the dear son of Bruce Tanner and Chris Emerson, Wiarton, the cherished brother of Bruce Tanner and Janice Langenegger, Kitchener and the uncle of Ally Tanner. Darren will be lovingly remembered by Becky’s family and by many aunts, uncles, cousins and friends.

Darren was predeceased by his daughter Gabriel Lee and mom Evelyn (Ortlieb) Tanner.

A celebration of Darren’s life will be held at the Wingham Knights of Columbus Hall on Sunday, Oct. 23 from 1-4 p.m. A private family graveside will be held at Wingham Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, donations to the Wingham and District Hospital Foundation or an Education Fund, set up to support Darren’s two daughters, would be appreciated and may be placed through McBurney Funeral Home. Please make cheques payable to Rebecca Buchanan.

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LYNN WALKER Lynn Walker of Belgrave, passed away peacefully at her home, surrounded by her loving family on Friday, Oct. 14, 2022, She was 69.

Lynn was the devoted wife of Jack Walker and loving mom of Shaun and Erin Walker, Kirkland Lake; Dean and Jen Walker, Keswick and Lauren Walker, New Hamburg. She was the cherished grandma of Kaden, Jack, Quinn, Kenna, Bryn and Erik and the dear sister and sister-in-law of Patrick Brandon, Varna, Blair and Lyndsay Brandon, Edmonton, Alberta; Rusty Brandon, Varna; Kelly Brandon, Clinton and Bill Courtney, Varna. Lynn was predeceased by her parents Ken and Elane Brandon and sister Karen Courtney.

At Lynn’s request, there will be no formal service. Arrangements have been entrusted to McBurney Funeral Home, Wingham.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations to the Alzheimer Society would be appreciated as expressions of sympathy.

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ILA MARLENE CUNNINGHAM Our dear mom, Ila Marlene Cunningham, passed away peacefully on Sunday, Oct. 16, 2022 at the age of 84.

She was a strong, independent, caring and determined woman her entire life, especially when faced with the challenges of declining health due to a degenerative neurological disease.

Ila was born on Jan. 4, 1938 to Edward and Norma Grigg in Goderich Township near Holmesville. She was the oldest of three children and will be sadly missed by her sister Dawn Staniforth and brother-in-law Peter, Almonte and her brother Bob Grigg and sister-in-law Donna, New Hamburg.

Ila met the love of her life at Clinton High School and married Thomas John Cunningham on Sept.

2, 1961. They were married 37 years when Tom died in April 1999.

Together, Ila and Tom raised five children on a farm in Hullett Township near Auburn: Linda Marlene, Debra Dawn, Roger Thomas, Julia Margaret and Leona Eileen.

Ila was always on the go with farm, community and family. She put others before herself and happily shared her time and talents.

As a mother, Ila supported her kids as they grew up and built their own lives. She mourned the loss of her son Roger when he died suddenly in March, 2014.

She will be sadly missed and lovingly remembered by Linda and Larry Plaetzer, Auburn; Debra and Rob Coates, London; Julia Cunningham, London, and Leona Cunningham, Southampton and her grandchildren Jasmine Coates (Tim), Jeff Plaetzer (Mckayla), James and Kayla Plaetzer, Alex Coates and Katherine Morrison, Janette Plaetzer (Darryl), and Spencer and Jaime Coates. Ila will also be lovingly remembered by her in-laws Christena Gross, Eunice Cunningham, Eileen and Lloyd McClinchey, as well as many nieces and nephews, friends and neighbours.

Visitation was held at Falconer Funeral Homes, Clinton, on Oct. 19. The funeral service was held at Auburn Memorial Hall on Thursday, Oct. 20. Interment was at Hope Chapel Cemetery.

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From the Minister’s Study

Think of beauty as the dessert of the meal of life

By Pastor Gary van Leeuwen Blyth Christian Reformed Church Late Tuesday morning, I was driving through the rain, but in spite of the dreary weather, I could not help but be impressed by the beauty of the autumn colours. Along with others, I think that the colours are particularly vivid this year. That may only be our perception and maybe we have forgotten the beauty of the leaves against the dark autumn sky that we saw last year.

Perhaps the colours were as beautiful as last year, but whatever the case, I am again impressed by creation’s beautiful display.

What strikes me about the beauty of creation, especially the autumn colours, is that it seems to serve no practical purpose. The aroma of a roasting turkey or the taste of bacon and eggs have the practical purpose of inviting us to eat, and eating is essential for living. Some would say that over the ages our senses have developed so that we can appreciate that which gives life (good food) and avoid that which takes life (bitter poison). Our ability to taste, see, smell, touch and hear motivates us to eat, find companionship, and see and hear danger. Most often what we experience with our senses keeps us alive.

This does not seem to be true of beauty. There is nothing that a fiery red maple tree contributes to my self-preservation. Those who have never seen the autumn colours will not die of malnutrition. Beauty appears to be one of those bonuses that serves no practical purpose. In fact, when we spend an afternoon hiking in the woods, we stop doing those things that will keep us alive, things like canning applesauce or digging up the carrots. True, our lives are made better because of beauty, but beauty is not essential for our continued existence.

What also strikes me is that we, as human beings, appreciate beauty.

I must admit that I do not know if foxes or deer pause to look at an autumn landscape just to appreciate its beauty, but I suspect that they do not. They might notice the changing colours and those changes might trigger in them the need to prepare for winter, but I am doubtful that animals appreciate beauty as we do.

Human beings, at least most of us, have an appreciation for beauty that is built into us, thus making both the beauty and the ability to appreciate it something that are extras that we do not need but are something that we yet enjoy. The

beauty of autumn serves no practical purpose, but, rather, enhances our experience of life.

Even as I sit at my desk writing this, I cannot help contrast the beauty of our autumn colours with something I once saw that was quite practical, but ugly. Several decades ago, I lived in Mexico (a beautiful country), and in the city I lived in was a group of apartment buildings built at a time when that particular area of Mexico was contemplating adopting communism. These buildings, although very practical, were hideous. It seemed to me that these drab, concrete, box-like structures had been designed by someone who cared nothing about

beauty, simply because beauty did nothing to help human beings provide themselves with the essentials of life. Since beauty does nothing to put food on the table or gas in our cars, there was no reason to try to create something that was pleasing to the eye.

Communism, as we well know, rejected the belief that there is a God who is able and willing to care for us and, thus, left us with the belief that we as human beings are obligated to care for ourselves.

Much of the communist art that I remember focused on industry and labour, ignoring the depth of beauty seen in much of the art from other parts of the world at that time. From

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Perhaps the beauty of creation, something practically unnecessary, is meant to help us realize that there Continued on page 19

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my perspective as a young person, there seemed to be very little joy to be had in a setting which had no belief in God and no assurance that he would and does care for his creation.

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News from the Gentlemen’s Club with the Kansas Farmer Special correspondent to The Citizen as curated by Paul Nichol

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A banner year The Huron County Art Show and Sale marked its 20th year on Sunday at the Huron County Museum in Goderich, showcasing art from talented creators all over the county. Huron County Librarian and Director of Cultural Services Beth Rumble was among those tapped to speak that day. (Denny Scott photo)

e had quite a vigorous debate the other night at The Gentlemen’s Club. To be fair, it was not an altogether sporting event at all, as the dozen or so Grey folks, consisting of Rick Demaray and John van Vliet, did not really stand a chance against me, a 6th Liner from Morris. The topic for the evening was: “Be it Resolved: that those born in Morris Township are far superior than the unfortunates from Grey Township.”

Now, I came out hard and fast. I said that humanity is like a vineyard: the best grapes come from the finest terroir and the same is true with people. While I was drinking the fine waters of the Maitland watershed, filtered by majestic oaks, maple and beech trees, the poor foundlings from Grey were forced to satiate their thirst from swamps and

frog ponds in the Beauchamps’ Creek. And the results are obvious.

Demaray immediately assaulted me with a weak rebuttal. He says he is an expert about politics because his family dabbles in it in an amateurish way from time to time.

(His tactic is always to talk so charmingly that most people think he is right.) “Okay,” he says, “let’s look at the remarkable people that came from Grey Township, Murray Cardiff for instance!”

I conceded that I was a staunch supporter of Murray. But everything he knew about politics, he learned from his cousin Elston, who came from the 5th of Morris. Furthermore, says I, look at Murray’s two sons.

Now Scott does the best he can puttering away on that hard-scrabble farm on the 8th, but Jeff is the wiser of the two. He saw the wisdom of

moving across the highway on to the 3rd, where he has prospered.

That was when van Vliet leaped into a state of apoplexy. He says two of the finest politicians he has ever met are Alvin McLellan and Dianne Diehl, both in the Grey Ward. Now I knew I had caught my fish.

Hmmm. And who spawned McLellan? Yep. Clem and Edna on the 6th of Morris. And Dianne? She was a Bernard. From where you ask?

The 6th of Morris.

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County Art Show and Sale returns to Goderich have taken part since the first show.

Karen Fletcher was the guest judge for the event. Fletcher hails from Waterloo where she is an artist and educator and has, since the early 1980s, exhibited her own artwork throughout Ontario and Newfoundland.

Fletcher explained that, while she found great works throughout the show, some didn’t necessarily fit the theme of “Huron County” and could have been anywhere in rural Ontario. She said she first separated the pieces into categories, and then looked at technical qualities like viewpoint and use of materials, before deciding on the winners.

She also named five honourable mentions: “Spring on the Maitland”

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by Kaaren Batten; “Memories of Huron” by Sharron Rogers; “razing landscapes #91” by Kelly Stevenson; “Hop on the Bus, Gus” by Jerry McDonnell and

Back at it The Huron County Art Show and Sale returned for its 20th iteration on Sunday at the Huron County Museum in Goderich after taking an unplanned two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Elizabeth French-Gibson, left, the museum’s senior curator, welcomed Karen Fletcher, right, as the guest judge for the event. In the end, it was Roman Turczyn and Michele Miller who were awarded. The county purchased their pieces, which are now part of the Huron County Art Bank, which places local art in county-owned buildings. (Denny Scott photo)

By Denny Scott The Citizen After a years-long hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Huron County Art Show and Sale returned to the Huron County Museum, opening on Oct. 16 and set to run until December.

As part of the grand opening, the

winners of the show were announced, with Roman Turczyn taking first place with his watercolour creation “Harvest Landscape” and Michele Miller claiming second prize with her oil painted piece, “With Wonder”.

Both pieces will be made part of the Huron County Art Bank, which provides artwork for county

Be thankful for the beauty of the earth Continued from page 17 is a God who is abundantly generous, going above and beyond what would be expected of him. If God so blesses us with beauty, then can we not also trust him to bless us with our needs? Perhaps the beauty of creation does have a practical purpose: it shows us that God’s love is far greater than we can imagine.

If he is willing to provide us with beauty and the ability to appreciate it, will he not also be able and willing to provide us with what we need?

Today, many people have forgotten God and his great love for humanity. They have rejected the teaching that God’s greatest provision is new life in Jesus Christ. While most people today in Canada are not communists, a great majority of us have the idea that unless we provide for ourselves, we will not have what we need. If someone does not believe in a gracious God, they have no other choice than to guarantee their own existence. Beauty is given to us by

God to remind us that he goes above and beyond what is necessary to give us something that is enjoyable. He provides for us.

Perhaps we can think of beauty as being the dessert for the meal (necessities of life) that he has provided for us. I am thankful for the beauty of the earth, for in it we see and understand the extent of God’s care for us.

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buildings, joining 50 other pieces of art.

The 2022 show is the 20th installment of the long-running event, according to Huron County Museum Senior Curator Elizabeth French-Gibson. The show started in 2000 with a focus on painted artwork, but was able to encompass other media like photography and fabrics, French-Gibson said.

This year’s show featured 31 pieces from as many artists, including nine artists who haven’t submitted to the show before and one artist who has been a part of all 22 years of the show, FrenchGibson said. In total, 170 artists

“Untitled” by Don MacGillivray.

The viewer’s choice award is still up for grabs, French-Gibson explained, and visitors to the show can vote for what they feel best represents Huron County.

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35430 Huron Rd., Hwy 8, Goderich Monday to Friday: 8:00am - 8:00pm Saturday: 8:00am - 6:00pm Sunday: 9:00am - 6:00pm

STARTS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2022 AT 8AM

Grand Re-Opening

LIMITED TIME OFFER!

BONUS OFFER

Thurs. Oct. 20 – Sun. Oct. 23

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for Triangle credit cardmembers

Collect

30x

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total CT Money® on your first qualifying purchase when you pay with your Triangle credit card at this store.

Valid in-store only.

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The Triangle Rewards Program is owned and operated by Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited. The Triangle® credit cards are issued by Canadian Tire Bank. Rewards are in the form of electronic Canadian Tire Money® (CT Money®). To collect bonus CT Money you must pay with a Triangle credit card. You cannot collect paper Canadian Tire Money on bonus offers. Any bonus multiplier is based on the base rate of collecting CT Money (0.4%), and will be added to whatever the Member would otherwise collect, without the bonus. Example: On a $100 (pre-tax) purchase with a 20X bonus multiplier a Member would earn a bonus $8 in CT Money (20 X 0.4% X $100). The 30X for Triangle credit card customers consists of the 10x everyday plus a 20X bonus. Not all items sold are eligible to earn CT Money or be redeemed for. Conditions apply. Visit triangle.com for full program rules and Partner location information. The offered rate is exclusive of any bonus or promotional offers or redemption transactions. CT Money is collected on the pre-tax amount of the purchase. Offer available on the first qualifying purchase at a participating Canadian Tire store during the Grand Re-Opening event. Limit one bonus per customer.

Valid in-store only. No rainchecks.