INSIDE THIS WEEK:
TRAIL - Pg. 6
SPORTS - Pg. 8
BOARD - Pg. 22
Working Committee to be formed for G2G Rail Trail
Ironmen split first games of the season
Economic Development Board begins to take shape
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Thursday, September 18, 2014
Shooting shocks Hullett By Shawn Loughlin & Denny Scott The Citizen
Out of the frying pan... While things have settled down slightly from earlier this year for the Fire Department of North Huron, they are still kept busy with regular calls throughout the community. On Friday they were called to a shed fire at the home of the Hussey family on Nature Centre Road. The building was
completely engulfed by the time firefighters arrived, but they were able to put out the fire quickly and avoid it spreading to the family’s home, just feet away from the blaze. Firefighters were busy again on Sunday night, as they were called in to assist with a serious collision on Wingham’s main street. (Shawn Loughlin photo)
At a Monday press conference, OPP Detective Inspector Chris Avery of the OPP Criminal Investigation Branch confirmed that one man was fatally shot Saturday evening in the vicinity of the Hullett Wildlife Conservation Area. Avery confirmed what sources had told The Citizen early Monday morning, that the victim was 70year-old Donato Frigo, a resident of Caledon East. Frigo and a woman were riding horses when they were approached by “an unknown male” who shot Frigo, killing him, Avery said. The female sustained minor injuries. It has been reported by numerous media outlets that the woman was Frigo’s wife Eva Willer, but Avery did not confirm that. The pair have been referred to as “royalty” in the Ontario competitive hunting dog community. “An unknown male approached the two individuals and shot the victim. The female sustained minor injuries,” Avery said, “but was able to get to a place of safety.” Police were first dispatched to the scene of the shooting shortly after 5 p.m. on Saturday. Several roads in Hullett Township were then closed Continued on page 12
Municipal ballots now set for Oct. 27 election By Shawn Loughlin The Citizen With the deadline to file nomination papers now behind us, the roster for the Oct. 27 municipal election is now set. In Huron East, Bernie MacLellan has been acclaimed to a second term as mayor, while Joe Steffler will return as deputy-mayor. Incumbent David Blaney and newcomer John Lowe have both been acclaimed in the Brussels Ward. In the Grey Ward, incumbents Alvin McLellan and Dianne Diehl will be challenged by Orval Bauer and Dennis Mueller, while in the McKillop Ward incumbent Andy Flowers is joined by Kevin Wilbee and Brenda Dalton in the race for the two McKillop positions. In Seaforth, incumbents Bob Fisher and Nathan Marshall will be challenged by newcomer Neil Tam and in Tuckersmith, Raymond Chartrand adds his name to two incumbents, Les Falconer and Larry McGrath for two Tuckersmith
councillor positions. North Huron’s ballot is a crowded one, as three men are running for the position of reeve: incumbent Neil Vincent of RR3, Wingham, alongside current Wingham Ward Councillor Bernie Bailey and Steve Hill, both of Wingham. Four candidates are running for two Blyth Ward positions: incumbent Brock Vodden and newcomer Bill Knott, both of Blyth, as well as Brad Carther of Wingham and Laurie Macpherson of RR3, Blyth. Six people have submitted their names for two East Wawanosh Ward positions, including incumbents Ray Hallahan and James Campbell. Also running are Terry Brake, Tim Walden, James Woodley and James Taylor. There are five names in the Wingham Ward election, all new: Trevor Seip, Yolanda RitsemaTenninga, Robert Harth, Brent Mills and Rod Galbraith. In Morris-Turnberry, incumbent Mayor Paul Gowing now has some
competition, as current Morris Ward Councillor Jamie McCallum is taking a run at council’s top position. Ten candidates are vying for five councillor positions in MorrisTurnberry, which will all be elected at-large. The list includes incumbents David Baker, Jamie Heffer and John Smuck, as well as newcomers Terry Brighton, Carolyn O’Neil, Brian Schlosser, Jennifer Wick and Sharen Zinn and former Morris-Turnberry Mayor Dorothy Kelly and former Deputy-Mayor Jim Nelemans. In Central Huron Jim Ginn has been acclaimed to another term as mayor, as has Deputy-Mayor Dave Jewitt. In the East Ward, seven candidates are competing for three positions: incumbents Marg Anderson, Dan Colquhoun and Alex Westerhout, as well as newcomers Morag Watt, Gary Haist, Kaushik Patel and Adam Robinson. In the West Ward, four candidates are vying for three positions: incumbents Alison Lobb and Burkhard Metzger and
newcomers Genny Smith and Patrick Nagle. In Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh, long-time Reeve Ben Van Diepenbeek will be challenged for the position this election, as Shawn Drennan has filed to run for reeve. Paul Bollinger and Wayne Forster, alongside incumbent Doug Miller will run in the Wawanosh Ward, while Bill Vanstone, Glen McNeil, Arden Eddie and Michael Leitch
will run in Colborne and incumbents Murray Curran and Roger Watt, along with newcomers Preston Drennan and Jennifer Miltenburg will run in the Ashfield Ward. Judy Cairncross was acclaimed as the ACW-area representative on the Avon Maitland District School Board. Robert Hunking has been acclaimed to another term as Continued on page 22
14/19 trip successful By Shawn Loughlin The Citizen Eight people involved with Campaign 14/19 have returned from Cross-Currents: Art and Agriculture, Powering Rural Economies in Greensboro, North Carolina with plenty of transferable ideas. Peter Smith, Project Manager for Campaign 14/19, says the event was a great opportunity for those involved with rural communities to
share ideas and learn from the successes and issues of one another. Smith says there were representatives from 26 states as Puerto Rico at the conference, as well. The 14/19 group, which consisted of Smith, Administrator Karen Stewart and six members of the Campaign 14/19 board of directors, were the only people at the conference from Canada. The focus of the conference, Continued on page 11
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Terry Fox Run continues to be about people giving A NOTE FROM BETTY By Betty Graber Watson Call 887-9231
Staying committed Wet, cold and dreary conditions couldn’t stop this year’s Terry Fox Run in Brussels, as plenty of people still made it out to participate and raise money for the Terry Fox Foundation. The run began at 10 a.m. at the Brussels Optimist Clubhouse in the north end of town and followed an altered route from previous years due to the main street construction. Seen here making the trip are, clockwise from top left: Amy Burkholder, Bob Thomas, two-year-old Emily (Vicky Burkholder and four-year-old Sophia Burkholder. Bremner photo)
Autumn has arrived, the air is clearer, the trees are turning and the harvest is coming in. As we move through these days, it’s so easy to see the plenty that is ours in this region. The west may be dubbed “the bread basket of Canada” but we are definitely in the running for grocery pantry. The wide variety of nourishment we offer the world is outstanding. At this time of year, we need to stop and think about the variety of beans and grains that we grow. Meat, eggs and apples are a given and cheese, garlic and many other items are quite familiar. Oh yes we live in a land of plenty and in this season we need to think of that great blessing. Bright green tutus at the ball park on the weekend, made cause for pause, oh yes, the ladies were having their final games of this season, with the added fun of costumes to play in, no matter the weather. Anyway the attire was great. It was a momentous night in Goderich on Saturday as Jr. C hockey returned. Members of a team from the late 1940s did the ceremonial puck drop, to give the
At the Branch
Cadets reviewed, given awards By Jo-Ann McDonald The early bird program is going strong and we are happy with the response. The draw for September will be at the end of the month, so drop in today and pay your 2015 dues. Comrade President Jo-Ann McDonald attended the Zone Fall Convention in Exeter on Sunday afternoon. Comrades attending from our Branch also included Comrade Eric Ross as Deputy Zone Commander and Comrade Glenn Bridge as a past District Commander and Chairman. A reminder learned at convention
was the One by One program. Comrades bringing a new person in to join the Branch will have their name put into a draw for a southern vacation. The draw is sponsored by Dominion Command for all Legions across Canada. Last year’s winner was from Ontario. It is Legion week across Ontario, from Sept. 14-20 inclusive. Many Branches across our area are hosting special events to promote the Legion. The Brussels Legion will have an information booth at the fall fair with applications to join the Legion available. We will also be having a fish fry on Saturday, Sept.
20. Applications again will be available, our scrapbooks from over the past years to view and early bird membership will be accepted. Drop in and visit!
WI thanked by Noble The September meeting of the Majestic Women’s Institute was held in the community room at the Brussels Public Library. The meeting opened with the singing of the Institute Ode and repeating the Mary Stewart Collect. President Ruth Bauer presided over the meeting.
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FIRST INSTALLMENT OF FINAL TAXES Property owners are reminded that the due date for the first installment of final property taxes is September 30, 2014. P. Michiels Treasurer-Finance Manager
The minutes of the last meeting were read by secretary Leona Armstrong and the treasurer’s report was given by Marie McCutcheon. Thank you notes were read from Nicole Noble, ambassador program co-ordinator and Kristen Pipe, who Majestic sponsored in the fair Continued on page 10
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new kids, the Goderich Flyers, a push of support. Nathan Watson, Luke McCutcheon and Nic Gowing are part of this new team in the history of hockey in Goderich. Doors Open was well attended on the weekend, as many interesting buildings were open to the public throughout Huron County. McNeil’s - The Old Shop, the Willis-Perrier Residence, Brussels Library, Cinnamon Jim’s Café and Upper Deck and Canadian Breed Custom Electrics were the buildings on display here. Visitors from Port Franks, Toronto, Chesley and lots from Huron County admired the details that were part of each spot. Doors Open has been happening across Ontario for years and is a good chance to see inside the interesting places in community. As usual after the fact, people were heard muttering that they didn’t know anything about it, much to the dismay of the planners and those involved, who advertised, submitted details to local papers, gave interviews and tried to make it known. So good job to all. The Terry Fox Run is now history, part of over 30 years of history, when a young man, 21, inspired a nation when he set out to cross Canada to raise money for cancer research. After 5,400 kilometres on one good leg, his determination and courage continues to inspire us. So now years later, people of every age group walk, run or bike on a Sunday in September to continue what Terry Fox started, an offer of hope. The money raised continues to fund
cancer research. This is one charity that has stayed with the purpose; ordinary people offering what they can. So all around the world people like Ron and Trish Clarkson looked after the details so folks could come and continue what Terry started. Good job all. By now, Betty G.W.
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Greenway remembrance, dedication set for Sept. 21 The 12th Annual Remembrance and Dedication Service will be held at the Blyth Greenway Memory Garden, Drummond Street East in Blyth on Sunday, Sept. 21 at 2 p.m. The Memorial/Celebration Gardens have been in existence since 2001. At that time, Blyth was competing in the Communities in Bloom program. The judges were interested in seeing new projects. The land, which was mainly scrub at the time, was turned into flower beds, trees were planted, perennials
were put in and the land was rejuvenated into the beautiful gardens that are there today. This garden is in memory of local people/descendants who have passed away, special anniversaries, etc. Or may purchase an engraved leaf or a bench in memory of a loved one. With these donations, the gardens are maintained. The service is held each year to help people deal with their loss, and to remind them that memories live on. The garden provides a way for
people to be closer to nature, to reflect upon and enjoy the beautiful scenery of the Blyth Greenway. The Foundation will create, cultivate and enhance all aspects of conservation, helping to provide present and future generations with a safe and healthy environment. As the Memory Garden survives totally on donations, donation cards are available at Falconer Funeral Homes in Clinton and Blyth, or by contacting Bev Elliott at 519-523-
4323 for more information. All donations are greatly appreciated and are tax deductible. Please come and join us. We would like to tell you what we have been doing and also what new projects are transpiring. To find the Blyth Greenway Memory Gardens, turn east on Drummond Street at Scrimgeour’s Food Market and travel to the end of the street. Please bring a lawn chair to the service. Refreshments will be
served. Everyone is welcome.
See histories and historic photographs on the Huron History section of our website www.northhuron.on.ca
Swinging Seniors meetings start Sept. 24 From Marilyn’s Desk By Marilyn Craig Call 523-9318
Happy anniversary to Linda and Irvin Pease who celebrate Sept. 18. Happy birthday to Larry Badley who celebrates Sept. 20; Bryce Wheeler and Kelly MacDonald, Sept. 21 and Hunter MacDonald, Sept. 22. Blyth Swinging Seniors are starting up their meetings for the fall and winter season. The first meeting is on Wednesday, Sept. 24 with a potluck lunch at noon. Come out and
enjoy the entertainment and fun. Toonie Tuesday is back for the season. Come out and enjoy a lunch of meatloaf, mashed potatoes, salad and dessert on Tuesday, Sept. 23 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Blyth United Church is hosting a soup, bun and movie night on Friday, Sept. 26 at 6 p.m. for supper with homemade soup, buns and dessert and the movie starts at 6:45 p.m. Free will offering.
Come out and enjoy the movie and the fellowship. This movie is open to everyone in Blyth and surrounding area. Community Kitchen is beginning the morning of Sept. 19 at Blyth United Church. This is a learning project on how to cook for your family the healthy way and is open to everyone. Come out and enjoy the food.
Sunday school to study Bible super heroes Greeting worshippers at Blyth United Church on Sunday, Sept. 14 was Marilyn Craig. Ushering were Nancy Hakkers, Brenda Brooks, Andrew Wharton and Rob Mason. Floyd Herman was music director and Lavern Clark was running the power point. Lori Brooks was the lay reader and welcomed everyone to church and also welcomed back the Sunday school children and their teachers. She drew everyone’s attention to the announcements printed in the bulletin and scrolling on the power point. The call to worship was repeated responsively followed by the singing of the centring music “Open Our Hearts.” Tanner Brooks lit the Christ Candle on the altar table. The prayer of approach was repeated responsively followed by the singing of the song “Jesus Laughed Out Loud.” The heritage hymn “What a Friend We Have in Jesus” was sung. Rev. Gary Clark interacted the scripture from Mark 10:13-27 with the help of the Sunday school children, their parents, Andrew Wharton, Rob Mason, Floyd Herman as disciples and Larry Badley as Jesus. They demonstrated how the parents brought their children to see Jesus and the disciples turned them away and Jesus stepped forward and called the children to Him and blessed them. After saying a prayer along with the congregation, the children went downstairs for their time of fellowship. Rev. Clark’s message to the congregation was “Sunday school Super Heroes and You.” The Sunday school this year will be studying super heroes of the Bible. Jesus did many things like walking on water and things that we are unable to do. We often can’t explain in words the feelings that we get when we see the sunset or sunrise over a body of water, there are no words to explain it. Sunday school is a safe place for our children and a place to share their troubles. We watched a short video of an English teacher who had many different kids and how she helped them express their feelings and made it a safe place for them to tell their story. The teacher created a safe place for them and changed their lives. Jesus blessed the children by touching them. Judge Deborah sat at the crossroads and helped the
Israelites make decisions. Deborah helped the Israelites by calling on Barak to lead them to fight against the Kenites and their chariots and with God’s help they destroyed them. Our hands tell a story, some of the hard work that people do, of the soft and gentle way they are used. When Jesus blessed the children by touching them and telling them that He would be with them through the good and the bad. Super heroes are people who have faith in God and faith in themselves and others. It is how we feel about life that gives us
the chance to change our ways. We have to work and show that the church is a safe place and we do this by showing and acting out our faith. Floyd Herman gave a short history of the anthem “Take Time to be Holy” that the choir sang. The offering was received followed the offertory response “What Can I Do?” and the prayer of dedication, the prayers for the people, silent prayers and the singing of The Lord’s Prayer. The last hymn was “Make Me a Channel of Your Peace” was followed by the extinguishing of the Christ candle and the singing of
the blessing “Go Forth in Your name O’ Christ” and the Three Fold Amen. Everyone was invited for coffee and fellowship and to join the Sunday school for ice cream sundaes in the auditorium.
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Wednesday, October 1, 2014
Looking at the shortness of life, and the much that has to be written upon life’s tablets--it befits us also to do much in a short space, and so to write closely. “No day without a line!” is a good motto for a Christian. A thoroughly useful life is very short, for it is but a span--but how much may be crowded into it for God, our souls, the Church, our families, and our fellows! We cannot afford wide blanks of idleness. We should not only live by the day, but by the 20 minutes, as Wesley did. He divided each hour into three parts. So scanty is our life’s space, that we must condense and leave out superfluous matter--giving room only to that which is weighty and of the first importance. Lord, whether I live long or not, I leave to your discretion. But help me to live while I live that I may live profitably. You can give life more abundantly. Let me receive it, and let my life be filled, packed and crammed, with holy thoughts and words and deeds to Your glory! “But this I say, brethren, the time is short!” 1 Corinthians 7:20 A Grace Gem Submitted by: Immanuel United Reformed Church, Listowel, ON 519-291-1956
at the Blyth Christian Reformed Church 10:00 to 11:30 a.m. Opening Program: Speaker Heather VanDorp followed by a “Thirty-one” demonstration. Regular Bible Study begins Wednesday, October 8 All ages welcome...babysitting available
Can’t make it to our morning coffee break? Join us for evening Coffee Break beginning Wednesday, September 24 ~ 7:30 p.m. upstairs at the Christian Reformed Church
A great opportunity to share questions and concerns, while enjoying friendship and refreshments. No previous Bible knowledge necessary.
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Editorials & Opinions
Publisher: Keith Roulston Acting Editor: Shawn Loughlin • Reporter: Denny Scott Advertising Sales: Lori Patterson & Amanda Bergsma
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Exporting a precious resource A study released at Huron County Council last week confirms what most people in the county already know: we’re shipping out our most precious resource – the minds of tomorrow – at an unstainable rate. The joint study by the Huron-Perth United Way and the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food showed that between 2006 and 2012 the county had a net loss of 1,330 people between the ages of 18 and 24, and 1,016 more between 25 and 44. If there’s any surprise it might be that the number isn’t even higher, given the percentage of graduates from high school who go off to further their education, never to return. It’s a debilitating loss to the county. One of our largest public expenses is educating the bright young minds we produce. If the local economy was working in a healthy way, we’d be putting that young energy and creativity to work to build Huron County and help pay for the next generation’s education. Instead we have fewer and fewer working people to pay to educate another generation of students who will be exported to help other areas of the province grow. Certainly part of the problem is that there aren’t enough of the kinds of jobs in Huron County that people need when they have graduated from university or community college, but part of the problem can also be laid at the feet of our school system. At a recent meeting examining the need to help local businesses expand, one of the complaints from business owners was that they can’t find young people trained to do the kind of work they need. The high school system has de-emphasized technical training, where we have available jobs, in favour of preparing students for university which means they’ll likely never find a job back in Huron County. As was made abundantly clear with the closure of local schools, education officials don’t see economic development as part of their responsibility. Their job, they said, is to educate young people. But if there are jobs that go unfilled while we send more students off to university to become teachers, for instance, when there are no jobs for teachers, then the system is failing our young people – and the taxpayers who pay the bills. – KR
Sharing the pain Canadians have been having flashbacks to their own near past as they have watched Scotland approach Thursday’s referendum on whether or not to separate from the United Kingdom. Much like the 1995 referendum in which the Quebec government sought a mandate to separate from Canada, early on the “no” side was far enough ahead in public opinion polls that those who wanted Britain to remain united relaxed. Suddenly polls showed those seeking independence were slightly ahead and the rest of Britain panicked, just as we did when the separatists surged ahead in 1995. As we did then, Britons rushed to assure Scots that they were loved and needed. Again, as in Quebec, Scottish nationalists are complaining about unfair tactics and “interference” by the British government. In Quebec’s case, separatists still bitterly contest that the massive pro-Canada demonstration in Montreal broke the rules of the referendum. The separatists, whether in Scotland or Quebec, feel the right to decide whether or not to separate is theirs alone. To a point they are right, just as it’s the right of one spouse in a marriage to decide to leave. But while that spouse – or separating part of a country – may have the sole right to leave, the ramifications affect a lot of people, whether it’s the other spouse and family of the person ending a marriage, or the people who are left behind when part of a country votes to separate. Everyone in Britain will be affected if Scotland votes to separate. Those who make the separation seem easy are dishonest, just as the Quebec separatists were (and are), because they are unleashing a process they will not control. Scots nationalists want to keep the British pound, just as Quebec wanted to keep the Canadian dollar. Who says the jilted nation wants to make it that easy? Yes, the Scots or Quebecers, ultimately have the right to decide to stay or leave, but many people who have no vote at least have the right to be heard before the decision is made. – KR
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Looking Back Through the Years September 17, 1975 Gary Hull of Blyth was named the winner of Blyth Village Council’s contest to design a new crest for the village. Hull was presented with $50 for his efforts. Mrs. Dan McInnes of Blyth came in second in the contest. The preliminary designs, both of which were featured on the front page of The Blyth Standard, were then going to be passed off to a professional designer who would incorporate the best aspects of both logos into the final crest. Nearly 34,000 voters were destined for the polls on Sept. 18 to elect a member of provincial parliament in Huron-Bruce. Incumbent Murray Gaunt would once again be representing the Liberal Party. He would be challenged by William Walden of the Progressive Conservatives and Dr. Donald Milne of the New Democratic Party. Many observers felt that Gaunt would have no problem retaining the riding for another term after winning over a majority of voters in the previous election. East Wawanosh taxpayers learned that they would be facing a second tax increase in the same year, after they were hit with an increase of 12 mills earlier in the year. Due to unforseen expenses in the Huron County road budget, East Wawanosh Council was forced to bring in an amendment to its budget. September 16, 1992 Leonard Lobb of Clinton defeated 29-year-old Phil Cornish, also from Clinton, for the right to represent the Reform Party in the riding of HuronBruce. The decision was made at the party’s nomination meeting held at Central Huron Secondary School on
Sept. 9, making the Huron-Bruce Reform Party the first in Ontario to name its candidate for the upcoming election. Lobb said that his first priority, should he be elected, would be to curb spending in the country. “Canada desperately needs fiscal restraints,” Lobb said after being nominated by his party. “We must learn to function within the means of our present generation.” Lobb also pledged to cut salaries for members of parliament by 10 per cent. Weather observer Boyd Taylor of RR3, Walton said that the rainfall in August of 1992 more than doubled the average amount of rainfall experienced by the area in recent years. Taylor told The Citizen that in August of 1992, he had measured 157 millimetres of rain, while in the five previous Augusts the average amount of rainfall had been 72.6 millimetres. The rain and cold was having dire consequences, Taylor said, as crops such as corn, soy beans and white beans were experiencing 600 fewer heat units than the previous year. Police were busy investigating a theft at the liquor store in Brussels. The incident occurred shortly after midnight on Sept. 13 when suspects broke a north side window of the store with a metal fence post. Two cases of Molson Canadian beer were then removed from a centre display within the store. The Huron Pioneer Thresher and Hobby Association declared its annual reunion a success once again as Blyth played host to over 12,000 visitors. Ray Hallahan, president of the association, said that the event was a “great success”.
September 17, 2003 Representatives of the Avon Maitland District School Board were hoping to secure nearly $700,000 in funding from the recently-announced Rural Education Strategy. Brussels Public School was named recipient of the 2003 Outstanding Achievement Award for Volunteerism. A group of students and staff from the school were in Owen Sound on Sept. 11 for the presentation ceremony. The school earned the award, which was presented by the Ontario Ministry of Citizenship, for the creation of its Dining for Seniors program, which was sponsored by Town and Country and held at the Brussels United Church. Donations raised at the Brussels Terry Fox Run topped $9,400, which was much higher than the $4,500 raised the previous year. Stewart Cardiff, the son of Jack and Audrey Cardiff of RR5, Brussels was profiled in the national media for his involvement with Shepherd Gourmet Dairy, which was just outside of Tavistock. Cardiff of St. Marys was attempted to make sheep cheese a household word. As president of the company, Cardiff said that the health benefits of the cheese were what was attracted all of the media attention. “They are easily-digested, rich in vitamins and minerals and high in calcium,” Cardiff said in an interview with The Citizen. Bev Blair and Thelma Johnston were honoured with plaques naming them Citizens of the Year for the Blyth community. Kathy Bridge won the same honour in the Brussels community, receiving a plaque for all of her hard work.
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Other Views Use your head, read a book
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ant to get in on the very latest nightlife trend? Here’s what to do: first find a good book, preferably a thick one, and then wait for my call. One evening soon you will receive instructions to take your book and proceed to a wellappointed club room well off the main drag. When you arrive you will be directed to an easy chair with good lighting. Don’t look for waiters. There is no food or beverage service. There is no talking. Most especially there is no access to social media. For the next three hours you and the people around you will not text; neither will you tweet, check your e-mail or play Angry Birds. You will simply read your books. After three hours the embargo is lifted. Participants are free to interact the oldfashioned way – eye contact, smiles, a hand on the forearm, words coming out of the mouth – that sort of thing. These silent reading parties are springing up all over. According to a report in The New Yorker magazine, attendees appreciate being urged to get out of their homes to read, and they are grateful for the peer pressure that keeps them from covertly peeking at their iPhones and Androids. It’s not easy. Of all the fallout from new
Arthur Black social media, one of the least examined is attention fragmentation. More and more we seem to fear being alone – even for seconds. Does this explain the suicidal insanity of texting while driving? The comedian Louis C.K. thinks so. “Sometimes when things clear away and you’re not watching anything and you’re in your car and you start going, oh no, here it comes...it starts to visit on you, just this sadness. That’s why we text and drive. People are willing to risk taking a life and ruining their own. They don’t want to be alone for a second because it’s so hard.” Louis is right. A team at the University of Virginia recently conducted an experiment on 700 people. The concept was simple: put individuals in a room by themselves with no access to tablets, cellphones or computers. Leave them with
only their brains for company. After a while bring them out and ask them how they feel. Bad, it turns out. Very, very bad. A majority said they found it ‘very unpleasant’ to be alone with their thoughts even for 15 minutes. In one experiment, 64 per cent of men and 15 per cent of women began administering electric shocks to themselves, (an option they’d been given, even though no one asked for it). Turned out a majority preferred physical pain to, you know, thinking. It didn’t matter if the experiments were conducted in the sterile confines of a laboratory or in the comfort of the participants’ homes. It didn’t help if the subjects were given topics to ‘think about’ such as summer vacations, sports events or what they looked for in a partner. Timothy Wilson, the psychology professor who ran the experiments concluded: “they just didn’t like being in their own heads”. My mom, bless her, used to admonish her kids to ‘use your brains’. “Your brain is a muscle” she’d say. “If you don’t use it, it shrivels away.” Mom’s grasp of human physiology was sketchy, but she had a point.
Information: a double-edged blade
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urrent events made for a busy weekend for the editorial department of The Citizen, as would be expected. When something as ground-breaking as a fatal shooting happens not just in Huron County, but in the area The Citizen covers, it’s kind of an ‘all-hands-on-deck’ situation. Meetings are held, sources checked and a fairly wide field is thrown to gather information. The problem with being a reporter in the modern, digital age, however, is that when it comes to collecting information, we’re less like treasure hunters seeking that one piece of true wisdom and more akin to gold panners. We gather information, or gravel, from all sorts of sources and try to agitate the truth out of it. Unfortunately, we can often run into a lot of problems or end up with fool’s gold. Over the weekend we heard rumours that ranged from the shooting in Hullett Marsh being linked to drugs to hunting accidents and, as of press time, none of those have proven to be true. In years past, those kinds of rumours may have floated around a coffee shop or been passed about after church on Sunday morning and then slowly filtered out to the community where they could be debunked. However, with the advent of social networking, suddenly these theories-turned-rumours are quickly being treated as fact. Even the best leads we found were still a friend-of-a-family-member or a friend-of-afriend saying that they knew who was involved, which could be a tenuous link at best. While I appreciate everyone who was willing to chat with us and give us information about what the weekend meant to them, I unfortunately have to wag a finger at everyone who carelessly throws around misinformation through Twitter, Facebook or other means. People took things that people said, maybe in jest or speculation, and posted them to websites, or texted them to people or called and spread the word and, before anyone knew what was going on, suddenly a fire alarm in Clinton had been misinterpreted due to misinformation as a call to have residents not leave their homes. Ontario Provincial Police are saying they
Denny Scott Denny’s Den had never advised anyone of a lockdown in Clinton and, through The Citizen’s own research, the only people who were ever actually told to go to their homes and lock their doors were people within the immediate proximity of the crime. However, that misinformation was given to other media outlets which then printed it as fact and likely lead to people in Clinton being far more fearful than they needed to be. I’m not throwing stones at those other media outlets. The simple fact is they spoke to someone who said they heard a siren and equated that with a lockdown and that misinformation spread from there. In an age where any tidbit of information can be latched on to and shared, literally, with the click of a button to hundreds of online “friends”, who can each share with their hundreds of online “friends”, and so on and so forth, the onus is on each of us to be aware of the legitimacy of what we’re sharing. I’ve pointed out, time and time again, that my friends are sharing news items that are completely false or several years old only to be met with, “Wow, I guess you’re right. I’ll try to be more aware of that.” Unfortunately, it’s usually a month or two later that the situation is repeating itself. I guess that, re-reading what I’ve written so far, it could sound like I’m demonizing the information age for the unprecedented speed at which it offers information up to those looking for it. That’s not the case. Whether it’s the internet in general, social media sites, the oft-unseen underbelly of the internet or any other mass communication means, people have to be careful about the information they propagate. Heck, it doesn’t even have to be through the internet. We could go back in time and visit the commonly used mechanic of the baby monitor that picks up the wireless telephone signal
from next-door neighbour, or back to party lines and the privacy they didn’t provide or even further back and consider what kind of misinformation could be taken from mistranslated morse code or even smoke signals. The medium doesn’t matter, what matters is how we deal with information that we come by. An oft-cited idea I like to bring up in many of the discussions I have revolving around the freedom of information and its distribution is the fact that laws and ethics don’t keep up with the communication media we have. In the past laws have been established to make sure that our communicative abilities aren’t misused. From robo-dialers to yelling “fire”, in a crowded theatre, rules (and hopefully the desire to follow the ethics behind those rules) are what keep people from being swayed en masse by misinformation being spread. It’s on each of us to consider the facts before we think to spread information through any of the avenues available to us. Sure, it may seem like a smart thing to do to pass on the warning of fire in a crowded theatre, but look at the facts first. Is there smoke? Is there the tell-tale crackling of wood and fabric burning? If the answer is no, maybe you shouldn’t shout about the fire. I’m not saying don’t heed the warning, but don’t add to the din by getting caught up in the yelling yourself. While the chaos caused by yelling an unnecessary warning in a crowded theatre is more dangerous that claiming a siren was a call for a lockdown, I still think that there needs to be some blame laid somewhere for the misinformation being spread. People locked themselves in their homes for more than a full day because someone misunderstood something and that misunderstanding spread like wildfire. We all need to be a little more skeptical with the information presented to us through lessthan-official means. I’m not suggesting we all don the guise of ‘Doubting Thomas’, but we do all need to look at information with a critical eye. If one person had contacted the authorities, then maybe, just maybe, the situation of their houses could have been prevented.
Shawn Loughlin Shawn’s Sense
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eing kept at arm’s length is a frustrating place to be. It’s the old saying of being on a need-to-know basis and being told that you don’t need to know. Local residents had that feeling over the weekend and into early this week with the tragic events near the Hullett Wildlife Conservation Area, south of Londesborough, where a man was shot and killed. The first official word spoken by the Huron County OPP came late Sunday afternoon, nearly 24 hours after the OPP were dispatched to a shooting incident near the conservation area. The press release told us that one man had been fatally shot and that police were continuing to investigate the situation. It didn’t include the man’s name, his age or anything about him. More importantly, it did nothing to inform members of the public as to whether or not they were safe in Huron County, since, presumably because we haven’t been told otherwise, the suspect is still at large. Plenty of media websites and radio stations were already filing unconfirmed reports of a shooting with two victims, one deceased and one not, so when the press release made its way into the hands of members of the media, it was far from groundbreaking. Reporter Denny Scott and I remained in constant communication on Sunday, both glued to police scanners all day, waiting to hear of any new developments. Listening to the police scanner, you hear a lot of things you don’t want to hear, or that you feel like you shouldn’t be hearing. Certainly, there is an aspect of that voyeurism to wanting to hear details about Saturday’s incident; hearing something about a situation that has nothing to do with you. But the more I thought about it, the more I felt that this time it’s different and that I was wrong. I am always one to support the police officers. My father was a Toronto police officer, as were several uncles. I would never think it right for them to placate the public by releasing information that would jeopardize an ongoing investigation; especially one as important as the murder investigation unfolding in Huron County right now. However, there are certain items of information that I feel could be made available to some members of the public and there are certain questions that can be answered. This week both Denny and I have talked to residents who live within kilometres of the Hullett Wildlife Conservation Area who were told by officers to get in their houses and lock their doors. Good advice, but as of Tuesday, they have not been instructed to do otherwise. Police have not answered a single question pertaining to a suspect or suspects. Again, I understand that being too specific about a suspect could jeopardize an investigation, but people in the general vicinity of the crime scene should know whether it’s safe to be outside or not. They are owed that much. For OPP representatives to say that public safety is the OPP’s top priority is certainly comforting, but it’s a general statement. People close to the incident should know if they’re safe in their homes or not and they should be told that directly, for better or worse. People should know if this was a targeted shooting or if a gun-toting mad man is on the loose, hunting down anyone he sees. If they’re safe, they need to know, and if they’re not, they need to know how to do their part to keep safe. You would assume that if residents were in danger, the OPP would tell them, but without being told one way or another, imaginations are running wild.
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Working committee to be struck for Rail Trail By Shawn Loughlin The Citizen Huron County Council has authorized the creation of a Guelphto-Goderich Rail Trail Working Committee to address many of the concerns in the community and help the project progress to the next stages. Project Manager Rebecca Rathwell and Tourism Co-ordinator Cindy Fisher presented the report to Huron County Council at its Sept. 10 committee of the whole meeting, which was part of an update, requested by council on the progress of the proposed trail. In recent months, the lines of communication have been opened and information is flowing freely, said Director of Planning and Development Scott Tousaw. He told council there was a lot of misinformation in the community regarding the trail, which has been the source of many of the complaints.
Several weeks ago, Tousaw met with representatives from the Huron County Federation of Agriculture, including Margaret Vincent, the Ontario Federation of Agriculture member service representative for Huron and Perth Counties. He said that once the two parties were in the same room, he found that many of the concerns that had been circulating were much easier to discuss. Tousaw said that one of the major problems was that some media outlets were reporting that the trail was a “done deal” several months ago, when that couldn’t be further from the truth. In recent months, he said, those involved with the trail have been conducting research and that’s really where proponents of the trail stand now. He was very clear with council saying that nothing has been decided and nothing has been finalized as of yet. At that meeting with the federation, the concept of a working
committee was discussed and, Tousaw said, federation representatives were receptive to the idea. In addition to the working committee, Tousaw also suggested that funding be set aside in next year’s budget for a temporary staff position; someone who will assist the committee, which aims to work through any identified issues, develop a stewardship model, develop a cost and phasing plan and report back to council. Part of the committee’s job going forward will be to hold another public open house, like the one held late last year, in Blyth once again to further inform the public about the proposed trail and where in the process organizers are at the time. Huron East Mayor Bernie MacLellan said that he thought the formation of a committee was a good idea. He said that while he didn’t agree with many of the issues raised by federation members earlier this year, he did agree that area
Study focuses on migration By Shawn Loughlin The Citizen A joint study being conducted by the Huron-Perth United Way, the four-county labour market planning board and the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food (OMAF) confirms what many in Huron County already know regarding migration. Young people are leaving the area, reported Daryl Ball of OMAF at Huron County Council’s Sept. 10 committee of the whole meeting, and the numbers are staggering. From 2006 to 2012, the biggest
loss in age range was from people in the age range of 18 to 24, which totalled a loss of 1,330 people. The second biggest loss in that same time period was from people aged 25 to 44, which saw 1,016 people leave the area. The biggest gain in population, he said, was in the age range of 45 to 64, which saw 664 move to Huron County from 2006 to 2012. Ball said the county lost a total of 952 people from 2006 to 2011 and a total of 962 people in 2012 alone. Ball told councillors that the statistics show that Huron County is attraction older residents from
neighbouring counties, such as Middlesex, Perth, Bruce, Lambton and Waterloo, but that Huron is also losing some of its young people to these same neighbouring counties. The purpose of the study, and the over-arching Newcomer Outreach and Needs Assessment Project, Ball explained, is to establish an initial point of contact and referral hub for government and community services and resources. Ball said that the hope is that such a hub would minimize the unique barriers that newcomers to a rural area may face.
farmers, as well as adjacent landowners, should be kept informed on all goings on pertaining to the proposed trail. Central Huron Mayor Jim Ginn said he is in support of the trail and suggested that documentation be provided featuring statistics on trailrelated crime be provided to concerned adjacent landowners. Ginn said that he estimated that incident numbers would be relatively low, but to be able to prove that, in writing, to adjacent landowners would probably go a long way. Fisher said that through her involvement with the Maitland Trail Association, there have been very few incidents and of the incidents that have occurred, none have required police intervention. Ginn acknowledged that there are issues of legitimate concern, such as ATV use, trespassing and the potential marijuana grow plots along the trail, but the reality of the
frequency of such situations being low should hopefully provide some comfort to those concerned with the potential trail. Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh Reeve Ben Van Diepenbeek said that he wouldn’t join councillors in their negativity towards ATVs, saying that industry has been a boon for Bruce County and should be considered in Huron County. He said that while the entire proposed trail couldn’t likely incorporate them, certain portions should be considered for ATV access. Bluewater’s Tyler Hessel disagreed, re-stating his earlier position, saying that ATV riders need to assemble and self-police one another, similar to snowmobiliers. He said that if the riders were to organize and start an association, riders would be licensed and the numbers of ATV incidents would go down. “That’s when you get bad apples, Continued on page 7
NOTICE OF VOTE for the Municipality of Morris –Turnberry
2014 ELECTION On October 27, 2014 Municipal Elections will be held in the Municipality of Morris-Turnberry by ‘VOTE BY MAIL’ Offices for which the vote is to be held: • Mayor One (1) to be elected • Councillor Five (5) to be elected • English Public District School Board - One (1) to be elected • French Language Public District School Board - One (1) to be elected WHO MAY VOTE? Any person who on Voting Day meets the following qualifications is eligible to vote: 1. Is a Canadian citizen. 2. Is at least 18 years old on Voting Day. 3. Resides in the municipality or is the owner, tenant, or spouse, or same sex partner of the owner or tenant of land. 4. Any person not prohibited by law from voting. VOTE BY MAIL For the 2014 Election the ‘Vote by Mail’ method will be used: • There will be no election polls or Proxy Voting • Your Ballot will be mailed to you If you do not receive a ballot, you can apply for one at the Municipal Office • Ballots should be mailed to the Municipal Office by October 17, 2014 to ensure delivery to the Municipal office by October 27, 2014, however if you are unable to do so… • There will be a drop off location for ballots at the Municipality of Morris-Turnberry Municipal Office- 41342 Morris Road commencing October 1, 2014 during regular office hours until October 27, 2014 at 8 pm; • Drop Boxes at Nursing and Retirement Homes – Election Day – October 27, 2014 2pm – 4pm A Voting Kit will be mailed directly to each person who meets the above qualifications as an elector in the Municipality of Morris-Turnberry on or about OCTOBER 1, 2014 If you are an eligible voter and do not receive a Voter’s Kit, you can apply for one at the Municipal Office. A Voting Kit consists of the following: a) A “postage paid” return envelope.** b) A declaration form with the name, roll # and qualifying address of the individual to whom the ballot is assigned. c) A secrecy envelope. d) A ballot e) Instructions to electors.
Building It was time to team-build at North Woods Elementary School on Friday afternoon, as students were organized by their teams, all named for colours, and they participated in activities meant to teach them to work together and get to know one another. Here, from left, Ethan Barrett, Austin McLellan, McKenna Cochrane and Cailyn Johnston work together to walk forward as a team. (Shawn Loughlin photo)
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Belgrave’s Knox church celebrates 150th anniversary
Colour your world Knox United Church in Belgrave celebrated its 150th anniversary over the weekend with a dinner on Saturday night and a special service on Sunday morning. Here, Melissa Snyders used a box of crayons to facilitate the lesson of the day. (Vicky Bremner photo)
PEOPLE AROUND BELGRAVE By Linda Campbell Call 357-2188
Versteeg feels trail proponents should foot staffing bill Continued from page 6 when riders are unlicensed,” Hessel said. “When there’s no licensing system, you can’t identify them.” Howick’s Art Versteeg was concerned about the potential hiring of a staff member, even a temporary one. “I think the trail advocates should pay. I don’t want [the trail] to becoming dependant on county dollars,” he said. Versteeg also said that Huron County should be working in conjunction with Perth County to ensure that they are on the same page when it comes to the proposed trail. He said there’s no point to getting ahead of the neighbouring county and ending up with a trail that ends just east of Walton. Council approved the report of Rathwell, Fisher and Tousaw.
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Jim and Betty Ross greeted worshippers and handed out the bulletins on the 150th anniversary of Knox United Church on Sunday, Sept. 14. Gord Folkard thanked everyone for all their time and work that had been done preparing for this special anniversary. The children’s chimes choir entertained led by Anne Clark. Ken Procter welcomed the capacity congregation and introduced Melissa
Snyders and Bruce Whitmore the worship leaders. The call to worship was read responsively and the opening prayer said in unison. The opening hymn was, “Come in, come in and sit down” accompanied by Anne Clark on the organ, Elizabeth Procter at the piano and Lila Procter with her guitar. After the prayer of confession read in unison and The Lord’s Prayer, “One more Step Along the World”
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was sung. The children gathered in the front pew for a time with the children. Melissa asked the children what supplies they needed for back to school. She had a box of crayons and colouring book which she displayed. We can make a colourful picture to tell a story. The church family is like a box of crayons. We are all different and have different talents. It takes a lot of crayons to keep a church going. If we don’t have our church families to do things it is a blank canvas. The church wouldn’t exist without all our talents. We have a broad spectrum of people in our congregation just as every single crayon in the box is important. We need to think of how our talents would contribute to the longevity of the church without blending our faith and our talents, we are just a colour. After the senior choir sang a few selections the children adjourned to Sunday school. Some of the previous ministers were also in attendance. Bruce’s scripture readings were from Proverbs 17: 22 and Corinthians 13: 1-2. His message was entitled, “watchwords for the Journey”. He talked about the church’s history and his involvement with the over 70 churches he had preached in. Every church needs friendship, love, laughter, music and faith in order to survive. Take time to live, love and laugh and leave this anniversary celebration with hope. Doug Walker and Gord Folkard took up the offering. The offering hymn
was sung and the prayer of dedication was read in unison. The closing hymn “I’ve Got Peace Like a River” and “Go Now In Peace” concluded the morning worship service. Everyone adjourned to the basement for lunch and a time of fellowship. Muriel Coultes has returned home after being a patient in Grand River Hospital in Kitchener undergoing knee surgery. Friends and neighbours wish Muriel a speedy recovery.
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NOTICE OF VOTE 2014 Municipal Election On October 27, 2014 Municipal Elections will be held in the Township of North Huron by “VOTE BY MAIL” Offices for which the vote is to be held: Reeve - One (1) to be elected Councillor (Blyth Ward) - Two (2) to be elected Councillor (East Wawanosh Ward) - Two (2) to be elected Councillor (Wingham Ward) - Two (2) to be elected Trustee (English Public School Board) - One (1) to be elected Trustee (French Public School Board) – One (1) to be elected WHO MAY VOTE? Any person who on Voting Day meets the following qualifications is eligible to vote: • Is a Canadian citizen. • Is at least 18 years old on Voting Day. • Resides in the municipality or is the owner, tenant, or spouse of the owner or tenant of land. • Any person not prohibited by law from voting. VOTE BY MAIL For the 2014 Election, the Vote by Mail method will be used. There will be no election polls or Proxy Voting. A Vote by Mail Kit, which includes your ballot, will be mailed directly to each person who meets the above qualifications as an elector in the Township of North Huron on or about October 1, 2014. If you are an eligible voter and do not receive a voter’s kit, you can apply for one at the Municipal Office. Your ballot should be mailed in the prepaid envelope by October 15, 2014 to ensure delivery to the Municipal office by October 27, 2014. Alternatively, you’re welcome to drop off your ballot at the ballot box located at the Municipal Office, 274 Josephine Street, Wingham, during regular office hours until October 27, 2014 at 8:00 pm. A Vote by Mail Kit consists of the following: • Voting Instruction Sheet • Ballot • Ballot Secrecy Envelope • Voter Declaration Form • Return Envelope (yellow) with prepaid postage For further information contact the Municipal Office at 519-357-3550. Barbara L. Wilson, Acting CAO/Clerk.
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Sports Wingham Ironmen split opening weekend games
Tough start The Western Junior C Hockey League recently kicked off its 2014-2015 season and the Wingham Ironmen managed a win but also suffered a loss in their first weekend in action. The Ironmen lost their home opener 6-3 against Mount Forest then travelled to Kincardine’s Davidson Centre to take on the Bulldogs and managed to earn a 1-0 win. (Jim Brown photo)
By Jim Brown Special to The Citizen The Wingham Ironmen are 1-1 after the opening weekend of the Western Junior C Hockey League season. After suffering a 6-3 setback at the hands of the Mount Forest Patriots last Friday in the home opener at the
North Huron Wescast Community Complex, the Ironmen posted a 1-0 decision over the Kincardine Bulldogs at the Davidson Centre on Saturday afternoon. Friday evening started with the Ironmen raising the 2013-14 Western Junior C Hockey League championship banner to the rafters and the members of the Wingham
Homecoming Committee taking part in the official opening faceoff. The Ironmen opened the scoring at 4:49 of the second period when Matt McCracken tallied. However, Mount Forest scored two goals in a span of 33 seconds late in the period to take a 2-1 lead. Cody Wright and Devin Williams did the honours for the
Patriots. The Ironmen took a 3-2 lead in the third period as Justin Jacklin scored, from Cody Lang and Jeremy Ross, and McCracken from Jacklin and Brett Brophy. However, Mount Forest replied with four straight goals to win the game. Getting the third period goals for the Patriots were Branden Aitken, Brad Binkle, with a pair, and Mitch Betts. Ben Nelson suffered the loss in net for the Ironmen. Mount Forest outshot Wingham 33-25 and the Ironmen were 2-4 on the power play. The Patriots were 3-7 on the power play. Coach Louie Livingston said that wasn’t the way they wanted to start the defence of their championship. “We knew things weren’t going to be easy, but it’s back to hard work,” he said “The reality is that everyone is gunning for us and we have to realize that. We don’t just step on the ice and it’s going to be easy for us.” “We have to get back to the hard work, that’s what won us a lot of games last year, and that’s what we have to start doing,” the coach said. The Ironmen will not be an offensive team this year, like they were last season, but Livingston noted that when the team’s number one guy, Alex Kuntz, is not dressed and when Holdyn Lansink is lost in the second period, it takes a lot of the team’s scoring away. “We have some lines that are going to have to work hard this
year,” he said. “Maybe we’re not going to be the high scoring team we were last year, but we will have to work hard for our goals.” He said the Ironmen tooks some penalties in the third period that cost them, but he added that it isn’t like the Ironmen. Captain Brett Brophy said the Ironmen showed some flashes of greatness out there, but the team has to come out and play 60 minutes of hockey. “I thought we sat back on a few shifts and that cost us,” he said. “We have to keep out legs moving or we’re going to get into penalty trouble like we did tonight.” The captain said penalties hurt the team in the game. “This is a league where you have to play the majority of the game five-on-five. Playing shorthanded there for a few minutes really killed us,” he said. In Kincardine Saturday afternoon, Jacklin scored at 16:26 of the third period to give the Ironmen the victory. Jordan Skerrett assisted on the marker. Both teams had 30 shots on net. The Ironmen were 0-1 on the power play and the Bulldogs were 0-3. Nelson recorded the shutout. The Ironmen are on the road this weekend for a pair of games. They travel to Walkerton on Friday for a 7:20 p.m. contest against the Hawks, and then are in Goderich on Saturday for a 7:30 p.m. contest against the Flyers.
Sebringville mercy Hitmen to win championship By Jim Brown Special to The Citizen The Huron County Fastball League championship trophy will
spend another year in Perth County. The Sebringville Junior Sting mercied the Wingham Hitmen 7-0 in five innings in the tournament’s final game on Sunday afternoon to claim
the trophy for the 2014 season. The Sting scored three runs in the second and third innings and added a single run in the top of the fifth inning to claim the victory.
Chip and a Putt – By Bruce Skinn The Wingham Golf and Curling Club enjoyed another busy week despite the less than stellar weather conditions. On Tuesday, Sept. 9 the ladies were great to share their morning with the senior men. The 20 ladies finally had some golfing weather and the gals took full advantage of the fun in the sun. Doug Neil led the way in the senior morning men taking home first-place honours with Ross Peacock, second and Bob Foxton, third. Peacock also claimed closest to the pin while Ray Walker sank the longest putt. On Wednesday, the club played host to the 11th annual John Malick Memorial senior men tournament. The 56 golfers managed to get their rounds in but many of them finished the last couple holes in a downpour of rain. Steve Nixon of the Wingham club and Bob Greer from Listowel tied for low gross with great rounds of 74 and were presented the John Malick Trophy from John’s daughter Donna Anderson. Don Bone, the three-time winner, was one shot back at 75 to claim low gross for the over-70 class. Bernie Haines and Don Edgar also came in with scores of 75. The low net winners were Al Douglas in the 50-59 group, Tony Barr in the 60-69 and Gord Fisher in the over-70. This tournament again was a huge success in honour of a
superb past member and volunteer at the club. The Thursday night men had terrible playing conditions, but 40 diehard golfers managed to get their games in despite the cold, wet windy weather. This was three-club night for men’s night but nobody must have told Mike Haggitt as he fired a sizzling round of 36 using only three clubs in less than adequate playing conditions. The longest putt winners were Murray Coghlin, Norm Watson and Dan McPherson while the closest to the pin winners were Bill
Quipp and Richard Watson. The hidden scores were picked up by Scott Helder and Shaun Jolliffe. Saturday, the club was pleased to host the wedding of Jayla and Nick Henderson. After the ceremony on the first hole, the over 100 guests enjoyed supper in the dining lounge followed by the wedding reception. On Sunday, Sept. 28 the Wingham Golf and Curling Club will be holding the annual fall barbecue at the club. Anyone wanting tickets can contact the pro shop or any member.
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Sebringville pitcher Chad Fink, had three strikeouts in the game, while Wingham pitcher, Jason Daw, recorded nine. In the A final on Saturday, the Sting mercied the Hitmen 8-0 in five innings to advance straight to the championship final. The Hitmen advanced to the B final. Sebringville head coach Ken Wolfe said the key to the team’s success in the tournament was that the players believed in themselves. “These games this weekend were the first time this season that they were able to beat Wingham,” he said. “Wingham is a good team and they
play us hard every game.” “We were fortunate to beat them this weekend,” said Wolfe. The Hitmen went up against the Brussels Tigers in the B final, with the Hitmen prevailing 3-2. The Hitmen put two runners across the plate in the third inning and added a single run in the fifth inning. Brussels scored single runs in the top of the sixth and seventh innings. Andrew Baker hit a home run and a double for the Tigers. Sean Cook had a triple and a single while Ty Sebastian had a double and a single. Continued on page 9
In The Township of North Huron I will continue to * Provide honest hardworking leadership * Pursue the development of real shovel-ready industrial lands in North Huron * Ask the hard questions and have courageous conversations for needed clarifications
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Hitmen edge out Tigers in HCFL B championship Continued from page 8 Adam Corbett connected for a triple, with single base hits being rapped out by Dennis Dewar, Jamie Hickling and Shawn Daw. Sebastian recorded 11 strikeouts in going the distance on the mound for the Tigers, while George Armstrong had 10 strikeouts for the Hitmen. Daw said it was a good battle. “We were hitting the ball well and we had good defence, they just beat us,” he said. Daw said it was a good season for the Tigers. The Tigers played the Fullarton A’s in the first game on Sunday and scored a 4-1 decision to advance to the B final against the Hitmen. Fullarton opened the scoring by putting a runner across the plate in the top of the second inning. The Tigers tied the game in the bottom of
the inning and scored two in the bottom of the fifth and one more in the sixth. Sebastian recorded nine strikeouts in going the distance on the mound for the win. He helped his cause at the plate by hitting a two-run home run in the fifth inning. Baker and Cook each contributed a double to the win, while Dewar rapped out a pair of singles. Single base hits were added by Corbett, Steve Scholl and Wade Stephenson. Sebastian threw a perfect game Saturday evening as the Tigers defeated the Belmore Stingers 6-0. In seven innings of work, Sebastian faced 21 batters striking out 19. Brussels scored two runs in the fourth inning, added three more in the fifth and put an insurance run across the plate in the seventh.
Sebastian to play in Australia for off season By Jim Brown Special to The Citizen
A valiant effort Despite the best efforts of players like Ty Sebastian, shown above, the Wingham Hitmen were able to win the Huron County Fastball League B championship this year. (Jim Brown photo)
Ty Sebastian will be spending the next six months playing fastball in a sunny country. Sebastian left Wednesday for Australia, where he will be playing in the Sydney-Canberra area. The experience came about because a friend of Sebastian’s dad, Paul, knew someone in Australia and things just progressed from there.
He says he will be focusing on all three components of his game – pitching, fielding and hitting – when playing in Australia. He will be working when not playing ball. He will also be helping out with the minor ball program as well. “This is a pretty huge experience for me,” he said, adding that this will be his first time in Australia. The league he will be competing in is similar to those in midwestern Ontario.
Sebastian helped his cause at the plate by hitting a home run and a single. Stephenson hit a triple and single with Brian McArter rapping out three singles and Cook hitting a pair. The Tigers began play on the B side with a 6-3 decision over the Zurich Rangers. The Tigers scored once in the first inning and put five runners across the plate in the fifth inning. Zurich scored three times in the third inning. Scholl hit a double for the Tigers, with Dewar rapping out a pair of singles. Contributing single base hits were Corbett, Sebastian, Scott McTavish and Stephenson. Dewar started on the mound for the Tigers, with Sebastian taking over in relief. The year-end tournament began Friday evening with four games. The Zurich Rangers defeated the Wroxeter Royals 6-3, the Sebringville Sting got past the Walton Brewers 7-5, the Belmore Stingers be at the Goderich Grizzlies 9-2 and the Wingham Hitmen got past the Rangers 7-2. In the Sebringville-Walton contest, the Brewers put one runner across the plate in the first inning, scored twice in the third and added two more in the sixth. The Sting scored three times in the bottom of the first inning, added two more in the fifth and won the game with two more in the bottom of the sixth. Walton scored a 3-2 decision over the Royals by scoring the winning run in the bottom of the seventh. The Continued on page 7
NOTICE OF THE PASSING OF A ZONING BYLAW AMENDMENT BY THE CORPORATION OF THE TOWNSHIP OF NORTH HURON TAKE NOTICE that the Council of the Township of North Huron Enacted By-law No. 632014 on the 2nd day of September, 2014 under Section 34 of The Planning Act, R.S.O. 1990, as amended. AND TAKE NOTICE that any person or agency may appeal to the Ontario Municipal Board in respect of the by-law by filing with the Clerk of the Township of North Huron, not later than 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, October 7, 2014, a notice of appeal setting out the objection to the by-law and reasons in support of the objection, accompanied by payment of the fee prescribed under The Ontario Municipal Board Act. AMOUNT OF FEE payable to the Minister of Finance on appeal is $125.00. Only individuals, corporations and public bodies may appeal a zoning by-law to the Ontario Municipal Board. A notice of appeal may not be filed by an unincorporated association or group. However, a notice of appeal may be filed in the name of an individual who is a member of the association or the group on its behalf. No person or public body shall be added as a party to the hearing of the appeal unless, before the by-law was passed, the person or public body made oral submissions at a
public meeting or written submissions to the council or, in the opinion of the Ontario Municipal Board, there are reasonable grounds to add the person or public body as a party. AN EXPLANATION of the purpose and effect of the by-law, describing the lands to which the by-law applies, a Key Map showing the location of the affected lands and the complete by-law are attached. DATED at the Township of North Huron, in the County of Huron, this 17th, day of September, 2014. Kathy Adams, Director of Corporate Services/Deputy Clerk Township of North Huron PO Box 90 274 Josephine Street Wingham, ON N0G 2W0
CORPORATION OF THE TOWNSHIP OF NORTH HURON BY-LAW 63-2014 A BY-LAW TO AMEND BY-LAW NO. 82-2008, AS AMENDED, BEING THE ZONING BY-LAW OF THE CORPORATION OF THE TOWNSHIP OF NORTH HURON. WHEREAS the Municipal Council of the Corporation of the Township of North Huron considers it advisable to amend Zoning By-law 82-2008 being the Township of North Huron Zoning By-law. NOW, THEREFORE, the Municipal Council of the Corporation of the Township of North Huron ENACTS as follows: 1. This by-law shall apply to all lands within the Township of North Huron, County of Huron. 2. Schedule 1, detailing the purpose and effect of the zoning amendment, is attached hereto and forms an integral part of this by-law. 3. Schedule 2, detailing the location of the lands to which the amendment applies, is attached hereto and form an integral part of this by-law. 4. Section 5 of By-law 82-2008 is hereby deleted and replaced with the following: SECTION 5 RESTRICTED AGRICULTURE ZONE (AG2) Within this ZONE, no person shall establish any use of land or building, or erect or alter any building or structure for any purpose except in accordance with the following provisions: 5.1 PERMITTED USES • agricultural use, general, excluding new residential dwellings • conservation • exploration, drilling for and production of oil and natural gas • forestry uses, not including commercial forestry processing uses • pit, wayside, required by road authority • uses accessory to the permitted uses 5.2 ACCESSORY USES • commercial greenhouse under 2 acres covered by greenhouse • farm produce sales outlet • wind energy facility, small-scale or solar energy production
5.3 PERMITTED STRUCTURES • buildings and structures for the permitted uses, not including a residence • buildings and structures, not including residences, accessory to the permitted uses • more than one main agricultural building per lot is allowed 5.4 ZONE REGULATIONS The General Agriculture (AG1) Zone Regulations contained in Section 4.4. shall apply. 5.5 ZONE PROVISIONS The following Sections apply to the AG2 zone: Section: 4.5 Separation Distance (Agricultural) 4.6 Separation Distance (Residential) 4.7 Nutrient Management Plan and Manure Storage Requirements 4.8 Existing Agricultural Holdings 4.9 New Agricultural Holdings 5.6 SPECIAL ZONES 5. This by-law shall come into effect upon final passing, pursuant to Section 34(21) of the Planning Act, RSO, 1990. READ A FIRST TIME ON THE 2ND DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 2014. READ A SECOND TIME ON THE 2ND DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 2014. READ A THIRD TIME AND PASSED THIS 2ND DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 2014.
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SCHEDULE 1 CORPORATION OF THE TOWNSHIP OF NORTH HURON BY-LAW 63-2014 By-law 63- 2014 has the following purpose and effect: The purpose of this amendment is to update the AG2 zone of the Township of North Huron Comprehensive Zoning By-law. Currently, the AG2 zone is the Agriculture— Commercial Wind Energy Facility zone; this zone is no longer needed in the Zoning By-
law as these types of facilities are no longer able to be regulated through zoning since the passing of the Green Energy Act in 2009. The AG2 zone will be deleted and replaced with a Restricted Agriculture zone which will prohibit the establishment of a new residence following a surplus residence consent; this is in line with the policies recently passed by North Huron Council.
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Local school enrolment holds By Denny Scott The Citizen Local schools are reporting that enrolment, compared to 2013 levels, has stayed approximately the same. Maitland River Elementary School, North Woods Elementary School and Huron Christian School all said enrolment was solid, though the latter was down three from its typical range of 150 to 160 students. “It’s not dramatic, just a little drop,” Huron Christian School Principal Nick Geleynse said. “We have solid enrolment with lots of young families, which is a positive thing that will keep us going.” Hullett Central Public School is the exception to the rule however, having increased to 282 students, nearly one full class, more students than it had in 2013. “We’re looking at doing some reorganization,” Hullett Central Principal Cathy Goetz said. “We’re working out the details on how that’s going to happen, however we’re adding another classroom and
another teacher in the intermediate to junior level.” Goetz said, as a result of the change, some classrooms will be shifted around sometime in the near future. New staff at Hullett Central include Tabitha McDougall in Grade 1/2, Erin Henderson in Grade 4/5, Educational Assistant (EA) Wendy Brewster in Kindergarten B, EA Freda Hill in Grade 4/5 and Grade 2 and Sheila Vanderlaam as an Early Childhood Educator. “All our new staff have been fabulous additions to the school,” Goetz said. North Woods Elementary School is welcoming four new staff members. Mary Jane Horbanuik and Heather Pham are joining the staff as EAs, Andrea Wice is covering Grade 3/4 for a maternity leave and Sandra Garniss has been brought on to teach Grade 3. “There have been very few changes and we’ve had just a beautiful start to the school year,” North Woods Principal Wendy Armstrong-Gibson said. “Everyone
is settled in and everything has gone seamlessly.” Huron Christian School is welcoming Janelle Vogel as a Grade 4/5 teacher and Geleynse said he is very excited about the coming year and what Vogel’s addition can bring to the school. Maitland River Elementary School has a lot of new additions to the school. New teachers include Amy Shapton who is teaching instrumental music, Sandy Earl in Grade 4, Jeannine Elston in Kindergarten, Sarah Young in Grade 6 though she is currently on leave, Sonia Wubbs in Grade 6, Felicia Featherstone-Breckon teaching primary physical education, Tracy Thompson in Grade 3 and Lisa Culbert in Grade 1. New educational assistants at the school include Julie VanCamp, JayAnne Rehkopf, Sandra Popp, Alice Yuill and Meaghan Myers. Maitland River Principal Alice McDowell said she is excited about all the new faces at the school and said things are progressing well.
It’s no tractor but it looks good Seth Moffatt showed off his cycle-decorating acumen when he chose an agricultural theme for the bicycle decorating contest at the Elementary School Fair in Belgrave last week. (Denny Scott photo)
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Maple’s milk Maple the cow, an educational display that teaches youth about milking, was on display at the Elementary School Fair last week in Belgrave. Shown getting hands on with an udderly delightful experience is Nathan Westra. (Denny Scott photo)
WI to help with talent night Continued from page 2 ambassador competition. The September newsletter compiled by Kathy Bridge was distributed. Yvonne Knight, district director gave an account of the district meeting held Sept. 8 in Listowel. The 75th Guelph Area Convention will be held on Oct. 8, 2014 in New Dundee Bethel Evangelical Missionary Church with the theme, “Celebrate the Past, Embrace the Future.” On Nov. 6, the district is hosting a Ladies Night Out in Listowel with the theme, “We have Talent”. Any lady from the community is welcome to attend. For a ticket, call Mrs. Orval Bauer. The Majestic WI is responsible for a $10 door prize. Anyone who is willing to help with special days at the Milton Heritage Museum is asked to contact Yvonne Knight. Perth County Fall Rally is Oct. 30 in the Mitchell Legion. Each branch in the district is to take a table decoration. Leona Armstrong will look after the WI’s display at the Brussels Fall Fair. The theme for the display is “Farm Gate to Dinner Plate”. Edna Pletch and Janet Haertel will sell quilt tickets the day
of the fair. The roll call was answered by telling how you do your banking. The remainder of the meeting was spend cutting and organizing pictures and articles from
The Citizen for our scrapbooks. Following the singing of O’ Canada and the Women’s Institute grace, a tasty lunch was served by Leona Armstrong.
CORPORATION OF THE TOWNSHIP OF NORTH HURON TAXES DUE The next 2014 tax installment for the Township of North Huron is due on Thursday, September 25, 2014. Interest at 1 1/4% per month, or any part thereof will be charged on unpaid accounts as of September 26, 2014 and the first day of each month thereafter. NOTE: Persons who have acquired properties and have not received a tax bill should contact the Municipal Office. Failure to receive a tax bill does not relieve a taxpayer from responsibility for payment of taxes, nor from penalty for late payment. Please contact the Treasury Department in regards to the various payment options available. Pre-authorized payment sign up forms are available at www.northhuron.ca or at the Town Hall. Donna White Director of Finance Township of North Huron
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Cross-Currents proves fruitful for 14/19 group unable to find employment, were in the community and having to leave to find employment. The shop opened its doors and offered a free training course on film cameras and documentary filmmaking with the hopes of sending the town’s youth back out into the world, equipped with skills that may help find them a job. What happened, however, was that many of the young people stayed and made documentaries in Kentucky. The centre is now a multidiscipline art centre that has been combining the worlds of art and agriculture for 45 years. Smith said that archetype is exactly what many of those
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by Fare on 4.” As far as those involved with the campaign, Smith says the goal is simply to keep fundraising, because the deadlines just keep coming. “We’re hoping to have shovels in the ground at Memorial Hall a year from now; that’s when the transformation will begin,” Smith said, adding that in two years he hopes work will begin at the former Blyth Public School. “There’s a lot to do, but we have the people who can do it,” Smith said. For more information on Project 14/19 and upcoming events, visit the organization’s website at www.blyth1419.ca
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All of the faces behind Cross-Currents: Art and Agriculture, Powering Rural Economies can be seen here (see 14/19 Project Manager Peter Smith in a light blue shirt in the back left corner) at the conference held in Greensboro, North Carolina. A group of eight representatives travelled to the conference and came away with some great ideas, Smith said. (Photo submitted) Continued from page 1 Smith said, was to marry the worlds of art and agriculture through the lens of the rural economy. He says that many rural communities in the United States are dealing with the same issues as their Canadian counterparts, with retaining youth and providing employment chief among them. At the conference, Smith said, were representatives from the U.S. Treasury, as well as the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). He said he was surprised to see representatives from such organizations at the conference, but once he began talking with them, he realized how connected the worlds actually are. Smith said that in the U.S., rural communities are having to broaden the scope of certain economic development projects. Once that’s completed, he said, funding becomes available that those involved would have never considered before. It’s the rural communities,
involved in Campaign 14/19 have in mind for the Centre for Rural Creativity envisioned for the former Blyth Public School building. Part of the conference was those involved with Campaign 14/19 making a presentation and telling their story. Smith said people were very receptive to what the campaign is trying to achieve and, especially with Fare on 4, impressed by what has already been accomplished. Smith says that the Fare on 4 concept is going to be attempted in a rural California community sometime soon. “A lot of people want to come to Blyth now,” Smith said. “They were blown away
he said, that have to take an active role in redefining themselves. Many policies still in place in the U.S., Smith said, refer back to the 1970s and 1980s and no longer apply to life in a rural community today. “People need to step up,” Smith said, “and take responsibility for their relationship with their government. While at the conference, Smith and his group took in a number of seminars, listened to a lot of guest speakers and met a lot of people involved in rural initiatives, some of which piqued his interest more than others. One of the projects Smith found interesting and felt would be easily adapted for Huron County is the story of Elsewhere, in Greensboro. Elsewhere is a constantly evolving art installation that came about from an old thrift store. The owner of the store, which was an institution in the small community, died and bequeathed the store to her grandson, an artist. The man, overwhelmed by all of
the “stuff” in the store, began rearranging it and creating an art installation piece. Ten years later, the art project is still going, welcoming artists from all over the world to come and work at Elsewhere (this year there are three artists from Canada, one from China and one from Australia) on the condition that they bring nothing new in and take nothing out. Smith said he felt a similar project could work in Huron County, whether it be in an old farm house or in a mobile setting. One thing Huron County has in abundance, Smith says, is stuff, and with its agricultural background, art installation projects could take on a very interesting life in a place like Huron County. Another project Smith felt could have a home in Huron County is the success story of Appalshop, a creative film house in Whitesburg, Kentucky. Opened in 1969, Smith says, Appalshop came to be out of similar needs to Huron County today. Disenfranchised youth,
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Remarks Rev. Gary Clark of Blyth and Brussels United Churches spoke at the 2014 memorial and celebration grove tree planting ceremony for the George Taylor Conservation Area on Saturday. The event, due to rain, was held at the Walton Hall, as opposed to the area itself. (Vicky Bremner photo)
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Few details emerge from fatal shooting in Hullett that Frigo was the vice-president of a Toronto-based construction company; that he was a horse and dog lover who frequently visited the Hullett Wildlife Conservation Area. A former employee of The Dinner Bell restaurant in Clinton said she could count on seeing Frigo twice a year, every year as a customer of the restaurant. Several people have posted in online communities dedicated to outdoor activities since Frigo was killed saying that the world lost a great man.
A post-mortem was expected to be conducted on Tuesday. In the meantime, the OPP has rented several rooms at the Central Huron Fire Hall at the north end of Clinton to aid its ongoing investigation. Members of the OPP say the investigation is still ongoing and they are looking for anyone who may have any information that could help detectives. If you think you saw anything of interest, call the OPP at 1-888-310-1122 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).
Blocked off Two OPP cruisers are seen here blocking Wildlife Line at Hydro Line Road on Sunday morning after reports of a shooting rocked Huron County late Saturday evening. As of Tuesday morning, the area remained blocked off due to the investigation. (Shawn Loughlin photo) Continued from page 1 and some areas remain closed as of The Citizen’s deadline (Tuesday morning). Huron OPP Detachment Commander Investigator Chris Martin acknowledged that information being released to the public has been slow moving, but he insists that the officers have their reasons. The first public statement made on behalf of the OPP came Sunday afternoon, when it was confirmed that a man had been shot and killed Saturday evening. No further details were made available until Monday’s 4 p.m. press conference was announced just hours earlier. Both men read from prepared statements and neither took questions from the assembled members of the media, including reporters from London, Kitchener and Toronto. “We understand that it has taken longer than usual to get information
out to the public,” Martin said, adding that with an investigation like this, the OPP has to “prioritize the need of the public’s right to know with concerns respecting the ongoing investigation; particularly in its infancy stages.” He said that public safety is always a “top priority” for the OPP and that OPP will maintain a “strong and visible presence in the community.” The Citizen has spoken to several residents who live on Summerhill Road adjacent to the conservation area who were told to stay in their homes. “My sister-in-law, who lives on the same road, was stopped by the police. She was told to go home and lock her doors,” one Summerhill Road resident said on the condition of anonymity. “She phoned us when she got home and told us to do the same.” While she had been told nothing official, the woman was shaken by
what she was hearing from neighbours. “You hear about this kind of stuff happening in other places, but you never think this would happen this close to home,” she said. “Not knowing what is going on makes you nervous.” A second Summerhill Road resident was similarly told to stay inside until they were told otherwise. “My husband and I were out walking on Saturday because it was the first nice day we’ve had in a while,” the woman said. “They told us to go home, stay inside and lock the doors. They said it was not a good night to be out for a walk.” While a larger area was cordoned off on Saturday night, as of Sunday, a block to Hwy. 4 in the west and Kinburn Line in the east, and Summerhill Road in the north and Hydro Line in the south remained blocked off. Some media outlets have reported
Shooting Donato Frigo, 70, can be seen above in a picture that was posted on the Ontario Out of Doors magazine website as part of an online memorial after news of Frigo’s death began to spread. He is remembered as a great man who loved dogs and horses and who frequented the Central Huron area for competitions.
Council upset by lack of information By Shawn Loughlin The Citizen
Addressing the situation The two men at the head of the investigation that claimed the life of 70-year-old Donato Frigo near the Hullett Wildlife Conservation Area on Saturday evening, OPP Criminal Investigation Branch Detective Inspector Chris Avery, left, and Huron County OPP Detachment Commander Inspector Chris Martin, right, held a press conference on Monday afternoon at the Clinton Fire Hall to update the public on the status of the investigation. Police are asking anyone with information to come forward. (Shawn Loughlin photo)
On Monday night, in front of several members of the media, including national outlets, Central Huron Council addressed Saturday’s fatal shooting in the Hullett Wildlife Conservation Area. Mayor Jim Ginn expressed his condolences to the family of Don Frigo, the 70-year-old Caledon East man who was killed Saturday. Ginn and several other councillors reported receiving a flood of calls from residents looking for information in the wake of a quiet OPP. “There were tons of rumours flying around,” Ginn said. One prevalent rumour was that Clinton’s town-wide alarm had sounded Saturday night, alerting people to stay in their homes and that the town was under a lockdown order. Ginn said that isn’t true and that while the alarm did sound, it is thought that it was triggered by the numerous police cruisers, sirens blazing, that were driving past the alarm that night. He insisted that no one was asked
to leave their homes, as had been widely circulated on several social media websites. Councillor Brian Barnim, who reported receiving calls from residents, said that panic was caused by the lengthy silence from the OPP. He said that people began hearing about a “massive manhunt” Saturday night and then didn’t hear anything again until Sunday afternoon, when the shooting was confirmed. “People hadn’t been told that it Continued on page 13
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Vodden compiles thorough Blyth history book By Shawn Loughlin The Citizen Blyth-based historian Brock Vodden has published Blyth Through The Lens, a book that attempts to tell the village’s story from a number of different historical angles. Vodden’s place in the world of local history is well known. He and his wife Janis have amassed a huge
collection of Blyth-related documents, photographs and other items over the last two decades. They have quickly become one of the greatest historical resources in Huron County. Vodden says that while his and Janis’s work is ongoing, he felt it was time to curate a large collection of Blyth information and artifacts, made available in an accessible
manner that people can own for themselves. Many of the historical items the Voddens have collected are assembled in binders and files in their home. However, with new material being donated to the Repository of Blyth History so frequently, Vodden says he has fallen behind in his cataloguing. Even so, he says, the material that
Moisturizer needed The Grade 6 class at Maitland River Elementary School had no problem acting like the seniors they are when it came time for the Elementary School Fair parade in Belgrave. Shown are, from left, John McFarlane, Sarah Hammer, Amelia Fehr, Morgan McGurgin and Alycia Coultes. (Denny Scott photo)
Mayor voices concerns Continued from page 12 was ‘business as usual’,” Barnim said. “They were starving for information because there was absolutely nothing out there.” Ginn agreed that the lack of information was a problem, which is something he had “concerns” with. He sympathized with area residents, who, he said, still have the Jesse Imeson case fresh in their minds. Imeson is currently in jail on three counts of second degree murder. He was on the run from police and made his way into Huron County, where he killed a Mount Carmel couple. Imeson was believed to be at large in the Huron County area for a number of days before finally being captured near Ottawa. “There should have been more information provided and that was not the case,” Ginn said. He hopes to follow up with the police and voice his concerns, as well as the concerns of many Central Huron residents, but once the investigation is complete.
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has been catalogued still requires people to visit his home to take it all in. In book form, he said, the history can live on in people’s homes. The book is divided into 19 sections, and includes everything from pen and ink sketches of the village to streetscapes to sports and military history, as well as everything in between. The process began early this year, Vodden says, when he felt it was time to get some of Blyth’s history down on paper. He and Janis often present slideshows on Blyth history, which have always been well received, he says. The problem with the slideshow, he says, is that a picture would flash on the screen, generate a lot of interest and then Vodden would have to move on to the next slide. With the history in book form, people don’t have to worry about the slide coming off of the screen, Vodden says, and people can spend as much time as they want with any particular item that is of interest to them. Despite being directed otherwise, Vodden said he felt it was important to start the book with Blyth’s streetscapes. Originally, he was told that a community is about people, so the book should begin with stories of the community’s people. Vodden, however, felt that the streetscape is the “face of a community” and that it deserved to lead the book. The book features scores of historical photographs, spanning decades of Blyth history. In addition to information from Vodden, it has been edited by Auburn writer Rhea
Hamilton-Seeger. After collecting streetscape pictures, Vodden began bookmarking pictures that he felt were important. On his computer, he says, he has a file full of his favourite Blyth historical pictures, so that’s where he began. It was with Hamilton-Seeger’s help that Vodden began to compile the information for the book. He said that while the historical stories and photographs in each section don’t necessarily flow chronologically, he says the information is presented in a way that simply made sense to both him and Hamilton-Seeger. As far as the finished product is concerned, Vodden says he couldn’t be happier. He put a lot of work into the book and originally considered having it printed in time for last weekend, which was Doors Open across Ontario. Vodden was part of a speaker series in Goderich on Saturday and thought it would be great to have the book available for purchase, but never dreamed it would be ready in time. Much to his surprise, however, one morning last week, Blyth Printing delivered the volumes to Vodden’s door, ahead of his speaking engagement. Vodden says he feels it’s important for Blyth to preserve its history because of how special a place it is. One needs only to look at Campaign 14/19, he says, which is all about looking to the future, while at the same time preserving the community’s past. The book is available for purchase at The Citizen office in Blyth, as well as The Gift Cupboard, on Blyth’s main street.
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Cattle sell at higher prices on strong trade Total receipts for Brussels Livestock for the week ending Sept. 12 were 1,918 cattle, 624 lambs and goats. On Tuesday fed cattle sold on a strong active trade at prices $2 higher. Choice steers and heifers sold $160 to $165 with sales to
$172.50. Second cut sold $155 to $160. Cows sold on a strong active trade at steady prices. On Thursday veal calves sold actively with beef calves trading steady while holstein calves are up $5. Lambs sold on a good active trade. Sheep sold steady.
Goats sold on a good active trade at slightly higher prices. On Friday all classes of cattle sold on a very strong active trade at prices $2 to $3 higher. Terry McCarthy of Dublin, consigned 15 steers that averaged 1,412 lbs. and sold for an average
New Mait-Side owner plans for garlic, greenhouse vegetables Linwood, but in the coming months, previous Mait-Side owner Louis Cardiff will be moving out of the home on the property and the Giesbrecht family will be moving in. He says that the first thing he noticed when he began operating Mait-Side near Brussels and walking around the village was how nice people were to him. “There are so many friendly people here,” he said. He said the community spirit and welcoming nature of Brussels is something that you just don’t find in other communities. The Brussels Farmers’ Market, for example, he says, is a great social atmosphere, as well as a perfect place to spread the word about MaitSide and its future. He says such a community initiative would never take off in Linwood or Kitchener as Continued on page 18
Lookin’ good Johan Giesbrecht, the new owner of Mait-Side Orchard just west of Brussels, is seen here showing off some of this year’s apple crop. Giesbrecht hopes to expand the orchard to include garlic and greenhouse vegetables in the future, as well as a community kitchen where people can meet, eat and socialize. (Shawn Loughlin photo)
By Shawn Loughlin The Citizen Mait-Side Orchard, just west of Brussels, is now in the hands of Johan Giesbrecht and the new owner is hoping to meet customers’ standards for Mait-Side and expand the business. Giesbrecht was born in Mexico, but came to Canada 10 years ago. His family took a vacation to Canada and, with promise of easier access to employment and a better life, they simply stayed here. First landing in the Niagara-onthe-Lake region, Giesbrecht worked a number of different jobs before he landed in Linwood, a small community northeast of Milverton and northwest of Kitchener/Waterloo, where he worked on a garlic farm. Eventually, he saved enough money to buy his own garlic plot in Linwood, about two acres, he says, but then set his sights on the Brussels community and the land it offered. “I just loved the land. It is the right land for garlic, and I really only need a couple of acres,” Giesbrecht said. He said he plans to keep the MaitSide orchard as it is, but expand it to include garlic production, under the umbrella of J&M Produce, with a small greenhouse to grow vegetables. He plans on growing three acres of
garlic which, if the weather holds out, he hopes to plant later this week. Giesbrecht, his wife Maria and their four children currently live in
price of $163.58. Seven simmental steers averaged 1,391 lbs. and sold to Clark Bros. Livestock for an average price of $164.50. Alvin Davey and Sons of Paisley, consigned seven steers that averaged 1,337 lbs. and sold for an average price of $161.70. Three black steers weighed 1,212 lbs. and sold to Norwich Meat Packers for an average price of $161.75. George Roney, Staffa, consigned 10 heifers that averaged 1,288 lbs. and sold for an average price of $164. One black heifer weighed 1,350 lbs. and sold to Norwich Meat Packers for $166.50. Hinz Farms of Monkton, consigned seven heifers that averaged 1,354 lbs. and sold for an average price of $160.67. One charolais heifer weighed 1,350 lbs. and sold to Horizon Meat Packers for $162.50. There were 184 cows on offer. Export types sold $80 to $110 with sales to $123; beef, $105 to $125 with sales to $128; D1 and D2, $70 to $82; D3, $52 to $62; D4, $40 to $50. Brent Nichols of Mitchell, consigned one rwf cow that weighed 1,375 lbs. and sold for $128. Jonathan Murray of Ripley, consigned one black cow that weighed 1,255 lbs. and sold for $125. There were 14 bulls selling $95 to $126. Paul Pentland of Goderich, consigned one holstein bull that weighed 1,605 lbs. and
sold for $126. There were 111 head of veal on offer. Beef sold $180 to $210 with sales to $225; good holsteins, $145 to $160 with sales to $166; medium holsteins, $130 to $140; heavy holsteins, $135 to $150. Maynard Brubacher of Wallenstein, consigned one limousin heifer that weighed 800 lbs. and sold for $225. Lamar Frey of Listowel, consigned one charolais steer that weighed 855 lbs. and sold for $221. Wayne Burkhart of Newton, consigned one limousin steer that weighed 805 lbs. and sold for $214. Lambs, 50 - 64 lbs. sold $222 to $270; 64 - 79 lbs., $208 to $247; 80 - 94 lbs., $192 to $237; 95 to 110 lbs., $192 to $204. Sheep sold $70 to $113 with sales to $125/lb. Goats: kids sold $175 to $240; nannies, $80 to $145; billies, $150 to $230/lb. Top quality stocker steers, 400 499 lbs. sold $317 to $334; 500 599 lbs., $291 to $325; 600 - 699 lbs., $254 to $289; 700 - 799 lbs., $237 to $259; 800 - 899 lbs., $229 to $241; 900 - 999 lbs., $208 to $235; 1,000 lbs. and over, $198 to $220. Top quality stocker heifers, 400 499 lbs. sold $275 to $293; 500 599 lbs., $251 to $274; 600 - 699 lbs., $236 to $250; 700 - 799 lbs., $212 to $239; 800 - 899 lbs., $204 to $229; 900 lbs. and over, $186 to $208.
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From the Minister’s Study
Clark welcomes you back By Rev. Gary Clark Blyth United Church Sunday evening while going for a walk in Blyth, I could not help but see and hear the honkers as they flew overhead in their familiar V formation. Summer is ending and fall is knocking at the door. It is also the height of the harvest season, which means the freshest and most reasonable-priced time of year to buy fruits and vegetables. Of course we can’t eat them all before they go bad, so we have to can or freeze them so they will keep. Then we have access to their freshness in the coldest days of winter when summer is but a memory. It is a lot of work and mess, but when we have fresh tomato sauce on our pasta in January, it is worth it. The same is true for our spiritual and emotional lives. It is best to prepare for the coming winter days or years now in the summer of our life. Only the greatest fool or selfdeluded person doesn’t know that winter is coming in our lives. Friends and family who are slightly older begin to die. We see divorce or trouble in the marriages of others. The news tells us every day of a factory here or there closing its doors. Winter is coming and there can be no denying it. So how can a person prepare for this winter when you cannot ‘can’ joy or freeze dry peace of mind? For me the answer involves a spiritual journey. This means taking time to pray or meditate either in conversation with God or conversation with one’s self. The first step in the process is to take the time to give thanks for the many blessings that have come our way. Yes we can take credit for earning some of them but the vast majority of our blessings have been gifts that we have not earned. So give thanks. Of course that pushes
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the issue of to whom does you give those thanks? You could say thanks to the great roulette wheel of chance, which allowed you to be born is such a peaceful and bounteous country. You could give thanks to our ancestors who brought us here and thanks to the first peoples whose land we now call home. Or you could simply thank God. Thank you God for all of it. Not only the beautiful way that all things work together in our natural world but also thank you for giving us our part in your masterpiece. Once we have given thanks, and this I liken to appreciating wonderful juicy tomatoes fresh from the farmers’ market, we are ready to get down to the business of preserving that freshness. This requires the naming of those things we have done that have brought us shame, embarrassment and a desire to hide the truth. Oh, we all have them and, unlike the blessings, we have earned every last skeleton in the closet. This very messy step requires the bringing out into the light and naming of those skeletons. I know you could be thinking, “Hey they are in the closet for a reason. I don’t want them dancing around where someone can see them.” That is where God comes in as the great preserver of life. God, when we let God, can help us be honest not only about the skeletons but also why those skeletons are
there in the first place. Maybe just bringing them out will banish them from our lives or at least free us from the power they have over us. But maybe they will help us understand our motivations and ourselves better. In that confession and understanding is hope that we will not find ourselves creating even more of them. It is the only way I know to preserve the summer of our lives. Because if we don’t tend to the skeletons they will rot away the best parts of our lives and even in the midst of summer we will feel the deadly chill of winter. Work like this is always done best when we are not doing it alone. So on behalf of the United and Anglican churches in Brussels and Blyth I would like to invite you back to church. We are having a special celebration on Sept. 28 to open the doors wide to anyone who was once regular attendee or to those who have never been part of a worshipping community. None of the people in any of our churches are perfect, which is why you should fit right in! Our hope and prayer is to be welcoming communities in which we all become more compassionate, generous, honest and healing. We have found peace in the living example of Jesus and believe there is peace for you as well. Together with God we can preserve the best that life has to offer. Come in and check it out.
BRUSSELS United Church WORSHIP SERVICE AND SUNDAY SCHOOL 10:00 am All Welcome Minister: Rev. Gary Clark, BA, M.Div. Bulletin notices: 519-523-4224 blythunited@tcc.on.ca Church bookings: 519-887-6377 Other concerns: 226-963-1175
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10:30 a.m. ~ Worship & Sunday School Sat., Oct. 4, 7:30 pm: FREE MOVIE - God’s Not Dead
Sunday, September 21 Brussels Business & Cultural Centre at 10:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. Sunday School for children 4 to 12 years of age at 9:30 a.m. Childcare provided for infants and preschoolers during the sermon. Coffee & cookies after the morning service
at 308 Blyth Rd. (former Church of God)
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Worship & Sunday School - 10 am Coffee & Snacks - 11 am Fridays 11:30 am - 1:00 pm ~ Soup & More 2 - a free community meal held in Melville’s basement, and made possible by the Brussels churches working together.
Laced up and dressed down; high-tops and low-maintenance; sneakers, saddle shoes--even velcro! At Huron Chapel, we care more about who you are than what you wear or where you've been. As a matter of fact, so does God. If you’d enjoy a place where people genuinely care about you, just as you are, then come check us out. We're more than just a church service. We're a place where imperfect people find acceptance, with no (shoe)strings attached.
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A ccommodation for rent TWO-BEDROOM APARTMENT in Blyth for adults 50 years and older, includes stove, fridge and balcony. Phone 519-524-4680. 23-tfn -------------------------------------------ONE LARGE ONE-BEDROOM apartment in Belgrave, $600/month plus hydro. First and last required. Call 519-525-6399. 31-tfn
Articles for sale MAYTAG FRONT LOAD WASHER and dryer, like new, $750 pr. Admiral Fridge $200. Admiral stove $150. Phone 519-530-8174 (cell) Auburn Area. 37-1p -------------------------------------------CATTLE HERD – COWS, CALVES, yearlings, heifers and bulls Mainly red and black angus. To be priced by pound. Call 519-887-9245. 36-2p -------------------------------------------FALL IS HERE! WINTER IS coming! Gerbers Firewood has quality slabwood and bodywood available. Delivery included. Stock up today. 519-656-2057. 15-36p
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Cards of thanks BERNARD. To the Blyth “My Community” Committee, we would like to thank all the sponsors for the gift at the time of our 55th Wedding Anniversary. – Howard and Joan Bernard. 37-1
Coming events THE WINGHAM COLUMBUS Centre would like to invite you to our next famous fish fry on Friday, September 26. We serve battered or grilled white fish and also have chicken fingers for the non-fish lover. $9.99 takeout – fish, fries and dinner roll; $10.99 eat in – fish and a buffet of salads, potatoes and breads. Homemade desserts also available - $3.25 plus tax on all prices. Congratulations to Earl Fitch, winner of the two fish dinners from our August draw. Call 519-357-1270 for reservations. We tend to sell out, so book early! 37-2 -------------------------------------------BRUSSELS AND DISTRICT Horticultural Society meeting, Monday, Sept 22, 7:30 p.m. at Brussels Library Community Room. Guest speaker: Leona Mueller of Leescapes, teaching us about winter protection for shrubs. Everyone welcome. 37-1 More coming events on pg. 17
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Builders Auction Of Tools; Lawn and Garden Equipment; Trailers; Metal Brake; Building Materials; and Misc. held North of Clinton on Hwy. 4 to Base Line Road, then 5km to #80905 Sat. Sept. 20 at 9:30 AM Partial List: Eight ft. tandem axle dump trailer; three single axle trailers; Walco 3pth 6ft scraper blade; pto driven vertical or horizontal woodsplitter; Danuser post hole auger; 3pth belt drive circle saw; a few small farm implements; self propelled lawn roller; White 5hp rear tine tiller; pull type lawn sweeper; Jongered 630 and 520 chain saws; 1980’s Yamaha Special 400 motorcycle; older MF and Johnson snowmobiles; commercial 10ft manual sheet metal brake; B&B crimper; King and Toolex wood shapers; General 6 inch jointer; King 16 inch planer; Rockwell 10 inch table saw; DeWalt portable trim saw; Red Devil paint shaker; Partner concrete saw; torches; Hobart stick welder; Bartell 36 inch power trowel; drywall lifter and tools; compressor with gas motor; numerous other shop tools and large selection of power and hand tools; large quantity of building materials including electrical and plumbing; spiral coil nails; door hardware; rolled aluminum and steel; insulated chimney; nails; screws; etc; large qty of dry premium walnut lumber (full colour bled thru); 16 sheets of 4x8 form plywood; qty of lumber; ladders; 15 lifts of walk-thru masons scaffold; cement mixers; and much more. See Jacob.ontarioauctioneer.com for pictures and more detail. Double ring auction. Owner downsizing. Property for sale. No Buyer Premium. Terms: Cash or Cheque with ID Prop. and auctioneers not responsible for accidents Prop: Jack Gerrits 519-524-0811 Auctioneers: David and Doug Jacob
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EXCEPTIONAL CLEARING AUCTION SALE Of Restored Antique JD Crawler, JD Tractors, Equipment and Numerous Antique Collectibles, Woodworking & Metal Shop Equipment, Tools, & Miscellaneous Items to be held for GORDON & LOIS BRADLEY Saturday September 27 2014 AT 9:00 AM 27 Whispering Woods, Inverhuron, Ontario - 2½ miles West of Tiverton (Bruce County Rd 15) then ½ mile North on Albert Rd and 1/3 mile East on Whispering Woods. ANTIQUE CRAWLER & TRACTORS: JD MC, 1952, c/w MC 60 blade-restored; Deutz D4507A, c/w Deutz 455 loader, Prairie cab, 2 buckets and pallet forks, 3155 hrs; JD M, 1950, c/w #30 loader & #51 mowerrestored; JD MI, 1951-restored; JD MT, 1952-restored; Case 300 tractor, gas, eagle hitch; Gibson garden tractor c/w hood & fenders-older restoration, Model SD; JD 110 lawn mower, 1965-restored; JD 110 lawn mower, 1967-restored; JD LUC power unit (2); Ariens 3967 lawn mower. ANTIQUE EQUIPMENT: McKee 600 double auger 6½' snow blower; JD 5' blade, fits JD M-restored; JD KBL 618 mounted disc, fits JD M or MT-restored; JD mounted 2 furrow plow, fits JD M-restored; JD mounted 2 furrow plow, fits JD M-original; JD mounted cultivator-original; JD 953 wagon gear, c/w 15" tires & 16' Oak flat rack-restored; JD 953 wagon gear, c/w 16" tires & 16' Oak flat rack-restored; JD 953 wagon gear, c/w header wheels & 12' deck; JD 953 wagon gear-original; JD 290 2 row corn planter; JD L manure spreader-restored; Cockshutt single furrow walking plow-restored; Cockshutt 2 furrow walking plow, Cockshutt Kid No. 2-restored; Cockshutt scuffler-restored; scoops; Hagedorn 3pth, 6½' snow blowerrestored. SNOWMOBILE, GAS ENGINES, BICYCLES, CAST SEATS, SIGNS, TINS, ETC: JD 92508 18" push lawn mower (mint original condition); ATV wagon 4'5" x 9'; JD ladies touring bicycle; JD men's touring bicycle; Massey Harris/Varity Plow Co. bag cart; JD PTO air pumps (3); JD Spitfire snowmobile, 1981, c/w registration and original bill of sale; Wisconsin AFN1D-2 1 cylinder motor c/w clutch and transmission; International 1½ -2½ hp type LB hit & miss motor; Fairbanks Morse 1½ hp, Model Z hit & miss motor; Fairbanks Morse 2 hp, Model Z hit & miss motor; Fairbanks Morse 300 watt charging unit; Iron Horse motor, 4 cycle; 300 Watt MK1 charging set; misc. parts for JD M series tractors; screw jacks (barn jacks) various sizes-restored; misc. steel wheels-some restored; drill ends-Force Feed, American Seedingrestored; cast seats-Walter A. Wood, Frost & Wood, Furst & Bradley, 79-restored; cast tool box & various lids-Frost & Woods, Ideal Grant, IHC, New Idea-restored; cast corn planter lids-The Hayes, CB&Qrestored; misc. cast binder twine lids-restored; misc. page wire stretchers-restored; misc. brass oilers; 3 cross cut saws; misc. cast iron treadles; misc. hay forks, cars, pulleys & slings-some restored; DeLaval cream separator; factory cart, Shantz Foundry Preston-excellent condition; sap pails & spiles; tin & porcelain signs; lighted signs-Avco New Idea, double sided/MF, red & const. yellow, double sided/NAPA Auto Parts, double sided/C-V Paints, double sided/Alliance Tire Professionals, double sided; oil bottles, carrier, stand; old oil pails, Kendall, Fina, Nugold, Quaker State, Ford; copper boilers; GSW cans, pails, kerosene can, butter churn; milk can cart & milk cans; cream cans; rope maker, The Wonder Rope Maker; hardware store bench scales; antique hand-powered drill presses; kids' sleds, Spartan, Speedway; collector tins, Royale Purple, Honey, Polar, Canadian Pilot Plug, Shell, Klean Flow; log tongs, axes, spears, forks, shovels, post hole augers, spoons, tile scoops. WOODWORKING & METAL SHOP EQUIPMENT, TOOLS AND QUALITY MISC. ITEMS: Honda EX1000 generator; Stihl KM56RC Kombi system, c/w tiller, trimmer, brush, paddle wheel; Worksaver ATV grass seeder; Agri Fab 15 gallon ATV sprayer; shop made 24" horizontal 3pth wood splitter c/w loading lift; shop made 18' tandem trailer, 15" tires, ramps, and tool box; trailer equalizer hitch c/w bars; shop built 3pth trailer lift; water tank mounted on single axle trailer; shop built 7' 3pth blade; scaffolding, 3½ lifts; Oneida dust collection system; DeWalt radial arm saw, 10", Model 770; Elektra Beckum BAS450 bandsaw (17" throat, 11" cutting height); BOSS bench oscillating sander; Ryobi 10" table saw c/w rolling base (BT 3000); Trademaster 15" thickness planer, c/w rolling base (CT-38); Rockwell/Beaver 6" planer; Busy Bee 6" x 9" belt and disc sander; JD TY5159 battery charger; Universal metal bender(UT-100); chop saw & chop saw table; BE portable gas powered pressure washer, c/w Honda GX390 motor; Handy electric pressure washer; Kalamazoo metal cutting band saw; Homelite Super-2 SL chainsaw; McCulloch Promac 55 chainsaw; Stihl TS 350 concrete saw; Canedy-Otto 21" drill press; Black & Decker 8" bench grinder; Mikita rotary hammer; electric drills; B&D electric nibbler; B&D electric shear; Millermatic 250 wire feed welder, c/w owned cylinder; Linde 250 AC-DC welder, c/w cables; Oxy/Acet welding set, c/w owned cylinders; shop built press c/w 3hp power pack, ~ 35 ton; Engerair 5 hp air compressor with horizontal tank; DeVilbiss Tradesman compressor with 30 gallon tank; Proformer 48" box pan break; 30" sheet metal roller; sheet metal shrinker; sheet metal stretcher; shop built sandblasting cabinet, 2'x4'x8'; pallet mover; pipe vice; pipe cutters, reamer & dies; shop built shop crane; floor jacks; platform scales; metal welding bench & other metal benches; Cyclone ½ ton chain fall; 1 ton beam trolley; jack stands; level c/w tripod & sight stick (2 units); Snap-on tool boxes; Snap-on ¾" drive socket set; Snap-on VE-113B puller set; metal shop desk, misc. metal cabinets & shelving; 3 metal shelving units, 4 shelves each, 2½' x 7'8"x9' 11", 2½' x 7½' x 16', 2½' x 7'8" x 9'11"; metal pallet racking, 3½' x9'x12' & 3'4"x14'x28'; electric motors, two 2-hp, two ¾ hp; Woods grain grinder; hydraulic power packs; shop tools & wrenches; drill bits; bolts; misc. sheet steel; quantity of steel incl. square tubing/angle/flat bar/channel/pipe and some cold rolled round stock; tow chains; Grade 70 tie down chains; chain binders; tie down straps; steel saw horses; steel & plastic barrels; quantity of rough lumber, Cedar, Ash, Maple; McDougall #3 water ram(not complete); factory bag carts; wooden benches/cabinets; quantity of JD parts & service manuals; JD pocket ledgers; Family Heralds from 1960's; Coleman gas iron, gas stove, gas lantern; metal tech scaffold 2½'x6'x6'; tire changer; metal & woodworking clamps; mechanic & welder hand tools; ladders, 22' & 32' extension; 4' lawn roller; picnic table, 8'; Clipper Yukon canoe, 2 seater; Cedar strip canoe fibre glass clad, 1 seater; Fortress 1700 Series 4-wheel scooter c/w charger; quantity of fire wood. NOTE: Plan to attend this large outstanding one of a kind auction sale, items are in immaculate condition, rare and hard to find. A possible 2 ring auction. Lunch booth NO RESERVES ~ NO BUYERS PREMIUM For more information call Gordon & Lois Bradley at Res: 519-368-7470, Cell: 519-389-7471 To view photos visit www.billhorstauctions.com TERMS Cash or acceptable cheque with proper I.D. Proprietors & auctioneers not responsible for accidents, injury, or loss of purchases. Verbal announcements take precedence over advertising. AUCTIONEERS BILL HORST-MILLBANK 519-595-2626 BRIAN RINTOUL-WINGHAM 519-357-2349 BUY? SELL? TRY CLASSIFIED - BUY? SELL? TRY CLASSIFIED - BUY? SELL? TRY CLASSIFIED
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Classified Advertisements Coming events ENJOY AN EVENING OF FAMILY entertainment at the Auburn Community Centre on Saturday, September 27, 7:30 p.m. Clifford Coultes is marking the fifty-fifth anniversary of his entering the teaching profession. Short variety program and lunch. No admission charge. Everyone welcome. A similar event will be held in the Chesley Legion, Saturday, October 18. 37-2p -------------------------------------------SMOKED PORK CHOP DINNER by Londesborough United Church at Londesborough Community Hall, Saturday, September 27, 5 - 7 p.m. Adults $15, children 6-12, $6, five and under, free. Family rate $40 (2 adults and children 12 and under). Kids’ meals available. Takeouts available. Tickets 519-523-4228, 519-482-9812, 519-482-3920, 226421-2045. Advance tickets preferred. 36-2b -------------------------------------------FIREARMS AND HUNTING Training. PAL Restricted and Hunter Ed. Ongoing courses. For more information or to register call Greg at 519-887-9622 or 519-291-2002. 34-18p
Farmland FARMLAND WANTED TO RENT or share crop, good stewardship, competitive rates. Call Peter Heinrich 519-523-4461. 37-8p
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Help wanted PART-TIME CLERICAL ASSISTANT required immediately in Blyth office. Take résumé to John Rutledge Architect, 406 Queen St., Blyth. 519-523-9000. 37-1 -------------------------------------------RELIABLE PERSON NEEDED AS a general labourer. Includes heavy lifting. Must have a “Z” endorsement licence and be able to work some nights and weekends. Fax résumé to 519-523-4552, Attn: Susan. 36-2p -------------------------------------------CASUAL PART-TIME HELP FOR relief milking. Must be reliable and available to work two weekends a month. Call Fred 519-887-9801. 35-3 --------------------------------------------
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The Corporation of the County of Huron Planning and Economic Development Department Requires One (1) Temporary Full Time Planner funded by the Ministry of the Environment under the Source Protection Municipal Implementation Fund One (1) Temporary Full Time Planner (up to 1 year to cover a leave) And One (1) Temporary Full Time Student Planner (16 weeks)
See www.huroncounty.ca for more information regarding qualifications and the application process. Please forward letter of application and resume in one PDF document by 4:30pm Monday September 29th, 2014. The County of Huron is an equal opportunity employer. Accessibility accommodations are available for all parts of the recruitment process. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance. Only those individuals selected for an interview will be contacted. Information is collected solely for the purpose of job selection under the provisions of the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act.
MUNICIPALITY OF HURON EAST PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT Requires (2) Heavy Equipment Operators/Labourers Applications are now being received by the Municipality of Huron East for the position of Public Works Heavy Equipment Operator/Labourer (2 positions) The ideal candidate will possess the following qualifications: Valid DZ Driver’s Licence Grade 12 in Province of Ontario or Equivalent Minimum of 2 year’s grader/heavy equipment operator experience The position may require working overtime and unusual hours including weekends and holidays. A complete job description is available at the Huron East Municipal Office and on the website at www.huroneast.com
Mill Worker (Job # 113) Hensall District Co-operative is a progressive co-operative in its 77th year of business and continues to grow. We are currently seeking a dynamic individual to become an integral part of our Londesborough location.
Please submit resume on or before 12:00 noon on Friday, October 3rd, 2014 to the attention of: Barry Mills, C.Tech., Public Works Manager Municipality of Huron East Municipal Office 72 Main Street South PO Box 610 Seaforth, Ontario, N0K 1W0 Phone: 519-527-1710 Fax: 519-527-2561 Email: bmills@huroneast.com We thank all that apply, however, only those individuals selected for an interview will be contacted.
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Duties and Responsibilities Manufacturing of top quality feed Loading of trucks in a timely manner Interaction with customers handling grain and other incoming product • Assist mill manager in HACCP and safety programs • Maintain clean and tidy work area at all times
Job Requirements • Excellent organization, customer service and record keeping skills • Ability to remain calm under pressure • Strong knowledge of feed delivery and manufacturing • Available to work overtime hours and shift work in order to meet the demands of our customers Qualifications • Ontario Secondary School Diploma required • Post-Secondary degree/diploma in Agri-Business or similar practical experience preferred • Two years’ experience in an Agricultural environment preferred • Valid Ontario Driver’s License
HDC offers competitive remuneration, full benefits package, defined contribution pension plan, a caring and supportive work environment, training and opportunity for growth. Application Method All qualified applicants are invited to apply for this position by cover letter and resume indicating the job number (113) to: Human Resource Manager Hensall District Co-operative Inc. 1 Davidson Drive, Hensall, Ont. N0M 1X0 Email: job@hdc.on.ca “Equal Opportunity Employer”
Municipality of Morris-Turnberry HELP WANTED Rural Roads Operator The Municipality of Morris-Turnberry requires the following employee 1 (one) Rural Roads Operator – for a full time position A job description for the position is available for review on the Municipal website www.morristurnberry.ca or at the Municipal Office. The • • •
successful applicant must possess the following: Class DZ licence Ontario Secondary School Grade 12 Diploma be familiar with the operation and maintenance of a motor grader and a tandem truck.
Please submit a Letter of Interest, Résumé and a copy of Driver’s Abstract to the undersigned by Friday, September 26, 2014 at 4 p.m. For further information contact the undersigned. Nancy Michie Administrator Clerk-Treasurer Municipality of Morris-Turnberry PO Box 310, BRUSSELS, ON NOG 1HO Telephone - 519-887-6137 Fax Number- 519-887-6424 Email: nmichie@morristurnberry.ca
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M-T approves generator purchase By Keith Roulston The Citizen
Municipality of Morris-Turnberry HELP WANTED 2 (two) Snow Plow Operators - part time The Municipality of Morris-Turnberry requires the following employee 2 (two) Operators – for snow plowing duties The contract will be for a period commencing December 1, 2014 until March 31, 2015. One (1) successful applicant must possess the following: • Class DZ licence – the successful applicant must provide an acceptable driver’s abstract • be familiar with the operation and maintenance of a motor grader and a tandem truck, and One (1) successful applicant must possess the following: • Class G licence – the successful applicant must provide an acceptable driver’s abstract • be familiar with the operation and maintenance of a motor grader.
Morris-Turnberry Council approved the purchase and installation of a new free-standing natural gas generator for the Bluevale Community Hall, at its Sept. 2 meeting. The lowest of three tenders for the 16 kW generator was $8,745 from J.E. Gabel Electric of Listowel. “I think we have something that will work really well,” said Gary Pipe, director of public works. *** Morris-Turnberry’s newest draft zoning bylaw will be presented to council at its Sept. 16 meeting. Susanna Reid from the Huron County Planning Department will be present to lead councillors through the latest changes. *** Council approved a draft site plan for the former Jag’s Roadhouse property east of Wingham on County Road 86. Nancy Michie, administrator
clerk-treasurer, explained that the site plan covers the need for drainage, etc. for the current property but owner Marilyn VanHeesch has an application before the county land division committee to sever an adjoining property, which would then be added to the existing lot. There would need to be a revised site plan to take the new property into effect if the severance is approved. In the meantime, she said, accepting the site plan would allow the owner to get a building permit for the addition of a porch for the building. *** Use of a new e-deposit system to allow staff to electronically deposit cheques in the CIBC is expected to save the municipality $2,500 a year, Michie said. While it will cost $400 to buy a scanner to scan the cheques and the CIBC will charge $75 a month for the service, Michie projected savings of $800 a year for paper (staff currently photocopies all
cheques received), $1,296 a year for mileage for trips to the bank, and $1,500 for staff time. *** Council turned down a request for funding from the 2967 Brussels Legion Army Cadet Corps. “Charity should come from individuals,” said Councillor David Baker in supporting a motion from Councillors John Smuck and Jamie Heffer. “We’re here to manage the taxpayers’ money.” *** Council approved a bylaw outlining the sharing with North Huron of repair and maintenance costs for the Victoria Street bridge in Lower Town, Wingham. The former county bridge has been downloaded to the lower-tier municipalities. *** Mayor Paul Gowing reported on attending the Fare on 4 dinner in Blyth, Aug. 24 and commented on what a remarkable achievement it had been to feed an excellent threecourse meal to 1,419 diners on the main street setting.
The Municipality offers a competitive wage range. Please submit a Letter of Interest, Résumé to the undersigned by Friday, September 26, 2014 at 4 p.m. A complete job description is posted on the website www.morristurnberry.ca and the municipal office or for further information contact the undersigned. Nancy Michie Administrator Clerk-Treasurer Municipality of Morris-Turnberry PO Box 310, BRUSSELS, ON NOG 1HO Telephone - 519-887-6137 Fax Number- 519-887-6424 Email: nmichie@morristurnberry.ca
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Mait-Side farmstore to expand Continued from page 14 as it has in Brussels. Currently, Giesbrecht still has a part-time job in Linwood, which he works in the morning and then he commutes to Brussels in the afternoons. However, he has been doing business in Brussels now since April, learning the ropes from Cardiff and trying his hand at some Mait-Side classics. He says that Cardiff’s help has been fantastic and there’s no way he would have been able to learn so much about the world of apples without him. Giesbrecht has now made several batches of Mait-Side’s famous apple cider, using three different types of apples, and says he thinks he’s found the smooth taste the cider is known for. As far as the farm-gate shop is concerned, Giesbrecht is already in the process of expanding it. He hopes that the greenhouse will soon be producing vegetables for his customers. In addition, he is constructing a bit of a community kitchen where he hopes people will come, enjoy some food and socialize, similar to how they do at the farmers’ market.
Leading the way The Brussels Pipe Band, above, was the first in a long line of the Elementary School Fair’s parade in Belgrave last Wednesday. The event welcomes students from Hullett Central Public School, Maitland River Elementary School and F.E. Madill School to participate in the parade as well as competitions ranging from school work to growing crops to showing livestock. Close on the heels of the band were dignitaries and the standard-bearers for Maitland River Elementary School Caleb Versteeg, left, and Bri Dickson shown below. (Denny Scott photos)
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Locals compete in provincial tourney PEOPLE AROUND WALTON By Jo-Ann McDonald Call 887-6570
Doors Open Cinnamon Jim’s Upper Deck Lounge was one of the stops on the Doors Open tour held throughout Huron County over the weekend. The man himself, Cinnamon Jim Lee, second from left, along with other musicians, were putting on a show for visitors. (Vicky Bremner photo)
Brewers downed by Fullarton Continued from page 9 Brewers also scored single runs in the second and fifth innings. Wroxeter scored single runs in the fourth and fifth innings. Barry Young connected for a home run and a double, with Darryl Houston hitting a triple and a single. Scott Cox hit a triple and Matt Shortreed hit a double. Scott McDonald rapped out one single. Cox went the distance on the mound for the Brewers. The Brewers then went up against the Goderich Grizzlies and scored an 8-2 decision, with Adam Cronin going the distance on the mound to record the victory. The Brewers scored once in the first inning and the put two runners
across the plate in the second and third innings and added three more in the top of the sixth. Goderich scored single runs in the first and fifth innings. Shawn Bromley hit a three-run home run for the Brewers with Scott McDonald hitting a solo home run. Cronin hit a triple and single, while Young hit a double and single. Bruce Pearn and Houston rapped out two singles apiece, with Jeff Robinson getting one single. The Brewers then went up against the Fullarton A’s and were handed a 5-2 setback. Walton scored single runs in the fourth and seventh innings. Fullarton scored three runs in the first inning and added single runs in the second
and fourth innings. Shortreed connected for a solo home run for the Brewers. Young had a double and single, with Bromley getting a double. Cox had a triple and McDonald had a single. Cronin went the distance on the mound for the Brewers. Paul Dolmage said it was a good tournament for the Brewers. “We knocked out a couple of team,� he said. Dolmage noted that playing three straight games had no effect on the players, adding that the A’s just beat the Brewers. In games on the A side of the tournament, Sebringville defeated Belmore 6-3 and Wingham got past Fullarton 7-4.
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Hullett Central PS pupils force school expansion PEOPLE AROUND LONDESBORO By BRENDA RADFORD Call 523-4296
Staff and students are filling the halls of Hullett Central Public School again for the 2014/2015 school year. However things seem to be in a state of flux yet for apparently new pupils have necessitated shifts in classes. Classes
from Kindergarten through Grade 2 are settled but pupils are changing classrooms through to Grade 8 to make class sizes more manageable. It is hoped a new teacher hire will have settled things out by the time you read this paper. Consequently I am giving you the list of teachers only. Getting the very youngest children accustomed to education are Crystal Moir and Lori Brooks in Kindergarten A and Jill Bell and Sheila Vanderlaan in Kindergarten B. Tina Taylor and Kim Stanley are teaching the Grade 1 classes. Tabitha McDougall is teaching a Grade 1/2 class and Allison Plumsteel has a straight Grade 2 room. A familiar teacher in
the primary area is Craig Caldwell. Mark Campbell is also working with primary pupils. Junior pupils are being instructed by Leanne Middleton, Marian Van Veen, Erin Henderson and Julie Gilroy. Senior students have home room with John Coups, Sara Gerber and the new hire. Susan Barnett is handling music and helping special education pupils. Kristen Workman is the school’s French teacher, French. Educational assistants are Wendy Brewster, Henry Elderhorst, Freda Hill and Donna Douglas. The school’s TRA this year is Laura Mulder. Allan Bosman continues to keep the halls and classrooms clean.
Cathy Goetz returned as principal and Morag Watt is in the office again. The September character attribute is respect – valuing self, others and our world. A visit to the Thresher Reunion in Blyth would fall under valuing our world while the Terry Fox Run for students being planned for later this month would be valuing others. Bert and Joanne Lyon have returned from a visit with their daughter, Kathy Moes, and her family in Merrett, B.C. They were on hand to celebrate the wedding of their granddaughter on Aug. 30. Another treat was spending time with their first great-grandson, Zion.
Musical variety at Londesborough United Musical variety was again a part of the Sunday service at Londesborough United Church as Gloria Wilbee was pulpit supply in Rev. Fletcher’s absence. And Gloria always shares her musical talent during her services. While the offering was being received she sang “I Believe”.
During Gloria’s talk with the children she showed them a piece of embroidery she had not finished. One side, with the end of floss looked rather messy but the upside was neat and attractive. Gloria suggested to the children that when God looks down on the earth He sometimes thinks things are in a
mess and unfinished. However He looks inside all of us and sees the good to be finished. He finds all of His children beautiful and with promise. Gloria suggested to the children that when they come in contact with others who seem different and hard to love, they should remember that God sees the
Major investigation Early Sunday morning, the entire Hullett Wildlife Conservation Area remained closed off as an active OPP investigation was ongoing. It would be revealed later that a man was fatally shot there on Saturday evening. The crime scene was still blocked off Tuesday. (Denny Scott photo)
good in them too; so should we. The children were asked to sing along with Gloria to “Everything Is Beautiful”. The Old Testament reading was Exodus 14:19-31, the story of the Israelites’ flight from the Egyptians across the Red Sea. The New Testament passage from Matthew 18:21-35 was Christ’s response to the question about forgiveness. The Song of the Sea, part of Exodus 1 was the morning’s responsive reading. Forgiveness was the theme of Mrs. Wilbee’s message to the adults. The adults were reminded that through forgiveness one moves away from the past into the now with promise for the future. Forgiveness is a gift one gives oneself for it frees the mind of old hurts. Offering forgiveness is a simple thing to do but its effects are far-reaching. Gloria asked the congregation to sing along with her for “Put Your Hand in the Hand of the Man Who Stilled the Water” the words of which advanced her theme. The senior choir offered the hymn “Draw the Circle Wide” as their anthem. See you all next week at the Ball’s Chapel for Sunday service with Rev. Paul Ross.
Bert and Joanne’s other children, Cheryl Bakelaar and Wayne and Jane Lyon were also in attendance at the wedding making the visit a wonderful family affair. All of the connection visited with Vera (Lyon) Bell in Nanaimo, B.C. The trip home had a stop in Calgary where their plane out was delayed for four hours because of that early snowfall that plagued Alberta early last week. The entire village owes a ‘thank you’ to someone for their random act of kindness last Friday. The recycling bin in front of the former blacksmith’s shop had tipped over at the edge of the road spilling its contents of mostly plastic water bottles. When I went to work on Friday some kind soul had remedied what was a blemish on the village. Circumstances surrounding that piece of property probably had others ignoring the situation. Thank you!
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Obituaries RADOSLAW MARTIN MASOWA Martin Masowa passed away at London Health Sciences Centre, University Hospital, surrounded by his family, on Sept. 5, 2014 after a courageous battle with an illness he was unable to overcome. He was 31. Martin was the cherished son of Roman and Michele Masowa of Blyth and the adored brother of Kasia Masowa (Poland), Stefania and Aleksandra Masowa, Blyth and the loving grandson of Jadwiga Masowa, Poland and Bill Logue, Blyth. Martin was predeceased by his grandparents Henryk Masowa (1999) and Lynne Logue (2011). Martin will be dearly missed by his many aunts, uncles and cousins as well as his special
and many friends. Funeral Mass was celebrated at St. Peter’s Catholic Church, Goderich on Tuesday, Sept. 9. Rev. Gary Ducharme was the Celebrant. Interment was in Blyth Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, donations made to the Canadian Mental Health Association would be gratefully acknowledged and may be arranged through McCallum & Palla Funeral Home. Friends may sign the book of condolences on the home’s website www.mccallumpalla.ca CHARLES THOMAS Charles Harvey Thomas of Brussels, passed away at Wingham and District Hospital on Sunday, Sept. 14, 2014. Born on April 18, 1928 in Morris Township to Harold Thomas and Verna Dennis, Charles was in his 87th year. Charles was the beloved husband of Marguerite (Oberle) Thomas. He was the dear father of Robert and Debbie Thomas, Brussels; David and Maureen Thomas, Goderich and Dianne and Roy Sidders, Cochenour and stepfather of Vicki and Marc Martel, Oshawa and Michael and Marilyn Benninger, Burlington. Charles was the loving grandfather of Amy (Rob), James, Sean (Toni),
Laura (Jordan), Liesa (Joe) and Ashley Thomas; Matthew, Neil, Scott and Troy Sidders; Nicole and Joseph Martel, and greatgrandfather of Sean, Jenson, Emily, Sophia, Evelyn, Elena and Knox. He was also loved by his sister Joan van Vliet, Listowel, mother-in-law Marie Oberle, Walkerton and sistersin-law Susan Oberle and Lynda Benninger, Formosa. He was predeceased by his sisters Mary Thomas, Ruth Durst and Joyce van Vliet. Charles started his career as a plasterer working in his father’s construction business. He became a Royal Canadian Air Force pilot in 1952 and was stationed in New Brunswick, Manitoba, Alberta and Ontario. Charles then became a farmer and an entrepreneur. Charles was known for his sense of humour, his love of travelling, his interest in modern technology - always wanting the latest - and over the past few years his love of huskies. Charles was a member of the Masonic order, the Royal Canadian Legion and the Brussels coffee shop “boys”. Friends were received by the family on Wednesday from the Schimanski Family Funeral Home,
Brussels. A Royal Canadian Legion Memorial Service was conducted at the funeral home Wednesday evening under the auspices of Brussels Legion No. 218 RCL. The funeral service will be conducted from Brussels United Church on Thursday, Sept. 18, 2014 at 11 a.m. Pastor Sandra Cable will officiate. Interment will be in Brussels Cemetery. As an expression of sympathy, memorial donations to Brussels United Church or to Brussels Legion No. 218 RCL would be appreciated by the family. Condolences may be left at www.schimanskifamilyfuneral home.com
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Huron Chapel, Auburn to host Heirborn youth event PEOPLE AROUND AUBURN By Mark Royall Call 519-441-2223
It is September in Auburn and that means once again about 40 kids will be lighting up the village and area as they attend Heirborn over the next six months. I sat down this past week with Heirborn Director Marc Westra, who is a tremendous teacher in our Wingham schools and his assistant Glenda Royall to discuss what we can expect from this year’s program. Westra describes Heirborn as an exciting weekly event where kids from kindergarten to Grade 6 come out to Huron Chapel and get to participate in lots of different fun
activities. Every week, Westra says, we have games in the gym like dodge ball. We also have Bible stories and lively songs the kids always love to sing. Glenda Royall has been hard at work writing the curriculum for this year’s program. She says the kids will be learning about God’s love, God’s presence, God’s voice, God’s power and God’s justice. They will have lots of opportunities to have hands on experience knowing who God is in their lives. Westra is impressed with the 20 some volunteers who come out each week to hang out with the kids and help mentor them. These volunteers play with the kids, they teach them and pray with them each week. Some of the highlights for this year at Heirborn program will include Christmas caroling in December when the children, along with their parents and teachers, ride a hay wagon around the village singing songs of Christmas for the Auburn residents. Also leading up to
Christmas time, the children always do an amazing job participating in the Operation Christmas Child. This is when the children buy supplies and toys with their earned ‘heariborn bucks’ to fill shoe boxes for children in a third world country. Every year they also host a family event at the
church where the children can bring their parents and grandparents to play games and do activities together. In the spring Heirborn also seeks to support the Women’s Shelter in Clinton with needed supplies. In the spring the program will end with a family dinner and
hand out awards to the children. This year’s Heirborn begins on September 24 at 6:30 p.m. at the Huron Chapel.
Nicotine replacement therapy available for free September is the second-most popular month for smokers to try to quit. The Huron County Health Unit is offering free nicotine replacement therapy to help smokers kick the habit for good this fall. “For many smokers, the cost of nicotine replacement products can be a barrier to quitting,” says Julie Verch, Public Health Nurse. “That’s why we are offering workshops as part of the STOP program.” The STOP (Smoking Treatment for Ontario Patients) Program offers
eligible participants five weeks of cost-free nicotine replacement therapy. The program also offers tips on making a successful quit attempt. The next STOP workshop will be held in Clinton on Sept. 30. Preregistration is required so please register early. To check your eligibility and register, call Julie Verch at 519-482-3416 or 1-877837-6143. The STOP Program is put on in partnership with the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.
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Sparling recruited for economic development board By Shawn Loughlin The Citizen Goderich Deputy-Mayor John Grace laid out the framework for the new Huron County Economic Development Board for Huron County Council at its Sept. 10 committee of the whole meeting, saying that the wheels are already in motion. Grace first made the motion, accompanied by a presentation, earlier this year, suggesting that Huron County take a new approach to economic development. Established business leaders, he said, were the way to attract new business, so he suggested a board comprised of leading professionals from all over Huron County. The initiative began with economic development experts Ron Gaudet and Dave Campbell. It has since expanded to include two
advisors well known to council: Jane Muegge, who recently retired from her role with the then-Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, and Paul Nichol of the Huron Business Development Corporation, who has been involved in the world of economic development for decades. The pair have been working together, along with Grace, to recruit the board’s initial members over the last six months. Grace told councillors that he envisions the board being comprised of 11 voting members. On the government side, he said, the warden and two councillors will be members. The remaining eight members will be from the business community, the first five of whom have already been recruited. The hope of organizers, Grace says, is that the first five members of the board will recruit the final three from the business world, using their
own expertise and networking. The first five members of the board are: Karen Davis, CEO of Alexandra Marine and General Hospital in Goderich; Steven Sparling, President and CEO of Sparling’s Propane; James Eddington of Eddington’s of Exeter, President of Exeter BIA and a director with the Regional Tourism Organization (RTO) 4; Jim Lynn, recently retired CEO of United Communities Credit Union and Martin VanderLoo, President of Huron Commodities. The board will employ the use of staggered one-, two- and three-year terms, so that everyone isn’t leaving the project at the same time, Grace said. Grace said the hope is that both Muegge and Nichol will remain with the organization as advisors, but not as voting members of the board. Gaudet, Grace said, will then put
Eat up Belgrave’s Knox United Church celebrated its 150th anniversary over the weekend, doing so by holding a special anniversary service on Sunday morning and a dinner at the Belgrave Community Centre on Saturday night, seen above. Plenty of hungry diners made their way to the centre on the weekend to find tasty food worthy of the occasion. (Vicky Bremner photo)
Local elections set, few acclamations Continued from page 1 the central east Huron representative on the Avon Maitland District School Board, while incumbent Colleen Schenk of Wingham will face off against Mike Starenky of Wroxeter for the northeast Huron, Howick and Morris-Turnberry trustee position. Amy Cronin has been acclaimed to another term as trustee on the Huron Perth Roman Catholic Separate School Board to represent the North Huron area, while Jim
McDade will represent the board in the Central Huron area. Marc Allard will represent the area on the French Separate District School Board. Three candidates are vying to represent the area on the French Public District School Board: Denise Alice Carter, Johanna R. Gray and Denis Trudel. The deadline to file for nomination was 2 p.m. on Friday afternoon. Keep reading The Citizen to find allcandidates meetings in your area in the coming weeks.
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all of his knowledge and expertise to work in the fields of politics, education, health care and business to “hit the ground running” with the members of the board as soon as it’s assembled. “Ron Gaudet’s biggest job has yet to even start,” Grace said of Gaudet’s impending task. Grace said that he hopes the board members will all be in place by the end of October or early November, at which time the board will begin to meet and brainstorm ideas. Then, once a broad framework and strategic work plan has been created, members of the board will present the plan to council at a meeting in late January or early February. The presentation in January, Grace said, will likely include a funding request. However, in the following months, the board will be working to get specific about its plans for the future, returning to council with a specific strategic plan in March or April. Grace says he hopes to have all five preliminary board members to a council meeting in October. This way they can meet councillors and be officially approved by council. The newly-established board will work in conjunction with the Huron County Economic Development Department, Grace said, and its leader Mike Pullen; reporting directly to Huron County Council. In addition, he said that the work of the board will in no way interfere with the economic development initiatives happening at lower-tier municipalities. He said the only overlap between the board and the lower tiers will be constructive dialogue. Grace thanked Pullen for all of his hard work, establishing the framework for the board concept. “The foundation is solid and the community is engaged,” he said of ongoing economic development efforts. Grace also listed some of the county’s recent achievements, including Charlie Hoy’s Vital
Imagery in Brussels and the release of Turtle Power: the definitive history of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which was produced by the Huron County-based FauxPop Media, including Mark Hussey, who has produced videos for the county’s tourism department and websites over the years. Members of the board, through interviews in the business community, have already identified a number of strengths in Huron County, as well as its weaknesses, which include the minimal postsecondary education available, the lack of population growth and the need for further workplace development. “We must invest in economic development,” Grace said, “we need to take on a greater role.” He said the board’s three main focuses will be health care, education and information technology and high speed internet. He said that Huron County’s existing economic pillars will also be of huge importance. Grace said that when members of the board return to council in October, there will be a “small” budget request to get the project started. He also suggested that once the board’s initial plan has been approved, that a meeting be held for all of the lower-tier municipalities, so they can be brought up to speed on what the board plans to do in the coming months, and years. One important branch of the board, Grace said, will be agriculture. He said the board hopes to engage the county’s agricultural community very soon with a meeting in Bluewater that will be hosted by Muegge and VanderLoo. The meeting will be open to all local farm organizations, farmers and owners of agri-businesses. Council received Grace’s report for information. The board will return to council next month to approve its next steps and introduce council to its inaugural members.
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By Denny Scott The Citizen Cat O’Donnell and Scott Ramsay moved to Blyth with the hopes of being able to pursue their creative endeavours and, after buying the former Davara Studios and opening up their own Wonky Frog Studios, the couple feel they can do just that. “This may sound a little ‘newagey’, but the energy just wasn’t right [in Mississauga, where the
couple moved from],” Ramsay said. “The energy just feels right here. It really helps with creative drive and in the little time we’ve been here we’ve been able to dedicate a lot more time and effort to our creative endeavours.” Ramsay, who is a fine artist, and O’Donnell, who describes herself as a ‘Jane of all trades’ when it comes to art, completed some minor renovations to the studio and storefront and are now selling their
“We’re looking to get settled and have a grand opening soon,” Ramsay said. “Then we’re going to look at running classes and more opportunities in the studio.” The couple had worked for an eyewear company, Ramsay as a manager and O’Donnell as a technician, before events transpired that resulted in them looking for a change. “Fate definitely played its part in us being here,” Ramsay said. “Everything that needed to happen for us to come happened over the span of a month.” O’Donnell, who worked as a technician for 17 years, was laid off. At the same time, the couple had been discussing, as part of their long-term plans, moving to Huron County and were considering building a home in the area. “We had been looking and had some people looking for us,” Ramsay said. “We were planning on building a straw-bale home actually, but, within a week of O’Donnell being laid off, we found out about the studio going for sale. Fate delivered us to this and we saw it as a great deal we couldn’t afford to pass up.” O’Donnell, at first, was skeptical of how everything was lining up
but, after her first visit, those doubts disappeared soon after. “We came up and visited and it felt good,” she said. “It felt like home.” The duo had previously spent time at a cottage in Bayfield and had visited Blyth during the annual reunion of the Huron Pioneer Thresher and Hobby Association. “It was an experience and it was something we could see ourselves enjoying,” O’Donnell said. Former owner of Davara Studios and former Deputy-Reeve of North Huron David Riach, along with his wife Tamera, sold the studio to the couple, but not until O’Donnell had tried her hand, for the first time, at pottery and impressed the former municipal leader. “We sat down and I tried it and he thought I must have had some experience before,” she said. “He kept saying that I was doing very well for someone new to potting.”
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works. Ramsay produces both original art on canvas as well as prints and O’Donnell will be selling original works on canvas as well as pottery, something she had never tried prior to deciding to buy the pottery studio. O’Donnell will also be tackling portraits, furniture and anything she can learn by doing. The couple will also be looking to host classes next year, a practice their predecessors at Davara Studio employed.
Orbison show set for Oct. 4 On Saturday, Oct. 4 at 8 p.m., the music and life of Roy Orbison will be celebrated in “Roy Orbison: Shades of Yesterday” a special theatrical event presented at the intimate Blyth Memorial Hall. Starring as Roy Orbison will be the incredible Bernie Jessome, widely regarded as one of North America’s finest Roy Orbison impersonators. In addition to capturing the trademark look of the music legend, Bernie’s amazing vocal range mirrors the remarkable, unmistakable presence of Orbison himself. This unique performance
will mix favourite Orbison hits coupled with some interesting and witty dialogue relating to the music legend that Jessome learned while touring internationally with Roy’s brother Sam Orbison in The Roy Orbison Story. Joining Jessome on-stage will be Bill Culp and The Memphis Cats, a group of world-class musicians dedicated to authentically reproducing the sound of legendary artists such as Roy Orbison, Patsy Cline and Elvis Presley. So in addition to performing Orbison hits,
the Blyth show will also feature a variety of 1950s music from The Memphis Cats themselves, with all band members sharing lead vocal duties on hits by Bill Haley, Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley and more. Tickets to see Roy Orbison: Shades of Yesterday at the Blyth Memorial Hall on Saturday, Oct. 4 at 8 p.m. are on sale now for $29. Tickets are available at the theatre box office, 423 Queen Street, by phone 519-523-9300 or online at www.BlythFestival.com
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Nesbitt honoured for police work Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) officer Sergeant Russ Nesbitt, who is also a captain in the Fire Department of North Huron (FDNH), will receive the Police Officer – Warden’s Emergency Services of the Year award for 2014. During North Huron Township Council’s Sept. 2 meeting, FDNH Chief David Sparling said that he is very proud of Nesbitt who is very active with the fire department, the community and with the Special Olympics. The awards were created in 2010. Locally, Police Officer Vu Pham has been awarded the top police award and Former FDNH Chief John Black received the top firefighter award. *** FDNH Chief David Sparling explained during North Huron Township Council’s Sept. 2 meeting that Morris-Turnberry Fire Prevention Officer James Marshall started to work out of the Emergency Services Training Centre as part of an agreement between MorrisTurnberry and North Huron. He explained that he is happy to have the two municipalities working so well together. Sparling also said that Marshall wasted no time in getting to work on his first day and worked with with organizers of the Huron Pioneer Thresher and Hobby Association to make sure its annual reunion went well.
*** The sale of Rescue 3, a fire truck that was recently retired from service in the Wingham hall of the FDNH, will have to wait until a new council is installed in December. FDNH Chief David Sparling asked council if there was any way to approve him selling the vehicle for ‘a reasonable amount’ before council entered its ‘lame duck’ stage, or the time before an election when council is limited in its decision making on Sept. 12. Sparling said that by the time the new council can approve him selling the truck, it will be a poor time to be looking for a buyer, so the municipality may have to wait on the sale. *** North Huron Township Council’s website received a minor change recently and the cost of it was noted by newly-sworn-in Blyth Ward Councillor Bill Knott. A banner was added to the front page of the website linking to information about the upcoming municipal election. Economic Development Officer Connie Goodall explained, upon questioning, that the addition of the banner, which cost $300, could not be handled in house as the municipality doesn’t have complete control over the site. Knott was surprised both at the cost and the fact it couldn’t be handled in-house.
Creative cyclers The annual Elementary School Fair in Belgrave encourages youth to decorate their bicycles with the best-decorated cycles winning a prize. Shown are several of the competitors showing off their bikes. (Denny Scott photo)
M-T posts $235,793 surplus By Keith Roulston The Citizen Nancy Bridge of Vodden, Bender and Seebach, the auditors for Morris-Turnberry, reported to council at its Sept. 2 meeting that the municipality recorded a $235,793 surplus in 2013, down from $332,014 the previous year. The municipality brought in $4.8 million in revenues for the year, the largest sources being $2.2 million from taxes and $1.7 million in transfers from senior governments. There were $793,212 in user fees, down from $1.2 million in the budget because some municipal drains expected to be completed had not been by year end and therefore landowners were not billed. There was a corresponding reduction in expenses, Bridge said. Morris-Turnberry spent $4.6
million for the year with the largest single item being $2 million for roads. Protection services cost $770,684, environmental services $674,019 and general government, $567,815. The municipality went from having $208,288 in bank at the end of 2012 to an overdraft of $343,229 at the end of 2013 because of the purchase and demolition of the former Turnberry Central Public School. Bridge said the total cost ended up about $400,000. Taxes receiveable were up to $582,018 from $529,301 as more people were in arrears on their payments. “The good news is most of that is recoverable eventually” Bridge said, because of the municipality’s ability to seize and sell property for taxes if taxes aren’t paid after three years. At the end of 2013, Morris-
Turnberry had a debt of $1.1 million, with $944,636 for the Belgrave water system and the rest for tile drain loans. The municipality had $795,670 in reserves. The statement also includes financial information on groups that work under council’s authority with the Bluevale Community Recreation Association posting a surplus of $735 on total revenue of $1,425 for the year and the Bluevale Community Hall Board having a $223 surplus on total revenue of $4,892.
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