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LOCAL i es i en d io nnnnnn..o.....ll.lls . nembesisercair i ro 12e Alcohol poli idered By Jack Evans erhaps extensive property . to be going anywhere. Recreation Special to the Chronicle gamagg, director Ken Wood said all special A formal policy, for which the occasion perml_ts in Colborne %o Cramahe Township Council health unit, in conjunction with through his office and only we t was quick to act Tuesday on a police forces, has prepared trained recreation staff serve at presentation recommending a guidelines, can reduce such the bars. "We keep good contol, "municipal alcohol program." problems, studies show, she said. _ hesaid. § Lisa vanderVinne made the "This\ ts a cost sffective But then he mentioned the presentation on behalf of the program," she stressed, saving Castleton Town Hall. Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge police time, damages and "They have a separate group District Health Unit. The unit has insurance costs while adding little running that and they don‘t apply been active in recent weeks or nothing to the cost of renting . through us ... yet," Mr. Wood said. P promoting such a policy to licenced facilities. "It‘s our facility. Why don‘t municipal councils throughout its Nor does the program limit they go through us?" asked Coun. \ area. special event activities, she added. Mike Johnston. Municipal councils, she In consultation with concerned He wanted the situation‘ explained, are often involved with members of the public, such a changed so that any future alcohol facilities that are licensed yearâ€" policy can be tailored to the permits start being controlled by round, or used as venues for community‘s needs, the recreation department "as of / "special occasion" liquor permits. "A municipal alcohol policy â€" tomorrow morning." Studies have shown that in many â€" (MAP) would provide guidelines CAO Merlin Dewing agreed cases licenced areas or events are for safe, more costâ€"effective use of that Castleton seemed like "a not operated by qualified staff or licenced facilities and events," she place to implement an alcohol lack adequate supervision. said. policy," The result, she said, is She asked council to try to Municipal staff were assigned frequently serving underâ€"age develop such a poliy "within the the job of reviewing the health drinkers, impaired driving next year." unit materials and bringing a situations, fights, injuries and At first her request didn‘t seem report to council‘s next meeting. F Rotary id d Bz )C p By Jack Evans Colâ€" ’;L'_K/i;fl_ {6 "He and Harold Bonter in For the Brighton subdivision, * Special to the Chronicle [[â€"f‘fl('/ Ameliasburgh were among the Roger recalled that the property b 41. Il/é“f pioneers of the new dwarf trees," _ was all a garbageâ€"strewn swamp Large crowds mourned one‘of â€"said Roger. "Agricultural experts . when Jimmy bought it about 20 eastern Northumberland‘s most told him at the time that they years ago. He cleaned it up, prominent businessmen, James would all die from winter kill, but created a series of channels off Henry Knight. i they didn‘t." Brighton Bay to allow water Mr. Knight, 75. Iinniondls. t The first â€" frontage of many lots, and created known to hundreds of @e ie â€" Apdingh storage warehouse one of‘ the more popular friends and business M# WR & &Â¥ | burned down in subdivision communities in the associates as "Jimmy," [ CS ME L. 1969, but was area. died suddenly at his m o# ?f R®* . | rebuilt, and with Despite his active service club home in Brighton on R <oi other members of and business involvements, he Feb. 23. m:* . We 44 the family helping was not involved in politics, local Active for many |Sy, WWe mss i . | in the business, it or otherwise. "He didn‘t like years in Rotary Clubs in |, . N _ ~, x/ t kept on expanding politics," said Roger, Colborne, and later | "// jWili )_ E4‘~.>| over the years. Among his other interests Brighton, Mr. Knight |â€"‘* i [ 399. "Dad was a were boating â€"he took his power had also served a term l a. 3 xc 15| marketer," said boat to Florida and back several as president of the Fyti#: ;‘fi{;g Roger, who now â€" times. Colborne club. SsB [.=202~| runs the business. Even though he had semiâ€" Most people knew ieX "*e»3 "He travelled to retired from the Appledene him through his many Jimmy Knight Central and South operation, "he stopped in here years of building up the America and regularly. He just couldn‘t drive C Knight‘s Appledene apple â€" developed markets for our apples, past it. Even the hearse stopped f orchard _ and distribution â€"and we continue to export them here on the way to the Fairview 1 business. to many areas of the world." Cemetery," said Roger. In his later years, he became a Knight‘s Appledene now A capacity crowd jammed the ) prominent developer, starting operates with a full time staff of Walas Funeral Home in Brighton with Streamside Drive in about 60 plus up to 144 offshore . for the service on Thursday, Feb. Colborne, and later the Brighton workers during peak season, 26, when Rev. Brad Ford of Ba_y Estates development on the running two shifts. Trinity‘St. Andrew‘s United Brighton waterfront, involving But during the early years, Church officiated. approximately 60 houses alone, while slowly building up the Surviving besides his wife, the Son Roger recalls that his apple growing, storage and former Jean Ferguson, are father began as a dairy farmer distribution business, "he had to children Roger and his wife, near Grafton, with a small apple do many other things to keep a Diane, Ron and his wife, Dianne, orchard plot as a sideline. But in cash flow," Roger said. Most were all of Wicklow, sister, Mrs. 1957, he had cleared out the cattle other cash crops, like tomatoes. Dorothy McDougall of Bancroft and built a modern storage For some years he was also and eight grandchildren. He was warehouse, specializing in what active in the Ontario Apple predeceased by one daughter was then a new type of apple tree Commission and also the local Wendy Williams, and a brother; â€""semiâ€"dwarf." Apple Growers‘ Association. Harold. & â€" t }