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The Citizen, 1985-10-23, Page 6The pool is on the way and when the hot days of summer roll around next summer, Brussels youngsters should be keeping cool. Pool Chairman Paul Mutter says progress is going well. SPECIAL! baden Cheese it spread 500 g. 1.9 9 yourfavorllefoods at popular prices/ emESPECIAL! Chef Boyardee Mini Ravioli or Spaghetti and meat balls 425 g. Are 9 9 Ontario Cooking Onions 21b.bag .29 Weston 675 g . Fibre Goodness Bread .89 Weston English Muffins 8's .89 Weston RaspberryJelly roll 1.29 Clover Leaf Pink Salmon Cottonelle Toilet Tissue Tide Detergent Kellogg's Rice Krispies 7.5 oz. 1.29 4 roll 1.59 6 litre 4.99 575 g. 2.59 Maple Leaf Wieners pkg. of 12 1.59 450 g . Canada Packers Devon Bacon 500 g 1.89 McCUTCHEON GROCERY Turn berry Street Brussels 887-9445 iemlim SPECIAL! California Green Seedless Grapes PAGE 6. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1985. Swimming pool controversy boils over a angry public meeting If nothing else, the issue of the Brussels Swimming pool got a thorough airing when a special public meeting was held at the Brussels, Morris and Grey Com- munity Centre on Oct. 10. The meeting was called, ex- plained Councillor Jerry Wheel- er, who acted as chairman, after a delegation appeared at village council's regular meeting Oct. 7 to protest the council's decision to agree to pick up any operating deficit from the pool. Protestors felt that if the Brussels Lions Club was willing to give the village a swimming pool, they should also be willing to pick up any deficit. Paul Mutter, chairman of the swimming'pool committee, said that Nancy Exel had brought the idea for a swimming pool to the Lions in September, 1984. The Lions looked at the idea and decided to suggest the project be included in the village's proposal for an Ontario Neighbourhood Improvement Project grant. Councillor Wheeler explained that when Brussels was notified it could receive up to $150,000 in matching funds under the ONIP program, it requested sugges- - tons and the Lions Club's pool ideas was the only proposal forthcoming from service clubs. Then in April 22 of this year. the Lions Club brought a letter to the council pledging to raise the $40,000 necessary to pay the municipality's portion of the cost of installing the pool. The Lions Club's one stipula- tion in undertaking the project was that it did not want to be stuck with any operating deficit. Before undertaking the project, Mr. Mutter said, the Lions Club looked at the operation of several pools in the area. The most similar operation to the proposed. Brussels facility is a pool in Chesley alsowith a vinyl liner pool instead of a higher-maint- enance concrete pool (although the Brussels pool will have a larger deck to give more room for those not in the water). The two pools are approximately the same size. Deficits for running the Chesley pool were $3507 for 1981; $1842 for 1982; $978 for 1983; $6413 for 1984; and $3050 for 1985. Although the deficit of more than $6000 in Chesley occurred in a year when ambi- tious new programs such as a swim team and a water polo team boosted costs, the local pool committee decided to use a $6000 deficit as a realistic expected deficit. Lyle Pettapiece, representing Grey township on the Brussels, Morris and Grey recreation committee explained the financ- ing of recreation costs under the new recreation agreement. Un- der the agreement a recreation budget for all activities, hot just the pool will be set up with a Continued on page 7 Huron has place in new encyclopedia Huron County has made its mark in the new Canadian Encyclopedia although in a somewhat erratic way. The Blyth Festival has an entry running to 24 lines dealing with its relation with the local audience and its importance on a national basis as a source of new Canadian plays such as the award-winning Quiet in the Land. The village of Blyth itself, however, doesn't rate an entry, nor does Brussels or any other town or village in the county except Goderich. The general criteria of the editors of the three-volume, 3-million word set seems to be that only places of more than 5000 population are included; but how then does one explain there is no entry for the Maitland River but there is for the village of Maitland, popula- tion 667? The Huron County Jail gets an entry but not the Huron Pioneer Museum. A colour photo of a Huron county farm is used to illustrate an article on farming. Huron county natives are more widely represented. Alice Munro, born in Wingham, of a family that had been Morris township residents (and now a resident of the Clinton area) has a huge writeup dealing in a very analytical way with her short stories. Harry J. Boyle, the St. Augustine resident who went on to be a successful writer, a long-time C.B.C. radio producer and chairman of the Canadian Radio Television Commission, gets a smaller entry. George Agnew Reid, a Wingham native who went on to become one of Canada's first important paint- ers has a writeup and a colour reproduction of one of his paintings (a very Huron-county- like scene.) James Roy gets no single entry but is mentioned both as founder of the Blyth Festival and current artistic director of the Manitoba Theatre Centre. Tiger Dunlop has an entry but not Col. Anthony VanEgmond. Such arbitrary decisions are of course unavoidable when such a huge enterprise is undertaken but there seems to be a slight Western Canada bias that is perhaps natural since the hook is published in Edmonton.