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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1979-06-27, Page 12New owners at Grill The Texan Grill will be celebrating its grand opening from. July 1 to July 7 with new owners Bruce and Sharon Weber. The Webers took over from Bob and AnnaCopeland who had the Texan for two years and who have moved back to Harriston. Bruce was a carpenter for five years and built houses and Sharon 'worked at the Brussels Inn for four or five months. When her father and mother, Ken and June Webster, owned the Texan Grill, Sharon worked there for two years so this kind of work isn't new to her. "We just bought this place and went into business for ourselves," Sharon said. Wingham gets grants PLAYGROUND SUPERVISORS — Brenda Knight and Cathy Sholdice are going to be playground supervisors in Brussels for the summer. Central .futon Seconelaty School Summer Hours The day school office hours commencing July 2 will be 8:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. Please note: The office will be closed for staff vacations from July 14 - August 12 inclusive Timetable changes may be made after the latter date. Guidance consellors will be available for consultation the last week of August. Report cards may be picked up commencing at 12:00 noon on Friday, June 29th. ject represents a major park improvement scheme for Tuckersmith Township. The town of Seaforth will benefit from an award of $4,374 to provide special events for children aged seven to thirteen, as well as a mini-playground program for children aged three to seven years. The Goderich Tourist Committee is being provided with a grant of $5,088 to work with the Huron Historic Gaol and the Huron County Pio- neer Museum to co-ordinate promotion and research activities of benefit to Goder- ich and to Huron County as a whole. And in Exeter, the Exeter Community Resource Group received $2,916 for a project with seniors and the home- bound to develop a day centre for the provision of social and recreational pro- grams. FM Two Way Radios For Farm or Business We sell Canadian Made Radios with one year warranty we install Bowes Electronic Shop Hamilton St. Blyth, Ont. Phone 523-4412 With your complete order of Wedding Stationery Receive a free Canadian Wedding Guide AYER'S JEWELLERY Where personal service is still important BRUSSELS Member B.B.A. 887-9000 YOUNG'S Variety Party Needs • Baked Goods . Tobacco • Groceries • Stationery Weekdays 9-9, Holidays & Sundays 12 - 6, Brussels 887-6224 MAITLAND VALLEY Insurance Agency Ltd. [formerly Ronneberg's} Auto - Fire - Casualty - Life BRUSSELS MONKTON 867-6663 347-2241 Murray Siddall Glen Ronnenberg BOOKKEEPING SERVICE 10 3/ %' 4 0 Trust Certificates - 5 yrs: Maitland Valley Financial Consultants Ltd. Wingham Memorial Shop QUALITY SERVICE CRAFTSMANSHIP Open Every. Weekday Your Guarantee for Over 35 Years of CEMETERY LETTERING Box 158, WINGHAMI JOHN MALLICK 1 LB. BLANCHED PEANUTS For Only 25' 1 lb. per family) WHEN YOU PRESENT THIS AD PERSONALLY AT COYLE'S FACTORY OUTLET 260 Tillson Ave., at Coyle Lane, Tillsonburg FRESH ROASTED CASHEWS, PEANUTS AND MIXED NUTS NEW IN STOCK - Bulk packs of Coyle's JELLY POWDERS and SUMMER DRINK' CRYSTALS CAKE DECORATIONS from Chicago & I California I OVER 50 STYLES OF TOPS ON DISPLAY I Mon. to Sat. 9:30 a.m. to 5,p.m. Friday 9:30 a.m. to 9 P ,r1.1 - Children must be accompanied by an adult BP This Offer Expires August 25 11979 Had a birthday the other day. Nobody remembered it except me, my wife, and the North American Life Assurance Comp- any. I, because I was one year older and not dead yet. My wife for roughly the same reason. And the insurance company like- wise. They don't have to pay off that thousand dollars, and can go on investing, at huge interest rates, that $12.00 annual premium my mother made me take out when I was sixteen. We all reacted differently. The insurance company sent me a 30-cent birthday card, signed by a guy I never heard of. He's about the eighth agent who has wished me a happy birthday, over the past four decades. I've probably outlived the other seven. My wife, at a loss to buy a gift for the man who has everything, bought me a stapler. Very good. I am constantly coming home with masses of essays to mark, none of them stapled together. As a conse- quence, I am constantly getting pages of one student's essay mixed in with pages of another student's essay, with discombob- ulating results. For example, on page 4 of Joe's essay he finds written, "Well said, Linda. An excellent parallel." And on page 7 of Linda's essay, she might, find, "Right to the point, Joe." It is embarrassing, confusing and stupid. Now, with a stapler, their essays will be all in one piece, though it's quite possible they will find a piece of finger skin stapled to the essay. I'm not much good with complicated machinery. Not to be outdone on my birthday, I bought myself a present - a couple of fair belts of a well-known arthritis reliever. It comes in a brown paper bag, and, thanks to a greedy provincial government, is a leader in the inflation rate. The card was innocuous. The stapler didn't do much harm either, except for the two staples I put into my thumb while trying it out. A little thumb-sucking, not at all an unpleasant activity, cured that. It was my own present that did the damage. Carried away by a flood of birthday sentimentally and malt, I decided. to take my daughter, grandsons and wife on a trip this summer. I felt a warm flood of kinship or something, and made up my mind that I was going to visit my ain folk, show off my clever and beautiful daughter to aunts and things who haven't seen her since she was in diapers, and proudly parade my grand- boys to great-aunts, second cousins, and lnyone else who would look at them, or out up with them. This wasn't so bad. It's not far out or weird to take your mob for a camping- visiting trip. At the time, it seemed a great idea. Even my old lady was luke-warmly interested. My daughter was excited. The boys were ecstatic. Ah, yes. A sweep down and around old Ontario. Through Algonquin Park, camp- ing amid the bears and deer and hooligans. Visit my niece at Pembroke, who has a kid the right age, five. Dig out old reclue Don McCuaig at Renfrew and catch . some trout in his pond. Across the Ottawa River at Portage du Fort, and a visit to their great-grandmother's home, sitting on an island, high above the river. Drop in on their great-uncle Ivan, at his beautiful rustic retreat on Calumet Island. Then to Green Lake, on the Quebec side, where I spent my happiest childhood summers. Down along the river to Ottawa, and cousins galore. Maybe drop in on Joe Clark and give him a tip or two. Then to Perth, where I grew up. Show the boys the swimming-place where I won prizes, the park where I kissed girls, the sandpit where I had my first smoke, the old Presbyterian manse where I learned to swear (from listening to my father, ear against the pipe, as he cursed the furnace). Then a swing down to the St. Lawrence Seaway, see another sister, and then the long swing home, camping and cooking out, and detouring to things like Niagara Falls, the weekly newspaper's convention in Toronto, the Stratford Festival, and any zoos or points of interest along the way. Now, I didn't say all these things. But they are starting to build up. What began as a germ, a one-week swing through the Ottawa Valley, has turned into a three-week Grand Tour. My first thought %was scrounging on relatives, with the odd night in motel rooms. A modest trip. Then I began to realize that two motel rooms would be at least fifty bucks a night. And also that five of us can't come crashing in on some poor aunt who has one spare bedroom. I'm too old for tenting on the old camp-ground, with an insomniac wife and two kids who would be pulling out the tent-pegs as fast as I drove them. And things that go bump in the night. So the answer seems to be a camper, one of those great ugly things that pollute the highways and drive other drivers crazy. That's going to be a couple of hundred bucks a week, plus grub and gas and everything that goes with it. It's going to cost me more than a trip to Europe. I shoulda stood in bed on my birthday. 12 — THE BRUSSELS POST, JUNE 27, 1979 Sugar and spice By Bill. Smiley Projects in Huron County which have been awarded grants under the 1979 Young Canada Works program have been announced by the Canada Employment and Immigration Commission's job creation branch. The Wingham and area day centre for the home- bound has received a grant of $8,748 to develop a day centre for seniors and the homebound, together with social and recreational activ- ities related to the centre. The South Huron and dist- rict association for the mentally retarded, centred in Dashwood, has received $2,916 to provide a day care program for both handi- capped and non-handicapped children. A matching grant for Arc Industries will complement this program by providing training and rehabilitation programs for handicapped adults during June and July. In Wingham, a grant of $2,916 goes to the Wingham Centennial Workshop to per- form a variety of duties for the Wingham Centennial Committee during July and early August. In Vanastra an award of $7,290 has been made to develop recreational facilities and programs for Vanastra area. This summerlong pro-