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.
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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-