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The Brussels Post, 1979-07-18, Page 3.... V• C:... . .. . .... ............. TWO TUBULAR RIVETS WITH WASHERS THROUGH A.B.S. TO HOLD GLIDES GOOD SELECTION TO CHOOSE FROM OUR CASE RESTS ON QUALITY A DIE-CAST HANDLE POSTS "PALMFIT" HANDLE ...** COLOUR CO-ORDINATED HELD BY SELF-TAPPING '•% ..• I.D. TAGS SCREWS 411 • . , B DOUBLE STITCH WELT6'•A MADE WITH EXPANDED' VINYL SELF-REPAIRING NYLON ZIPPERS .... .. . . . .r.4 D,. ...... ' LARGE CASES S. AVAILABLE WITH WHEELS "T" SHAPE ALUMINUM FRAME FOR STRENGTH "SANITIZED" CELANESE QUILTED LININGS COLOUR CO-ORDINATED A.B.S. SOLID SHELL WITH CUT-OUT J CASE COVERED WITH (LEATHER-LIKE) EXPANDED VINYL EASY TO KEEP CLEAN K Store Flood plain concerns council THE BRUSSELS POST, JULY 18, 1979 — 3 A HELPING HAND — Junior Agriculturalist Veronica (Ronnie) Coughlin (fourth from left) is helping out at the farm of Mervin Smith until August 21 as part of the Junior Agriculturalist program--a program which involves city students in farm work. Standing with. Ronnie beside the Charolais cattle are Darryl Smith, Mervin Smith, Marilyn Smith and at the extreme right of the picture is,Cherryl Smith. Ian DesLaurier, resource technician with the Maitland Valley Conservation Authority (MVCA) attended a meeting of Brussels council Tuesday night to discuss the 1 in 100 year flood plain mapping. He told council the province is now saying that they will consider development below the Hurricane Hazel flood line where people flood proof by building up the land or taking other precautions. The only feasible flood proof is the depth of three feet below the Hurricane Hazel flood line. But in order for this new flood plain mapping to go through, he told council the Authority needed a motion by council saying they could go ahead and register the flood plain mapping. Council, however, didn't want to make any decision on that with councillor Gord Workman absent. Council had a deipitation from Alf Knight representing the sonor citizens Work and Play group. He told council the group has a New Horizons grant which has to be spent before the end of this year and they want to install washrooms in the basement of the library. The group has $957 and wondered if council could give other financial assistance if needed. He was told that council had already budgeted everything for this year and that maybe some of the service organizations could help out. Council then made a motion that the senior citizens be given permission to start the work on the library. The seniors needed council's per- mission as the library is on village property. Council heard from clerk Bill King that John Schenk, the village's lawyer for the Export Packers building said he would do his utmost to have the quit claim deed for the Export Packer's building done by August. Council members expressed frustration at previous delays She's part of Junior Agriculturalist prograrvi London girl enjoy s Walton farm BY DEBBIE RANNEY "It's a really good experience," Veron- ica (Ronnie) Coughlin of London says of her participation in the junior agriculturalist program. The junior agriculturalist program is one in which city teenagers get a chance to try life on the farm and while Ronnie is trying her hand at it, she's staying on the farm of Mervin Smith of RR 1, Walton. She started working June 21 and will be there until August 21. Although she has never had too much involvement in farm work, Ronnie's inter- test seems natural because when her grandmother was alive, Ronnie always went to visit her out in the country. She had heard of the junior agricult- uralist program through a boy in her school who had tried it the year before and she decided to apply for the program herself. Laura Hansen, the co-ordinator for the program in Huron County came to inter- view students at the high schools who were interested in the program to see if they were capable of working on a farm. Ronnie is interested in being "out in the country atmosphere" and thought .she would like to try farm work for about a year or so. Although she will only be staying at the Smith farm for nine weeks (the length of the program) she thought she might work on another farm in the fall. In the future, she hopes to go to Centralia College possibly to take a business management course. But for now, the Smiths have enough farm work to keep her busy as they have three farms. One farm has pigs, another beef cattle and another mostly sows. Ronnie's chores include feeding, bedding and talking to the animals. Ronnie recommends the junior agricult- uralist program highly. "It's a really good experience for anyone. Everyone, even if they're not interested in farming should come out and try it. I think'they would learn a lot," she said. ' She has learned a lot about the different attitudes of city people and farm people. As an example, she said that everything in the city is fast and hectic and while farming is a lot of work you're doing something alll. the time and not wasting much time. ' "You've really got a purpose on the farm, " she said, although she wasn't forgetting that people who have to be to work at 9 in the city have a purpose too. This is the third year Mr. Smith has participated in the junior agriculturalist program. "We have a lot of chores, ,odds: and ends to do, jobs that one finds hard to do oneself," he said. As he has always been involved with agricultural organizations he says he saw some of the need to get some of the story on farm life back to the city people. He said that Ronnie had a kind of idea about farm life when she came, but that some of the junior agriculturalists were pathetic in their knowledge of farm life. The junior agriculturalist program is one in which the government pays% .a day and the farmer pays $6 a day. The $6 from the farmer goes towards room and board for the student staying there. Laura Hansen said this is the seventh year the program has been operating in Huron County. She hired 14 students from Toronto, 18 from London; two from Tiverton; one from Lucknow; two from Hamilton and one from Kitchener. She has only had three drop out so far due to uncontrollable circumstances. In her search for the right people for the Junior Agriculturalist program she hired 21 females and 17 males. Morris Township council went into committee-of-the-whole twice on Thursday night to discuss the Pletch subdivision when it met to complete the regular monthly meeting. After the first private session, council made a motion to send another letter to the law society about Mr. Pletch's lawyer Bob Campbell. Council also discussed the Walton library. Deputy reeve Tom Miller had two quotes on office trailers, one for a 12 x 33 foot trailer at $6,463 and one for a 14 x 27 foot trailer at $6,738. Council had been told in a meeting with a representative from the Ministry of Culture and Recreation that they could get grants for a new library if the.old one was condemned. So council made a motion for Burns-Ross engineers to proceed with an inspection of the library. Council received a copy of the Blyth Secondary Plan and the reeve told council that Blyth wants to take some land out of A lot of farmers ask for girls, Laura says, because some of them seem to feel girls work better with, and are gentler with the animals. "I'm pleased with the way it's running so far," Laura said. Morris Township. Morris will ask Blyth council to advise Morris of any annexation plans. Council decided to carry through with a motion on Section 86 asking that a reassess- ment be implemented for Morris Township. Section 86 allows for the equalization of different classes of assessment but does not change the overall assessment in ' the township. A letter from the Ministry of Transport- ation and Communication (MTC) on bridges stated that a new bridge design code is now available and that it would be good to carry out an investigation and arrange for a professional engineer's report on the 7-9 and the 10-15 ton bridges. As Morris had applied for a subsidy allocation on the Martin's bridge and found that limited funds were available, it was decided to have Reeve Bill Elston call MTC and ask if they wanted the township to include this bridge in their assessment. 0 OFIELID Br 887-6851 ussels you Morris will write law society ANNOUNCEMENT THE M. L. WATTS FUNERAL HOME of Brussels has purchased THE MOIR-DAVIDSON FUNERAL HOME of Gorrie and in future will carry on funeral services at two locations as follows M. L. WATTS FUNERAL HOME Brussels Chapel Gorrie Chapel 387-6336 335-3571