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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1979-10-31, Page 1A NEW FAMILY IN THE BRUSSELS AREA — A family of refugees who come from Laos have arrived in this area and will be living in .a house owned by Art Jones on County Road 12 between Ethel and Molesworth. The Manichanh family ihcludes from left, Bounleuth, (uncle to th echildren) Sengara, Manivanh, Sone (on his mother Bouakeo's knee) and Senphet (on his father Bounsouk's knee). The family was sponsored by the Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Parish in Wingham and the St. Ambrose parish in Brussels. (Brussels Post Photo) Refugee family here ndalism What can be done about it? What do you remember? Soon those familiar red poppies will appear on coats and other clothing as we honor veterans of the First and Second World Wars on Remembrance Day. This year for Remembrance Day, the Post would like to do a story with a different twist, such as, "what were you doing the day war was declared?" and "how do you remember feeling when you hard about it?" Or if you were one of those who helped to make things for those Red Cross packages to send overseas, we would like to hear about that too. If you remember what you were doing and how you felt, or if you know of someone who would make an interesting feature for a Remembrance Day story for the Post, please give us a call sometime before November 7. ESTABLISHED 1872 4Brussels Post BRUSSELS 108th Year — Issue No. 44 ONTAR IO WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1979 THE FIRST WINNER — Gordon Grant of Brussels was the winner of the first $100 draw sponsored by the BBA when the draw was held at Anna's Dress Shoppe. Handing the cheque to Mr. Grant is Anna Hamilton and beside her is Alfred Knight, the BBA member who drew the winning ticket. (Brussels Post Photo) BBA DRAW WINNER — This Week's BBA $100 draw winner was Trina Watts of Brussels when the draw was held at Stephenson'S Grocery on Friday night. Congratulating her is Bill Stephenson. Trina planned to use the $100 toward a school trip to Austria. The next draw will be hold at Anna's Dress Shoppe. A family of Laotian refugees has moved into the Brussels area and have settled into a home owned by Arthur Jones on County Road #19 between Molesworth and Ethel. The family includes the father Bounsouk Manichanh, his wife Bouakeo, their nine year old daughter Manivanh, their seven year old son Sengdara, their four year old. daughter Sengphet and their three year old son Sone. The father's brother Bounleuth is also with them. They have been in a refugee camp for two years and Father Antony Sonderup of the Sacred Heart Parish in Wingham and the St. Ambrose Church, Brussels which are sponsoring two refugee families said the family left because they don't like the Laotian Communist regime. They escaped Laos by boat. The children will be attending St. Patrick's School in Dublin and were to have started on Monday. The two men both work in radio and television electronics repair and the wife is a dressmaker. The family paid someone to help them escape, and went at 12 o'clock at night by boat to a camp in Thailand two years ago. Get a poppy, the symbol of remembrance of those whose life-blood was spilled for us in foreign lands. The Brussels Legion will sponsor a poppy canvass in Brussels, Ethel and Walton on Thursday evening, November 1st. They sacrificed their young lives in the hope that we might live in peace and freedom. Wear a poppy in Remembrance. * * * * * * The price increase of things consumers must buy keeps on and on. A November 9th news release from the Ontario Milk Marketing Board announced that Ontario farmers who produce raw milk for table use are to receive a price increase of $1.12 per hundredweight for milk sold to dairies. The chairman of the OMMB said "milk producers' incomes are lagging and they require an immediate increase." Milk is a staple, or should be, on everyone's table. The increase to dairy farmers amounts to about 2.9 cents a quart. The final increase to consumers is not yet known but it will almost certainly be more than 2.9 cents a quart. It will affect all consumers but will probably be felt most by famlies where there are young children. Most people will not begrudge the dairy farmers a fair profit but every increase in consumer prices makes it that much harder for many to make ends meet, especially those on a fixed income. * * * * * * The curling season is just around the corner. The Brussels Ladies Curling Club will welcome ladies who would like to take up this invigorating sport. Why not join now? If you are a new beginner you can curl, without charge, from now until Christmas. What better way is there to learn the art of stone and broom, which is so popular in Canada? The ladies curl on Tuesday afternoons. What a pleasant way to spend one afternoon of the week. * * * * * It seems strange indeed that any group would turn their back on UNICEF. It is an organization the funds of which go to provide the necessities of life itself to needy children of the world. Stranger still is that The men still have three brothers in Laos and Bouakeo's mother is in France. The men also have a sister in Canada but they don't know where she is. The two men take English lessons five days a week for six months at Conestoga College in Kitchener and on Saturday mornings the family gets extra English lessons from Sally Campeau and Jim Steffler of Wingham and Margaret Van Ness of Brussels. Through the parishes of Sacred Heart in Wingham and St. Ambrose in Brussels, there's a committee which looks after food and vegetables being donated to the family every week and takes care of transportation to go shopping. The Manichanh family moved into their new home on Saturday, October 20. They landed in Montreal on October 18 where they got a check-up and picked up winter coats from the government. From there they went on to Toronto where they were met by people from Brussels and Wingham. The two parishes have also . sponsored another group of refugees but don't know exactly when to expect them. the ban comes from Christians who are ardent opponents of abortion, believing that even unborn children have the right to live. If that is so, then, do not children, already born, have the same right to live. Without our aid, through UNICEF, many will die. * * * * * * Did the return of Standard Time catch you unaware? Surely there were some of you as unheeding as I. When turning on the radio for a certain program Sunday morning it was puzzling to hear instead a program that should have been on an hour earlier. It was not until afternoon when the same thing happened on TV'that I suddenly awakened to the fact that we were once again on Standard Time. It was not such a surprising thing to happen to me. I never do really wake up and get going until noon. No way am I an early morning person. No, I do not write this column in the early morning hours, if that is what you are thinking. * * * * Canadians should not be pessimists. Sure Canada has problems. That is no reason to bemoan our lot. Consider the other side of the picture. Canadians are better off than those of many other countries. We are among the best housed and fed people in the world, at less cost than in most other countries. Government support in a number of areas aids those in need. Though some people think this aid is not adequate, few Canadians die of starvation. Mainstream Canada tells us "that Canada is creating jobs at a faster rate than any other country in the world and more people are now gainfully employed than at any time on our history." It also points out that unemployment 'insurance and social welfare may dissuade some people from taking low paying jobs. All is not gloomy in Canada's future. The Canadian potential is greater than that of any other country in the world. Our life style equals, or surpasses the quality of life elsewhere. Froth around the world people seek to enter Canada and become landed immigrants. To them Canada is a land of milk and honey, a land of opportunity. BY DEBBIE RANNEY Vandalism. Vandals damage property, take money, steal cars. It doesn't matter what village, town or city you happen to be in. All of us have see headlines like these at least once and probably many more times in a year, It's hard to get a definite solution to the problem as a lot depends on the circum- stances behind the act. For suggestions on what could be done to solve vandalism problems, the Post did some man-on-the- street interviews. Most people preferred to answer the questions anonymously, but a lot came up with the same solution -- it's up to the parents. One man said, "The parents must not be aware of what the children are doing." He thought probably Brussels children were causing the damage. "It's a family problem I'd say. Parents have to want to make it better. If parents don't show an example, the children certainly won't," he said. A woman agreed with this point of view. She said as far as activities go, there's only so much. She said most of the incidents occur at three or four in the morning, and "who's going to be holding a dance, then?" she asked. "I think there's got to be more parental (Continued on Page1 10) Short Shots by Evelyn Kennedy