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The Brussels Post, 1980-05-07, Page 1109th Year. Issue No. 19 WEDNESDAy, 'MAY 7, 1980 BY DEBBIE RANNEy Taxes will be higher for Brussels residents in 1980; mostly due to the increased education costs and that caused council a lot of concern on Monday night. This year the village rates have gone up $2.91 per $1,000 'assessment, the /school, rates $4.08 per $1,000 assessment: and. the county rates have gone- Up ; $3.45 per $1,000., assessment. = . The homeoWner with an average $3,000 assessment will, pay about $30 more in taxes "You can see what we're paying the school-plenty," said Reeve Cal Krauter of the jump in the school taxes which are up $9,824 over last year's' total of $84,442. Elementary ichoOl rates this year in residential will be 43.78 mills, this year compared to. 44.53 in 1979 and the Com- merical rate this year will be 51.51 mills compared to 49.48 mills in 1979. Secondary school rates increased from - 35.44 mills in residential in 1979 to 40,27 this year and in the commercial class from 39.38 to 47:38. The seperate school residential rate also increased from 32.27 mills in 1979 to 44.73 mills in 1980. The total taxation rate for-the village this .,,year which includes-the village, school rates and the 'county is up to 15631 fol.-198(k in, the:,' resideatial class, - 10.44 Mill Increase over last Year. The commercial total -is 184.13, a 17.56 milt . rate increase. over last year. Five miles by wheelchair FIVE MILES IN A WHEELCHAIR-Sandra Thompson wanted to attempt five, miles of. thwIllitevalk walk-a-thon on Saturday, in her wheelchair ;and by makintrit-WMOrrisbank she did exactly that. With Sandra are Debbie Johnston and Bonnie Perry.. n. (Photo by kanney) Only fools say they are never afraid. It is natural to feel- fear when you face the unknown, ****** A Queen of `the Fair contest is being sponsored this year by the Brussels Agricultural Society with a Queen of the Fair Dance as the culmination of the event. Girls 18 to 23 are eligible to vie for that honour. There are any number of young ladies in our community who are favoured with the figure, attractiveness and intelligence to make them excellent entrants to compete for the privilege of wearing the Queen of the Fair crown. It is hoped that business people will come forward as sponsors of the young lady of their choice 'or offer to donate gifts to be presented to them. It is a long, long, time since we have had a Otleen of our Fair. Come on young ladies! don't be sny. Make this a real competition. It should be fun. - ****** May 11 to 17 is Police Week with the theme "Working Together to Prevent Vandalism." Everyone knows that no community is free from vandalism. It may be a broken window or damage may run into thousands of dollars. Be it public or private property it is the public who usually pays the costs. The police need, and have the right to expect,, the cooperation of people'if they are to be better able to fight to control' such wasteful crime. ****** Did you know that 1,200 Canadian children were killed in accidents in one year? Half these deaths were the results of car accidents. 70yoUngsters were killed in'bike accidents; 200 were drowned. In 5640 fire fatalities 131 were children under 15 years of age, These are shocking statistics. Young lives needlessly snuffed out. Patents must be vigilant:Children must be, taught idtheir The mill rate 'for local purposes this year jumped :about three mills in both the residential. and •bil sirres's and commercial: classes as. „coMpared to "last year. The reSiclentiral rate increased from 41.82 mills to 44.73 mills in 1980 and in the commercial category from 49.20 to 52.62 mills in 1980. .:Brussels will. also pay more to the county this year with a increase in mill rate for 'farm and,residential from 24.28 mills in 1979 to 27.73 mills in 1980 and an increase in business and commercial from 28.57 mills in 1979 to 32.62 mills in. 1980. Questionnaire results coming Response to our questionnaire op the Brussels Post at the Brussels Tradefest was 'tremendous and we wound up with 44 returned gnestionnaires fromthere. Unfortunately, not too many people have out the questiorinaires which were in the April 23 edition of the paper and we would like to heat from as many' people as posSible. We would also like to publish the results of our sUrvey. soon and if posSible would: like those results back by Monday iiiorning, May 12 so our findings could 'be published in the May 14 issue of the paper. Additional copies of the survey are available, free for the asking, at the Post. • young years the necessity of safety precautions in the use of Ike bikes and in, or near water. • *ma* ,Once again a female has proved superiority over males. "Genuine Risk", a filly, won the Kentucky Derby. She was only the 2nd filly to win the roses in 106 years. Another did it in 1915. She was not, by any means, a favourite. There were few who• gave her any. chance. Still, she was the leading lady of the Kentucky Derby. That is a lesson not to underestimate the females. We may one day have a lady Prime Minister who will surprise everyone by solving, our country's problems,something that, to date, the men have not accomplished. ****** We may, this summer, have some enjoyment in watching the Toronto Blue Jay ball games. The way they hay ,e been performing lately gives hope that We will have more to cheer abou if the Blue Jays are our favourite team. It is abou .t time we have a chance to hurrah instead of moan and groan over their disasters. ****** Thank goodness these horrible creatures do not infest our part of the world. They are South Pacific co ckiroaches that are 9' centimetres long with a 15 centimetre wingspan. It is said they sound like aircraft when flying. They are vicious. Even hungry cats avoid them and will flee when confronted by one. When these monsters crash into something, it' is a startling impact. There is no disputing the females are superior to the males. They can produce 800,000 young at one time. The males dO not fly. They are earthbound. These loathsome Creatures are especially fond of sweet and starchy items. It is known they will eat human flesh. Ugh! BY DEBBIE RANNEY There were' many walk-a-thons taking place on. Saturday but the 10 mile walk to raise' money for the Bluevale hall' renovations had some rather unique aspects. Sandra Thompson; for one, had the goal of trying to Make the first five miles 'from the Bluevale hall starting point to Morrisbank in her wheelchair; and she did exactly that. The Walkers started from the Bluevale hall, came down Highway 86 to Morrisbank, continued up , the first line of Morris Township and, came back to the Bluevale hall. .Ron Adams who started out on his walk with Abont $745 :in pledges resting on him Morris Township lowered the township's mill rate by almost 8.13 mills for 1980 and in spite of mill rate increases in education, a residential home owner with a $2,500 assessment this year will pay $305.02, compared with $300.85 in 1979. A person with a farm assessed at $6,500 will this year pay 8793.06 compared to 782.2.1 in 1979. In taxation for township purposes, this amount needed to be raised is $103.331. The township mill rates for commercial and business have been lowered from 48.52 in 1979 to 38 95 in 1980 and the residential and farm rates have been lowered from 41.24 in 1979 to 33.11 in ; 980. • County mill rates were increased this year from 17.02 for farm and residential in 1979 to 18.57 mills and from 20.02 for business and commercial to 21.85 mills. The elementary school rates went up 1.67 made it back to the Blueyale hall and when challenged was driven out to the first line of Morris where he walked in with the last of the walkers, pushing ,a baby buggy-com- plete with baby. He wound up with approximately $800 in pledges. When interviewed by the Post at the beginning of his first walk, Mr. Adams estimated he had about 170 people sponsoring him. Marie Walker came in with the second highest amount of pledges at $237.05. About 75 people participated in the walk-a-thon and approximately $3500 was the total pledged ,toWards the hall renovations: mills in' the farm and residential category from a total of 120.34 mills in 1979 to 122.01 mills in 1980. The mill i•ate• for elementary school in farm. and residential in 1979 was 34.67 compared to 36.85,, in 1980. The business and commercial elementary school rate increased .a total of 6.01 mills, from 137.52 in 1979 to 14333 in 1980. The mill rate this year will be 43.35 this, year compared to 38.52 in 1979. Also increased were the secondary school rates which went from 27.41 in 1979 to 33.48 mills in 1980 in the farm and residential class and from 30.46 to ,39.38 in the business and commercial category. The total separate school rate rose 3.03 mills from 121.91 in 1979 to 124.94 in 1980. Separate school mill rates increased from 40.27 in 1979 to 46.80 for commercial and business and from 36.24 to 39.78 for farm and residential. Short Shots • - by Evelyn Kennedy orris taxes u BROWNIES COOKIES-The Brussels Brownies Saturday CAMPAIGN seiWITH ling something that'S become almost. Synonymous with the word Brownies -cookies. Here, Sue Wilson buys cookies from Leanne Minelly, Wendy Heibein and Cindy Stute: (Photo by Langlois)