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The Brussels Post, 1980-05-14, Page 1csy4kwito 1172 109th Year - Issue No. 20 WEDNESDAY,, MAY 14, 1980 xes up erage of $70 Remember that you cannot pick up your mail after six o'clock. The local post office locked now at 6:00. ****** If you have a sweet tooth you are going to have to pay more for those goodies. Sugar production is falling and consumption is rising. Inevitably prices are increasing. Forget about sugar in your tea and coffee. They are much better without it. Certainly tapering off on all those tempting concoctions loaded with sugar will help trim waistlines, bulging hips and tummies. It will also improve your health and keep a few more pennies in your wallet. * ** * * * Recently an article appeared about the promotion of an experiment in growing peanuts in south western Ontario. Growing peanuts in Ontario is not something that has never been done in Ontario before. I well remember that years ago-oh how many years ago--that as a child visiting relatives in Baden, Ontario, I ate peanuts, taken fresh from their garden. The soil in that area is sandy and apparently that is what peanuts thrive On. Those peanuts I long ago enjoyed were not little scrawny things and were quite tasty. , * * * * * * June Will Soon be here. Everyone knows that. June is the traditional month. of Weddings. With the ever increasing numbers of divorce and separation young people about to exchange marriage vows should seriously consider, not only the joys of married life, but also the obligations and responsibilities they will be assuming. It takes work from both to make, and keep, a happy marriage. As Ann Landers said, not so long ago, "if more wives and husbands, put half as much work in making their marriage work as they do in devoting their energies to succeeding in their careers there would be' fewer separations and divroce." How right she was. * * * * * * It is good to see that Fashion Houses are taking a more active interest in styles for Senior Citizens. Some companies have representatives travelling to display, and offering for sale; garments to residents of Nursing Homes. Even if one is a Senior Citizen, many, both men and women, do not lose their interest in being tastefully dressed. For many of these people it is difficult, if not impossible, to go shopping to select what they Want. It is especially convenient for them to have a seleciton brought to them. Non-resident senior citizens can also take advantage of this. The Callander Nursing. Home here will host their second Fashion Show on May 15th. A Grey Township ratepayer with a $3,000 assessment will pay approximately $70 more -.in taxes this year than in 1979. A person with a'$3,000 assessment in 1979 paid $368.52 while this year they will pay $439.20. Although the mill rates have gone up, the township will still be Collecting the same amount of taxes as in 1979. The change in the township's mill rate is due to a shift in assessment. Grey's School requistion is up 17.3 per cent over last year with an overall increase of $42,249. Elementary school rates increased from $131,594 in 1979 to $143,983 in 1980 and the secondary school rates increased from $112,558 in 1979 to $142,418 in 1980. The township's residential rate is 44.70 mills compared to 44.37 mills in 1979 while the business and commercial rate is 52.59 compared. to 52.20 in 1979. The overall taxation this year will be $584,936. County mill' rates took a jump this year going from 10.85 mills farm and residential in.1.979 to 23.85 in 1980 and from 12.77 to 28.06 in, business and commercial. The reason for thisrather large increase was that there .had been an overlevy in 1977 and it had to be used in 1979 so, therefore the mill rates were::lower. in.1.979. INCREASED Elementary, secondary and ,separate school rates all increased for 1980. The 'elementary rate increased from .37.86 residential in 1979 to 40.81 and in business and commmercial from 41.87 to 48.01. The secondary. rates increased from 29.94 to 37.04 residential and from 33.26 to 43.58 business and commercial. Separate school rates jumped from 39.37 to 43.85 farm and resideptial and from 43.74 to 51.59 in the business and commercial class. • In Ethel, the garbage collection payment is now $36 a lot compared to $32 in 1979, street lights have been increased from 8.49 mills residential in 1979 to 9.72 this year and the commercial rate has increased from 9.99 to 11.43 mills. The general levy has gone from 4.26 mills in farm and residential to 5.40 mills and from 5.01 to 6.35 mills in business and commercial class. In Walton, the residential payment for street lights has gone down from 8.48 mills in 1979 to' 7.43 mills in 1980 and has also gone down in the business and commercial class from 9.98 to 8.74 mills in 1980. Cranbrook street light payments went down in the farm and residential class from 13:49 to 13.31 and in the business and commercial class from 15.87 to 15.66. In Molesworth, the street light rate went up from 5.20 to 5.83 mills in farm and residential in 1980 and from 6.11 to 6.86 business and commercial. In other business on May 5, council in a recorded vote unanimously decided to droka .4 mill assessment that they used to levy as the township's payment to the Federation of Agriculture. • Contractor here Construction on the sewage treatment plant for Brussels should be starting soon, now that the McLean-Foster Construction Company of St. Marys has moved into the area. So far, the company has taken topsoil off the area where the sewage treatment plant will be located, west of the fairgrounds. On Monday, near the pumping station location in the trailer park, hydro poles Were being moved one pole further north in order to give the company a place to put the padmount transformer that is going to feed the pttinping station. The tender of ' Robert Nicholson of Sebringville for the Brewer drain at $6,840 was accepted and came in 40 per cent under the engineer's estimate. Council gave grants of $300 to the Brussels Agricultural Society; $50 to the Huron Plowthen's Association and $500 to the Mount Pleasant Cemetery Board in Ethel. The township received a tile drain allocation of $124,600 with an interest rate of 8 per cent for 10 years. Loans will be given subject to the availability of funds. The township also received a subsidy allocation of $35,200 from the MTC to help with the additional drain work the township is doing. Council decided not to pass a by-law for the proposed rezoning of Nu-Teck farms and passed three severance applications for Charles and Marshall Harrison, Herman and Joanne Plas and Eric and Lois Williamson. They sent tenders on the FM radio systems for the township graders to the MTC for recommendation. BUILDING PERMITS Building permits were approved for S. and N. Eckert, house renovations;, E. Grisdale, foundation under house trailer; Peter Lefor, implement storage shed; Jim Adams, a used house trailer; David Matheson, a used house trailer and addition; Max Detnetayi ; hok barn, manure storage pit, concrete silo; Emmeison MitChell; implement Storage shed; J. land P. Gillis, dwelling; Kenneth and Helen Bray, new, house; and G. Tognacca, used house trailer. Walton protests phone change Telephone customers in Walton and Londesboro are taking their fight to keep Seaforth and Clinton phone exchanges to the. Canadian Radio Television and Telecom- munications Commission (CRTC) hearings in Toronto Wednesday night. The local residents are objecting to a move by Bell Canada which would eliminate Seaforth phones in the Walton area and put all customers in the Brussels Exchange. Londesboro people are protesting a similar move which would deprive them of Clinton phones and put them all in the Blyth exchange. Walton area subscribers who want to keep Seaforth phones, and Londesboro people who want Clinton phones would have to pay $169.55 per month, if Bell goes ahead as planned. Jeanne Kirkby of the Walton area committee said a meeting will be held after press time Tuesday night to discuss whether residents will also attend. It's a "bad time of year" for farmers, Mrs. Kirkby said. She says the CRTC has received a brief area residents sent protesting Bell's plans in April and has told the committee it will discuss the Walton-Londesboro situation. "I don't think the CRTC was fully aware of our situation in this part of Ontario," says Huron MP Murray Cardiff of Brussels. Under investigation A fire at the home of David Jamieson of Brussels on Thursday night caused about $6,000 damage to the house and contents according to deputy fire chief Gord Stephen- son. The house is owned by Mrs. Elsie Evans and Mr. Jamieson and his family occupy an apartment within the house. The fire started in the children's room and is still under investigation. COMING OUT FOR A BREATH OF AIR-BrusselS firemen worked in a smokefilled room to get a fire under control at the home of David Jamieson on Thursday night. The fire caused $6,000 damage. (Photo by Short Shots Langlois) by Evelyn Kennedy