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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1980-06-18, Page 1reak-in russels The 'back storage room of Stewart's Pharmacy' in attissels was broken into on Wednesday night but any expectant thieves went, away empty-handed, Pharmacist Kang Yoon and his wife who live in 'an apartment above the drugstore • heard noises at about 3:20 in the morning and what sounded like a stick 'rolling down, the Stairs. • • After checking all the rooms Upstairs, Kang, looked out all the windows but failed to see 'any cars, His wife heard something happening at the back and ,when Kang . opened the stairway door to .the back he saw a piece of door moulding which had broken Off, ,on the stairs. He locked the door at the top of the stairs,- opened one window and saw, a man coming out of the garage door, at back and running around behind the garage. He then called • police. The moulding had come off the door leading from the storage room into the pharmacy but no one got in through there. A GRANDMOTHER GETS .HER GRADE 12--Barb Watts, 43, of Brussels, (a mother and a grandmother) recently graduated with her Grade 12: Surrounding Barb 'are children Darrin, Stephanie Kellington, Trina and Ruth Ann.. Watts. In Barb's arms is her grandson Jason Kellingto,n. Two other children, Dayid and Maxine are not in the picture. (Photo by Rinney) tried at armacy The people who entered the storage room likely came in'through the back garage door as the lock wasn't very secure and it had no burglar alarm, system, but they were unable , to get any further into the pharmacy. A window at the back probably attempted as an escape, route was also smashed. `The Pharmacy, has since installed more secure locks and a burglar alarm system on the back door and garage floor. Th drug store itself was already protected wlh a burglPr alarm: Constable Ken Balzer of the Wingham O.P.P. said drug store break-ins have become a real problem in this area and there have been 'other drug stores broken into recently apparently by people looking for drugs. There was at least one other place broken into the same night as the Brussels Pharmacy, he said. A member of the Ident-Unit of the Mount Forest O.P.P., Sargent Nichol dusted for -fingerprints at the Brussels Pharmacy. ESTABLISHED 1172 ONTARIO '- BRUSSELS 109th YEAR —.ISSUE NO. 25 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 1980 .,171 Barb Watts of Brussels jUSt graduated ready for _School; husband Max had Short Shots by Evelyn Kennedy . from Grade 12., That wouldn't be unusual if she were juslanyother high scliOol Student 'but Barb is 43. She and husband Max haire six children and one grandchild and she - had to work her course around normal household duties and helping Max at , Watts Funeral'Home.- : • Fortunately, her family was very stip- pottive while she was going to school and , helped out with many household chores. Although one-of the objectives 'of getting • her Grade 12 was to qualify for a course in Funeral SerViees at Humber College in Toronto so she could offer even more , assistance, in the undertaking business, by also becoming a funeral director, there were other reasons as well. Barb only had a Grade 10' education, but didn't go further in school because like many, otherS of her day, the oldest child went out to work to help support the family. Since three of 'her children have their own careers and the other three left at home had no problems with school; Barb felt that getting an education was going to be now,,or never. Besides wanting to help her husband in ;, his business, Barb always felt that she had never finished her life because she never had that schooling. - - She was advised by directors at. Cone- stoga College in Waterloo where she took her courses, that she should start at a Grade 5 level in' order to get the fundamentals of Math and English. She finished her schooling at a faster rate than most people would even attempt, starting in February Of 1979 and complet- ing her courses in May of 1980. Her subjects included English, Maths,. Sciences (Biology and Chemistry) and every subject had to be passed with 85 per cent "It was tough," Barb said, so tough that frustration set in and Barb almost quit a couple of tiMes, because she found it hard to get back into studying and homework. ALL INVOLVED' "I really feel the only teason succeeded was I had a family behind me. Everyone had jobs. They were all involved;" Barb said. • • When she got Up in the morning to get breakfast ready for heft'. .4he:' left every` at 6:30 -and attended classes from 8 a.m. till 2 p.m. and managed toy ,put 35,000 miles on the car doing it. Students who attended school with her were in.a 16,58 age bracket, but most of them were :from 16. to 22 years of age, They were all, drop-outs and part of Conestoga's mature student , department, but Barb and eight or nine others were fee-paying students:` If she was envious 'of the younger students at first, Barb did prove to herself that, "If you work hard, you do gain= in the end." CHEMISTRY WAS TOUGH. One subject that nearly got the better of her was Chemistry, and Humber College would have accepted her without it, but Barb didn't resist the challenge and through the help of a Wingham high school chemistry teacher,, Jack Mali who tutored her, she paSsed that subject as well. Besides going to school all day she also helped Max in the morgue many nights. She' was, however, able to take off more days in the week than other students since she was self-paying.- If entering the halls of higher learning helped Barb, it also helped her own children improve at school since they all did homework together and compared how they did on tests. She wasn't ashamed to tell her children when she had failed a test and she believes that parents discourage their children when they fail in tests at school. After she had been at school, for_ six or eight months, she felt more secure'; especially about asking the teachers quest- ions. Later on her first teachers, even ones who were no longer teaching her would come back to see how she was making out. "If children have to be dropouts, there's no reason in this world why they have to be bums," Barb says, citing at number of courses that are available at the college. "I think anyone can learn as long as they have a brain. They just have to apply themselves and have the initiative to want to do it" Barb said. It's not everyone either who would Want THE BUILDER An old man going On a lone highway', Came, in the evening cold and grey, To a chasm, vast and deep and wide. The old man crossed in the twilight dim The sullen stream had no fears for him But, he paused when safe on the other side, And built a bridge to span the tide. Old man, asked a fellow traveller near, You are here safe from the other side Why build you this bridge at eventide? The builder lifted his hoary head And to his fellow traveller said, There followeth after me today . A youth, whose feet must pass this way. This chasm, which has been as nought to me, Might, to that fair-haired youth, a pitfall be. He too must cross in the twilight dim:- My friend, I am building this bridge for him. ****** It would make this world of ours a better place to live in if all people had the same attitude as The Builder in the above pOem. ****** This is the day folks! The day to go out for supper. Brussels United Church will be serving supper from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. today, Wednesday, June 18th. Church Suppers are known to be both tasty and bountiful. Take the whole family along. Give Mom a break from preparing meals and forget about the washing up after. Know what? Your pre-schoolers can eat free. Look for ad elsewhere in this paper. ****** Saturday is the day that gives you the chance to turn over the sloppy job of washing your car to someone else. They will do it for you at the Garage Sale of St. John's Anglican Church. While your car is getting its' bath you can take a look around to see what bargains you can find. There will be' some delicious homemade baking on sale. Do not forget that there is free pickup for any donations you have to contribute. ****** ' One comes across some queer things at times. It is hard to believe but it seems that the burdock, the nasty weed with those pesky prickly burs, can actually be used for food: In the spring, someone claimed, the young leaves are great in a salad. The roots Can be boiled and eaten with butter. The stems when young and flowering can be cut, chopped Wand simmered as greens. Not for me thank you! Sure as anything some of those burs would appear, 'no matter what one did to the plant, and would prickle all the way down and through. ****** There are only two of the old business names remaining on Brussels ,Main Street. The rest, such as Ballantyne, Wilton & Gillispie, Hingston, Bell, Baeker, Ferguson, `Ross, Walker & Black, Gerry, have Icing since disappeared. These, among others, were familiar names of Brussels Main. Street merchants in the 1920's,, When I was young and spry. Do yquo know what the two remaining names are? They are Grewar and Thompson. Archer Grewar is still in busi- ness here, as was his father and grandfather .before him. The Ice Cream Parlour, which was part of his father's establishment, is long since gone. Those were the days when Stores were open Wednesday and Saturday nights. Assisting in that store those nights provided me with appreciated pocket money. Many a Saturday night I went home with an armful of perishable fruit or vegetables that would not stay fresh for Monday's customers these in addition to money. Frank Thompson is part of the partnership of Thompson and Stephenson Meat Market. His grandmother had a store here when Frank was but a toddler getting in her way and eating up her profits on the sale of the goodies that children delight in. How many of the names of our present merchants will remain in the next ten years? Holland remembers And local people were there at the 35th anniversary of the liberation of the Netherlands.. A story by Jean Bewley of Walton starts on page 5 of this week's Post.