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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1980-07-09, Page 3A crowd of about 500 attended 'the 'first Den Miller of Brussels, Doug Mitchell of. Walton and. Jim Bolesworth of Ethel. Area winners in the heavy tractor class over 6000 pounds included Don. Fisher of R.R. 3, Brussels, Gamiss of_Brussels, Wayne Grube of Ethel and Gordon' Mitchell of Walton. Optimist promoted and. Molson's sponsored Mini-TraCtor Pull at. the Brussels Fair- grounds on Sunday. An Antigne Tractor Pull' was also held. , • - - In the light under-6000 pounds class in, the Antique. Tractor Pull. area winners included /77 THE BRUSSELS POST, JULY 9, MO • (Continued from Page 1) estimated it wonld cost $500 or $600 a year* plus the costs of borrowing at the. bank. • council figured that' the ,co.st of collecting taxes fe4r tones a year wOuldbe as much As what the, school board, would save and decided to write a letter to the B of E, stating that they were fn fairer of the Board school :toms 500 at Optimist pull .collecting its own. taxes. George Procter was at the meeting to give council a report on the Belgrave arena. He Said that up until the' middle of Ain; 'the. arena had expeuditures of $6,250 and revenues of $4,085 so they were operating at' a deficit of iti6iind $2,100. He said they still had a bank balance of about $700 and that the budget was going more or less the way they- planned. He also said the arena committee was planning an annual family picnic to raise money for the arena. Andy, McBride froth Maitland. Engineer- ing $ervices'in Wingham gave a ,•report on the Kirkby Municipal Drain, He described the present 'condition of the drain as fair t6 poor and said they „ were .propoging to completely reconstruct the drain from, the outlet in the Blyth Creek, to the south 'half of concession 7, lot 17. Mr, McBridep estimated that the drain would cost a total of $10,865, a cost which includes construction, material, 'engineering and other costs. •- * NEW AUDITOR Council ,decided to write a letter to Thorne and Riddell of London advising the company they were, hiring Karl Lentz of Blyth as the :township's new atiditer because of his closer proximity to the township. In a , letter from the Maitland • Valley Conservation AuthoritY (1V1VCA), council was advised that the township's levy world be less thannrIginally expected, Since the 5 per cent apportionment increase was waiv- ed. The township's original levy was to be' .$3,985.43 but with a reduction of $194.26 it turned out to be $3791.22. Council heard that the OMB had given approval to $250,000 for the township's tile drainage loans. Another letter from the saved some time ago. There 'must be~ self-forgetfulness, a wil- lingness to let world interests and even reputation and honour perish if only the task be accomplished. The man who is concerned • with his own repute will never move mountains. - OitiB said they were Cancelling the towns: hip's heating on equalized assessment since the appeal had been dropped, In other business, council heard from Ontario. Hydro that it would cost $2278 to relocate the hydro lines due to the Martin's, bridge construction and that the township would assume 50 per cent of the cost. Council learned that the, township's share of the operating deficit of ,the senior citizens! • apartments; in Brussels is $151035. The total operating deficit was• 56419.85, These costs are now paid by the province, The Ministry of Transportati And Com- munication (MTC) in Bluevale wrote to 'Ross SmitIvregarding the drainage problem in Efluevale and told him that the Ministry's recommendation • would be to open the existing entrance pipe and to, lower the ditch where necessary. • • SEVERANCES Council pissed tile drain loan applications', for David Linton of RR2, Blyth and heard that the land division committee passed severance applications for Ron and Gloria ' Kingsbury and Bridge Motors. Council approved a severance for Howard Martin and heard that the Helmut Niessen the deaths from the heat wave-that has hit parts of the. U.S. Tornado and' electrical storms • there have resulted in millions of dollars in damage. We have indeed been blessed here with Mother Nature refraining from venting her spleen on us (so far at least). May we be so fortunate in the future. What a sigh, of relief' the farmers, affected must have given when the. rain that ended SOMEBODY, GET .ME OUT OF HERE,:--AAtow truck had to be called In to remove this car. from -a trench dug by. the Cam-Teves Construction Company of Sarnia in order to lay/Bell.Telephone cables. There were no barriers in evidence to warn that 'the trench was there. (Photo by Langlois) application for severance had been amended so that he would be severing 47, acres and retaining three acres for retirement pur- poses. In a severance appeal for William Armstrong which the land division commit- tee had allowed in part, council decided to write a leiter to the County of Huron. Council understood that the road allow- ance was to be 28% feet and the letter they received said the road 'allowance only had to be 15 feet. Council passed a ratings by-law to pay tile drain loans and another by=law to borrow $5,000 on the Kelly Drain. Stu?' ri Shots by. Evqlyn Kennedy ,(Continued from Page I) ' This gem of wisdOrn, is froni a clipping Morris awards bridge tender There must be patience under misunder- the drought in Western Canada came. They, standings, and setbacks and muddles and 'no doubt, had envisioned disaster in the lack Moffat and White Constroction Ltd. of including Arnott Construction of Coiling- intetference of others. There must be of revenue from expected yielJs. Crops were Stratford was awarded the tender on the wood - $377,349.80; Looby Construction of resilience in defeat, and manly optimism drying while they helplessly watched for rain Martin's bridge construction for its bid of Dublin - $363,700; McKay-Crocker of Lon- which looks at , all, the facts in all their clouds that would pour life-giving water on $359,626.80 when Morris council held a don - $396,994; Bratt Construction .of Hyde bleakness and yet dares to hope. _ their thirsty fields. Too many of us grumble Park - $385,404; McLean-Poster of St. Marys There must .. be a sense of eternal -about the price of farm produce but we fail to -'$384,854.90; and Owen King of Walkerton continuity of a great cause, so that failure remember how much the farmers are at the - $378,322. Special meeting to open tenders on Monday will not seem the end. mercy of nature to harvest a crop. The late Lord Tweedsmuir ****** ****** , At' this time of writing (July 4) the The village of Walton has achieved devastating forest fires Still rage in Northern another undertaken project that the mai- Ontario. The high winds of last Thursday (Continued from Page 2) various' aged airmen vvho will tell me they dents of that area can be proud of. They have fanned sPreading flames. It is said to be the trout to catch` golf to play, swinunineto , read the article, then bore me to death with a new Community Hall, another facility for' most serious ' forest fire. Ontario has ever enjoy, grandb'oys to entertain, and a pile, of • every single incident that has occurred to ' the people of the area to make use of. The had to contend with. It is most fortunate rocks outside our French windows to then' since they got their discharge. official • opening will. take place Saturday, that, although people have had to be transform into a patio. • ' -There's been only One - count it, one - July ,19th. The new centre for community evacuated, and the 'hundreds of fire fighters As has been my wont, I'll probably just tangible'benefit from the article. Today I gatherings is,located next to the former hall. involved, there has been' no loss of life let the letters moulder on my desk. I find met the guy who sold me the typewriter The Walton library is now•housed in the new reported. Let us hope it continues that way. with the lazy A. 'After ten years, he reckons hall. There is a personal interest for me in these he can fix it, He didn't say for free. • * * a * a 4! fires for the father of my great-grand- . Probably charge me double because it got We should "not complain about our daughter, a new graduate in forestry, is one • national exposure. weather when we have been reading daily of of thosefire fighters. 4even companies bid on the project, Sugar and spice that if you don't answer things, they 'go away I dread going to the Air Force Reunion in September. I know I will be cornered by , We apologize"- for photo. .problems Pictures included in this week's Brussels Post should have included photos of win- ners in the rose show and the installation of Verna Thomas as the District Deputy Pres- ident of Huron District 23 Morningstar Rebekahs but •unfortunately these did not turn out. The 'Post apologizes for the inconvenience to those' involved. Isabel Gibson and Shirley Wheeler tied for first place and Helen Dobson was Second in the rose show put on by the Horticultural Sot- LIONS AND LEGION TROPHY WINNERS Brussels Public School held its *Grade 8 graduation ceremonies at the Legion and these people. were winners of the Lions and Legion trophies. The w inn ion ers are: Kim Stephenson and Greg Higgins - Leg trophies for Proficiency; an Brenda Richmond - the Legion trophy for public speaking and Karen McCutcheori, Darrin A Watts and Paul Machan who received the Lion's trophies for citizenship. Presenting the trophies for the Legion was TO Elliott and for the LionS Club was Bruce Hahn. A cutlirie last week which said that Darlene Freeman got the Proficiency award Was incorrect.. Darlene got the Grade 7 Goed Guy and the Martin Murray English awards, (Photo by Langlois) iety at the Library on Wed- nesday. Mrs. Jean Henderson from the Huronic Rebekah Lodge of Clinton and the Past DistriCt Deputy President, installed Mrs. Thomas in her 'new position. If last week's graduation. pictures looked a little dark in the paper, it wasn't the fault of the photographers. The pictures taken Were cleat ' but unfortunately didn't come out that Way in the paper. Out apologies,