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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1980-07-16, Page 20Sugar and spicy By Bill Sniiiey 11 • . 010eydteH Hall - Continued from page 1 indepth investigation of a new structure before, malting a decision-do enlarge or renovate the existing building. He emphasized the limitations 'that resulted from adding to an existing building. "You're not going to be able to do what you would like. It's going to be rigged around what's already there." He added that today people providing funds and donations like to see facilities for the handicapped and, that was another advan- tage for having the new facility on one floor. • .. He estimated the cost of a new structure could be approximately the same as fixing up the old building, " "Anybody want to buy an old building?" one man jokingly asked to a round of laughter. One man had investigated the price of a 40x 80 building which'included everything and carne up with an, estimate of about $46,000 while it was suggested the estimate for an addition was in the $60,000 to S70,000 price range. Following an hour long ,discussion, the residents decided to go along with a motion , made by Bev Brown that the building 'committee request Turnberry Township Council to clarify the lot size and that the committee, visit other similar sized com- tnu,nity centres, to get some idea of what could go into a new hall. The building committee could then fink/ a recommend- . ation for a Bluevale hall and present the !ecommendation to auother public meet- ing. At that time a decision could be made to go ahead with a new hall or to put an addition on the present ball after the . alternatives had been compared. 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Chapmans ICE CREAM 2litres Bakery .89 .89 .69 .89 1.39 3/.99 1.25 Grocery ' STEPHENSON 887-9226 Free Ifelivery Brussels rir%e:rehi:orhon faalic4risi' 2127 scego New leader in the. middleweight power class )114 i osimlar IVA: IN • • • 1 :"4:7111111giijAlpliii6A \lea International 886 Tractor International 84-86-88 Tractors INTEREST FREE with Special terms to Mar. 1 /8 1 INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER CANADA Continued from page 2 O.K. You Want literary criticism? You t. shall get it. I've just finished. reading "Needles") the novel that won for its author, William Deverell, $50,000 in a new gimmick established by, I think, Seal paperback books and the old and s it says here - reputable Canadian publishing firm of McClelland and Stewart." It was, according to the Over blurb, the unanimous choice of the judges. I wonder who the judges were. Gordie Howe? George Chuvalo? Lassie? "Needles" cannot be written by a fine, young Canadian. It is straight out of Sax • Rohmer by Mickey Spillane with James Bond doing the accouchement. It is pure garbage. But the sort of garbage that makes you dig right to the bottom of the garbage can. (Note the repetition of the word garbage there, you literary crits?) But it 'is wonderful garbage, and that's why the judges chose it. It will sell. It's so rotten that I finished it at three a.m. It's so bad you can't put the clang thing down. It has everything that the modern reader wants, and can't quite get, even though TV and the movies are busting their corsets to probe our every abberation. It has kinky sex, drugs, genital mutil- ation, booze, a cop who likes kicking people in the guts, a courtroom scene with a lawyer who is shooting into his vein, and a re-incarnation of Dr. Fu Manchu, the great Chinese villain of the aforementioned Sax Rohmer's books. It also contains every dirty word you ever thought you might like to say, and every violent deed you might like to commit. It's bound to be a best-seller. And that is why Gordie, George and Lassie chose it. Not foe" literary merit. . - To be fair, it has 'a few great descriptive passages from the Vancouver Chamber of Commerce tourist booklet, and some switches right out of John Le Carte. So sue me, Jack McClelland. Everything is in my wife's name. Actually, I thor- oughly enjoyed the novel., and I'm sure you will, too, if you can't get enough sex and violence at home. Might as well get all this lit crit out of My system at once. That brings up - no pun intended • Mordecai Richler's new novel. I haven't read it, because the library has not yet stocked it, and may never do so, , When his novel "Cocksure" won the Governor General's Award, 'I chaffed, our local librarian because it wasn't, on the shelves. Her reply, and she was right, was that it was too dirty for our town. We must have had a dirty old man as Governor General at the time. At any rate, as they say when they don't know how to begin the next paragraph, grumpy old Mordec, ai has once again gone through his gestation, and produced. And once again, he is into the Jewish thing. In short, he .has "once more re-written the same novel that he haXbeen honing for years. He wrote one 'about a Young Jew, then about a slightly older Jew, then about a youngish middle-aged Jew, and this one is about a really middle-aged Jew. I'm looking forward to his noel about an old Jew. Simply, Mordecai Richler, after a couple of good attempts, went back to the fecund well of his own background, drew from it, and drank deeply. The results are first- rate. He has, not yet produced a "master- piece," as Maclean's, that pale copy of something or other, called his latest work. What's a masterpiece? A piece done by a master, which is recognized a hundred.,or - three hundred, years liter by the current expert on masterpieces. Shakespeare was a journeyman play- writer. Dickens sold his stuff to magazines, and padded it unscrupulously, because he was paid by the word. Nobody would touch Conrad with a ten-foot pole until he was' aging. We have some excellent writers in Canada. If you want to see into the mind of a woman, read Margaret Laurence. If you want to see into the mind of a Catholic moralist, read Morley Callaghan. If you want to see into the mind of a WASP, read Richard Rohmer. And so on. But if you want to read the works of a hard-nosed satirist, who lays it right on the line about this country of ours, read Richter. Too bad his novels are too dirty to teach in high school. But I have snuck in Duddy Kravitz. The difference between you and a person who's fit is that anything you can do he can do better. . pannapacrion The Canadian movement for personal fitness. THE BRUSSELS POST, JULY le, 1980 Pr Short Shots by Evelyn Kennedy, Continued from page I The publication Safety, Canada tells us And understands. that trouble is brewing within the hospitality. ,—Don Blanding industry, people who earn their living in ****** restaurants, taverns- and similar places. It is that time again for the Park Barbecue Those who serve a Customer enough of St. John's Anglican Church. It is being alcoholic beverage to make the customer held today (Wednesday, July 16) from 5:00 impaired, the establishment, perhaps even to 7:36 p.m. If .you enjoy -barbecued pork the bartender, may be liable. In the Province chops, done to perfection, that is the place to of Ontario, the Liquor licensing" Act says get them. See display ad elsewhere in this "no person shall sell or supply, liquor or. paper for particulars. - permit it to be sold or supplied to any person * * a * * • in, or apparently in, an intoxicated cOn- It is indeed a sorry state of affairs when await', teenagers who do not take drugs are, made to Unfortunately, even experienced feel so left out that they must seek expert bartenders are not always ;able. to tell advice to deal with their problem. Their whether that is the case or not. It is more peers, who indulge in drug use, ridicule - obvious with some customers than with How can anyone be so heartleis? A beautiful, large 2-year-old white cat was ruthlessly run down by. a speeding car travelling north out' of Brussels. It happened about 10:30 one night last Week. The' cat had been called by its mistress and was not more than a yard from leaving the edge of the black, surfaced road, where , it must have' been plainly visible, when it was killed. The Scary conclusion — Researchers in Eng- owner helplessly watched the needless land say that in a test it was concluded that slaughter of her pet. The driver did not even " habitual smokers probably suffer mini have the decency to stop and say "I'm withdrawals several times a day. This affects their productivity, concentration and per- formance. There nowt That should be incentive enough to ,give up the filthy, expensiVe habit. OopsI That takes a kind of will power too many of us lack. ****** A Post Classified will pay you dividends. Have you tried one? Dial Brussels 887-6641. them and make them feel like outcasts. Dr. Janet Krainer of Jefferson University tells us "that as an adolescent specialist, she is consulted by these lonely teenagers." Why must those who are addicted (alcohol and drugs) feel compelled to drag down other teenagers to their level by making them feel like pariahs? To our teenagers I say — resist their influence and pressure. They are the ones who will sooner or later be the lonely heartsick ones.— others. Yet the safeguard is needed for the public in general. ****** sorry" for what happened. What if it had been one of the neighbourhood children that had been crossing the street? Would the driver then have sped away without any more concern than he had for the mangled body of someone's pet?