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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1981-07-29, Page 1Morris Township's big week- end is finally here. Following the official ceremonies Mon- day, the announcement of the Home and Country Beautification and the par- ade winners will be made. Included in the highlights of the weekend is an oldtim- ers ballgame on August 2. At 2 p.m., the Bluevale oldtimers will play against Jamestown at 3 p.m., the Stone School oldtimers will take on Belgrave. Some of the players F., Bluevale include the Gar+i brothers who were on ot. or the first teams at Bluevale, and Keith Moffatt, Some of the ones coming back for Jamestown include the Adams boys, the Gowings and Don Gray. Township's weekend Some of the players play- ing for Belgrave will be Larry Robinson, Jack and Murray Shields and Gary Nether.. Players for the Stone School include: Eddie Elston, Mait Edgar, Ross Procter, Chester Higgens, Bob Higgins, Jack. Higgins. The historical book, Morris Township, Past to Present by Jeanne Kirkby is available in Brussels at the souvenir shop and the Brussels Post, in Walton at Jeanne Kirkby's, in Blyth at the Blyth Printing Shop and the Blyth Standard, in BelgraN e at Pc,ss Ander- son's Har•iv,-a e in Wing- ham at tht Wingham Ad- vance-Times office and in Bluevale at the general store. The book sells for $12. USING FOAM — This small area for parking down at the Lions Park by the Maitland River, was covered in foam after the Brussels Fire Department got a demonstration on using foam with various types of nozzles. An interested group of spectators watched the demonstration which followed a Mutual Aid meeting at the arena last Tuesday night. (Photo by Ranney) Seven attend meeting ESTABLISHED 1872 Brussels Post B.R.usAlLs 109th Year — Issue No. 30 Wednesday, July 29, 1981 Flood plain proposals BY DEBBIE RANNEY Only about seven interested residents showed up at a meeting Tuesday night to discuss proposed floodplain management policies and the redesignation of an area to permit final approval for the McDonald, Bryans, Krauter subdivision. Also attending the meeting were members of Brussels council, Bryan Howard, and Phil Beard representing the Maitland Valley Conservation Authority (MVCA), Roman Short Shots by Evelyn Kennedy If you are living alone and might be in urgent need of help some day why don't you register as a client of the project "Telephon Reassurance." If you have not already done so, do not be too proud to do it. It is an excellent project. The program is especially designed to help those living alone to maintain indepen- dence. Accidents in the home are common. A call a day assures help to an injured or ill person, and besides being a safety precau- tion, provides valuable social contact.' Clients may request the service them- selves or be referred by family. A $2.00 registration fee for the year may be charged which helps to cover the initial costs involved in setting up the program. Volunteers must be caring, able to discern problems, handle emergencies and above all, understand the necessity of confidenti- ality. The volunteer will call at the same time each day- a time agreed on by both volunteer and client. If the client does not answer, the volunteer will call a neighbour, friend, or police department or go personally to make the houise check. The voluritee,r will be committed to making one call a day which should last only five minutes unless problem is involved. Each volunteer will have no more than two clients. If the volunteer is going away, he or she will have a standby volunteer do the Dzus of the Huron County Planning Depart- ment and engineers for the subdivision. Mr. Dzus told the audience two changes were being proposed to the village's second- ary plan on an area which was brought into the municipality in 1977 through annexation from Grey Township and which had to be made residential to allow the subdivision to proceed. Chris Kiar one of the engineers for the subdivision told the audience there is tentative approval for the lots outside the calling. The client will be informed that someone else will be calling. If the client is going away he or she will notify the volunteer. This program is aimed at helping those who need it most, but are too proud to ask for it- senior citizens and the handicapped who live alone. Anyone who would like to bea client and benefit from this service get in touch with Karen Cardiff, 887-6164, Rene Richmond 887-9340 or Betty Campbell 887-6672. * * * * * „ ***** Ugh! How would you like to make your living as worm picker? There are some people who do just that. There is a man in the Ottawa area who has built up a financially rewarding operation from wiggly worms. After working as a part-time picker, he established his own business as the Cana- dian agent of a New York dealer, He pays $13,000 a season to each owner of seven area golf courses for the exclusive rights to the worm population. The local part of the operation now services more than 900 stores across Quebec and Northern Ontatio. He and his 50 piekers pluck worms from the golf courses every night from early spring until the groUnd freezes. Last season they garnered a dew-wOrni harvest of eight floodplain area. Mr. Dzus talked about the two floodplain concept, the one-in-100-year flooding and Hurricane Hazel. He said with some minor floodproofing the lots in between these areas could be developed. "I think council was in favor of this proposal but they're required by the planning act to hold a public meeting. This is the opportunity to bring any objections forward. If there's no objections then I think million, sometimes as many as 200,000 a night. He reported he had one family working for him who never took home less than $2,500 every two weeks. Workers are paid $17.00 for a thousand worms and an expert picker can pluck about a thousand worms an hour . Even at that the idea of plucking wriggling dirty worms out of the ground has no appeal for most folks. ***** Are you interested in being a 4-H Girl. The 4-h Fall 1981 project is "what came first, the chicken or the egg." Interested girls age 12 by September 1st should telephone for club No. 1 887-6289 or club No. 2 887-9359. * * * * * My dog Sheba was ec static when my Ottawa family Unexpectly arrived Sunday for a two week holiday with me. She loves company, She must have recognized their stationwagon when it stopped in front of the door for she practically dragged Me, with her mouth, from the kitchen to the front door AS they were getting out to the car. This home Will not be as quiet, or as gloomy, for the next two weeks. It stud is great to have some of my family with me. * * * * * council can go ahead with this." Bryan Howard, general manager of MVCA said the Hurricane Hazel floodlinc was a provi'icial policy, that was acceptahle in some parts of Ontario. but as you worked into upstream portions of the watershed. it became fairly obvious that this was a pretty heavy standard to lay on people. (The standard restricts building on land that would have flooded if a Hurrir Inc Hazel level storm were to be repeated.. Mr. Howard said if the village wished. council favoured using the two zone ap- proach with a flood fringe and floodway. The floodway area has fast flowing water whereas in the flood fringe it's very slow and the flooding wouldn't pose any great danger to property. Within the flood fringe, development will be allowed as long as floodproofing is done. He said the province had requested that floodproofing be done at the minimum opening up to Hurricane Hazel elevation, and after some discussion, it was felt that this wasn't practical. He said council, had made a motion to pass on to the province to come up with more practical floodproofing policies. Council has requested the two zone flood approach using the floodway based on the 1 in 100 year storm. Councillor Stu Parker asked if it would be fair to say that the idea behind floodplain Mapping was to minimize the damage that's going to be caused and Mr, Howard said that the best idea of the floodplain policy was to keep people from building in the floodpronc areas. Mr. Dzus said in trying to develop sensible way of land use in the floodplain area they had freed up a considerable amount of land which would have previously been frozen for development, , The area between Hurricane Hazel and the 1 in 100 year floodline can be developed in consultation With the MVCA and 'council. Some floodproofing would be required in these areas: "What we're trying to find out here tonight, is if this is a sensible way to go or if there may be some problem that affects the village adversely as a whole." Apparently there were no objection's: at least bend were raised at the meeting,