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
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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.
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*****
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.
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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.
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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,