HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1981-10-21, Page 3A NEW HOME FOR WORSHIP — Recently the Brussels Mennonite
Fellowship covnerted the Clarke Matheson home in Brussels into a place
of worship, completing the exterior of the building on the Labor Day
weekend. Some interior work still needs to be finished.
(Photo by Ranney)
New home for
Mennonite Fellowship
Brussels Mennonite Fellowship has had
a new place of worship for about a month
now in the former Clarke Matheson home
on Clinton Street which they renovated
on the Labor Day weekend.
The Fellowship which had been holding
services in the Brussels Library since the
beginning of the year, purchased the home
this summer for a place of worship and
assisted by volunteer labor from other
Mennonites from Chesley, Dungannon,
Hanover, Berea, Listowel, Moorefield and
St. Jacobs transformed the black
insul-brick building with white siding and
brown trim.
Previously work parties had poured a
concrete porch, installed new sewer lines
and had begun the work of converting the
interior into a worship area, Sunday School
rooms and washrooms. Currently the
Brussels Mennonite Fellowship is still
in the process of converting the interior
rooms which are usable but not finished.
Anyone without a church home in
Brussels is cordially invited to attend the
services. Sunday morning worship begins
at 9:30 with Sunday School for all ages at
10:30.
OUR HOUSE
Our house sings with colour,
As anyone can see
And when I feel a little down
it really comforts me!
For how could anyone feel blue
When a house is full of song?
Our house greets us each new day
• With a cheerful coloured hue,
It says, "Come in and sit awhile"
And you will not feel blue!"
A Coat of Many Colours?
Yes, That's what our house will be
A home that sings with colour
Is a happy place to De.
Poems for fall
—Iona Moore
THE CHANGING SEASON
The wind blows 'and leaves fall
Making a golden carpet of the ground.
The clouds darken and we know winter
approaches,
Christmas draws near
And a peaceful air is all around us.
Come, snow, and put your white blanket
down,
And give a pure look to earth again!
FUN AND GAMES
The black cat howls
And the Jack-O-Lanterns smile,
The children hurry' along,
Their treasures held tightly at their side,
It is a night for the young.
It is a night for fun,
It is Hallowe'en!
—4Ona MOore
OCTOBER SPLENDOR
It stands on the corner proud and tall
There to be seen by one and all
But no one pays it very much heed,
When it's colour is just a summer's green.
But when October changes its hue
It gets all the attention that is due .
A beautiful Maple proud and tall,
A•sight so lovely in the fall!
—Iona Moore
THE BRUSSELS POST OCTOBER 21, 1981 — A3
Brussels WI hears
of Alpha Huron
Dorothy Steffler, President
of the Majestic Women's
Institute, welcomed mem-
bers and guests and opened.
the October meeting with a
poem, "Thank You God."
It was decided to donate
$10 to the Poppy Fund, and
$10 to the Arthritic Society.
An invitation was read
from the Howick Jr. Institute
to attend an evening at the
Howick Central School on
October 29 at 8:30 p.m. about
the Town and Country Home-
makers.
On December 2, a bus from
the district will be going to
the Erland Lee Homestead, to
Dungirin Castle and also
shopping. 'Anyone interested
should notify the President as
soon as possible.
Jane de Vries and Cathy
Bridge will be leading a
quilting course between Nov.
4 and Nov. 19, and will need
four sessions.
Marie McTaggart will be a
voting delegate at the Area
Convention which is being
held at the Brussels, Morris
and Grey Community centre
October 22 and 23. Several
out-of-town ladies will be
billetted in homes here and at.
time of printing a few more
beds were needed. Anyone
who has an extra bed (mem-
ber or non-member) could
please phone Leona Arm-
strong at 887-6753.
Plans were made for the
November 14 Bazaar and
Bake Sale to be held in the
Library basement.
Kate Wilson and Amy
Speir, conveners, took charge
of the meeting and intro-
duced Pat and Ralph Watson
who explained Alpha Huron
and gave an interesting pic-
ture presentation on the han-
dicapped, and, what is being
done to help.
Phyllis Mitchell on the
violin and Alice Brothers on
the piano rendered some
lively old-time music which
was enjoyed.
Amy Speir read a poem,
Gerry Ginn, has been
appointed to the Huron
County Housing Authority,
Municipal Affairs and Hous-
ing Minister Claude Bennett
has announced.
Ginn, a former warden to
Huron County, will serve on
the seven member authority
which manages Ontario
Housing Corporation's 415
assisted housing units in
Huron County.
Commenting on the ap-
pointment, OHC chairman
Allan Moses, noted that the
day-to-day management of
"Heaven's very special
child."
Leona Armstrong gave an
interesting report on the
County Rally held at Belgrave
recently. She mentioned that
between 750 and 760 girls in
Huron County are taking the
4-H Course "Which came
first, the chicken or the egg."
The next • course will be
"Bread Winners."
Next meeting, Wednesday
November 11 at 8:00 p.m. is
based on Citizenship and
World Affairs. Everyone is
welcome.
all of OHC's 93,000 housing
units is carried out by local
housing authorities, al-
though the primary respon-
sibility for assisted housing
remains with OHC.
The Huron County Hous-
ing Authority manages 331
senior citizen assisted hous-
ing units and 84 units for low-
income families. The author-
ities also provides housing
for physically-disabled and
mentally-retarded persons
who are capable of living on
their own.
Gerry Ginn now on
Housing Authority
It takes an expert to raise kids these days
Behind the scenes As we progress into the age of space travel,
nuclear power and computers, the world
seems to be ever more complicated, even
some of the things that have always been
most basic.
Now take my grandmothers for instance.
One raised five children, the other four and
for them the only complicated thing was how
to keep food in their stomachs and clothes on
their backs. Today they would have less
trouble keeping their brood in the basic
comforts of life but they might get ulcers
realizing just how complex raising children
has become.
You see my grandparents, even my
parents, thought keeping their children
materially comfortable, giving ample a-
mounts of love and adequate amounts of
discipline was all that was required to raise
children. Today they would know that unless
you've taken a four-year honours degree in
early childhood education you are unfit to be
around young children.
Never before has something so natural as
raising the next generation been taken. so
seriously. Take for instance, the postal
workers recently won the right of 17-weeks
paid maternity leave because, according to
by Keith
them, raising the next generation is not the
responsibility of the parents but society as a
whole and therefore the employer and the
government (which in this case is the same
thing) should pay the mother for time off.
Another group of workers in Toronto are
taking childbearing even more seriously.
They are demanding not 17 weeks but 20
weeks (nearly 5 months) off at the time of
birth and not just for the mother but for the
father too. It is important for th early
development of the child, they say, that both
parents be on hand to get the child off to a
good start.
BACK TO WORK
Now once that maternity (or paternity)
leave is over the parents will have to go back
to' work and the child will have to go
somewhere. When we were raising our
family that often meant to a neighbour who
babysat the child until the parents got back
from work. How shameful. We should have
been thrown in jail for negligence. Imagine
leaving an impressionable child in the hands
Roulston
of some amateur at child care. That child
should have been put in a proper day care
centre run by proper graduates of child care
courses who know far more about the proper
training of children than a neighbour even if
they are only 21 years old and never had a
child of their own while the neighbour has
raised six children who all turned out to be
fine members of society.
Of course if we had been taken to court over
the negligence we might have gotten off
because we had no real alternative. You see
that cheapskate government isn't providing
enough money to provide proper day care
facilities for people. What's more, protesters
at Queens Park pointed out the other day, the
people who do work in day care centres are
grossly underpaid. Our hopelessly old-fash-
ioned politicians still seem to feel that looking
after a child is the responsibility of, the
parents, not the state.
SERIOUS BURDEN
Many young couples today are taking the
burden of raising children even more
seriously. Noting how frightening the mod-
ern world has become they have decided that
it would be unfair to bring a child into this
chamber of horrors so they have decided,
very charitably, not to have children. We
have that choice today hich our grandpar-
ents didn't, thanks to unprecidentedly
dependable birth control measures.
Still, despite these convenient methods to
stop inconvenient pregnancies, many couples
face a further grievous decision. Finding
themselves in the family way they must
decide if it is right to bring an unwanted child
into the world. Many are deciding that for a
child to carry the burden of knowledge that
his arrival deprived his parents of having a
video-tape recorder or that trip fo Fiji they
had been counting on would be too much for •
his little psyche so they are aborting the child
to save him from all that.
Yes my grandmothers would find it hard to
understand all the cOinpl ications of modern
childbearing. Of course they were women of
little education, without even high school
diplomas let alone college degrees. Come to
think of it they're the kind of women who
some -people would say shouldn't even be
allowed to have children today. Thank
goodness they had their children half a
century and more ago or I wouldn't be here at
all. Of course neither would a lot of the
"experts" of today.
To the editor:
i want to take this opportunity to thank you
and yoUr Staff for the support which you havd
given to The Arthritis Society in the past in
regard tee publicity.
This service which you provided to
Members Of the community has contributed
greatly to their understanding and education
of Arthritis — its treatment and care. Locally;
your community is inVolved in fund raising
eVents in September„ know that your
has been generous in providing
' space for us in which We can ptiblidie our
• -campaign as well "
Once again ; thank you tor your generosity
and interest in the work of the Society,
Sincerely yours,
(Mrs) Jane Trnayskis
Field Representative
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