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Members of the new executive of the. Brussels Lions Club met at the home
of retiring president Henry Exel on. Thursday evening to plan activities for the
new year. Shown here are (left) Henry Exel, director and assistant bulletin
editor Max Watts, Tail twister Wayne Lowe, Secretary and assistant publicity
chairman Cecil. McFadden, 3rd. vice president Ross McCall, President James
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With temperatures in the nineties over the week end, one of the most popular spots in Brussels
has been the Lions wading pool. .Here are a few of the 'hundreds of area kids who found the water
in the pool 'just right for cooling off. (Staff Photo)
101st Year — Issue No. 30 Wednesday, July 26, 1972
BRUSSELS
ONTARIO
School trustees broaden
pupil attendance policy
• Horticultural society
plans flower show Brussels Post
Knight, 1st Vice President Gordon McGavin and TreasurerHank Ten pas. Absent
when the picture was taken were 2nd. vice President James Prior, directors
Albert Ten pas, John Bryans and Geo. Langlols, assistant tail twister John Knight,
Assistant Lion Tamer, Kenneth Scott, publicity chairman Roy Kennedy.
(Staff Photo)
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The Brussels Horticultural
Society met July 17th at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. H. Dunk,
Walton. There were 23 members
and 10 guests present. Mrs.
C. Hemingway, 1st Vice Pres-
ident presided.
Members were told there had
been $29.00 turned in for the
Bakeless sale. The annual flower
show and supper to be held Aug.
26th was discussed. The flower
committee will be Mr. A..Knight,
Mrs. N. McLarty, Mrs. John
Speir, Mrs. Doug Hemingway;
Supper Committee, Mrs. E.Cud-
more, Mrs. A. McCall, Mrs. Wm.
Miller.
Mr. Blair Smith of Listowel
favored with two accordian solos.
Mr. A. Knight read the news
letter. The F. Dale garden book
will be available to Society mem-
bers if sufficient are ordered.
Mrs. Cudmore thanked Mr.
Smith and presented a gift.
The flower display was dis-
cussed by the members. Mrs.
Doug Hemingway won the door
prize. Mrs. Dunk and her comm-
ittee of Mrs. I. Kelly, Mrs.
N. Reid, Mrs. A. McCall, Mrs.
E. Mitchell served lunch.
A policy regarding school att-
endance areas was passed Monday
evening at the Huron County
Name new
• engineer
George penfold, 27 has been
appointed Agricultural Engineer
for Huron County. He succeeds
Jim Arnold who transferred to
Kemptville College of Agricul-
tural Technology in May. The
appointment was effictive July
10.
A native of the London area,
where his family have a cash crop
farming operation, he graduated
in 1968 from the University of
Guelph where he majored in
Water Resources Management
and Civil Engineering. He join-
ed the Extension Branch, Ontario
Department of Agriculture and
Food in Wellington County at
Guelph and in 1969, transferred
to the Grey County office of the
department.
During the past year, he and
Mrs. Penfold toured Europe and
North Africa. His wife is a
graduate in Home Economics
from the University of Guelph
and both are active in sports,
especially sailing and skiing.
jects in his designated school
that are needed to fulfill his
educational goals.
Boundaries for the J.A.D. Mc-
Curdy Public School were es-
tablished. They are Highway
4 in the east, the Huron-Middle-
sex boundary in the south, the
boundary line between Con. 3
and 4 in the west and to the
north, on Con. 1 northern bound-
ary of Lot 6, on Con. 2 north-
ern boundary of Huron Park and
on Con. 3 northern boundary
of Ontario Development Corp-
oration land.
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Jack Thynne of Brussels, long
known, and enjoyed across
Canada and the U.S. as “The
Kansas Farmer", will appear
as an entertainer at the '7th
Annual Steam Show at the Cooks-
Town fair grounds. The event
takes place August 5th, 6th, and
7th.
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Hot! Hot and humid! Over the
week end thousands fled to the
beaches in an effort to escape
the heat. Unless they were more
fortunate than one couple we could
name, they were not very succ-
essful. The beaches were
crowed with sweltering, restless,
sun-burned breeze seekers. Few
beaches have much shade. Relief
from the blistering rays came
only at sun-down when,a dip in
the cooling waters of Lake Huron
washed away the stickiness of
the sun filled hours. Lucky in-
deed were you if you secured
an air-donditioned room. If not,
the humid atmosphere, combined
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Board of Education meeting.
It decrees that when a parent
applies in writing to the board
to have a child attend a school
other than the one in the dis-
trict in which he resides and
when several conditions are met,
the board will grant permission
for the change providing the re-
quest is made no later than
July 31 in any year. However,
such changes can only become
effective at the beginning of the
school year except in situations
deemed by the board to be of
an emergency nature.
The conditions are: that there
will be no increase in cost to
the board for transporting stud-
ents to and from school: that
the pupil loading factors in both
school involved will not be ad-
versely affected; that procure-
ment of additional teaching staff
is not a direct result of such
request; and when the pupil can-
not obtain the course or sub- ,
s.
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