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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1972-08-30, Page 4News of Huronview A choir of Young People from Dayton, Ohio visited Buronview on Friday afternoon, The. group were taken on a brief tour of the home singing some numbers for the residents in womens' bed care and they sang happy birthday for Mrs. Hamilton who was celebrating her 90th birthday. The next stop was the auditorium for a half hour of singing to well over one hundred residents. Pastor Bigelow of Hayfield Baptist Church made the arrangements and introduced the choir with Wendy Greer of Hayfield playing the piano accompaniment. Mr. Hank Gelling was in charge of the chapel service on Sunday morning in place of the regular pastor, Rev. McWinnie, who is having holidays. Mrs. Jan Bylsma sang two solos during the service accompanied on the organ by Jacob Reorda. Mrs. Doris mcKinle y visited. Huronview on Monday afternoon and joined the regulars Mary Taylor, Norman Speir and Jerry Collins for an hour of old tyme music, dancing and sing song. Charlie Small, who celebrated his eighty-eighth birthday on Monday, sang a solo. • Ontario is now putting together the biggest municipal enumeration in its history. Without you it won't be right. The Municipal Enumeration: September 5 -18. Without you it won't be right. 1* Government of Ontario Ministry of Re-venue Hon. Allan Grossman, Ministel% Donald A. Crosbie„ Deputy Minister. ffeg.oze REGULAR HEARING AID SERVICE CENTER First Friday of every month 1 —3 p.m. FREE cleaning and check-up of any hearing aid FREE electronic hearing test Don Ihightrall Seaforth 527-0732 District Manager E. R. Thede 88 Queen St. South Kitchener .ReAvne• HEARING AID SERVICE Smiles . • • The woman motorist, on her trip through Europe, posed for a souvenir snapshot next to an historic ruin in Greece. "Don't get the car in the picture," she cautioned. "My husband will be certain I ran into the place." • 4—THE BRUSSELS POST, AUGUST 30, 1972 $7,000 grant aids VanEgmond project A grant of $7,90 has been apProved by the OntarioHeritage Foundation to assist the Van Egmond Foundation with the purchase of the Van Egrnond home in Fgrnondville as an historic site. James Doig, Van Egmond FoundatiPP chairman said additional grant of $7,000 —0 been promised providing an equivalent amount was raised, locally and plans for restorat- ion and administration had been approved. He said plans for a take over ceremony, which would also mark the beginning of a fund raising campaign, were being worked out. He said the Foun- dation was considering a date NEWS OF CRANBROOK Correspondent Mrs. Mac Engel Mr. and Mrs. Don Huehn and family, London, visited Mrs. Calvin Cameron and Mr. and Mrs. Alex Cameron. Shirley, Murray, Brian, and Tracy Clark, Atwood, visited their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. John Conley. Meeting one of the 4-H Club was held at the home of Janet Veitch on Wednesday evening of last week when it was de- cided to hold all meetings at the Veitch home. The roll call was answered by 14 girls and two were absent. Officers el- ected for 'The Third Meal', 'What's happened to supper?' President - Linda Smith, Vice-President - Anna Lee Stev- enson - Secretary - to be rotated Treasurer - Mary Ellen Knight, Press Reporter - Lynn Cameron. Mrs. Veitch discussed the main topic of the evening"What's happened to supper?" Demon- strations were made by Janet Veitch, Karen Dilsworth and Lynn Cameron. The girls were ser- ved a pizza made by Janet Veitch. Cranbrook Women's Institute are having an open meeting in the Cranbrook community hall on September 5th. There will be a study of the metric system and pictures of former plowing matches will be shown by Gordon McGavin. early in. September, perhaps September 9 and that a deci- ion would be made at a meeting of the hoard this week, The Van Egmond home was purchased from Mrs. Florence Smith last spring through bank loans of about $14,000. Acquisition Odle Van Egmond home as an historical site has been under consideration for several years. For nearly two years the Ontario Heritage Foun- dation has• been interested In the project and throughout had indi- cated assistance would be avail- able providing proper approach WAS made and that there were assurances the program would be advanced. In a letter to Mr. Doig, Larry T. Ryan, executive direc- tor of the Heritage Foundation said in part:- "It is my pleasure to inform you that the following resolution was passed by the Executive Committee of the Foundation at a meeting yesterday afternoon: Resolved that the Foundation contribute a total sum of$14,000. towards the acquisition and pre- servation of the Van Egmond House, the house to be preserved as a historic site open to the public at reasonable times to be later deternined. This contri- bution to be made available as, follows: (a) One half of the total contribution ($7,000.0) to be turned over now to the Van Eg- mond Foundation. This may be applied to the acquisition of the Van Egmond House. (b) The other half of the total contribution be made avail- able on a matching grant basis to be turned over when a similar amount has been raised locally (through contributions from the general public, the County, the Township, service clubs, etc.) and when plans have been approved by the Foundation, for the restoration and future admin- istration of this site. It is the hope of the Ontario Heritage Foundation that a con- tribution made in this way will get the project off to a good start by giving the Van Egmond Foundation practical encourage- ment at the outset. We hope that the holdicg over of one half of the total contribution will have the* effect of sustaining local initiative and will encourage energetic local fund raising." This is an election year, for municipal councils, school boards and other local bodies in most of Ontario. An early step in these elections is the documenting of voters' lists. 'fo assemble voters' lists we need to make an enumeration. This is done by the Province for each municipality.. But our municipal enu- meration involves more than just voters',lists. It helps determine the division of education property taxes between the public and separate school systems. It lets the Province more fairly distribute grants to local governments to help reduce municipal tax bills. And it also helps provide us with an accurate population count: Collecting nearly i 8 million names' and ad- dresses, as you can imagine, is a big job: The ProVince is employing 8,000 people to visit every residence in Ontario. When the govern- ment representative knocks on your door, the procedure is simple. The enumeration notice is pre-printed by com- puter with the names of every- one currently on record in your household. If you agree that the information is correct and complete, you simply sign the notice. If there are changes, such as an addition to the family, corrections are made on the spot, verified and signed by you or any other adult in your household. If you are not home the notice is left, together with simple instructions. You mail it; postage free, only if there are changes. You will be counted sometime between September 5th and 18th. •