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_ Writers appreciate the Post
Sir:
I'm sorry to be so slow about
thanking you for your kindness
in sending me the extra edit-
ions of "The Centennial Post".
I don't think any person ap-
preciates that paper as I do and
might I say that the one I
tho't I had lost was found in
the hands of one of my family
but I like this edition better.
My sister, Mrs. Kidd, did
such a wonderful thing in writing
up the Ament History. I don't
know that anyone in" the family
could have done it so well and
I really prize it because of the
way she honored our dear old
parents.
Our Dad, as many will agree
I'm sure, was a wonderful bus-
inessman in his day and loved
to do for others as I well re-
call as was our dear Mother
also.
Laura certainly didn't miss
many sweet attributes and I
loved it as an older member of
their family.
I shall never forget my dear
father's parting words as we
bade him good-bye a few days
before he died. I asked him
"Dad! are we going to meet
you? His answer was, "Well,
I've taken Christ as my Savior,
what else can I do?"
This to me was a wonderful
climax to such a useful life
and such a very sweet memory
indeed.
Thank you again for your
trouble in sending me the extra
copies.
Caroline E.Lynn
1037 Windermere Rd.,
WINDSOR, Ontario.
N8Y 3E5
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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1972
Serving Brussels and the surrounding, community
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Santa is coming
Santa Claus is coming to Brussels
on Saturday. He will be the guest
of the businessmen, the Lions Club
and the Legion.
Ready to welcome him will be a
host of people and organizations
ready to take part in a big parade
that will wend its way along Turn-
berry.Street.
While area people will be oh hanA -
and anxious to welcome the Merry Old
Gentleman, Brussels merchants are
providing added reasons that make a
visit to the village on Saturday a-
special opportunity.
Each store is decked out ready
to welcome visitors and Christmas
shoppers will find a wide selection
of items that are popular at Christ-
mas time and at savings that will
it pays to shop in Brussels.
The Saturday program is an ex-
ample of how a community and the
people in it can benefit from co-
operation such.'as :that displayed by
the three groups responsible for
Santa's visit.
Sugar and Spice
by Bill Smiley
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MAYBE WHEN tiVF
HAVE PEACE ON EART)4
AND SOLVE SOME CF
OUR PROBLEMS WE'LL.
COME FAG< 10
V1511— YOU AGAIN!
There's a typical' Canadian tragedy in
the making right now, and it may be too
late to avert it, unless there is a hue
ande7
that will rattle the halls of parlia-
ment.
I use the word "typical" because it has
happened again and again in this country,
and we have lived .to regret it. Prompted
by political or pecuniary motives, Canada
has gone a long way toward destroying
its very self and the things that make
it most dear to the average Canadian.
I am referring to pollution and the
disturbance of the balance of nature. In
the name of progress we have fouled our
own nest, time and again, until an out-
sider would think we enjoyed living in our
own mess.
Item. Lake Erie, with some friendly
help from our old buddies, the yanks, has
been turned into a vast cesspool, which is
almost unreclaimable.
Item. Paper mills and other indus-
tries have been pouring their poisons into
Lake Superior for years.
Item-. If you took a drink of water
out of Hamilton bay, you'd probably be
rusting within twenty-four hours.
Item. Huge industries continue to
belch into the air over our big cities,
until you'd think there was a continual
fall of black snow.
Item. Two of our magnificent rivers,
the Ottawa and the St. Lawrence, are run-
ning, open sewers.
That's a very brief sampling. And
now that idiot Bourassa, prime minister
of Quebec, in an attempt to save face
after mishandling everything from the
FLQ kidnappings to the unemployment
situation, has launched the James Bay,
Project.
Maybe you don't know much about it,
and it's all so far away that it's like a
flood in China.
But that's what we thought about all
the other signs of "progress", is it not?
"Oh, they'll never pollute the Great
Lakes. They're too big. So dump the
garbage boys, and flush out the tanks."
"what? Pollute the Ottawa and the
St. Lawrence? Itnpossible. Too much
running water. Why should we build a
sewage disposal plant? Let 'er run into
the river."
"Don't be stupid. Squawk about the
big plants polluting and there won't be
no jobs for nobody."
We've said it all, and heard it all.
But what heritage are we leaving behind
for our children, and theirs? A great
big pile of you know •what.
Letting Bourassa and his boys play
around with the James Bay project is
like letting a couple of bright science
students play around with a nuclear bomb.
Here's the picture. The Quebec
government plans a hydro project in the
James Bay area, one of the last great
wilderness areas in eastern North Amer-
ica. It is a mammoth scheme. • Some
estimates place the cost at $10 billion.
Yep. Billion. Where is that kind of
money going to come from?
plan is to tinker with up to ten dams
and seven rivers which run Anto James
Bay. The damage to the area affected,
170,000 square miles, larger than the
whole United Kingdom, is incalculable.
The sub-soil, known to be unstable,
has taken hundreds of years to build up
on the solid rock. The tremendous
weight of water in the artificial lakes -
some of them 70 miles long - could
cause earthquakes, landslides, who knows
what?
The lakes themselves are big enough
to affect the climate of the whole area.
Worse, the change in fresh water flow
into James Bay could delay the spring
breakup in the Bay, and make winter
longer. This could affect the tempera-
ture of the water flowing out of Hudson
Bay, which joins the Labraddr current
going south, and this in turn could make
the whole eastern seaboard colder.
Project this a little further and it
could affect the entire fishing industry
on the Atlantic shores.
And worst of all is the callous disre-
gard of the native peoples of the area.
They are Cree •Indians, who eke a meagre
living from the fish, geese and moose of
this bleak area. These people have never
been conquered, never sold their land,
and never ceded it by treaty. They are
to be uprooted and transplanted.
So we have the ironic spectacle of
the. federal government on the one hand
creating vast new national parks, and on
the other, condoning, if not approving,
the possible destruction of another vast
area. This is not progress. This is rape.
And for what? Sure, it will create
temporary jobs in Quebec for a large
number. A few people will become
• wealthy.
But it will do nothing for the long-
term unemployment situation in Quebec,
where unemployment seldom goes below
ten per cent. In a few years the jobs
will be finished, a few guys at push-
buttons will be left, and the U.S. will have
another source of power. At what cost?
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