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Sugar and Spice
by Bill Smiley
Music Night at Wingham
What is a' "Gaudeatnus"? I
don't know! Perhaps it's just
plain nonsense; However perhaps
if you want to know you can
attend the Music night, April 29th
at Wing_ hair High. School. There
will be ten schools participating
and featuring numbers from each
school and a mass choir of
approx. 400 voices as a grand
finale. These 400 people are
going to be directed by one
person. I hope you can attend this
music night at Wingham. It will
be lots of fun to see and do!
Donna Forler
Preparations for the
Spring Concert
On Friday, April 28th, there
will be a dress rehearsal for the
participants of the Spring Concert
only! The directors hope to be
started by 9:15 a.m. On Tuesday,
April 22nd at 12:45 we will be
holding a dress rehearsal for the
entire school. Preparations for
this „event started months ago.
Mr.Carter' s room will be the
stage crew, and set up and
remove props. The choirs, ukulele
band and many of the other
classrooms in the school are
involved. As usual with all of this
preparation we are hoping for a
large turnout on Spring Concert
Night.
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Floor Hockey
Here at Howick Central
School, students are going to play
Floor Hockey. This is not played
on ice. It is played by using your
hand to move the ball. The way to
score is to swing your arm like a
golf club, hitting the ball with
your fist. If the ball goes in the
net you have scored. You could go
bare feet or use running shoes.
Ben Schuitema
Arena Sports Over
Skating and curling at the
Community Center has finally
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Every so often I'm reminded of how very
lucky Canadians are. We are not smarter
than other people. Goodness knows, we are
no more industrious.We are just luckier,
because we happen to be living in this
country at this time.
VVhdn you consider that we are just a
drop in the bucket of the world's
population, y ou can see, just how blind
lucky we are..
Millions of people on earth today are
literally starving to death. They will be
dead, stone dead, in days, months, a year.
Millions more are just above the starving
line. They eke out a barren, blunted,
hopeless existence, just one step away
from the animal.
These hordes are subject to all the other
things that go with a minimal existence,
besides hunger: cold, disease, ignorance;
fear, and perhaps worst of all helplessness.
And we complain endlessly, we
Canadians, about such horrors as inflation,
postal strikes, taxes, and all the other
relatively piddling burdens we bear.
We howl with outrage when butter
jumps 15 cents a pound. Some of us nearly
have a stroke when the price of beer and
liquor is raised. The very wealthy feel a
deep, inner pain because they can retain
only 55 per cent of their income.
But what does it all amount to? The
consumption of butter will go down for a
few weeks, then rise to new highs. the
consumption of alcoholic beverages will not
even tremor, but go steadily upward. And
the rich will become. richer.
Talk about fat cats, or buxom beavers,
and we're it. The Lucky Canadians. The
envy of the world.
Oh yes, we have poor people, quite a few
of them. But you would be hard put to it to
find anyone in Canada literally starving to
death. Or freezing to death. Or dying
because there is no mellicine for disease.
Truth is, the vast majority of Canadian
eat too much, suffer from over-heating
rather than cold and are much more likely
to die from too much medicine than they
are from. disease.
And even the poorests of our poor, with
all the buffers that welfare provides, are
materially millionaires compared with the
poor of many other countries.
You, Mister, wheeling yOur Buick down
the highway and beefing about the cost of
gas, 'Might just as easily be pulling a
rickshaw in Calcutta, wondering whether
you could last until you were 30, so you
could see your first grandson.
You, Young Fella, who made $10,000 in
six months with a lot of overtime, and quit
Brussels girl
crowned queen
Mrs. Douglas Currie (nee Betty
ason) was chosen Queen of
orthern Electric, Brampton, on
pril 5, 1975.
Betty attended Brussels Public
chool and Wingham High School
efore her marriage and moving
Brampton. Betty joined the
aff of Northern Electric in
ugust, 1974. She has one son,
amie, •
Upon being crowned at the
ueen Contest and dance held at
he Credit Valley Club,
rampton, Betty received •a dozen
ed roses, a set of luggage and an
lexpense paid trip for two to the
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working so you could draw unemployment
insurance, could be sweating it out in a
South African gold mine, or a Bolivian tin
mine, for enough bucks a week to barely
feed your family.
And you, Ms., whining about the mess
the hairdresser made, or complaining
about the cost of cleaning women, could be
selling yourself in the back streets of
Nairobi to keep body and soul together, if
you'll pardon the expression.
But you aren't, and I'm not, and we
shouldn't forget it, mates.We were lucky.
We live in Canada.
Once in a while this hits me like a punch
between the eyes. One of these times was
on a. recent holiday weekend.
We were spending a weekend with
Grandad, in the country. It was cold and
blustery outside, and I spent one of those
rotten-lazy, thoroughly enjoyable times
when there is nothing to do and nothing to s
worry about: eating and drinking, playing
cards,, enjoying the fireplace, reading,
watching television.
The only fly in the ointment was the
constant decisions to be made. At
breakfast, for example. Banana or fruit
juice? Coffee or tea? Bacon and eggs or
ham and eggs? Toast and jam or fresh
bread and honey? ,
Evenings were even worse . An hour
after dinner, I had to decide whether it was
to be coffee and cake with ice cream or tea
with butter tarts. Then there was the
bedtime snack and more decisions.
But it was watching television that blew
up the puffed-up dream that life was, after
all, good and gracious, cosy and
comfortable, warm and wonderful.
There on the "news", with nothing to
hide it, was the non-Canadian world.
Children with the bloated bellies and
stick-thin limbs of the starving. Other
children, torn and bleeding and screaming
with pain.
Mothers howling their anguish because
they had lost their children and couldn't
find them.
A refugee plane, with more than 200
"soldiers" and only five women or children
aboard..
And everywhere, on that naked screen,
people, suffering, terrified, running like
rats, from nowhere to nowhere.
Not much you and I can-do, except feel
horrified. It's all too far aw ay.
But at least we can stop bitching in our
own backyard, and face the facts that we're
not smarter, or harder working or better
looking. Just lucky.
come to an end for the students at
Howick Central. Much fun was
had while the students, had these
periods of skating. Every Tuesday
there was a curling game for the
Grade- 7 and 8 students who paid
the fee at the beginning of the ice
period and I am sure that this was
also enjoyable. I would like to
thank the Howick • Community
Center board for allowing us the
use of the. Community Center.
Tammy Brown
Examinations •
Examination time is coming up
on June 9th 7. 13th. The teachers
give the Grade 7 and 8 students a
formal examination in Math,
English, and one other subject of
their choice. They decided to have
them in June instead of May
because some students think that
after examination time that's the
end of the year. Then they either
skip school or don't work
This can cause them to receive
low marks or fail. The Math
examination is two periods long
and covers everything from the
start of the school year till
examination time. I think the
other two are to be two periods
long also. I believe 'that everyone
will have to study very hard in
order to pass each examination.
Marlin:Good
New Teacher
The students and teachers of
Howick Central School are glad to
welcome a new teacher to the
staff. His name is Mr. Shaw, and
we hope he will have a pleasant
stay here. Mr Shaw is replacing
Mrs. Stirling who has now retired
in favour of home and family
interests. We wish her the best of
luck and we hope Mr. Shaw will
stay as long as he wishes.
Gary Douglas
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THE BRUSSELS POST APRIL 23, 1975 —7