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03russels Post
4 BRUSSELS
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1975i ONTARIO
Serving Brussels and the surrounding community,
Published each Wednesday afternoon at Brussels, Ontario
by McLean Bros.Publishers, Limited.
Evelyn Kennedy - Editor
Member Canadian Community Newspaper Association and
Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association.
Subscriptions.(in advance) Canada $6,00 a year, Others
CCNA $8.00 a year, Single Copies.15 cents each.
Right to object
Oh, no, not another delay! This,- no doubt, was
many residents' reaction to the announcement that
as of last week, there were six objections to the $2.7
million sewer project planned for Brussels.
Tills delay could mean a 4 to 8 month hold up while
the Ontario Municipal Board hears the objections.
The final deadlilne for objections was Wednesday,
August 20, at which time, the village clerk had
received 15 letters of objection.
People have been complaining about the sewage
problem and the resulting pollution of the Maitland
River, for as long as most can remember.
For many the sewage project seems a necessary
and inevitable expense? Why throw a wrench in the
works? The sooner the work starts the better.
In this mood, the objections seem fli msy and with
little foundation. A large portion Of the objectors felt
there was a need for public participation and
discussion.
Hadn't the public been discussing the project for
over twenty years?
The peoplealso felt the rest of the town was being
penalized because the businesses, on Main Street
don't have the proper weeping system..
Partially this is true, the clerk said, but lots of
others are contaminating the system too.
The contention seems to -be just a question of
apples and oranges. Why must the few stand in the
way of Progress?
As we said, this was probably many Brussels
residents' first reaction, as it was ours.
The first reaction is not, however, always the most
rational response. Many will have rethought their
former position as we have.
If and when the Ontario Municipal Board decides
to hold a hearing, it might do a lot to explain, and
clarify any concern fhe public has about the sewer
project.
The magnitude and cost of the project requires the
project have the public's support. Brussels residents
will not only be paying about $200 this• year on their
taxes for the project, but for the next forty years.
Two years from now, it will be too late to regret the
haste of any decision, or to wish some aspects of the
project had been examined more carefully.
There is a lot of wisdom in the OMB's requirement
that the project be advertised in the paper, and that
objectors submit their grievances.
• That)only fifteen objected to the proposal doesn't
brand their complaints as inconsequential. It is often
a handful of people who safeguard the rights and
liberties of all.
The major concerns of the fifteen regard the cost:
and the need for public participation. These probably
reflect the overall .concerns of the whole populace.
If an OMB hearing is held, it can serve as a
mechanism forpublic input. If the OMB hearing is
not convened, at least, the public has the satisfaction
of knoWing the major concerns of the cornmunity
were duly recorded and that few took advantage of
their right to Object:
There is no doubt as to the need of a sewer System
in BruSsels being installed as soon as possible.
However, if an OMB hearing can result in such a
prograni going ferward with the unanimous and
united support of the public then perhaps a delay of a
feW months can be justified.
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"I just feel reborn," exults Lisa Pulles as
she rolls her "rr's" and draws out the prefix
as only a native Hollander can do.
"I feel I'm living--really living".
And Lisa Pulles isn't talking about
something that's happening in church, either.
She's talking about something that's going on
in her barn--in her pig barn.
For it's there--among her sixty sows Lisa
finds the good life.
"I love every minute of it," she says, "I just
love it."
She knows her every pig. Some even by
name. It's the boys that get the names.
Charlie. John Boy. Harry.
But Lisa doesn't slight the girls, either. She
knows them and they know her. As soon as .
she comes into the barn, the pigs all relax. But
when her husband, Bill, or the two children
come in, the pigs don't. They stay all upset
and noisy and nervous. Het: family slams the
barn door when they come in. But Lisa closes
the door quietly. She comes in, softly. And the
pigs can tell the difference.
"I talk to all my pigs and they talk back to
me," Lisa says, "Each pig is individual".
Not everyone of them gets the same amount
of food. A skinny pig gets more. "Say," she
says, "One pig is acting like a pig—getting
real hoggish--eating everything--then I put
her on a diet."
Then Lisa holds tip on the scoopsful. But
everyone of them--skinny or fat--gets its
vitamins and iron and all the needles. '
Lisa spends a lot of time in the barn-- and it
Shows :Clean, Neat. Organized, "People tell
me this barn has a woman's touch. I do all the'
cleaning out myself—muscle power and the
wheelbarrow."
That's hard to believe because Lisa is a
Small woman ; just a little over five feet. But
she'sees to the once-a-day general cleaning in
the morning and she makes sure of the dry
bedding down` at night. '
She has to. For her husband works away all
week in Oakville eighty miles away. i Ithe
farm is going tO then Lisa has tO run, it,
And Wetting a hundred adre farm means it-10re
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than pigs. It means planting corn, working the
hay bailer, and loading up a truckful of pigs
for market--on quick notice too. For Lisa heard
on the radio the noon livestock market reports.
The price is right. And it's right--right now.
"Sometimes I can hardly , stand to sell
them," she says, "I get so attached to them. I
love them. They're doing so well. Growing so
beautiful. I want to hang on to them."
But never for eating.. "I couldn't swallow
it," she says, "If I knew I was eating one of
my own pigs."
Their freezer, Lisa insists, is filled with
beef.
When her sows come in, Lisa spends many
a night in the barn. There she midwifes and
nurse maids. She gathers up each little one
and cuts off its tail and clips the teeth. She
can't wait until Bill comes home to help her.
Those things have to be done right away. So
Lisa lets her children sleep and her husband
work in Oakville, while she keeps the night
vigil in the bad' all by herself.
But when Bill does come home, she lets hull
take care of the castrating. She runs out of the
barn, because she can't stand to hear her pigs
squealing,
Lisa's come a long way these two years on
the farin. She doesn't want to go back to city
life. Working shift. Making street car and bus
connections. Finding odd jobs as cleaning
woman in other people's homes. Taking
tranquilizer pills every day.
. She's left all that behind-. Clocks aren't that
important anymore. "If I happen to sleep
one mOrnitig i that's okay. My pigs will wait,"
But The Lisa, doesn't the smell get to
you?
"Smell?" Lisa asks.
She laughs. "Oh ; I think my pigs smell
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