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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1975-09-17, Page 2WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17,1976 Serving Brussels and the surrounding community. Published each Wednesday afternoon at Brussels, Ontario by McLean 1Bros.Publishers, Limited. Evelyn Kennedy - Editor . Dave Robb - Advertising Member Canadian Community Newspaper Association and. Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association. Subscriptions .(in advance) Canada $6.00 a year,, Others CCIRIA $8.00 a year, Single Copies 15 cents each. ..t. IIFWt :UL,CkYlq"/ Get out and do it This has to be the one of .the busiest weeks on record for Brussels. Anyone who thinks village life is dying, hasn't been reading the Brussels Post. First of all, it's Fall Fair time. Yes, it's on today at the agricultural grounds. The sunny September weather is a sure indication that the Brussels Agricultural Society directors knew exactly what they were doing when they moved the fair date ahead from October. It's a real old fashioned, community fair too. Brussels is one of the few small villages who still put on a full scale agricultural fair. Support it and attend It's that time again it. The other big event this week is the opening of the liquor store. it's a long awaited occasion for some, a long dreamed one for others. But whatever one's personal opinion on booze is, the liquor store does give local residents freedom of choice. The event that is potentially the biggest one of all isn't creating as much excitement around here as the first two put together. That's the provincial election on Thursday. We'll have to wait until Friday to see just how big the election is. It could result in the defeat of the party which has run the province for 32 years. But at time of writing it's all up in the air and the election could end just as easily with the voters giving the Tories a vote of confidence and four more years. Or it could end indecisively with one of the three parties getting a half mandate that will see a minority government limping along for m onths or years. Probably the reason that the election hasn't generated a lot of fever here is that people are pretty well satisfied with their sitting member, Murray Gaunt. No m atter how they feel about the province as a whole, few will knock Murray locally. Make the most of this busy week in Brussels. Get out in the sun and go to the Fall Fair. The next day, get cut to the polls and vote: And if you are so inclined, either visit the new liqudr store or persuade someone else not to. At any rate, let's get out and do what Brussels has to offer. To the editor Glad to see station in use To the Editort Sorry I didn't get renewal off before this but hope it will get there in time. Lois and I sure enjoy the Post and wouldn't miss it for the world, Was so pleased to See the "old station'' being put to good use* so Many of them. just being destroyed. Been a good sun-triter hope we have a good fall. Best regards to you and key, Sincerely Harris Bell Elora. Amen by Karl Schuessler I wish you'd be a little more considerate, Pepper, I really do. Can't you understand? Fall is a special time of the year when parents pack their kids off to school. And it's extra special when the last one of the brood goes off. Parents are free-eee. .Whee-eee. Care free. Kid free. Well, not exactly, but at least for a few hours of the day. So it wasn't surprising, Pepper, that my wife and I thought we'd celebrate. Take a slow trip into town. Have lunch. Do all our business and errands -- in a pleasant sort of way. Unhurried. Relaxed. No worry about the kids. You can imagine my surprise, pepper, when you poked your black h ead out from underneath the driver's seat of my car. You --ere pretty smart, there, Pepper. Not, Showing ) ourself until we were at least twelve` miles out. It wasn't worthturning around and driving you back home, What could we do? But order you to the back seat of the car. Sit there. Stay there. Don't ask for a thing. You're going to get the same treatment as the kids. No cat's going to get away with more than the kids ever did. I gave you the rules of the road --our rules for the road, No eating in the car. And no fair asking how many more miles we have to go:J'hat's a banned question in our car. And it's up to you to entertain yourself. It's not my fault you didn't think of crayons and 0 pencils and colouring books. And no kicking your feet against my seat. That always gets the right in the middle of my back.And no leaning over onto the front seat. I can't stand kids leaning over and resting their hands on the top of my seat. They jab Me in the should-.r`; and jiggle and pull on trit. I've got to concentrate on driving, see? Well, okay, just this one time. When I looked around, I thought you looked pretty smart there With you hind legs on the back seat and you stretching out across to the front seat. With your head turning in all directions and yotir green eyes growing: as big as your head — taking in all the big town sights: Pretty neat, eh, Pepper? When a cat comes to town for the first time. I've Seen a few dogs ride' into town in such chauffeur style Ittxury i but never a cat. Get this one thing straight, though, Pepper. I'm not your chauffeur.. You're not turning me into your driver. This is a one-time-only unplanned event. An exception. And, Pepper, another thing. In our car we coordinate bathroom stops with gas fill-ups. Don't start meowing on me now. Stop scratching ,:at the door. Shh. Be quiet. You can't wait, eh? Oh, Pepper, for heaven's sake. Don't you '-.aline this is the first day we're free--no kids to worry ‘about. Oh, alright. have it your way. I'll stop. Just let me find a good grassy spot for you. On no one's lawn mind you. I hate that. Here. I'll turn down this side road. By this field of corn. You'll collie back now, won't you, Pepper? I don't have to put you on a leash, do I'? All I have is this ball of strin in my glove compartment. That would h .)k silly arour I your neck. And that's anoth' r thing, 1 hate, Being on the other end of a leash while my pet potties. You gave me a scare there for a minute, You slinked through two fences and I wondered if you'd come back.Some one might report me for cat abandonment on this lonely road. once B again. utyou came back. And we headed out -Yoti made me feel guilty all day. Is Pepper too hot in the car? i did roll down the .windows an. inch. A tleans,tt trying to give you some fresh air, aren't I wonder if Pepper's hungry? Should I take her back sonic of my hot turkey ,sandwie0 I wonder if Pepper has to go again/ iv,'"46Ybe: should buy a bag of kitty litter for the occasion, But then, Maybe I better go back to the cat and let her out. Besides; she heeds the exercise. She's hot used being cooped I1P the et car sta started day'. 3;''hIdrri6, wonder if we °gilt° I Wonder: I *Ottrief. I Worry. „Ij60Peti, did you have to Cheese this first by Of freedOM tel tie hie down so? When will thy kids ever ow up?