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104th Year - Issue No.43
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1975
Co-operation needed in
r ecreation, county hears
BRUSSELS
ONTARIO
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GIRL GUIDES REGISTER — 'Brussels Guides
Captain Mrs. Donald Blenkhorn and three Guides
look over their 1975 calendar. The Guides are, left,
185 of them
United Senior
itizens meet here
Members of 20 Senior Citizens
ubs from Southwestern Zone 12
f the United Senior Citizens of
ntario gathered in the Canadian
egion Hall, here on Thursday
orning,
Pres, Cameron Inglis, Atwood, -
as in charge of the meeting
sisted by secretary, Mrs.
elma Smith, Listowel.
Following registration, R'dv.
ric Le Drew of Brussels United
arch conducted a short
evotional period and Mrs. Jan
an Vliet of Walton sang a solo,.
Count your Blessings"
with Mrs. W.C.Kerr as
companist.
Reeve Jack McCutcheon
tended a welcome to the
'shots on behalf of the village.
Dr. F. Vernon of the Senior
itizens Bureau, 495 Richmond
,, London, who is one of 10
nsultants for Ontario spoke of
s work with Senior Citizen
ubs. Their aim is to help and
engthen clubs and their
ecutives give advice on how to
quire• place to meet and how to
e the Action Aid Grant.
Each club gave a short sketch
its years' activities. A box
nch was, enjoyed by the group
'di coffee and tea supplied by
Druss,s1s Friendship Club.
Community singing led by Mrs.
it McGavin and Mrs. Wm.
'tied for
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ewage
uis Blake, R.R.2, Brussels,
ded guility and was fined
or 66 days in jail in Wingham r1 011 a char ge of improperly
rating.a sewage tank truck last
r, Blake adtnitted a •gallon load of raw sewage
his tanker truck on cession14 of Grey Township,
two miles south of ssels,
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Michelle Long, a transfer from Palmerston, Trine
Watts and Joanne Triebner. Registration for the
season was held Tuesday night. (Photo by langlois)
Humphries gave a cheerful start
for the afternoon session.
Music by Mrs. Phyllis Mitchell,
Mrs. Bert Elliott and Smith was
also enjoyed.
The guest speaker for the
afternoon was Rev. "Dennis Clark
of Atwood who delighted his
audience with his advice on how
to bring real happiness into life.
A short report on the Ottawa
convention was giVen and several
senior ctizens from Stratford
spoke.
A Stratford Senior Citizen's
Band who have received much
support from New Horizon giaits
entertained and some of the
group enjoyed dancing to their'
music.
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by Evelyn
Car drivers in our village are
worried by a constant fear of an
accident . resulting in serious
injury, or fatality, involving
children on bicycles. A particu-
larly ,hazardous time is when the
children are released from school
at the noon hour or at the close of
the school day. At those times
groups of children are
everywhere, some on the wrong
side of the street, others riding
three and four abreast, zig-
zagging across the streets,
heedless of .the cars they are
meeting or of the ones about to
pass them. Perhaps if teachers
would warn them, before they
leave the classrooms, to observe
all bicycle safety rules they would
be more careful. Patents should
impress on their Children that, .for
their own safety, they must be
Cautious and always aware of
cars. No matter how careful
motorists are, and they must be
on the lookout for children on
bikes, there is always a chance
that a careless child Will
sometime take a chance and
sWerve across a street in front of a
car giving the driver no oppor-
tunity to avoid a collision. It is tip
to car drivers and the children on
bicycles to be aware of each other
and to both do their part to avoid
such accidents: Take Carel
* * * * *
(By Shirley J. Keller)
More county wide co-operation
in recreation is needed according
to 10 .conclusions' drawn by
members of Cluster 6 and 7, and
association of municipal recrea-
tion committees from Huron
Kennedy
The person who broke into
the Thompson and Sephenson
Meat Market recently with the
intention of stocking up with free
meat must have been alarmed
and very frustrated going home
empty handed after all the trouble
he went to. He gained entry to the
store by breaking the lock off the
front door. He helped himself to
at least one hundred dollars worth
of meat and left the premises by
way of the front door. He was
seen leaving, at approximately
4:00, a.m., and perhaps realized
it, for, after fleeing on foot around
the corner at the Dickson Store,
he dropped the stolen assortment
of meat (spare ribs, etc.) It was
found scattered along the street
the next morning. What a waste.
The Wingham Detachment of the
OPP investigated.
******
Do you remember when bread
was seven cents a loaf. It was that
forty years ago and the price went'
up one cent a loaf to eight cents.
Those were the days when bread
was called "The Staff of Life": it
was in the" Dirty Thirties" and
and there were some folks who
could barely afford that 8 cents
for a loaf of bread. Most people
do not lack bread now evert at five
or more times the cost that it was
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municipalities, following their
intensive study into recreation in
Huron.
Jim McKinlay, Exeter recrea-
tion director told council the study
uncovered an apparent lack of
co-operation and co-ordination in
providing facilities and services
for recreation within the county.
"There was a cry, a demand for
more of this," McKinlay told
council. "There are few examples,
of co-ordinated efforts around the
construction and maintenance of
recreation facilities, or around the
deVelopment and maintenance of
recreation programs, and there
was very little sign of any
mutually agreeable cost-sharing
between neighboring municipali-
ties in order to sustain these
recreational opportunities."
The report laid out the conclu-
sions for the study:
"Historically, Huron County
Council has played only a minimal
supportive role in the develop-
ment of recreation in the county.
There are a number of examples
of capital cost sharing in the
construction of recreation• facilit-
ies among neighboring munici-
palities withing the couty. How-
ever, there are also examples
where this has not occurred.
"With regard to tax dollars
allocated for the maintenance and
operation of recreation facilities
and prograM, in nearly all cases
the cost has born solely by the
municipality in which the facility
or or program is located. As a result,
there is a trend toward establish-
ing surcharges for non-resident
participants.
Participation
"Recreation participation op-
portunity is required by both rural
and urban residents of the county
including all ages and both sexes.
All levels of.government within, •
the county have an obligation to
The twenty-fourth annual
Huron County Rally was held in
the Belgrave Women's Institute
Hall with an attendance of 129
members and 9 visitors, The hall-
was decorated with yellow dahlias
and dark blue petunias, Belgrave
W.I. was in charge of
registration.
The meeting opened with Mrs.
Mary Whiteman, President of
West Huron presiding and with
Mrs. Bill Coultes as pianist.
A welcome was extended to the
ladies by Mrs. Stanley Hopper,
Pres. of 13elgrave W.I. Mrs.
Malcolm Allan, President of East
Huron and • Mrs. Roylance
Westcott, President of South
Huron brought greetings from
their respective districts. Mrs.
Allan mentioned a meeting
coming up at the F.E.Madill
Secondary School on December
3rd and urged everyone who
thought there was too much foul
language and violence on T.V. to
write a letter to the following
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snare in providing recreation
service. •
"There is general agreement
on the need for co-operation and
sharing between neighbouring
municipalities regarding decision
making, financing and planning
within the county, but there is
confusion- as to how this can be
efectively resolved and imple7
mented.
"There does not appear to be a
great deal of long-range planning
in the total spectrum of creation
by municipal councils. There does
not seem to be' a clear and
common understanding of what
constitutes planning for recrea-
tion.
"The facility standards as laid
out by the Province of Ontario are
not applicable to a rural county
such as Huron due to geography
and population density."
More Involved
The report asks that Huron
County Council become more
involved in the assessment, plan-
ning, development and support of
recreation in the county. It was
suggested that a • policy be
developed which would outline
the county council's • role in
recreation. This policy, it was
further suggested, would be
formulated after consultation by
county council representatives
with the Municipal Recreation
Committee.
The report further recommend-
ed that neighbouring municipalit-
ies be encouraged to develop
Methods of co-operation in
recreation and in education about
changing trends in their philos-
ophy of leisure. HUrOIT County
Council was asked to establish
an unconditional grant system to
municipalities that establish an
area recreation structure. Rural
and urban municipalities that are
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