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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1975-11-12, Page 2ISTAII.10410 1$12 Brussels Pos WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1975 !MUSSELS ONTARIO Serving Brussels and the surrounding community. Published each. Wednesday afternoon at Brussels, Ontario by McLean Bros. Publishers, Limited. Evelyn Kennedy - Editor Dave Robb - Advertising Member Canadian Community NeWspaper Association and Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association C A Subscriptions (in advance) Canada $6.00 a year. Others $8.00 a year, Single Copies 15 cents each. Sirloin from sludge Beefsteak from sewage sludge? What , a disgusting thought! But in Australia, an enterprising cattle-farm manager matter of factly recycles into food nine-tenths of the sludge produced by the city of Melbourne (popl. 2,200,000). This is the sludge that feeds the land that grows the grass that fattens the Herefords _that puts steak on Australian dinner tables. True there was that brief unpleasantness back in the '30s when Warribee cattle developed human-type tapeworms, but nobody's perfect. Today the cattle meet all health safety rules. As it stands, some Canadian farmers empty their • septic tanks and spread the human waste on their fields as a huge saving on fertilizer. Perhaps we should not leave , it to the Australians to find out about the cadmium. (Contributed) To the editor Sewers, raises concern readers A group of concerned Brussels taxpayers met on Wednesday evening, November 5, 1975 to discuss the proposed sewage system for this village. We are interested in obtaining a safe environment for our community. We do not want our rivers polluted with raw sewage. However, we question the method and cost of`the proposed sewage system and wonder if it is going to be the answer to our present. problems. Considering the present population of the- village of Brussels and those who have adequate sewage systems, the question is what number of people fall into the remaining category i.e. those who have inadequate sewage systems? Brussels is not a fast growing village:-It has no major industry to attract new residents. Therefore, what other methods, just as efficient, would be available to correct this present problem, at a more reasonable cost to the taxpayer. The proposed annual charge for a 66 foot frontage lot is $198.22, for forty years. This would be prohibitive for many taxpayers on low incomes. We believe that there should be a plebiscite by the property owners in the Village of Brussels before any further action be taken on the proposed sewage system. We believe all facts and costs should be fully explained to the taxpayers prior to the taking of the plebiscite and before any plebiscite is taken every avenue of seWage disposal should be fully explored in relation to the needs of the village, with particular attention to costs. If you, too, are a concerned taxpayer, come to a meeting at the Brussels Public Library, on Friday November 14th at 8:00 ,P.M, sharp, to i discuss this matter in greater detail. Concerned Britssels,TAxpayers I recently read in your paper that yon welcomed beefs, suggestions, opinions, etc. I have a question I would like answered, To say "I was more than surprised" is putting it mildly, when •I read the account in the "Post" stating the Brussels Council had voted themselves such a fitvuloiis raise in pay. Ai I understand it, there is only a 10 TO salary raise permitted since the cantrolswere, imposed by Government. In this case, the pay false allowed r`fothe reeve would be $55 00 instead of $275.00 and for Councillor $46.00 each instead of $225.66. • Council's increase in pay is costing the ratepayers $1,175.00 more for salaries than in j9/4. This unwarranted increase imposes more financial burdens on senior Citizens and those on es. can't imagine council doing this at a time When e ve are supposed to be haiditig the line, cost wise. I for one, Would Weleinne an explanation from dotuttii in , next week's "Post" that jitstifieS the Validity of such action. Concerned Ratepayer Amen by Karl Schuessler Last week I said the rent-a-cake at weddings was getting to me. But rent-a-photographer is getting to. me even more. Now I know. You don't actually go out and rent a man to take pictures of your wedding. But you do hire him for his services. And he's all yours --- before the wedding, during the wedding and after the wedding. And if anyone knows how a wedding should ga, the photographer does.- This may be your first, but it's his-ninety-first. With his camera he darts all over the scene -- catching every detail, of your wedding from putting the boutonniere into your lapel to that last wave goodbye and off on the honeymoon. Years ago your wedding photographer wasn't' a roving reporter stuffing up the camera's eye. He stayed put. He stayed in his studio and you came to him. The couple--right after their wedding--drove into town--or through town--and got that one picture taken, their wedding pictures. The copies of which would forever rest on the top of the piano in every livingroom of every living relative. But no mare. There's no more single wedding, photo. Now you have a whole- candid camera album of wedding prints. And the photographer has to be all over the place to get them; in the brides' home, at-the church, on the altar, in the sacristry, at the restaurant, IA the reception hall. All,,,over. Everywhere. SometiineS I think every wedding couldn't go on without the photographer . In that vast company of people that make up the wedding, the photographer is indespensible. He's the manager. He's the producer. He makes things happen. He knows how to make things happen. He, knows where everyone has to stand: Where ttey shotild go next. He knows the seqnences. The order, Where to stand in the reeeiving line. When to throW the rice. He knows the right time to cut the One cake. Who ra re the best background scenery is, photographer told me he always takes his couples over to a perfect setting by the river. At just the right titne, so the sun's at a perfect height and casting the right shadows. Ail to the backgrOund of a darkening church steeple in the distance. And not only this. The photographer can Stage the Wedding. Sometimes I get s busy Watehirig the photographer move around,. 1 . forget about the Wedding,And if I do think of the wedding i, then I imagine this whole event in front of me is a rehearsal. At beat, a dress rehearsal. Everyone's doing his part--going through the motions--for the camera. I forget that the wedding is going on right now. That the real wedding--the real thing--is taking place at this very moment. I fool myself into thinking that what's going on up there is for the photographer and his camera. That it's for viewing later in a picture album book. That going through the wedding pictures months later is more real than the wedding itself. Am I kidding myself? Is this the way a wedding should be? Now I know. The wedding is an exciting day. A look back in pictures may capture forgotten moments. It can draw out events that happened so quickly. It's so ironic. It takes months of planning and painstaking detailing--and then it's over in twenty , --minutes. At least a picture album records' those fast seconds in time. But on one thing I insist. A wedding is a wedding is a wedding. For its own sake. Not the camera's sake. The wedding that's happening this day is something I'm sharing in right now. I'm living in and through 4 wedding today. And I refuse to let pictures take its place. An album is only a reminder of that day. I only want • to relive my wedding--not live--my wedding in a book. • It's no wonder some churches put a ban an picture taking in church. The flashing Nibs and peripatetic photographer are distracting enough and interinterrupting enough. One time I lost my place in reading the wedding service, That me it TV cameras moving up and own the aisles while Igroped through lights, camera and action to marry off football' s quarterback Wally Gabler. But it's not only this disrtiptioti, It's the greater 'Confusion that substitutes the genuine With a replica, Why have a reprint when I Can thanVeetkhpeearicetnivcietyLthSrhasnedtt?le for copies when a churches Amn d yibt to/ ithhoeapvtethreitpco ntkhtedretispui ognh,cameras then thw nit its wort u t o t hoehf it. photographers place isn't such a bad idea tr' 4 H of tri re ag R tr pa co Remember a