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Home My WebLink AboutThe Brussels Post, 1975-12-03, Page 1ed his high work r re 9 3 3 3 ESTABLISHED 1872 russels-P0A • .491ew-0#0,40'om,v4vvoe BRINGING. SANTA TO BRUSSELS theto three teritlehieh- are part Of the. committee in charged Saturday's ,Satita Claus parade:, Committee members are Chtis„, Exel f Al 'Nidhot i. and photo kititt 'Knight. Harold geldge end Ted El tat., (Pribtd•by.tAtigibit) laifland contamination ong-erous."; .OMB hears ELIVERING THE MAIL FOR 25 YEARS Harvey ennis who has delivered mail at R.R.4, Brussels for years, was presented with a pin by Post Office strict supervisor Gordon Sutcliffe of Wingham ently. In the old days in his horse and buggy .Dennis would have to deliver .mail after dark ing a flashlight, now takes him an hour and a half call at 78 boxes. He used to deliver groceries too d once took 100 loaves of bread to a store at oncrief. (Photo by Langlois) get them, themselves. • There are fewer people living on R.R. 4, now as a number of farms are vacant but there are still members of the same fami- lieson some of the farms as when. Mr. Dennis first delivered the mail, such as Cardiff, ,Pipe, Smith, McArter, Marks, Van- camp, Walsh, Nethery, Arm- strong, Nichol, McCutcheon and Miller. Mr. 'Dennis also drove the station bus, operated by the Somers Bros., in the days when it carried the mail, to and froM, the postoffice and station and provided transportation for trav- ellers as well. He was also a relief' driver of the mail truck from 1956 to 1958. His friends on R.R. 4, to whom he has given faithful service through the years, will be pleased to know he has ' been given recognition of that service by the Postal Department. 1 he had ital .and ch as the Patrick's .a office pa routine $15,350; 'schools), services total of been presented with a .25 year pin in recognition of his years of Harvey Dennis of BruSSels has. service as a mail courier on rural route 4 of Brussels. - The presentation was made, at the Brussels pOstoffice, by Gor- mley of don Sutcliffe, postmaster at ;novation • Wingham. School, he Although it was a 25 year pin is week. ' received, Mr. Dennis has iifon for , travelled that route for several loms and '• ;years more than' that. While he built by, has had the contract since March ltratford, .; .,1944 prior to that he drove several 590. years for Dan Denman who held the contract but was unable, because of poor health, to make the deliveries. In the earlier years he travelled by car in the summer and with horse and cutter in the winter. Like other mail carriers in those days he gave help, in addition to this duties, to the people on his :route, often deliveritig bread and medicine, and other necessities to them w - eh they were unable to If there are those who. are fuming about ,the lowered speed limits that are being introduced consider this. Fifty years ago it • was reported that the London Motor Club supported a proposed maximum speed of miles On highways and20 miles in cities, and 20 lotions and villages, The existing limit at that time WAS 25 miles an 1 hour on highway' ****44* For weeks we have been tlehiged with Christmas AdVerti-, ing of all kinds, air waves', , ;,newspapers ; catalogues on and, I oh. Folks selectfn st", trofitiSahtliting; gaorddiiiined 1 (1 eorating, In all the frantic ;:hustle and bustle It semis inanY forget about the. true sIgniffearite cif thriStiiia8 Unto Us A Child Is torn ..,Whe Is Christ The Lord;'' 'Th6:gteatt: gift of Let us not forget the' of Ilettilehrii this Christina§, et the holiday season be a joyous. Contamination of the middle Maitland River from Brussels is up to 36,000 times the level that the Ontario Ministry of , the Environment regards as safe for swimming, the Ontario. Municipal Board heard here Tuesday morning. Neil. McMullen of the Ministry of • the environment gave OMB members Cornell Ebers QC, sitting as chairman and Armour McCrae, vice chairman, the bacteria counts from water samples taken at storm drain outlets along the Maitland at various places in Brussels on July 22, 1975. The 36,000 times the safe level figure was for fecal coliforms in a water sample taken at the William St. outlet. It will be a three-way race for warden in Huron County in January. Reeve Jack McCutcheon of Brussels, Reeve Allan Campbell of McKillop and Reeve Harold lobb of 'Clinton, will vie for the county's top office. Reeve McCutcheon is the only first time candidate in the trio. Allan Campbell sought the chair last year and Harold Lobb, a candidate on two previous occasions , was runner-up last year to present warden Anson McKinley. - Jack McCutcheon indicated this could well be his last year in municipal politics, but he did say At the Elm St. outlet the total coliform count was 480,000 per 100 m1(1000 per 100 ml is . considered safe for swimming) Quick action by the Brussels Fire Department kept fire from destroying Carl's Auto Body 'building on the southern outskirts of Brussels early Tuesday morning. OwnerCarl Graber said that fire started in a paint booth located at the back of his new „body repair building about 12 a.m. Brussels firemen fought the blaze for about an hour and a half and kept it to thaf if some project in his village of Brussels would benefit through his continuance in office, he would run for one more term. Allan Campbell promised to "fight. like hell to keep Huron's hospitals open" if he was elected warden. "I think they are all pretty well -full," commented Reeve Campbell, and I'm for keeping them open supposing we've got to - throw in some more county funds or something." • • Reeve Lobb simply indicated his intention to solicit the support of as many councillors as possible so that he could be warden in the and the fecal coliform count was' 110,000 per 100mi or 110 times the safe 100 per 100 ml count. (Continued on page 6) that part of the,, building. Mr. Graber said he doesn't know how the fire started and has had no estimate on damages yet. • The fire destroyed' the end wall of the paint booth and part of the east wall of the body shop building. Mr. Graber said Tuesday that he doesn't expect to be painting cars for awhile yet. BRUSSELS ONTARIO new year. In other business during the day, Reeve Karl Haberer of Zurich spoke as one of the new members to county council. He urged county representatives to think more as representatives 'of the community of Huron., rather than as representatives of their own individual municipalities. All newcomers who spoke expressed the highest praise for the administration of the county. and the system under which the county operates. During, the morning session, a special plaque was unveiled in (Continued on Page 20) one filled with love and under- standing for all., Reeve Jack McCutchepn and Mrs. McCutcheon entertained Members of council and the with their wives and the village utility man on Saturday night. The guests enjoyed sumptious dinner served in-St. John's Anglican' Church hall, After dinner they were invited tO the McCutcheon home for a social gathering. Later a number of those present Went On for dancing in Listowel. *44** Brussels United Church will eelebrate their- tenterinial in i946. Plans are well advanced for the observance of one hundred years of activity in thiS edin- thunity. A committee is ,presently cairipiling a list of former belt of the' church to send out invitations- them to attehd.. They would be pleased if anyone' (COntintied on -Page 26) Short Shots by Evelyn Kennedy ed Et K )glo by Tel im is) D D 25 di re M us to an M Ugh 104th Year -- Issue No. 50 WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1975 onou r mailman Announces at County Council Firemen stop blaze ter 25 years Reeve runs for warden II . 11, go.