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A GOOD PLACE TO LIVE— Alfred "Knight likes h is new home in the Brussels
Senior Citizen apartments and his' plants do too. They thrive in the bright sunny
windows of the newly built building.The apartment complex will be officially
opened next Wednesday. - (Staff Photo)
toms here next weekend
Optimists plan
'ans for next weekenclls.--Atem
'key tournament were .
'asset( when the Brdssels •
'mists met in the Legion last .
'k.
ournament chairman Frank
etton asked all members who
help with organizing the
weekend event to -contact him..
People who are interested in
helping-serve and provide meals
for the visiting hockey players are
asked to. contact Optimist Brian
Huether.
This Thursday night the
Optimiste- sponsored Oritoriea)
Contest is being held at BrusselS
Public. School. The winners will
mvoe on to a zone • contest in
Stratford.
The local Optimists agreed to
send a letter to Premier Bill
Davis and Health Minister Frank
Miller in support of keeping
Clinton Public,, Hospital. open.
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A man who was prominent in
Huron and Ontario agricultural
circles for 40 years,• W.J. Gordon
McGavin of R.R. 2, Seaforth died
Thursday in Seaforth Community
Hospital. '
Mr McGavin was born in
McKillop, the s'on of the late John
and Estelle (Berry) McGavin. He
attended school at Leadbury,
farmed hr McKillop and founded
McGavin Farm. Equipment in
Walton in 1936.
Mr. MeGavin was pa'rticularily
active in the Ontario 'Plowmen's
Association. He was president of
the OPA for four years and
headed committees that organis-
ed the 1946 -and the 1966
International Plowing Matches in
Huron County. Mr. McGavin was
named champion plowman at the
International Plowing Match in
Niagara Falls in 1926: In 1958 he
managed. the Canadian team at
theWorld Plowing Match in West
Germany.
For 16 years Mr. McGavin was':
a member of the Seaforth District
High School board and-he was
chairman for several years. He
was a pastPresident of the Huron
and McKillop Liberal associations'
and, a Liberal candidate in the
1963 federal election.
Mr. McGavin was a member of
the Seaforth Lions. Club, and
Britannia Lodge No. 170 AF and.
AM Malloch Chapter No. 66,
Seaforth. He was a past master of
the lodge and a past patron of the
Order of the Eastern Star. He was
a 'member of Northside United
Church, Seaforth.
" He is survived by his Wife, the
former Florence E. Stewart, of R.
R. 2, Seaforth to whom he was
married in Brussels in 1931. Two
. • .
sons, John S. of Thornbury and
G. Neil of Walton, one daughter
Elizabeth, Mrs. William •Dins-
more, Brampton; one sister,
Jennie, Mrs. Wilbur Turnbull of
Brussels, and 10 -grandchildren
also survive.
Memorial services were held at
the RS BoX'Funeral Home Friday
night by the Eastern Star, the
Lions club, The Masonic Lodge
and the Seaforth District High
School Girls Trumpet Band. .
Largely attended fhneral
services were held Saturday
afternoon • at with Rev.
M.E. Reuber officiating. Inter-
ment followed in Brussels CeMe-
tery.
Pallbearers were DaVid Robb,
Neil Hopper, William Coutts,
Merton, Hackwell, Ian Matheson
and Neil McDonald: Honorary
pallbearers were Simon Hallahan,
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GORDON 1111[cGAVIN
Walton implemeatsteg ler
Gordon McGavin
buried in Brussels
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Short Shots
by Evelyn Kennedy
dollars that have been poured into
our schools and advanced educa-
tional equipMent. The teachers
said that only the private schools,
Which are beyond the financial
reach of the majority; are gradua-
ting well,' educated students'.
Teachers and students alike are
frustrated and diecouraged.
4e**.*****
Exciting hockey isjn store for
fans of this community. The,
timist Club , of • Brussels are
nsoring an Atom Tournainent
beheld in 'the Brusels Arena ,.
March 20 & 21 and 26-,27;28.
irty-four teams will, be partici-
ting. The competing teams will
from distant centres such as. •
rdcn City, Mich::, and '..Ajax
t:, as' well as from many; other
mmunities .both far and near.
r details see the ad elsewhere
this issue of The, Poet. If you
a hockey fan' Brussels arena is
e place for you to be during this
tnament.
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Some people are lucky! We
ye just received word, at this —
ice from the Ontario Lottery
rporation that F.G. Stephenson
Brussels Was the happy winner
$1,000 in the February '19th
ntatio Draw in Timmins. Let
hope that more of that lovely
x free money comes to this
nimunity.
********
We were told in a program on
ucation ; aired by the CAC. on
onday night, that Canada ; "the
entry that Was . regarded':. as
wing one Of the best educational
•stem in the World, .has now
ered the standards to such' a
gree that students
iversity are almost at the point
illiteracy as far as the basics
e concerned. They have an
treniely poor knowledge of
glishi Writing' and 'arithmetic
as many ;Other things.
Their education is not fitting
em for business Of are the
ritnitinity Colleges equipping
CM adequately in, the courses
ey teach. What a Sad state of tars this is after th; of
105th Year - Issue No. 1,7
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 1976
141$ OF ROOM The brand :new 4 unit senior
citizens'. apaOrnetifin grussels o, sponsored OHC,, • , „-• • and • -.and the Village thelOWnahipa-of 'Mortit Grey. will
lie officially opened a weak froit today._ thara'a
plafity of patkleigAtiut§ida -the building, which sits in" ar
itive)ydditerof the Village -and all the realdatits seem
to irks their new hare. (Photo by Leholoiel