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BRUSSELS
ONTARIO
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1976
Serving Brussels and the surrounding community.
Published each Wednesday afternoon at Brussels, Ontario
by McLean Bros,. Publishers, Limited.
Evelyn Kennedy - Editor Dave Robb - Advertising
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Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association
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Brussels Post.
Why the secrets?
Hecreation is a subject that most of the people of
Huron County are interested in, right?
That's one reason why county council's
development committee's holding meetings on the
subject in private just doesn't make sense.
The committee is considering a' proposal to se up
area recreation in the county, and a request that they
fund an area set-up to the tune of $1,000 per
municipality.
The proposal would see area recreation
committees, perhaps clustered around the county's
five towns.
If Winthrop has the best ball program in the
Seaforth area now, for example, and Seaforth shines
_ in its minor soccer activities, under area recreation
kids from several places would go where the
strongest program was,.
Several mediocre programs in places close
together could be combined to form one really good
program at a central place.
This is something of what the recreational
proposal involves. Now, who is better equipped than
the public of HurOn, the users of recreation, to be in
on these discussions from the start? •
But they and the press were excluded from a series
of information meetings the county committee has
been holding on the proposal. The invitation to the
meetings went out to town and township representa-
tives only.
If the development committee was afraid that
elected representataives wouldn't speak freely if
those who elect them were in attendance, something
is badly out of whack.
Government means participation from the ground
floor up. The public should be talking and listening
at these recreation meetings now, before all is cut
and dried and decided on.
We've said it before and we'll say it again. County
council should stop using closed committee meetings
as an excuse to keep information from the public.
The only committee meetings of any elected body
that need to be closed are those dealing with
sensitive personnel or legal matters.
Years of working with other politicians on
committees and boards may have given many elected
representatives the opinion that they know what's
best for the public, and that at the appropriate time
they'll tell the lucky. masses what it is.
That isn't enough any more boys! The public wants
in on public business.
Got the blues?
Want to get away from
i.t all?
Take a walk!
410C111 nafiritiptiction
Walk a blocklroday.
Kurt Liedtke won't trade in his car. I've
tried to convince him this is the time of the
year. All the new fall models are coming out.
Super styles. Wouldn't a new car be exactly
what he's wanting?
But he tells me there's nothing wrong with
his car. He's going to keep it for another year
to two. He says he likes his car. That's the
trouble. I like his car, too.
And not just this one. I've liked his last two
cars. So much that the minute Kurt traded
them in on a new one? raced 'down to
Charlie's used car lot and snapped them up.
Why, this last one of Kurt's, this '68 turquoise
Plymouth, I bought before they had time to
put it up on the car rack and fix it up for the
car lot.
You see, I don't buy Plymouths. I buy
Kurt's cars. He's the best mechanic ever.
There's no one around who can fix up a car
like Kurt. He didn't go through that
Volkswagen training school in Germany for
nothing. He brought all'his car know-how with
him when he came to Canada after the war
Kurt's the sort of man who can train his own
apprentic mechanics to make top grades in
their test scores. This Kurt Liedtke--they
don't turn out mechanics like him every day.
I've never figured out how he can look so
neat all day in the garage—keep his' handsome
head of gray hair combed and in place' and
those blue eyes looking straight at you from a
cleanface--and yet tinker all day in grease and
tight bolts.
A few years ago I warned Kurt about buying
that new car of his withont my approval.
,
Didn't he want to know if I liked the colour,
the Make, the model, -the interiore, He must
know 1 feel like seine sort of heir apparent to
his cars. Future owners might to have. some
say,
But Kurt didn't pay any attention. He went
right on ahead and chose a flashy gold one,
Quite an eyestepper after those bide and
turquois ones I inherited'.
I've had two years now to work myself up to
gold. Now I'm ready for it.
I've hinted .enough. Told Kurt I've put
m10a0n,0a0gOed mli130700o0.n the '68. The blue one
And doesn't he hate to see his cars get all
rusty "along the fenders ? I warned Kan
He'll have to watch his car deteriorate with
every mile. It's sort of sad to have to see
it--right before his eyes. Because he's the guy
who has to fix it—
But I • wasn't getting any place.
I thought I'd tempt Kurt a bit. Let him know
how, serious I was about getting another cat!
tried to threaten him with a Mercedes-Berta
was going up for sale at an estate auction. Had
only ,35,900 miles on it. So what if it was
fifteen years old? I was flirting with it.
I telephoned the garage. Though I'd worry
Kurt and ask him if he'd go over the car for
me. See what kind of a buy it was.
And what did they tell me at the gang!?
They said Kurt was on vacation. He was in
Germany for three weeks--visiting relatives,
So that's how Kurt feels about mY
cars!--and his cars! He leaves town and makes
titime esutffutienninHgeddoowetsn'eattcaarde if I s .seewina gstedeloatiSeros!
Driving my Plymouth to baretreads and
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handing him a whole pfieful of brdchares,
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