The Brussels Post, 1976-10-06, Page 1*am
READY FOR HOCKEY — The Brussels Minor
Hockey Association is optimistic that the Bruils
arena will be allowed, to stay open this winter and
they've gone ahead with plans for a full season.
'Volunteers Ralph Watson, Jim Prior, Bruce Hahn,
Lois McArter and Brian Rutledge' were kept busy
signing up young h ockey players who came to
register at the Legion on Friday night.
(Photo by Langlois)
wit build at fairgrounds
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105th Year Issue No. 40
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER' .6, -197
BRUSSELS
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Plan fee on
undeveloped
building lots
Brussels council approved in
principal the idea of an impost fee
on all buildable lots in unde-
veloped areas of Brussels at their
meeting Monday night. Clerk Bill
King said no amount has been
decided on, yet but council wants
the fee in order to get back some
of the costs involved in putting ,in
new streets, hydro and water to
open up new building lots.
"Often someone will. buy a lot at
the end of a block and we have to ,
put services in past all the empty
tots," the clerk said.
He said the impost fee wasn't
designed to catch the arena site
paiticularily but its proposed site
will, involve two blocks of street,
400 to 500 feet of new water main
and a new hydro line.
Council also agreed to contact
Huron County weed inspector
Alex Chesney about weeds on lots
owned by. Miss D. McDonald,
William Stephenson and Glen
Nichol. An agreement was made
with Mervin Bauer to snowplow
the streets in the village this
winter at a cost of $15 per hour.
The north wall of the fire hall is
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Council hopes arena
will be still open
, There has been, no word yet
on whether or not the Brussels
arena can stay open this winter.
But clerk Bill King,says-,eountil is
hopefitl'ihat once an engineering
study on the' building's ability to
stand up to wind and snow loads
is received from R. Ross and.
Associates, the department of
Labour will let the building stay
open.
Local groups who use the arena
in the winter are going ahead with
program plans.
Clerk King said the village will
hire someone to monitor the old
building for any signs of
weakness, as the department of
labour requires.
ew arena committee sticks with site
The committee planning the.
Y arena for Brussels, Morris
d Grey has decided to stick with
e site for the building offered by
k Bryans for $1, in spite of a
quest from the Brussels
gricultura] Society that the
irgtounds be the home of the
w building.
Fair board chairman Fred
er and a delegation appeared
the arena committee's meeting
onday night. Mr. Uhler told the
St That a majority of the fair
rd was in favour of the arena
ing located at the fairgrounds—
cause with the track, and other
idings already there, "it would
ake a complete unit, for the fair,
e Optimists for snowmobile
orig, for the rodeo or for any,
mmunity event."
Mr, Uhier said the fair people
ggested shortening the race
act and moving existing
tidings inside the track, leaving
r!I for an arena.. The
gmultural Society would make
eland available for the cost of
vittg the buildings and . ottenitig the track, he said.
The arena building committee
Inured the Bryans Site because
ere- Was more room there for pension, if in 30 years or so the
mmunity wanted to build a
Inning pool or sports
iii14, the fair president said.
e arena cbtninittee also felt that
e hill setting for the new arena
as better and would be More
tractive for the villae.
Mt, g
hersUhler said that land
near the fairgrounds
ght have been willing to sell me property, if the arena Was to
be located there, in case of future
expansion. He said the fair board
just', discovered at the arena
committee meeting that the land
Little Interest
in health council
in the area of the fairgrounds is
zoned light industrial.
"Personally I don't feel the
arena should be put in the centre
of a residential area. People built
houses on the back streets of
Brussels to get away from the
traffic," Mr. Uhler said.
He said there were some
objections to the fairground site
for the arena, back in August from
people who didn't want to"see the
track interfered with and as a
result "the fair site got lost in the
shuffle." However, he repeated,
the majority of the fair board
supported the fairgrounds site.
The arena committee
reaffirmed their choice of site at
Monday's meeting after a week
long 'reconsideration after
Brussels Reeve Sack McCutcheon
asked them to reconsider the fair
site. Room for future expansion
was their main consideration,
they said.
The new arena will include a
larger ice surface, a curling•
lounge, an atuditorium, and other
modern services, according to
Shirley Cossitt who is in charge of
publicity.
The arena committee is going
ahead with their planS for a fund
raising blitz during the first week
in November, and plan tO open an
office where people tan View the
building plans and leave
donations.
Entry forms are available now
forthe arena Walkathoh on act, 23
at 9 a.rm front stores in
Etrusels, Walton and nthel and
in local satools: Prizes include an
airplane ride for all the top tout
vitallers and /honey, The Walk
route will be from the Lions Park
south, to the 12th of Grey then
north to the 10th of Grey and then
west to Brussels, ending at the
ball park. Tax deductible receipts
are available for walkers. Entry
forms can be 'handed in now to
Short
In addition to the beautiful fall
colors the maples are displaying
these days, another reminder that
winter is not far away is that
registration for Figure Skating
takes place at the Brussels arena
on October 15. Figure skating is a
beautiful form of artistic
expression but first must come
the instruction to become adept in
this special form of skating
Now is the time to enroll. For
particulars see the ad elsewhere
in this issue of The Post.
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A musical treat is in store for
the'people of this conantinity. The
Listowel Secondary School Choir,
under the direction of Gerald
Pagan, will present a concert in
the Brussels 'United Chntch on
Saturday, October 16. This choir
has received wide acclaim and
many awards and is site to be
enjoyed by evetyone who attends.
S.C. Pegelow found, in apples
that he purchased froth Matt-Side
Orchards, that he had received
two apples fat the price of one, Of
cautse it was an oddity: Growing
tit .at the ttetti of a irteditilti sited
avoid line ups on the day of the
walk.
A 50/50 draw will be made Oct:
16 and the Optimists are selling
tickets on a Ford LTD which will
be drawn, in ' 1977, with all
proceeds to - the arena fund.
Shots
Courtland Apple, there was
another smaller apple,. - nicely
formed, attached to the -larger
one, an anchored piggy-back
arrangement might say. It is
nice to get two of something for,
the price of one even if it is only a
curiosity. You can see it in the
office' window of The Post,
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A Huron-County Highway crew
were busy last week giving the
railings of the bridge over the
Maitland Rivet a fresh coat of
green paint. It brightened up the'
appearance and alSo serves to
protect and prolong the life of the
structure.
How could anyone be so
heattlessi A small dog was left,
lying in pain at the Fina parking
lot on Monday Morning. It had
presumably been hit by a car.
Disturbed ObServetS had asked
that someone would put the dog
out of its inisety. Vortunattly
before that could be done the
little animal had recovered
enough to leave on its own.
Hopefully it was not toe seriously
injtited.
There seems to be little
interest in i-district health council
in-----Unt.on and Perth counties,
considering the number of people
attending a public meeting held
at CHSS Tuesday night.
-----Abont 35 people from the two
counties attended the meeting,
the first in &Series of informative
question and answer sessions:
Stephen Scorcz, a health
..,.ministry LtIcial told the group the
ministry wishes„ to form a district
health council within the two
counties, but "district ,health
councils will not be forced' on any
area that does net want it," he
said.
Mry Scorcz also felt it would be
unfortunate to have a council if
there was'no support from 'the
communities,
nut, Dr. „Lk. McGregor, a.
Witighain cloaca and a member of
the steering committee designed
to set up the district health
council, if it is wanted, said that
district health councils are
inevitable and "we'll have one
Whether we choose• or not".
A council in Huron-Perth will
have a budget of toughly $75,000;
a small permanent staff arid 15
councillors appointed by the
ptovitiee the tetairinteridation
of the steering committee.
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'by Evelyn Kennedy
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