HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1986-04-16, Page 2PAGE 2. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1986.
Greg Wilson, president of the Brussels Optomist Club [centre] last week presented a cheque for $2,000 to
the Brussels Lions Pool Committee to pool committee chairman Paul Mutter [left] and Bruce Hahn [right]
chairman of the finance committee for the pool. --photo by Pat Langlois.
Callander news
Residents attend Belmore Festival
BY DAWN WHITE
Sunday, April 6, the Brussels
United Church people held the
weekly church service at Calland-
er.
Visitors with Ethel Fischer on
Sunday were her daughter Shirley,
granddaughters Debbie and Tam-
my from Kitchener.
Bingo was played by the resi-
dents on Monday and in the
afternoon Residence Council was
held with president Edna Pearson
and vice Bill Close chairing the
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meeting. There was a good
attendance.
Card games were played on
Tuesday.
Mrs. Jean Edmonds of Vancou-
ver is home visiting with her
parents Mr. and Mrs. Oliver
Stewart, residents at the home.
Jean brought with her on the plane
the biggest chocolatebunny ever to
be at Callander. Wednesday, the
poor bunny was broken up and
thoroughly enjoyed by all the
residents.
Frank Dunn and Audrey Seaton
attended the Maple Syrup Festival
at Belmore with thehome bound
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D'people on Thursday.
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Friday Jeannette Boynton and
Jean Evans led the discussion
group. Jeannette read poems to
the residents and afterwards
everyone enjoyed good old junk
food - chips, etc.
Lottie McCutcheon was out for
lunch with Judy Hahn.
Gordon Grant celebrated his
birthday on Friday also, enjoying
his cards and gifts. Campbell Faye
and little Cassandra Grant visited
in the evening with Gordon to make
his day complete.
Everyone is looking forward to
having Earl and Martha Heywood
entertain at the home Monday,
April 21.
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of the time there was not rational
discussion but something would
Brussels be table thumping and cursing.
trigger someone and there would
Councillor Malcolm Jacobs said
what had upset him about the
fairgrounds project was not a
decision against it at council (which
had never been made) but a clerk
going against council's wishes and
telling the people involved to see
the planning department.
Councillor Workman said he was
sorry for the situation that had
Marilyn Higgins
887-6754
It was Barry Watson who
accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Sam
Sweeney home last week from
Arizona. All the years I've known
you Barry, you've been called a lot
of different things, but never
Mary, sorry about that, and
welcome home.
Jack and Margaret McCutcheon
spent a few days in Ingersoll
visiting Mr. and Mrs. Louis Ebel
and family, while there, Margaret
attended a 55th birthday dinner
and meeting of St. Paul's Women's
Guild of which she was a former
member.
Susan and Don McNeil, Karen
and Dave Hastings attended the
wedding of Bonnie Allen and Jim
Bradley on Friday night in Hamil-
ton. Bonnie is the daughter of Mac
and Beth Baeker of Burlington and
sister of Susan and Karen.
A local resident warns that there
are salesmen going door to door in
Brussels offering deals on frozen
poultry, seafood and steaks that
turn out to be less than great deals.
This resident got talked into
buying a box of frozen chicken
nuggets and a box of boneless
chicken breasts for a total cost of
$99. Later when she had a chance to
consider the purchase and com-
pare prices she discovered the
chicken nuggets cost about 43
cents each, more than Kentucky
Fried Chicken sells its chicken
nugget meals at. The chicken
breasts worked out to $2.61 per
chicken breast, a pretty expensive
meal. Once again this may prove
the value of shopping locally.
developed but "if that's what
comes from trying to stick up for
what I believe, I guess that's what
comes".
Councillor Jacobs told Mr. Ten
Pas he would like to see him sit and
help consider the applications for
clerk -treasurer. A motion by coun-
cillors Jacobs and Graber to have
council reject the resignation and
ask Mr. Ten Pas to resume the
chair was passed and the Reeve
resumed chairing the meeting
which went into committee of the
whole to consider the applications.
Brussels Public School
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TOES. APRIL 29TH
7:30 - 9:00 p.m.
Eve/'yage Ztiecame
THE TRI COUNTY SOFTBALL
Annual Meeting
will be held on
Wednesday, April 16th, 1986
at 8 p.m.
in the Brussels, Morris & Grey
Community Centre
in Brussels
The Schedu ling Meeting will be held on
Wednesday, April 23, 1986 at 8 p.m.
There will be no rulechangesat the
Scheduling Meeting.
Grey council awards tender
Grey Township Council held its
regular meeting on April 7, 1986 at
7:00 p.m. at the Township shed.
Council opened the gravel tend-
ers received for 30,000 cubic yards
of crushed "A" gravel, and
accepted the low tender of $1.73 a
cubic yard submitted by George
Radford Construction of Blyth,
Ontario.
Brussels, Morris and Grey
Board of Recreation Manage-
ment's budget for 1986 was
discussed by Council and the
budget was approved by Council.
Tile drain loan applications
submitted by Hugh Crawford, Tom
Williamson and Orval and Mervyn
Brussels Public School
KINDERGARTEN
REGISTRATION
for September 1986
Thurs. April 24th
at 1:15 or 2:15
Children must be 5 years of age by Dec. 31,1986
Please bring Birth Certificate
KINDERGARTEN
REGISTRA11ON
for September,1986
at Grey Central School
Ethel
Thursday, April 24th
from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Children must be 5 years of age by December 31,1986.
Please bring birth certificate and immunization records.
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Your child's portrait
FREE
• One free portrait per family
• No obligation to purchase
• All ages and family groups welcome
Come to
Oldfield Hardware
BRUSSELS
Friday, April 18th
Between 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.
No appointment necessary