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Brussels Post
BRUSSELS
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1977
ONTARIO
Serving Brussels and the surrounding community.
Published each Wednesday afternoon at Brussels,, Ontario
by McLean Bros. Publishers, Limited.
Evelyn Kennedy - Editor Dave Robb - Advertising
Member Canadian Communiti, Newspaper Association and
Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association
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Subscriptions (in advance) Canada $8.00 a year. Others
$14.00 a year, Single Copies 20 cents each.
Storm stayed blues
Why write a letter if you know that the mail isn't
going to get anywhere? It's sort of like talking on a
dead phone line. And that's the problem that most of
us have, trying to go on with our normal work lives
when a blizzard rages outside and we've been
snowed in for five days straight.
If y ou work in an office, the phones don't ring.
There's no mail to answer; some of the staff haven't
made it in at all and those who are in have been
away from their own homes and families for several
days and don't feel much like working.
If you work in a store, there are no customers,
except for the oddhardy soul who wanders in in a
snowmobile suit.
If you're a snowplow operator you are consumed
by frustration, because you know your plow can't go
• anywhere but people are depending on you to get
their roads open. ,
Hospital and nursing home employees have their
work cut out for them, looking after patients' needs,
under short staffed conditions.
Maybe you commute to work in Stratford , London,
Mitchell or Hensall and you are stuck at home while
things go on normally there.That can bug ,you a lot,
along with the thought of a lost pay cheqUe. You're
only consolation is that you're luckier than your
fellow workers who are storm stayed at their office of
factory or maybe at a house between their job and
home.
Everyone who has a member of their family storm
stayed away from home has extra worries. Their
only consolation is that they are off the roads and
safe and warm.
A terrible feeling of something like panic hits most
of us when we realize That all the roads in and out of
town are closed. It's darn hard to stop looking out the
window, sighing at every weather report that tells us
that it's only going to get worse out there.
It's harder to focus on getting things done when
the future seems indefinite and regularily scheduled
things are postponed from minute to minute. Our
nicely regulated lives are out of kilter for a few days,
and many of us find that hard to take.
By the fifth day of closed in conditions tempers get
frazzled. The worry and the claustrophobia is just too
much for most of us.
It's a terrible storm but it's not all bad.
People work together and help each other.
Residents along main roads welcome total strangers
into their homes and feed them and keep them.
Neighbours make an all out effort so that an
ambulance or fire truck can get through the snow
drifts to where they are needed.
We can survive this storm. We're warm and dry
and have all the food we need: Maybe it helps to
remember that many people in other parts of the
world liye ou ,eir lives in uncertainty and anxiety
that's far WorsJ than what we've had While we've
been snowed In.
That's true but it doesn't help a lot: It's human
nature to think that our particular crisis is the worst
one around.
But by working together, like farnilies, businesses
and total strangers are doing this week' We can lick
anything, even this Winter.
Think. Spring
Amen
by Karl -Schliessler
Amen is unavailable this week because of the weather.
We were wrong
Brussels Reeve Cal Krauter knows his county
history backwards and forwards. Reeve Kraiter,
beginning another stint on County Council after his
re-entry into municipal government this year,
pointed out an error of fact in a recent Post editorial.
The Post said that there have only been two
women, ever, on County Council ....Minnie Noakes
of Hensall and the late Helen Jermyn of Exeter.
Thanks to Reeve Krauter, we now know that there
was another woman who served on County Council.
She was Mae Mooney of Goderich.Mrs. Mooney was
later elected mayor of the county town, following her
stint on County Council.
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