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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1977-07-13, Page 2IITAIUIHID 11172 Brussels Posy WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 1977 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 Community Newspaper Association and Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association Subscriptions (in advance) Canada $8.00 a year. Others $14.00 a year. Single Copies 20 cents each. Post office accepts delivery race challenge All Canadian newspapers which depend' on the post office to deliver out-of-town copies to subscribers will have an eye on a contest to be staged in Manitgba, July 19 and 20. Postmaster-General Jean-Jacques Blais has accepted the challenge of the Manitoba. Community Newspapers Association to a delivery race against a pony express system to be set up for the occasion. The newspapers will solicit the help of riding associations along the route. Copies of indigenous weekly newspapers will be picked up by the pony express in towns along the route from Mel ita in -western Manitoba and delivered at Morris, south of Winnipeg, a distance of about 200 miles. Duplicate papers will be mailed at the respective post offices at the times of pony express pickup. The newspapers will be addressed to the national president of the Canadian Community Newspapers Association, who will be attending a stampede at Morris prior to .the opening of the association's convention at Winnipeg. There's an air of romance there! Surely bets will be laid! But it's really all very serious, and regardless of the outcome the publishers can't lose. Their object is to dramatize a problem faced by publishers for years - slow and erratic delivery of out-of-town newspapers by the post office. Despite years of complaints and post office studies and promises, the problem remains. lam MacKenzie, president of the Manitoba association, said some members complained their papers mailed at various locations in rural Manitoba take up to eight or nine days to be delivered in Winnipeg. Papers to out-of-province destinations take as long as three weeks. These complaints are typical, and the experience of The Star-Phoenix is' right in line. We hope the post office wins. This would substantiate the belief of most publishers that determination is the missing ingredient needed to complete newspaper delivery with satisfactory speed and regularity. (The Saskatoon Star Phoenix) To the editor Sportsfest'77 '44 frf0117' As I told you last week, every good home deserves a sauna. That's my way of thinking. My wife knows better. She thinks what every good home needs is a goat. .Now, don't ask me why. I never figured that one out. But she has. Where else can you find an instant lawn mower? A gobbler-upper of thistles and brambles? Who else can clean out the weeds along the fence line? Who else can produce baby kids in twos and supply milk in bulk? A goat, of course. And speaking of supplying, what man can deliver a goat to your doorstep in his big green truck? And tell you to try out the goat for a few days and see if you like it? Try now and pay later kind of thing. Alex Drummond. Of course he doesn't take any credit for this kind of generosity. He said his wife Grace wanted it this way. In fact, she insisted on it. Grace has her reasons. She's lived with goats for over ten years now. And she's developed quite the track record. Sprinting all over the yard and keeping the goats out of her flowers, strawberries, bushes and every kind of tree bark. If anything can get her goat, it's those goats of Alex's. "No, no," my own wife insisted when Alex brought the goat over, "We really want the goat. No trial basis. We've made up our mind. Gotten everything ready. Let me pay you for the goat right now." "I can't, " said Alex, "Grace won't let me." The goat, christened Mary Lee within the hour at our house, bleated and blahed all afternoon. She took no comfort in the green grass of our backyard. She took no liking to the stake out around cur clothesline, post. She took no fancy to the leather collar buckled around her neck. It was all so obvious. Mary Lee wanted the grass back home. She wanted the tree shade. She missed her goat friend back horn: e. But my wife learned lots that afternoon. She found out all the fence posts wobbled Will you participate? Every home needs a goat Woniens Recreational Softball, Mens Slowpitch and Girls Softball and Tennis, Shuffleboard, Vuchre, Swimming, Horseshoe Pitching, T-Ball, There are events for all .,ages: Archery; Soccer, Table Tennis, Registration forms, Rules and details of Tournaments are available at the Brussels Recreation Committee, Deadline date for registrations and fees is July 23, 1977. We are trying to provide as Many towns, organizations and individuals as possible an opportunity to come to this year's host Community - Kincardine and participate. Anyone interested frOm the Brussels area May contact Mrs . Karen Hast ings of the Brussels Recreation Committee or David MacDonald, Sportsfest Co-ordinator, P.O.Box 583, Kincardine, Ontario or plione 396-2421. Amen by Karl Schuessler Daisies around our one acre. The hydro pole was the only stable stake around our place. She learned you can't lead a goat to grass and make her eat. She found out a goat can lower her head and move the wire pen set up for her in the colony house.She learned goats are quite the climbers -- both up and down. Either up on the wire fences or down on their knees. Those bare goat's knees aren't had by standing on all fours. She learned the only way to keep a goat happy is to go outside, and sit down by her. Pet her. Talk to her. She found out a goat cap snap a leather collar in two and walk -- in perfect freedom -- to the front door and just stand there whinning and whihing. My wife lasted for nine hours--nine hours of goat herding and babysitting. She feared what the coming night might bring. Mary Lee had to go back to Alex. But she went back in higher style than she came in the back seat of our old Plymouth. My wife says Mary Lee's not home for good. It's just that we have to do a little goat proofing. Wait for Norman Rock to come and guild a proper box stall in the colony house. Let him put the hinges on the door., We have to secure a few fence posts. Mend our fences. Tighten up the clothes line posts. Buy a stronger collar. Exercise our milking fingers. There's only one problem. Mary Lee's soon to deliver some kids. We're not quite sure. Are we buying one goat? Or two? Or Three? Will they be boys or girls? Alex shrugs. He's easy. Whatever we want. We have to make up our minds. Will it be mother goat? Or the kids? Either • or both-and? And what price? Do goats come in bargainpackages? I think I know just where to start. l'm going over to talk' with Grace. My wife and Alex may think they know what they're doing. But when it comes to goats, Grace wthhee,s man had d htoe olwivnes with has the last word. Because you don't ask one ,you ask his wife $1 ex wa ye re ex ele Sportsfest is being held in Kincardine on August 12, 13 and 14, 1977. It consists of 12 recreational event tournaments. We are trying to get as much 'involvement as possible from communities sueli as Brustels. The success of Sportsfest '77 will largely depend on participation front interested people and organizations to the community of Brussels and surrounding area. Sportsfest is sponsored and organized by the Lake Huron Zone Recreation Association in to-operation with the Ministry of Culture and Recreation. The Lake Huron Zone Recreation. Personnel froin Grey, Bruce, Huron, Perth and North Wellington Counties. Through these tournaments We encontage fun, participation ; good sportsmanship, low key competition, and hopefully on-going inter-community competitions in the future for these developmental sports.