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WHO ARE THEY? — Do you recognize any of these women? The owner of the
photo, who gave it to the Post to reproduce, says anyone with a family interest it
the photo may have it free of charge. The picture was taken by a Toronto
photographer, but the owner thinks the ladies may well be from the Brussels area,
If you know who's in the picture, or can date it by the clothes give the Post a call.
Amen
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gBrussels Pos.
BRUSSELS
ONTARIO
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER, 12, 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
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Senior power
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Senior citizens from this part of Western Ontario
are meeting today in Brussels. The Post welcomes
them to our village with the following thoughtful
comment from the United Church.
Compulsory retirement at age 65 is both unfair and
wasteful.
For employers, the result is a loss of valuable
human skills and reservoirs of experience. Also. lost
are such priceless by-products of longer life ,as
wisdom and the2 bility to cope with a whole gamut of
practical situations.
It should not be assumed, of course, that everyone
reaching the age of, 65 wants to go on working.
Others may not be capable of doing an effective job:
What, then, are the alternatives to total
retirement?
Those who have researched this problem are'
convinced that it can often be solved by
redistributing responsibilities to provide enough ,,
work for all age groups. In many cases this may call
for senior employees to step down or sideways to
new positions. Alternatively they may be assigned to
part-time work or serve as consultants. Thousands of
people slated to be axed from their Jobs at the
prevailing age limit would gladly settle for lower pay.
However, if there's no way a person can be
retained by his present employer all is not lost. Many
gray-haired ex-employees have turned to a second
career in a similar or totally different field that might'
be less demanding. Yet this road, too , can be rough.
So far, few firms are willing to give even part-time
work to a recent retiree.
Eecause senior workers so obviously deserve
fairer treatment, it is to , be hoped that the federal
government's new Human Rights Act (Bill C-25) will
include prohibition of age discrimination.
Certainly the future will force -a change.
Statisticians forecast a sharp rise in the number of
senior citizens in Canada over the next 20 years.
Thus the national work load will have to be spread
over a wider age span. It's not too soon to stop
making all 65-year-olds walk the plank by offering
them more enlightened and practical alternatives.
Amen
by Karl Schuessler
A Thanksgiving story
I heard a good. Thanksgiving Story on
Thanksgiving Sunday. And no, I didn't get
it in church either. I heard it from a P.K. —
a preacher's kid.
Preachers' kids do grow up and get old.
And this one is in his late sixties: In his
early years Selwyn Dewdney spent two
years in the far North as an Anglican
student inisSiOnary. He was going to spend
his rhisSionizing the Indian,
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But then he took another route. He spent
much of his time in a canoe moving up and
down the rivers of the North bush country
where he studied the art the Indians put on
the rocks. Rock art, he calls it. He chose,
art, archeology, and the Indian as his life
interest. And in preserving and under-
standing their way of life he feels thats his
missionary contribution.
But back to Selwyn Dewdney's story. A
tourist was sitting around in a hotel 16unge
in Moosonee. An Indian came up to him.
He needed some money: "Ohh, alright, '
said the tourist, probably just to get rid of
him, and he gave him $100.
Later in the afternoon the Indian needed
some more money. So he went back and
found the same tourist in the same. hotel,
same bar.
"Why should I give you more money?"
the tourist snapped, "I've given' you. two
dollars already":
"But y ou're my friend;" „ said the
Indian; "and a friend helps: you out.“.
,SO what's Thanksgiving about that one?'
What's the connection? I bet you thought .
Thanksgiving was allabout being grateful, ,
About thanking:'Ood for all He's given you
in harvest and home.. It's only decent to do
the right thing by God,- It's polite,,GOod
heavens,you try to teach your kids. to be
thankful. Say "thanit,yott,.inean it or not,.
The least you can- do is join in some Stott of
hyrrin of praise and thanksgiving.
Sometimes it's rather hard to be all that
grateful:- With abandoned corn wagoii
stuck in the mud in the fieldsand black
beans rotting by the acre and with one.
more day of rain, When you don't need a
drop of it.
But despite all the weather luck, the Corn
is coming in. The crop insurance does pay
off and the sun does come out now and
then. If you try hard enough, you can eke.
out some thanks. Besides, there's always •
someone worse off than you are.
And if you're fOrced into this kind of
gratitude, you can, manage a thank-you,
• weak though it is. Because, it's true.
There are thousands of people who 'have
things tougher than y ou.'
But I'still think that Indian in Moosonee
is more dead on.. We're all more like him.
We presume the generosity of the
giver.We skip over the thanks and the debt
of gratitude for past favors. 'We don't
posture, bow and scrape. We n aturally •
assume the giver will deli. ver. We believe .
God is generous and giying. That He is "
lavish in his gifts toward us. So we come to •
him in high expectations. ,He's a friend,
isn't he?
But unlike the tourist giver, we expect
our Giver to hand, out --Without any
grudges and resentments. We know He
won't snip about what he's already done
for us. We expect good things front a good
God: We know He's on onr side,
I'd like to think Thanksgiving is more
about a generoUS God, than a grateful
people. His good gifts fall both on the just
and the uitjtist. And like the Indian,
wdeitsfierivti,fig doeSn't have all that much to do ,,
' We 4 re the benefactors of a gracious
God. i though
undeservundeundeserving,UstitaWndrhY' undertilig the
cornucopia of his grate: And if there's any
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