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The Brussels Post, 1978-01-11, Page 5WE PAY 7% sales tax on all used cars in stock Offer Good Jan 8th until Jon. 31. 'Michelin Snow Tires 215 x 15 $86,00 Discount On All Snow Tirest25% Limited Supply L. 1MOTORS 'Choy, Olds, tatutteis 8.87,6856.„ HAYWARD'S Discount -- Variety Cosmetics Tobacco Patent Medicines Groceries and Stationery Officers for the coming year are President - Gilbert Beecro , IR.R.#1, rielgrave; Secretary Mrs (Abrdon McBurney, I \gingham and. Treasurer , Robert ,Hibberd, Belgrave, Women's. Institute will meet Tuesday,Tanuary 17 at 2 P.M. This is the Citizenship meeting , and Mrs. Earl Anderson will be the convener with Mrs, Norman Coultes giving the address. The lunch committee is Mrs. Glenn Coultes and Mrs. Leonard James. • $549.75 was rasied in the canvass for the Canadian Bible Society in 1977., Three tables were in play at the weekly euchre held in the Women's Institute. Hall on Wednesday evening. Winners. were : High Lady - Mrs. Willard Armstrong; High Man = Wm. 00;.. Low Lady - Mrs Wm, Black, and Low Man - Sam Fear. Remember! It takes but a i moment to place a Brussels Post Want Ad and be money in pocket. .To advertise, just Dial BrUssels 887-6641. Novice farmers program 'begins new season Since 1972, more than 3500 people have taken novice farmer ! courses offered by the Ontario Agricultural College, University of Guelph, says Paul. Hendriks of the Office of Continuing .:Education. The courses offered are designed to meet the needs of people who want a better '1 understanding of agriculture or who anticipate farming on their own. Beginning January 26, 15 evening courses will be offered in 'Toronto and Guelph. The weekly courses vary in length from 3 to 10 sessions from 7:30 - 9:30 p.m. Course fees range from $30 to $65, with special rates for couples. There are no entrance requirements other than a keen interest to learn more about agriculture. Courses available this winter, include: Introductory Agriculture; Farm Income Tax; • Landscaping the Country Estate; Vegetable Production; Tractors and Machinery; Tree Fruits; 'Small Fruits; Fish Farming; Woodlot Management; Field Operations; Soil Management; The Meat We Produce; Forages; Cereal, Grains , Corn and Other Crops. Climatic Changes in Agri- culture will be offered for the first time this year. For more information write; Applied Agriculture Program, Office of Continuing Education, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, N1G 2W 1, or telephone (519) 824-4120, extension' 3956. What:to do when your freez er stops running If you own a freezer, you may at some time be faced with the problem of what to do if, the freezer stops running. Food specialists at the. Ontario Food Council, Ministry of Agriculture and Food, are often asked this questions and offer some suggestions, should the emergency arise. First of all, check to trace .the source of the problem. Is it an unplugged freezer, blown fuse, or a power failure. If the power has failed; try to determine the length of time the power may be off, or has been off. At this pOint, check to see if the food is still frozen. If the freezer is fully loaded and the doer remains closed, the food should stay frozen for about two days. If the 'freezer is partially loaded, the food should stay frozen for about one day. For added insulation, cover the freezer with blankets, being careful not to baiter the air vents. Leave the freezer door closed and don't keep opening it to check the contents. If a partially-loaded freezer won't be operating within 24 hours, dry ice can be placed on top of the food to keep the temperature below ' freezing, Allow 25 pounds of dry ice in a 10-cubic-foot freezer, or SO pounds in a 20-cubic-foot freezer to hold the temperature down for two to three days. To avoid "burning" yourself; never touch dry ice with your bare skin. Also remember that carbon dioxide gas, which is dangerous to breathe, is produced by dry ice, so'make sure that the room is well ventilated, Alternatively, transfer the food to a frozen food locker' until your freezer is functioning . again. When the freezer is working again, always check the food contents before they becothe refrozen. If the food in questions ti is only partially thawed, that is, there are ice crystals still present, it may be refrozen quickly. If the food has completely thawed but is ‘ still cold, in most cases, it should be used or cooked right away. ' Ibis food should not be refrozen !since there is a good possibility , that spoilage bacteria are at work. Thawing and refreezing of foods always results in some loss i! of quality and possible safety problems. However, once the 1 thawed` foOd has been thoroughly ' cooked, it can then be refrozen. Under specific circumstances, certain foods may be refrozen safely, although there will always be a loss of qiiality. For details relating to your f particulate situation, cheek with a home economist, or write for the booklet "Care for Your Frozen Foods" to: Information Branch, KuiiStry of Agriculture and Food, Legislative Buildings, Queen's" Park i Toronto, Ontario M7A MS. THE BRUSSELS POST, JANUARY 11, 1978 -5 WI names new iofficiers for year Sugar and Spice by Bill Smiley Canada's winter Chinese, among other peoples, honor their ancestors. It's a nice idea, but about this time every year, I start calling down maledictions on mine. When they were kicked out of their Scottish crofts by landlords who decided sheep were more important than people, or had to suck their feet out of the Irish bogs because even the praties were getting scarce, why, oh why did they have to emigrate to some stony farms in. Pontiac County, P.Q.? Why didn't at least one of them head for Australia, or South Africa, or Mexico, or South Carolina, anywhere south of the snow belt? Nope. With unerring instinct, they headed out of two of the worst winter climates in the world - Scottish highlands and Northern Ireland - and straight for the worst in the world - middle Canada. There are those idiots who claim that the Canadian winter is a healthy climate. Perhaps that's why I had 12 students absent today out of 32. Perhaps that's why I hack.from November until June so loudly that my wife knows when I've entered our block, let alone the house. This year, we didn't get our usual few skifts of snow, two or three inches at a time,, so we could get our snow tires on, our winter grumbling tuned up, and our winter blasphemy geared for what was coming.. Not a chance. By the 10th of December, we'd had two feet of snow around our place, and' the temperature had hit 10 below. Fahrenheit! I had to dig the lawnmower out from, under a snowbank to put it in the toolshed. What kind of a way is that to live? Had to dig my rubber boots out in November. I hate those boots with a , loathing I have never. felt for any other creature, animate or otherwise, in my entire life. Ervery year, they seem to get farther away from the top of me, and harder to pull on. I either topple over on top of them, or get one foot halfway in and can't get the rest in or out, or the blasted zipper sticks after one inch, and I get snow over the top and into my shoes. Getting them off is even worse. I use the heel and toe method. Too proud to sit down and pull them off with my hands. That's for old people and smart people. - No, I stand teetering, put the toe of one foot against the heel 'of the other, and pry. The zippers never zip down more than halfway. I grunt and pry. Either nothing happens, or there's a sudden whup, and the boot comes off. With my shoe inside it. And I am dancing around in one sock foot in the snow that has fallen off my boot. Or the zipper breaks and I can't get the boot off at all. The other one comes off like an eel, and I walk around all day with one rubber bootshod foot, and one in a shoe , And that's only the beginning. There's .-winter driving. Oh, you may be one of those guys with a warm garage, a snovvblovver to clear your driveway, a block heater to keep your engine 'warm and an inside car heater to prevent instant piles when you sit on that icy plastic seat cover, I ain'.t. My 10-year-old Dodge sits out in the elements. On a typical morning, I go out and spend 10 minutes cleaning off the ice. Then I get in, say a short but fervent prayer, and turn the key. • She gives a startled grunt, wheeze and bellow, resembling a cow giving birth, groans, and falls silent. I start to get mad, pump the gas, and flood her, shouting imprecations. She responds with a scornful and gradually diminishing, ,. "Arrggh, arrggh, argh...." On the rare occasions when she does kick over, I warm her up carefully, look fearfully over my shoulder at the three-foot bank the town snowplow has thrown up behind us, and give her the gun.She either stalls and we end like a stranded whale, belly on the' snowdrif,t or she bombs right through and I hit the telephone pole on the other side of the street with my rear bumper. Even worse than the driving in winter is the attitude of a good portion of the populace. I totter in to work wheezing, one boot unzippered, relieved and yet furious, and some pink-cheeked young colleague chirps: "Wasn't it a terrific weekenc? All that snow. I skied all day Saturday and Sunday. It was just beautiful out in the bush, on the trails." At these times, I would !tyke to trail 'that young pinklcheek out to the bush, point out how beautiful if is, manacle him or her to a Christmas tree; come home and sit down by the fire with a good shot of anti-freeze, smiling broadly as the temperature dropped and the wind rose. Even more obnoxious are those who sit around, the bourgeois bums, and natter about the great winter holidays they've had, each trying to out-do the other. "Yeah, Barbados is all right, I guess, if you like getting your foot pierced by a sea urchin. Not much to do but lie around in the sun and drink cheap rum." "Jack and I took, a cruise last year in the West Indies. Stopped at 10 different islands. Fantastic!" "But aren't there a lot of ugly Canadians on those cruises. you know, hairdressers and salesmen and school teachers? We like Mexico ourselves." "We thought so too; but then we discovered Hawaii." May they all get triple arthritis, have their pensions cut off, and have to spend all their winters in Canada. Our idea of a great winter trip is to take the ill-considered Christmas presents back to the store and get a credit, if we're lucky.