HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1978-03-08, Page 1
BRUSSELS
ONTARIO
107th Year — ISSUE No. 10
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 1978
a sewers this, year,
reeve tells _council
AN INTERESTING SERVICE — A good crowd of Brussels and area
people came out Sunday for the dedication service at the new
enlarged Watts Funeral Home. The village has had a funeral home,
under various owners for more than 100 years. The Wptts family
have owned the business since 1969. (Post Photo)
ESTABLISHED
1872 Belgrave Kinsmen
raise $175 at
chicken catching Brussels Post
Belgrave and District Kinsmen
have discovered a new way to
make money for their projects.
Members caught and loaded 7000
chickens in less than two. hours
and were paid $175.00 for their
work.
Details were reported , at a
dinner meeting on Wednesday
when guests were Jerry Edwards
and Doug Cloakey and a few
members from visiting Kinsmen
Clubs. Chinese auction winners
were Gord Folkard and Ted.
Moran. New Name Badges and
Puff Badges were presented to a
few members.
The Bingo committee reported
on their successful night and are
providing another bingo in April.
They did not get away with it
this time. Two area youths in
their late teens, old enough to
know better, must have thought it
was great sport to damage public
property. They knocked' down,
with the car, several stop signs on
John Street, in Brussels on
Friday night, darriage given as
$30.00. Later they may have
changed their minds about it
being fun. They were
apprehended by Wingham O.P.P.
and one, we were told by' police,
has been' charged with wilful
damage.
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Give your support to the
Brussels) Morris and Grey
Plowing Match Committee. Help
them prove that this community is
•not lacking in hospitality or in
providing e.-cellent facilities for
such an event. Attend the dance
in the Community Centre in
Brussels this Saturday night.
Enjoy dancing to the country and
western style music of the Lee
Davidson Orchestra.
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The Brussels Optimist Atom
Tournament continues this
weekend, Saturday and Sunday,
March 1142 and next weekend
March 18-19.. If you are a hockey
fah then the place to be both
President Lloyd Mich'ie
reported on the bus tour to . the
Farm 'Show in London. John
Nixon is in charge of an afternoon
or evening , of curling for the
'Kinsmen members and :their .
wives some time before the end 'of
March. • ,
Some of the member's will be
attending the Broomball- Tourna-
ment in Durham on March 15th in
hopes of extending the Kinsmen
winning record. Many thanks to
.the 22 members who helped load
chickens one evening. The
club was rewarded with a cheque
for $175.00 for their services. It
was hard work and the seven
thousand chickens were caught
and loaded in less than two hours.
weekends is the B.M.&G.
Community Centre to enjoy
exciting hockey.
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Here it comes again. Another
rise in the price of gasoline and
fuel oil is about to take another
bite out of us, a bite of3 Cents to 5
cents per gallon. The price of
gasoljne does not disturb me too
much considering the little
driving done-I am still able to
walk, at least in good weather.
What does trouble me is the price
of heating oil. In spite of
determination to keep the
thermostat low (so the furnace
will gobble up less of that horribly
expensive •oil) when feeling the,
chill in these aging bones up it
goes, even when wearing a couple
of Sweaters and huddled in,a wool
blanket. It does not look as if
there will be any relief in this
trend of rising 'prices. They are
destined to keep coming.
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The famous Elmira Maple
Syrup Festival which attracts folks
from far and near, takes place the
first of next month. Cin you not
taste that delicious sweet just
thinking about it. There Will also
be Other delectable goodies that
are specials in that comintinity,
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There will be no sewers for
Burssels this year council learned
at a meeting Monday night when
Reeve Cal Krauter reported a
discussion he had had'with Huron.
Bruce MPP Murray Gaunt. Mr
Gaunt had told him that he had
learned from GeorgeMcCague,
Minister of the Environment that
no funds would be made available
this year for the proposed sewage
system.
Reeve Krauter said that the
men that are surveying now are
About 35 Walton and Seaforth
area parents in the audience
breathed a sigh of relief Monday
afternoon as the Huron County
Board of Education voted down a
motion to study the closing of
Walton Public School. The motion
called on the board to make a
decision by its April meeting.
Trustee John Henderson of
McKillop made the motion as part
of his fiscal and property
committee report. included in the
recommendation was the transfer
of WPS students to Seaforth
Public School and of SPS Grade 8
classes to Seaforth District High
School.
Opposition to further study was
summed up by Zurich trustee
Herb Turkheim when he called it
"a waste of time, A big part of
further study would . be consul-
tation and it's quite obvious the
ratepayers don't want this school
closed:"
Mr. Henderson said $53,6 86
would be saved by closing the
Walton school, including roof
repairs,, secretarial costs of $1193,
plant operation of $8075 and
just making working plans. The
problem is that we have no funds,
he said.
Couneillcir Tom Pletch said 'he
had been talking to Burns. Ross,
the engineers for the project, and
they had said there would be no
funding for this ,year.
"1 said what I was interested in.
was that we don't get shoved off
.when Durham and Owen, Sound
are getting sewers," Reeve
Krauter said.
teacher salaries of $31,757. The
amounts were disputed by
Goderich trustee Dorothy
Wallace who pointed out that the
school roof would have to be fixed
and the building maintained even
if the school was empty.
Win gham trustee • Jack
Alexander got support for his
night's meeting to go ahead with
a court injunction to tear down the
Export Packer's building and the
Ball Auction building.
Council previously had, sent a'
letter to the owners giving a final
notice,
Reeve Krauter said he hadn't
heard from the people since and
that all they could do was get a
court injUnctiOn,
"You could inform them that
before we spend any money that
we're about to endeavour to get
an injunction or Court order"
"Can't we write to the MiniSter
expressing our feelings," Tom
Pletch asked and Reeve Krauter
agreed. "It is creating a problem
with. our roads and everything
else. I would like to pressure him
anyway possible," he said.
Council agreed a letter should
be written to the Minister
stressing the need for sewers in
Brussels with copies to Murray
Gaunt MPP and Robert
McKinley , M.P.
motion asking the Henderson
committee to review school
boundaries and transportation
routesthroughout the county. Mr.
Alexander, a member of the
Henderson committee along with
Brussels trustee Don McDonald
in effect disassociated themselves
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"Can they riot issue a work
order to tear it doWn," councillor
Tom Pletch asked.
"You still need a court order",
Reeve Krauter said.
"What if a kid goes in there
and it collapses On to of him,"
Tom Pletch asked.
"All we go by is that its on
private property and whoever is
the owner'is responsible," Rcevc
Krauter said.
Council then decided to make a
Motion to go ahead with a court
injunction,
Short Shots
by Evelyn Kennedy
Will get court order to
tear down building
Council decided at Monday Reeve Krauter said.
Walton school won't close