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ONTARIO
WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 1978
Serving Brussels. and the surrounding community.
Published each Wednesday, .afternoon at .Brussels,- Ontario
by McLean Bros.Publishers Limited,
Evelyn Kennedy - Editor
Member Canadian Community Newspaper Association and
Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association
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Brussels Post
Pollution controls
Snowdrops
Few nations today are truly independent. That is
because most of the world's countries are in fact very
much interdependent. They need each other -- and
this is particularly so in the case of Canada and the
United States. The continuing dialogue, between
these two countries over the Great Lakes,, pollution
problem, for instance, is taking a new twist T.- with
Washington trying to, extend the scope of .the . talks.
Solutions to the problems of pollution in the Great
Lakes are being sought on both sides of the border.
Cities, towns and • municipalities are building new
sewage plants. The United States is considering a
ban on phosphates in detergents and both nations
have anti-pollution targets.
One area where differences exist is in the degree
of anti-pollution police work. The United States is
seeking, at least on paper, a meticulous reckoning of
anti-pollution measures by all communities. U.S.
officials want stringent standards to govern
discharges into contributory rivers whose waters
eventually flow into the Great Lakes. This may be
costly, but it makes sense.
Communities and industries would then have a
legal obligation to get discharge permits from the
federal Government in Ottawa before they could
dump sewerage or industrial wastes. Some Canadian
experts say this is going. too far. 'They argue that
there's little need to worryabout every small town or
pulp mill so long as their effluents do not degrade the
quality of the water.
Pollution is something that must be controlled in
the Great Lakes, also in the rivers flowing into these
lakes and indeed everywhere else. This is a serious
global problem that has been caused entirely by
population pressures.We tend to forget that a million
years ago -- a relatively brief period in our planet's
existence -- there were but a few thousand people on
earth. They were doubling only once every 100;000
years. Today there are more than 4 billion people. By
the turn of the century, there will be about 6.3
billion.
Every individual can help control pollution..
Pollution is the result of. material benefits 'people
have sought and gained. Now- there is a back-lash,
caused by too many people demanding too many
goods and services and then being too ill-educated or
too unwise to discipline their consumption habits.
The dread result of all this is CRUSHING
POLLUTION.
(Unchurched Editorial)
To the editor:
Little bits and pieces keep coming up this
week when the blank piece of paper was rolled
into the typewriter, but nothing big enough to
write a whole column about. So we'll have a
bits and pieces column instead.
First of all there's the weather, much an all
as we'd like to forget it. What I keep
wondering is what ever happened to
normality, when it comes to the weather?
I was beginning to think that perhaps we
were going to get some normal weather back
there about February when it stopped
snowing and the sun actually shone for several
' days in a row, even if it was` cold. That was the
closest thing to normal weather I can recall in
the three years since we moved out in the
oountry to Muddy Lane Manor.
We'd had two of the worst winters on
memory and two summers that were cold and
damp or hot and dry by turn. Crops either died
from being too wet or dried up from not
enough moisture, There was no happy
medium.
So I breathed a bit of a sigh of relief after
February and thought maybe we'd broken the
cycle. But then March came followed by an
equally gloomy April and now May is half over
and we're still waiting for some enjoyable
spring weather. In May so far with the
exception of a couple of days, it seems like,
we've had the March winds and the April
showers rolled up together nearly every day.
We may have had the May flowers too but
frankly, I've been too cold and disgusted to go
out and look for them.
* * * * * *
Fans of the Toronto Maples Leafs may have
been disappointed in the fast dispatch of their
heros by the Montreal Canadiens but the
success of the Canadiens is probably the best
thing to happen to hockey in Canada in the
last dozen years.
There are those who claim that the Complete
dominance that the Montrealers have shown
in the past few years is bad for hockey. More
than once the cry "break up the Canadiens'''
has been heard. But as long as the team
continues to dominate the way it does, it will
set the style of hockey for the country, right
down to the littlest gaffer who can, hardly
stand up on his skates yet.
It seems only yesterday that another team
was dominating the game with skills, not so
much of skating and scoring, but of tripping,
hooking, and fighting. That team convinced
many teams and many young players that the
way to success in' hockey was through
roughness and bending the rules.
But the Canadiens have shown themselves
imperious to the hook, the trip and the spear.
They not only win, but they humiliate the
other team with the ease of their victory.
Other teams in the league wanting to win, will
be trying to build fast, skilled teams once they
realize that their efforts td,maul the tanicliens
into submission aren't successful. Young
children like to emulate winners and the
winners they will emulate will be the Lafteurs,
Shutts and Cournoyers, not the Dave Schultz'
of the league.
As for the cry of breaking up the Canadiens,
that won't be necessary. Some day, perhaps
soon perhaps a few years away yet, the bubble
wilT suddenly burst and the team that seemed
invincible will seem ordinary.
It's happened before. Some people were
predicting_ adynasty for the Philadelphia
Flyers only a couple of years ago. Before that
people wondered if anyone 'would 'ever take
the St anley Cup away from Boston with stars
like Bobby Orr and Phil Esposito. That day of
reckoning too is coming for the Canadiens and
it may come sooner than anyone now thinks.
All it takes is for one team to,discover how to
wreekthe Canadiens skilled system.
* * * ** *
For those interested in the pitter patter of
little feet we wrote about a• couple of weeks
back, the 32 little feet have been reduced to
only eight. If you think we're relieved to have
found homes for six of our eight little pups,
you should see their mother.
With eight little mouths yapping at her
heals, old momma had retreated to sleeping in
the house while the pups played 'outside.
Since the number has been reduced, she
seems to be taking some joy in her offspring
again. Now instead of sleeping she's often
outside rolling in the grass and playing with
them.
The lady of the house says she doesn't
blame her. If she had eight kids, she'd
probably just like to curl up in a quiet corner
and sleep too.
Behind the scenes
By Keith Roulston
Will spring weather ever come?
Huronview
The following may help to
answer the questions poised in
your May 10th edition regarding
muskrats:
Under normal circumstances, a
female mnskrat will have 2 to 3
litters per year, bath containing
Eve to ten young. Of the resulting
10 to 30 muskrats approximately
will be females and these in
turn will each produce 10 to 30
rats. If this cycle continues it
doesn't take Much of a mathetna,
titian to conclude ive would scion
'be up to our ears in muskrats.,
However, each year through
predators and trapping the
surplus is harvested and the
population kept within limits. Left
tot nature, over population would
also be controlled, but through
starvatien, tularemia; distemper
.andiArasites. Thse are far more
devastating and inflict more pain,
misery and prolonged suffering
than the modern Oonibear trap, a
drown set or a rifle.
A ttirthet note should be made
that we are located in a predoinin-
ately agricultural community
Where if muskrats become over
populated they casue a number of
problems, . This is especially
evident in drainage systems
which along with everything else
are becoming more and More
expensive to repair.
W. Knight
Members of the South Huron
Christian Women's Club, Mrs.
Pearl Erratt, Mit. Britton, Mrs.
Reynolds and Mrs. Hoggarth, led
the Sunday evening songservice in
the Chapel. Mrs. Elsie
Henderson accompanied at the
or,gan.
Four new resident Were
Welcomed to the Hoine at .
Monday's program: Mrs, Allan,
,Mrs,McArter and Mr. and Mrs.
Jim Caknothan, Marie Flynn,
lorne Lawson, Norman Speir,
- Cecil Skinner and Jerry Collins
provided the Old Tyme musk,
with vocal solos by Morgan
Dalton. The Clinton Christian
Reform volunteers assisted with
the activities,
The Clinton Kinette Club enter-
tained their adopted Grand-
nothers on Tuesday evening at a
smorgasbord dintfer in the
Clinton Public School. Thirty-one
residents travelling by van and
five Kinette cats were able to
attend the event.