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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1978-05-17, Page 2snow 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 Subscriptions (in advance) Canada $9.00 a Year. - • • Others $17.00 a Year, Single Copies 20 cents. each. 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.