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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1978-08-23, Page 3They were given a tour of the building where approx- imately 50 South Huron County Residents who are mentally handicapped, work at Woodworkipg, Maint- enance, Kitchen duties, Bakery, Crafts, Office Duties etc. • Lunch was enjoyed at Grand Bend and then the group visited, the , Huron Country Play House and`saw the Production "Picnic" starring Michael Beirne and Aileen Taylor-Smith. Supper followed at the Bayview Restaurant. MISS CNEContestants from Huron and Perth Counties from left are: Nancy Lupton, Stratford; Twyla Dickson, Gorrie (Howick); Barbara Wein, Exeter; Kathy Bruxer, Seaforth; Jan Divok, Clinton; Patricia MacDougald; Mitchell. Miss Niagara won the Miss CNE title and was crowned last Wednesday. . • (CNE Photo) If YOU 00 SHOPPING WITHOUT FIRST READING EsTAH" gBrussels Post LON MOW AND T1A1E ......... Gwendoline's lover makes the transition easily from the smooth glib-talking salesman to the man who falls in love with Gwendoline and helps her to see life as it really is. Heather Ritchie is alos good as May Jacobs, the prim and proper spinster lady and an authority on what should be done about the town's "crazy lady." Chris Kelk plays his role well as Jud Wylie the man who is a reflection for the town's general attitude that things they don't understand -should be done away with. It's an attitude which results in tragedy for Gwendoline and her lover. In short, Kelk rounds out an excellent cast of players who bring to 'the stage* a true-to-life drama which shows the kind of destruction that can result when people don't understand or won't try to understand their fellow man. Gwendoline is a play worth seeing the second time around. _47 By Marie McCutcheon Forty-seven Institute members and guests under the guidance of Mrs. Harold Steffler and Mrs. Ida Evans travelled via NicholsOn Bus Lines to the A.R.C. Indust- ries at Dashwood. (Continued from Page I. .) improvement of the Baillie Municipal Drain. Bylaws were passed to undertake the following drains: Beauchamp Creek - $198;563.; ,Branch 6th Concession-$50,000.; Chester Baker-$34,833.; Love -$10,715.; McDonald "B" - $29,073; McDonald "C" and "D" $16,837.; -King - $6,753. for a total of $346,774. Council gave grants of $200 to the Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Ethel 'and $740 to the Grey Township Recreation Committee. General Accounts of $8,959.55 and Road and Bridges Accounts of $1_1,435.18 were passed and paid. Building permits were granted to Roy Williamson—grain storage bin; James Riley, implement shed; Maple Leaf Mills, poultry barn; Nelson Sleightham, 'bunker silo; Edwin Krauter, trailer; Bruce Wilbee, mink barn; Gerrit Van Keulen, implement shed; Max Demaray, steel granary; Murray Cardiff, steel granary; Thomas Finch, concrete silo. Demolition permits were granted to Harry Gillis, silo, feed room, milk house; Edwin Krauter, house; Martin Baan, 'barn; John Baan, barn, hen house, house, garage, brooder house; and Max Demaray, barn. Brussels WI tours ARC Industries, sees play Grey sees trailer plan Sugar, and Spice by Bill Smiley Highway paranoia Farmers win field crop competition K Cam bof Dubli nd d thefield Clare Veitch Geor e Wheeler John en am e P ju ge Your heading this week is misleading. When this appears, Bill Smiley will be in Rome or somewhere, tossing nuns in a fountain. The perpetrator of the following is Roger Bell, a young English teacher, poet, motorcyclist and general disturber of the status quo. He is also a wit, satirist of the first order, idealist, lousy golfer, and unusual farmer. His radishes look like red softballs. Take it away, Roger. I am, as Smiley stated in his • rather flattering introduction, a novice motor- cyclist, recently introduced to this liberating and exhilarating pastime. Lately, however, this freedom and excitement have becOme tempered by all-consuming fear, and I am falling victim to a psychological malady called Highway-Biway Paranoia. It happens almost everytime I crank up my two-wheeled beast and ramble down the roadways some idiot, in his four-wheeled, gas-guzzling monstrosity attempts to verify the natural law which states that, if struck by an auto, bounce 12 times on his cranium before skidding to a halt on gravel-gouged hands and knees. It has reached the point where I question how most of these pilots of destruction received their licences in the first place. Some, obviously, were given the right to run over anything, that twitches, in the days when a driver's re.quirements consisted only of being able to see the, end of his nose, and having the ability to spit and walk simultaneously. Others must have received their permits from mail-order universities or boxes of Crackerjacks. A third group is those having connections high up in the Ministry of Transport. The rest, I suppose, were granted licences out of sheer desperation by harrassed examiners who were afraid of further risking their lives with those people in future tests. By now you're feeling I have an overblown ego, "This turkey," you scream; "thinks he is the world's best driver," I am. At least, I have to feel that I am, in order to survive the army of motorized )assassins who lurk in the asphalt jungle surrounding my hotne.. This army haS all types 'of 'killers; each trained, in his own Isp!ecial method of annihilation. There are the 'shales, those decelerated demonS who poke along, waiting for some unsuspecting victim to hurtle into them from behind and get a mouthful of taillight. At the opposite end of the spectrum are the quicksilvers, who feel that dogs,kids arid little old ladies are hindering them in their atternts at setting a new land speed record, The- gawkers usually inhabit country roads. These are rubberneckers who, slackjawed at nature's beauty or intoxicated • by the aroma of fresh cow dung, allow-their vehicles to meander drunkenly across center lines, onto the shoulder, wherever. There are also the creepers, those timorous souls who. halt at atop signs, then nose forward into traffic, and their black- sheep cousins the ignorants, who feel that God put them on earth to be aggressive. Why should they yield the right of way? Let the other slob stop. We have the opposites, a curiously contrary bunch who signal a left turn, then swing right, catching unwary fools who follow the rules by surprise. Occasionally !they will cross up potential victims by not signalling at all, then abruptly changing direction. Finally, we examine the just plain malicious, those loonies who delight in scaring the hell out of others by approaching at Warp Factor Five from behind, then tailgating for five miles. They gleefully speed up when someone attempts to pass them, leaving the passer stranded and fair game for oncoming cars. They slobber with joy when they can run a cyclist into the ditch or squash someone's family pet. They are the most formidable and dangerous road opponqata because, instead of Veing in- competent, they are irrational. What frightens me more is that, instead of declining, this horde of motorized maniacs is proliferating. In view of this, I have &Ole solutions for self-defense. I could mount a recoilless -30 mm tank cannon on my handlebars. Whenever. the need arose, I could blast (the offender to KingdomCome, and sail obliviously onward. I could buy a war surplus tank and clank fearlessly along, crunching snails and opposites undertread, secure in the know- ledge that whoever ran into me would suffer more than I. The government could come to my aid and institute a new licensing system with only two categories — Good and Bring in the Ambulances. (Those drivers in the later category would be required to have flashing neon signs on their car roofs to warn good drivers of their preience, ,giving, us time to seeic aarictuary, '• 1 It is unlikely, however, that these ablutions will prove acceptable to the powers that be, so I Will continue my present tactics of self-defense riding along with fear in - my mouth and a wall of profanity around Me so thick that a jet-powered ,Mack truck couldn't penetrate. crops in. Brussels this year and winners of the 1978 Field Crop Competition were: In Mixed Grain George .Pearson, Bill Pearson, Rae Houston, Clare Veitch, Doug Machan, Doug Hemingway, Ross Veitch, Clarence McCutcheon, Lawrie Black, Ross Higgins, Murray Houston, Neil Hemingway, Donna Hemingway, Don Procter, Jack Higgins, George Higgins, Wallace Black, Tom Warwick, Jim Williamson, Keith Williamson. • In Barley: Jack Cardiff, Jim Bowman, • Gwendoline [by Debbie Ranney] Gwendoline, which opened _ at the Blyth Summer Festival recently is a play interwoven with themes of love, hate, jealousy and revenge, all centred around a small-town eccentric named Gwendoline. Karen Wiens is excellent as "The crazy" who can't understand why the people of small-town Kingforks don't speak to her and won't even look at her when she talks to them. In Pork Easton a character played sympathetically by Terence Durrant, Gwendoline finds a friend because he too was criticized and joked about in his boyhood because he was so fat and lOoked upon ' as "different" by the other boys. Tom McCatnus plays David Easton with just ,,the tight amount of passionate en ion a boy who finds la Gwendeline a spirit as Wild and free, as his own and , Who becomes hopelessly infatuated with her which leads to the play's main conflict. Steven Thorne who plays Wheeler, Dave Wheeler, Murray Cardiff, Bodmen Ltd., Ross Veitch, John Van Vliet, Jan Van Vliet, Wayne Hopper, George Procier, Graeme Craig, Charles Higgini, Leslie Knight, Murray Houston, 'Graham Work, Murray Hoover, Harvey Craig, Wm. Coultes, Norman Hoover, Keith Williamson, Glenn Couites, Jim Williamson. To qualify for prizes,' 1/x a bushel must be exhibited , at the Brussels Fall, Fair; September 19 and 20. The competition is sponsored by the , Brussels Agricultural Society. Is well worth seeing