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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1978
Serving Brussels and the surrounding community,
Published each Wednesday afternoon at Brussels, Ontario
by McLean Bros.Pnblishers Limited.
Evelyn Kennedy - Editor Pat Langlois - Advertising
Member Canadian Community Newspaper Association and.
Ontario Weekly Newspaper Assoeiation
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Don't be disappointed
With an utect ion ballot: as big as the one Brussels voters are going to
have to iru. rk on Monday, there are bound to be a number of long faces
and disappointed people Tuesday morning.
But those who don't win the contests for reeve, council and PUC have
nothing to chastise themselves for. The interest all candidates have
shown by making sure Brussels has an election should be appreciated
by all the voters.
Let's hope the unsuccessful candidates keep up their interest in the
village's affairs over the.next two years. Let's see people out at regular
council meetings and people asking questions, writing letters to the
editor and letting their views t e..known to council throughout the next
term, not just at election time.
And for Heaven's sake, with lots of choices to make at Monday's
election everyable.bodied voter in Brussels had better make it to the
polls. If yoU Vote,"yOU betteri nbt be too quick to -criticize what the
officials you'rlellOw ditizehS elect do.
See you at the polls on Monday and may the best man, or woman,
w ,r1;
Short Shots
by Evelyn Kennedy
Tim Prior looks over the new midget sweaters
worn by Scott Wheeler and Gary McCutche'on
thanks to Brussels Rebekahs and Oddfellows
Behind the Scenes
by Keith Roulston
Keep you awake
Remembrance Day
They knew not where the path would lead,
Nnr sought a path to suit their will,
I lioy saw a nation in her need,
They heard the cause of honor plead.
They heard the call. they gave it heed
And now they sleep in foreign fields.
Honor their memory at a Remembrance
Day Service. Remember their lives won our
freedom, at what terrible cost, Guard that
freedom with vigilent care.
/ 9 9 9 4 I
:11 41 :it *
The upcoming election does not seem to
be creating _much excitement among the
voting public, except debating who to
support. Give your votes to the ones you feel
have the ability to do the best for all
concerned. At least some of those whose
name will appear on the ballot are making an
allout effort to get the support of the voters.
It has become a matter of waiting for election
day and the counting of ballots to know who
will administer out business for the next two
years. Do not be apathetic about it. It is
important that every el igible voter exercise
the right to cast a ballot, If you do not vote
you have no right to complain .how our
village affiars are dealt With. Vote ori
Monday. November 13th.
**y* * *
Hallowe'en here was No serious
daniage was reported: As usual there were
various objects piled in the middle of the
streets. Drivers expect that on Hallowe'en
and are on the lookout for such things and no
accidents' Wete reported. The "Trick, or
Treaters" Were out in cOstuthe With' their
"goodie" bags. Those who called on me,
ghosts, goblins, witches, and weird ones
were polite visitors and were very welcome
at my door,
*******
Do not fail to remember the Majestic W.I.
Bazaar and Bake Sale to be held on
Saturday, November 18th.
* * * *
Congratulations to Bonnie Evans and
Robert Cardiff' who did so well in the Figure
Skating Competion at Hamilton-Stoney
Creek arena.
* * is * *
We have react that lower prices for beef
and pork arc no where in sight. If they go
any higher some of us may, of necessity,
have to become vegetarians. I for one, could
enjoy living on soup bones foe nutricious
homemade vegetable soup.
* * * * *
The recent Walton United Church Supper
was the usual sinashing success. -rho crowds
came from Kitchener, London. Y, t'rat ford,
and elsewhere as well as I rum the
surrounding communities. The delicious
suppers served rapidly disappeared and late
colliers had to be turned away.
* * * *
It has been reported that ,86 per cent of
Britoms said, in a recent survey, that they
would not exchange ,the Royal Family for
republican system. That in spite of all the
noise Eton some sources that claim the
people of Britain would like to get dr.! of the
Royal . Family: T he Queen was first1in the
affections of, her people followed by
Prince
Sometimes facing this typewriter on a
Monday morning can be a depressing way
to start the week. This is one of those
times.
Inspiration must have gone south for the
'winter. There's nothing that's worth a
whole Column. But perhaps there are a
couple. of short items that might be
interesting enough to keep you front falling
asleep.
• * * * * **
One of the fascinating things about life
is the cyclical pattern of history. Things
keep repeating and repeating. And every
time they repeat people grab hold as if it
was something entirely new.
I was struck by this while reading an
article in Maclean's magazine last week. A
fashionable and attractive young woman
has set up a consulting firm in Toronto to
tell people who want . to be a success in
business how to go about it; not through
incisive thinking or inspired invention, but
through the right choice of clothing.
First of all it was interesting to be
reminded that success itself is indeed
fashionable again. It seems only a short
time ago that, the younger generation was
rejecting the world of business as much as
they were rejecting the business suit for
dress. Material success had been judged
and found lacking: Young people were
searching for some real meaning in life,
something more than how many gadgets
were in the house.
Remember how parents despaired in
those days? Remeber how people worried
that the whole pattern of Western society
was changing, that the work ethic was
dead. that this lack of desire to acquire
material things might drive our economy to
rack and ruin?
Weil the generation of protest is now
more materialistic than its parents' and the
generation that followed is perhaps even
moresoNbile the parents of these
generations looked on material excess as a
measure of reward for work, today people
take material success as part, of their
rights; something to be written into the
constitution (if the politicians can ever
agree on writing a new one, but that's a
whole column in itself.)
Anyway, I found that part about dress in
success very interesting. More than 10
years ago when I was just a fresh faced
freshinati at Ryerson Polytechnical
Institute in Toronto there Was actu. ally a
dress code for all students. Ryerson Was a
school that trained the future components
of business and industry, from engineers
and architects to accountants and
marketing experts. You were going to Wear
a shirt and tie tater, so you might as well
get used to if.
Eventually the dre,ss code broke down.
In that era of protest there were things
such as the ceremonial burning of ties in
the school's central courtyard and other
protests and eventually the administration -
gave in, althought in the business and
engineering departments some instructors
still gave students a hard time if they
weren't properly dressed.'
The fight bypassed me completely. The
people in the artsy Side of the school, the
journalists, television and radio people and
the printers and photographers ignored the
whole thing. I started wearing a suit and tie
initially but inside of a month realized that
in the arts department nobody really cared
about the dress code. The instructors hated
suits too. Soon if you saw somebody
wearing a tie you knew he was an engineer
who's strayed into the wrong part of the
school by mistake.
Someday when I'm down in Toronto I'll
have to wander through the old school and
see if the dress code is back in this new old
age.
* * * * * *
Isn't it fascinating how people like to
try to change history or human behavior to
suit their own "modern" thoughts.
We were thinking about this the other
day in our family when the discussion of
Christmas gift suggestions came up, as it
always does daily for months before the big
day. Our three year old wants a combine
for Christmas, (one you can ride on.) It
would go with the tractor he got last year
and which is his favourite toy.
Now quite aside from the matter of
where we would get such a toy is that
matter of choice he made. People today like
to say that boys and girls have different
interests because they are taught to have
different interests by their parents and
society. I'm really beginning to wonder
about that one,
We've tried in.our family to be as free
front sexual stereotype as possible without
without making a mania of it. Our son has
grown up with two older sisters and plays
house with them etc. but when he plays on
his own, he always goes for trucks and cars
and tractors and farrn sets. It isn't because
he's imitating dad because dad is not a
farmer. Dad does very un-macho things
like pound a typewriter.
Yet the things that fascinate the boy are
the huge tractors and combines of the
farnter next door. The girls couldn't care
less about them but the boy will spot a
tractor Or combine a mile away. His mother
doesn't know a combine from a corn picker
but the three year old is a mini expert.
Explain that one to me Gloria Steinhart'. Vote on Monday