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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1978-11-08, Page 19?Ai CLII af? FARM EQUIPMENT LTD. SEAFORTH - CAMBRIDGE-AYR -WOODSTOCK , Work in Complete COMFORT r WiMDEREtKEP 1. INTERNATIONA!' Windbreaker Tractor Heater fll SEAFORTH 527-0120 .1104 li-4FT The family of the late Jack Yuill wish to express their sincere appreciation for visits and kindness shown during his prolonged illness. Thanks also; for messages of sympathy received through cards, beautiful floral tri- butes and generous chari- • table donations; for the help of neighbours and friends who provided and served lunch in the home after the funeral service and everyOne who has given support at this time. A special thank-you to Betty McDonald for her help and consideration both at home and in hospital; also to Mrs. Muise 'of the Huron Perth Lung. Association who has visited and provided advice and assistance for the past six years. Deeds such as these are priceless and will never be forgotten. Mary Yuill, Jean and Walter Bewley & Family Marge Bowman and Family. 24-58x1 27 Births PARDYS: Henk and Annek arethanking God for a baby son, Terry-Henk. A little brother for Yvonne and Christy. Born October 20th in Listowel Memorial Hospital. 27-58-1 1 Coming Events The Huron County Health Unit invites you to attend the Child Health Clinic Health Unit Office Medical Building Brussels on Tuesday, NOVEMBER'14, 'From 9:30- 11:30 Et".111. for 1. Health Survellance 2. Anaemia Screening 3. Immunization 4. Flouride Tree Planting Assistance Dose wishing to have land reforested in 1980 are re- quested to make application by MAY 1st, 1979 Since nursery stock must be ordered a year in advance of planting, we suggest your oilier by placed now, as applications will be process on a first come - first served basis. Contact: Marlene R. Shiell, Secretary-Treasurer Maitland Valley Conservation Authortiy Box 5, Wroxeter, Ontario PHONE: [519] 335.3557 • 19-57-2 Bluevale hosts euchre party Correspondent Mrs. Joe Walker 359-3558 Mr. and Mrs. Ross Turvey and Mr. and Mrs. George Fischer hosted the euchre party in the Bluevale Com- munity Hall, Thursday evening. Prizes were won by ‘M'irgire sdams, high lady, Daisy Timm, low lady, Carl Frieburger, High man, Eric Ross, low man, Charlie Mathers lucky draw. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Stewart and Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Edgar will be in charge of the next euchre, Nov. 16. Mrs. Beth Johnston spent a few days last week with Mr. and Mrs. Norman Barnard near Ripley. Bpard -, reps acclaimed` W.J. KINAHAN W. J. Kinahan who was acclaimed as a trustee on the Huron-Perth Roman. Catholic Separate School Board says he chose to run again be- cause he is interested in school and education. Declining enrolment and tightness of money have to be the main issues facing the school board he believes, especially declining enrol- ment. His past experience in- cludes being on the local Board of Education in Wing- ham and four years on the County board. He is a Sun-Life of Canada Assurance salesman. His wife Mary is a Kindergarten teacher at Sacred Heart school in Wingham. They have three boys and one girl and they had one other son who was killed a year ago. DON McDONALD Donald McDonald who is already in by acclamation on the Huron County Public School Board chose to run for a seat on the school board, because, "Having part of my family still in the system, I am very interested in their education as well as every other student in Huron County. "Also being a farmer I am • very concerned with our education tax and how it is being spent. Two main issues that he believes face the Board of Education will be the impact of declining enrolment on our education system in Huron County and the ever sp iraling cost of education. Mr. MacDonald owns and operates • a farm at Lot 2, Concession IS of Grey Town- ship. He and his wife Marilyn have a family of two boys and four girls of which two are still in the Public and Secondary system. He has been a member of the County School board for eight years and before that was on the Grey Township Board for 10 years. Why can't the big brutal world out there leave us little guys alone to get on with the difficult-enough business of living: putting on the storm windows, changing into the snow tires, digging out last winter's rubber boots with the hole in? Not a chance. It's always shoving a ham-fisted hand into the delicate machinery of our daily lives. Today 1 received a, summons to appear in court in the city to answer a charge of illegal parking, with the the "to wits" and "whereases" and threats that accompany such 'blackmail. And that's what it is--blackmail. I haven't been in the city for four months, I don't even own a car in my own name, and I certainly was not hanging around disreputable Parliament St. on that occasion or any other, with or without a car. Oh , but I have a choice. If I don't want to travel to the city at considerable expense to plead innocent, or have a lawyer represent me at considerably more expens, I can just plead guilty by mail and send along $7.80. But dammit, I'm innocent. So 'what do I do? Lose a day's pay, spend the money to get there and back, just .to 'prove to some frumpy traffic court that I'm as pure as the driven snow? Or take the chicken way out, and pay the rap? That's blackmail, brother. A month ago, in came a bill from National Revenue, stating that I owed them several hundreds of dollars, plus interest. •No explanations, just the bald statement, accompanied by the usual- dire warnings of the consequences, if I dont ante up. More blackmail. I don't mind paying my bills. Well, I mind, but I pay them. But these mindless, in human, computerized attempts to make me feel like a criminal merely succeed in making me sick. Down in Ottawa, the waffling and weaving and ducking and bobbing go on, ministers fall like autumn leaves, and nobody lets the left side of his mouth know what the right side is saying. Trudeau, after , losing a dozen able ministers in the last half-dozen years, totters along with a turncoat Tory, Jack Horner, insensitive arrogancies like Otto Lang, and political retreads like Bryce Mackasey, who, as I recall "solved" the last postal strike in only six weeks. And His Eminence floats among these lesser fish like an octopus past his prime, still dangerous, still slippery, but given to emitting squirts of ink, disappearing into a hole, then tentatively thrusting out a tentacle to pick up the latest poll, before retreating into the rocks once again. And as if the general state of affairs weren't enough to give me abig pain in the arm, there's the local. My, wife -&-fer lugging her smashing new expensive white coat for about 10,000 miles this summer, in and out of 20 hotels, on and off countless buses; and boats, trains and planes, has lost the blasted thing in her own home town. My daughter, with three degrees, is workingas t file clerk, an honorable vocation, but scarcely one to make the creatiave impulses throb. My son-in-law is looking for a job, a rather harrowing business these days. And my grandboys are out of all•those fine new clothes we bought them last spring. The only thing they're not out of 'is energy and fiendish ability to dismantle things that electrical engineers would be afraid to touch. I have a brand-new set of gold clubs with which I can hit the ball twelve feet. On a clear day. With a strong tail-wind. I tell yez, b'ys, if it weren't for all them old people, I'd be tempted to pack it all in and head for Floridy, and sit on a bench in that sun, mumbling my gums. But I guess things could be worse. I've got enough money to pay that $7.80 blackmail for a non-parking parking ticket. I can fight the Feds on that mysterious assessment. can live without the 'post office, though they sure know how to hurt a syndicated columnist, dependent on the mails. And just maybe, when the dollar has hit 75 cents, unemployment has hit 10 per cent and inflation settles in two figures, We'll get sore enough to kick those tired flacks out of Ottawa. My wife will find her coat. I found my pants last year, after they'd been missing four months. They were 120 miles away, in the hall closet of my father-in-law. And there was a twenty dollar bill in the pocket. My daughter will get a job, probably as head of the CBC. My son-in-law will get a job, probably as his wife's copy and coffee boy. My grandboys will develop into great engineers. Or form a wrecking company and get rich knocking things apart. Maybe I'll sti; ck'er out a few months yet. But I wish I could do it like the ground-hogs--just fatten up, crawl into a hole and sleep until spring. CLASSIFIED 24 Cards of Thanks 19 Notices THE BRUSSELS POST, NOVEMBER 8, 1978 19 Sugar and Spice by Bill Smiley The big brutal world 1-45-1 11 Articles For Sale ORGANS WANTED Now is the time to make that trade on a modern Gulbranse or Wurlitzer organ. We need used organs and pianos, se expect,,, a good deal. Treat your family to a Christmas gift that lasts. PULSIFER MUSIC 527.0053 11-57-tf For Sale 1 - A.B. Dick duplicator Model 525 and stand; 1 • lAnoltafax photocopier Model 1114. Equipment may be seen at the Administrative Head- quarters of the Maitland Valley Conservation Authority Wroxeter. 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. MONDAY = FRIDAY Best or any offer not neces- sarily accepted. Bids will be received by the undersigned Until 5 p.ni. NOVEMBER 20th, 1978 Marlene R. Shk11 Secretary-Treasurer Maitland Valley ConServatIon Conservation Authorly Box 5, Wroxeter,Ontario. 11-57-2 McKillop - acclaimed Councillor -Acclaimed Mrs. Marie Hickriell Marie Hicknell has been acclaimed as a councillor on McKillop Township council. Mrs.,Hicknell, who resides at R.R.5, Seaforth, is a farm wife with six children. She is involved with the Seaforth Agricultural Society, the McKillop Federation of Agriculture and is a member of the Catholic Women's League, Mrs. Hicknell said she decided to stand for council anted to be Since she w involved in the community and learn more about municipal politics. This is Mrs, Hicknell's first tent On council. Allan Campbell Allan Campbell, who was acclaimed as reeve of McKil- lop Township, is serving his sixth term as reeve of the Township. Mr. Campbell, a retired farmer and mail route car- rier, lives at R.R.1, Seaforth. The reeve has been on McKillop Township since 1960, and prior to that served on the telephone board for nine years and the .school board for nine years. Mr. Campbell has also served on the Se,4forth fire area board since its inception and represents the township on the Bayfield COnserv,ation Authority and the Maitland Valley Conservation Authority. He has Served as a member of the board of governors of Conestoga Col- le efot one year. t. Campbell said one of the Major issues faced by the council in the coming term is starting a secondary plan for McKillop PrownShip.