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107th Year - Issue No. 48
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1978
BRUSSELS
ONTARIO
Help the Post mark
Christmas time
Christmas is fast approaching and with.
Christmas comes Santa Claus.
The Brussels Post is giving Santa a
helping hand with his letters this year and
will be installing a box in the newspaper
office where children can drop off their
letters. The Post will then forward them to
the merry old gent at the North Pole.
Each week from now until Christmas,
we'll print as many of the letters as we can,
and we'll include some photos too, if space
and time permit.
Children should write their letters to Santa
in care of the Post in their Own handwriting
or printing if possible. Be sure to put your
address'and telephone number on the letter.
ESTABLISHED
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Besides writing letters to Santa, the Post
also has another activity for area youngsters,
,a colouring contest. Entrants can color as
many pictures as they wish but only one
prize will be given to each winner. Winners
in previous contests are not eligible. The
contest is open to boys and girls, 12 years or
younger, who are not children of this
newspaper's employees. Entries must be
submitted before Tuesday, December 12.
The decision of the judges will be final.
Prizes will be awarded for the best three
entries in each of three classes. Class 1: 5
and under: Class 11: ages, 6, 7,8; Class 111:
ages 9-12. Prizes are first $3 in each class;
second-$3 in each class and third-$1 in each
class.
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Morris woman.
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by Debbie Ranney.
Emma Bird, of RR #2, Blyth, appeared
before Morris township council, Thursday,
to profest 'the cost of, cle4ning her land.
after the Blyth. Creek drain, was cleaned.
Mrs. Bird asked what the overall cost of
cleaning up her land would be when repairs
on the drain were complete.
Although council members couldn't tell
Cold, snow and slippery conditions will
not bring the activities of the Senior
Friendship Club to an end. They will carry
on despite the whims of weather. They will
hold a dinner meeting at 12:30 on Wednes-
day, December 6th. Keep the date in mind
Senior Friendship Club, members. Stay
active and happily enjoy your dinner
meeting.
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A survey has shown food prices up 16.5
per cent over a similar period one year ago.
A national survey last month revealed a
sharply higher increase in the price of beef,
coffee and some fresh products. It looks as if
we will just have to squelch our appetite for
expensive goodies.
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We are told that elderly people should be
encouraged to stay in their home instead of
going into institutions. They are happier in
their own familiar surroundings. Mental well
being comes when people feel they have a
maximum control over their lives, a sense of
independence, which they do not have in an
instituion. It also keeps them active. Apathy,
loss of interest in everything, kills the desire
to live. Institutional life is dehumanizing--no
matter how good the institution.
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Watch out for slippery roads they have
already recently claimed several lives.
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With spring will come an increase in
postage rates. If you want to mail a letter it
will then cost you seventeen cents instead of
the present fourteen cents. If the service was
improving, and it is not, people would
perhaps accept the increase with better
grace. What with the hike in first class post
office rates and the ever-increasing. Bell
rates one would think they were trying to cut
down communication between distant fela-
tiveS and friends. That in spite of constant
Mrs. Bird the cost of cleaning up her
property, they told her the overall cost for
cleaning up the- drain was' approximately
$1,00Q. Mrs. Bird' asked why she and
other landOwners had to pay the • cost =of
having the drain cleaned out from the centre
sideroad while landowners on the other end
of the drain didn't have, to pay the same
costs.
Bell advertising urging folks to "get the long
distance feeling." Do not grip;e at the local
post office staff about the increased cost of
mailing a letter. They cannot help it. They
are simply carrying out orders.
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December 1st to 7th will be Safe Driving
Week. Everyone must surely be aware that
there is great need for everyone to practice
safe driving, not only that week, but at all
times. It is the only way to prevent the
terrible carnage on our highways. The theme
of the Canada Safety Council this year is
"Courtesy" with the slogan "Courtesy is
Caring". A courteous driver is a safe driver.
They ask each driver to examine his, or her,
attitude toward 'the task of, driving. Be
courteous, recognize the rights of others -
pedestrians, cyclists, and other drivers.
Practice a bit more courtesy. Be a. safe
driver. Help save your own and, the lives of
others. Lives lost cannot be restored. Deep
scars cannot be erased. Courtesy is Caring.
Show you care by being courteous.
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There are those who tell me that my dog
Sheba is too much for me to handle; that she
causes too much extra work and inconveni-
ence. My only sensible answer hasbeen that
she is great company. Now a group of
doctors have announced the results of a
survey that gives me a perfect answer, "A
person living alone lives longer if they have a
pet.' It was found that even people who
have suffered heart attacks live longer if
they haVe a pet that depends on them. A pet
like Sheba iS demanding. She needs care,
seeks attention, insists on being played with.
All this keeps me alert and active. If she
were not my companion When I am alone I
might otherwise slump down in an easy chair
and give way to morbid moods but she is
lively and affectionate and does her best to
brighten things' up.
Mrs. Bird said engineer Andy McBride
told her he had walked all the way from
Blyth to, the ''end of the drain when
questioned by Reeve Bill Elston on the
- telephone, the engineer said he hadn't
- walked past the centre sideroad.
Mrs. Bird then asked council if the work
on her property was finished.
Councillor Ross Procter said as far as the
50 acres was concerned, there wasn't any
need to do any more drainage.
Mr. Procter said one tree had tipped over
into the ditch and that it might make sense to
remove that, if it proved to be impeding the
Subdivision
*Belgrave's Pletch subdivision was the
subject of two bylaws passed at last
Thursday's Morris Township council
meeting.
Under the first bylaw, the township will
retain four lots in the subdivision-one to be
used as a roadway and the other three for
security.
The second bylaw was for the reconvey-
ance of lots to Bonnie and Thelma Pletch.
Council also discussed a second subdivi-
sion in Belgrave. Members of council
Over $3,000 in prizes
at Brussels Fair
A total of $3,407.55 was paid out in prize
money at the 1978BrusselsFall Fair secretary
treasurer Edwin Martin told directors at a
meeting of the Fair board in the library last
week. The net balafice on the year's acitivity
was $308.85.
President Graeme Craig in' reviewing the
year emphasized the extent to which
increased costs add to the problems facing,
community fairs.
The board agreed field crop competition
for the 1979 fair would be the same as this
year and will include ensilage corn, grain
corn, barley, mixed grain and white beans.
The annual meeting will be held in the
United Chnrch, Brussels on January 16.
The contribution of participating schools
to the success of the fair Was recognized
when the board agreed to raise prizes in a
number of school classes as an encourage,
ment for an even greater participation. 4-H
classes as well will be given increased
attention:
flow of water.
When Mrs. Bird learned Ross Procter was
--the draitrcortimissioner. and'received $41 for
• inspecting the site, she said she should be
paid for being there also.
Mrs. Bird told council they had ruined 'her
land and crops and they would have to plant
500 trees on the land to repair the, damage.
"I'm entitled to damages on this. I was
told you knew you were in the wrong from
the start," Mrs. Bird said.
Council decide they would visit Mrs.
Bird's place to see what damage had been
done in cleaning the drain.
bylaws pass
decided to withdraw their objections in the
matter of easement in the Humphries
subdivision and to enter into an agreement
with East Wawanosh towhship.
Under the new agreement, Morris Town-
ship would construct and maintain the drain
and East Wawanosh would not be allowed to
tap into this drain without the approval of
the Morris township engineer.
The Ministry of Transport and Communi-
cations (MTC) also notified council that
Martins bridge, on Lots 10, 11 on Con. 6
must be repaired. MTC said repairs which
would mean the load limit 'on the bridge
could be increased to 15 tons, would cost in
the $15-$20,000 price range and the bridge
would have a 10 to 15 year life expectancy.
The alternative would be replacing the
bridge at a cost of $225,000 plus the cost of
road approaches..
MTC suggested council delay its decision
on the bridge until further information was
available on What funding the township
could get to make repairs.
Council also learned a court of revision on
the Johston-Ellison drain will be held at the
Belgrave Arena on December 7 , The clerk
said letters had been received appealing the
drain. Council decided to try and talk to
ratepayers along the Johnston-Ellison drain.
Council also decided to hold a ratepayer's
meeting on the Belgrave streetlights in the
Womens' Institute Hall in the village on
December 12.
Councillor Sam Pletch said Morris Town-
ship residents would like council to hold an
open ratepayers' Meeting. Cotinciller' Ross
Procter recommended holding the meeting,
when council's financial minutes come out in
the spring.
No definite date ne Meeting was set,
Short Shots
by Evelyn Kennedy
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