The Brussels Post, 1978-12-27, Page 4Township a deficit.
MAY 10, 1978
The Brussels Business.
Association plans a carnival.
Brussels council learns
they have a $31,459 surplus.
The senior citizens apart-
ment building in Brussels
now' has a full house.
Grey council prepares to
sell clerk's office in Ethel.
Belgrave Minor hockey
players are honoured at a
banquet in Belgrave,
Belgrave collects $902 in
its Cancer campaign.
The Huron County Board
of Education sends its dirty
book problem--The Diviners,
Catcher in the Rye and Of
committee.
Mice and policy Men- -to
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JANUARY 4, 1978
Telephone costs rise with.
Bell takeover.
Property tax assessors are
to survey county.
Huron County studies '78
budget and gives preliminary
approval.
Huron County gets new
family care agency, Huron
County Homemakers,
JANUARY 11, 1978
The first blizzard in the
new year closes area roads.
Council sets salaries for
Brussels employees.
Huron school costs climb
despite attendance drop,
declining enrolment would
reduce grants according to
Board chairman Herb
Turkhein-i.
R. J. Elliot of Blyth is
elected chairman of the
Huron County Board of
Education--urges trustees to
support one another in the
coming year.
JANUARY 18, 1978
Murie; G:t rniss is hired as
Brussels new postmistress.
The Huron County Board
of Education approves
religious instruction classes
at Grey Central.
Gerry Ginn, reeve of
Goderich Township, is
elected as Huron County's
new warden.
JANUARY 25, 1978
Over $200,000 in building
permits are issued for the
village in 1977.
Improved lighting for the
Crystal Pala ,e is promised at
the annual meeting of the
Brussels Agricultural
Society.
The Huron-Perth Roman
Catholic School Board begins
a detailed study of enrolment
decline in 'its schools.
Brussels music pupils win
honours.
FEBRUARY 1,1978
Think plowing match is the
theme of the first meeting of
the Brussels, Morris and
Grey catering tent
committee.
Winter storm closes
schools.
FEBRUARY 8, 1978
Jean Leach, a former
Brussels jeweller, dies in
K-W hospital.
Brussels, Morris and Grey
Councils discuss county wide
system for senior citizens
building with representatives
from the Huron County
Housing Authority.
Water is shut off and some
phones are cut when Bell
Canada gives village
employees wrong location to
dig to repair water pipe.
Huron Federation of
Agriculture decided to
boycott National Food
Conference.
FEBRUARY 15, 1978
Huron County secondary
school teachers vote to
strike unless Huron County
School Board comes up with
a better contract offer.
Huron County reeves
reject market value assess-
ment.
The Diviners by author
Margaret Laurence is
criticized at Huron School
Board meeting.
Brussels new bank--The
Royal Bank,-opens.
FEBRUARY 22,1978
Murray Bremner is tops in
ski tour--captures highest
possible award in cross-
country tour from Quebec to
Ottawa.
The future of the Walton
Public School is in doubt.
The Board of 'Education
considers closing it, parents
protest.
The Board 'of Education
and the Canadian Union of
Public Employees ratify 1978
salaries.
MARCH 1, 1978
Huron high schools are
closed as the board and
teachers each claim support
on their side.
200 show up--parents want
Walton school to remain
open.
Funeral home in Brussels
celebrates 100 years., Max
Watts makes additions in
new location.
MARCH 15, 1978
Longtime Brussels post
publisher Roy W. Kennedy
dies.
Grade 13's picket Board of
Education; . protest battle
between teachers and Board.
MARCH 22, 1978
CIL rents old Brussels
arena.
Roy Hanna of R. R. #2,
Auburn is named a new
director of the Brussels Agri-
cultural Society.
Brussels Atoms win
Western Ontario Champion.
ship.
MARCH 29, 1978
Dance raises $600 and
Brussels, Morris and Grey
plowing match committee
can now purchase items
needed for the plowing
match in September.
Huron County Secondary
School students return to
class but their teachers stay
out.
The Huron County Board
of Education's plans to bus
some students attending
Brussels to the East
Wawanosh school instead
meets parental disapproval.
APRIL 5, 1978
Board of Education drops
busing proposal, tables
motion recommending the
move until transportation
boundaries across the whole
county are studied.
Morris council criticizes
Federation of Agriculture,
cuts grant from $500 to $400.
H & N Dairy Systems
opens new building in
Walton.
APRIL 12, 1978
Only 295 people out of a
possible 1230 vote and as a
result, Morris Township
stays dry.
Grey Clerk Edythe Cardiff
resigns her position, stating
she has worked long enough.
Nominaton meetings are
set for local politicians.
APRIL 26, 1978
Graeme Craig of Walton
wins Liberal nomination to
grader
MAY 3,.1978
Teachers of the N.,prth
Huron Unit of the Ontario
Women. Teachers Federation
are honoured at a banquet in
Brussels. •
The Ministry of the
Environment tells council
there may be money for
sewers after all.
The purchase of a new
Morris gives
January blizzard closes roods.
represent the Liberals in the
Huron-Bruce riding.
Veterans of the Royal
Canadian. Legion honor
George Ingles and help him
celebrate his 800 birthday,
Salaries make up 75 per
cent of cost, in the Board of
Education budget, Ray
Dunlop, superintendent of
buS'iness affairs says.
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