HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1987-10-14, Page 38PAGE 38. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1987.
A Siamese twin pumpkin was a surprise for Missy McLellan, 4, and her brother A. J., 2, when they went out
looking in their pumpkin patch for a Halloween Jack-o-lantem. The unusual vegetable obviously came
from two blossoms, but is tightly joined over more than half its circumference. Missy and A. J. are the son
and daughter of Pam and Alvin McLellan of RR 3, Brussels.
Ethel
Compiled by Mrs. Margaret McMahon. Phone 887-9250
People visit on holidays
Robert and Isobel, Karen, An
drew, and Doris Bremner visited
Thanksgiving Sunday with Mau
rice and Kathy Nesbitt and family
of Southwold. Also visiting with
the Nesbitts were Della and Andy
McMichael of Listowel, Karl and
Mary Raszmin and family of
Monkton, John and Joan Morgan
and family of Uderton and Nolan
Wettlaufer of Tavistock.
Visiting with the McMahons on
Sunday were Carol, Rhonda, and
Tammy McMahon of Linwood and
Brad Altman of Elmira, Ian, Alice
and Coleen Cairney of Toronto and
Michelle from Thunder Bay.
Belated best wishes to Clarence
and Rose Marie Bishop who
recently celebrated their 25th
anniversary.
Anniversary services are being
heldatthe Ethel United Church
October 18 at 7:30 p.m.
The Ethel W.I. October meeting
will be held at the home of Pat
Keffer on October 14.
Ethel 4-H dub meets
The second meeting of the Ethel
II, 4-H club was held at the home of
the new 4-H leader Judy Glen. She
is welcome to4-H in the Ethel area.
After finishing the reading
lesson the group was divided into
two groups to prepare apple and
banana pancakes. After a few
kitchen tragedies (spilled egg
whites on the floor) the pancakes
were ready for the oven.
A discussion on fancy, standard
and choice grades was held with
examples of each one given. Five
different types of orange juice were
tasted and the cost of 100 ml. was
figured out. The pancakes were
eaten with cherry sauce, whipped
cream and syrup. The meeting
closed with the 4-H pledge.
Brussels council briefs
Delay granted for Brussels sewer project
Construction of the sewers to
serve the Brussels, Morris and
Grey Community Centre and
subdivisions in the south east part
of the village will be delayed
slightly, Brussels council found out
at its Oct. 6 meeting.
Council agreed at the meeting to
extend the deadline for completion
of the contract by Lavis Construc
tion of Clinton to Nov. 13. Itwas
pointed out that the company had
co-operated by hooking up two
houses in the area although they
hadn’t begun on the entire project
yet. In addition, the company had
agreed to pay for any pumping of
septic tanks at the BMG Centre
Speaker urges switch
to sustainable agriculture
Continued from page 5
organic agriculture to the point he
does many farm chores with
horses, took a more philosophical
approach to farming in his talk.
Farming, he said, is one of the
oldest lifestyles of man, second
only to the age of hunger-gather
ers.
Until recently, he said, farms
were always producers of “net
energy”, taking only the power of
the sun and producing crops that
fed the farm family, the animals
they used for labour and fed others
with the surplus production there
by creating energy. But modern
industrial agriculture, he said, is
innecessitated by the delay
completion of the project.
In other tender business, council
agreed to approach three local
contractors to invite them to
submittendersfor snow removal to
the November meeting of council.
The tender period will be extended
from Nov. 15 to March 13 this year
compared to Dec. 1 to March 31 in
other years. Council has experi
enced problems with early snow
falls in the past with no equipment
ready to handle it. The thinking is it
will be easier to get a contractor to
keep hisequipmentready atthe
end of a contract then to have him
get it ready early.
based on fossil fuel and today’s
farm can often use more energy to
power equipment than is produced
on the farm in crops.
Intensive, industrial farming
has imposed on farmers high Ioan
rates and encourage speculative
loans, based on the idea that farm
land will go up in price and the
borrower will gain. It has separat
ed the labour from the manage-
mentof the farm, he said. The bank
really owns the farm and the
farmer hopes someday to pay off
theloandssoheownsit. Industrial
ized agriculture reduces farm
labour, driving people off the land.
*****
Council agreed to offer to pay
half the cost of removing two trees
in front of property for Delores
Wheeler. Reeve Gordon Workman
said one tree was a Manitoba
maple and the other a hard maple
that wasn’tin the best of shape.
Council decided to offer to pay half
the cost since it wouldn’t normally
take down such trees at the present
time. Council will also inspect
another tree they had been asked to
remove.*****
While some trees were coming
down, council voted to take
advantage of an offer from the
Maitland Valley Conservation
Authority to obtain trees to help
keep the village green in the
future. The MVCA offer was for
bulk orders of at least 50 trees,
either coniferous or hardwood, at
the same cost paid by MVCA.
Reeve Workman suggested that
the village should advertise the
fact the trees would be available
and offer them to people at cost to
replace some of the many trees that
have been taken down over the past
few years.
Councillor Neil McDonald said
he’d put in an order right on the
spot for some of the minimum
order of 50, with the trees to be
used in the McDonald subdivision.
An order for 35 sugar maples and
15 coniferous trees was tobe made.*****
Reeve Workman reported that a
new booster club bus had been
purchased. The 1979 bus was
purchased for $1,550 from the
Board of Education and the group
hoped to recover some of that from
sale of the old bus. The group had
accumulated enough money from
pastuse of the bus to pay for the
new one.*****
Council agreed again to go
ahead with another project they
had earlier approved: the installa
tion of two used street lights on
John St. South, which is now used
as an exit lane from the BMG
Centre. The estimate of the
Seaforth PUC to install the lights
was pared down in cost because the
wiring proposed was heavier than
that required simply for street
lights.
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