The Citizen, 1992-11-04, Page 7THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4,1992. PAGE 7.
Brussels council briefs
Leaf vacuum sucking up money, too
While public response to using a
vacuum to suck up homeowners'
leaves in Brussels has been good,
the cost of the program may pro
hibit council from continuing the
program another year.
WMS members hear inspiring talk
Following a bountiful pot luck
supper at First Presbyterian
Church, Seaforth, Ontario, the Fall
Rally of Stratford-Huron
Presbyterial was opened by Pat
White, Goderich. Doreen
McIntosh, Gwen Greer, and Agnes
Lane, members of the Listowel
Willing Workers, led the devotions,
which were based on the gospel of
St. Luke 17: 1-20 and the epistle to
Friendship Club elects officers
The October meeting of the
Friendship Club was held at Maple
Villa on Wednesday, Oct. 21 with
16 members in attendance.
Freda Pipe played piano for the
singing of “O Canada”. Due to the
absence of the president, vice
president Sarah Stephenson
presided for the meeting. The
secretary and treasurer's reports
were read and approved.
Four members from the
Friendship Club attended the Fall
Rally in Grand Bend on
Wednesday, Oct. 20. A total of 147
seniors attended.
The nomination of officers was
held for the ensuing year. After
considerable deliberation the
following members took office:
president, Mary Lowe; vice
president, Sarah Stephenson;
secretary, Doris Hooper; treasurer,
Budget includes storm sewer
Continued from page 6
White was also given permission to
arrange to get a co-op student from
the adult upgrading program run
through Central Huron Secondary
School in Clinton to help out dur
ing the busy period of December
and January.
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Several complaints about chil
dren riding bicycles were received
by council. One from a main street
merchant complained about pedes
trians endangered by cyclists on the
sidewalk. Councillors were also
concerned that school students
aren't crossing at the comers where
crossing guards are provided.
Council agreed to contact Brussels
Public School to see if information
could be put in the school newslet
ter to stop these problems.
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Preliminary budgeting for next
year will see a new storm sewer put
Councillors learned the leaf pick
up has taken longer than expected
with an estimated 16.5 hours spend
on Oct. 9 and 10 for the first pick
up. Although no bill has been
received, the estimated cost is
about $825 with one pick-up still to
the Ephesians 5: 15-20. Every day
should be lived with thankfulness
and every opportunity for doing
good should be grasped.
Robina Alexander of Listowel,
the president of Stratford-Huron
Presbyterial, introduced the guest
speaker, Mrs. Margaret Vander-
zweerde. Mrs. Vanderzweerde was
born in Holland and came to
Adah Smith and press reporter,
Ethel Brewer.
A vote of thanks was extended to
Ruby Steiss and her resignation as
Sunshine convenor was accepted
with regret. Mary Davidson is her
replacement.
Freda Pipe and Mary Lowe will
be responsible for the prizes for the
November meeting which will be
held at Maple Villa on Nov. 18.
The Club is very anxious to
obtain new members and an appeal
is extended to all seniors to attend
these afternoon meetings. The dues
are $2 a year and the monthly fee is
75 cents.
The euchre winners were: high
lady, Freda Pipe; high gent, Martha
Logan; low lady, Doris Hooper;
low gent, Isobel Alcock and most
zero's, Marguerite Sanderson.
Tea and cookies was served at
the close of the meeting.
in the Church and John Street areas
and part of the paving budget used
to repair the damage to the road as
a result. If the normal Ministry of
Transportation subsidy is received,
that should leave enough money to
pave one additional block of street.
Councillors just have to decide
which of the many areas of need to
pick.
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The cost of building roads and
providing services to the edge of
the Huronlea project is now in. It
cost Brussels $153,000 for all the
services, a cost much higher than
originally thought, according to
Mrs. White.
It was pointed out by Councillor
Mary Stretton, however, that
already several Brussels residents
had obtained jobs at Huronlea even
though the bulk of the initial staff
will be transferred from the current
Huronview home at Clinton.
be done next Monday.
Councillor Bruce Hahn said he
had had suggestions from residents
who saw ways to speed up the job.
Councillor Greg Wilson agreed that
using a second person to operate
the vacuum would save a great deal
Canada with her parents at a very
early age. She received her
education here but her desire to
become a nurse was thwarted when
she suffered a slight heart attack
during training. She subsequently
married and she and her husband
became the parents of six. After the
death of her husband in 1968 and a
very serious operation in 1969, she
became an accountant. Following
her remarriage, she lost her house
in a fire. In 1988, she felt a definite
mandate to enter the diaconal
ministry and entered Ewart
College. Upon her graduation from
Ewart, she and her husband went to
India at the request of the
Presbyterian Church in Canada. In
India, Margaret and her husband
saw poverty, sickness, starvation
and death, but on the former
mission fields conditions were
somewhat better. However, the
Helen MacDonald Memorial
School and the Jobat Hospital
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aood wishes
to dlii
The Brown FanW^
joyous
of time.
Donna White, Clerk-Treasurer,
said that "anyone who came in had
only good things to say about it."
But Reeve Gordon Workman
didn't have good things to say. "As
far as I'm concerned it's for the
was
buildings are old and in need of
repairs. She urged W.M.S.
members to give money over their
W.M.S. objective and Presbyterian
Sharing objective to small project:
in India. Small amounts go a lonj
way in Indian and the materials are
available there.
Mrs. Vanderzweerde
thanked by Pat White and
presented with a cheque. Robina
Alexander gave highlights of the
annual meeting of Council which
she attended in Toronto at the end
of May. She asked members to try
to give more than just their
objectives. The offering that
evening is to be divided with half
going to the General Fund and the
rest toward a special project for
India. The annual meeting of
Stratford-Huron Presbyterial will
be held on Tuesday, Feb. 23 in
Knox Church, Stratford.
The Rally closed with the Miz
pah Benediction repeated in unison.
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birds. It's too much money to han
dle leaves in a town this size." He
predicted the cost could rise to
$1200 to $1500.
Council has the option of discon
tinuing the service after this year.
Initially the contractor had wanted
a three year contract but when
councillors balked, he agreed to a
one year trial period to see if they
liked it.
One thing that has been appreci
ated by some people, according to
Councillor Mary Stretton, has been
the lack of smoke from people
burning leaves.
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