The Brussels Post, 1979-02-14, Page 3Love is
When your mommy
rocks you
Valentine's Day-- hat special day for
romantics and sentimentalists and the very
young, Although the Brussels Post had
planned to do a Valentine's Day feature on
special Valentines Day memories of people
around the Brussels area who had been
, married for many years, things just didn't
work out that way.
However, Mrs, William Gow who
celebrated a 50th wedding anniversary last
year said she and her husband had a
grandson who was born one day before
Valentine's Day on February 13, and Mrs.
Doug Hemingway of Brussels who
celebrated a 40th wedding anniversary ,With
her husband last year said they had had a
daughter born on February 25 and that she
considered that one of the most wonderful
'things that had happened close to
Valentine's Day.
Valentine's Day is also a special day for
the very young so the POst went to talk to the
Kindergarten class of Mrs. Jean Ireland at
the Brussels Public School.
The class was busy making valentines and
Mrs. Ireland helped the Post out by talking
about Valentine's Day and asking the class
what they thought love is. Following are
their answers.
Amy Kufski who said she was going to
give her 'Valentine to Dawn Ten Pas and
' love is "Kissing mommy and daddy".
Margaret Jarvis who was going to give
hers-to Shawn Jacklin-"When they hug and
sometimes they kiss"
Shawn who was going to give his valentine
to Dawn Ten Pas definediove as "When
you're happy".
According to Brian McArter who was
giving his valentine to Todd Rice love is
"hugging mom and dad."
To Kevin Alcock who was giving his to
Brian Mcarter--love is "Kissing mommy and
daddy and the dog, and the 'dog may kiss
me."
Christina Dillow who was giving hers to
her Grandma and Grandpa said love
is " Sharing" .
Shelly Duskocy who was giving hers to
Madeline Ryan said, love is "Sometimes
when I kiss my kitty."
Donna Gordon who was going to give her
valentine to her mom said love is "Cutting
people's hair because you want them to look
good";
Janis Cardiff who was going to give her
valentine to Dawn Ten Pas said love is
"When you send a valentine to a person".
According to Patricia Knight who was
giving hers to her mom, it's love "When
you've met someone pretty and you say
please won't you be my valentine?"
Madeline Ryan who was giving her
valentine to Tracy Leishmann said love is
"When your mommy rocks you".
Tania Baitley who was giving hers to her
mommy said "When my sister tickles me".
Garry Yuill said he was giving valentines I
to the whole class and that love is, "When
grandma give you a toy car". '
David Smith who was giving valentines to
the whole class said love is "Playing with
them" (his sisters).
For Darren Johnston who was giving his
valentine to Brian McArter love is "When
you like people".
David Johnston who was giving his
valentine to Darren says love is "When
mommy cooks you supper".
Tracy Leishmann who was giving hers to
Grandma and Grandpa Armstrong said love
is "When I miss mommy and daddy."
According to Dawn Engel who was going
to give hers to Robbie Young, love is "When
mom smiles at you".
Dawn Ten Pas who was giving her
valentine to Shawn said "Sharing things,
Going to Shawn's house.
Robbie Young who was giving his to
Margaret Jarvis said love is "Helping mom
with the dishes".
For Christopher Bridge who was giving
his valentine to his daddy love is "When you
help daddy."
Todd Rice who was giving his to his mom
said love is "Buying mommy a present."
To the editor:
Reader doesn't miss our snow
THE BRUSSELS POST, FEBRUARY 14, 1979 -- 3
WHAT KIND OF SOIL IS THAT DOWN THERE ANYWAY?—About 22
contractors showed up in Brussels on Friday to watch as C.A. McDowell
Ltd. of Centralia dug soil test holes so the companies would have a guide
in bidding on sewer construction in Brussels. (Photo by Langlois)
PUC spend hours
thawing pipes
on Sunday thawing out the
pipes.
After straightening out the
problem at Cousins' they
went to Gord Smith's where
they spent about 10 minutes
thawing out the waterpipes
there.
In order to thaw the pipes
they have to be hooked up to
hydro. One cable line has to
be hooked to the water line
and one line to the hydrant.
Then the transformer is
hooked to the power lines.
This puts power through the
cable lines that meet in the
middle and creates heat.
Keep up the good work. You have an Al
paper and it keeps me in touch with all the
births, deaths, and weddings and also how
Cranbrook is growing.
We don't think we would want to come
Sorry to be slow in renewing my
subscription to the Brussels Post. We do
look forward to hearing the home news.
We do enjoy it. Congratulation. Keep up
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half-million dollar arena where ice time
must be rationed to make best use of the 24
hours in a day. Our kids have the best that
money can buy.
But our best players weren't bought.
Gordie Howe and Rocket Richard and the
likes developed their skills though hours of
play on outdoor ponds and rinks where
they were free to learn the basics of the
game, the skating, the stickhandling and
passing.
back to Ontario and snow. Last winter we
had two inches of snow on the ground in
Nanaimo for one whole hour.
Donn (Archie) Campbell
Apt. 201,•619 Comox Road
Nanaimo, B.C. V9R 5V8
the good work.
Mrs. Mary Work
515-170 Kent St.
London, Ont.
NGA 1L4
They developed these skills well because
they had the chance to spend more time on
the ice than they can in our expensive
rinks. They had the priorities right: plenty
of time and plenty of fun, not expensive
uniforms and fancy dressing rooms. We've
got to put more fun back into the game
again if we hope to keep up with the
Russians. And we've got to get control of
our own game again away from the greedy
little men in New York and Boston and
Pittsburgh and Toronto.
Brussels PUC had a long
day on Monday as workmen
spent 12 hours from 8 a.m. to
8 p.m. trying to thaw out
waterpipes. The pipes were
frozen in , the road partway
between the watermain and
George Cousins' house.
The PUC had also spent 10
minutes at the same location
The Huron County Board of Education
was servednotice Tuesday that the battle of
the books is far from over. The board
received a letter from the Huron Freedom of
Choice Society asking that Margaret
Laurence's novel The Diviners, removed
from the board's list of approved English
literature books, be reinstated. The letter
also asked that anytime a trustee is involved
with a decision to approve a textbook that
the trustee be made to read the book before
making that decision.
The board shuffled the issue off refusing
to re-open the debate on approving or
disapproving of books for classroom use in
county schools. The novels became the
centre of a bitter and emotional controversy
in 1978 and resulted in the board taking. The
Diviners out of the classroom.
The Huron chapter of Renaissance Inter-
national, headed by Blyth resident Lloyd
Barth, started the issue boiling last year
when it asked the board to ban three novels,
The Diviners, John Steinbeck's Of Mice and
Menrand J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye.
The request brought book supporters and
opponents to the field of battle and
culminated in a highly emotional public
meeting in Clinton that attracted about 500
people. The board reacted to the issue by
taking The Diviners off the list of approved
texts. That meant that the book could not be
used in classrooms but would be left in the
school libraries. The board did not consider
the move a ban on the novel,
Freedom of
Choice members felt differnt. The group
formed a few months ago with the idea of
forming an organization similar to Renais-
sance International but with opposite aims.
Members hoped to gain enough repre-
sentation to have the same impact on
trustees as Renaissance supporters. Some of
the members Of the Freedom of Choice were
willing to leaveThe Diviners off the approved
list of texts and concentrate efforts on future
issues. But in its January meeting the group
decided to ask the board to re-instate The
Diviners.
Board chairman John Elliott was not
interested in re-opening the book issue and
asked the board for a motion to receive and
file the letter from Freedom of Choice. Mr.
Elliott indicated later that his intention was
to have the request dealt with according to
board policy, policy adopted after the last
book fiasco.
The chairman said the board had adopted
definite policy to handle such requests and
he felt that policy should be followed. 11 said
English department heads, superintend!: its
of education and some teachers will he
meeting with the board's education commit-'
tee in June to approve textbooks and the
board will look at a recommendation from
the that committee at its August meeting.
Mr. Elliott said if Freedom of Choice
members wanted to meet with the education
committee to make a presentation they could
request such a meeting.
Zurich trustee Herb Turkheim felt that the
letter deserved more than that. H}e asked
Mr. Elliott if the board intended to
acknowledge the letter or 'completely
ignore" it.
Mr. Elliott pointed out that the board
acknowledges every letter it receives. He
said he felt the board policy adequately .
covered the situation and that action to
acknowledge the suggestions from Freedom
of Choice was an "adequate reply".
"When the book banners came along we
gave them two audie!.ccs and now the other
side comes out and we are saying no thanks
we're not interested," said Mr. Turkheim.
Lucknow trustee Marion Zinn said all she
got from the Freedom of C:h:oice letter was
that the group was asking trustees to read
books before taking any action.
"There's a lot of stormy days ahead we
should be able to read a lot of books," she
quipped.
Goderich trustee Dorothy Wallace sug-
gested that the board's action wag "giving
an impression of being a fairly autocratic
board". She pointed out that a group of
citizens is making a request and the board is
"just filing it".
Exeter trustee Clarence McDo nald asked
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Looks forward to home news
Behind the scenes
by Keith Roulston
Board
Diviner
• ignores
request