The Brussels Post, 1979-07-04, Page 1Grade 8's win awards
Special awards were presented to
various students when the Brussels Public
School held a banquet for the Grade 8
graduation at St. John's Anglican Church
in Brussels on Wednesday night.
The Menzies Award was explained to the
students by Mrs. Doreen Raymond. The
award is an ainount of money paid to
certain students who take four or five year
courses in high school and then go on to a
post-secondary education. Students who
receive the award have to have been
graduates of the Brussels Public School.
Brenda Ten Pas won the Science Award
presented by John Elliott, Murray Pipe
was given the Grade 7 Good Guy Award)an
award that is voted on arid given by the
Grade 7 class to the Grade 8 student that
they feel sets the best example for them to
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man bring back a 40 ounce
bottle of pop that exploded
just at the top neck of the
bottle but other than that
they haven't had people
returning them.
"I don't think one is a lot
to have happen," Mrs.
Young said.
Bob Young said they
would carry the bottles until
they're banned but he added
that people were still buying
them.
"If they're banned in
Kitchener, they'll probably
be banned here," he said.
Patricia Hilts of Hilts Food
Market said that nobody has
brought any bottles back
there either but "people
aren't buying them as much
as they had been."
Mrs. Hilts says, "There's
still people who want them
regardless."
Robert Stephenson, co-
owner of Stephenson's Gro-
cery said, "We still have
them and I'm going to keep
on getting them too."
He mentioned that Lob-
laws and another smaller
store were having a sale on
that size of bottle and he had
heard on the news of a
smaller size of bottle that
was supposed to explode too.
A story in the London Free
Press on June 28 stated that
Loblaws had sent out a flyer
advertising 1.5 litre bottles of
7-up on sale but that the
advertisement had been cor-
rected and Loblaws was
offering two 750 ml bottles
instead.
There's been no decrease
in the sales of the 1.5 litre
size of bottles, he said.
Bruce Weber of the Texan
Grill said the 1.5 litre bottles
there were selling the same
as usual but they were just
going to sell what they had
and not get anymore of that
size in.
Mr, Weber added that you
can't really tell from the
papers just what happened to
make the bottle explode—for
example maybe they were
filled too close to the top and
exploded.
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BRUSSELS GRADUATES — Grade 8 graduates at Brussels Public School
had a graduation picture taken before attending a banquet in their
honor at St. John's Anglican Church in Brussels on Wednesday night.
(Photo by Langlois)
In the Short Shot. Bric-a-brac last week the
item concerning windows should have read
bow windows not low windows.
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Something about hotels: Most of the food
served to us in hotels was very good with a
nice choice. But if you like crisp, hot
buttered toast with your breakfast you will
not get it over there. Invariably it was
brought to the table in toast racks, cold, hard
(and, tough) and unbuttered. Orange juice
seemed to be mi -r.ure of orange juice and
something else. T",2 grapefruit cocktail was
delicious and could be had at breakfast and
dinner. Employees at our hotel were mostly
young people of many nationalities. This, we
were told, was because so many young
people these days want to travel. They come
to London from everywhere and need
employment while there. The hotels hire
them for they are willing to work, for at least
a few months, for comparatively low wages.
Our hotel accomodations in London and
elsewhere, were good. Clean and comfort-
able, some with telephone, radio and T.V.
On returning to London from our tour of
England, Scotland and Wales we were, in
our last night, at a lovely old hotel called the
Ctusvenor, on Buckingham Palace Road.
When we arrived we found coffee, tea and
smack waiting for us in our room. This hotel
had huge rooms and efficient service and in
additon was quiet with an old world elegence
and charm that was delightful.
* * * * * * *
One of the pleasures of our trip was the
meeting of friendly people from so many
countries. Among them were those from
Uruguay, New Zealand, Australia, Brazil,
Japan and Israel as well as the and
Canada. All spoke English well enough to be
easily understood and mixed well with the
exception of the young lady from Brazil. She
was travelling alone and neither spoke nor
understood English but seemed to be
enjoying herself in spite of this.
* * * * * *
Do you remember seeing Mary Poppins
singing and dancing among the chimney
pots? We saw such chimney pots in certain
areaas of London, hundreds and hundreds of
them atop row houses. Our courier told us
you could tell how many rooms were in a
house by counting the chimney pots. Each
room had one. They are no longer in use
because of the pollution problem. Just
imagine that multitude of chimney pots
pouting out coal sniokel They now use
fireplaces instead.
* * * * *
My travelling companion had stoutly
declared that she never gets lost, could
always find her way back from where she
started. In spite of that we got lost in London
and Edinburgh. In the latter place not so
much so. After walking blocks and blocks out
of our way we found on enquiry that we were
only five minutes away from our hotel. In.
London it was a different story. We crossed
a park, wandered along streets, squares,
courts and byways until we were thoroughly
confused and had no idea where wewerc'r in
what direction to go. We found ourselves on
a street of pubs and somewhat sleezy tourist
traps. As we walked along we came to a
church that had a platform across the front.
At one end a group of wedding guests
appeared to be waiting for the bride and
groom to emerge. A few feet away at the
other end a disruptable drunk guzzled from a
bottle and beside him another either dead
drunk or asleep. This was no place for us! In
most of London there more always taxis
available but in this neighbourhood
nary-a-one. Finally we approached a store
employee who was able to head us in the
right direction and with directions from a
cou ple of more passersby we arrived at
Russell Square. We were a couple of tired
tourists, glad to rest in one of those lovely
parks before going on to our hotel.
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A much longer time than a week could
have been happily spent in London since that
city has so much of interest to offer. Things
to do, see, listen to, and learn about. We did
enjoy nights of live theatre, a night club that
had excellent food and terrific entertainment.
We visited a supermarket and found it not
too different from those at home. Perhaps
we should not complain so loudly about the
price of meat. Most was considerably higher
there as were a good many other things. We
were taken on a tour of quaint English inns.
There were only six of us who went and it
turned out to be an enjoyable social evening
with lots of fun and laughter. Do you know
what Bangets'n Mash (a complimentary
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Man injured
on sewer job
John LaretizO a workman with Norland
Construction of Downsview was injured
while Working on sewer construction in
Brussels on Thursday night.
Propane is used to keep water from
leaking out of the pipes and apparently the
propane fumes in a ditch caused the man's
nylon shirt to explode, into flame.
He was admitted to the Wingham and
District Hospital and later transferred to a
hospital in Toronto.
Brussels Post
BRUSSELS
108th Year — Issue No. 4, ONTAR 0
WEDNESDAY, JULY 4, 1979
No problems
with pop bottles
BY DEBBIE It ANNEY
Although some city stores
have been removing the 1.5
litre pop bottle from their
shelves ever since the stories
of them exploding when
people bumped them; here in
Brussels, merchants have
been leaving them on the
shelves and people still seem
to be buying them.
Dave McCutcheon, man-
ager of McCutcheon's Groc-
ery in Brussels said nobody
had returned any full bottles
since the stories about the
exploding bottles and al-
though he didn't think they
were selling quite as many of
the 1.5 litre size of bottle he
said customers were still
continuing to buy them.
But he said he had made a
point of telling the people
who work in his store to warn
customers there is a danger.
He thinks, however, that if
anybody wants to take the
pop bottles offthe shelf, the
government should do it.
Lorna Young at Young's
Variety said they did have a
Short Shots
by Evelyn Kennedy