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The Brussels Post, 1980-03-26, Page 3THE .BRUSSELS POST„ MARCH .26,, BY DEBBLIP BANNEY Brussel& and area businesses will soon have an oPPortnnity. to show just what they have to offer when the Brussels Lions Club sponsors the first annual Town and Country Tradefest, to beheld on April 24, 25 and 26. Henry Exel, chairman of, the Ways and Means Committee of the Lion's club said that of 36 spaces, being made axailible in the arena for the different businesses abOut half " are already filled. About 50 or 60 invitations 'were sent out. " • Mr. Exel said the Lions decided to hold the trad,e,fair .to. "help to bring in interest in Brussel& and hopefully stimulate amore • business in Brussels and make people aware of what businesses in Brussels have to Offer." • " • Businesses from Brussels' won't be the only ones taking part however as invitations were . also sent out to Listowel, Mitchell, Seaforth, the Bean Board, log producers and poultry producers. Some of the busi- nesses involved are going• to have people do demonstration of some of their products. Mr.. Exel' refers• to the Tradefest as a community service, by a service 'club. The- Lions mark their 50th anniversary in Bruisels this year. • While the ice surface of the arena will be .used, for the business displays, the ,auditorium •will have ' Mebiles'..or specialty • vehicles sucli as dressed-up vans on display. The Tradefest is a new venture in Brussels and something the Lions hope will become an annual event. • "The feeling was that we had the facilities to run something like that," Mr. Exel said. ' The: Tradefest was patterned' along the lines of the Home and Garden Show in Toronto. Any proceeds from, it are definitely going back into the community, Mr. Exel said the Lions hope the show is informative and, entertaining for the people, ,who attend it and in the coming years hope to add more ' features to make it more informatiiee and entertaining. °Hopefully it's going ,to be beneficial to anybOdy who participates in any way, shape or form,' Henry said. There were few comments or criticisms to be made except for a few residents who were concerned aboUt restrictions on development in the, hazard . area when a ' public meeting was held, on: he second draft of •the Turnberry Township Secondary Plan onThursday night. Huron County planner George Penfold explained, that the secondary plan was started a little over two'years ago. Few major. changes were made in the second draft of . the plan, but one of the main ones that concerned residents was the restrictions A hydro disruption on Saturday morning ' not only affected the areas of Brussels, Ethel, Walton and parts of Morris, Grey and McKillop townships but also caused a *setback in the Brussels Optimists Atom Tournament. Ontario : Hydro line foreman • Don Eastman 'said it 'was necessary to pull the power 'off when a storm Friday night caused two hydro poles near Seaforth to break off. In order to put up two new poles and put the wires back Up, the power was taken off from 'about 10 to 11' on Saturday morning. While hydro had announced the interruption on radia,officials said they didn't know about the Atom hockey tournament until somebody phoned and told them about it. placed on development in hazard areas:At the request -of the. Maitland Valley Conser vation Anthority, the plan allows• develop- ment in the hazard areas subject to-MVCA recommendations.. Hazard can include .such things as flooding and soil erosion. One of the men at the meeting questioned the filllines saying, "There's been buildings there for 100 years. •How did it get so bad suddenly?" .Newly appointed Turnberry Reeve Brian McBurney pointed out that at present Turnberry had not adopted the fill lines as Vera Hastings who ''was working in_ the booth with Karen Hastings ..and —Kathy Sholdice said the power failure caused them to be about•an hour and' a half behind with the hockey games . The power failture also Caused a problem for the Women who were trying to make coffee and hot dogs and for a little while they- used a propane stove. There were some candlesAit in the booth ) but Mrs. Hastings said trying to make change in the dark, was another problem. The women working in the booth were not the only ones ' bathed in the gloW of candlelight, however. Mrs. Hastings said that one of the hockey teams (she thought it was the Blyth players) ate by candlelight. suggested by the MVCA. Some changes were made under the Land Use Class. An extra class, class 4, was added under agricultural goals and this will prevent. class 1, 2 and .3 and 4, soils from being used for non-agricultural purposes. There was also a change made in a daughter or son taking over a farming operation. What had previously been said was that the son or daughter must, hold or be taking over 25 per cent of the holdings of the farming operation. That amount was changed in the Second draft plan to say justea significant portion of the holdings." A poliey on operations adhering to the Agricultural Code of Practice was changed to add the phrase minimum distanceso that it. now says that "all farm operations and buildings as well as all other non-farm uses and structures permitted by the agricultural policies of this plan will comply with the minimum distance separation provision& of the Agricultural Code of Practice". Mr. Penfold also said that some concern had been expressed about how the minimum distance' would affect existing farm operations and that with the new ,plan they would be able to continue as they were. There were some changes in Highway Commercial and Commercial so it would 'be very clear just what type of building was • permitted in those sections. In the Land Division section, if the land use doesn't conform to policy there are some options available. A local Committee of adjustment would be set up 'to review land useand if it didn't conform to the plan and if council agreed with the non-conforming use it could adopt a specific by=law permitting that expansion. Another , man at the meeting asked, "What advantage* is this iecondary 'plan going to be to us? It ends up 'just don't know that, much more than when I started," Reeve McBurney said he would have to agree and that he didn't know how much of an advantage the secondary plan was either. "If it's used right, I guess it will be alright," he said. . Bev Brown, a resident of Turnberry Township suggested that the secondary plan was set up so that residents could set out , . their own land use rather than having it decided in Toronto or someplace like that. Mr. McBurney said that Turnberry had been under the County plan since 1971, but that if they (Turnberry) could have anything in the township plan it wolcl be of benefit to them. Mr. Penfold explained that any concerns expressed at Thursday night's meeting would be dealt with, then council will adopt the secondary plan locally as a by-law. The county can, then amend its county plan so that both have the same township plan. Once the secondary plan is adopted by county council as an amendment to the county 'plan) it goes to the province for approval. Turnberry adopted the plan on Monday, but is holding it until it gets 'some more information, then any necessary changes can be made by by-law. dro ..off Soturda Sugar and , spice By Bill Smiley A greedy gluttonous society Everybody talks about the energy crisis, but nobody, does anything about it. _In point of fact, as we say in, this game when we're not sure of either our point or .our facts, precious few people know what a crisis is. As' an old English .teacher, I know. A crisis is a turning-point that occurs in a story or play when something unexpected gives' the plot a. new direction. ' To that extent, the energy crisis 'is no such thing. Everybody knew that oil was a non-renewable energy, just like coal and natural gas. But we went on blithely in our un- founded assurancethat we could always be wartnat the turn of a switch, always be cool at the turn of another, kill each other in steadily increasing numbers on the high- ways, tear around on boats and motor- cycles and snowmobiles, fly to the far corners of the earth for a comparative pittance, and so on. The Garden of Eden, smelling of oil and poisoning the ozone. What a collection of nincompoops! And I do mean the poops part of it. ' 'It became a crisis only when the Ayrabs came to their senses, got us by the short and curly, and began to twist. • Even then, it was more like a bad dream than reality. Our brilliant political leaders assured us that there was plenty for everybody for another twenty or ten or thirty or fifty years, depending on whether or not they were' in power. SO everybody bought a second family carr, or a new cruiser. To' hell with our ,grandchildren. Let them freeze in the dark. The , great oil companies, with their conglomerates that sell everything from condoms to nylons;-kept mum. And I don't mean they maintained mother. Every time some back-room genius came up with an invention that proved you could run 'a ear fortymile,s on faith, hope and spit, they gave him a million bucks for 'the patent and told him to disappear, quietly. They were joined in the conspiracy of silence by the vast motor car companies, so powerful they can dictate to governinents. These corporate citizens know, •and knew long ago, that they were deliberately burning up the , world's huge energy reserves. Did they care? Not as long as the profits held up. If there is any history of this time, twentieth-century man will be looked on by the higher species that evolves in about the same way we' look upon the dodo bird: a creature too stupid to survive: JUst the other; day, I went down to the licence office and paid sixty dollars for the privilege' of a driving a large lump of rusting. Metal about, pollUting the country= side. I told the_girl that if she'd give me the $60 back, and add three hundred, she could have the car. She refused. And I don't blatne her. The twentieth century ,IS one of charla- tans, dreamers, violence and • sheer naive to . We remind me of the alchemists who flourished in the tiliddle ages, trying to turn lead into gold. • We jog in• polluted air to improve our lungs and hearts. We buy smaller cars to save gas and, drive twice as much as we used to. We buy wood stoves at wild prices, and firewood at even wilder. We talk more about unemployment insurance than we do on research into these things. We are all so well-educated and literate that we have• a school system churning out semi-literates who will breed vigorously and produce semi-morons. We have a greedy, gluttonous society that gobbles up all the useless things it prOduces, and still can't find' enough jobs for the people in it to lead, a life of reasonable dignity. I could "go on and on; 'as you well know, but "I must get down to brass facts, and propose some solutions. Here they are. There's no use going to the politicians. They are interested in votes, not princi- ples. We need a dictator. Oh, I don't mean some megalomaniac like Hitler or Mussol- ini. Just a nice, kindly, benevolent dictator, a sort of Mafia-like Don of the old school, soft-spoken, but in charge. His first move would be to call in his "boys" and gently suggest the,elirinination of all politicians, school administrators, economists, and drug pushers, so that we could start on a clean sheet. I don't meanelimination in the crude way. The politicians would have to raise • personally every cent they promised to spend. The school administrators would be assigned seven Grade 9 classes a day and lunch, supervision. .The economists would 'be sentenced to twenty years of arithmetic, and the drug pushers would be impaled on sharp stakes, at high noon, every Wednes- day. .Then he'd appoint some commissioners to get things cleared up. I, for one, would be willing to accept the onerous chores of Energy 'COmrnissioner. I wouldn't be unduly harsh. I'd just have collected, and burned, every snowmobile, power boat and motor-cycle in the country. I'd put a governor on every car so that it couldn't go over 30 miles, an hour. I'd ground every aircraft on a pleasure flight, and tie up every ocean liner ditto. I'd issue an edict that subsidized longjohns. and fine every household caught with its temper- ature above 60 degrees. Of course,. I'd expect a Cadillac and a jet liner and a power cruiser to transport me about on my various, nefarious duties. accepted on' the conditiOn that in the event of a tYp—iigraphical error the reed emir occupied by the erroneous tOgether Stith reasonable, allowance for Signature; Will not be chortled kr WI th• balance of the 'edve Advertitl to rtisement will' be Odd for at the egplicabt. rite. While everieffort will be made to Insure they are handled with care, the Publisher" Cannot be rag ensibbik the return of uniolidied 'iriamificripta or photOs.