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The BruSsels Legion Pipe Band, who headed the parade to the Decoration Day Services
at Brussels Cemetery on. Sunday, is holding a dance on June 23 at the Legion Hall to raise
funds for greatly needed new uniforms. The revitalized pipe band inch.des(back row) Ivan
Campbell, Ross Duncan, Bill Nethery, Ross Bennett and Tom McFarlane,pipe major. In the
middle row are Garnet Nicholson, Archie McDonald, Donald Dunbar, im macCallum and
Don Martin. In front ,are Susan LanglofiCGiveh Bernard, Albert Cook and Charley Procter.
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.ng. 102nd Year — Issue No. 25 Wednesday, June 20, 1973
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The HurmApu,ritrBOa'ird of
Education 'Meeting in Clinton','
Monday apprOved a request frOm
a group of residents in the Ethel
area to a tennis court on
Board property at Grey Central
Public School.
The court would be built at no
cost to the Board at an expected
cost of $1,000. The 36 foot by
78 foot court will be asphalt
covered with a fence at' each
end. The group indicated in the
letter to the Board that by build-
courts
ing the court at the school, it
could 12e used by the pupils dur-
ing the day.
The Huron Board will sign
an agreement with the Perth
County Board of Education on
Huron County pupils attending
Listowel District Secondary
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While there appeared to be
general support for the expansion
of the Brussels arena facilities,
a public meeting Monday evening
deferred firm decisions pending
availability of definite cost in-
formation,
The meeting called to discuss
enlarging the arena was attended
by about 30 area residents,
Following discussion involv-
ing a review of the problems and
requirements, the meeting
On Brussels Main Street, a
few doors 'down from the Queen's
Hotel, is a sho p with a green
awning. It's a little weathered
but the lettering - Henry Dent -
is still legible. The window holds
a display of heavy work boots,
rubbers and leather work gloves.
Inside, the shop is cool, dark
and old fashioned. The owner
and his friend, James 'Hogg, re-
tired farmer, pass the time
of day. Mr. Dent, a polio victim
at the age of 10 sits in an anti-
quated wheel chair. He has a
new one out back but the old one
is more comfortable, he says.
At the rear of the shop is a
work bench on rails. Before
Henry retired, three years ago
at the age of 80, he repaired
shoes and the movable bench
helped him overcome his handi-
cap, now he just sells footwear.
Living alone requires self ,
sufficiency and Henry Dent gets
along very well. There is a
motor operated elevator in the
back of the store. It works
smoothly and he's in his apart-
ment upstairs before you could
climb the stairs.
Mr. "Dent has lived, alone
since his wife died twenty years
ago. "I like being independent,
I make my own breakfast• and
supper, dinner is sent over from
the Queen's hotel." he said.
"Sunday and • Monday are long
days when the shop's closed,
but the rest of the week passes
quickly. He enjoys reading and
television, 'Cannon' is a good
show, he remarked, "I prefer
crime shows like Ironside."
Henry is thinking of closing the
shop this winter and going to
live with his son's family. His
son is Allan Funston Dent, #2
agreed to establish, two
committees to investigate pro-posals in detail and to obtain
firm cost figures.
Al Nichol and Jack McDonald
were named to investigate details
involved in the enlargement of the
arena. Frank McCutcheon and
Barry Peters will study arena
building programs in neighboring
communities.
wayne Lowe was chairman of
the meeting.
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Huron Bof E clears request
for Ethel area t nis
Henry Dent, 83, has
overcomellandica
to live busy life
Tiverton.
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Born November 6, 1890, he
grew up in Bruce County and
was educated in Tiverton and
Paisley. He attended business
college in Owen Sound for six ;`.
months and learned to be a steno- t
grapher, "something I never t
used," he said. In .1912, Mr.
Dent went to work for the Bruce 't
'Telephone Co. and shortly after f t
married Isabel Margaret
Cameron a school teacher,also
from Bruce County. They were
married in Palmerston.
The Dents moved to Brussels
in 1948, relocating their 'shoe
repair shop which formerly had
been in Underwood. He said
Brussels is "the best location
• I ever had".
In 1917 he bOUght his first
insurance policies,. and was des-
cribed by his agent as a poor
risk. Not only has he outlived
the agent but the- policy returns
enabled him to' set up his bus-
iness. He alsO. owns the place
next 'door which houses 34. m e s
Card1.11.,Real Estate & InsuranCe.
• Reminiscing on past events;:
'he recallecL,the atorpri on
Lake Huloir in November 1913,
when about 50 boats went down.
`When the storm- Was, over, a
number of flour bags with Amer-
ican -labels floated ashore, un-
spoiled, no one kneW where they
came from but the people knew
how to put them to good use."
"In those days", he chuckled'
"Grits were Grits „and Tories
were Tories". " I had a saleeu
man friend who would go over to
the hOtel and talk politics until he
raised a row, then he would go
back to work. and 'laugh for the
rest of the day". •
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Douglas Wheeler, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd
wheeler of H.R.', Ethel
received his Bachelor of
Mathematics Degree on
May 25th from the Uni-
versity of Waterloo.
Talk about:: an unusual find!
Miss Doris. McDonald of BrUs-
sels experienced such a find last
Week. While weeding a flower
bed she was attracted by an
unusual glitter on thelong stalks
of a clump of grags she had pulled
from the ground. On inspection
she found, encircling the grass
stalks, just above the roots, a
ring she had lost a number of
years ago. An unexpected;, but
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pleasant, surprise to find grass
growing up through the ring she
was happy to recover after
having lost it go long ago.
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The "FloWers of Hope" cam-
paign for the mentally retarded
closes thiS Week. The objective
Of $2,000 18 far from being
achieVed. Anyone who has not
as yet sent in. their contributions •
for their FloWerg of Hope seeds
can still do so. Help our 'Mentally
retarded. Mail your contribution
today, •
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8harne on ydii if you are a
litterbug: Why ChOoSe to he a
defacer of Ott beautiful country-
side and village? It costs every-
one of us hard-earned' dollarS to
haVe the unsightly scatterings of
II:Wei-butt cleaned up'. It cost
no one a single penny to hang 'on
to their dandy *tappets, dig.,
atette: boxea and all other trash
Until it can be otit in' the garbage
Where it belongs., Even Children'
can be taught tO: take pride
their nuitounding§, Brussels, is
a 'pretty village;. 'watt bur tree-'
ahaded §treetni e' tended
flower beds arid lawna:
detract from the heady" of it all
with the oareleaa .strewing of
unsightly leaving•a., of this ,acid
. that. Why tot hang on to such
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With flags "alive in the breeze the Brtiggeig tetoon and
Auziltity nOlot party' Mika ,to Decoration ,Dity SekViCeS at
BruSseli deirietety on Sunday.
flatly Dent, fteallt dirty city" ahe Chits viiiittlit
friend, James HOC in his littitelt thOP. Mr. Dint hi l
0Veftdine 4 hattdica of Olio to toad a Oat* 'lilt.
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