The Brussels Post, 1975-03-12, Page 3Sugar and Spice
b y bill Bill Smiley
Plan management seminar
for area businessmen
A business management
seminar primarily for people
interested in small business will
be held in Hensal at the Pine
Ridge Chalet on March 19th.
Arranged by the Advisory
Services Department of the
Industrial Development Bank, the
seminar will be one of several
hundred conducted by the B ank
in smaller cities and towns across
Canada.
Some 25 to 30 people interested
in business are expected to attend
the seminar which will consider
financial statements of a small
business and the effect that an
expansion has on them.
The IDB, which was estab-
lished in 1944 as a subsidiary of
the Bank • of Canada, makes
loans to businesses of all types for
a variety of purposes. Almost
half of the bank's loans -are for
$25,000 or less and the bank is
especially interested in assisting
smaller businesses.
The Advisory Services Depart-.
ment of the Bank publishes a
series of pamphlets on small
business management, provides
information of Federal assistance
programs availableto businesses,
organizes management seminars
and in other ways tries to help
business people to improve their
management skills. A
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Income Tax Prepared
Farmers — Businessmen — Individuals
— At Reasonable Rates —
Ronnenberg Insurance Agency
Open in Brussels — Tuesday and Friday Only — Ph. 887.6663
Monkton Office Open Monday to Saturday Noon
Phone 347.2241 — Any Time.
Phone Early for Appointment and Avoid the Rush
HAYWARD'i\
Discount .4- Variety
-7—Patent Medicines — Cesmetici
Groceries and Stationery — Tobacco
THE: BRUSSELS POSti. MA001. 12, 'WS
students, (male or female) to
provide information on equal
opportunities for men and women
in International Women's Year.
Ministry of Natural Resources:
opportunities throughout the
province for manual, technical
and clerical positions.
Ministry of Solicitor-General:
to gain insight into the day-to-day
operations of local police forces in
a variety of research and clerical
type positions,
Application deadlines for post
secondary students: April 1, 1975
and for secondary students: May
1, 1975. If you need more general
information or clarification you
can contact Ontario Experience
The telephone number is
(416) 965-0546 and you may call
collect.
Statistics
Statistics released by the
Ministry of Health recently indi-
cated * that Ontario Health
Insurance payments for March,
1974, to medical and other
practitioners amounted to $51.4
million. This is the second
highest of any month reported in
the 12 month period from April
1st, 1973 to March 31, 1974.
March payments, which cover
all services rendered in that
month were up $3.7 Million over
February 1974. This increase
resulted from 106,500 more
patients being treated and
590,900 more services being
rendered in March over February
The Ministry of Health also
released ' annual statistics
sumniariting Health Insitrance
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Area residents attend
Toronto hockey match
Correspondent
Mrs. Cliff Bray
Euchre was held in the
Community Centre Monday
evening, Mrs. Ralph Keffer
convened the event.
Mr. Clifford Stevens was in
Toronto Hospital and now he is in
i Kitchener-Waterloo Hospital.
Mr. and Mrs.Cameron Somers
took possession March 7th of the
home they bought from Mrs.Carl
McDonald.
Mrs. Geo. Pearson and Mrs.
Albert Cardiff spent a day in
London last, week.
The World's Day of Prayer was
held in the Ethel United. Church
on Friday afternoon. Mr. E.
LeDrew was the speaker for the
service.
Mr. and Mrs. Le Allan
Wardlaw of Toronto visited Mr.
and Mrs. Douglas Wardlaw over
the weekend.
Mr. and Mrs.Weston
McWilliams and family and Mrs.
J. McWilliams of Mt. Forest
visited Mrs. A. Pearson Sunday.
Mr. and lvIrs.Don Lloyd, Mr.
and. Mrs, Doug Pitcher and
family, Miss Betty and Terry
Lynn , all of Toronto visited Mr.
and Mrs. Geo. Lynn over the
weekend.
Mr. and Mrs, Bob Stephens of
Dundalk visited Mr. and Mis.
John Smith over the weekend.
Mr, and Mrs. Doug Evans
motored to Toronto Saturday and
attended the hockey game in
Maple Leaf Gardens Saturday
night. They also visited Mrs. Bill
Danphin, (Former Jan Thomas).
Mr. and Mrs.Andrew Bremner
spent a day in London and visited
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Vine.
Mr. and Mrs, Les Crozier
attended the 80th birthday party
in Listowel for Mrs. R.JAnnett on
last Saturday evening.
Mrs. J. Turner of Harriston
visited a few days with Mr. and
Airs. Bob Cunningham.
Masters Jamie and Billy
Dobson of Palmerston visited
their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
Wm. Dobson over the weekend.
Every year about this time, I turn a deep
green, almost a , turquoise shade, with
pure, unadulterated envy.
This is brought about by that fairly new
occasion in school life known as "Winter
Break." It is a week's holiday during
March, in which the poor, ground-down
students, near a state of total exhaustion
from not doing their homework, skipping
school, and sleeping at their desks, have a
chance to recharge their batteries for the
terrible, gruelling term ahead, during
which they will be worn to a frazzle from
not doing their homework, skipping even
more school because the weather is better,
and falling in love because it's spring.
It's not that have anything against
winter break as such, or holidays in
general. Far from it. If I had my way, we'd
also have a fall break and a spring break
and school four days a' week the rest of the
time.
My envy is churned up by the seemingly
limitless opportunities the rotten kids have
these days to see the world, something I.
have desired fiercely since I was about
four, and have never been able to fulfill.
You should hear the y oung blighters, in
the classrooms and the corridors.
"Hi, Li. Where y' goin' winnerbrake?
We're go'na Greece."
"Hey, great. We're there lasyear. Snot
bad. Lotta statutesnstuff. We got inna the
wine. Terry puked all overtha teach."
"Hey, great. But wearya goin' this year.
Yer naw-gunna jis stay homen get mouldy,
arya?"
"Helno. I'm gonna Spain. Sounds great.
Bullfighters and flamencos. Hey, whatsa
flamenco? Trouble is, we got ole Droopy-
Drawers anis wife for chaperones and he
allus wasitsa goda museums an all that."
"Yeah, touch. Oh well, he'll be dead by
ten o'clock anya can sneak outa the hotel
and hit the vino joints ana• bullfighters
anall."
"Ya. Rideon. Hay, javnee trouble
geddin bread for your trip?"
"Na. Worked three weeks last summer
an saved twenny bucks, before they fired
me. Tole the oleman iddus discrimination
caws Ise bedder lookin than the head
waitress. He bleeved me. Then I tole im Ise
gonna goda Manpower an geddanother
job. He bleeved .me. Tole Manpower I
wannad a job as a go-go-girl. They diden
havnee. So he put up the other four
hunnert. He allus wannada travel himself,
poor ole slob. He never even godda cross
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'miner to Seaforth;, and Mrs.
hnBerry to Goderich.
ey. Twenty portable display
its, each staffed by three
at content of beef
A good quantity of ground beef
featured at attractive prices in
permarkets these days.' Asked
hether or not this beef is a good
y, or if it is cheaper because it
"all fat", food specialists at the
ntario Food Council, Ministry of
griculture and Food assure us
at it cannot contain more fat
at it did before.
According to regulations
Ministered by the Department
Consumer and Corporate
irs, fat levels in ground beef
the 30 per cent and 16 r cent marks, so that ground
of of any type (be it called
rnburger, ground chuck or
oand round) should not consist
more than 30 per cent fat. If it
specified on the label as "lean"
ound beef, it must not contain
re than is per cent fat.
erefoteJ ground chuck and
mind round &lid legally eon-
n any amount Of fat lip to 30 per
nt finless the word "lean"
peatS, in which ease it ..tantint
Ced 15 per tent,
the border."
"Ya. Minesa same. He's Mills tokkin
bout South See Islands anthat. Antha
Depression. Antha war. Drag. Putt him on
a south sea island with a coconut in one
hand, a broad in the other, anna lagoon in
front ofim, .an he wooden know which to
take a bite outa. Kinda sad. Hey, where's
Timmynthem gain."
Oh, they're gonna Russia. Good deal.
They goddan extra week offa school,
Swurth the extra hundred bricks."
Now, gentle reader, it's not as though
our students actually talk like that. It's just
that they sound as though they talk like
that.
And I guess y ou can see that the
foregoing conversation reflects quite
vividly my bitter envy of these young punks
who take off for Moscow and London and
Rome with about as much awe as we used
to have if we were going to spend a
Saturday night in the nearest big town.
Aside from those who are flying to
faraway, exotic placesthat you and I have
only dreamed of, there are the others. Ask
them what they're doing during winter
break.
Jim: "Oh, I'm jis gonna smash aroun in
the snowmobile a liddel an maybe hit the
pubs a few nights." The snow-mobile cost
more than his father had saved in eight
years for the first mortgage on his house.
Jeff: "Well, a few of us are gonna
Colorado to ski. Snot bad. Just three
hunner-tanady bucks for a week." This is
just twice what his father earned a-month
when Jeff was born.
So. Mixed with my envy is a good solid
streak of rage. Rage that I was born at the
wrong time, in the wrong place, in the
wrong economic climate.
It took me 21 years, and a lot of hard,
cheap labor, and the risking of my life
many times, to get out of this country and
see some of the great cities of the world;
only to find them bleak and blacked-out.
I've been busting my butt ever since,
raising. a family and paying off mortgages,
too busy and too broke to travel.
And yet ... and yet I feel almost sorry
for these kids. It's all too easy. None of
them can ever h ave the heart-thudding
thrill I had when I first rolled into one of the
great stations of London, England.
And- none of them can ever have the
heart-thudding thrill I had as I rolled out of
one of the great Berlin stations, the bombs
falling happily behind me.
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County Council approves