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The Brussels Post, 1975-03-26, Page 3i the Editor Hockey fans protest game Dear Editor: I am not much of a hockey' fan but I do enjoy the game. I think its great for these young Canadians. to be taught how to play the game and to watch them enjoy it. Win or lose they're right back for the nest big one. It amazes me too how their coaches and managers take so much of their time to spend with a team and train them the way they do. It's too bad there weren't coaches and managers to teach adults the same way. 1 saw a game in Brussels Friday night which was a really good game. Brussels was leading 3 - 0 at the end of the second period and Palmerston came back and tied it up, I would say that it was an occasion where the time keeper should have been checked upon. When the clock was o.o.o. and the game over he allowed Brussels to score. Instead of overtime which should have been played the game went to Brussels. Why teach these boys to play fair and square when a time keeper can't? If Brussels needed the game Palmerston could have stayed home and said you have it. This is no way to run a tournament. Palmerston will not be back and I understand Milverton won't either. Sooner or later Brussels won't be having a tournament because other teams won't want to be treated this way. No we are not abad losers. Palmerston's Atoms have been beaten by much bigger and better teams. On Hamilton's ice and we had Hamilton back and were defeated again. These young men ended• up being friends and pen pals. I just wanted you to know that we are not sore losers but we do like being treated fairly. To the Brussels lady that said Palmerston didn't give Brusse Is a crest last year that was not Palmerston's idea. That was for the Grand Championship and Palmerston only filled in for another team. So y ou see we are not poor losers we play the game fair and square. Yours, Mrs. Ellen Williamson Hockey Fan Last night we went up to play in your Atom hockey tournament against the Brussels Atoms. It was a good game except for that -last goal which Should not have been counted. Of course when the home team has last year's coach in the time keeping box everything counts for the home team even when the clock reads o.00 when the puck went into the net. My opinion is that you're not teaching the players much about fair hockey. Maybe the buzzer did not go.. It was not our fault if your clock and buzzer don't work together. What about the weekend before with Milverton. I think if the time keeper can not do a fair job when the home is on the ice, in years to come Brussels will probably, have to play against .themselves. It is too bad that myself and other fans from Palmerston feel this way about y our tournament. If the play was the other way around I would bet my last dollar it would have been overtime for sure. I still feel that is the way it should have been dope. I know our clock in the Palmerston arena would have stopped when the puck went into the net, if there was even one second left to play. But your clock doesn't work that way. I hope we have anotirr time to meet this team maybe in the "Grand Champ" then we. will see who can win fair and square. If you don't go by the clock and you do go by the buzzer,' you should have just bought a big buzzer instead of the clock. I think this will give y our fans something to think about. Yours Betty Lambier `Heart Month' in Canada is now over, ancIon behalf of the Canadian Heart Fund, Ontario Division, please accept our sincerest appreciation for your co-operation and assistance during our financial campaign in February. Our objective this year was $3,600,000 and although all returns are not in, due to the disruption in our postal service, we are quite hopeful that our objective will be attained. Without your willing co-operation in communicating our needs to the public, the Canadian. Heart Fund would not be able to express such an outlook. Heart disease is everyone's problem - and again our thanks for helping us bring to the attention of the public, that - research should be everyone' s. responsibility. Canadian Heart Fund, (Ontario Division), Esther M. Richards Dear Editor: The CANTDU Committee has read the text of the recent speech entitled 'Nuclear Power and it's Critics' made by Robert B. Taylor, Chairman of Ontario Hydro. This Committee having made a detailed and unprejudiced study of the available information concerning nuclear reactors in Canada and elsewhere, remains convinced that the following statements are true and can be supported by a' large body of documented evidence. 1. While the proposed 'nuclear expansion programme may appear to be politically expedient for Ontario, a higher quality of life can be maintained in this province and in Canada as a whole without resorting to this source of energy. 2. The Government of Ontario has never been given a mandate, by the public to proceed with this programme involving as it does such long term and far reaching consequences, and which can so se riously impair all forms of life in the near and distant future. 3. The major cut-backs in the proposed nuclear expansion programme in the United States of America result from a growing awareness by the people of that country of the hazards they are being asked to accept and their refusal to tolerate them. The essential theme of this resentment is not technology, but the proliferation of radio-active poisons and the threat of major releases - a threat common to all types of reactors. It is a fact that only as a result of action by CANTDU and similar organizations that the proponents of nuclear energy here in Ontario are beginning to admit in public, the existence of any hazards whatsoever. 4. If all the costs of nuclear generated energy are h onestly accounted for, it can be established that this source of energy is much more expensive than energy derived from alternative sources. 5. The proposal to continue dumping vast amount of heat into the Great Lakes System until such times as it may be established that 'thermal discharges are datnaging to the aquatic ecology' is contrary to all the principles of environmental protection. The fact • that over 75% of the heat generated in the CANDU reactor has to be dumped as wasted energy tells us much concerning the real efficiency of the CANDU system. 6. The proponents of nuclear energy' have made a praltice of quoting eminent scientists who support their programme. Investigations reveal that 'these scientists are directly or indirectly financially involved in the multi-million dollar nuclear programme. No reference is made to the many other eminent scientist who have condemned the nuclear programme, or those whose conscience has forced them to resign from tenumerative positions of responsibility. CANTDU strongly opposes the philosophy that an understanding of nuclear reactors and the hazards related to them is beyond the grasp of the average citizen, and thus decisions concerning safety and hazards must be left to the opinions of the experts. 7. In the event of war, civil un-rest, or natural disaster, CANTDU believes that communities within a hundred miles of a nuclear complex such as at Pickering or Bruce, will be exposed to unacceptable dangers. The significant pollution of 'our Great Lakes system by radio active materials, no matter how remote the risk,' we consider to be also unacceptable. The transportation of radio active masterials on public road or railway systems etc. is another hazard with a potential for profound and long-term consequences. The primary concern of CANTDU is that the public should have access to not only the arguments which may favour the proposed expansion of nuclear generated electricity, but be made aware of the very real hazards and available alternative solutions. We feel that this must be accomplished before large scale investments ' of public money create an irreversible situation. CANTDU requests the Provincial Government and Ontario Hydro to make available to our committee a portion of the public money, presently being spent to promote their concept of the nuclear expansion programme, in order that our arguments, and the facts supporting them, can be put before the general public of this province. CANTDU has no political affiliations, and no direct or indirect financial involvement in energy matters. If this challenge is ignored or rejected, CANTDU will continue to gain support, for history shows, as was the case in the recent attempt to conceal serious defects 'in the Pickering reactor, the public ultimately learns the whole truth. Copies of this statement have been mailed to The Honi.Dennis R.Timbrell Minister of Energy. Robert B. Taylor, Chairman, Ontario Hydro. Donald S. McKee • hii t russels lady still Horticultural Society a will have plant sale Mrs. Walter Kerr played for community singing. Mrs. D. Hemingway , showed slides of their trip south as well as local slides which were enjoyed. Mr S, Hemingway wag_ thanked by Mrs. • Ctidmore. Mrs., Walter Kerr won the door prize, The May•meeting returns to 8 p.m. and there will be a sale of bulbs and plants. Lunch was served by Mrs. S. Alexander, Mrs. A. Bremner, IVIts.S., Seibert, Mrs. E. THE. BRUSSELS PO Completion date is October 1 Mrs.Ottria Wilson of Erusseis celebrated her 80th birthday On March 17. She is the former Otina Rae Steins, eldest daughter of the late Louts and Maryanne Steiss of the 16th Concession of Grey Township. In 1914 She married ,lack Wilson and the couple fartried Itti.a Township befote moving to Grey TOwiiShip. Mr, Wilson died rn becembet Helping Mrs., Wilson to celebrate her birthday Were her daughter, Mrs. Stanley EOWeS, of Ethel;: her son, Stanley Wilson. of Hamilton; five .grandchildren; seven great,gtandthildtew fotir. sisters and one brother'. Enjoying. excellent health, Mrs. Wilson erijoks. Many hobbies and is. especially . interested in gardening. Her siiiiirrier flower beds are considered to be: a show place by neighbors and visitors: She is a member of the: Presbyterian Church and of the Ethel Women's Institute.. The March meeting of the Brussels Horticultural Society was held in the Public Library, Monday afternoon, March 17th, Miss Laura Lucas, the vice president presided and after reading. an Irish poetn it was decided a group would attend the District Amitial in Teeswater April 19th with Mrs. C. Heiningway Offering to take a car. A card was signed for Mr, A. Kn ight, a patient in Hospital. The roll call was answered by 21 members' and there were two guests present. . Taro Properties have adVised the Post that the Senior Citizens 1. i Apartments will not be completed A, until October 1, at the earliest, The June 30 completion date that was reported in the Post last week is in error. A Post. Classified Will pay you I ; dividends. Have you tried one? Dial Erussels 887-6641. St, MARCH 26i 1915 --i.-3 Y I