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Saturday July 26 dawned
bright and clear, and around 9
o'clock, after phoning Customs at
port Huron, Jim Armstrong and-
his son Robert took off in their
"Pietenpol Aircamper" home-
built airplane, This airplane has
been flying for seven years, but
Jim kir various reasons could
never plan to take it to the
Experimental Aircraft Associa-
tion Covention until this, year.
It is an open cockpit, slow-
flying, fun type airplane, not
really designed for cross-country
flying, but Jim and Robert found
it to be a beautiful trip in perfect
weather. After 101/2 hours flying
time, they set down at the
Convention site at Oshkosh,
Wisconsin, 625 air miles from
home, with stops in Port Huron
Westbranck, Mackinac, and Man-
istique, Michingan, and Menom-
inee, Wisconsin.
The Experimental Aircraft As-
sociation was started by a small,
number of airplane building
enthusiasts in the Milwaukee,
Wisconsin area around 1953, and
has since grown to include over
100,000 members in several hun-
dred chapters around the world.
At the 1974 Convention the
total show aircraft registered
(includes warbird, homebuilt vin-
tage, classic, special) numbered
1345. There were 7964 visiting
factory-built aircraft (for the
week). During the week 70,128
take-offs and landings were log-
ged and on Saturday 14,754
take-offs and landings were made
on the same afrport.
People take their airplanes
there for various reasons. Some
have gone all out in the construc-
tion of their machine and compete
The holiday week is over.
Somehow our brain has not
received the message that we are
back at work. It refuses to
function properly and fails to
suggest any sensible ideas for
this column, or for anything else
for that matter. It may be that it
went with the wind, was washed
away in the waves, or lost in the
sands of Lake Huron beaches,
during that hectic, happy week of
sun and fun. One sometimes
wonders if holidays are really
worthwhile when it seems so
difficult to get, down to business
again in the normal routine of the
work-a-day world.
* * * * * *
Farmers are not having much
time for vacationing these days.
HOW DOES YOUR GARDEN GROW? — No Wayne
Lowe isn't watering his flowers. He's working at the
mens' invitational softball tournament on the
weekend, watering the home plate area to keep the
dust down for the next game. (Photo by Langlois)
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russels Post
104th YEAR — Issue No. 34
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1975
Council decides
To get history of Brussels
Up, up and away
Armstrongs fly 625 miles in open plane
for the various awards offered.
Others have an airplane which is
fast and a good means of
transportation so they plan to take
in Oshkosh in their travels. And
others just fly their plane there
for the fun of it- to take advantage
of all there is to be learned from
talking to other people at such a
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Short Shots
by Evelyn Kennedy
Some of them are busy harvesting
crops. The beautiful warm
weather we have been
experiencing has hastened the
harvest season.
** * * *
In our visits to a number of
Lake Huron beaches the past
week we were struck by the lack
of crowds usual in past years.
Even on the hottest days, when
the water was ideal for
swimming, there was not the
large number of people enjoying
it that we were used to seeing
formerly. Some of the beaches
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BRUSSELS
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ALL THE WAY TO WISCONSIN -- Robert and Jim
Armstrong pose in their home built "fun plane"
which took them on a long flight to an airplane
convention 625 air miles from their Brussels home.
The father and son team were away the first weekend
in August.
Brussels council decided to
participate in the Local Initiative
Program arid apply for a LIP
grant, in an effort to have the
history of village researched and
written.
Council made this decision at
Monday night's meeting after
having received a letter from
County Clerk Bill Hanley asking
for any documents on the history
of the village,
Reeve Jack McCutcheon got
SEWERS COMING' N6 this isn t a photo of long awaited sewers fOr Brussels
being instailed, SeWer WAS used this Week in a storm drain installed behind the
hew senior citizens apartments. Clerk Bill King 6ays the weeping tile system froM
the Iding will 06 over this storm drain. The drain will eventually be dontinued
both north and SOUth, (PhOtO by Lahglois)
the idea of a LIP grant under way,
when he said the council "could
do worse than" get LIP funding
for such a project.
Now council must wait until
those interested apply to write the
history of Brussels. The deadline
for applications is September 12.
Council was informed by letter
that it would cost around $83,500
to install a storm sewer known as
the Brussels Southwest Drain.
B.M.Ross and Associates, a
consulting firm from Goderich
gave a rough estimate of putting
in 2,330 feet of storm sewers, a
large portion of which is 36 inch
and 42 inch diameter pipe,
including eight manholes, and 16
catch basins.
This work was first proposed by
E. T. Skelton, consulting
engineers, in 1967. This would
mean the installation of storm
sewers from the northern limit to
the school grounds at. Alexander
Street, northerly and westerly to
the Maitland River.
This estimate did not include any
portion of the sewers on Elizabeth
Street nor the portion of Th omas
Street, between Alexander and
Elizabeth Streets.
The consulting firm reported
that due to the size of the pipe,
the town could only expect to
recover in subsidy money about
30 per cent of its costs.
Council told Clerk William
King to look into the grant
structure, to find out whether it
would be to the village's
advantage to h ave it done by the
village and proceed in stages or
have it done all, at once,•
Jim McTaggart, of Elizabeth.
Street, attended the 'Outlet].
Meeting tO complain about having
to pay the frontage rate for
sewage on a right-of-way, he
owns.
Reeve McCutcheon said he had
until August 20, or 21 days after
publication of the sewer proposal
to appeal.
Mr. McTaggart said the right
of way is a driveway he never
uses, but pays taxes on.
Council told him all complaints
should be sent to the Ministry of
Natural Resources for any
adjustment.
Mr. McTaggart said: "What
are you going to do about
drainage?"
"Do we have a problem.?"
Reeve McCutcheon asked.
Problem
"You know damn well we have
a problem," the Brussels resident
said.
Reeve McCutcheon said: "We
can't do anything about it right
now. We could put it on local
improvement, and tax all the
users. if t could be done quicker
that way." •
During last Sunday's storm he
travelled along Elizabeth Street
and the water was just coming
along the street, and around the
school, Reeve McCutcheon said.
The main source of this water is
going in this direction, " he
said.
Council just purchased 300 feet
of tile, which are being put in
behind the senior citizen
apartments, and which will later
join with the proposed Southwest
Brussels Drain, he said.
The tile and labor for the drain
Peat the senior's apartment cost
just under $8,000 and $4,500 is
being paid in subsidy.
The pro posed project should
pick up water from that general
area, the reeve Said,
Council Passed the residential
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