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The Brussels Post, 1975-08-20, Page 1• ' , ‘01'‘ 104th Year - Issue Ne. 34 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20th, 1975 residents object so , I , . , ''''"ium!!1•11.4.111.,; ,‘" -Oreg. Cowan , led tii red 11n. iste• IN, eted 14, 10f lay1 its, rk is and; nth, .!.eve e i no: not sand In& nine CUSTOM-MADE CANOES --- Both Greg and his brother Ted Cowan build and race canoes. Mr.-Cowan said he owned a larger operation that mass produced canoes in the Peterborough area but sold it in favor of custom building canoes. (Staff Photo) Top rcicer .rnakes. conspes hear hare MB hearing m. delay sewers The village of Brussels has ceived, as of Tuesday, six hers of objection from, local sidents to the proposed Ilion sewage treatment plant. Deadline for objections to the stem, which would , add an, verage amount of $200 annually their utility bill for the next 40 ears, is today. All letter of objection will be ailed to the OMB, which will ecide if the objections warrant a ublic nearing. Village Clerk Bill King said he s informed by a consulting firm at an Ontario Municipal boara, MB , hearing could mean a elay of 4 to 8 months because the MB is already hehind schedule. A little over three years ago, uncil asked for a preliminary dy, to be done on a sewage oject and just last April, council sed a by-law to enter into_ an ' eement with the Ministry of e Environment to do the sewage ork, subject to OMB 'approVal. Council - advertised the .oposed sewage treatment Two men and a juvenile. have en charged by the Winghant P? following a fire which hoyed 3000 bales of hay oti. e 5th" ConeeSsion Of Morrig', tht of Gordon Worktian Of Ssels, COnstable Kefi Baiter Whb vestigated the Wednesday glittite said that Steven Lloyd ukttecht, 11, of Et.% 2'; thod, and BradleY !like' 18, of R.R. 1 Monktoti 4 4ipear in 'Court in Whigharn Atigust 27, Co'stable Eialzer said there, 4 littlefirettien could do to halt, 6'.8Pread Of the blaze. Workman said that the hay destroyed in the blaze represent, ed a $2,000 loSs or $3,000 Counting the labour inVolved in handling n the bales: The hay was not covered by insurance Const- able Balzer said. Mr. Workman told the Post that if he cannot replace the hay, he Will have to sell his. cattle. Constable Balier Said that the nine irk Was Also inVolved in a couple of WindOw breaking dents, one at the home of Mr. and MrS., Alex SteisS, Brussels and the other at the honie of Frank 'Worktnati erattbrook. talked about since the 1960's because the town was polluting the Maitland Riv_er. Pressure from a group called Save the Maitland and from the Ministry of the Environment resulted in the sewage treattbent proposal. The project is to be completed by 1977, but Mr. King said he didn't feel any other project will be held up because of a possible delay for an OMB hearing. Anyone who would, without thought of the financial loss, or with considered malicious intent, set fire to a man's hay must indeed be a very disturbed person who is sadly in need of psychiatric help. What else, other than 'downright meanness or vindictiveness, would make any man do such a thing. They say it takes all kinds to make a world but that kind the world could well do without. • - Many people are worried AA tn hew AOtne Of the reSidentS of BrUSAels are going tO serape together' the eXtra nioney they will haVe fo find to pay for ;the sewage systent that Brussels nittAt have. haS tO etlite i but, dOeS it haVe tO etiAt AO much?' How' are people in lb* interne Anti tiited itieeind brackets going to, ittanage With the ineredAdet etiAt of everything else this is going to' ti& an added burden, it will no 40Uht .tileatt theft' giving up .of softie of their few totufeits life to ttieet the added seWage costs., >it By Nancy Andrews What is one of the top canoeists in Ontario, -perhaps in Canada; doing in Jamestown, a small hainlet just north of Brussels, many people may wonder? Greg Cowan, 27, a canoe builder and racer, is one of nine men who was on the Ontario canoe team, which travelled more than 3,000 miles from Rocky Mountain House, , Alberta to Mentreal during 1967 to celebrate, Canada's Centennial. Recently he advertised a trip to Michipicoten Island, located on the North shore of Lake Huron. The idea was to travel by canoe and get canoists to live the life Of a voyageur for two weeks. The island it seems holds a fascination for him, and it's described as an island in a lake on an island in a lake. on an island in a lake. The final island in a lake is a tiny islet scarcely 30 ft. across. The magnificent scenery and the solitude is something that was couldn't be described, Mr. Cowan said. The trip was planned for 20 paddlers tavelling in two canoes, a North ' canoe which is .26 feet long and a Montreal, 34 feet long. The trip was to cost $500 witb all food and equipment supplied. The advantage of this would be people would bring `less garbage" Mr. Cowan said. , At first six people agreed to go, and Mr. Cowan thought the problem was you needed the right type of person who possesses a spirit of adventure. Since then, the trip .has been cancelled because not enough people enrolled. He said this was because some people have the fear of the water, and others think it will be more rigorous than it is. "PeoPle don't have to be in as good physical condition as I am," he said. "I don't think the cost mas a factor. Where can you go for two weeks where everything is paid for." he said. Also they would be taking $6,000 worth of canoes, although they hopefully wouldn't be damaged and could , be used again. He said they would have been travelling about three or four miles from shore, which is only Vacation time is fast coming to an end. Teachers and students _ will soon be going back to their desks, much to the satisfaction of some mothers who have tired of finding a satidaptory answer to the question "what can I do now" from bored children. Daylight hours are getting shorter, cutting. down the pleasant, long, warm evenings spent outdoors. Suck good things inevitably come to an end when , fall brings early darkness and a chill in the late evening breeze, ****** RoWdyism on our main street in the early morning hours ' coritinues tO be an annoyande to a great many people. Young people, loitering On steps and in doorwayS, ate also a catise for coneern to the point of making soMe people,- who h a.Ve to be out aboUt their Own business; apprehensive. Even if more recreation facilitieg Were proVided kik young people they Wotild not be in operation at the late hourS that are the cause of worry to concerned people; * *. about 20 minutes from shore in a big canoe. Recovering They would have been travelling about 30 miles a day which is about the distance the voyageurs travelled daily and could spend half a day recovering, but that shouldn't be necessary, he laughed. He said the voyageursvtravelled this route and carried good's to be traded for furs. He had p lanned to have the people portage. at Sault Ste Marie. Although the trip was cancelled, he plans to take it with his wife Trudy, and two children, including their eight -week old baby. Mrs. Cowan said she has been on a couple trips before and has no fear about taking the baby. "If it looks rough", she said, "we can always go to shore." When he goes with his family, he will take the locks which is an easier route. In 1970 they conducted a trip for the public from Thunder Bay to Winnipeg in North canoes which was a much rougher trip. There were no injuries to speak of, but a few people wanted to quit along the way due to the mosquitos, he said. When you go on a canoe trip, ou have to portage and the mosquitos eat you alive. Canoe trips, he said, are not just for young people but 'for people of all ages. "It would be a metinorable trip, but it won't be a cruise," he said. At, moments, he speaks of the trip as fame and rbutine, and later he said: "Less people , are travelling the big waters. It's actually freshet-. It's exciting and more dangerous.'', • Hair raising "It's hair-raising at times. Y ou could get in fog, and end up 20 miles out," he said. List year, he and his wife were camping on an island just off the tip of Manitoulin Islind which wv, just covered in rattle snakes. " When you considered the distance from the nearest hospital..." , he said. Yet, he's taken non-swimmers on canoe trips. "I don't know why they do it, he said and one' man told him- he felt safe, with him around." Mr. Cowan's business, Huron Recreation, is located in an old local store. 'When there, a passerby stopped and with surprise said he stopped because he thought he could get a 'pop. The passerby was rather surprised to see a canoe shop where a general store might be expected. The passerby saw MI% Cowan as a muscular young man in Cut-offs, bare chested, with long hair and bare feet. In the wooden building, a pot belly stove sits on old wooden. floors and brightly colored canoes, newly made paddles, canoe equipment and maps of the many rivers of Canada line the walls. He tells those who come into his shop that he's travelled through British Columbia and on most of the rivers in southwestern Ontario. His past exploits he estimates include travelling a total of about 8,000 . miles by canoe in the last nine years. Fie said he has repeated these things often ever since his earliest successes. He'S been interVieWed by papers and radies from BritiSh ColUmbia well as by the largest papers in Ontario'. "Finally' local papers it\ite (Continued ')n Page 8,) system as outlined by the OMB in the Brussels l'ost for two weeks, this summer. Mr. King said hair the objectors to the project felt "it should go to the vote of- the people", that a plebiscite should be held: He said a public meeting was held about a year ago at which there was a fair crowd. There wasn't really any opposition to the project, but then the meeting Was held to hear objections to a proposed location for . the treatment plant. Several other residents objected to the costs which they feel are excessive. The province' is funding 75 per cent of the project with the village's ! share at '$700,000. Another villager said he feels the sewage system should take in .more of his property, Mr. King said. Last May when some local residents were asked what they lhought about the system, the majority felt it was a necessary and inevitable expense.., ' A sewage system had been charged a fter hay fire * * * * Short Shots by Evelyn KenneclY .