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The Brussels Post, 1977-10-26, Page 2IIMMELS ONTARIO. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1977 Serving Brussels and the surrounding community. Published each Wednesday afternoon at Brussels, Ontario by McLean Bros. Publishers, Limited. Evelyn Kennedy - Editor Dave Robb - Advertising Member Canadian Community Newspaper Association and Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association Subscriptions (in advance) Canada $8,00 a Year, Others $14.00 a Year, Single Copies 20 cents each. 0.0 poi AN COm 4PCNA A . PER S ASSO v 0%1' "" WSPAPHIS C°, 4' ABC *CNA '(IFTWOPHIP .1172 13russels Post What is a-community Next to the family, the community is the most important centre of activities that make life human, civilized and cultured. No other environment contributes so significantly to nourish the values of life. Governments on all levels are learning this by the failure of their efforts to impose neighbourhood re- development programs without consulting and involving the people who live there. Community work satisfies the desire to contribute to humanity; it gives a person something, to do that is worth while; it provides fellowship. The community of individuals, in hamlet, village, town or city, supports churches, schools, fraternal societies and centres for recrea- tional and artistic activities. If a person is to have dignity, he must make his contribution to life. It is in the community that than feels what he is and has a chance to become what he can be. Through association with others in church, school, club and. recrea tion the individual gets a sense of status and a sense of social acceptance and support. , Every improvement in the life of people in the community is a personal advantage to everyone in it. But contribution to the good of the community is more than that, it is an expression of the natural good qualities people have. People do not become part of a community merely by being together, but rather by sharing interests • and engaging in activities to further the welfare of the group.. The strongest bond between people is the .feeling of having common problems:common values and common hopes. Community work is self-developing. It is more than merely sending a cheque. We seek the respect of the society in which we live. Mutual tolerance and co-operation will lead to the point when you call your neighbour "friend" and that means much to both‘of you. ivlembership in the community comes from a conscious sense of "belonging". By belonging, we accept certain responsibilities for constructive contribution. The good citizen will shape his community by working with other citizens. Then problems get solved, wrongs. are righted, the beauty and spirit of the community is enhanced: (RidgetWop Dominion) Milkweed seeds Behind the scenes by Keith Roylston People love to talk, these days, badly I'd needed them and about the good old days. For nie rediscovered the miracle of clear that means time dated BG: before vision. I realized just what I'd glasses. 4 been missing. And for five years Eye glasses are one of the most since then, I've frequently, important and overlooked realized what I was inventions of man but they are missing: my glasses. If there is also a bane of my existence. I ever a divorce in the family, suppose the problem is that 'I glasses may be listed as one of 'spent the first 25 years of my life the causes. I'm forever setting without glasses and find it hard to the darned things down because get, used to living with them. for normal things like reading, I ' I'd always had perfect eyesight don't need them. It's only when in those days BG and took a quiet I'm driving or watching pride in it. It made things a lot television that I need them So I easier playing sports and such as take them off and set them down - a youngster than it was for my and of course when I need them fellows who had to wear glasses. I again, I forget where I put them. suppose I was evena little smug And since I can only see things' about it, as if it was some kind of close up, 'I can't see the glasses if personal achievement not to have they're lying on a table across to wear glasses. But pride goeth the room, only if I'm right beside before the fall and my fall came the table. To make things worse, about five years back. The my memory cells have aged to the newspaper business has driven point of 'a 12.5-year-old so I can't Some people to • drink, some to even narrow the search area habitual smoking and caused down. At such, times a scream some to get ulcers (or all three). goes out.to the wife to come to the Me it drove to glasses. It was a rescue and she-has to drop what particularly tough time during my she's.doing and join in the search. newspaper Career when the days I used to try to solve the began early and carried on to the problem by sticking the glasses in w,ee hours of the morning. All of my breast pocket when h wasn't the work invovled reading fine using them but the problem was print and straining eyes. I wasn't I'd bend over to tie a shoe lace .long, before I . noticed when and they'd fall out on the ground, , -driving that roadside signs were- or more likely a piece of cement blurry and it was hard to see and the glasses would shatter. anything very plainly more than One such tumble neatly broke 20feet away. Humbly I realized it off one of the arms of the glasses. Was` ime to go to an optometrist. It's no great tragedy and for most As if just having to go wasn't people it would simply mean a hard'enough on the ego after trip to the optometrist to get them years of taking pride in good fixed. But with a hectie schedule eyesight, it was an even bigger to keep, soniehoW I kept putting blow-when the r . announced: off that trip and it was months "Sir. you are myopic" Of all the before I finally got the glasses insults. Newspaper editors are fixed. By that time I had supposed to have vision, to be far developed a strange kink' in my sighted. How could I ever admit I neck because I had tilted my head was short sighted and hold up my to the right for so long to keep the head at a newspaper convention:? glasses from falling off. Of course once I got the glaSses In time of desperation, when and put them• on I realized hoW I've lost the glasses again and 441 have to be somewhere in two minutes, I've been known to say to heck with it (or words to that effect) and go out without them ....not driving of Course, just walking. But then the problem comes in. Now when my wife, who is a ,city girl, first moved to a small town she almost hated to walk down the ,street.Window shopping in the city had been fun, but in a small town you had to be so alert to see people you knew and say hello that you hardly had time to look in the window, She almost got to be a nervous wreck worrying about missing somebody. I found the' same problem walking down the street without glasses. I could hardly even see the other side of the street, let' alone recognize faces. So it was either wave at everything that moved including ' complete strangers and large dogs, or risk being called a snob by friends and acquaintances who didn't know my problem. I finally solved the problem by either looking down at the cracks in the sidewalk or up at the birds in the sky at all times as if I. Was deeply preoccupjted. It worked fine, as, long as I remembered where the intersea tionslvere and didn't step out in front of a truck.' Ustally when I do find my glasses and put them on and run Out the, 'door, I find it suddenly seems' to be overcdst when I, thought it was sunny. That because ram the world's worst giasseS cleaner. ,The dust and grime and finger prints are usually about a quartet inch thick before I get around to cleaning the lenses, . So dear .Mister Whoever-Y(0 am who invented the eyeglasSet: I thank you gratefully for helPirig Me see but sometimes wish piled invented the electric toothbrush instead.