The Citizen, 1989-10-25, Page 12PAGE 12. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1989.
Long service
The world can’t take
any more greedy people
Peggy Denomme, (left), co-ordinator of Volunteer Services for the Huron County Family and
Children’s Services department presents an award for 20 years of volunteer service to Roxie and
Charles Adams of Goderich for their work with the department. A banquet, recognizing foster
parents and volunteers, was held at the Blyth and District Community Centre Thursday night.
Couples honoured
Six couples were honoured by the Huron County Family and Children’s Services department
Thursday night for their work as foster parents. Receiving awards at the banquet held in Blyth were:
(left to right), Roberta Kloss, Brucefield who with her husband Richard (absent) has been a foster
parent for 15 years; Lynda Bruinsmaand her husband Charles (behind) of Goderich who have been
foster parents for 15 years; Shirley and Wilfred Fowles, Clinton, 10 years; Ada and Gordon
Blanchard, Seaforth, 30 years; and Shirley and Jim Wilkinson, Exeter, 20 years. Absent were Dave
and Judy Parks of Goderich who have been foster parents for five years.
Brussels ratepayers discuss drains
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village’s five-year plan but he’d
hate to have to see basements in
homes in the area flooded again in
order to make it more of a priority
for council.
Councillor Wilson agreed that
drains are a problem, saying the
already small storm drains were
probably made worse through da
mage when the sanitary sewers
were installed.
Councillor Dave Hastings said
the problem comes back to a
problem of dollars and cents and
that to do all the work would drive
the mill rate up.
Mr. McCutcheon suggested to
councillors that rather than replace
whole blocks of sidewalk they
should replace smaller sections and
make the dollars go further.
The subject of what to do with
the village tennis courts was
brought up by Keith Mulvey of the
Industrial Committee. He asked if
the courts were used. Mr. Stretton
said for the courts to be used
properly an instructor was needed
to teach young people how to play
the game.
Reeve Gordon Workman said
that he felt it would be smart to
move the tennis court to the
community centre grounds and use
the property off Elizabeth Street for
an apartment building instead,
something that could bring the
village some revenue. ‘I’m not
trying to take anything away but for
the amount the tennis court is
used, does it make sense to leave it
(on valuable property).”
Fire Chief Howard Bernard re
ported on the activities of the fire
department. He explained the pur
chase of compressor equipment to
fill the air tanks of firemen (at a
cost of nearly $13,000) saying
firemen need tanks for nearly every
fire today because it’s hard to know
what might be burning inside a
building producing toxic fumes.
The department also purchased
property beside the fire hall with
the hope of someday building a
new firehall taking up both lots, he
said. The current fire hall is not a
good shape and more space is
needed.
Asked if the department had any
trouble getting volunteers Chief
Bernard said the department has a
super group of volunteers right
now and there has been little
turnover in the last two or three
years.
Bruce McCall reported for the
Maitland Valley Conservation Au
thority answering a question about
camping at the Brussels conserva
tion area by saying there isn’t
enough staff to supervise camping.
He said generally he felt the
problem of odour from the water of
the river is not as bad as many have
felt it was. He said there were some
accidental spills upstream but in
general people were recognizing
the importance of the quality of
water.
The education process is aided
by places such as the Authority’s
Wawanosh Education Centre
where 5500 students a year are
given lessons on nature. “You
teach a child the importance of the
future, the importance of water and
the top six inches of soil and you’ve
created a conservationist for life,”
he said.
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destroying the planet by fouling the
water and the air. We’re poisoning
our own nest.
But the people in other parts of
the world don’t tend to see that.
They see the wealth of the West,
sometimes real and sometimes the
glorified version fed across the
airwaves by Hollywood; they see
the vast quantities of food, the
good health of our people, the
luxury of our homes, clothes and
cars, and they say “I want some of
that.” Who can blame them? Yet
we rich are a small portion of the
world’s population. If we create so
much environmental distruction
keeping a small part of the world’s
population in such luxury, how
could the world support the same
luxury for eastern Europe, India,
China and the rest of the world’s
population.
These people look at themselves
and look at us and say they are
wrong and we are the goal when
really it is we who are wrong. It
should be us who are cutting back
on our extravagance to meet them
somewhere at a median point, not
them striving to get to our level.
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believe it is really so bad we must
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to see the rush to consumer luxury
there that may speed up the
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