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Murray Morrison, son of Mi. and
s. Gordon: Morrison who reside
InWest Wawanosh Township; On
Way 86 east of •Lucknow .has
en chen by the staff of Luck-
,w District High School to.parti-
pate in a federal -provincial
i navel 'program . •
Aunay will be a ,Centennial
~:visite. to North Vancouver,''
titist:Columbia• leaving here on
26.and returning August•
8.
The youth travel 'program: is,for
secondary school students and is
operated jointly by the Federal
government through the .centenn-
ial commission, and the ten '
provincial governments
Lucknow was eligible to send a ..
grade 11 boy on the travel program
and Murray was chosen by teach-
ers at the school,.
LUCKNOW, ONTARIO ' 'WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19th, 1967
The' students travel by train in
unitsof twelve boys : twelve girls
and,two 'escorts andare billeted
in private homes for a week in
Yariousp~evinces andinMurray's
case, Vancouver. Each province;•
receives, an equal number of stud-
ents' that it sends on the program..
There is no charge for the partici-
Pants' in the travel .plan. last year
3840 students• participated in the
plan and this centennial: year 4800
students will.be involved in the`
exchange.
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Acommunitt:credit union, for
village of'Lucknow and.surroun•
'four townships of West Wawa
Ashfield Kinloss and Huron,
organized at a meeting at St.
r's' Ratisls"Hall on Monday night
thisis these and meeting arran-
d by Ed Acheson of the 'Ontario
Credit Union League -through the
forts of several local -residents
have made this 'One .of.their
, ntennral',projects';',
.tl`good deal of local: enthusiasm •'•
$evident for this movement and
Imore than the required •
enty=two•charter.;naeinbers have
n secured. The local charter
be presented to the Ontario •
Government, Departrnent of '
commercial and.•Financial
fsirsfor'their a p•PProval. It is•
estimated that the charter would
teceived yi
locally n. six to eight.-
lets and at that time a confirm-•
*meeting will be held 'of
ose interested:
A; feature, of Monday's o a a
y rg niz t
onal.meeting'•was the showing'of
a movie, "Small miracle of -Santa
Cruz" depicting how people of
meagre means were educated to
systematic savings.;'
BoardAdvertise For
Two Male Teachers
Kinloss and Lucknow Township '
School Area Boardhas received:. '
the'res nation of Mrs. Lou (Gwen)
Parker.. Lucknow Mrs. Parker ,
who -has been teaching at Kinloss •
Central School at Holyrood:, has
accepted a position in a school at
Plattsville, near Kitchener., She
will assume her new duties in the
Fail
The Board is• presently',advertising'
for two male teachers. One •
teacher will be to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of Mrs.
Parker and the other will replace
two supply teachers which have
been teaching in the area. .
NEW ACCOUNTANT HERE
oss 'Christian Gets
Belleville Post
,Ross Christian, accountant at the;
Lucknow branch .of the Bank of •
Montreal for the past two years,
4has received • a transfer to Belle -
in Eastern Ontario.
Ross will be'assi.stant accountant
at the:• Belleville branch,a large
office:w•ith•a staff of sixty., He
will complete his' work in Lucknow
this' Friday and .commence ,work in
$ellevilfe on Monday.. *While • in
Lucknow Mr and Mrs. Christian
and•young son David Bruce, age
two, have resided in the Finlay
Apartments on Lucknow's main
street.'
The new accountant at the. Luck
now Branch is`"aIready on the job;',
Wayne , Slomke , . age 22 and single,
arrived here on Monday'of this.
Week. He, is 'a native of Manitoul-
in•lsland and comes,to L cknow
from Sault. Ste Marie..•
Ross, 'Yvonne'and David are, no
strangers to Eastern Ontario Yvon-
,ne's home is.at Cobden in the
Penibrook-Renfrew area . 'Ross' •
:fither is manager of the Bank of.
• Montr..eal.at•Napanee
TORNADO HITS HURON
Power Failure
Knocks Out
.D • n nnon Phonesu a g
The tornado,. which ripped throu-
gh the :south of Huron County Yon
Monday afternoon doing serious
damage and takingthe:life of an
g
80 -years -old Dublin man, had less
serious effects on this area butdid'
result in they 'Dun annon hone s.s-
$ P
tem being put out of operation
early Tuesday.
Clayton Nicholson , manager of
the Huron and Kinloss Telephone
System with :offices in Ripley , told
the Sentinel Tuesday morning that,
firstindications' of any problems
came when several complaints
came in from Dungannon/ : ...
subscribers who wcre,having diff-
iculty placing.: calls.'
The Monday tornado had left a •
large portion of Huron county with-
out hydro service. The wind
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Four Area -Girls .Gt Provincial Honours{
Miss Joan r
Andeson,:• Bruce Co -
• un
tyhome Economist' o
'Whin c f Walkerton,;
charge of the 4-11 Home-,
klng'Club achievement day
ld at. the Lucknow D
District High. •
cool 'on, Saturday , The, pr rami •
atuued the presentation to (four
Ott
area girls of provincial honour
pins and certificates by M'rs.,
David Eadie of R.•R.2 Wingham,
1st vice president of Bruce,South
"Wornen:s Institute:: Pictured, left.
to right , are Diane Coulter of ,
Whitechurch, •J'oau PereY of R.R.I
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Holyrdod, Mrs, Eadie, Susan
Arnold of.Lucitnow,, Sharyn Mov
br.ay'of Litclinow',' atid'Miss Ander-
son A further write -UP on the ach
ievement of countY, whers da,;, as we'Il•as a picture
will appear in
, PPe . .
next weeks issue; ,
Rip ley
ets:
• Single-Copy..1Oc Z4 Pa
?W Fashions
It's fortunate that it ;was the Rip1-
ey.Fire Department: who sponsored
the Centennial Ball in the Rile.
P y.
District High School on. Friday ..,
night because the dance floor':
"sizzled" when. this "hot number"
made his appearance before the
large crowd.. Jim Brooks, depicting
a centennial g bathih beaut ' ., `add= .. Y.
.was: a good sport in doing so. Jim
was; escorted. around•the' dance.floor•
'when' the costumes were .judged :by
' Murray Culbert., in. top'hat and
cane... HuronTownship has done
considerable improvement to.Boi1.-
er Beach ' aind there should be no''
problem at all when it comes to
ed a lot• of.fug n"to the evening . and choosing. a life guard;
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se
The Courtney-Pillen memorial..
fundraising committee met last
Thursday at the Ripley District •
High School to•'make final plans..on
the use of the fund which ,final'
total is $3730... •
Thecommittee. invited Mr. and
Mrs. 'Leonard Courtney • Rev : and
Mrs. , Harold• Pillen , Mr Renney 'of
Kincardine' Hospital and: Dr,': .J B.
Tindall • of, Ripley
Committee members present
were John 15: ,Mackay s• chairman,
Marilyn Thompsion, Dale Martin,
Corinne' MacDonald, Mr.: and Mrs.
Howard Harrison and' Carrick Coll
ng .
•
• It was thewish of the committee'
that the parents' ofthe boys",killed
in the accident have the opportun-
ity to express their wishes as'to how
the memorial, fund should be.
directed:. It was'decided• that a4 •
single room at. Kincardine Hospital
would be furnished at a cost of
$700 and in rhem.ory•of 'Kenneth
•
Chosen May Queen
At A'lina College
Donna Corrin, 18 -year -gold
daughter' of Dr. and Mrs. ,M. H.
Corrinof•Lucknow was chosen
May Queen• ,on Friday by fellow•
students at Alma College in St.
Thomas, Dona Is a grade l2 stud-
ent at Alma College,.
As May Queen, she will ,reign
over'the May Dayfestiv.ities at the
college on Saturday , May 6th.
Pihen. A double room is to -be
furnished at. the hospital at a cost
'of $13.00 in memory of Blain and
Wayne Courtney.: •
• Several hundred dollars will go to
Ripley District High School to
furnish' student awards in'memory'
of the three boys . •This, has been
left in charge of the, High School
Student's Council.
The rerrtaining Mdney will
go to furnish a patients' lounge: at
' the hospital at an approximate, cost
of $'700'or for emergency. operating
room facilities. •
Falls Down. Stairs
During HydroBr�ak
ST HELENS NEWS
Mrs Joseph Gaunt of the 12th
concession. of West" Wawanosh`is a
patient in Wingham and District.
Hospital... Mrs. Gaunt suffered a`,
fall at her'.hoirie last Sunday night
during the hydro interruption As ;
she Was trying the light switch,
she stepped into `the stairs and•
fell down the seven steps to the
.first landing, In the fall she fract-
ured. her left elbot and crit a deep:.
gash in her head
She was removeti by
car' to hos--•
pital and is resting' despite her in- •
juries,. Mrs. 'Gaunt will,observe
her 88th birthday, in September:
She makes her home with her son '
and his; wife, Mr , and Mrs ,' Ernest
'Gaunt,.��`