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Home My WebLink AboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1973-04-11, Page 2Don't Miss • THE JUVENILE HOCKEY PLAYOFF! This Saturdcr and Sunday In The Lucknow Are FOR' A COMPLETE LINE PETROLEUM PRO FRAM FILTERS AND ACCESSORIES CALL US TOD WT. A. Bud" Hamilto WHOLESALE '— RET BURNER SERVICE TRUCKS EQUIPPED 2 WAY RADIO FOR SERVICE DIAL 5283006 RES. 528.3616 wEDNESDAY, APRII, the Village, day work at 350 houi including man and tea Finlay MalColm was awarde dragging and grading at 390 hour and snowplotighing at 3 hourcaonurse. - team, included, of .60 YEARS AG APRI The hiringL1913 tea carrying voters to the polls a municipal elections was ine from $20 t6 $200 in the rev Municipal Act before the 0 Legislature. It was felt Wit higher penalty that this port of the Election' Act would be better observed at both mu and provincial elections. The Orangemen of Zion chased 'the large/buildings south of the Royal flotel pun in of moving it and refitting it a hall . Luc know' with the intent' AA% •••••-••••• • Lucknow Midgets were Ontario hockey chainpions. Mem- bers of the tearri were: goal, George. Richards; defense', Ken- neth MacNay, Ernie Gibson; centre and left wing, Jack and Charlie Chin;.Tight wing, Roy Stanley; alternates, Ron ,Gfaham, Kent Hed ley,. Bob Mowbray, Allan MacDonald, Ross McDonagh, Hughie MacMillan, Managers were Bud Thompson and Jack CcSk. The local' water system stand pipe was undergoing a cleanout and paint job. at a cost of $11.5,. *4. (th itor. BOUNDARIES ARE FOR THE BIRDS Huron' and Bruce County School Boards are presently in- volved in a dispute. over an interpretation of the school act and " whether or not a dozen or so students attending Brookside School in Huron should, or should not be attending school in Bruce County where they live. For those who read a story on the matter, in question in last week's paper, it has developed into a rather complicated disagreement between the, two school boards and points to a disturbing "boundary" situation which has always existed in this comMunity. 'and which ' the sophistication of county school boarda has' only worsened. The Sentinel was led to believe by 'officials of the Bruce. County School Board that the proposal to remove students in question from Brookside and transport them to Ripley Huron Central Sehool next year was generally accepted by the parents of the children concerned. • 'However, following the article in last week's paper, two of the parents called the. Sentinel and very definitely stated their opinions which do not correspond with the plans the Bruce Board has for them. • Mrs. Albert Kaastra, who resides on the former Orland Richards farm, 2% miles west of Lucknow on Highway 86, is _ living on the first farm in Huron Township, on the the highway. Her children would be affected if Bruce County Board remove the Brookside students and send them to Ripley. The position Of Mrs. Kaastra is that if the students are removed from Brook- side, why would they send her family to Ripley, 9 miles away, when Lucknow is in the same county system and is 2% miles from her home. This 'seems like a pretty .fair question. Mrs, Kaastra's , next door neighbour to the west, Mrs. Albert Korten, also phoned the Sentinel and expressed the same opinion as her neighbour. Mrs. Korten checked the mileage, to Ripley 9 and to. Lucknow 2%. Both, these parents are' opposed to being transferred to Ripley School but would agree to Lucknow. "Nobody ever talks about Lucknow in this matter despite the fact that we live 21k miles away and it is under the same board" was the comment of Mrs. Kaastra in her discussion with The Sentinel. This whole question points to boundary situations which, in our mind, are as regressive in education as the earliest, one room school. Before county school boards came into existence, this community" to the north in Bruce <County was under Department of Education officials with offices in Walkerton. The community to the south in Huron was under Department of Education offices at Goderich. I When elementary school areas were formed, they were done within the counties concerned with no overlap over the county boundaries and no firm direction from the Department of Education to do so. This' created a situation where public, school students W- ing a few hundred yards from the Luclmow sehool were being transported to Brookside School because, they happen to live on a particular side of an irrelevant boundary line. We had hopes that with the introduction of county school boards, the petty boundary jealousies would disappear in favour of a broad objective approach to the matter of "people" rather than boundaries. This has 'not happened. Huron board are reluctant to' "give up" their 'students at HELP A CRIPPLED CHILD PLEASE, SEND YOUR DONATION „ FOR EASTER SEALS TO-DAY TO BANK OF MONTREAL, LUCKNOW OR McDONAGH'S OFFICE, LUCKNOW . `mormairimummiimmemi,` •••••••••• Brookside. Bruce Board are determined to,follow the "school act", as they interpret it, and take the pupils. What about the' students and parents in this issue? They are the important items. Empire building and dismantling and dollars involved should be of lesser importance. Despise the fact that we have been under county school boards for over 4 years, we are no closer, in our community to intelligent elementary school boundaries than we were before formation. Students living at the south edge of Lucknow and east and west of the village continue to attend school at Brookside be- cause they live in Huron County. As a simple matter of prox- , imity and convenience, these students• would be expected to at- , tend the school closest to them 'in any normal situation. But the archaic county boundary system, and an unwillingness by county boards to give and take across boundary lines, has perpetuated this situation. In Bruce County, the board continue to use township bound- aries in bussing plans. Under a county school board, township boundaries, as they concern pupils, should not exist. By using township and municipal, boundaries, the Bruce board now is 'proposing pupils living 2% miles from Ludmow attend school in Ripley, 9 miles away. Reason — they live in Huron Township. Their next door neighbour to the east sends children to Lucknow School because they live in Kinloss. Parents, living 5 miles from. Teeswater, send their pupils 10 miles to Lucknow, because they live in. Kinloss. , Parents, living 'at the edge of Kincardine, send their children to school in Ripley, about 10 miles away, because they live in Huron Township. We 'hope the clay will come when these ridiculous munic- ipal boundariei will be ignored in school matters and the Huron And Bruce County Boards of Education will sit down and do some serious negotiation on elementary school boundaries in, our community, keeping' in mind what is best for the Pupil and putting aside the matter of "Empire Building" which is so apparent at present.' , ••a••••••••••••••••••••a•o••••••••***•••••4•••• LOOKING BACKWARDS . THROUGH THE SENTINEL • FILES. WITH MARGARET THOMPSON ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••4•••••••••••• THE LUCKNOW SENTINEL, LUCKNOW, ONTARIO The . LUCKi4OW SENTINEL LUCKNOW, ONTARIO "The Sopoy Town" -- On the Huron-Bruce Boundary Second Class Mail. Registration Number 0847 . Established 1873 — Published Each Wednesday Afternoon Member of .9ho C.W.N.A. and 0.W.N.A. SObscription Rate, $6.00.a year in advance — to the U.S.A., $8.00 DOnald C. Thompson, Publisher WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 1973 20 YEARS AGO APRIL 1953 Tom Webster launched his 38th 'year as beef ring butcher, a job he started "as a kid". He had three rings - Dungannon, St. Helens and St. Augustine. Torn Was also treasurer of Dungannon United Church and had, been since 1925. • 40 YEARS AGO APRIL 1933 Templeton & Co. , Lucknow was' advertising; boy's 'blue denim overalls, extra strength $1.15; boy's fancy tweed knee pants for 500; four ply yarn, 2 balls 25,0; and men's Biltmorelats $2.50 up. Week end specials at. R. H. Thompson's Grocery. were: lem- ons 240 doz. ,- oranges 210 doz. , and grapefruit 5 for 250, brooms 2 for 490.' • A-reduction of one cent a loaf on bread became effectiVe and the, local' bakeries and the Dun- gannon bakery were selling bread at six cents a loaf. The opening of a showroom at . the LucknoW Table Company's ,plant, perrnitted convenient dis-' playing of their; products to the general public, who, were free to visit the plant and make purchas- es if they so desired, which were then placed through their local dealers. Allan MadT'avish was awarded