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HOCKEY
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and Sunday
In The
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BURNER SERVICE
TRUCKS EQUIPPED
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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'
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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,.
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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
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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.' ,
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LOOKING BACKWARDS .
THROUGH THE SENTINEL • FILES.
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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.
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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.
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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.'
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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