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The Lucknow Sentinel, 1974-05-22, Page 19MAN ANI TREES MEAN SO MUCH TO EACH OTHER THINK ABOUT IT THE LUCK,NOW SENTINEL, LUCKNOW, ONTARIO SPAY, MAY 42nd, 19.14 PAGE NINETEEN THE QUIET -REVOLUTION $ PETTER SHOES PHONE 5284011 LORNE REID — SHOE REPAIR NORMALIZATION OSED MONDAY NEW OFFICERS NTINUED FROM PAGE 1 y indicated that the Craft I planned to divorce itself fly association with the Rural Society. At thiS g, Mr. Brooks declared sympathetic to the ac - f the Craft Festival Corn- and it was after this that ectors voted to ask for. his don. They did not feel `s leadership as president 4gricultural Society was ent with his stand on this ooks has stated that he e directors for a written or their action, and this presented to him. d not resign as president ring and the directors took essary legal steps to force gnation. t Thursday's general meet- eLucknow Agricultural it Was explained by y.Ross Eirington that over. 'bers of the LucknoW Agri— !Society had petitioned fs special meeting be that it had been led for the required two ethat every member had written notice .• fibers of area municipal - Is were also invited to the meeting for their in- fo% Murray, Reeve of Kinloss was nominated as • Ian of the meeting on mo - ':Bob Gilchrist and Vernon. Mr. Murray explained was attending the meet- etly as an observer and take no sides on the matter. ithat everyone would be chance to speak. He re- low hest ever... OPEN THURSDAY quested that the meeting be kept Orderly. The Lucknow Agricultural Soc= iety does not have its own consti- tution and set'of by-laws and, as such, has been operating on prov- incial regulations,set out, for such organizations. The'petition pres- ented indicated a desire to form- ulate a local constitution and set of by-laws which would be pres- ented to the next annual meeting for approval. A motion by George Kennedy and Don Cameron empowered the local board to set up a constitu- tion and set of by-laws to be rati- fied at the next annual meeting. Ross Eirington read the minutes of the last meeting and the letter from the Craft Festival Commit- tee to Lucknow Agricultural Society indicating intentions to separate from the Society: 'The' Sentinel printed details of this letter in the report of-the last meeting. • The secretary also read a law- yer's letter from Chester C. Mis- end , Stratford, acting for a' maj- ority of the directors, of the Luck- now Agricultural Society.. It was written to D. J. Murphy of Goderich, lawyer acting on the behalf of the Lucknow Craft Fest- ival Committee, and in reply to the letter advising of the Craft Festival's separation from the Agricultural Society. Mr. Misener 'disputed the sug- gestion that the Lucknow. Surnmet Craft Festival was an autonomous association and referred to the fact that in 1971 the Lucknow Ag- ricultural Society was approached and was requested to sponsor the Festival. The Agricultural Society agreed to do so and the letter stated that $350 was advanc- ed by the society for that purpose. The letter lthted that , while there might be some question as to just who ran the Lucknow Surnr mer Craft Festival in 1971, there would appear to be no doubt what- soever as to who ran it in 1972 and 1973. In both of these last men- tioned years, .the Festival was organized entirely by a committee of the Lucknow Agricultural Soc- iety whose secretary-treasurer kept the records of receipts, ex- penditures, relating to the event. Mr. Misener stated that Craft Festival was merely a name assign• ed to a Craft Show conducted en- tirely by the Lucknow Agricultural Society or a committee thereof. The funds derived in 1972 and 1973 were the property of the Lucknow Agricultural Soteity and the letter stated that Mr. Murphy was quite wrong in the statement that the transfer of monies from one account to another was in any. way illegal. The letter further states that Mr. and Mrs. Oliver McCharles were named conveners of the 1974 Festival at a meeting''of the Luck- now Agricultural Society in Oct- ober of 1973 and that anything done, 'by them up until receipt of the lawyer's letter ought to have been done on behalf of the Agricultural Society.. The letter stated 'the intention of the-Agricul- rual'Society to operate the 1974 . Craft Festival,and Ordered all Festival books arid records and Money to be returned to the Agri-, cultural Society from the date of its inception up, to. April 3, 1974. Following the reading of Cor- respondence , Omar Brooks, pres- ident of the Lucknow Agricultural SoCiety announced that he Would resign from his position as presid- ent and that his wife, Mrs. DOra Brooks, would resign as president of the ladies' division. Omar re- ferred to his 13 years in office for the 'Society and thanked all. who had worked with him in this time. He stated that he believed that all reference to-the Craft' Festival was out of order at this meeting as' no reference 'to it had 'been Made in 'the, notice' of the meeting. The secretary agreed with Mr. Brooks on this point, howeVer he said it was unavoidable that refer-, ence.was made to the 'Festival in the correspondence read.. The attitude of the president about The Craft Festival was the reason he was asked for his resignation, so in This way it had a bearing on the ,meeting. Mr. Brooks said that is was with some deal of satisfaction .that he is leaving the Society. He stated that the Lucknow Agricultural Soc • iety was never in better shape fin- ancially.and. that the bank bal- ance'was about $11,000. Mr. Brooks was asked if he, would. present his resignation in writing to the meeting. He stated that he would mail it to the sec- retary following the meeting. Directors of the Lucknow Agri- cultural Society then began to submit their Tesignations in writ- ing at the meeting. They were ,gussel Irvin, Vernon Hunter , Steer, Glen Walden, Blalie,A1- ton, Herb Wilkins, Bob Struthers, Frank Alton, ,DOn Cameron.' • Omar Brooks had indicated he would send his by mail. The other two directors of the twelve member board , Russel Rit- chie and Charles Webster, were 'not present. The constitution states• that if ,more than 5 of the board resign, the executive will not constitute a quorum and the board will cease to function. The following motion was put by George Kennedy and Mrs. Bob Struthers, "That Board of Directors and all offices and committees of the Lucknow Agricultural Society,' as of May 16 , 1974, be dissolved and declared vacant". . • Bob Gilchrist , • a past president, suggested that the feeling of the meeting should be sought in wheth er or not the Society should con- tinue. A large showing of hands favoured the continuance of the organization. Nominations were opened for • 12 directors for the new board. Nominated were Glen Walden, Vernon Hunter, Russel Irvin., Frank Alton, Blake AltOn, Don. Cameron, Herb Wilkins, Bob Gil- christ, Bob Struthers, Charlie Webster, Omar Brooks, Philip Steer, Russ Ritchie, Austin Martin, Don Bell, Warren Zinn, Allan Miller , William. Irvin, Evan Keith, Ross Errington. Ken Alton. The following agreed'to stand: Glen Walden, Vernon Hunter , Russel. Irvin, Frank Alton, Herb Wilkins, Bob Gilchrist , Bob . • Struthers, Philip Steer, AuStin Martin, Ross ErringtOn, Blake Al- ton. . As there was gill one vacancy on the board, nominations were re-opened with Don Bell and Bill Andiew being nominated. Don Bell .agreed to serve. Russel Irvin thanked the Reeves and Councillors for attending and George s Kennedy thanked ,,Leo Murray for' chairing the meeting. Following the general meeting, the 12 new directors met and elect ed their executive. Glen Wal- den is the new presided; Russel Irvi.n, 1st vice president and Frank Alton, 2nd vice. Ross and Elaine Errington were named sec- retary-treasurer. The election was conducted by Andrew Gaunt, a past president of the society... A directors Meeting was .set for Thursday of this week to revise the: Fall Fair priZe list. The board of directors elected Women to head the ladies' divi- sion of the Fair. Mrs. Bob Struth- ers was named president and Mrs. Bob Gilchrist, 1st vice. Mrs. Ross Eirington was named as secretary. Evan Keith and Alex MacNay were appointed auditors. A motion was passed to con- , time to operate the Stimmer Craft Festival in 1974. A motion• was passed that the Boalg of Directors of the Lucknow Agricultural Society assume full responsibility for the Lucknow Summer Craft Festival. The. former legal committee of directors was re-appointed to act as such on- the new board: . The word may not mean much to you. You may not even find it in your dictionary. But for more than two million Canadians, or one-tenth our populaion, the word, is becoming increasingly im- portant. , The Canadians in question are the approximately 640,000 men- tally retarded citizens and their parents and families'. For them, normalization brings almost rev olutionary hope and new expecta- tions. Normalization, simply put, means letting the mentally retarded person obtain an exist- ence as close to the normal as pos- sible. It, means, for example , that the mentally retarded person be given the chance to do things we've long denied him, because our expectations of• him were so low. It' means We must free hirii to live in, more, normal settings. Sleeping in wards of fifty or more, taking every meal in huge cafe- terias, or bathing in mass showets will never produce normal behav- iour.. So we must change that. • It, means 'we' must free him to move and communicate in ways, typical for his age, to use typic- al community resources, be they' recreational, religious, Medical., social or whatever. Being isolated in remote, institutions or hospitals where one is labelledp a patient or inmate, and where one cannot mix with other community resid- ents or enjoy community amenit- ies, is hardly conducive to normal behaviour. So we 'must change r that. No one summed up the nation's obligation and opportunity better than did the late Georges P. Van- ier, then Governor General of Canada, in his plea for a rightful place in Our society for the men- tally retarded. Here is what he said: "I throw out this challenge to all those who believe in the value of the human being. There are hundreds of thousands of inadequately cared-for persons who need youF scientific know- ledge, who have need for your heart, your affection and your love. They have already been waiting too long." her Canada Deposit anCe Corporati on T COMPANY SINCE 1.889 I ER J.(DAVE) CROSS We Still Have Them! OLYMPIC LOTTERY TICKETS For July 16 Draw $10 After being sold out and refusing a number of sales last week, we have managed to' 'secure a further small supply of tickets. If you want a ticket for this draw, don't delay. LUCKNOW SENTINEL Ammemzemommenr.