The Lucknow Sentinel, 1976-06-09, Page 1is
To Vote On
One Question
Next Monday
Next Monday, June 14th; reSid-
' gilts of Lucknow will vote on one
liquor question to determine if they
are in favour of the sale of spirits,
beer and wine • under a dining
lounge licence for consumption on
licensed premises . where food is
available.
Voting hours are 9.a.m. to 8 p.m. •
in the Town Hall, Anglican Parish
Hall, Noble Johnston residence and
at PinecrestManor Nursing Home,
depending on the area of the
village in which you live.
An ,advance poll vyill be held this
Saturday, June 12th at the Town ,
Hall from 12 noon to 9 p.m. for
those who will be-absent from the
village on ,the regular voting day.
E. H. Agnew of Lucknow 'is,
returning officer.
Eligible voters must be 18 years
of age and must • have been a
resident of the community for 2
months prior to 'polling day.
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School 170)(,• I.Rogidsitipn Up Sharply
• News from Lucknow Council
indicates the completion Of 'new
sidewalks in front of.the Lucknow
. Medical Centre as well as replace-
- ment of • broken and heaved
portions of sidewalk along Have-
lock Street. The work. was
completed by Askes Brothers of
Lucknow at a cost 'of $1871.
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Lucknow Arena Committee rec-
ently completed the work of
• installing a portion of concrete floor
in the arena at the east end: Work
was completed by Dafoe Metalli-
crete Floor Co. of Stratford at a'
contract price of $3340, .
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161 Entries In
Poster Contest
Winners in a recent poster '
contest for the Craft Festival,
which is taking place 'July 30, and
31st in the Lucknow Arena,
sponsored by the Lucknow Agricul-
tural Society, are as follows.
Grade 5 and 6, 1st, Dale
Gilchrist, Lucknow Public • School;
2nd, Joanne Culbert, Brookside;
3rd, Steve Errington, Brookside.
There were 93 entries in this group.
In'the grade 7 and 8 level, 1st,•
Debra Arnold, 2nd, Kim Cooke,
3rd, Sylke Becker, all from
Brookside Public School. •There
were 68 entries in this division.
Many others were deemed worthy.
To Show Films
On Virgin Islands
The 120th anniversary of South
Kinloss Presbyterian Church . will,
be observed with Sunday services
June 13 at 11 a.m. and 7.30' p.m.,
On Monday, June 14 at 8 p.m.,
Mr, and Mts. Graham 'MacDonald
of London will give a Film
Presentation of the Br. Virgin
Islandi where they did volunteer
work last summer.
Graham is a son of Mr. and Mrs.
F• MacDonald of Lucknow,
formerly of the 4th concession,
Kinloss. Graham graduated from
Lucknow High School and after
teaching for several years became a,
Public school inspector and is now
superintendent of schools for • Middlesex County. Freda, also a
teacher, now does Outstanding
work with Adult Education in the
city of London,
Work is progessing well on the
new Ontario Housing Senior Citiz-
en housing project at the east end
'of town. Village workmen recently
completed the installation of a new
water service on Walter Street to
serve the new building.
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The Lucknow Council recently
engaged . B. M. Ross and Associat
es engineering firm to do a survey
of the. Lucknow River within the
village limits with the idea of
improving future flood -control.
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Lucknow Village interim tax bills
are now in the hands .of village
taxpayers. The 1976 tax rate has
not been struck as yet and the
interim' levy is based on one-half of
the total tax 'rate 'for, 1975.
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The contract for village , grass
Bill Houston of Lucknow 'has
returned home after '6 weeks in
Wingham and District Hospital
following a leg fracture.
E. W. Rice of Lucknow was taken
by ambulance to Wingham Hospit-
al on Thursday morning. He has
been previously hospitalized twice
since the end of March.
Mrs. Neil J. MacKenzie, Luck-
now spent ten days in• Copetown
with her daughter Mrs. George
MacGregor "and Mr. MacGregor.
Sheridan Grad
LOREE GAMMIE
Loree Gammie, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Ross Gamtnie, R. R. 1
Lucknow, successfully Completed a
two-year program in Retail
Management Arts at Sheridan
College in praniptort.
Attending the, graduating exer-
eises, which were .held at Century
Gardens, Brampton,. on Tuesday,
May 25, were Mr.' and Mrs. Ross
Gait and Keith Raymond of
Brussels,
cutting has again been let to Loree
Bros. of Lucknow •at $27 per-time,
up $3 from last year. The figure is
broken down at $5.00 for town hall,
$13.00 ofor the park, $3.00 for the
pump house and $6.00 for the
swimming pool.
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The work of painting parking
strips on the main street is
presently being completed by
-Imperial Pavement Marking 'of
Kitchener.
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The requisition by the County for
the 1976 taxation year is $28,091- as
compared 'to $27;128 in• 1975. The
Bruce • County Board .of Education '
taxation requisition for 1976 is,
$88,789, up sharply .from 'the 1975
requisition of $62,269. These taxes
are collected' by the village and in
turn remitted 'to the county council
and county, school board.
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Mrs. J. W. Joynt of Lucknow has
been a patient for the past month at
Wingham and District Hospital and
on May 28th underwent surgery •for
the amputation of her left leg above
the knee. She had previously been
a resident at Pinecrest. Manor
Nursing Home, Lucknow.
George Webster of Halifax, Nova
Scotia, has been holidaying in
Lucknow fora couple of weeks with
his parents Mr. and Mrs. Harvey
Webster. They spent a weekend
recently in St. Catharines with Mr:
and Mrs. Terry Pym and family.
Mrs. Lou Anderson of R. R. 3
Lucknow returned home on Mon-
day of last week after being
hospitalized fot•almost four weeks
in University Hospital, London and
Wingham Hospital following a hip.
fracture. She is now able to walk
with the aid .of a cane.
Mis. Harold Treleaven visited
recently in Beaver, Pa. with Mr.
and Mrs. Bill Treleaven and family.
and attended the graduatiott of
their daughter Anne, an honours
graduate at Westminster College,
New Wilmington, Pa.
Mrs. Mabel CaMpbell, Lucknow, .
came home. Sunday from Victoria
Hospital, London, where she was
hospitalized for ten days after
undergoing surgery.
Died Suddenly
At Age 51
William Arnold Button passed
away suddenly at his Kinloss
Township. home, just west of
Lucknew, on Tuesday, June 1st,
'He Was 51. ••
The funeral service was held at
MacKenzie Memorial Chapel,
Lucknow on Friday, June 4th...
Interment was in Greenhill
.Cemetery.
Degrees Received
At Convocation
ELIZABETH NEWBOLD
At .a morning, convocation at the
"University of Windsor on Saturday,
May 29, Elizabeth Louise Newbold,
daughter of Mt. and Mrs. George
,
Newbold of Lucknow, received a .
Bachelor of Science in' Nursing
degree from the Faculty of Science
and Mathematics.
At the afternoon convocation
Elizabeth also received a Bachelor
of Arts degree from the Faculty of
Social4Science. •
• Attending the graduation were
Mr. and Mrs. George Newbold, and
David. Newbold of Lucknow 'and.
Joan Marrifield of Kitchener.
Pallbearers' who acted at the
funeral of Gordon Black on
Wednesday, June 2nd were. Dale
Hunter,. John Hamilton; Andy
Anderson, Terry Taylor, Donald
MacDonald, Doug Aitchison.
Flower bearers were Bill Hunter,
Gordon Cayley, George McInnes,
Doug Inglis, Wayne Todd, Hugh
Todd, Wim de • Boer, Kevin
Murray, Kenny Reid, Rod McDon-
agh, Murray Thompson, ' John
Rutherford, Bruce Willits.
Mrs. John Emerson of Lucknow
spent a day recently with her
brother Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Nixon,
• Belfast. Other visitors were Mr.
and Mrs. .Ralph Nixon, Wingham
and, Mr. and. Mrs. Carman Nixon
and farnily of London. ,
Wilbert Robb of Ashfield wen
$25 in the May 27 Wintario draw.
Mr. and Mrs. Tom England of
Cambridge (Galt) spent Friday with
Mr. and Mrs. Jim England.
Mr. and Mrs. Jim England, Mrs.
Join Robinson and Art Ernewein
attended the funeral ' of Mr.
England's sister, Mrs. Eber Willi-
son (Nellie England) in Flint,
Michigan. on Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Chester have
moved from Islington to Brandon,
Manitoba. Bill is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Ken Chester, Lucknow.
A name was omitted in the
obituary write-up in last week'''S
Sentinel for the late Marshall
Gibson. Besides the two sisters
and , four brothers he was also
predeceased by an infant brother
Calvin at Chilliwack, B.C.
DelbertNixon of Stratford, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Nixon, Belfast,.
has passed exams 'in welding and
fitting.
Cancer Campaign..
Up By $200
Over Last Year
The canvass of Lucknow and
District for the Canadian Cancer
Society is now complete.: Total
receipts 'are $2476.60, which is
$200.00 over •last year's total.
Team captains for the canvass
this year were: Ruth Thompson,'
Betty Emberlin, Barbara Sander-
son, Linda Johnston; Catherine
Andrew, Anna Kreutzweiser, Ler-
ine Conley, Mary Lavis, Gayle
Lawry, and Mrs. Frank Mnulden:
Others who canvassed were:
Shirley Brooks, Freda Hutton,
Myrtle Percy, MrS. John Scott.
Mary Eadie, Lorraine' MacPherson,
Wilma Elliott, Wilma Clark, Muriel
MacKenzie, Eva Burt, Harry Lavis,
Marilyn MaCintyre, Ann MacDong-
all, . Murray and June Gilchrist,
Margaret Collyer, Elizabeth Dick-
ie, Margaret Stanley, Barbata
Helm, Bill Schmid; Susan Mc-
Naughton, Isabel Havens, Mrs.
Little, Mildred Loree; Jane Tre-
leaven, Lauralee Cayley, Janet
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Died Saturday
Roy Irwin of Lucknow passed
away at his home on Saturday,
June' 5th. He was 82.
The funeral service was. held on
Monday, June 7 at MacKenzie
Memorial Chapel, Lucknow.
Interment , was in Greenhill
Cemetery.
Variety Concert
Is Lions Eyent
E. H. Gosling' and Associates of
Toronto, an engineering firm
involved when the Lucknow arena
was remodelled several years ago,
was recommended by council 'to the •
arena, board as the firm which
council felt should do an inspection
of the local arena building in view
of the: increased activity 'by the
Ministry ,of Labour in Checking
safety standards of local arenas.
The inspection was made Monday
of this week. While an official
report will be forthcoming, indica-
tions are that the building was
' found to be in excellent condition
as far as structural safety' is
concerned..
Lucknow and District Lions 'Club
are planning .a Variety Concert this
Saturday evening, June 12th in the
Lucknow arena.
• Lucknow Leos and 14 area Lions
Clubs are each providing at least
one number of entertainment.
Entertainment will include:Scottish
dancing,. magicians,• skits, musical
numbers and a male beauty
contest. •
The 'Lions will use the proceeds
for community betterment.-