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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1980-01-30, Page 7•', IMPORTANT: NOTICE to oLl URPN C RK .RODUCERS TAKE` NOTICE THAT THE 1980 AIVNUAL MEETING the ,:"HuiCitt County pork :`Producers'. Marketing Hoard will be held • WEDNESDAYi. FEBRUARY 13 DINNER: 12:00 NOON - - MEEtING:1:00‘0.M. SHARP at the • LEGIPN.111ALL,.:CONTC)N:: - for the purpose of the proper •• business of the Annual Meeting; the eleCtion of the County Board of Directors; and the • election of twenty-six (26) councilmen end! • three (3)alternates, fora three year, term, tothe North Area ProdUcers' Council', These elections will take place between 2;00 -and '3:00 Dinner .tickets available from any of the direCtors. With. A New, Paint Job / from Bob Bergman Auto Body Bergman Autry Body 2ND OP KINLOSS;APPROYg. 2 MILES PROM LUCIOTOW Phone S28-5303 HOURS: MOLT.-PR. 8 A.M. - 6P.M. SAT. 8 - 12 NOON Last:week inE,LE. Madill a health 'unit; representatives. from. the Huron •Perth Lung Two compete Art Helm and Glen Porter of 'Lucknow will be among, farm tractor drivers compet- ing , for purses totalling $24,200 in Canada's Only indoor tractor-pull at the Canada Farm Show, Jan. 29 to Feb. 1, at the Coliseum, Exhibition Place, 'Toronto. The tractor-pull events are being held on the show's last two nights, Jim. al and Feb. I, in conjunction with dis- plays of latest farm equip- ment and supplies by neatly 500 exhibitors. Sanctioned by the Cartad, ian Tractor Pullers ,Associa- tion and the Canadian Mini- Tractor Ptillers Xssociation; the events will include ve- hicles ranging from four- wheel drive trucks and mini- tractors to super' stock and modified farm tractors weighing up to 12,200 lbs. Association, came, to take a Blood Carbon -Monoxide Test., This test is to Measure the-2- amount of pollutant (carbon monoxide) present in a person's blood. This test was administered to smokers whoa volunteered for the service.. The test is simple: just take-a deep breath, hold for , 15 seconds, then blow into a plastic bag; This' bag is Take care The mild weather over the pa`lt weeks has caused. a number of fatal snowmobile accidents when snowmobil- ers' broke through thin ice, Four persons died near Sault Ste. Marie two weeks ago and two more ? persons drowned in- the' Kifigstond area. The O.P.P. urges you to' .stay off lakes and rivers until the weather is cold enough to build up a good solid layer of ice. connected to a carbon rnon-_,result.. Though many assume oxide indicator which shows .carbon monoxide is obtained the concentration of carbon from smoking tobacco alone, monoxide in the blood in this is not so. High readings, parts per Million). 'If the can be due to exposure to carbon monoxide level reach , second hand tobacco smoke, ed is less than 7 ppm, the exhaust fumes from motor blood flow is altered. At 20 vehicles, industrial proces- ppm eLttercise tolerance is ses, incineration of waste, reduced and at 20 ppm or inefficient room heating, more vision and hearing are cooking barbecues, and fires: decreased, reaction time is From a group of students slower, and during pregnan- the following results were cy, the fetus IS affected. If found: 37 of them were above the reading is greater than normal, 5 - 18 were abnorm- 100 ppm, headacheS, fatigue al, and 61 were found and even •unconsciousness normal. ' Special for Christians " The Singtime &glaciation of United Churches presents its February TV special, en- titled '`The Burden of the Lord", -Satiirclay, February 9th at 6.30 p.m.,' on CKNX TV, Channel 8, Rea draiit and Grant Pres- ton ccrhost this .program which looks into the sdrip- tures for insight into some of the burdens that people bear, and some that Christ- ians take on because of their faith and committnient to Musk will be provided by Mount Forest United Church `Choir featuring soloists Lil- lian Cohn and Herman Her- ald and by Jim and Fran Feair. s. iiston Bros. (Bothwell Ltd.] PhOne Phone Wardsillle 693-4383 Ontoka 471-3059 Dut*annon 529-7047 Home is'Where the heart is, so the preparations for my departure froM the Hungry Hundred .wore like an overture .to a Symphony I would never hear again, The • could think about was me,. music of nature and the harmony of. My family during , Angus rose shakily to his feet and walked slowly thoSe tender yearsCould not be replayed in .quite the away with the aid 'of, his stick I followed hill). • same way, ,and Angus, of course was the maestro who, “I'vegot'a job lined u§ in the 'City,. It.pays good - in his rough way, waved the baton, over that perlod in' : Won't have any trouble finding a plate to rent." our lives; , . He didn't say anything, until we almost reached the`.',, Under the circunistanceS; there was no choice but tO house, then . he turned and limped .towards the rail Say goOdbye. to the rolling land: I Must free my•old fence; Leaning on .the:rail, 'he lobked•out towards. the ' ;friend ,frorn any obligations and tell him that it was my setting 'suri,, ,I .stood beside him. waiting for him :to --. parting. After all the :sacrifices he had made for rne • "Since yer got yer mindset; I got Sornethin'•ter soy -and. My family, this would bee cruel 'statement, but 1 . . too was just goin' ter .'ave'a.sale, but since. you're.. bad to be cruello be kind: I waited'for the opporttmity ' figurin' on leavin,..I guesi I might just as well sell the • .- t o tackle him and it came'one.evening as he sat On--the ': land', at the sametiMe." Doc Peters.. says I should git lawn watohirid.the children playing.. .Angus may have -myselVtritd.:,-ttat there retirement 'one in Pantown. aPPeared gruff 'and 'Tunfriendly..to .all but his most Sounds ter me tike 0-good idea. I sure as ., '.eii can't stay.. , intimate atquaintances, :yet his attitude to children arounc! 'ere on my oWn." ' ,‘ Was one; 0f quiet, patipnt understanding. .H.e. was : - . 41'now ' all •the..oardS were on the table: •I' hadn't,. , alWays ready to push them on'the,swing beneath:the ,PlaYed my hand..aS wel! as I would haye wished, but . Old ,Ohesthuttree,. repair a toy orniake a skipping rope • Sometimes in the game of:fifer no' matter how hard we and quite often; it was hetoo who dried the tears from. try,- :-we are: ' destined 'to' be losers. There'. was ' little fade8... As I 'approachedshirn, he bent painfully to something tragically final •'about this moment' and .1 ,pick up' a Pall and throw It.backtOthe''kicts., In hiS'IoveLL would have liked to have said that., the iast.thing I of . children, '''he was . perhaPS closer., to God than _Wanted to do was': to leave him.• Angus would not have anybody 1: baVe ever .knoWn: "Por .Of such js ,tha ' appreciated' words of ;sentiment. The innermost Kingdom of •Heaven". ' : • 1 feelings of nis• heart Were never allowed to rise to his . . . . . ... When he saw, me he picked up.a newspaper which lips and he expected other men to keep the soft side of Was lying beside. him on the seat -'..a rough 'plank their Character to theMpelves. • . • ___, ..resting on two lods, IrWas his invitationfOr,me to sit "Well,• I guess we said •it All,"so we 'aVe . 7 there's • down. I asked how- he was feeling.''; ' only one thing left fer a feller ter-do:" He' smiled and "I ain't too - bad: Feeling. better'. anyWays..'" He. it . seemed ;to break the depressibn. • ' gazed ahead and is if talking to. himself .Said: 1?was puzzled. -"What's that?" • "mourseLt ain't_no sPring_chicken .- I...just :about "a917--- :', r-"We'd-better ge-inlbe-kAise an' Levee. drink; so-we' r , the biscuit, so, I 'ave,.,.,...„—,.::-- • ---- „„ad,,'„., ,-:,., , , ...,,,.,...,-;!„ „„,„„,.:,„;„„,,,,;;;,..:3,-,„„y„,,,;,,,, ., ,.., ,.,,.. • i, "I' had lo' pick' the right' "momentto tell. Ang us m y . • , Later that week, when I told .Doc Peters about the decision and I waited until my wife had called the conversation. .•13etwpert Angus and .ine,.. it was hardly with.a feeling of aceornplishment• It, was as;if I had children indoors. The sun was sinking. rapidly" in the ... west and reflecting from • the Metal roof of a farm.: maneuvered Angus' nto a path of no return- the road;. building way off in the distance. It' waS cooler now and which Would . lead him away. fromeverything' his life . soon ' ,it would ' be time for. Angus to go back to the ; had represented. .Underdifferent circumstances I house. m have I took the bull by the has. , . . would' stayed with him On that sweated soil, and • - -1-live decided-to give.up the-n-eW-spaper business," somewhere between the typewriter and the plough I I said, trying to be casual.' "I'm flogging a dead . Would haVe found a real reason for living.. put the ti me r , .. .. . • , , . . • . responsibilities of men overrule their personal desires if this came as -a surpfise;the-face-of-A-q-us-ciid-n ;tHend-embit-ion.S7-Sorrietirnee-trrthe-endlest'-aiTigg re- to.' Show-it . • . : ., . , .., , . survilye,.411 which they held dear-Must Wsacrificed - 'A , "There ain't no way•yer can keep goin'?" : ' this I was to learn frombiter experience. I shook my head. "Things are too tight financially. , I turned my attention to winding up: the Grunt 8,', It takes money to. run a businesS,. even a newspaper.'' , Thunder; My little newspaper was •.-worthless. as--a. Angus looked at, me :intently and I. think I saw. bUsiness and it was, pointless putting _it up for sale. sadness in his eyes, Was he disappointed that, ,after Ironically,. I was visited, one day by an enthUsiastic all the time of being together, it should mean so little . new reader - a little dynamo Of a woman who was'. to me? How could he know that my heart was like' anxious to make my acquaintanee, lead! He.. jerked his head and there was a proud . "I like the spirit of your writing,".She said. "It puts • ' defiant look on his lace. .- , ' . ' • fire into a community. - I, want to be a subscriber!" "You ain't beat yet - I could giya yer some money, "I am afraid you're a little late, madam,'" I ,said so I could, an' yer wife an kids? Where are yer gain , ' rather sarcastically. "1 m fresh out of fuel for the ter go?" fire!" • Some Madill smokers in., trouble. 1- - I had made my decision primarily for Angus, It was • strange, All I could think about was him and all he decision and mine. albrte Which WoUid bring abOut the' Speak, Washed Materials-7Crushed Stone. Cement Gravel • .Crushed Giayel--ROadrContiactors .