HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1980-02-13, Page 6Thus far it has been a snowless
winter. Fer most citizens, that is as it
should be; but for the skiers and the
operators of ski resorts; it has been a
disaster.
An article in a national newspaper
advised that the ski resort.operators in
Ontario ,are banding together to send a
delegation-to--Queen-'s • Park -to seek
financial aid in an attempt to recoup the
money lost due to the lack of snow. They •
will base their Claim on the belief that the,
government comes to the aid of farmers
who lose a ,crop due to the weather, and
claim that in reality, they are snow
farmers.
What these resort operators fail to
realize is that goVernment relief money to
iartriers who lose crops is a rare thing
indeed. If an act Of nature such as a-flood
or tornado wipes out a crop, the farmers
are sometithes reimbursedin the form of
a loan. But the responsibility of a :lost •
crop is one that the fanner, He ,
protects himself thiOugh the purchase of
crop insurance.
These resort operators are business
people. They have a product to sell and a -
profit to be made., But rather than'seek to
have the entire populace of the province
stibsidize their operation, they. should
consider doing what the farmer does; buy
crop insuranee..These people have had
two highly profitable seasons in a row.
Would it not be appropriate to ask them
to invest a portion of their:previous profit
in insurance againSt the time of 'poor
snow conditions? Farmers have been
gambling against the weather since the
dawn of time. NOW, let the' resort
operators learn to cope. with, the 'weather •
as the farmers have -done.
—The Wheatley-Journal
uestions election re
Establishe4 1.873
Published We al, nesdaY.
do, hovvever,bbject to the 'biases which
seem blatently apparent.
A. politically concerned reader,
Sharon Bedford,
Mississauga,
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To the Editor:
ant writing in response to a concern
which I have regarding ,what appears to
be blatent biases on the part of the
writers and/or editor regarding the coy-
, ;erage on the new condidates in your
4antiwy.16** of,th_o_Luckhow: Sentinel.
It is a.generairiUderStanding that 'the
large newspapers cater to a particular
. segment of people and therefore political
information alignes itself to the views of
these people. I am, however, quite
shocked, to find that my home town news-'
paper has given.. specifically the NDP
candidate and this party, a more comm.
'hensive coverage than theConservative.
party hatbeetysivea,..E0Lsorne apparent
reason the . Conservative elected candid
ate was given a low key image and
priority. I looked for information on
Murray Cardiff and found very little
printed information while the' credentials
and experience of Tony'-McQuail were
widely expounded.
Even the ,.headlines "NDP a real'
alternative" as OpPosed to,"Cardiff takes
PC nomination" suggest a certain bias.
My question is why was the Censervative
'candidate : treated with the same
enthusiasm as the NDP candidate?
- personally know neither of the
candidates and anfitot• living in the, area;
thus, cannot be influenced by the head
lines. and .coverage: of your newspaper. I
PM:si„ic scHooL,
LuclNlow, Orir,
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Editor's Note: The seeming preference
for Tony McQuail in the coverage of the
riding's nomination meetings in our
January .16 issue was not a bias lot the
NDP candidate, but an editorial decision
that news of a Lucknow man being
nominated to represent the NDP in the
riding was more local than news that 'a
Brussels _ man had, beep ,_nornittated
represent the ConservatiYes.
We were unable to print the story of
Mr. Cardiff's nomination. en the front
page because space only permitted the
story of a fire and the nomination of a
tucknow man, which were both 1peal
stories. We did howeVer, print ..a picture
of Mr. Cardiff announcing his nomination
in our index on the front page, which
referred the reader to the storpon page 2.
We also printed the speeches, of the
two men froth-the LuckneW area, Barry
Johnston and Tony McQuail, who
tested nominations in the riding; but
space. would not permit us to print the
speecheS of all these who contested
nominations • in the riding
The facts about heart disease
Diseases of the cardiovascular system
cause over SO per cent of the deaths
yearly in Canada. More than 2,600,000
Canadians suffer from some form of
cardiovascular disease and the disease
strikes at one out of every four persons of
adult age.
Cardiocascular disease affects the
heart and blood vessels. It can tend to run
in families, can result from living habits
or can'be caused, by infections or injuries
from before birth through to any stage of
life.
The our major types of cardiovascular
disease are hardening of the arteries,
high blood pressure, rheumatic heart
disease and congenital heart defects.
These diseases can produce such condi-
tions as congestive heart. failure, heart
attack or. stroke. No one is immune by
reason of age, sex, colour. or creed.
• A great deal is being done. in Canada to
combat cardievascular disease. The Can-
adian Heart Foundation Provides the
funds for highly-trained scientists to work
on research projects seeking the answers
to the problems of heart disease and
stroke. They also Offer heart health
education programs to the public, and
make available to the medical profession
and nurses new-knowledge discovered by
research for the benefit of all Canadians.
It's a big undertaking, but a vital one.
The Heart Foundation programs do
work. The following life-Saving achieve-
inents have been pioneered in Canada:
pacemakers to control heart rhythm, -
artery transplants to improve blood •
supply to the heart, heart valve replace-
ment, surgery to correct one of the
defects in "blue babies", hYpothermia, a
• blood clotting technique which has been a
great aid in heart surgery, and finally,
coronary care unitSt which reduce mortal-
ity in people-entering hospital with-heart '-
attacks by 30 per cent or more.
Money is raised by the annual Heart
Fund campaign for research and to
provide these services. Right how in
Canada? 88 cents of the Heart Fund dollar
goes directly into research, education,
and community programs, seven cents
into campaign and just five. cents into
• administration costs. Most of your Heart
dollar goes directly to work to fight heart
disease and stroke.
Progress is being made but there's
more to be accomplished before cardio-
vascular disease is no longer Canada's
most deadly health hazard. February is
Heart month. Give as you can; when your
canvasser calls or send donations to
Ontario Heart Fund, 371 King Street,
London, Ontario, N6B 154.
TOWN 0,4,L1_,
UCKNOW, ONT.
The Lucknow Public School and•the Lucknow Town Hall are pictured in this 1900 post card
which belongs to B111Pace of Kincardine. It was brought to the Sentinel by Pharis Mutters of
Lucknow. The Public School burned in.196 . The old. Town Hall was sold to British.Lion Jack
MacKenzie Who tore down the top stories and the front section' to convert It into a garage.
The garage still stands as the BP service station at the corner of HavelOck and Campbell
Streets. The big doors in the left corner of the building, as it is pictured above were the
doors to the firehall. This side of the, building faces the direction of the bowling alley.
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