The Lucknow Sentinel, 1980-03-05, Page 1Five people escaped their burning home
early Friday morning when-it wag completely
'destroyed by fire.
Pat •O'Neil and Valerie 'Little and their
children, LaWrence (Rocky), Cecil and
Juanita Little fled the burning home about 6
a;in. when Mr. O'Neil was awakened by. the
noise of the fire. It is believed the fire started
in the kitchen where a wood stove was
located.
The house is lOcated on highway 21,.south`.
of Kintail in Ashfield Township. The family
went across the road to the hoine of Michael
Dalton where they called firemen.
LuCknow District Firemen answered the
call .at 6:15 a.m. and the two storey frame
4:_-_house was completely`-engulfed wheirt ley
'to-them by_Cliff Livingston, Ashfield. _
An 'appeal for clothing has brought an
_overwhelming response from the
and donations of furniture as well as clothing
:ha-Ye been made.
on roads:
expenditures actually are up, only 6.7 per
cent a total increase. of $219,000. However
the Ministry. „clf: Transportation. and Corn
.munications his reduced' its subsidy by
$33,000 this year, meaning more of the
Money must be raised through the county
In the budget presented• to county council levy.
last ThursdaLit Was---noted—that---proposed -
arrived on the scene. Firemen sprayed water
on a nearby barn to, prevent sparks setting it
,
on fire. - -
The family is staying in a. house on
concession 7 of Ashfield Township,' offered
BY HENRY HESS
Huron County will ;have to come .up,with
an additional $95,000 to spend on roads in
1980, an increase of eight;per cent over last
year.
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Brussels tooted on this play and there really wasn't much Lucknow
goalie, Jonathon Nelson, 20, could do about .1t4 Be was rather tied up
when Brussels bounced the rebound into the net4 Lucknow went on
from their 3 r 1 defeat by Brussels to take the consolation trophy by
defeating Tiverton and Blyth. Lucknow players working to free the
puck are Brad Murray, 11, and Jim Sinnott, [Sentinel Staff Photo]
BY HENRY HESS Although he did• not give any figures, the
doctor said Huron has had a low incidence of
A depot fore rabies serum will be rabies during • the *past few years. He
established at the Witigham • and District credited this partly to luck; but, also to an
Hospital in the near future, Dr, Brian Lynch, effective control program. '
.medical officer of health for Huron County, In his report Dr. Lynch also discusseil
-reported to countyedun-ciflastweek.
In the past the special serum, for use in
the treatment of urgent cases, has been
available only from the Ministry of• Health
Central pharmacy in Toronto.
Wingham will supply the neighbouring
*areas Of Huron, Bruce and Grey Counties and
an additional depot in London will also
supply Huron
haven't suffered toomuch from funding cuts,
The cost of operating the Huron unit is about
$11 - $12 per capita, he reported, and it can
offer valuable services such as immunization
programs at low ' cost.
flirt aithough-Huron-haset-really-felt the--
money squeeze so far, he can foresee a time.
when it will have to adapt some of• its.
servicesto the dollars available, .he added.
In other health related business, council :
appFoved a grant of $5,943.50 toward the
paving of a parking lot at the South Huron
Hospital,, Exeter, as well as an Additional
grant of $23,675.25 for renovations regard-
ing fire safetY• "
briefly-the-future-outlook-for-heulth units in
the province.
The whole package of health services in
Ontario is changing rather rapidly and ,every
hospital and health unit has had to adapt: to.
lower hinding, he noted. Each year the
provincial subsidy has been "a couple -of
points below the cost of doing business",
He said health units are a good investment
. • for theministry. and consequently they
By The Sentinel
hools closed
The Lucknow area had its first real
snowstorm. of the season when snow
squalls anad. drifting snow reduced
visibility to nil last Wednesday.
Brookside Public School and St.
Joseph's Schdol, Kingsbridge were
closed for the • day. .Lucknow, Ripley
and Kinloss students were sent home
in the early . afternoon.
. , Only 6.8 cm .(3 inches)' of , snow fell
but winds gusted to 63 km/h (40 mph)
and drifting and blowing snow reduc-
ed visibility to nil throughout the area.
At press time on. Tuesday another '
storm centre was approaching from'
the midwest, moving northeastward
across the lower Great LakeS.
Between 10 and 20 cm of snovv are
expected adjacent to Lakes Erie and
-Ontario, -while 4o to 8 cmF is expected
in Central Ontario regions. Consider-
able drifting and blowing snow is
expected as the storm centre moves
through the area.
Triple header
Lucknow hockey 'fans can enjoy a
triple header this Saturday when: three
OMBA playoff series come to Luck
now.
The Lucknow Pee Wees will play the
third and deciding game of their series
with Smithville-at4 p.m:The-third-and
deciding game of the Midget series
with. Wainfleet will be played at 6 p.m.
M b-p.m—the-Bantams take-to_the
ice 'for the second game of a best of
three series with Wainfleet. Wainfleet
leads the series one game to none, so
'Lucknow must win Saturday's game to
stay alive. If a third game 'is neces-
sary, it will be played op Stintlay. it
Lucknow at 3.30 p.m.
Woman warden
Mary Dawson of Warkworth is
working 'in a career traditionally
considered to be a man's job. She is
the first • wom in. Canada to be in
charge of a federal prison for men.
She has been running the medium
security Warkworth Penitentiary, 30
miles north of Trenton since last
August. The penitentiary has a popu-
lation of 440 .inmates including 40
lifers.
She says the men have been
generally respectful and courteous
since she became warden.
Mrs. Dawson's husband is chief
keeper in VVarkworth's security divi-
sion and they have a teenage daugh-
ter.
Born in Wingham area, Mrs. Daw-
son grew up on a farin. $he is the
!laughter of Mrs. Rena Fisher of
Wingliam and the late George Fisher,
formerly of Whitechurch. She was
working as an office manager for the
Queen's University Arts and Sciences
Society in Kingston when she met her
husband, Robert.
He worked at Kingston penitenti-
ary, then in 1967" was transfeifed to
the new Warkworth insitution.
Mary applied' and got a jab as
secretary to the warden there, Eight'
years later because She had developed
a keen interest in the work and often -
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