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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1980-06-04, Page 29WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 1980 sentee ownership study The Lucknow School Concert Band has usr eonipleted,a tour to Toronto and Ottawa where they marched, in the Lions Convention parade and took ,seCond • place in their category, brass marching band. A diary of the band's trip was prepared by Lynne Nicolson and is printed here. BY LYNNE MOUS ON As scheduled, about eighty sleepy heads clambered onto two buses, the old blue bird or the new,' ,depending on which one had been assigned 'the previeus night: All involved heaved a big sigh of relief; the first step of the annual tucknow Chncert Band Tour 'had taken. place; all instruments and band members 'had 'been counted, The familiar rural landScape swept by, putting 'the drowsier ones to 'sleep. The ' excited ones, however, didn't or couldn't, sleep a'vvitile, When the end of the Niagara' escarpment was visible and jet planes took the place of birds most' eople were awake to watch the' descent into Toronto; p1400$ :secoo. Italian ,aPcents became evident as some members tried to read the shop signS on our route. From Little Italy we travelled down the picturesque Lakeshore Boulevard. Lake Ontario never looked prettier as the sin sparkled off -the water and flying birds skimmed the. water with their, wings. The Band reached Ontario Place and were ushered into dressing roclinslhat looked like a true-neriorreising-roem-,-inelnding large mirrors with lights surrounding them. Then "stage call"4 and the band marched onto-a revolving. and Played a concert. After the concert a man came backstage to talk: with Mr. ,Cayley and some of the-band Members, Many had: been discouraged by the small crowd but, the man, a former ember of a fife b e lai ed a .b d Scot's accent 'that had h been a warmer day. and. a'busier .one too,' the' Stadinm would have been packed. He 'added, "You were all very good," Leaving Ontario Place we travelled the long road te,Kingston making oneStop to eat suPper and finally arrived at the Highland Motel in Kingston. After, swimming and watching T.V., ,everyone "hit the sack" to get enough sleep, they hoped, for a busy day ahead. We were all awakened by a memberwlso jeopordized his life by singing "Zipsa-Deets Deo-Da" outside Mr. Cayley's and everrann else's window at 7.30 in the morning, May 29th. After a hearty breakfast and a marching practice in the motel parking Members once again boarded the bus and, beaded for Brockville where the band played a. concert, The band left Brockville for the. short purney-to-Ottawar — At 7.0{) p,m. the. band arrived, at Carleton ' University where the members were to spend two nights:' We arrived none to soon; people were starting to get tired ' of singing "99 green bottleS hanging, on the wall" or listening to Dean's "super pickle" jokes. After securing the proper rot= it was back on the bus for a tour of Ottawa, the highlight being a trip down the Ottawa River on a boat. The -view was fantastic. The weather couldn't have been better and the sun was setting over another day, It was up at 7,30 for breakfast the next morning, dovvtistairs at. the, University cafeteria. Many of the members were pleasantly surprised to find they could eat at much as they desired and they did. The Turn to page 2• One 'could not help bit feel the twinge of excitement that one gets when entering the city= No longer were the Blue Birds the only large vehicles en the road, The two-lane highway had secretly grown into a four-lane highway and the smaller members were at the windows waving frantically at passing truck drivers, waving their arms, signalling the driver to beep his horn and giggling with delight if thetruek--driverstacknowledged them. The members knew they Were definitely in Toronto when someone noticed the big yellow M that meant McDonald s.. No- body Can do'it, like the .tueknow Band", someone quipped. , In the centre of Toronto's residential section the band stopped at its first destina- fion, C. E. Webster Public School. The band • was warmly welcomed by an enthusiastic group of pupils and teachers. They,: the pupils,: were sad to see tiS leave and climbed the school yard fences to get a last glimpse of the hoses as we drove out of sight,,' Next stop, was Ontario Place, but. to get there we had to drive through various parts of Torontb, Little Italy for one, Notable The Canadian Community News- papers Asseciaiion announced the winners of its 1980 Better Newspaper Competition this week and the tuck 'a - „ now. Sentinel received first for Best .iieatere Photo in ifs,ClaSS:Tlic coiiitTe= titioh is open to: aSsidiation members newspapers across Canada. The—avvarch-was' reeeived for—a picture taken by the Sentinel's editor ; Sharon Dietz, at last year's LticknoW Tractor Pull july;The aerards will' be presented at the 1980 CCNA Convention in Edmonton August 13 - 16. Huron Countyfederation, of agriculture thein berS expressed' their concerns about • foreign, absentee: Ownership of farmland in ' Ituron. County -in response to a study: Completed by the. University' of GUelph • at: l was their :meeting 'f 5. The study which prepared by -the university's':"Rural. Devel- opment Outreach,Project indicates that non-local Ontario residents own font times the amount of land owned`by foreign absentee owners in the county: The two -professors who completed the study warned that non-local Ontario ownership can create the same inipact on' the community as f,ar-eign-ab-sentee-owner and-suggested ._ that- any fulther study of foreign absentee ownership in the county include a consid- eration 'of non-local Ontario ownership as' well; • Professor George Brinkman, a professor in agricultural economics 'at the University of Guelph who worked on the first phase Of, the study told the federation members that to concentrate a further- study ' on foreign owners would be missing the. greatest impact; .because. rien4ocal Ontario owners are far ' more widespread: 'He said the overall pattern on a map 'showing ',foreign absentee 'ownership is a shotgun effect. Pederation member Adrian Vo,s raised the possibility that the sons of. today's farmers may end up farming in, a feudal sYstem •if land is continually purchased by absentee land- -owners. He said immigrant farmers who came to Canada to farm, left a feudal system in Europe and Vos questions whether we: are returning_to_it in this. province. ''Young farmers are able to lease the land (today') 'but will their children live as para- sites in the towns as they do today in Latin America?" asked Vos. One farmer asked if these large blocks of land, now owned by absentee owners, will ever be separated into smaller farm units to be sold'. He said his children could never buy the large block of land but might be able to afford to buy a farm unit, if, it, came on the market. Tony VIcQuail, president of the West • Wawanoslifederation of, agriculture, said, he wonders what are the implications of these large.blocks of land. What is the oppcirtunity to buy it? How will farmers in the community compete with it? Is it leading to something like a feudal system? We have- a diverse- family style -of farming in Huron and we want to maintain it," he observed. Professor Julius Mage„who_workedon_the._ Guelph study with Prof. Brinkman, pointed out that the large blocks of land will be identified in phase 'two of the study. Questions they will try' to answer in the, next phase' of the study include what 'is the length of the lease arrangement between Turn to page 2• A refugee family originally from Saigon: Vietnam arrived in White- church, May 4 after spending close to a year in a refugee camp in Thailand. Can 13a tuu and his wife Hao Dai Luu, their five children and Mrs. Luu's mother, Huu Vien are being sponsored -by the Lticknow Christian Reformed Church and the South Kinloss Presbyterian Church. Mr. tuu had taken English lessons while the family was living in the Thailand camp and this makes it possible to have some personal coin- municatiori with the family. The family is presently learning English from Mrs. Bell In Whitechurch who volun- teered to teach them. - Mr. Lint was a merchant in Saigon but following the communist take= over, he was forced to work in a plasticS factory. He has also worked as a tailor and is 'anxious to support his family. He welcomes all job oppor- tunities.. The churches have formed a refugee committee to assist the Lim family and ""the coinnfitteelfic Thides Plefik Brink, Len Bakelaar;Henrica Jurjens,, Cathy" • Lubbers, Hennie Hilyerda, ReV. Wil- Ham Munshaw and Harry LaVis. Another refugee family has arrived in this area. Sponsored by the Lucknow Christian Reformed Church and the South Xinloss Presbyterian Church, eight members of the Luu family arrived.in Whitechurch 'on May 4. Prom the left, the family, includes, a daughter, Binh Le, 10; mother Hao Dal Lutx; a son, Thuyen 5hien, 5 on his mother's lap; father, Can Ba Luta; -a daughter, Quan Nyen, 7 sitting on her father's knee; grandmother, Butt Vim, a son, Luasii Thlen, Band A son, Van Thien, 9. [Sentinel Stirft Photo'