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
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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
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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
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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'