HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1980-10-01, Page 6!age 674itleinlow Sentinel, Wednentlay, October 1, 1980
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To Vintom It May. Concern:
Bruce County A.C.L.D. hosts NVork-
shop on Stress. It's generally agreed by
doctors and psychiatrists that never he-
fore in the world's history has life been
subject to so much stress, Major stress
situations for children center • around
school. Discussion groups of smaller
numbers will allow personal interaction
will all speakerS. 'The registration fee of
$15.00 includes coffee and lunch. Pre-
registration is due October 1st. 'For more
information contact:: Mrs. Gwyn Jackson,
Box 989, Kincardine, Ontario, NOG 2G0
or call 396-4178 or 396-3872.
Respectfully submifted,
Joyce VVolfe,
Secretary,
Bruce County A,C.L.D..
Dear Madam;
:My .daughter participated in the Miss
Mid. western Ontario contest on Sept-
ember 20 in your town. Her name IS Lynn
Hamilton and she won the Miss Congett-
ialty and was second runner up,
Would you please' express our sincere
thanks to' those involved of all arrange -
The Bruce Cotinty Chapter for Children
with Learning Disabilities presents, The
FOur Way Stress, a, workshop, Saturday,
October 18 from 9.00 to 4.30 at Huron.
Heights Public School, Kincardine, Ont-
ario. In the morning, lour speakers will
discuss -stress with reference to the
student, the parent, the teacher and the
bee
rite ct letter
to the editor
minis on SaftTrda -d-for math-1g It snch
a nice, day for the girls.
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Thank you,
, •
Mrs. Howard Hamilton,
Listowel, 0ntario, •
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_Herb Culbert, 99, is visiting with relatives and friends in the Lucknow area. Raised at Crewe,
he left Ontario for Saskatchewan in AuguSt, 1901 Where he farmed at Lloithitinister. He, was
the oldest man to attend the Lucknow Fall Fair. He is shown with' his two great great
nephews, Mad Savage, 2, of Kincardine, and Tyler• Brook's, 1'/2,of Lecknow, Tbey are
the children; of Don and Ruth Savage and Janet and Don Brooks. [Sentinel Staff Photo]
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By, Don Campbell
It was a night without sleep,- Above
the low babble of Gaelic voices, babies
cried andtheir mothers tried to shush and
_seethe them. The strange surroimdings
and cramped, uncomfortable beds, to-
gether with the motion of the ship made
rest impossible. People-half oressed were
constantly moving across the steerage
deck and up the stairway, trying to hold
back the sickness of their stomachs until
they could reach the open air and Iceward
side of the ship.
The brig rode into the surging sea, her
timbers creaking and straining. There
seemed to be a constant activity by the
crew and orders shouted and carried on
the wind. A bell on the forecastle
sounded every half hour and sometimes a
whistle and commands which none of the
passengers understood.
"Close up the blue watch!"
Then as the Mavis changed course to
take full advantage of the wind, there
were constant orders from the wheel
deck.
"`Starboard_Tiventy!"
"Aye, aye Sir!"
"Steady as she goes!" -
Neil MacCrimmon and his bed com-
panion, Jimmy Fraser conversed softly to
each other. Jimmy's young wife, Flora,
was in that part of the steerage
accommodation reserved, for the women
and children, and he spoke about being
concerned with her welfare. Flora was
pregnant, about three or more months.
Jimmy spoke proudly of the coming of his
first child, his hopes for the future and
the new life he would find in Nova Scotia.
He told Neil MacCrimmon how he had
worked in the coal mines to save enough
money to find the few guineas for their
sea passage. Many months he had
endured the work, lying on his belly in a
wet, shallow space, sometimes less than
two feet high and loosening the black rock
with a pick.
Flora too had worked, but at the mine
head. She had sorted the coal from the
shale when it reached the surface, until
her hands were scuffed and her finger
nails worn and split. SuCliWas the price of
being poor, but all _that would _cha
Jimmy said, in the new •land!
It was warm on the steerage dea and
_to add further to the diseeinfort,..,the_
Passengers realized. that they were not
the only occupants of their beds. In the
dim light-3g__the_deck lantern Orey -could--
not see the nocturnal creatures who
began to feed on their blood - the fleas
and lice which infested the straw "filled
sacks used as mattresses.
Soon Neil and Jimmy began talking of
other things - the irritating, itching bites
which scratching did not ease. They
decided to escape to the upper deck and
change the underclothes in which they
slept. A seaman of the "graveyard"
watch sympathiZed with their dilemma.
He told them he too was constantly
bothered by the insects.
"Only way is to drown 'em mates -
strip off all yer clothes, and hold 'em
under water!"
The man fetched a couple of canvas
buckets, each fastened to a length of
rope. Lowering their overboard, he
hauled sea' water up to the deck.
"Strip off yer clothes," he told them.
"Don't be bashful - I seen naked bodies
before!"
The air was cool to their flesh and
seemed to relieve some of the itch caused
by the red blotches on their skin. When
they thought they had rid their clothing of
the unwanted guests', they doused them-
selves With sea water and shivered in the
moonlight. They, redressed in their only
change of underwear whilst their bodies
were still damp and stood looking out
across the broad expanse of the Atlantic.
It was whilst they were thus engaged,
that Flora Fraser came to find her
husband. She wes dressed in a long
nightgown with a woolen shawl draped
over her shoulder. Even in the pale light
of the moon, Neil MacCrimmpn told
himself that she was a bonnie lass. Her
hair was long and blew across her face in
the wind. She moved excitedly towards
them.
Most dogs are pets and, their owners
dislike keeping them shut up or tied. But
dogs running at large can be more than a
menace. They can be dangerous.
In a rural community where many dogs
on the farm are permitted to run, the
hazard of dogs running together is a real
threat to livestock and to children playing
in yards. •
Many people flatly refuse to believe their
dog would do anyone harm. He's the
family pet and a help with livestock about
the farm: There's-no reason, they believe,
to keep their dog tied or locked up.
But a pack of dogs viciously attacked the
flocks of Hampshire and Southdown sheep
on the farnis of Hugh and Wayne Todd at
St. Helens last Thursday evening and
Friday morning. Damage is estimated at
about $10,000. The animals destroyed in
the attack were pedigreed stock from one
of the best flocks in Canada. The Todd.
brothers have won Premier reeder Aw-
ards at the Royal Winter Fair in 1977 and
1978:
The loss can only be estimated because
the animals who survived the , original
attack will not deliver their lambs until the
winter months. They may suffer abortions
in the meantime or deliver stillborn lambs.
The West Wawanosh. Township Council
will award $200 per animal to cover the
damages but this will in no way cover the
complete loss.
The Todds followed•the dogs home from
the .,Friday attack. These dogs are not a
pack of wild dogs abandoned to run free
which have banded together to prey on
livestock for food. They are farm dogs,
family pets and- they run together because
their owners are not keeping them under
control on their farms.
It is a serious situation. Sheep are easily
worried. The shepherd cannot run a preg-
nant animal for fear she will lose her lamb.
Some of the animals who died in the attack
died -of sheer fright from a heart attack.
Others suffocated when the flock piled up
in a heap near the barn in an attempt to
escape the attacking dogs.
Fourteen animals died and another 17
were severely injured. It would be a
staggering loss to any flock but especially
to this flock because so many of the sheep
are pedigreed stock. •
The Todds are within their rights to keep
Close watch on their flock and to destroy
any stray dog which comes onto their
property. Dogs will return again and again
if they know the flock is unprotected.
It is the responsibility of every farmer to
keep his dog under, control on his own
farm. A dog should never be allowed to 'run
loose unless supervised or on a leash.
Most dog owners cannot bear to keep
their animals tied or locked up, but any dog
is capable of the destruction done at the
Todd farm last week, no matter how much
of_a pet he isi.or how good he is around the
livestock on his owner's farm. It is time
every dog ovciner realizes the tesptiliSibility
he carries,
Dogs can he dangerous
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