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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1985-06-19, Page 3't Lucknow Loigtimeguide receives Certificate of Merit from page 1 history of the Girl Guides in honour of the 75th year of guiding in Canada. Also making a presentation to Mrs. Thompson was Sylvia Brady of Goderich, who Will be taking over Beaver Division. She presented her with a large cookie in the shape of a wedge of cheese to signify the fund raising project of selling cheese to finance the ,building of McKim House, a building foBrownies, located at Camp Keewayden, near Amberley. In addition, she was given a stuffed , beaver . named "Beverley Beaver", wearing a Guide tie and enrollment pin. , Tawny Owl Mrs. Thompson has held many and varied .positions within the Girl Guides. Since 1955, she has served as Tawny Owl or a Brownie Leader, a lieutenant, District Badge Secretary, a Captain and a District Secretary. From 1976 to 1980, she held the position ° of District Commissioner of Maitee District which includes Lucknow, Teeswater, Ripley and Holyrood units of the Girl. Guides. This year she will step down from her position as Division Commissioner of Beaver Division which she has held for five years. Beaver Division has 1,100 members from Brownies, Guides, Pathfinders, Rangers, Cadets, Junior leaders and Guide leaders. The division includes units from Clinton, Goderich, Bayfield, Hanover,. Ayton, Palmerston, Harriston and Walker- ton. She says she has relished working with the other members . of the division, the leaders and the girls in the five years she has been the Division Commissioner. Her duties in the division were to pass on information from the Ontario and National Girl Guides organization down to the individual group leaders. She was also responsible for sittingon the Mapleway area Girl Guide Council. "I enjoyed it. It has been good. When you see the girls and how much they enjoy guiding, it makes you feel, like your work is SPECIAL worthwhile.. I worked more with the leaders than the girls.- I get a great deal of enjoyment out of helping them so they can help the girls. If I can pass on information to them, it helps them work better with the girls," she said. Camping Trips Mrs. Thompson started in Guides when her family moved to Lucknow in 1946. Before graduating from high school she became a Brownie leader in Lucknow and remained leader even while attending teachers' college. She says her .favourite aspect of being in the Guides was going on camping trips, but she admits she doesn't go. camping too often now. One of the biggest reasons she stayed active within the guides was her former Guide leader. and founder of the Guides in. Lucknow, Mrs. A. E. (Fh7abeth). McKim. Mrs. Thompson said she was responsible for giving her the opportunity to go on an across Canada excursion with the guides and for giving her the Gold Cord for Guiding excellence. Mrs. Thompson was the first in.Lucknow to receive the award. Mrs. McKim started guiding in Lucknow and held it together. If there wasn't a guide - leader she would step in. She .was my inspiration," she said. Betty Clay Mrs. ,Thompson said one of her biggest accomplishments while Division Commis- sioner was helping arrange the Honorable Betty Clay's visit to Clinton on May 15. Through . talks with . the provincial Girl Guides organization, they arranged an evening for Mrs. Clay to visit Clinton in Mapleway district. She said her visit was a great occasion for guides in the area to gain an appreciation for the history of the Guides and get first hand information about the founding family of Girl Guides, The Baden Powells, she said. Her love for guiding apparently rubbed off on her three daughters as they have all participated in Guides and all earned their Board refuses to hear union... from page 1 same offer the union had already turned down. "You don't come back to mediation and offer what they have turned down. It's wrong. She said she would like to see more . board members take a viable part in negotiations. Snobelen said he would much rather have the secretaries on the job and he does not want the strike to drag on over the summer months. Ile admitted the board is saving money on the secretaries' salaries while they are on strike, but he said there's work not getting done. Supply teachers are covering in principal's classrooms in some school to permit principals to man " the offices but the cost of supply teachers does .not alarm Snobelen. He said a secretary makes about $72 a day plus benefits and supply teacher wages are similar at about $98 per day. Five answering machines have been requested by principals in county schools to take messages. "Politically this is a no win situation," said Snobelen, "The public is very divided (on the issue)." But he is. surprised there isn't more int erest indicated in the strike. When he was reeve of Huron Township. Snobelen said a controversial issue warranted a dozen phone calls a night. The average number of calls he has been receiving during the strike is less than one per day, he said. The union Local has placed large adver- tisements in county newspapers with the bold face heading reading "A living wage, that's not a lot to ask for". The. adver- tisement continues to read a living wage is all the school secretaries and clericals want but the board refuses to pay them fairly. The board is paying the clerical staff and secretaries 26 per cent less than school secretaries and clerical workers in nearby areas and less • than almost any other worker in Bruce County schools. The ad continues that some of the secretaries and clerical staff are living close to the poverty line. The union advertising said some of the board members say they're proud hof the board's record of paying secretaries and clericals an average of $12,500 a year. Many make much less. The ads urge the public to tell their school trustees wage discrimination is nothing to be proud of. It also urges the public to tell their trustees that it is not the kind of example they should be setting for the children of the county. The advertisement ends by urging the reader to call the board chairman and tell him the public wants the school secretaries to be paid a living wage. Fire destroys two. cottages A fire which occurred early Friday morning completely destroyed two cottag- es in the Kintail area owned by Floyd Stanley of Ripley and Mark Raithby of Goderich, according to Lucknow Fire Chief, Bud Hamilton. The Lucknow Fire Department was called at approximately 4 a.m. Friday morning. When they arrived the first cottage, owned by Mr. Stanley, was completely destroyed and the other cottage was almost gone, said Mr: Hamilton. He said the department concentrated its efforts on saving other cottages in the area. No one was in the cottages at the time of the fire. The cause of the fire in unknown with estimated damages to the cottages set at $100,000, said Mr. Hamilton. Sentinel, Wednesday, June 19, 1985—Page 3 Canada Cords. Her eldest daughter Susan went on an international camp in 1977 and took part in an exchange trip with a girl from England. She still continues to write to her and the Thompson's paid her family a visit while on a trip to England. Another daughter, Donalda, went on a guide trip to England, Switzerland and Germany while she was with the organization. "I've encouraged them, but I don't think they needed it because they enjoyed it so much." "I get satisfaction out of it because the girls have been able to go on these trips. Because they've had this opportunity, it's a form of repayment for my work," she said. Guide Store ' Mrs. Thompson says she will continue to be busy within the guides with tier duties as the chairperson of the board of directors of the Mapleway area Girl Guide Shop which, opened last March in Hanover. The store stocks all badges and uniforms needed by the guides in this area, as well as carrying camping equipment. The store is run by a• volunteer store manager and 50 volunteer clerks. "My biggest job now is the store. ,Now, I've got more time to put into it. I'll be making a trip to Hanover every two weeks to look after the business end of it, she said. HUTTON BRICK HOME 13 miles from Goderich off highway 21, 3 bedroom, living mom, dining room kitchen with good custom cupboards, steel attached garage, insu- lated; 11/2 acres, fruit trees and •vines, asking $32,500. FIRST TIME OFFERED, 3 bedroom brick bungalow,in a choice location in Lucknow. 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BUD HAMILTON LUCKNOW 528-3006 ANNUAL MEETING Wingham and District Hospital Corporation Notice Is herebyy given that the Annual Meeting of the Wingham and District Hospital Corporation will be held In the Auditorium of the Wingham Public School, 131 John Street East, Wingham, Ontario, on Thursday, June 20, 1985 it the hour of eight o'clock p.m. for the reception and consideration of Annuli Reports, for the consideration and confirmation of changes to Bylaws 1 [I] (J); 2 [a] [d]; 3 [b]; 4 la] [b] [c] [di (e]; 10 [tn] [vi] [v111, [q] (I] [1I] [Iii]; 12 [1]; 13 [a] [b]; 15 [d1; 22 lel [f] [gl; 38[cj [1]; for the election of Governors, for the appointment of Auditors, and for the transaction of such other things as may properly come before the meeting. Copies of the proposed Bylaw changes may be examined In the office of the Executive Director of the Wingham and District Hospital prior to three o'clock p.m., Thursday, June 20, 1985. Memberships granting voting privileges may be purchased at the front desk of the hospital for one dollar [51.001 prior to five o'clock p.m., Wednesday, June 5, 1985. No membership sold after that time, on that date, will entitle the ;purchaser toe vote. Dated at Wingham, Ontario, this fifteenth day of May, 1986. By order of the Board of Governors. N. M. Hayes SECRETARY 5n .