HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1985-06-19, Page 3't
Lucknow
Loigtimeguide receives Certificate of Merit
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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...
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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.
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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
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