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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1981-06-24, Page 12i • 4 \ • • t'• „. Page 1 unholy sow** ivethoidivt sone 24, 1 • 1 • t timers ire IPIO•c$41ed br ligtr Trott,' (IMO* Rd Pm,. Om P430'2 7 This country is called Canada. Not Canadar. We live — or try to live within the law. Not the lawr. Those are just a couple of examples of what irritates me about some Britiahers who come to this country and corrupt the language. Easy now. Don't get all steamed up and write me a dozen snarky letters. I am still proud of my British ancestry. My mother was born in Yorkshire. My maternal grandfather had some Welsh blood in him. My paternal grandparents came from Scotland and Ireland. I'm British which includes all of the four • founding British nations. But when an announcer on either television or radio adds that extra "r" to words which end with a vowel sound, X get irritated. Canadians can corruptthe mother torigne enough without any more help. ,b ',suggested this to an English friend of mine the other day and he bristled like i badger. He said Canadians can't speak the language properly and we should admire those who can. He is probably right but I still live in Canada, not Canadar. Being brouglt up in a background such as intim, 1 have some understanding of why the American colonies wanted independence. It was the pig-headedness of George III that• drove them to it. • ' Which brings me to the main topic of this column: nuclear energy. I have been a proponent of nuclear hydro power in Canada for a decade. I believe it to be a sensible way to solve many energy problems. - This statement, too, will bring a flood of letters calling me everything but a sensible man. However, I stand by the statement. A British physicist, Lord Bowden, recently wrote a letter to the Times of London in which he said that electricity in Britahi went up by 30 per cent last year and will likely rise another 14 per cent this year. The British propose to build two advanced gas-cooled reactors which they have been working on for 20 years but which no one else will buy. They will cost • 1,000 -million pounds each and, says Lord 'Bowden, "we hope they will work better than the last lot." The nuclear industries of the world, says the Lord, publish tables to show what the world's great power plants are doing. Last year, the best was Canadian, the second-best was German, the next half-dozen were Canadian and the next was American. The best from Britian was rated 92nd on the list. The Central. Electricity Generating Board in Britain sold power at 2.14 pence per kilowatt-hour. But in Ontario, the Pickering power plant generated power for Ma English pencoper kilowatt-hour. • Canadian nuclear power, said Lord Bowden, is the cheapest in the world and for a decade or more, their power stations have been the most reliable in the world. Why can't we collaborate with the ,Canadians and use the best design in the word? Why must we be so perverse? asks Lord Bowden. It is probably the same reason the American colonies revolted. It is probably the same reason my grandfather thought that everything done "over 'ome" was done a heck of a lot better than anything 'ever done in this country. He pooh-poohed anything and everything that was Canadian yet ' he lived here from the time he was 25 until he died at 88. He ..• wentover 'ome"two or g his Iife but he always came back, even when he had enough time and money to stay over 'ome.. The Irishinen on the ottier side of the familY, loved their homeland bit they did not dream of going back. They took a more realistic view. They did not want to go back and starve. • It was a sentiinental attachment for` them, not real or at- tainable. The next tinie I hear banana pronounced bananar, I'm going to throw up. When I hear Canada prounouced Canadar, I feel•Wie telling the speaker to take his bowling balls and go back over 'ome. ritical shortage... sham pagge ready to -take a bed the same day it becomes available, the board was told. Lorna Stuart, president of the hospital auxiliary, called it "a Crime" that people don't have an opportunity to choose which home they would prefer. However Dr. McKim noted that in most cases it is the family's own fault • Families abuse the hospital because they can't come to grips with the fact that father or mother needs a nursing home, he said. Instead of starting to look for a home in good 4 time, they wait until the need for nursing care is serious and then bring the person to the h�spital... - There is a choice if families, Start looking soon enough, he said. Asked whether families are ever asked to accept vacancies in nursing homes fiirther Dr. McKim said no. While they are expected to accept a vacancy in Wingham, Lucknow or Brussels, a family would not be pressed to remove a patient from hospital to a nursing home in Exeter, for example, • where it might be difficult to visit. OPINING IMURSDAY1, JUNE 111111 • ERR1ES . . . 4* TO CARLOW • CHURCH Pick Your Strawberries AT NMILLER ACRES Open 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday ifo Saturday SENMILLER IP STORE 11/2 WEATHER PIIMIflNG MILES NORTH OF BENMILLER THEN vl MILE EAST 4 Bring Your • , own Contointirs , ......, . . It • .• By Lillian Young 1.4r. and Mrs. Don Wall, Krista, Karah and Jason, and Karen and Liane Young spent Saturday at Wonder- land near Toronto. Mrs: Lucy Miller recently -held a successful Stanley party with about 20 ladies present Mrs. Martin was demonstrator and u c was served, • afterwards by the hostess. Mr. and Mrs. Russell Young spent last .weekend, June 14, at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Art Ferguson of Newmarket. • Mrs. Clifford Young spent the same weekend with her son, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Young and faMily, of Thorn- hill and attended the annual church and Sunday School picnic of Knox Presbyterian Church in Toronto. It was held on Toronto Island and about 200 people attended. Mr. and. Mrs. Moir and family of, near Barrie visited last Sunday with Mr. and . Mrs. Jim Young and family. On Saturday evening, 13, Mr. afldMrs.Bob, Bregman attended the 25th wedding anniversary of their couSin, Mr. and Mrs. Van- nema of Waterdown. Mrs. •Clifford yelling re- ceived word of the death of her aunt, Mrs. Lily Bond of Norwich,' England: Her hus- band; Harry Bond, • prede- .0.140,d ceased her .seven years ago. Mr. and Mrs. Bond lived in Canada for a number of years when rot married and their son, Tom, was born in Canada. They lived several years at Holyrood while in Canada. Mr. VVilliam Pinnell of Co- bourg has become a resident of the Brucelea Nursing Home in Walkerton. He has friends and relatives around • these parts and he hopes • they will visit him there when • possible. • Lucknow grade 8 held their graduation night last Wed- nesday evening, A delicious dinner was served to grade 8 • scholars and their parents • after Which the graduates were presented with their diplomas. We would like to congratulate all of the gradu- ates and wish them a suc- cessful future as they con- tinue their education. Liane • Young, Dawn. Nicolson and Chad Mann of this district, were among the graduates. Kelly Coughlin, who moved • fromthis district a short time • ago, also received her dip - • Mr. and Mrs; Len Cough- lin and Karey visited Friday evening with Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Young. Sunday was Sacrament Sunday at Whitechurch Pres- byterian Church. 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