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Home My WebLink AboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1981-11-04, Page 3l nclmon Sentinel, Wednesday, November 4, 1951. --Ps ,. 2 With folk music'regaining some of its enormous popu- larity of opu-larity'of 'the 1960's and early 1970's, with , groups like Peter, Paul and Maly reunit ing:•for sold out concerts. and television, sPe rials, one of the folk groups that never really: went away will bring its act to • Blyth Memorial Hall on • ,Sunday, November 15 `at 2 :Pm.. eTryellrs~''h � •1m., formed ,all over Canada and around the ,world‘ entertain- ' g -Canadian troops in ` the . Middles East, performing for the Emnperior ofJapan,_'tour ing the Soviet Union as part of a cultural exchange, ap- pearing at the London Palad- ium during a tour of Britain. The Travellers have recorded 14 albums, appeared , on e and:` television with stag.;,..Q such stars as Anne Murray, Gordon Lightfoot, .Judy Col- lins, -Joni Mitchell and 'he Rovers and made several tel- evisi*specials of their own including one recently com- pleted for CBC • Television. It was back in the ' early 1950s that Jerry Gray fell der the influence of the legendary Pete Seeger and a page 1 by the fire and:: to consider the costs rebuilding the plant. Pine River Cheese Cooperative employs 12 people and the plant.had been manufac- turing some 7,000 to 8,000 pounds of cheese Per day A well-known landmark in this area, Pine Rivercheese has been made at the location since 1885. House -Ie No one was injured in a house fire Wednesday night, October 28 when Luck needs'pktyers a they formed a friendship -that lasted many years._ Jerry formed the Travellers and with other: members of the group ,,rewrote, rewrote, in. 1955, the ..: ,words of\the Woodie Guthrie classic "This 'I and is Your Land" to . apply to Canada. The song became so familiar 'to Canadians over 'the " next few:. e that when> Teter, Y m's:th Paul ,and Mary recorded,, the • original, American version, manyCanadians thought they they we&e stealing • a Canad- ian song' and making it Am- erican. '• The Travellers, have de - ever °gall fighting the fire inside the building; Steer was wearing breathing apparatus and an oxygen tank, and wasunaware he had been cut until he had lost a considerable amount of blood.- He, was taken from the scene to Wingham and District: Hospital where he was kept overnight for observation. Ilo use league now Fire .Department answered a call at the home of Leonard Brindley, West Wawanosh Township. Firemen were called when the family smelled Smoke and learned an upstairs bedroom was burning. The upper level of the house was damaged by -fire, smoke and water, but firemen were able to contain the fire and it did not spread to the lower level. Neighbours assisted the Brindley family to , remove furniture and appliances from the . home. Lucknow Fireman, Peter Steer was injured when he received a cut on the arm while The Lucknow Minor Hockey Association season got underway -this past weekend with several teams beginning practices. Team practices are scheduledthis week and out of town schedules are being received. Games will start this weekend. ' Minor hockey's house league registration is down this year. and with schedules being drawn up shortly, it is very important that anyone intending to play house league hockey, register immediately with Bill Hunter, chairman of Lucknow Minor Hock- ey. Pine River Boat hili receives one year lease from township Huron Township council held their October 19, 1981. meeting at 10 a.m. in the. Council Chambers with all\ 'members present. Pine River Boat Club will be given a lease for one year. The lease is for land adjoin- ing the Pine River pith a view of a long term lease after oie year. The John Fair Drain Re- pair and ' lmprovement was let to Hanna and Hanfilton at his tender price. Council approved a pit of Clarence McLeod's on Lot 64, Conc. A under the pits and quarries. The road superintendent was instructed to get an estimate on cost of installing a culvert across the road on Shadywood ,Crescent and to check equipment for iron• control at the Birch Acres well. Council gave a donation to Christmas Seals in an am- ount of $25. Bannerman's Construction tender for winter sand was accepted, and Wayne Lowry and Bill Kempton's tender for snow plowing were ac- cepted: `Council ajourned to meet again• on November 2, 1981 at 10 a.m. Attends NDPprovincial council Tony McQuail, Huron- Bruce NDP Delegate attend- ed the Provincial Council meeting held in Toronto on October 17. New Democrats from across the Province heard Dan Heap, newly el- ected MP for Spadina, report from Federal Caucus. He told delegates caucus was trying to force the Trudeau Government to deal with the economic issues plaguing the country. Heap 'said the Gov- ernment doesn't want to; talk about interest rates, employ- ment, housing, or cut backs in social programs and re- source industries. He said he had heard of the ,Prime Ministers disdain for answer- ing questions but that his acroan g ce in the House still came as a surprise. A report was presented on progress at Applewood, birthplace of Janies Woods- worth, the first leader of the CCF. The original brick farm. house was moved to Broad- acres park in 'Etobicoke and is being restored for public viewing. J. S. Woodsworth fought long and hard for programs like the old , age pension. Following the morning sessions delegates attended workshops with MPP's on Housing, Economic Develop- ment, Prices, Human Rights and the Constitution. In the economic deveopnientses- sion concern was expressed that lower tariffs may mean that 2000 of Canada's 3000 branch plants will be closed by their parent companies. The Provincial Governments strategy of not taxing corpor- ations for fear they will "run away" and then "enticing" them with the tax payers money was considered an- other disaster. Delegates felt that for the Ontario economy to turn around requires an industrial strategy which builds Ontario: manufactur- ing on Ontario resources and stops subsidizing Multina- tionals, Many of these com- panies now pay less in taxes than they spend on advertis- ing. Delegates also approved the budget for the up coming Leadershp Convention and the 1982 Operatinga Budget for the Ontario NDP, 0 signed their concert to enter, tato all members ,of the family. 'They can ,.sing in French, Greek; Russian, • Spanish, German, Hebrew, Japanese, Ukranian,, Swahili ande a few more but mostly they sing and :entertain in ;a way that is :uniquely, .Canad- ian and uniquely The Travel-, leis. Beside Jerry , Gray, The Travellers includesr' Aileen Ahern, a native . of -: Halifax came fronttheSame me Mason Williams who :m s . _a and M mmy' musical background as her .Rodgers. friends Gene McLellan, An- 'ne Murray and Catherine McKinnon; Don Vickery; ,one of ; Canada's best known. drummers; Ted Roberts, well-known we l -known Toronto guitar • player and musical arranger and; Joe Lawrence, bass, player8 y; and .sin ger, :a native. ,.. American who before he came to Canada worked with such people as Josh Whiter • Reserved seats for the concert are only $6 and, can ordered be by mail, • or re- served by telephone bycal- lin 523-9300.. The Blyth 8yt h, Centre for the Arts box office isopen on' . p Tuesdays and Wednesdaysduring the win- ter months from 9 am. to' 5 pm. inenedishily through November 30th, 1981 on aM new 1981 passenger cars & light defy',trucics., Pe.tioc- kk-Codillec = GMC'Trucks 3711kmillton St. 524-8391. God rkh Cut Heating Costs with the Energy Ban simple inata8ar%n,.takes only minutes on swot gas, or eleCiricivinoce HOW THE ENRGY BANK 'SAVES: TheAnergy Bank turns off the heating portion of .the furnace for a few minutesout of each furnace operation. This allows the fan to move the heat built up In the furnace through out the house. 'The result is a more cu mfortabio environment and dramatic fuer savings. Test units were installed in theu local ,area last winter and showed amazing fuel savings. TO find ouNimore call ,now Ritchie Electric. Phone 528=3141. b Bax 92, Wicklow