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Home My WebLink AboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1982-01-13, Page 1The: MIsked he Luclurw, 0 ,: Wedanday, 7a.macy 13, 112 '1f Pages Coroner McKim ann unces mques Coroner J. C. McKim of Lucknow has announced an inquest into the'death of Paul Riegling will be held .at the Lucknow Town, Hall on January 22 beginning at 10 a.m. 'Paul was injured .when struck by a, pickup truck as he crossed highway 86 infront of his home, to board a school bus on September 9. He died in Victoria Hospital, London on September 28. A five person jury will make recommenda- tions based on information presented at the inquest, which will be conducted by Coroner McKim. NDP leadership campaign comes to gingham Contenders for . the Leadership of the Ontario 4ew . Democratic Party will be in Wingham on January 160. They will be attending an afternoon meeting at the Wingham Armouries sponsored by the Wingham Regional NDP Council. The • three Leadership hopefuls are Jim Foulds, MPP Port. Arthur, Richard Johnston, MPP Scarborough . West, and Bob Rae, MP Broadview -Greenwood. The candidates will have an 'opportunity to address the meeting and will then be open to questions from the floor. The Wingham Council planned the meeting to let local New Democrats meet the candidates before the Leadership Conven- tion in February. The Meeting is open and ' Turn to page 4. App rehei d thieves Two Wroxeter men have been . charged. with five counts of break, enter and . theft following an investigation into a theft . of liquor from. the Liquor Control Board of Ontario store in Lucknow, January 6. The two men havebeen released on bail and will appear in Kincardine Provincial Court. on January 18. to answer to the charge relating to the Lucknow occurence.'They will: appear in Wingham Provincial Court, Jan- uary 27 to answer the remaining charges related to incidents at Kell's' ` Country Kitchen, Bluevale;, Hyndeman : Transport Ltd., Wroxeter; McGavin's Farm Equip- ment, Walton and Topnotch Feed Ltd., Brussels. The charges were laid following a month long investigation ,by the ,Wingham detach- ment of the Ontario Provincial Police and the Kincardine OPP. Fire destroys. house Monday's A West Wawanosh man is homeless following a fire which destroyed his house on Monday evening.. • Lucknow Fire Department answered a call 0 to the farm of Evan McQuillin about 8 p.m. but were unable to save thehouse which was engulfedin flames. Firemen could not reach the house by truck because the long laneway was drifted closed with snow. Mr. McQuillin, who was sleeping' down- stairs,. said the noise of the fire awakened him, but he could not 'reach the upstairs because of smoke. Fire Chief George Whitby said the fire . started in the stove pipes or chimney setting fiothe upstairs of the house:' The alarm was turned in by a neighbour who noticed the blaze: Firemen stood by to watch that a' nearby barn, which houses cattle and sheep did not go up in flames, but coulddo little to save the house. • Mr, McQuillin is staying at the home' of his °brother ' in Lucknow.. • Lucknow's New Year's baby' is Audra Jolene Embelin, Who Was born January 6,1982 at Winghann and District Hospital. Weighing 5 lbs. 14 oz., Jolene was the .first new arrival' of the year at the hospital and is also Wingham's New Year's baby. Sheds shown with • her, mother,' Debbieand older brother, Joshua. Jolene is the daughter of . John and Dibble Emberlin . of Luclimai. ' Proud grandparents are. Audrey Elder . of Kincardine and Mr. and Mn. Fed Emberlin of Lucknoiw. (Senthiel Staff Photo] Blizzard ifuIgS area to its knees The first blizzard of the season brought things to a standstill on the weekend When southwest winds gusted at times , to .72 kilometres an hour. • Blowing snow created nil visibility. on Sunday and on Monday 'all major highways were closed in the area. Highway 86 was open to one lane of traffic through the day, on Monday . but was just barely passable. Huron County Road 1 was notopened until late in the day and township. roads remained closed until plows began their work in the evening. 'All schools and.; most, businesses in the area were closed on Monday as residents dug out from under the snow. The mercury dipped to a low of -24 C on Sunday and to a low of -17 C on Monday. We received 16 centimetres of snow .on Sunday and another 20 centimetres on Monday. - While the temperatures and snowfall did not set any new records, the blizzard conditions created by the wind made for a storm the, : area hasn't had in the past two winters. Environment Canada in Mount Forest recorded wind velocity of 80 kilometres an hour through the evening on Sunday. Hydro' electric 'power ' went off, in some areas of the village of Lucknow on . Sunday, 'because the wind was blowing primary wires together causing fuses to blow. Hydro • service was .interrupted about 8 a.m. and all service was restored by 5 p.m. Gary Austin of the Lucknow Works Department said it was difficult to find the problems because of the blinding snow and when they would restore service in one area the wind would just create the problem, 'again. The Lucknow Works Employees, Austin and Doug Haldenby worked in the storm throughout the day, ' assisted by two' members of, the Wingham PUC who remained in town overnight Sunday, be- cause they, could not return to Wingham as the roads were closed. Li�ns made Christmas special for Parkie Christmas came & little early this year for 82 -year-old ' Parkie Wiggins of Dungannon. The Lions -Club of Lucknow presented Mr. Wiggins with a telecaption adapter just. before Christmas., The adapter permits Mr. Wiggins, who is deaf, , to see captions written across the bottom of his TV screen, which `depict the dialogue in the same ,way captions appear in foreign language movies. When Grant Chisholm and Walter. Arnold of the Lucknow District Lions Club presented Mr. Wiggins with the adapter,:tears,started tot roll down ' his cheek. ", It has opened a whole new experience for him," says Mr, Chisholm. Before receiving the adapter it was difficult for Mr. Wiggins to enjoy television. He could not always understand what was happening ' in a .. program and of course, comedy shows were .dost because he could not hear the funny lines. Mr. Wiggins can now enjoy many TV shows which are closed captioned. There are about 40 hours 'of captioned programming a week available on TY, most" of it on U.S. channels, however. Until , a captioning. centre, where the captions are laboriously inserted into programs ''anal films, is established in Canada, all the work is being done in the U.S. The federal communica- tions ministry pis planning a Canadian cap- tioning centre to begin this year. At present the only CBC shows • which are being closed captioned are The Beachcohnb- ers and Man Alive. , Mr. Wiggins' enjoys the Global national • news because it is closed captioned and he can now learn about events taking place around the world, information which was not available to him on TV before. He hopes that someday CKNX in: Wingham, will have the local news closed captioned so he can watch the local news on TV as well. For a senior citizen who lives in the country where a daily paper is not always available, especially in the wintertime: being . able to• see the national newscast opens a whole new, world of information for Mr. Wiggins. , Lions clubs across Canada . are raising money to place these adapters in' the hands of the deaf and hard of hearing and the 'Sears department store chain is selling the devices Turn to page 40