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ape Eng contest
Sixteen yrs Rent five .area schools
participated in the Royal' Canadian Legion,.
Branch 3011. Let ow annual public *peek.
rag; contest held et the .1.0cktrow Logien on
Friday evening, •
Heidi Fillmo><e, a student at Brookside
Public School, won first place in the senior
• competition and Laurie Hayden, also . of
***side, •Public School, took firtt in the
junior cater*
Heim spoke about Charles Sliulti, the
comic strip cartoonist of Peanuts fame and'
Liurrle did her. ,speech : about .Public Spa
Runners, up ht the senior :corupetitien were.
Paul: Van Romy of St; Joseph's Cotnntunity
School, Kingsbridge, who spoke about Being
12. Years Old, and DebbkBaynard,
student at Brookside •public School, who
spoke about TV'Commerdals. .
In the junior division, Ken Strong of
• Brookside Public School, play ed second,
speaking about Bees, and Amy Gingrich, a
,Kinloss Central Public School student,
placed third, speaking about Books.
Also participating 'in the senior eat egery
wereMelissa Martin, St. Joseph's
mutiny School; Kingsbridge, who. chose the
topic, - yi+ty Grandmother; - Lia Sjaarda,
• Lueknow Christian School, who spoke about
Water Skiing; Karen MacDonrild,, Lucknow
Central'Publie School, .who chose Physical:
Fitness . res her' topic end Jeff Murray,.
Lucknow Central, Public School, who spoke
about `Rubik's Cube. . •
In the junior division . Kent Campbell;
Kinloss Central Public School, spoke about
his •Family« Tree; : Sandra. Van. Osch, St.
'Joseph's Community Scheel, Kingsbridge,.
chose the topic, imagination; Wendy
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Wood stoves
concern insurance
compny
Ken 'MacLean and Donald McKenzie were
acetaimed tofltrther• three year terms as
• • directors of the West • "Wawanosh Mutual.
• lnsurance.Company at the company's annual,
meeting held at the Dungannon -Agricultural •
Sudety Hall. on Friday, February 26,
In new • business the policy holders; who
attended the meeting.voted to change the
company's name by deleting the word, fire,
because. the company new writes. car
insurance as well as property insurance:
In his remarks, president Gerald Kerr told
the policyholders the loss expense for the
year'shows a'siight decrease of 3.5 per
over,1980. Losses attributed to wood,burning
stoves continue to be'a •great concern. Kerr
urged policyhoiders .to cheek installation
specificationswith the • proper authorities
before installing a wood burning unit.
Kerr saki the board of directors is pleased
with the•success'of the automobile insurance
program. The company has written more
automobile .insurance than expected in the
• first year of the program. 'They anticipated
seventy-tive to' 100 policies would be written
and to date the company has written some
300 policies. amounting to $118,000.
During the year, the reserve for the
protection of the policyholders increased to
$2►912►677 with gross. pentiums written of
51,140,012. up from $900,501.
Total gross claints.paid was down slightly
to $642,418, a decease of 3►5 per cent.
The. company's heed office moved into
their new building in .Dungannon in Decem
ber and the board of directors is planning a'
grand opening and open house later in the
spring. •
• . Theetotal estimate cost of the. building is
$225,000 which includes the land purchased
in 1980, decorating and landscaping as well
as building materials and labour costs.
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Sentinel readers will no doubtnotice the
new masthead :on this week's front page
which °pays tribute tki the . upicoming:12$th
anniversary of the village of Lucknow . in
1.� incorporated in .the Masthead .is.
Donald Ginnie, the symbol, of the Janiboree
celebration and long :associated with the
Sepoy Town.. .
Donald Ohmic, . a champion athlete of
Srotiand, headlined the Caledonian Games,
which were sponsored in Lucknow for More
than 20 years by the Catedonian Society. The.
games brought international. renown to the
Sepoy Town, a fame strengthened by : the
"headliners" brought tai the games such as
Donald Dinnie, • ehampton athlete of Scot-
land,. George Davidson, another famous
athlete and 'William McLennan, chentpion
Scottish pier who `came out frotri the
'heather•covered hills, atthe invitation of the
Caledonian Society: • •
Then . there Sivas Duncan C. kens, noted
American athlete and in 1881 one of the big
attractions was piper Joseph Hendry, lite of
li avnird. Breeladde Palk.Scheid
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lasepiNktiounvidly Selkael,
Likatie , •Breekalde Pah*
6 oizd.1
• the .70th
•Iighlanders; the sound of whose
pipes had heralded the relief of the beseiged
city of Lucknow, India.
During.. the summer. of ,1 , the year
following the Relief of '•Lurknow, James
Somerville purchased the. Stauffer mill and
his land* rights, and pied to have -the
south halves of lots 57, 58, 59 and 60 on the
First Concession of Kinloss, surveyed into
village lots. The village became Lucknow.
James Somerville; the Father of Lucknow,,
named the village for the tremor able events
associated with that. City in the quelling of
the Indian Mutiny, a. barbaric uprising of
'native rebels, . whose hideous •tails . of
massacre had reached even -to the 'Canadian
wilderness.
It was the fall of 1857 that the Relief of
Lucknow heralded the • quelling of the
mutiny, and naturally enough, •James
Soinmerville's Scottish • blood must have
,thrilled with pride that it was troopsaof his
homeland, although outnumbered .10 to one,
who lifted 'the seige and, won this tribute
Paid Vale Ranh MS
,'Weak leakbr Siva and
&hast ant,jtai for levet
innie"
frontthelr commander, Sir Colin Campbell:
"There never was a .bolder fete of arms".
Lurknow's main street Was named Camp.
bell , Street, supposedly after: Sir Cohn
Campbell, although there are those who
claim it be after Lucknow's firstmerchant
of the same name. However; all records and.
early history which we can find- substantiate
the former assumption, and certainly other
streets such as Havelock, Outram,
loughby, Ross, Rose, and. Canning are after
general leading British coccal -of the` Indian Mutiny`era.
The name Stauf er Street leading unto the
village from the north, may well be after Eli
Stauffer, who blazed the first white man's
trail over a• century. ago.
To • this day many men-' of Lucknow
heritage, who have the Christian name,
Donald, carry the •nickname, Ginnie, refer,'
ring to the famed athlete. including Donald
"Dlnnie" Whitby, Donald "brume" And• •
rew, Donald •'►Dlnnie" Hamilton, end
several •Donald "Dlnnie MacDonalds.-
alaries should be a board responsibility
The director and superintendent of educa•
tion for the lluron.Perth Separate School.
Board were commended and congratulated
by the board for accepting the salaries they
• had previously declined, when the board met
here •on February 22:.
Trustee. Arthur Haid in :announcing the
salary offers had been accepted by the
director arid .superintendent,, said the two
men should be congratulated forraccepting
the offer and commended for their- devotion
to the Catholic school system. ' •
The acceptance of the board's . original
offers of $49,500 for the director; and $44,0000
for the superintendent came at committee
meeting of the board on February 10' and
followed the presentation of a petition from
ratepayers stating the two men s t:ouid either
accept the offers or resign..
The director and superintendent had
originally declined the salary offers because
they said they failed to keep pace with
inflation: • ' •• •
In a prepared statement at the. February.
• , 22 meeting, director ctorr of education William
Eckert said that What was a board responsib•.
ility had turned into a public Issue.
'The offers of the board relative to
administration. salaries have been accept'
ed," Mr. Eckert's statement said.
"The reason for the acceptance is simply
that no .goad can come to this school system
by the direet'or, the board, or far that matter(
• the group of concerned ratepayers engaging.
itt debate 'on what has become an emotion-
ally charged issue. What was a board
responsibility was turnedinto a public issue.
"1 think it should.rernain a board :respon.
sibility, l hope by this actdn,.we can remove
obstacles that stand in the way of better
understanding and careful consideration of
the facts, as they actually exist:"
Members of the •concerned ratepayers
group Who initiated a petition Calling for the
director and superintendent to accept the
salary offers or resign; headed by R. J.
Maloneyf R. R. 5, Seaforth, attended the
y
meeting.
.
Mr. Maloney declined an opportunity to
comment our the issue but said he had a
summary on the reactions of persons who
had contacted the ratepayers group. Mr.
Maloney said he had received several
hundred responses.
The group established Contact with rate-
payers throughout the area by writing letters
to the editors of 15 newspapers in Duron and
Perth.
Mr. Maloney said copies of the summary
were available to trustees,