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To the Editor:
Perhaps the following will incite a few
readers to make a move.
ABOUT YOUR GOLDEN YEARS
What could we really expect today from
a population whose main force is inertia?
We read about schemes feathering the
pockets of paper entrepreneurs, about
legal thefts appropriating working mens'
pensions, about charitable organizations
keeping 85 cents out of every dollar col-
lected, about politicians recanting today
on what they proposed yesterday, about
religious manna and sordid affairs turning
to burlesque and then we say, in pity, that
these shameless gougings will pass, that
honesty will prevail, that things will be
better, tomorrow or another day. And
that's about all we do. We hope and for-
mulate cowardly thoughts about at-
mosphere -and predicaments we helped to
create by trusting flim-flam artists of the
political and evangelical fields.
Sure, we'll voice our rancor with some
neighbors but we immediately switch to
cleaner topics such as hockey and baseball
scores: it's cleaner. I enjoy both sports. I
am also interested by politics.
I wish that the young person of today
should seriously think about the days when
they are going to cheer their sons or grand-
sons playing the games: days soon to come
when they would wish they should have
been more careful, more selective with the
rules and limitations of pension plans they
had left the burden to others to implement.
Days soon to come when, as elders, they
are going to grumble about . the little
amount of taxable surplus pension they
receive compared to some people they
know.
I agree: In the village, we don't really
feel the impact of the cost of living.
Chances are that many of us are
homeowners by the departure of dear
parents. For simple souls, there is the joy
LUCKNOW
UNITED CHURCH
SUNDAY, MAY 10th
Sunday School 10:00 a.m.
Worship Service 11:00 a.m.
Rev. Gerald McFarlane
Nursery and junior congregation provided.
EVERYONE WELCOME
LUCKNOW CHRISTIAN
REFORMED CHURCH
Invites You To Worship With Them On
Sunday, May 10th
10 a.m. and 7:30 p.m.
Nursery downstairs morning & evening
EVERYONE WELCOME
Penny Saver
Lucknow 528-2628
Prices in effect till noon May 12/87.
STILL MEADOW BREADED
Chicken
Nuggets 1 x 5 Ib.
McLAREN SWEET GREEN
Relish 2 x 4 Lt.
HIGHLINER 6 - 3 Ib.
Captain Burger
SUPREME
Rib Eye Steak
30 x 125 g.
25 x 175 g.
$2035
$1150
$2100
$41:5
$471°
Prices in effect till May
E.D. SMITH 6 x 100 oz.
Ketchup
HEINZ 6 x 100 oz.
Ketchup
MCLAREN 1 x 4 L.
Dill Pickles
BREAD & BUTTER 1 x 4 L.
Pick les
ASS'T. FLAVOURS, 24 x 6
Freshie
27/87.
$2568
$3535
$615
$815
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of gardening, perhaps the pleasure of go-
ing fishing though it's a bit far, isn't it. As
for hunting.. Ah, well, "we don't eat
much", simple souls say. Sad to say, in my
book, simple souls are on the way out.
Things change, Mac. Even here, housing is
going up. Ever stop to look at the price of
sheds offered for sale in the village? Are
your wages, are pensions spiraling up that
fast? •
Some who never had much will tell you
that they can manage on meagre pension,
that a $2 monthly increase in their cheque
will buy to six loaves of reduced for quick
sale bread. If they are satisfied that way,
they are right. But I'll say that 0.22 percent
hike yearly, in pensions when the cost of
living goes up six percent is no increase at
all. We can no longer listen to people who
couldn't purchase a pair of shoes today
with the wages they made 60 years ago.
When enlightened seniors teamed up
awhile ago to prevent the government to
steal openly from them, politician tenors
alarmed by this voting force quickly made
a volte-face and promised pension indexa-
tion. Today, as more and more honest peo-
ple leave this corrupt government while
some stay in, annoyingly, just for the
money, we, seniors, are listening to a
soothing lullaby from the provincial
government: "One -two -three. It is possi-
ble that we will consider indexation but
we'll consider this after the elections..."
A tenor, who promised the moon to
seniors, recently gave a plum job to a
stooge who never understood actuary's
forecasts to form a committee to study any
way of NOT indexing pensions.
No, I do not expect feisty supporters of
hockey and baseball to seize their riding
representative by the collar. I do not even
expect a letter of protest against educated
liars pretending to have the interests of
retired workers at heart. What I do expect
Lucknow Sentinel, Wednesday, May 6, 1987—Page 5
flim-flam:. reader
is base envy against a handful of skilled
workers of this village who had been sensi-
ble enough to protect their retirement days
SOON ENOUGH with solid conditions
either entrenched into private plans or
couched in legal terms by their local union.
Summarizing, you future pensioner
wishing for a retirment a cut above
average pensioners, you better think to do
something today about it. See your
representative. Write the Premier.
Always keep in mind that a 25 year-old
politician at Queen's Park can retire at
age 40 with a full and copiously indexed
pension. To serve and protect. Politicians
too have that motto. However, and con -
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trary to the police force, Tfiey don t have
the public in mind.
For once, as not to pass in your retire-
ment age for a Scrooge or a miser in the
eyes of your grandchildren, ask yourself,
now, if you are as responsible as you think
you are.
$25 can restore eyesight
To the Editor:
"A Mother's love is special for we have
only one Mother". ,
As Mother's Day is. celebrated on May
10th I have the privilege of asking you to
share with me a way of honoring and
remembering our Mothers.
As a youngster and on into my own
mother and grandmotherhood I wore the
customary red carnation signifying my
mother was still alive. Now that she is
gone I still like to remember her in a prac-
tical way ... by restoring someone to sight
who is blind.
Do you realize what a chain reaction is
set off when sight is restored?
There is a truism which says: Give man
a fish and he can eat for a day, but teach
him how to fish and he can feed his family.
In a similar fashion a $25 gift can restore
• eyesight to a cataract blind person, enabl-
ing that person to work and thus be able to
feed and supporta family. There are many
people in the Developing countries who are
curably blind. Can we in Canada com-
Yours truly,
A. Joe Legrand
Lucknow, Ont.
prehend 40 million blind people, almost
twice our population, half of which are
curable if funds were available. It's hard
to imagine that many blind people but we
can do something about it.
For a $25 (tax deductible) donation to
the Canadian Charity Operation Eyesight
Universal, will pay for sight restoring
cataract surgery, drugs, hospitalization,
special glasses and follow-up care for the
patient.
A patient identification card signed by
the attending surgeon will be sent to you,
or if you choose to your mother, giving the
name, sex, age and town or village of the
one restored to sight.
Why don't you plan on honoring your
mother or her memory in this way?
Send to Operation Eyesight Universal,
Box 123, Stn. "M", Calgary, Alberta. T2P
2H6 •
In care and concern.
Gertrude Roberts,
48 Canyon Dr: N.W.,
Calgary, Alberta
T2L OR3
In Person
One
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