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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1990-01-31, Page 17-7 AI al Ito 11u11111 11�81$Hilli let Ulleats allaraINO — par 10401000 ; ENGLAND BOUND Just Another Trile; Dave Prince eagerly awaits taking tor was loaded by Art ,Heliii-Inta,a tea-- possession of the tractor Whati-Coveted tamer Iast Wednesday for the first leg of since 1067. The tractor was built by Art 'brtheaping of 1987 and Made,,its, debut at the Lobo)* Pull that year. '(rat Liv- ingston photo) , • . a journey to. Bristol, England, where: ' •, . Just Another •Tractor is England bound It took over two years, but playing a waiting game finally paid off for an English man, Dave Prince, Who is now the proud owner of "Just Another ,Tractor". Just Another Tractor, equipped with • two V12 Allison aircraft, engines was built by Art Hehn in the spring of 1987. These engines were used in World War II airplanes. The tractor made its debut at the pull in Lucknow in July of that year. Art and Dave met each other at the Fergus pull in the • same year. Dave, owner of Prinee Transport in Bristol, England, is. an avid puller and was in Canada .looking for a tractor. He spotted Just Another Tractor and the, waiting, game started, culminating last November when Dave returned to Ontario and made the deal with Art. The tractor was loaded into a Russian - container on January 24, transported by JET Transport to the CN Conport in -Con- corde, Ontario. From there the container travels by rail to Halifax, NoVa Scotia. It is scheduled to leave Halifax by ship on February 2and arrive in Bristol, England ori February 17. In addition to the tractor a D75H Lucknow snowblower was shipped , to Prince Transport. When Art's wife Barb was asked if he would be starting on another tractor, she smiled: and said she wasn't really sure. Apparently last summer Art got into en- joying cottage country arid a more relax- ed pace. Time will t,e11! Sheila Copps addresses Grey -Bruce area citizens by Cindy Maloney WALKERTON--Small-town Canada is a. top priority for Liberal leadership con- tender Sheila Copps, so Walkerton was a natural stop on her campaign to . the leadership convention in June. On many occasions, Copps, 37, has stated clearly that Prime Minister Brian Mulroney "is killing small-town Canada." She repeated it again to a full room of Liberal supporters in Walkerton last week. "It started with the rural. post of- fices...he contieued, his assault with VIA rail which kept our country connected from one end to the other. In% the last five years the Tory policy seems clear that the only place one can succeed is in Montreal, Toronto or Vancouver." Her promise. that she would not let the - Conservatives close smalt towns in Canada met with loud applause from the standing room only crowd in the Bruce Room of the Hartley House. Walkerton is one of the first. stops Copps, Hamilton East MP, has made since declaring her candidacy for the leadership two weeks ago. After speaking and mingling with the crowd last Wednesday night, Jan. 24, she spent the night at the home of Duncan and Lillian McCallum in Hanover. McCallimi. is the president of the South Bruce. Federal Liberal Association. Copps headed for Harriston Thursday morning and then went on to Toronto, Before starting her speech, she walked around all the tables and shook everyone's hand. Those she missed the first time around, she met later in the night. • Her address concentrated on the direc- tion the Liberal party should be taking into. the next federal election and on to the 21st century: She spent little time talking about Meech Lake and the free trade deal, as she said they are Tory issues and she wants to concentrate'on Liberal issues. She said she plans to centre her plat- form around the Canadian people and the quality of Canadian life. She said she wants to make Canada "a ,level playing field" for the children growing up so• they can: do and be whatever they want. 'People chose our country to im- migrate to because they were told the sky was the limit. Well, the sky Is fall- ing in on a lot of young people." MEECH LAKE AND FREE 'MADE • Meech Lake, though she supports it and the Liberal amendments put forth on the accord, ' is an issue she said that has divided „the Liberal party. ,"I've seen us bleed trying to fight* Tory • ideas and 1 want • to start fighting for Uberal • 9s •me to start dreaming, new Liberal dreams." - Copps silent all last fall and early winter travelling across the country to "get a feel" for what the people wanted before making her final decision to run for the leadership. What she learned, she said in an interview Thursday morning, was the "grassroots people don't care about Meech Lake. They're tired of hear- ing about it." Free trade is something people do care about, she said, because their jobs are at \stake. She has said, if elected she will not tearup the free trade deal. However, she said she doesn't want that ° misconstrued to mean she thinks the trade deal is in any part good. It's -just something she said she can't do much about it for the next three years. "The trade deal traded away out solidarity. I'm just sorry Canadians voted for a majority Conservative government because unfortunately for the next three years we have to live with the conse- quences," she said Wednesday night. GST WILL KILL TOURISM* • The Bruce ruling, she said, is going to suffer most from the seven per cent Turn to page 3 • Fire lacknow and D4airict Fire Depart- ment wet called to the home of John Versus, lot II, CalleaSSICAU 4, We Wawanosb Township, at 5:10 a.m. January 21, whore a fire in the floor around the stove pipes had enipted. Fambers had the fire under contUoi when the department arrived. OPP Report Kthciirdine detachment of the On- tario Provincial Plica is inveetigating damage to 11 vehicle which was mted in a Lucknow parking lot. Someon tlie 23rd or 2411* of January, MaleOrie scratched both sides of a 1965 Mercury which is owned by a Lucknow resident, On January 26 and 27, nine people were charged with various Liquor Licence Act violation, three Of these people had their licences suspended for 12 hours. Police report that chances of being caught are increasing and Motorists would do well to heed the message "Don't Drink and Drive". Hydro outage High 'winds on liie evening of January 20 and early morning January 26 caus- ed power outages in the area, Hydro i was interrupted inthe area at about 3 a.m. on .the 26th and restored at ap- preximately 6:30 a.m. Heart and : Stroke campaign Tomorrow, February 1, The Heart ' and Stroke Foundation of Ontario kicks off its 32nd annual fund raising cam - Pip, hinted at raising 629 million. Pro- ceeds will go to research and education programs for heart disease and stroke, which claim more lives in Canada each year than all other diseases combined. The battle ',against Canada's' #1 'killer is serious business. .When a Heart and Stroke volunteer comes to your door, be • generous. Your support will help save thousands of lives...one of them could be yours! ' Kinloss clerk -treasurer ----- Mark Becker of Whigham is the new clerk - treasurer for the Township of Khdoss, ef- fective the end of February when Frank Hawthorne retires. Mark was raised in Ayton where hiCattended public school, falyfled bY highschool is Hanover sad a business adashisfration coarse at Fan - shaft Colkge. ee worked as a co.op eta - &tit at Royal Howes in Hikers= during college years and stayed on after graduating. Math has been working as an accountant atRoyal Manes for 111/2 years. He has already started the AMCT coarse in Brunets and looks forward to the challenge .of municipal work and to residing in the township IA the future. (Pat Livingston photo) •