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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1978-01-11, Page 2H.. II PAGE TWO } The Luciuujw. Sentinel A THE LUCKNOW SENTINEL,. LUVKNQW,• ON ARIA 4 IL KNOW, ONTAR1O Published by Signal -Star Publising Ltd. . Robert G. Shrier a ,president and publisher Sharon J. Dietz P editor Anthony N. Johnstone = general manager Subscription rate, $10 per year in advance Senior -Citizens rate, $8.00 per year in advance U.S.A.-and Foreign, $14 per year in advance Business and Editorial Office Telephone 528-2822 Mailing Address P. O. Box 400,Lucknow NO.O 2H0 Second class mail registration number - 0847 • a nter blows Old . Man }Winter is making January/. 1978 a replay of his production, last year as the first twoweeks of _the New Year have been shortened.for•school children and hazardous 'for area drivers. The winds and blowing snow on :Tuesday morning closed roads, schools and even some .bu.sinesses : Eike the . Bank of. Montreal whose front door displayed the sign, "Closed: Due to the weather". Winter in this part of the country is a time reminiscent of years ago when the ..pace of life is slower and the urgency of da,y .•tb day business, is lessened by the fact of inclement weather. - t People have' card parties in the 'afternoon" and, invite friends over for �.. coffee, Tot chocolate and' good .conversa tion. The children get a day off school to play with their new toys from Christmas and older t.olKs get caught up on their sleep with an afternoon nap. . It's a time to appreciate the comfort of insulated, centrally heated homes -and a. time to revert to the survival stamina of our ancestors by braving .the elements to walk to the store formilk and bread. Winter's vengeance is a cause for a community's °,pulling together to get groceries to the oiaer,citizens, or,to take an expectant mother to the °hospital. It is also a time to be ' in any other business but the newspaper profession because the weather presents the old challenge of getting the paper out'. come rain, ,sleet or snow The staff of the Sentinel just wanted to let you know that while• winter played . havoc . on Tuesday we still put out ,a paper, and while you may: not get .it on Wednesday as usual, it was put to press on' Tuesday as usual. There's nothing like an ofd fashioned Canadian winter. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1978 Snow r. emoval : subj pct of litters .: The Editor, Lucknow SPhtinel. • We are writing this in regard to your article last week entitled, "Reeve opposes motion on snow removal". This article • isvery misleading and erroneous. We feel the citizens of Lucknow are entitled to the. true facts, Mr. Bob Symes was hired at the first meeting; of the new council in January 1977. Up to that time Joe Kerr of Wingham had 'been -removing the snow ,for Lucknow and. one of.our dutieat the first meeting was to pay the December accounts'. 114r. Kerr's accounts were presented and its showed we were being billed for $11.0.0per hour more than the price Mr. Joynt said we were; to° pay. A phone call to Mr. Kerr was itiade and we were told this was a mistake in the billing. However, Council decided • to hire Bob Symes, over the bitter' objections of Mr. Joynt, fora trial period of one .month. - Council' was quite satisfied with Mr. Symes' work and he was kept on for the rest of the winter. With his smaller loader at a much lower per hour cost, he could . work as economically as had been done with the larger loader that had been used previously.. In- regard to tenders being called, we went back through the minutes of council to 1968 and talked ' to people that were involved with the town, and at no time could we find where tenders had ever been called. We could not find where Mr. Kerr had been hired, or the rate he was to be paid. Regarding the confusion on the part of some councillors about the hiring for snow removal being from fall to spring as Mr. Joynt states, let ns • say this. Again we talked to -different people . that were involved in village affairs and went back through council minutes to 1968 Any reference that we could find clearly showed that the hiring was done in January. Some years the minutes don't show anyone being . hired. in closing we think the article was unfair to .the ratepayers of Lucknow, and council as a whole. We would suggest that if council. business is going to be printed that the Editor attend council meetings and get the complete story, as the minutes only show the end result with no back round information or the di ussion leading up to the motio s being shown. If ,the Editor had' been in attendance she would have been .• aware that we voted for the motion because we wanted to estal4ish the fact that the show removal crew should be ' hired until the spring and we would call tenders inthe fall for a full winter contract. Yours respectfully, Bill Crump, B.ud, Hamilton Councillors. Editor's Note' I appreciate that Mr. Crump and Mr.. Hamilton have taken the responsibility as members of Council to do the research and come forward with the informa- tion to clarify this matter. Tire. minutes of the council meetings as recorded in the Town Record. are brief and do • not give the details of the discussion at the meeting. ..I regret 'that, I was unable , to attend the December meeting of the Village Council and therefore, had to rely on the minutes as a source for the story. I wish to assure Council that I intend to make every effort to attend all Council meetings in the future. R. R. 5, Lucknow, Ont. To the Editor: Re: Jan. 4 Edition Lucknow Sentinel Reeve oppcises snow removal In regards toothe $1.50 per hour per unit for snow removal it averages 10% which does not . . offset our increased operational cost over the past season. And if our reeve had so informed usand the other 4 council members that he had decided to terminate our snow contract in the spring of 1977 instead of December 31, 1977 lilce-it was every other year. we could have jogged.his memory to call tenders. Also if he had not raised such a needless and childish .passel at his Mayfair meetings, I would not have attended the regular council meeting and there would not have been an increase in rates. as I was satisfied to leave things ,as they were " as, long as ,the remaining members .of` council, the merch- ants and general public were satisfied with 'our endeavour to keep the main street clear at the -road committees request. I also think Mr. Hamilton is right in' asking fgr tenders in early fall so that they and people. tendering can plan their winter schedule. I also don't think it is fair for Mr. Joynt to let a personal,differ- ence between him and. myself burden the council and town employees. Robert Symes. Looking Backwards Through the SeitineIF4ies 75 YEARS AGO ed are popular and standard, for which nearly a car load of scenery is carried. Special scenic effects- and ffectsand mechanical devices- will add to make the performance here, a gareat success, • • -one of the finest games of hockey ever witnessed in Luck- ' • now took place in the rink here on Tuesday evening between Harris - ton and Lucknow clubs of ,'the Northern League. There was a large crowd of •spectators present and everybody was delighted with the many brilliant plays made by both the teams and, although the home club scored a big victory the game was hotlycontested from start to finish; Itwas a splendid exhibitign of the popular game andour boys may justly feel proud of their magnificent victory of 13. to 5, The teams were very .well matched and no rough play was made by either club.. 'he anniversary of the_ birth of Robert Burns will be celebrated by the Sons- of Scotland Camp • in Lucknow by a grand ball in the Town ° Hall on Friday , evening, January 23rd. Mr. James Lyon's has sold his saw mill in. the village to Mr. Thomas H. Treleaven, who will run it in future. Mr. Treleaven hasp severed his .connections .with,. the • grist 'mill. On, January 12th notwithstand- ing the inclemency of the weather, and the state' of the roads,a meeting was held in the Sough Kinloss Manse to honour, Rev. Finlay 'A. McLennan on the occasion of his semi -jubilee as .a minister of the glorious and blessed gospel. He has been pastor of the South Kinloss congregation for fourteen years. The, Farmers' Sun says that in ten years tiine there will not be, in old Ontario, any firewood to sell, and while some farmers will have enough fortheir own use, most of theni will • be compelled' ' to use coal. 1 Rowland and Young's Bijou Comedy Company which comes to, Lucknow next week is said to be the best and stronges't playing Canada today. The plays producj t., • 50 ''YEARS AGO The village of Ripley experienc- ed the most destructive fire. of its history `ori 'juesday morning of this week, when for a. tittle it was feared the business°section would be wiped out. That such did not happen is' attributed. to 4 fortu- nate change of the wind, from west to south: The frame building occupied by Tom Kempton as an . implement agency was the biggest building destroyed as the framebuildings between -the brick block on the south-west, coiner and Martyn's cement b+lock were burned tothe ground. ' A building • occupied as a shoe -repair shop and a barber shop were also burned out. The fire, which appears to have started in the implement build- ing, was: discovered between four and five in the morning and all available fire -fighting.: equipment including a chemical engine were soon brought into play.. An appeal for help was sent fp_ Kincardine and a pump mounted on a truck was •sent over. This pump soon exhausted the water available acid after that, little could be done. When the fire started, the wind was from the west which threat- ened to drive the • blaze' into Munn's Hardware and the Royal ' Bank. Fortunately , the' wind shifted to the 'south and this danger was averted. On 'account of the fire at Ripley the Opening of, the new arena was postponed from • Tuesday until Friday evening. . f a recent, 'meeting of the Goderich Town Conncil the senti- ment was expressed that because the snow plow had cleared the highway, farmers who had to use sleighs to reach the highway could not, get to town and the business sof the. town was being .injured, ,'and the . method of treatment of the road was more of a detriment than a benefit. 25 YEARS AGO Fire for the second time in less than two weeks razed a farm home in Huron Township and lobbed a Dutch immigrant family of their home and destroyed most of their personal possessions.. The first fire gutted the farmhouse they lived in owned by Richard Martin on January 5th and at that time the limited belongings of the Class DeJong family were removed from this conflagration but were damaged and destroyed to some extent. The district rallied to their aid with money, clothing, household furnishings acid equipment. Much of this was lost in the second fire which reduced their second farmhouse to a pile of ashes, The temporar„,husing for the family had been made available by Goldie Martin. Fires were on in both stoves in - the house to warm it up for the family to move in the next day. The .family belongings had been moved in that day and the house vacated in the late afternoon. The fire was discovered about 6.30 .p.rn. I See by the Sentinel THAT Robert Webster had a perfect • cribbage hand last week. He drew this "one in a million" hand in a game with Fred Anderson and Fred says it's the first perfect crib hand .he ever saw. - Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Thompson and members of their family had a thrilling experience on Sunday afternoon when, .they conversed with their son, Bob, at his meterological post at Arctic Bay on{the northern shores of Baffin Land. Contact was made through the courtesy 'of Fred Bisset, •a "ham" operator at Goderich. Fred•has picked up Arctic Bay on Friday afternoon and upon learn- ing that a Lucknow boy.was there, phoned the Thompson family and over the telephone, Mrs,'Thomp- son, h omp- son, heard Bob's voice. The Sunday chat took Place from Fred's -attic broadcasting station in his "home in Saltford.