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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1978-03-15, Page 24, Page' 2—Lueknow Sentinel, Wednesday, March 15, 1978 ,) • S. • • • • %. N. • • • \ • '4‘ N4 • • N. \ • • • • • • Is • \ \ • • • 1 • • %. • • % Ns %.4 Nr. 10k. • V• S. • • % • • % The Lucknow Sentinel A LUCKNOW, ONTARIO • "The Sepoy Town On the Huron -Bruce Boundary Established 1873 - Published Wednesday Published by Signal -Star, Publishing Ltd. Robt. G. Shrier president and publisher Sharon J. Dietz - 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 NOG 2H0 Second class mail registration number - 0847 •••\ •1%.‘"VN, %•••‘'•••••‘• ‘‘•••%•••••‘••••%"••••A'••••‘•••1••••••••eN1.•••••••• No parking Deputy fire chief, Bud Hamilton has informed the Sentinel of a problem that could lead to a serious situation if it continues. People attending events at the •Lucknow Legion last weekend parked their cars on the parking lot in front of the Lucknow Fire Hall. While they did leave room.for the firemen to get their trucks out of the hall, had the alarm sounded, there' was no place for the firemen to park their cars while they answered the call. "When we run down there, and there is no place to park, we cannot leave-titit vehicles parke5I in the middle of the road," saidHamilton, "And the extra time it would take to find a place t� leave our cars'and then run to the fire hall could mean a death in a fire." "It only takes once," said Hamilton. "No Parking" signs are displayed in the windows of the fire hall and while ./most people, through common sense, know not to park in front of a fire hall, they may not have thought ahead to the fact that the firemen require .a place to park. Harhilton has presented the problem to inform people of the serious situation that could easily result.. It is up to the people who attend events in the Legion to think again before using the fire hall lot for parking space. The lot in front of the fire hall is not extra parking space for the Legion. It is parking space ,for firemen answering a fire alarm to allow them a quick place to park and easy access to their equipment. Leaving room for the trucks to get out is not the only reason for the "No parking" lot in front of the fire hall. The firemen have to have a place to park. Firemen on a call, when the alarm has sounded, cannot take-ttle time to drive around the block looking for a place to park. Time, every second, counts when answering a fire alarm and the time it takes to find a place to park a car because the firemen's lot is full, could mean the death of a child caught in the upstairs bedroom of his burning home. That child could be yours. LOOKING BACKWARDS THROUGH THE SENTINEL FILES 75 YEARS AGO An appreciatiottAght was held for M. and Mrs. .William Valens who are moving frotn. the 5th - concession of Kinloss to Mani- toba. A story has been circulated in and around town that one of the' players in the Lucknow hockey club had acted very unsportsman- like to the home team against Kincardine and the Committee of the Hockey Club wish to state that there is trot the least bit of truth in the report. ' Last winter the snow left us at, the end of .February and we had • delightful weather all through March, warm and genial with bright sunshine. We paid for it however, with dirty weather ' through April and May. It would be better to have our winter out in March and then warm weather. At the annual meeting of the Lucknow Butter and Cheese Company, it was decided to run the factory for the season 1903 and a meeting for the purpose of letting the milk routes and selling the whey, will , be held. A little girl who was hanging onto a sleigh was run over in Stratford and had one of her legs badly broken. This shouldbe a warning to the many Lucknow children who persist in running after and riding on, sleighs. 50 YEARS AGO Harvey Webster went to Toron- to last week, having taken a position with the T. Eaton Company. Mrs. E. Hollyman returned home last week from Montreal where she had spent a few weeks with friends. Vina Brabion was up from Windsor to spend a few days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. David Huston. The first harvest of the year - the ice crop - is being gathered in this week. It appears to be -good in quality and quantity. Mr. and Mrs. Alex McCarroll returned to town last week, after an absence of a couple of months - the former at St. Marys and the latter at Toledo, Ohio. Wm. Webster, an employee of Lucknow Silverwoods, fell and fractured his leg below the knee. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Smith of Prince Albert, Saskatchewatil, visited with Mr. Will. Campbell. Mrs. Smith is a daughter of George Campbell, a former resident of this vicinity. Alex McNay has returned from Detroit. Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred Francie of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, spent last week as guests of Mr. Charles Stewart. Mr. and Mrs. John MacLean and their son, Wallace, who died in a fire that destroyed their home last week were buried in Tiverton cemetery on Thursday. 25 YEARS AGO • Gordon Fisher, 15 year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Geprge Fisher, will be in Wingham Hospital for a couple of months as a result of injuries received Saturday night when struck by a car on Highway 86 near his home east of White- • church. Gordon suffered a com- pound fracture to the left leg, concussion and lacerations about the head. I See by The Sentinel THAT Ted Collyer wired the Lighthouse at Point Clark last week which this year will be lit and operated • by electricity. Light keeper Jack Campbell made a trip to Parry Sound the first of the week in connection with the' new, mechan- ism that will be installed. Joe Whitby arrived home from Haifa on Saturday for his grand- father's funeral. Joe is servingin the Canadian Navy and expects to' sail to the Korean theatre. in the spring. Fred Whitby was holiday- ing in Florida at the time of his • father's death and upon being located there, flew from the South to London airport. Charles McDonagh, Zion, who served for forty years as municip- al official in Ashfield, Township, died this week. He acted as tax collector for nine years and for 31 years was township clerk, At his death he was secretary of the Farmers' Shipping Company, an office he had held for 26 years. W. W. Hill .is visiting in Flint, Michigan. Mrs. Neil MacKenzie has returned from a month's visit to Detroit. Mr. and Mrs, Joe Agnew and Judy spent the weekend with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Agnew, Mrs. Agnew had accom- panied them from Detroit where she had been visiting with her son and daughter-in-law. Dear Editor: • Ontario Hydro has been mailing 25,000 questionnaires to' their farm cukomers on thelpossible results of a poVver blackout on the farrn,, Stich questions as: What is. "cost resulting from damage to farm :- spoilage of produce, lost crop .or animals,cleanup and possible. extra labour" and- such are obviously designed to scare the farmer into support for .the position on electrical expansion that Ontario Hydro favours. The questionnaire raises the prospect of power rationing at a time when the projected. - seven percent demand for last year turned out to be only two percent. The tactic is so obvious that we are surprised that a supposedly sophisticated corporation such as Ontario Hydro stoops to it. That some of the questions are needed and provide valuable information only serves to Obscure' the' obvious reason for the questionnaire. ' The Huron Power Plant Committee has never questioned the projections for more generating stations, only their location. But the Committee has also kept abreast of the informatioh that is presented in reams of paper to the Royal Com- mission on Electric Power Planning and, as mentioned before, found the forecasted demand to be faulty. It will, of course, be up to each farrt4Pif he wishes to answer the questionnaire but we in our turn question the ethics of Ontario Hydro in this matter. • Adrian Vos • Chairman Huron Power ,Plant Committee. Dear Mrs. Editor: I was pleased to see Bill • Bogue's letter about the parking on our main street. This has long been a sore spot with me. I have counted as many as 10"- 12 cars' that belong to store and bank employees. Business must be good. There is a good parking lot, 1 block off the business section. Let's use it folks. Signed. A Customer. Canadian War Museum, 330 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, Ontario. KlA 0M8 1 September 1977. . Editor, Lucknow Sentinel, Box 400, I,ucknow, Ontario. Dear Sir or Madam: The Canadian War Museum seeks to strengthen its collection of military artifacts and at this time especially wishes to acquire uniforms, weapons, medals, mili- tary books, insignia and photo- graphs concerning the military history of North America from 1604 to the present. Artifacts relating to the allied and enemy forces from the First and Second World Wars, and from Peace Keeping Assignments are also of interest, as are the common everyday items used by Canadian military personnel in the war zones, in rest areas behind the lines, and at home. These are for display, future reference and research in the Canadian War Museum in the national capital and other allied Canadian military museums. The Canadian War Museum would ,be pleased to hear from_ you if you are able to assist in this require- ment. • Yours sincerely, L. F. Murray, Chief Curator, To the Editor: Best of luck with your commun- ity centre. This household is very familiar .with the problem you encounter with such projects. I can assure you, it's worth all the effort, as we in Shallow Lake have sure enjoyed our new facility this winter. June Shouldice, • Shallow Lake. Community Centre Lottery tickets left Share a ticket & win Walter Arnold, co-chairman of the fund raising committee for the Lucknow District Community Centre, said Monday that there are a very limited number of lottery tickets still available. The committee urges anyone wishing o share the purchase of a ticket to phone McDonagh Real Estate aid Barry McDonagh will arrangeor you to'purchase a part 4, of a ticket with someone else who wants to share a ticket. The building construction at Caledonian Park is progressing on schedule, said Arnold, and the new centre should be closed in by the end :of the week, with plumbers and electricians begin- ning their installations next week, A total of $17,835 has been donated to the funding of the project and a further list of donations follows: Mrs. Dorothy Anderson, Del - ton Burkhart, Albert Korten, Bill de Boer, John SpNrak, T. R. McKim, Mrs. Ellen Cardis, Mrs. -John Crowston, James' Hallam, Dave Swan, Mrs. Annie Swan, Joe Metzger, 'BP Canada Ltd., Ruth Helm, Robert Damsma, Richard Askes, Chris *Shelton, Grant Gollan, Wm. Beirnes, Mrs. E. Wightman, Hairy Calisr, Mrs. E. MacPherson, Rev. Geo. Garratt, Mrs. Margaret Fergus- on, Jack VanOsch, Mrs. B. Ritchie, *Eldon Miller, Mrs. Bill Hogan, Andrew Hamilton, John de Boer, Andrew Stutzman, Lucknow Agricultural Society, Mrs. Travis, Laverne Martin, Tony Miltenberg, Mrs. Tom Park, Ben Park, Frank Doherty.