HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1978-05-17, Page 1Organization meeting tonight
Lucknow Farmers' Market needs vendors
If you're one of the local
gardeners whose green thumb
gets carried away and you have
bushel baskets of peas you can't
eat or your imagination has run
away with you through the long
winter evenings and you've got
macrame hangers coming out of
your ears, The Lucknow Farmers'
Market is the place to sell your
goods.
The Farmers' Market needs
vendors. A meeting is to be held
tonight in the Town Hall at 8.00
p.m. to organize the market and
to determine a core of vendors
who will sell at the market.
The market is scheduled to
open on June 10 and run every
Saturday morning between 8 a.m.
and 1 p.m. until October 28
except for the Saturday of the
Craft Festival, June 28 and 29 and
the Fall Fair, September 15 - 16.
The market will be located on
the western boundary of the Agri-
cultural Society property, east of
the Lucknow Sales Barn parking
lot. Bob McIntosh has 4aid- that
the sales barn parking lot can be
used for parking' on ' Saturday
mornings for the market.
To keep the market local,
vendors will be estricted to
residents of the: townships of
Ashfield, East ;.and West Wawa -
nosh, Huron, ,,,,.Kinloss, .Culross
and the village'4of Lucknow. The
limitations will avoid problems of
outside parties coming in with
wholesale prod, ce to sell cheap.
It also remo9es parties buying
crafts for resale. The seget,abl s, '-
fruits and other prodtce must be
locally grown and the crafts must
be hand made by the local
vendors. "Almost everybody
could produce something to sell,"
says Tony McQuail, of the
Lucknow Agricultural Society
which is supporting the Market.
Articles which may be sold of
:the mare. include home grown
produce, home baked goods, and
home made crafts. Such items
may include baked goods (exclud-
ing custards and custard pie
which require refrigeration),
eggs, honey, maple syrup,
sweets, flowers, plants, shrubs,
fruits, vegetables, refreshments,
firewood, and other farm and
garden produce, home canned
goods, home made articles and
crafts produced within the village
and townships.
Meat and dairy products will
not be offered at the market for
lack of refrigeration facilities.
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Produce is to be sold by quantity
not by weight.
The cost of renting a stall for
the vendors will be an introduc-
tory rate of $2 for the first
Saturday morning a vendor is at
the Market anda regular rate of
$3 a morning. The introductory
rate will, allow a vendor the
opportunity to get a feel for
whether the Market will work for
him.
The Market will be well
advertised by four signs at each of
the entrances to the village and
ads in distant newspapers.
Advertisements in city news-
papers will inform tourists of the
market and permit them to plan to
drive through Lucknow on a
Saturday morning or plan to go to
the cottage and return on the
Saturday morning.
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$10 A Year In Advance $14 To U.S.A. and Foreign
The committee of Larry Cowan,
Lucknow, Jo -Ann Todd, R. R. 2
Lucknow, and Tony McQuail, R.
R, 1 Lucknow, members of the
Lucknow Agricultural Society who
researched the idea of a market in
Lucknow, say the market needs a
core of vendors but it is also
important to organize the vendors
who will only come to sell when
their produce is ready.
A vendor is not required to rent
a stall for every Saturday and
therefore he may only come when
he has a product to sell. This will
take organization, though, to
determine the core vendors who
will sell every Saturday and those
who will come at different times
of the season.
Each vendor will report to the
market clerk if he is unable to get
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 1978
'Hamilton returns
to Village Council
William (Bud) Hamilton, who
tabled his resignation . from Luck -
now Village Council at the regular
monthly_ Council meeting in
March, returned to Council when
it met for its May meeting on May
Council refused to accept
Hamilton's resignation when he
did not attend the April meeting
and decided to wait until Hamil-
ton missed three consecutive
Council meetings before accept-
ing his resignation.
Hamilton would not comment
'~on his decision to return to
Council. He only said- that the
other members of .Council knew
he would be attending the May
meeting.
Hamilton resigned when Reeve
George'Joynt brought up further
discussion of a dispute between
Council and The Reeve, over the
hiring of Robert Symes, Lucknow
contractor, to do the snow
removal for the town this past
winter.
Christmas lights
for main street
The Christmas season will
brighter this year in Lucknow
because the main street will be
trimmed with colourful Christmas
decorations.
A red bell hanging from a
yellow scroll lit up with Christmas
lights will trim ,the light posts
along themain street.
Bill Bog -ties, .representing the
Lucknow Business Association
and Belle Mole and . Audrey
MacDonald of the Lucknow and
District Horticultural Society at-
tended the Council meeting on
May 9 to discuss with Council the
purchase of new Christmas decor -
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Interim tax levy due
The first installment of the 1978
property tax to the ratepayers of
Lucknow will be due on June 15.
This interim tax levy is for 50
percent of the total amount at a
mill rate of 14 mills.
Council feels it is easier for
ratepayers to pay SO percent in
June than November which is so
close to Christmas so the larger
portion of the levy is paid in June.
Council hopes that the mill rate
is on target for this year's budget.
Last year the final levy amounted
to a higher amount than the levy
in June because of an auditor's
error.
Wingham man hurt
in Dungannon accident
An accident Monday morning
% mile west of Dungannon on the
4th concession of Ashfield Town-
ship involving a tractor trailer
transport sent a Wingham man to
hospital with leg injuries.
Brian Hogg is in satisfactory
condition in Wingham and Dist-
rict Hospital.
Mr. Hogg lost control of the
truck which he drives for Brindley
Transport, R. R. • 4, Goderich,
when the front tire blew out. He
was pinned in the wreckage and
the Lucknow Fire Department
was called to the scene.
When the firemen arrived, the
Wingham ambulance drivers had
already cleared Mr. Hogg from
the cab of his truck and were
leaving to take him to hospital.
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ROCK-A-B'YE "BABY" Michele Andrew, 2, rocks her dolly, "Baby", in a wicker cradle in "An Old
Fashioned Parlour" at the Lucknow Horticulture Spring. Tea on May 10, Michele's great grandmother,
Mrs. Thomas MacDonald made the dress "Baby" wears, A trellis of lilacs and arrangements of spring
dowers highlighted the antique settee, parlour tables, quilts, rockers and old clocks which set the
atmosphere for the tea. Story and pictures are on page 27 4