HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1978-11-08, Page 29Honour 60 year veterans
Veterans of the First World War were
recognized on Saturday, November 11, at
the 1978 Remembrance Banquet of the
Lucknow Branch #309 of the Royal
Canadian Legion.
This Remembrance Day was the 60th
anniversary of the signing of the Armistice
on the lith day of the 11th month at the
11th hour.
Sixty year veterans from the Lucknow
area were Wilfred Anderson, Dan Nicol-
son, Tom Salkeld, Allister Hughes and
Jessie Johnston, widow of Noble Johnston.
Guests at the banquet included local
dignitaries who spoke briefly and com-
mented on the Legion's community service
work. Those who attended were Murray
Gaunt, MPP; George Joynt, Reeve of
Lucknow; Barry Johnston, Reeve of
Kinloss; Warren Zinn, Reeve of Ashfield
e
and Bob Lyons, Reeve of West Wawanosh,
Presentation of service pins was made.
The Past President pin was presented to H.
D. Thompson by President Russell Whitby;
30 year pin to Anna Johnstone by Past
President H. D. Thompson; 25 year pin to
Susan McNaughton and Agnes Thomson
by Ladies' Auxiliary President Joan Robin-
son;
obinson; 10 year pin. to Verna Gardner and '
Colleen Eedy by Joan • Robinson.
A cheque was . presented to Legion
President Russell Whitby by the Ladies'
Auxiliary President Joan Robinson.
Grace was said by Branch Padre Rev.
George Garratt. Bruce Wamsley, First Vice
President, gave the Toast to the Queen.
President, Russell Whitby, gave the Toast
to fallen Comrades.
Joan Robinson, President of the Ladies
Auxiliary, thanked the Trinity United
Church" Women who catered to the meal
and Mrs. John Hunter replied.
The guests listened to a, tape-recording
of the "The Last Post" written and.
narrated by Donald A. Campbell, Luck-
now, which had been aired on CKNX radio
at 11 ' o'clock that morning.
A church service was held at the
Christian Reformed Church, Lucknow, at
10 a,m, with Rev, Van Staalduinen as guest
speaker, assisted by Rev. Doug Kaufman
of the Lucknow United Church.
A Laying of the Wreaths ceremony was
conducted at the cenotaph on Campbell
Street at 11 a.m.
Wreaths: were, laid by Russell Whitby, on
behalf of the Legion; Gordon Montgomery,
the Province of Ontario; Joan Robinson,
the Ladies' ^.Auxiliary, Reeve George Joynt,
the Village of Lucknow; Mary MacGilliv-
ray, Lucknow Women's Institute; Bill
Bogues, Lucknow Business Association;
Walter Arnold, the Lucknow District Lions
Club; Barry Hackett, the Lucknow District
Kinsmen Club;. Barb Helm, The Lucknow
District Kinettes; Kathryn McKim, Luck -
now Girl Guides.
Doug Clark and Ken Irwin played the
Last Post and Reville at the cenotaph. The
Lucknow Concert Band provided the music
for the parade and the cenotaph ceremony.
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Reeve George ; Joynt of Lucknow aria
Reeve Warren Zinn of . Ashfield were
returned in Monday's ~municipal: election.
Joynt defeated councillor William (Bud)
Hamilton . and Zinn, won over. former
deputy -reeve Finlay -MacDonald.
In West Wawanosh . Jim. Aitchison,
Marybe lie Cranston, J. D. Durnin and Joe
Hickey won council seats. Carl Seeger was
defeated. Cra$ston and Hickey were
incumbents and Aitchison and Durnin have
servedon council previously.
There was a 65 per cent voter turnout in
Lucknow where Joynt . took 379 votes to
Hamilton's 274,. a majority of 105.
In Ashfield Zinn's margin was 194 taking
529 votes to 'MacDonald's 335.
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George Whitby, Bud Hamilton and Stuart Collyer show off the
Lucknow District Fire Department's new pumper. The truck, which
cost $43,000, was purchased In Pierrevil e, Quebec and brought to
Lucknow a week. ago by Whitby, Hamilton and Stuart Reavie. The
department has been budgeting for the new truck for the last six years.
The old pumper, which is 15 yeas old, will be used as a backup for a
fire in town, when the new pumper Is on call to the country. [Sentinel
staff photo]
Agriculture, a branehplant industry
If foreign ownership of farmland in
Ontario is allowedto continue without
controls provided by provincial legislation,
agriculture is . on its way to becoming a
branch plant :industry, says Ashfield
farmer, Merle Gunby, president of the
Huron Federation of Agriculture.
"It may tie in that _foreign ownership is
a reflection of the Canadian philosophy to
import industry rather than develop it
here," says Gpnby. "Canada has sold off
her resources' to make a fast buck and then
imported' the finished product. The result
is a branch plant economy. Now they're
trying to do . the same thing with
agriculture."
In Ashfield Township, close to 1,600
acres of farmland is owned : by a Germ
chemical company. The company is owned
by a wealthy German family who wants a
place to. invest them money.
The first two miles east of Kingsbridge,.
along the sixth and seventh concessions of
Ashfield, was ohcc a thriving community of
family farms . but it is now a stretch of
neglected property.
Barns show gaping holes, because rotten
boards have not been replaced; houses and
barns need freshening with a new coat of
paint; lawns and gardens are patches of
weeds and at one farm a huge pit silo has
been allowed to grow over. •
Farmers in Ashfield are concerned about
absentee owners who invest their money in
farmland and lease it back to farmers who
live in the area. They do not live on the
land or farm it themselves, and as a result,
they take no interest in the upkeep of the
property: Buildings stand empty and
deteriorate and the productivity of the land
decreases because of poor drainage,
The property and assessment committee
of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture
has set up an action committee, to present
a brief background on the subject of
non-resident . foreign ownership, at the
federation's annual convention this month.
The OFA action is based on increasing
concern about higher land prices, the low-
ering of interest in the social structure of
the community and non-resident foreign
investors gaining on the lower value of the
Canadian dollar.
Corporate investors competing for farm-
land drives up the price of the land and
large blocks of land bought up by absentee
landowners causes disintegration of the
community and allows deterioration of the
farm buildings.
The OFA concern about non-resident
ownership originated in Huron County
where Turnberry and Ashfield Townships
have large blocks of land owned by
non-residents who invest their money in
farmland. •
Vincent Austin of Kingsbridge, who
once owned one of the farms on the 6th
concession, wants government legislation,
to prevent anyone from buying farmland,
unless they plan to live on the land and
farm it. Shouldabsentee owners be
allowed to continue buying up farmland, he
worries there will be no good farmland
left in the township tor sons to the
community to ' buy, when they start
farming.
He wonders what will happen to villages
like Lucknow and Kinsbridge, if it
continues, because there will be no people
on the farins to support the villages.
Productivity on this land is not as high as
• it should be, says Austin, because these
owners do not drain the land and on one
farm in the area, owned by a German
investor, the crop of corn is not worth
taking off, because it is so wet. -
Austin wants provincial controls like
those in other Canadian provinces. In
Manitoba and Prince Edward Island, a
non-resident owner cannot own more than
20 acres. In Saskatchewan, a non-farm
corporation cannot own more than 160
acres and if it does, the company must sell
the acreage ekceeding the limit..
Eleven states in the United States have
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