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The Lucknow Sentinel, 1978-11-29, Page 1es in car fire Kincardine OPP have identified the victim of a fatal car fire north of Bervie, off Highway. 9, on November 24, as Burton Earl Hunter,. 33, of lot 25, concession 6, Kincardine Township. The accident occurred on Sideroad #25, Kincardine. Township, shortly after 10 p.m., when Hunter's car left the sideroad and. entered a field where it burst into flame, LUCKNOW ACCIDENT Constable Burgess of the Kincardine detachment -of -the OPP investigated a motor vehicle accident on Stauffer Street in Lucknow on November 25. A car driven by Donald Bushell, of Kincardine was proceeding north behind a vehicle driven by William Stanley of Lucknow. Stanley signalled to turn left, and Bushell moved into the southbound lane to drive around the Stanley vehicle, striking the Stanley vehicle in 'the rear. he A charge has been laid in the incident. INVESTIGATE COMPLAINTS . Kincardine OPP investigated a number of complaints in the area over the past/ week. William Percy, Kinloss,, reported a truck stolen, which was later recovered. Don. McNabb, Kinloss, made a wilful. damage complaint because of damage done to .his cottage. A complaint of wilful damage was made by Roy Havens on Ludgard Street, Lucknow, because of damage to his lawn. Michael Snobelen reported a window broken at Anderson's Flax Mill and a Christmas tree was reported stolen from the property of John Cleland, R. 1, Lucknow. The above incidents are still under investigation and no charges have been laid as yet. UCKN i andy Caiu4aper The Lions' annual candy candy cane caper is on again this Christmas. Representatives of the Lucknow district Lions and the Lucknow District Leo Clubs will be selling candy canes filled with candy from now until Christmas and the proceeds will go to community service work in our area. The candy canes are made by the P.R.I.D.E. Multicap Foundation, (Product- ive Rehabilitation aid Independent Develop- ment Through Employment), London. P.R.- I.D.E. employs physically, mentally or emotionally handicapped adults. Coming events on the Lucknow District Lionscalendar are the annual Ladies' Night, December 2, the annual Bachelor Night, December 11 and the yearly eye glass collection. SENT NEL Sll A Year In Advance $21.50 To U.S.A. and Foreign WEDNESDAY,, NOVEMBER 29, 1978 Single Copy 25e 32 PAGES Our annual Christmas Greeting issue, to be published during Christmas week, is an opportunity for business' people to extend Christmas greetings and good wishes to customers and friends. Plans for, . this year's edition are almost completed. Most businesses have been contacted, but if you have been missed, please contact; the .'Sentinel at 528-2822, to reserve space in this 'issue. St. Helens Farms received the Premier Sheep Exhibitor and Premier Sheep Breeder Banners at the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair in Toronto for the second year In a row. Wayne and Hugh Todd of St. Helens Fars are shown displaying the \banners; left to right are, David Reid, Wayne Todd, Dalt Willard, Hugh Todd and W. E. Burton. The Todd brothers also received the Royal Bonk Award and the Fred Hampton Trophy for Champion Market Lamb. Being a legislature page is fun Jeff Fillmore served as a page in the Ontario Legislature at Queen's Park in Toronto during the fall session and he found the opportunity to be "fun and challeng- ing". He doesn't think the experience has changed him much. He's learned that he could manage on his own in a city away from home, but he's much the same as he was before he left. -- Jeff saw an article in the Goderich Signal - Star about a student who had served as' a legislature page and became interested in applying himself. An Ontario Legislature page must be 12 or 13 years of age aid must have an 80 per cent average as a student. He nmst reeeive pertnission 'from his school principal to be absent from school and he must have accommodation in Toronto near Queen's Park. Jeff stayed with his grandmother who lives about a ten minute walk from the legislature. Page's duties include preparing the Members' books for each day's session and carrying messages. They arrive at the legis- lature by 9 a.m. and go into the house to make up the members' books including the bills introduced the day previous and the descriptions of the agenda for the afternoon 'session. Pages are on duty in the house for the questien and answer period at 2 p.m. and for the introduction of 'bills, reports, motions and orders of the day, that carry on through the afternoon untit 6 p.m. . Jeff worked every day except Wednesday afternoon and Friday afternoon and he worked Monday evening from 8 - 10 p.m. He attended school Wednesday morning, taking spelling, , math, language, literature and history. There were 11 girls and 11 boys serving as pages while Jeff was at the legislature during October and November. Pages are paid X10 a day and $6.50 if they work at night. Jeff doesn't know if he will persue a career in politics, but he would be interested in serving as a page in the Federal Parliament in Ottawa, but he has to wait until he is enrolled in university to be a federal page. Jeff is the son of Ralph and Iris Fillmore, R. R. 3 Goderich. He has a younger sister, Heidi, and is a grade 8 student at Brookside Public School. You can get in on the winnings of yet another` lottery. The OHA Power Play Lottery has been set up in aid of amateur hockey in Ontario and will be held twice yearly. The first draw is January 27, 1979, and tickets for this draw are available now from the Bank of Montreal, the Lucknow Arena and Bill Hunter, chairman of the Lucknow Recreation Committee. Each ticket costs just . Si. A percentage of the proceeds from the lottery will come back to our local amateur hockey association for use in support of CONTINUED ON PAGE 10 Santa's Mailbag Santa phoned the Sentinel this week and asked if we would once again help Lucknow youngsters get their Christmas letter to him. Letters . to Santa should be mailed to Santa's Mailbag, c/o The Lucknow Sentinel, Box 400, Lucknow. The Sentinel will publish as many letters as possible, ,the weeks before Christmas, — and we'll make sure all letters are forwarded to the North Pole, in plenty of time for Santa to make his deliveries" Christmas Eve.