The Lucknow Sentinel, 1978-11-29, Page 2. 2--Luclmow $cannel, Wednesday, November 29, 1978
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Jeff Fillmore is shown with MPP Murray Gaunt at the Ontario Legislature, Queen's Park,
Toronto were Jeff served as a legislature pageduring the fall session. A grade 8 student at
Brookside Public School, Jeff found the experience challenging and fun.
A champ
Editor's note:
of many. things
_ The following article appeared as a
feature in the Crescent -.Town Crier, a
community- newspaper in the community
where Sandy Nicholson lives in Toronto.
Mr. Nicholson is a freelance writer who has
done articles for the Sentinel.
NAME: SANDY NICHOLSON
Name: Sandy Nicholson
Occupation: Retired, : 'athlete, politician,
church minister, farmer, fund raiser...
Tommy Douglas, the former national
NDP leader, says he's probably. the most
compassionate person he's ever known as
well as the best fund raiser in the country,
even though he hasn't been doing it for.
years.
He'll be 78 next month 'and ' confines.
himself to his latest hobby colleting oral
history of thi&'country, He has .more than
200 hours of tape" of rernhiisc+ences of such
persons as one-time CCF leader M. J.
Coldwell, poetess Enda Jacques, former
hockey .great Syl Apps, ex -United Church
moderator °Robert McClure, famous surg-
eon Wilder Penfield, MP Stanley Knowles,
Ontario Education Minister Dr, Bette
Stephenson, Douglas of course, and many
other well-known Canadians.
Many of the tapes are in the pub
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archives of Ontario and Canada.
To . help transcribe all those hours of
words he's taking typing lessons and has
set up office space in the bedroom of 'his
Building 7 apartment. It's no wonder his
wife, with whom he recently celebrated 50
years of marriage, complains he works too
hard. But she's used ,to- it by now..'..
As a young man he was school champ in
the 100 -yard dash, ran the 220, threw the
discus, hammer and shot put and played
football at the University of Saskatchewan.
Then he was ordained a minister in the
United Church and served mostly in
Hudson Bay Junction in northwestern
Saskatchewan. .
He once bought a cow in the Depression ..
and 'there's a story told: that you :could
always tell who was pregnant in the area
because the cow would be parked outside
her door. He never took up a collection or
charged.a:rarriage fee during those tough
years.
In 1935 he became the only organizer in
the country on a'salary (after failing to be
elected as a CCF candidate). His pay, $50 a
month, and expenses were guaranteed by a
successful farmer, who was impressed by
this enthusiasm and ability. ,
He helped organize the CCF's election
,successes in Saskatchewan, won election
himself to the House of Commons in 1940
and 1945, lost in 1949, won again in 1953
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