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Work on the roof reconstruction at Lucknow Central Public School has entered the second
phase. The reconstruction of the gymnasium ceding has been completed and the
reconstruction of the beams in the ceiling of the original part of the school is underway.
Phase one of the project, the gymnasium was completed by Allen -Hastings Ltd. of Chesley
and the tender for the second phase was awarded to Melloul-Blarney Construction Ltd. of
Kitchener. Total cost of the project will be $300,328 and 72 per cent will be paid by the
Ontario Ministry of Education with the Bruce County Board of Education funding the
remainder. The project Is to be completed by March 31. (Sentinel Staff Photo]
in the news
Bowling champion
Members of the Lucknow Youth Bowling
Club faired well at the Zone championship
held in Owen Sound on the weekend. Tracey
Livingston of Ashfield Township placed first
in the Junior girls division and advances to
the Ontario finals in Scarborough next
month. Tracey bowled 205, 241 and 185.
In the Junior boys division, Tim Becker
finished fourth with 266, 148, 181; in Bantam
girls, Kim Tyler was sixth with 146, 197,
132. in Bantam boys action, Scott Allen was
eighth with 116, 136, 204 and in Senior boys,
Bruce Elliott was fifth with 163, 190, 210.
The Bantam boys team of Luke Cranston,
David Elliott, Jason Stanley and Paul and
Adrian Helm finished ninth.
Answer fire call
Lucknow firemen answered a call Sunday
afternoon at the residence of Jim Boyle,
Lucknow where a car was badly damaged by
fire. In the evening about 7.45 p.m. firemen
were called to a chimney fire at the hon9e of
George MacDonald, Ashfield Township.
Valentine euchre party
A very successful Valentine euchre party
was held February 9 in the Lucknow Legion
Hall, sponsored by the Lucknow and District
Horticultural Society, capably convened by
board director, Vi Arnold, assisted by Edith
Webster, Ruth Pritchard and Edna Mc-
Donald.
Identify picture
The identification of the ladies pictured in
last week's Jamboree '83 photo of the Luck -
now Presbyterian Women's Missionary So-
ciety are as follows: front, left to right, Fern
MacDonald, Mary Fisher, Kathleen Forster,
Grace Taylor and Grace Gammie. Back left
to right, Evelyn Little, Nellie Reid, Isabel
Mullin, Maud Sherwood, Marion Peterson,
Maudie Fisher, Kay McCormick, Winnie
Fisher, Pearl Jamieson. Jessie Johnston,
Audrey MacDonald, Celia Aitchison, Kav
McIntosh,, and Winnie Gammie.
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Lueknow Village Council passed motions
at their February 8 meeting appointin,g Gary
Austin as ton foreman to replace Cliff
Crawford who has retired and Doug Halden-
by as village works employee to take the
position previously held by Austin.
Austin will be paid a salary of S18,000 per
annum for a 40 hour week and overtime will
not be paid until after 44 hours. He will be
paid for emergency work however, such as
restoring hydro to the village during storms.
Haldenby will be paid S17,000 a year for a
40 hour week.
The village clerk -treasurer, Bertha Whit -
croft was hired last year at a salary of
S17,500 and will receive regular increases
according to the agreement reached a year
ago. These increases are not subjected to the
provincial inflation restraint guidelines be-
cause the contract was agreed to prior to the
imposition of the guidelines.
The town foreman and the works
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employee will not have their incrreasta
subjected to the five per cent guidelines
this year because they have been appointed
to new positions. Appointments to new
positions are notcovered by the guidelines.
An employee starts at the salary level
designated for the position.
Floyd Milne of Lucknow applied for and
received an increase of five per cent for
pickup and hauling away garbage in the
village, This will increase Ms fee to 5275 a
week.
Council passed a motion that the village
employees be requested to submit the dates
of their vacation period by April 1 of the year
the vacation is to be taken,
Council also passed a motion to set the
interest rate to be charged on tax arrears in
1983. The amount presently being charged is
214A per cent per annum, and the rate will
remain the same in 1983.
Crow's Nest revisions could
harm livestock industry
The Crow's Nest Pass grain freight rate
revisions could hurt the Ontario livestock
industry, the president of the Ontario
Federation of Agriculture (OFA) said this
week,
"The problem is that no one really knows
what the impact of the new rates on the east
will be," Ralph Barrie said. "One prediction
is that western livestock output could jump
SI billion by 1990. Obviously that would hurt
Ontario.'
Under the new federal plan the western
grain farmer's net cost of shipping grain will
increase from 54,89 per tonne to S7,10 per
tonne over the next three years. To offset
this, western farmers will receive $204
million and a railway development package
of S3,5 billion.
Because it will cost more to ship prairie
grain to market, western grain producers
could sell grain to prairie livestock producers
at a lower relative price than in Ontario to
save on shipping costs.
"if this happens, western livestock
producers will have a cost advantage over
Ontario," Barrie said. "And profit margins
are already cut to the bone,"
Most beef calves are raised in the west
then sent to the east to be fattened for
market. About 500,000 head are sent to
Ontario each year. But with the price
advantage in the west, prairie cattlement
could fatten their own calves. This would
lead to a price war as both east and west
would bid for the calves,. Higher calf prices
would lower profit margins, Barrie pointed
out,
Western pork producers may also increase
production, leading to increased competition
for export sales.
The only direct benefit to eastern Canada
is a five year S175 million program for
agricultural development. Quebec's share is
S93 million, while Ontario gets S16 million.
"The big question in the OFA's mind is if
the S16 million will offset any negative
effects of the new freight rates on eastern
livestock," Barrie said.
Ontario taxpayers will also bear part of the
cost of the new Crow rate. Under the federal
announcement, billions of dollars from
federal revenues will go to western farmers
and the railroads. Ontario taxes make up
about 45 per cent of federal income tax
payments,
"Directly, our livestock farmers could pay
through higher animal prices, Indirectly,
Ontario taxpayers will pay for much of the
program," Barrie said.
SERF stresses employability
The Ontario Minister of Education's
response to the Secondary Education Review
Project (SERP) will affect few changes in
Bruce County schools according. to Don
Carroll, a superintendant with the board.
Carroll agreed with statements made by
Robert McCall, Huron County Board of
Education superintendant of program, car-
ried in a story about the project in last
week's Sentinel.
Carroll said the focus of the minister's
changes will be on work and employability
skills across the whole curriculum centering
on general level students.
SERP recommendations that courses be
offered at three levels of difficulty have been
accepted by the Ministry. These three levels
of difficulty are general, basic and advanced
and are along the same lines as the previous
two year, four year and five year programs,
but are to be for each course,
in the Minister's response to the SERP
project she states the general level course
"will be designed to prepare students for
citizenship, for employment, for continuous
learning and for enjoyment and the practise
of the arts".
Carroll said guidance courses will be
developed in grades seven and eight in the
elementary system which will be compul-
sory. These courses will be career oriented
and will stress the many careers available to
students, and the fact that in time of
recession, jobs are scarce and students must
choose their career carefully.
Carroll said computer data on careers is
available through Student information Ser-
vices and the information will be made
available to elementary students who can
use the information on file to learn more
about the types of careers available, the
careers where jobs are available and the
prerequisites for such careers.
Carroll also pointed out that 30 credits
must be completed for the Ontario Secon-
dary School Diploma. Most students will
complete the 30 credits in five years taking
the six Ontario academic courses in the fifth
year. The option is available however, for
students to take the 30 credits in four years
and complete their secondary education a
year earlier. Carroll believes Ontario acad-
emic courses will be standardized across the
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