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L•CKN
SENTINEL
"The Sepoy Tow&
Established 1873
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'This week's Jamboree picture features • well known Ludlow
businessman as • child. Do you recognise the face? if you
think you do, call the Sentinel at S211.2822 with your answer.
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In light of the season, Easter dedicated to the
celebration of life's renewal, it is especially disturbing that
United Stated president Ronald Reagan has announced to
the American people that he plans to spend millions to dev•
&op super weapons that might end the risk of nuclear war,
Par from a scientific reality, a war in space does not
guarantee that the United States could successfully fight a
limited nuclear war and survive the horrendous destruction
of a Hiroshima. We already have the power to destroy this
planet beyond any regeneration and any money spent on
new weapons could be wasted because these weapons may
become outdated before they can be built.
The road to peace is through painstaking negotiations
with the Russians around a conference table.
Despite Ronald Reagan the movement for nuclear
disarmament is growing and gaining momentum around the
world,
At this Eastertide, the Christian observance of rebirth,
life after death and the celebration of life, let us pray for
peace, let us work towards a lasting and meaningful peace.
Let us tell the powers in Ottawa and Washington that we
want PEACE and we choose life,
The alternative is annihilation,
letters
Dear Editor:
This letter is in reference to the Teeswater Junior Farmers
Dance held at the Teeswater Community Centre Saturday,
March 26,
The major concern is that the bar was closed without
warning at midnight by a liquor inspector and those who still
had tickets were refused a cash refund,
The Junior Farmers owed it to the people, as their right, to
refund the money for the drinks that were not made available
to the guests. However we were told this was against their
"rules".
.
They belly -ached about how much money they stood to lose
because of the inconvenience. How can you lose when you
have taken money and given nothing in return? When
inquiries were made as to why refunds for these tickets were
not made, ridiculous, irrelevant examples of pigs and feed
were given. We were told that they didn't care if we ever
came back.
This letter is not intended to incriminate all Junior
Farmers, it just seems that the executive of this particular
group were taking advantage of a bad situation and robbing
individuals of their rights.
Steve Brydges, John D. Barger
Paul Nichol, Rob Nicholson
Bonnie Raymond
More to Easter tradition than eggs
There's more to Eastertime tradi-
tion and lore than the chocolate
bunnies, Easter eggs and hot cross
buns we've come to associate with this
important annual holiday. In fact,
many Easter traditions have a fascin-
ating history dating back to pre -
Christian times,
According to Venerable Bede, an
ancient Christian philosopher, our use
of the name Easter - for the day of
Christ's resurrection - originates from
"Eostre", the name of an Anglo'
Saxon deity. As goddess of dawn,
Spring and fertility, Eostre was
honoured at a festival occurring
around the same time as our present
celebration of Easter,
Some traditional Easter foods have
their roots associated with the past, as
well. The serving of pork as a smoked
or cooked ham, or pork roast at Easter
or any important celebration,, is a
custom that goes back a long time.
During the middle ages, the Germans
and Slays ate roast pork on Christmas.
Day, while the English served wild
boar, a distant relative, Today, roast
pork is a favourite wedding dish in
many parts of Europe, Among numer-
ous Asian and European countries, the
pig is a symbol of good luck and
prosperity. Remember your piggy
bank? It's a carry over of this ancient
symbol of wealth.
Lamb is also popular at this time,
and often viewed as the most
important of Easter symbols. Follow-
ing the adoption of a special Benedic-
tine prayer for the blessing of lambs in
the ninth century, a whole roast lamb
became the main feature of the Pope's
Easter dinner for centuries. This
ancient tradition is still conducted in
many parts of eastern Europe, except
that portions of Iamb are used, instead
of a whole one. Thought to represent
Christ, the lamb is often presented in
candy or pastry form, for use as an
Easter table centerpiece.
Although special foods are import-
ant at this time of year, water rites
were, and still are, favourite pastimes
of this season. Water was believed to
have magical powers, and the ancients
sprinkled it on their women and girls
in order to bless them with good
health and fertility, The custom is still
prevalent in many parts of Europe and
South America. in Pisac, a small town
high in the Peruvian Andes, the water
rites are a little more boisterous.
Instead of the harmless sprinkles,
buckets of water are tossed from
moving pickup trucks..... m. way of
avoiding retaliation!
Bathing in a river or- strea on
Easter Sunday is another popular
water rite. Running water is said to be
'blessed" and full of tremendous
healing powers - but only on Easter
Sunday. Folk legend suggests that if
you bottle some of this special water,
it's supposed to stay fresh until the
following Easter - and still retain its
healing magic.
Another folk remedy for illness
involves bread baked on Good Friday.
According to legend, a few crumbs of
this bread takenwith water will cure
any sickness. The 'hot cross bun' is
Good Friday's most famous bread. Its
origin is attributed to several pagan
sources. During Anglo Saxon times,
for example, the buns are marked
with a cross in honour of the goddess
of light. The same marking was also
used by the ancient Greeks in honour
of another deity, the moon goddess.
Hot Gross buns were also thought to
be endowed with ethereal powers.
Merely hanging one in your home was
believed to protect it from evil spirits
and fire.,
Lucknow marks 125th anniversary
Editor's notes
The following article appeared in
the Toronto Globe and Mail February
26. Ted Collyer of Lucknow submitted
it to the Sentinel to be published for
the interest of our readers.
Lucknow anniversary
This year, the town of Lucknow on
highway 86, 12 miles west of Wing -
ham, is celebrating its 125th anniver-
sary..
If you had been driving along the
highway in your Model T during the
1920s, you would have come to a sign:
YOU ARE IN LUCKNOW, DRiVE
CANNY, On -the other side of the sign
the words were lettered. WELCOME
TO OUR SEPOY TOWN.
Three-quarters of the early settlers
of the area were Scots expelled from
the Highlands by The Clearances to
make room for sheep. The Clearances
refer to the time when Scottish land-
owners drove the crofters - men hired
to work the land- from their properties
so that they could raise sheep, a more
profitable venture at this time, This bit
of history may help to explain the
Do you know
these faces?
(;all the
Sentinel
Drive Canny on a Lucknow sign, but
how did Lucknow gets its name? Why
a Sepoy town?
Two Scottish regiments, the Argylls
and the Sutherlands, in India during
the Sepoy Rebellion of 1858, raised the
siege of Lucknow, Scots, who had
come to make their home in the
Queen's Bush of Huron and Bruce
Counties in Ontario, had close ties
with these regiments. When their
town was incorporated in 1873, they
chose the name Lucknow.
The first inhabitant of Lucknow,
history notwithstanding, was a Germ-
an fellow named Eli Stauffer. He build
a saw mill where the Lucknow River is
joined by the Nine Mile River. He had
received a grant of two hundred acres
of land in 1865 and two years later, he
sold lots for what would later form the
town residential section. Soon, a grist
and flour mill were added.
Later, a small spindle factory made
wooden bobbins which were shipped
to England for use in weaving. (One of
our first export trades!) For years, a
furniture factory on the main street
made sturdy tables, many of which
found their way to Western Canada
with homesteaders. A 10 -hour day in
the furniture factory earned a man a
dollar in those days. The town of
Lucknow also boasted a thriving dairy
- milk was six cents a quart.
In 1856, the first log kirk in the area
was built at South Kinloss, a mile and
a quarter from the site on which
Lucknow would later be established.
In those days, church was important,
although organ music was not a frill to
be tolerated - a precentor found the
note with a tuning fork to begin the
hymn. Also important to social life
were barn raisings, quilting bees,
auction sales, family reunions and
funerals. The noisiest gathering was
probably the chivari when a newly
married couple were serenaded with
cow bells and tin pans until a treat of
some kind was provided for the noise-
makers.
Early in the town's development,
the Lucknow Fair became an institu-
ticn. The steep bank along one side of
the Fair Grounds provided space for
good viewing of horse races, ball
games and the like. Boys went
through the crowd hawking "Pelee
island grapes - 25 cents a basket!"
Best wishes to the town of Lucknow
in 198i