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Home My WebLink AboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1983-05-18, Page 6editorial page Lucknow Sentinel, Wednesday, May 18, 1983—Page 6 .Q, LUCKNIWSENTINEL "The Sepoy Tow®„ Established 1873 THOMAS A .1 HOMPSON • Adserttstng SHARON J. DIETZ - Editor PAT LIVINC;STON • Office Manager JOAN HELM Compositor MERLE ELLIOTT - 1ypesetter Manager Business and Editorial Office 1 clephone 52h-2622 Mailing Address P Box 400, Lucknow . NO(; 2H0 Second CLAN Mail Regtstratuin Number 0847 Subscription rate, 515.25 per year In ad. ance Senior Citizen rate, $12.75 per year In advance U.S.A.'and Foreign, 538.00 per year in advance Sr. Cit. U.S.A. and Foreign, $36.00 per year in *thence Support council The image of Lucknow Village Council has taken a beating this past week with the news that the village's sewage works proposal must be withdrawn from Ontario Municipal Board consideration, because the village no longer has an option to purchase land for the sewage treatment facility. While there will be undue delay as council seeks to purchase another site for the sewage treatment plant, the residents of the village should remember council has worked long and hard to get to this stage in the proceedings necessary to have sewers installed in the village. Council prepared their first proposal and submitted it to the Ministry of Environment for approval, only to receive word that it would have to be re -submitted because the program for financing sewers in the province was being reorganized. The financial arrangements for the sewage proposal are less than favourable as the cost to the taxpayer is prohibitive and will cause undue financial burden for some village ratepayers. Council prepared a brief and submitted it to the minister of environment showing the cost of the proposal and how it will affect mill rates in the village. Council argued the increased mill rate, the hook up fee and resulting increase in water rates would create undue hardship for many ratepay- ers, especially those with young families to raise and senior citizens on fixed incomes. Council sent the proposal to the Ontario Municipal Board for its approval in the hope that an OMB hearing will be called and the residents of the village will be given the opportunity to object to the financing arrangement. Council has worked diligently on the proposal and they are continuing to work in the best interests of the village and its ratepayers. While you are criticizing council for the delay you might also offer a word of encouragement. Council deserves the support of every ratepayer. Miller should stay Ontario treasurer Frank Miller announced in the legislature yesterday he will not resign because of the budget leak and rightly so. The printing of budget information in the Toronto Globe and Mail after a Globe reporter found discarded budget galleys in a garbage bag, outside the printing firm which had the job of printing the budget, is not a "budget leak" the minister can be held responsible for. if a journalist is going to sort through someone else's garbage to find budget information, it can hardly be considered a budget leak and it certainly does not fall under the definition of investigative journalism. indeed, police are investigating whether the reporter should be charged with theft as garbage is considered private property. Canadian journalistic standards have fallen to an all time low when a paper with the stature of the Globe and Mail can believe it is in the public's best interest to print a story obtained in this manner. investigative journalism has a significant role to play in a free and democratic society, where the press acts as a sentinel to preserve the freedoms and rights of the ordinary citizen, should government seek to ignore or destroy these rights. A serving of garbage at the breakfast table when one receives his morning paper is not investigative journalism and goes a long way to discredit the image of journalists in this country. Clarification An editorial in last week's Sentinel criticized Reeve George .Joynt for not attending a meeting of ratepayers who live in the area to be serviced by sewers. Reeve Joynt points out that he could not attend the meeting for fear of jeopardizing thc application for approval of the sewage project which was before the Ontario Municipal Board at the time. The OMB frowns on members of municipal council advising ratepayers to object to a sewage proposal. The council members who did attend the meeting did not advise ratepayers to object to the proposal. They acted as resource people to explain the proposal and answer rate- payers questions concerning the cost of the project to individual taxpayers. Choose a Jamboree project today Jamboree pictures Can you identify these school children? The children In the top picture attended Kintatl schooland the bottom pic- ture shows students at Para- mount School. Phone the Sentinel 528.2822 with your answers. letters to the editor To the Editor: On behalf of Wingham and District Branch #5381 (Region 1) of the Canadian Diabetes Association we would like to thank all of you who have given so generously to the annual diabetes appeal. The funds raised go to developing educational materials and for ongoing research into new and better ways to control and, hopefully, find a cure for diabetes. There are approximately 60 known diabetics in the Lucknow arca. Dia- betes develops when the pancreas fails to produce enough effective insulin for the body to convert food to energy. It affects more than one million Canadians. Its complications - blindness, kidney disease, gangrene. heart disease and stroke - makes it the Third leading cause of death, Thank you for caring. We would also like to thank thc following canvassers - LUCKNOW - Mildred Bushell. Noma Campbell. Mary Cleland. Jean Conley, Ruth Conley. Grace Elliott, Steven Hall. Jessie Johnston. Mildred Loree. Fern MacDonald, Muriel Moffat, Heidi Pritchard, Ruth Pritchard and Mabel Whitby, TEAM CAPTAINS Audrey MacDonald and Susan Moffat. ASH - FIELD TOWNSHIP - Isabel Adams. Sherry Alton. Suzanne Andrew, Rose Bowler Austin. Mary Ann Brindley. Cathy Cook. Teresa Courtney, Sandra Curran. Kim Dickson, Fran Elphick, Ina Farrish, Winnifred Girvin. Eliza- beth Irwin. Jane Matier, Lynda McNee. Ilene Sillib, Nancy Swan and Warren Zinn, TEAM CAPTAIN Grant Farrish. if you were missed and would like to make a tax-deductible contribution mail it to Teresa Courtney. R. R. # 1, Dungannon. Treasurer C.D,A, As Region 1 covers a large area, we arc attempting to hold information meetings in the different towns. See this weeks "Coming Events'. for a meeting at the Godcrich Hospital on Thursday, May 19. Another is planned at thc Walkerton Hospital for May 26. Join us. Diabetes isn't swect....Life is Wingham Branch Canadian Diabetes Association. To the Editor; The Lucknow and District Kinsmen Club would like to thank all the skaters and people who pledged money in their recent skate-a-thon. For the second consecutive year. Ken Neabcl was the top money earner collecting over 5120. Second place went to Rod Crich and Jennifer Dalton placed third. Honourable mention goes to Jamie Johnston, Paul Helm, Jason Haldenby and Kristi Stanley, who each collected $50. Other skaters who participated included: Colleen (onlay. Chris Con- ley. Jackie Murray, Sherry Murray, Rick Johnson, Doug Helm. Nathaniel Wolfe, Barbara Smith, Steven Rintoul, Scott McMichael. Jeff McMichael, Ronnie Kunkel, Richie Kunkel, Jeff Cardiff, Shauna Andrew, Warren Andrew, Tammy Newhook, Adrian Helm, Cathy Conley, Janine Helm, John Hardy, Branda Gibson, Bobby Thomson. Charlene Conley, Mike Arenburg, Steven de Jong, Michelle Henry, Bev Aitchison, Joanne Mur- ray, Jodie Kerr, Darren Henry, Clint Murray, Russell Sutton, Heather Pricstap, Mark McConnell, Julie Nicholson, Steve McEwan, Shaun McEwan. Julie Pentland. Scott Rin- toul, .Joc Carmichael. Tim Moss, Penny Moss, Scott Allen, Lyndon Johnston and Robert Helm. Skaters who have not turned in their pledges should do so immediately as thcv are long overdue. Rod McDonagh, Kin Skate-a-thon chairman To the Editor: The Whitechurch Women's Insti- tute wishes to extend sincere thanks to the volunteers who canvassed for the Canadian Cancer Society. Canvassers were Mrs. John Gaunt. Mrs, Bill Gibson. Mrs. Lorne Durnin and Mrs. . Donald Ross, Thanks also to the canvasser at Turnherry Estates. Sincerely, Agnes Farrier, president, Whitechurch Women's Institute