HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1983-10-19, Page 1Single copy 3Sci
Published ht Lucknow, Ontario, Wednesday, October 19, 1983
20 Paged
Lancers will
play hockey
Following a two year absence Lucknow
will enter a team in the Ontario Hockey
Association Intermediate C League this
season. The Lucknow Lancers will play with
10 teams comprising two divisions. Lucknow
will play in division 2 against Palmerston,
Mount Forest and Paisley, Division three
consists of Milverton, Tavistock, New Ham-
burg, Elora, Mitchell and Wellesley.
The Lancers will play the teams in their
group four times and the teams in group
three in home and home series, for a 24
game schedule.
The playoff structure in group 2 will allow
all teams to participate. First place plays
fourth place; second plays third in the best
four out of seven.
The management of the team will be
under manager, David MacKinnon and
coach, Gary Dauphin.
The team has yet to have any ice time as
area arenas are already booked. Practice
times will be advertised on CKNX Televi-
sion, as soon as ice is available.
Purchase ball
diamond property
Rod McDonagh of the Lucknow Kinsmen
ball park committee attended the October 11
council meeting when he presented council
with $2 which council will use to pay
Anderson Flax Products for the purchase of
property where the new community ball park
is located.
McDonagh said work on the ball park is
continuing. Following the summer drought,
the infield grass was planted and more earth
and grass seed will be placed around the
outside. Stone dust will also be placed
behind the screen at home plate, next
summer.
The Kinsmen are planning a grand
opening of the ball park in time for next
summer's playing season.
The club is also looking forward to having
lights installed at the park for night games in
1985.
Remanded
.Allan Nicholson, 21, of Lucknow appeared
in Goderich Provincial Court on Monday to
face charges of dangerous driving and blood
alcohol levelover 80 millegrams. He was
remanded until January 27 for trial.
Nicholson was charged following a police
chase through Goderich Township Septem-
ber 25.
Wayne MacDonald, 23, R. 2. Lucknow
was also charged in the incident. He will
appear in Goderich Provincial Court on
Thursday to answer a charge of using license
plates authorized for another vehicle.
Show concern
for agriculture
The agriculture, tourism and planning
committee of Bruce County Council has
expressed concern with the lack of effective
provincial progtoms pertaining to the beef
industry in particular. The committee
recommended to Council at its September
meeting that County Council encourage the
Provincial Government to introduce a beef
stablization program, which would cover the
year 1983, in order that beef producers
would be in a position to compete with
producers in other provinces where such
programs exist.
The committee also suggested that the
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To celebrate C.G.1.T. Week, Lucknow C.G.I.T. members attended
the evening anniversary service at Lucknow United Church. The
group sang and enjoyed the Inspirational message of guest speaker,
Paul Henderson, former Lucknow resident and N.H.L. hockey
player. Members of the C.G.i.T. from the left are Debbie Atkinson,
Heather Priestap, Becky Ackert, Cindy Struthers, Brenda Gibson,
Kim Laidlaw, Charlene Conley, Colleen Conley, Dianne Wilson,
Donald* Thompson, Julie Davies, leader Barb Willits and Carol
Ferguson. (Photo by Sharon Dietz)
Lucknow mill rate up six per cent
The general mill rate for the Village of
Lucknow will increase six per cent this year
from 14,10 to 14.952 for residential and from
16.59 to 17.590 for commercial and business.
Base on an assessment of $10,000, a public
school supporter will see an increase of
$26.27 on his tax bill this year.
The mill rate was included in the 1983
budget which was presented to Lucknow
Village Council at their October 11 meeting.
Reeve George Joynt said the finances are
right on (target), the debenture debt is low,
road work is tapering off and when the
sewage prhject is started, the town should be
able to pick up the big end of the increase in
the mill rate to pay for the sewer project.
With road work tapering off and the
renovations to the Town Hall completed,
money will be available to fund the larger
portion of the increase to the mill rate
created by the sewage project.
The county of Bruce levy increases two per
cent from 4.38 to 4.471 residential and 5.15
to 5.260 for commercial and business.
The elementary public school rate increas-
es eight per cent from 9.84 to 10.443
residential and 11.58 to 12,286 commercial
and business.
Elementary separate rates go from 10.94
to 11,807 residential and from 12,87 to
13.890 commercial and business, an increase
of eight per cent,
The largest increase is in the secondary
school levy which increases 15 per cent from
7,2 to 8.281 residential and from 8.47 to
9.742 commercial and business.
The total general municipal expenditure
increases from 5290,733 in 1982 to a
budgeted figure of $314,400. The total
expenditure including education requisitions
is up from 5476,415 to S515, 983.
A budget breakdown shows general
municipal purposes cost 552,274 in 1982 and
S79,000 is budgeted this year, Protection to
persons and property cost $12,744 in 1982
and the 1983 budget has allocted 515,400.
Transprotation services cost $163,048 last
year and S168,700 is set aside in the 1983
budget. This includes $114,684 allocated for
street construction,
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Environmental services including garbage
collection and disposal cost 526,486 in 1982
and is estimated to cost 527,300 this year.
Health Services is predicted to cost less in
the 1983 budget reduced from 57,210 to
56,000 because the capital expenditure to
construct and pave the dental suite parking
lot will not recurr.
Recreation and cultural services will cost
599,375 up from $81,723 in 1982. Recreation
and cultural income amounted to 564,441
last year and 582,375 is budgeted for this
year.
Recreation and cultural services include
the following expenditures: arena salaries,
510,400; other arena expenditures, 529,600;
recreation program salaries, 521,000; other
recreation expenditures, 516,500; hockey
and skating ice time, 517,975; grants and
other services, 53,000; employment incent-
ive program, nil and library, $900,
Revenue from the arena including re-
ceipts, ice time and payments from other
Landfill site requires extensive work
The Ministry of Environment has inform-
ed the six municipalities using the Holmes-
ville Landfill Site that either extensive work
will have to be done to keep the site viable or
an alternate site will have to be found.
Lucknow Village Council learned of the
ministry's action at their regular October
meeting, October 11. Council received
letters from the consulting engineer and the
secretary of the Landfall Site Committee,
Larry McCabe, clerk -treasurer of the Town
of Goderich.
A meeting of the Landfill Sit committee
was held October 6 after the letter was sent
to council by McCabe and the committee has
decided to seek a meeting" with the Ministry
of Environment officials from London and
Owen Sound before making decisions on the
existing site.
Lacknow's representative on the commit-
tee Councillor Ab Murray was unable to
attend the council meeting October 11 and
therefore council was not informed of the
decision taken by the committee. Council
decided to await the results of the committee
meeting and Murray's recommendations
before discussing the proposals put forth by
the Ministry of Environment.
After months of testing and evaluation,
the ministry is leaving the Landfill Site
committee two alternatives. The first
alternative is to close the site, implementing
a proper plan of closure that would provide
for proper sloping and seeding of the landfill
area. The closure would evolve over a two or
three year period. giving the municipalities
lead time to fiord a suitable alternate site.
The second alternative to undertake
additional work at the existing site. That
work may involve more test drilling. the
creation of a trench system and perhaps a
leachate collection system.
ian Wilson, a consulting hydrogeologist
and engineer with lan Wilson Associates of
Durham, told the committee the ministry is
mainly concerned about the creek and
possible pollution. The creek is a potential
spawning ground for trout and the ministry
has added rocks in the stream and completed
some fencing to keep cattle out of the water.
Appearing before the committee, Wilson
said the existing site could be lased for many
years to come.
.,You may be able to dig a trench system
and also install a leachate collection system,
sirmilar to draining a field. The leachate
Would tae collected, pumped and treated at a
nearbc piiant.." ire said. •'T"ee trenches
World ire (lug to the eater rah e and garFvage
would then he pled up and covered wire $oil
to the evrstrrug landscape You vuo uld F?e
Pvrsildirvg up. rncreasrng the capaccrv. and
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