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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1983-10-19, Page 6Lucknow Sentinel, Wednesday, Oetober 19, 1983—page 6 SENTINEL "The Sem Town" E9tnblitlhed 1873 The LuwkHow Sentinel, P,O, Box 400 Lneknow NOG 2110 Telephone i 828422 Thomas Thompson - Advertising Manager Sharon Dietz - Editor Pat Livingston - Offiee Manager Joan Helm - Compositor Merle lilliott - Typesetter Subscription rates hi advance 6• C1$ Oanada • utside �4 au Senior Citizens ti."d Canada Outside 43." Second Class mailing reg. no. 0847 Advertisingis accepted on the condition that in the event of a typographleal error, the portion of he the space occupied by the erroneous_ "item together with a reasonable allowance for signature, will not be charged tor, but the balance of the advertisement will be paid at the applicable rates. editorial This year marks the 29th year that Canadian tehildren will `trick-ot-Treat rot UN1Ctp, the united Nations Childten's Fund, Lastear, the UNICEF Hallowe'en campaign raged over §1.g million to benefit and ptosed ehildren in 21 o oYuntrles. When you gine to UNICEF, the official t1,H. "ettildten's" agency, the world's poorest children reeeive the basic necessities of life - food, clean water, medicine and education. In many rotiittties atound the world, the very question of survival is one that thildten tate every day. In 082, ovet five million children and their mothets benefitted from donations made to 11N1Cf t Canada. The lives orf hundreds of thousands of children were saved and theft futures wete made btightet titan thojy would otherwise have been. Each dollar provided to projects iti developing countties by ttlglCf I is matched by CIbA (Canadian International Development Ag- eney), and this total is then matched again by the eotintty being assisted in goods and services. Thousands of Canadians will volunteer fot UNIC P this Hallowe'en. .loin thein by otganiting a t1fi11CIf' benefit ot activity in your community. Ile sate that your children have theft otange and black boxes when they go out 'Tick-ot-Treating this year - and remember to have your silver ready for t1N1CCp's childen when yaut oeighbout- hood witches and goblins come to your doot. pvetyone wotking together can make a world of diffetente to the life of a t1fi11CIPI child. to they editor To the Editor: i ttelieve that an editorial should be as ace'utate ag possible go that petgotts teading it ate trot misled. York editorial of betobet 5th states "smite the l odefk1 town policeman who undertook to elate the black P tliae Trans Am knew the teat had hott been involved in either a motile* M art attired tobbety" . Ptiot to the eliding of the putstiit the officer did not have any idea what etitne, if arty, the ocettpaitt§ may have committed. geldam does the person commuting soeft crimes infotm the police what they have done - the etiminals don't to-opetate that w e11. Vora then state "eo mmoti sense would seem to dictate that having taken the livenee member of tate vehicle, the police could have followed op the incident by going to the o wriet's home . " Nair etystal ba11 Must have a Mill in it of yo ut ittfotmatrt ig *tong. The otfieet did Nfi1 know the tieenee nut,tibet of the vehicle redtrees either berate startling the potsoit ot doting same. , I point these things Quit so that the petsans who may have tead yoot editotial know that it did rotitain at least one ettot. Yours ttuly, ftattirk 1y. t itig, Chief of Polite. Editor's toter Chief ling points out that the offitet involved its the pursuit did nit have any idea what etitne, W any, the occupants may have committed. The question atises, wily then, did he putsue the vehicle" Chief king explained ih a telephone interview that the black ttatts A m made a sharp ti ttitn and sped away when the occupants saw the police etuiset.The pollee officer followed the 'trans Am which was driving at a high tate of speed through town, jumping ted lights and stop signs to aurid the fallowitrg police eraser. M hr tithe during the puttuit wag the police officer able to get close enough to the Vont Am to take the licence plate ttumbet. one foot in the furrow Tilbri 1t You do not have to be a full-time bird wat- cher to know what is going on these days with our feathered friends. If you just keep your eyes open, whether in cities or the country, you can see the birds gathering in many paces. I never cease to marvel at how the flocks gather, twitter in the cool, October scan, and then take off to whirl and turn in unison as if they were drilling in formation for their long flight to the south. As 1 understand it, the older males gather first and leave while the females and the yyoungstets that were hatched this summer follow at a slower pace. Birds know by in- stinct that the youngsters ate not strong flyets and heed mate time for the flight. Canada geese have been gathering for weeks and the bird sanctuaries have been teething with life. The robins have almost all gone although a few diehards ate still arm ind. The smart swallows and martins left a couple of weeks ago. They do not like the cold nights. liven my favorite stunmet visitor, the kingbird, has been gore for a couple of weeks. Nobody has yet figured out how birds know when to start their migrations, nor how they find theit way thousands of miles over land and sea from the Arctic battens to the tropics. Who gives the signal to go? Who is the chief bird of evety species who says, okay gang, it's time! 1 atn convinced that the same robins return every year to out two aures. We have one palomino robin who has been bark tot three years. bow do they find my acres hi the heart of this pro'vinee evety yeat? The t*altitnote orioles return evety yeat. About five years ago, only one pair was nesting fete. Hut theit ehtldteri and maybe even their rhildtem's ehildten have been returning and now we have a dozen or mote in the nei�hbathorod. 1 we wete in wilder parts of the prnvinwe, we would see the beavers beginning to tut young, sweet, green wood to store in the mud at the bottom of their ponds. The muskrats, too, are busy on theft winter hordes although, as 1 understand it, they store toot and vegetable matter, not wood as , the beavers do. Whose of us who like to shoot deer with a camera instead of gun will notice the fawns have lost their spots and, with their mothers, ate moving back into the woods where they can find plenty to eat. The bucks, of course, keep out of sight at this time of year. They are back in the shadowy places until the points of their antlers finally harden in November. It takes the patience of Job to photograph wildlife. 1 have never boon a gun lover and would far rather shoot, with a camera. That way, 1 can preserve life rather than destroy it. Some years ago, 1 listened to a hunter describe how he had shot a mother bear and two cubs.1(1 had ever had an inkling to be a hunter, that story was enough to stifle any ambitions. "She came stumbling out of the den and my first shot blew het bottom jaw away," he said. "My second shot got het in the heart and the cubs were sitting ducks after that." Not for me. 1 have never liked guns and such stories turn me off. 144 that is no reason to condemn all hunters. We have upset the balance of nature so mach that hunting seasons are necessary in many parts of the nation. Ail I'm saying is that hunting with a gun is not for tine. A love of all life, even a reverence for it, is better, it seems to me, than destroying it. Int then, again, 1 love fishing, so what is the diffetenee". tYon't ask me. I'm going out now with my field glasses to watch the birds fly south and envy them their wisdom in getting away from the cold. 1 wish 1 tomo follow them. by den otinipbell There wag meeting rt the tounril oh the evening that Jane Cameron *a due to arrive at hedtteet, trot the doctor did not attend. He paced hark and forth MI the living roach of his house, only praaigiag now and theta to Molt out of the window iii antiripat'ton of geeing the coach turning WE? the nohow driveway. Melte Cameron wits tormented with many mixed emotions. He was of tours e. h at the retool of his wife and dettghted with the thought of sig hit child, but he knew orrty torr well tPrat at teSTYM poo of the life he tad known with Jane 0wo1114 not be easy. Certainty he would not tolerate another musty and ittespomsib'e'teak in ht mantled life auto he was determined that he would make this quite clear to Jane in no uncertain/ to ms. Then throne war the cotermig of the wet muse to tortsid'et acrid all the cotnplirrarted so�ri2rl upheaval which would sutely arrive along with flet matget belongings. Th exodu5 of Mtt. Wive the housekeeper world also coroner problems, and who in the cern muniFy eatifid Re d to eepl'ace het? Ther fife of he good doctor wars arfready overflowing with the cate5 o1 MS pracfkC vaitiitaf Al Mese additional (and tidi'cnl'onrs he thought) personal human conflicts,. M the council meeting, N'ed MacCtimmmn pretided. Fie SO o+V die cfair iso the school'Amrrse attrai'1y orenrpi'ed by the Mathes.. Heil watt fatigued and ittitahte. having mit), teeen'tlsq broiled from hit chores, without tappet wind the retwek of the Sat* still nponr He looked art the faces, of the council. They wete good living people hitt not always totetem of tttangett. nature they secretly despised those not of theft kind, like a flock of white chickens which utast emit/an/1y peck at the only Mack one in their midst which dater to Share the too51. Whatevet MIpottard community adminis- ttatiotr had to be arttended to. Neil was quite sure that the thoughts of those arse mteled were not Cepteen'ttated on the braSine55 at hand. Sooner 6? Wet he knew that somebody would approach the question of Prove to dear, with the "Catholic worm*" but he delayed the inevitable as long as he could. and secretly hoped that the subject would somehow become lost amid the more urgent issues. He was dissappointed! Kathleen Jamieson taised het hand arid Neil sensed that he had Strived at the mornetit of truth. He nodded to indicate .that she had the floor. .Flat anybody considered the froubie the new Cameron wet nurse is likely to cause amongst the people of aedfrees''" she asked and bit het lip nervously. rehrctarnt to be the first one to approach The subject. "f too ash Wish but from the north. As a Protestant who has lived in that land 1 can tell you' froth experience that the two people do no mix. 1n fact, there is great hostility amongst the Catholics against the Prates -tants." ' ' Aye' ' MacC rimmarr interjected. ' ' And if is no only one sided. The >rtitofestanis are just as bard as the Catholics. We have Catholics Scotland, ma'am. and I dinna thi k that the battle the Highlanders fought at Culloden was wi'aot teligiorrs arias. `this business o' the ltish woman only roteettis bactot Cametorrt and he is no here. flat even if he were, the comings and goings o' the doctors hoose is no out concern. and we 110 hae the right tae bteath ome word on it." Kathleen flushed at the rebuke and prtotested. looking around at the other members of the council for support. "We calmed escape the facts Mt. MaeCtimmon. " she §arid sternly. "We have a problem which we ?rave never faced before and ign'orittg it wilt trot solve it!" MacCtimmon was visibly angty. He had never condorved women taking part in community affairs. "1 will only allow this coatrcrl tae discuss hnsiness which has tae be put tae a vote. What you talk about carr no be proposed or seconded. ma'am. 1t is no a topic crate this meeting - tis only ye're ain opinion an' women's gossip. and 111 no heat any mare MI the subject." Mac('cinnamon's ruling brought a hnb-bob to did! meeting. They talked loudly amongst themselves. as if determined to continue the discussion. Mac('rimmon tried to resume the authority of the chair. but when he could no longer command their attention by his voice. he hanged on the desk with his stick. Fie was angry and extremely hurt. 1n contrast. as if to subdue his temper he spoke in a quiet voice: "I hae lost the respect a' my kinsmen." he aid sorrowfully. "There can only be one leadet. an' when he no longer leads, 'tis time ftae another tat take his plate. 1f 1 roma hae otdet when 1 speak, 'tis time tae resign ftom the chair. Ye do what ye hae tae do. 1 gi' ye notice that 1 am finished wi a council who gi's judgement on another Man's household and a poor woman they hae no even seen!" As if to emphasise the seriousness of the situation he banged again ori the desk with his stick as he concluded: "This meeting is closed." MacCtimmon rose from his seat and without a word walked across the floor of the schoolroom. Ile paused at the door. "I'll aura tae mi tappet," he said bitterly. "Twould be better had 1 never came." The sublect.of the "Catholic woman" was insigniftcanu as compared to the anexpected exodus of MacCrimmon. For a few moments they stood in silence as if unable to believe what they had seen. 11 was almost inconceivable that MacCrimmon would turn his back on the t`tiends of Skye. In a moment of thoughtlessness we some- times lose the respect of the inose important individual characters in our lives. With profound sadness. the Reverend t}uncan 141acdeod rebuked himself for taking part in such an exhibition of stupidity. He walked over to the window and looked out upon the yet barren fields. like a voice from the past his own words came back to haunt hire! "We came to this place following the pipes of MacCrimmon. and although God in His mercy showed urs the way. Mac('rimnion is Rees and Redtrees is MacCrimmon!'