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The Lucknow Sentinel, 1998-10-14, Page 4an, . • Page 4 - Lucknow Sentinel, Wednesday, October. 14, 1998 Changes of address, orders for subscriptions, and undeliverable copies (return postage guaranteed) ire ta he sent to The tucknov.; Sentinel at the address indicated here. Advertising is accepted on the condition that im the event of a typographical won the por- . lion of the advertising space occupied by the erroneous item together with a reasonable allowance for signature, will not be charged. for, but the balance of the advertisement will be paid at the applicable rates. A Bowes Publishers Community Newspaper 619 Campbell St., Luclow. Ontario P.O. Box 400, Loelmow, Ontario NOG 2140. phone: (519) 528-2822 fax (519) 528-3529 Rstahifshect 1873 - Torn Thompson - Advertising Manager Fat Livingston General Manager tor OPC Phyllis Matthews Helm Office Administrator Joan Courtney - Typesetter Subscription Rates advance: Regular $25.66 tinel. postage and . Senior 62342 (inelpostage and G.S.T3 Foreign & USA - 08.00. Publieatidris Mail Registration No, 07656 held a1 goclerieh. °inane. Published 52 times a year. EF:1 luelcsentenurontel.onxa Internet address: littp://www:bowesnet.enmilueltitawi ,•• • 'Iles bpgone, Ms the time of year! Vor What?, you ask. Flies! Those ugly, dirty little insects that are so pesky. hate them at any time, but when fall carne's around those flies are my worst enemy. They make my blood boil, my temper explode! They seem to multiply overnight as they hang out near doorways doing their best to gain entry to a warm environment. If they do gain. entry, they are so stupid - trying to fly in your ear, enter your mouth or land on your eye- lashes, They land on my computer monitor, and flit • around my fingers as they fly across the keyboard. Enough is enough! Shooing is not working, so they are now in fin- big trouble. The Rambler is armed•With pest control - rolled up newspaper. Before I can do them bodily injury, they disappear. 1 guess they .aren't that sitini,d afterall. Back to the keyboard, the grey matter is at work. Buzzz - they're back! They know the rolled up weapon has been laid down. • . Okay, now they're really asking for it; A search of the office and 1 am armed with the FLY SWATTER! Wonder • who invented that. Thank you!. As much as 1 hate tome& handling those things., tnost,bf the times they do the trick. That is if your aim is good, and 'most times mine. isn't. When my aim is accurate, the force isusually enough to smash the critter into blood and guts. 1 want to 11 ling$ • be sure it, doesn't get up and fly again. • 0,PatioiVitlgatah Peace,. finally. Back to' the keyboard. -The front office door opens and the onslaught begins again. ' At home the scene'is almost the same. Flies. are so stupid that after you shoo them'away from anything you are trying to eat or drink, they return immediately. • My swatter is handy at honk. The only problem - it has a slight concave in therniddle and. when my aim is, on, thefly always seems to escape. Bet that little suck- er is laughing as it watches me batting the air trying to catch them in flight: And what can be Inore annoying then being cud- dled up in your blankets and .drifting off to dreamland and being disgustingly disturbed by a fly landing on your nose, forehead or lips? Such disturbances are not conducive to a good night's Sleep. I'm told the flies will soon be gone. 1 guess .it's some consolation. But believe you me, there will he fewer' to go to their next, life once I invest in a r—i-ery Pictorial rnernOir The year was 1988. Strange weather pro- duced extraordinary plants. Wes and Edna Young produced a gigantic sunflower,' • weighing 25 pounds. The head hada dr- cumference of over 25 ' inches, Lisa; Gotten and Katrina Abbott, Grade 6 students at LCPS helped the pho- tographer get this plc - tura. 10 years ago •• ', • Oct. S, 1988 arathon playathou .Can You imagine sit; ting and playing the tuba for five hours straight With hardly a break? 'How about marching and playing for five hours? • • Well, believe it or not members of the Lucknow Concert Band will be doing Just that on Oct. „ The purpose of the marathon play- . athon is to 'raise funds for the pur- chase of new uniforms for the group. , 20 years ago Oct. 11,1978 attietiC turnout at meeting - Only five of the village'sratepayers'shoWed,up at the ratepayers' meeting at the Town. Hall on Oct. 3 to hear the four •councillors and the reeve give an account of their actionshrihelast two years'. - Coutteilliiftud Hamilton. commented that it Was 'pathetic that so few people come out to the meet- , ing•-'People will stop you on the comer or call you at home to cormAnin, but then they won't take advantage ip effect in: of the.opportunity provided by this meeting" • 50 years ago ' 14- Oct. 14, 194$' ' wo daily hydro cutoffs - Lucknow hydro 'risers will face noon hour and supper honr.cut- offs for the balance of this week and the pro- gram will no doubt be continued. • , The cutoffs Went into effect yesterday and Are 'effective Monday to friday. They were inevitable,. The local syStem failed to Ott down to its quota last 'week, .With the Lucknow htdustries plant idle. This. Week the plant is again in operation, 1: • Domestic users, so far as cir- cuits make it possible, will be cut .off , • from, :30 to 1 each noon hour. Commercial users which affects all of main street- will be cut off frorin 5 to ,6:30 each evening. Street lights will he cut at 1 a.m. . ant -watchman during blackout '7 Lucknow Business Men's Association will ask council to appoint a night watchman during the Streetlight blackout period. The 'action wastakenwhen' it was learnedthe blackout included 'street. lights at I a.m. each evening through. the Week, • • ' • , • 1. I. , ^ . I , , • . • , . • • .• • cis° er is Wom I 'story Month '40 • E. Cora kind arrived in frontier •Winnipeg in 1882 and applied tor a job as reporter with the Free Press,. Although her appli- cation was. denied because she .,was a woman, Ms. •,Hind refused to give up on her goal of earning a liv- . mg, , • Attracted by a recent invention called thetype- WrifOr4-'sbe4rented-Ortelkitr-a month and taught her self to type. She , then researched which firms imi town' had purchased one of the new devices and showed up on tine of their doorsteps as the first 'women typist west of 'the Great Lakes. • After, that, she started her own business as a eon- ::-ti--aaiypistwOrking Mostly for farmer and tarm agents and learning about' the agricultural :rndustry. SOMe. ,20: years later, 'she was, a recOgniZed expert on the agricultural sector.. and advocate.for Canadian farmers. At that point she made' it through the doors Of the Free PreSs as their agricultural editor., • •• •• • Harriet. .' Brooks. Canada's first woman nuclear physicist; was .the first person to realize that. one element c-ould change. Into, nnother. She was also. among the' early discover, ers of radon and the first researcher' to attemptto determine its atomic mas'., Born in , Exeter, 'Ontario in I 876,.pr. 'Brooks gradu- atcd from • ,„1VicGill Liniversity'in 1888, In 1889, she ,began research : with Dr. Earnest Rutherford,•the fainoas 'physicist and a Supportive ' * menlOr In 1901 she was the first women to study at the Cavendish Laboratory at, Cambridge UniVersity, England,. where She earned . her MA. • For a brief peritid she worked at Madam.. Mari,e7. Curies lab in France. A y,car later,'Harriet returned to MCGill and her research with Dr. Rutherford. . In 1907, she married Frank Pitcher and .clue to the rt)ralitY (if the tirne . • • • tarn to page 5