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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1988-08-17, Page 4Page 4 —Lucknow Sentinel, Wednesday, August 17, 1988 P.O. Box Lucknow, Ontario NOG 2H0 528-2822 Established 1873 cre BLUE RIBBON AWARD 1988 Thomas Thompson -Advertising Manager Subscription rates in advance: Rob Bundy -Editor Pat Livingston -General Ma ayer S1790 Outside Canada 56090 . $1490 Outside Canada $5800 Senior Citizen Second class mailing reg. no. 0847 Advertising is accepted on the condition that in the event of a typographical error, the portion 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 advertisment will be paid at the applicable rates. Finally, school trustees represent people not property For the first time this fall, school trustees will be elected to represent people and not property. With it's shift from tax base to population as a basis for determining school board representation, Bill 125 makes the system more fair. Each trustee will now represent a similar number of people, rather than a similar total property assessment. The legislation also gave the Huron County School Board the option, which it took, of returning to a 16 -member board, replacing,the two seats lost when full separate school funding was implemented two years ago. But while the people will be more fairly represented following the next election, those who have argued long that too much education funding comes from property tax still wait for solutions. It is true that a greater percentage of the users of our education system. especially in urban areas, own no property but should still have a more balanced say in education ad- ministration, as they will after Bill 125. It also remains true that a disproportionate amount of tax money coming from proper- ty assessment continues to go to education. In other words, those owning property pay more than what they perceive as their share towards education. The argument could be carried further, in Huron County at least. This year, a market value property reassessment began shifting the tax base from the towns to the rural areas. Now, those same towns, where the population is concentrated, are gaining through Bill 125 a greater representation on school boards while paying less toward school operations. While many welcome Bill 125 for distributing elected trustees evenly within the popula- tion, fairness will only be fully achieved once the Ontario government makes good its promise of 100 per education funding. B.H. As if everyone isn't already tired of hearing about the big Wayne Gretzky trade last week, I just have a couple of things to get off my chest. Why Wayne? Couldn't we have traded something (or someone) else to the Americans? Wayne is a national hero, but -we could probably do easier without, say, John Turner or Dr. Morgentaler. Canadians must ask themselves, "Is this what Free Trade is going to mean?" Cana- dian heroes are few and far between and we just sold ours to L.A. We keep hearing these days that "Our water is not for sale." I say, give 'em Lake Erie and keep Gretzky on a Canadian hockey team. In my mind, August 9th, 1988 will forever be Black Tuesday for hockey fans.. It was the day big money got in the way of preser- ving a national treasure. By the way, does anyone know where I can pick up a Los Angelus Kings jersey? I'll trade it for my original Oilers jersey.... plus $14 million. In other news this week, a recently released political poll shows that 68 per- cent of Canadians don't care what the recently released polls show. A. further 21 percent said they would only care if they got their names in the paper and the re- maining 11 percent said, "Do we get paid for answering?" We here at the Sentinel would like to take this opportunity to offer our heartfelt con- gratulations to the 20 local folks who were nominated f$r the Heart of Gold awards over the past few weeks. Our 20 community -minded individuals gathered with other nominees at the Bed- ford Hotel in Goderich for a special lun- cheon held in their honour last week, and it was a proud moment for myself and General. Manager Pat Livingston. While the other weekly newspapers in the area could only muster three, four or five nominees in the Heart of Gold contest, 0 by Rob Bundy N THE SIDE little Lucknow, the smallest of the com- munity newspapers in the Signal Star Publishing chain, supplied 20. At first, whispers around the room went something like, "I guess everyone in Lucknow got nominated". Later, people started to say, "Gee that Lucknow. has some outstanding citizens". The Heart of Gold contest was sponsored by Air Canada in conjuration with our paper. The purpose is to, in a small way, say thanks to the thoughtful folks who give of themselves to others with no thought of reward. Once again, Lucknow has done itself pro- , ud. Each nominee in the Heart of Gold con- test received a special certificate, a lovely Heart of Gold pin, and a hearty handshake from Mrs. Livingston. I would be remiss in not mentioning that Pat herself was nominated for the award. The best part of the luncheon, other than the dessert, was seeing Pat shake her own hand and present herself with a certificate. Way to go Pat. Again, our sincere thanks to the people who took the time to fill out a nomination form and, from the entire community, a big CONGRATS to the 20 residents of Lucknow who were worthy of nomination. By the way, Elmer Umbach was also nominated for a Heart of Gold, but was unable to attend the luncheon. We were thinking of you Elmer, sorry you missed being in the official photo. Have a good week' Do' you think they might start haven Hockey Night in Canada broadcast live every Saturday night. from I. A California? 70 years ago August 15, 1918 Farm, help - Reeve Johnston of Lucknow has recieved from the Registration Board, a list of those residents of this village who on registering expressed a willingness to assist at harvesting, and farmers in urgent need -of help for a few days would do well to find out from Mr. Johnston who are available. Of those in this area who registered, 'about 80 expressed a willingness to help at harvest time. Must carry papers - Richard Wright, a young farmer living near town. was fined $15 this month for failing to produce his military papers when asked for them by Dominion Policeman Victor Salmon who was in town last week. It would be well for. the men of military age who have exemption papers or a mar- riage license to carry them at all times. Mr. Wright likely was no more careless than many others. 50 years ago August 18, 1938 Talk of revival - Present interest points to Lucknow seeing a revival of the Caledonia ('.amen that made this village widely famous half a century ago. For several successive years these games were annually held in September ENTINEL MEMOIRS when thousands gathered from far and near for this day of days. Peak attendance for the Games was set in 1882 when 12,000 people packed Caledonia Park. It was that same year that Donnald Din- nie, Scotland's champion athlete, was brought to Lucknow and won the $500 dia- mond belt for winning the most number of points. It may be that in 1939, Lucknow will once again host the Games and return to its own. Temperatures near record - This past week has been one of excessive rainfall and oppressive heat with the temperature moderating Wednesday, but the threat of more rain has not passed. Torrential rains accompanied by severe electrical storms dropped 2.2 inches of moisture on the land. High humidity has made the atmosphere oppressive and Sun- day's temperature was but one degree off the local record. The temperature at 8 p.m. Sunday was still 80 degrees. 25 years ago August 21, 1963 Merchants sponsor cash prize - Com- mencing in September, a group of Lucknow merchants will sponsor a weekl'. cash draw with a monthly bonus feature. Tickets will be given with each cash pur- chase, or payment of accounts, by par- ticipating stores. A weekly draw will be made for a $5 prize awarded in the form of a cash voucher which may be spent at any par- ticipating store. Each month end there will be two other prizes of $25 and $10 awarded The plan is as simple as that as will bo known as the Shop in Lucknow Community Drive. Provincial election date set - An Ontario Provincial election is to be held Wednes- day, September 25. Premier John Robarts announced that date on Friday, shortening the campaign period by one week. An October election had been predicted until a few days prior to Friday's an-' nouncement. The September date has caused a scurry of nomination meetings. The Huron -Bruce nominating convention had been set by the executive but has since been advanced by a few days. 10 years ago August 16, 1978 Taylor drain may he feasihl;. 1'Iett\ Ackert and Doris .Johnston. Kincardine, attended the August Villagr Council meeting to ask permission to run the Taylor Drain from their property, north of the Lukcnow Community Centre, along the property line between the Finlayson pro- perty and theirs down to the Community (-entre to hook up to the drain there. Council told the women that the Corn munity Centre building committee was responsible for the building and the pro- perty until its contsruction is completed Until such time. the village has no respon- sibility for it. Councillor Ab Murray said that the building committee had indicated to hinr that they thought it would be feasible to have the Taylor Drain hook into the Com- munity Centre drain. Council considers flood plain - A rough draft of the Lucknow Flood Plain Map was presented to Council at their August meeting. The final draft of the Flood Plain Map will he • presented to Council in September. Triton Engineering is com- pleting the study which will make recom- mendations to Council for solving existing flnord problems and the costs involved. Council indicated that they consider the area north of the Campbell Street bridge to the Wheeler Street bridge and the area south of the mdm street bridge to the \Crllou;.hh� Street hrtdl;;( 1111) prrorit.