HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1989-04-19, Page 1Janellu rke0fWingham wasthe iuckyvinner o£theni joriirize ,in Motors. 7 In Viand -to help make the presentation :of the red, 1989
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lottery. Mrs. Burke pickedmplier car laastweek from:Mougtomery co-ehsirman of the fundraising; Mrs. Burke and Ian Montgomery
of °,Mongtomery Motors, Lick now. (Pat Livingston photo)
Wingham resident wins grand prize
The .Wingham and District Community
Living Assocication held their annual lot-
tery dinner and dance in Lucknow on April
8, with Grant Chisholm MC for the
evening.
Jane Burke of Wingham was the big win-
ner taking home a 1989 Escort LX.
Winners of door prizes were Joe Kieffer,
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Hilda Andrew, Doaand Liz Stobo, Bill and
Marie Millen, Hugh Armstrong, Harry and
Lynda Train, Ralph Nixon, Douglas Oat -
man, Francis King, Barry and Rod °
McDonagh, Peter Carter, John Jamieson,
Pearl Sutton, Ann Fisher, Ed Hofmann,
Delores Cross, Bridge Motors and Doug
Carr.
Winners of the early bird draw on
February 14, for $500 each were Dave
Ireland of Teeswater and Bill Hunter of
Lucknow.
This is the first year a car has been given
as the major prize and when those in atten-
dance were asked to vote on returning to
cash prizes only, the vote was unanimous-
ly in favor.
o ebound 11) years of
vin sup {w. ort for our seniors
The Wingham and Area Day Centre for
the Homebound has gone from a fledgling
organization to a growing vital part of the
community in the past 10 years, which pro-
vides social, recreational -and educational
programs for seniors in North Huron and
South Bruce counties, 'thereby enabling the
individual to reniain living independently
in .their own home or guest home, as an
alternative to institutional care.
The inajority of the participants are
homebound by reason of age, no access to
transportation, disability, or need
assistance to leave their homes.
On April 20 the Centre for the Home-
bound is holding opep house in honour of
this occasion. The :program begins at 1
p.m. and the guest speaker is Dr. Anne
Martin -Matthews, Director of the Geren-
tology Research Centre at the Universlity
of Guelph.
Background
North Huron County had been ss elected in
order to study be various aspects Of aging
in .a rural :environ ►e'nt, under the leader-
Ship
eadership of the `University Of Guelph, Planning
Department - Rural Development
Outreach Project (RDOP). Huron County
was known to have more residents over 65
years of age than the national average.
Many of these seniors lived alone•with lit-
tle
ittle or no access to transportation.
Loneliness and depression often resulted
in frequent trips to the hospital and doc-
tors' offices with physical complaints that
could be traced to their probelm of
"loneliness".
The RDOP survey indicated that there
were at least 300 persons living alone in
isolation due to ,physical infirmities and
lack of <transportation. By this time the
Huron Day Centre for the Homebound had
opened Wsldoorsin Clinton with the help of
Ann Ste. Johne, a founding member of the
Wingham Day :Centre.
The goverment was beginning to
recognize that the- number of persons over
65 was -going .to :increase rapidly over the
next several years,:Placing -greet stress on
available space in hospitals and .nursing
homes or his :for<the aged. everyone
agreed thatithe best and lit expensive
place for seniors to live was athome, with
increased services in the community.
Financial support became available
through the Ministry of Community and
Social Services, for Home Support Pro-
grams such as homemaking, day centres for
homebound seniors. 'The Home Care Pro-
gram which was newly operational, was
also identifying.a great need for social and
recreational outlets for homebound seniors.
How It All Began
With this background .,information, Ran
Kurhana, Physiotherapist atW Anglian.)
District Hospital called a meeting of
various persons working in the community
and these people formed the Steering Com-
mittee, whose goal was to explore the
possibility of starting a program forborne -
bound
orbome-
bound seniors.
.Members of that Steering Conunittee,
which later beim tlw first Doard of
Directors for 197/80 included: Anne Ste.
John, Louise Matt, Ban Xurliana, R,eva-
trry Passrnore,'Harrold Wild, Catherine
Walsh, Janet Reid, age Taylor, Jean
Tum: to page 3 .
Council approves
Pitch -In Day,
May 6
Lorne Robinson, Buce County Weed In-
spector, attended the regular meeting of
Lucknow Village Council on April 11 and
reviewed 'the Weed Act and penalties
under the act.
Harold McKee attended to express his
concern about access to. his lots im-
mediately to the east of the Community
Centre road. He was also concerned if the
sewer easement would have the capacity
to handle more should he wish to expand.
Council agreed to look into the matter.
CN Property
Mike Thiehnann, who has proposed to
purchase CN property from the village,
requested an extension on his offer to
purchase. Council explained there were
other proposals pending and after discus-
sion voted in favour of maintaining its
policy that the closing date on all CN pro-
perties reamin the same.
Council agreed in principle to a pro-
posal of Mike Snobelen to purchase a por-
tion of the CN roadbed land, and also a
small strip of land between his property
and the village owned CN roadbed.
In regard to the purchases of CN land
from the village, all purchasers are
responsible for their own legal fees
Community Oriented Policing
guy--Burgess„ofo;
cial Police gave a presentation on Com-
munity Oriented Policing and discussed
the problems facing this area. Each OPP
Detachment is divided into geographic
zones and a constable will be assigned
full time to each zone. A zone will be
represented by a Police Advisory Com-
mittee made up of interested citizens of
the area. The OPP feel this committee
will aid the assigned constable in indent -
lying the policingproblems and make the
wants and needs of the corminunity
known to the police.
A request from the Tourism Commit-
tee
ommittee asking council to designate 'May 6 as
.'itelphi Clay bas been ayprovisi.
After iliscnstion, =WWII , that
the works department ,employyees ofuld
take lime aff to cover their overtime
hours.
Suns~day Shopping Bylaw
The question of .Sunday shopping in
Lucknowbas beenraisedand council will
advertise in the Sentinel notifying
ratepayers of this proposed bylaw. A
public meeting will be necessary before
passing any such bylaw.
Calling all sneakers
Calling all sneakers! As part of
Canada's Fit Week, May 26 - June 4, The
Lucknow Guides, Brownies, Pathfinders
and Rangers are holding a "sneaker
day" May 26. They will be canvassing
downtown Lucknow from 4 - 8:30 p.m.
The young ladies are hoping to get
everyone in Lucknow to wear their
sneakers. Those who are wearing
sneakers will be registered and their
names put into a giant paper-mache
sneaker. A name will be drawn around 9
p.m. that evening at Knechtels. The win-
ner will receive a pair of Reebok running
shoes, donated by Les Petter Shoes and
Charmans.
Guides Amy Austin and Adella Andrew
hope to register EVERYONE - young
and not so young, customers,
businessmen, men, women, grandads, ,
grandmas, grand kids. Their goal is to
get 300 names on their list of those who
participated.
That would be 300 people in and around
main street on a Friday evening - should
be good for 'Lucknow and good hal!
You have lots of advance notice, so
dust off those sneakers and let "parte
ticipaction salute Lucknow" !
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