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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1993-06-02, Page 4Page 4 - Lucknow Sentinel, Wednesday, June Z, 1993 Published weekly by Signal -Star Publishing Ltd at 619 Campbell Street Lucknow, Onl P 0 Box 400, Lucknow, Ontario NOG 2H0 Established 1873 528-2822: Fax (519) 528-3529 Thomas Thompson - Advertising Manager Pat Livingston General Manager/Editor Phyllis Matthews - Front Office Subscription rates advance: Local Regular $2000 within 40 mi radius G S.T incl Local Senior 1 700 .within 40 mi. radius G.S.T. incl Out -Of -Area (40 miles) - Rates available upon request Foremgn + U.S.A. $9669 Publications mail registration no. 0847 held at Lucknow, Ont. .Changes of address, orders for subscriptions, and undeliverable copies (return postage guaranteed) are to be sent to Lucknow Sentinel at the above address. 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 advertisement will be paid at the applicable rates, • Policy making can reduce number of new smokers What $10 -billion industry claims 40,000 Canadian lives each year? What product generates $5.5 billion in .taxes per annum and represents a net loss of several billions to society? What legal substance addicts 90 per cent of its customers before adulthood? What Canadian -grown crop causes 30 per cent of all cancer deaths, 30 per cent of all coronary deaths and is the leading cause of preventable death? If you answered tobacco to each one of these questions, you are a winner. -- It's all absolutely true according to an article which appeared recently in The Toronto Globe and Mail. , - There are fewer than half the smokers in 1993 as there were in 1965. That's the good news. The bad news is that new smokers are replacing the ones who die. There's even more bad news. Despite the fact that 70 per cent of the retail cigarette dollar goes to taxes, once you have factored in the cost of health care, disability pensions and Lost years of productivity because of smoking-related illness, governments would be money ahead if the tobacco industry, packed up and left the country. Some say governments need the income from tobacco taxes, but the figures tell a different story. Cancer, cardiovascular disease and respiratory disease costs something like $26.4 - billion in health care expenses and related charges every year.. Exp rience shows that tobacco is a- factor. in a full one-third of all these illnesses, making tobacco's :share of the cost roughly $8.8 billion. At $5.5 billion, gathered in taxes per annum, it leaves an annual deficit of over $3 billion. With one-quarter of the population addicted to tobacco, it would be ludicrous to suggest making it illegal. But this nation can adopt policies and programs . to effectively reduce the numbers of new smokers in the future. People who are smart don't start. Ask any one of the 40,000, _-Can diansalready-dyh g-thisyear-of smaking=related illnesses. SJK' Pinecrest residents gear up for busy month of activities Once again the Pinecrest Manor Nursing Home residents will be involved in the yearly Wheel-a-thon, raise funds for Alzheimer research. -, This year's event takes place ort June 18, starting at 10:30 a.m. The Ontario Nursing Home As- sociation has been raising funds for Alzheimer research since 1984. To date the total contribution raised is in excess of $900,000. This year nursing homes hope to increase that total to "Make it a Million." Alzheimer disease is a progressive degenerative brain disorder, which causes memory loss. Currently there is no known cause or cure for this disease which affects some 100,000 Ontarians. The funds raised during Nursing Home Week June 12 to 19 will be used to support research. Pinecrest staff and residents are busy this month. On June 2 they will host 'a volunteer appreciation afternoon. There's the Wheel-a-thon on the 18th and on June 23, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. it's the yearly garage sale. June 25 is set aside for the strawberry social from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. That same day 4-1-1 mem- bers will display their hand work and the draw for a lawn chair and foot stool will take place. Various in -services are planned on Alzheimer's during the month. If interested you can contact Pinecrest for more information. The Sentinel Memoirs' - Silverwoods gets underway 70 years ago June 7, 1923 ilverwoods' gets underway - The Lucknow Silverwoods Co. is now an assured thing for Lucknow, The factory is being equipped for butter making just as rapidly as possible, and it is now expected that will begin about July 1. At present business is confined to collecting, sorting and shipping eggs and distributing ice cream. The ice cream at present, is being brought from the London plant, and the ice cream end of the business may be carried on in that way this season. By fall it will be known what amount the territory about Lucknow will consume, and the necessary equipment will be installed for the ice cream season of 1924. A drilled well has been sunk, and the hydro system, using 20 to 30 horse power, installed. Ring that bell - Down at Arthur, Ontario, Reeve Irvine has ordered that the town bell be rung at 11 p.m. Saturday nights, which means "Get ready to go home," The reason is that there must be no shopping done after, midnight. He appeals to the public to shop at a reasonable hour on Saturday nights. 50 years ago June 3, 1943 octurnal noise makers to be prosecuted - Those who practise the honking of horns or N any other undue noise during the wee small hours „ of the morning, within the confines of the corporation, .are placing themselves liable to prosecution. These nocturnal disturbances are most frequent after. dances. The matter was discussed at the June meeting of the Village Council when the board decreed that such noise 'makers will be prosecuted. Shut-in's Day - June 6 was Shut-In's Day, an occasion which is each year becoming more widely observed throughout Canada and United States. This first Sunday in June has been sei aside to encourage visiting the sick and disabled, for, in the enjoyment of good health, one is apt to be unmindful, or at least neglectful, of those who are less fortunate. The ,observance of this day means paying a visit, writing a card or letter, or sending or taking flowers or fruit to those whose world is confined to the four walls of their home or hospital ward. Your doctor - How to treat your doctor: If emergen- cies arise, call him at any hour but if there is no emergency call him at proper hours. Try to see him at his regular office hours. Don't call him at meal time, and don't make demands on hours allotted to sleep. Allow him all the rest possible on Sunday. Pay his accounts promptly so that he will be able to provide the best methods of restoring you to health. Physicians are made of the same material as their patients, and so require rest, food, sleep and time for study and proper recreation. The rested doctor will give you betteradvice than one who is over-worked. 25 years ago May 29, 1968 Start fundraising for new curling rink - The Lucknow Curling Club has decided to proceed with the construction of a new two -sheet curling rink. The estimated cost of the two -ice project is in the vicinity of $25,000 to $30,000 complete. Free lunch comes many air miles - Dan McInnes of the 10th concession of Kinloss Township has won four free hamburgers, four french friesand four Pepsis. Only trouble is that Dan would have to drive to Princeton, Illinois to claim his winnings and would probably be ready.. for steak after that long drive. Upon investigating a balloon found in a field on the McInnes farm, a note was found from Mr. Quick Hamburgers, Routes 26 and 80 Princeton,saying that the ..manager would be pleased to supply the above mentioned items free of charge. • 10 years ago June 1, 1983 Wins trip to Geneva - Susan Meyer of Holyrood has won -a trip to Geneva, Switzer- land as one of three winners in a nationwide telecommunications poster contest. Susan, a .grade nine student at F.E. Madill Secon- dary in Winpham received a telegram from federal communications minister Francis Fox informing her.. that as a winner she will attend Telecom ''83' in Geneva in October: Trivia What was Captain Queeq's first name and rank in the 1951 novel - and later movie - "The Caine Mutiny"? First name, Philip; rank, lieutenant commander. Lucknow Public School Grades 4, 5 and 6 - 1946: left to right, back row, Don Thompson, Elwood Irwin, John Gammie, Charles Durnin, Bob Nesbitt, Al Irwin, George Anderson, Clayton Hodgins, Donald MacNay, Clark Stanley. Third row, Carolyn Gibson, Ruth Johnston, Betty Johnston, Gladys Kilpatrick, Phyllis Conan, Grace Houston, Mary Dumin, Joan Johnston, Maxine Irwin, Victor Baker, Mrs. Jessie Crispin. Second row, Janet McFarlane, Jean Stanley, Joan Hamilton, Velma Howald, Gladys Chin, Betty Dumin, . Edna Reld. Front row Bob Reid, Rolland Joselyn, Ken Nicholson, Joe Howald, Dennis Emberlin, Charlie Chin, Rowen Ross, Bill Mathers. (courtesy Peggy Henderson, and named by George Anderson and Donald Thompson) Matilda (Tillie) Hackett 1904 - 1993 Matilda (Tillie) Lane Hackett, of Pinecrest Manor, Lucknow, died at Pinecrest on May 16, 1993, in her 89th year. She was a member of the Lucknow United Church, Mrs. Hackett was aloin in Ash- field Township, on Sept. 9, 1904, a daughter of the late David and Ida (Lane) Hackett. Mrs. Hackett is survived by her children, Donalda and her husband Earl Jamieson; Donald and his wife Shirley; Allan and his wife Mar- garet; Freda and her husband Doug Langton; Lois and her husband Laveme Cunningham; Barry and his wife Diane; Joyce and her husband Ken Elphick; Kathleen and her husband Ken Ackworth. BITUARY Mrs. Hackett was grandmother to 30 grandchildren and 49 great grandchildren. She also leaves to mourn her passing a sister Mary MacGillivray. Mrs. Hackett was 'predeceased by her husband Thomas in 1982, a brother Caswell Hackett, and two sisters Loretta Hackett, and Mil- licent Bowles. Rev. Albert Cook of the Lucknow United Church conducted the funeral at the MacKenzie and McCreath Funeral Home, Lucknow on May 18. Flower bearers were 16 granddaughters: Sharon Montgomery, Rosalea Rapson, Wilma Blake, Darlene Wattam, Donna Crichton, Cheryl, Beasley, Gail McPherson, Janice Van Diepenbeek, Sandra Davidson, Audrey Burns, Lisa Millar, Nancy Plumsteel, Annette Drennan, Kendra Matthews, Charlene Carrick and Linda Ackworth. Honorary pallbearers were Eldon Bradley, Donald MacKinnon, Wilfred Hackett, and Wilbur Brown. Pallbearers were Michael Hackett, Terry Jamieson, Kevin Cunnin- gham, Bob Hackett, Brian Elphick, David Ackworth, Larry Hackett. Interment Greenhill Cemetery, Lucknow.