HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1993-07-14, Page 4rage 4. - Luekitow Sentinel, Wednesday, July 14, 1993
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It's a controversial bill
A Liberal MPP has introduced a highly controversial private
member's bill to the Ontario Legislature. Toronto's Tim
Murphy would extend employee benefits to partners in same-
sex relationships to all companies operating in the province
.and explicitly ban discrimination in housing and the workplace
in the Ontario Human Rights Code.
Ontario's Attorney -General Marion Boyd says the New
Democratic government intends to support the bill which will'
be placed before the Legislature in the fall. She is- proud that
'the Ontario,government will be the fifst government in Canada
to be looking at this kind of law.
Boyd argues it isn't all that surprising after all. Canada's
courts, she says, are leading governments in that direction.
Michael Davenport of- the Coalition for Lesbian and Gay ,
Rights in Ontario, says the group hopes sante-sex couples will
soon be raised "at least to the level of common-law
heterosexual couples".
There's no doubt that Canadian values are changing. It's
evident everywhere one looks. There's no longer a clear
distinction between what is right and what is wrong. As the
21st century looms, society seems ever -willing to allow itself to
be propelled by people's "human-ness" rather than their
"moral-ness".
Canada was once a country where the marriage of a man
and a woman was w Jrth preserving. So was the home and
family they established as a result of that marriage.
Many Canadians - the majority of Canadians by far -
continue in those tried and proven traditions. No wonderthey
become confused and bitter as the courts and government chip )
away at the very foundation of their beliefs and erode the base
upon which they have built a marvellous nation.
The courts and governments need to ask themselves where
is the greatest source of Canada's strength. If it is still the
historic home - a place where children live with mom and dad
and are taught how to become solid, thoughtful citizens - it
behooves those courts and governments to do all in their power
to save male-female "marriage" from same -place statuswith
other, less conventional unions. - SJK
Rby Pat Livingston
AMBLINGS
Arecent visit to another
breed of doctor made me'
realize "the old grey mare,
she ain't what she used to be."
And it looks like it could be uphill
battle from this point on.
The phone numbers for the
various doctors that tend this body
are beginning to overtake those of
friends in my personal, miniature
phone book.
In addition to my family
physician, dentist,' chiropractor,
urologist, heart specialist, vitamin
specialist, I now have a
chiropodist/podiatrist, or in other
words a foot care specialist. With
my size l ls, I really didn't need
any further worries with this ap-
pendage, The old knees were
beginning to hurt and make crack-
ing sounds, as well.
While talking to the foot man, t
found out why the calves of my
1w
legs never touc ed. I thought it
was because my legs were so
skinny. Not so! Those main bones
that run down the front of the leg
are supposed to be fairly straight.
Mine tum out. There is no way on
this earth b could have ever hoped
for my calves to meet. As a result
I am absent the double diamond.
That's the term used when your
ankles to your calves form one
diamond shape, and your calves to
your knees form another diamond
shape.
Anyway, the bottom line was I
need orthotics in my shoes to .
alleviate my discomfort.
Ain't life a bowl of roses? I
really shouldn't be complaining. If
i was a horse they'd probably
shoot me, or at the very least put
me out to pasture. Thanks to my
doctors, I'm still in the race, albeit
I'm bringing up the rear.
The Sentinel Memoirs
Trees cause current to go off
70 years ago
. July 19, 1923
Fast-Growing Trees Caused Current To Go
Off - That there was no "current" in Lucknow
on Monday morning was the unwelcome
discovery of those who use hydro electric for power
or cooking. It was on again by noon and all has been
going well since. The little vacation was due to the
rapid growth of a few trees in front of Mr. James
Howey's on Gough St. These trees had extended their
branches up above the hydro wires, and the rain
Sunday night caused the branches to come down and
lodge on the wires. Between ten and eleven there was
a hissing sound and alt lights went out. The green
branches had held up the current until, after burning
a few limbs off, some of them over a half-inch in
diameter, the wire itself was burned across and fell to
the ground. The trouble was located early Monday
morning and a gang of men under direction of the
Reeve and Councillor Hodgins after cutting off wagon
load of branches made. repairs. Mr. Cousins looks
after the wiring and wire repairing for the town.
50 years ago
July 25, 1943
Factory Fire Quickly Extinguished Thursday
- A fire alarm on Thursday at noon hour,
caused a real stir as villagers learned the blaze
was at the Maple Leaf Aircraft corporation plant,
Lucknow's leading industry.
The fire which broke out on the outside of the fuel
shed, adjoining the plant, was discovered early, but
was making rapid headway by the time a stream of
water was turned on, to quickly squelch the flaines.
Twenty-eight Years 'Since He left Here A visitor
in town last week was Wm. MacKay of Toronto, a
former resident of the Village, who at one time
worked at the livery business for both the late Adam
Thompson and. the late Allan McLeod. Mr. MacKay.
left here 28 years ago, and has not been back in
Lucknow in 27 years.
Mr. MacKay did a little piping in his younger days,
and he has a daughter and son who are quite expert
with -the pibroch. His daughter, Miss Grace MacKay,
is Pipe Major of the all girls pipe band in Toronto,
which she personally founded and tutored. It was the
only girls band in Eastern Ontario until an Air Force
band was organized. Miss MacKay is also a profes-
sional Scottish dancer.
Mr. MacKay's son, Piper Cameron MacKay is a
member of the Depot band at Newmarket,
While here Mr. MacKay visited with his uncle, Mr.
James Burns and other relatives,
25 years ago
July 17, 1968
Tom Rivett Gets Centennial Medal For Pos-
tal Service - Thomas H. Rivett of Dungannon
has been awarded the Centennial Medal for his
contribution to the postal service of Canada over the
past fifty years. The award was received last week
and came on the recommendation of the postmaster at
Dungannon.
Torn has completed 49 1/2 years as rural mail driver
on R.R.1, Dungannon. It was in the second month of
1919, at the age of 29, that Tom first commenced
driving the mail route, taking oyer from Tom Elliott
who gave up the position at that time. The route had
been established about four years prior.
, Mrs. Gordon Congram is the only person on the
route now who was there when Tom started fifty
years ago. Another original boxholder on the route is
W. A. Culbert who now sides in a nursing home in
Goderich. ' -,Q
The route now has 60 boxholders and is 20 1(2
miles long. It covers the 4th and 6th concessions of
Ashfield Township from the Dungannon Lucknow
road to the Bluewater Highway as well as seven spur
lines on the sideroads in between.
10 years ago
July 13, 1983
Neighbors search for missing children - Three
Ashfield teenagers were reported missing.
Monday night when they failed to return home
from a boat trip on the Nine Mile River.
Vickie Hackett, 15, and her brother, Shawn, 14, and
a friend, Vicky Pentland, 15, left home about 8, p.m.
to go for a ride in a rubber dinghy on the river. They
were to return home about 9 p.m. When they did not
return by nightfall, Lucknow Fire Department was
called to join neighbors and friends who were sear-
ching for ,the three teenagers.
,Lucknow deputy chief, William (Bud) Hamilton
contacted the Goderich detachment of the Ontarid
Provincial Police about 11 p.m. who also joined in the
search. :
The three were found about .1 a.m. when Kevin
Alton and George Dierolf, who had taken a canoe
down the river to search, spotted them. The three
became lost in the overgrown area along the river,
when the 'dinghy floated into an- unfamiliar branch of
the river.
CORRECTION c last week's memoir picture
had the wrong cutline underneath it. The
following Information goes with the picture in
the July 7 Issue on page 4: Mitchell's Mill at
the north end of the village, at the east end of
Wolsley Street, by the river In 1902. On the
wagon Is Bill Fisher and Jake Miller. Others in
the picture are Angus Nicholson, Jim Fisher,
John W. Henderson, Johnnie Nicholson, Jim
Burns,
SHIPPING OUT SQUARED TIMBERS IN 1894
at the south end of the CNR railway station.
The two boys are William E. Henderson and
Jack McQuaig. Standing on the timber are
James J. Henderson, Nell Macinnes, Angus
Nicholson; George Gilles and Dan Hayes, the
station agent. Standing In front • is Archie
Nicholson. (submitted by Rev. W. Henderson)
Prairie dribblers take on the world
by Marsha Boulton.
EDMONTON, 1915 - What
Canadian sports team won 96 per-
cent of their games, held the title of
"world champions" -for 17 con-
secutive years and had a winning
streak that lasted for 147 con-
secutive games?
With phenomenal statistics such
as these, Alberta's legendary Ed-
monton Commercial Graduates
women's basketball team has often
been hailed as the most successful
team in any sport.
Basketball was inventer by
Canadian James Naismith in 1891.
The sport had evolved: considerably
from its peach -basket beginnings
when Percy Page introduced the
game to his girl's physical
education class at Edmonton Com-
mercial High School in 1914. En-
thusiasm ran high when the school
team won their first city title.
In 1915, Page organized a senior
team which combined the talents of
students and former students who
wanted to continue playing. In their
first season "The Grads" won the
Alberta title, and they held on to it
for 24 out of the next 25 years!
Their horizons broadened in 1922,
when the first Canadian women's
basketball championships were held
in London, Ontario. Once again the
Grads won on their first try. They
retained the title for 18 years.
The Underwood Typewriter Com-
pany put up a challenge cup in
1923, which was tantamount the
women's world championships
since it involved teams from all,
provinces and every state. The
Edmonton Grads never lost a series.
When the team was disbanded in
1940, the Underwood Trophy was
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