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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1993-09-01, Page 4Page 4 - Lucknow Sentinel, Wednesday, September 1, 1993 f,+,;w ��11r•',wwww�w.;�J1.7�,y;,,,lw•-Ar ; • Published. weekly by Signal -Star Publishing Ltd. at 619 Campbell Street Lucknow, Ont ,P0. Box 400, Lucknow, Ontario NOG 2H0 528-2822: Fax (519) 528-3529 Established 1873 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 incl Local Senior $ 1 700 within 40 mi. radius G.S T. incl Out Of -Area (40 miles) - Rates available upon request Foreign . 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 ti.n charged for, but the balance of the advertisement' will be paid at the applicable rates. Frustrated worker should have counted her .blessings Helle Hulgaard certainly has our attention. We are not amused. From her perch in the Metro Toronto Housing Authority office where she has been employed since 1983, Hulgaard has apparently observed the abuses and the manipulations by people on welfare whose expectations and demands are growing and being met by government. As a government employee, she admitshas been frustrated by the Social Contract cuts which she thinks may have eroded away any slight financial edge she. may have had over single mothers on welfare. She has likely listened to the endless speculation by family and friends about an Ontario welfare system out -of -control. She has heard what she thinks she knows - that in some cases people on welfare, actually have more money in their pockets than people who work fulltime- With her eyes firmly fixed on a pleasant and profitable alternative to work, Hulgaard did some sleuthing. She figured out that Family Benefits for a single mother with two children would be $1,633 per month basic plus about $220 a month from the new child tax credit -baby bonus allowance. With the $120 she could earn working without penalty, her monthly income would be $1,973 - only $20 a month less than her take home pay from her fulltime job. She felt she would also qualify for a Goods and Services Tax refund every three months. In July she would get, aback to school allowance (an estimated $197) for her children and in October she would recieve a winter clothing allowance (an estimated $105 for each child). On top. of that, she would be at Home and would save babysitting .costs. ($150 per week), transportation costs ($67 per month) and other work -related -costs. Best of all, her children would have a fulltime mom who would be there all the time to help with problems. It all looked so good to Hulgaard that she resigned from her $41,500 -a -year job to live on welfare. The Sentinel Memoirs Bootleggergets fine and sentence 70 years ago September 13, 1923 leaning out the bootleggers - To pay a fine of $400 and. spend four months in jail, on jail fare, was the sentence passed upon a Kinloss Township man. Three charges of having and selling liquor contrary to the Ontario Temperance Act were laid. The defen- dant did not appear at court and made no defence, which was tantamount to admitting the charges. A' warrant for his arrest was issued, but he likely has taken "French leave." ust cut out the "cut-out" - Drivers of motor vehicles, who are in the,habit of using the exhaust cut-out, are reminded by the town authorities that this is an unlawful practice, and give notice that it will not be allowed, and offenders will be prosecuted. There is no excuse for using the cut-out, as motorists whose machines are not e- quipped with it get along quite as well as the others. 50 years ago September 9, 1942 New bank stenographer - Thelma Shurter of Chepstow has accepteda position as stenographer at the Bank of Montreal. She succeeds Lillian Mitchell, a member of the staff for several years, who leaves for Toronto where she will be similarly employed by the Bank of Montreal. Scbool opened Tuesday - With an enrolment of approximately 125 pupils, Lucknow Public School reopened. This is an average enrol- ment. Twelve little tots started off to school for the first time. These beginners are: Shirley Aberdein, Gwen Campbell, Valerie Carnegie„ Ruth Emberlin, Dale Haldenby, Velma Howald, Jack Mowbray, Joyce Mowbray, Edith Marshall, June Ross, Roy Stanley, George Webster, 25 years ago September 11, 1968 egion plans 820,000 improvement - Lucknow L, Legion, Branch 309, has let the contract for additions and improvements totheir present building. Contractor for the $20,000 improvement project will be Wedow Construction of Hano'er, builder of the present Lucknow United Church addition. Report prowling bear and cub - Rae Nichol- son, 14 -year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Chester Nicholson of Belfast, hasn't met many bears on the road, but the one he saw on Saturday on the 10th of West Wawanosh looked plenty big enough to Rae. It was accompanied by a young cub. He was walking from Belfast east on the 10th to the MacCrostie farm to help Mrs. Dorothy MacKenzie, who resides there, cut the lawn. As he was walking along the road, he glanced back and saw a bear on the roadway not too far behind him. Needless to say, Rae made tracks to the farm as quickly as possible. 10 years ago 11 September 7, 1983 Transfer Collyer to Owen Sound - Ted Col- lyer, the manager of the Liicknow branch of the Bank of Montreal recently transferred to.a more senior lending position in the Owen Sound commercial banking unit. elebrates birthday - Ada Webster, one of Lucknow's best known and most respected citizens, celebrated her 88th birthday on Aug. , 29. The residents of the Sepoy Apartments held a party in her honor on Aug. 26 and her family held a gatheringon her birthday. AS THEY WERE The Lucknow High School Grade 9 and 10 of 1946. Left to right, back' row, Randy Morrison, Al Hamilton, Wilfrid Slack, Viola Cook, Eileen Elliot, Mary Mcouaig, Ardonna Johnston, Betty Marshall, Ruth Dahmer, Lorna Little. Third row, Clifford McMillan, J.C. Drennan, Joy Johnston, Carrie Milne, Joan Mcoualg, Jean Treleaven, Gwen Treleaven, Elene Purvis; Mary Murdock, Doris Lyons. Second row, Mary Chin, Lois Johnston, Dorothy Gibson, Yvonne McGuffen, Jean Taylor, Bernice Shaddlck, Marion Nicholson, Gwen Stewart, Doris Lloyd, Mary Anderson. Front row, Don Cameron, Bill Bolt, Ray Stanley, Doug Farrish, Allan McIntyre, Larry -iBut-like-so--niany-things-that-sound-too-good-to-be-true,—it Salkeld,—Bob-Lyons; Harvey -Ross. (courtesy Vera Purvis) seems Hulgaard may have made a terrible mistake. First of all, she would end u with roughly $415 per month less than she estimated in basic benefits. Secondly, before being eligible for the welfare jackpot, she will need to exhaust severance pay, personal money, pension contributions and retirement savings. Even certificates put away for the children's future will need to be cashed in. And she will be back to relying on court-ordered child support payments from the father of her children, a self-employed businessman who is barely breaking even in these recessionary times and is already behind in his responsibilities. Hulgaard's story is interesting. It's even a bit pathetic. But it won't get the sympathy of many Ontario taxpayers. If Helle Hulgaard had been smart, she would not have left her job - one that many people would kill for in this economy, She would have counted her blessings and stuck to the grind. It's what we all should do. - SJK Please note: the deadline for this week's issue advances to 'Friday due to the Labour Day holiday She blazed trails with full force by Marsha Boulton AMSTERDAM, 1928 -- What a- round Canadian athlete achieved Olympic gold and was named Canadian Woman Athlete of the Half -Century in 1949 although she never had a coach? Fanny Rosenfeld, who was popularly known as "Bobbie," has been described as "the complete athlete." In fact, her biographers suggest that the most efficient way to summarize her career is to say that she was not proficient at swim- ming. In hockey, baseball, basket- ball, tennis and track and field, Rosenfeld was a champion. She was born in 1903 in Russia and came to Barrie, Ontario as an infant with her parents. Early on she attracted the attention of the sporting establishment when she beat the reigning Canadian 100 -yard champion, Rosa Grosse, at a track meet in Beaverton, Ont. Later, Rosenfeld and Grosse shared the world record for 100 yards at 11 seconds flat. In 1922, Rosenfeld entered active competition in Toronto. Constance Hennessey, one of the founding members ,ofi-- the Toronto Ladies Athletic Club, recalled the deter- mination of the diminutive Rosen- feld. "She did not look powerful, but she was wiry and quick. Above all she went after everything with full force." Although hockey was her first love, Rosenfeld's prowess was irrepressible. In 1924, she won the Toronto grass court tennis cham- pionship and in 1920s she played on Ontario and Eastern Canadian championship basketball teams. In 1925, her "club" won the points title at the Ontario Track and Field Meet, with first in the discus, the 220 yards, the 120 -yard low hurdles and seconds in the javelin and the 100 -yard dash. This was particularly impressive since she was the only member of her "club", which was sponsored by the chocolate factory where she worked, had only one member. , Bobbie Rosenfeld. Rosenfeld established Canadian records in the long jump, standing broad jump and the discus. Wearing her brother's teeshirt and swim. trunks and her father's socks, she thrilled 5,000spectators at the Olympic Trials in Halifax. The Amsterdam Olympics of 1928 marked the first time women were admitted to track and field competition -- despite arguments that vigorous physical activity would damage female 'reproductive organs and was "unseemly." The Ninth Olympiad was the highlight of Bobbie Rosenfeld's career. As the anchor runner in the •turn to page 5