The Lucknow Sentinel, 1994-01-05, Page 3Lucknow Sentinel, Wednesday, January 5, 1994 - Page 3
Kincardine OPP report
A Kin -Huron man was treated
and released from the Kincardine
and District General Hospital for
smoke inhalation after his garage
was destroyed in a Dec. 26 fire.
John Peters was working on a
tractor with ,a snowblower and
some gas had leaked: An exten-
sion light fell, igniting the gas.
The Tiverton fire deparunent
responded and was assisted by
the Kincardine fire department.
Snowmobile complaints
OPP have received several
complaints about snowmobilers
in Ripley and at the Golf Links
golf course.
Sergeant Bob Brigger said a
number of snowmobilers have
been driving carelessly.
In some cases they have been
endangering children on tobog-
gans.
OPP gave a warning to three
snowmobilers at the golf course
and are asking people to be
careful.
Mitre saw stolen
On Dec. 22, a mitre saw worth
$400 was reported stolen from
an Inverhuron construction site
after someone entered an
unlocked door.
Lay -assault charge
OPP responded to a domestic
situation on Dec. 24th and have
charged a 33 -year-old Tiverton
woman with assault.
An officer was met with a
woman covered in blood, hold-
ing a knife.
However, the blood was from
cuts she received breaking
dishes.
She was taken to the
Kincardine and District General
Hospital to be treated for • her
injuries.
19 charged with driving
on closed roads
As a result of area weather-
related road closures, 19 people
have been charged for driving on
closed roads between Dec. 20
and 27.
"When we close a highway we
expect tkople will honor it,"
OPP Sergeant Bob Brigger said.
He said police can't always
enforce a road closure but are
requesting people stay off high-
ways when the roads are closed.
OPP are also requesting' people
not call the Kincardine or Mount
Forest detachments for road
condition information.
He said both places have been
•receiving a number of calls that
are tying up emergency lines at
times when dispatchers are deal-
ing with serious accidents.
People can call the Ministry of
Transportation at 1-800-265-
5407 for road condition informa-
tion.
392 RIDE checks
Between Dec. I9 and 25, OPP
and the Kincardine Police Ser-
vice stopped 392 vehicles in area
RIDE checks.
OPP Sergeant Bob Brigger
said there were no 12 -hour sus-
pensions given out or impaired
driving charges.
There was one Highway Traf-
fic Act charge and one person
was charged for having liquor in
a vehicle. •
Man passes out
A,. Listowel man has been
charged with trespassing after
wandering into a Lucknow „home
and passing out on the couch.
The incident occurred on Dec.
28, when a Campbell Street
resident' discovered a pick up
truck in her driveway.,
The driver was asleep in the
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The year 1993 in review
January
• The Lucknow and District Fire Board met on,Dec.
29 to discuss options pertaining to the resebe van
damaged in a Christmas Day accident. Strong winds
caused the van to leave Highway 86 and enter the
ditch. Two of the six firefighters in the van received
minor injuries.
•Retired Professor Robert Langen; of Lucknow, was
honored this month when an art gallery at the Wilfrid
Laurier University was named after him.
•The first 1993 baby born at Wingham and District
Hospital was William Miller, of West Wawanosh
Township.
• The financial committee of St. Joseph's Roman
Catholic Church, Kingsbridge, was investigating the
possibility of having the church designated a heritage
building.
•Andy Burgess, Lucknow's community -oriented
police officer, was selected as Kincardine's 1992
Citizen of the Year.
•The Lucknow and District Fire Board decided to
repair the rescue van, and return it to service as an
equipment van 'with no passenger capacity.
Board members were in the process of looking into
acquiring a new pumper truck with crew cab. Subse-
quently, the 1978 pumper truck was sold and a 1993
Volvo GM pumper truck with crew cab was ordered
from Fort Garry Industries, Winnipeg.
February
• Forty tractors and as many farmers demonstrated at
the junction of Highway 86 and 21• at Amberley. The
demonstration was spearheaded by A Line.in the Dirt
organizers to highlight the problems of farmers and
put pressure on the politicians•
Traffic, other than emergency vehicles, snow plows,
or school busses was detoured back and around one
block.
• The Lucknow Business Association started looking
at the advantages and disadvantages of becoming a
chapter of the Ontario Chamber of Commerce:
• Line in the Dirt organizers hosted a rally in Luck -
now. They asked the governments for the institution
of an ad hoc program whereby each farmer would
receive $60 per acre to assist them through a time of
serious cash flow shortage.
Approximately 1,000 farmers and 'agri-related
business people listened for over three hours as a
panel composed of politicians, Line in the Dirt and
various other board representatives discussed what
was referred to as the "imminent collapse of rural
Ontario."
The bottom line was there was no money in the
government coffers to distribute to farmers.
•The Lucknow and District Lions donated .closed
caption units designed for the hearing impaired. ,
Recipients were Dorothy Johnston, Maple Breezes
Manor, Pinecrest and Country Road Lodge.
•Lucknow village council continued its pursuit to
have the village's own hydro 5,000 kv substation .built
on Canning Street.
•The St. Helen's snowmobile poker rally' finally
took place on Feb. 21, after five delays. •
• Rev. Gerald McFarlane, of the Lucknow United
Church, accepted an appointment at the Mount Forest
United Church,
March
•Marian Raynard accepted a three-year appointment
at the Iona Community, Scotland, as the Abbey
domestic supervisor.
•The Lucknow and District Fire Department's 1993
Volvo GM pumper truck with crew cab went into
service.
• The Lucknow Business Association voted to forme
a chapter of the Lucknow and District Chamber of
Commerce. The change was in name only and
President Ben Hogervorst said it would not alter the
historical meaning of the association, but would
facilitate area business owners in gaining access to
important information through the Ontario Chamber
of Commerce.
.The home of Ray Cunningham, of R.R. 5, Luck -
now was destroyed in an early morning fire on Mar.
14. High winds acted as fuel to the fire while
firefighters , worked for six hours to extinguish the
blaze. •
- Budget restraints affected the local library service,
when hours were cut from 21 to 18 per week.
• Retired NHL player Pat Stapleton was ' guest
speaker at a gathering of employees from
Montgomery Motors, • Lucknow and Kincardine
branches. Stapleton, a motivational speaker, is the
founder of Fundamentals in Action, a hockey ex-
perience program designed to provide for continuity
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•The Wingham and District Hospital Nursing Assis-
tant School was in jeopardy due to government
cutbacks. The MOH advised that it would no longer
fund hospital based nursing assistant schools and that
no funds would be available for the school's fall term,
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