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Our debt keeps. rising
Last Tuesday was, as the Canadian Chamber of Commerce
described,"a horrifying day in Canadian history."
Why?
Our federal government debt reached $500,000,000,000 -- or
$500 billion. Half a trillion dollars!
At 11:55 a.m., EST on Jan. 18, 1994 (Ironically the day of the
Throne Speech In our 35th Parliament), the debt reached this
horrific figure.
In order to publicize how huge that debt Is, the network of
500 local chambers of commerce would like to draw public
attention to this massive amount of money through a list of.
"fun facts for a frightening reality" about a half trillion dollar
debt:
• If each Canadian were asked to pay their share of the
federal debt today, It would cost them $17,389.
• If each Canadian had to pay their share of Just the Interest
on the federal debt -- $40 billion per year -- It would amount
to approximately $1,400.
• The federal government pays over $4.5 every hour, or
$76.000 every minute, just to pay the $40 billion per year
Interest on the debt.
• If the federal government collated a loonle from a single
Canadian every second, It would take 15,855 years to
accumulate a half trillion dollars!
• If a half trillion loonies were lined up, side-by-side, it would
be enough to circle the earth 317 times; line the shores of
Canada's coastline 52 times; and cross the entire country,
coast-to-coast, 1,780 times!
Think about it.
Something has to be done. Let's hope something happens
soon. (A.B.)
(Andy Bader is the editor of the Mitchell Advocate).
Calling all poets
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comer. '
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to spend on that favorite person.
The Sale
By Catherine Neil
Mom and Dad are gone now
So we're going to have a sale.
Losing all those memories
Is going to hurt us, we can tell.
'There's all the little things .
They've gathered through the years
To see them all, all auctioned off
Will bring a lot of tears.
There goes Dad's old shaving mug
Our brother thought was fun.
Mom's temperamental coffee pot,
Things going one by one.
We can't see Mom's old dishes
Being used by someone new,
With no sentimental value
But what does a family do?
An estate sale is the,hardest thing
A family must go through.
• All our childhood memories
Will be new things to you.
There are three categories: up to
12 years of age; 13 to 20, and 21
and over. Prizes are $20, $10 and
$5 in each category.
Your entries, consisting of 75
words or less, must be received at
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Feb. 9. The winners' poems will be
published in the Sentinel Feb. 16.
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Sentinel memoirs .
January was snowless 50 years ago
70 years ago The animal weighed close to 40 lbs. and was taken
Jan. 24, 1924 to Walkerton as proof of claim for wolf bounties.
Local and general - The temperature was 8
below here on Monday morning. With a strong
wind blowing, that made it about as
disagreeably cold as we get it in this neck of the
woods.
The great storm which prevailed over the continent
the early part of the week was particularly hard on
fellows who had predicted a mild winter and had
concluded that our climate was certainly changing.
Miss Bell Murchison who has been bookkeeper at
Lucknow Silverwoods has resigned that position and
gone with the Gunnsonola Co. Wingham. Miss
McNab has taken the position with Silverwoods.
ccident after long trip - After travelling alone
all the way from Kenville, Manitoba, with the
intention of spending the winter with relatives
in the Tiverton vicinity, Robert Glegg, aged 84, met
with an accident two hours after arriving at the home
of his daughter, Mrs. John Kaake, in Bruce Township,
when he fell on the floor and fractured his thigh.
Owing to his advanced age, his condition is regarded
as critical. <
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SO years ago
Jan. 27, 1944
Addressed council - Dr. W.V. Johnston of
Lucknow, MOH of Ashfield and Kinloss
Townships and of Lucknow, addressed Huron
County council on the great need for medical
examination and health supervision among school
children. He advocated a complete medical and dental
examination as carried out in Toronto schools.
Eighty per cent of the children in Ontario require
dental care, he asserted. Parents with money are just
as negligent as those who have little. The time is
coming when medical and dental inspection must be
considered a necessity.
hot wolf - Dick McQuillin of Lucknow and
Bill Kennedy of Huron Township .bagged a
wolf a few days ago in this immediate
vicinity. Two animals were running together, but both
hunters, aimed only with shotguns, drew a bead on
the same wolf.
Remarkable month - With only four days to
go, January bids fair to set some kind of a.
record surely, It has been a "snowless" month,
and this week to date has been very mild resembling
real spring weather.
The streets look like it too, with only a bit of slush
and ice remaining, whereas a year ago one couldn't
see his neighbor across the street for snowbanks.T
he,ditor said = Funny things happen in
elections, says the Teeswater news, in com-
menting on the defeat . of Charles Holm of
Normanby, reeve of that municipality .for. 25 years.
Only funny thing we can see about s that he wasn't
defeated long ago.
2S years ago
Jan. 29, 1969
Appoints bylaw officer - Alex "Sandy" Havens
of Lucknow was appointed by village council
as the local bylaw enforcement officer at a
salary of $500 per year.
Mr. Havens formerly served as police officer in ..
Lucknow and is a retired town foreman.
Bam fire - The barn of Donald Simpson,
located on the Lochalsh sideroad just south of
Lochalsh, was threatened by fire on Monday
morning of this week, but fortunately no serious
damage resulted.
Donald was away snow plowing at the time and
members of the Simpson family were waiting for the
school bus to arrive shortly before 8 a.m. Smoke was
noticed coming from the upper part of the barn and
Mrs. Simpson and family, upon investigating, dis-
covered the blaze.
' Neighbors and the Lucknow Fire Department were
summoned but the Simpson family, with a bucket
brigade, had the blaze pretty well under control when . .
they arrived.
The school bus was little late on Monday and the
Simpsons were watching out the window for its
arrival. This fact probably was responsible for saving
the
barn.
The Lucknow Pipe Band on June 6, 1939 during the visit of King George and Queen Elizabeth
to Stratford. From the left, front row: Pipe Major Roy MacKenzie, Lorne (Pelican) MacDonald,
Frank MacKenzie, and D.A. MacLennan. Second row: Kenneth MacLennan, Murray MacDonald,
Nell MacCallum, Kenneth Rlntoul. Third row: Reid McKim, Allan McKim, George MacDonald,
Wilfred McQuillan. Fourth row: side drummer Stuart MacLennan, bass drummer Joe McCoy,
leading side drummer Mac Webster. (photo courtesy of Frank MacKenzie)
Beating those winter blahs
This wieked winter weather is
enough to make the most cheerful,
optimistic person go down with a
case of the winter blahs. If you're
a person, like myself, who dislikes
winter with a passion, you've
already had the bug since New
Year's.
When stricken with this dreaded
winter disease, many peopld do
strange things. Well, there are
some who do nothing and fall
deeper into depression.
This year, I have found myself
doing some odd things. As an
example I actually tune the bube
tube into the CHSCI For those of
RAMBLINGS
by Pat Livingston
Pat Livingston
you who don't recognize the
acronym, it's the Canadian Home
Shopping Channel, where from the
comfort of your home you can
order anything your little heart
desires and say charge itl
It's a good thing I'm not a
shopaholic. I simply derive some
sick sense of pleasure from lis-
tening to these TV sales people
talk non-stop for 10 minutes about
any given article.
The two "personalities" I seem
to catch, when 1 sink into the pit
of depression, are Howard and
Kellie. I have never seen these
people live; most times they are
a the voice only behind the item that
is being offered for sale. Oc-
casionally, you get a still shot of
them posing with some piece of
merchandise they are promoting.
Kellie is a lady with a rather
loud voice, who oozes exuberance .
and love for anything and
everything she is describing.
Thank goodness for the remote
with a volume control.
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