The Lucknow Sentinel, 1994-03-09, Page 6Page 6 - Lucknow Sentinel, Wednesday, March 9, 1994
World Day of
Prayer hosted
by Ashfield
WMS ladies
The World Day of Prayer was
hosted by the ladies of Ashfield
Presbyterian Church WMS Society
on Mar. 4 at 2 p.m. The first Friday
in March each year, over 170
countries around the world celebrate
the World Day of Prayer. This
year's program was written by the
Christian women of Palestine. Our
sisters in that troubled part of the
world call us to hear their story,.
Guest speaker for the service was
Frances Nugent from Ripley who
spoke on the theme, Go, See and
Act. She concluded her talk with
slides from the Holy Land and
words of a Middle Eastern Chris-
tian, who wrote: Pray not for Ahab
or Jew, for Palestinian or Israeli,
Syrian or Lebanese, Muslim or
Christian, Orthodox or Catholic, but
pray rather for yourselves that you
may not divide them in your
prayers, but keep them all together
in your hearts.
Helen MacLennan welcomed
everyone and June Wylds and Edith
Simpson read an introduction to the
service.
Representatives from St. Augus-
tine, Trinity, Dungannon, Don-
nybrook, Nile, Port Albert and
Kingsbridge assisted with the readings.
Special music was provided. by
Bertha Scott and Marion Lowry
accompanied by Mary Gibson.
First: Hydro announces it's closing
three generating plants.
LOGIC?
Then: Hydro announces it's signing
contracts to buy electricity
from outsiders at three times
the cost. Time for on open
public review? We think so.
ONTARIO HYDRO'S CLOSING PLANTS.
BUT THEN
HYDRO'S
wTHEMSEIVES TIMES GENERATING T
Its one of a series of illogical decisions
your Hydro,is making: I
• They had fat management - 1
and a lean workforce. So they got rid
of the workers.
• They've token the biggest corporate
write off in Canadian history. Now
they want,to throw more of your money
away by, closing three more plants -
plants that have been producing
power all winter. .
• Hyc to exports doubled in the past
;year— yet they've decided to close
plants. •
• Cloning Hydro power plants to
make room for sixteen private power
contracts, contracts that cost .three
times more, is h'ot right, Where ,is
• the logic?, •i
• ,Your regular Hydro bill used to cover.
' the installation of the ficst.300 meters
of line to your house, farm or factory.
'Now, .you get a double whammy:
the regular
,bill.plus
• another bill
for the line.
n
Ontario Hydro ducked their last review.
We need one BEFORE the plants are closed.
•
Ontario taxpayers own a/multi-billion
dollor'company: Ontario Hydro., But
decisions like those.above are being
.made in private..
They're decisions that'll boost your
Hydro bill - for years.
Thai's why we are demanding that the
• government halt this expensive plant •
closure decision until -a full public review
is completed.
The Power Workers' Union, the teadern
of the opposition Liberal party, the Minister
of Energy,' business and community
-leaders have all Called for a public review..
But Hydro chairman, Maur•Ice Strong has
decided to proceed with the pltlnt
closures before thereview is completed. .
The.government must act immediately •
to protect the public interest by insisting
that Hydro's chairman suspend tate plant
'closure&''
pending 'the
outcome of the
public .review, .
"Tha government must stop the
plant closures until the public are
given the opportunity to review
the impact that these decisions
will have on their rates."
Jar, .•\I K'II
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POWER
WORKERS'
UNION
CANADIAN UNION OF PUBLIC EMPLOYEES LOCAL IOOc
Power Workers
Turning a little light on Ontario Hydro.
For more information cell: (416) 481-4491
Kitchener women opens
restaurant in village
The community welcomes Jayne
Hartung of Kitchener, to the village.
Jayne has opened up the Kountry
Klubb, a restaurant in Whitechurch
that i.s open seven days a week. We
wish her every success.
Betty Armstrong spent a couple
of days last week with her
daughter, Mr, and Mrs. Fred Perry
of .Bright.
The village card party was held
on Feb. 28 at the home of Angus
and Vera Falconer with four tables
in play. High lady was Evelyn
Gibb, high man John Hunter,
second high lade Trudy Foran, and
second high man Dave Gibb. Don
and Jean Ross will host the next
party of Mar. 14 at 8 p.m. °
Whitechurch UCW,
The Whitechurch UCW ladies
held their meeting Mar. 2' at the
home of Hazel Laidlaw.
Wby Jean Ross
HITECHURCH
The topic was Christian
Stewardship and Finance with
Pauline Adams and Gertrude Dur-
nin as leaders.
Mrs. Durnin gave the call to
worship and read a poem "I'm Glad
We're Friends" and an article on
stewardship from the Alert
magazine. Mrs. Adams read
stewardship of the gospel.
The rollcall was answered by 11
members naming a spring flower.
Mrs. Adams gave the offertory
prayer and Mrs. Durnin closed the
meeting with prayer.
The April meeting will be held at
Pauline Adams'.
Expansion. at Ford dealer
yields more office space
by Pat Livingston
As with a lot of businesses, when
a new building is erected you tend
to think you'll have loads of 'room.
This was the case at Montgomery.
Motors, Lucknow, in 1986, when
they moved to their present location
at 701 Campbell Street.
Eight years later, Ian Montgomery
says an increase in inventory and
business necessitated an e>kpansibn.
An additional 462 square feet of
office space was gained by, cl'gsing 1
in the southwest section of the front
.canopy. This space provides two
large offices - one for Ian and one
for Gary Woodcock, salesman. The
four former offices were enlarged to
provide more space for Thelma
Bigney, manager . of G.T.
Montgomery'bus lines, and Shirley
O'Malley, in accounting: ,
. Upstairs, over theshop area;' an
enlarged' cafeteria space.. for
Montgomery's 21 employees was
incorporated. This room also
doubles as'a meeting room for the
bus drivers. The former lunch room
will be utilized in the future as a
service office.' .
BUSINESS BEAT
Ian says "The outlook for the next
couple of years is brighter. This,
year started out well."
He/ attributes their extensive ad-
vertising campaigns • as being
instrumental in the business
'drawing customers from a wider
geographical area. "They (cu-
stomers) come in with the
newspaper in their hand asking to
see a specific car."
The Ford dealership has been
Montgomery' owned since 1948
when Ian's father Gordon'purchased'
it from Ed Renwick.
(A new feature in the Sentinel is a
twist on the business beat column,
covering area businesses that have
completed renovations , on , their
premises. It does not include new
products. If you are in the process
of renovating, give Pat a call at
528-2822.)
Business has been growing at Montgomery Motors, Lucknow,
and Ian Montgomery found It necessary to provide more
additional space. The southwest area of the canopy was closed
In to provide more office space, and some other changes made
to the Campbell Street business. (Pat Livingston photo)