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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1994-04-06, Page 4Page 4 - Lucknow Sentinel, Wednesday, April 6, 1994 The Sentinel Memoirs Published weekly by Signal -Star Pub I ping Ltd at619 Campbell Street Lucknow, Ont P.O. Box 400, Lucknow, Ontario NOG 2H0 528-2822. Fax (519) 528-3529 Established 1873 Thomas Thompson - Advertising Manager Pat Livingston - Genera.I _Manager/Editor Phyllis Matthews Helm - Front Office Subscription rates advance: Local Regular $2000 within 40 mi radius G S T incl Local Senior $1 700 within 40 mi radius G.S.T incl Out -Of -Area (40 miles) - Regular $32.24 - Senior $29.24 G.S.T. incl. Foreign + USA $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 be chased. for, but the balance of the advertisement will be paid at the applicable rates. s Welfare numbers more disturbing than cheating Fresh from squeezing a 20 per cent tuition hike out On- tario's hedonistic student population, the. provincial government has turned It's attention to that other great economic scourge of our time, "Welfare cheats." While it's about time the province got.around•to Improving the system of' safeguards to prevent misuse of the social assistance • system, this week's announcement the government Is adding staff to enforce new eligibility rules, • was accompanied by some overblown rhetoric. • We even heard the phrase "The end of the two -car welfare family," In news reports about the cuts. However, we suspect one would haveto, check a lot , of driveways to find a welfare family with a pair of BMWs. • There are Indeed numerous two -car welfare famIlies out there.- In most cases,the first car Is an aging safety hazard, while the second Is usually a junker of the same make and model Intended to be cannibalized for. parts. Yes, the new fraud squads will find some welfare cheats "i among the' social assistance recipients in Ontario. However, even If the government was able to entirely eliminate dubious claimants. from the. welfare rolls, they would probably find they have been trying to put 'out a fire with an eye -dropper. The real tragedy In this. country Is not the relatively minimal 'percentage of people cheating welfare. It Is the staggering numbers who genuinely need It. (The Lakeshore Advance) I , What's in a name? hat's in a name? • I /Alan Benjamin, the • American author of 'A. Treasury of Baby Names' says, ."Among the 'f t and most impor tant gifts we give our children are their names. As they acquire lan- guage, youngsters quickly discoVer /that these names differentiate them from all the others in their growing. world, that they identify'them as the unique individuals they are." In this business, we find that unique names can be a pain in the butt, to put it bluntly. - We take extreme care and make valiant efforts to be sure names in the paper are spelt correctly, but then even we are human. Remember .too, that hand written copy submitted to us maynot be all. that eligible. Remember too, that those submitting that hand written copy may not know how to spell your name' correctly. If we knbw a name ,is spelt incorrectly, we change it. If we don't know, we have no other recourse to print it as submitted. To call each and. every person submitting copy would take up a great deal of valuable time on deadline days. Here's a few fust names to ponder: Lindsay, Lindsey; Ann; Anne, Anna; Trish, Trisha, Tricia; Mayme, Maimie, Mamie; Johnathon, Jonathon, Johnathan; Sean, Shaun; Isobel, Isabel; Leeann, Leeanne, Lee Ann, Lee Anne, Leigh Ann, Leigh Anne; Eric, Erick; Ian, Ean, Ashfield churches were amalgamating 70 years ago April 10, 197,4 Aspecial meeting A re -organization meeting of the Lucknow Horticultural Society will be held this week. William Hartry will address the meeting and illustrate his talk with lantern views. A windfall to park fund - An interesting reminder of the Reunion of the Lucknow and vicinity Old Boys, held in '1910, was the receipt the other day by the committee in charge of the improvements in the Memorial Park of the .um of $44.0. The funds have been on deposit in one of the banks being held until some community project turned up to which the funds could be devoted. 50 years ago April 6, 1944 ' pIan to form local auxiliary - A meeting will be held in the Legion Rooms, at which it is planned to organize a Ladies' Auxiliary of the Canadian Legion of the British Empire Service League. All interested ladies .are invited to attend. As we understand it, .besides charter members, membership will be available to those with relatives overseas. Watched with interest - Jack Webster ("Big Jack" as he is so popularly known here) writes from Braloren, B.C., telling of the interest taken out there in the Lucknow Juveniles this year. Jack says he could hardly get a chance to read The Sentinel himself for the rest of the boys wanting to know how the team was doing. .' ' Baseball or lacrosse? - Last week we advanced the suggestion that a box lacrosse league be organized. One chap says he would like to see juvenile baseball organized. • Baseball has been a dead issue here for the past few 'years, but it was not always thus. It is just about 40 years ago, soon after the turn of the century, that baseball was introduced in Lucknow, and it caught on so quickly that almost "overnight" lacrosse, which was all the rage then, was forgotten. What about it - box lacrosse or baseball'- one or the other, both or neither? 25 years ago April 9, 1969 Amalgamate churches - A meeting was scheduled to consider uniting Blakes, Hacketts and Zion churches in Ashfield Township, to form one church congregation. Hacketts and Zion had earlier approved the proposal but Blakes initially turned it down. It was felt that there was some misunderstanding by some of the Blake people about the proposal and the second meeting was held at which time the plan was ap- proved. The proposal will be presented to the Presbytery for approval, following which the three congregations would meet as a group and elect a new slate of officers. Farm in family for 116 yeirs - Peter Campbell recently sold his 100 acre farm, in West Wawanosh Township, to Ronald McCrostie of Saskatoon, a native and frequent visitor to this community. The farm, located on he sideroad between the 12th and 10th concessions, a mile east of the Lucknow- Dungannon road, was 'originally taken up by Peter's grandfather, Peter Campbell and later farmed by his father Neil Campbell. Peter's grandfather took the farm "out of the bush" 116 years ago in 1953 and the -prdperty has remained in the family since that time. THE LUCKNOW BAND - back row - E. McQuillan, Sid Decker, D.C. McMorran (band leader), Cecil Robb. Centre row - Ken Murdie,.Lou Murdoch, Both Andrew, An McCartney, Dunc MacDonald, Bill Lockhart, Garfield MacDonald. Front row - W.B. Anderson, Alvin Miller, Robert Fisher, Jim Nixon, E. McQuillan, Wilf Murdoch, George Douglas, Harold Treleaven, D. Cole. (courtesy Kathleen tqy Pat Livingston • McDonald) AMBLINGS Eon Allene, Eileen, Alene, Ilene; Greg, Gregg; Brian, Bryan, Bryon; May, Mae; Belle, Bell; Lisa, Leisa, Liza; Meghan, Meagan;, Meaghen; Delores, D3loros; Catherine, Katherine; Cathy, Kathy; Katy, Katie; Donna, Dona, Dawna; Karen, Karin; Neil, Niel; Darrel,Darrell, Daryl; Theresa, Teresa; Steven, Stephen; Allan, Alan. Now there's the last names: Johnston, Johnstone, Johnson; Clark, Clarke;. Livingston, ,Livingstone; Thompson, Thomson; Forster, Forester; Reid, Reed; Pearce, Pierce; all the Mac's and the Mc's; all: the Van's; • is 'there always a space between Van and the next part of the name? 'We were taught i before e except after c, but that rule doesn't always apply in ' names. People take pride in their names and like to see them- spelled cor- rectly. 1 have one 'young person, who every time I take her picture, makes a point 'of spelling her name in full, emphasizing the letter where error could occur. We humans ard' possessive of our names, and rightly so. We'll con- tinue to do our best to make sure we spell yours correctly, but remember - we need a little help from our "friends." Jack Hunter was a conservationist KINGSVILLE, ONTARIO 1908 - - At first glance, Jack Miner, hunter and brickmaker; seems an unlikely conservationist. -However, this prominent activist founded one of the first bird sanctuaries in .North America and played a pivotal. role in .establishing the conservation movement. Jack only attended school for a total of three months. Instead; he spent much ' of his childhood studying the habits of animals at the creek near his house.). At thirteen Jack began hunting, for profit to help support his family. The community recognized Jack's superb woodsmanship and a group of Kingsville's most prominent citizens asked him if he 'would accompany them on a deerhunting expedition. The trip'was successful and Jack began to spend more of his time leading sportsmen. He acquired a reputation as "the greatest hunter in Canada." Then, on a moose hunting trip in 1898, a gun misfired and hit his brother Ted in the back of the head. He died instantly. Jack was devastated. But in his grief he was persuaded to go to church. Jack's sympathy went out to a group of disruptive young boys and he volunteered to teach Sunday school. Jack enthralled the boys with adventures of the woods. and had them read biblical passages relating to, nature. In return, the boys taught Jack to read. Meanwhile, Jack . continued to take pleasure in hunting. One 'mor- ning he spotted a family of six . Canada ,geese near his home - a rare event. He hitched up his buggy and headed out to where he thought the geese, would be feeding. • Sure enough, the geese headed straight for Jack. But' when they came close enough to see him the leader let out a loud "honk" and the geese darted away. - Jack was convinced that the birds recognized him and regarded him as an enemy. Jack decided to befriend the geese. The following year he • flooded one of the pits on his land and bought several tame geese to act as decoys. ' • For four years` the geese refused to come: Finally, in 1908 11 ar- rived. In 1909, .there were 32. In ' 1910, there were 400. Jack Miner's sanctuary had become .a home for the migrating geese. In 1909 leek began banding birds. A friendly duck named Katie was - his first subject. He took a piece of aluminum, scratched his address on the band and wrapped it around• Katie's leg. Two months later he received a letter from a hunter in North Carolina who had shot Katie. Inspired by a Salvation Army .Calendar he began marking each band with a biblical verse several years later. Letters began pouring in from all over the country - some from people who had shot a goose and wanted to let Jack know, others from people who were inspired by his unique messages. Over the next thirty years Jack gave lectures across North America encouraging hundreds of thousands see Published, page 5