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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)
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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
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