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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1994-08-31, Page 4Page 4 - Lucknow Sentinel, Wednesday, August 31, 1994 The Sentinel Memoirs Suggests `T&F' for ignorant vandals <:(.:y->.'.•.'.".�I:::�','i:`•.i.<.www„�w,iti �1.�I.I.•i::.:w.ww,w�..::www„w,r....:ww-.,..Jln<%ii>:�..r::::::.. .. :;i!£•t;«.>w>:»:.::.....::.::::.re..ar.•:.:�<'s�8s:%4:>23i::::i8:a:3is.�.. .... Published weekly. by Signal -Star Publishing Ltd. at 619 Campbell Street Lucknow, Ont. • PO. Box 400, Lucknow, Ontario NOG 2H0 528-2822: Fax (519) 528-3529 Established 1873 Thomas Thompson - Advertising Manager Pat Livingston - General 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 + U,S A. $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 pn 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 charged for, but the balance of the advertisement will be paid at the applicable rates. II Chain letters play upon humans' fears. Chain letters are once again circulating in the area. The latest, headed `With love all things are possible' claims to have' originated in . England and been around the world nine times. Recipients are promised "good luck within four days of receiving this letter, provided you In turn send It" to 20 friends and associates. Constable Andy Burgess, of the Kincardine OPP, refers to these letters as "strictly garbage mall and to treat It as such. In other words ignore it and put It where it belongs = In the garbage. Constable Burgess advises people to Inspect "garbage mIl" or that which is unsolicited by you. Today people are inundated with all kinds of this mall. How many times have you been told you are the next $1 million winner in - (f111 in the blank). He says companies sell their mailing lists to people and If one or more people respond to this type of letter, it -ramifies itself. f If you subscribe to magazines, It Is your right to Inform that company that you do not wish your name to be on any lists they sell to other companies. Write them and tell them so, advising that you -only want to receive the subscription you are paying for; nothing more. The content of the current letter circulating plays upon Our emotional fears; it is a ploy to tell you the bad things that supposedly happened to people who did not respond to the chain letter. Ignore It and put It where It belongs - In the garbage. The `recycling cops' nabbed the rambler Our small staff at this newspaper office is into recycling. We put our pop tins and , bottles in the Blue Box, our ncwspapers in a separate box, our fine white paper in another box, and our non-recyclables"in the .garbage bin. Oh, by the way, when we do gorge on pizza, we make sure those boxes go into the large Blue Boxes provided for corrugated cardboard. I thought we were doing great things, that is, until I got caught by the 'recycling cops' at the town hall last week. It had been, quite a while since I had made a trip to the 'Blue Box for fine white paper' located at the town hall. In a cleaning up mood, I changed into my grubbies, loaded the car with the fine white paper and corrugated cardboard and made my rounds: I always feel `good' when I think that we are doing our wee part to reduce landfill. My inflated bubble was burst as I walked through the town hall doors to be greeted by Vana and Jay - the 'recycling cops' thoroughly going through the fine white paper Blue Box. Seems like a lbt of us, including those within this office, don't really understand what constitutes 'fine white paper'. Within the confines of that AMBLINGS by Pat Livingston packed, huge container, the 'recycling cops' were finding colored paper, envelopes, a shop- ping bag, a tin, flyers, and other things that would contaminate the load. When the `cops' informed me of the problem, I dutifully sat my derriere on the stairs and began sorting through the two feet of fine white paper generated by us. I was embarrassed to find that some people within our little office didn't really understand -the 'fine white paper' concept' either. Believe me, when certain people get back from holidays, I am going to have a mini -seminar on what goes where. I don't want to ever have to go through that process again! So the 'cops' caught me, and I'm sure there were a large number of other offenders they would like to speak to. Once again, please remember, only the following articles may be disposed of in the 'fine white paper' Blue Box at the to, I: "only white linen writing p, d •see Help, page 5 70 years ago Aug. 28, 1924 Avhat would you do with these' vandals? Flower plants which Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Smith have in window boxes in front of their residence were broken and scattered over The sidewalk, and an iron railing just west of the garage pulled up and tossed upon the flower beds. Only the most ignorant vandals find pleasure in such destruction. There is nothing smart about it as any horse or cow could do the like if allowed at large on the streets at night. Hiring a night watchman is expensive and besides, • even a watchman cannot be all over the town at one time. The only remedy is for every good citizen to regard him or herself a committee of one acting in the interests of law and order, and to have no hesitation in giving information about disorderly characters. The courts are altogether too lenient with this sort of law -breaker. They ought to be put for good where they can do harm to none but themselves; or in view of the slackness of the courts, wouldn't it be a good idea to send them home in a suit of T. & F. 50 years ago Aug. 31, 1944 he editor says - Lucknow Fire Company, which has for longbeen promoting omotin � the idea of a P g a fire truck and a suitable fireshould T hall,be encouraged to persevere in their efforts by what has transpired in Palmerston. That town is finally to have a new fire truck and pumper at a cost of close to $5,000. The Palmerston Observe says: "It is something that. has been needed for years and it took an aggressive fire department to finally bring the dream to ful- fillment." Get your coal - If you haven't your winter's coal in the bin, or at least on order, better attend to it at once, warns Munitions Minister Howe. There will be reduction in shipments of Welsh coal and of American anthracite this winter, the. Minister points out, in recommending that householders accept any suitable fuel whenever their dealer can deliver it. 25 years ago Aug. 27. 1969 ivins fiddling championship - For the second time in three years, Eleanor Reed of Guelph has won the Canadian ladies old time fid- dling championship. The Dungannon and Lucknow area native placed first in the ladies division at Shelburne and regained the top award which she won before in 1967. She has been playing for 16 of her 25 years. It was 1984 and these three young ladies were Queen of the Fair and first and second runnersup From the left: Lindell Cross, Michele Humphrey and Gerda Hendriks. (file photo). Those pioneers of early flight by Lionel Kearns Lou Gagnon was an unlikely inventor. A miner living in the small community of Rossland, B.C. at the turn of the century, he was obsessed with the idea of human flight. For years he worked on a kind of combination helicopter/auto gyro that he powered by steam. There is,evidence that Gagnon flew his contraption in the summer of 1903, some months before the Wright Brothers' famous flight at Kitty Hawk. According to eye witness reports', Gagnon managed to rise from the ground and stay aloft for some two or three minutes, but the flight ended in a crash that demolished the machine' and seriously injured Gagnon himself. Unfortunately, the inventor had not taken the trouble to publicize his experiment, and it was, not for another 30 years that the records of his achievement came to light. Better known is the work of the Aerial Experiment Association, established in 1907 by Alexander Graham Bell and two University of Toronto engineering graduates, John McCurdy and F. W. "Casey" Baldwin. Over the next two years the group built and flew a succes- sion of aircraft, including the Silver Dart, a bi-plane which made history on February ' 23, 1909, when McCurdy flew it over Lac Bras d'Or in Nova Scotia. This was the ti o..iv t "Ity first officially recorded heavier- than-air flight in Canada, or anywhere in the British Empire. To mark the occasion, children in the community were given the day off school, and 'Alexander Graham Bell had . all 146 spectators sign their names witnessing the event. Around the same time, other, less publicized, enthusiasts were also experimenting with flying machines in various parts of Canada. In 1907 three brothers, Elmer, George and John Underwood, built a curious looking craft on their farm outside of Kruegerville, Saskatchewan. Their design took the shape of a flying circular wing, with a fin running down the middle. Small scale models, powered by rubber bands, flew well, but the brothers could not locate an appropriate power source for their full scale machine. However, they flew it on a number of occasions in 1908 as a giant, man -carrying kite. In Victoria, B.C., William Wal- lace Gibson had taken on the chal- lenge of flight by first designing and building a suitable engine. Satisfied that it was powerful enough to do .the job, he constructed a highly original, silk - covered craft with two sets of wings, one behind the other. Gib- son, who had been working in secret for fear of being ridiculed, first flew his Twin -Plane on Sep- tember 8, 1910. After a. collision with a tree, Wallace built another machine, which resembled a very large venetian blind. Wallace took this Multiplane for tests on a farm near Calgary, where it crashed after a flight of over a mile. Thepioneers of early flight were a creative and courageous group. Their experiments were extravagant and 'dangerous, but each one brought us .a step closer to the fast, safe, air travel that we take for granted today. Did you know? Parkinson's Disease is a disorder that is caused by the lack of a chemical in the brain called dopamine. Dopamine is needed by the nerve cells 19 send messages to get muscle movements started. Symptoms of Parkinson's Disease include body tremors, difficulty with precise movements, slowness or muscle stiffness, and difficulty maintaining balance or walking. Formore information about the disorder contact the Parkinson Foundation of Canada, 55 Bloor St. W. Ste. 230, Toronto M4W 1A5. (Pharmacy Practice, Health Topics, Mar. 1994).