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Building committee
to be commended
If all goes 'according to Hoyle', Lucknow will be home to a
new sports complex by Sept. '95.
Last week's announcement that the province would kick in
$684,000 towards phase two of the complex was good news.
A number of Individuals have been • working behind the
scenes since May to get his funding under a jobsOntario
program. They have been meeting up to three times a week
and were responsible for filing the application and making
sure all the pertinent information required by the government
was there.
When Paul Klopp,.MPP for Huron, delivered the good news
last week, he commented that this application was one of the
best ever submitted. These people on the committee are to
be commended for their diligence. They gape, and will
continue to give, their time and talents in search of a
complex that will benefit Lucknow and Its neighboring sister
communities.
Many groups are involved in this community effort. Please
remember that when fund-raising efforts are conducted. In
the end, your participation In various events will . be
instrumental in our area having a facility we can all be proud
of; one that will be used by you, your children and
grandchildren. (PL)
Assignment rekindles
school day memories,
An assignment last• week hrou.ght
some old memories rushing back.
As I entered Brookside school's,
gym, I carne face-to-face with
around 100 people sitting around
the perimeter. They had gathered to
celebrate: 'the Huron Bruce
Swingers' 25th anniversary.
My mind went back to those long
ago school. dances., But in those
days, the boys hugged one side of
the gym, and the girls the other. -
Not very often did you see a boy
and girl actually sitting beside each
other...
The dance floor would remain
empty for quite a period of time
until some young man worked up
enough courage to make that long
trek across the' Iloor to the other
side .and hang •his head and ask a
girl to (lance, 1t was an awkward
stage in public school,
1 remember my Grade • .8
graduation dance held at the school.
Thank goodness for the male
teachers who gilt things rolling by
taking the Irntale .graduates for
two St. p around the' lutli floor. -Ft
seemed to give the guys a little hit
01 -courage to Zullow suit. Rut as
won as the dance was over, each
nRide their way qutikly hack to the
„their side" of the room, where the
boys would unntercilully'tease their.
fellow student about dancing with
so ,and so. The girls would huddle
together tee hecing about how cute
he watt. I remember tow well ,the
fact that in Grade 8 I towered Over
some of the boys. It was embarras-
sing to me at that age that 1 was so
(RAMBLINGS
by Pal Livingston
tall. I always wanted to be shorter.
I felt like a skinny female version
of jack -in -the -bean stalk.
When I entered high school, i
believed that guys would change
overnight, become more self-con-
fident. There would be no worry
about having a dance partner. Not
so.•
The girls went in groups • to the
.monthly highschool dance, as did
the boys. The1 girls still took to one
side and the boys to .the other.
Some of us girls were a little braver
and made our way across to the
opposite side and asked someone to.
(lane('. The .days of liberation?
Occasionally, you'd see a couple
conte to the divacc together. They
were going 'steady''.
`Vhen 1 first started dating the
logie of my lite, helwasn't too keen
on prnntrir,trliv arruui(La dance
Iloor. When we went stag to, a
dance, he too helped hold up the
hack wall of the'g;ynt with the other
jocks, l'hey \Acre.- rnlo toothall and
list cars. •
When the rock and roll music was
playing, it was groups .of girls
'gyrating to the sounds. 'I ne .guys
watched until a slow-movinge
piece
was played and then they'd hit the
110(g.
As our relationship grew, it
•see Taught, page 5,
The Sentinel memoirs
70 years ago
Nov. 20, 1924
Ctittle not permitted on provincial highways -
Oil kers in charge of th4•provincial highway,
have rcccated instructions from the Highways
Departrnent that they arc to strictly enforce the law
regarding cattle or other animals allowed to wander
on the highways. Formerly the fine for this offence
was 52.00 per head but in the future the fine will be
55.00 per head and costs.
Besides being a nuisance to traffic, animals running
at large are a real 'danger, and it is with the intention
of eliminating this danger that the department lias
decided to enforce this regulation more strictly.
Farmers throughout the province, too, have lost quite
a lot of money through having animals killed, and the
enforcement of the law will save them more
financially than they could gain by having their stock
picking up a precarious livelihood along the roadside.
50 years ago
Nov. 16, 1944
WWawanosh .in second place - In second
place in the County, and high among rural
municipalities, was the enviable • record
achieved by West Wawanosh Township in the
Seventh Victory Loan. Wawanosh's quota was
569,000 with subscriptions on Saturday evening
totalling an even hundred thousand dollars for a
percentage of 144.91. Blyth stood in first place with
subscriptions of 571,850 or 156.1 per cent of the
quota.
In the Sixth Loan West Wawanosh Township
.finished in first place with subscriptions of 584,600
for a percentage of 125. Dumin Phillips and Tom
Webster have acted as salesmen in this township in
all seven loan,.
Ashfield 'f-uwnshtp ii ade a gr;:ut line lh to
oversubs.:nhe the ohieLiive 11!4,(.4 . total
,uh,Lnptu,ns amounted to Sl12,1(:.)0 cur a pen:entagc
of 107.'6 Salesmen Wiltred McCarthy, Donald Blue
and Sam Alton worked ()yea -time in the ::losing day,
of the loan so that the Tow nship's obioct've might he
reached.
In East Wawanosh the quota was 569,000. Total
sales were 581),750 or 116.95 percent.
25 years ago
Nov. 19. 1969
• oy Emberlin is new Lucknow arena
manager - Roy Emberlin of Lucknow.was un
Monday night named arena manager and
caretaker of Lucknow arena for the 1969-70 season at
a salary of 575 weekly.
The appointment was made by the operational
committee of the Lucknow arena. There were six
applications for the position.
Ask OK to give the ice machine to Lucknow
arena - Bill Nelson and Russ Button, representing the
Lucknow Lions Club, appeared before Lucknow
village council on Tuesday( night of last week to seek
council's approval of the ,Lions buying a power ice .
cleaning and scraping machine for the Lucknow,
arena. The men sought council's OK to install the
machine and as well their agreement to look after
future maintenance of the equipment.
They were advised that Lucknow council would be
pleased to have this donation on the part of the Lions
Club but that as talks were presently being held,
regarding the formation of an area recreation •
committee, it would be advisable to .also have the
approval of the townships who would be participating
in such a joint. committee.
THREE GENERATIONS REMEMBER - 94 -year-old Herb McQuillan, a World War II veteran; Paul
Finlay, president of Lucknow Legion Branch 309, and Thomas Pritchard, a young drummer with
the Lucknow Legion Pipe Band, on Nov. 11 all remembered the sacrifices so many paid for us
to enjoy freedom. (Pat Livingston photo)
Ranald MacDonald, a `wayward son'
by Lionel Kearns
Ranald MacDonald was one of
the •most remarkable men to come
out of the early Pacific Northwest.
Ile was horn at Fort George on the
Columbia River in 1824, the son of
a Hudson's Bay Company.
employer turd, Princess Raven,
daughter of the illustrious .Chinook
chieftain, C'omcomly,
�2atd grew up in various parts
of Hudson's Bay Company
territory, as his father, a -Chief
Trader, moved from one posting to
another, including Fort. Vancouver
on the Columbia River, and Fort
Langley, on the Fraser.
Ranald was an 'energetic and
likable lad, who thrived in the
rough life in the wilderness. He
loved the long journeys with his
father by canoe and on horseback,
and he listened to the songs and
romantic tales of the voyageurs who
•manned the fur brigades..
At one point Ranald met three
Japanese fishermen whose boat had
been disabled in. a storm and had
drifted across -the Pacific.
Shipwrecked on the coast of
Vancouver Island, they had been
enslaved by the Indians and • freed
by the Hudson's Bay Company
men. Ranald befriended --tern and
learned of their exotic home land
where no foreigner was allowed to
set foot.
Ranald's father saw to it that his
son received a solid early education
at the forts, and when he was l I,
took him half way across the
continent to the Red River
Settlement to enroll him at •the
company academy, where Ranald
stayed for the next four years;
longing for his old life among the
fur traders.
When he was 15, his father sent
him east to St. Thomas ' to
apprentice as a bank .clerk..
Unsuited to the daily monotony of
counting • money and adding up
figures, Ranald gave up the
struggle, and at the age of 1.7 set
out to make a life for himself on
his own terms.
For the next six ,years young
MacDonald .traveled-the-wVeci-as a
seaman on sailing vessels. Then, in
the spring of 1848 he embarked on
his most daring adventure.
Persuading the captain of his ship
to set hum adrift in a small boat off
the coast of Japan, he rowed close
to shore and deliberately capsiied.
He • was rescued, arrested, surd
imprisoned for •three months in
Nagasaki while Japanese •officials
decided whether or not to follow
) •see First, page 5