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Home My WebLink AboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1986-09-10, Page 4Page 4—leireknow Senthiel, Wednesday, September 109 1986 ox 408, Lucknow NOG 21110, EstaN sfrzeci 1873 Themes Thompson Alan Rivett Rattivingston Mere Elliott -Advertising Manager -Editor -General Manager -Typesetter 528-2z 22 01 BLUE RIBBON AWARD 1986 CNA VI no mu CIFICULATION PAW) Subscription rates in advance; $17.0° Outside Canada $60." 14.00 Outside Canada $58." Senior Citizen Second class mailing, reg. no. 0847 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 charged , for, but the balance of the advertisement will be paid,at the applicable rates. Municipalities not in favor of beer -mine sales at stores Ontario Premier DaVid. Peterson appears Intent on carrying threugh with his election campaign promise to allow the sale of beer and wine in. corner and convenience stores. If he indeed continues with his pursuit of that platform pledge, his datermlnatiOn sails full tilt In the taco of strong protest from elected representatives of the province's muncipalities At the annual conference -of the Association of ;Municipalities of Ontario held recently Injoronto, representatives from 651 municipalities resolved to oppose any provincial plans to introduce the Sales., What at first appeared to be shaping up as a rural -urban spilt on the 'Issue ultimately dissolved instead into near unanimity by the end of debate' • which produced that resolution. Clearly,.the inunicipalitleade not 'want the. political headache which will Inevitittilk be cast in their path ihtiuld. the legislatiOni In its most recently suggeSteit. format, .become fact. Mr.: Peterson_ has said local councils will, have the option of allororing. Or disallowing the corner store sajkof beer and Ovine through municipal bylaw. Localpoliticians feel the legislation Would be nothing more than a Peterson forward pass and it is one they y1cOuld,. much rather fumble. • Municipal ceunclit ditfiat"want the potentially explosive responsibility of haVingttti make such a decision. For instance,: how would the local cOuriCiiiappeaSelown merchants for, net ,allowing the sale heretif nearby niuniChialities decided In favor? lifylon(91.1lieAtt40, resolution, Mr. Peterson would do well to Olden • • thereollective voice of such it representative group. There is a great deal to be Said in 'favor of sticking to one's guns but the.fghotlag of aikfl istrge'rePreseatation somehow leans more 'toward arrogance. _- Perhaps,'' more timeand study should be spent on the _issue at the provinc10110.01-..in doing so; it is still -postilble tO bring about an ofbeet and wine. sales. - . „ 'I0r; It may -prove' sagacious to allow the matter, to lie 'dormant for. a whlIe, later te.belUcked. quietly away In some igovernioent Wingham Advanea:TImes Labour Day visitors On the Labour Day weekend, all the memories from from all -too -crazy days of college came flooding back when two buddies from the school came up to pay a visit to our Dungannon homestead. It was a furefalled couple of days, tossing back a few cool 0110S while reminiscing about our lives since we said aloha to oar old alma neater, Centennial College b Scarborough, to try our luck in the fast -paced, unpredic- table world of journalism, It has been over a year since we departed the hallowed halls of Centen- nial and, let me tell you, a Jot has changed. The two, city-dwelling.friends - Kevin Hann from Pickering, and, Scott Cros- sing from Bowmanville - are both gainfully employed at the Ajax -Picker- ing News -Advertiser, a Metroland (a company owning a number of commun- ity , weeklies in the Toronto area) newspaper. Kevin is a reporter at the News -Advertiser while Scott is a photo- grapher with the paper that has a readership of approximately 60,000 - The conversation over the weekend ranged from what other people in our class were doing, with most, surprising- ly, employed at newspapers in Ontario. We also touched on what kind ofjobs we were each doing at our respective papers. While 1 said 1 was a jack -of -all trades at the Sentinel, and Scott receives a lot of "grip and grin . assignments (a staple of community weeklies every- where), Kevin was tackling much more exciting journalistic challenges.. In a large weekry paper, it offers a more specialized approach tojournalism with a staff personbandling.one specific area of expertise such as education, city ALAN council or, as is Kevin's job, the police and fire department "beat". One of the first things he showed me upon arrival was the police and fire department scanner equipment in his car. Upon hearing a fire or police call on the scanner, he dashes off to the location for a possible story and pictures. He told me .of all the rather gruesome accidents and fires which he bas n withed him covered which seem to happe regularity in the city, When I ask how he could stand to be around such tragedies, he said he has become nts and '4141 -mune" to witnessing accide fires. I've, been at the location of very few accidents since my newspaper career have it rolled began and I'm quite willing to stay that way, I told him. Eventually, the conversation around to the numerous accounts of the hiiinx of our college days with "remem- ber •whens" bantered back and forth. "Remember when that onepicture on the .sports page of the •Oracie (the college newspaper)' which didn't exactly turn out?; remember when we went to Frank Veteres for those all -you -can -eat pizza. binges? (a welcome change from Kraft dinner); remember those endless partys at Scotty's "Animal House" on Scarborough's Scotia Aye?...'and se-on...and • • Big flo'sver By Alan Rivett San comp sei words for Royal Salute Our son was asked to compose words and .music for;