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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1986-10-01, Page 1. 4 "4t 4? er fingers on the ink pad during the Fingerprinting Program at the Lucknow Town Hall on September 27. The program, organized by the Lucknow Kinettes with the aid of Con- stable Andy Burgess of the Kincardine OPP, was extremely successful with a large ' number of children fingerprinted during the day. (Alan Rivett photo) FSTABLESHED IN 1073 "THE SEPOY TOWN" ON THE HURON -BRUCE BOUNDARY PUBLISHED IIICKNM, ONTARIO 20 PAGES 4O PER COPY cock disaster in Wingham An accident which occurred when a school bus left the road in Turnberry has resulted in the deaths of four passengers and injuries to 36 others." That could, have been the lead to a story in this week's edition of The Lucknow Sentinel had the accident not been staged as the scenario for a mock disaster ex- ercise last Wednesday in Wingham. The tragic news, of course, would have dealt with the loss of four young lives and quite understandably might have over- looked the "positive" aspect in that an emergency plan designed to handle such an event had been carried out with rela- tively few wrinkles. De legation discusses erosion problems A delegation from the 'Port Albert Ratepayers. Association attended a recent meeting of Ashfield Council to discuss the problems at the mouth of the Nine Mile River with council and Jane Taylor from' the Maitland Valle? Conservation Authority. In response to the erosion problems at the river, council .passed a resolution for the MVCA to proceed with a preliminary engineering study for erosion control at the mouth of the river. Ashfield Township . will be the designated benefitting municipality and assume 15 per cent ofthe estimated cost of $7,500 for the study. The . amount will be collected from the Ratepayers Association. In other business, council passed a resolution to commit $75,000 from the township towards the construction of a new Lucknow and District Arena. Council formed a Court of 'Revision on the Wylds Drain Branch F. No appeals • were received and the court was adjourn.- • Turn to page 3 • Simpsons win $10,000 in lottery By Alan Rivett Monday, September 22 was obviously a lucky day for Alex and Cindy Simpson of Ashfield Township. . For Mrs. Simpson, she was the winner of a $300 prize in the Lucknow and District Arena Complex Lottery. However, an even bigger prize came into the family as Mr, Simpson, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Simpson of Ashfield Township, found out that a $2 scratch and win ticket was worth an automatic $10,000. Mr. Simpson, who bought the winning' Lucky Million Sweeps ticket at the Lottery Shoppe in Lucknow, says he kept the ticket at home for a week before discovering that it was indeed worth $10,000. for the three "sweeps" which appeared on the ticket. "1 knew I'd won something, but you don't know what you've won unless you really read it (the ticket) over," said Mr. Simpson in an interview with the Sentinel about his winfall. $1million However, the $10,000 win may just be the beginning of the winnings as the Lucky Million Sweeps Lottery also offers a chance at a grand prize of $1 Million. On December 11. the Simpsons will an - pear on the Lucky Milion Seeps TV show in Toronto. At that time, an elimination dm/tr.' will be made of "Sweeps" winners across Ontario with $25,000, ,$50,000, $100,000 and $1 Million prizes on the line. At the last draw of the lottery, an estimated 40 to 50 "Sweeps" winners vied for the $1 million grand prize. Mr. Simpson' said it would be great to win the $1 million prize, but is still happy with just winning the $10.000. "nu happy with the $10,000, but the $1 million would be O.K. It's going to be a long wait (until December 111.," he said. Before the big win, Mr. SiMpson said he had won a few $10 and $100 prizes. He says he's not a big player of the lotteries as he only buys tickets "now and again" and doesn't play any one specific lottery, "Eveiy once in a while drop in and pick up a lottery ticket. I don't buy the same kind of ticket," he said. As far as his Plans for the money, Mr. Simpson says he plans to spend the money on his farm operation. "I'm a farmer, so the money won't go that far. It'll help make up for the beans if I don't get them off this fall," he said. Alex Simpson • At approximately 1:20 p.m.. Wednesday, the crew of the first ambulance to arrive at the McLean Sideroad scene of the mock accident relayed news to their central dis- patch which set. the Wingham and District Hospital's Code Blue external disaster plan into operation, Before the operation came to an end around 4 pan., a total of 216 people had been involved in the exercise; In addition to staff at the hospital, other participants included representatives from the Ontario Provincial Police, Wingham Town Police, Wipgharn Area Fire Department as well as ambulance crews from Wingham, Walkerton and Goclerich. Another important group of participants consisted of 45 members of the Drama Club at F. E. Madill Secondary School who played the roles of the students on the wrecked school bus. On hand also were 30 observers from hospitals having similar emergency facili- ties. It was their observations and criti- cisms which will eventually be incor- porated into a "fine tuning" of the hos- pital's ernergeney plan. According to Bzil Wood*, director of nursing at the hospital who assumed the • role of nursing supervisor during the exer- cise, all central ambulance dispatch centres were called during the Mock disas- ter "and we received,an excellent response from them all. ' With the exception of a few minor wrinkles, he said, the operation went well. "It was a tremendous undertaking," he said. Mr, Woodley also said there had been good response from the doctors with seven turning up to take part in the exercise. A breakdown of the "injuries" indicates 16 stretcher cases, 20 walking wounded • and the remainder classified as "delayed trauma". Of the four deaths4 three were Turn to page 3 • Lottery The 44th draw in the Lucknow and District Arena Complex Lottery was drawn on September 29. The winners were: $600 Grant McDonald of Lon- don; $300 Eldon Bradley; $100 Jack Treleaven and $100 • Dave Farrish of Sudbury. . • Feature A special feature appears in the paper this week regardng the VVornen's House of Bruce County. The home, opened in Kincardine in 1985, eases the problems of batteredwives which come to the home from all over Ontario. See page 6. • • • • •