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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1986-11-19, Page 4Page 4—=L cknow Sentinel, Wednesday, November 39,1986 UMW P.O. Box 400, Luc Established 1873 J w NOG 2HO Th mas Thompson -Advertising Manager .Alan Rivett -Editor Pat Livingston -General Manager Z A,Apl AM C192Z 1 + A 44Pi4 A44©26 AE" 4"•A VE N♦ r ``...•E. 528-2822 A CRNA BLUE RIBBON AWARD 1986 VI. illi If U CI RC LI L ATIC)N PAM Subscription rates in advance: 7,0 Outside Canada $60.00 94.00 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. Environment minister ing crus cal for village .council November 25 is. D-day for Lucknowvillage council. It's the day when council members will travel to Toronto to meet with Environment Minister James Bradley at Queen's Park to discuss the proposed sanitary sewage system. • . it's .no Secret what is going to transpire tit the meeting. Lucknow of- ficials will be trying -to sell the ministry on completing the entire village;: or at least putting the sewers, in the core cirea::.of the village, with a commitment to do the rest of the village in the near future. To their credit, council has shown the ministry that they are serious about sewers for the whole village. `lr the past month, council has secured extra .and from Floyd Milne. 'adjacent to the already optioned Gordon Brooks property which will ensure ample nand for the construe= .tion -of the rapid infiltration plant proposed for the village. • Council has recognized, and It. has .been said by Reeve Herb`Clark, that there is "no turning back" on the matter. The• village,simply.minust put all their cards on the table at. the .upcoming, meeting. Alf ,the agreements regarding the sewers must be in.place now as everything 'is now in favor of the the village. Today, the :council has a firm 'hold on optioned, land which will be enough to do the entire village.. And, according to engineering reports, the properties are ideal for the tYPe. of sewage system recommended for Lucknow - the rapid, infiltration system which. Will drastically cut. down on the environmental impact on our river systems. Also, the whole situation has caused ahnumber of, worthwhile com- munity projects to be put on hold because of the,sanitary sewers pro - 'led. The classic example is the arena, which the village, although they support a new.areno, cannot fund for an undetermined .amount of time, because, of the heavy financial burden ofthe sewer's. For nearly 20 years, the sewage system` hos been a millstone around the neck- of the village.; Lucknow citizens are looking for a concrete solution . to. this, problem. They Want this project to be a go— once and for all. A.R. Introclncinf; the Tykes ALAN While we haven't played a game yet, I'd just like to give the readers and. local hockey fanatics a progress report on. Lucknow's newest and youngest hockey players « The Lucknow Tykes. This year, yourstruly, along with Gerry Paolin, .Glen Ferguson and Steve. Hackett are coaching this squad of 18 up-and'«corningg hockey stars. After three weeks of practising, with the exception of a few hockey sticks to cut off and a few equipment changes, the coaches, are well pleased with the way things are running, Every Tuesday at 5 p.m. and Satur- days at 6 p.m., dads and moms and their hockey` playing sons come to the arena, After the equipment is on and the skates are laced, (thanks to mom and dad) its off to the ice, where the first. 10 minutes are usually, reserved for "general horseplay", meaning the players grab a puck and begin stickhan- ding and shooting. While out there, a few of the players have made it a point to try to shoot at the glass. While they're going their best. to• hit the glass (like the bigger guys do), the glass IS thankfully . a little beyond their shooting abilities right now. Another aspect of this "horseplay" is a little game called "chase the coach". The game starts in an impromptu man- ner when two or three players spy a coach manoevreing around the ice with a puck. Then, the .gangchases him to acquire his precious puck. Although the coach does his best to keen the puck away from the mob, the guys usually end up skating away with smiless on their faces, carrying the puck, of course. After the "horseplay", it's into the . meat of the practice which contains skating, skating and more skating. We've beendoing every skating drill imaginable from jumping over the blue line with both feet to doing cross -overs while skating in a circle. What has emerged as the big stumbling block (1 mean that literally) has been backwards skating. We still need a lot of work on this type of skating, don't we guys! What we have this year on the Tykes is a good group of enthusiastic, kids, who are more than eager to learn about hockey. And that makes it an extremely rewarding experience for a first-time coach like myself. Playing Tyke this year in Lucknow are: Bobby Simpson, Jay Humphrey, Ryan Hackett, Cameron Moffat, Her- man Mulder, Brent Cameron, Jeremy Slotegraaf, Craig Moffat, Ean Moffat, Mark Kerr, Ian Paolin, Peter Adams, Doug Johnston, Nathan Ferguson, Jonathon MacKinnon, Graeme Hunter, Colin Becker and Trevor Moffat. 4-11 Awards Jane Muegge, the rural :organizations specialist with OMAF, awarded the 18 Projects Awards to Laurie Pentland (centre) and Sharlene Jones at the 4-11 Achievement Night on November 12. (Alan Rivett photo) 70 years ago November 23, 1916 War Prisoner Writes (We are indebted to Mr. R.J. Moore, of town, for the letter published below, and which is one of the best war letters we have seen. It wa^ writ- ten by Sergt. Cameron of the Gallant 48th Highlanders of Toronto, to his former pastor, Rev. Mr. Geggie, Toronto, whose name is familiar with most of our readers)..,. My Dear Friend Mr, Geggie, It was with the greatest pleasure that I received your letter this morning, dated September 11. Not only was I pleased to get it, as a "letter from home", butyou have a knack of expressing yourself which is possessed by few. Therefore your letters are to be prized. Perhaps you will be in- terested to hear about the letter I received. from you in Germany. I only received one and I preserved it for months. In the letter,. after telling me about my wife and one or two things in general, you said "I shall now tell you about "das kirche"l, as your captors would say." The German Censor put a stroke through "das" and wrote "die kirche" in the margin, because "kirche", "church" is a feminine noun. There was also some other alterations he made which 1 forget, but at the bottom of the letter he wrote in good English, "What a funny old gentlemen". I made up my mind that I would preserve the letter and. show itto you, but unfortunately one of the condi- tions'° of the exchange to Switzerland was that no correspondence was to be taken; so. it had to be destroyed, 1 suppose you got a bit of a surprise to hear I was in Switzerland. And as a matter of fact, no one is more surprised than myself. These exchanges are intended for "wounded and irvalids", and I can honestly say that there are htalndreds of far worse cases than myself behind in Germany. 50 years ago November 19,1936 Elections Loom in both Wawanosh. and Ashfield - With early nominations set for next Friday in both West Wawanosh and Ashfield, interesting swings tomunicipal indications and particularly as point pretty definitely to elections being waged in both townships. In West Wawanosh there is rather an unusual situation. Reeve Wm J. Stewart, Councillors John McQuillan, Cairns, Ait- chison and Albert Gammie have all served six consecutive year{, Brown Slur th has been in office three years, filling a council vacancy when Thomas Webster contested the reeveship. This year, Councillor McQuillann has stated that his intentions are to seek the reeveship. Whether the present reeve will again seek office for a seventh term has not been announced nor have other members of the council made it known whether or not they aspire to the higher office. ' 25yearsago November 22,1961 Inquest Jury finds Diver Blameless George Everett MacGregor, age 19, of RR 2 Walkerton, the driver of the car which struck and killed JohnMacRae,. age 931 of Lucknow, on Saturday nights September 30, was absolved of any blame whatsoever by a coroner's jury in Lucknow Town Hall on Friday morning, The coroner's inquest, presided over by Coroner, Dr. M.R Helliwell of Kincardine, is routine procedure in traffic fatalities and as explained by Crown Attorney J.W. Freeborn of Walkerton, is not a trial, but merely to establish where, when and by what means Mr. MacRae came to his death. The presence of Mr. Freeborn was. requested to help bring out the information surrounding the death. Community rallied to aid of family a Residents of Lucknow and surrounding col r nunities have rallied to the aid of Mr. SENTINEL • and Mrs. hil den w o we bert egleft home ess star and last of five dr Wednesday when fire gutted the interior of their home. . The Morningstar family reside in the house owned by Bill Lyons of Bob Street, just south of Lucknow District High School on the east side of the road. 10 years ago November 24, 1976 Lively Ratepayers meeting - The Township Hall at Holyrood was filled to capacity for the ratepayers meeting on Thursday evening of last week. With an election for Reeve and Council slated for December 6, candidates had the opportunity to state their platform, make themselves known and members of the present council had an opportuntiy to elaborate on business carried out during their term of office.