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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1986-12-31, Page 1347. Cord of thanks CARD OF THANKS I would like to ' express my . sincere gratitude to all f r Their kineess and con- cern shown to Mom - nd myself during her illness and to me since her passing. Special thanks to all those for the beautiful floral tributes, charitable donations, food seat to the house, to the ladies of the church for serving lunch, and, especially Dr. Corrin and the second floor staff of Wingham Hospital for their expert medical care. All is greatly appreciated. Betsy Henderson. -53e To all my friends on R.R. 2, Lucknow - thanks. Mail Box Mama. -53x Attention Farmers C. Wanted WANTED TO BUY - barbecue pigs, rup- tures, rhinitis, poor doers, any size; also sows and boars fit to butcher. call 335-3151.--6tf E. Farm Services BERG STABLE EQUIPMENT. Barn cleaners; manure pumps; vertical, horizontal; 8' to 15 P.V.C. or Sr B.T,. ductile. Cow and calf tie stalls. Loose housing. Bunk feeders, ventilation equipment, hog confinement, Ritchie heated water bowls. Farrowing crates. Weaner decks. Plastic slates and also farm gates. Contact Lloyd Johnston, R.R. 3, Holyrood, Ontario. Phone 395-5390.-42tfar LYNN LOWERY FARM SYSTEMS LTD, R.R. No. 1 Kincardine, Ontario For all your manure, feed, and grain handling re- quirements call 395-52866 - or see us in Amberley. We handle everything -. almost.-42tfar GILCHRIST FARM SUPPLY - Patz and Starline belt feeders, conveyors, silo unloaders. Flex auger and stable equip- ment. Custom belt lacing, Repairs. RR 5, Lucknow. 395-28517=42tfar • F. For Rent FOR RENT beef feed lot with feed and bedding. Contact Bruce Colwell 528-2643.-53x Lucknow V Sentliee , We Review esday, member berC12 ,►r /C`C,ge Prcmhient Lucknow businessm an dies May Lloyd Everett Ashton of Lucknow, pro- minent in the business life of the village of Lucknow for 26 years, died at the Wingham and. District Hospital on Tues- day, Mag' 6, 1986 at the age of 72 years. Mr. Ashton was admitted to the hospital at Wingham on April 20 upon return from spending the winter months at their home in Florida. He had been hospitalized for three weeks in Florida. but had been at his Florida home for two weeks before return- ing home by plane with his wife Eileen at their normally scheduled return date. Lloyd was born in Howick Township on .June 7, 1913, the only child of Hilton Ashton and Alberta. Evans. He spent his childhood in the Howick Township - Gorrie area, at- tending Fordwich and Harriston High Schools. ...In the mid 1940's, Mr. Ashton began 'a career that would become his future. As a salesman for a chillen's wear and dry goods fire, he travelled this part of On- tario: During 's calls in Lucknow, he saw the needs for a children's wear store in this community and in 1947 he and his wife Janet and young children Beverley and Fraser, established their residence here and opened the children's wear store in the east portion of the Johnstone Block, now Whetstone Furniture. Corrin attends rally To protest the "taking away of the pro- fessional freedoms of doctors", Dr. Mel Corrin of Lucknow took part in the Queen's Park rally on May 7 by doctors against the proposed ban on extra -billing in the pro- vince by the Liberal government. "It was a successful rally, but whether it will have any effect on (Premier) Peter- son, I don't know," said Dr. Corrin."In his reply on television, he didn't care less if there were two or 2,000 people there. It Doctors close o 48. Coming Events THRILL OF A LIFETIME SHOW January 9, 7:30 pm., Channel 13 features the LUCKNOW TRACTOR PULL with Don Gordon on the Ghost Buster. -51,52,53,1 "The Huron County Health Unit invites you to attend the Expectant Parent Educa- tion Classes being held R.N.A. Training School, Wingham commencing Tuesday, January 13, 1987. The next series of classes ' will begin the week of March 23, 1987. Please pre -register by calling the Health Unit office at 357-2264.--52,53,1ar MP MURRAY CARDIFF'S New Year's Day Levy. We invite you and' your family to join us as we bring in 1987 with a Cup of cider and good cheer at our Annual New Year's Levy Thursday, January 1, 1987, 2.5 p.m. -Brussels arena. -53 3rd Annual NILevee Royal Canadian LOglon 6r. 309 LUCKNOW Thum, Jan. '1/87 2:00 pa;1400 pm June Doctors in Lucknow will continue their support of the strike called by the Ontario Medical Association to protest the ban on extra -billing. Dr. Michael Shubat told the Sentinel Tuesday morning, patients who require medical treatment are to call the Lucknow Medical Centre or the Wingham and District Hospital. Dr. Shubat said the patients will be treated at the medical centre and the hospital for the duration of the strike. Doctors across the province began withdrawing all but emergency services last Thursday. Lucknow Doctors Mel Cor- rin, Jim Shalom and -Michael Shubat clos- ed their offices on Thursday and Friday in support of the strike. Water rates going up As of July 1, the Lucknow water rates will be increased by $1 for residential and commercial users. The new rates were ap- proved at the special meeting of council on May 23. meant nothing to him. He was Net as ar- rogant as ever." Approximately 3,090 doctors from across the province shut down their offices and gathered at the grounds of the legislature to voice their opposition to the government's Health Care Accessibility Act. The legislation, proposed by Health Minister Murray Elston bet fall, would ban the 'practice• of extra -balling by doctors. pp y "A dreamcome true" After nine long years as working in .flower shops, Donna Sue McClenaghan has. reached a milestone in her career as a floral designer. ' The milestone took the form of Valley Green Flowers in Lucknow. The flower shop not only represents her first taste of operating a business, but it's also the fulfillment of a life-long goal. ces during strike Under the new rate schedule, $7 a month, up from $6, will be charged to residential customers while commercial customers will be billed $8.20 per month, up -from $7.20 per month. The Lucknow Public , School and the Pinecrest Nursing Home will also ex- perience an increase in the water rates from. $48 a month to $56. The. senior citizens' 20 -unit apartment building will be charged $140 a month from $120.• Co-op collects tools Farmers with used tools collecting dust in their garages and sheds could be mak- ing a valuable contribution towards help- ing the farmers of . Africa re -build their crops. To help these African farmers, the Lucknow Co-op and Co-ops*across the pro- vince are participating in a program call- ed Tools for Africa.which is aimed at col- ' lecting desperately needed tools to be sent to a number of drought-striken areas of Africa. • • • According to Dave Dawson, manager of the Lucknow Co-op, the stores are hoping to collected tools such as round -mouthed shovels, pick axes, hoes, spades, sickles, sledge hammers, chisels, and hay forks. from farmers in the area. Meals onWheels get grant The Meals on Wheels from Lucknow will receive a New Horizons Grant fronLthe Federal Ministry of Health . and Welfare • for $2,325. - The money will be used to cover the cost of the disposable styrofoam containers for serving food which "cost `quite a bit,for each meal,"said Ruth Thompson, chairperson of the Lucknow Meals on Wheels. In addition, the money will help offset the cost of wages for a studentto prepare meals- three times a week, and for long distance phone calls, she said. Contaminated water found in Lucknow An order to boil water before drinking will remain in effect until at least this weekend until the Bruce County Health Unit . can find the source of .contaminated water in the Lucknow system, saida spokesman with the health unit. Harold Rankin, the directorof water in- spection -with the -health unit, told the Sen- tinel Monday (July 28) that extensive testing, especially in the. downtown area where the contaminated water ; was originally detected, wil be carried out with results expected to be known by Wednes- day (July 30). In the interim, the Ministry of the Environment will . hook up a chlorination system to flush the water , lines in the village:. ...He said the decision to place a boil water order, throughout Lucknow was authorized by. Bruce County Medical Of- ficer of Health Dr. MacPherson after three of a totalof eight routine water samples taken in Lucknow last Thursday and Fri-, day revealing a low fecal and total cow= FINANCIAL CENTRE, GODERICH 524-2773 1.800.265.5503 HELP KEEP RED CROSS A. READY! count, a -bacteria found in contaminated water. Scottish girl on exchange After two months.. of near constant . travelling ' and site -seeing, Elizabeth Speirs, on an excahnge from Scotland, will be doing more of the same in her visit to Bruce County while staying -with the Ron Stanley family of Kinloss Township. "It's the chance of a lifetime. It's the chance I'll never get again as you're only. allowed one exchange," said Elizabeth in a Scottish brogue accent. She lives on a farm in Ayrshire, Scotland near Glasgow. Elizabeth, 23, is one of nine exchangees from the. Young Farmers' Club in the United. Kingdom to participate in ,p three month exchange with the Junior Farmers of Ontario.. She took a leave, of absence from her job in a Bank of Scotland in order to take part in the exchange. Dr. P.A. Bekasiak joins staff One trip to the Wingham area a year ago was all the newest doctor at the Lucknow Medical Centre needed to ply his medical skills in Lucknow. "I was here a year ago looking for a nice place to work. I talked to Norman Hayes (the administrator at the. Wingharn and District Hospital) and Dr. Corrin and they said there was a need for a GP - anaesthetist at the Wingham hospital," said Dr. P.A. (Tony) •f ekasiak. Davies transferred After nine years as principal of Lucknow Central Public School, Charlie Davies has transferred to the position of principal of Amabel-Hepworth Central School com- mencing this September. Elmer Umbach receives iong-overdue recognition • from page 10• . years. ' Recognition given , • It took just over 22 years for the Cana- dian Cancer Society to recognize Elmer Umbach's decision to burn • about four cases .of cigarettes in March of 1964, but the near quarter century makes his cer- tificate noting his stand no less treasured. Umbach burnt the cigarettes, then worth about $250 and now worth almost $4,500, in support of both the Pharmaceutical Coun- cil of the day and his own convictions. The following story is taken from the Sentinel, March 18, 1964: `Elmer Umbach, local` IDA pharmacist, ,last Week burnt about four cases of cigarettes with a value of about $250. an advertisement in last week's paper, Elmer stated since my convictions always have been never to sell anything that is proven, in a Targe ruling by the pro- per authorities, to be a health hazard, and since I have always believed a conviction must be followed to by definite action ... I aim burning all my stock and discontinuing the sale of all tobacco: The decision is made entirely for your benefit in the in- terests of your health and safety. Studies assuming centre After a report from village lawyer George Brophy, the village of Lucknow may finally formally accept the respon- siblities of the Lucknow and District Com- munity Centre. Centre Board member Barry McDonagh asked council to consider taking over the community centre after ,the Ministry of Tourism and Recreation directed that funds from cornnaunity.centres be funnell- ed " through the overseeing municipality, saki McDonagh,