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...clinow Sentinel, Wednesday, Janiry 30 1979
ucknow Sentinel
LUCKNOW, ONTARIO
“The Sepoy Town"
Onthe Huron -Bruce Boundary
-Established 1873 Published Wednesday
Published by Signal -Star Publishing Ltd.
Sharon J. Dietz -editor
Anthony N. Johnstone - advertising and
general Manager
Subscription rate, $1"1 per year in advance -
Senior Citizens rate, $9 per year in advance•-.
U:$.A. and Foreign, $21.50 per year in advance
Business and Editorial Office Telephone 528-2822
Mailing*Address P -O. Box 400, Lucknow, NOG 2H0
Second class mail registration number - 0847
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NO.
Report.,from Queens Park
Elckrlyget flCOfl4 hike
• BY MURRAY GAUNT
Beginning in January, single elderly
people in this Province who receive
guaranteed income supplements will
• get $20 more a month. The Minister of.
Revenue, also told the Legislature 'that
elderly married couples receive•the
supplement will receive 810 -extra a
month. The increase in the guaranteed
income level ensures that Ontario
residents who are 65 or older will
benefit fully from recently announced,
federal payments. With effect January
lst, the guaranteed income level will be
$343 a month :for" single people, and
8666 'a month for married couples, if
both spouses qualify for the guaranteed
income' supplement. These • increases
Lucknow news will affect about 244,000 elderly resid-
eats of Ontario: Some 2,.500 d'ditional
senior citizens who do nit'`ufy for the
•
One of the major criticicms,
r, we .get here at the. Sentinel„ is
thatthere is no Lucknow.newsln
the.., paper. ^' •
Just this. past week we .receiv-
•
ed a phone call :from. an irate
subscriber who. was vehement -
that Dungannon, Ripley : and'
Whitechurch have a full page of
local briefs and there is only a
couple of inches -of. personal
items from the, village of Luck-
how.- When asked if the caller
had phoned the Sentinel to tell
us. how she spent her Christmas
"holiday,` she answered "no". 'It
has ,been suggested by other
subscribers that someone at our
office should phone th•e.people bf
the:village.and find out who was
visiting for the holiday.
it is Impossible for our report-
er to
eporter_'.to. sit. down and call every
-home in the village to ask who is
visiting" or where people spent
Christmas: We would like -to see
a whole :page: of Lucknow news
in our paper similar. to; the
.Dungannon, Ripley- and White-
church columns, but it is impos-
sible for one person -to write.' for
the whole village, .and up to;now
we have 'been' depending on
people to phone. the office.- with
their. items
Ip an effort- to correct this
situation we :have sent letter
various organizations in the\
village asking that they serve as,
columnists' ;for' the villagge of
Lucknow. We would divide the
village into four sections, with a
group responsible for each sec
tion. The -members of the groups
would take turns phoning the -
• residents in their :section .and
I Writing the 'column. The group
would' be paid 15c a column inc
for their. news and the money
could go into the,' group's
treasury to be . used as their
group saw fit,
Some of the groups replied to.
say they areconsidering the idea
and will give an answer in early.
January.
Members of the Purple Grove 4
Women'sInstitute
. . have been.
writing the Purple Grove news in
this Manner' for the past Several
months and, it: Is working satis-
factorily.
We., lost our • Kingsbridge
columnist in the past year. Mrs.
Courtney did an' exce'llent lob
but felt that, she couldno longer
continue for personal reasons.
As yet, we have been unable, to -
find someone who is Interested
in taking her -position.
We have recently received
notification from our Dungannon
correspondent, that shewill not
be writing\ the Dungannon col-
.
\
0:1
umn in the new year, because
she finds she is very busy with
her teaching . position and her
responsibilities, at home.
It is sad that we will no longer—:_
ha�ve, Mrs. Bere anti. Mrs.
'Co%rtney on our' staff, because
they were excellent columnists.
Their news was always in "on
time and required little editing.
We -appreciated their efforts..
W, pay 15c:a column inch for
the copy written bycorres-
pondents;our`
which may sometimes . .
looksmall: for the wdrk involved;,.
but as .a .small newspaper, we -:-
must depend ;oncolumnists, who
enjoy; their. work and. are doing
their job, because they have an
interest '..in writing and an...
interest in their community.
To lose these two columnists
is to lose some of the flavour of a
community newspaper,'. because •
many: of our subscribers enjoy ,
these:, columns and. they''are '.a'
major reason for their subscrib-`
Ing to the paper.
We want these columns :to
Continue appearing in the Sen-
tinel. They are important in
keeping the identity of places
like., Ripley, Whitechurch, Dun
gannon- and Kingsbridge alive
..and before the 'people of the
Narea. 'T'hey are only dots ;on .a
map.of:Ontario but to the people
who I ive there or who have :lived
there and moved away, they are
a heritage, .a:lively:community,,a
wealth of• memories; they repre-
sent the faces of people and the
-happenings of a lifetime.
,: • We are a community .paper
and we try : to serve anarea
which includes the village and,
the:surrounding area. The corn-
.munity correspondents are im-
portant to our. and
important to the makeup of our
paper.
We want to fiiid new Kings-
bridge and. Dungannon corres-
pondents and we would like to
initiate a Luckndw page of local,
briefs.
As' a paper which serves the
co'mmunity:we are open to our
readers' criticisms. and try to ad.
do them to • 'make -the paper
interesting and to improve the
paper where necessary. .
We hope that our -:efforts will
be faithful in the new year so
that our paper.will not .year
the
Kingsbridge and Dungannon
columns, and so we may in-
crease the Lucknow news items
to be comparable with other
community columns already ap-
pearing..
federal pension and supplement will
receive a monthly increase equivalent to
the federal increase: The Minister said
this will cost Ontario about $600,000 a • year. .
Ontario Treasurer Frank . Miller said
this 'week that . he strongly favours - a
report calling for massive grants and tax
breaks to entice pulp and paper
companies to modernize •their mills and,.
" live up:to pollution control 'order's often
ignored in the past.
Thea report recommends giving out
more than $100 million .inpublic money'
over five yearsto the, industry, which it
said isunable to compete. With U.S:
companies 'except when •the Canadian
dollar is 'at a low_ -level; as it is now.
""The ":Treasurer this'"::week told. the
Legislature that unemployment in. the
Province rose, marginally from 6:1% -•to
•6.6% of the :labour .force..between _
October and November. Latest unem-
ployment figures. show an overall
increase,`bringing the total unemployed
to 31.2;000 This' is despite the fact that
Ontario was the only province to
increase its work force during the period
in question. The Treasurerdescribed -
,., the rise in the number -of unemployed as
"regrettable", but entirely due' to the
increase in the . work force. Some
154,000 new jobs were created in.
Ontario between November 1977 and
last month; but due to the large number
of people entering the work force, the
seasonally adjusted unemployed tate is
now at 7.3%, up .3% aver the previous
month. The measurer said he expected
- to sign an agreement with Ottawa in the
near future, which would cover heavily
hit areas of Eastern Ontario, and. he •
promised a "complete package'.' of job.
creation measures to conibat unemploy-
ment: , • •
Liberal Leader . Stuart Smith has
stated that the fluctuating • foreign
`exchange rate could. cost Ontario Hydro
. customers. an unexpected $1, billion for
money borrowed abroad. He indicated
•that Hydro has been forced to borrow in
oreign markets because available prov- °
incial pension funds have ;been used up
to pay for .years of provincial deficits.
Dr: Smith cited figures contained .in
Hydro's. November 15 _ prospectus,
which show that. the corporation owes
$617 million •to the end of June on its
foreign bonds and notes because of the
lower value of • the Canadian dollar.
Translated at the September 30th ex-
change .rate' (84..43 • cents. U.S.), the
liability would have been increased by
$315 .million, for a -total' of -3932 million,
At June 30th,: Hydro'. had 81.77 billion in .,
outstanding bonds. and notes.
Asked by Dr: 'Smith whether the
• foreign -exchange loss will be.. made uIi
in electricity :rates to 'consumers, the +'•
1, Premier replied that. the "Principle ;has
.always been that Hydro customers pay
for . whatever it ` costs to produce
electrical energy' and the price of
borrowing is . part' of those • costs:.. _.
276 Eldon St.,
Goderich, Ont.
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Deo. 14, 1978.
The Lncknow•Sentinel,
Lucknow, Ont;:. "..
Dear Sir or Madam,
We have hesitated , to
renew our subscriptionto the
•Lucknow 'Sentinel. °
We feel there is a great
lack of news of interest to us..
We miss ` the... Kingsbridge
news. We felt Teresa Court
-7-
. ney was a good correspond ;
ent. We also feel Ripley news
has been cut down and we
are very interested' in Ripley ,•
as well.
There must be some one in
Lucknow that would enjoy,.
writinga news column 'like
Ab Wylds in Ripley.
I will;personally.try to give
Marion McCharles - some;
news items when we are back
in Ashfield next. suinmer.
Please note our change of
address.
Your truly,
Grace MacKenzie.
Decetnber 16, 1978.
$1774.25, an incfease of
$254.71: R. W. . Kennedy,
District Administrator, ..ack
nowledged the great deal of
effort put ;into -the C.N.LB.
'campaign -in this area: "The
dollars,"which were so, gener-
ously •: 'contributed, by the•
citizens of :your .`area, ,,.will
greatly assist•this agency to.
continue to provide servie°es
tote blind of Huron. County..
We are indeed grateful to
yott (Mrs. Riegling) for con.
vening the canvass again this.
Year and would --as that you
please convey oat 1 apprecia-
tion to all who assisted in an
way:" •
...,
In; West Wawanosh, 80'
homes were canvassed by.
the -St. ,Helenk WI and $160
was collected. Captain was
Mrs: Harold Gaunt. 'Canvas',
secs were .Mrs. Robert Ait-
chison; Mrs. Harold Gautiit,
Mrs. M: Cameron. Mrs. ,M.
Naylor, Miss .Isobel .Miller,
Mrs. Sybill Chandler, Mrs.
L. Weber, Mrs. Bruce itay-
nard and Barbara Tyler: ;
In the . South alf of West
Wawanosh, 90 omes were
canvassed by St. Augustine
C.W.L. and 8217 was collect-
ed Captain was Mrs. Cyril
Boyle. Canvassers were Mrs.
Bernadette Andrews, Mrs:
Cyril Boyle, Mrs. Raymond
Boyle; Mrs. George Hebert
and Mrs. •Wm. Kinahan.
In Dvngannon, 69 . homes
Were canvassed. realizing
$105.,captain "was Mrs.
Marion Smith. Canvassers
were Mrs. Marie Part, Mrs;.
Alvin Kerr, Mrs. Don Nich•
Dear Editor,
. • aunt.
The 1978 C.N.I.B. Cam.
paign returns' realized
olson, Mrs. (lien Olsen, Mrs.
Jim Strong,.atid Mts. Marion
Smith
In Ashfield Township, the
•
captain,, was Mrs: Carl Rieg>
lrng and canvassers :were
Brenda- Brown; Mrs. Roy
Billinger, Mrs. Walter Clare,
Mrs.•Harold Cook, Mrs. Jack
Clements; Mrs. Donald` Cur-
ran, Mrs. Clarice Dalton,
Mrs. Stan Doherty, Mrs: 'Jim
Gilmore, : DuiiCan Parrish,
Mrs.' Alex Hackett, Mrs: Jim
Hayden, Mrs: 4ohn 1Toward,
Mrs. Shirley .Hunter, Mrs..
.John.. Maize, 'Mrg:. Marjorie
Maclntyre, Mrs. .Gene La-
londe; Mrs: Larry Park, Mrs.
Larry Pentland, Mrs. Jim
Sinnett, Mrs; Warren Wylds,
Mrs. Carl tRiegling. . .
They visited: .453 homes:
and cdllecting $1,246.
Four organizations in the
,community of Ashfield"doii-
ated $45 to C.N,I.B.
lir ail 692 homeswere
canvassed . ::realizing
$1,7714.25: In 197.7 the •
C,N.I.B. realized $1,519.54
from 611 homes.
It is most gratifying . to
receive such" splendid co-
operation each year from
such willing workers.
My thanks to our local
newspapers for their excel-
lent coverage given to the
.campaign.' •
' Yours truly,
Mrs., Carl Rielging,
Campaign Chairman.
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