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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1979-01-10, Page 1• -The,-,first-snow- storm of-the-wintergave- the area school children an extendedChcist- mas holiday, when blowing snow and drifted, roads prevented school t uses from traveglhng their routes.* • Injured tri 1/ O. .'�.3A•y.-• p. 3'' .ti • ---, The-st'ornteevered an: area- from-Goder ch --- to ,Kitchener and Owen Sound to London; Highway. 2L north, of Port Elgin, was closed . On Wednesday and on Thursday morning it was closed north . of Kincardine. , `.. Thursday, Ontario Provincial Police,• were' turning back drivers, leaving the city of -oil—Wednesday and- Thursday-, eame into town to stock. up on supplies and left for home without delay. On Friday classes resumed at Brookside, St, Joseph's, Kingsbridge and the Ripley schools, No buses ran to Lucknow Central Public, but the_scliool was openand town -children- attended=,:-' it+iadill-Secondary- buses ran on alternate routes so Lucknow students did go. On ,Friday most buses ran in this area but buses in the Chesley and Arran. -Tara areas returned their students home upon reaching .CONTINUED ON,PAGE 7 London,, at Elginfield, lust north of the city, ' on Highway 4, Although the London 'Arco , - has lithe, snow, .the blowing snow driven byStcirm (',lnieii .' ci'1( (1►i s (ICC/dent. An area teecnager'sin hospital following _a snowmobile accident. on Sunday afternoon,. Kelly. Fitzgerald, . _14, .. R... 5 Lucknow, . received "a severe cut to her leg, when she struck . a water trough,. as: -she • fell- off a snowmobile driven by her brother,. Sean, 15. She is in 'Kincardine and District General Hospital and is 'expected to'. come: home Wednesday. Kelly -and Sean are 'children of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Fitzgerald,R. 5 Lucknow, • the winds of the storm created a white wall, _and visibility was 'nil.' School children were back in school for On Wednesday, schools were closed in two days when the second storm system of this, area inclaiding- Lucknow-Central 'Public, the winter moved thrd igh the area on Brookside Public, Kingsbridge St. Joseph's, Tuesday'.. Ripley District High, .Ripley Huron Central Srookiide and . Kinloss Central Schools and Kinloss Central. F. E. Madill Secondary were closed and other schools including., was open, but no buses ran. On Thursday Ripley Huron Central, Ripley District, ,St. parents in Lucknow were asked to use their Joseph's Kingsbridge and F. E. Madill discretion in sending their children, as the Secondary were open but -no buses ran. sch0.ol was -Open but :_no. buses- would run. - Lucknow 'Central was open, but parents were Several town schools were open inthe area,. -:-asked to use discretion • in sending . the brut no buses. went out. "' `children, and no buses.rami. People who did venture outinto the storm'; The London office of Efivironment Canada • 'predicted Tuesday morning that this would be the "big one" of the winter. Snow fell heavily in town Monday •and Tuesday, making visibility around town streets poor. It -was the first idea that town residents had , of storm conditions, since during the storm last Week conditions in town' were good. At press time on Tuesday, 50 -60. mpk winds were .forecast and the snow squall conditions were to continue through Wed- nesday. • A Year in . Advance . S21.501re U.S.A. and 'Foreign Wli'ESIIAY, iANUARY 10, I979 • Single, Copy 25c 20 PAGES A house fiie.in Holy_.rood; Thursday night,. completely destroyed the home of the John Meyer family,•who-escaped uninjured High winds and freezing temperatures, • -during a.,. snow storm, hampered the Lucknow: Fire'. Department's attempts to put out the fire, Mr. Meyer and his wife, Kini, were retiring forthe night, when Mr. Meyer. returned to the living room to open the drapes, so• the plants on the windowsill would ' not • freeze over night. He noticed.. Striae rising from the floor on the hearth of the fireplace'and a peculiar smell:' int advance The Ripley rink of Diane Brooks, •' Hilda Andrew, Dianne Farrell -and June Paquette will advance' to the Southern Ontario Ladies Curling Finals in Peterborough, after their win against .London in the Division 1 Ladies Curling Finals 'in,Kincardine last Thursday.'® The , Ripley rink will 'curt in Peterborough. January 15' - 18. .:On the way to their win, the . ladies defeated the London:rink, last year's Ontario, champions. The Ripley rink played London on Wed- nesday and were fleeced 13 a 3, They later played Guelph and won 7 - 4.,On Thursday morning they met Londoin again in the finals and defeated fhem12 -'7.' • "Maybe they were over confident, because they had beaten us so badin the first game," said. Hilda Andrew, of Lucknow, ",but we wentout there deter'tnin- ed•te give them a good game and we won." The London rink was not to be put down said Kilda, "They're good" and the Ripley rink did`, not expect to .win the playdown against' them. . He went to :the basement Of the home and found it filled with smoke... He then aroused his children, Andrew, 12 and Susie; 10 and called .the'fire department, He •rettirned to the. basement to try' and find, the source of the fire in the wall below the fireplace, but dense smoke forced him to return -;to the main ieyel of the house. ' When the fire department arrived they tried to get at the fire in the wall behind th'e fireplace;., but 'the dense smoke and a problem with valves freezing hampered theii • efforts. In their struggle with the blaze, the - firemen ,emptied :their tanker truck and pumped water from a neighbour's swim- ming .pool,. using most of the water ins the pool, in an attempt to bring the blaze under control. Lucknow Fire Chief, George ;Whitby said that the fire is believed tohave started in the wall behind the,firePlaceandthen worked its .: way to the .attic. As. yet, there. is noestimate of the damage, but the house arid its content's were complete destroyed. Mr. Meyer works as a correctional officer CONTINUED. ON PAGE '2 Diane Brooks skips the Ripley rink which heat London 12 - 1 in the final match at the Division 1 dies .Curling Fhnais in Khncardhie last Wednesday and ThursdaY"to advance to the Southern Ontario Ladies Curling FJnals hi Peterborough next week. The Ripley rank 'of Hilda Andrew Dianne Farrell and June Paquette and Diane Brooks defeated' Guelph and,_,.London, who were hist year's Ontario chaniripions, to advance to the finals. IDon' Hall Photo)