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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1979-03-21, Page 29• SEE . . • By The Sentine Midgets and uveniles in OMHA finals The. Lucknow Midgets and Juveniles have made it to the All Ontario OMHA finals. The Midgets will play Marmora • from the Peterborough _ area and the miles meet Godfrey from near Kingston. Both .teams play two home • games this weekend, in their best out of •five series for the Ontario champion- ship. The Midgets play Saturday at 8.00 p.m. and Sunday at 1.00 p.m. The Juveniles will play. Saturday. at 4.00 p.in. and Sunday at 4.00 p.m. The series will continue in the opposition's home communities next weekend. Botb • teams 'put out their semi-final oppon- ents three games straight this past week' Turn, to page 8 • • iliest .memories. Regular columnist, Sandy Nicholson talks about the shattering experience of • his mother's death which he remembers vividly, even though he was only 2Vi• years old when she died. His earliest recollections also bring to mind : a white cat and moving to a new home. ,Turti to page 4 • After an absence; of several months .following • the retirement of out former Kingsbridge correSpondent,. the Kings- bridge column will appear weekly in the Sentinel again. Members of St. Jos- eph's Catholic Women's League, upon the suggestion Of the -Sentinel, will take •,hirns writing the Kingsbridge column. ey were also,encouraged by their readers who missed reading about their community in the Sentinel. I'm% to page.' I • : • kv ; )." 44‘41 • tkultural society applies for grant • The Lucknow Horticultural Society has applied for an Opportunity -for Youth Grant to assist in their project to beautify the banks —alongthe east branch ,of the tucknow river, north of Highway 86 to Treleaven's Mill Pond.. The Maitland Valley .Conservation Authority will be cleaning up the area along the river south of the highway. The L The Horticulturiats want to improve the look of the apPronclles to the. Village because it will make a.btter impression Of the town for people passing through. Manpower Canada will hire students to do the work which will be supervised on a daily basis by ,Barold Greer and H. R. Stone. house, both of Lucknow. JaCk Cullen, Kitchener, of Canada Man. PoWeF and Day rumtnit of the Maitland Valley Authority: have been advising the society on the project. • The grant money will pay for the labour costs of the project and the Society must Provide funds for materials required. 24 PAGES WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 1979 Luelmow chi]. en, could in new Kingsbridge pro • The eirordinator of a summer program for children at St. Joseph's Community School in Kingsbridge informed the Sentinel this • week she is- interested in _persuing the possibility of including Lucknow children in the Kingsbridge program. Denise Dalton, community co-ordinator, • tojd the Sentinel she has applied for an Experience '79 grant to pay three qualified • leaders to supervise • a summer progratn for • children at the school: She is presently doing a needs survey in the area to learn what type • of activities parents would suggest for the ,program, the, type of program they want • offered, (half days or full days) and how many parents would send their children to participate in the, program. The survey has .been sent home •Otith children from 4'Broqkside and Kingsbridge- schools. • ,}` Should Kingsbridge get their grant and • proceed with their program, they would • require volunteers to assist their leaders, if Lucknow children Were to 'be incorporated in • their. program. They applied for a grant to pay three leaders because they felt only'1 three were required for the number of children who. would attend from the Kings- bridge area. • . School principal, Dave, Zyluk, suggested a reciprocal arrangement with the e Lucknow recreation committee might allow Luckno'w. children to participate in the summer • program and in return, Lucknow would allow the Kingsbridge program to use • the • swimming pool . one day a week, 'free of • charge. , •, • • Should enough children be interested" in attending the Kingsbridge program, per hips. Lucknow 'recreation committee, Luck- - • now Village Council ,.or ra • coinmunity Single' Copy 25c organization could sponsor the busing of the children to Kingsbtidge, • Zyltik said from what he has heard, there •• is ft crying need for Supervised day care for working mothers in the village. Several people from the Lucknow area • have contacted him. about the lack of qualified baby sitters to care for children during the • summer months. He said he would be 'very surprised to learn there was no interest on the part of parents for a summer program in Lucknow. In view of the fact Lucknow will not be •getting a grantthis year to sponsor their own program, he said he would be interested in working with. Lucknow council and recrea- • tion committee to open avenues which will allow Lucknow children to take advantage of the Kingsbridge program. Cliff _Robb gets service pin Cliff Robb knows the meaning of the old 'saying "Through wind and hail, snow and sleet, the mail must go through". He has been a rural mail carrier for 38 years. He took his first contract with Canada •Post to deliver mail on rural route Holyrood, in June' of 1941. • In the first years he travelled by horse and Model A car. The route goes along concession 8 and 10 of Kinloss, west to the Huron Township Boundary and east into Culross. Through the years Mr. Robb and his wife who has travelled the route with him to assist in delivering the mail, have noticed many changes and learned much about the residents along their route.: They have shared the personal sad and happy times of the people they deliver mail to. • Stamps were oneeent and three cents • when the Robbs •their mail route: , Another. inerease April 1 will see • stamps for letters go to 17 centa. He remembers the old mailboxes were sturdier and did not rust as easily as the ones they make today. Elmer Vance who lives --on his route still has an old style mailbox. • The hardest years for travelling the route were through the years -when people were driving cars and horses. A horse was needed to get through the snow drifts, but a car would have been more suitable for the bare spots in between. Mr. Robb kept the horses for several years after roads were plowed for the use of cars in the winterjust in case he needed them to deliver the mail. Mr. Robb recalls turning the cutter right upside down ori one route. He laughs when he recalls the horse just stood there and waited patiently whilehe righted the sleigh to continue on his way. He learned near the end of the years he used a horse to do his..route that he saved-- time by doubling back up the concession rather than trying to get through the side - road along. the Huron boundary. Some- times he says, it took an hour to get through the snow on that sideroad. • When they were using horses to deliver ,the mail, it took most of the day, from 8.30 a.m. to 4.00 p.m. to do the route. Mail • delivery was a full time job. The Robbs farmed as well on concession 10, Kinloss where they lived until three years/ ago when they. ' moved to their hotne in Holyrood. Now, the mail route takes only the morning and Mr. Robb -is contintling• • his service as Mail carrier through his • retirement. ••• • On March 22, Mr, Robb was awarded a 25 year Service Pin for his years of service with Canada Post. •i. 4., i`1",, ., 7 It 4 • . CWI Robb, Holyrood received a 25 year Service Pin. for his service as a mail slivery contractor with Canada Post for the past 38 years. Cliff has delivered mail on ruraltite 1, Holyrood, since June, 1941. Gordon Sutcliffe, supervisory postmaster for the Winghtat area, made the presentation at the Holyrood Post Office on March 22. [Sentinel Sue Photo]