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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1979-04-18, Page 6Page 6--Luclmow Sentinel, Wednesday, April 18, 1979 The LUCKNOW SENTINEL "The Sepoy Town". On the Huron -Bruce Boundary et, LUCKNOW, ONTARIO Established 1873 Published Wednesday Published by Signal -Star Publishing Ltd. Sharon J. ''Dietz - Editor Anthony N. Johnstone - Advertising and General Manager Subscription rate, $11 per year in advance Senior Citizens rate, $9 per year in advance U.S.A. and Foreign, $21.50 per year in advance Sr. Cit., U.S.A. and Foreign $19.50 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 Congratulations tams! Congratulations, Lucknow Mid- gets, OMHA Alt Ontario "DD" champions. Your series with Mar - mora was exciting hockey through to the last second of a ten minute overtime period. The Midgets were more deserv- ing of the win because Marmora's style is marred by their rough- ness. Violence in hockey, how it is destroying the, game and the, effects ithas on manor hockey league .players are all .subjects of controversy at the present time. It isencouraging to see the team which .plays with skill and sports- manship win the All Ontario trophy. Hockey is a body contact sport and would lose a great deal of its appeal if there were none. Short tempers and spite however.,. do . not belong in any .sport. Congratulations to the coaching Staff and the team. You are all champions. Congratulations also, to the Lucknow Juveniles. Your series. was equally as exciting and .per- haps more enjoyable for the spec- tators because it was good, fast, clean, tough hockey played with skill' against excellent competi- tion. The Lucknow team was no less deserving of the championship. The teams werevery closely matched. Unfortunately for Luck - now, an injury took out their goalie for the championship series and had he been able to play, who knows what may have been. This .is not to take away credit from the players who provided they goal tending duties during the series. They ' gave it their . best. Dressing to play • goal in an All Ontario series takes courage especially when you haven't plaved goal during the season. A word of recognition to Bill Hunter who has decided to retire as coach of the Lueknow. 'Juven- iles. uven-iles. His years of association with, Juvenile teams in the village hockey association will be rernem- bered for the excellent direction he gave and the solid hockey experience gained by the players he coached. . Congratulations to the coaching staff and Juvenile team. You are as deserving as if you had won. To lose in a series of this calibre is no disgrace, rather evidence -of the ability of the'. team which won. Thanks to both teams for the excitement provided for the fans and parents and the pride . you bring to Lucknow. Letters to the e Gentlemen: —Please find enclosed a cheque for the Sentinel Re- newal. My mother, Mrs. Jessie Allin, is now a patient in the Wolcott Wing of the Welland General Hospital,' having been 'ill for some time. This is, their long term care and physiotherapy department. I'm sure that she would love . and appreciate hearing from all • her friends in the Luck- now area. We all look forward to the Lucknow paper each week and read with interest the many changes that are taking place from, time to time. Yours sincerely, Mary (Allin) Haines. Wainfleet, Ont. To the Editor The Wingham and District Association for the Mentally Retarded is pleased to an- nounce that all three hund- red tickets of its upcoming for Travel Lottery have been sold. The Fund Raising Com- mittee would tike to thank. everyone who purchased a ticket, and wish them the luck of the draw. The first draw will be held on Friday, April 27th at 12.00 noon at. CKNX. The proceeds of the lottery will be used to start a fund for the building of a new workshop for handicapped adults in the Wingham Dist- rict. Wm. Stapleton, Fund Raising Chairman. 11 "Mr. Pink Ears" These shy little Easter bunnies are Jason Humphrey. and Jennifer Bakker, members of Mrs. Maclntyre's kindergarten class at Lucknow Central Public. School. The children learned a song, "Mr. Pink Ears", and made the bunny faces to wear while they sing. [Sentinel Staff Photoj Aubrey's observations My friends, at is life? I have had a request from a very dear friend of mine, who also makes her home at Pinecrest, to write an article based on. "Life". To be honest about it, I did write one stating my own views in my usual blunt manner, buton reading it over, I felt that I had better rewrite and make it more of a questionnaire, and let yougive your own answers. What .is life and how little do we know about it from start to (finish?. Are our lives a prearranged period from start to finish? We have no choice in who our father and mother are going to be, or --at what time our life. begins. From the time of conception until our birth, we are completely dependent upon our mother: Then, after we have drawn our first breath, we have absolutely no knowledge of how long our life may be. It could be anyting from a'few minutes to a few weeks or a few years, or we may live to a ripe old age. For some of that time we could be nothing but a vegetable, not knowing anything that is happening around us and being kept alive by modern science. Are our lives fully planned for us, the same as a blueprint for a large building? Such a blueprint must be complete in every detail up to where the last piece of material or light bulb is in place, before a shovel full of earth is removed to start the 'foundation. Is this what our lives are, or are th4 just a slip shod thing that is pieced together as we go along? If this latter be true, there is bane awful large percentage of us, that were not supposed to be here at all, because—our Other and mother had no intention. whatever, of creating life when they did. We are nothing, but what is termed accidents, and thrust out into life to take our chance with how far we go. 1 r. For example, we can take two young men, the same age and as near as possible the same physical °stature, the same type of home training; and the same college education, and we find one to become a famous leader of men, while the other turns out to nothing but a shyster. The strange thing is, that those same' two men, during their lifetime can change personalities, and each one become what the other had been. This is life.. Why? There is a very common expression, that life is what you make it. To me this is an incorrect statement. It could be true for a very few, but when we think of the many millions of people in this world, each one is individual with their own private personality, how many of them are able to control their own lives, and live them in the manner that they would prefer to live them? There are so many . obstacles that confront those other people. Sickness, Allure are in their pian. There are very few people who, in Ipoking back over their lives, would not change a great deal of it, if that was possible. As for myself, yes, I would change a large number of things in my life, but that was yesterday, and the years before that. Now, all I really care about, is -today, tomorrow and whatever comes after that, . 4,, looking to the future and trying to'make the no out of every minute. If those days -come, or if they do not, there is. nothing to worry about. The first poem I ever remember learning was Life is real life is earnest And the grave is not its goal Dust thou art to dust returneth Was not' spoken of the soul.